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RELATIVE CLOSING PRICES OF RAILWAY SHARES

IN THE

PRINCIPAL CITIES AND TOWNS IN ENGLAND, SCOTLAND, AND IRELAND.

NAMES OF RAILWAYS.

Aberdeen
Arbroath and Forfar .
Ditto Half Shares .
Armagh, Colr., & Portrush
13elfast and Ballymena
Belfast and County Down
Birknhd, Lan. & Ches, Jnc.
Birmingham and Glo'ster
Do. New ( iss. at 71/2 dis.)
Ditto Half Shares ...

Birminghm & Oxfrd. June.
Blckburn, Chrly, & N. Um
Black burn, Darwn, & ilohn
Button, Wigan, & Liverpl.
Brighton, Lewes, and Ilast
Bristol and Exeter
Ditto New
. Bristol and Gloucester .
Caledonian .
Ditto Extension
Cambridge and Lincoln
Chester and Birkenhead
Ditto New Shares ..
Ditto Half Shares ...
Chester and Holyhead....
Cheltenham and Oxford..
Chichester and Brighton...
Churnet Valley
Clydesdale Junction .
Cork and Bandon
Cork and Killarney
Cork and Waterford
Cork and Youghal
Covntry, Bedwrth, & Nun.
Coventry and Leicester
Cornwall .
Diss,Beccles, and Yarmoth
Direct Northern
Direct Norwich
Dublin and Belfast Junct
Dublin, Belfast, & Colraine
Dublin and Galway
Dundalk and Enniskillen
Dundee and Arbroath
Ditto
Dundee and Perth ..
Eastern Counties
Do. New ....
Do. Perp., 5 pr Cnt., No. I
Do. ditto N 0.2
East Dereham & Norwich
Eastern Union
Ditto Extension ......
Edinbgh, Glas., and Dum.
Edinburgh and Glasgow
Do. Quarter Shares
Do. New Quarter Shares
Edinb., Leith, and Granton
Ditto Pref. 5 per Cent.
Edinburgh and Northern
Edinburgh and Peebleshire
Edinburgh and Perth
Ely and Bedford
Enniskillen and Sligo
Exeter, Yeovil, & Dorchstr
Garnkirk and Glasgow
Glasgow and Ayr ..
Do. Quarter Shares......
Glasgow and Greenock ....
Ditto New
Ditto Preference
Glasgow, Dmfries, and Car
Goole and Doncaster
Grand Junction.
Ditto Half Shares

Ditto Quarter Shares ...
Ditto New Quarters......
Ditto Eighths • •••• 00000 ••
Grand Union .. .
Great Grimsby & Sheffield
Gt Sothrn & Wstrn (Irelnd)

Ditto Extension ~
Great Munster ... •••
Great Northern of Scotlnd
Great Northern of Englnd
Do. New, 40/. Shares
Do. New, 30/. Shares
Great Western
Ditto Half Shares .
Ditto Fifths
Guildfrd, Farehm, & Ports

Harwich .
Hudrsfld & Ran. R. & Canl
Huddersfield and Sheffield
Hull and Gainsborough
Hull and Selby
Ditto Quarter Shares
Ditto Half Shares.
Inverness and Elgin.
Kendal and Windermere
Kingstown and Bray
Killarney Junctions,— .....

,ancaster and Carlisle
seeds and Bradford
seeds and anvsbury
seedy and Thirsk

Leeds and W. Riding June
Leicester and Birmingham
Leicester and Bedford
Limerick and Waterford
Limrck, Ennis,& Kit. June
Lincoln, York, and Leeds
Liverpool and Manchester
Ditto Half Shares
Ditto Quarter Shares
Lip rhl, Ormskirk, & Prestn
London and Birmingham.
Ditto Thirds
Ditto Quarters
London arid Blackwall
London and Brighton
Do. Cnsolidated Eighths

London and Croydon:
Ditto New...
Do. Guarantd. 5 per cent.
London and Greenwich

Da Prefrne. or Privilege
London & South Western
Do. New Cons. Eighths
Do. New, 50/. Shares
Do. New, 401. Shares
London and York
London and 'Windsor

Londn, Salisbury, & Yeovil
Londonderry and Coleraine
Londonderry & Enniskillen
Lynn and Ely
Lynn and Dereham...
Manchester and Leeds
Ditto Half Shares .
Ditto Quarter Shares
Ditto Sixteenths
Manchester & Birminghm
Ditto Quarter Shares
Do. New Quarter Shares
Manchestr, Bolton, & Bury
Manchstr, Bury, & Rosend
Manchstr, Buxtn, & Matlk
Midland
Ditto Fifths

Ditto New
Do. Cons. Birrn & Derby
Midland Gt Westrn (Irish)
Do. Extension to Sligo..
Nwcastl & Darltngtn Junc
Do. New (Brandling)...
Newcastle and Berwick ...
Newcastle and Carlisle ....
Newport and Abergavenny
Newry and Enniskillen ...
Newa.rk and Sheffield ......
North British . .....

