The Sun. — 1865-08-28 (London, England)

ILLINOIS CENTRAL.  The financial statement of this company for the month of July shows th at 7,144 acres of land had been sold during the month for $84,157. The cash collected in July amounted to $106,347. In the railway traffic department the total receipts for the month of July amounted to $531,996, and for the same month last year to $403,838, showing an increase of $128,158, or 31.7 per cent.  WEST LONDON WHARVES AND WAREHOUSES,  The report of the directors states that the Royal assent was given on the sth of July last to the Act of Parliament which was approved by special general meeting, held on the 16th of June, and which conferred considerable advantages upon the company. The directors had concluded an agreement with the Southwark and 'Vauxhall Water Company for the absolute purchase of a slip of land, together with the parts included in their Parliamentary powers, which enable the company to acquire a total extent of direct river frontage, exceeding 1,700 feet, which they could not otherwise have obtained. This purchase xould actually put the company in possession of a large extent of wharfage property already made, and the directors purposed at once placing cranes along the frontage, erecting warehouses in the immediate vicinity, and laying down tramways to connect them and the wharves with the adjoining railways, by which means they anticipated that the company would, in less than 12 months from this time, be in full working order, and trusted in receipt of a considerable revenue. Beyond this the company's land, which the directors believed to be of great value, remained intact, and, in lieu of being in any manner depreciated, would be considerably enhanced in value and available at any time, when the business carried on might require additional accommodation. The directors trusted that those arrangements would receive the full approval and support of the shareholders. The 7 per cent. guaranteed interest on the capital called up would be paid on the 30th of September. The capital account showed that £86,327 had been expended, leaving a balance in hand of £23,137.  Another Murder of a Sweetheart and Attempted Suicide.  Wolverhampton has again been the scene of a very dreadful crime. The perpetrator of it is a mere lad of 18, named Charles Christopher Robinson, an orphan, whose father, a blacksmith and coal dealer, had left him a property worth about £4,000. lie lived with his guardian, Mr. Josiah Fisher. 110 hail been apprenticed a few years ago to a cabinet-maker, but he had shown no fondness for the business, and had not served out his time, justifying his conduct by saying that he should have money enough to keep him. He had latterly become engaged to a young woman named Harriet Seagar, a sister of Mrs. Isaiah Fisher, whose husband, a son of his guardian's, kept% public-house called the Queen's Arms. She was a few months older than her lover. There was no objection whatever to the connexion; on the contrary, Mr. Josiah Fisher had taken her into the house as a kind of servant, but she was treated as one of the family. On Saturday Mr. and Mrs. Josiah Fisher, with Mrs. Isaiah Fisher, left home at about three o'clock to go to Codsall. At that time Robinson was in the garden behind the house smoking, and Miss Seagar was engaged about hor domestic duties. Excepting these two no one was left at the house. At about four o'clock a girl named Emma Silleto, aged 15, and servant at the Queen's Arms, was near to the back door of the residence of Mr. Josiah Fisher, when she saw Miss Seagar crying, and Robinson was near her. The impression left on Silleto's mind was that they had been quarrelling. In about an hour afterwards Robinson went to the Queen's Arms, borrowed a knife-board for Miss Seagar's use, and with it took away half a pint of ale. Half an hour afterwards Silleto sent one of her master's children for the board, and the messenger, a boy, was told by Robinson that it was not done with, and that he must come again. Some time after five o'clock Silleto herself went for the board. Miss Seagar stood using it in the back kitchen. She was still crying, and Robinson was standing at the entrance to the kitchen. Miss Seagar threw out the board, and Robinson either kicked or threw it to Silleto, who went away with it. At a little before six Silleto heard a gun fired in Mr. Josiah Fisher's house, and in a few minutes one of Mr. Isaiah Fisher's children ran in from the garden which separates the two houses, and cried out that Charles had shut Harriet. Silleto ran across the garden and saw Robinson come down stairs and enter the back kitchen. On looking through the window of the back kitchen she saw him standing without his coat, in front of a small mirror that was hanging against the wall. Whilst looking into the mirror he held a razor in his right hand and cut, Silleto says, three gashes in his throat. She raised an alarm, and when neighbours came in they found him standing in a leaning posture outside the back kitchen, his eyes glaring, and his clothes stained with blood that had been and was still flowing- from wounds in Lis throat. An attempt was made to secure him, but lie became very violent and tried hard to tear open the wounds described. With some difficulty he was overpowered, and his hands fastened behind him. Whilst this was go' ino- On neighhours had entered the back-kitchen,and found Miss Seagar lifeless on the floor. Death hadbeen occasionedby a hideous cut in the throat, which, passing through the windpipe and all the arteries, extended right to the spine. She was surrounded with blood, and upon her head being raised, the last breath of life seemed to depart. Robinson's wounds were temporarily bandaged with the apron of a woman who came in, and he was led into an inner room. Here his injuries were attended to by Mr. Summers and Mr. Vincent Jackson, surgeons. After