The Sun.
London, England, 1845-11-17 00:00:00

commerce in corn. Mr. Cobden's speech was the speech ofthe
evening. He hit Sir Robert Peel some bard blows—blows
which the Right Hon. Baronet must feel for many a day to
come. Mr. Cobden's refer2i.ce to the " responsibility "of
the Minister, must be gall and wormwood to the latter.
The Hon. Member for Stockport plainly told the Premier,
that he is not to be deterred from holding him responsible
for his measures, by a red.embrance of a celebrated clap-
trap affair in the Commons, when Sir Robert broadly
insinuated that he was instigating persons to assassinate
him. The Minister did not himself believe what he
sought to impress on the Ha and the country. It
was not only a most reprehensible expedient to silence
an opponent, and crush him as a public man, but ex-
ceedingly clumsy withal. For a moment, it must
have been painful to Mr. Cobden ; but the thing was
soon seen through, and then the attempt to injure
Mr. Cobden recoiled on the Premier himself. This was
righteous retribution. It is to be 11,,ped it will operate as a
warning to other public men, not, in their anxiety to crush a
troublesome opponent,' to have recourse to mendacious expe-
dients. The responsibility of Sir Robert Peel every day be-
comes more and more grave. It was, at the time the memo-
rable incident we have referred to occurred, simply a respon-
sibility for the injury done to trade and commerce, by the
Minister's maintenance of the corn and other monopolies. It
is now a responsibility affecting the lives of millions. The
corn-law question has at last assumed an appalling aspect.
It has become a question of life or death to vast masses of
her Majesty's subjects. And should any of them perish
through his obstinate adherence to a monopolist course of
policy, he will be made to feel that there is a meaning in the
word " responsibility" he never discovered before.

MONEY MARKET and CITY NEWS.
CITY, FRIDAY EVENING.
1 'Osis .—The tendency of the foreign exchanges is just now
worthy of the most careful observation, since it would appear
to have, as, in fact, it must, so immediate an influence on the
movements of the Bank. With a decline in the rates on the
principal points of Europe, the Directors would, perhaps, have
no hesitation in again iucreasenw' their minimum of discount
on an early beard day, possibly the very next. A proper re-
gard for the public interest, as well as a reasonable view to
the profits of their own proprietary, might have seemed to
be a sufficient justification of the measure. But, with the
market for foreign bills still greatly in favour of this country,
and the indication there is of a continued advance, they can-
not, without incurring censure, venture at present to create
renewed alarm by persevering in the restrictive course they
have been lately taking. Three months' paper on Paris was
again negotiated this afternoon at 25 95, or nearly a franc
above par, while, on Amsterdam also and other leading
cities, somewhat more was paid for the pound sterling than
on the last foreign post-day. At the Stock Exchange money
was not only easy, but in very considerable abundance. On
the authority of several leading brokers, we may state that
loans, on the deposit of fair guarantees, were to be had, for
limited periods, at the rate of four per cent., and, at the
reduced value of stocks and other descriptions of security, a
preponderance of buyers is beginning to be perceptible. The
share and foreign stock accounts have proceeded in a very
satisfactory manner, and may be said to have been virtually
concluded. Two failures were named in the course of the
day, but they were not of a magnitude to make any im-
pressicn. Only a very few thousands will fully cover the
liabilities of the parties in default. An immune aggregate
of differences has, therefore, contrary to the general expec-
tation, been adjusted without any sensible derangement of
the markets.

MURDER OF A WIFE BY HER

HUSBAND.
(From the Easton Counties Herald.)
The neighbourhood of Mill-street, where a great portion
of the Irish poor reside, in Hull, was the scene of m,.ch ex-
citement throughout Sunday last, in consequence of the death
during the night of a poor woman, the wife of a labourer,
under circumstances detailed in the following evidence. It
appears that the husband was habitually irritable, of inebriate
habits, and frequently cruel to his wife, who was the mother
of an infant of three months. That he had affection for his
child is not doubted, but his conduct towards his wife ap-
pears to have been unreasonable, tyrannical, and cruel.
When the child cried it was his habit to kick his wife. One
of these kicks, on Sunday morning last, about one o'clock,
inflicted upon a most sensitive part of her person, caused an
effusion of blood, which resulted in death in three hours.
The husband was found at the Lord Durham public-house at
half-past one, and when told of his wife's condition, pro-
fessed to go for a doctor, but did not return home; and he
had not done so up to the hour of the inquest, which was
held before Mr. Thorney, at the Joiners' Arms, in West-street,
on Monday, at ten o'clock in the forenoon, when the follow-
ing witnesses were examined :

