The Sun.
London, England, 1855-09-07 00:00:00

" MORE TOORAK BEER.

"The following correspondence—which explains itself
—has been handed to us for insertion,
(To TEE EDITOR OF THE AGE.)
" Sir—Will you do me the favour of inserting the en-
closed correspondence. The cause of my summary dis-
missal, in the usual arbitrary style of Sir Charles Rotham,
e., without waiting to bear the other side of the ques-
tion, will be sufficiently explained by the correspondence
itself. " Your obedient servant,
CHARLES B. CROONS.
" Brunswick-street, Collingwood,
June 5, 1865."

Colonial Secretary's Office, Melbourne, June 1, 1855.
Sir,—His Excellency the Governor having had under
his comideration a report made to him by an officer of
police, with reference to certain expressions used by you
on a lata occasion, and also with reference to,f,your tone
and bearing, I am directed by his Excalleneylo inform
you that yob are unfit to have the honour of holding the
appointment of a Government contractor, and that your
sere ices will henceforth be dispensed with.
I have the honour to be, sir, your most obedient ser-
vant, J. Moon; A.C.S.
Charles B. Croons, Esq.

Brunswick-street, Collingwood, June 2, 1855.
Sir,—l have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of
your letter, informing me that my services will hence•
forth be dispensed with, in c4nsequence of the report by
an officer of police concerning certain expressions said to
have been made use of by rue, together with my tone
and hearing on a late occash,n. May Ibe permitted t.)
remonstrate against this summary dech•ion on the part
of his Excellency, awl also to inquire what were the
offensive expres4olie alluded to, and what tine and bear-
ing has been described to have been uttered or displayed
by me, and on what occasion, as I am at a loss to un-
derstand how I can have offended to such a degree as tip
cause his Excellency to adopt so sudden and severe a
measure.—l have the honour to he, sir, your most obe-
dient servant, CHARLES B. CROONS.
To the lion, the Co'onial Secretary.

Colonial Secretarv's-office. June 3, 1855.
Sir,—His Excellency!the Governor having duly col,
-idered your reqaest to be informed of the grave charge,
Brought agai. st you, which have caused your dismissal,
and having thought fit to accede to such request, I an)
directed by his Excellency to state that the remark you
,sere heard to make, on the subject of his Excellency's
peer at the late viceregal ball, was neither courteous nor
roper ; and furthermore, that the want of discretion
was aggravated by your recumbent brazing and geaturei
st, hile in the act of leaving the supper-room.
His Excellency, at the same time &reas me to gate,
that although the defence would, in itself, come under
the head of extreme indiscretion, yet having been com-
mitted on a great State occasion, where Court et;quett
was obviously enforced on all s:des, his Excellency had
no other course open to him than to order your imme-
diate public d.smi,.sal and official disgrace, independent
of the fart of the had example get by you to all other
Government contractors, whose duty it is at all time,,,
and more especially in public, to support abrffiid ccioaul
oat
tiraancce
all articles of consumption furnished b
ouyr most gistft
—I have the honour to be, sir,
J.
J. MOOBE, A.C.S.
servant,.
Charles 13. Croons, Esq.
Bru swick•strcet, tollingwood, June 4, 1555.
J 141,0 t 9 Ackaoyd‘dgt ttie F9COiO of your :otter

