The Sun.
London, England, 1865-10-16 00:00:00

ME SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 16, 1865.

EVERYBODY'S BUSINESS.

-GREAT ST. JAMES'S-HALL.—WORLD of
MAGIC, Second Sight, and " Begone,'Dull Care,"
every evening at a A Day Performance, Saturday, at 3.
" The most varied entertainment in the metropolis."—Vide
the Press. Admission, is.

PROFESSOR and the Misses ANDERSON.—
Farewell season. World of Magic. Second Sight, and
the original Indian Basket Trick, in conjunction with Fre-
deric (the great) Naccabe, the unrivalled ventriloquist, mimic,
and character actor.

FREDERIC MACCABE, Ventriloquist, Mimic,
&a, in his original entertainment, "Begone, Dull Care,'?
"Miss Mary May," " Early in the Morning.." Balcony, 2s ;
reserved seats, 3s. ; stalls, 55. ; at Mr. Austin's office, St.
James's-hall, 28, Piccadilly.
A. NIMHO, Acting Manager.

T 0 D A R E.-
THEATRE OF MYSTERY.-EGYPTIAN HALL.

THIS. EVENING (MONDAY), October 16th, Colonel
STODARE will, at his 200th Representation, introdu e, for
the first time, a new and original illusion, entitled THE
SPHYNX, a Mystery : the most marvellous discovery ever
presented in the Magic Art. Also, at each Representation;
Ventriloquism ; the Instantaneous Growth of Flower Trees,
and the real Indian Basket Feat, as only performed by Col.
STODARE.

Every evening at Eight, Wednesday and Saturday After-
noons at Three. Stalls, at Mitchell's, Old Bond-street, and
Box-office, Egyptian Hall. Admission, Is., 2s. Stalls, 3s.
"Almost miraculous."—Vide Times, April 18,1865.

CHRISTY MINSTRELS, St. James's Hall,
Piccadilly.—The only original and veritable legitimate
CHRISTY MINSTRELS Every Night at 8, Saturdays at 3
and 8, retaining all the specialties and old favourites who
originally created the reputation of the Company. Fauteuils,
55.; stalls, 3s ; unreserved seats, 25.; gallery. is. Tickets at
Austin's, 28, Piccadilly.—Manager, Mr. Frederick Burgess.

" T 43 0 X FORD.
, OXFORD STREET, W.
The Oxford and Canterbury Hall Company (limited).

- -
SIXTY-SIX, by J. Offenbach, performed by
Misses Russell, Barrie, Waimealey, Tyre% Mien Reid, Ma-
dame Maria, and Miss Fitz Henry ; Messrs. A. St. Albyn,
Husk, Evans, W. Williams, and Senors Tivoli and Spagnoli,
with full Band and Chorus.

Conductor, Mr. F. Jonghmans.

THE BRIDAL of BEAUTY, in which the Misses TESSY
and SARA GUNNISS will appear THIS EVENING.
The HUNGARIANS —The Brothers and Sister KIRALFI
will have the honour of introducing their National Dances
in costume every evening.

Admission—Area, 6d.; stalls and balcony, Is. ; private
boxes. 10s. 6d.

NOTICE.—WiII shortly be produced. first time in this
country, THE MARKET GIRLS, by J. Offenbach, and a
New Cantata, by Meyrbeer, in which the whole of the Opera
Company will appear.

CANTERBURY HALL.
KO KO RI KO.
This wonderful entertainment, having proved the greatest
hit ever made, will be repeated EVICRY- EVENING, in ad-
dition to the Operatio Sele3tions, supported by the whole
talent of the establishment.
Comedy, Burlesque, and Ballet by Mrs. and Mr. Randall,
Messrs. Duriah and Davies, the D'Aubans, Mons. Alex-
andre, mimic, and the Sisters Dashwood, their first appear-
ance.

Director, Mr. F. Jongmans.
All visitors to London at this season should see the above
entertainment

ATADAME TUSSAUD'S EXHIBITION.-
Established 30 years, at the Bazaar, Baker-street.

NEW ADDITIONS.—In accordance with the season, the
Exhibition has been entirely re-embellished. The whole of
the ancient Court Dresses of the most costly description,
faithfully copied from the most minute pictures, have been
renewed. Modern Court Dresses of the most splendid de-
scription, selected from the first houses in Paris and London,
and probably never equalled or surpassed, are now on view.
_ _

Life-size Models of DOCTOR E. W. PRITCHARD and
CONSTANCE KENT are now added.

Open from 11 a.m. till 10 p.m.
Admittance, One Shilling; Extra Rooms, Sixpence.

ARGYLL ROOMS, Great Windmill-street,
Piccadilly.—GßAND CASINO and MUSICAL PRO-
MENADE is NOW OPEN for the Season.
Musical Director, M. LUIGI CURTL
Manager, Mons. GRENET.
The Band plays nightly Selections from the most eminent
Composers.
Doors open at half-past 8 o'clock; close five minutes to 12
o'clock.
Admission to Promenade, One Shilling.

