The Sun.
London, England, 1847-02-26 00:00:00

CHARGE OF ARSON AGAINST A

YOUNG LADY.
BRISTOL, FEB. 24.—At our Police Court to-who is
young
and handsome lady, named Sarah Outeridge, who is said to
be well connected, was placed at the bar upon suspicion of
having set fire to five rooms at Langley's boarding-house,
Cumberland-street, St. Paul's. It appeared frog thole
evi-
dence of the numerous witnesses examined, that •Miss
Outeridge is the sister of a lady named Meredith, who, with
her husband and child and Mr. Meredith's mother, tad come
about a week since from Lancashire to take up eir resi-
dence in Bristol, and had taken apartments for a time in
Mr. Langley's house. On Tuesday evening
.Mr. and Mrs.
Meredith went out, and Miss Outeridge remained at home
in charge of their young child. At about twenty minutes
past seven o'clock some persons who were passing along
Cumberland-street observed that one of the bed-rooms over-
looking the street was on fire. They immediately gave the
alarm, and when the family went up stairs they found bliss
the furniture and bedding in the room occupied .by Miass
Outeridge and Mrs. Meredith, senior, were in flames. With
the assistance of some neighbours, the fire was extinguished.
In about three-quarters of an hour after this, Mr. Langley
bed- room on
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observed that his bed-room was on fire. He gave an alarm,
and with some difficulty the flames were extinguished and it
was hoped that all was over. Half an hour after this an
alarm of fire was ain heard, and it was found that a third
of the bed and bedding were in flames, but they were extin-
gui,lied. Scarcely had thii been fully accomplished, when
fire w•
mination of the premises was now made,
floor, the curtains and window blinds of this apartment being
also wrapped in flames. The burning materials were pulled
down and the fire was soon extinguished. A minute exa-
L:.rainwinfigam-roeos.m,The hanging'
eluded that all danger was completely over, when
another alarm was given that the front parlour was on
fire. On entering . the apartment, the window hangings
and blinds, which, as in the previous cases, were far
removed from the fireplace, were found to be in flames'
A policeman and several other persons exerted the
selves and saved the remainder of the furniture ,and
thaton
selves
a close examination being made, the police fou .st
there was a blister mark on the painted wall against
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which the bottom of the curtains hung, as
Proved
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show of setting in fn yrE:fi.
motive,
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was of a merely circumstantial character. It was p
the parlour a few minut, s before that
washole time,
also that she
seen
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flames; but a servant was with i
that the prisoner was seen in one of the bedrooms
shortly before it caught fire, and els
her for the w
or within a few moments of the whole time_
likewise shown that Miss Outeridge had bet n i
she was lust up stairs, and must have set the rhoom
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The examination was
proceeding

comprising the
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re of direct heirs
ieelsin:burg. The author
A memoir was read on Saturday before the Academy
of Moral and Political Sciences of Paris, by Mr. Wheaton,
late American Minister at the Court of Berlin, and corres-
ponding member of the Academy, upon the question of the
nDnlgaahlneti,shoo
of this memoir traced the history of the royal succe!,sion in
Denmark up to the earliest times, and shoe ed that the rule
ffmt sohunecacir)ecrsehss)ie,o,nnti
nrt
reigning
hgtenhieenvgde
iihrtoeurosefen ttoi
if seot aft
failure
of sum anion formerly existing in that kingdom had preferred
the male line of all the royal descendants to tLe female, and
that the latter had never been resorted to unless on the total
failure of the former. A different rule had been introduced,
together with the absolute monarchy, by the famous revolu-
tion of 1660, by which the succession of the Crown was
limited to the O ,cendants of the then reigning sovereign ,
Frederick 111., both male and female, to the exclusion of col-
laterals. Such was the present law of succession existing in
the kiogdorn of Denmark ; but it was questionable how far.- '
it
might be applicable to the Duchy of Schleswig, and quite
certain that it could not be applied to the Duchy of Holstein,
where the Salic law had always prevailed as in the other
German states; so that the Danish monarchy was threatened
with dismemberment in case of the ultimate failure of direct
male heirs to the present reigning house. The otil
certain
means of preventing this catastrophe, without the
inter-
ference of the great European Powers, and without
thethe
danger of war on account of the conflicting claims t
duchies, appeared to be the abolition of the /ex
and the restoration of the ancient Danish law, by regia,
the succession was open to all the descendantswhichof the
the
royal house with a preference of the male to female
lines. The consequence of such a change would be,
that the rule of succession would be the
kingdom as in the duchies • and, consequentre in the
of the Danish monarchy, which was me
ofY, the unity
tial elements of the balance a European _owe the essen-
tial
against the dangers by which it 1' r, would be
If this change were at the same time coupled .w•
was threatened.
of a representative constitution for the united with the grant
monarchy,
would be an effectual means of reconciling the narchy, it
the Danish and Teutonic races, of which it wen rival claims of
was true that the lex regia had been declared
by its author Is
t
to be immutable; but as it was introducedYa b asolemn compact
between the sovereign, and his people,there
wag no reason
why it might not be altered in the same
mutual consent.— Galignuni. manner by their
The House of Commons, as at present
consists of 656 Members, the two vacant constituted,
being still in abeyance, making the total seats for Sudbury
these there are 44 Members between thenumber 658. Of
159 between 31 and 40 ; 213 between 41 eges of 21 and 30 ;
51 and 60; 67 between 60 and 70; and 50 ; 155 between
oldest Member in the House is Mr. eann'd 15
above 70. The
West Surrey, aged 77 -. the youngest, ‘thieso, the Member for
Member for Chester, aged 22. The a ' Earl of Grosvenor,
House is 50 years.—Jersey Times. verage age of the entire