The Express.
London, England, 1863-11-24 00:00:00

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LONDON, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER St

Tas letters written to her sister by the murdered
woman, Mrs. Hurry, confirm in every particular the
darkest inferences suggested by the facts already
known as to the character and previous conduct
of the murderer. They tell a fearful tale. It
appears that for many months before the mur-
der was committed, HUNT was in the habit of
treating his wife in the most brutal manner ; that
during the whole of the present year, A all events,
she was the victim of systematic ill-usage, of per
violence that habitually resulted in cruel
injuries, as well as of unintermitted foul language
and savage threats that made her life a continual
dread, and at last reduced her to absolute despair.
It is very affecting to trace in them letters the
progress of the poor woman's home troubles ;
the sullen ferocity and violence of her husband,
so habitual of late that he rarely entered the
house without some display of passion, or
opened his lips except to abuse, taunt, or
threaten her; and her instinctive conviction during
the last few months that his fixed malignity was
full of danger to herself, and would inevitably lead
to soma fatal issue. The tone of the letters
throughout is agonizing--ahnost hopeless, in-
deed—but there is hardly a trace of anger in the
poor woman's grief. She indulges in no abuse of
her unnatural husband, and beyond the bare de-
tail of his ill-usage there is hardly a word
against him. Here and there, too, she instinc-
tively betrays an aching desire for some elgn
of hope, some friendly token, tome word or
look of kindness from him that might relieve her
monotonous misery, and help to make °theme
more tolerable. On August the 4th, foe example,
while still suffering so much from the effects of
her husband's violence that she could scarcely get
about es usual, she writes;—" He is just the
" same • if anything, worse. Never spoken a
wad yet, and my leg iv still very painful
"to me. Saturday night was a very red night for
" me. I don't Wilk there ere any more happy
" days fee me in store. My life seems quite a
" blink. I have lived upon hope some time, and
" that has nearly died out ; but I don't know who
" will be first, hope or myself." This is not the
language of a hard-hearted, a vicious, or a quarrel-
some women, but rather of one striving to hope
against hope, and yearning for some expression of
sympathy and kindness, however trivial. These
frequent letters to her sister, in which the
writer with a trembling heart entreats her to
come and see her, and speak to her,
are sufficient evidence of this. The letters;
especially the later ones, were, however, clearly
designed to serve another purpose besides that of
securing the occasional presence and sympathy of
her sister. The nine letters written during the
three moaths immediately preceding her death
show on the part of the unhappy wife a strong and
growing conviction that her worst fear wor'd
eventually be reellsed, and • desire that in that
case some record of her previous miserable history,
which might help to explain her violent end, might
be in the hands of her family. Hence each of
these letters closes with a brief but earnest en-
treaty that it should be preserved. As early as
the month of July she lays this charge on her
sister. On the 23rd of that mouth, after detailing
Hrwr's violent behaviour at tea, Ms seising a
knife and thrusting it at her, and then flinging a
chair which fell heavily upon her, inflicting •
violent bruise, she adds :—" So my life is.
" a very serious one, and it makes
"me very unhappy ; indeed, I am now
" all of • tremble when I think how it will end.
" He threatens me if I my I will do anything, so
" I don't know what to do. Keep this letter in
" your possession ; do not destroy it." All the
remaining lettere of the series up to the last—
written a short time before her death, and which
seems almost prophetic of that event—contain the
same charge that they should not be destroyed.
There was evidently good ground for the apprehen-
sion these injunctions betray. HUNT had long
gratified his malignant feeling against his wife by
acts of violence that not only strengthened the
passion, but led him to indulge and cherish the
thought of its fuller and more fatal gratification.
His habits of personal violence thus strengthened
the incipient desire and resolve to compass her
destruction, and prepared the way for the accom-
plishment of his murderous purpose. In the
very first letter of the series, written towards
the end of January, Mrs. Hour writes that
the previous evening her husband, after uttering
dreadful imprecation; had said, "that if he
" *hoes to kill her, he could do it in each • manner
"that he would not be found out." His threats
and violsaa.• appear to have been not onlybabitual,
bat to have increased in intensity from that day to
the day el her death. At the time of her death
Mrs. Hoar had • wound in her noel°, the result of
her husband's violence, and during the whole of
the nine months preceding she appears never to
have been free from injuries, more or less serious,

