The Sun.
London, England, 1865-09-13 00:00:00

FRANCE.

BOURSE, Sept 19.—Two o'clock.—The market is
again flat, but prices generally maintain a fractional
advance. The Mexican Loan has recovered half
per cent, Threes, for the Account, are quoted

necrology of 1865. A telegraphic despatch an-
nounces the death, on Monday night, at his chateau
of Prausel, of the famous General de Lamoriciere—
famous no less as a general than as a minister and
a representative of the people.
Christopher Louis L6on Juchault de Lamoriciere
was born of Legitimist parents at Nantes, February
5, 1806, so that he had not yet attained his 60th
year. From 1824 to 1826 he was at the Polytechnic
School, thence he was sent to the school of applica-
tion at Metz, and at length obtained a commission
in the engineers, starting for Africa as lieutenant
in the Algerian expedition. The Ist of November,
1830, saw him a captain, and from that time his
fortunes were brilliant, as his merits were distin-
guished. When the corps of Zouaves was formed
our hero joined it, and was remarkable for his in-
telligence and his audacity. In 1833 Gen. Avizard
gave him the direction of the " First Arab Bureau,"
and in the same year he became cef de bataillon of
Zouaves; then (December,lB3s) lieutenant-colonel;
colonel, November, 1837, after the siege of Con-
stantine, during which he was wounded by the explo-
sion of a mine. After a year in Paris (1839) he returned
to Africa in 1840, and distinguished himself at
Mouzaia, and was made mar6chal de camp. In 1843
he became lieutenant-general ; in 1844, comman-
dant of the Legion of Honour ; in 1845, ad interim
governor-general of Algeria.

Lamoriciere had passed through 18 campaigns in
Africa, and (June 5, 1841) deservedly received high
praise from Marshal Bugeaud after the affairs of
Tagdempt and Mascara. In 1844 he signalised him-
self at the battle of 'sly, and in 1847 organised the
famous expedition which resulted in the capture of
the Emir, Abd-el-Kader, by the Duke d'Aumale,
his reward for which was his promotion to the rank
of grand officer of the Legion of Honour, Jan. 14,
1848.

Two years before this last affair, in 1846, Lamo-
riciere had been returned to Parliament by the
College of St. Calais (Sarthe) ; he had failed a
couple of months before in standing for the
Ist arrondissement of Paris. He joined the ranks
of the Opposition, and was proposed as Minister of
War in the combinations of which Thiers, Mole,
and Barrot were the guiding spirits. On the
memorable 24th of February, 1848, Lamoriciere
appeared on the scene of the revolt in the uniform
of a colonel of the National Guard, and proclaimed
the abdication of the King and the Regency of
the Duchess of Orleans. His horse was killed
and he was wounded—in fact, he was only saved
from certain death by some workmen more rational
than their comrades. Under the Provisional Go-
vernment he was offered the Ministry of War, and
also the military command of the interior, but re-
fused both. He was, however, re-elected sixth out
of twelve for the department of the Sarthe. During
the fearful days of June he warmly supported
Cavaignac, and put down the insurrection at the
Faubourg Poiaboniora ana at the Bastille,_ From
June 2R to December 20 we find him Minister of
War—the most moderate of the Democratic party,
an eloquent speaker, and an intelligent practical ad-
ministrator.

Lamoriciere did not oppose the Emperor in his
candidature for the Presidency ; but he disap-
proved of the intervention in Italy. He was re-
elected for the Sarthe, and elected also for the
Seine, and accepted a special mission to Russia in
relation to the affairs of Hungary, but arrived at
St. Petersburg after the fall of the Hungarian na-
tionality had rendered his mission of no avail. He
is said to have got on well enough with the Em-
peror Nicholas, but the news of the advent to power
in France of Odillon Barrot and his friends deter-
mined him to return home at once. He opposed
(June 14, 1851) the revision of the Constitution,
and (November 17) voted for the project which
was to give to the Assembly the command of
the army. It is hardly necessary to say after this
that he was one of those arrested on the memorable
2d of December, 1851. He was imprisoned for a time
in Ham, and thence he was conducted to Cologne.
He might have remained in France by taking the
oath submitted to him, but he refused.

He lived quietly in Germany, in Belgium, and in
England, till, in 1857, the death in France of one
of his children afforded the emperor a graceful op-
portunity of inviting the veteran to return uncon-
ditionally to France, and Lamoriciere was enabled
to pass his last year in his native country. It would
have been well if he had staid there instead of head-
ing the ridiculously abortive expedition of a few
zealots to defend the Pope from his own people.
The piety of a French general must have been of a
singularly pronounced kind when it led him to ruin
his reputation as a soldier for the sake of the Ponti-
fical cause. In his proclamation he actually com-
pared the " revolution" in Italy to Islamism. The
Italian Government were furious. Fanti and
Cialdini took Perouse, annihilated Lamoriciere's
army at Castel-Fidardo, besieged him in Ancona,
and forced him to capitulate. In his report of this
pitiful affair Lamoriciere complained of the decep-
tion practised on him, and the failure of the sup-
port which he was promised. He forgot that, high
as might be his own reputation, and brilliant his
own exploits at the head of his own national troops,
there was small chance of success for a body of ill-
drilled, dispirited Italians combating their own
countrymen.

