The Sun.
London, England, 1864-11-14 00:00:00

The Murder at Boulogne.

The Impartial de Boulogne gives additional particulars
respecting the above crime in its number of Saturday last.
It seems that the accused Leducq persisted until Thursday
afternoon in the story he at first told. viz., that the two
children did not belong to him ; that they had been entrusted
to him by a woman at Folkestone to deliver to some one
who would be in waiting for them at Boulogne; and that
upon meeting in the latter place with a person who claimed
them, he had given them up. On the day referred to, how-
ever, ho was visited at the House of Detention by M. Ouzouf,
the commissary of police. A photograph of the two child-
ren found drowned had been taken, and during M. Ouzout's
visit it was accidentally seen by Leducq. "At the sight
of this photograph," says the Impartial de Boulogne
he turned pale, and became excited in the most extraordi-
nary manner; tears flowed down his cheeks, and he ex-
claimed, My poor children l' A few minutes afterwards
he made a more explicit confession, but which is still in-
complete. The following is a summary of his declarations,
according to information which we have every reason to
believe correct :—Leducq resided at 4, Biggin-street, Dover.
His mistress, who was of English origin, was named Anne
Campbell, and was 32 years of age. He had by her the
two children drowned; the elder, Henry, was born in
January, 1830, and was therefore nearly five years old;
his robust constitution alone induced the belief that he
was older. The other, Arthur, was born on the Bth Oct.,
1861 ; he had only just attained his third year. Leducq
had been without a situation for about two or three
months ; his concubine kept a greengrocer's shop,:but she
is said to have led an irregular life, and had abandoned the
two children exclusively to his charge. He was plunged in
the deepest misery, and did not know where to get bread.
There is no doubt that he was recently unfortunate at Dover;
pawnbrokers' tickets for men's and women's clothing
pledged in the town wero found upon him ; the most recent
was dated the s!la November. At that date he received 15s
for a pledge. Unable to procure work, ho resolved to quit
England with his children, bat he had no intention of
destroying them at that period, He left Dover on
Sunday. An enzplosfe of the South Eastern per-
fectly recollects seeing him walking on the quay at
Folkestone with his two children; he appeared very much
absorbed. Having landed at Boulogne at half• past 4, he
remained about an hour and a half in the baggage room,
and even pl ced his children near the fire, as they com-
plained of cold. When he left ho asked himself what he
should do. Should he abandon them in the street ? Or
should he get rid of them and perish with them ? He re-
solved that it would be better to put them and himself out
of misery. With this view he crossed the bridge, walked
along the quay, and then entered the road leading to the
cement works. There he placed the carpetbag and the box
which he carried upon the ground, seized the children by
the waist with each hand, and threw himself into the stream
with them; but ho had not the courage to remain there,
gut out, and went away. Such is said to be the substance
of Leducq's conic:mien."

Death

loch,

The death of Mr M'Culloch on Friday last is the
loss of a valuable public servant and a distin-
guished man of letters. He had been for some
time past subject to attacks on the chest of a
dangerous tendency, and his last seizure a few
days since provad fatal. From its commencement
he gradually declined in strength, but retained all
his faculties till his last moments.

Mr M'Culloch was born in Wigtonshire on the tat
of March, 1789, and he was, therefore, in his 76th
year. His father possessed a small freehold estate
in that county, and was of the class of small pro-
prietors in the English border counties denominated
"statesmen"—cultivators of their own acres. The
eon received from his maternal grandfather, a Scotch
minister, his early education ; that is, he was
"grounded" in his mother tongue, with some ele-
mentary instruction in the dead languages after
the then Scotch fashion. On leaving school Mr
M'Culloch was placed in the office of a writer to
the Signet, but he did not pursue the profession
of the law. He settled in Edinburgh and at-
tended the public clasces of the University for
two years, but did not graduate or study for any
profession. Early in 1817 an accidental corn.
munication of Mr M'Culloc'i's to the Scotsman
(then first established) led to his connection with
that journal, and for some time he was the editor.
In the following year he commenced a series of
contributions to the _Ediniurgh Review, and also
gave lectures on political economy. In 1820 Mr.
M'Culloch quitted Edinburgh for London, con■
tinning his contributions to the Scotsman for some
years, but contributing also to other periodical works
and giving lectures on political economy. In 1828
he was appointed professor of that science in Uni-
veisity College, London ; but the chair being unen•
dowsed, the number of students attending his lec•
tures was insufficient for his remuneration, and he

