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several solicitors. Mr. Giles, after informing the Committee that he
had known amended sections deposited after the 30th of November
to be received in Parliament, where notice of such emendations had
been given to the landowners, offered to make correct sections at his
own expense, to enable the Committee to apply for their Bill ; and
Mr. Houghton also offered his, personal services, free of charge, in
the event of their determining to proceed, and the application proving
easucce.eful. Under these circumstances, taking into consideration
the fact that the cr• ss line from Stourbrldf,se to 'WolVerhampton
formed a very important, and to a certain extent independent por-
tion of the projected railway, and that it was probable, from what
Mr. Giles had stated, that they should be iu a position to apply for a
Bill for It in the ensuing session with a reasonable prospect of suc-
cess, the Committee agreed that the solicitors should forthwith take
the opinion of the Parliamentary agents, Messrs. Dyson, Hall, and
Company, as to the course the Committee should pursue; and also
send competent persons to ascertain what sections had really been
deposited. Mr. Giles had stated that. he should at once proceed to
make entire new sections of the Whole line.
The deliberate written opinion of the Parliamentary agents has
been obtained, to the effect that it was s' a very reasonable and
proper ease to bring before the Standing Orders Committee, with a
view of obtaining a decision in favour of the Bill proceeding." But
information was afterwards received from the parties sent to search
at the offices of the Clerks of the Peace, that the sections of the im-
portant cross line from Stourbridge to Wolvehampton had not been
deposited, that sections of several miles: of the main line had also
not been deposited (despite the decisive statements of Mr. Giles and
fir. Houghton, the litter of whom delivered out the sections), ar.d
that those which had been lodged were extremely incorrect in detail.
In the altered eirenmstances -of their -affairs, the. Committee were
at once convinced that their only course was to advise the share-
holders to abandon all thoughts of an application to Parliament for
a Bill in the ensuing session, and to consider what steps should be
taken to protect the shareholders from the consequences of the con-
duct which it has been their painful duty to detail.
With this object, as well as with respect to the future operations of
the Company, the Committee have called Mr. Sergeant Allen and
their Parliamentary agents to their aid, and they will most anxiously
and carefully consider the propriety of taking such steps in reference
to competing lines in the next session as they may be advised.
One course which the Committee propose to adopt, is forthwith to
returrito the Proprietors .the sums of 21. per share, on such condi-
tions as counsel may deem necessary for the purpose of enabling the
Committee to prosecute the undertaking in the session of 1847,
should it be found expedient to do so.
The liabilities of the Company will be forthwith ascertained and
discharged; and the Committee beg to inform the Shareholders that
every regard has been paid to economy consistent with the progress
of the scheme ; and further, that no expenditure has taken place
since the 30th of November, saving- kWh as was actually necessary
for ascertaining their real position.
The Committee desire to record their unabated confidence in the
Intrinsic excellence of the line, and to express their regret that a
scheme, supported by such an array of noblemen, Members of Par-
liament, landowners, ironmasters, and other gentlemen, whose in-
terests demand its construction, together with a large proprietary of
unexampled respectability, full one-half being local, should have
been frustrated by the circumstances which they have set forth.
They area consoleAl;however, by the conviction that a railway so 1m
pe,-atively demanded by the locality, possessing gradients superior to
any other line in. the district, aceonnnodating South Staffordshire
and Shropshire in a manner that no other scheme can do, bringing
the respective places in its course much nearer to each other than
any other project does, and gaining, as it has, so great an amount of
public favour by its undoubted merits, must shortly be carried out.
It now only remains for the Committee to say that they should
fail in fully discharging their duty, if they did not express their per-
fect satisfaction with the conduct of the solicitors and she secretary,
all of whom have paid the most unremitting attention to their re-
spective duties, and hay, used their utmost exertions to advance the
interests of the Company.
The report having . been read, the following resolutions were
unanimously carried:— _ _ .

1. That the report now read to the. Committee be adopted and
published, at the discretion of the Committee, in the local and daily
newspapers.' •
2. That the further services of Mr. Francis Ghee, as engineer to
this Company, be at once dispensed with.
3. That the Committee of Management take such proceedings
against Mr. Giles, their late engineer, as counsel may advise.
4. That the warmest thanks of the Committee are eminently due
to Richard Heath and Joseph King, Esqs , for remsining in Birming-
ham during the eventful-period ending with the 30th of November,
and lending their valuable assistance to secure the deposit of the
plans and sections.

WILLIAM COLLINS.
5. That the thanks of the Committee be presented to Mr. Collins,
M.P., for his able and impartial conduct in the chair.
WILLIAM CHANCE.

•
OXFORD, THAME, HIGH WYCOMBE,
AND UXBRIDGE JUNCTION RAILWAY
Notice is- hereby given, that no farther application for Shares in
this Company will be receive after the 27th inst.
By orctir,
._
R. MORTON CALEY, Secretary.
43, MoOrgate-street, Dec. 1708415.