The Court of Aesizes of the Nord has just been °cell-
pael two days in trying two men named Legrand and
Bouchard, for murder and robbery. An elderly couple
named Moncheront, retired brewers, lived at Marbaix,
and were known to have large sums of money in their
house. On the 28th February 1a.4 their servant, a fee
male named Wiry, en eon g to the house at an early
Muir in the in 'ruing, was horrified to fire: them both
:ying dead in a pool of bloiel. Their skulls were cone
pietely crushed in, apparently by blows from hammers ;
they were dreadfully wounded in (tiff . rent parts of their
per,ons with sharp in-trutnents ; and their throats were
cut from ear to ear. They had evidently been murdered
on the previous evening. when seated by their fireside ;
and as there were two chairs paced besides theirs, and
es a jog and three gla-ses, containing beer, were en the
table, it was supposed that the murderers were two men
who had called upon them, tied to whom teey had i t-
iered a glass of beer. Several drawers in different parts
af the house bail been broken open, and largo sums of
ineney, amounting to more than 50,000 f., ‘which they
were known to have contained, were stolen, as were also
a gold watch and a quantity of plate. Suspicion fell on
two brothers named Bouchard, men of bad character be-
longing to the village, and an anonymous letter was sent
to the authorities stating thet those men, accompanied
by one Legrand. their brother in-law, who was also a
had character, hail been seen in the evening of the
27th going towards the house of the Moneheronte.
The three men were in consequence arrested. A few
days after the wife of Thelesphore Bouchard, one of the
accus,d men, revealed that in the night nf the 27th Feb.,
her hu-hand and her brother Adolphe, after having been
absent the greater part of the preceding day, bad returned
home at a late hour, and had entered the house, not by
the door, but by the stable window ; that they had im-
mediatelf washed their clothes, had examined them care-
fu:ly the next morning, had destroyed a pair of shoes
though quite new, and had made her wash a cravat.
She also stated that they had informed her and their
sister Clara that they bad returned home late, and had
washed their clothes, because they had bad a fight with
some gamekeepers, and they specially requested them
not to talk of the affair, as they said that if found out
they would be sure to get a year's imprisonment. It
turned out that they had, two days after this, sent their
sister Clara to Paris, hut the authorities had her brought
home. When interrogated, she stated that shelled several .
Mmes overheard her brothers and Legrand talk ofhceoamr:
mitring murder for the sake of robbery, andhadto bed
them indicate Moucberont and his wife as likelyhai
been
their victims. A few days after these
ascertained, Thelei-phore Bouchard confessfheadue:tsohaisfelil,oraei
prisoner pained Barleon, that
her, and Legrand who had
be released, he
aed as Barleon was about
"'ld remove Mouche-
begged him to go to his house,
comittntytiamd the murders,
and alse to take away a bag I
full
buriedo in a ditch at a
rout's gold watch from a place. wahfernreanitey7sLecarteotleedn;
from
l‘clialueedhFrannxt' Mwohniunhet.be.Bhaae:ir,lie°:ndtoßldo
he prison what the man ha
" °begged another. pri-oner,
repeated this, immediately
to haste
tuheehadiidreiciatovrinoi
named Crapez, who was
More et, and remove
to his house a, d to Fa
h rities could arrive ; he at the
and money tierore the authorities was about to leave the,agvaeo
gap', to
watch
another sum
of
money ; and he promised him a largt
more in a ditch at • .
ame time made known to .ao' t(iiiiitachmaatn Ctahtai that
I ohne, haanddbu somerle'l
pelf
z .
silent.OAP"
• t of the booty
immediatelyprovided he
ehoemara•ouurl,dieare.endiotvheeitmaarnid,, keeoelr.
fesion t ) the gaol autboritei s. On h. aring that he hail
T. B uchard was plunged in despair and clet-1-
one
Is‘)to, cow it suicide. He sent for the director of the
prison,
'Thne(
and t dd him that it was he and Legrand wile
had committed the murders, and he described minutely
how they had done them ; but he protested that his
brother Adolphe had had no share in the crimes. Shortie
after the man
ia hanged himself. Adolphe, however, ad-
mitted, on g inteingated, that he was an accom-
plice in the murder, aed robbery, and that he h d kept
w near the house whilst his brotherdeclared both the prisoner-
guilty,
and Laegraipidt
atTenhueajtin'lgy circurn,tances in favour of
pg euri
Ipteyt: ahtuetd
with
hi
tehme.
A. Bouchard. The Court sentenced Legrand to death,
and Bouchard to bard labour for life. In the course of
4* pr(meciins, it wag itattcl that
Crape, 9 kaaWin
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The French Admiral showed me his orders, dated the
30th August. and a telegraphic despatch of the Ist of
September, showing that the English Government were
aware of their intention ; so, in point of fact, they not
only got orders to go home, but had actually sailed be.
fore I sent our ship.; to Kiel. You may then judge of
my surprise when you tell me you only knew of their
withdrawal on the 25th September.
I have not the least idea that the Russians will move
from their ports at this season of the year ; they are
much too wise to do anything of the sort, and as for
their finding their way into the North Sea, I look upon
that as impossible ; and if they did contemplate anything
of the sort, a squadron in the Belt and one at Elsinore,
would watch them much better than in the Gulf of
Finland, which is very dangerous.
I have the journals of the ship; in the years of 1808-9,
and I find Sir James Saumarez withdrew from the Golf
of Finland before the beginning of October ; hnt there
is a great difference between the Gulf of Finland and
the Baltic, and you may depend I will not leave the
Baltic as long as is prudent ; but as to the Gulf of Fin.
land, I must use my own discretion, and when Ido
learn it, I shall keep a good steam squadron off the en-
trance of the Gulf, as long as it can be done with safety
to the ships. We have bad heavy gales ever since I
came here, and I have been obliged to withdraw the
ships from off Trelsingfors, and it is , wonderful to me
how they have been able to remain there so long. and
the captains dei,erve the greatest praise. Such a bloolutde
as they have kept up has never been done before. •
I am not at all apprehensive of the Russians attaching
me. Should they oomein my way with any force they
can send to sea, I dare say I shall be able to manage
them.—l remain, my dear Sir James, yours very truly.
Canuals NAME.
The Right goo. Sir Jamesrahato, Bad., K.O
Admiralty.