resigned the professorship. In 1838 the Whig Go•
vernment appointed him Controller of the London
Stationezy-office, at a salary of £l,OOO per annum,
and he continued the head of this department till

his death. When he undertook its administration
the Stationery office was an Augean stable. The
long and habitual waste of paper in the con-

sumption of the public offices and in printing was
fabulous. Mr M'Culloch accomplished a large
annual saving, far exceeding the cost of the depart•
ment he presided over. By his stern economy and
hatred of "jobs" he of course created enemies ; but
his judicious savings and integrity were undisputed.
and are matters of record in Parliamentary reports
and returns.

Mr M'Culloch's more lasting and meritorious re•

putation,howevcr,was gained by his literary labours.
They were the result of forty years of study and
experience. Statesmen had attended his lectures in
London, and his contributions to periodical works
had been various and diffuse, But he now began
to realise his acquirements. In 1837 Mr Charles
Knight published, in two Svo volumes, his" Statists
tical Account of the British Empire." This valuable

work was suLsequently republished by Messrs Long-
man in successive editions much enlarged. The
latter publishers brought out his " Dictionary of

Commerce and Commercial Navigation"—a standard
work annually reprinted and revised. These two
works may be considered his staple productions,

and they were reprinted in the United States and
translated in several European countries. His mis-

cellaneous works were numerous, and all more or
less valuable contributions to political and econo-

mical science. In 1828 he edited for Messrs Long.
man, in four vols. Bw, the best edition of Smith's

" Wealth of Nations," with a life of the author, an
introductory discourse, notes, and supplemental
dissertations. In 1853 he published a volume of
" Treatises and Essays on Economical I'o-

!icy," comprising sketches of Quesnay, Adam
Smith, and Ricardo. This work was partly
a republication of articles contributed by the
author to the " Encycloi lia Britannica," but
all were carefully revised and in part re-
written, some essays appearing for the first
time. In the same year appeared his volume on the
" Principles of Political Economy," lastly corrected
and revised. In 1855 he published his treatis 3on the
"Principles and Practical Influence of Taxation and

the Funding System." In 1855 he also published
a valuable work on the " Succession to Property
vacant by Death ; including inquiries into the in.
fluency of primogeniture, entails, and compulsory
partition upon the public interests."
Mr M'Culloch collected a library on his own
special subjects of groat value. It contained not
only almost every known English work on political
economy and statistics, but every foreign publication
on those subjects, and it comprised every pamphlet,
known or anonymous. In 1855 he published a
bibliographical volume on the literature of political
economy, a catalogue of his best books, with histo-
rical, critical, and biographical notices; and only
two years since he completed and privately printed
a more extended and valuable catalogue raisonne.
Of the latter volume a very few copies were pre-
sented to personal and literary friends. The motto
on the title-page of this volume was from Barrow :
"The reading of books, what is it-but conversing
with the wisest men of all ages and all countries,
who thereby communicate to us their most delibe-
rate thoughts, choicest notions, and best inventions,
couched in good expression, and digested in exact
method ? '

The genius of Mr M'Culloch was not inventive.
He sifted and recast the labours of others. Statistics
rather than the principles of political economy wen
his forts: but his worYs were generally lucid and
sound. He occasionally indulged in paradox, but

in this error he only followed Malthus, Whately,
and Senior. There are unsolved problems in poli-
tical science, and men of genius in advance of their
generation, groping in the dark, must sometimes
lose their way. Mr M'Culloch was an original mem-
bn. of the Political Economy Club. and he assisted
Lord Overstcne in the publication of his lordship's
miscellaneous tracts on political economy. In social
life he was hospitable, genial, and warm-hearted,
and he was estcemed by a large circle of friends
who will deeply lament his loss.

