The Sun.
London, England, 1863-09-24 00:00:00

credulity of the bench with lies trumped up for the
occasion. No such a person as William Dean was
known in the locality, but the girl was known to the
police as being a notorious impostor, and addicted to
vagabondish habits. Playing made these disco.
veries the officer quietly returned to Wolver-
hampton, bringing with him a witness who was
well acquainted with the girl's antecedents.—Police-
sergeant Steel, of Burslem, said that about two
years ago the prisoner was found lying in the road,
at Trentham, by Mr. Adderley, M.P., of Barlaston-
hall, to whom she stated that some person had
robbed her of a purse containing 4s. 6d., and also
committed a rape upon her. Mr. Adderley, in con-
sequence, toot her in his carriage to Stone Work-
house. A man was arrested cal the charges, but
her statement proved to be untrue, and she was
severely reprimanded by the magistrates who heard
the case. She admitted that she had made a false
charge. She was afterwards taken to the work-
house at Chell, whence she absconded, taking with
her some clothing belonging to the union. On this
charge she was sentenced to a month's imprison-
ment. Shortly after her release from gaol she was
found sitting in the road at Trentham, at night,
and told a policeman who found her that she
could tell who the men were who had been con-
cerned in the recent pouching affray on the Duke of
Sutherland's estate. She named a lodging-house
where they could be found, and the house was
searched,but this story turned out to be untrue. She
was brought before magistrates at Longton, and
sentenced, he believed, to a month's imprisonment.
The prisoner—Nothing of the kind, sir. Witness
—A short time afterwards she was in custody of
a police-officer, Blurton, charged with disorderly
conduct For this offence she was sentenced, he
believed, to two months' imprisonment Soon after
her liberation from gaol she was found at Eccles-
hall, in an apparently dying state. Police-sergeant
Robinson took her to his house, and she informed
him that two men had taken her into a toll-house
near Salop, and committed a rape upon her, and
afterwards gave her poison. Two magistrates were
fetched from church to take her declaration, as it
was thought she would die._ The declaration was
signed by her, and ahe stated her belief that she
should not recover. Upon inquiries being made as to
her character, she admitted her statement to be false,
and was sentenced to three months' imprisonment.
After her release from gaol she was again found at
Longton, but she was then in company with a man,
and she was brought before the magistrates, and
sentenced to fourteen days' imprisonment. Her term
expired last Saturday. One of the bench asked if
she was a prostitute. Witness—She is a notorious
prostitute, and one of the greatest liars in the
world. Superintendent rovey had received com-
munications from almost every town in England
where she had practised the same kind of dodges.
The prisoner—You have told an untruth; I have
only been to Stafford three times; the first for seven,
the second for fourteen, and the last for twenty-
one days. Witness—On applying to the gaol more
than half a dozen convictions can be produced of
her. Prisoner—As to my going tc Chell Work-
house, I never did, for my mother took me home.
The Mayor (to the prisoner)—He says you came
from Stafford on Saturday. Prisoner—It was not
on Saturday I came. I was at home on the 19th
of September, and my mother knows it too. In
answer to the bench, the witness added that there
was no such person ss William Dean living at
Burslem. The Mayor (to the prisoner)—Do you
,
adhere to the statement you made to Dean
The
prisoner said she did, and it was true she was three
months advanced in the family way. 'I 'he Mayor
said she would be examined by a surgeon, and re-
manded far a week, and in the meantime further
inquiries would be made respecting ker. He added
that this case showed the necessity of there being a
public prosecutor. It must be placed in the hands
of an attorney, so that a proper inquiry might be
made, and the case presented to the bench next
Tuesday in a connected forie, for if the statement of
the police-seegeant were correct the prisoner ought
not to be at large.—Btrinznyhant Gazette.

GAS LAMPS just placed in the Champs Elysees
resemble in shape an antique vase. The light springs from
an imitation candle, and at the top ie a white porcelain re-
flector. They give a much wore brilliant light than those
on the old system.