Ditto tA
Northern and Eastern .....

Do. Scrip (iss. at 5 dis.)
Do. Quarter Shares
North Kent
North Staffordshire
North Eastern
North Union (A)
Ditto (B)
North Wales Mineral
Ditto New Shares .
North Western
North Wales
Norwich and Brandon
Ditto New

Not., Belvoir, and Granthm
Nottingham and Boston
Nutt., Erewsh Val. & Man
Nottingham and Mansfield
Oxford and firming. June
Oxford and Worcester
Perth and Inverness
Portsmouth Direct
Preston arid Wyre .

Ditto Half Sliarea ......

Do. Pref. 5 per Ct. Guar.
Do. Pref. 5 per Ct. & div.
Riclimnd and \V. End June.
Rugby, Worcester, & Tring
Scottish Central .......
Scottish Midland
Sheffield and Manchester
Ditto Quarter Shares
Ditto ditto (No. 2)
Ditto ditto ( No. 3)
Sheffield and Lincoln
Shrews)., Wor., and Crewe
Shrews.,Wolv.,Dudly,&Bir
Shrewsbry & Trnt Val. Un.
Shrewsb, lierefd, & N.Wals
Slaunannan
South Devon .
South Midland
South Eastern and Dover

Da. New (iss. 32/.) No. I
Do. (iss. 33/.65.8d.) „ 2
Do (iss. 301.) „ 3
Staines and Richmond
Staffordshire & Shropshire
Stirling and Dunfermline
South Wales

Trent Valley
and Ilolyhead June
West. London, Old Shares
West End& Southrn Coun
Wexford and Carlow
Warwick and Cheltenham
Waterford and Kilkenny
Watrfd,Wexfd,Wick&Dub
Wakfld, Pontefrct. & Goole
Wakefield and Harrogate
Warwick and London
West Lancashire
Worcester and Tring
Whitehaven and Furness
Do. New Half Shares.,,

Liver-
London d pool.

Aug. 9,

2%

44

113%
27,4

13/
3
2%

201/2
7p

31%
232

-
501%

2614

241%
L P

4%
202

64%
31
7a/4

lAug. 8.

91/?:

251/4

10%

33/4
69
65

341%

4
201/

8614

2%

53
231/2
1%
6

13
15%

261/2
13
Ils. 3d.
41s. 3d.

7% I)
76

2714
137

274

30
94

34
25

2
6 th

63%
251

2%

51,4

8%

2434
113

158 T. 6d.

3%

12s.

4y,
7%

35
5%

Man-
chester.

lAug. 9.

6%

9%

9
264

105/8

4%

87%

1%

1214
14%

12%
14%
2 1-16

61,4

45-16!

81/N

4 9-16
2 3-16

L 40%

Bristol.

'Aug. 9.

1214

214 % 1,1
3

6%

.....
5%

3114
5

York.

lAug. 8.

3%

625.

791,4

5%

-
535. 4d.

-
3lh

7%

Leeds. I Bun.

lAug. 6,

21/
/4

-
18%

1386%. p.

235. 6d
375. p

338. p

281,4

5%

12%
314
31.4
3%

38
2514

5%
47%

lAug. 9,

9%

3%

6%

25g.
214

Itudders-
field.

2434

15s. p

3%

28s.

!Aug.

14
15%

33/4

5p

12s.
425. 6d.

jsaemela

8%

514

!Aug. 7.

2%

5%

18%

5Ss. 9d,
3%
3%
14%

Glasgow.

Aug. 9.
68

343.

414 p

8%

218.

-
2%

2% p

Welsh Midland.
West Cornwall
West Yorkshire.
Wilts, Somrst. & Weymth
Yarmouth and Norwich
Ditto New „.„
York and Carlisle
York and North Midland
Ditto Half Shares. ..... „

33/4
151,E

7%

Dublin,

555.

7%

122-8.6(1.p

1718.64

!Aug. 9.

6
3%

6%

-
374

......
3%

56%

303. p
.....
15

26. p

445.

353%

71. 9s.