THE WELLINGTON, ST. JAMES'S-STREET.
Set DINNERS served, at five minutes' notice, from Four to

Nine p.m., at 2s. 6d., 3s. 6d., 4s. 6d., and 7s. each.
ELEGANT SALOON DINING ROOMS,
for Ladies and Families.
Prices on the "Carte" moderate.
Private iLooms for Large or Small Partier.
Reading, Smoking. and Billiard Rooms.
BREAKFASTS and LUNCHEONS.
D. CAMERON.
Entrances-160 Piccadilly, and 49, St. James's-street.

WINSLOW HALL, Winslow, Bucks, having
been recently opened and fitted with requisites fin'
the care and comfort of the INSANE, the proprietor, Dr.
BOISRAGON, announces that lie has transferred his Estab-
lishment from Birmingham to the above desirable residence,
easily accessible, and distant from London about an hour
and a-half by the London and North-Western line, and fifty
minutes from Oxford. Attached to the mansion, situated on
a sandy soil, and commanding an extensive and pleasing
prospect, are garden, meadow, plantation, and recreation
grounds. For terms and forms of admission address the
proprietor.

nONEY ADVANCED, for any period not
exceeding three years, on personal security, one or
more sureties being required according to circumstances, or
on the borrower's own promissory note when a deposit is
made of any available security. Apply New National Life
and Loan Company (established .51), 481, Oxford-street,
W.C. THOMAS BOURNE, Secretary.

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direct to the EAST INDIA TEA COM ['ANY. China,
Assam, and Japan Teas In every variety, from Is, 10d. per
lb. upwards. List of prices sent on application.—Ware-
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of the body, and so being in a position to claim the
insurance money. She applied to an undertaker for a
coffin, had it brought to her house, and then " laid
out" her living but helpless husband, who, as he
states, was perfectly conscious of the whole proceed-
ing, but " in such a condition that he was unable
to help himself." One can hardly avoid a horrible
curiosity to know, if that statement is correct, of
what the victim thought. Was it of the possibility
of being buried alive ? He was then, as Mrs. Brewer
declares, either by Mrs. Brown herself or a man whom
she hired to help her, heaved still alive into the coffin,
or, as another witness affirms, laid on the trestles
and straightened out for the grave. The scene would
have been a subject for Callot, but to Mrs. Brown
it was an ordinary household incident. Her single
idea is not one of affection or hatred, or horror, or
gladness, or regret, but simply the physical one that
the smell , of the corpse might be unpleasant, and.
she therefore heapea salt upon the living body of her
husband, as she would, according to a practice usual
among the poor iri Certain oases; have heaped it upon
a corpse. She in fact got him ready for burial,
just as she would have prepared a meal, or heated
water " against" she wanted it, as a matter
of household detail, an arrangement to which
nothing of sacredness, or sanctity, or any emotion
whatever, attached. The single objectwas hurry—to
be ready when the time came, and to this end she
would not even wait for death to add the salt which
would preserve the corpse. There is a grotesquerie
of horror in the last-mentioned incident, a positive
denial of human instincts, a blank realism as of a
human being born by some strange anomaly of
nature before the soul had entered it which sur-
passes the wildest dream of French romancers.
Eugene Sue would have rejected as incredible
even to French imaginations the things which
this woman did do, and did in a quiet, collected,
natural way. For after it had been done Mrs.
Brown took a few pence out of her husband's
clothes, put them away, placed all the medicines,
or " litter," as she probably called them, in a
closet, and then, with her living husband lying
there in his shroud laid out for the grave, washed
the room. She then warned a neighbour that her
husband was gone, and on her asking to see him
did not refuse. The neighbour, a Mrs. Brewer,
accordingly went in, found the " corpse" still
breathing, and asked for a mattress to put under
hini, which the wife refused. Mrs. Brewer, certain
from the aspect of affairs that foul play was in-
tended, informed the parish authorities, and the
husband, taken out of her hands and properly fed,
is still alive. It occurred to us while reading the
report, that by a strange concatenation of chances
Mrs. Brown might still be innocent of her grotesquely-
horrible proceedings. Suppose that after the cruel
neglect shown him for some days, Brown had fallen
into a cataleptic state which his wife believed to be
death, during which she laid him out for burial, and
that he only revived on the entrance of Mrs. Brewer.
Brown himself states that although conscious of all
that was done, he was "in that state he could not
help himself," and he asked Mrs. Brewer when she
came in " Where be I?" That theory would be re-
concilable with great previous brutality, but unfor-
tunately for human nature the questions from the
Bench brought out facts inconsistent with it. The
coffin had been ordered while the man could speak,
and Mrs. Brewer had, been threatened the day
previous that if she came into the room she
should be turned out, and when life was
absolutely certain, the poor wretch asking
his plaintive question, the woman still left him lying
on the boards, refusing either to lift him out or put
a mattress under him. She herself only defends
herself as to his supply of food, which she says was
sufficient, and the magistrates, with the witnesses
before them, came to the conclusion that she " was
desirous of sending her husband out of the world as
quickly as possible for the sake of 114." It seems
impossible to resist the conclusion that we have here
a woman, old, hardworking, and with sufficient self-
restraint to avoid murder, to whom nevertheless
death had absolutely no sanctity, in whom it inspired
no feeling whatsoever except a faint fear that occur-
ring from this disease it might make her room
uncomfortable. Of the absolute cruelty of the whole
proceeding we have said nothing, for cruelty after
all is common enough, and she was not worse than
Dr. Pritchard. Of its grotesquerie we have per-
haps said too much, for the grotesque is a permanent
element in every tragedy, the petty surroundings
~,hvo.y2. jarring at some point with the solemn fact.
The strange feature of the affair, a feature we have
met but twice among the crimes of the last five
years, is the absence in a person not actually starv-
ing of a feeling usually deemed instinctive. It is as
if a murderer had chosen the body of his victim for
a pillow.

