The Sun.
London, England, 1863-11-14 00:00:00

TIM SON, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 14, 1863,

LAW INTELLIGENCE—This Day,

COURT OF DIVORCE.
(Before the Judge Ordinary.)
EVERY V. EVERY.

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This was a petition presented by the wife, praying for
dissolution of marrriage on the ground of cruelty, desertion
and adultery.
The petitioner, Sophia Every, said she married the
respondent in 1851 at St.:George's Church, Camberwell ;
it was a runaway match. After the marriage they lived
very comfortably in the Albany-road, and several other
places, but in a short time the respondent's conduct alto-
gether altered. He used to insist on her giving him
all the money she had got, and when she had none to give
him, he used to insist on her going to her father, who kept
a coffee-house, and borrowing some from him. For peace
and quietness she did so on several occasions, but when she
refused to go any more he turned her out of doors. The
father eventually discovered the conduct of the respondent,
and refused to give the petitioner any -further assistance in
the shape of money, but willingly allowed her to return
home in order to escape the illtreatment and outrageous
conduct of the respondent. Mrs. Every shortly after her
residence with her father acted as waitress in the shop, and
there the respondent was enabled to see her very frequently.
The result of the meetings was that he persuaded her to
return to him, he promising to do everything in his power
to make amends for Lis past bad conduct. In a short
time, however, the old course of illtreatment commenced
and after all her savings had been expended he said,
he was determined to have more money out of her, and he
did not care how she got it. While she was living at her
father's she had saved sufficient to purchase a gold watch
and chain, but this the respondent soon turned to account,
the money raised upon the articles being spent in dissipa-
tion. She was again compelled to leave him and return to
her father's house. While she had been residing with her
husband after her last return she had, unfortunately for
herself, told him that she had some further savings, to
the amount of nearly £5O, in the hands of her father, and
immediately an opportunity presented itself he made a de-
mand upon the father for the property of his wife. The
father refused to give up the money, especially as his daugh-
ter stood in need of it, having but a short time recovered
from her confinement. The respondent, however, issued a
writ against her father fur the recovery of the money, and
having obtained it, he engaged some lodgings in Islington,
and there introduced and resided with another female as
Mrs. Every.
Three witnesses, named Phail, Carter, and Clark, gave
evidence which clearly proved the adultery.
The JuJge Ordinary said the case had been satisfactorily
made out, and decreed a rule nisi with costs against the
respondent.

SHILLITOE V. SHILLITOE.

This was a petition, presented by the wife, praying for
dissolution of marriage, on the ground of cruelty, adultery,
and desertion,

The parties resided at Wakefield, in Yorkshire, and were
married in 18b9. Cohabitation continued for about a year,
when the re. on i 3nt began to treat his wife with great in-
humanity. trlt mat el yhe left her entirely destitute, and it
was shortly atter discovered that he was living in adultery
with another woman.

The Court granted a rule nisi.
The remainder of the causes on the list for to-day were
either struck out or placed at the bottom of the list, as the
patties engaged for the suitors were not in attendance.

SHERIFFS' COURT.
(Before Mr. Kerr.)
THE LAW AS TO MARRIED IVOMEN-NOVEL POINT-EITR-

KITT V. FORSTER.

This was an action to recover VS for some furniture.
Mr. Buchanan appeared for the plaintiff, Mr. Butler
Rigby, instructed by Mr. Beard, representing defendant,
who lad paid £7 19s. into court. _ . _

It appeared that the parties had been very friendly, and
that defendant and his wife formerly lodged at the Vine
Inn, Tooley-street, which was kept by Mrs. Moxen, who
has since become plaintiff's wife.

Mrs. Burkitt deposed to having sold the furniture at an
agreed price, but Mr. Forster denied it, and generally con-
tradicted both plaintiff and his wife.
Mr. Butler Rigby referred to a quantity of delapidated
articles on the front of the seat, as a fair sample of the bulk,
but Mr. Buchanan urged the court to remember that they
had been in use a long time.

Defendant—They never were used.
His Honour—l fancy that the wife ought to be joined in
this action. The goods were sold before her marriage.
Mr. Rigby—it appears to me that plaintiff cannot sue
alone.

