The Sun. — 1865-10-16 (London, England)

THE " SPECTATOR" ON " GOOD MRS. BROWN”._ It appears from evidence taken before the magistrates of Plymouth that a married man, named James Brown, apparently a workman of some kind, had been for some time suffering from dropsy to such an extent as to be unable to move. His wife, who kept a stall in the market, maintained herself,' and some assistance was afforded him by the parish. He was, moreover, insured in an office to the amount of £l4, so that, one thing with another, there was neither actual want nor fear of want in the house. The market-woman, however, wearied of her sickly husband, who could never get better, and who was such a burden, she began to long for the /14, doubtless wealth in her eyes, and at last she tried to accelerate the arrival of her good fortune. Some feeling unexplained, probably terror either of the law or of hell, made her avoid violent murder, but she commenced a system of leaving him all day untended, unable to move, and without food or drink. A neighbour heard her as she returned ask her husband in angry surprise, " What, bain't you ,dead yet ?" and when she one day carried him broth was roughly threatened ; on another, when she triad to prop him up in bed, his breathing being difficult, the wife expostulated gravely upon her unreasonable officiousness. "As long," said Mrs. Brown, "as you keep propping him up, you keep rallying him," interfering, as it were with the natural and fitting order of things, which would bring him death and her the insurance fee. Thus far Mrs. Brown's conduct might be explained on the theory of simple brutality, or of a wish to kill her husband without risk, but her next step indicated a different.. feeling at work. She still abstained from killing him, but she resolved that once dead no time should be lost in getting rid  £2,378,665 So that there is no such extravagant difference in favour of the present year, and what there is will be easily accounted for presently. In September, 1863, there was a 4 per cent. and a favourable foreign exchange, just as there was in September last. In both cases the demand which drained the Bank till was not a foreign but a home demand. Why at one time or another the quarterly craving for cash is greater or less it is often hard to say. Being the aggregate of an immense number of minute desires, that craving is itself subject to a still greater number of incalculable microscopic influences. The only rule we can lay down is, that it is greater in times of increasing manufacturing employment, and less in times of diminishing manufacturing employment. Speculation, whether in cotton or silk, has no effect on it, but an increase in wages earned and salaries paid in silk or cotton, or anything else, has an immediate effect. The summer quarter of 1863 and 1865 was marked by an augmenting industry, and therefore by an augmented payment to the smaller industrial classes. There never, indeed, was a time when the inoktefeter.onnAa_l trade of many districts leaped forward so rapidly as now. The Americans are buying in every great country, long shut out from many kinds. sumption, is again beginning to consume. Prices are rising in a multitude of articles. The cash payments in Manchester early in October surpassed all previous experience. The trade of Bradford profitable almost beyond precedent. If ever the is customary periodical demand for cash was to increase, this is the time notesfor i t from to increase. Banke. ofß ut though the outgoing of Englandhas not been much greater than in 1863, the demandh. for coin has been much greater. geareuasteser_lonAendsothoidsd brings us to the second that it seems absurd to name it. NaoptEinygsohow minuteever is so extraordinary in the present complicated state of the money market as the number and the variety of the causes which act upon it. In 1859, if anyone had foretold that slavery in America would convulse the world in Lombard-street, he would have been laughed at. Yet for several years we have been suffering from a cotton drain due to that cause and to no other. So now. it seems absurd to say that the Fenian movement in Ireland should have any the slightest influence on the English money market, and yet it has had a little influence ; about £500,000 in coin has been sent to Ireland to meet the partly real and partly feared run on the _