The Sun.
London, England, 1852-03-24 00:00:00

LONDON,

MERCIFUL JURIES.

A girl named Alexandrine 1141lanel was tried four
days ego by the C curt of Assizes of the Aude, sitting at
Montpellier, for the murder of a sub-lieutenant of 2d
Regiment of Hussars, named Anceaume. When in
garrison at Tarascon, in 1849, Anceaume made the girl
his mistress, and she followed him in 1850 to Carcas-
sonne. At that place he bec,me acquainted with a
young girl of respectable family, and resolved to marry
her. The wedding was fixed to take place in July last.
This greatly exasperated the prisoner, and she frequently
menaced Anceaume with vengeance. In the night of
the 2d July the report of a firearm was heard in the
lieutenant's room, and on going to it he was found wel-
tering in blood. In a few minutes he died. Suspicion
fell on the girl, and it was ascertained that she had a
key to his room, by which she could let herself in with-
out his knowledge; that she had a few days before been
making enquiries as to how firearms were loaded; that
just after the shot was fired a girl had been seen mining
from the house towards that in which she lived; and
that a ball, similar to that by which the officer was
killed, was found in her room. But, notwithstanding all
this, the jury returned a verdict of acquittal. During
the trial, the girl repeatedly protested her innocence, and
heard the verdict without the least emotion.

A peasant girl, named Th 6 ase Chuchu, of Etourvy,
department of the Aube, was also tried three days ago
by the Court of Assizes of the department, sitting at
Troyes, for an attempt to kill a lover who had aban-
doned her. By this man, named Prunier, she had had
a child, and he undertook to give her 5,000 f. to pro-
♦ido for it; but after subscribing a document to that
effect, he contrived to get it away again. Having broken
off with her, he paid his addresses to a girl named Lar-
bouillat, and a marriage was resolved on. One e►ening
in January, as he was kissing this girl on taking leave,
a shot was fired at him from the adjacent garden, but
fortunately he was not touched. The prisoner lived in
the next house, and it was proved that just before she
had bought a pistol. In answer to the interrogatories
of the President, she readily admitted that she had fired
the pistol, and that she had formed a deliberate design
of killing Prunier because he had dishonoured her.
But nevertheless the jury declared her not guilty.—
G aliynani,

FRENCH RAILWAY TRAFFIC.
The following are the last returns of the gross re-
ceipts of the principal French Railways :
NORTHERN.—From March 4 to March 10: Passengers,
203,9921.; goods, 265,605 E; total, 469,597 f.
ROUEN.—From March 7 to March 13 : Passengers,
66,6721.; goods, 97,874 f.; total, 164,5461.
LlivuE.—From Marcia 7 to March 13 : Passengers,
23,5771.; goods, 46,019 f. ; total 69,596 f.
ORLEANS.—From March 8 to March 14: Passengers,
77,900 f. ; goods, 141,296 f.; total, 219,196 f.
BORDEAUX.—From March 2 to March 8: Passengers,
44,4539 f.; goods, 69,7541.; total, 114,2431.
VIERZON.—From March 8 to March 14: Passengers,
38,958 f.; goods, 52,990 f.; total, 91,9481.
NANTES.—From March 4 to March 10 : Passengers,
23,9851.; goods, 31,4601.; total, 35,445 f.
ST R ASBIT RG.—From March 4 to March 10: Passengers,
93,6641.; goods, 118,670 f.; total, 212,3341.
BALE.—From Feb. 23 to Feb. 29 : Passengers,
17,9741.; goods, 29,0071.; t0ta1,46,981f.
MONTEREAU.—From Mar. 4 to Mar. 10: Passengers,
8,056 f.; • goods, 14,5061.; total, 22 5621.
MARSEILLES.—From Feb. 26 to Mar. 4: Passengers,
42,4201.; goods, 35,497 f.; total, 77,9171.
CHAnTREs.—From March 8 to March 14: Passengers,
21,7911.; goods, 23,5901.; total, 45,651 f.

THE LONDON GAZETTE, March 23

BANKRUPTCY SUPERSEDED.
Lorens Theodor Wang, merchant, Sunderland.
BANKRUPTS.

