The Sun. — 1853-12-27 (London, England)

THE SUSPENSION OF BUSINESS YESTERDAY IN THE CITY.—The City yesterday, considering the fact of its being "boxing day," presented an appearance which may, perhaps, be denominated "unexampled." Not but that the dense fog which " clothed" the whole of its ancient boundary "as with a garment," during the early part of the forenoon, and the " biting frost" which formed  " The fancied landscape on the window panes"  of the citizens, most faithfully depicted the severity of the season, but that the hum of the " working bees" in this vast "hive of industry" was temporarily hushed by the common consent' of the citizens, and that a day of " rest" from bodily toil, and a day of "recreation" for all parties had been mutually agreed upon. The shops in the leading thoroughfares were closed, and the doors of the warehouses as safely padlocked as they had beim the day before, except in one or two instances, which ought not to be nameless, but which, perhaps, it is better at this season of the year that we should make so, seeing that loss, and not profit, was, in most of the cases, the result of the obstinacy of the proprietors to the general will, the parties being compelled eventually to yield, through that mighty force of circumstances," the absence of even "the ghost" of a customer. As a consequence of tins general closing —this just tribute of the wealthy " capitalist" to the "rights of labour"—thousands of merry faces might be seen—the industrious of both sexes—all of them wending their way from the " murky city" to the "parks," the " exhibitions," the "galleries," the "firesides " of their friends, and though last, not least, to the "theatres," there to take in, in the company of "laughter-loving innocence," their fill of "fun and frolic," to remember in such company the "joyousness of the past," and to awake with renewed vigour to the performance of the "duties of the present." zEn s iAd eTrTaEbler, T TOe x ci te mMe nutn DErt A was or e a tFEMALE.edin the— mnYeoeiDgss tthEebr PudEualA atrociousoo neighbourhood attemptof aCgleida, nste 90e r yy murder-el years, rnse, , of i naN nao. ssr,erqi Leudee en 'lves e. obi nuo ifal dna innagms,edChl‘aln.cleVryil-ilisa'ne, and from what can be gleaned, very slight hopes are entertained of the recovery of the perpetrator of the horrid deed. It appears, that the injured female and her husband, William Willis, aged 61 years, a la,w-writer, had lived very comfortably together; but from some reason unexplained he, on his return home in the morning between two and three o'clock seized a table knife, and rushed to the bedside of his wife, and endeavoured to cut her throat ; she struggled violently, when he inflicted a most severe wound in her hofe ad. the r00m,6.1e 1 jumped out ;tod called o f bed, a out "Murder u iu rrdesl d to the door of t he hus husband (Willis) immediately seized a razor, and inflicted a frightful gash on his throat, by which the windpipe and o lcaarri ltoi dr d artery but swseortel loani de obroairoe g, up s tnaoi rts, dfiovui dnedd he. had jumped into bed and covered himself over with the outbed colfobthedesa. ndTehoenvpeoyliecde Whaerwd,asKtainkge,ne surgeon, was in immediate attendance, and rendered College Hospital, where Altliora.vCGilaegnotregarre'briLuvraeyNd;son, the house every assistance, but little hopes are entertained of his recovery. Mrs. Willis has suffered most severe injuries in protecting herself against the murderous violence of her husband. There are several rumours as to the real  cause of the melancholy occurrence, but the truth cannot be ascertained.