The Sun.
London, England, 1864-11-04 00:00:00

WESTMINSTER.

DISGRACEFUL BRUTALITY.—George Martin, a roan
about 40 years of age, was charged with the following dis-
graceful brutality to his wife.

Jane Martin, a comely looking woman, about the same
age as tho defendant, said she lived at 10 New-street,
Brompton, and had to complain of the most sericus ill-
treatment from her husband. He attacked her last night
between 12 and 4 o'clock. She was in bad at the time it
commenced, and when her husband came home he dragged
her out of bed by the hair of the head (she produced a great
quantity of hair torn from her head), and then beat her
about for a length of time, and assaulted her very violently.
Mr Selfe—Did you give him any provocation?
Complainant—Not the slightest. I was in bed asleep
when he came home, and we had no words.

Mr Selfe—How long have you been married to him ?
Complainant—Five years. I was a widow when he
married me and had children.

Mr Selfe—ls your husband in the habit of illusing you ?
Complainant—Very often and very brutally. lam now
in the ramilyway, and if anything unfortunate should occur
through this it will be the third time that I have miscar-
ried through his violence.
Defendant—l bought coals, and potatoes, and other
things, and took them home for sale, and they let some of
them spoil.

Willi m Bevan, 326 B, said he was called to the house
between 3 and 4 o'clock this morning. He went into the
room occupied by defendant, and found that the com-
plainant had fainted. She appeared in a very bad state,
and gave him into custody.
A lodger in the house confirmed the account of defen-
dant's brutality, IA hich had been going on some time.
Mr Selfe (to defendant)—You are a great brute, and it is
quite clear this is not a solitary instance of your being so.
You aro committed for three months to hard labour, and
will find bail for three months afterwards.

MARKETS—This Day.

MARK-LANE.

The arrivals of English wheat fresh up to our market
to-day were very moderate. There was no activity in the
trade, however, either as regards Essex or Kent produce,
yet prices exhibited no change from Monday.
With foreign wheat the market was well supplied. The
amount of business transacted was very moderate, at about
previous rates. This week's import is large.
Floating cargos of grain moved off slowly, at late rates.
The supply of barley on sale was moderate. Fine
malting descriptions were firm in price; otherwise the
trade was dull.

The malt trade was heavy, and prices had a downward
tendency.

The market was well supplied with oats, in which a fair
business was transacted, at full quotations.
Beans and peas were dull, and prices ruled, in some in-
stances, the turn easier.
The flour trade was quiet, at late rates.
ARRIVALS THIS WERE.
Wheat. Barley. Malt. Oats. Flour.
English .. 870 910 760 580 560
Irish ... . 2.000
Foreign 31,520 100 39,910 100 sks
brls

NEWGATE AND LEADENHALL.
The supply of meat on sale here is very moderate, and
the trade rules firm, on higher terms.
Per Sib. by the carcase.
sclad
Inferior beef .. 3 0 3 4
Middling do. .. 3 6 3 10
Prime largo do. 4 0 4 2
Do. small do. .. 4 4 4 6
Large pork .... 3 6 4 0
Inferior mutton. 3 10 4 2

a dsd
Middling mutton 4 4 4 9
Prime do .. 4 8 4 10
Veal.
Small pork 4 2 4 10
Lamb

BOROUGH HOP.

The supply of hops on sale is moderately large. In most
descriptions a steady business is doing, and previous quota-
tions are still supported. The market is but moderatel3
supplied with foreign produce.

per cwt.
New Mid and Emit Kent
New Weald of Kent
New Suss©x

Naval and Military Intelligence.

The Austrian screw steam frigate Radetzky, 31, Capt.
Eugene Bary, from the North, bound to Cadiz, put into
Plymouth Sound on Tuesday for coal.
The iron-co sod screw steamship Prince Consort, 35, Capt.
George 0. Willes, C. 8., will probably continue in the Sound
until the repairs of either the Defence or the Black Prince
are completed.

The Victoria, screw three decker, was commissioned yes-
terday at Portsmouth for flag duty in the Mediterranean.
The Warrior, 40, iron frigate, ()apt. Cochrane, C. 8.,
stormed into Portsmouth harbour yesterday from Spithead,
and was made fast alongside the dockyard to dismantle,
preparatory to being paid out of commission.

The Vulcan, screw troopship; Capt. A. Strode, was paid
out of commission yesterday at Portsmouth, after a commis-
sion of five years and four months. She had a very good
sbip's company, and has done very excellent service under
Capt. Strode's command.
General Todleben arrived at Portsmouth from London
en Wednesday eveuing, on a visit to 11.15. j Jr-General Lord
W, Paulet, C. 13., at the Government•house, Yesterday
the General, accompanied by Lord W. Paulet, visited part
of the immense series of defensive lines which are being
constricted round Portsmouth.

