The Sun.
London, England, 1863-10-01 00:00:00

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.--Th is Day.

NEWMARKET RACES.-THIS DAY.
(BY ELECTRIC 'IT LEGRATII,)
QUEEN'S PLATE.

Isoline
Harlequin

Six ran.

LATEST BETTING.
CESARE'WITCH.
11 to 1 agst Lioness (wanted)
25 to 1 agst Anfield (offered)
CAMBRIDGESHIRE.
100 to 3 agst Anfield (taken)
1000 to 15 agst Carisbrook (taken)

THE SUMMER OF 1863.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

SlR,—Because last summer was somewhat warmer
than its three predecessors, which were cold, an im-
pression is prevalent that the temperature of the
season just closed exceeded the average of former
years. This was by means the case, a deficiency
instead of an increase being the fact.
I beg to furnish the result from observations
taken compared with the mean temperature of
s yea
1846 to 1863 inclusively. I may
i here,rs—from
premise that in estimating a fair value of monthly
mean temperature the range of period should not
be less than 12 or 15 years; at Greenwich the corna
putations are made on much longer time.
Mean of 18
Years. 1863. Above. Below.
May
3 deg.
57 deg. 1: !).,3
ddeg.
June
July
4 3 deg.
1 der, •
September 55 deg, 52 deg. .• • •
..
August 565991 deg...
.. 60.1 deg. .• 1.
It will be seen that the only month Which had a
surplus was August, and this was a very wet
month. Rain fell on 20 days; total depth 3.69
inches; which quantity is almost double the ave-
rage. Four out of the five months were, therefore,
characterised by deficiency of temperature.
The above realises my anticipation. My predic-
tions in Mu last, and reiterated June 27, were
accompanied by the reasons which induced me to
expect a falling off of mean temperature this sum-
mer. The data comprising the theory on which my
calculations were based applied to mean temperature
exclusively.
Confident that this will be useful for future com-
parison and reference, I am, Sir, your obedient
servant,

THOM IS L. PLANT, Member of the
British Meteorological Society.
Birmingham, Sept. 30.

*- At Old Trafford, Manchester, the deficiency in July
was 1.7, from observations made by[Mr. Vernon in that
city extending over 15 years.

Two Children Claiming One Mother.

