The Sun. — 1865-05-10 (London, England)

RAILWAY BILLS.  In committees of. the Lords, the Mumbles and the Waterford and Limerick Bills were withdrawn, and the New Brunswick and Canada Bill was rejected. Before the referees, in Court B, in the case of the  North British and Edinburgh and Glasgow (Bridge of Forth) Bill, the objections of the promoters to the locus standi of the Scottish Central and others were not admitted. In group 8, the preamble of the West Hartlepool, the Cleveland, and the North-Eastern Amalgamation Bill was proved. In group 10, the case of the Midland (New Lines, &c.) Bill was proceeded with. In group 11, the preamble of the Mold and Denbigh Junction (Extensions) Bill was proved. In group 12, the preamble of the Shrewsbury and Potteries Junction Bill was proved. The East London (Thames Tunnel) and the Isle of Wight Bills were proved. The Brading and Yarmouth Bill was rejected. In the Commons the following unopposed Bills were referred to the Committee of Ways and Means —viz., the Sutherland, the Talyllyn, the Moddwy,  the Mid-Wales (Eastern Extension), the Mid-Wales (Western Extension); and Halesowen and Bromsgrove Branch, the Bishops Castle (Deviations), the Busby, the Watchet and Minehead, the London Chatham, and Dover, and the London and South Western Bills. In group 8, the Clitheroe and West Riding Junction Bill was rejected. In group 9, the Barnsley, Ackworth, and Pontefract Bill was withdrawn. In group 10, the Midland (New Lines, &c.) and the Lancashire Union Bills were proceeded with. In group 11, the Hoylake Bill, being unopposed, was referred to the general committee. Evidence was taken in the case of the Wrexham and Minera Bill. In group 12, the North Staffordshire Bill was proceeded with. In group 14, East Glocestershire and Wiltshire Bill was passed, and the London, Bucks, and East Glottestershire Bill was thrown out. In group 17, the preamble of the Althorpe-on-Trent and Lincoln Bill was proved. In group 19, the case of the Aberystwith and Welsh Coast Bill was proceeded with. In group 21, in the case of the Inverness and Perth Junction and Inverness and Aberdeen [Junction Amalgamation Bill, the Committee considered clauses prior to passing the preamble. In group 23, evidence on behalf of the promoters of the Greenock (recommitted) Bill was continued.  ATTEMPTED WIFE MURDER AND SUlCME.—Yesterday morning, between seven and eight o'clock, a man, named Moratti, an Italian, carrying on business as a confectioner, No. 105, Hackney-road, attempted to murder his wife by cutting her throat, and afterwards made a desperate attempt to destroy his own life. The greatest excitement prevailed in the immediate locality in which the crime was perpetrated. Moratti, it appears, was married about four months since to an Englishwoman, both husband and wife being young. The marriage proved an unhappy one, producing constant quarrels, leading to the wife absenting herself and refusing to return to her home. At length, however, Moratti succeeded in his persuasion, and she again took up her abode with him. On Monday afternoon they had a serious quarrel, bringing a number of persons round the door. That quarrel appears to have continued, for yesterday morning a son of the bookseller, residing next door, saw Mrs. Moratti in the cistern. As he left the house he called to his father, and on the latter going down stairs to render assistance he met Mrs. Moratti, who had extricated herself from the cistern, in a state of nudity, and her body covered with blood, which was flowing from a wound in her throat. Medical assistance was immediately called in, after which an Inspector of the N division, accompanied by a constable, entered the house, with the view of finding Moratti ; and on proceeding upstairs to the front room they found the wretched man in a pool of blood on the floor, insensible, and with his throat frightfully cut. He was in his night dress. A razor, with which it was believed he had cut his throat, was by his side, and not far distant from him was a large knife, used in his business, with which it was believed he had inflicted the wound in his wife's throat. The wounds of husband and wife were dressed by the medical gentlemen in attendance, Mr. Haycock and Mr. Burchell, and they were conveyed in separate cabs to the London Hospital, whore they both lie in a precarious condition. Mrs. Moratti is reported to be enciente. The excitement caused by this frightful occurrence continued throughout the day, and the house has been taken possession of by the police and locked up.