"We regret to have to announce the death," says
the Malta Observer," on the 29th October, of Mgr. Publio
de Conti Sant, late Archbishop of Rhodes and Bishop of
Malta, at the age of 85. Ile was created Bishop of Larada
in partibus in the year 1818, and on the death of Mgr.
Caruana in 1847 was raised to the highest ecclesiastical
post in Malta, which he continued to occupy until 1857,
when he retired into private life. The late prelate was
greatly beloved by his flock for his Christian piety, and his
death has cast a deep gloom over the city."
TILE CON EDERATE PRISONERS IN. CANADA.—Mr
G. N. Sanders, the well known Confederate agent, writes to
the Montreal Evening Herald, stating that " So soon as
the fast of Young's demonstration upon Vermont shall be
known at Richmond, there is no doubt that that Govern-
ment will take immediate steps to make their responsibility
and approval of the enterprise publicly and officially known,
and will assuredly communicate the fact of their responsi-
bility and of their approval to the Canadian and United
States authorities."

SPAIN AND PERU.—The Epoca says—" In order
to remove the doubts raised by the conduct of Senor Barreda,
Minister in Peru, we now state, upon excellent information,
that the fact of Senor Barreda not having earlier arrived in
Spain arises from the instructions of his government to
effect an arrangement, if possible, and to sign a treaty at
London or Paris with the Spanish representatives at those
Courts, which would afterwards be submitted to the Spanish
Government. To this end he would solicit the good offices
of the English and French Cabinets. The Spanish Govern-
ment has naturally made it the first of all conditions for an
honourable and acceptable settlement of the pending diffi-
culty that the Peturian representative should come to
Madrid.''

It is reported that Mr. Vining's tenure of the
Princess's Theatre will shortly expire. Rumour says that
among the conditions of the agreement under which Mr
Vining holds the theatre from Mr Webster, the leaseholder,
was a stipulation that no play by Mr Boucicault should be
acted. This was brotsen by the production of " The Streets
of London," and Mr Webster claims the penalty, and Mr
Vining has to leave.
Miss Herbert takes the St. James's from Boxing
Night with Mr and Mrs Frank Matthews in her company.
Mr William Brough is writing tbo burlesque.
ST. JAMES'S HALL.—On Saturday afternoon the
"Wizard of the North" invited the following schools to
witness his ninth snatindc, numbering over 750 boys and
girls :—St Botolph, Aldgate ; St John's Band of Hope,
Emmanuel Hospital, Bishopsgate Ward, and the Merchant
Seamen's Orphan. The juveniles deemed to enjoy the treat
provided for them by Professor Anderson, The Commer-
cial Travellers' School at Pinner have accepted the invite•
tion for Saturday next'

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HER MAJESTY.

• %rm. 0
WINDSOR CASTLE, 1"-diti
The Queen walked and drove in the grog
morning
101
Their Royal Highnesses the Princess 0'
and Princess Helena took a carriage drive' 4ti
Her Royal Highness Princess Louise

driving. AT 1 cl
His Royal Highness the Prince of ajt
out shooting, attended by Msjor Tee6(ll3°l
Methuen, and Col. the Hon. A. Hardinge•
Lord and Lady Bloon field arrived at the. t
yesterday, and had the honour of dining 111

The Right Hon. Edward Cardwell and 141
hur Helps arrived at the Castle yesterdQ9'ioclp
The royal dinner party in the evcnivg
heir Royal Highnesses the Prince and 'of
of Wales, her Royal Highness Princess genii
Countess of Caledon, Lady in Waiting to
Highness the Princess of Wales; LadyCA
Barrington, the Hon. Caroline Cavendielbibi
Flora Macdonald, the Hon. Lady Biddill
Right Hon. Edward Cardwell, Mr lielv-11%
Methuen, Lieut.. Col. Kingecote, Lord C. '.1";,
Co!. the Hon. A. Hardinge, Major Trefil
Inner, Dr Holtzmann, Mr Sahl, and the t

