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

LAN.

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 mftde in the
regulations for the classical examination after admis-
sion ad respondendum quastioni.

CRIME AND SUICIDE.—About five years since, a
waiter in a restaurant in Paris, named 11—, married a
girl of great personal attractions, who was at that time
only fourteen years old. Having been arrested during
the June disturbances, his wile, 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 ho had no suspicion of it. On Saturday last, Desa•
voye, profiting by the absence of H— to see one of his
children, which was at nurse in the country, visited the
wife, and remains d all night with her. On Sunday
morning, when ll was expected to return, the por-
tress of the lo'lgings not having seen the lover go out,
hastened to apprise the guilty parties of the risk of his
approich. She knocked at the door violently, but re-
ceived no answer, and smelling a strong odour of char-
coal 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, Blackfriars-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 proprietors or 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 TUE 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 indiqestaque
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 be left to the voluntary contributions
dour old friend Agorius. Whoeverventures into this
, locality after nightfall,
wdl run the risk of another fall
unless he provides himself with the means of illumina-
tion in this region of obscurity.f
s.
erambulate Eaton-
We should recommend
t
Bernard's to be en-
a few of the ;:elebrated dogs o
Eaton-
gaged during the winter. sheaosoon, to p
with lanterns in their
square and its neigil.`.''''ur d
to the benighted wayfarers.
mouths to serve as guide.. .nhappy doge of footmen,
A few domestic puppies, or e.- -hilanthropic service,
have already been engaged on this • Dart of glow-
andthe am-
may be seen after sunset acting tne
worms, or walking gaslights, in attends ce up,
bulatory inhabitants of the vicinity. We feel, it oar
to ridicule the present darkness of Eaton-square to this
readiest way of making light of it,—Punch.