The Sun.
London, England, 1845-12-23 00:00:00

CHARGE OF MURDER.

During the last two weeks some excitement has pre-
vailed in the neighbourhood of Dagenham, and the
western portion of the county of Essex, in consequence
of a rumour having been very extensively circulated,
that a respectable tradesman, named Thomas Dunsdon,
a potato salesman, residing at Chsulwell-heath, had
murdered his wire, by cutting her throat. The wife died
as long since as the 20th of October, from the effects of
a severe wound in her throat. A coroner's inquiry was
gone into before C. C. Lewis, Esq., the county coroner,
and a verdict was returned that the deceased committed
the act whilst labouring under temporary insanity. A
few days after the inquest was held, a report was spread
by some of the witnesses who were examined before the
coroner, that the act was not done by the deceased, and
that the husband had cut her throat, and that they had
been prevented from giving such evidence before the
coroner as would have fixed Dunsdon with the commission
of the crime of murder. This report reaching the ears
of the husband, he threatened to take legal proceedings
against the originator of the scandal, a person named
Benham.

On the 10th of the present month, an information was
made before Octavius Massiter, Esq., one of the county
magistrates, on the oath of George Benham and Re-
chael Summons, that Thomas Dunsdon, of Chadwell-
heath, in the parish of Dagenham, in the county of
E..ex, did, or. the 20th of o,:tober, feloniously and with
malice aforethought assault Mary Dunsdon, sad with a
certain razor inflict a wound in her throat, of which she
then and there died. The magistrate at once issued a
summons against Dansdon for his attendance before him
the following day. After hearing the evidence of George
Benham and other witnesses, the accused was remanded
to the Ilford sessions, bail being taken for his appearance
EXAMINATION AND COMMITTAL OF THE
ACCUSED.

On Saturday the accused appeared before William
Cotton, Esq., and a full bench of magistrates, at the
Angel Inn, Ilford, when the whole of the case with :re.
gird to the prosecution was gone into.
The prisoner, who, although habited in his working
dress, appeared to be of respectability, paid great atten-
tion to the proceedings, and during a portion of the
examination, fondled one of his children in a most affec-
tionate manner.

Mr. Waite appeared to prosecute, and Mr. Griffin on
behalf of the accused.

Rachel Summons was the first witness called, and de-
posed as follows :—I am a single woman, residing at
Chadwell-heath, and in October last I was in the service
of Mr. and Mrs. Dunsdon. I came to my work on the
20th of October, as usual, and saw Mr. Dunsdon in the
back parlour. I asked him how his wife was. He said,
she is much the same. Mr. Dunsdon went out, and
came back about nine, or half-past nine o'clock, and
w nt into the front room. I went up-stairs into Mrs.
Dunsdon's bed-room, whilst Dunsdon and Mrs. Ban-
ham, who came into the front room before Dunsdon left
it, were in the front room. She (Mrs. Dunsdon) was
in bed, and I asked her if I shonld make it. She said,
" No, Mrs. Banham has put it straight," and then told
me t ) boil a piece of mutton, which I should find in the
cupboard, and make her some broth for dinner. I
arterwards went down stairs, but did not see Mr. Duns-
don then, but saw him a few minutes after in the back
parlour. Whilst there I saw him take off his hat and
coat and hang them up. I saw him pour out a cup of
coffee and say, "I am going up stairs." He then went
up-stairs, but did not take the coffee with him. I did
not hear any noise after this for some time.
Mr. Cotton—Now state slowly what occurred.
Witness—Mr. Dunsdon went up stairs, but I did not
hear any noise for some time. I went into the yard to
do my work, and as I was doing it I heard shrieks. I
ran into the kitchen to see what was the matter, and as
I was going in I saw Mr. Dunsdon coming down stairs
with a bloody razor in his hand. I passed him on the
stairs and went to the top to see what was the matter,
and I saw Mrs. Dunsdon bleeding. I came down again
directly, and Mr. Banham went up stairs and called for
some towels, and I ran up with them. Several other
neighbours came in and I went down stairs, and did not
go up again for " a while." Mr. Dunsdon came in out
of the yard and went half way up stairs, and I heard
him ask Mr. Banham, "Is it fatal?" I heard Mr. Ban-
ham reply that she would be dead in ten minutes. Mr.
Dunsdon came down stairs and went into the yard again.
Mr. Banham came down and asked me if I knew where
the razor was. I told him that I did not know, but that
I saw Mr. Dickens with it. I left the house then and
went into the yard and saw Mr. Dunsford, and said to
him, " What a bad job:" He said to me, "lamin no
wise sorry for it."
Mr. Griffin—Why did you not state this to the co-
roner?