A singularly romantic case of two children claiming one
mother has just come before the Imperial Court of Agen. In
October, 1833, a widow named Francoise Beausoliel Dufour,
gave birth to a female child, her husband having died on
the Gth of February in fhe same year. This child she put
in the turning-box of the Foundling Hospital of Marmande,
having reasons which are not explained for concealing the
birth. By the French law the legitimacy of a child born
within 300 days of the husband's death cannot be disputed.
In the present instance the birth took place considerably
within that period; but it is conjectured that the mother
feared the opinion of the neighbours might not be in ac-
cordance with legal presumption. However this may bo
she presented herself at the Foundling Hospital a few days
after the infant had been deposited there, satisfied the direc-
tors that she had means to support the child, and told them
that she intended to take it out very soon. In order to
establish the identity of her infant she mentioned that
among its linen there was a piece of printed muslin of a re-
markable pattern, and this muslin the lady superior of the
hospital at once admitted having noticed, She succeeded
(contrary, apparently, to the rules of foundling hospitals)
in inducing the directors to tell her where the child was.
They said it was with a wet-nurse, named Gaillard, in a
village which they mentioned. To this village Madame
Beausoliel Pure Dufour) repaired,linquired for Madame
Gaillard, overwhelmed the infant which she found in her
cottage with maternal caresses, and delighted the whole
household by the assurance that she would augment the
meagre pittance allowed by Government for bringing up a
chance child. These promises were more than kept. Her
visits to little Denize Achet—that was the name officially
given in the hospital to the child, who was registered, as
the custom is in such establishments, " born of unknown
parents"—were frequent, and every time she brought with
her little comforts and delicacies for the child, and presents
1;;;ITtlyt-g7.1.` stel7l7-ha.Vin—cuu';-4ed-,7.7,hteoal7libeaCrnf::
her own home, where she so man aged that it was received
without question as a sister by the four children who were
born before her husband's death. Denize, brought up with
unvarying affection, and well educated for a country girl of
modest pretensions, was at tim age of 25 respectably mar-
ried to a M. Caussade, and upon. that occasion the register of
births at .the Foundling Hospit3l of Marmande was, pur-
suant to a judicial decree, corrected in her favour, and in-
stead of being described as " born of unknown parents,"
she was stated to be the legitimate child of Monsieur and
Madame Dufour. Thus we find the h.,!roine of this little
story married and settled and happy in the affections of
a respectable family of which she is a ;legal as well as an
accepted and cherished member. But five years after her
marriage, and in 1862, a domestic servant at Agen, named
Denise Achet, brings an action against M. and Madame
Caussade and widow Dufour, alleging that she, the plaintiff,
is really the child deposited by Madame Dufour in the
turning-box of Marmande, and enveloped in the remarkable
printed muslin; that the defendant, Madame Caussade,
was never baptised or registered by the name of Denize
Achet, and that she was an unknown child thrown into the
box about the same ti.ne, and registered in the books of the
hospital by the name of Isabelle Tolland. Extraordinary
as this claim appears, it was most conclusively made out by
evidence. The explanation is that in the abovementioned
village there were two women named Madame Gaillard,
who had simultaneously received a child to nurse from the
Foundling Hospital. Madame Dufour went to the wrong
one. The consequence is that the register is again corrected,
and the true Denize Achet, the maid servant of Agen, is
declared to be the legitimate child of M. and Madame Du-
four, while poor Madame Caussade, the darling and pride of
the family for the last 30 years, is judicially ascertained to
be the " child of nobody." Madame Dufour says she can-
not transfer her affections in accordance with the law's
decree, and that she will neither abandon Madame Caussado
nor (otherwise than legally) recognise Denise Achet, of
Agen. The first use she has made of her parental authority
is to refuse her consent to a marriage which Mdlle. Denizo
has contracted. The refusal is, however, not meant to pre-
vent the marriage, about which Madame Dufour is totaliy
indifferent, but only because she desires to have nothing to
do with her. Denize may marry all the same, being of lull
age, by serving her mother with the legal summons called
acics respccfueux.

Two NEW GERMAN OPERAS are announced
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forthcoming : " Der Wahrsager," by Herr Schubert,:,
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" Sangers Fluch" (after Uhland's ballad), by Herr Labri;ork,
MAHOE LEAVES is the nam,:,:t
published in New Zealand, giving an account of the P
condition of the Maori race.
A NEW ROMANTIC OPERA is being
the Grand Opera of Paris, entitled
text and music by Mermet. A t passelderf has
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, 0 .13.0p-PICKERS.-011
an inquest was held at the fato inquire into the deaths
rm of Mr.
dkiclpoletnEdthel).-, Leeds,
Kent,
'G. 0. Thirkell' ,
deceased Mrs. Beaney, who lived at
of Harriet lifreY4i and Ann Beaney, 14, mother and
daughter. The DEATH OF
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Eve or six of her Children, and had been employed by Mr.
Thirkell in hop picking. They were sheltered, with many
other in Borne temporary huts, the roofs and sides
consi pickers,siingn straw thatch and hop- blues, with wooden
uprights and rafters. The picking having been brought to
a conclusion on Wednesday, the hoppers were paid off, and
at night the
deceased and a number of others went to
a publie-house at Leeds, where they remained drinking
for several hours, returning to their huts shortly after
tVreive o'clock, the whole of them the more or less intoxi-
cated ; in fact, some of them dropped down on the road,
and remained there all night. The deceased, Harriet
Beaney, war quite drunk, and her two eldest sons were
also the worse for liquor. About 4 o'clock in the morning
the Beaneys were awoke by finding that their hut was on
fire, and the two deceased lost their lives. Both bodies, when
brought out from the ruins of the huts, presented a fright-
ful' spectacle, none of their features being distinguishable,
and and on one of the hoppers taking hold of the girl's arinhutisc
crumbled to pieces in his hand. Nothwithstauding throe
were built upon the bank of a running brook, they wise
en-
tirely destroyed; and considering the rapidittyaw;
more
which
ore did
not lose their lives. As it was, three or four the flames spread, it is a matte.' of surprise
children were
hoppers was entirely consumed.
severely burnt, and everything in the huts belonging to the