The Sun.
London, England, 1852-06-03 00:00:00

A PRECOCIOUS CRIMINAL.

The Court of Assize of the Ileute-S;ane tried, a
few days ago, a noted bandit, named Pingand, whose
exploits have more than once been noticed in this
journal, on the charge of robbery and assassination.
lie is only 23 years of age, and is good-looking. At
the age of 11 he ran away from home, and after
wandering about the country for some time, was
taken back by the gendarmerie. He subsequently,
however, again ran away, and became a vagabond.
At the age of 17 he was condemned, by the
Correctional Tribunal of Belfort, to imprison-
ment for robbery; and a little later he was con-
demned, by the tribunal of Baume-les-Dames, to two
years' imprisonment, for the same offence. He was
sent to the central gaol of Clairvaux, and on the ex-
' piration of his imprisonment was ordered to join the
2d Regiment of Light Infantry, for which he had
been drawn; but instead of that he returned home-
The gendarmerie were ordered to arrest him. He
thereupon began to scour the country, armed to
on the
the teeth, committed numerous robberies, and loudly
threatened to kill the gendarmes who should
be sent to arrest him. Among the crimes specially,
proved against him were a robbery of dif-
ferent articles in a farm-house at Nivry-le-Bourg on
with a
the 15th of April, 1851; the breaking into a house
and robbery of various things at Vergerone,
22d of July; two robberies, on the 30th of July, at
St. Ferjeux; and a robbery in a farm-house at Heti,
court. In addition it was proved that on the 10th of No-
vember, while engaged in thrashpirnogmcisoerdn,
and went to
named Francois at Faymont, he suddmly knocked miller
down Francois with his flai,l,
aaancd,
tthen, r
isseoi
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the hair, pulled out a knife and declared he g laira by
would kill
him if he would not consent to give hi
shoes, two shirts, some stockings and al a pair of
money. The terrified miller ten francs in
his house to get the things,
In passing through the kitehrn
hatchet, and, after the thingshe seized a large
him, made such dreadful thre promised were given
that the poor man, his wife a 8 against the miller,
flight across the fields. 0 , and daughter took to
entered the farm of a mann the 9th of February he
that he
La Mercelle. lie was named Grandvoinet, at
a brace
and with with a musket and
them s
Grandvoinet for havin n he threatened to kill
give him up to thegendarmes he said, attempted to
, and, raising his musket,
seizing
foi
l.loed.
he vowed
would shoot him. But one of
cationto him, and he, after some conver-
promised
sented, to drink .not to injure them. He even con-
of the wall and with them he remaining on one side
gendarmes in they on the other. The object of the
until their
wine was to keep him en-
gaged
after a while he comrades should arrivteo;ok butto
flight, making he perceived this,
and
them.
dreadful menaces againsta
On the same day person of
having
tricked the gendarmes, and declared
that the - not pass without his
tilling clay should
two other
gendarmes 6 °no of them. A few hours after
genuarmes saw him and went in pursuit. Pingand
allowed them to approach to within a certain distance ;
be one of you." He shortly
when, raising h musket, be said, " Don't come
nearer—l had intended to kill your corporal, but, as
,pokoefmipidislii:sis,
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he is not here, it must
after took flight to a wood, and the two gendarmes
followed. Seeing that one of them was gaining ground
on him he fired right into his breast. The poor man,
whose name was Dauphin, staggered, but did not fall,
The wounded gendarme went to a
and said to his comrade, " I am not dead yet and
demanded assistance ; but such was the
inspired in the neighbourhood that
the people refused to receive him. The other gen-
h willt
eorursoearsrsain:dgaYOnu
dame tired at the bandit, but without effect, and
the latter escaped. The wounds of Dauphin were
though not mortal. The next day
pveiraygasnedrioeunstered a farmhouse at Melisey, and, in
spite of the resistance of the farmer's wife, stole a
gun.
On the ath of March two gendarmes of
Belfort met him near Hericourt. They did not know
him, and asked him for his passport. "I am Pin-
gaud," said he, " and the first who approaches me shall
die." At the same moment he raised his musket.
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One of the gendarmes recommended him to surrender,
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doors kept open, and he preserved his arms
bandslie le; tier,but
seized . They dragged him
out of
house. Ile gave one a kick on
his
the public-
him stagger, and discharged e knee, which made
face of the other, woundin h. pistol right in the
'iirt ho the g in his
way. The latter, g im in the most horrible
however, drawing his sword,
wounded him severely.
For '
lost his senses from logs c) f blood, but on recovering he
attempted to escape.
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The jury brought in e was, however, captured.
a verdict of guilty, but declared
there were extenuating circumstances, and the Court
condemned him to hard labour at the bagne for life.
—Ga/ignancB ill-Wenger.