214

27
11%

-
1271/
15
12i

31. 178.

641.

Do. Scarborough Branch
Ditto Selby
Ditto Extension

2 5 IA

50s.

3
24

378.

214

14%

ABSIZE INTitt,LIGENCE
HOME e1t?C1,771-4K9usi 9.

(Before Lord Chief-Justice TINDAL and a Special Jury,

ROBINSON V. MARCIIANT.

This wag an action brought by Mr. Robinson, one of
the partners in the Croydon Union Bank, and who is
also the master of the Surrey stag hounds, to recover
compensation in damages from the defendant, who is a
miller and farmer, for having spoken slanderous words,
calculated to injure him in his business as a banker.
Mr. Sergeant SHEE, in opening the case, said that
the plaintiff; with two other gentlemen named Suther-
land and Chesemore, carried on the business of a bank
at Croydon, known as the Croydon Union Bank, and
the plaintiff himself also carried on an extensive busi •
nets as a wine merchant. The defendant was a miller
and a farmer, and there was no doubt that he was a man
of considerable property. The bank in question was
established in 1838, and, in 1840, the defendant
opened an account with it, which was, however,
closed in about six months. Another account
was afterwards opened, which went on for
some time ; and, in 1842, his account was very con-
siderably overdrawn. 11 ,peated remonstrances were
made by Mr. Robinson and his partners, and at length,
in the course of 1843, the bankers felt it necessary to put
a stop to the course pursued by the defendant, and they,
therefore, directed the clerk of the bank to return his
cheques, there being no assets to meet them. This was
accordingly done on several occasions, and ever since
that had occurred there had been very great ill-feeling
on the part of the defendant, and he had endeavoured
by every means in his power to injure the credit of Mr.
Robinson, and he had repeatedly represented Mr. Ro
binson as a man who had no property; iu fact, a man
of straw, and one entirely unfitted to carry on the
business of a banker. After commenting upon the
nature of the business of a banker, and the necessity
that every one connected with such a business should be
above even the shadow of suspicion, the Learned Counsel
went on to say that the precise ground on which the pre-
sent action was brought was, that the defendant had, on
several occasions, stated publicly that if the plaintiff paid
his debts he would not give fifty shillings for him; that
Mr. Sutherland, the principal partner, was about to leave
the country and creep out of the concern; and that lie
knew a person at Croydon who had got 5001. in his
house, but would not trust it in the plaintiff's bank. In
consequence of these statements of the defendant., a gen-
tleman named Smith had withdrawn his account from
the bank ; and as the defendant had had the temerity to
go to all the different markets through the county and
make the same statement, the consequences were calcu-
lated to be of the most serious description, and the
plaintiff felt that he had no alternative but to adopt the
present proceedings to vindicate his character. Evidence
was then adduced to prove the facts stated by the
Learned Counsel.

Mr. CHAMBERS grounded his defence upon the argu-
ment that the action arose entirely out of the ill• feeling
occasioned by the defendant warning off the stag hounds,
and he contended that it was idle to suppose any real in-
jury had been inflicted upon the plaintiff by the words
spoken by the defendant, while under a feeling of ex-
citement, occasioned by his cheques being returned,
and the state of his banker's account being exposed to his
neighbours. The Chief Justice having summed up, the
jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff—Damages 50/,

VALLENCE V. THE DUKE OF BRUNSWICK.

This was also an action for slander, brought by Mr.
Vallence, who was for a considerable time solicitor to his
Highness the Duke of Brunswick, against bis former
client, for having in a speech, delivered at the Sheriff's
Court, charged him with treacherous znd improper con-
— duct while engaged in the capacity of his attorney. The
case occupied several hours, and was adjourned at fise
o'clock.

MIDLAND ClRCUlT.—Warwick, Aug. 8.

