The Sun.
London, England, 1863-11-23 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 23, 1863.

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Naval and Military Intelligence.

THE NAVY.

VALETTA, Nov. 16 :—Her Majesty's ship Queen,
76, Cept. C. F. Hillyar, left Malta on the 12th inst.
for England, to be paid off, having been in commis•
sion since November, 1859, or just four years.
She took with her a large number of naval and
military supernumeraries, women, and children,
and the crew of the late British bark Star of the
North, wrecked on the 13th of October last. The
Supply, 2, iron screw storeship, Master Commander
Bowden, having discharged the stores she brought
out from England, and shipped condemned stores,
is under orders to leave to-day on return to Wool-
wich. The Magicienne, 16, paddlewheel frigate,
Capt. W. Armytage, proceeded to the Piraeus yes-
terday, with the mail for Marseilles for the squad-
ron. She also takes up £6,000 for the use of the
ships, and a large supply of stores and provisions.
The Gibraltar, 81, Capt. Prevost, is also under
orders for Athens, and is expected to leave for that
station to-day or to-morrow. The Foxhound, 4,
gunvessel, , Commander W. H. Anderson, arrived
here on Saturday, the 14th inst., from Greece. A
letter by her from the Pirates, of the 9th inst., con-
tains the following naval news :—Her Majesty's
ship Revenge, 73, bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral
H. R. Yelverton, C. 8., Capt. the Hon. F. A. Foley,
is to remain here for the winter, taking under her
orders the Meeanee, 80, Capt. G. Wodehouse, and
three or four small craft; and the Commander-in-
Chief returns to Malta with the St. George, 86,
Capt. the Hon. F. Egerton, and the Trafalgar, 70,
Capt. T. Mason. The Foxhound, 4, Commander
W. H. Anderson, leaves to-day or to-morrow morn-
ing for Malta, with a mail. The marines and French
seamen are to be withdrawn from the Bank to-mor-
row, to relieve the Liffey, 35, Captain G. Parker,
ordered to the coast of Syria, The Pelican, 17,
Commander Comber, has gone to Beyrout, to relieve
the Cossack, 20, Capt. R. Rolland, ordered to Malta
The ships here are the Marlborough, 121(bearing the
flag of the Vice-Admiral Commander-in-Chief Robt.
Smart, K.H.) Captain C. Fellowes, the Revenge,
Trafalgar, Chanticleer, Trident, Foxhound, and
Boxer (gunboat); in Salamis Bay, the St. George,
Meeanee, and Orlando, besides the following fa-
reign ships :—French—Algesiras, liner (flag), Ma-
gicienne (flag of the Commander-in-Chief), and two
small craft ; Austrian—two frigates and a gunboat ;
Prussian—two gunboats ; Italian—two steam
sloops; Russian—one frigate and one sloop; Tur-
kish—one sloop; also two Greek vessels. All the
foreign ships are lying in the Piraeus, with the ex-
ception of the Russian frigate, which is anchored
at Salamis. The Foxhound left the Piraeus at noon
on the 10th inst. Before her departure the Or-
lando had left for Corfu, and the despatch vessel
Psyche, 2, Lieut.-Commander Sterne, had arrived
from Malta with despatches for the Commander•in-
Chief and a mail for the squadron.
The Prussian corvette Mosquito, 14, Capt.
Haasenstein, which left Plymouth suddenly on
Monday last with the Niobe and Rover for Dant-
sic, put back on Friday afternoon to the Sound
where she will await further instructions from the
Prussian Marine Department. The corvette had
proceeded as far as Deal.
Ciommodore Thomas Harvey is to have the cap-
tain's good service pension, placed at the disposal
of the First Lord of the Admiralty by the promo.
tion of Capt. Buckle, C. 8., to flag rank.
The following appointments have been made at
the Admiralty :—Lieut. Herbert C. A. Brand, to
the Defence; Thomas Burnett, engineer, to the
Fisgard for the Ranger ; W. H. •Clarke, assist.-
surg , to the Aurora ; Denis Wearthy, assist.-surg.
to the Rifleman; Charles Tucker, chief engineer, to
the Aurora ; J. Rice, engineer, to the Indus, for the
Delight; J. L. Davies, engineer, to the Aurora ;
Edward Carling and J. Forster, assist-engineers, to
Aurora; Lieut. Karl H. A. Mainwaring, Lieut.
Conrad A. Watts., and Lieut. Henry J. Farlie to the
Conqueror; the Rev. E. M. Johnstone, chaplain to
the Liverpool; John Hay (a), paymaster, to the
Conqueror; John Robson, chief engineer to the
Phoebe; Benjamin F. Pine, chief engineer to the
Asia, for the Highliyer ; Thomas W. Moore and
Edward B. Cornish, assist.-paymasters, to the Con-
queror ; Edmund G. Ellis, clerk to the Royal
Adelaide; and Thomas Evatt, assist.•clerk, to the
Conqueror.