The Chairman—You have no right to question the
witness; but any question you wish answered must be
put through the bench.
The examination of the witness was resumed—He
said, " That the devil was always after such people, and
that he could clear himself by going and telling his
master that this morning she attempted to do it." I bad
❑o more conversation with him until Wednesday morn
ing following, about an hour before I went before the
jury, when he told me not to say much, for he should
have to stand trial. I told him I did not know what trial
meant, and we had no more conversation until after
we came from the inquest. When I came home he
asked me if the gentlemen inquired if they had any
words on Sunday, and I told h m that they had not.
That is all that has passed with him and me since.
By Mr. Cotton—lie was not running down stairs when
I first saw him, but was coming down at a middling pace.
The bed-clothes were lying very straight, but I did not
take any notice of her hands, as I did not see them. I
saw some blood on Dunsdon's smallclothes when he came
down stairs. I did not see any blood upon any part of
the bed-clothes. I said nothing to Dunsford when I met
him on the stairs.

By Mr. Waite, the solicitor—Mrs. Dunsdon was lying
flat upon her back when I went into the room. There
was no other person in it when I went in. Mr. Dunsdon
bad on his working clothes when I went into the yard.
I afterwards saw the razor in Mr. Dickens's hand, and
found it afterwards on a shelf in the back kitchen, be-
hind some dishes. Mr. Benham was making inquiries
after it when I found it. I took it from the shelf and
gave it to him. There was a little blood upon the blade,
very little indeed. I quitted the service of Mr. Duns-
don on Thursday, the day after the inquest. I had been
in his service about nine or ten days. He gave me no
particular directions respecting Mrs. Dunsdon not being
allowed a knife or other instrument. He never told me
that he apprehended she would do herself harm. She
appeared always very comfortable, and gave no signs of
eccentricity. I never noticed anything to lead me to
suppose that she was a person of unsound mind. I never
saw Mr. Dunsford shave at home, or saw the razor in
any room in the house until I saw Mr. Dunsford bring
it down stairs.

Mr. Cotton—Did you see any blood upon his waistcoat
as well as on his smalleloches ? Witness—Yes, I mean
the waistcoat by using the word smallclothes.

Mr. Griffin here rose for the purpose of cross-examin-
ing the witness, upon which all the magistrates retired
for the purpose of considering whether they would allow
him to do so not. On their return,

Mr. Cotton said Mr. Griffin could ask the witness any
questions relative to her evidence, but they could not go
into the defence.

Mr. Griffin—Were you ever in the service of Mr.
Turner, of Barking. _ _

Mr. Cotton—We can't allow that mode of cross-exa-
mination.

Mr. Griffin—l have a right to put such questions to
test her credibility.
Mr. Cotton—l have the right to say that you shall not
cross-examine at all.
Mr. Griffin—Then a person of the most infamous
character may come forward and give evidence without
that evidence been tested. But I must submit.
Mr. Cotton—You mnst submit, because you can't help
yourself.
The witness was then cross-examined at considerable
length, from which it appeared that Mrs. Dunsford had
suffered much from illness, and was frequently compelled
to keep her bed. Witness was cross-examined from the de-
positions of the coroner, and her anwers were principally to
the following efirett,—l did not tell the Coroner that she
complained of pain in her back. I told the Coroner that
I took a cup of coffee up stairs. I don't recollect that I
sild the Coroner that she spoke to me when I went up
the second time. To the best of my recollection I don't
think that I told the Coroner, when I brought down the
coffee, I saw my master go up stairs, but that I saw him
enter the house.
Mr. Griffin said the evidence he should offer for the
defence would throw the testimony of this witness entirely
overboard.
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Mr. Griffin (evidently astonished)—But here is Mr.
Lewis the coroner present, before whom the witness was
examined at the inquest, and—
Mr. Cotton—Well, if Mr. Lewis is here, I shall not
take his evidence.

....
Mr. Lewis —I beg, sir, to inform you that I did not
come here to give evidence.
Mr. Griffin—The question I wish to put to the witness

is-

Mr. Cotton—The question is, are you to be the com-
manding officer here, or me?

