The Express.
London, England, 1863-11-13 00:00:00

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LONDON, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 13.

Tits public have waited anxiously from day to day
to see if any further light could be thrown on what
is certainly one of the most appalling, though at
the same time one of the most deliberate and me-
thodical, of modem murders. It appears pro-
bable, however, that we already know all, or nearly
all, that can be known with regard to the motive,
the object, and the means of this triple crime.
And now that it appears in its true proportions,
stripped of all mystery and disguise, it is in some
respects even more revolting, has in it a more de-
cided element of naked vulgar horror than before,
the triviality of the motive adding to the atrocity
of the ruthless deed. Mr. Da QITINVEY remarks
that much of the peculiar and contagious honor
excited throughout the metropolis by the Ratcliff-
highway murders, half a century ago, arose from
the fact that they seemed prompted by no motive
except the mere love of murder. But next in
horror to a series of ghastly crimes perpetrated for
their own sake, must be a series of crimes equally
unnatural perpetrated from the most common, if
not the most insignificant, of ell commonplace
motives. In the present case HUNT, the mur-
derer, disliked some of his wife's habits, excused
her, ill-used her, and, as she did not im-
prove, determined at length to clear the whole
family out of his path by a swift azt of wholesale
murder, rather than be subject to any further do-
mestic annoyance. It is difficult to realise the
dark, malignant and icy nature of the man who was
capable of deliberately forming and as deliberately
carrying out this fatal purpose. All we know of
his conduct before and after the deed seems to show
that be was insocessible to all feelings of pity or
remorse. Nor is there a single incident in the
whole dismal story calculated in the least to relieve
the dark, selfish, and relentless features of the
crime.

The murder was evidently very deliberately
planned in all its details. If we go beck two or
three weeks to that cottage in Coldharbour-lane
we may assume with certainty that the head of
the family wss plotting day after day and night
after night how he might best accomplish the de.
'traction of his family. He sallied out in the
morning, went through his daily work, returned
home in the evening, sat with his wife and cFl-
dren, ate and drank with them, and was all the
time not only bent on their death, but matut:ng
the scheme that was to sweep them for ever from
his path. They were not a burden to him in •
pecuniary Dame. Harr: was comparatively well
off, and though his wife is said to have latterly
indulged °maximally to excess, this does not ap-
pear to have crippled their reeotutes ; for at the time
of his capture he had upwards of forty pounds
about him. Nor were his wife and child-en merely
in his way, for had b's object simply been to live
apart from them, he might have effected this in
many ways—by • separation from his wife, or by
leaving them altogether. Judging by the result, it
seems clear that he had cherished feelings of
bitterness, of hatred and revenge against his
family, until those feelings acquired such malig-
nant intensity and concentration the nothing
abort of their death by his own hand would
satisfy. This point once reached, his only care
would be to discover some plan of effecting his
purpose that promised to battle all ordinary means
of detection. If he once succeeded in persuading
himself that the deed might be done with compa-
rative impunity, it was certain that its execution
would not be long delayed. And the calculation
on which he eventually acted is sufficiently ob-
vious. He evidently reckoned that if he trans-
ported his victims to the opposite extreme of the me-
tropolis from their own home, and then, committing
them to a cab for a still more distant quarter, if he
quietly effected his murderous design, the cab
might safely be allowed to drive on to its destina-
tion with its awful burden of death. The bodies
being thus landed in the midst of a distant, a
busy, and densely-peopled quarter, with nothing
about them to identify them, all clue to the dis-
covery of the crime would, it was confidently
assumed by the murderer, be lost. He thought that
three corpses flung at • distant point on the
surface of • restless sea of three millions
of human beings, would, after • little vain in-
quiry, be hurried from view, and nothing more be
heard of them. Happily in this, as so commonly
happens with criminals of his stamp, the mur-
derer reckoned without his host. He did not re-
flect that so far from there being any real
security from crime because it i committed in a
crowd, the largest and most populous living area
but affords the surest guarantee of its ultimate de-
tection. Tile presence of numbers but multiplies
the means and instruments of discovery. In-
telligence in these days flies fast, and by Monday
morning every nook and corner of this wide
metropolitan world, to its extremest suburb,
was roused to active inquiry whether any persons
answering to tho description of the murdered
persons had been known in the neighbourhood, or
had been missed since the previous Saturday.
The three millions, instead of helping to conceal the
crime, were thus converted into ministers of justice
and avengers of innocent blood. The prompt dis-
°ovary of the murderer in this way is undoubtedly
the most important, and on public grounds the most
salutary feature of this terrible case. Fancied
impunity on his part was no doubt the imme-
diate occasion of the crime. Could BUNT
have foreseen, or even imagined, that he would
be seized on Monday night, he would not
have murdered his wife and children on Saturday
evening. But be calculated with such perfect
confidence on escaping detection, that he not only