The Late Triple Cab Murder,

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It will be recollected that at the adjourned in-
quest held before Dr. Lankester, at St. Mury's
Hospital, on the bodies of Mrs, Hunt and her two
children, when Harriett Blake, the unmarried sister
of the former, was called up to give evidence, she
handed to the coroner a packet of letters which she
had received during the previous 12 months from
the murdered woman. The coroner at the time
thought it was unnecessary to read them, but said
they might be reserved in case it was felt desirable
in the course of the inquiry that they should be
referred to. This was not done, and the jury re-
corded their verdict of " Wilful murder" against
the suicide Samuel William Hunt. A subsequent
perusal of the letters which were placed in the
hands of the Court proves elicit had they been read
a greater amount of light would have been thrown
by them upon the tragical event and the circum-
stances which led to it than almost all the evidence
produced. They are now subjoined, and a perusal
of them will not only deepen the interest felt in
this horrible murder, but prove beyond a doubt
that from the commencement of the year down
almost to the period of the murder the unfortunate
woman had feared that such would be the end of
her career, in consequence of the repeated threats
and brutal violence of her worthless husband. That
some such suspicion was ever present to the poor
creature's mind is evident, as, in addition to her
statements as to Hunt's attempts to poison her, she
almost invariably concludes with an injunction to
her sister to keep her letters. The first letter, en-
closed in an envelope, bearing the most-mark the
23d of January, 1863, is addressed (as they all .are)
to " Miss H, Blake, 124, St. John-street, Smith-
field, City," and is as follows:—
Friday, January. 1863.
Dear Harriett—l am very unhappy, and sorry to hear
you are' the same. Been such a dreadful row. I don't know
what I shall do. Don't come. He said this morning he
shall come and see all our relations to-night, and ask them
all to our house, and then they should see how he treated
me. John, and Ann, and all should come to-night. So
don't, I pray you, any of you come. So unhappy. He
calls me such names, and wished last night a dreadful
wish, and then said, "If he chose to kill sue he could do it
in such a manner he would not be found out; he could
melt me to nothing, all but my hair." So don't come, if
he comes to ask any of you. I pray don't. What shall I
do ?—and don't you say much to him, for my sake. I
hope I shall see you some time or other. Good-bye. In
haste.

P.S.—Don't let him think you know anything. He
don't know I have sent this letter, mind.

The next bears the postmark Feb. 27, and runs
thus :

Friday, February.

Dear Harriett,--What am Itodo ? I wish I knew. I
laid down last night before he came home, and he had not
got a key to get in with, so ho had to get in at the window,
and I did not hear him. Of course there was a row. He
beat my head with both his hands just like a ball. I have
got a black eye this morning. lam not to eat, drink, nor
sleep with him again. I cannot be more unhappy than
now, I don't think. if you get this in time come over to-
night; if not come over to-morrow morning. If you can
come to-night I shall like it.—l remain your unhappy sister,
M. HUNT.
Ann-cottage, Wellington-road, Coal-harbour-lane,
Camberwell, March 11,

