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her neck and drew it out. It has been in my possession
since. She slightly moaned when I drew the knife out. She
was covered with blood. I afterwards went for the surgeon,
Mr. Fitzgerald, of High-street. About five or six minutes be-
fore the woman called me, I saw a man come from the house,

No. 11, George-street. He passed me in the street, and
crossed over to the opposite side. He was dressed in a dark
velvet coat,and had a cap.-1. think a cloth one—on his head
I thought he was running to hear a noise at the bottom of
George-street. I have no doubt that that person is the prisoner,
for I hhd seen him before several times.

Prisoner—Can you swear it was me? Witness—l will not
swear it, but I have no doubt of it.

Henry Oldham examined—l reside, at 10, High-streets
St. Giles's, and am a enttler. On Monday last, about ten

minutes to ten, I sold the knife which is lying before me to a
man. I believe the prisoner is the person to whom I sold it.
He said, on coming into the shop, what is the cheapest small

carving-knife you have ? I said I will show you s.-.me
directly. I believe I've some second-hand ones. 1 then took
three old knives out of a drawer, and he selected this
one from the three. I said, " those are one shilling each."
He put down the shilling and took it up. As he was going
away, I said, " Stop, I'll wrap it up for you." I then took it
from him, set the edge, and did it up in a bit of brown

paper. I think he had aha on. He had on a coat—not a

a jacket. _lt might have been a velvet jacket. lam sure be

had on a hat.

Prisoner—Can you say positively that I am the person
hat bought the knife? 'Witness—To the be§t tk my belief,

you are.

Prisoner—Can you swear it? Wiiness—l do swear it.
Emily Elizabeth Oldhanin--1, was ten years old on the Bth
of last month. The last witness is my father. I was in the
shop on Monday night last, and remember a person coming
in to buy a small carving-knife.
Mr. JARDLNE—Do you see that person now? Witness
(after looking for some time at the prisoner)—That looks
like him.

The prisoner did not ask her any question.
Michael Fitzgerald, of No. 57, High-street, St. George's,
surgeon, sworn—l was called to sce this unfortunate woman

at No. 11, George- street. I was called by a police-constable.
When I arrived, about eleven o'clock, she was dead. I saw
her in a room on the ground-floor. She was doubled up
against the fire-place. Saw several wounds then about the
neck. I saw that there was no blood flowing, and I knew
she was dead. Since that time I have made a post mortem
examination. (The witness produced a sort of drawing of
the wounds upon the body.) There were sixteen wounds
upon the body—the first was five inches in length on the
lower part of the cheek, reaching to the centre of the neck.
It was a superficial incision. The second wound was five
inches and a half deep—a penetrating wound passing
over the edge of the first rib near the spine,
wounding the bone, and extending downwards between the
ribs and shoulder blade. There was no important part
divided there. The third was a penetrating wound,
one inch and a half long, on the left side
of the breast-bone, dividing the cartilages bf
the second and third ribs, piercing the edge of the 160:c lung
and the pericardium, and piercing the PabLlP7intry artery
for about a quarter of an inch. There 'eere about forty
ounces of blood, fluid and coagu.).ated, by measure.
In the pericardium and party surrounding the heart
there were six drachm', of fluid blood. Number 4
penetrated the chest between the third and fourth ribs,
breaking off a piece of the fourth rib, and entered the left
lung to the depth of an inch. That would have been also a
mortal wound. The fifth was a penetrating wound, about an
inch and a half long, on the fore part of the left arm,
near the shoulder. The sixth was a wound three inches
below the last-named of smaller size. Both these wounds
communicated with the bone of the left arm, dividing it com-
pletely by a smooth clean cut, five incites in length. The
great blood-vessels and nt ryes of the arms were uninjured.
The seventh wound, an incised wound about an inch and a
half in length, about an inch and a ha .f above the right
collar-bone. The eighth, a penetrating wound on the back
part of the neck. The ninth, a superficial penetrating
wound. The tenth, an incised wound on the back
of the neck. The eleventh, an incised wound above
the left shoulder blade, about six inches long. The
twelfth was on the back part of the left hand, an inch
long. The thirteenth was an incised wound, extend-
ing from the first joint of the fore finger to the
end of the second joint of the left hand. The 14th, an in-
cised wound on the back of the right hand, three inches in
length. The 15th, a penetrating wound on the left arm-pit,
an inch long, going towards the direction of the arm.
The 16th, and last, was a penetrating wound, in the left arm-
pit, about an inch from the other. He attributed death to
the wound on the pulmonary artery.
The prisoner had no question to ask Mr. Fitzgerald.
Medical evidence continued—There was no trace to show
that the deceased had recently suffered from disease. The
body was in a perfectly healthy state, and free from all
disease.

