The Sun.
London, England, 1844-09-28 00:00:00

NINETIETH SALE.

CUSTOM.HOUSE, London, 7th October, 1844.
FOR SALE, by order of the lion. Commissioners
of her Majesty's Customs, at Twelve o'Clock at noon pre-
cisely, on MONDAY, the 7th, TUESDAY, the Bth, WEDNESDAY,
the sth, THURIiDAY, the 10th, FRIDAY, the 11th, and SATURDAY,
the 12th October, 1844, at the Commercial Sale Rooms, Mincing.
lane, the following GOODS :

For Home Consumption—Accordions, artificial flowers, bal-
zerine, boxes, beads, brooch-heads, books, braces, brushes, ca.
mailles, curtains, china vases, cordonnet, coral beads, copper ma.
nufartures, bronze, marble, ormolu, malachite, and other clocks,
congreve matches, coloured porcelain, eut and flint glass, coutille,
copper stills, cotton gloves and mitts, muslin collars, Dutch
clocks, dessert sets of cut and flint glass, dolls, embossed maps,
earthenware, embroidery, woollen fringe, lutes, flannel, double.
barrelled fowling-piece, glass flower vases, gold rings, hat foun-
dations, hat linings, needlework, ceillets, old furniture, pillow
lace, leather garters, mock jewellery, musical instruments, mu.
sical boxes, mousseline de laine, one pair of malachite cande-
labra, match sticks, purse garnitures, picture frames, preserved
meat, phosphorus, shawls, silk shawls, silk bandannas, straw
trimmings, silk plush, silk gloves and mitts, snub-boxes, sera.
?lines, steel manufactures, spirits of wine, soy, shell lowers,
tobacco pipes and bowls, lacquered bowls (Russian), toys, toy-rings,
tomata pulp, tobacco ashes, turpentine, timber, human teeth, gold
watches, waistcoatings, ultra-marine, wire plated wafer boxes, po.
matum, leather garters, manuafctured and unmanufactured to-
bacco, cigars, cheroots, tea, coffee, sugar, wine, mixed spirits,
brandy, rum, and Geneva, &c.

Fer Exportation—Perfumed spirits, wine, cordials, common
green glass, spirits, &c.
For Exportation or Home Consumption, on payment of the
duties—Silk manufactures, Tussore silk, wine, spirits, &c.
To be viewed at the Queen's Warehouse, Custom-house, Thames.

street; at the West India, London, and St. Katharine's Docks,
and at the Tobacco-ground, Rotherhithe, on Thursday, the 3d;
Friday, the 4th ; and Saturday, the sth of October, 1844, from
ten o'clock in the morning until three o'clock in the afternoon ;
and o■ the days of sale from ten o'clock in the morning until
twelve o'clock at noon.

Take notice, that the goods sold at this sale will not be delivered
until after two clear days of the day they are sold, aed that no
lots can be paid for at the office of the Receiver of Fines after
two o'clock in the afternoon. During the says of sale, money will
not be received by the Receiver of Fines after eleven o'clock in
the forenoon.

Catalogues may be had at the Queen's Warehouse, Custom-
house, price one shilling each.

NOTICE.—THE LAST WEEK!
PRE GREAT DRAWING for Mrs. PARKES'
11 lIRPTAPILEMION PRIZES will take place at the THEATRE
ROYAL COVICST-GARDEN, on MosheY next, the 28th inst.
The Subseription Lista frill be closed en Saturday, the 28th, at Six
o'clock.

Apply for TICKETS at the 110ITTETt 01.LLERT, 22, Golden-
square, where the Prizes are exhibited free ; or at Mrs. Parkes's,
City Office, 104, Leclenhall-stroet.

AMERICAN ICE.-LYNN'S WATERLOO
HOTEL, RANELAGH-STREET, LIVERPOOL.

—WILLIAM LYNN respectfully calls the attention of the nobility,
gentry, hotel-keepers, and others, to this beautiful and cheap article
of importation. It is In solid blocks, weighing from one to two hun-
dred pounds each, and is as clear as crystal ; it can be sent to any
distance, with very trifling waste ; and is used for a 'variety of pur-
poses that Euglish Ice cannot be applied to.
W. L. has imported coins PROVISION. SAFES fl'ont ♦nterica, for
the use and comfort of Private Families—

The REFRIGERATOR, sr (as sometimes designated) a Miniature
Ice-house. This is a ■er and useftd article of furniture, rapidly
coming into ase in northern and southern clinics; it Is designed to
keep cool and sweet such dishes in the culinary department as are
necessary to be protected from the heat of the weather during the
summer season. _

The Refrigerator is now considered an indispensible article in the
economy of every good housewife ; the quantity of food it protects
from the weather will snore Masi pay the cost of the article in
one year.
They may be seen in operation, in their various valuable and useful
purposes, at the Waterloo lintel, and families can be supplied with
them on moderate terms.
American Ice, wholesale and retail.
Live Turtle and Turtle-soup sent to any part of the kingdom.