FEARFUL SHIPWRECK.
(From the New York Tribune.)
The barque Josephs, of Gloucester, England,
Captain Cawsey, left Bristol on the 19th of March,
1852, with a cargo of railroad iron, s white-lead,
kins, &c , bound for Boston. Her crew, all told,
consisted of eighteen persons, and all young men.
Up to the day of her wreck she bad a short and pros-
perous voyage, and made Cape Anne Light at twelve
o'clock on Monday night, April 19. The night being
thick and foggy, and an easterly gale blowing, the
captain stood off on a south-easterly course, and, when
he judged himself far enough out, tacked, and ran in,
intending to make Cape Cod, and so up the bay. The
fog was extremely thick. The vessel had approached
the coast so nearly that in tacking, after sounding and
finding 15 fathoms, the ship was on the edge of the
breakers, and struck on the outer bar, about
half a mile to the northward of the Highland Light,
Cape Cod. This was about three o'clock in the after-
noon of Tuesday, April 20. She probably struck her
bows first, then healed off and lay on her beamends,
and, after a few seas had struck her, which, after a
long easterly storm, run with fearful violence
on the outer bar, her starboard quarter broke off.
In the meantime the pinnace bad been got out,
and lowered from the starboard side, but this boat,
as well as the longboat, was instantly stove and swept
off by the violence of the seas. Her decks now gave
way from the stem to the foremast ; her main and
mizenmast went overboard, and her larboard side fell
in on the railroad iron with which she was freighted.
She was six years old, of about 600 tons burden,
built chiefly of larch and other north-country
wood, in a heavy and substantial mode, and ironed
with heavy braces, iron knees, and other iron fasten-
eiings, which, added to the enormous weight of the
railroad iron in her, made her almost a complete
anchor in herself ; yet, such was the terrible force of
the sea that runs on the outer bar, she was carried
over that and brought up on the inner bar.
In this situation she lay, so thick was the fog,
without any one on her seeing the shore, or being
seen from it, though only about 300 yards distant,
until about five o'clock, the sea making a breach over
her, when three boys who were walking the beach,
the fog now lifting a little, saw her, and proceeded to
the Highland Light and informed Mr. Hamilton, the
keeper of the light, of the fact. The cries of persons
were also heard from the wreck.
The keeper of the light got out the articles belong-
ing to the aumane Society, such as life-preservers,
india-rubber coats, caps, and ono of the rockets de-
posited at the light for the purpose of throwing a
rope from the shore to the vessel, and went down
to the beach opposite the barque, where the people
from Pond Village, in Truro (about one mile from
the beach), were soon assembled. The men could be
plainly seen clinging to the larboard aide of
the ship,
and their cries for assistance are represented as being
heartrending beyond all imagination, the spray flying
over the foremast, which was still standing.
The people of Truro are distinguished for their
hospitality to strangers, and their sympathy with
those in distress, and the only feeling. was to render
assistance to the persons on board. But it was plain
that not only must succour be speedy, bat it could be
of no ordinary kind. The lifeboat of the Humane
Society for, this town is kept in a boathouse about
one mile from the spot where the ship struck, and
preparations were now made to bring this up to the
spot, and also to fire the rocket.
In the meantime, at about seven o'clock, two men
from Pond Village, in Truro—Jonathan Collins and
D. H. Cassity, both young, the latter 23 years of age,
and the former about 35—procured a fisherman's derv,
so-called, belonging to the lighthouse, and avowed
their intention to peril their own lives in an
attempt to save the unfortunate men exposed
before their eyes to immediate death. The resolve
was a most hazardous one, and the experienced per-
sons present entreated them not to ge. When a
heavy sea is running on the outer bar the in-shore
surf is a little diminished, and there was little doubt,
as every Cape Codman le a master of his boat, that
their frail dory could be successfully launched and
carried over the shore wave; but, as aNr an easterly
storm, long continued, the current at this point sweeps
with irresistible violence to the north, and the sen was
making a breach over the vessel, it was considered
certain death to approach the eddy near the ship; in
spite of all remonstrance, however, these heroic
young men went off through the surf, and approached
within about 15 yards of the bark, near enough to
speak to those on board, when the dory capsized in-
stantly, "like a baeirs,” to use the expression of a by-
stander, and nothing more was seen of the two men