No. XXI.
[Extract.]
DCKE OF WELLINGTON, NATIORN, Oct. 3, 1854.
My dear Sir James,—l am sorry I used such a strong
expression on General Jones's report, and I have sent
home another letter c,rrecting it ; but you must allow
an engineer officer giving the opinion Getnhearatlia.oTomneasa
gave, and which necessarily led to the councils of war,
and I have no doubt broughtamong 8 tdownthem
m uponat
tmhei s thesea abusesori
o
of the press, was most pr 'yoking. Take a chart and
has much
look how Sweaborg is hedged in with sunken racks, and
opinion of the
elywinoguld be led to suppose
the
eeny fancy ships
and o
n
i . his senses could rea,ly believe what he stated, and
Board's also.
which II h(ai:reeßnsoy,d oguobtt
whien
dig, now
has orrybefgoort; but that
ii—
ut that
rePt'
confidence in the conduct of the admirals, and
will say two admirals were afraid e want of
damaged their reputation, not only in the
public, but in your opinion, and in th
borg, but that engineers think that . to attack Swea-
that this was the proper seas •
Ti:ey
Beason it could be done, and
of old women. ' Ceg ° they are a couple

Yon
y,,u seem to think there is the power of anchoring in
the Baltic at all times
may do so in summer, but not in winter. The difference
in the Baltic season and the English season seems to be
forgotten. Our ships have already been parting their
ables. The Dragon wag
reduced to one anchor, and the
Imperieuse and Basilisk lost one each the other night ;
and the Mag,ioienne was obliged to anch(r in a fog, and
Then she weighed in the night from off Nargen, she
Found her.elf obliged to anchor off Renekar Lighthouse,
baying drifted among the rocks ; and the Euryalus has
been ashore on a rock, and it was a mercy she was not
lost.-13elieve me, yours very truly,
CHAS. NANZI.
The Right Hon. Sir J. mes Graham, Bart., Admiralty.

* I did exercise my judgment, and reduced my fleet to 12
ail-of-the-line, to give the Russians a chance to come out and
fight me, if they were inclined.— -C. N.
I informed their lordships of my intention to withdraw
from the Gulf of Finland the day after they wrote to me to
use my own discretion, when they knew Sebastopol was not
taken.—C. N.

I did not weaken my force until I knew what Were tha
intentions of the French Admiral.--C. N.
§ Sir James Graham knew nothing about the Baltic, or h:
never would have supposed that ships should contisue the
Gulf of Finland until the eud of October.—C. N.
II They may have remained in the J3eltie, 1,41 not t4'
c4iii of Fialaad..44 N. -