ROY AL CHRIS rmAs HOLIDAYS.
SOPHY will be tilllB,
Lectures for this period of the year, by Dr. Ryan and
_Pc.% YTECIINIC INSTITUTION,
Professor BacholYner in CHEMISTRY and NATURAL PHILO-
A Lecture on the PREVALENT DISEASE i!I POTATOES will be
rated by interesting and brilliant experiments.
delivered* by Dr. Ryan, and also on the ATMOSPHERIC RAIL-
WAY, by Professor Bachoffner, a Working Model of which, car-
rying several oersons, is exhibited daily. The additions to the
OPAQUE MICROSCOPE, DISSOLVING VIEWS, and CHROMA-
TROPE are very effective. The PHYSIOSCOPE. Submarine Ex-
periments by means of the DIVER and DIVING 'BELL; Among
the various additions to the Working Models is Zeleman's NEW
AMERICAN LOCOMOTIVE ENGINE, for ascending and de-
scending Inclined Planes. A magnificent Collection of TROPICAL
FRUITS. Mr. Downs, the celebrated Flute Player, will take part
in the Music, conducted by Dr. Wallis. Open from Eleven to Half-
past Five, ani. from Seven to Half-past Ten in the Evening.
Admission, One Shilling. Schools, rialf-price.

R. CARTER'S MAMMOTH HORSE.
The colossal Horse, GENERAL WASHINGTON, the pro-
perty of Mr. Carter, the Lion King, has been visited by many thou-
sand persons, including the z obility and gentry, and numerous ladies,
who have declared that he is the most extraordinary horse in the
world. The principal journals have spoken in the highest terms of
this remarkable animal General Washington is the largest horse in
the world—he is twenty hands in height, and weighs twenty-five
hundred pounds.

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lle will be exhibited by Mr. Carter for a short time, prevides to
his departure to America, at the Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly from
Eleven, A.M., till Nine, r.m.—Admission, Is.

IMMENSE SALE OF LAMPS AT HALF-PRICE.
rILARK and COMPANY, 447, West Strand,
j beg to announce that they intend making extensive alterations
In their establishment, and, in consequence, are compelled to dispose
of a large portion of their immense and excellent stock of lamps.
The stock consists of the New Light, Clark's Patent Carcel Oil Lamp
(the best, oil lamp ever made), Solar Lamps, and all other oil lamps.
Young's Vesta Spirit Lamp, the Gem Spirit Lamps, Oil and Candle
Chandeliers, Candelabras, and Ormolu Candlesticks, and richly cut
Lustres ; Palmer's M ium Candle Lamps, and every description of
Palmer's and Clark's dle Lamps that can be required. In fact,
their immense varlet 'des a choice for all, and gives all satisfac-
tion. The whole will sold considerably under the usual charges.
The reduction in priiieit.ciammenc.e Tuesday, 16th December, and
will only continue ,ni':irat2th, or perhaps less.
Please write down A.dafess; OZARK and Co., 447, WEST STRAND,
the lumens: Lamp Depot.

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I 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
' told 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 sew 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.
Mr. Cotton—l think it is right to inform you, Mr.
Griffin, that I shall not take any evidence for the defence.
Mr. Griffin (evidently astonished)—But here is Mr.
Lewis the coroner present, before whom the witness was
examined at the inquest, and—
Mr. Cetton—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 hero to give evidence.
Mr. Griffin--The question I wish to pet to the witness
is—
Mr. Cotton—The question is, are you to be thee 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 the 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 Wensey 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 person screaming,
" She has done it, she has done it." I saw the prisoner
coming from his back yard. I went into the house and
saw Mrs. Dunsdon lying in bed on her back, with her
throat cut. On coming down stairs I saw a razor in the
back-yard. Dunsdon 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 as I saw at Dansdon's. I knew
it by some blood on the blade.
Cros 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
l)unsdon 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 Dunsdon's clothes.
George Benham, of Chadwell-heath, said—l sin a
linen-draper, and know the prisoner. On the '2oth 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
into 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 Dunsdon's hand." I said, " Where is that
razor?" and nicking 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, " I sun in no wise sorry she is dead ; she
never would have been no use to me er any part of my
family, for the devil is always in this sort of people." I
then left him, and had no more conversation wits him
until the Coroner set. It was in the tap-room of the
Coopers' Arms beer-shop, Chadwell-heath, where I spoke
to him. I saw*wbrit 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 201 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 net present when I said, " What a ba I job; what a
bad job!"
Cross-examined—A day or two after the inquest
Dunsdon gave me notice to quit, and sail he should
serve me 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 MC 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, wife 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 vertebrae. Her
sufferings 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
affectionate to his wife.
Mr. James Glenny, market hardener 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. He (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 he then ran off for her. Witness was confident the
prisoner had not committed the act imputed to him.
Mr. 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
men ; we have, therefore, made up our minds in sending
him to a higher tribunal. You are, therefore (address-
ing 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.