Mary Fullerton,ovile of Michael Fullerton, of Mill-street,
labourer, deposed—l lire in the same house where the de-
ceased and her husband, Patrick M'lntyre, resided. I saw
the deceased at nine or ten o'clock on Saturday night last.
She was then very well. She went out between eleven and
twelve o'clock to look for her husband, and while she was
out her husband came in, sat down in my room, and smoked
his pipe. In a short while he went upstairs to the child,
which was crying, and then he went out to look for his wife.
Ile had been drinking plenty. I then went upstairs to the
child, and as I was bringing it down stairs I saw the de-
ceased coming into the passage, and when she saw me she
said, " Oh, Lord, Mrs. Fullerton, I'm flooding away ; the one
kick he gave me has cured me." After that she went into
my kitchen, and I got her to sit down upon a chair. Blood
was running from her person upon the floor, and in about a
quarter of an hour after she had been in the kitchen, old Mrs.
Judy M'lntyre came in, and also Catherine Butler, who
sopped up the blood, and then the deceased walked upstairs,
into her own room.. I took the child upstairs. The de-
ceased laid herself down on the floor at the fire-side.
never saw Patrick M'lntyre after he went out to look for
his wife. While I was upstairs with the deceased she
fainted, and I gave her some water. I remained upstairs
about a quarter of an hour, and then left her in the care of
Judy M'lntyre and Catherine Butler. I never saw her
afterwards.

On re-examination this witness added—When I was coming
down stairs with the child, Mrs. Nancy M.lntyre was the
first who spoke, and she said, " Oh Lord, Mrs. Fullerton, I
am flooding away." I then said, " Did you see Paddy?" and
she said, " Don't you see I did ?" and I heard Patrick
M'lntyre call out from the end of the passage in the street,
" I'll make you stop in the room, and mind the child, and not
he running out after me." I am sure it was the husband's
voice I heard.

Michael Fullerton, of Mill-street, labourer, deposed—l
live on the low flia,r of the house in which the deceased lived.
The deceased was in my room as late as one o'clock. She
was then well. She went out to look after her husband, and
while she was out the husband came back, and then he went
out again, and in a few minutes she came back bleeding into
my room. I heard no noise or quarrelling. I heard her say,
as she was in the street, "In the name of God, let me come
into the house," and then she came in. She afterwards
went up stairs. I found her husband in a public-house, and
told him to go for a doctor. This was in a few minutes after
the woman had come into the house. Ile went
for a doctor; he had been drinking. The public-house was
the Lord Durham. The husband made no observation to
me about his wife when I told him to go for a doctor. The
deceased did not shout or scream, or I should have heard
it. I have never seen the husband since I sent him for the
doctor.

Joseph Agar Locking, surgeon, deposed—About two o'clock
on Sunday morning last, I was called to the deceased. I
found her sitting upon the floor near the fire-place, so very
much exhausted that she could scarcely speak. I examined
her and found blood issuing from the lower part of her per-
son, which was bruised, and which might have been occa-
sioned by a kick. Her death was caused by loss of blood,
but I should wishto have a further examination.

The inquest was then adjourned to Wednesday afternoon
for a post mortem examination to be taken.
The additional evidence taken at the adjourned inquest was
as follows :—_

Mr. Joseph Agar Locking—l have made a post modem
examination in pursuance of the order given to me at the
last court. I examined the wound, and found a large lace-
rated wound about the size of a walnut. [The witness pro-
ceeded more particularly to describe the wound.] I could
not be certain that I saw ruptured veins and arteries. That
part of the person is composed of a great number of those
vessels. I have no doubt that the bleeding came from that
part, and from the injury there, which bleeding, together
with the shock to the system, was the cause of death. The
injury was such as might have been inflicted by a kick and a
shoe. The lungs were congested, as also the lining mem-
brane of the windpipe. I should not say that the congestion
of the lungs caused death.