Richard Partridge, 15, New-street, Spring-gardens—l am
professor of anatomy at King's College. The prisoner has
been an out-patient of that hospital. He applied on February
21, and subsequently on the 28th, and lastly, on the 18th of
March, and was treated for a disorder of two days' standing at
the period of his first application.
After the examination of several other witnesses, Mr.
Pearce said he had no wish to have the case remanded for
further evidence.
The depositions having been read, the prisoner was fully
committed, and the witnesses bound over to prosecute.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT

(THIS
_DAY.)

HOUSE OF LORDS.
Their Lordships met this morning at Eleven o'Clock,

ROYAL COMMISSION.
There was a Commission fur the purpose of giving
the Royal Assent to the Income-tax Bill. The Com-
missioners were, the Lord Chancellor, the Duke of
Buccleuch, and the Earl of Shaftesbury.
The Commissioners having taken their seats at the
foot of the throne, directed the Usher of the Black Rod
to summon the House of CO:2111011S to the bar of their
Lordships' House.

The SPEAKER, accompanied by several Members, then
appeared at the bar. The commission was read, and
the Royal Assent given to the Income-tax Bill in the
usual form ; atter which the Speak‘r and the Alembers
of the House of Commons withdrew.

The Commissioners having unrobed,
The LORD CHANCELLOR took hip scat upon the Wool-
sack.
The Pudsey Gas Pill, the Birkenhead Company's
Dock Bill, the Birkenhead Commisioners Dock Bill,
and the Duke of Argyle's Estate Bill, were then seve-
rally read a second time after whien, their Lordships
adjourned.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.
The SPEAKER took the Chair at Eleven o'clock ;
,h..rtly after which the Usher of the Black Rod appeared
at the table and summoned the Muse to the bar of the
louse of fears to hear the Royal Assent, given by Coin.
mi,sion to a certain oil!.
The SPEAKER, accompanied by several Members,
thou, left the House.
On their return,
"1 he :3PEAKER announced that they had been to
the bar of the House of Peers and had heard the loyal
Assent given by Comtrussicn to the Income-tax Bill.
The House then adjourned.

MONEY and COMNIhRUIALNENITS.