Dear Harriett,—My life has come to such a dreadful
thing now I cannot tell what will become of me. Last week
he was out two days and one night. Yesterday he came
home at a quarter to 2 in the afternoon, and then our house
was a very dreadful scene. I have gat my shoulder cut open
—in fact, lam bruised from head to foot,. He broke a dish
by throwing at me, but I made an escape by holding down
my head, and then it went through the window. After that
he knocked me down and kicked me in a most fearful man-
ner. I have got bruises all over me, and the second black
eye in ten days. Now, suppose you were a wife, would you
like your husband to come and tell you he had paid £1 ls.
for seats in St. Martin's Churchyard for him and his
woman ? Now, would you like that ? and then to end the
day the) go to the Lyceum to wind up. Now, you must
think it a very good life I lead here. lam in such a fix I
don't know what to do. I don't sleep with him. I wish I
was anywhere but where I write this letter now. Do come
to-morrow night by 5 o'clock. If Ido not see you I must
see some one who will take pity on we.—l remain, your
unhappy sister, M. HUNT.
The next letter bears date June 16, 1863, and
proceeds :
Dear Harriett,—l don't think I will be many days before
me and William part, and will you try and come and see
me before we do ?—to-morrow, soon, in the morning. Do
come, pray; lam quite broken-hearted. I have plenty of
faults, I know, but God knows what I am, and now I am
in such a state with blows I can scarcely move. I have got
ine three inches long. Do come to-morrow morning. If I
do not sea you to-morrow I will write to you where I go
to.—l remain your unhappy sister,
P,S —Pray come. M. HUNT.
July 23, 1863.
Dear Harriett,—l hope you got home before the rain
came on. I met William in the Westminster-road, and of
course he don't like the last bonnet I made. You remember
the one I had on, I dare say—the one I had on Monday—
so of course he began to quarrel with me and walk some dis-
tance beyond me, so I had to walk very fast to keep up to
him, and when he got home he said if he had got home be.
fore I did he should have broken the street door open, and
then he went on talking, and got in such a rage that I
thought I should not have been alive this morning to do
this. First of all he jumped up from his tea and took up a
knife and thrust it at me, and said he would kill me if I
spoke a word to him; and I said I must say what I think;
so then he took up a chair and threw it at me. It fell upon
my thigh, and this morning I have got a bruise the size of
the middle of my hand. So my life is a serious one,
and it makes me very unhappy—indecd, I am now all of
a tremble when I think how will it end. He threatens
me if I say I will do anything, so I don't know what
to do. Keep this letter in your possession; do not de-
stroy it. He says lam dissatisfied with everything, but
you know better than that; and he says I am dreadful
wasteful in everything, and that you know to be false-
Mine is a bad life. Perhaps I shall see you over at my house
some time this week, in tho evening. lam very unhappy,
because I have a great deal more to tell you. lam sorry to
have to write such a painful letter to you, but it is not my
fault. _ _

Good•bye, with a heart full of sorry (sorrow), I remain
Your unhappy sister, M. HUNT.
The postmark on the next letter is July 25 :—.

_
Saturday Morning, July —.
Dear Harriett,—We got home at 11 o'clock. He said he
had been out to supper to a Mr. Monday, a friend of his, so
I told him you had come to see me and you waited till after
10. He has injured his left arm in some way ; when he
came he had got it in a sling, so I don't know how that
came—but when he came in the bedroom I said, "Look at
my leg," and he said he wished I had got a dozen more like
it (the bruise, I mean)—so he said, in a very sneering way,
" I suppose you did not tell everyone what I had done ?"
So he says to me, Hold your tongue, I have got an invi-
tation for you,' so I did not make any reply, but kept look-
ing at my leg all the time he kept talking. Do not destroy
this. Good bye.
August 4.
Dear Harriett—l expected you last Friday night, and I
kept the lamp burning until nearly 10 o'clock, and then I
thought you would come on Monday, but I was disap-
pointed. Do you think you can on Wednesday to dinner ?
I shall be veiy happy to see you. Do come. I was so very
ill on Saturday that I was obliged to lie down on my bed all
the morning. I could, not do anything in the shape of work
and you know how that annoys me. He is just the same—
if anything, worse. Never spoke a kind word yet; and my
leg is still very painful to me. Saturday night was a very
sad night for me. I don't think there are any more happy
days for me in store. My life is quite a blank. I have
lived upon hope for some time, and that has nearly died out ;
but I don't know who will be first, hope or myself. I
write with a sad heart to you. Do come on Wednesday to
dinner. Come soon. I have a deal to tell you. Now,
come. Farewell to all for present.—Monday night, August
4. P.S.—Keep this.
Saturday Morning, August.
Dear Harriett,—Dear H., I wrote to you Friday night,
and now Saturday morning. I dare say you will wonder
why, but Friday night while I were in bed I was taken ill
and thought 1 was going to die, for the pain came on at my
heart. I felt I could not breathe for a few minutes, and
had to cough and sit up and thump myself and groan, but
it went off after some time, and I said to Nv, " What shall
I do ? and he said, "Do not alarm yourself ; it will be right
soon."—Keep this.
August 29.

