The Sun.
London, England, 1853-08-27 00:00:00

THE MURDER AND SUICIDE IN GOODMAN'S.

FIELDS.

Yesterday Mr. Baker, the coroner for East Middlesex,
held an inquest upon the unfortunate Caroline Mobbs at
the London Hospital, whither she had been removed
after the savage attack had been made upon her by her
husband which resulted in her death, and where also
lies, almost in articulo mortis, and under the close cus-
tody of the city police, the ruthless perpetrator of the
deed.

Some circumstances have recently come to light in
connection with the event which invest it with a melan-
choly interest. The deceased, it appears, had only been
united to the man about 12 months, he being at that
time a widower with four young children. She seems
to have enjoyed but a very brief period of domestic hap-
piness, for, though the man was kind and affectionate in
his sober moments, those intervals were of rare occur-
rence, and scarcely a month had elapsed after their wed-
ding before his savage ill-treatment commenced.
Alleged ill-treatment of his children and intimacy with a
policeman were she pretexts for his savage conduct, but
so far as the evidence has gone, both charges were
groundless. She was a quiet, well-behaved, and strictly
sober woman. Nevertheless, the treatment which she
experienced at th 3 hands of her husband almost exceeds
belief. She had '.requently threatened to seek the pro-
tection of the law. but had never mustered up resolution
sufficient to make the case known to the magistrates.
An indefinable terror, and perhaps also some remnant
of affection, always intervened at the last moment to
prevent her appealing to the traunal of justice. On
the very day on wiich the murder took place it was her
intention to apply to the Lord Mayor for a separate
maintenance.

Mobbs, the murterer, was not quite so well yesterday
as on the previous sight, having been attacked in the
interval with broneaitis ; still he is progressing as well
as can be expected. The knife bad completely severed
the larynx, and his bodily health was not generally good
in consequence of his intemperate habits.
Evidence as to the general ill-treatment of the deceased
by her husband, and as to the circumstances attending
the commission of tie dreadful deed, which have already
been made public, laving been adduced,
The Coroner said perhaps it world be well to adjourn
the inquiry for the present, more particularly as the
state of the man appeared to be extremely doubtful. Of
course, if the man saould die, the inquiry would assume
a very different form to that which it would take if he
survived, because in the event of his death the power of
the law, so far as he was concerned, would be at an end.
The jury concurred in this view, and, for the reasons
stated by the coroner, acquiesced in the adjournment for
a few days.

The proceedings were accordingly adjourned.

THE COINAGE.—It h shown by a return to Parliament,
yesterday published, that, in three months, from the Ist
of April to the 30th o June last, the gold coinage made
at the Mint amounted to 4,763,8261. 3s. id., consisting
of 4,471,242 sovereigns and 585,167 half-sovereigns.
The silver coinage in the quarter was 155,100/. is. Bd.,
consisting of 1,141,563f10rin5, 717,763 shillings, 194,304
sixpences, and 15,840 threepences. Of copper coinage
the return is nil.
THE NEW ACT Ox BETTING-H(I3SM —Yesterday,
the act for the suppression of betting:houses was issued
from the Queen's printars. It contains 20 sections, and
will commence and come into operation on the Ist of
December next. The contents of this new law are some-
what familiar to the public. It eructs that no house,
office, or place is to be kept or used for betting with
other persons. Such places are declared to be a common
nuisance. The penalty for keeping a betting place is a
fine of 1001., or imprisonment for six months, with or
without hard labour. The penalty en receiving money,
&c., on condition of paying money on -the event of any
bet is 501., or three months' confinement ; and the pe-
nalty on persons exhibiting placards or advertising bet-
ting-houses is 30/., or two months' imprisonment. The
penalties may be recovered by distress, and one-half to
go to the informer and the other in aid of the poor rate.
In case an information should be laid, and nit prosecuted,
another person may be allowed to proceed. Suspected
houses may be searched. An appeal is given to the
Quarter Sessions. The act is not to extend to Scotland.
FIRE IN CLERKENWELL.—ShortIy after three o'clock
yesterday morning a very destructive fire took place on
the extensive premises of Mr. Hill, cooper, St. John-
street-road, Clerkenwell. The flames burst forth from
the warehouse, and spread with such rapidity that, not-
withstanding the Farringdon-street, and about seven
other large engines were soon put into operation, the
entire property of the warehouse was consumed, and
ether serious loss followed. The firm is believed to be
insured.
FOREIGN RATES OF EXCHANGE. —The adverse ap-
pearance of the rate of Exchange upon Paris yesterday
occasioned surprise in the face of the large purchases of
wheat understood to have been lately taking place on
French account. It seems, however, that the orders
sent from this country for foreign grain, much of which
is paid for by remittances to France, whence gold is
sent to Alexandria and elsewhere, far exceed those re-
ceived in London from French houses. In the corn-
market to-day, moreover, the transactions are supposed
to have been not so much to meet direct commissions
from the continent as for the purposes of speculation, to
which the bad state of the weather gave a
great impetus.
From the present circumstances of the market, the ex-
tent of the future arrivals from America will be watched
with interest, as New York flour now yields a handsome
profit. The purchases of Russian wheat have caused
the rate of exchange at St. Petersburgh to reach a point
which covers the expense of sending gold to that city,
and a quantity of half-imperials have accordingly been
taken from the Bank of England for immediate remit-
tance.