CITY, QUAR7'EIe 7'o THREE,

The accounts from Liverpool represent that Cotton has
been decidedly active this week, the change of weather hav-
ing influenced it.-Shares were quoted as follows ;-Aber-
/leen Railway, 4% 5%; Barnsley Junction, 10% 10%;
Ditto, Half Shares, 4%; Birkenhead, Manchester, and
Cheshire, 121 A 12%; Birmingham and Gloucester, New
Shares, 5 51,4 ; Blackburn, Burnley, and Accrington,
8% ; Blackburn, Darwen, and Bolton, 4% 4% ;
Belfast and Ballymena, 41, ; Bolton, Wigan, and Liver-
pool, 13% 14% ; Caledonian, 134 ; Cambridge and Lincoln,
10% 94 ; Chester and Birkenhead, 48% 49; Ditto, Half
Shares, 244 ; Chester and Holyhead, ; Churnet
Valley, 814 ; Clydesdale Junction, 10% % ; Dublin
and Belfast Junction, 9 104 ; Dublin and Galway,
54 ; Dundee and Perth, 3% ; Dublin, Mullingar, and
Athlone, 38s. 6d. %; Dundalk an Enniskillen, 44 ; East-
ern Counties, 21 ; Eastern Union Extension, 755. premium ;
Edinburgh and Glasgow, Quarters, 6 6%; Edinburgh and
Northern, 1% 1,,1 ; Ely and Bedford, 224 ; Glasgow an -,1
Dumfries, 215.; Glasgow, Paisley, and Greenock, 1814 ;
Grand Junction, Half Shares, 112% ; Ditto, Eighth shares,
19 4 ; Great Grimsby and Sheffield, 5% 614 ; Great North
of England, 301. Shares, 22% ; Great Western, Half
Shares, 102 ; Goole and Doncaster, 395. ; Hudders-
field and Shefield, 7% 8 ; Hull and Selby, Halves, 224 ;
Limerick and Waterford, 6% ; Liverpnbl and Man-
chester, 204 205; Ditto, New Shares, 38; Liverpool, Orms -
kirk, and Preston, Sod. ; London and Brighton, 655.
4%; London and Enniskillen, 60s. 61s. ; London and South
Western, 801,% ; London and York, 61s. 6d. 615.; Direct
Northern, 6 ; Leeds and Thirsk, 5% 14/ ; Leeds and
West Riding Junction, 74 % ; Lynn and Dereham ,
Manchester and Birmingham, 61 ; Ditto, New (inane;
Shares, 74 7 ; Manchester and Buxton, 3% 34 ; Manchester,
Sheffield, and Midland, 10 10%; Manchester and Leeds,'
149 ; Ditto, Half Shares, 66 ; Ditto, Sixteenth Shares, 7%
Midland Railway, 155 154 ; Ditto, 401. Shares, 19%
Ditto, Fifth Shares, 4 ; Newark and Sheffield, 8%; New:
castle and Berwick, 17%; Newry and Enniskillen 535. 6d.
North British, Half Shares, 4% ; Rorth Union, A, 149 ; Ditto,
B, 91 ; North Wales Mineral,l6 % ; North- Western, 4% 5 pm
North Wales, 3% fig ; Preston and Wyre, 35%; Runcorn.
Gap, 24%; Sheffield and Manchester, 123; Ditto, Quarter
Shares, 16% % ; Sheffield and Lincoln, 235. 265. 6d. ;
Shrewsbury, Oswestry, and Chester, 4% 1 ls. 6d. ; South-
Eastern and Dover, New Shares, No. 3, 914 9; Scottish
Central, 6% 1(2; South Wales, 6% ; Trent Valley, 184 Ly ;
Ulster, 45%. ; Worcester and Tring, 81s. 6d. 14;
Yarmouth, Liss, and Beccles, 31. Is. 3d. ; York and North
Midland, New Half Shares, 19 ; Austrian and Sardinian,
ss. 6d 4s. ; Bordeaux and Cette, 21. lls. ; Lyons and Avignon,
(English), 34 ; Louvain and Jemappe, 1 prem.; Northern
of France ( English), 6%; Ditto (French), 51A ; Paris and
Lyons, Lafitte's ( English), 3/. Is. 6d 31,8 ; Ditto (French),
2%; Paris and Lyons (Ganneron's), 2/ 13s. 6d. ; Paris and
Lyons (Calon's), 2% Bs. 6d. ; Paris and Rouen, 444 ;
Paris and Strasburgn, 3 ; Sambre and Meuse, 6%; Tours
and Nantes Olackenzie's Company), 3%; Verona and
Ancona, 2/. Os. 6d. _ _

The declarations of the Ministry last night upon the
Oregon question have afforded much satisfaction in the City
" Nothing (said an old merchant) is like announcing your
intentions boldly." As to the probabilities of a war upon
the question, they are held to be remote indeed.
We have not any late arrivals to announce from the British
colonies to-day.
The usual weekly statement of the operations of the Bank
of England gives the following results:—
An increase in the circulation of 257,885/.
An increase in the Rest of 2,170/.
An increase in the Public Deposits of 431,734/.
increase in the other Deposits of 260,641,

An increase in other Securities of 591,3001.