Mr. Grffin—With all due submission to you—
Mr. Cotton—Then sit down, sir.
Police-constable Crawford 253 K, was next examined.
He said I went to Mr. Dunsdon's house on the 20th of
October, the day the deceased died. I received a razor
from Mr. Banham.
Cross-examined—l had a conversation with Mr. Ban-
ham, and I asked him whether he had any suspicion
that the husband had committed the act. (This portion
of t ie evidence the bench declined to receive.)

Josiah Dickens, upon being sworn, said—l am a car-
penter, and reside at Chadwell-heath. I received a
razor from the last witness. He gave it me to put away.
I threw it in a pond near Wansey House. It was the
same razor as I saw at Dunsdon's house on the 24th of
October. On that day I was at work within forty yards
of the prisoner's house. I heard a parson screaming,
" She has done ir, she has done it." I saw the prisoner
coming from his back yard. I went into the house and
saw Mrs. Dunedon lying in bed on her back, with her
throat cut. On cowing down stairs I saw a razor in the
back-yard. Duosdon entered the yard from Mr. Glenny's
house, and he noticed the razor and said, " Where could
she get this from?" I took the razor and put it on a

shelf in the back kitchen. The razor that I threw into
the pond was the same us I saw at Dunsdou's. I knew
it by some blood on the blade.

dros examined—Dunsdon appeared much afflicted on
the day deceased died. The prisoner said, " Oh, that I
had seen the last of her ! Oh, that she had died a
natural death !" He shed tears and moaned. I stopped
two hours with him to comfort him. I never heard
Dunsdon say, " I am not sorry she is dead ; she would
never have been no use to my family or to me ; the
devil is always after these people." From the position
I was in, I must have heard it if he had said so. I did
not see any blood on Dun; don's clothes.

George Benham, of Chadwell-heath, said—l am :a
linen-draper, and know the prisoner. On the 20th of
October, about a quarter before ten o'clock, I saw him
come into the back yard exclaiming, " She has done it,
she has done it." I ran up and found her lying upon
her back, with her hand upon her breast and her throat
cut, the wound large enough for a pint bottle to have been
put in end ways. I put my hands under her head and
raised her up, the blood flowing out of the wound on
both sides. I saw no splashes of blood on the bed
clothes, which were quite smooth when I entered. She
died in about six minutes. No other person was in
the room when she died. There was no appear-
ance of any struggle, nor was any instrument
found. I left Glenny in the room, and went
int ) the yard through tne house. I saw Dunsdon,
and said, " Where is the instrument that the fatal deed
was done with? None has been found, and no one shall
leave the premises until it is found." Dickins said, "I
have it." I asked how he came by it, and he replied, "I
took it from Dunadon's hand." I said, " Where is that
razor?" and Dickins said, " I have hid it up behind
some plates on the shelf." Rachael Summons came and
looked after it. I said to Dursdon, " What a bad job!"
and he said, "lam in no wise sorry she is dead ; she
never would have been no use to me or any part of my
family, for the devil is always in this sort of people." I
then left him, and had no more conversation with him

until the Coroner sat. It was in the tap-room of the
Coopers' Arms beer-shop, Chadwell-heath, where I spoke
to him. I saw what I thought a spot of blood upon his
waistcoat, and asked him if it was not blood? He said,
" No, it is red paint." I picked it off, and, breaking it
between my fingers, said, "It is blood. Dunsford had
been my tenant about three months. I saw nothing to
induce me to think that Mrs. Dunsford was of unsound
mind. I was examined before the Coroner, and began
to tell my tale, but was stopped, the jury saying that
they only wanted to know what I saw when I entered
the room up stairs, where Mrs. Dunsdon was lying. A
doctor came in on the morning of the 20th of October,
but was not examined, to my knowledge, before the
Coroner. Shortly after the inquest I went out of town,
and on my return went before the magistrate. Dickins
was not present when I said, " What a bad job; what a
bad job!"
Cross-examined—A day or two after the inquest
Duusdou gave me notice to quit, and said he should
serve Ilse with another piece of paper for speaking about
him. I had not been speaking about it. I did not say
that he had another female in London, and that his wife
knew of it. I was examined before the jury, but they
would not give inn a chance of saying what I have since
said. When the inquest was over, I said that I was not
satisfied. I never heard them quarrel.
Mrs. Faith Louisa Benham, wite of the last witness,
said—l have known the deceased about two months. I
was present with deceased when the prisoner called upon
her. There were some scratches on her throat before
she died. I attended the inquest, and answered all the
questions put to me. On the morning after I saw the
scratches on her neck, I did not find a knife in the bed,
but I found in her pocket, under the pillow, a small pen-
knife. I took that away, but I did not search the bed
clothes, and never said I did.