in her.
The rocket for throwing a rope over the vessel was
now got ready, as the lifeboat had been brought
down, the plan being in such cases to get a line to the
ship, if possible, then to ply between the shore and the
vessel in the lifeboat. The rocket has a much larger
stick than the common rocket, to which a line is
attached, and a heavy charge to carry it a suffi-
cient distance. It was now fired by Simuel
jun., and G. T. Lewis, when the charge exploded,
and burst the chamber, instead of carreieg the rove
to the ship, thus endangering the lives of those who
fired it, ae well as the bystanders, the stick going over
the bank to the leeward. It wee almost a miracle
that no lives were lost by the explosion of the iron
chamber, when the amount ef the charge is consi-
dered, and the immediate vicinity of the persons.
It was evident now that nothing more could be
done from the shore, unless the lifeboat could be got
off. But it was evident, after the experiment with
the dory, which had ended fatally, that the attempt
would be in every probability pertectly ur'successful
—the cnly hope of safely carrying off a lifeboat
being by the aid of a rope from the vessel. The
lifeboat at North Truro is a large and beevy
boat, and ,difficuit to manage, in the inshore, sure,
where facility of execution is indispensable, and one
half moment's delay might sweep off• boat and crew,
and, as it was now dark, and breezing up, no further
attempts could be made to communicate with the
vessel.
Fires were built on the shore to show the unfortu-
nate persons on board that they were not forgotten,
and companies f)rined to walk the beach. The awful
cries of the crew for aid, and the cracking of the large
timbers as the ship tinnily broke up, were heard at a
house about half-a: mile from the beach, in spite of
the terrible surf, which crashed like the heaviest
thunder on the echoing shore, and the remorseless
beating of the tempest.
At about eleven o'clock the lightkeeper returned to
the beach, having gone at ten to the light to trim
his and sew a man kneeling before one of the
fires, who proved to be one of the crew of the barque
George Chetnay, and, on being asked if any of his
companions had been
saved, be informed the light-
one other wee lying near the water ;
ktheeeoelarttter,t
oJasper, was in a dying condition,
much bruised about the feet, and would not have lived
another halt_
Both of these men were taken to
the lighthouse, one
ur.atile off, in about two hours, by
the exertions of
of itlilton and his companion, the
Rev. Mr. Lord,
h Truro, the bank above the
beach being 100 feet hi 'of yielding sand, and Jasper
unable to help himself.
When the foremast gave wa the two men who
thewere saved went over with broadside • and,
though washed off two three ortimes, and although
the rigging caught in the mile
the
wreck,
and kept them
for an hour and a half by
from which they
saw their fourteen companions eweoff,
th
tually went ashore nearly opposite ttetWreckey elen-
cared for at the
were most ample? lighthouae b They
Hamilton and his wife. Six bodies of the y Mr.
crew have
been since recovered and buried at ?remit,
and also that of D. a Cassity, at tee uce-town,
irth Truro.
rished in this te •
Thus sixteen persons Pe , usable ship-
wreck, and two of our own fearless and heroic ce
Cod fishermen, in a bold attempt to save the lives of
their brother sailors

THE LORD .HIGH COA TyRO OD.
S
CEPTION AT Commissioner
,
Lest night his Grace the Lord Leigh
held a reception in the Palace'.of oIY rood, which was
nd
o
attended by 1,400 of the nobility anentry, including
as exeep.
of course, a vast number of clergy. with the
tion of the similar ceremonials that took place daring
the visit of George the Fourth, it i
the old walls of Holyrood witnessesci very
brilliant $
long since
-0
scene. The reception took place in, thu Picture
parties on arrival being
conducted through the corridors
in the court to the south-east staircase to the gallery.
The throne was placed in the south end of the gallerY,
and the company, on passing before his Grace, moved
down into the body of the room, and through the
small apartments at the western elle, which were also
thrown open. Between ten and twelve o'clock, when
the greatest numbers were present, the appearance of
the antique hall was brilliant in the extreme. An im-
mense number of handsome chandeliers poured a blaze
of light-on the dim (Ad walls—the grim effigies of royalty
with which they are panelled contrasting strangely
with the gay crowd that moved ceaselessly to and fro
beneath them. The sombre dress of the clergy and
laity was amply relieved by the brilliant robes of the
ladies, and the gold scarlet glories of uniforms, of
"thigh there was a largo proportion, Through the deeply
recessed windows the music of military bands floated
up from the inrer court, micgling with the thousand-
tongued hum of conversation murmuring within. In
short, leaving out of view the brief preliminary cere-
mony of presentation, the gallery presented all the ap-
pearances of ft crowdqd assembly or bail, with the im-
portant exception of then being no dancing, end with the
added interest of the hi • • Igroundwhich k
s.oriee on it 00
place—the Picture te
ery of Holt rood being no
ordinary or modern hell-room. It was all as bright
and gay. however, if it was an erection of yester-
day, gloom shrouding the
day, and it *as only the indomitable
heavy outer walls and towers, and lurking in the moon-
light shadows of the pinnacles and archea of the ruined
chapel that recalled the genius and meories of the
place. A strong feeling of gr,at,i.tade to' the -Earl of
Mansfield for having SO hilecP3s.lnY revivei something
of the ancient grandeurs of Holy rood, wos
the unani-
mous sentiment of those who witnessed the
-ery striking
and animating display
• thq reception
"Wm -

[The following appeared in our Third Edition of
last night:—]

FRANCE.

