The Sun.
London, England, 1839-02-01 00:00:00

THE MON&RCW.

This was originally a suit for collision, in which the late Learned
Judge (Sir J. Nichols) decided, with the assistance of Trinity Masters,
that both parties were to blame, and that the damage must be appor-
tioned between them. A question as to the decree of the Court with
regard to costs now arose. The Registrar had entered the decree that
one of the parties was directed to pay half of the other's costs. A mo-
tion was made this day that that entry be altered, the decree of the
Court, it was contended, being that one party should pay half the costs,
or, in other words, that the whole of the costs should be divided be.
tween them.

The Learned JUDGE, under the circumstances, directed an alteration
of the entry.

INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT, .14N. 31.

FUNERAL OF THE DUCHESS OF

WURTE MBERG.

The funeral of her late Royal Highness the Duchess Alex-
ander,
of Wurtemberg took place at Dreux on Saturday morn-
ing. The King and the four Princes had errived there by
half-past seven in the morning, and Duke Alexander of \Vur_
temberg at eight o'clock. By an early hour all the inhabitants
were in movement, and the windows were crowded with fe-
males dressed in black. Flags with crape knots hung from
several houses, and great numbers of the neighbouring pea-
santry flecked into Dreux to witness the mournful ceremony.
The Church was hung with black—the initials of the Duke
and Duchess were embroidered on the folds of the drape-
ries—and the Bishop of Chartres, attended by his Chap-
lains, and the parochial Clergy, remained by the side of a
cenotaph erected in the central aisle, awaiting the arrival of the
body. The procession, with the remains of the Duchess,
reached Dreux at ten, having rested ti.e preceding evening at
Chartres; and immediately on its arrival being announced,
the four Princes and Duke Alexander went to receive it at the
door of the church, the King remaining at the chateau. As
soon as the coffin was placed in the aisle, the Duke Alexander,
who was quite overcome by grief, threw himself on his knees
at its foot, and burst into a flood of tears. The coffin was then
laid on the cenotaph before the altar, and praers were re-
cited ; after which the funeral cortege left the church to
proceed to the chapel of the chateau. A guard of cavalry
opened the lino, and the National Guard of Dreux, with
arms reversed, escorted the procession on each side. The
King's servants, in deep mourning, were also placed at in-
tervals on the sides of the procession. The hearse was
drawn by six horses, and the princely crown of the Duchess,
enveloped in crape, was placed on her coffin. Behind came
the Princes on foot and bare-headed, wearing long mourning
cloaks over their uniform. Their Royal lli;,hiresses were
followed by their Aides-de-Camp and several Officers of the
Staff attached to his Majesty, by the Civil and Military Au-
thorities of the Department, the Deputies of the Department,
and all the notable personages of the town, in deep mourning.
Near the Princes walked the Marquis de Rumigny, Ambassa-
dor at Turin ; General de Rumigny, his brother; and Capt.
de Laselle, who escorted the body from Toulon. A com-
pany of National Guards and a detachment of cavalry closed
' the procession. As the cortege moved up the long ascent
leading to the chapel the crowds of peasantry that lined
the road stood bareheaded, and observed a deep silence.
In fact, the behaviour of the people of Dreux, as well
as of the country people, was exceedingly respectful through.
out the whole of this mournful ceremony, and but one feel-
ing of sympathy and regret pervaded the whole of the
indabitants. The passage to the chapel occupied an
hour. When the funeral car reached the inclosure of the
chateau it was met by the King dressed all in black,
and whose countenance gave but too melancholy a proof
of the grief with which his heart was oppressed. His Ma-
jesty, who shed tears abundantly the whole time, took
his place as chief mourner, and followed by the Princes,
moved on with the coffin to the chapel, which was
hung in black, but was brilliantly lighted with tapers.
The solemn service for the dead was then performed
with most impressive effect by the Bishop of Chartres,
assisted by the Bishops of Meaux and Morocco. The
King sat by the catafalque near the altar, with the
Dukes of Orleans and Nemours on his right, and the Dukes
of Wurtemberg, Aumale, and Montpensier on his left. The
personages forming the cortege were ranged behind, and at
the four corners of the catafalque stood sapeurs of the line
with axes on their shoulders. During the service his Majesty
having perceived the Marquis de Rumigny standing near him,
turned round and pressed his hand with evident feelings of
great emotion. When tke De Profundis had been sung the
coffin was taken up, and was slowly carried down into the
vault, the clergy accompanying it and singing the Absolution.
The Bishop of Chartres then turned and informed his Majesty
that nothing more remained to be done except to take a last
and solemn farewell of the remains of the Princess, and to
sprinkle her coffin with the sacred water. The King rose, and
attended by the Princes and only two officers, no other persons
accompanying them, descended into the vault. We understand
that the scene which ensued here was quite heart-rending,
the royal mourn( rs giving themselves up to all the intensity
of their grief. The King evinced all the mournful resignation
of a mind capable of overcoming its despair. One of the
young Princes, on leaving, cried out, " Adieu pour moi !
Adieu pour Joinville I" The ceremony was entirely con-
cluded by two o'clock, and his Majesty with the Princes set
out at three for Paris, where they arrived at eight.— Galignani.

