The Sun.
London, England, 1841-12-30 00:00:00

bar. Bonaparte's career was ended in a few short
years, but the monster of whom I speak has now been
murdering our countrymen during the long space of
more than 200 years. Bonaparte killed only the bodies
of men ; the prisoner's murders extend beyond the
grave. He has spared neither young nor old, learned
nor ignorant, male nor female, priest nor peasant."

FROM THE FRENCH PAPERS.
On the 28th ult , says the Journal de Valogne, a sloop
with a crew of four men went ashore, near Saint Vaast,
but got off again without a rudder, and almost withou-
sails, and attempted to reach the Hougue. Soon after.
wards the wind changed, and the sea ran dreadfully hight
The crew threw out an anchor, but it gave way, and the
sloop was driven at the mercy of the waves. She was
perceived by a vessel from Harfleur, and an attempt was
made to reach her, but as no men were seen on hoard the
attempt was abandoned, as it could only be continued at
the risk of life. Nothing inure was heard of the sloop
until a few days ago, and it was consequently supposed
that the crew had perished. A letter, however, has been
received from New Haven in England, stating that after
being beaten about for some days the sloop had arrived
Fafery in an English port. The crew, having only a
single loaf and a bottle of brandy on board, were half
dead with hunger when they arrived.
The Journal de Maine-et-Loire gives the following
extraordinary account of the perilous situation and
escape, a few days ago, of two sportsmen, whose boat
upset in the meadows of Briollay, which were overflowed
to a depth of from twelve to fifteen feet, on their return
from duck shooting in the evening. Only one of them
being able to swim, he caught hold of his companion,
and struggled with him for some time, until, as both
were nearly exhausted, the former perceived the top of
a tree, which was a short distance out of the water ; he
climbed up and dragged his companion, but even in this
position, although they had a resting-place for their feet
in the trunk of the tree, they were nearly up to their
shoulders in water. The most exhausted of the two
must have been drowned, if his companion had not
tied him to the branches of the tree with his handker-
chief. Their dog also was taken into the tree and laid
on the branches. In this horrible state they passed the
whole night, and were not perceived until eight o'clock
in the morning, when a boat came and took them off.
As a lady and her son were returning home some
nights ago in a carriage from a party in the neighbour-
hood, to their residence at St. Andre sur Cailly, in the
Seine Inferieure, they came to the ferry at Lorey, which
they must necessarily pass, the river in that part of the
Valley of the Euro being still without a bridge. On
account of the river being flooded the ferrymen refused
to lake in the carriage, and the lady, her son, and the
footman embarked, leaving the coachman behind with
the carriage. When in the middle of the stream the boat
was carried away by the force of the current, and driven
with such violence against the trunk of a tree that the
lady was thrown overboard, and must have been drowned
but for the exertions of her son, who was an excellent
swimmer, and saved not only his mother but the footman,
an old and faithful servant, who, without reflecting that
lie could not swim at all, had plunged in after his mistress.
The Rouen papers state that three men of St. Pierre-
en-Pert, on the coast of Normandy, went down to the
shore a few days ago, to collect sea-weed for manure.
but a storm coming on, they took shelter in a cave hol-
lowed out by the waves. While waiting for the passing
of the gale, the whole of the superincumbent soil fell in
upon them, and covered them with an immense mass of
chalk and flints. The accident being made known, the
inhabitants of the commune laboured for two days and
nights in the hope of recovering the bodies of their
friends. At the end of the above time another mass fell
in, and seriously injured three of the men employed in
the charitable work. This being shortly followed by an-
other fall, the people became so alarmed that they de-
sisted, and left the unfortunate men to remain buried
where they were.
Two days ago the body of a well-dressed man was
taken out of the Canal St. Martin, and, there being no
papers about him whereby he could be identified, was
carried to the Morgue. His death is attributed to in-
toxication, as in his right hand was a clay pipe, arid in
the pocket of his pantaloons a purse
.containing 160 fr.
About two hours afterwards another body was found
near the same spot, and soon recognised to be that of a
young journeyman, who had been married just long
enough to become a father. For some time the young
couple, it appears, had lived happily, nor, indeed, was the
tranquillity of the wife disturbed until the lifeless corpse
of her husband was brought home, when the shock was
so sudden and unexpected that her reason has been
placed in danger. Two months ago the husband was
thrown out of work, and, being unable to procure em-
ployment, first exhausted all his former savings, and then
lived upon credit until he could obtain no more. During
the whole of this time he concealed his distress from his
wife, till at last it grew too heavy for him to bear, and he
committed suicide.