The Paris correspondent of the Times
says in his
letter of yesterday (Tuesday) evening The re-
ports in circulation this afternoon, or rather repeated
for the third, or fourth time, but for the correctness of
which it is impossible to vouch, turn on a reduction
of the army to the amount of 50,000 men, a compro-
mise of the Orleanist confiscation at the instance of
M. Fould, and the return of that gentleman to office,
and the abolition of the new Ministerial department
of General Police, and a consequent saving. I give
the rumours with all due hesitation as to the truth of
the greater part of them."
The Corps Legislatif met yesterday at two o'clock,
under the presidency of M. Billault. After the adop-
tion of the proces•verbal, the President observed that
the labours of the Assembly would shortly become
extremely important, and invited the Deputies to ab-
stain from demanding leave of absence, in order that
they might always be in number to deliberate. M.
Vernier next laid on the table the report on the Bill
relative to the repression of crimes and offences
committed abroad by Frenchmen. The report was
ordered to be printed and distributed, and the
discussion fixed for Friday. The next order of
the day Was the discussion on the project for the
definitive settlement of the accounts of 1848. No
Member having asked to speak on the subject, the
different articles of the Bill were read by the Presi-
dent, and adopted without opposition. The ex-
penditures for that year were definitively fixed at
1,746,660,504 f. DT. Brohier moved, before the bal-
lot should commence, that the remarkable report of
committee charged with examining those accounts
should be inserted in the Moniteur. "It is neces-
sary," he said, " that France should know what re-
volutions and the fallacious promises of revolutionists
cost; it will be a useful warning to the country."
The insertion was ordered by the Chamber, and the
' Bill was subsequently adopted by 180 to 1. The
President next announced that, on Friday, the As-
sembly would hear the report on the accounts of
1849, and that, previous to the public sitting, it would
have to appoint a special committee to verify the ac-
counts of the Corps LegislaY: The Chamber then
adjourned at three o'clock.

Letters from Marseilles, dated the day before yes-
terday, state that M. Joachim Murat, son of Prince
Lucien Murat, had arrived at that city on his return
from Florence to Paris. It is added that be is the
bearer of " important" dispatches for the Govern-
ment. He had a long conference with M. Sy Train
Blot, Inspector-General of the Police Department at
Marseilles.

Letters from the same city announce that the
Louqsor entered that port the day previous, having
his Highness Said-Pacha, hereditary Prince of
Egypt, on board. The Louqsor had not entirely
complete its quarantine. Various causes are assigned
to the visit to France of Said-Pacha.

The Firebrand, English steamer-of war, also ar-
rived at Marseilles the same day, proceeding from
Port Mahon, and bringing dispatches from Admiral
Dundas, Commander-in-Chief of the English squadron
in the Mediterranean, to the Government. The Fire-
brand will await at Marseilles the arrival of dispatches
from Londfm, which she will take back to Mahon. It
is remarked that this is the second extraordinary
express within ten days which arrived at Marseilles
with dispatches from Admiral Dundas.

The Tribunal of Correctional Police is frequently
called upon to award damages for injuries inflicted
by dogs and other animals, for which the owners are
civilly responsible, but it is rather a novel thing far it
to be called on to do so in the case of a lobster. Such,
however, was the case on Saturday, when a dealer in
shellfish at the fish-market was summoned by a Mme.
GaEBUCHST, who. claimed 301. damages for the in,
jury caused to her nose by one of the defendant's
lobsters. It appears that the plaintiff, wishing to re-
gale her husband with a tit-bit for his dinner, went
to the market, and was bargaining for a lobster, which
she took up in her hand, but threw it down again,
saying it was. not fresh. The dealer protested
that it.. was alive, but Mme. GEBBITCEIET
asserted the contrary, and that it even
stunk. To satisfy herself that such was the
case, she a second time applied her nose to it, when
the lobster, ES if in defence of its owner's veracity,
seized hold of Mme. GREBUCIIET'S' proboscis with its
claw, and held it fast.. She screamed for assistance,
hue, instead of iinriaediatidy giving it, the dealer and
her compan:oos %mond bUrst out into a laugh, and it
was some little time before the nose of the lady could
be released. The fishwoman in her defence main-
tained that she was not to blame, and that the mischief
was solely caused by the imprudence of Mme. GEE-
BUCHET, iq applying her nose so close to the lobsteek
claw, when she had been told that it was alive; and
the Tribunal taking the same view of the case, the
complaint was dismissed, and the plaintiff ordered to
pay the costs.