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about half an hour afterwards witness got up, and we,
down stairs, when Ann Simpson, who made a_uoiselle
she were crying, came to his cloorrald said that Eliza-
beth was dead.
Ruth Barber, who lives in Ramsden's Fold, Wortley,
said that she was at the house of deceased about a fort-
night before her death. Her husband was in about that
time, and Ann Simpson maw in soon after. The de-
ceased told the latter about a dog having run away with
the remainder of the meat they had had for dinner, and
said that her husband had beaten it. On this Ann
Simpson said he ought to have fought his wife instead
of the dog. Deceased said, " Dost thou want a row ?"
Ann replied that she eared nothing about it. Deceased
then said to her, " Thou shalt go out of my house, I
will have thee no longer." On her refusing to du
so a struggle took place betwixt them, during which
Illingworth, the husband, came down and asked what it
was about. Deceased said, "Make her go out." Ann
said she would not go. Deceased then said, " I will ra •
ther kill her or be killed to-day." Upon which the hus-
band turned to his wife au(' said, " D—n thee, I'll kill
thee, and thou'lt never know what thou ails, in two mi-
nutes." She said, " Wilt thou kill thy own wife for a
w— ?" He did not r,,ply, but whispered to Ann, and
she %vent out.

George Duckworth, barman at the Suspension..
bridge, stated that Ann Simpson went through the Ler
towards Leeds on Wednesday, the day before Elizabeth
Illingworth died.
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Mary Catherall, a married woman, residing in Mans-
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field, Holbeek, said, she had known Ann Simpson ever
December, the day
Ann Simpson
between three and tour o'clock that afternoon in Brig-
gate, just coming out of the shop of Mr. Hall, druggist,
in that street. She stiseped witness near the shop door,
and had some conversation with her. Ann. Simpson
went to the house of ties •sitness lust Thursday evening,
about six o'clock, and 0 ;la witness that she had had !Le
policeman at her. Witasss replied that so had she. Ann
said, that he did not tell her that he hail been at wit-
ness's house, but that a e oman had told her, and that wit-
ness Would take at; 08th that she saw her on Wednesday
afternoon in Briggete. Witness said that she did see her
on that day. Ann She psoe replied, "Nay, it was,on 'Tues-
day ; she had been about some watch glasses ; and that
it was near the yard below." Witness replied that
she knew nothing of the. yard below, and that on Tues-
day she was not out; and that she was sure she came
out of the druggist's shop door on the Wednesday after-
noon. She said, " Then thy words does me to morrow
at four o'clock; York's my doom, and my bairns to the
workhouse." No ore was present at the time. She
said, "If they wok her, they took her innocent, as
several had gone before." She also said that she should
not sleep all night. ‘Vitness's husband then came in,
and Ann Simpson went away.
Ottiwell Kell, one of the Leeds police force, deposed
to the fact that Ann Simpson had told him that she was
not at Leeds at all on Wednesday, the 11 th of
December ; but that she was there on Tuesday, the
10th, and bought a lot of watch glasses of a man named
Ripley.
Ripley's son was cancel, and from his evidence it was
very clear that Ann Simpson was not at his father's on
either the 10th or the 11th of December.
Blanshard Ringoose, assistant to Mr. Hall, druggist,
;Leeds, deposed that a woman like Ann Simpson asked
;for some arsenic at his master's shop on the llth or 12th
jof December, but he could not say on which day, and he
did ot let her have any, because he did not know her,
,and because she was alone. That woman, he observed,
on her leaving the shop, entered into conversation with
'another woman at the door-stead. He could not be
!positive that Ann Simpson was the woman who went
into the shop and asked for arsenic, but he believed she
lwas.
At the close of the evidence, Ann Simpson, afte the
!usual caution, was asked if she had any stateme t to
make; but, acting under the advice of Mr. Hi,asharn, so-
iictor, who watchd the case for her, and of William
Ilhngworth, the husband of the deceased, she declined
saying anything.
The CORONER, in summing up the case for the con-
sideration of the jury, said there could be no doubt that
;the deceased had died from the effects of arsenic; but
!the natural question was, whether it had been adminis-
tered by herself or by the woman Ann Simpson, or the
latter in conjunction with some other person. The evi-
!donee was altogether of a circumstantial character. It
was calculated to create strong suspicion against Ann
Simpson; but he doubted whether it was so conclusive
as to warrant them in finding a verdict of wilful murder
against her; and be did not like to encourage juries to
find verdicts which were not likely to be sustained before
the tribunal where the case must be finally investigated
and decided. lie then recapitulated the evidence with
a good deal of minuteness, and particularly pointed out
those parts of it which appeared to bear upon the conduct
of Ann Simpson. lie referred to the fact of the drug-
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conversation with another woman, which seemed to coin-
cide so exactly with the evidence of Mary Catherall, as
Ito leave little doubt that the woman who applied for the
;arsenic was Ann Simpson. That portion ot 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,
lAnn Simpson had known Mary Catherall for a lung
time, and supposing Ann Simpson to have been the ap-
plicant, a suspicious circumstance was, that atter 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
ihour, returned a verdict of " Wilful murder against Ann
!! Simpson," who, on the coroner's warrant, was committed
to York Castle, for trial at the next. assizes..

RAILWAYS IN LINCOLN.—(Froin a local corre-
sp,ndent.)—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 rot 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 he taken to counteract the effects
of the council's decision. The Beard 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
are 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, THURSDAY 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 or
a very encouraging character, it has given a further
stimulus to our market, which leaves no doubt
whatever that we shall experience a better sprir
trade than has been for some years past. Same
foreign houses which were lying on their oars f;0,.. the
winter, have to-day been making inquiries, shar lag no
doubt the general impression that prices must of 'necessity
go upwards, and the consequence is, that mtraufacturers
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.
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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.
influences An, aris-
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powering prepossessions ef the affections, offers full
scope for the talent of the novelist. Such a person, it is
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heroine struggling
as the prejudice ng between two such opposing
reported, is Lady C< ilia rarreneourt. In the working
up of such a story. whereil. 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 colophon, to state, that the instrument in
Mr. Horn's entertainment, at the Polytechnic.
is not the Uolophon organ, but a smaller instrument to
which he gives the name ef CEolophon simply, and also
that his own name is Meyer and not Myers, as stated in
the bills.

CONDEMNED CONVICTS AT STAFFORD.—STAFFORD,
SATURDAY MORNING.—Late last evening a respite was re-
ceived by Mr. Brutron, the Governor of the county gaol,
from Sir J. Graham, for the youthful convicts, Downing
and Powys, who were t o h ave 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 sustained, and 2
should that be the ease, the extreme sentence will mos*
certainly be carried into effect.
BRISTOL SUGAR MARKET, JAN. 3.—Our ray,
sugar market re-opened on Wednesday last, after bei:ng
closed for the Christmas holidays, so that we have only
had two market days this wsek. 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. Rum is still very dull; /pad prices
nominal.—Bristol Mercury.