The Sun.
London, England, 1864-10-28 00:00:00

HULL

The coming Parliamentary election for Hull attracts
considerable attention. The presence of Mr, Clay in
the borough for so many days, and his attention to the
electors, naturally tends to promote specalation as to coming
events. Mr Somes, too, was here last week, and was pre.
sent at the opening of the new Rifle Volunteer Barracks,
and also at the launching of three new vessels from the
shipbuilding yard of the Humber Iron Works and Ship.
building Company, in which he holds a large pecuniary
stake. An address to the electors from Mr Joseph Hoare,
renewing his pledge to contest the representation, has been
issued. It is currently reported that Mr Chas Norwood, a
well-known and influential merchant in the town, will be
brought forward as the second liberal candidate. Alto.
gether a contested election appears certain—Eastern Morn •
ing News.

The Career of the Swindling Pretended

litiress.

The following particulars relating to the history of Miss
Mary Horsfall, the pretended heiress, who was committed
for trial from the Greenwich Police-court on Wednesday,
will be read with interest. Her mother is a person in
humble life, residing in Leeds, the name given by the
prisoner being correct. About two years since she was
barmaid at two different hotels in that town, but at
neither of which does she appear to have remained any
very lengthened time. Her next position in the world
was that of chambermaid at a first• class hotel which
had then just been opened in Leeds, but her conduct
here was such that she was dismissed from that situa-
tion bctore the expiration of the first week, She was
next heard of as the heiress of a rich uncle, and in
the early part,of last year ehe obtained apartments at a
temperance Lotel of great respectability in Leeds. Here
commenced her c treer, and jewellers, dressmakers, and
nearly every description of tradespeople became her victims,
her representation to the proprietor of the hotel being that
her uncle, who resided in London, was prosecuting a suit
in the Divorce Court to annul her marriage, she having
separated from her husband on account of his ill-treatment.
Upon pretence that her presence in London was necessary
in the above proceedings, she left Leeds; but on returning
the story promulgated by her was that the suit in the
Divorce Court was at an end, her husband having sud-
denly expired. Her income, she gave out, was derived
from the " Ripol estate," but which in reality consisted
in the money obtained from different pawnbrokers by
pledging ' the goods she had succeeded in obtain-
ing from a tradesman. Here she became acquainted with a
commercial traveller of good family, and residing at Bir-
mingham, an acquaintance which led to an offer of mar.
Hags, and a house was taken in anticipation of this event
coming off, one tradesman alone being induced by her to
part with furniture valued at £3OO. Her real character
here began to be discerned, at least by one female who had
been admitted as an acquaintance and a friend ; and this
suspicion having been communicated to the gentleman and
his family at Bmningham, the marriage engagement came
to an end in the m^nth of June of the present year, when
she thought it prudent to absent herselt from Leeds. Two
months afterwards, as has been shown in the evidence
taken at the Greenwich Police Court, she succeeded in com-
mencing another career of swindling, and also felony, in
the metropolis.

FATAL DUEL.—A letter from Berlin in the Pre-
curseur of Antwerp relates the subjoined:—Count de
Fuerstenberg S.ammheim has just fought a duel with M.
de Hochwaechter near Vaes, on the Dutch territory, when
the latter was mortally wounded. The following are some
details of the affair :—Some years ago there lived at
Deutz, near Cologne, a M.ijor M—, who had two very
beautiful daughters. The count, who possessed a very
large fortune, was a constant visitor at the house. Somo
time after M. de Hochwaechter, brother of the deceased,
and first equerry to the count, married one of the daugh-
ters, and the count gave the young couple one of his cha-
teaux as a place of residence, furnishing it with great ele-
gance. The honeymoon had, however, scarcely passed
when Count de Fuel stenberg received from his equerry a let•
ter, in which the writer stated that his wife had confessed to
him that before her marriage she had had intimate relations
with the count. The equerry loaded the latter with re-
proaches, and concluded by asking him what remained for
him to do undersuch circumstances. The count, who had just
married a Princess d'A—, showed the letter to his wife
and to one of his friends, Count de Hompesch, and protested
his innocence. That gentleman was of opinion that the affair
was an attempt to extort money, and that no notice ought
to be taken of it. The matter, however, became known, and
the nobility of the province was convoked as a Council of
Honour. Their decision was in accordance with the advice of
the Count de Hompesch. M. de Hochwaechter, some time
after, meeting that gentleman near the railway station at Co-
logne, assaulted him with a whip. He was brought before the
Correctional Tribunal for the offence, but acquitted. In the
meantime Major M—, in consequence of proceedings
taken by the body of °facers at Cologne and the rumours
which accused him of a guilty connivance in the affair, was
obliged to resign his commission. Madame de Hochwaech-
ter, after attempting to commit suicide, declared to a Ca-
tholic priest that she did not know how her husband had
been able to extort from her an avowal which was com-
pletely false. A civil action was afterwards brought by M.
de Hochwaechter against Count do Fuerstenberg, who had
dismissed him, notwithstanding a written engagement for
a certain number of years. As, however, the count firmly
refused to give him any satisfaction, the brother of M. de
Hochwaechter decided on publicly insulting the count,
The latter was obliged to meet the brother, and the affair
proved fatal to the brother."

HORRIBLE OUTRAGE AND MURDER BY A
MOTHER.—Yesterday the wife of 'a labouring man
named Dawson, residing- in Wellington-road, Liverpool,
during a fit of mental aberration killed ono of her children
(a girl one year and 10 months Gld), by cutting its threat
with a large table knife. She then eeiz•..d another and elder
child, and would have destroyed it had not its screams
aroused the attention and interference of the neighbours.
Tho wretched woman seized a third child, but being pro.
vented while in the act of attempting to cut its throat,
she inflicted a very severe wound upon her own neck and
throat, which, had not plaster and other healing means
been promptly applied, might bavo proved fatal. She
was Ulm removed to the main bridewell, where in her
rage and madness she torn off the plasters from her throat,
and caused a violent hemorrhage. She is still in a critical
condition. It appears that she has not been long liberated
from a lunatic asylum.

Liotz has kit Paris, after leaving in the hands o'
Prince Poniatowski the score of a grand mass composed
wino years ago for a cathedral in Hungary, and which will
probably be brought out this winter at the concerts ovganis-
log by DI, Ftiliciea David,