I made no provision for such en eateggen cy, but was
preparing to enjoy his recovered freedom after
his own fashion. What ho did with himself on
1 Sunday has not yet, we believe, been aaoer-
tained. But on Monday he went to his ordinary
work, was more jovial than usual with his
com-
panions after the day's business was over, looked
•in at his customary public-house when he got to
Camberwell later in the evening, and was com-
fortably in bed reading a work of fiction
when the officers of justice were upon him, dissi-
pating rudely and for ever by their im-
portunate demands his fatal dreams of se-
curity, enjoyment, and repose. His subsequent,
conduct was quite in harmony with his (3tracter.
He knew in an instant that escape was hopeless,
and showed his sense of it by taking the poison
before he opened the door. But consistently with
his false, cowardly, and selfish nature, he bad not
the courage to avow his crime, or to brave out
the denial of it. He lied and prevaricated as long
as he had breath. He denied having taken any
poison, affirming that he had no doubt
what he took wu gin. He alleged that
his wife and children were dressed in light
clothes when they left home, and that they
were gone to visit an uncle at Southampton,
hinging, however, in the same breath, the most
terrible charges against his wife. And he expired
in the act of repeating, in writing, one of the false-
hoods he had already told. The curious thing is
that all the falsehoods he so industriously told could
be refuted by half an hour's inquiij.. But he
chose to die with a lie in the right hand that had
already taken the lives Cl his wife and children.
The wretched man expiated his awful crime in his
own way. But the satisfactory feature, as we have
said, is that he was so promptly traced and secured
by the officers of justice. The only check on such
violent and vindictive natures as HUNT evidently
possessed, the only effective check on the fatal in-
dulgence of such morbid and savage passions as
he cherished is the moral certainty of dis-
covery following crime. This assurance will
effectually disturb their nicely-balanced calcu-
lations of chances in plannirrg the de-
struction of their fellow-creatures. They will
panso before allowing teolings of irritation and
dislike to ripen into murderous hate, and learn to
bear some temporary, and even some permanent
evils, instead of stealthily seeking in the path of
silent crime to cut themselves free from the re-
sponsibilities they have assumed. If the detection
of crime is tolerably swift and sure, cases of unna-
tural husbands and fathers attempting to escape
domestic annoyance by the deliberate murder of
their wives and children will not be likely to
recur.

Cbe Court.

WINDSOR OANTLFN Nov. It

The Queen, accompanied by the Crown Princes
of Peewit (Priam@ Royal), walked and drove in the petted
thin moron.
Fort Oreastile arrived at the Castle yesterday, and had
an audience of her Majesty.
The Quer honoured Mr. Frith with a sitting yesterday
for hie picture ol the Prince of Walea's marriage.

A Cabinet Council was held yesterdarsreastatuthe
official resieence of the First Lord of the ' m
in Downing-street. The mi..isters present were
Viscount Palmerston, the Lord Chancellor, EH
Granville, the Duke of Argyll, Sir George (Ley,
Earl Rummell, the Duke of Newcastle, Earl de
Grey, Sir Charles Wood, the Chancellor of the
Exchequer, the Duke of Somerset, the Right Hor.
T. hithw Gibson, the Right Hon. Edward Card-
well, Lord Stanley of Alderley, and the Right
Hon. C. P. Villiers.

Despotslme were met yesterday from the Colonial-office to
the Governor of Canada.

Her Royal Highness the Crown Princess of
Prussia hoeoured his Exogamy tits Premise Ambsandos
sod the Countess Haestorff with a I isit on Wsdossdev
kat, previous to her royal bighases's deputize for Wiallor
Cheek.

The Duke of Leinster has left his reeidenoe on
O.rhos Hour-terzeoe tor Carlton House, his seat sear
Mayaeotti, Instead, far the • :star.

