The Sun.
London, England, 1863-03-11 00:00:00

AVESTAIINST ti,.

DISGRACEFUL AND UNFEELING PROCEEDING.—A
very respectable-looking young woman came to the court,
and solicited the magistrate to assist her under the follow-
ing circumstances :
Applicant said that she wished the magistrate to afford
her an opportunity of seeing her husband, who was lying
dead at his lodgings. She considered she was entitled to
do so, but was not permitted.
Mr Arnold asked when he died ?
Applicant replied that he died yesterday, he had gone
out on the prey ous day for a walk, and returning unwell
did not survive long.
Mr. Arnold inquired of whom applicant complined,
Applicant replied the landlady of the house where her
husband lodged,
Mr, Arnold— You were not living with him, I suppose.
Applicant—No, I was not, I was in service when intelli-
gence was brought me of his death, I have engaged an
undertaker to bury him, and I think it most extraordinary
that I should not be permitted to go to the room he rented,
I am his lawful wife.
Mr. Arnold—lt seems to be very cruel and unjust
that you should be denied the right, but it is a matter in
which I cannot help you. V hat do you suppose is the
reason for the landlady refusing to admit you ?
Applicant—The only reason I can assign is that she
must want to possess herself of my husband's property,
to which lam entitled. He had not much, but what he
had she has no claim to.
Mr. Arnold—You must take out letters of administra-
tion to entitle you to take possession of his effects. The
landlady's conduct is very heartless, but I cannot compel
her to admit you to the house.
Applicant retired much dejected.

The Cfficial Gazette of Turin contains a decree
authorising the Cavour Canal Company to contract a loan
of a million sterling, to be reimbursed at par in seven years.

The Giornaledi Napoli announces that the mail
was attacked a few days ago by some armed peasants, and
robbed of 800 ducats.

The Monitore Cattelico and Difensore Cattolico,
two Bourbunist journals of Naples, were seized at Naples
on the let.

The Austrian journals announce the creation at
Vienna of a central statistical committee. The Govern-

anent organ has commenced a series of articles upon the
origin and importance of the institution.
The memorial de Lille has the following :

" A sudden change of fortune from an incident
which has all the appearance of a romance, has just oc-
curred to a cotton spinner at Roubaix. This man, aged 29,
who was in the employment of M. esrousseaux of the
above town, being about to marry a young woman of the
same establishment, had sent to Brussels for a certificate
of birth, having been brought up at the Foundling-hospital
of that city. Instead of tbe certificate asked for, the young
man received a notice to call en the burgomaster of Brussels
on important business, and on doing so was surprised to
learn that he was the son of a Russian Prince and a young
lady belonging to the Belgian aristocracy, and that a pro-
perty of from eight to ten millions of francs awaited him,"
The Ost Deutsche Post of Vienna states that two
persons concerned in the robbery of jewels and
papers of the value of 24,000 florins, which was committed
in May last at the residence of the Prince de Schwarzen-
berg at Vienna, have just been discovered. All the objects
stolen, with the exception of about 8,000 florins worth,
have been found in their possession.
A Paris journal announces an important innova.
tion in the postal service ; the Government, they say, is
about to present to the Legislative Body a bill to admit
letters being received at the Post-office after the usual hour
of closing. A double, triple, or quadruple rate is to be
charged according to the time at which the letters are pre.
seated,
The different corps intended to form the Camp
of Chalons this year have just received orders to
send beforehand detachments of gardener-soldiers to sow
with vegetables, at the right season, the gardens destined
for each regim3nt, so as to produce all that may be required
for the troops during their stay. The ground, which has
been already cleared and prepared by the troops who re-
mained in the camp during the winter, is in the most
favourable condition.
A fire broke out in the night of the sth in the
large village of Mattrei, near Innspruck, by which twenty-
one houses and two churches were destroyed.
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