The towns of Hemel Hempstead, Berkhampstead,
Tring, and the villages adjoining, have been thrown into an
unusual state of excitement by the sudden disappearance of
the Rev. David Jenks, Rector of Little Gaddesden, who has
been lately appointed to the office of Rural Dean by the Lord
Bishop of Lincoln. It appears that the Rev. Gentleman had,
during the last two or three weeks, laboured under an extra-
ordinary depression of spirits, arising from some slight embar-
rassments, into which he had been plunged by unforeseen cir-
cumstances. On Monday, the 21st instant, Mr. Jenks left
Gaddesden, and proceeded to London by the London and
' Birmingham Railway, in order to come to some arrangement
with regard to his affairs. On arriving in London he went to
an hotel, ordered dinner to be prepared in the course of an
hour, left his carpet-bag, and went out, promising to be back
in time for dinner. From that time to this he has never
been heard of, and not the slightest clue to his discovery has
been found. We are informed that Mr. Jenks, in addition to
the Rectory of Little Geddesden, bolds the Rectory of Ald-
bury, in Buckinghamshire, and 'is Chaplain to the Countess
of Bridgewater.
On Saturday the adjourned inquest touching the
death of Maria Donald, the young woman whose death was al-
leged to have taken place from kicks inflicted by another pros-
titute, named Martin, during the progress of an affray between
them, was resumed in Cromer-street. The medical evidence
showed that death had resulted from blows or kicks on the
abdomen, causing internal inflammation. A variety of evi-
dence having been adduced, the inquiry was again adjourned
to Tuesday, when the jury r tuned a verdict of " Man-
slaughter" against Martin. 0,1 Wednesday she was finally
examined at Hatton-garden, charged on the Coroner's warrant,
arid fully committed for trial. Deceased and accused
had for a long time been inseparable companions, but in
consequence of a male " friend" of the one having paid, or
having been supposed to have paid, particular attention to the
other, an estrangement had taken place, which ultimately re-
sulted in the fatal affray referred to. Deceased was only
eighteen years of age, and was a young person of very prepos-
sessing appearance. It is said that she was the daughter of
respectable parents residing at Brighton, from which place sloe
was seduced about ightern months ago by a gentleman of the
legal profession, who shot tly afterwards abandoned her, when
she sunk into the disreputable mode of life which she lately
pursued.

BEER SHOPS.—The following general order has
been issued by the Board of Excise :---'• For the purpose of
obviating doubts which appear to be entertained in some cast I,
whether the licenses of beer retailers under Acts of the Ist of
William IV., chap. 64, and the 4th and sth of William IV.,
chap. 85, are forfeited on the first conviction of any offence
against the conditions of such license—ordered, that the officers
take notice that licensees of this description arc not required to
be adjudged void on the second or third conviction, but that
they are rendered void by a first conviction of any offence con-
trary to the regulations and conditions therein contained."

DEATH OF A PA TR IA itcH.—A venerable old
Highlander died a few days since, near Kingussie, in Bade-
noch, aged one hundred and three years. The name of this
patriarch of the hills was Jchn Macpherson. He was a poor
man, but honest and industrious. Latterly some of his neigh-
bours assisted John with small sums of money and provisions,
but he received them with evident reluctance ; and no con-
sideration could induce him to solicit public charity. The
only luxury in which the old man indulged was tobacco, and
it is well known that he sometimes had recourse to roots and
other substitutes, when his money and his tobacco failed, ra-
ther than ask a penny to purchase another supply of the fa-
vourite narcotic. This independent, proud-spirited old clans-
man had witnessed many changes among his native mountains,
from the time that the feudal system was in full vigour, till
the introduction of agricultural improvement and commercial
enrerprize. He had seen the gascrome, or crooked spade of
the Highlanders, superseded by the plough—sheep farming
introduced—roads and bridges constructed in place of the old
fords and bridle tract—the mail-coach drive daily through
scenes that in his youth only echoed to the hunter and the wild
deer—and even steam-boats sailing where grew broom and
heather, in the Great Glen of Albyn, now the line of the Ca-
ledonian Canal.—lnverness Courier.

TUE SIMPLON.—The road over the Simplon is
stated, by a correspondent in Switzerland, to be at present co-
vered with snow six feet deep. The posts, parapets, and
walls have all disappeared, and nothing more can be perceived
than a few stakes planted with an interval of about thirty feet
between each, to point out where the road passes. On the
10th and 11th inst. the plateau of the Simplon was visited
with a tremendous storm, greater than had ever been remem-
bered by the religious brethren of the Hospice. The walls of
the building rocked and cracked in the hurricane, whiCh pro.
duced shocks similar to those of an earthquake. The sledge
of the last diligence which passed was accompanied by seven
or eight men armed with large shovels to clear away the snow
which had accumulated to a prodigious height on it passage.
In the event of a continuance of unfavourable weather, it was
feared that all communications would be intercepted, oa ac-
count of the imminent danger of avalanches.
Between nine and ten o'clock on Saturday night,
Mrs. Mary Dunn, a widow in respectable circumstances, who
resided at No. 10, Munster-street, Regent's-park, returned
home in a state of extreme intoxication and laid herself down
on a sofa-to sleep. About an :lour afterwards her sister, on
entering the apartment, discovered her to be a corpse. She
was quite black in the face, and her features were much dis-
torted. She had been suffocated by the large quantity of gin
she had taken. The deceased was only twenty-five years of
age, and had become addicted to the baneful vice of excessive
drinking, through grief at the loss of her husband, who died
between six and seven months ago. An inquest will be held
on the body.
On Tuesday morning, a respectable vvaterman and
lighterman, named Thomas Brockelbank, the nephew of the
managing director of the General Steam Navigation Com-
pany, of the same name, was superintending the lo iding of a
barge with corn from a vessel in Mill- hole Tier, when, in
pitching a sack of corn off his shoulder, be got upon the gun-
wale of the barge for the purpose of putting the sack of corn
further over. Owing to its being on a slope, and coming off
easier than he expected, he lost his balance and fell backwards
into the water, sack and all. The tide, which was running up
at the time, soon carried him under the vessels in the tier, and
although prompt measures were adopted to save him, he was
drowned, and more than an hour elapsed before his body was
recovered.