Robert Bowie, surgeon, said he had attended the de-
ceased about three weeks for diseased vertebra. Her
suffsrings had caused great bodily debility, which had
affected the nervous system. He had given orders that
she should be looked after. He was not at all surprised
that she should have committed suicide. He never saw
anything of Dunsdon more than that he was kind and
of to his wife.

Mr. James Glenny, market gardener of Chadwell-
' heath, was next examined on behalf of the accused. He
said Dunsdon was a salesman, and went to market
three times a-week. He came to witness on the 15th of
October, and told him that his wife's mind was in a
very bad state. lie (witness) called in the evening, and
found her eyes rolling in her sockets. He knelt down
at the bed-side and prayed with her. The following
day the prisoner told him that his wife had asked him to
get up and boil the kettle. He did so, and, whilst down
stairs, he heard a noise, and upon returning again to
his bed-room, he found the pillow removed a little. He
(the prisoner) went to the window, when his wife pulled
out a knife, and handing it to him, said, " Here it is,
take it, for it will not do it." Upon hearing this, wit-
ness recommended the prisoner to go for her mother,
and ho then ran off for her. Witness was confident the
prisoner had not committed the act imputed to him.
Arr. Cotton, the Chairman, said, after giving this
painful case our best consideration, we are of opinion
that we should not be doing our duty in discharging the
man ; we have, therefore, made up our minds in sending
bum to a higher tribunal. You are, therefore (address-
inp the prisoner), committed to take your trial at the
next sessions.

After a deal of arguing, the Bench decided upon ac-
cepting two sureties, to be bound to the amount of 5001.
each for the prisoner's appearance at the next assizes.

RAILWAY GAMBLING, BANK-
RUPTCY, and SUICIDE.

List Saturday, Mr. Wakley, M.P., held an inquest at
the Percy Arms, Percy-street, Pentonville, on the body
of Mr. George Graham, aged forty-nine, late of the firm
of Messrs. Graham and Adams, warehousemen, 11,
Cheapside. The deceased speculated extravagantly in
railway speculations, and was on the point of forming a
matrimonial alliance with a highly accomplished and
beautiful young lady, when he committed a determined
act of self-destruction.

Agnes Walters deposed that she was housekeeper to
deceased, who resided at 11, Cheapside. For some time
past he had been in a low desponding state of mind, in
consequence, as she understood, of commercial embar-
rassments and unfortunate railway speculations. On the
23d u!t. she was sent to attend deceased at 24, Great
Pe, cy-street, where she found him in bed with a dreadful
wound in his throat. He was sensible but could not
speak, and expressed in writing his wishes and wants.
When she entered his room he covered his face with his
hands. Ile lingered until last Wednesday, when he
expired.
By the CORONER-lie never threatened to destroy
himself ; on the contrary, he invariably expressed great
pity for suicides.
Mr. George Brace, solicitor, who watched the pro-
ceedings for the creditors, stated that the firm appeared
among the bankrupts in the Gazelle on the previous day.
Mrs. Matthews, of 24, Great Percy-street, stated that
deceased and a friend of his dined with her on the 23d
ultimo. After dinner he took two glasses of wine. For
months his manner was greatly altered, and he was so
melancholy that she mentioned the circumstance to his
friends. On the day in question he was particularly
low- spirited. About eight o'clock he asked permission
to rest himself on the bed, which she allowed him to
do, in the hope that it might soothe him. He was not,
however, many minutes in the bedroom when she heard
a scream, aud, on entering it, saw him standing over the
wash-band stand, blood flowing from his throat into a
basin while in his right hand he held a razor firmly
grasped. She instantly called for assistance.
Mr. Lewes Steuart hearing the last witness cry for
help, rushed into the room, and saw deceased in the po-
sition described. He attempted to wrest the razor from
him, bat had a hard struggle before he succeeded, when
deceased instantly fell down. Surgical assistance was
procured without delay.
Mr. Fogarty, surgeon, was in attendance upon de-
ceased, whose case was hopeless from the first. He was
sensible, but could not speak, and stated his feelings in
writing. His death was the result of the wound, after
the infliction of which he was quite sane.
Mr. Adams had been in partnership with deceased
for five years and a half. Deceased latterly speculated
largely and lost extensively in railway shares. It was
difficult to ascertain the precise amount of his losses,
which was very great. In one transaction alone he lost
2,000/. Although deceased was not what he would call
a wealthy man, yed their trade was of a most promising
character. Since he lost so heavily by railway specula-
tions, he became an altered man, and was exceedingly
low and dejected in spirits. The manuscripts produced
were written by deceased after he cut his throat.