A decrease in Gold and Silver Coin of 54,0591., and an in-
crease of Bullion of 203,7964

In general terms, it may be mentioned that the Notes
issued are of the value of 29,471,4101., and that the stock of
Bullion is 16,204,220/.
A Trade Circular has the following remarks :
" The business transactions in the early part of the last
month were almost confined to the supply of the necoosary
requirements of almost every branch of industry, in itonse-
queue° of the measures of relief in the Tariff of Duties,. pro-
posed by the Executive to the Legislature, on articles Iteces-
sary for manufacturing purposes; but when those measures
were adopted by the House of Commons, orders were. imme-
diately sent to the officers of the Customs throup;noat the
kingdom to deliver such merchandise free of duty, and the
consequence has been such as to create an unusual activity."
The Consols Market has been rather variable this. morn-
ing, 99% to 59% for the Account, and from 99% to % for
the immediate transfer. The premium upon Exchequer-bills
has advanced to 61s. ; and upon India Bonds to 755..
In the Foreign Market a good deal of business has been
transacted. Colombian Bonds have been quoted, at 16 and.
at 15% ; Mexican at 351-A ; and Portuguese Converted at 6614
and at 6514 just now. Spanish Consols have =ly fluctuated
from 29 38 to 29 5/8.
The Share Market has presented a most active appearaxree.
The Irish Railways are increasing, as well as the French
schemes. The market fur all is generally firm.
BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
(From the Official List.)
3 per Cent. Consols Anna 99%%%
India Bonds 1,0001 73 75

- - - -
Ditto multi- 1,0001 73
Bank Stock for Account
Console jrf Account
Exebtquer Bills. 13/4d. I%d.
1,000/.
500/. •• ... .. ... 59 61 pm.
Ditto Small —
PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Austrian Bonds, 5 per Cent. 1141%,
Buenos Ayres Bonds, 6 per Cent.... 43 41%
Columbian Bonds. l6 15%
Vexican Bonds, 1837, 5 per Cent 35%
Peruvian Bonds, 6 per Cent 32
Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent BB
Ditto Converted
Ditto for the Account.
Russian Bonds, 1822, 5 per Cent ll7
Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cent., 1840 29%%
Ditto for the Account.
Ditto Passive Bonds 7% %
Ditto Deferred
Ditto 3 per Cent —
Ditto for the Account 4l 40
Dutch 21/2 per Cents
Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificates
PRICE OF SHARES AT ONE O'CLOCK.
RAILWAYS. PAID. PER Sulam
Aberdeen - 5% to 5
. `ll/2
Armagh, Coleraine, P:irtruel.. 1% 1% 2 13A to 2%
Birmingham and Gloucrnter 100 13:1,4 ... to
Ditto, irri,f Share, ....., .. 3
Bristol and Exetri
Ditto, New.
Caledonian
A to --
CambriO:ge and Lincoln ... 1%
Cliv'..er and Holyhead 5 .
..... 91114 1/4
iil to 9
`iniurnet Valley
Coventry and Leicester ......
Diss, Beccles, and Yarmouth 1% 2/4 ...... to 3
rirect Northern
Dublin and Belfast Junction 2% lO 1 to
Dublin and Galway Ol-Z 4l/9%... to
Dublin and Mullingar 2q 2% to 3%
Eastern Counties
Do. Perpet. 5 per Ct. No. 1 3......
Ditto, ditto, No. 2.
Eastern Union
Ditto Extension
Edinburgh and Glasgow
Ditto New M Shares 2l; 53/4 to 6
Ely and Bedford l% 21% to 3
Great Grimsby and Sheffield... 2% WA... to
(~reat South and W. (Irish)... 5
Great North of England 100 199 ...... to
Ditto New ... ............. .... 5
Ditto New
Great Western
Guildford, Fareham, Portms. 21,( 5l/4 to 5%
Harwich 1
I.an,aster and Car1i51e......... 15
London and Birmingham ...100
Ditto Thirds
Ditto Quarters
London and Blackwell 16% B% to --
London and Croydon... 13/. 15s. 9d...• 17%~
London and Greenwich... 121. 15s. 4d... 11
London and South Western.. 41% 80%...... to
Ditto New 2% 114% to 14