CASE OF POISONING AT
BETHNAL GREEN.
Yesterday Mr. William Baker, deputy coroner for the
eastern division of the county of Middlesex, resumed and
concluded the inquiry touching the death of Jane
Gregory, aged 27, whose death, it was alleged, had been
occasioned by the administration of some poison by a
young man, named Alfred Edwards, now in custody on
the charge.
The inquest was adjourned on Monday last for the
purpose of the contents of the bottle, as well as the fluid
found in the stomach of deceased upon the post mortem
examination, being analysed by Dr. Leeson, of St.
Thomas's Hospital. On the reassembling of the jury
yesterday,
Dr. henry Beaumont Leeson was sworn.—lle deposed
that he is assistant physician and lecturer on chemistry
and forensic medicine at St. Thomas's Hospital. He
had examined the contents of the stomach, but found no
poison therein. The stomach itself witnees had boiled
in distilled water, and then filtered. He then added a
solution of sulphurretted hydrogen gas. He again
boded it, and obtained a black precipitate, which by
reduction with the blowpipe and charcoal yielded a
globule of metallic lead, which he produced to the
court and jury. Witness thought that, if any prepa-
ration of lead had been swallowed, it must have been
vomited out of the body, except that portion produced.
The solution obtained from the stomach also indicated
the presence of prussic acid, probably arising from
bitter almonds having been made use of in flavouring
the so-called brandy bitters. There was trace also of
prussic acid in the contents of the stomach. The liquid
in the bottles submitted to him by Mr. Smith, the
surgeon, neither of them contained sugar of lead or any
preparation of lead, but both contained a very large pro-
portion of spirit, being above one-half absolute alcohol.
They appeared to be coloured with saffron, and flavoured
very strongly with bitter almonds, as well as other ve-
getable extracts, which rendered the application of che-
mical tests almost impossible. The inference he drew
from the examination was that he thought it improbable
that so large a portion of the load should have been
found combined with, and adhering to, the stomach itself,
unless a quantity of some preparation of lead had been
swallowed, and could only attribute the not being able
to detect any satisfactory trace of lead in the stomach
from its having been removed by vomiting or purging.
If sugar of lead had been added to the liquid in the bot-
tle, there would have been no difficulty in detecting it.
If administered, it must have been mixed in the cup at
the time it was given to deceased, or given to deceased
separately. The appearance of the stomach was similar
to that produced by any irritant poison. The brandy
and bitters itself, containing so large a portion of alcohol
and the essential oil of almond being very deleterious,
would, if taken in sufficiently large quantities, produce
serious illness, and even death. The presence of the
lead detected in the stomach appeared to be a most re-
markable indication of poison having been purposely ad-
ministered.
Mr. Smith, surgeon, who had made the post mortem
examination of the body, re-examined—ln his opinion
death was occasioned by inflammation of the stomach,
caused by the introduction of deadly poison. Four
drachms of sugar of lead would be sufficient to de-
stroy life.
On the part of the accused, it was shown by the evi-
dence of three witnesses that they had drank a portion
of brandy bitters, similar to that which had been given
to the deceased, without its having any injurious effects ;
but one of them admitted that he and another had been
very ill subsequently, but attributed it to having drank
an immoderate quantity.
A sister of deceased accounted for the sugar of lead
being in her possession, by stating that she wanted to
set the colour of a dress which she had been washing,
and that the accused had procured it for her.
The Coroner summed up the evidence in a clear
manner, commenting upon those parts which bore more
immediately upon the question, and explained the law
as applicable to the case.
The jury retired at six o'clock, and after a consultation
of Ready three hours' duration, returned a verdict of
" Wilful murder against Alfred Edwards."

STATE OF TRADE AT LIVERPOOL.—The general as-
pect of commercial affairs is unchanged ; there is a re-
gular demand for produce of all descriptions, and, witk
few exceptions, prices continue yielding to superabundant
supplies. There never was a time when the range of
quotations for the leading articles of commerce would
bear comparison with the low rates now current.
We have seen years when particular trades have
suffered great depression, and prices of some articles
have in consequence declined ; but now, with the capi-
tal of the country of less value in the market than we
have ever known it, and money so plentiful that the
difficulty is to find investment for it—with a manu-
facturing trade thriving in every direction, and
the working classes of all descriptions better
employed than they have been for some years
—it is indeed remarkable that merchants should
find themselves compelled to do business on the
unsatisfactory terms that almost all are suffering by, in-
somuch that the losses on the import trade of the last
six months would far exceed the profits of the entire
year. The present is a state of things that well demands
attention in high quarters ; and more than ever now
should the argument be brought forward, that low duties
will stimulate consumption, that the increased imports
will thereby be taken off, and the revenue of tho country
need not suffer.—Liverpool Mercury.
lIUNGERPORD SUSPENSION-BRIDGE AND ITS RAIL-
WAYS.—The works at the above bridge are nearly at a
stand still, owing to the intention of the Directors to
apply at the next meeting of Parliament for a Bill to
allow them to throw a railway across the Thames ad-
joining the suspension-bridge, and to erect railways to
Richmond, the terminus of the South-Western and
Brighton and Dover Railways. For some days past
surveyors have been employed in measuring the ground
from Goding's Brewery to London-bridge, taking the
proposed line through Ann-ztreet, Waterloo-road, across
the latter road, at the rear of the south side of Stamford-
street, across the Blackfriars-road, through Church-
street, across Green-walk. Holland-street, Southwark-
bridge-road, at the rear of Barclay's brewery, to St.
Saviour's-churchyard, where it will join the Brighton
and Dever railways.
SINGULAR GROUSE.—On the 31st ult., Mr. Heath-
cote, son-in-law of Lord Willoughby, shot upon the
Drummond estate a grouse with three wings—the third
being a full-grown wing upon its back. It was sent to
be stuffed to Daniel Ferguson, Bridge-end, Crieff, and is
now in Drummond Cast e.—Perth Advertiser