CROWN COURT.—( Before Mr. Justice 111AOLE.)
IMPORTANT CASE OF BURGLARY.—John Bratt, aged 26,
Thomas Perry, 25, and Frederick Grey, 20, were charged
with having, in the parish of Rodway, on the 16th of Decem-
ber, committed a burglary in the house of Mary Chambers.
Mr. Miller prosecuted, and Mr. Hayes defended.
Mary Chambers deposed that she lives at Rodway, in
Warwickshire. At the time of the robbery her household
consisted of herself and two female servants. Owing to
illness the witness had for the best part of the month been
obliged to keep her room. On the night in question had
gone to rest about half-past nine. One of the servants went
with her. On awaking in the course of the night she saw
a light shine through the door. Thinking it might
be the servant, she called out " Caroling" She received
no answer, and almost immediately afterwards the door
opened, and three men entered the room, the first having a
candle in one hand, and a large horse pistol in the other, and
his face blackened. He was what is called a thick-set man
with a broad-brimmed hat on his head, and rather overhanging
his face. The second was tall and thin. The third she had
not the save opportunity of observing as she had the other two.
The man that had the pistol in hand came to the side of the bed
where the witness lay, and, putting the pistol close to her fore-
head, said, " We have come for your money, and we will have
it or your life." The poor woman said, "Don't kill me."
Upon which, the ruffian replied, "If you will give me the key
where the money and plate are, I will not." At that time,
the second man was trying the bureau. The witness said, her
keys were in the right-hand drawer. A ring was then taken
out with two keys upon it. After some ineffectual attempts
to open the drawer, it was opened, though before that one of
the men said, " If you do not tell us where your money is,
we will send the contents of the pistol through you." By
this time the other servant had become alarmed, and called
out, "What's the matter, mistress ?" One of the men called
out sternly, " Stop where you are ;" and she again entreated
the man with the pistol " not to kill her." They then pro-
ceeded to take what money and valuable articles they could
find, and after being in the house about half an hour they
quitted the premises, threatening the prosecutrix that if she
made any alarm before an hour from the time of their quitting
the place they would return and shoot her. One of the men
asked her if she knew them, or the number of the notes they
had taken, to which questions she answered " No." Some
time had elapsed before Mrs. Chambers could recover from her
fright so as to be able to speak, and she did not examine the
house for two or three days after. When she did, she found
some table, dessert, and salt spoons, with her initials upon
them, were gone, and also a thimble, with the words upon it
—" From a Friend." Witness also had the numbers of the
notes.

Caroline Morris, servant to the last witness' stated that
she saw the doors and windows were all fast. The next morn-
ing she found the back door fastened with a wooden peg. It
was not so left the night before. Found a lucifer match in the
cellar. _ _

John Washbrook, a labourer, stated that early en the runn-
ing of the 17th he was passing the house of Miss Chambers,
when he saw the cellar window-frame broken, and some bars
wrenched out.

Sidney Conway, who had been admitted Queen's evi-
dence, said he came out of gaol that day, where he had
been confined for being concerned in the robbery. Lives
with his father at Balscote. The prisoner Grey was in his
father's employ. Witness and Grey slept together. Knows
Brett also, who lives at Neithrop, about four miles from
Balscote. Perry lived about half a mile off. The robbery was
first mentioned by Bratt and Perry. Bratt said that Perry,
Grey, and himself had been planning to rob Miss Chambers,
and asked witness to go with them, and he agreed. On the
night of the 16th, witness took a ladder from a gate-house
near to his father's, and he and Grey went up stairs as if going
to bed. They then got out of the window by the ladder.
They went to the stable and blackened their faces. It was
two when they reached the house of the prosecutrix ; they got
in by the cellar window, got a light by means of a Weiler.
Brett and Perry opened the back door, and let witness and
Grey in. Grey, Bratt, and himself went into Miss Chambers's
room. Bratt first, with a large horse pistol, Grey second,
witness third. They each had a small pistol. Perry was
left in the passage to watch. Two of the pistols belonged to
witness, the other to his father. Witness found them all him-
self and loaded them himself with powder and ball. (The wit-
ness then described what took place pretty much the same as
the prosecutrix had done.)
A good deal ef, evidence was then given, which clearly
showed portions of the stolen property to have been in the pos-
session of the different prisoners, which property was identified
by Miss Chambers as the property of which she had been
robbed. _

Mr. HAYES, on the part of the prisoners, directed the chief
part of his address to the fact of the person whom he contended
to be worst of the four being admitted as approver.
The prisoners were all found Guilty, and sentenced to be
transported for fifteen years.
ROBBERY BY A POSTMISTRESS..—.Miss Louisa Maria
Mewis, who had the superintendence of the receiving-office of
the Edgbaston Post-office, and an account of whose embezzle-
ments appeared in our columns last week, pleaded guilty when
placed at the bar this day.

CHESTER ASSIZES, August 8.
CROWN COURT.

Mr. Justice Coltman i;ok his seat in bourt at nine o'clock,
and proceeded to try John Foley for two rapes, committed upon
two children at Dunkenfield. . . .