His Honour found by the rules that h 9 could join the
wife and did so, adding that as there was a general contra-
diction he must look to probabilities. The whole matter
would be referred to the court broker, who could put a
value on the goods.

Mr. Buchanan—That will hardly be fair to my client at
this lapse of time.

His Honour—Allowances will of course be made.
Referred.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE—This Day.

The Civil Service.

FOREIGN• OFFICE.—The Hn. F. Leveson has been
appointed to a clerkship. _ _ _

WAR•OFFIOE.—Mr. F. J. Culverwell and Mr. A.
S. J. Moody have been appointed to be civil assis-
tants in the Survey Department,
Southampton ; and
Mr. A. Douglas to be civil assistant in the Survey
Department, Perth.

INDIA-OFFICE.—A junior clerkship in the!Ac-
countant•General's department has become Vacant
by the death of Mr. T. H. Baird.

TAE POST-OFFICE.—Mr. J. J. Byrne has been
fippointed a temporary clerk, London; and Mr. J.
King a clerk at Darlington.

COURT OF PROBATE.—A vacancy for a super-
numerary clerk has been caused by the promotion of
Mr. W. J. Heard. A vacancy for two assistant
clerks of searches has been caused by the promo-
tion of Messrs. W. H. Fleming and 3. D. Willan.
Mr. E. A. Wilde has been appointed secretary to
Sir J. P. Wilde, Judge Ordinary of the Courts of
Probate and Divorce ; Mr. W. a Middleton, third
assistant clerk of calendars, has been promoted to
be third assistant clerk of seat pb. to st., vice Mr.
R. H. Harper, resigned ; and Mr. W. G. Vincent,
assistant to the record keepers, to be third assistant
clerk of calendars.

CUSTOMS.—Mr. T. Bacchus has been appointed
a clerk in the searcher's office, London; Mr. R.
Bennett a clerk for general duty, London ; Mr. H.
Brown a clerk in the tea office, London ; Mr. F. H.
Candy a clerk in the imports and exports depart-
ment; Mr. C. P. Fleck a clerk in the examiner's
office; Mr. C. B. Foot a clerk in the imports and
exports department; Mr. J. Collins and Mr. J.
Palmer, out-door officers, London; Mr. W.
J. Henshilwood an out-door officer, Greenock;
and Mr. C. O'Callahan an out-door officer,
Drogheda ; Mr. G. Magyar, first class
clerk, has been promoted to be principal
clerk ; Messrs. W. H. Ashmead and W. Reid,
second class clerks, to be first class clerks ; Messrs.
J. A. Coates, J. Doherty, J. J. Barnard, and J.
Wemyss, third class clerks, to be second class
clerks ; Messrs. C. J. Hofferneister, J. Fallon, W.
H. Low, E. Fradd, J. E. Wallace, and C. S. Barnes,
fourth class clerks, to be third class clerks; Messrs.
J. Hort, R. H. Riper, R. H. Clarke, F. C. Ham-
mond, J. Rockford, J. Chambers, H. Kirby, G. A
Page, fifth class clerks, to be fourth class clerks;
and Messrs. J. F. Luscombe, G. B. Halltum, W.
H. J. Brown, H. A. Wotton, W. John, S. Bowes,
F. G. Heath, W. G. Muir, J. H. Thomas, and P.
Iruing, 6th class clerks, to be sth class clerks in the
Tea and East India Department ; Mr. A. Ross from
the ninth to the eighth, Mr. J. Borthwick from
the 10th to the 9th, Mr. T. Castello, from the 11th
to the 10th, Mr. F. G. D. Cooper, from the 12th to
the 11th, and Mr. J. Robertson from the 13th to
the 12th clerkship at Leith.
INLAND REVENUE (Stamps and Tax Branch).—
Mr. F. Nicholson, surveyor of taxes, has been re-
moved from Rugby to D irtford ; Mr. W. Duncan,
surveyor of taxes, from Merthyr to Rugby ; and
Mr. H. Forder, surveyor of taxes, from Caistor to
Merthyr. Excise Branch—Mr. R. Harris, super-
visor, Bristol, third district, has been appointed
supervisor of Cheltenham district; Mr. J. Thurston,
supervisor, Belturbet district, Drogheda collection,
to be supervisor of Colchester district ; Mr. C. Good-
acre, examiner, to be supervisor, Belturbet district;
Mr. G. Fletcher, officer, Glasgow, 6th division, to
be officer of Chesterfield division; Mr. J. Laidlaw,
officer, Glasgow, 3d division, to be officer of Glas-
gow, 6th division; and Mr. D. M'Pherson, dropped
officer, Forres division, Elgin collection, to be
officer of Glasgow, third division.
IRELAND—Mr. R. Topham, has been appointed
second clerk to the Judge of the Landed Estates
Court, Ireland.—Civil Service Gazette.