John Branch, corn dealer, Camberwell, to surrender
March 27, at eleven, and April 30, at one, at the Court
of Bankruptcy. Whitmore, official assignee, Bssing-
hall street; Wilson ,Gresham-street, City.
William Stevens, upholsterer, High Holborn, April 2
and May 7, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy.
Carman, official assignee, Aldermanbury; Taylor, South-
street, Finsbury-square.
John Wood, brewer, Putney, March 31, at half-past
twelve, and May 4, at twelve, at flag Court of Bank-
ruptcy. Graham, official assignee ; Laurance, Flews,
and Boyer, Old Jewry-chambers.
Charles Henry White, china, glass, and earthenware
dealer, Southampton, March 29 and May 8, at twelve,
at the Court of Bankruptcy. Nicholson, official assignee,
Basinghall-street; Braikenridge. Bartlett's-buildings.
Richard Chamberlain, draper, Uttoxeter, Staffordshire,
April 3 and May 3, at half-past ten, at the Birming-
ham District Court. Bittleston. official assignee, Bir-
mingham; C'x, Sise-lane, London; Motteram, Knight,
and Emmet, Birmingham.
John Cadman, grocer, Derby, April 2, at half-past
ten, and April 30, at twelve, at the Birmingham District
Court, Nottingham. Bittleston, official assignee, Not-
tingham; Vallick, Derby; I.k.lotteram, Knight, and
Emmett, Birmingham.
James Luxford, draper, Market Rasen, Lincoln, April
14, and May 5, at twelve, at the Leeds District Court.
Carrick, official assignee, Hull; Tweed, Lincoln.
Robert Tomlinson Carlisle, builder, Sheffield, April 3
and May 15, at ten, at the Leeds district Court. Free-
man, official assignee, Sheffield; Broomhead, jun.,
Sheffield; Fernell, Sheffield.

William Todd and James Todd, provision merchants,
Liverpool, April 5, at twelve, and April 26, at eleven,
at the Liverpool District Court. Morgan, official as-
signee, Liverpool; Holden, Liverpool.
Anson Hardy, general and commission merchant, Li-
verpool, April 2 and May 6, at eleven, at the Liverpool
District Court. Turner, official assignee, Liverpool;
Holden, Liverpool.
George Foster, joiner, Chorlton-upon-Medlock, Lan-
cashire, April 5 and 28, at twelve, at the Manchester
District Court. Pott, official assignee, Manchester;
Messrs. Whitworth, Manchester.

INSOLVENT DEBTORS.
J. Banks, s tereotyper, Castle-street, Holborn.
E. L. Levy, attorney, Mecklenburgh•square, Gray's
Inn-road.

Wm. Patterson, coal dealer, Grundy-street, Poplar New
Town.

W. Alired, corn dealer, Harper-street, New Kent-road.
T. B. Loader, map publisher, Princes-street, Stamford-

street.
J. Ainslie, draining engineer, Earl-street, Blackfriars.
G. J. Brown, land agent, Victoria-grove, Kensington.
I. Smart, dining room keeper, Somerset-place, Rother-

hithe.
W. Killick, share broker, Gower-street North, New-road.
G. Wheatcroft, a Lieutenant in her Majesty's 6th Regi-
ment of Enniskillen Dragoons, Southampton-street,
Bloomsbury.
J. Fuller, beer retailer, Hillingdon, Middlesex.
C. R. Storey, Captain in her Majesty's Army, Francis-
terrace, Hampstead-road.
W. Haggis, beer seller, Woolwicb.
J. Fleming, grocer, Berry Edge, Shotley-bridge, Durham.
J. Smith, innkeeper, New bottle, Durham.
J. Southall, book-keeper, Liverpool.
J. Craven, corn and flour dealer, Leeds.
A. Fish, tailor, Heaton-lane, Heaton Norris, Lancashire.
T. C. Goodall, licensed victualler, Salford,

J. Tattersall, grocer, Burnley, Lancashire.
H. Bentley, roller maker, Salford, Lancashire.

J. Caldecoit, licensed victualler,' Heaton Norris, Lan-

cashire.
J. S. Dick, ship owner, North Shields, Northumberland.
W. Dick, boot maker, North Shields, Northumberland,
J. Leadbeater, bookkeeper, Heywood, near Manchester.
H. Riley, overlooker, Bolton•le-Moors, Lancashire.
J. Shaw, plasterer, Huddersfield.
T. Thompson, master mariner, North Shields.
P. Walmeley, jun,, boot maker, Mackerfield, Lancashire.
J. Forman, assistant to a farmer, Heckington Fen, Lin-

