The Sun.
London, England, 1856-10-22 00:00:00

SUSPECTED MURDER.

Reports have been published in the newspapers very
recently of a man, named Thomas Willett, having been
committed for trial at the next South Lancashire assizes,
charged with attempting to murder his wife at Liverpool,
• by cutting her throat. He also cut and wounded a mart
• at Liverpool who interfered to rescue his wife from him.
Since his committal circumstances have come to the
knowledge of the Manchester police which throw the
suspicion of a previous crime upon him. It appears
that he had been living in the neighbourhood of Chan-
cery-lane, Manchester, for several years with a woman
who passed as his wife, and this woman died a few clays
before he attempted the crime with which he is charged
at Liverpool. Instead of getting the corpse interred in
his own neighbourhood, he went and made arrangements
to have it interred at Christ-church, Hulme, the other
extremity of the town, and on the night before the fu-
neral conveyed the body to the grave-yard on a hand-
barrow. After the funeral he left Manchester, saying
to a friend that he was going to Liverpool to murder his
wife, and that he should be in Kirkdale gaol before
night. He attempted to murder his wife at Liverpool
that same day. His Manchester wife died after an ill-
ness of a few days only, and in consequence of informa-
tion in possession of the Manchester police, Mr. Saynor,
superintendent of the C division, made a communication
to the coroner of the city, by whose directions the body
in Christchurch graveyard was disinterred yesterday
morning. An inquest was opened yesterday afternoon
at the Greyhound public-house, Chester-road, Hulme,
but the proceedings will have to await a post-mortem
examination. The police found a paper containing the
remains of some kind of powder in the house where he
lived iu Chancery-lane, and this will probably have to be
analysed also before the inquiry can be completed.

"A GENTLE SWAIN."—A young gentleman at Weston
is in want of a wife, and, as he does not wish to marry
foolishly; ho desires that the lady who may favour him
with an offer must be prepared to make the very mode•
rate bid of 1001. per annum--i.e,, the lady's income
must reach that amount. An advertisement in the Clif-
ton paper makes known the desire of this "gentle swain,"
and it is to be hoped that some of the eligible young
ladies in that fashionable suburb will deign to smile
upon him.

TRADE REFORT.-314.NCEIESTER, Tuesday.—The ad-
vanced price of the raw material in Liverpool, and the
prospect of a supply less adequate for the increasing
consumption, and consequently of still higher rates, give
a hardening tendency to this market—the prices of
manufactured articles being quoted proportionately
higher. The condition of the money market, however,
restricts the operations of buyers, and the day's transac-
tions will be inconsiderable.
WEST KENT Fox Ds.—lt is reported that Mr
Colyer's hounds will commence hunting in a few days,
and that he has made a valuable addition to his stud by
purchasing some first class hunters, and also to his ken-
nel from draughts made from some of the crack packs
in England.—South-Eastern Elaatte.