The Sun.
London, England, 1840-10-02 00:00:00

LLOYD'S.

A General Half-yearly Meeting of the Subscribers
to Lloyd's was held of Wednesday last, G. R. Robin-
son, Esq., in the Chair. After disposing of the imme=
(hate business of the meeting the following vstes from
the funds were proposed by the Chairman and unani-
mously approved, viz.:-
101. to four fishermen for saving the crew of the Wil-
liam the Fourth from Tralee to Liverpool, wrecked
near Buncrana, Jan. 7, 1840.

101. 10s. to seven fishermen for saving the crew of the
Dart, Callan, from Wexford to Glasgow, wrecked near
Campbeltown, 12th Februry last.
201. to thirteen men for saving the crew of the Ceres,
Bibben, from Newcastle to London, wrecked near Al-
deburgh, 17th ult.

A Medal in Bronze to Mr. F. A. Fokkes, Com-
mander of the Hamburgh pilot galliot Johan Chris-
tian, and—

311.105. to sixteen Pilots, for saving the crews of the
Albion, of Sunderland, and Red Rover, of Hull,
wrecked on the Vogel Sand during a severe gale on the
15th of August.

ASSASSINATION OF A YOUNG.

FEMALE IN PARIS.

On the night of Thursday last a horrible assassina-
tion took place in the Rue des Boucheries, St. Ger-
maine. A joiner named Derode, occupying a small
lodging in the house No. 55, was arrested in the course
of the morning, charged with illegal combination, and
locked up at the Prefecture of Police. Before leaving
the house he gave the key of his room to a young girl
named Victorine Salle. Victorinc, who occupied an
apartment in common with another girl named Adele
Delay, and who, being certain Derode could not re-
turn for some days, gave the key to her companion,
and it was agreed between them that Adele should oc-
cupy Derode's chamber during his absence. Upon
the first evening of her occupying the chamber Adele
Delay had the imprudence to bring a working mason,
with whom she had formed a liaison some days before,
to Derode's chamber with her. Towards the middle of
the night a tailor, named Dacosta, who occupied the
contiguous chamber, separated by a very slight par-
tition from that of Derode, was awoke by a noise in
the adjoining room, in the midst of which he presently
heard a female voice crying out, " Help !"—" A
l'assassin 1"—" Wretch, you have given me my
death-blow !" The terror which these words
produced in the tailor's mind was such, ac-
cording to his own description, that be could not muster
strength enough to rise from his bed and give the alarm.
No further sounds were heard during the night. On the
following morning the commissary of police for the
quarter of the Luxembourg, being informed by the tailor
of what he had heard, proceeded to open the door of
Derode's chamber, when a frightful spectacle presented
itself. The unfortunate Adele lay across the bed with
her head almost completely severed from the trunk, her
neck having been literally sawed across with a bad razor.
The wretched woman lay in a sea of blood, and the
numerous contusions with which her body was covered
bore witness to the energetic struggle which she had
maintained with her assassin. A pair of shoes and an
old hat, both bearing the marks of blood, and still exhi•
biting the traces of lime and mortar (the unfortunate
young woman's paramour, and in all probability her
murderer, having been, as already stated, a mason by
trade), were lying on the floor. The most active
searches have been instituted for the purpose of discov-
ering the murderer, but hitherto without success, and
the cause which could have led to the assassination is
still in mystery. The murder altogether bears a consi-
derable resemblance to that of Eliza Grimwood.

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