MARKETS—This Day,

COVENT GARDEN.

The supply of fruit was small, but with most descriptions
of vegetables the market was well supplied. Generally
speaking, the demand ruled steady at about previous rates.
The currency ruled as follows :

FRUIT.

B. d. s d
Mulberries, pr pt..o 9to 1 0
Cherries, per lb. 0 oto 0 0
Foreign ditto, pun° oto 0 0
Filberts, per lb 0 9to 1 0
Walnuts, per 100 1 oto 2 6
Cobnuts, per lb 0 oto 0 0
Almonds, per bus 0 oto 0 0
Figs, per doz. 0 oto 0 0
Peaches.. • 0 oto 0 0
Currants, per ki.sv 0 oto 0 0
Plums, per do.
Greengages, pr do. 0 oto 0 0
VEGETA.BLES.

e. d. s. d.
Pine apples 8 oto 9 0
Colonial do., each 0 oto 0 0
Grapes,per lb 3 oto 6 6 ,
Foreign do 1 oto 1 61
Melons ..
Nectarines, per dz 0 oto 0 0
Apples, per hf-sv. 1 9to 3 6
Pears, per do
Oranges, per 100..5 oto 10 0
Lemons, per 100 4 oto 8 0
Gooseberries hf sveo oto 0 0
Strawberries pr pt 0 oto 0 0

Greens, dz bunch 3 oto 3 6 Shallots, per lb .. 0 6to 0 8
Cabbages, pr doz 0 9to 1 3 Horseradish, pdn 1 oto 2 0
Rld ditto 1 6So 2 6 Parsley, per ditto 0 3to 0 4
Savoy do., pr dz 0 10 to 1 61 Celery, per ditto 1 oto 1 9
Cauliflowers, pdz 0 9to 1 01 Beet, per doz. .. 0 oto 0 0
Brocoli, per bus. 0 oto 0 0 ' Parsnips, per do. 0 oto 0 0
Potatoes, per ton 60 oto 110 0 Small salad, p. pn, 0 oto 0 0
New ditto, pr lb ..0 oto 0 0 Mushrooms,p ptl. 0 oto 0 0
Turnips, dz bunch 2 oto 2 6 Artichokes, each 0 oto 0 0
Carrots,pr do 4 6to 6 6 ) Cos lett, score .. 0 10 to 1 3
Cucumbers 0 oto 0 0' Mint and savory..o 3to 0 4
Garlic, per lb
Sorrel, per sieve 0 oto 0 0 Radishes, dz hnds 0 oto 0 0
Green peas,ll.-sv. 0 oto 6 0 Tomatoes, doz... 0 oto 0 0
French beans,h.s. 0 oto 0 0 Chillies, per ditto 0 oto 0 0
Onions, doz. bn.. 1 6to 2 0 Capsicums, per do 0 oto 0 0
New Do., dz bun 0 oto 0 0
Rhubarb, per butt 0 oto 0 0
Spinach 0 oto 0 0 Asparagus, pr do. 2 oto 4 6
Turnip radishes 0 oto 0 0 Seakale, per bun. 0 oto 0 0

POULTRY.
Turkeys, 4s Od to 106 Od; geese, 4s Od to 8s 6d each ;
goslings, Os Od to Os Od ; ducks, 2s Od to 2s 6d ; ducklings,
Os Od to Os Od; rabbits, is Od to is 2d each; wild do., 9d
to is 2d ; pigeons, Os 6d to Os 9d each; Surrey fowls,
8s Od to 12s Od ; chickens, 6s Od to 108 Od ; barn-door fowls,
3s Od to 6s Od ; capons, Oa Od ; hares, 2s 6d to 3s Od ;
ptarmigan, Os Od to Os each ; pheasants, 3s Od to 3s 6d ;
partridges, is 3d to 2s 6d ; woodcosks, Os to Os Od; snipes, is
to Os Od; teal, Os 9d to Os Od ; wild ducks, Os Od to is 6d ;
widgeons, Os Od to is Od ; plovers, Os Od to Os Od each ;
guinea fowls, Os Od to Os Od ; roasting pigs, Os Od to Os Od
each; Ostend fresh butter, lid to is Od ; English, is
to is 3d per lb ; English eggs, 108 Od to lis Od ; French do.,
8s Od to 9s Od per 100 ; leverets, is 6d to 2s Od ; grouse, 2s
Od to 3s Od each.