Latterly Lamoriciere has not been much before
the world. His last achievement was a quarrel
with Cardinal Antonelli, in which he defended the
French troops from the cardinal's strictures in
reference to their prosecution of the vagabond
brigands, whose existence is a scandal and a disgrace
to•the Pontifical Government.

INHUMAN ATTACK UPON A MOTHER.-011 Satur-
day night in the village of Holymoorside, situate
about four miles from Chesterfield, a very brutal attack
was.made on an old widow, aged 75, by a profligate son
who had been in the army, but was soon " drummed out."
On Saturday night he had been drinking at Chesterfield,
and his mother went to fotch him. He went with her to a
publichouse at Holymoorside, and had more drink there.
At a late hour he went home with his mother, being ac-
companied by a woman with whom ho co-habited. They
had not been in the house long before he knocked his
mother down, kicking her in a most frightful manner, and
she lay as though dead. On the following morning Drs.
Pould and Robinson were called in, and they found her
face one mass of cuts and bruises, her nose being smashed
to pieces. Several of her ribs had been lmocked off the
spine, and the bone had penetrated her lungs. Her sides
were one mass of bruises. The surgeons gave no hopes of
her recovery, and the son was apprehended. Yesterday he
was brcught before Mr. E.G. Maynard and Mr. G. Heath-
cote. Inspector Gorman stated that the surgeons had no
hope of the recovery of the woman, and he had to ask for
the prisoner's remand. Prisoner said both he and his
mother were "fresh,'' and he did not know that he had
done it. The Bench remanded him, and ordered the depo-
sitions of the poor woman to be at once taken. Prisoner
has never done anything to support his mother, and she
has only been kept alive by parish relief.
COBDEN AS A RELIGIOUS MAN.—Althoug4 not
obtrusively communicative on public occasions of points of
religious faith, Mr. Cobden was a really religious man. A
frequent remark of his was—" You have no hold of any man
who has no religious faith."--AVGitchryt's Life of Cobden.

BOW-STREET.

A woman, named Ann Jarman, was placed before Mr.
Vaughan, on remand, charged with attempting to obtain
money from the secretary of the British Lying-in Hospital,
Endell-street, by false representations.
According to the evidence, the prisoner first applied for
admission in July last as an in-patient. She represented
herself as Mrs. Rogers, living at 12, Little Titchfield-
street, Tottenham-court-road, and produced a mar-
riage certificate. This was a genuine document,
but it related to a former husband of the prisoner.
She afterwards called again, giving her true name, and
representing that she was the sister of Mrs. Rogers, who
had been prematurely confined and could not be removed
to the hospital. On this pretence she applied for pecuniary
assistance, which the board granted ; and the secretary
was about to carry out the directions of the board,
when a nurse, who had been previously despatched
to make inquiries, returned and told him the whole story
was untrue. The landlady of the house, No. 12, Titch-
field-street, said the prisoner had never been a tenant of
hers, and that she knew nothing of her.
The step-daughter of the prisoner had truthfully
answered certain questions put to her by the nui•se, and
when the prisoner returned home she called the girl
some very violent names, and ultimately turned her out of
doors.

The prisoner was fully committed for trial.
The constable asked what was to be done with the wit-
ness ; she could not go back to her father, and she ob-
jected to go back to the workhouse, where she had been
staying for the last week.
Mr. Vaughan—What is your objection to the work-
house ?

The Girl—l can't stand the living ; it's so poor—no tea,
nothing but bread and gruel.
Mr. Vaughan—What are you ?

Tho Girl—A servant out of place. lam going to my
relations in the country after this case is over, but I have
nothing to support myself until that time.
Mr. Vaughan then put several questions to the girl, after
which the constable said his wife would take care of her
if she had none of her own she could go to. The magistrate
assented to such an arrangement, and told the constable to
get the girl a pair of boots, as he was informed she was
nearly destitute of these articles.
John Burgess, who stands charged with robbing his em-
ployer, Mr. Loewenstark, a manufacturing jeweller, carry-
ing on business at Garrick-street and Devereux-court,
Strand, was again placed at the bar.
Mr. Lewis, who appeared for the prosecution, said he
had to apply for summonses against two material witnesses
whom he could not otherwise get in attendance, and, there-
fore, he must also ask for another remand.
Mr. Abrams, who defended the prisoner, said he had no
objection to such a course, but he presumed his client would
be again admitted to bail.

TLv ,)„,,„„__r.t~~uerwere tnen renewed, and he
was ordered to attend this day week.

The Prince and Princess of Wales.
The Prince and Princess of Wales, accompanied
by Prince and Princess Louis of Hesse, and Prin-
cess Hilda of Anhault, and attended by their ladies
and gentlemen in waiting, went to the Crystal
Palace yesterday.

In the evening their Royal Highnesses went to
the Adelphi Theatre.
Her Majesty arrived at Balmoral at 3 this after-
noon (Sept. 12).

Marriage of the Countess of Jersey and
Mr. Brandling.