The following are the writings alluded to, and all bear
the date of the 24th of November, 1845:
"1. Dear Friends,—My fate is unfortunate. Do throw
a veil over my errors. God bless you, and pardon me.
Oh! my good friend Scott."
"2. Dear Jackson,—My fate is unfortunate. Throw
a veil over my errors. Poor Scott. God bless him, and
pardon me.—G. G."
" 3. I leave all matters in your hands with other good
advisers, Scott and Jackson."
" 4. Agreeable to what is in my will in Wren's hands."
The jury, without hesitation, returned a verdict of
" Temporary insanity."
A solicitor who was present said, that he had to attend
that day the meetings of the creditors of two extensive
firms who, from losses in railway speculations, were
compelled to wind up their affairs and stop payment.

I
TESTIMONIAL TO A CLERGYMAN.—On Tuesday
morning, at ten o'clock, previous to Divine service, the
chapteo•house of Winchester Cathedral offered a scene of
much interest upon the presentation of various pieces of plate,
in value about 170/., which was be subscribed for by many of
the clergy, and several of the most influential laymen of the
county, in token of the very effective services of the late
Chancellor, Dr. Dealtry, now Archdeacon of Surrey. The
subscription to the testimonial was limited to 1/. Is. or under,
from each individual. The plate consisted of the following
articles :—A handsome salver, with two smaller hand waiters,
a coffee-pot and stand, with sugar• basin and tongs, and cream
ewer, and four handsome candlesticks, with suitable snuffers
and stand.

Th e arl of Eldon has given 1,0001, to each of
the following societies in connexion with the Church in the
counties where the Noble Earl's estates are situated :—The
Salisbury Diocesan Church Building Association, the Glou-
cester and Bristol Diocesan Church Building Association, and
the Durham Diocesan Society for the Employment of addi.
tional Curates. It is said tliese splendid pecuniary gifts are
as a " thanks-offering " for the birth of a son and heir to
his title and family property.