Ditto, New 2 —ll to
Lonuou and York-, ..... ...... 21,(e...... 3% 274 to 3
Lynn and Ely
Lynn and Deyeham
:Manche., end Leeds
Ditto Half Shares
Manchester and Birmingham 40
Ditto Quarters
Midland
Ditto New
Midland, Birm. and Derby ...100 ll5 116... to 114Yi
Nev. castle & Darlington ..iunc. 25
Ditto New Brandling
Newcastle and Berwick
Newry and Enniskillen ...... 2% 41,0(3% to 4
Newark and Sheffield ......... 1%
North British
Ditto New 1
Norwich and Brapdon lO ... 161,4 to 17
Ditto New.. 1 .. ... 41%
Rugby, Worcester, and Tring 1 -
Scottish 'Midland
Shrews.,Wolver., Dud., Birm. 2% 1,%... to
South Devon
South Eastern and Dover ... 3313 43li, to --
Ditto New, No. 3 2l/ 9l/iy,... to —'
South Wales
Waterford and Kilkenny 1 ...... 334 Us 4
West Cornwall ll4 4% to
York and North Midland ... 50 ......103% to --
Ditto Selby : ... 2O -
Ditto, Extension
FRENCH RAILWAYS.
Boulogne and Amiens -
Bordeaux,Toulouse, and Cette 2 -
Lyons and Avignon 2 -
Orleans and Vierzon -
Orleans and Bordeaux ... .. 2 ...... 13 -
Paris and Lyons (Laffitte) ... 2 -
Paris and Lyons(Ganneron's) 2 ... .. 2% to ,•-,
Paris and Lyons (Calon's)... 2 . ... 2%1A t4 •"*"
Paris and Orleans... ........ .... 20
Paris mid Rouen -
Paris and Strasburg... 2 ...;.. 27 -,t th
Royal North of Spain
Sambre and Meuse -
Strasburg and Bale l4 -
Tours &.Nautes (Mackenzie) 2 -
JOINT STOCK BANKS.
London and Westminster ... 20 ...... 271X4 to ---
National of Ireland 17% 16%..... to --
Union of London
MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, APRIL 4.—The _ 01?
are :—Birmingham and Gloucester, New Shares, 4i,":„.
Loudon and Birmingham, 235 ; Ditto, 321. Shares, 45 ; ,;34;
Chester and Leeds, 148% ; Ditto, Sixteenth Shares,. ij.,012,
Manchester and Birmingham, 62 ; Ditto, Quarter Sajei,
111/1; Ditto, New Quarters, 7 1-16 6% prem.,- Manchekr
Bury, and Rossendale, 16% % ; Midland Railway, ,t,48,
ferential, 4% ; North Wales Mineral Railway, New Si"o,,,
634 ; Preston and `Pyre, 3514 ; Ditto Extensions, 4 prat';
Sheffield and Manchester,l23 ; Ditto, Quarter Shares,l674 siiid
South-Eastern. No. 3,9% ; Birkenhead, Manchester, „sr
Cheshire Junction, 12 1/2 ; Blackbnrn, Darwen, and Ina.
514 ; Bolton, Wigan, and Liverpool, 13% % ; Cal:Elie*
and Lincoln, 9%; Churriet Valley, 8% A ; Direct North p
6 5 15-16 i Ely ard Bedford, 2 ; Lrewash Valley, le cii,
Glasgow and Dumfries, 225. 235. ; Goole, Doncaster, Shed god
and Manchester Junction, 2 Huddersfield
5-16 ; Great GrinisbYeste,
Sheffield Junction, 6% 1-16 ; Huddersfield and Mancbeltl
Railway and Canal, 3 9-16 % ; Huddersfield and Shea ;
Junction, 8% ; Leeds and West Riding Junction, ' -licl
Liverpool, thinskirk, and Preston, 2 15-16 ; London ~.7/. •
W orcester, Oxford and Rugby-,44 AI; London and York, 071
Manchester and Buxton, 3% ; Manchester, Sheffield, t',
Midland Junction, 8% ; Newark and Sheffield, 740>
'
North Wales, 3% ; North Western, 6% % ; S
Central, 5%; Scottish Midland, 4% • Sheffield and Linoter_.,et
shi; e Junction, 255. ; Shrewsbury, Oswestry, and Che..,
Junction, 4%; Shrewsbury, Wolverhampton, DudION Tsg.
43/ N ; Trent `'alley, 181% ex new ; Bordeaux and Tr:al°l'-:
2788 ; Paris and St. Quentin, 2%.