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inflicted by his hand. The last letter et the serieel
shows that the natural end of this violent conduct
was, even in the mindof its victim, rapidly approach-
ing Dear Hainnerr,—Neverletit surpriseyou
" when you hear lam dead. I feel quite certain
" I cannot go on much longer with my husband.
" He gets worse every day and night of my life.
"If you knew and could see all—a dog would
" pity me ; but I know you feel for me all you
" can. I cannot say much in these lines to you,
" but pity me, and come on Monday. Do not
" let a shower of rain prevent you. If Ido not
" see you on Monday I shall think I have not a
" friend in this world. I wish I was good enough
" to die, but I must try and make myself goo:1, as
" what he wants, he says, is to see me dead ; then
" he would laugh, and think what a good thing to
" think lam gone from this world. What wig
" become of me I speak the truth when I say I
" shall die with a broken heart."
These letters contain one new fact which is of
some importance, as it supplies the probable
motive of Hu wee brutal behaviour, ending in the
murder of his wife, and points the more serious
moral of this tei.ible story. From a letter dated
March 11 it appears that Hum: had formed a
connexion with another woman, and this, as was
to be expected, prodnoed bitter feeling and con-
stant disagreement between himself end his w;.e. He
appears to have been in the habit of obtruding the
new connexion he had formed on his wife's notice,
and making it as humiliating and offensive to her
as possible. Mr,. Hutt; writing to her sister
four days after the entrance of the Ringing of
War.ra into London, says :—" Now, suppoin you
" were a wife, would you hie your husband to
" come and tell you he had paid a guinea for seats
"in St. Martin's Churchyard for Fin and hi
" woman! Would you I;ke that! And then t
" end the day they go to the Lyceum to wind up."
Here we probably obtain some insight into the
central secret, the mainspring or motive principle
at this mystery of iniquity. Horr was in the
habit of taking his pleasure, of spending his ape-3
time and spare money away from hia wife and
home, with other women, or at ail events with
another woman. He not only had a cinsle of
pleasures which his wife could not share, but one
in which the very thought of her was a rebuke
and condemnation, and which could be enjoyed at
slimly by the sacrifice of his first duties as a husband.
Having in this way deeply and systematically
wronged his wife, it was quite natural that he
should begin to hate her, and equally natural that,
having given way to that pinker, he should indus-
triously set himself to discover grounds or pretsxts
to justify his hatred. The little time be latterly
spent at borne appears from his poor wife's
letters to have been wholly occupied in this
wretched way—in finding fault with every th;ng
in the house, abusing her for everything she
said and did, and flying into paroxysms of rage at
the merest trifles. This malignant paaaion, the reflex
of other passions eqeally vio!ent end criminal, was
evidently indulged without restraint, and it ended,
as unchecked and determined hatred always tends
to do, in the deal—action of its victim.. Mt- HUNT
may have been by no means a model wife. She
confesses in a simple, ensfrected way to hav;ng
many faults; but the heavier charges brotightsgainst
her by her murderer are not orly nnsoppoi :ad by
any evidence, but contrel'et• Iby the testimony
of her neighbours. But had she bc 'time wholly self-
forgetful, and indulged in every excess, it wouldhave
been hardly matter of surprise, and, so far as her'
husband was concerned, could be no just ground
of complaint. She was what he had made her. The
man who leads the life Hors led, metes of neces-
sity a miserable home, inflicts the extremist
misery and degradation on all connschd with lthr.,
end if his nature is utterly selfish and morose,
will naturally enough bring them with himself to a
miserable end.

be court.

WINDSOR CASTLE. Nov. 23.

The Queen drove out this morning, attended by
the Cowden et Oalsdon (lady in waiting) sod the Hon.
Hails thogbal.