The offence was committed and the prisoner taken into cus-
tody so long ago as the sth of December in the last year. In
consequence, however, of the defective education of one girl,
and the deplorable ignorance of the other, the Learned Judge
who presided in the criminal court at the last assizes for this
county felt it necessary, for the purposes of justice, to remand
the prisoner to the present assires, in order that the children
might be sent to school.
Of course the evidence adduced in the case was of a cha-
racter quite unfitted for the pablie eye, and we shall not give
it. Sufficient evidence was given to justify the jury in return-
ing a verdict of guilty of an aggravated assault, and the pri-
soner was sentenced to two years' imprisonment in Knutsford
House of Correction.
His Lordship was next occupied some time in trying another
of this class of cases ; but at the suggestion of the Judge the
Attorney-General abandoned the charge, and the prisoner was
acquitted.
The business of the assizes came to a close at seven o'clock,
the services of the second list of jurors not being called into re-
quisition.

NORTHERN ClRCUlT.—Carlisle, Ang. 7.
The two charges of murder, the one against Jane Crosby,
and the other against John Graham, at these assizes, have
caused quite a ferment in this town and its vicinity. Yester-
day, during the trial of the former, which lasted from the com-
mencement to the close of the day, not only the whole Court,
but every passage around it, and even the street, were crowded
with people.
Jane Crosby was acquitted after a short deliberation among
the jury, who retired fur but a few minutes. She was de-
fended by Mr. Wilkins.
The principal facts deposed to were, that she had held her
little child upon the fire for such a time as to cause it to be
burnt so severely that ,it died of the injuries thus sustained.
But it had already been partially burnt by its clothes accident-
ally taking fire, after which the mother had first extinguished
the flame, and then, as stated by the other daughter, a child of
11, she had put the living child upon the fire and held it there.
In this case the Court concluded in the view taken by Mr.
Wilkins, the defending counsel, namely, that although the pri-
soner was shown to have been rendered in a manner crazy from
the habit of drinking, and had treated both her children with
occasional great harshness, there was much inconsistency in
her conduct if she really intended to put the child to death. It
was suggested to the jury as being not at all improbable that
she in fact, so placed the child in order to " draw the fire out,"
which had already been communicated to the child's body, it
being a common notion with some people that such means of
" counteraction" will be efficacious.
( Before Mr. Baron ROLFE. )
CHARGE OF POISONING AT KIRKANDREWS.—John Gra-
ham (aged 44) was placed at the bar on the charge of having,
in November last, wilfully caused the death of his wife by ad-
ministering to her arsenic mixed in some panada, or bread and
milk. _

. ....
Mr. Temple stated the case to the jury.
Richard Hind, examine 4 by Mr. Laurie, stated that he was
brother of deceased, who lived at Kirkandrews. She died on
the 27th of November last, and was interred in Kirkandrews

tikitol),orie it ~da Int=o6 il,44slk:Nailiii4=
faked up in Jane hisi,
Thomas Elliot, surgeon, cf Carlisle, made the post-niortem
examination of the body. Mr. Eliot stated particularly the
appearance of the body, and his evidence left no doubt that de-
; ceased died of the poison as supposed, and that in it there was
a large quantity of arsenic when exhumed.
Mary Hind said I am the sister of Margaret Graham, and
remember her death. She died on Wednesday, the 27th of
November, at seven o'clock in the evening. She had been in
good health before that, for a few months, but not very well
for a few weeks before. I saw her on the Sunday morning
before her death, and she said she was much better. I saw
her that day in John Graham's, her own house. She came
up to our house that morning, and stayed about an hour. I
live with my father in the same village, Kirkandrews-upon-
Eden. I saw her next after that on Monday morning, about
nine o'clock, I think. She was then very ill in bed, and
said she had been very ill all night. She complained of a
very great heat and pain in her breast. Site was purged,
and vomited. I remained with her that morning till
past eleven o'clock. John Graham was at home during
that time, sometimes in her bed-room, and sometimes walk-
ing about. Mrs. Graham was very thirsty, and asked me to
make her some whey. I got bath the milk and ale for it, and
she drank it and vomited it up again. She asked me for some
gin-and-water, and John Graham gave her it. I went home
and returned afterwards. He sent for the doctor at eight
o'clock. When I returned at two o'clock, Mr. Sewell,
surgeon, bad come. Mrs. Graham was rather easier, and he
gave her something amongst brandy. I left about three
o'clock, and returned between five and six. I left her for the
night about eight o'clock. She was easier then. The purging
had abated, and the vomiting had ceased. I saw her next at
eight in the morning on the Tuesday. She was in bed.
Nobody was in the room with her when I first went in. She
had been easier through the night, and said she ha.! had some
sleep. Her thirst still continued. I went borne, and told my
father and mother how she was, and came back again. I re-
turned about nine o'clock. About ten o'clock Jahn
Graham made her some sago. It is what is called
panada. John prepared it. He boiled it. I was in the
kitchen when it was on the fire, and remarked to him that

