The Sun.
London, England, 1842-12-15 00:00:00

tion, would become purchasers ; for it is evident, when
they can possess themselves of an article similar and
superior to their own at a far cheaper rate, they will
be drawn into the market, while their energies must
be turned into some other channel of employment to
obtain subsistence and the means of purchasing. Teas,
raw and manufactured silks, would, in all probability,
be shipped in exchange from the Chekiang, Fokian,
and Keangnan coast for woollens and broad cloths,
thus lowering the price of tea, and admitting a
poorer class of consumers in England. Some of us,
who had an opportunity of visiting the northern pro-
vinces, saw what a ready mart woollens and warm
olothing would be likely to meet with in a country
liable to such changes of temperature. No possible
average can be taken of what would be the demand ;
for the great loss of coasting junks, and the expenses
of inland carriage, prevent the inhabitants from feeling
the effect ofour diminished prices ; btit, when it is taken
into consideration that a quantity of European manu-
factures finds a sale on the western coast of South
America, where there are but nine millions of people,
equal to what is now sold on the coast of China, in
which country there are supposed to be three
hundred millions, the supply in China must be
very far short of the actual demand. If this argu-
ment is fair, an enormous increase in the consumption
may be expected ; and should the Mandarins find out,
as they no doubt would, that a profit is to be obtained
by a monopoly of the trade, perhaps at last their own
interest will lead them in reality to encourage what
hitherto they have blindly driven away.—Lord Joce-
lyn's Six Months with the Chinese Expedition.

WIFE SHOT BY HER HUSBAND.

On Friday night, between six and seven o'clock,
John Hunt, who keeps a public-house in Waterbeach
Fen, near Cambridge, went into his house with a
loaded gun, which he discharged at his wife, and in-
£tantly escaped. The gun was discharged at the poor
woman's head, and the charge blew away part of her
lower jaw, and, passing in an oblique direction, also
took off and lacerated the upper part of her shoulder
Mr Pinchard, surgeon, of Cottenham, was called in
with all possible speed, and he extracted two large
pieces of bone from the lower jaw, and dressed the
wounds, but it was not thought possible the poor
creature could long survive the extensive injuries she
had received.

There were two other men in the house when the
murderous attempt was made, but they were too pa.
ralysed by the occurrence to secure Hunt, who in-
stantly made his escape, and has not since been heard
of, although diligent search was made at an early hour
this morning. It appears that it was a feeling of
jealousy that prompted the wretched man to the com-
mittal of the diabolical act; he had, we understand,
many times threatened to take away the life of his
wife, and had been absent from his home for several
days pant. The parties had been married twenty-six
yearn, and have three children, the eldest being mar-
ried, and Hunt is supposed to have got through a
deal of property. Mrs. Hunt is the daughter of an
old gentleman named Newton, who left the scene of
the tragedy only a few minutes before the arrival of
the infuriated husband.

Hunt is about forty-five years of age; and it is
generally supposed at IVaterbeach that he had com-
mitted suicide, and search has been made in the river
which runs near the house, but without success.

The Cambridge Independent Press, in noticing this
melancholy occurrence in a second edition, states that
this is the fifth attempt at murder in the town and
neighbourhood of Cambridge, within the last three
weeks. The attempt made by the green-grocer, in
the market-place of the town, to cut his wife's throat
very recently, proceeded from the same cause of
jealousy which it appears was the origin of the Water-
beach tragedy. The last account relative to the latter
occurrence, which reached Cambridge on Monday
night, stated that the unfortunate woman still lingered
in the most excruciating agony, without any hope
being entertained of her recovery.