The Sun.
London, England, 1858-11-25 00:00:00

candle when he is writing to save the post."

went up stairs and broke into the room. When I
returned she was writing in a kind of ledger. I
found the words " drunk or mad." I said, "Now
we won't have any such records like those you used
to keep of your disputes with poor Caroline, your
niece." I put the book into the fire. She suddenly
sprung on me, and knocked my head three times
against the wall. I said, " Oh, Carry, Carry, you
are a woman and that is your protection." I said
nothing about a duel. She snatched the book out
of the fire, and struck me with it. It was in flames,
and the buckle hit me under the eye, and produced
an abraison, the mark of which I carry at the present
time. The servant had come up, and I said, " I
will not stand this any longer. I'll not stay with
a woman who denies me a candle, and on the
slightest provocation strikes me." At first I said I
would go away, but Tobin begged me not; and
after a little while I cooled down, and said, " Very
well, then my children shall sit in the drawing-
room ; I will not let them be with such a woman.
She said they should not go into her drawing-room
without her, and I then remarked that if she
served them as she had served me I would teach
them to spit in her face. Soon after this I heard
screams in the hall, and I found the servants hold-
ing my wife to prevent her going away. I had
given them no directions to detain her. I begged
her not to alarm the neighbourhood. I then returned
to the study ; in about an hour after I went to the
children in the drawing-room. I took them with
me and went to my wife, to whom I said, " Well,
Carry, I hope this storm is over now." She said,
"Do not come near me." I proposed that she
should take a little wine and water. She mixed
some. I said, "I don't think that it is strong
enough to do you good," and I took it up to taste
it. She immediately snatched it from me, and
threw the wine in my face. I said, " Oh, Carry,.
what an example for the children." She replied,
" I wish you and your children were all in eternal
perdition." I said, " Thank you." (Laughter.) She
went into the kitchen, and I visited her there
several times ' • but she would not come back with
me because, she said, I had told the children to
spit in her face. I expressed the regret I felt at
having made use of such an expression in the heat
of the moment, but she would not come with me.
Then I said, smiling, that I would take her little'
figure and carry her up stairs, for she knew I had
often carried her before we were married. She still
refused to come, and told me I had better go back
to that set of hypocrites at Islington. She also
called my late congregation " an infernal gang."
I said, " You must have learned that language
at Billingsgate." She stamped her foot and said,
" It's a ',lie—you're ad— liar." I never used
the word " Billingsgate " to her in 'any other
way, and I never called her a " faggot." I
thought she was gOing to strike me again, and
raising my hand, I put it open on her forehead, to
keep her from advancing. If I had struck her she
would have fallen off the step. I said, " Oh, you.
insolent little creature." She ran down the kitchen,
calling out, " Now he's struck me ; that is what I
wanted." In another minute I went after her.
She appealed to the two servants whether there
was not a mark onlher forehead, but they said no.
That night she refused to sleep with me. I offered
to give her up the bed; but she insisted on going
into the servants' room.
At this stage the court adjourned.

COUNT.RY MA.R.K.ETS.

HULL—Nov. 23,

A large supply of wheat to-day, at last week's prices.
Barley was quite as dear. Oats met a better demand.
Beans and peas unaltered.
Wheat.... Old white per qr. 44s Od to 48s oaA .
Old red
New white ~ „ ....,
New red .... " ... ..
Dantzio, lConb., &c. old white 508 Od to 53s Od
Dutch, Belgian, and French 46s Od to 47s Od
Baltic and Hamburg, red.
St. Petersburg and Riga, old 39s Od to 41s Od
Barley.... English malting
Grinding 29s Od to 31s Od
Saal and Oderbruck
Holstein and Danish .. 308 Od to 33s Od
Grinding 27s Od to 29e Od
Oats English, old

Archangel and Riga, per st is Oid to Is la
Friesland and Dutch is lid to la 2d
Swedish and Danish Osllid to is fd"
Beans ....English, old, per qr 46s Od to 48s Od
New pigeon ' 42s Od to 43s Od
New tick

Egyptian 37s Od to 38a Od
Peas Foreign breakers
Grinding
Tares ....Winter Bss Od to 90s Oa.
Indian Corn
Linseed, feeding 4Bs Od to 52s Oct
crushing
Linseed cakes (Hull) £9 2 6to £9 7 a
Foreign BlO oto 9 0 0-"'
Rape cakes . . 515 oto 6 0 G
Bones 512 oto 6 N 0