colnshire.
D. Howell, publican, Swansea, Glamorganshire.
Edmund Lee, brick maker, Manchester.
W. W. Milnes, assistant grocer, Lockwood, Yorkshire.
Thomas Lett, victualler, Stoke Prior, Worcestershire.
Edward Boyer, jun., Brooklands, Lancashire.
DIVIDENDS.
At the Court, Basinghall-street.
J. Harrop, Crasseroft, Yorkshire, clothier, April 16,
at eleven—H. J. Ellis, Rotherhithe-wall, Rotherhithe,
ironmonger, April 16, at one—H. R. Sabine, Poppin's-
court, Fleet-street, cardmaker, April 16, at twelve—J.
Murray, Graceehnrch-street, Manchester warehouseman,
April 16, at twelve.
In the Country.,
J. Robinson, Henley, Yorkshire, dyer, May 4, at
eleven, at the Court, Leeds—J. Duggan, Maryport,
Cumberland, draper, April 21, at half-past twelve, at
the Court, Newcastle-upon-Tyne—J. Storey, Hartlepool,
Durham, draper, April 19, at twelve, at the Court,
Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
PAYMENT OF DIVIDENDS.
J. Phillips, Birmingham, druggist and grocer,
on any Thursday, between eleven and three, at the office
of Mr. Christie, Birmingham.
T. E. Slate, King's Head-court, City, and Hatton-
garden, bookbinder, ls, 7id., on any
tween eleven and three, at the office of Mr. Whitmore,
BaEieghall-street. Wednesday, be-
J. Barker, Exmouth.street, and Pleasant-row, Clerk-
cheesemonger, 6 d., on any Wednesday, be-
tween eleven' and three, at the office of Mr. Whitmore,
Basinghall-street.
J. Franckeiss, Portsea and Llndport, woollendraper,
second dividend of on any' Wednesday, between
eleven and three, at the office of Mr. Whitmore, Basing-
hal l- street.
F. F. Vouillon
Princes-street, Hanover-square se-
cond dividend of •20.,0n w
eleven and three, at the office of Mr. Whitmore, Basing-
hall-etreet. Wednesday, between,
J. H. May, Breoknock-terrace, Camden Town, draper,
second dividend of 5d., on any Wednesday, between
eleven and three, at the office of Mr. Whitmore', Basing.

E. Lee, Glossop, Derbyshire, cotton manufacturer,
24. sid., on Tuesday, March 30, or any subsequent Tues-
day, between eleven and one, at the office of Mr. Pott,
M.anchester.

R. Heardman, Manchester, wine and spirit merchant,
4-d., on Tuesday, March 30, or any subsequent Tues-
day, between eleven and one, at the office ut Mr. Pott,
Manchester.

T. Birch, Manchester, common brewer, 6s. 4d., on
Thursday, March 25, or an) subsequent Thursday, be-
tween ten and one, at the office of Mr. Lee, Manchester.
R. S:?ymour, Sunderland, linendraper, 45., o❑ Satur-
day, March 27, or any subsequent Saturday, between
ten and three, at the office of Mr. Baker, Newcastle-
upon-Tyne.
NOTICES OF CERTIFICATES.
At the Court, Basingball-street.
W. Clapham, Strand, licensed victualler, April 15, at
half-past eleven.

In the Country.
J. Duggan, Maryport, Cumberland, draper, April 21,
at one, at the Court, Newcastle-upon-Tyne—W. Bel-
shaw, Manchester, joiner and builder, April 20, at
twelve, at the Court, Manchester—H. Glad win, Not-
tingham, draper, April 23, at half-past ten, at the
Court, Nottingham—J. Furniss, Almondbury, York-
shire, woollen cloth manufacturer, May 3, at eleven, at
the Court, Leeds.
CERTIFICATE GRANTED.

S. T. Jay, Badley, Suffolk, miller, certificate of the
third clasi.

PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED.
Coulthart and A. Coke, Blackburn, drapers—Jane
Edwards, Anne L. Edwards, and W. L. Edwai
Colwyn, Carnarvonshire, grocers—J. Russell and G.
Russell, Hoyland Nether, Yorkshire, tanners—J. Mit•
shell and T. E. Sykes, Worsbrough, Yorkshire, coal
miners—H. Balch and H. Knowlden, Lichfield-street,
Soho, water gilders—W. Roberts and J. Wagner, Bull's
Head-court, Newgate-street, perfumers—B. Hainsworth
and W. Tetley, Liverpool, brewers—J. F. Kennedy and
Harriet Spence, Kingston-upon-Hull, woollen drapers
—W. J. Robinson and M. Cull wick, Birmingham,
grocers—J. Gibbons, S. Gibbons, and W. Brown, Sal-
ford, manufacturers (so far as regards J. Gibbons)—
S. Lewis, E. Allenby, and R. Whitehouse, Leaming•
ton Priors, silk mercers—W. Hobbs and W. Side-
botham, Gibralter Mill, near Hyde, Cheshire, cotton-
spinners—J. Garlick and J. Hirst, Lockwood Berry
Brow and Springwood, both near Huddersfield, coal-
merchants—J, Dyer and T. Wigley, Belper, Derbyshire,
joiners—H. Butterfield, W. T. Fisher, and L. T. M.
Roche t, Victoria-street, City, merchants—J. Hughes and
Charlotte Pack, Aldersgate•street; coffeehouse-keepers—
P. B. Gow and Katharine Gow, Bishopsgate-street
Within, lace manufacturers—R. Peate, Diana C. Peate,
and M. Tomlin, Ashton-under-Lyne, milliners (so far as
regards M. Tomlin)—J. B. Orrell and J. J. Brierley,
Manchester. fancy dress mixed goods manufacturers.

