The Sun.
London, England, 1861-12-14 00:00:00

THE TRADE MURDER AT SHEFFIELD%

The inquiry into the circumstances attending the
death of Bridget O'Rourke, by the explosion of
a case of gunpowder, thrown through the window
into a dwelling-house in Sheffield, was resumed.
before Mr. Webster, the deputy coroner, on Wed-
nesday, at the Town-hall, Sheffield. George Wast-
ridge, the person against whom the attack was
directed, and the husband of the other woman who
was so seriously injured, was examined. He stated
that he was a stove, grate, and fender grinder,
working for Mr, Hoele, of Green-lane, who first
employed him in June last, in consequence of other
men turning out. He had at the time been nearly
two years out on strike himself, and was glad of a
good situation with regular work. He was shortly
after mobbed, and obliged to run home to escape.
The men who followed him said that he deserved
to be murdered for taking work at 'Toole's, and.
several of them said if they could get hold of him
they would "do his job." Thompson, the prisoner,
and his wife, were by at the time. '1 he latter
said that Wastridge should be burnt, and would
be burnt before long. A few weeks after the
witness went to Mr. Hoole's Bagshaw, keeper
of a co-operative store, and the secretary of the
Saw-grinders' frales Union, and Broadhead,
the keeper of the Royal George Tavern, and.
president of the Associated Trades of Sheffield,
asked him and other men working at Green-lane to
meet them at a public-house. An interview took
place, when Wastridge and his fellow-workmen
were asked to name a sum which would induce
them to leave their employment. Several offers
were on other occasions made and rejected. At
last an agreement was come to that they were to
have £lO a mail. This sum was not paid, however,
and they remained in their employment. At the
last interview they had Broadhead said that they
must come out whatever the consequences were.
The witness, after making these statements, de-
scribed what took place on the 23d ult., without
adding any fact of importance to those previously
mentioned. Evidence was then brought forward
to show that Bridget O'Rourke, the deceased, was in
a weak state of mind at the time she made her de-
claration, and that no reliance was to be placed on
her incoherent statements about a parcel of gun-
powder being seen in the'house before the explo-
sion. The inquiry was again adjourned, Mrs.
Wastridge, although recovering, not being yet able
;ie appear before a jury.

COUNTRY .MARKL

WAKEFIELD--=DEC. 13.
We have liberal arrivals of grain. The wheat trade,
influenced by the uncertainty of political affsirs, is very i 12..
active this week. Wheat was held for lower prices to-d9l,
than last Frieay. Barley steady. No change in oats s
other articles.

LIVERPOOL—DEC. 13.
A thin attendance at our market to-day, and a slow re'
tail sale was experienced for wheat, at a decline of ld per
cental for parcels upon the quay. Flour also difficult to
quit, and rather lower. Oats and oatmeal neglected, but
at late rates. Beans and peas held for previous quotationo,
Indian corn was in good demand at the opening, but be'
came dull at the close.

—DEO. 13.
led, and a thin attendance;

EXETEA
The supply to-day was lima
prices may be quoted as follows :
Wheat, white 7s 9d to 8s ed I Barley. .4s Od to 4.s 6(1,
Ditto new .0s Od to Os Od Oats .. ..... 38 Oa up 3s 30

Flour, fine, 46s to —s; seCoads, 44s to —s per sack.

CATTLE.
A moderate supply of bullocks, and a good supply of
cows and calves. Sheep fair.
Fat beef,p score, 10s0d to lls Ewes, per lb .... 6d to 60
Pork carcases,do lOs Od to lls Wethers, d 0...... bid to 7
Lambs, per lb —d to —d. Fat calves, d 0... 7d to ad'
Rough fat, 4d per 112.

BRISTOL SUGAR—DEC. 13.
The mark& for raw sugars still mmains dull, the sale 9
being most trifling, at is decline. In refined goods there
is also a slow business doing at about is lower than pre4
vious values. In rums nothing doing.

COAL MAR.
(rrioee of Coal per Ton al

.ET—DEC. 13.
the close of the market.
S. d•

e. d.
Buddle's West Hartley 15 6
Carway and Duffryn
Malting 24 0
Do. Anthracite 21 6
Davison's West Hart-

Wale End.
Kelloe
Acorn Close 16 ,
Hartlepool. l7 c'
17 9
Hetton • .
16 9
Eden
16 9
Hengh Hall
Whitworth 15 6
Stewart's.. . l7 6
9
Framwellgate 16 ,
.
Tunstall
. , 6
South Whitworth..... la

ley ....15 6
Byass's Belaside West
Hartley....ls 6
Wylam ..16 0
Bower's West Hartley.l4 0

~ 32 ; sold, 27.