The Sun.
London, England, 1841-12-28 00:00:00

AFFRAY WITH SMUGGLERS.

On Sunday morning last an affray with smugglers
took place to the westward of our harbour, that brings
to our mind the olden time when this illicit traffic was
in the hey-day of its prosperity. It appears that, at the
dead of the night, between Saturday and Sunday, a party
of " bold smugglers," who had brought over a cargo of
contraband spirits (92 tubs) in a large galley, were
taken by a preventive boat while nearing the beach,
and ere they could hand it over to a band of la-
bourers, engaged for the occasion, who were in readiness to
receive it, and carry it off into the interior of the country.
These individuals having mustered in strong force, in
order to cover the landing of the goods, laid hold of
a coast-guardmau on duty near the spot, and attempted
to pinion and disarm him, The man, however, made an
alarm, and Lieutenant Pearson came to his rescue. A des-
perate struggle ensued, and one of the smugglers, named
Bayley, was shot through the jaw by a pistol bullet.
Thus disabled, he remained on the field, and was taken
into custody. The boat's crew were also secured. Pro-
ceedings connected with the transaction took place before
the Alagistrat6s on Wednesday, when the prisoners
(Cook, Frost, Prescow, Ham, and Cullen) pleaded
guilty to the Charge of being in the boat with the goods,
and were severally committed for the offence to gaol
for six calendar montns, with hard labour. Henry Bay-
Icy, the man who was shot by the Lieutenant during the
struggle between Wallack and the smugglers, was re-
manded till the 30th instant, in order to give time for
his recovery, and to ascertain the mode in which the
Board of Customs may choose to proceed against him.

