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

SPECIAL NOTICE,

THE BOOKS OF THE
NORTH BRITISH AND MERCANTILE
INSURANCE COMPANY,
For the Year 1863, close on 3lst December.
Life Policies effected on or before that date will rank for an
additional Year's Bonus in comparison to later entrants.

During' the Four Years preceding last Division of
Pi-ofits (1858), the Company Issued 1,595 Life
Policies, assuring .............. During; the Four suc?eeding Years the number 0fX1,221,608
SLite Polices issued amounted to 3,168, and the
ums assured to .................. .£2,22 ,572
BEING AN INCREASE OP 82 PER CENT.

The SIXTH SEPTENNIAL bIVISION of the COM-
PANY'S PROFITS will take
place on 31at December, 1F65.
THE WHOLE PROFITS WHICH HAVE ACCUMU-
LATED SINCE aisT 13ECEMBER, 1858, WILL THEN
__ARP DlWup„,kagu NINETY PER CENT. ALLOCATED
WITON SCALE. HE ASSURED ON THE PARTICIPATING

CERTIFICATES of INDISPUTABILITY granted,
and every facility offered to I.eurers.

FIRE DEPARTMENT.
Insuran-es granted both at Home and Abroad on the most
liberal terms.
Forms of Proposal and every information will be given at
the Head °Mee, or any of the Company's Agents.

By order.

London, November, 1863.
HEAD OFFICER;
58, Threadneedle-street.
4, New Bank Buildings. Lothbury.
West-end Office B, Waterloo-place, Pall-mall.
.e.brNnußc a, Princes-street.
•

F. W. LANCE, Secretary.

LIFEBOAT SERVICES.
heavy the recent
heavy. gales some of the boats of the National Lifeboat
Institution saved 67 persons from different wrecks. The
Committee ot public forthe Institution earnest'y AP
PEAL to the
timed ASSIsTAN,E to enable Them to meet the con-
heavy demands on the Institution's 125 liieb ,at estab-
lishments. Contributions are received by all the Loncon
at
and country Institution, ers ;
bank and by the Secretary Richard Lewis,
the 14, John-street, Adelphi,' W.C.

V. R.
A CATALOGUE of Anchors, Boats, Metal, Iron,
4-1 Steel, Lead, Zinc and Lead, Ashes, Files, Tools,
.canvas, Serge Cuttings, Wool, Horse Shoes, Leather, &c.,
-Lathes, Hay, Gutta Percha Solution, Hair, Junk, Harness,
Refuse Wood, Wheels, Waggons, ke. Arc- Mr. GEORGE
I'ILL'AIAN will SELL by PUBLIC AUCTION at the
InoYal Arsenal, Woolwich, by order of the Secretary of State
'or War, on xi
thc, I ONDAY, 7th December, 1863, at 11 o'clock in
- orenoon prec.sely.
from
The lots may be viewed at the Royal Arsenal, Wcolwich,
v io to 1 o'clock, and from 2to 5 o'clock, on the three
~„(Lrting days previous to, and on the morning of, the day of
i';..; and catalowues may be obtained at the War-otlice, Pall
'au; at the Tower ; and at the Royal Arsenal, Woolwich.
......_____

tiAURELS.—For SALE. several Thoußands of
thewell-grown and thriving LAUREL PLANTS, from
t° three feet high, delivered at the Tisbury Stittfon on
) London and South-Western Railway, in quantities not
thousands One Thousand, at Tweniy-five Shillings per
.
APPIy to Mr. Jeffery, Old Wardour Castle, Salisbury.

ALLGERIAN ONYX MARBLE. Messrs.
ON-V15.:1.L, JAMES, and CO., respectfully solicit an.
901'7,11;)% of their Onyx Salon, which contains upwards ot
Jap.,C-'?tleCts, consisting of Clock., Candelabra, Lamps,Vas.-s,
grifluleres, Inkstands, Yen-trays, and a variety of smaller
rne
.'O.B of taste, at moderate prices.
%Lille beautiful marble is perfectly translucent, bears a very
ru: Polish, presents a diversity of pleasing tints, and can be
or Tied or chiselled into any form necessary for utility or
114nlent,-5, 7,9,
Regent-street, Pall-mall.

NTILE BENEFACTOR OF THE SKIN.
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and at alt chemists. Prospectuses and testimonials sent
PPlication.