INSOLVENT PETITIONERS.
R. Miller, West Derby, Liverpool, bricklayer and builder.
John Packett, Liverpool.
J. Perks, Bootle, Lancashire, ironmonger's assistant.
George Dawson, Hulme, Lancashire, butcher.
Thomas Warr, Manchester, Lancashire, coach driver.
Samuel Burman, Hulme, Lancashire, plumber.
John Bratley, Wragby, Lincolnshire, farrier.
Joseph Dent, Castle View, Leicestershire, law stationer.

SCOTCH SEQUESTRATION.
T. J. Adams, Glasgow, professor of music, to meet
within the Glasgow Stock Exchange Room, Glasgow,
on March 25 and April 15, at one.

SHIP NEWS.
NOTICE TO MARINERS.
Office of Committee of Privy Council fJr Trade,

Whitehall, March -18, 1852,
Sir,—l am directed by the Lords of the Committee o.
Privy Council for Trade to transmit to you, for the in-
formation of the Committee for Managing the Affairs of
Lloyd's, the accompanying copies of two notices that
have been received from her Majesty's Consul at Rot-
terdam, and which were published in the Netherlands
Staats Courant, No. 56, of the sth inst., respecting the
shallows off the Island of Texel, and alteration about to
take place in the existing coast light at West Capelle.
(Signed) G. R. PORTER.
Capt. Geo. A. Halsted, R.N., Secretary to Lloyd's, B,:c.

Marine Department, the Hague, Feb. IG.
The Minister of;I Marine having taken :into con-
sideration the numerous strandings and shipwrecks
which occur on the coast of the island of Texel,
hereby informs and cautions mariners that the coast
of the island of Texel is, for the purpose of
avoiding the shallows extending from the said
coast, known under the appellation of the Eyerland
Shallows, and also designated by fishermen as the Gardens
or Orchards, not to be approached within a distance of
two to three German miles, or a depth of 16 to 18
fathoms, as has of old beon intimated and published.
The shallows to the north of the eastern part of Texel
are very dry, and extend about one mile from the shore,
and the ebb stream coming at this part of the coast from
the north-east and east-north-east, by variations of com-
pass is apt greatly to mislead. Ships coming west about
in thick weather and at night are therefore especially
recommended to make timely and careful use of the
sounding line, in order not to approach the coast of
Texel within the aforesaid 16 to 18 fathoms; the result
shown by the sounding line being the safest guide to
keep out at sea, in order to avoid the aforesaid
coast and shallows. As the charts of the North Sea are
in this respect less extensive, and as no special chart of
the Eyerland Shallows is in existence, it is intended
shortly to cause accurate soundings to be made of the
aforesaid Eyerland Shallows, which will then be included
in the Charts of the Mouths of the Sea. The Minister
aforesaid, (Signed) T. ENSLIE.

The Hague, March 20, 1852.
The Minister of Marine hereby informs mariners
that the existing coast light at West Capelle, composed
of argand lamps, with parabolic reflectors, will, in ell
probability, have to be temporarily extinguished at the
a powerful catadioptric light of the first class.
commencement of the ensuing month of May, to be re-
IVraocin e d theby time when the present light will be ex-
the
tinguished up to the lighting of the improved light (cal,
culated to embrace a period of about six weeks) an
auxiliary light will be exhibited from the aforesaid
a catadioptric lighting apparatus
classbeteatchoenfocu°rntshisting of
(small size). The time of lighting
th
as also the horizon thereby
to
distance at which it will be visible
will be published later, The Minister aforesaid,
(Signed) T. ENSUE.
ebae fioigrehstaeidd, auxiliary
and
dliisgt
ah

Light-house on the Ponta da Atelite, province of Para.
directed by the Brazilian Government to
Brazilian Consulate-General, Liverpool, March 17.
Sir,—l am
make public, for the information of all parties whom it
Brazil, may concern, that a light-house, of which I beg to hand
you the particulars, has recently been 'erected on the
Ponta da Atalsia, in the Salinas, province of Para, in
and that the said light-house was
intended
en
February last. operation on and after the 15th of
(signed) J. M. BRAGA, Vice-Consul,
emdepdire to of
be in