BENTLEY'S MISCELLANY FOR APRIL..-.:BentlSY 111:
merely maintains but increases in. reputatirin. We hi'v,ieby
the present number a humouroal story of" Ould Ireland, he
" The Irish Whisky Drinker." In Miss Costello's " Sketchy
of of Ross, Tintern Abbey, Chepstow,' (a most choice sub-l_4o
and well treated) notices of " Man of Ross" and gtied
theure Rat" egicide." ci
bringsde . " "
nblh
o'lde
rLi e
jkefr y
before
us RetrospectsirT hoof the
Thomas
L DenarploL'il ce;
Sir David Wilkie, and. Sir Francis Chantrey, o it vie'joir
undress, but all t!te more agreeable; and, in the " 31„erbtf,
of the Rev. Si money Smith," we find many of the best thclet
and sayit)•,•ss of the wittiest of parsons. "The Wet Blanc_,,i4
will tbund a good description of those odious charable;;
wl'.'o delight to cast a shadow and gloom o'er all around .„t to
'instead of being happy themselves, and so tending
happiness of others.— Glasgow Argus. ,olv
IMPORTANT DISCOVERY OF MINES AT ol'm
NEW SOUTIL WALES.—A letter has been received blio,
gentleman in this City, dated Sdn November Ohio tell
of which the following is an extract:-" lam hapPY near
you that there has been a quicksilver mine diacovere
tot
Sydney, a copper mine at Brisbane Water' and a OR
valuable mine of Fuller's earth in another district, to
valuable and interesting discoveries added to the rise Taos
price of wool, have raised the spirits of the settlers not a"
as you ay suppose.— Cork Southern Reporter.
YARMOUTH MURDER.—Friday two
Grand Jury have just found a true bill against RePtil, cot.
and Mapes—Yarham is admitted evidence for the
—Norfolk News.
teaB/
FATAL OCCURRENCE TO A CHlLD.___lreS_
trot,
afternoon, as some children were playing in StanhOe-nseigir
Clare-market, a little girl, whose
and
reside in the, uoti
bourhood, was thrown down, and before she could irkiio
hold of, the wheel of a cart passed over her head and
her. It was stated that the man belonging to the cart 1v
no way blameable. . raOTIV
ANOTHER CASE OF POISONING: —Yesterday
ing a young man named Ward, residing with a riiiptivibe.-d,
Lesconibe, of Shoe- lane, Holborn, was tbund dead In 111,•sa•
having destroyed himself by poison some houri previou_ici be
As to the cause of the dreadful act no information c
in
obtained. The Coroner's inquest will be held this even'
NESISIOLBP

BIRTHS. , 'Ado
On the 31st ult., at hionkton Farleigh, the ladY of
Browne. Esq., High Sheriff of Wilts., of a son B Ferr*
On the Ist inst., at Leeds, the wB.
wife of the Rev. T.
of a son.--,-----.

zielOthLt:vd
I,p 434
At Boulogne-sur-Mer, on Frivay, the 4th inst., qty •-t-reet,
year of his „ge, Mr. Thomas Clay late of 17, Dougs—
ta3trilligbition-rssotq.u,tziria,hrh.eer,ouLduooLra,ed,on.
eEsOcie.nl:lLtelfioi ebu
On the 2d inst., at Hod-Bsdecreil•
his age.
sodntoodnns,onHinof Charles flalencoe:
, e.—, Mrs.
aged 84.
Ott the 2d iust, at her father's home, Castlebar-h '
ing, Carolip.b Frances Hunt, aged 25. '
Ortner, of th
the 26th
45hotfhjldr. s N
January,ia,a at Cannanore,
,rLr. Fr
Lieutenant
Barber, al3l‘.

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Loti.e.on: alto fuolishea by MURDO YOU,,oS ti
No. 112, Strand, Printer, at The Suva OE", ty of
Stracid, in the Precinct of' the Savoy, in tits
kliddlesex, Saturday, April 5, 1845.