MEDICAL SCHOOL.—ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL. GRAY'S-
INN-LANE.--The authorities connected with the Royal
Free Hospital have established a medical college in con-
nection with the hospital, which it is intended shall be
opened for the reception of medical students, at the be-
ginning of next October.
ELECTION OF VESTRY-CLERK FOR ST. LEONARD,
SHOREDITCH.—The contest for this office has been one
of unprecedented severity in the parish, upwards of
5,000 votes having been recorded. The number of votes
polled were last night declared to be, for Mr. Vann,
2,820 ; for Mr. Humphreys, 2,285 ; majority for Mr.
Vann, 535.

DEATH OF DR. HUNTER LANE.-A recent number
of the Medical Circular records the death, at Brighton,
of Dr. Hunter Lane, of 51, Brook-street, Grosvenor-
square, and formerly of Liverpool. Dr. Lane was
M.D. Edinburgh, 1830 ; L.R.C.S. Edinburgh, 1829.
During the years 1831.32 held the office of honorary
physician to the Cholera Hospital, Liverpool ; in 1833,
that of physician to the Lock Hospital of the Liverpool
Infirmary ; and in 1840 was appointed senior physician
to the Lancaster Infirmary. He was a F.L.S. and
F.S.S.A., and formerly president of the Royal Medical
Society of Edinburgh, editor of the Liverpool Medical
Gazette, the Monthly Archives of the Medical Sciences,
and Tiedman's " Physiology of Man," translated from
the German. Dr. Lane was the author of "A. Com-
pendium of Materia Medico," Epitome of Practical
Toxicology," and likewise Contributed numerous papers
on various subjects to the Medical Gazette, Lancet, and
Medical Times. Dr. Lane was a kind and philanthropic
friend, and his early loss is deeply and widely lamented.
NEW AGRICULTURAL MACHINE.-Mr. Mechi has
published a letter in which he says : " A calm and
rigid investigation and computation have convinced me
that the doom of the plough, as an instrument of cul-
ture, is sealed, and that the rotatory forking, or as it is
wrongly called, digging machine, is the only profitable
cultivator. Even with six or eight horses, it is cheaper
and infinitely more effective than the plough. Since
the trial of implements at my gathering,' I have re-
ceived from one of our North American colonies the
model of a newly-invented machine, which by a happy
and most simple combination of horse and steam power
will—and I pledge my agricultural reputation for it—
not only deeply, cheaply, and efficiently cultivate and
pulverise the soil, but at the same time sow the seed
and leave all in a finished condition. It will also, by a
simple inversion, cut and gather the corn without any
rake or other complication ; while both in cultivation
and harvesting its operation will be continuous and
without stoppage. The implement, when complete,
will weigh about 20 to 25 cwt., will require a pair of
horses, and will represent the power of about eight to
twelve, or more, real horses. The implement for dig-
ging will require one man and one boy only, including
the management of the steam-engine ; in reaping, the
same, with the addition of three men to bind as the
corn falls into their arms. The men will be carried on
the machine."

PROTESTANT CONFERENCE AT HAMBURG. --Early next
week, about twenty of the leading Protestants, from all
parts of Europe, are to meet in conference at Hamburg,
for the purpose of taking into consideration the present
position of Evangelical Protestantism on the Continent,
and adopting those measures which may be deemed best
adapted to promote its principles. The conference will
last three days. Among our countrymen who intend to
be present willibe Lord Shaftesbury, Sir Culling Eard,
sa4 Mr, John li`Grogor,