MARKETS.
BURGH, DEC. 19.
STOCK Excaitstox.-The sales are--Aberdeen, 4/. 155.-
Aberdeen, Banff, and Elgin, 21.-Airdrie and Bathgate,
21.85.-Arbroath and Forfar, 251.-Ditto, Half Shares,
15/.-Armagh and Portrush, 1/. 158.-Ayr and Dumfries, V.
158.-Ayr and Galloway, 2/. U.-Banffshire, 14 17s. 6d.-
Belfast and County Down, 31.-British and Irish Union,
3/. 2s. 6d.-Caledonian, ex new, 12/. 155.-Ditto, New, :31.
55.-Caledonian Extension, 21. 155.-Caledonian and Dum,
barton,3L-Caledonian and Northern Direct, 2/. 158.-Cams
bridge and Lincoln, 4/. 58.-Carawarth and West Linton,
11. 145.-Chelmsford and Bury, 1/. 12s. 6d.-Clydesdale
Junction, 19L-Cornwall and lievon, 11. 17s. 6d.-Deeside
Railway, 51. 10s.-Direct Northern, 21.-Dublin and Ennis•
killen, 4/. 7s. 6d.--Dundee and Arbroath, 35/. IN.-Ditto,
New, 171.-Dundee and Forfar Junction, 2/. 12s. 6d.-Dun-
(Da and Perth, ex new, 71.-East Coast of Scotland, 2/. 13s.
-East of Fife, 1/. 15&-East Lothian Central, V. 17s. 6d.
-Edinburgh and Bathgate, 3L-Edinburgh and Glasgow,
ex news, 70L-Ditto, Half Shares, la 10s.-Ditto, Quarters,
16/. 10s.-Ditto, ditto, New, la-Edinburgh, Glasgow, and
Dumbarton, 155.-Edinburgh and Leith Atmospheric, 1/.
153.-Edinburgh and Leith Atmospheric Direct, 11. 155.-
Edinburgh, Leith, and Granton, 21/. 108.- Ditto, Preference,
ISI. 10s.-Edinburgh and Northern, Si. lOs -Ditto, Newport,
I/. Is.-Ditto, Lochgelly, 1/. 10s.-Edinburgh and Peebles,
21.-Edinburgh and Perth, 41. 7s. 6d-Edinburgh, Porto-
bello, and Musselburgh, 11. 10s.-Forth and Clyde Junc-
tion, 2/.-Glasgow and Ayrshire, 701.-Ditto, New Stock,
231.-Ditto, Quarter Shares, 21/. 12s. 6d.-Glasgow and
Belfast Union, 21.-Glasgow, Dumfries, and Carlisle, 21. 45.-
Glasgow and Dundee Junction, 2/. 55.-Glasgow and Garn-
kirk, 451.-Glasgow and Greenock, 211.-Ditto, New Stock.
10L 155.-Ditto, Preference, 21. 55.-Glasgow Harbour Grand
Junction, 2/. IN.-Glasgow Harbour Mineral, 2/. 7s.
Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ardrossan, 2/. 155.-Glasgow,
Strathaven, and Lesmahagow, 17e. 6d.-Granton Junc-
tion, 2/. 2s. 6d.-Great County -Down, 21. 12s. 6d.-Great
North of Scotland, 2/. 138.-Great North and South Wales,
12s. 6d.-Inverness and Elgin, 11. 155.-Lanark and Gallo-
way, 11. 19.3.-Lanark and Lothians, 2/. 17s. 6d.-Larne and
Ballymena, 21. 2a-London and Hounslosi, 21.-London and
Manchester (Rem.), 2/. 55.-London and Manchester (Ras-
trick), 41. 10s.-London and Windsor, IL-London and York,
41. 55.-Midland and Eastern Countie, 21. 7s. 6d.-Moray-
shire, 11.-Newcastle and Berwick, 11.'L-Newry and Lon-
donderry, 2/. 10s. -North British, 29/. 195.-Ditto, Halves,
5/. los.-Ditto, Extension to Carlisle, 1/. 18s.-Ditto, Ex-
tension to Dalkeith, 61.-North Wales Mineral, New, 4/. 7&
-Perth and Crieff Direct, 2/. ls.-Perth and Inverness,
1/. 165.-Scottish Central, 131. 10s.-Scottish Central and
Caledonian Junction, 1/. 14s. 6d-Scottish Midland, 31.-
Scottish North Western, 1/. 148.-Scottish South Midland,
2/. Is.-Scottish Southern, 21. 55.-Shrewsbury and Here-
ford, U.-Shrewsbury, Oswestry, and Chester, 4/. 17e. 6d.-
South Midland, 41. 75.-Stirling and Dunfermline, 21. 10s. 6d.
-Stirling and Midland, 3/. 25.--Strathern Junction, 2/. 1 le.
-Surrey Grand Junction, IL te. 6d.-Tean and Dove Val-
ley., :T. loa.-Tyne Valley, 11. 18s-Wishaw and Coltnegs,
521. lOs.

GLASGOW, Dec. 19.

MTOCX EXCIIINGE.—The sales are—Aberdeen, Banff,
and Elgin, 35s.—Airdrie anal Bathgate, 45s.—British and
Irish Union, 3%—Caledonian Extension, 55s.—Edinburgh
and Perth, 925. 6d.—Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ayr, 671.—
Ditto, New, 17%—Glasgow, Dumfries, and Carlisle, 445.
Glasgow and Dunkirk. 401.—Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ar-
drossan, 58s. 6d.—Glasgow Harbour Mineral, 40s.—Lanark
and Lothians, 54s.—Lesmahagow, 55s.—Manehester and
Southampton, 60s.—Paisley, Barrhead, and Hurlet, 80a.—
South Midland, 80s.—Wishaw and Coltness, 49%.