it was too thick. I was nertr him while it was on the fire.
When he took it off, he asked Betsy Robinson, his servant, if
it would do. I had my back to him then. His servant,
Robinson, is also called Elizabeth Graham. I was in the
kitchen. I was in the kitchen all the time it was boiling,
and do not knew what he put into it after he took it
off the fire. Ido not know what he might have put in
before I was in the kitchen. We gave it to Mrs.
Graham. I did not see her partake of it.. 1 did not
see her take anything else that morning. About an hour
after she took it she was taken very ill—the same as
the day before, but much severer ; both vomiting
and pirging worse. Her thirst was very great. She said
no one could tell what she suffered that day from pain and
burning heat in her stomach arid chest. Cold sweat was
upon her brow, and her hands were very cold. She did not
see well that day, but made no complaint of her sight. She
complained much of pain in her head. Dr. Sewell and John
Graham's mother came after eleven o'clock. John Graham
was present. Dr. Sewell proposed to send for Dr. Oliver,
and John Graham went himself for him about an hour after.
1)r. Oliver came about two o'clock, and he had a consultation
with Dr. Sewell, who then left. Dr. Oliver gave her some-
thing amongst brandy, and she vomited it up again. He or-
dered her a mustard plaster fur her breast and bowels.
John's mother and I applied it. In the evening we had her
up a little. She seemed very weak, and trembled all over.
After I got her put to bed again, about six o'clock, the pri-
soner said I and John's mother had to go, and he would lie
down beside her. We then went to a neighbour's house for a
little while. When we returned we saw her again. She was
easier, John still lying on the bed beside her. Benjamin
Mitchell the elder had gone to Carlisle to tell Dr. Oliver not
to come. He was one of John's servants, and was sent by the
prisoner. He had sent him before we came. Dr. Oliver
came about ten in the evening, and John seemed very much
displeased. Dr. Oliver gave her something more amongst
brandy, and she vomited it up again. He ordered a little
panada for her. Betsy Robinson made it, and my sister took it.
It remained on her stomach while I was there, and I was there
for half an hour after she took it. Mrs. Cannell is a sister of
John Graham's. She called that night. Joseph told me so.
Dr. Oliver said that Mrs. Graham was to be strictly watched,
and was to have nourishment during the night. John Graham
was present; it was proposed in his presence, that John Gra-
ham's servant, Elizabeth, and his father's servant, Mary
Beckton, should sit up with Mrs. Graham. John did not say
anything about this while Dr. Oliver was there; but as soon
as he went away he refused; and my brother Joseph and lie
got to high words about it. My brother Joseph wanted them
to sit up, and John would not let them. When John refused
he said he would wait on her himself as well as any woman they
could get. I went home about eleven o'clock, and returned
next morning (Wednesday) at eight o'clock. She was easier,
but much weaker.• I did make some beef tea that morning and
gave her it. She was very low that day, and took no notice
of anything. She saw less, and did not hear so well. She
died about seven o'clock that evening.
Mr. Sewell, surgeon, of Burgh, attended Mrs. Graham
during her illness, and described the symptoms as similar to
those produced by an irritating poison.
Dr. Oliver, M.D., was also sent for, and coincided with
Mr. Sewell respecting the symptoms. The witness was of
opinion that the arsenic was taken in repeated doses. He was
inclined to think, from the re-accession of the symptoms of
irritation under which he found her labouring on the Wednes-
day, that there had been a fresh dose given in the interval
between Tuesday night and Wednesday morning.
On cross-examination, Dr. Oliver stated that he had been
fetched to decea.ed by the prisoner.
Benjamin Mitchell (by Mr. TEMPLE)—I was the servant of
John Graham, at the time of Mrs. Graham's death. I had