Les Institutions Politiques, Judiczaires, et Adminis-
atsres d'Anyleterre. Par Charles de Franque-
villa, Auditeur au Conseil d'Etat, Avocat ila
Cour Imperiale. 1 Tome, pp. 559. Paris :
Hachette et Cie.
A distinguished Frenchman has,this singularly
interesting
interesting and exceedingly able work, taken not
only a very tolerant but a most generous view
is
of
our English Institutions. M. de Franqueville
man of note amongst our Gallic neighbours. This
his very position indicates. He is Auditor of the
Council of State, betides being a barrister at law
in practice and a man of letters with some reputa-
tion. He has enjoyed the advantage of mixing in
English society as well as in French society. When
he writes, as in the volume under notice, about our
insular institutions, "Political, Judicial, and Ad.
ministrative," he writes, no doubt, after the accu-
mulation of large stores of knowledge in regard to
those institutions from books, but he writes also, it
would be especially borne in mind, from his own
vigilant, sustained, and thoughtful observation.
The treatise here presented by him to our consi-
deration—for in a philosophical sense the work is
a genuine treatise in its character, a treatise well-
considered throughout, ample in its scope, and
having the broadest, and, so to speak, the most
massive principles for its very foundation—the
treatise here submitted to our examination by
M. de Franqueville has been quite manifestly
from beginning to end, a labour of love with the
writer of it. Like his illustrious fellow-country-
man, the Count de Montalembert, in these particu,
bars, if in no others, M. de Franqueville, besides
being an earnest, a conscientious, and a devoted
ultramontanist, is, with the whole fervour of a
most generous nature, in his political sympathies,
a thoroughgoing Anglo-maniac. A time was when
the cultivation of a frivolous and besotted Anglo-
mania was the passing passion of the hour among
a certain class of French politicians. Outwardly
it manifested itself, this tendency towards the imita-
tion of English ways and methods of doing things,
by thu adoption of some of the more flagrant absurdi-
ties then prevalent on this side of the Channel in the
way of costume, as well as in the adoption of some of
our most conspicuous social and domestic habitudes.
These extravagances, occurring (it way be recalled
to mind by even the most superficially instructed
student of modern history), during the evil days of
the first, that is, of the Great French Revolution.
While yet inEngland the vulgar notion of a French-
man was almost identical with the idealised cari-
cature of that personage painted in Hogarth's
picture of Calais Gate, a caricature afterwards
exaggerated to the most grotesque extravagance of
ridicule in the Frog-eating Spindle-shanks pour-
trayed in the gaudily-coloured etchings of Gilray
and Rowlandson—multitudes of people on the op-
posite side of the Channel, prominent politicians
many of them, were acting, it may be, in a not less
mistaken, but certainly also in a far more
generous spirit : wearing among other things
the buckskins and top-boots, then forming
a portion of the ordinary garb of Englishmen;
carrying in their right hand a bulbous-headed
walking-stick ; having at their heels a
tamed, though ferocious-looking specimen of the
genus bulldog ; in their hours of conviviality, it
may be, some of them exchanging the savoury ra-
gout for the tough beef-steak, or the nip of absinthe
for the equally nauseous flavour of gin-and-bitters.
It was not that these earlier and merely superficial
Anglo-maniacs hated us less (that is to say, than
Englishmen and Frenchmen were then mutually
taught, idiotically to hate each other) but that they
hated their own rulers, their own institutions, their
own Government more. There was a malignity in
that Anglo - mania, though the evidences of
it wore nothing short of the ridiculous. In
noble contrast to the Anglo-mania of past days in
France, is an intellectual and philosophical Anglo-
mania, if such it can justly be called, like that
manifested by a rarely gifted man of genius like
the Countscle Montalembert, or, again as the work
to which we are here desirous of directing the
attention of our fellow-countrymen, admirably well
evidences, by an enlightened and accomplished ob•
server like M. de Franqueville. Subscribing to
Buffon's famous axiom, " k 4 style c'est l'honzme," we
would here, before adding another syllable in regard
to the goodly volume before us, give in the way of
illustration at leastsone brief extract, as an average
exemplar of the way in which M. de Franqueville's
work is written. Remarking upon the ex-
traordinary difference discoverable at a glance
between the French and the English administrator
our author goes on to remark :—" La quelques rases
employes, d'un OCCe3 facile, d'une exquise politesse,
d'une inepuisable complaisance pour les citoyens
qui, par le plus grand des hasards, oat affaire it une
administration publique. Point de cerbere =-
gorge dans une cravate blanche, le cou orne de la
chaise d'argent traditionelle; un simple gentleman
en redingote fait fonction d'huissier ; it parait sur-
prise, mais non pas mecontent, d'apercevoir un
etranger, et it s'empresse de se mettre a sea ordres.
