The Sun. — 1861-09-27 (London, England)

THE RUGBY AFFAIR.  A Rugby correspondent of the _Leeds Mercury writes :—" Mrs. Hill, the baby, and the nursemaid, have been residing in Rugby since Saturday last. Mrs. Hill possesses sufficient personal attraction 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 viceconsul 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 circumstances 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 Brussels, disguised and in secret, have their origin in the prolific imagination of one of the keenest pennya-liners' of the metropolitan press. During the Lwohnodleuno,fatuhde uwnesiksgpurieeseedd. in lig ihsiesbjaererresitn hdeisgwuaissini gn. himself with the black whiskers and moustache was not histo preventfriends arrestan d h a eitherhimself fors ay debtwwith a fa or perjury;r more but honourable and praiseworthy object, that of seeing his wife without her knowing him, in consequence of the determined and repeated refusals on her part to allow him to speak to her.  The Eastern exchange continues with a very satisfactory 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 forbidden his wife to visit her family, and to her disregarding his prohibition. On Monday evening the wife taking advantage 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 eshtwoortwlyoma no objection. The man and wife retired to tthogeierthber2 and the woman's sister slept on a mattress e nfget enee art, About four o'clock in the morning movements,Th upfwe lhl ota so hadlae attend asleep. n. been d Atob awakenedohisAbout t tw o business, hohours andys h laters went e tnt e ohu,e sistert m. Ws wife cry out Help he murdering hearing the butch to her horror, she perceived dering me I" and jumping•large knife. stabbing his wife with alie then enthe man tered an adjacent room, and inflicted a deep stab on his (max abdomen, and another near the heart. The woman's cries and the man was conveyed to the hospital, whilst medical assistance was procured for the wife. The wounds of both, however, are so grave that attracted some persons upstairs, no hope is entertained of eaviug them. anwlaassausw.uaakle