Catherine Butler, 62, Mill-street, single woman, deposed
—She heard the deceased tell Mr. Render that it was her
husband who had hurt her. This was after he had given her
extreme unction.

James Jennings, of Mill-street, labourer, deposed—l saw
Mthityre and his wife together in Mill-street, about 1 o'clock
on Sunday morning. I was in my own house looking out of
my window. She was lying still on the flags, against Charley
Dodd's wall, and he was kicking her very hard. He kicked
her several times. I am positively sure of three times, but
could not speak to four, before he let her get up. He did
not speak. Before he gave her the last blow (with his hand)
she called on him, for the honour of God, to let her get up,
and get into the house. He made no answer, but let her get
up after the last blow ; as she was creeping to get up, he
struck her another blow with his fist, and knocked her head
against the wall. She then got up, and walked into the
house. lie went up Mill-street, and I kept looking out of
window, for I had seen so much I could eat no more supper.
There were several other witnesses in attendance, but as
they could speak only to the same things, the jury did not
call them.
The Coroner read over the evidence,
The jury returned a verdict of Wilful murder" against
Patrick Mintyre, the husband of the deceased.

A curious fact is mentioned in a letter to the
Evening Post, 'dated at Wexford, that "no potato, sound
when dug, and which accidentally had been cut with the
spade, became spoiled in the house, but remained perfectly
untouched, fresh, and sound."
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REPRESENTATION OF ANTRIM.—It will be seen by
raeinnoetsicene
tpautibolshoefd
the elsewhere,
co unytha theretAntrim,
biys
Kt hre.
Irvine, a Scotchman, the late Member. Mr. Watson, the
dismissed of Lisburne, said he would contest
a seat on the
first vacancy, in order to have an opportunity of manifesting
his gratitude to Government for his discharge
from the ma-
gistracy. Here, now, is a chance in Antrim for the old
" Commodore."—Dublin Pilot.
WESTMINSTER
COURT of
SEWERS.—On Friday a
special Court of Sewers for Westminster was held at the
Court-house, in Greek-street, Soho-square. Mr. Willoughby
in the chair. At the last meeting of the Court, Mr. Leslie
moved the appointment of Mr. J. Phillips, as assistant-sur-
veyor ; to which an amendment was moved and eventually
carried by the casting vote of the chairman, which resulted
in the meeting of to-day being held "to consider as to the
efficiency of the surveyor's department, and as to the expe-
diency of making a change therein." Mr. Lebreton brought
forward a series of resolutions reflecting on the efficiency of
the surveyers' department, and proposing various changes
therein. A very long and somewhat desultory discussion
ensued, the result of which was that motions were carried
abolishing (subject to confirmation) the offices of assistant •
surveyors, and limiting the establishment to a chief surveyor
and a consulting surveyor. A motion declaring that the
resolutions passed should not be acted upon until they should
have received the sanction of another Court, excited consi-
derable opposition, Mr. Leslie and Captain Bogue stating
that such a notice was a stultification of the previous proceed-
ings of the Court. A number of commissioners might come
down at the next Court. not having attended the present,
and defeat the decision which the Court had come to to-day.
The Chairman thought that resolution was consonant with
prudence and good sense. Ihe motion for the confirmation
at the next Court was then put and carried by a majority of,
ten to five. The Court then broke up.
TuErr.—on the night of Sabbath week, the cash-
box of the Secession Church in Moss-street was stolen from
the chapel. There was a congregational prayer meeting on
the evening of Sabbath, and it is supposed that the thief or
thieves had secreted themselves under the seats, and re-
mained in the church after the meeting dismissed, as one of
the church deors was found open on Monday morning. There
was no money in the box.—Elgin Courier.