11 est assurement plus facile de voir un minister
el'Angleterre qu'un chef de division francais. Les
bureaux sont propros et nets. On y voit peu de
dossiers, encore moins de cartons. Une petite car-
beille d'osier contient trois ou quatre feuilles de
papier etonnees de se trouver ensemble, et destinees
ki etre pliees le soir, puis entourees d'un petit
fib rouge [how delicately the red tape is
hinted at n, avant de retourner a la poussiere
qui les attend. Presque toutes les admi-
nistrations sent reunies, a Whitehall, dans un
meme ba.timent dont la vue seule est plus elcquente
que tousles discours. Point de ces etiquettes ma-
jestueuses, sur lesquelles le mot bureau aime, chez
nous, it staler sa touteapaissance ; de petites plaques
de cuivre Bien discretes se desputent la 'Artie in-
ferieure de trois portes etroites, et indiquent lea
noms des ministeres, dont elles annoncent Ventres.
Le temple de la bureaucratic anglaise est moins
grand que l'hotel par ticulier de l'un des ministres a
Paris." Time will come, however, M. de Franque-
ville, when in regard to that last peculiarity of
ours, we are all cherishing the hope of being able
to say with Moliere's Medecin Ma ire Lug—" IVe
have changed all that" completely! Meaning
the restricted character and unimposing ap-
pearance of our public offices. As our
author himself might learn any day, when
next he happens to be over here in London by
strolling down in the direction of Whitehall and
remarking the extent of the clearance there made
to the west of Downing-street. Excellent though
the arrangement of this work of M. de Franque-
ville's undoubtedly is, in the way of affording its
reader a comprehensive and comprehensible survey
of our English Institutions—our institutions at once
political, judicial, and administrative—it is upon
the liberality of the whole tone of it that we
would here particularly be understood to pro-
nounce our opinion—not carelessly, or casual's',
or out of mere idle compliment, but withan emphasis of approval to which, according,
to our thinking, that same liberality of tone
so eminently entitles it. Divided into four books,
the volume considers, in the first, The State and the
Church; in the second, Justice and Legislation;
in the third, the Central Administration ; in the
fourth and last, the Local Administration. 'Than
which division of his theme, into four quarters, none
could by possibility ensure to the treatise more in-
stantraroetrical completeness.
lucidity or more es
Subdividing the first book again into four chapters,
Al. de Franqueville comments in the first upon our
Constitution in its entirety. In the second, he con-
siders the Executive Power under half a dozen
sections-1, the Sovereign; 2, the Royal Family;
3, the Royal House; 4, the Civil List; 5, the Privy
Council ; 6, the Cabinet. Chapter three relates
in five sections to-1. The Parliament ;2. The
Nobility ; 3. The House of Lords ; 4. The House
of Commons; 5. The Bills introduced into the Legis-
lature, and there by " passing" transformed into
enactments, Chapter the fourth and last of the first
book relates, in its turn, under two heads, first,
to Protestantism, and, secondly, to what is natu-
rally of especial interest to the writer as a Catholic,
to the Catholic religion in the United kingdom;
nay to a certain extent even it might be said, in
the whole vast area of the British empire.
A couple of chapters, he finds sufficient for his
second book or division. The earlier of the two re-