M, Nadar's Geant Balloon at the Crystal

Palace.

Captious critics often complain that the Crystal
Palace has not fulfilled the high se3thetic purposes
for which its original promoters appealed to public
support. It is useless to discuss the reasons for
this—perhaps the public, which showed no taste for
the doses of artistic or scientific edification tendered
in its hours of pleasure, is chiefly to blame ; but, at
any rate, the new managers deserve the credit of
having thoroughly accepted the lower role forced
upon them by commercial considerations, and of
carrying it out with indefatigable zeal and enter-
prise. Not to mention the innumerable series of
concerts, flower-shows, fancy fairs, and fees of all
descriptions which enliven every month of the year,
it is to the Crystal Palace that we have all learnt to
look for our first introduction to any of those ex-
traordinary " sensation" attractions,which rehearsed
drat, as it were, before some distant Continental or
Transatlantic audience, attain at Sydenham their
zenith of fame and reward. It was in the transcen-
dent heights of the central transept that Blondin
first displayed to English eyes that wondrous nerve
and skill which had given an additional attraction
to Niagara ; and though M. Leotard was not new
to English audiences when he first appeared at the
Crystal Palace, it was there that they had the best
opportunity of admiring the grace and power with
which he winged his daring flights. The memory
of season-ticket holders will supply many other
instance of the assiduity shown in mini-
stering to their amusement. The latest novelty
is the Geant balloon, with which M. Nadar and
eight companions, at the end of last month, per-
formed their perilous voyage from Paris to Nien-
burg, and which all but carried the passengers
to death's door. This Leviathan of the water now
floats, fully inflated with atmospheric air, in the
centre transept, nearly filling the southern end ; and
over and above the interest it excites from the
dangers through which it has passed, its enormous
yet graceful proportions will attract general admi-
ration. The novel car, which is, in fact, a small
cottage in wicker-work--such as Robinson Crusoe
would have counted almost a palace, is suspended
from it, and round it are ranged the anchors, buffers,
hoops, axes, and all the various rigging with which
aeronauts provide themselves for the navigation of
the heavens. The Goant is by far the largest
balloon ever yet made. Its entire height, including
the " compensator"—a small balloon under the large
one, containing a reserve of condensed gas—and the
car, is close upon 200 feet, and when fully inflated
it will contain 215,363 cubic feet of gas. By way
of comparison, it may be remembered that the great
Nassau balloon, in which Mr. Green made his
famous voyage from Vauxhall to Weiburg, in
Nassau, in 1836, only held 88,000 cubic feet. For
greater security it has two skins, both of white silk
—the outer coloured a yellowish white—of the finest
quality, and of which more than 20,000 yards were
consumed in the manufacture. All the gores are
entirely hand-sewn, and the work occupied 300 men
and women for more than a month. M. Nadar tells
us that the towers of Notre Dame would only
overtop it by about 45 feet; but perhaps we shall
give the best idea of its magnitude to English
readers by saying that it could not be got into one
of Captain Fowke's great domes. It seems here
almost to knock its head against the high roof of
the centre transept, and, looking at its vast balk,
one can imagine the mingled terror and wonder
which seized the Hanoverian peasants when they
saw the giant monster tearing through the air at
the rate of 60 miles an hour, dashing down every-
thing before it, and apparently hurling its living
freight away to certain destruction. It is easy to
understand, too, how hard it must be to control the
enormous body of gas so as to manage a safe descent,
and novices in aeronautics may be permitted to
doubt whether, until the valve machinery is im-
proved, safe voyages can be performed by balloons
of such a size. M. Nadar himself attributes the
unfortunate issue of his last trip more to the defi-
ciencies of the valves, which did not permit the gas
to escape with sufficient rapidity, than to the failure
of the anchors. The Geant is calculated to lift 41
tons, but the utmost it has actually done is to raise
35 soldiers, who were crammed into the recesses of
the car on the day of the last ascent from the
eectcaorf interest, and it will, probably, be
Champandye aM
ea
hr
e. f
oTbhi
cer-
tainlywith
is a great curiosity in its way. In its out-
side appearance it is not unlike, on a small scale,
