The Sun.
London, England, 1837-10-25 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, WED

and not restraip, the limits of hvr conquests. The
fall of conitantina is the decomplishment of a well-
concocted plan ; and if Athmet "ley should not
Suc:ced in butt hig off the communications of the
arMV, dod that peaceable possession of that fortress
be maintained, we shall find that France has taken
a deep and firm root on the southern coast of
the Meditetraneati, atal 1110 dill' ptitSesBioth of
Mikhl ii;
It'ssct,liali; faltittlit itt Vaitie. it is tlterciore
in the idea that Franey, havito' possession of both
sides of the Mctditerrancan, able to command
those waters that the establishment of a depot or hos-
pital, or of anything whit;li may lead to tile dectipation
of Port Mahon, must he looked upon with a most
'jealous eye by us. We may imagine that the esta-
blishment of a coal store, for tle use of the African
steamers, cannot lead to a final settlement in the
island of Minorca, but we have so often seen a formal
o :cu pat ion take place from a less suspicious commence-
ment that we apprehend the designs of our neighbours
arc more in ions than they are admitted to be. Give
our naval and commercial rival a line of ports on
both coasts of the Mediterranean, and the possession
of Mahon, to maintain the communication, and our
position is neutralized, and the fiee intercourse between
Gibraltar and Malta to a certain extent endangered.
We throw out these hints for the consideration of our

diplomacy. Instead of watching the operations of
Don Carlos, our eyes should be fixed on those of
Louis Philippe ; and the establishment of a great
power in Africa be deemed of more consequence to
our commercial interests than the pretended revival of
the inquisition at Madrid.—Morning Post.

AFFLICTING CASE OF SEDUCTION
AND SUICIDE.

Monday an inquest was held at the Six Bells, King's-
road, Chelsea, before Mr. Stirling and a respectable Jury,
on view of the body of Miss Caroline Hulford, aged 21,
an interesting young female, who committed suicide by
taking oxalic acid under most afflicting circumstances.

s. Ann Weare, widow, of No. 11, Arthur-street,
Chelsea, deposed that she was unacquainted with the de-
ceased ; between eleven and twelve o'clock on Saturday
forenoon witness was passing through Whithead's-grove,
vvl en she observed the deceased walking before her. The
For young woman appeared vei y ili, and staggered in her
%A alk. 'Witness went to her assistance, and supported her
from falling, and seated her on some steps of a house ; after
which she vomited very much. During the time another
witness and several other persons came up. Witness sus-
pecting what had happened, questioned the unfortunate
young creature, who said in reply, that she had been se-
duced, and afterwards deserted by her seducer ; that she
was pregnant, and had so feared the resentment of her
friends, that she had shortly before taken oxalic acid. Wit-
ness accompanied the wretched girl to the surgeon's, where
she breathed her last.

By the CORONER—There wele no other papers about
the deceased besides those mentioned by the last witness,
and had contained the poison ?
By the Jury—The deceased did dot mention her name,
or that of her seducer. She said that her father was a
tradesman, and lived at No. 25, D'Oyley-street, Chelsea.
Mary Hulford, a young girl of respectable appearance,
who was much affected, deposed that the deceasedwas her
cousin. On Friday witness and her cousin returned from
Hampshire, where she (deceased) had been on a visit to
witness's friends for the last four or five months. During
the period in question her cousin had been in a very low
dejected state of mind, in consequence of her being enciente
by a young man named Hedge, whom she was afraid would
not perform his promise of marrying her. On the day of
their arrival from the country at her (deceased's) father's
house, she saw Mr. Hedge, who said " he could not marry
the best woman in England." The communication was a
dreadful shock to the deceased, who gave way to the most
poignant affliction. Witness slept with her on Friday
night, when she was very restless, and wept most of the
night. On Saturday morning she left home, telling wit-
ness she would not be gone long, but she never returned.
By the CORONER—The deceased informed her father of
her situation before the commission of the rash act, who
felt it very severely, but did not use any harsh expressions
to her, but merely acted as a father ought. The deceased
was a young woman of very sensitive feelings. -
The Jury said it was a case of heartless seduction; and
returned a verdict of Temporary Derangement, expressing
their feelings in the strongest terms as to the conduct of
the seducer.

