The Sun.
London, England, 1861-09-27 00:00:00

THE .RUGBY AFFAIR.

A Rugby correspondent of the Leeds Mercury
writes :—" Mrs. Hill, the baby, and the nurse-
maid, have been residing in Rugby since Saturday
last. Airs. Hill possesses sufficient personal attrac-
tion to justify belief in the report that she has led
captive many suitors. It is a fact that she was run
away with when at boarding-school, and that she
was brought back by a well known person, who, in
his endeavours to rescue the lady from her ga,lant
and enterprising admirer, received a lasting
memento on the most prominent feature of his
countenance.

"The wealth of the lady was greatly exaggerated
in the first accounts of the case. Lady Burdett,
the mother of Mrs. Hill, resides at Brussels upon
an income of £2,000 per annum, terminable with
her life. Her estate is .managed and the rents of
her property collected by Mr. Maltby, the vice-
consul of Brussels, and this accounts, in a great
measure, for the intimate knowledge which Mr.
Maltby appears to have of Mrs. Hill's private
affairs. Mrs. Hill derives considerable pecuniary
advantages from the settlements made upon her by
the prisoner, and that in some measure, apart from
the promptings of maternal instinct, accounts for
the anxiety which has been manifested to have the
child identified. Mr. Hill entered a cause some
months ago in the Divorce Court, and should the
issue be that he obtained a judic!al separation from
his wife, the two questions of the paternity and
identity of the child would occupy the attention
of the lawyers. It is stated that there are cir-
cumstances which cannot be shown until the
case comes before the Divorce Court. That there
is some explanation in respect to this long-lost
child which has not yet come before the public,
seems clear from the fact that the brother of Mrs.
Hill—Lieut.-Colonel Burdett—offered himself as
bail for the prisoner. The stories which have been
told of Mr. Hill having come to England from Brus-
sels, disguised and in secret, have their origin in the
prolific imagination of one of the keenest penny-
a-liners' of the metropolitan press. During the
whole of the week preceding_hia arrest he was in
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The Eastern exchange continues with a very satis-
factory tendency. At Calcutta the rate is without material
alteration, but both at Canton and Shanghai there has been
a further favourable movement of about one per cent., the
respective quotations being 4s. 51. and 6s. 21d.
A deplorable affair has occurred in the Rue da
Faubourg Saint-Antoine, A married couple carrying on
the trade of butchers at No. 164 in that street had frequent
quarrels, owing to the man for some reason having for-
bidden his wife to visit her family, and to her disregarding
his prohibition. On Monday evening the wife taking ad-
vantage of the man's absence, went to see her sister. After
a while, he arrived, and bitterly reproached his wife for
disobeying his orders; but by the intervention of his sister-
in-law and her husband, who were present, he became
calm, and promised to live on better terms with his.'" i
As, however, the woman feared that the man would
dpaneo y her
some act of violence, she begged her sister t?aaerlu
making
home, and pass the night in her room, the u
no objection. The man and wife retired
toe rest together,
and the woman's sister slept on a
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About four o'clock in the morning,
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mattress behind their bed,
up to attend to his business, and went on
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butcher's wife cry out Help Ihe is man
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tabbing his wife with a largo knife. He then en-
eain"d another near the heart. The woman's cries
ed an adjacent room, and inflicted a deep stab on his own
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the wife. The wounds of both, however, are so grave that
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