one of the caravans to be met with at the outskirts
of country fairs or by the side of a gipsy en-
campment ; and its interior may remind many of
those singular sojourning places which shippers
facetiously advertise as commodious saloon cabins.
It is about 15ft. long by 12ft. wide, and is parti-
tioned off into a captain's cabin, with sleeping berth,
four small cabins with berth, washing room, and
printing and photographic operating rooms. It is
fitted with wheels on moveable axles, so that there
may be no difficulty in the return, supposing a
descent to be Effected far from ordinary means of
transport. There are windows and doors on each
side, but after all there does not seem much room
for nine people to turn in comfortably ; and the sen-
sation must have been something like being slang
up to the top of one of Pickford's warehouses in a
good-sized wine hamper. For those who prefer the
open air there is the roof, with which a strong high
bulwark running round makes a kind of airy terrace
or quarter-deck. It was here that the whole party
was huddled together in the last half-hour of their
perilous journey, in which they were whirled more
than 20 miles, clinging for dear life to the cordage,
bumped violently against the ground every two
or three minutes, and expecting at every bound
to be crushed to death. Our readers have no doubt
perused with interest the vivid account of this
perilous flight which we extracted from the foreign
journals at the time, and M. Nadar, though still
smarting, grows quite enthusiastic in relating their
hair-breadth escapes. " Apres tout c' Raft beau,"
he cries, as a soldier might sum up the compressed
excitement of half an hour' hard fight. The balloon
itself, though it frequently beat the earth with its
head, does not show many signs of its wild career,
beyond the rent which was made by the axe of the
courageous Godard, and one or two others which
it received in tearing through a forest. The car,
which is strongly built of ash, rattans, and osiers,
with internal stays of inflated india-rubber, is more
seriously injured, and the side which was dragged
so long along the ground, hanged against trees,
and finally burst through the telegraph wires, bears
evident marks of its ill treatment.
M. Nadar has accompanied the balloon to this
country, but does not contemplate making any ascent
with it here, at least for the present. In fact, he is
still hardly able to move from the effects of his acci-
dent ; and, moreover, before trying another voyage
it will be necessary to make some improvements in
the machinery of the balloon, particularly in the
valves. An adventure like the last would not termi-
nate so harmlessly in a thickly populated country
like England, as in the sandy plains of Hanover.
Like our own Mr. Coxwell, Mr. Nadar presents
himself to us as something more than a mere
aeronaut de spectacle, whose only ambition is to
minister to the amusement of the multitude:
In a
different way he aspires to turn his ballooning ex-
perience to Acientiflo uses. He seems to look for-
ward to a time when the air, like the sea, will be
the highway of nations; when the heavens will be
nd will
be
filled with the commerce of nations, a
build iron -plated balloons as
if so minded, men may
they are now building 'ran-plated frigates. In a
is on the high road
M. Nader believes that he
word,
to the solution of that problem which has baffled
ingenious contrivers of all ages, from Daedalus
downwards, and that ho can give to man the same
mastery over the air as he obtained over the sea.
Of balloons, pure and simple, strange to say,
M. Nadar has no great opinion. It is by an
adaptation of the powers of the screw......a, the
holy screw" as a French saran calls it—that he
confidently reckons on carrying into practice his
theory of aerial autolocomotion. The balloon is
only the prologue to a more perfect flying machine
which will be completely under man's control, and
which will spring upwards,—

4, Into the wild expanse, and through the shock
44 Of fighting elements, on all sides round
44 Environed, win its way."
The balloon he calls a mere toy—hle certainly is on

a Gargantuan scale—and it is simply for the pur-
pose of raising funds to carry out his experiments
that he has built and is exhibiting the G6ant. Not
being competent to speak of M. Nadar's scientific
acquirements, we can do no more than wish him
better success in this important investigation than
has attended his prede.cest?ors; but cool daring and
undaunted perseverance are always honoured here,
and of these qualities M. Nadar has shown sufficient
proofs to entitle him to a hearty welcome in this
country.—Times.

