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. Mrs. 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 sue
was brought back by a well known person, who, in
his endeavours to rescue the lady from her gallant
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 judical 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
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to allow him to speak to her.

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. 54. and 6s. 2d.
A deplorable affair has occurred in the Rue du.
Faubourg Saint-Antoine, A 'harried 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 siste
in-law and her husband, who were present, he became'
calm, and promised to live on better terms with his wife.
As, however, the woman feared that the man would commit
her
some act of violence, she begged her sister to accompany her
home, and pass the night in her room, thde
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