HULL, DEC. 20.
STOCK EXCHINGE.—LittIe. is talked of but the new Mi-
nistry, and until this is finally arranged we cannot hops for
much business taking place. The sales are—Yorkahire and
Glasgow Union, 21.—South Midlands, 214._

HUDDERSFIELD, DEC. 20.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—lluddersfield and
Manchester, 71i—Huddersfield and Sheffield Junction, 16!‘
—London and York, 35'—Grand Union, IN—Leicester and
Bedford, 11/2—North Western, 21A—South Midlands, 25,.
YORK, Dix. 20.

STOCK Exmotax.—The sales are—York and North Mid-
land Extension, 254—Newcastle and Berwick, 1034.
SHEFFIELD, DEC. O.
STOCK EXCIKANGE.—The sales are—Sheffield and Man-
chester, Quarter Shares, No. 3 Scrip, s%—Grimsby Exten-
sion, 10a. p,—Leeds and Bradford, New Shares, 163,4—Wake-
field and Harrogate, 114—West Riding Union, 5%. -
BRISTOL, DEC. 20.
STOCK EXCHAKGE.—The sales are—Bristol and Exeter.
80—Ditto, New, 5%.

The Earl of Carlisle is still feeble in his limbs, but
is improving in health.
Lady Wharncliffe arrived at the family mansion
in Curzon-street late on Friday night, from Wortley Hall,
Yorkshire. The Hon. James Stuart Wortley, M.P., who
was stay ing with Lord and Lady Wenlock, at Torquay,
Devon, arrived the same evening. The Hon. John Stuart
Wortley was alone with his venerated father at his disso-
lution.

THE SUMMONS TO LORD JOHN RUSSELL.—Many
have supposed that Lord John Russell foresaw the precise
time of his being " sent for" by the Queen: a correspondent,
whom we can trust, shows that the forsight did not exist—
the summons was quite unexpected. This is an extract from
our correspondent's letter :--" Lord John Russell was sitting
with his wife at Douglas's Hotel (in Edinburgh), reading to
her, at 10 o'clock in the evening, when the Queen's mes-
senger arrived ; and on hearing that somebody wished to
speak to him, he declined seeing him, unless he mentioned
his name and the business he came upon. The messenger
sent up his name, which was unknown to Lord John; but
declined mentioning his errand. Lord John then refused to
see him ; and he was obliged to send up by the waiter the
Queen's private letter."—Spectator.
A PIG FOR A GTJIDE.—A friend of mine has always
contended that a pig is a sagacious beast, and he instances
it by the following fact :—He describes himself as having
beau lost in a very extensive park, the undulating and
wooded character of which prevented him from catching any
glimpse of the house, or of any point of exit ; and after
riding about until he became even more bewildered, he at
last disturbed a pig in a heap of fern. That it was turned
out to feed on the acorns and beech-nuts, then thick on the
ground, was evident; and it struck him that, by riding at
it, it would run homewards for protection. It galloped off,
and, after the run of a mile, brought him to one of the
keeper's lodges, which was hidden by trees and ivy.-21'Ote-
book of a Naturalist.
PEACE WITH THE UNITED STATES—RECOMMEN-
DATION TO MERcHANTS.—It has been thought by friends of
the cause of peace, in Manchester, that friendly addresses
from the merchants of this country to the merchants of Ame-
rica, would hare every salutary influence on the public mind
in both countries. Such addresses to be short, to deprecate
war, to eulogize the blessings of peace, to acknowledge the
absolute dependance of commerce on that blessing, and to
urge national arbitration in cases of national dispute. The
suggestion seems to us a very good one. Such addresses
would attract attention by their novelty, and would strengthen
the hands of both Governments in resorting to arbitration.—
Leeds Mercury.
TUNNEL THROUGH THE CALTON HILL.—The last
brick in the arching of this undertaking is to be laid to-day
(Friday), when the whole—extending to four hundred yards--
will be completed. Workmen are busily employed preparing
the ground for the permanent rails, and as the laying down
of these will occupy only a few days, the tunnel will very
soon be ready for use. The operations at the other points
along the line from this to Berwick are with a single excep-
tion, equally advanced. The point referred to is at Piershill,
where, in consequence of the encroachments of the line on
the Riding-school and hospital, considerable time was neces-
sarily consumed in the erection of new accommodation. The
work, however, at this point, continues to be carried on with
all possible expedition. For several months back a great
number of miles have been finished off, especially towards
the Berwick terminus, where the buildings connected with
the station are in the course of erection.—Edinburgh Acker-
tiger.

