The Sun.
London, England, 1847-01-19 00:00:00

A double suicide, under the most extraordinary cir-
cumstances, tcok place at Gondrevide, in the Loiret, last
week, Some- time ago, the daughter of a farmer of that
place, only saventeen years of age, and of great beauty,
tell in love with a journeyman gardener; fifty-three years
old, and of rather disagreeable person. On the sth
instant, this man not baying joined his comrades at
breakfast, they went into his room, and there found him
and the girl dead in the bed, having suffocated themselves
with the fumes of a quantity of charcoal, which they put
into a flower-pot, which was in the middle of the room.
In different parts of the room were the love-letters
which had passed between the parties, amounting in
number to 183, and which gave convincing proof that
their love had constantly been pure There were also
found a letter from the man, and one from the girl, both
addressed to the parents of the latter. In the men's
letter he reproaches the parents with having, by con-
fining her: too closely to the house,' presented her
from forming any acquaintance, and an engagement of
the heart with some young man. He bad, he said, re-
sisted her attachment for a long time, and rc asened with
her on its unfitness, but at length, his amour propre being
excited, he began to love her for the preference she had
shown him, and, by degrees, his love had become as vio-
lent as her own. Knowing that there was not the re-
motest chance of obtaining the consent of the parents to
their marriage, and resolving that they would not be
separated, they had agreed to commit suicide ; and lie
entreated that their bodies might lie in the same grave.
In the girl's letter she makes no reproaches to her
nierth.—e communicationlhe latestormiyn
parents, bids them an affectionate farewell, and expresses
the happiness she felt in dying with her lover.
DISADVANTAGES
the north. Five mails from Orkney were due in Caith-
ness on Friday, and the storm still continued. Ad intern •
gence of the island of St. Kilda has been cut off for some
weather has
greatly (
interrupted
POSITION.--The
time, owing to the tempestuous weather, and fears are
entertained for the condition of the poor inhabitants.
The whole population of the island is about 190; money
is almost unknown amongst them, at they pay their rent
(about 601.) by means of the feathers of sea birds. Mr.
Wilson, in his " Voyage Round Scotland," says the
islanders are frequently very ill off die ing stormy
weather, or those periods of the year in which the rocks.
are deserted by their winged inhabitants. Their slight
supply of oats and barley would scarcely suffice for the
maintenance of life, and such is the injurious effect of the
in winter, even on their hardiest -
spray vkgetation that
greens, which •
savoys and German (or curly)
improved by the winters cold, almost inv '^h' - perish
soon ,I.), perish
soon after the close of autumn.—lnverness Courier.
CANADIAN PRODUCE.—An arrival of twenty-three
barrels of cheese has taken place by a vessel arrived from
Montreal and Quebec, the produce of Canada. No ar
rival of this particular description of food from Canada
has come under our notice as having previously taken
place. It is remarked also, that the supplies of butter
which are now taking place from this quarter are much
greater than was previously the case, one vestal having
arrived from the Canadian ports of Montreal and Quebec
respectively, having 324 packages on board; another
from Montreal, 167 packages; a third from the same
port, the large quantity of 471 casks of butter, and this
vessel also brought five barrels of cheese; and several
other arrivals of lesser extent have taken place. The
arrivals of vessels from America, laden with grain and
provisions, during the past week, have comprised more
Montreal
than an average number, from and Quebec,
with finir and every description of provisions the growth
and produce of Canada.
1760
BRITIsa PREMIERS, FROM THE YEAR TO
1846.—The Right Hon. Wm. Pitt, 1760 ; Earl of
Bute, from 1761 to 1762; George Granville, 1762 to
1765 ; Marquis of
Rockingham, 1765 to 1766; Duke
of Grafton, 1766 to 1770 ; Lord North, 1770 to 1782 ;
Earl of Shelbourne, 1782 to 1784; Right lion. Wm.
Pitt, 1784 to 1801; Right Hon. Henry Addington,
1801 to 1804; Right Hon. Wm. Pitt, 1804 to 1806;
Lord Grenville, 1806 to 1807; Duke of Portland, 1808
to 1809; Right Hon. Spencer Percival, 1810 to 1812;
Earl of Liverpool, 1812 to 1827; Right Hon. George
Canning, 1827; Viscount Goderich, 1827 to 1828;
Duke of Wellington, 1828 to 1830; Earl Grey, 1830
to 1834 ; Duke of Wellington (pro tem.), 1835;
Viscount Melbourne, 1835; Sir Robert Peel, 1835 to
1836; Viscount Melbourne, 1836 to 1841; Fir Robert
Peel, 1841 to 1846; Lord John Russell, 1846.—Illus-
troted London Almanack.
MEMOIRS OF GENERAL PETE.—General Pepe has
been closely connected with Neapolitan affairs, from his
first taking up arms with the French against his native
Government in the year 1800 until his final banishment
from Naples in 1821. During that period he rose to
high rank in the Neapolitan army under the reign of
the unfortunate Murat ; was promoted to a still higher
position after the restoration of Ferdinand, and, at last
as the leader of the constitutional movement in 1820,
became Commander-in-Chief of the army, and held the
fate of Naples in his hands. When to this we add, that
he was a brave and skilful commander, that he saw much
active service both in Italy and Spain, that his narrative
bears evidence of scrupulous veracity, and that, in spite
of his political views, there is no rocm to doubt the in-
tegrity of his character, it may be conjectured that his
memoirs cannot be wanting in interest, nor in sterling
merit. It is of such materials that authentic history is
made up. The book is, in every respect, a genuine
production, and must not be confounded with the fic-
titious or semi-fictitious military memoirs and narra-
tives that are continually issuing from the press. Our
opiaion is, General Pope's statements are trust-worthy,
and that he has fairly related the story of his eventful
life.—Britannia.

MONUMENT TO THE LATE EARL OF YARBOROUGH.
—The Royal Western Yacht Club has subscribed 50/
towardi the fund for erecting a monument to the me-
mory of the late Commodore of the Royal Yacht Squa-
dron, which now amounts to upwards of 7001., and is
expected to reach about 1,2001.
Lord Hatherton will move the'Address to the Throne
in the House of Lords, in answer.to the Queen's Speech
at the opening of Parliament, which will be seconded, as
already stated, by Lord Carew.