The Sun.
London, England, 1849-10-25 00:00:00

LAW.

The Downing Professor of the Laws of England
began a course of lectures on the English law, at
eleven o'clock on Monday last, at Downing College.
The lectures will be continued every Monday, Tues-
day, Friday, and Saturday.
CLASSICS.

At a Congregation on the 31st inst., a grace will
be offered to the Senate to confirm the report of the
Syndicate, appointed April 25, 1849, to consider
whether any and what alterations may be made in the
regulations for the classical examination after admis-
sion ad respondendum quosstioni.

CRIME AND SUICIDE.—About five years since, a
waiter in a restaurant in Paris, named ll—, married a
girl of great personal attractions, who was at that time
only fourteen years old. Having been arrested during
the June disturbances, his wife, during his imprison-
ment, formed a criminal intimacy with a watchmaker
of Belleville, named Desavoye. This intercourse was
continued even after the husband had been liberated,
but he had no suspicion of it. On Saturday last, Desa•
voye, profiting by the absence of to see one of his
children, which was at nurse in the country, visited the
wife, and remained all night with her. On Sunday
morning, when ll was expected to return, the por-
tress of the lodgings not having seen the lover go out,
hastened to apprise the guilty parties of the risk of his
approach. She knocked at the door violently, but re-
ceived no answer, and smelling a strong odour of char-
eoal suspected that the criminal pair had committed
suicide. Under this impression, she hastened to a lock-
smith, and having had the door broken open, found the
guilty lovers lying on the ground, and quite dead. A
few minutes after H— arrived, but the portress detained
him till a commissioner of police, whom she sent for,
had arrived. That official soon made his appearance,
took a glance at the bodies, and was the first to apprise
the husband of his misfortune, but not till the remains
of the adulterer had been removed. ll—, overwhelmed
with grief, embraced the body of his wife, over which
he pronounced his pardon.—La Presse.
The Gazette of Tuesday night contains an order
from the General Board of Health, appointed to carry
the Nuisances Removal Act and Diseases Prevention
Act into effect, to the churchwardens of the parishes of
St. Margaret and St. John, Westminster, directing that
they put in force certain regulations with respect to the
Christchurch burial-ground, situate in the Broadway,
Westminster. It also contains similar orders to the
owners of the New Bunhill-fields cemetery, Deverell-
street, Dover.road; to the churchwardens of St. George,
Hanover-square; to the churchwardens of the parish of
Christchurch, Blackfriart-road; to the president, elders,
and churchwardens of the vestry of St. George's German
Lutheran Chapel, Little Alie-street,Whitechapel; to the
churchwardens of St. Stephen, Walbrook; to the church-
wardens of the parish of St. Mary, Lambeth; to the
churchwardens of St. James's Westminster (with respect
to a burial-ground belonging to that parish, situate in
the Hampstead-road); and to the proprietorsor managers
of the burial-ground situate in Butler's-place, in the
parish of St. John, Horselydown, Surrey. It also con-
tains an order from the same Board to the church-
wardens of St. Benet Sherehog, Bucklersbury, in the
city of London, directing them to close the burial-ground
of that parish for a certain period.
STATE OF THE KING'S-ROAD.—TWO of the elements
are wofully deficient in the neighbourhood of Eaton-
square, and the traveller, on entering its precincts, has
good reason to apprehend that " Chaos has come again."
The road is usually little better than a rudis indiciestaque
moles of common mould, with a brickbat here and a pan-
tile there, to give it variety. The gas seems to have
been all cut off in its prime, and the watering of the
roads appears to he left to the voluntary contributions
of our old friend Aquarius. Whoever ventures into this
locality after nightfall, will run the risk of another fall
unless he provides himself with the means of illumina-
tion in this region of obscurity. We should recommend
a few of the celebrated dogs of' St. Bernard's to be en-
gaged during the winter season to perambulate Eaton-
square and its neighbourhood, with lanterns in their
mouths to serve as guides to the benighted wayfarers.
A few domestic puppies, or unhappy dogs of footmen,
have already been engaged on this philanthropic service,
and may be seen alter sunset acting the part of glow-
worms, or walking gaslights, in attendance upon the am-
bulatory inhabitants of the vicinity. We feel it our duty
to ridicule the present darkness of Eaton-square as the
readiest way of making light of it.—Punch.