CULTIVATION or TURNIPS.—A crop of turnips
grown
.in a field on Croxton Heath, in the occupation of
111 r. Waders, one portion of which was sown with bones to
the amount of twenty bushels, at a cost of 50e. pea acre;
another portion sown with the same kind of seed, at the same
time, upon the same description of soil, but with bones dis-
solved with sulphuric acid, at a cost of 235. per acre, under
the direction of Mr. Hall, chemist, Grantham, when the pre-
duce of the latter exceeded that of the former by more than
5i tons per acre.—Liwcolealiire Chronicle.
THE BASTARDY LAWS RIGHT OF MARRIED
WOMEN TO BECOME PLAINTIFFS LN QUESTIONS OF AFFI-
LIATION.—A case involving a question of considerable im
portance, came before the sitttng magistrate, Mr. Grove, at
the Woolwich Police-court, on Friday last, on a summont
obtained by a married woman named Holt, against a young
man named Terry, whom she charged with being the father
of her illegitimate child. The husband of the complainant
is a private of marines, and it was during his absence in
South America, where he remained for a period of four
years, that the child was born, of which the woman alleged
the defendant was the father. The view taken by Mr. Je-
remy when the summons was applied for, was whether
a woman debarred, as in this case, from all intercourse with
her husband, was not to be considered as a single woman
for the time. Mr. Pelham, who appeared for the defence,
took an objection in limine to the summons, which he con-
tended could not stand, as the complainant, being a
married woman, had no standing in law, she could not
be plaintiff in any action at common law. The present
Act of Parliament was made for single women, and a wife
could never lose her marital rights except by divorce.
The husband must be the complainant, and even if he
where, it was doubtful whether, in a case like this, she
could give evidence involving an accusation of adultery
against herself. Mr. Nokes, the clerk, said it was singular
that a similar application was made at Greenwich that morn-
ing, and both himself and Messrs. Traill and Jeremy, after
looking closely at all the Acts bearing on the question, were
of opinion that the summonses ought to be granted. It was
true the Act was not for married women, but the question
was whether a woman whose husband could not possibly
have access to her was not to be dealt with in the light of
a single woman. Mr. Pelham said it was quite clear that if'
a married woman had half a dozen children by as many
men, her husband must support them all. It was clear, also,
that the settlement of the children must follow that f the
father, and this would be the view the magistrates would
take of it, supposing the children were paupers. In civil
matters, even where the wife was separated from the hue-
band and occupied a house of her own, it was called the
husband's house, even though he had never been in it and
she had paid the rent. If the parties were married legally,
it was only by the same legal mode that they could be di-
vorced. the case was ultimately dismissed from the absence
of any corroborative evidence for the complainant.
ATTEMPTED HIGHWAY ROBBERY DEFEATED BY
CANINE INSTINCT.—A most singular instance of canine saga-
city occurred near Horsham on Monday evening last. Mr.
A. Blackiston, the landlord of the Queen's Head Inn, Hors-
ham, went with his horse and cart to Newick on Saturday
last, and took with him his dog, a very sagacious ani-
mal of the terrier tribe; but soon after his arrival at
Newick his deg left him and returned home, and re-
mained there all day Sunday and Monday until six
o'clock in the evening, when lie was seen to go off on the
road to Newick, and proceeded as far as Burchenbridge
Mill (a very dark and lonely spot, about one mile
and a half from Horsham), when he must have heard his
master coming, as he struck up howling, as if to warn him of
' approaching danger. (Mr. B. heard a howling as far as a
mile on the road.) The dog waited there and continued
howling until Mr. 13. came up; then, appearing very much
pleased, trotted at a few yards' distance before the horse for
about 200 yards, when, all at once, he flew in the face of a
man concealed in the hedge, and immediately another man
sprang out of the other side of the road and tried to
catch the reins of Mr. Blackiston's horse, but, being
alarmed so suddenly by the dog, missed his aim, and
of course, Mr. B. made as fast as possible for home. Now,
' there may be many questions arise from this. Hew came
the dog to go off just at six o'clock on Monday evening?
How came he to know his master was coming that night?
How was it he went as far as the mill and then began howl-
ing? To these questions we can make no satisfactory reply,
except, as regards the last, we conclude the animal must have
seen these men standing behind the hedge, but then he must
be possessed of more than usual sagacity to suspect them of
mischief. All we can say is—it is a fact.—Brighton Herald.