The Sun.
London, England, 1865-05-10 00:00:00

RAILWAY BILLS.

In committees of. the Lords, the Mumbles and the
Waterford and Limerick Bills were withdrawn, and
the New Brunswick and Canada Bill was rejected.
Before the referees, in Court B, in the case of the

North British and Edinburgh and Glasgow (Bridge
of Forth) Bill, the objections of the promoters to the
locus standi of the Scottish Central and others were
not admitted. In group 8, the preamble of the West
Hartlepool, the Cleveland, and the North-Eastern
Amalgamation Bill was proved. In group 10,
the case of the Midland (New Lines, &c.) Bill
was proceeded with. In group 11, the
preamble of the Mold and Denbigh Junction
(Extensions) Bill was proved. In group 12, the
preamble of the Shrewsbury and Potteries Junction
Bill was proved. The East London (Thames
Tunnel) and the Isle of Wight Bills were proved.
The Brading and Yarmouth Bill was rejected.
In the Commons the following unopposed Bills
were referred to the Committee of Ways and Means
—viz., the Sutherland, the Talyllyn, the Moddwy,

the Mid-Wales (Eastern Extension), the Mid-Wales
(Western Extension); and Halesowen and Broms-
grove Branch, the Bishops Castle (Deviations), the
Busby, the Watchet and Minehead, the London
Chatham, and Dover, and the London and South
Western Bills. In group 8, the Clitheroe and West
Riding Junction Bill was rejected. In group 9, the
Barnsley, Ackworth, and Pontefract Bill was with-
drawn. In group 10, the Midland (New Lines, &c.)
and the Lancashire Union Bills were proceeded
with. In group 11, the Hoylake Bill, being unop-
posed, was referred to the general committee. Evi-
dence was taken in the case of the Wrexham and
Minera Bill. In group 12, the North Staffordshire
Bill was proceeded with. In group 14, East Glo-
cestershire and Wiltshire Bill was passed, and the
London, Bucks, and East Glottestershire Bill was
thrown out. In group 17, the preamble of the
Althorpe-on-Trent and Lincoln Bill was proved.
In group 19, the case of the Aberystwith and Welsh
Coast Bill was proceeded with. In group 21, in
the case of the Inverness and Perth Junction and
Inverness and Aberdeen [Junction Amalgamation
Bill, the Committee considered clauses prior to
passing the preamble. In group 23, evidence on
behalf of the promoters of the Greenock (recom-
mitted) Bill was continued.

ATTEMPTED WIFE MURDER AND SUlCME.—Yes-
terday morning, between seven and eight o'clock, a
man, named Moratti, an Italian, carrying on business as
a confectioner, No. 105, Hackney-road, attempted to
murder his wife by cutting her throat, and afterwards
made a desperate attempt to destroy his own life. The
greatest excitement prevailed in the immediate locality in
which the crime was perpetrated. Moratti, it appears,
was married about four months since to an Englishwoman,
both husband and wife being young. The marriage
proved an unhappy one, producing constant quarrels,
leading to the wife absenting herself and refusing to re-
turn to her home. At length, however, Moratti succeeded
in his persuasion, and she again took up her abode with
him. On Monday afternoon they had a serious quarrel,
bringing a number of persons round the door. That
quarrel appears to have continued, for yesterday morn-
ing a son of the bookseller, residing next door, saw Mrs.
Moratti in the cistern. As he left the house he called to
his father, and on the latter going down stairs to render
assistance he met Mrs. Moratti, who had extricated herself
from the cistern, in a state of nudity, and her body covered
with blood, which was flowing from a wound in her throat.
Medical assistance was immediately called in, after which
an Inspector of the N division, accompanied by a constable,
entered the house, with the view of finding Moratti ; and
on proceeding upstairs to the front room they found the
wretched man in a pool of blood on the floor, insensible,
and with his throat frightfully cut. He was in his night
dress. A razor, with which it was believed he had cut his
throat, was by his side, and not far distant from him was a
large knife, used in his business, with which it was be-
lieved he had inflicted the wound in his wife's throat. The
wounds of husband and wife were dressed by the medical
gentlemen in attendance, Mr. Haycock and Mr. Burchell,
and they were conveyed in separate cabs to the London
Hospital, whore they both lie in a precarious condition.
Mrs. Moratti is reported to be enciente. The excitement
caused by this frightful occurrence continued throughout
the day, and the house has been taken possession of by the
police and locked up.
ADVERTISEMENT.i—HoIIoway's Ointment and Pills.—
Ease for every Sore.—This ointment affords the shortest,
safest, and easiest path to soundness in all skin diseases,
scrofulous affections, scorbutic maladies, ulcerations, erup-
tions, and inflammations. There is nothing deleterious in
the composition of Holloway's ointment ; but, on the con-
trary, its ingredients possess the most soothing, purifying,
and strengthening qualities. The delicate skin of infants
is not irritated by the application of this urguent, which is,
therefore, as admirably suited for the nursery as for sub-
duing the tedious ulcerations attacking the aged. In all
constitutional, chronic, and complex afflictions, Holloway's
pills should be taken whilst his ointment is being used, in
order that all deleterious matters may be expelled from the
, system.