The Sanson of the Reign of Terror.

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Before arriving at this eminence, he passed
through a variety of strange experiences. He and
his father, Jean Baptiste, beheaded the famous
Lally De Tollendal. M. Sanson works up the
story of the execution into a romance. Laily, when
a young man, he says, happened with a party of
friends to lose his way, and was taken in by Jean
Baptiste Sanson, who that night gave his marriage
supper. After the bail, having learnt his host's
name, Lally asked to see the tools of his trade, and
had his fancy greatly taken by a particular sword
with which Sanson promised, in case of need, to
behead him. Thirty-five years afterwards he was
beheaded accordingly. The old man came with the
intention of merely looking on, but the young Chas.
Henry having made a false stroke which inflicted
only a wound, the old man seized the sword and cut
off Lally's head himself. The present M. Sanson
says that his grandfather told him this story. There
is a difficulty in point of dates about it which makes
the whole matter 'suspicious. Jean Baptiste San-
son, we are told, was seven years old when his
father died in 1726. He was, therefore, born in
1719.
,But Lally was beheaded in 1766, and if
anson s • marriage took place thirty-five years
before—namely, in 1731--he must have been mar-
ried at the early age of 12, This makes a consider-
able hole in the fidelity of M. Sanson's traditions.

Soon after executing Lally, enry Sanso n
had to execute the Chevalier De la Barre, who was
supposed to have been guilty of profanity at Abbe-
ville. A crucifix had been disfigured, and as it was
proved that De :a Barre had on another occasion
passed a procession without taking off his hat, he
appears to have been made responsible. He showed
wonderful courage at his execution, refusing even to
kneel down, and Sanson, to make up for his mistake
in the case of Lally, cut off his head so neatly that
it did not fall for the first moment. The execution
of La Barre was one of the last of the old aristo
cratic executions. Several others which took place
before the French Revolution are referred to by
M. Sanson, but they are not interesting except for
their horror, and the history of the crimes which
led to them is thrown into a quasi-romantic shape.
He gives a long account, for instance, of the last
occasion on which the punishment of the wheel was
employed. A young man who had killed his father
—as he said by accident, as the Court foand by
design—was sentenced to undergo this punishment
at Versailles in 1788. The mob rescued him, and
burnt the wheel and the scaffold on the spot. One
of their number is represented as observing very
appropriately to Sanson, " Laissons l'enfer au bon
Dieu." The wonder is how so hideous a spectacle
was ever permitted. The description of it makes
the blood run cold. The criminal's arms and legs
were smashed in eight places with an iron bar, he re-
ceived a ninth blow over the chest, and was then laid
over a wheel placed horizontally on the scaffold till
he died. This punishment was horribly common.
It was, for some strange reason, the favourite
punishment of the Parliament of Paris, and when
they decided on appeals from inferior jurisdictions,
the common result, if we are to believe M. Sanson,
was the substitution of the wheel for the gallows.