DISCOVERY OF A MURDER COM-
MITTED EIGHT YEARS AGO.
At the Oise assizes two young men, named Quin
and Henrique, were tried on a charge of having mur.
dcrcd a young woman named Landrieu, under remark..
able circumstances, as long ago as 1833. The facts of.
the case are as follow :
On the 14th of July, 1833, a young demoiselle named
Landrieu, residing at Jaux, had gone to the fete of Ve-
nette, a village not far from that in which she herself
lived. A young man named Benoit Quin, who was
paying his addresses to her at the time, and Felix Hen-
rique, who was also one of her admirers, likewise pro-
ceeded to the fete in company with several other young
persons. As the party were on their road, talking toge-
ther of the pleasures which they anticipated at the feta,
Henrique mentioned that there was a young woman to
whom he had paid attentions, who refused to listen to
his suit, but said if he found her at Venette he would
make her. lie added some remarks of a coarse cha-
racter, and others of the party then began to rally Quin
on his want of success with the demoiselle Landrieu,
after 18 months' attentions.
On their arrival at Venette, Quin, as he had ex-
pected, met his beloved, and after they had danced to.
gether for some time took her to a cabaret called the
Comet, in company with Henrique, for the purpose of
'getting some refreshments. There they all three were
shown into a private apartment, and a scene occurred,
the details of which have only lately become known
through the partial confession of Quin. Henrique, who
appeared soured and irritated by feelings of jealousy, ap-
plied the most grossly abusive epithets to the poor girl ;
and as soon as he had exhausted himself upon her pre-
tended to quarrel with Quin about some difference be-
tween them in their accounts. Henriqtle claimed 45
centimes of him, in which demand Quin did not appear
disposed to acquiesce. The quarrel continuing, the
young woman sent and borrowed a sum sufficient to pay
him, and the matter appeared to have terminated.
The apprehension of the poor girl did not, however,
cease with the quarrel, and she called the garde chanz-
petre, named Peuvrel (whom she had sent for the
money) on one aide, and with much earnestness asked
him to accompany her home, telling him she would re-
ward him for his trouble ; his duties prevented his leav-
ing Venette, but he offered to see her to the outskirts
of the village. He accordingly accompanied her, as did
also Quin, upon whose arm she was leaning, as far as
the last houses on the road to Flandre. He there left
them, telling the young woman that she had nothing to
fear, as she was in the company of her boa ami, and
saying to Quin that if anything happened he should
hold him responsible. Henrique, in the meantime, had
remained at Venette for a short' perd, but soon after-
wards was seen to take the same ro4 which Quin and
the young woman had pursued. Tpoor girl did not
return home that night ; and the next day her absence
was still unaccounted far. She ivy; searched for in
every direction, but in vain. No tidings could be heard
of her. When Quin was questioned he stated that he
had quitted her for a momentary purpose, and that she
having continued her course he did not again overtake
her. This story was not believed, as it was improbable,
and the conduct of Henrique excited suspicion, from his
anxiety to make it appear that there could not have
been any foul play.
On the 18th of July, four days afterwards, the body
of the unfortunate young woman was dragged from the
river in a state of partial putrefaction, especially the
face, the neck, and the stomach. In short, the post
mortem examination left no doubt of the gross violence
of which she had been the victim. Suspicion was
strongly directed against the two young men at the
time, but, no evidence of their guilt having been traced,
the matter passed over, and was nearly forgotten. Eight
years had elapsed and the murder remained undiscovered,
when, in July last, a woman namedßruyant spade
disclosure which but the guilt of
Quip and Henrique
beyond the possibility of a doubt. ' She stated that her
son (since dead) was one of the party to the fete of Ve-
nette in 1833, and on his return home on the night in
question was an unseen witness of the violence and bru-
tality of these two young men totilards the deceased.
He was afraid to interfere at the time, or to make it
known afterwards, and, although he communicated the
Secret to his mother, it
Was with the strictest injunctions
to silence that he did so. lie had another motive, be-
sides fear, for this apparently remarkable conduct ; he
was at the time paying
his addresses to Quin's sister,
and could not bear the thoughts of denouncing him
whose sister he contemplated marrying- this revelation,
The prisoners, who, in the face of
persisted in an obstinate denial of their guilt, were con-
victed and sentenced to 15 years' imprisonment, with
hard labour (travaux forees).—L'Audience (Paris
journal.)
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UNION AND COMPULSION.-It is, indeed, 1
high time to force the men, whoever they are, who are
at the head of affairs, to abandon that selfish legislation
which studies only for class interests, and enact laws
which shall have for their object the common good of all
orders of society. This will soon be effected, if the
middle classes Nv ill repair the error to which we have
been alluding, and, retracing their steps, once more form
that compact and firm alliance with the working-classes
whence sprung the resistless strength which carried the
Reform Bill by acclamation. " The worthy dealers in
cotton and woollen hosen," and also the importers of
sugar, rum, timber, sumach, and logwood, may depend upon
one thing, namely, that they will never obtain anything
from the love of the Tory aristocracy. They are of that
" kind of cattle" that will give nothing except what they
cannot withhold. With the Morning Post they believe,
that they have a monopoly of " the business of legisla-
tion," and their idea is, that this business is to be carried
on entirely on their own account. This idea can only be
disturbed by a little gentle compulsion.—L iverpoel Albion.

MORNING SUN

FROM THE FRENCH PAPERS.
The Montpelier papers state that M. Carratie, of An-
tignac, in the Berault, having gone on the 17th inst. to
the market at Beziers to receive a considerable sure of
money, left a part of it in safe hands in the town, and
taking only 50 francs with him, set out in the evening
on his return home. Having got safe along the main
road to the point Ivhenee the country-way led off to
Antignac, he dismounted, and was walking homewards
with his horse's bridle on his arm, when a man stopped
him and demanded his money. As he was Deputy-
Mayor, and consequently well-known and equally re-
spected, he considered it to be a joke, and replied ac-
cordingly, but ere many words had passed the man dis-
charged a gun, and mortally wounded him. An hour
afterwards he was found and carried home, and there
died in great agonies. The horse had been led into an
adjoining field, and the portmanteau upon it, in which
Id. Carratie had put the money, rifled of its contents.
The murderer has not yet been discovered.
Advices from St. Valery•sur-Somnie state that a few
evenings ago the English schooner, Pere, Captain Henry
Holland, bound to St. Petersbureh, with a cargo of dried
fruits, was lost on the coast of IZouthlanville. The
crew, consisting of eight men, were saved, but the cap-
tain was drowned.
A violent storm occurred on the night of the 16th
inst., in the neighbourhood of St. Jean de Luz. The
lightning fell on the steeple of Ciboure, acid nearly de-
stroyed it. The chateau of Jolimont was set on fire
from a similar cause, with a farm, situated near it ; both
buildings were burnt down.
A person named Pelletier was prosecuted, a few days
ago, before the Court of Assizes, for the Deux-Sevres,
for having in August last written and posted placards in
Niort, calling on the inhabitants to resist the operations
for the Census, and to shut their doors against the fiscal
agents. He denied the charge of posting the placards,
bnt admitted their authorship. The jury returned a ver-
dict of not guilty. _ _