Dear Harriett,--Ile is just the same. He wanton dread-
ful last night, and I said if my life was not more pleasant
we had better separate ; and ho said, " Yea, we could have
that, but not out of the house." Mind, I tell you this ; I
don't think my life is safe with him, and I have thought so
for some time. I must not say a word without I receive a
blow, and that I do not understand. It was a fearful night
last night. He says there is not any law for me, I need
I,Qt expect that and the names he called me was such I

should not like to say. He dared me to take any proceed-
ings against him, but, nevertheless, I don't think I am safe
with him. It's a very sad life, mine. I would sooner be
in the workhouse than remain with such a man ; but what
lamto do I don't know. He has got all my faults by
heart, ho says; of course not any of his own, but I know
his very well. I say good-bye with an aching heart, and
it won't be changed until there is a change in some way.
Keep this (on the top of the last side).
. _

g is very bad.
Friday Morning (no date).
Dear Harriett,—Pray do come over this evening as soon
as you can, for I think William is mad, Pray come, for he
has
quite killedall
wthttehbhirimds. this mooomrne.ingm(yFtrhidiah 37), and I feel
I don't know what to do for the best, for my life is quite a
trouble to me throughhim. Do not destroy this. Do come.
Saturday, Sept., 1863.
unsaafe

Dear Harriett,—l am very ill this morning and very un-
happy. You can ask John what I had better do about the
paper I am to agree to. You heard what he said last night,
that he should not allow me any money to keep me with ;
so ask John if he was me whether he would do that. You
may tell him lam very badly treated. We cannot go on
in the unhappy state we are going on in; there must be
some change one way or other—not a word, not a look is
right. You can say that I ache very much. Tell John to
send word by you on Monday. I shall expect you either to
dinner or in the evening ; do come. If you come in the
evening I shall have something to say to you, but come to
dinner if possible. You heard the dreadful way he talks to
me ; it's quite shocking to bear with. lam very unhappy,
You heard him say, too, if I died he should send me to the
surgeons, and not bury me ;—there's dreadful talk 1 There's
not any reason in him, see, in anything 1 So unhappy I
Do come ; only you to say a word to. Good-bye. With an
aching heart. Keep this. _ _ _

Monday Morning, Sept., 1863.

Dear Harriett,—Will you come and see me soon as you
can this week ? If you do not come Ido not think you will
ever see me again. I have had a very bad eye ; it's just
getting better. I thought I should have lost the sight of
it; it's very weak now. Do come, if it's only for an hour.
I am in great trouble—worse than I ever was. Good-bye.—
I am, your uahappy sister, M. HUNT.

The last letter was written by the unfortunate de-
ceased in October last, only a week or so before her
tragical end ; but the postmark on the envelope,
showing the actual date, is not legible. It was as
follows, and appears to fortell her death ;

Saturday, October, 1863,

Dear Harriett,—Never let it surprise yen 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; bat I knew 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 I do 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 good, as what he wants, he
says, is to see me dead ; then he would laugh, and think
what a good thing to think I am gone from this world.
What will become of me ? I speak the truth when I say I
shall die with a broken heart. We have all our faults,
but I have got more than any one, so he says. I con-
clude with a sad heart, and my eyes so full I can scarcely
see what lam writing to you. I don't think I have a
friend; if I have, they should have seen last night--they
would pity me. This letter is quite wet with my tears.
Keep this.

It will be observed as a remarkable circumstance
that throughout the poor woman never once men-
tions a word about her children.

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE,

METROPOLITAN DISTRICT.

Notice has been given of intended applications to Parlia-
ment to incorporate a company for the purpose of comple-
ting an inner circle of railways within London, north of the
Thames, and also an outer circle round the metropolis, north
and south of the Thames, consisting of 34 railways and
junctions with existing railways. The main outer circle is
proposed to commence at Wandsworth by a junction with
the London, Chatham, and Dover Railway—there to form
a junction with the Crystal Palace line at Clapham—also to
form two junctions with the West London Extension Rail-
way at Battersea—thence to Old Brompton and Notting-
hill, forming three junctions with the West London Rail-
way, a jnnction with the Hammersmith and City Railway
at Kensington, a junction with the Great Western at Pad-
dington, the London and North-Western at Kilburn and
the Edgware-road, the Midland extension by two junctions
at Kilburn-lane, the Hampstead junction near the Finch-
ley-road station, and also a junction with the Midland ex-
tension in Finchley-road, the Hampstead junction at Ken-
tish-town, the Great Northern at Seven Sisters-road, the
Great Eastern near Stamford-hill and its Stratford branch
at Hackney, the North London Railway with two junctions
at Hackney Wick station, the London and Blackwall near
Stratford, the London, Brighton, and South Coast at Old
Kent• road and New-cross station, the South-Eastern at
New-cross. The main inner circle is proposed to commence
at Brompton, thence to Cannon-row, Westminster, to Can-
non-street, city, and the Blackwall Railway, Fenchurch-
street. Power to enable all those companies to subscribe
and make traffic arrangements.