•
Such, up to the time of the Revolution, were the
official duties of the Parisian executioners. Their
descendant gives a singular picture of their private
life. Jean Baptiste Sanson was very fond of
anatomy, and had a great practice amongst both
rich and poor, of whom, as his grandson observes,
the first paid him very handsomely, whilst the
others received advice gratis. He was a very
busy man. There was a good deal of correspon-
dence about provincial executions, and, as ho was
at the head of his profession, all the young coun-
try executioners used to come to his house as
pupils before entering on their own professional
careers. The executioners formed a kind of clan;
for obvious reasons they intermarried almost exclu-
sively amongst each other. Jean Baptiste had a
large family, and his sons became executioners in
every part of France. They used to come home at
Christmas, and in order to avoid the difficulties
which arose from the variety of Christian names,
the servants (who were assistant executioners)
spoke of them as M. de Strasbourg, M. d'Orleans,
Sec., the head of the family or caste being " M. de
Paris."
Jean Baptiste Sanson was a good deal reduced
from the splendour of his ancestors in the matter of
money. His ancientdrieit de haree was commuted
for 16,000 livres a year, very irregularly paid. At
one time he received from the Regent 50,000 livres
in Law's notes. These were the greenbacks of the
period. "I have them still," says M. Sanson, "in
the pocket-book where they were put at the end of
the audience." M. Sanson's own recollections of
the vestiges of the old regime in which he and his
ancestors played so singular a part are exceedingly
curious: He recollects an old man, called Ches-
neau, who gave him a gun in 1803, and who was
then a sort of pensioner at large in the family house
of 111. de Paris. This old man had been a servant
of the Comte de Charolais, who laboured (falsely
according to M. Sanson) under the imputation of
having shot a tiler to Image himself, and of having
been pardoned by Louis XV., with the pleasing
observation that a pardon was ready for any one
who liked to assassinate the C
mtomte de Charolahe
is.
From the service of the Coe de Charolais,
passed successively into those of Louis XV. and
Louis XVI., whom he served as a gunmaker. In
the course of his career, Sanson cured him of a
wound caused by the bursting of a gun ; and when
his last master was turned out of house and home
by the Revolution, M. Chesneau betook himself to
his old friend the executioner. By way of paying
for his board, he made him all sorts of handsome
arms, and at last took to grinding the knife of
the guillotine, and setting its grooves to rights.
He thought the least he could do for his old friends
was to have their heads cut off promptly and
smoothly. " ruez-les," he said to the servants,
puisqu'on vows y force, mais ne les massacrez
pas."
The luxurious and patriarchal position of the o' .d
executioners passed away, like other picturesque
but cumbrous institutions, after the Revolution;
but, for about two years, the Sanson
family were
ere
put into such a position as no people ever occupied
s before in a civilised country. Cherie H
San-
son kept a journal during the Reign of Terror, of
Henry
which his grandson, who well remembers
republished the greater part. 'Therehim, has
r iss
svai
e. Ba
dreadfuly
sameness about it which is not unimpressive.
after day comes a long list of persons—some known
to all the world, others completely obscure—whom
he and his assistants put to death by tens, by
twenties, and at last by
fifties at a time. Some of
which he describes, such as the execu-
tion of the Kin
Girondins, %and those of Charlotte Corday,
the
matters of anton, and Robespierre, are
history, but a few are less
Perhaps
well known. the most singular is
the account of
ti to execution of the magistrates of
the
old „at,
liament of Paris, from whom for nearly
forty years StlllBoll had taken his ofdere. tie was,
he says, horrified at what be had to do, and at the
dignified courage of the mutterers. One venerable
old President encouraged him in his task
la loi naAme injuste est toujours la loi." The par-
ticular men were no doubt worthy :—" Faites,
of pity and
respect, bnt the thought of their own sentences, Lhe
whee!, the pincers, and the torture-chamber, recalls
other recollections. There is something very lin-
pressive in their destruction by the very man
who
had at their bidding performed such indescribable
cruelties. Of all the revolutionary executions, those
of Fouquier Tinville and Hebert perhaps inspire
The brutal ferocity of the first
the most disgust.
ruffian and the contemptible cowardice of the second
are illustrations of the capacity of human nature
tor infamy which will hardly be surpassed,--Sat.r.
Way Eerier°.

THE TRIPLE MURDER IN A CAB.

CORONERS' INQUEST CONTINUED.