The Count and Countess de Flahault received
Viscount and Viscountess Palinerstoe and a se'eet circle at
dinner Lit mein, at Cossets/ House.
The marriage of Colonel the Hon. A. H. A.
Anson, V. 0., brother of the Fad of Lichfield, with Min
Claughtos. elder daughter of the Rev. Mr. and lion. him
Claushtoo, sad niece of the ffatl of Dudley, is appointed to
take place on the tad of December.

Amongst the most recent arrivals at Rome are
the Spanish Ambassador, H. Gerard de Soon ; the Porta-
gene Minister at London, Count de Lavradici ; the Polish
Priaos Leon &pieta sad family; Hoe. Mr. sad Mrs. De
Grey, How. Henry Strutt, Lady Arseeld sad family, Hon.
Henry and Mrs. Walpole, Colonel sad Hrs. CaldwelL
Apartments have beim 'spaced for the Dowager Counter
Cowper, the Marehiosims et Doweekira, Lard Stafford, Sir
Edmund Macoaghtia, Mr. Barton, of Streffaa, ad Lieut.-
General Haelatosb.

It is rumoured in military circles at Dublin that
sa oldest who recently left • distinguished cavalry regi-
ment, which has already come beton the public in a
prominent manner, is threats.* legal proceedings spinet
him late commaoder for as alleged defamation of character
is the premium of his fallow einem.' before he left the

Mr. Phinn, Q.C., has been reappointed Counsel
to the Admiralty aad Judge-Advocate of the Fleet, an office
to which he was originally appointed by Sir James Graham
in 1852, and which he resigned upon becoming Second Secre-
tary of the Admiralty is 1855.

A correspondent of the Times says :—"A vacancy
haring occurred is the registrarship of the diocese of Chin-
tor--oe Aloe supposed to be worth some 8001. a year—tho
bishop hoe appoieted his ow. moo, a youth who has bees
Ire thao two yarn in onion."

. -
HEALTH OF THE DOLE OF Angora—We (Eden.
burgh Courant) regret to hear that the health of his Orson
the Duke of Atholl is still declioiog. He sleep very
little, sod suffer* from depression of spirits, caused by his
severe physical sufferinp sod the progress of the disease.
THE LATE SIR U. C. Luvutt.—The committee
appointed at the Hereford meaty 'nesting for raising a
memorial to the late Sir 0. C. Lewis have decided that it
shall 111181/010 the form of a statue in bronze of the right boo.
gentlemvo, to be plead is frost of the Stittehell at Here-
ford. The work is to be imitated to iron Iderochetti,
who has uederteara its ezecutsoe for the arm of 1,0001.
ETONIAN DINNER AT OXFORD. —The annual
dinner of the resident members of the University of Oxford
Aerated at Eton College took plum in the Town-ball re
Tuesday ereniog lest. sod was attended by upwards of 120
Old &mhos. Mr. Barton. of Christ Church, osonpted the
nhair, awl among the cora:any were the Doke of Hemiltoo,
I Lord Willoughby de Broke, Lord Harrington, Vioeonat
Doman, he.
Ti. DHARTERBOVEZ. •••At an ameembly of the
Governors of the Charterboose held yesterday at the
Master's-lodge. the Arehbiebop of York and Lord Chelms-
ford were o.loted governors. sad the Rev. W. Haig Brows
heed master of Kensington School. waselected head mate;
of Charterbonsedchool.

A TOLERANT BOROLION.—Mr. Doridant, of the
Farina, Hotel, Folkestone, was on Monday last duly elected
Mayor of Folkestone. Folkestone has now the peculiar dig-
tinctio• of being represented by a Roman catholic in her
De wish church by a Jew in parliament, end by •
7°re:ttnee ma chief magistrate.
Ma. Ex-Corm:l. Parrimaao. —Thin gentleman
writes to ceetradict the statement of his death which WY
made by the Freer knurls. He says :—.•• I have been is
England six years. I hue long been the travelling seem
buy for the Home and School at Blackheath for the eons
and °rebel's of missionaries. The schooner Aerie sailed
from the Fiji group on the lat of January, bound for the
Navigators' Maeda. There were 10 pusengers on board.
Amoy( them were Captain Gardner, Americas Ousel for
Samoa, and his lady ; aro Mir Pritchard, my daughter,
who wee bringing to this °retry the two daughters of her
brother, Mr. William T. Pritchard, who succeeded me in
the consulship. On the 11th of the same month they were
overtaken by • most tremendous hurricane. in which the
vessel was wrecked and all board perished. My son was not
se the schooner."