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labout half an hour afterwards witness t
down stairs, when- a e a noise a a
1 she were crying, came to his door, and said that El. izis..

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'-sth was dead.
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Barber, who lives in Ramsden's Fold, Wort ley,
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that ' was at the house of deceased about af. art-
said
night before her' death. Her husband was in about bat
-nson came in soon after. The de.
time, and Ann Sim, t a dogaway
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having run dth
ceased told the latter au, Bey sd
the remainder of the meat L. -
ad had for dinner,
said that her husband had be.. it. On this A.e
Simpson said he ought to have foug2it his wife Inglestc
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of the dog. Deceased said, " DOSt thou :want row
Ann replied that she cared nothing about it. Deceaseti.
then said to her, 4 Thou shalt go taut of my hearer r.
will have thee no longer." On her refusing to sit*
so a struggle took place betwixt there, during whick.
Illingworth, the husband, came down and asked, what it,.
was about. Deceased said, " Make her go- ,out. Ana::
said she would not go. Deceased then said. will ra'
ther kill her or be killed to-day." Upon which thee hus- •
band turned to his wife and said, " D—n thee, jr'
k
thee, and thoult never know what thou ails, in tv,
To mi
nutes." She said, " Wilt thou kill thy own wife for a.
iln
w— 2" He did not reply, but whispered to Aun,
she went out.
George Duckworth, barman at the Suspensi( )11--
bridge, stated that Ann Simpson went through the b
towards Leeds on Wednesday, the day before Elizabet b.
Illingworth died.
Zary Catherall, a married woman, residing in Mans- •
field, :-..lolbeck, said, she had known Ann Simpson ever
since she .w as eight or nine years of age. Witness was a
in I,„d, Wednesday, the 11th of December, the day
before Mrs. :12lingwomb died. She saw Ann Simpson.-
between three a►L'lfour o'clock that afternoon in Brig.-4
gate, just coming ,;./11,- of the shop of Mr. Hall, druggist,
in that street. She sten •ed witness near the shop-door, -
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and bad some conversain with her. Ann Simpson
o.
went to the house of the witns:ss last Thursday evening, ,
about six o'clock, and told svitn;ss that she had had the t
policeman at her. Witness reclieci that so had she, Ann
said, that he did not tell her I,`„hat he had been at wit- I
ness's house, but that a woman ha,'.d told her, and that wit- 1
her on Wednesday
ness would take an oath that she s.aw
afternoon in Briggate. Witness suit.
sekNay, it was:on Tues.
1 that she did see her tr
on that day. Ann Simpson replied,
day ; she had been about some watch'
it was near the yard below." glasses ; and tha
ness replied tin it,
she knew nothing of the yard below, a. ad that on Tue s.
day she was not out; and that she was sure she eta Dem
out of the druggist's shop door on the WeChieLdaY Elftejl-
oon. She said, " Then thy words does me r' m"r9W.
.a
st four o'clock; York's my doom, and my has. 'x's to the
workhouse." No one was present at the tin, "e. Bhp
said, "If they took her, they took her inn. stn
several had gone before." She also said that sh..! ehNtke
toe sleep all night. Witness's husband then ca.-ne 111,
anal
sAnn Simpson went away.
otch yell Kell, one of the Leeds police force, depos..4
to the fa. -t that Ann Simpson had told him that she weS
not atL, eeds at all on Wednesday, the 11th ,ef
December • but that she was there on Tuesday, tthe
10th, and boug2ll a lot of watch glasses of a man named
Ripley.
Ripley's son was e, lied, and from his evidence it was.
'pson was not at his father's on.
very clear that Ann Sin.
either the 10th or the 11th of December.
Blanshard Ringoose, assist:Ant to Mr. Hall, druggist,
Leeds, deposed that a woman' .like Ann Simpson asked
for some arsenic at his master's SL op on the 11th or 12th.
,
of December, but he could not say n which day, and he•
did i of let her have any, because he ,did did not know her,
and because she was alone. That wotek,n, he observed,
on her leaving the shop, entered into cons 'creation with
I)
another woman at the door-stead. He &old not .
positive that Ann Simpson was the woman who went
into the shop and asked for arsenic, but be bei.koved she
was.
At the close of the evidence, Ann Simpson, afier the
usual caution, was asked if she had any statement to
make; but, acting under the advice of Mr. Higham, so-
lictor, who watched the case for her, and o
William.
Illingworth, the husband of the deceased, she decline&
saying anything.
The CORONER, in summing up the case for the eon -
sideration of the jury, said there could be no doubt that.
the deceased had died from the effect's of arsenic; but'
the natural question was, whether it hail been adeinie-
tered by herself or by the woman Ann Simpson, or the
latter in conjunction with some other pers.qn. The evi-
dence was altogether of a circumstantial esNaracter• It
was calculated to create strong sugpicion Want Ann
Simpson; but he doubted whether it was so es•onclusive
as to warrant them in finding a verdict of wilful ..catirder
against her; and he did not like to encourage jue(es to
find verdicts which were not likely to be sustained before
the tribunal where the case must be finally investigeed
and decided. He then recapitulated the evidence vritk
a good deal of minuteness, and particularly poinled oat
those parts of it which appeared to bear upon the conduct
of Ann Simpson. He referred to the fact of the drug-,
gist's assistant having deposed that, as the woman who
asked for the arsenic left the shop, she entered into
conversation with another woman, which seemed to coin-
cide so exactly with the evidence of Mary Catherall, sa
to leave little doubt that the woman who applied for the
arsenic was Ann Simpson. That portion of the evidence
also suggested another important consideration. The
druggist's assistant had stated that he told the woman
that he never sold arsenic unless the applicant was ac-
companied by a witness, or was personally known. Now,
Ann Simpson had known Mary Catherall for a long
time, and supposing Ann Simpson to have been the
ap-
plicant, a suspicious circumstance was, that after what
she had been told in the shop, she did not ask Mrs..
Catherall to go in with her to enable her to procure the
arsenic, if as she said, she wanted it to kill vermin.
After pointing out some of the portions of the evidence,
the Coroner concluded by requesting the jury to give the
case their most careful and impartial consideration.
The jury, after consulting together for about half an
hour, returned a verdict of " Wilful murder against Ann
Simpson," who, on the coroner's warrant, was conunitted
to York Castle, for trial at the next assizes.