lived with him about two years and a quarter. On the Sunday
before Mrs. Graham died I was at home in the evening,
betwixt seven and eight o'clock. Mrs. Graham had been
rather off health, but on that evening when I came home
she was as usual. My master was out. I went to bed before
he came home. I and Betty Robinson went to bed within
a few minutes of each other ; she went first. I saw my
mistress, before I went to bed, put some milk into a pan,
and then some bread. Just as she was doing that I went to
bed. I sleep above the kitchen. I heard the prisoner come in
few minutes after I went to bed. After he came in I heard
her say, " John, you've never anv time to spare, for my com-
pany, but all will work over." When I first went to Mr. Gra-
ham, he and his wife were on very good terms. Margaret
Rickerby was living there when I went. At first her conduct
and demeanour towards her mistress was very good, proper,
and respectful. She left her service before my mistress died,
at Martinmas, last year, and Betsy Robinson came in her
place. Before she left her conduct had changed. She fre-
quently absented herself from the house in the evening, and
upon occasions, when she was absent, John Graham has been
absent also. Upon those occasions I have heard his voice in
Mary Elliot's house, which is about fifty yards from our fold-
gate. I have heard his voice more than once in that house.
I have not seen her go into the house on those occasions
when I heard his voice. I told John Graham that people
were talking about his going there. The house was blamed
for clash—sometimes people call it backbiting. I have seen
alterations in the conduct of Rickerby to Mrs. Graham in the
prisoner's presence ; she has used language that did not
become a servant. Sometimes he did and sometimes be did
not reprove her for the language she used. When he reproved
her, he said, " hold your tongue ;" nothing more. I remember
one Sunday when he had a goose for dinner. Mrs. Graham
had been at church that morning, and Margaret Rickerby
remained at home. We all sat down to dinner, John Graham
with the rest. Mrs. Graham said to Rickerby, " Margaret,
I think you have pinched us of gravy—is there no more ?"
Rickerby went and provided some more, and when she brought
it back—John Graham was then sitting at the table—
she set it down, and said, " D—n her, that'll grease her
guts ;" and she told her mistress on the same day that she
had no more religion than an old sow. After this language
Mrs. Graham removed her plate from the table, and went
into another room, and had her dinner. She was very
nervous at the time, all of a shake. The words had
put her out of the way. John Graham remained and
finished his dinner with me, Margaret Rickerby, and another
servant, William Richardson, who left at Martinmas. Whilst
we were at table, Rickerby said to Mrs. Graham that she was
a laughing stock to the whole village. Mrs. Graham was in
the other room then, but John Graham heard it. During the
dinner John Graham said, " Hold your tongue," and she said,
" No, I'll not hold my tongue, she is a laughing-stock to the
whole village." I told him she behaved very badly to her mis-
tress, and he said she had a very bad tongue. I remember
Carlisle races. When John Graham came home to supper
Rickerby came in, and John told her to get herself some sup-
per. She said she would never break her fast in the house again,
because the mistress had removed the things off the table. The
prisoner asked her what she meant by taking the things from
the table. Mrs. Graham said she had removed nothing—there
was nothing to remove but a pot. I went to bed, and did not
hear any more. I first ob.erved this sort of conduct on the part
of Rickerby towards her mistress sometime before Midsum-
mer. During the autumn, and up to the time of my mistress's
death, the prisoner was absent sometimes in the evenings,
and Margaret Rickerby was absent also. Nine o'clock was
bed time. Sometimes they came home before and some-
times after nine. I have sometimes gone to bed and left
both out, but my mistress up. I saw Rickerby, after she
left my mistress, at Candlemas hiring. I saw John Graham
go across the street where she was standing and crack his
fingers ( witness cracked his finger and thumb). She crossed
over to him, and they went together into Lowther-street. Up
to the autumn Rickerby's conduct had always been very good
to her mistress. _

Richard James—l am a physician in Carlisle. John Gra-
ham came to me a little after four o'clock on the morning
of the 3d of June. I was in bed, and he called me up.
He asked me if his wife was going to be taken up that day,
and I said I did not know anything about it. I said if it had
been the case, it was most likely I should have known. He
said if it was the case that she was taken up, he would be
obliged to leave the place. He also said he had never done
injury to any person in his life. I replied I was very sorry
for him. He requested me not to mention to any one that he
had called me up. I said it was quite impossible to keep it
secret. It was broad daylight, and there were several per-
sons in the street.
. . _