An inquest was held at the Globe public-house,
Gray's-walk, Lambeth, before Mr. Carttar, Coroner for the
county of Surrey, on view of the body of Mrs. Jane Hub-
bard, who destroyed herself under the following melan-
choly circumstances :—lt appeared that the deceased, who
was about 40 years of age, lost her youngest child about
five months ago, by which affliction her reason became dis-
turbed, and the malady assuming the character of brain
fever, she was removed to Guy's Hospital, whence she re-
turned to her family three weeks ago, apparently restored.
But since that time .she frequently manifested symptoms of
disturbed mind, but not such as to cause apprehension in
the minds of her family that she would repeat the attempt
upon her life which, upon the death of another child, she
had made eight years ago. On Saturday last she became
more than usually depressed, and complained of pain in her
head ; but still there was nothing in her manner to excite
suspicion for her safety. However, in the course of the
afternoon, her married daughter, Mrs. Jane Smith, with
whom she and her husband resided, at No. 85, Regent-
street, Lambeth, coming accidentally into her bedroom, to
which she had retired on account of the illness of which she
complained, found her suspended by the neck, with a silk
handkerchief, from the rail of the bedstead. Mrs. Smith's
cries brought to her assistance her husband and a neigh-
bour from the next house, by whom the deceased bias cut
down, and the body was then warm ; but all the efforts of
the medical men, who were instantly called in, were inef_
ectual to restore lifts.— Verdict," Insanity."
SI'ORTING JEU D'ESPRIT.—Oyer a mess table
where the parties were warmly discussing the excellence of
Joe Manton's guns, a young officer expatiated at conside-
rable length on the superior quality of " Egg's guns,"
when the Colonel of the regiment, a noted sportsman and
wit, on being requested to give his opinion, replied that
each possessed a peculiar excellence, but, in his opinion,
Manton's were the best for sporting and Egg's for poaching.

The Stvglian Mercury publishes the subjoined
letter of the 28th ult., from Constantinople :—" The good
people of Pera have been shocked by the apostacy of an
Archdeacon of the Metropolitan Church of Ephesus, who
has lately assumed the Turban. Being attacked by the
plague, he was most carefully attended by a Greek family
in indigent circumstances. During his convalescence he
became enamoured of one of the daughters. At length, his
conduct towards her excited public attention, and the Pa-
triarch caused him to be imprisoned. Contriving, however,
to inform some Turks of high rank that he was willing to
embrace Islamism, the Porte was induced to interfere ; the
ex-dignitary of the Greek Church was set at liberty, pub-
licly renounced his religion, and, together with his affianced
bride was admitted into that of Mahomet."

Last week a lunatic, of the name of King, who had
been confined in the asylum at Fisherton, near Salisbury,
made his escape from thence, and after diligent search was
found at Castle Cary, where he had broken into the church
there, and having found a tinder-box, it was his intention
to have set the church on fire, but fortunately he could not
find a steel to strike a light with, or his purpose would
have been answered. He had collected all the books and
every moveable article into a heap, purposing to burn them
as so much useless lumber as he termed them, which ought
to be destroyed. Being disappointed of a light his next
object was to break the windows, and in so doing he de-
stroyed about sixty squares of glass. Fortunately he was
not able to do any more injury, and being secured, he was
conveyed to his former abode, where from the care now
taken of him, he will not be able to do any more mischief.
It seems he was ambitious of imitating, on a smaller scale,
Jonathan Martin, who set fire to York Minster, a few
years ago.

At the sitting of the Lincoln Town-council on
Monday night, Mr. Tuke, the reporter of the Lincoln
Standard, was called on by Mr. Councillor Trotter, who
addressed the Mayor, and said that he had no doubt that
Mr. Tuke was drawing the likenesses of some of tho
members to make caricatures of them. Mr. Tuke denied
that he was so doing, but the Council did not believe
him, and demanded his note-book, which he kave up
the town-clerk, asking if that was like any of the Camel.
On the town-clerk referring to the place pointed out, he
perceived that Mr. Tuke had been drawing a fat boar. The
Town-clerk indignantly admonished Mr. Tuke for drawing
fat boars during the Sitting of the Council, and the Mayor,
with the approbation of the Meeting, ordered the sarcastic
mocker of its dignity to quit the reporters' box instantly.
St. Domingo has never recovered the devastations of
the revolution, and all sorts of commercial productions
have declined in an extraordinary degree. Sugar, for ex-
ample, has fallen off from 141,000,000 lbs. to almost ne,..
thing ; Coffee from 77,000,0001b5. to 30,000,000 ; "-t;ot-
ton from 7,000,0QD lbs., to 600,000 lbs.; in'" ' from
700,0001b5. to nothing, &c. Such is the ar- "‘ttgat least,
presented by recent travellers, who spec
1 .001 M I a
as being sunk in sloth and ignorer. of the population'

SOULS AND BODIES.—
of the world, as if th,•-

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--It appears on a casual view
were a great number of souls
destined for human bodies, but that in
..,,ntion, some got three or four, and some none at all.

ginally made, r.
the distri'