MRjetity and royal family.

the Household. tae 1/0
The Queen, their Royal Highnesses iii
and Princess of Wales, Princess gelendiee
Leopold, and Princess Beatrice with tile 16
raise'
gentlemen in waiting, attended Divine se 1,
morning in the private chapel. The Itels

John Blunt preached the sermon. g
Her Majesty has nceived the gratifi'a°rP
Bence of the complete convalescence of °-
Highness Princess Louise of Hesse. e °I)
Dr Priestly, who has been in attendanc 00
Royal Highness at Darmstadt, had the /1,,,° S
an interview with the Queen on Friday sive
the satisfactory condition of her Royal
and the infant Princess.

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THE CoLßT.—Since her Majesty'e - ,sic
Windsor very little has occurred to br;
quiet monotony of the Court, and the royal
viet
from the Castle have beeen confined to the
public and charitable institutions, Her Mtl- 010
almost daily visitor to the royal mausoleum et ',hie:4
where lie the remains of the Prince Consort. 00:0A
titul tomb, which is now nearly conipleted, the 00,7
neat artists in marble and mosaic work IA" tOr'
c°P
ployed, and all that the fine arts of the age coulddie
towards its adornment has been lavished uP°ll
Its cost has of course been great, as no Wells° til
spared in its construction. The mausoleum 9/1,- 0
preaches are under the strict guardianship of ',rear,
police day and night, and an admission to its 151-401,
cincts would be now considered as one of the greateBo,4l
of favour which royalty could bestow upon the 141111404 f,
ornamental bridge of smooth and rusticated P°r.,,,t7.40'i
is being erected over the ornamental water et '`,,estir
for the purpose of connecting the approaches be"f9
prince's mausoleum and that of the late Duch
h 4
over whose tomb a bronze lamp is kept constantli
THE PRINCE AND PRINCESS OF 1irk°,,,.1461d,
TO LANSAIMIRE.—It is understood that, in o°,-dfl
of the severe illness of Lord Derby, the inteeu`of
the Prince and Princess of Wales to lino Weld
nitely postponed. ded
Atte°

His Royal Highness Prince Arthur, Ol6
Major Elphinstone, honoured with his prati;
formance of "Faust," on Saturday evening at 9"g

Theatre, _
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ne4l
His Royal Highness the Duke of Camcf-r 0 i',
returned to town, accompanied by Colonel theb."° 01• Y
Macdonald, from visiting the Earl and Countess
J

at Knowsley. Pri
Their Royal Highnesses the Duke s° cotici
d'Aumale, on leaving the hospitable seat Gf °Lite)
(Frances) Waldegrave and the Right Hon. 0/10"too
tescue, M.P., in Essex, proceeded to -Wood s°/..-
seat in 'Worcestershire.St
The Duke of Sutherland has arrived lit
House, St. James's, from Scotland.
The Marquis Conyngham arrived ja,,,--fiofk'
place on Saturday from visiting Lord arid
borough at Grimston-park, near Tadcasta' hlO .
The Earl and Countess of ChesterdelutillColl°
rived at Bretby-park from a visit to the Bari 8
AA)

of DTherebyat
Countessac;w Knowsley.
party .t
Cowper's at W ":I,af)
and the
separated
ladies
Ashley, o
Viscountess
Saturday. The
Jocelyn
Countess
and of
thebl
u
Jocelyn, Viscount Sudley, and most of the other
turned to town.
The Eirl of Coventry has arrived at Tl/°ll7
Hotel, Berkeley-square.
Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston elite")
the Earl Granville and a select party at dinner on $3
at Cambridge House, Piccadilly. 11
Viscount Clifden is, we are informed,
6t 1
very bad state of health, 10,0
hter
The marriage of Lient..Colonel Farqu- f
Invercauld, with Miss Oswald, eldest daug °,lOO
wald, of Auchincruive, is fixed to take place on
"
the 19th inst., at St George's, Hanover-squarel
.
Captain Howard has left the South V,
Hotel, Queen's-gate-terrace; Mr and Mrs Tarr°
the South Kensington Hotel for Liverpool. I .01),
THE DUKE OF HAM ILTON.—T he Duke ;°:t COAIF
ton, who is still pursuing his studies at Cbrire,9)
Oxford, has so far recovered from the accident 'hist')
by his hunting with the Christ Church harriero 'arerjw
as to remove the bandage and shade from the 113 j
—Edinburgh Courant.