Capt. G. A. Halsted, , ,
Acting-Consul-General.
R.N., Secretary, Lloyd's.
Particulars of the light-house recently erected on the
Ponta (la Atalaia, in the Salinas, province of Para,
empire of Brazil, lat. 34 S. long. 33 32 of the meridian
of the Ilha do Ferro:—The light is visible at 17 miles
$ and presents the following phases:—
ob-
scurity during 16 ditto—Increasing and brilliant light
gradually Another eclipse, 22 ditto: total, 120. The phases suc-
ceed each other at intervals of two minutes.

" MUDDLE." -- Any real endeavour to defeat
muddle" (expressive and distressing dissyllable) has our
heartiest good wishes. Against muddle—the muddle of
ignorance, the muddle of idleness, the muddle of want of
order, the love-destroying
and comfort-killing "muddle of
inexorable cleanliness," against muddle in the drawing-
room, the studio, or the workshop—we wage war eternal
and unsparing. Unhappy victims of muddle, who shall re-
count your miseries or obtain you redress? Muddle cannot
get for five pounds what Order, Judgment, and Energy can
get for one: muddle makes fortune of little avail, and takes
the shine out of a life which might otherwise be all bright-
ness. "Lucky Jones has married a wife with 3001. a year;
but then she is a sad muddle." Miserable Jones! do you
know what you have done? Muddle would he dear at
rest in—no sympathisin-
g comforter to advise. In the temple
wheredouble
muddleo
rneeiy. Muddle will provide for you no home to
g
ns there will be found no peace, no beauty,
no good. Against muddle the dower weighs not. An ob-
serving eye, a calculating head, a ready hand, a gentle step,
a loving heart. external neatness, internal purity, are more
to be considered than hundreds a year, trashy accomplish-
ments, lofty connexions, and unhealthy apings of the class
above. Mothers, be wise ; make your daughters able women,
real help-mates
Builder. ; not useless toys, joy-destroying muddles.—

ACCIDENT TO A CLERGYMAN.—We regret to state
that the Rev. Charles Oxenden, the respected rector of Bar-
ham, met with an accident in the course of last week, which
will, we fear, incapacitate him from fulfilling his parochial
duties for some time to come. Mr. C. Oxendon was walking
in the garden of the rectory, when he slipped down an ab-
rupt terrace bank fronting his house, and in the effort to re-
cover his footing, snapped the tendons of the leg, just above
the ankle. To a gentleman of his active habits this is a most
unfortunate occurrence, seeing that though neither dangerous
nor painful, the accident is one which requires entire rest and
perfect quiescence. Our readers may remember that some
months back we recorded an accident of a similar nature,
which befel Mr. Charles Vernon Oxendon, of the Rifle
Brigade, son of the above gentleman, on the St. Lawrence
cricket ground, when playing the match between the gen-
tlemen of Rent and the gentlemen of England.—Dover
Telegraph;

THE GAUR-LAl9B.—The amount of crime, misery,
and cost, resulting from superabundant game-preserving and
game-laws, which is shown during the present assize cir-
cuits, calls forth grave reflection. That noblemen and
squires,by their infatuation for superabundance of game
"(which amounts to a sort of mania or madness), should
bring upon the community all the ills and evils which they
do, is truely disgraceful, and it is impossible that it can be
much longer endured. No reasonable person would begrudge
their
tern 'of rational sport and diversion, but the contrary ; yet
game preserving: has grown to such a hight that the
country justly
consequences most serious. It is, also. too bad that the
condemns it, and because it beget injuries and
public should have to pay, in any shape, one farthing for
prosecutions arising out of the 'game-laws. The time is
hastening on when some preserves will have, as they ought
to have, the entire cost of those prosecutions to defray them-
selves ; and they ought to be at the expense of maintaining
the prisoners, and exonerating the ratepayers from charges
of the convicts' wives and families. This being accomplished,
"My Lords and Gentlemen" would then act differently to
what they now do.—( From a Correspondent.)
Tna SEA SERPENT'S RivAL.—A monster fish, of
an unknown species, has been exhibited during the week in
five to six feet
the old corn market. It had six gills on each side of its
head, measures 16 feet in length, and from
in girth, and weighs about two tons. It was caught off the
Start, on Sunday, the 14th inst., by the crew of the sloop
Jessie, Thomas Middleton, master, and, in consequence of
its enormous size, was towed 11' that "Mel int° liarhotir•—
Devortport Independent. • .