The Royal Court of Riom has ordered thirty-two per-
sons to be tried before the Court of Assizes of the Puy-
de-Dome, for the late riots at Chauriot, near Clt,rmont.
M. de Tocqueville has been elected a Member of the
Academie Francaise by 21 votes. M. Vatout obtained
eight, and M. Dime Martin two votes.
The first battalion of the 23d regiment of the Line
landed a few days since at Toulon from Africa, and was
received from General Boyer. The tattered colours of
this regiment, One oF the earliest sent into Africa, ex-
cited much attention.

The spinning-mills of the Marquis and Count d'ide-
ricy, near Valognes, in the Manche, were totally de-
stroyed by fire a few evenings since. The accident was
occasioned by a lad, who was lighting the lamps, suffl!r-
ing the candle to come in contact with some cof.ion. All
that the firemen conld do was to save the surrounding
houses. The loss is estimated at 200,000 E, but the
greater part is insured.

- One of the conductors on the Paris and Corbeil rail-
road, named Reset, having two otenings ago delayed get-
ting on his seat with a train at Choisy-le-Roi until it was
again in motion, made, an attempt to get up, but fell,
and was so severely trushed, that he died in the course
of the night at fie- Hotel Diex.
Prince Frederic of Prussia arrived at Rome on the
10th inst., under the incognito of Count of Rheinstein.
His Royal Highness visited immediately his uncle, Prince
Henry of Prussia, who has resided many years in the
Pontifical capital. The young Spanish Princes, sons of
Don Carlos, have had their audience of the Pope, to take
leave previous to going to Naples.
A Vienna letter, 15th inst., in the Fiance, states that
the Duke de Bourdeaux had been allowed to get up the
day before, and had remained in the company of the per-
sons of his household. On the next day, his Royal Higli-
ness received the Papal Nuncio ; and was shortly to be
visited by the other members of the corps diploniatipe.
While M. Lambert, money changer, was seated in his
shop, in the Rue Montmartre, the evening bef,ire last,
about ten o'clock, a man threw a heavy stoir through
one of the panes of the window, put in Li.; hand, and
seizing a bowl with 2,00 f. in gold, made ord. M. Lam-
bert was prompt in his pursuit, calling for assistance,
and two police-officers being at hand, tire man was almost
immediately caught ; he had, howevez time to pass his
prize to another man. On being taken before the Com-
missary, he gave his own name, Francois Crete, lodging
in the Rue de la Vannerie, but would not disclose those
of his confederates. He was committed to the Prefec-
ture of Police.

A St. Petersburgh. letter of the 11th instant says :
" The Emperor Nicholas, in further commemoration or
the glorious events of Isl 2, has erected at Smolensk° ft
column similar to that which stands on the field of the
battle of Borodino. It is 37 archines in height, including
the pedestal, and 13 archines and a half in circumference,.
and placed in front of the King's Bastion, which was the,
principal point of attack, and forms a fine ornament to
the parade. It was inaugurated on November 17, the
day on which the French retreated before the troops of
the garrison, in the presence of all the nobles of Smo-
lensk°, with tlroir Alarshal at their head, and also of the
veterans wfro wok a share in the battle."
The Cassel Gazette states that the Second Chamber
of tilt! States of Hanover has put on the orders of the day
PA. discussion, a motion expressive of regret at the exclu-
sion of some of its Members from, taking their seats. A
motion had been made for an address to the King, to
pray his Majesty for an adjournment of a fortnight, but
it was rejected by 41 to 35. The Municipal Council of
Osnabruck had petitioned the General Assembly of the
States to address the King, with a view to re-establish
the Constitution of 1833. The police authorities of that
town had ordered the Union Club to be shut, for a de-
monstration in favour of M. Iturnann.