The Sun.
London, England, 1861-04-15 00:00:00

TIIE CIVIL SERVICE.

Duchy of Lancaster.--The Attorney-Generalship
of the Duchy has become vacant by the death of
Mr. Thomas F. Ellis. Colonial-office.—Mr. George
Sanders Williams has been appointed to a writer-
ship in Ceylon, and passed his examination. War-
office.—Mr. Thomas Quinlan has been appointed a
storeholder in the Military Store Department, and
passed his examination. Prisons Department.—Mr.
Alfred William Russell has been appointed a third
'class clerk, and passed his examination. Law
Department.—The Recordership of Brighton has
become vacant by the resignation of Mr. Edwin
James, Q.C. The Recordership of Leeds has be-
come vacant by the death of Mr. Thomas Flower
Ellis. The Post-office.—The Postmastership of
Bichester has become vacant by the death of Mr.
Marmaduke Johnson. Customs.—Mr. John A.
Daniel, out-door officer fifth class, has been pro-
moted to be out-door officer fourth class, Liverpool.
Mr. T. Foster, examining officer fourth class, has
been promoted to be examining officer third class,
Liverpool. Mr. T. Dysart, landing waiter first class,
has been promoted to be surveyor, Sunderland. Mr.
It. M. Fieldgate, out-door officer second class, has
been promoted to he out-door officer first class,
Shoreham. Mr. S. Dunbar, clerk at Port-Glasgow,
has been promoted to be fourth clerk at Newcastle.
Inland Revenue Department.—Excise Branch.—
Mr. Christopher R. Salomon. collector, Lynn col-
lection, has been appointed collector, Suffolk
collection.; Mr. Richard Pape, collector, Suffolk
collection, has been appointed collector, Lynn
collection. Mr. William Reid has been cer-
tified for second class assistant, Elgin 'collection.
Mr. Robert James Pressiy, officer of Maghera ride
Coleraine collection, has been appointed second
clerk, Coleraine collection. Mr. Griffith Jones,
officer of Ramelton second ride, Londonderry col-
lection, has been appointed to Maghera ride, Col-
raine collection. East Indies—Capt. Hamilton has
been appointed a junior assistant to the Commis-
sioner at Mysore. Mr. L. Ricketts has been ap-
pdinted to officiate as junior assistant to the Com-
missioner of Mysore. Mr. W. Ramsay, assistant-
commissioner third class, Nagpore, has been ap-
pointed alienation officer of the province. Captain
H. F. Bolton has been appointed to officiate as an
assistant-commissioner third class, on lull salary of
that grade, Nagpore. Mr. G. L. T. Harris has
been appointed assistant to the magistrate and col-
lector at Patna. Mr. G. F. Cockburn has been ap-
pointed commissioner of revenue and circuit of the
Burdwan division. Mr. A. Grote has been appointed
commissioner of revenue and circuit of the Chitta-
gong division. Mr. E. H. Lushington has been
appointed commissioner of revenue and circuit of
Nuddea division. Mr. H. L. Dampier has been
appointed secretary to the Board of Revenue. The
Hon. A. Eden has been appointed junior secretary
to the Board of Revenue. Mr. S. F. Davis has
been appointed magistrate and collector of second
grade in Pubna. Mr. A. R. Young has. been ap-
pointed to officiate as member of the Board of
Revenue, and as special commissioner for the presi-
dency town of Calcutta. Lieutenant R. T. Hare
has been appointed an assistant-commissioner of the
third class, and posted to the Gooderat district.
Captain H. Meyland has been appointed to be pri-
vate secretary to the Lieutenant-Governor of the
Punjab.—Civil Service Gazette.

S'USPECTED IUURDEIt AND SUICIDE.

A singular case, involving charges of murder and
suicide, occurred at Carlisle on Friday. On the
morning of that day a young man named William
Horsley, 23 years of age, a draper's assistant, was
found lying dead upon a "settle," or seat, in the
kitchen of a small inn called the Packhorse, in
Water-street, kept by a woman named Jane David•
son, about 40 or 50 years of age, whose husband
works as an agricultural labourer in the country.
Horsley had been married to a daughter of Jane
Davidson, but his wife had died about 18 months
ago. He used frequently to go to the Packhorse
after he left the shop in the evening, and often
stayed there all night, sleeping upon the settle in
the kitchen. The woman Davidson appears to
have become enamoured of her son-in-law. She
had, however, cause to suspect that he kept com-
pany with a young woman, and therefore induced
a neighbour, Esther Short, to watch him and see if
her suspicions were well founded and who was her
rival. Short did so, watched him to join a young
woman on Wednesday night last, after ho had left
the shop, and she followed her to where she lived as
domestic servant. Following out Mrs. Davidson's
instructions, Short told the girl that the young man
she had been with was engaged, and subse-
quently, on behalf of Mrs. Davidson, Short wrote
to the girl's mistress, telling her that her servant was
keeping company with a married man. In her evi-
dence at the inquest, which was held on Friday
afternoon, Short made some extraordinary revela-
tions. She said that on Thursday last the woman
Davidson had told her that she had been consulting
a fortuneteller, who had said that her husband would
soon die and she would be married again. She asked
Short to go to a druggist for her and get her some
" dragon's blood," which was to be burnt in the fire
as a charm to prevent her son-in-law from keeping
company with her rival. The " dragon's blood"
was procured on Wednesday. On Thursday night
the deceased Horsley went to the Packhorse Inn
and was left in the kitchen with his mother-in-law
and lover, Mrs. Davidson, when every one else had
gone to bed. The other inmates of the house were
another son-in-law of the landlady, named Robin-
son, and his wife, and two children. No noise was
heard during the night, but about midnight Robin-
son heard Mrs. Davidson go to her bedroom. Next
morning, before going out to his work at 6 o'clock,
he saw the deceased lying on the "settle," but
thinking he was asleep, as he had been many times
before, he did not notice that anything was the
matter. On his return to breakfast at 8 o'clock,
however, he found that he was dead. He had bled
at the nose considerably, and much blood was on
the floor; his head was on a pillow, and he was
partly covered with a sheet. There was a slight
blue mark round his neck, and a mark from the
tightness of his shirt collar. Meanwhile Mrs. David-
son was found to be very ill. She had frequent
vomitings during the night, and these continued at
intervals during Friday until the afternoon, when
she died, just as the jury were in the house viewing
the body of her son-in-law. At the inquest on the
young man the medical men gave their opinion tnat
there was no external mark to account for death,
and the - inquiry was adjourned in order that a
post mortem examination might be made, The
body of the woman was also viewed oy the same
jury, as the two cases will constitute only one
inquiry, and it was determined that her body aloo
should be opened.