Nakit•Ositend Hoe. A. Hood Wooded oo hornissat.

Tba Crows Elva sod Primers et Preeris (attended by
Creator Hobarlid, Carat Perstosoteis, .od Major Von
Sebweiwita), aad tho Prisons Floboalabo, attrodird by tbs
no.. *a. Nowa west to Leedom Mb _rated.
Prber Arthur, .Waded by Major lJpbbWases. idt Moe
Chollo for Grosswire Park.

Yr. selialtarieseral, and Ur. Carey, Waft et
Gummy, were pruested this moroing to her Majesty, b 7
Sk George Grey, &effetely of State for the Ham Depart-
ment, sod received the honour of knighthood.
Lord Creasers* and fifsjor•Geneenl the Hon. A. Hood were
the Lord and lawny in Wallies.
Mr. Frith bed the honour of minnittieg his picture of
the "Rainy Station" to &a Majesty at Windsor Gunk

♦ Cabinet Council was held yerterday at the
off cial residence of the First Lord of the Tressutj,
in Downing-street. The ministers present were
Viscount Palmerston, Earl Granville, the Duke of
Arg,yll, Sir George Grey, Karl Rummell, the Duke
of Newcastle, lari de Grey, Sir Charles Wood,
the Cheacellor of the uer, the Duke of
Somerset, the Right Hoe. T. Winer Galloo, the
Right Hon. Edward Cardwell, Lord Stanley of
•ley, and the Right Hoe. O. P. Villiers.

The Right Hoe. Sir George Om retersed to tows y
tarday from Wisdom Castle.

DeOpatehas were rooster d yesterday at the Colosial-ottee
from the Lord WO Coaostwieser at the leaks lalsods, the
°evermore of the (Ape et Good Hap, Nita!, Bt. Hehay
the North Americas Prov"toes, sod Minh Collodi.
Despaichss were soot to the Groomers ol the Settlements
oa tie West Oosei al arks.

Their Royal Highnesses the Crown Prince and
Primed, of Prussia honoured the Dupre for 11Linda's Mae,
Booth Andley-street, with a visit yeeterdey moray.
The Duchess of Cambridge and the Princess Mary
an WE in Briglike, and may b. MINIM taking addax
eseasise on the Wed GTE when the weather k
levee:able. The Dunham of cents-Hee sad the &deems
Mary pay frequent visits to the Duchess of Ilassilion.
lidghke is now very fun, sad preents a mod aaleated
appeanne• On Elatarday sideman the Ids et dinky .I
and 'guipure' el the most splendid description along the
Kisies-read and the pendia was nearly unbroken ; sad
the Wedes of the ladles, compound of the deb oohed fa
dm at this season, are very attractive. Curley Standard.
His Grand Ducal Highness Prince William of
Risen aseropenied by Captain von &wen, was premed
at the mercies in the German church, Edinburgh, on Sunday
svealg.

Loral and Lady Loodeeborough are expected to
leave °Thomism Pen, Yorkehhe, es Thursday mast, ter
town, sad alter a stay of a few days will take their depar-
ture fee Egypt.

The Doke and Duchess of Manchester, who hare
arrived fa town floes Kimboltoo Castle, Hustiorionshire,
will eta, a few days in Loodoo, previous to {saving far
Paris Inaba' way to visit Clow Imperial Majesties the Em.
perm and Farm of the Smyth at Oompieget
The Karl and Countess of Shaftesbury and Lady
Victoria Ashley will leave tows tomorrow for Utak lost
St (hiss, Dorssegiire.

The Karl and Counters of Morley, Earl Cowper,
Use Coeakes Dowager sad Ladies Cowper. Vinoomat et.
Aaaph. the Dowager Lady Mims, ha.. halm arrived
at lloreare, and are soloaraiog at the BOW do ia °made
Deeteges.
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The Feel and Countess of Westmoreland came
lo tan yesterday from Moir mat fa Northampleeddre,
sad have dam pee to Paris. The noble earl sod ocinotam
will be 'swag the geese of the Emperor and Itaspress at
Cosittftim