The Sun.
London, England, 1852-05-05 00:00:00

BIRTHS IN THE WEEK.

Males ... ... ••• ... ... 806
Females ... ... ... ... ... 730

Total ... ... ... ... ... 1,536
*ln this number are included 45 by Scarlatina, 36
by Typhus Fever, and 6 by Diarrhcea.

THE NEW FLOATING GUNPOWDER
MAGAZINES AT LIVERPOOL.
(From the London Gazette.)
Office of Ordnance, April 30, 1852.
The following regulations (in addition to those pub.
lished in the Gazette of sth March, 1852), are to be
observed, in relation to the construction of the
vessels to be moored at the places under the
provisions of an Act of the 14th and 15th Queen
Victoria, cap. 67, sec. 6, intituled, " An Act to
repeal so much of an Act of the 12th year of King
George the Third, relating to the making, keeping, and
carriage of gunpowder, as excepts therefrom certain gun-
powder magazines and stores near Liverpool, and to
make certain temporary provisions, with regard to the
said magazines and stores;" also fixing the quantity of
gunpowder to be kept in such vessel. Any person failing
to observe these regulations will be guilty of a misde-
meanour and punished accordingly.
Ist. That in vessels for the stowage of gunpowder a
clear passage or wing shall be left between the powder
store and ship's side, in case of collision from other ves-
sels passing up or down.
2nd. That in addition to the wing passage round the
vessel a crown of planking shall be attached, of four
inches thick, fastened on the lower part of the beams,
for the whole extent of the powder-rooms, and that the
entrance scuttle shall be fitted with a pent;-house cover-
ing on the deck, for a further security of the magazine
scuttles only.

3rd. That no cabins, with fire-places, can be allowed.
And the Master-General of the Ordnance is pleased
to allow that the quantity of gunpowder to be kept in
the new floating magazines, at Liverpool:, may be in-
creased from 10,000 to 15,000 barrels, of 1 tOOlbs. each.
By order of the Master-Gem fral,
W. COTTON.

HORRIBLE STORY.
The Bordeaux journals contain the ft Mowing hor-
rible story :—At the end of October 1, est a sum of
900 E was stolen from the House of M. Mano, an
avot6 of Basas; the thieves being a public-house
keeper and his wife, a peasant, and M. Mano'a
servant. After the robbery the thieves, went to the
public-house of the married couple, which is
situated at some little distance from tho town, and
partook of breakfast. In that house lived a girl of the
town named Annette. Whilst the parties were at table,
they complained bitterly that they had only been able to
steal 900 f., though they knew that M. Mtano had 10,000 f.
in his possession, that sum having been de posited with
him the day before. On this Annette reproach ed them for
what they had done. " I am only a loose wiaman," said
she, " and yet I would never commit a robbery." This
declaration terrified the thieves, and to prevent the girl
from denouncing them, they resolved to kill her.
Meantime the gendarmes having obtained information of
the robbery commenced a search after the thieves, and a
day or two after they made a descent in the public-house,
which was one of notoriously bad character. One of the
four persona was arrested on suspicion of being the thief.
Not seeing Annette, the gendarmes asked what had be-
come of her, and the public-house keeper replied that
she had been spending some days with her family, and
had afterwards left for England. Things remained in
this state until Easter Monday, when the rum our spread
in the town that Annette had been murdered. It ap-
peared on inquiry that the son, aged between 13 and 14,
of the public-house keeper, had, whilst playing in the
house with some boys, pointed to a large iron pot, and
said, "I shouldn't like to eat anything cooked in that
pot." " Why so?" ho was asked. " Becausit it was in
it my father cooked Annette!" On this the boys left
him, saying, " As your father killed Annetta, we will
not play with you!" and they on the following day re-
fused to allow him to join their games. When the boy's
strange remark was mentioned to the gendarmes, they
at once proceeded to arrest his father and mother.
They then called on him to tell all he know. Ile said
he knew nothing, and denied that he had used the lan-
guage ascribed to him. The gendarmes, to frighten
him, placed handcuffs on him, and threatened to convey
him to prison. He then made this statement:—" On the
evening after the robbery I heard a piercing cry up-
stairs, and I Went up. I opened the door of a r 991131

and saw the body of Annette lying on the bed without
movQment. I wanted to go in, but the persons who
wero there prevented me; and the peasant, one of them,
pushed me away; and, giving, me four sous, said—' Wo
don't want you—here are four sous—be off with you!'
I wen► away. In the night the dead body of Annette
was conveyed down stairs, and her murderers deliberated
as to what should be done with it. One suggested that
it should be placed in a hole to be made in the wall, and
that the hole should be plastered up; but this was ob-
jected to, on the ground that the freshness of the mortar
would attract attention, and that besides the corpse
would cause a strong stench. At length it was resolved
to cut the body in pieces, to separate the flesh from the
bones; to boil the flesh in a pot, and give it to the pigs
to eat, and to burn the bones to ashes. This was done.
The bones, to prevent any smell, were steeped in quick
lime before being burned. The pigs devoured the boiled
flesh with voracity, and some of them died after from
excess. My father and mother, the peasant, and M.
Mano's servant, took part in this horrible affair." The
law authorities are now making a searching investiga-
tion; they have already discovered the clothes of the
girl, and in the ashes of the grate a human tooth. The
ashes have been carefully collected, and are to be analysed
by chemists. The sensation which the affair has created
in the peaceable town of Butts is immense.