Illumination and Ventilatiou.

The new system of illuminating alitaTeilitilli;9l
theatres, ball rooms, concert rooms, ~fogetyp,
buildings, patented by Messrs Defries, of
will doubtless result in a total revolution e' felt
at present in use, firstly, because it produce°, khe,jll
beautiful light, resembling as near asposelb'etiot9t
ral light of day; and secondly, because it le
gB
s.uch a thorough ventilation, that over croviw-t
hliesoarneoxious atmosphere, and thus the largee,
free from any oppressive or irePllr% 0°,4
That the new system is beyond all aeSti°l3 Or
has been proved to demonstration byg its 69,1101
the Strand Music Hall, where, notwithst°ll do;
crotchetty arrangements were pressed uP°l3
tors by acrhitects and others, it has e; pert)
highest
commendation from scientific and pre upon °is
tlemen well capable of giving an opinion tiP° 41°.
matter. For the information of those as yet 11;11:rP to
with the system, we may observe that there cd
appearance of gaslight, the burners being Phi:e tS°l
roof, and the light transmitted through large s„,- 0
taking the place of the ordinary ceiling. This uhrituall 011
ment is capable of the greatest amount of ells, ,
and here again the most important results fel'av Br
the greater the amount of decoration the grettoio
perf,ct becomes the ventilation. In the
Strand Music Hall a beautiful Eliot '8;0°1
by the introduction of transparent
solid Of
whilst they have the appearance of being : OA°.
crystal, the gas light is introduced into the ctotiotPj
thus showing all the rays of the prismatic v-Ottlrof
most extraordinary brilliancy. Whilst this 0400
is produced within the hall, the most perfect °L;',:os
tilation is secured in every portion of the bililt;wi
the "lighting chamber," where, notwithstellicos
several thousand burners, a continual cull,- 019
air is introduced through the edifice, vrtdlB-4,4).
air, as well as the heat, is carried away thrcuPoe fsoi
the building by the powerful current created' r 4A ri
chambdr, as it is called, is most peculiar.
than 350 ventilating tubes, the whole Of WI:jolt 011ri
ducted into two enormous shafts, to
per vacuum has been established,
of
an unvarying upward current, wilic`Witi3;
expels the vitiated and heated atmosphere. eat "loi
amount of combustion going on in this aPert.,o/33-00;i°
be supposed that at times the heat is everraboO4
here again tho perfection of the systen2 ieh",
thermometer marks but 75 to 80, after all tc-joetid./,
for hours been at their full height, We she!: 90;d0/f
with much interest to the introduction of '
of lighting into our theatres, as it scteat 0161000/1)
on all hands that any re-arrange""
artificial lighting which will admit of the iignti'aer
centre chandelier and the other suspelicicardated4e
but be an improvement, and that of lac e' Ave
tion. At certain seasons of the year we cetinpott°3
of our theatres where the heat is alraoot instir eptle
withstanding very large sums have bech ~1311100.1
deavouring to procure good ventilation, levio 00 fi)
has been usless, because the main cause cf tll-0t1r4V011,,,
overlooked. The thorough lighting of ato. fall
:pefi
opera houses, theatres, music halls, 80.1 be. talt:ert°
to the vast resources of the Messrs Petrie°, Dit,'"oet9
now in this new method surpassed anYLlll,ittgtotticte9).
duced, and added an important improvenic".„olld °,
inventions of our azci, which cannot but gr;
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