GREAT-- '-"DRA.WING OF s PRIZES
WILL TARE PLACE AT
8f JOSEPH'S RETREAT, HIGHGATE, LONDON, N.,
On THURSDAY, the 26th of NOVEMBER, 1863, to aid in
liquidatino• the Debt still remaining on the New Church and
; and to assist in establishing the English Mission of
St. Nicholas in Paris, now under the charge of the Passionist
Prattlers.
The prizes of the first cataloidue consist principally of
dobjects of art and other precious articles, presented by His
Holiness, several Cardinals, Princes, and other persons of
distinction in Rome.
TICKETS ONE SHILLING EACH.
The amount realised will be disposed of as follows :—That
arising from the sale of tickets in England will be applied to
St. Joseph's, and that from the sale of tickets in France to
St. Nicholas', in Paris.
THE DRAWING OF PRIZES WILL BE ON THE
PRINCIPL OF THE ART UNION.
Any one purchasing or aiding in selling 25 tickets will be
entitled to a large Engraving, either of the Death of St.
Joseph, or of Blessed Paul of the Cross, which will be
forwarded by post upon receipt of 4 postage stamps
St.
Catalop.."ies as well as tickets may be had on application at
Joseph's Retreat, Highgate, and at 39, Rue de Berri, Paris,

PRIZE MED AL.-INTERNATIONAL
EXHIBITION, 1862.
FRANCIS TUCKER dr CO., Wax Chandlers, Acc.,
To the Queen and the Prince of Wales.
(Established 17?0.)
The Jurors' Report on Wax and Church Candles, in 1862,
testifies to :he excellence of the quality of Messrs. Tuckers'
Manufacture.
A distinguished Dignitary, in a letter addressed to Francis
'Tucker and Co., on the subject of
WAX CANDLES with PLATTED WICKS,
says :
" I have found them fully equal to the recommendation
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Finest quality, with Platted Wicks, patented.. 2s. 2d. per lb
Ordinary quality .. • • • • .. od. per lb.
VEGETABLE CANDLES, with a Mixture of Wax.
ilest quality . • • • • .. Is. sd. per lb.
Third quality
Second quality •
.. • • .. is. 3d. per lb.
.. • • .. Is. Id. per lb.
Carriage paid in London on Orders of Five Pounds in value.
FRANCIS TUCKER AND CO.,
8, South Molton-street, Grosvenor-square. Manufactory—
Kensington (Established 1730).
The largest Establishment in England for the Manufacture
of Wax Candles for the use of the Altar.

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LETTERS PATENT.
WHITE'S MOC-MAIN LEVER
V (PERFECTED AND EXIIIRITED TRUSS
so otten hurtful in its effects,
XRIBITIONS OF 1851 AND 1862), i, au IN TRE GREAT
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The use of a steel spring,
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y post, on the air-
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and
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A Single Truss, 165., 215., 265. 6d., and 31s. 6d. Postage, 1.8.
A Double Truss 31s. als Bd,
An Umbilical Truss, 425. and 528. 6d. Postage, ls. 10d.
Post-office Orders to be made payable te Jobal Mite, Post.
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During the Concerts given by Mons. JULLIEN, at Her
Majesty's Theatre, the BALL will commence EVERY
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Doors open at 8 o'clock.
Admission, i s.

Manager—M. G-ntrzzT,

MR. A. B. HOLLINGSWORTH,
COMIC VOCALIST.
SUBSCRIPTIONS RECEIVED at the OFFICE of THIS
PAPER for the above artist, suddenly afflicted with Blind-
ness, and, in his helplessness, having a wife and child de-
pendant on him.

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aaidi
in the immediate vicinity of
way Terminus, at King's-cross.
Patron—The QUEEN.
President—The Duke of BUCCLEUCII,
Treasurer—Edward Masterman, Esq.
This was the first hospital to introduce the principle of free
and instant admission to the destitute sick, without the for-
mality of governors' letters. It is entirely devoted to desti-
tution in its most pitiable form—viz., that which is accom-
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magnitude that, with adequate support, it may be rendered
capable of admitting into its wards a very large proportion of
the casual sick of this great metropolis. It requires but the
funds in order to have 500 beds available for the reception of
these the most wretched of our fellow-creatures. Moreover,
it gratuitously affords medical advice and medicine to more,
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The Weekly Board feel it their imperative duty to make an
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to enable them to admit and relieve the distressing cases that
daily present themselves.
Contributions are received by the Treasurer, Edward
Masterman, Esq. Nicholas-lane; also by Messrs. Coutts and
Co. ; Drummond and Co. ; Herries and Co. ; Ransom and
Co. ; Prescott, Grote, and Co. ; Smith, Payne, and Co. ; Giyn
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sad at the Rospital.
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side.

VALETTA, Nov, 16 :—Her Majesty's ship Queen,
76, Capt. C. F. Hillyar, left Malta on the 12thinst.
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 today 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 Piraeus, 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 fo-
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 aro 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.
Haasensteiu, 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.
r3ommodore Thomas Harvey is to have the cap-
tain's good service pension, pined 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 M'Carthy, assist.-surg.
to the Rifleman; Charles Tucker, chief engineer, to
th 9 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 Highflyer ; Thomas W. Moore and
Edward B. Cornish, assist.-paymasters, to the Con-
'
queror ; Edmund G. Ellis, clerk to the Royal
Adelaide; and Thomas Evatt,
assisteclerk, to the
Conqueror.

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS—Nov. 21.

(Before the Assistant-Judge.)