Yesterday morning, Mr. Carter, coroner for East Surrey,
held an inquest at the Rose and Thistle Tavern, Warner-
road, Camberwell, on the body of Samuel William Hunt,
the husband and father of the female and two children who
were found dead in a cab, under the terrible circumstances
already so generally known.
Mr. Hubert Wood, solicitor, attended to watch the pro-
ceedings on the part of the relations of the deceased, and
Inspector Tanner, of the detective force, was present by
direction of the Commissioners of Police.
Mr. Charles M'Culloch said the deceased was in my ser-
vice. His name was Samuel William Hunt. He had been
in our service about three years as traveller, and when at
home, assistant in the shop. I last saw him alive last Mon-
day. He was then in the shop attending to business. lie
remained till half-past seven. I did not notice anything
out of his usual manner, which was reserved and morose,
but to tne he was always very respectful. I have com-
plained to hint about, incivility to customers, and he made
no reply, but seemed to regret he had done anything to dis-
please any person. I never gave him any oeder to procure
the aconite. I had received au order for oil of rosemary
and oil of juniper, and it was given to the deceased. Tee
direction given him was a written one, but I know nothing
about the aconite or oil of almond:l, The rosemary and
juniper was sent to the place its directed, but nothing fur-
ther had been heard of the aconite and almonds, neither
had been discovered.
George Goold, of 5, Ann's-place, Camberwell
cabman,
said he was on the rank at the corner of the New-road on
Saturday evening, when a female and two children hired
him to drive them to the Eastern Counties Railway. After
he had driven a short distance a gentleman hailed bim from
the path, and said he wanted to go to the Eastern Counties
Rilnaknewar as
the
th
ecorner lady,
of Worship-street,
and it was all right.
V
by the direction of the man he pulled up at a chemists
When
he hadHe sdrivenaid he
as f
shop, when the woman got out, and went into the shop.
After remaining there a short time, she re-entered the cab,
platform, but to set there
and told
him not to drive up to the
down before they came to the entrance. He did 80• The
man paid the fare, and he then drove home. The
oman and deceased
man is the person who hailed me after the w
chil-
dren had first hired me. He was positive about
the
mat-
ter. He had quite sufficient opportunity to see his
features. He had no doubt about the matter at all.
The.only luggage was a small parcel carried by
the
rai,woman.
It was about 7 o'clock when they arrived at the ay
station. He saw Hunt at the station house, and then w
ho
said he was quite certain it was the same person
as paid
him his fare at the Eastern Counties Railway station. On
that occasion he wore a moustache, but it had since been
shaved off. He gave his information to the police imme-
diately atter reading the particulars published in the papers
on Monday evening.
William Parker, the cabman, who was engaged to drive
the deceased parties to the Royal Oak, Paddington, and
who gave his evidence at the inquest held before Dr. Lan-
kester on Monday last,was then examined, and repeated his
statement with respect to the parties inside his cab taking
some beer at a publie• house in Bishopsgate-street. He
said he was certain it was the man. who held the
pot upside down after the beer was drank,
as he saw his hand and coat sleeve eat of the
cab window. When the man got out of the cab he
did so as quick as it was possible to do, and closing the
door after him he paid 4s. for the fare, and told him to
drive them safe to the Royal Oak, saying they would be
all right by the time they got there. He never heard the
slightest noise in the cab. He identified the deceased
as the man who hired him to drive from Bishopsgate-
street to Bayswater, on Saturday, and who gut out of the
cab at Furnival's-inn.

Mr. Currey, surgeon, at St. Mary's Hospital, said ho
had made a post morteta examination of the three
bodies, and upon that he had come to the conclusion that
the woman and the two children died from the effects of
either prussic acid or cyanide of potassium.

Cyrus Fay, a chemist, of 18, Norton-folgate, said—On
Saturday evening a woman came to my shop and asked for
two draughts for a gentleman who had taken a littlo
too much to drink. She wished them flavoured with china..
mon and cardamons. I made up two draughts of bicordono
of potash, sal volatile, compound tincture of cardamons
and cinnamon water, for which she paid me. She also
bought a medicine glass, but before paying for it she asked
me if I would allow her to tike it to the cab to ask the gen..
tleman whether it would do. She returned, saying it would
not answer, and she then purchased a small tumbler in a,
case called a medi3ine glass. lam certain there was
nothing else in the mixture I sold the female but what X
have stated.
William Imrie, hairdresser, 420, Strand, said last Wed.
nesday or Thursday a gentleman came into my shop and
said he wanted to purchase a moustache. I sold hint a
frizzy one, and fastened it on his upper lip. He asked me
if it looked natural, and I told him it did, and he left the
shop with it on. It altered his appearance very much. I had
a good opportunity of looking at his features. I have seen
the deceased, and I am positive he is that person.
The Coroner said that was all the evidence which would
be laid before them. There did not appear to be any doubt
as to the deceased being the destroyer of his life, and the
question for them to decide was whether he committed the
deed whilst labouring under insanity, or whether he adopted
that course in order to escape the ignominy of being pub.
hely executed.
The room was then cleared, and on the admission of the
public,
The Coroner said the jury found averdict of fele de se, and
he accordingly issued his warrant for the burial of the self.
murderer to-night, between the hours of 9 and 12.
The inquiry then terminated.