The Sun.
London, England, 1853-11-23 00:00:00

(From the Morning Herald.)

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An event which was announced in the mornilig papers
of yesterday, as mentioned in a telegraphic despatch
from Vienna, is one likely to be observed without much
attention, and to pass rapidly from our recollection, pre-
occupied as we are with the aggression of the Czar on the
Turkish Empire. And yet the union of the two branches
of the house of Bourbon may be intimately connected
with the Eastern question, and may be destined to have
a very important effect on its result. It is not to be
supposed that so astute and active-minded a politician
as the Emperor Nicholas, should have been standing
idly by during all the time that has elapsed since the'
failure of Prince Menschikoff's mission, quietly waiting
for the next event which should be cast uppermost on
the wheel of fortune. In so long delaying his answers
to the propositions made to him, he cannot only have
meant to show indifference as to the result or contempt
for the persons from whom they emanated. It is pretty
certain that his apparent moderation was pre-determined,
and the seeming dilitoriness and inaction of his generals
the result of design. We have often suspected that he
would not be sorry if some circumstance should arise
to make the understanding between England and
France less cordial, or to occupy one of these countries
so seriously as to force it to withdraw its attention
altogether from the Levant. May he not have been 1
attempting to produce such a condition of affairs ; and
if so, none could be better suited to his purpose than,,
one which concentrated in a single individual the rival 1
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outbreak of a civil war in France, which is ever the sig-
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throwing obstacles in the way, they have encouraged
the reconciliation of the Dukes de Bordeaux and de Ne-
mours ; for then Legitimists and Orle ' anists may unite
against Louis Napoleon, who has proved himself so well
worthy to be Emperor of
France. One result would
certainly be thereby gained, for the attempts of the par-
tisans of those two houses would give so much and such
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serious occupation to the French Emperor, that it would
be impossible for him to afford succour to the Turks ;
and their success could not but give the greatest satis-
faction to the numerous courts with which they are
related.
But such an event will be by no means so satisfactory
to Englishmen. We shall not be over anxious to wel-
come to the throne of France the representatives of a
family who have always been our bitter enemies, not-
withstanding the many benefits they have received from
us and our country, though with a certain class of
minds, indeed, the burden of an obligation is sufficient
to cause enmity to the benefactor. Our only wish for
our gallant neighbours is that they should be peaceful
and prosperous ; but they will not have much reason
to expect either benefit while ruled over by a family
whose women, indeed, may be heroes, but all
whose men have more than once proved them-
selves women. Can princes bring prosperity to a nation
i if they are so cowardly as to abandon their wives and

Some time since an action was brought against this
company for the extra fare which they had demanded of
a passenger, who was compelled to return by an express
train after he had taken an ordinary return ticket. The
judge then ruled, that as nothing was said, either on the
placards distributed about the station, or on the ticket,
that anything extra was to be paid for express trains,
they were not justified in demanding it. Since that de-
cision the company have issued fresh handbills, in which
they have inserted that the return fares mentioned on
them are for " ordinary " trains only.

