The Sun.
London, England, 1857-10-03 00:00:00

HAY MARKETS.

SnErnmELD.—Meadow hay, 21 109 to 41 Os; clover,
31 158 to 51 Os; and straw, 1/ 4s to 11 9s per load
Supply good, and trade dull.

CIIMBERLA.ND. —Meadow hay, 2/ 153 to 41 4s; clover,
41 Os to 51 03 ; and straw, 11 5s to 11 103 per load.
A heavy inquiry.

WHITEOHAPEL.—Meadow hay, 2/ 12s to 4/ Oa ; clover,
4/ Os to 5/ Os ; and straw, 11 4s to 11 95 per load.
A fair supply, and a slow trade.

THE SAILORS OF THE NORTH-EAST PORTS.—SHIELDE,
Oct. I.—This day is the commencement of the winter
half-year in the coal trade, and there was some fear lest
an unpleasantness might arise between the seamen and
the shipowners, or that a strike might occur ; but so far
each party has taken its separate course, and there is
not much cause for alarm. The South Shields Ship.
owners Association have intimated that its members
will not pay more than 4/. a voyage to London and
Amsterdam ; 3/. 10s. per month in the Baltic and North
American trades ; 3/. per month in the Mediterranean
and Black Sea trades, the four latter with small stores.
The Sailors' Association have announced that their scale
for the winter is 51. per voyage in the London trade,
4/. per month in the Mediterranean and Black Sea
trades, with small stores when sailing by the month.
The Shipowners' Association do not employ Union men,
and the Sailors' Association, whose members are all
able-bodied seamen, decline to sail with non-Union men.
The Shipowners' Association only represents a portion
of the Shields owners, but whether those who do not
belong to the association will feel inclined to pay 11. a
man a voyage more than the members of the association,
0 navi-
gate _or whether the association can procure crews fit t
vessels in the North Sea during the winter months
at their reduced scale—for they have so far paid the same
settled.
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reporthrown
wages as those claimed by the Seamen's Association—
are questions that are likely to be coon A
MAN STABBED BY XIS WIFL—The inhabitants
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that a woman named Eliza Snelling, living in Coombe.
lane, bad nearly murdered her husband, by stabbing him
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in the head with a knife. On the man's returning home
to dinner a quarrel took place between him and his wife,
which was unfortunately terminated by her seizing
table-knife and stabbing him in the face. In the course
of the afternoon the woman was brought before Mr. E.
H. Dickinson, at the magistrates' office, but as it was
merely intended to have her remanded, the only evi-
dence taken was that of Police-Sergeant Jeffs of the
couatry constabulary, who deposed as follows :
I received information shortly after one o'clock to-day
that a man had been stabbed by his wife in Coombe-
lane. I proceeded to the house in which the prisoner,
Eliza Snelling, lives, and there saw a large quantity of
blood in the doorway, in a pan, and in a bucket. The
prisoner was in a lower room. She said, I'm not
going to run away." I went up stairs and saw her hus-
band, Jehn Snelling, lying in bed. I raw that be had a
the right side of his face.
very long cut, strapped up, on
It extended from the temple to the chin. Before I spoke
to him he moved his lips as I put down my ear to him.
He said, very faintly, " Take my wife into c ustody fir
attempting to murder me." That was all he said, and,
as he appeared so very exhausted, I did not ask him
realy questions, I then came down stairs and took the
prisoner into custody. On proceeding to the house a
second time I received the knife, a small table one, from
the prisoner's daughter. On showing it to the prisoner
she said, " That is the knife I did it with; I sharpened
it to clean a sheep's head." I consider the man is in a
very dangerous state. On being asked if she had any-
thing to say, she stated that both she and her husband
were in fault, and if she bad not stood in her own defence
she might have been murdered herself. The prisoner was
then remanded till Friday next,—Sherborne Journal.