THE " ECONOMIST" ON THE RISE IN THE RATE OF
DISCOUNT.—The present rise in the value of money
is owing to the simultaneous occurrence of three
causes. There is a sort of tide in the cash transac-
tions of the country which periodically empties and
periodically fills the Bank till. At the close of every
quarter there is a strong outgoing current. The
non-banking classes then get their money. Salaries
are paid, wages are paid, small dividends are paid ;
each of these transactions is very minute, but their
aggregate mass is very large. And it is because each
of them is minute that the whole is effective. All
rich people—all people in receipt of great incomes— '
now-a-days, with scarcely an exception, keep a
banker, and their transactions are settled by cheques
in his ledger. As a rule, a rich man receives one
bit of paper—a railway coupon say—and it is
placed to his credit, and he pays away another
piece of paper—a cheque—and it is placed to
his debit ; no actual money passes. But little
people are paid in actual cash • they take
so much from the Bank till, and until that money
is paid away to some of the banking classes it does
not find its way back to the Bank till. Speaking
generally the middle of every quarter is marked by
an incoming current towards the Bank, and the
close of every quarter by an outgoing current from
the Bank. There is a prevalent impression that on
the present occasion the efflux from the Bank of

England, at the close of the last quarter, has been
of unprecedented extent. But as far as bank notes
are concerned this is not the case. In 1863, only
two years ago, there was very nearly as large an
outgoing.
On the 23d Sept., 1863, the reserve of notes
only was X 8,545,450
On the 14th October, 1863, the reserve of
notes was only

£2,144,079
And in a little while afterwards the reserve wen
still lower. Whereas now the figures are :
On the 20th September, 1865, the reserve
of notes only was £6,672,810
On the 11th October, 1865, the reserve of
notes only was 4,294,145

£2,378,665
I So that there is no such extravagant difference in
favour of the present year, and what there is will be
easily accounted for presently. In September, 1863,
there was a 4 per cent. and a favourable foreign
exchange, just as there was in September last. In
both cases the demand which drained the Bank
till was not a foreign but a home demand. Why
at one time or another the quarterly craving
for cash is greater or less it is often hard to
say. Being the aggregate of an immense number
of minute desires, that craving is itself subject to a
still greater number of incalculable microscopic in-
fluences. The only rule we can lay clown is, that
it is greater in times of increasing manufacturing
employment, and less in times of diminishing manu-
facturing employment. Speculation, whether in
cotton or silk, has no effect on it, but an increase
in wages earned and salaries paid in silk or cotton,
or anything else, has an immediate effect. The
summer quarter of 1'863 and 1865 was marked by
' an augmenting industry, and therefore by an aug-
mented payment to the smaller industrial classes.
There never, indeed, was a time when the internal
trade of many districts leaped forward so rapidly as
now. The Americans are buying in every market. A
great country, long shut out frommany nds of con-
sumption, is again beginning to consume. Prices are
rising in a multitude of articles. The cash payments
in Manchester early in October surpassed all previous
experience. The trade of Bradford is profitable almost
beyond precedent.
If ever the customary periodi-
cal demand for cash was to
tinhcreahse, this is the time
for it to increase. But the outgoing of
notes from the Bank of Englandnugh not. been much
much greater. And this brings us to greater than in 1863, the demand for
tcomth has
secondbeen
of our causes--one so odd and happily so e
.nute
.that it seems absurd to name it. Nothing, however,
is so extraordinary in the present complicated state
of the money market as the number and the variety
of the causes which act upon it. In 1859, if any-
one had foretold that slavery in America would con-
vulse the world in Lombard-street, he would have
been laughed at. Yet for several years we have
been suffering from a cotton drain due to that cause
and to no other. So now it seems absurd to say that
the Fenian movement in Ireland should have any
the slightest influence on the English money
market, and yet it has had a little influence ;
about £500,000 in coin has been sent to Ireland to
meet the partly real and partly feared run on the