Mr. Solomon attended on behalf of the accused.
The first witness called was Mr. John "'enfold Morris,
a pupil and house surgeon at Guy's Hospital, who de-
posed that on the morning of Monday, the 24th of last
month, Mrs. Hannah Grinney was brought to that hos-
pital. On examining her he found a wound of about
four or five inches in length across the front of her
throat. There were also two other wounds, one in an
upward and another in a downward direction, and all
could not have been inflicted with one cut. They were
incised wounds, but did not appear to have been in.
flicted with a very sharp instrument, as the edges were
somewhat jagged. A small quantity of blood was oozing
from one of her ears, and there was a slight contusion
on one of her cheeks, but both those injuries might
have been caused by a fall or a blow. Both her hands
were severely wounded, particularly the right band,
Iwhich had not yet got well, and she would lose the use
altogether of one of her fingers on that hand. She re-
mained under his (witness's) care from that time to the
present, and at no time was her life in danger.
The prisoner's unfortunate victim, who had been
brought from the hospital in a cab, and who seems a
very respectable, good-looking, and matronly female,
aliout 36 years of age, was here sworn and deposed as
follows :—I am the wife of the prisoner, and at the
time of this unfortunate transaction lived with him and
my children at No. 35, Park-street, Kennington-cross.
On the night of Sunday, the 23rd of October (my hus-
band has on many other occasions made use of violent
threats towards me), when going up stairs to bed he
told me that my time was short, and that I had better
prepare myself. We went to bed, and at about two in
the morning we were aroused by a knocking at the door,
and we learned from my daughter, who slept down
stairs, that the parties knocking were a young man in
the service of my brother, and Henry Lee, who wished
to come in and lie down for a short time. My daughter
got up, and my husband took a bed down stairs to Lee
and the other young man, and both lay down, but were
called and let out of the house by my husband at four
o'clock on the same morning. On returning up stairs,
I observed my husband go to where his trousers were,
and observed him do something to the pockets, but his
back being towards me I could not distinctly see
what. He then came into bed, and I distinctly
heard him say " It's too early yet ; and from his
manner and conduct altogether I felt alarmed, and had
a great desire for the time to get up. Having to go to
my sister's that morning, I got up soon after six, and
went downstairs, leaving my husband in the bedroom.
He came downstairs and joined me in the back ream,
and while I was dressing I called out to him and asked
what o'clock it was, and he replied "It's close upon
seven, my dear," and came close to me on my lett side.
I was in the act of putting my brooch into the front of
my dress, when my husband, who had his right hand in
his trousers pocket, pulled out a black-handled table-
knife, and exclaiming "Now is the time;" (tittering an
opprobrious epithet), and instantly 1,--,rasd me by the
back of the neck with his left hand, commenced cutting
my throat. He gave me one cut before I could protect
myself, and inflicted the larger wound in the upper and
front part of my throat. I raised my hands to peoseet
myself, and having got hold of the knife by the blade,
succeeded in getting it out of his hand, and threw it
away. He then hid hold of me by the hair and dragged
me across the room into the passage, and forced me on
the ground. He here drew a second knife from his
pocket—the same trousers pocket from which he had
taken the first, and again commenced cutting at my
throat. He endeavoured to cut me on the left
side downwards, but I struggled very violently with
him, and called to my daughter to open the par.
lour window and cry out for assistance, as my hus-
band had secured the door. I was fortunately enabled
to defend myself by putting my hands up, and thus pre-
vented my throat from being cut. As my daughter
was passing us to get into the parlour, my husband
made a desperate thrust at her back with the point of
the knife, and if she had not fortunately stumbled at the
instant the knife must have gone through her, as she
had nothing on at the time but her chemise, and when
he saw her open the window, he exclaimed in a savage
manner, "I'll pay you for this." I here, by great exer-
tion, succeeded in getting the second knife from my
husband ; but in accomplishing this I received some
severe cuts on my hands, and threw it away also. I
threw it into the passage. When deprived of this knife
my husband forced the tops of his fingers into my
throat, and not only endeavoured, but succeeded, in
tearing them larger. My husband by some means got
a third knife, and having succeeded in dragging me into
the front parlour, and dragging my head towards the
cupboard, must have, in my then exhausted state, suc-
ceeded in cutting my throat, had not assistance at that
moment arrived and released me from him. I then ran
out as far as the front gate, and have no recollection
whatever of what occurred until I found myself in the
hospital.

kr. Norton—What sort of knives were these'!
Witness—Black-haadled table knives.
Mr. Norton—Where were they kept ?
Witness—ln a table drawer in the back parlour.
Mr. Norton—Had your husband an opportunity
of going to the place where they were kept on that
morning t

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Witness—Oh yes, sir, he had an opportunity of going
there when he went down stairs to call Lee and the.
young man, and let them out.
Mr. Norton—Can you say where your husband got
the third knife ?