The Court sat this day at the Guildhall, Westminster,
for the purpose of hearing rate appeals. The appeals en-
tered for hearing were as follows :—The United Kingdom
Electric Telegraph Company, against a poor rate of the
township of Uxbridge; the Great Central Gas Consumers'
Company, against a poor rate of St Mary, Whitechapel;
the Metropolitan Railway Company, against a poor rate of
the parish of Marylebone, dated April, 1863 ; and another
appeal by the same company against a poor rate of the
parish of St Sepulchre, for the year 1863,
After a short discussion, the rating of the United King-
dom Electric Telegraph Company in respect of their station
at Uxbridge was confirmed,
THE GREAT CENTRAL GAS CONSUMERS' COMPANY, APPEL-
LANTS; THE rARISH OP WHITECHAPEL, RESPONDENTS.
Mr. Clarke appeared for the appellants ; Mr. Metcalfe for
the respondents.
Mr. Clarke said this was an appeal against a rate made
by the overseers of the parish of St Mary, Whitechapel, on
the mains only of the Great Central Gas Consumers' Com-
pany laid down through that parish from the works at Bow-
common to the City of London,where the gas was consumed
The actual expenditure was aboutLB,ooo, and the company
urged that they ought only to be called upon to pay 4 per
cent., which would be £320,
Mr. Metcalfe having addressed the Court for the parish,
called

Mr. Lee, who proved that a contractor would require 6
per cent. on the outlay, and that there ought to be £l5O in
respect of land, making a total of £530.
The Assistant-Judge, after conferring with the other
magistrates, reduced the rate to £313, and gave taxed costs
incurred since July.
THE METROPOLITAN RAILWAY COMPANY, APPELLANTS;
THE PARISH OF ST MARYLEBONE, RESPONDENTS.
On this case being called on,
Mr. Keane, on the part of' the parish, took a preliminary
objection to the appeal being
heard. Under a local act of
Parliament, the appellants against a `rate were required to
go before the vestry and state the grounds of their appeal.
In this case the Metropolitan Railway Company merely
stated that they appealed against the rate, but offered no
reasons why they should not pay it. This omission he held
to be fatal, as the appeal was informal, the vestry being
the first tribunal to which the merits of the appeal ought to
have been stated.

Mr. Metcalfe and Mr. Cripps argued that this court was
the proper place where the grounds of the appeal should
be heard—that they had given notice of appeal, and were
now come, with all their witnemes, prepared to go into the
question.

The Assistant-Judge held the objection to be fatal, and
dismissed the appeal.

In the appeal of the Metropolitan Railway Company
against a poor rate of St. Sepulchre, the rate was reduced
from £1,250 to £397, by consent, without costs on either

Mr. Metcalfe appeared for the company, and Mr. Poland
for the parish.

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week ending the 21st November was 3,026, of which 1,104
were new cases.
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It will be recollected that at the adjourned in-
quest held before Dr. Lankester, at St. Mary'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 Heat. A subsequent
perusal of the letters which were placed in the
hands of the Court proves that 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
we. John, and Ann, anti 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 tue 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 Ito do? I wish I knew. I
!aid down last night before he came home, and he had not
got a key to get in with, so he 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 gnt 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 phurphyard for a him and his
woman? Now, would you like that? and then to end the
day they go to the Lyceum to wild 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 bat 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 me.—l remain, your
unhappy sister, M. HUNT.

Tnenext letter bears date June 16, 1863, and

proceeds :

Dear Ilarriett,—l don't think I will be many days before
me and William part, and will you try and come and see
me beforo 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
one three inches lung. Do come to-morrow morning. If I
do not see 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 hopo 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. Se my life is a serious one,
and it makes me very unhappy.—indeed, 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, iu the 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.
Goodbye, 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 bees 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
Caine 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 vory happy to so 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, Angus"
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 fora few minutes,
and
had to cough and sit up and thump myself and groan, but
it went off after some titne, and I said to IV, " What chat
I do? and he said, "Do not alarm yourself ; it will be right
soon."—Keep this.

August 29,

Dear Harriett,--He is just the same. He went on dread-
ful last night, and I said if my life was not more pleasant
we had Utter separate ; and he said, " Yes, we could have
that, but not out of the housa:' Mind, I tell you this ; I
don't think my life is safe with him, and I hare 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
not expect that and the names he called me was such J

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, he 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).
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 killed all the birds this morning (Friday), and I feel
quite unsafe with him. Do come. My thigh is very bad.
I don't know what to do for the best, for my life is quite a
trouble to me through him. Do not destroy this. Do come.
Saturday, Sept., 1863.
Dear Harriett,—I 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 ! There's
not any reason in him, see, in anything I So unhappy
Di 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 em, your unhappy 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
'olio ws, and appears to furtell her death ;

Saturday, October, 1863.

Dear Harriett,—Never let it surprise you 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 know and could see all—a dog
would pity me; but 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 I am 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 jn.nction with the Ha.mmersmith and City Railway
at _Kaaaington, a junctialimith the,
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.