John Sabbage, examined by Mr. RAMSIIAY--I am super-
intendent of Carlisle police. I saw the prisoner on Thursday,
the sth of June, about 200 yards on this side of his own
house, at Kirkandrews. He asked me if it was true that they
were going to lift his wife. I told him it was; that I was just
going over to arrange about it the next day. He said, could
they not see Mr. Carrick, and get the opinion of the doctors
without lifting her, for if they did he could not stand it ? I told
him I thought that would be no use now. He said, "If they
do find poison, I did not do it." I saw him returning, and the
same conversation was repeated. On the 9th, the Wednes-
day, about half-past three in the morning, I went to apprehend
him. He said, " You are come to take me ?" I told him I

had a warrant for him, and assisted to dress him. I read the

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marked that such an application ought not to prejudiii
address to the facts of the case, for undoubtedly, in a matter isf
doubt affecting the life of a client, it was the duty of the counsel
to make the application if he thought it likely to be advan-
tageous. It was necessary to tell the jury what the charge
against the prisoner was. It was that, knowing that his late
wife, Margaret Graham, was about to take some bread and
milk, or that she was going to take some panada, or some
medicine (any of these would be sufficient), he, contriving
wickedly to poistm her, mixed up with that bread, or that
panada, or that medicine, or with all of them, a certain
quantity of deadly poison called arsenic; and afterwards,
she not knowing that there was any poison mixed up with
the bread and milk, or the panada, or the medicine, or
with all of them, swallowed it, and thereby, in consequence
of that, died, either from taking first one and then the other,
all of them being mixed with poison, or from taking any one of
them so mixed. It was for the jury to be satisfied as to
whether that charge had been proved. Such being the charge,
then, what was the nature of the evidence by which it was sup-
ported ? In any charge of death occasioned by poison, it was,
from the nature of things, scarcely ever possible to have any
direct testimony. It was said always to be the most ()lions
kind of murder ; perhaps. among other reasons, that stamp
was affixed on it because it was necessarily perpetrated in the
dark, or, what was the same thing, in obscurity, with no eye to
detect it, wiih no possibility of detecting it, but by circumstan-
tial evidence. If they were satisfied beyond all reasonable
doubt that the prisoner did administer poison and cause the
death of his wife, their oath, by which they swore to do
their duty to their country, imperatively called upon them
to return a verdict of guilty. But if the circumstances de-
tailed in the evidence, and the inferences fairly deduced
from them, did not lead to that conclusion, he for one thought
it would be an insult to them to suppose that anything they
might have heard out of Court could induce them to commit
the gross injustice of letting a man suffer, not for the evidence
on which he was tried, and which he had the opportunity of
answering and commenting on, but on what might have been
said by irresponsible persons whom he had no opportunity of
contradicting. They must now proceed to the discharge of
their duty, and return a verdict according to what they consi-
dered to be the real nature of the else.

The jury then retired, and after an abser.ce of little more
than half an hour, returned a verdict of Nut Guilty.

August 8.
FURTHER CHARGE AGAINST JOHN GRAHAM.
Mr. Baron Rolfe took hii seat on the bench at nine o'clock,
and Mr. Temple having intimated to his Lordship that the
prosecution had thought it necessary to go on with the second
►ndictment against the prisoner, he was brought up at once, and
the trial proceeded ; but after some evidence

HIS LORDSHIP recapitulated the facts to the jury, and in
so doing, appeared to express his view of the case to be, that it
was not one upon which the jury could satisfactorily believe,
without doubt, that the crime alleged had been perpetrated.
The jury retired from the Court for somewhat leas than a
quarter of an hour, and returned a verdict of Acquittal.

warrant to him in the yard.
George Tinniswood, M.D.—I am a physician, practising
in Carlisle. I remember receiving from Sabbage, on the
28th of last June, a parcel purporting to contain the contents
of some pockets. They consisted of some crumbs of bread
and cheese, some pieces of sealing wax, and a little woolly
matter, such as is found in the corner of a pocket. There
was mixed amongst it a chrystalline substance like fine sand.
I kept the parcel till Monday, the 30th, when it was analysed
by me in conjunction with Mr. Elliot, Dr. James, and Dr.
Cartnell. We found that it contained arsenic, by the same
experiments as were described by Mr. Elliot. It was the
oxide of arsenic, the arsenic of commerce. I received, on
the 14th of last month, a waistcoat from Sabbage. Arsenic
was found in each pocket.
I heard Dr. Oliver's evidence.
Judging from the symptoms described_ by him, and
the arsenic
had morbid
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disease found on dissection, I am of opinion that
had been taken in repeated doses.
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tailed that day. There was hardly a shadow of evidence to
justify the charge against the prisoner. There had been no
proof of improper intimacy between him and Rickerby ; and,
if it bad been substantiated, it only showed that he had no-
thing to gain from her, by the death of his wife, he having her
already at his bidding. Out of the whole history of John
Graham, only one instance had been found of reproach from
the lips of his wife. All the circumstances alleged with re-
gard to his treatment of her were more in his favour than
against him.
The Learned JUDGE in summing up said—Before the
Learned Counsel addressed them application had been made to
him on what was called a point of law. He did not think it fit