Witness—No, sir. My opinion was that he might
have picked up the knife just took from him, but it ap.
pears that three had been used.
The officer engaged in the case here produced three
black-handled dinner-knives, each of which was deeply
tinged and covered with gore.
Mr. Norton (to Mrs. Grinney)—Had any other con-
versation passed between your husband and yourself
than you have stated on the morning of this desperate
attack on you ?
_ _ _ _

Mrs. Grinney—Yes ; I recollected hie asking me if
the youth Tom and Lee were not in the front room;
and I said, "Why Philip, you must he foolish to
talk so. You know you let them out at four o'clock."
He then said, "We are all alone now." And I re.,
plied, " Well, there are as many as are wanted ; there
are you and I and our three children." Immediately
upon this it was that he said, "Now is the time, you
—," and commenced the attack on me. The witness
here went into a lengthened statement of the conduct of
her husband towards her, produced in a great measure,
as it appeared, from his jealousy not only of Lee, but
her own brother. On one occasion, when the prisoner
was accompanyirm her to the house of her brother, in
the neighbourhood of Soho-square, and while passing
along Earl-street, Seven Dials, lie asked her to accom•
puny him to a brothel. and on her refusing to do so, and
expressing her disgu.,,t, at his conduct, he said it was
quite dear to him that htr brother, Lee, or somebody
else had had that which he should have had. He had
also declared he should take the life of her brother, and
should also have his revenge of Lee : that he had pur-
chased powder and balls same time ago, and had priced
a pistol. In conclusion the witness said that there was
only one thing which she regretted, and that was not
having had her husband taken up i months ago, when
he stabbed her in the head with a pocket knife.
TI.• prisoner's daughter corroborated much of the tes-
timony of her mother; and the two men Smith
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who had fortunately come to the rescueiat w
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just in the nick of time, declared that
inter-
fered the prisoner was stabbin„, his wife with a knife in
the throat just in the same way that a butcher would a,
sheep.
brought there ; and when
house when the prisoner was
produced he said that one
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also said that it was
this was the cause, he said, of their being skollibloody. He
exp.ressed a hope that she was
cut his own throat, and
made by the prisoner on the first lla statement
dead, for then lie should be happy. to be hanged for her.
had left him to sleep with Lee
exa-
mination was read.
.It was to the effect that his wife,
down stairs, and that on the fol.
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better than him, and that she should not
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The wife did not .tradict this statement except by
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Mr.
Mr. Norton asked Solomon if he wished to put her head.
any questions to the witnesses, or had any observation
to make.
Mr. Solomon replied not ; he should merely request,
his worship to order the prisoner's furniture to be de-
livered up, so as to enable him to defend himself. The
man Lee, he said, who had more to do with the unfor-
tunate affair than it would be prudent to disclose, had
been dealing with the furniture, and removed it from
the prisoner's late residence.
Inspector Carter said that by desire of Mr. Elliott he
had made some inquiries on the subject, and found that
nearly the whole of it belonged to the prisoner's brother-
in-law.

The prisoner was then committed for trial at the
Central Criminal Court.
There was one thing most remarkable in the proceed •
ings, and that was that during her lengthened examina-
tion Mrs. Grinney did not, from beginning to end, be-
tray the slightest emotion, and her daughter, a keen•
looking girl of 18, sat by her side all the time, and
appeared as if the dreadful details referred to the most
common-place affair ; and oven the prisoner heard the
evidence with the utmost nonchalance.

POWDER MILL BLOWN Ur.—FIVE MEN KILLED.—
A. shocking accident occurred in Spencer on Friday. The
powder mill of Lewis Bemis, known as the Corning
Mill, and situated about one mile from the village, was
blown up about half-past nine o'clock in the forenoon,
killing five men. The names of the killed are Henry
Avis, foreman, Englishman, 22 years old, no family ;
Richard Avis, his brother, 33 years old, had a wife and
one child ; Robert Perkins, Englishman, 30 years old,
no family ; George Swallow, Englishman, 25 years old,
had a wife ; John Laflin, Irishman, teamster, 25 years
old, no family. He was blown into fragments. Three
were found under the mill in the water ; Swallow in a
potato-field 40 rods from the mill, with one leg blow,
off; and the other a short distant* from the mill. There
was a horse and waggon close by the mill. The waggon
was blown into fragments, and the horse knocked down,
but not killed. There were 50 kegs of powder in the
mill. This is the second mill of Mr. Bernie which has
been blown up within two mouths.—Springflad(M)
Republican.