RAILWAYS IN LINCOLN.—(From A. local COM--
spondent.)—On Wednesday the Town-Council of Lin-
coln gave their assent (as owners of public pro-
perty, intended to be taken by the different rail-
ways) to the London and York line, and dis-
sented from all the others, except the Newark and
Nottingham, to which, after some discussion, they
agreed, expecting to have it as a feeder for the
London and York at Newark. The London and
York, alias the Leeds and Manchester people, will
attempt to consider this a victory over the other
lines at Lincoln, but their victories at Lincoln have al-
ways been obtained in such a manner that they imply
defeat by the dishonesty with which they are brought
about. The Lincoln corporation are for the most part
either Shareholders in the Wakefield line (now
joined with the London and York), or in the
Witham Company, and are accordingly bound hand
and foot to the heels of the Leeds and Manchester
Company. Their decision on Wednesday was given
in direct opposition to the wishes of the citizens,
who very naturally want the line through Lincoln,
and not by Newark, where it would not only be a com-
peting line with the Midland Counties', but would leave
the eastern part of this county to go to London
with a single line of rail, by the Witham side to
Boston. The Cambridge and Lincoln line is
the one desired by all the inhabitants of this city, and
immediate steps will be taken to counteract the effects
of the council's decision. The Board of Trade will be
memoralised without delay, and a public meeting of
the inhabitants held, and this time it will net be packed
by the London and York shareholders. The citizens
arc indignant at the manner in which their interests
have been neglected by the corporation, and they will
very soon express their opinions in a manner not to be
mistaken.—Railway Record.
TRADE OF MANCHESTER, TIICRSDAY EVENING.--
On Tuesday and Wednesday, the feeling in our cloth
market was decidedly a favourable one, and to-day,
owing to the commercial news from India, &c., being of
a very encouraging character, it has given a further
stimulus to our market, which leaves no doubt
whatever that we shall experience a better spring
trade than has been for some years past. Some
foreign houses which were lying on their oars for the
winter, have to-day been making inquiries,
sharing no
doubt the general impression that prices must of necessity
go upwards, and the consequence is, that manufacturers
might make engagements to almost any extent, at a
trifling advance on rates current last week. This, how-
ever, has generally been declined, and the market closes
to-day unusually buoyant for all descriptions. The
dyers were never known so busy at this season; indeed,
every branch of the trade of this district appears in a
most prosperous state. The spinners, too, have found
to-day many more inquiries for yarns ; but they, too.
refuse to enter into any new engagements for the present.
Prices rather improving.
LADY CECILIA FARRENCOURT.—Among the forth-
coming works of fiction, which promise to excite much
interest, is a navel from the pen of Mr. Milton, entitled
" Lady Cecilia Farrencourt.' It is represented as a pic-
ture of high life, with a domestic interest, arising from
events of a peculiar character, that must recommend it
strongly to every reader of such productions. An aris-
tocratic heroine struggling between two such opposing
scopepoTr if
no
g
r ther etTl es suet sos if" ths e of
influences as the prejudices of high birth, and the over-
o
vetlhiset. affseucetihonas,peorffsoenrs,
it
tuilsl
reported, is Lady Cecilia Farrencourt. In the working
up of such a story, wherein the most singular charac-
teristics, of existing society may be delineated, the
author will have a wide field for the display of all the
skill and all those powers of entertainment which he
possesses in common with his celebrated sister, Mrs.
Trollope.
We have been requested by Mr. Meyer, the in-
ventor of the (Eolophon, to state, that the instrument in
Mr. Ilorn's entertainment, at the Polytechnic,
is not the (Eolophon organ, but a smaller instrument to
which lie gives the name of CEolophon simply, and also
that his own name is Meyer and not Myers, as stated in
the bills.

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CONDEMNED CONVICTS AT STAFFORD.—STAFFORD,
SATURDAY MORNING.—Late last evening a respite was re-
ceived by Mr. Brutton, the Governor of the county gaol,
from Sir J. Graham, for the youthful convicts, Downing
and Powys, who were to have been executed this morning at
eight o'clock, postponing the carrying out of the awful sen-
tence of death until Saturday the 25th inst. The cause
of this official interference is said to be some point of
law connected with the trial of the convicts, which is
reserved for the consideration of the judges. Mr. Justice
Coltman is of opinion that it cannot be sustaiird, and
should that be the case, the extreme sentence will most
certainly be carried into effect.
BRISTOL SUGAR MARKET, JAN. 3.—Our raw
sugar market re-opened on Wednesday last, after being
closed for the Christmas holidays, so that we have only
had two market days this week. The demand was only
partial either for West or East India descriptions, at
about the value before the holidays; and for Mauritius
there was no inquiry. Ru is still very dull, and prices
nominal.—Bristol Mercury.

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