. Philip Button Jones has been appointed a Sub-Lieut. in
the Royal Naval Reserve.

Alleged Murder of a Newly-married Woman.

Yesterday evening Mr John Humphrer, Middlesex
coroner, held a protracted inquiry at the Wellington Tavern,
Cannon-street-road, respecting the death of Mrs. Eliz
Roche, aged 45 years, who was alleged to have been poisoned
four weeks after marriage.
Owing to the singular circumstances attending the death
and the attempted burial of the deceased without compliance
with the proper forms, the case excited great interest in the
neighbourhood. It may be mentioned that the deceased
was an Englishwoman, and that in September last she em-
braced the Roman Catholic faith in order to get married to
an Irishman named Patrick Roche, whose age was variously
stated to be 70 or 56 years, but who was in very independent
circumstances.

The first witness was
J. Smith, engine-driver, residing at No. 3, King-street,
St. George's-in-the-East. He said that he was the brother
of the deceased. She was married about four weeks before
her death to Patrick Roche, and up to that time she was
healthy. She had been a Protestant until within some days
of the marriage, and she had then turned Catholic in order
that the migkt marry Roche. Witness saw her on Satur-
day, the 22d of October. She was then vomiting blood
in great quantities, She died on Wednesday, the 26th of
October. Dr Arnold was in attendance on her.

Coroner—During the three days the was ill, did she tel
you that she had been poisoned P

Witness said she did not; but she said that her mouth
had become sore just previously, and that Dr Belcher had
seated that it looked like the result of poison. After her
death witness went to the registrar, and said he believed his
sister had died by unfair means, and notice was sent to the
coroner of the fact. Deceased and her husband had lived
happily together.
Mr Thomas Overton said that he was the coroner's
officer for that district. From the information cf the rela-
tives of the deceased he went to Mr Roche's house in
King-street on the 30th October. He saw the face of the
deceased covered with blood. He told Roche what the
obligations of the relatives were, and forbade the burial.
Roche replied, " I will bury her in spite of them, or the
coroner, or any one else." Witness then went to the under-
taker, Mr Burridge, and told him the same, Burridge said
he would lose money if he did not do the thing as ordered,
The body of deceased was then carried t• Low Leyton, but
the minister refused to bury it there, as there was no certi-
ficate, and the body was left in the chapel until it was brought
back by a coroner's warrant,

Dr Belcher said that he had made a post-mortem exami-
nation of the body of the deceased, and had removed the
stomach, &0., for analysis.

The Coroner directed that the viscera of the deceased
should be sent to Professor Letheby for chemical analysis.
The case was one that required a rigorous investigation.
The court then adjourned.

The Franco-Prussian Tariff and Trade Marks,

A circular has been addressed by the Sheffield Chamber
of Commerce to the President and Standing Committee of
the Association of Chambers of Commerce of the United
Kingdom, upon this subject. The circular states :—" I beg
to subjoin a copy of a resolution of this Council, passed at
a meeting held on the 26th ult.:--'That the Council enter
their strongest protest against the proviso annexed to Art,
28 of the Franco-Prussian treaty with reference to trade
marks. The effect of that clause is to exclude from inter-
national protection all trade marks which have heretofore
existed in this country, and which alone are valuable, and
to give protection only to those marks which are newly
created and consequently of little or no value. The clause
in question will legalise the vat system of fraud, of which
Bri ish manufacturers have long complained, by which the
best English names aro affixed by German makers to worth-
less articles, and sold in great quantities in distant markets
Its genuine manufactures. All reductions in the tariff will
be worthless if they have to be purchased by the transfer
by treaty of all our valuable trade markets to German mer-
chants and manufacturers. Moreover, the advantages re-
sulting from the reduction of duties iu the tariff will be
confined to ;the Zollverein and this country, whereas the
injury arising from the imitation of British trade marks
will extend to every country with which we have com-
mercial relation. The council therefore instruct their secre-
tary to communicate with the Association of Chambers
of Commerce of the United Kingdom, in order that the
chairman and other officers of the association, accompanied
by a deputation from this council, may wait upon Earl Rus-
sell, and respectfully urge upon his lordship on no account
to sanction the incorporation [into the treaty withEngland]
of a clause so injurious to British manufacturers, and so
manifestly repugnant to all honest and fair dealing.' The
council feel that this is emphatically a case for the associa-
tion to take up, and they will doubtless feel it their duty to
do so. It seems to us to be imperatively necessary that as
strong a deputation as can be got together should re-
present to Lord Russell the fatal consequences to the manu-
facturing industry of this country of his sanctioning any
treaty containing such a clause as the one above set forth.
The council will be happy to concur in any appointment
which may be made,' and will also endeavour to procure the
attendance of the borough members."