Another case of a deserted orphan came before the
Correctional Tribunal a few days ago. Emilie Kulmans,
a child scarcely ten years old, without either dither or
mother, was under the care of a woman named Lange,
but, in a fit of anger, she either turned her out of her
house, or so ill-treated her, that the poor little girl
absconded, was found starving in the streets, and was
taken up as a vagabond. On being brought before the
Tribunal, the woman Lange, who had been cited, affirmed
that she had never ill-treated the child, but that she ran
away because she was about to be put apprentice to a
maker of artificial flowers. She stated further that the
father of Emilie, when a widower, lodged in her house, and
there died, leaving his child upon her hands. Doubts as
to the truth of her •Tepresentations being entertained,
upwards of sixty persons, some of them ladies of rank
and wealth, came forward on learning the particulars of
the case from the papers, and offered to take charge of
the girl,:insuring her an ample provision. Among them,
%as one in behalf of the Mere Superieure of the religious
and charitable institution in the Rue de Vaugirard,
called Le Bon Pasteur, to whose care the President
determined to commit the child. On his announcing
this decision, a man named Lambert, who declared him-
self to be the maternal uncle of Emilie, of whom he said
he was very fond, made his appearance, and offered to
take her home, but the President- informed him he was
too late in his application, and from his station in life (he
is a journeyman baker) could not render her any service.

WEST INDIA STEAM PACKETS.

POST-OFFICE NOTICE.

The following important notice was posted up yester-
day at the General Post-office, St. Martin's-le-Grand,
and the branch receiving-houses, `'ere-street, Oxford-
street, Charing-cross, Borough, and Lombard-street.
" General Post-office, Dec. 29.

" On and from the Ist of January next, the mails be-
tween the United Kingdom and the West Indies, Mexico,
Cuba, &c. which have hitherto been conveyed by her
Majesty's packets, will be forwarded twice in every month
by the contract steam vessels of the Royal Mail Steam-
packet Company.
"These mails will be made up in London on the Ist
and 15th of every month, and will be forwarded from
Fahnouth.

" In addition to the places for which it has been the
practice to make up Mails under the existing arrange-
ments, it is intended that in future branch packets shall
touch with Mails at the following ports, namely, Para-
maric (Surinam), St. Juan de Nicaragua, Maracaibo,
and Bahia-Honda.

" Newspapers to and from the two first places will be
liable to a charge of two-pence each ; and those to and
from Maracaibo and Bahia-Honda will be forwarded free
of postage.
" The steam-packets will also touch at New Orleans,
Savannah, Charleston, New York, Halifax, and Nova
Scotia ; but no letters or newspapers will be forwarded
from the United Kingdom for those places, unless spe-
cially addressed, By West India steam-packets.'
" On the letters addressed to any part of South Ame-
rica, Mexico, Havannah, and other islands not British
possessions, the postage must be prepaid, or they can-
nut be forwarded.

" On the return voyage the packets will touch at Ber-
muda and at Fayal, and a branch packet will proceed
twice in every month from Fayal to Madeira.
" The 'ray steam-packet, for the West. India and
Mexico Mails of the Ist of January, 1842;
" The Thames steam-packet, for the Mails of the Ist
of January, 1842, touching at Surinam, Demerara, Ber-
bice, and Tobago, via Falmouth.
" The Mails for Gibraltar, Malta, Greece, the lonian
Islands, Egypt, and India, by the Oriental steamer, via
Falmouth, will be made up on Friday next, the 31st
instant (to-morrow), and for Egypt and India, by the
Overland Mail, via Marseilles, on the 4th January, 1842.
" Her Majesty's brig Pigeon, for the Madeira, Brazils,
and Buenos Ayres Mails of the 4th of January, 1842, via
Falmouth.

" The Britannia steamer, for the North American Mail
of the 3d of January, 1842, via Liverpool."

AN EXTRAORDINARY WOMAN.—Left Mee-
rut on our way towards Kurnaul, and marched towards
Sadanha, the former place of residence of the Begum
Sombre. This celebrated woman, who died about two
years ago, was a half-caste, and originally married to
Colonel Dyce, a German, who obtained during the
civil wars of India, and after the downfal of the
Great Mogul, and before our taking possession of
the country, one of the many small principalities
into which the whole empire was subdivided.
Aware of her husband's love for her, she pre-
tended, on a threatened invasion of his territories
by the Mahrattas, to destroy herself, and caused
a pistol to be fired near her palanquin. The plot suc-
ceeded. Her spouse said he would not survive her, and
shot himself through the head, when she immediately
seized the government, soon became one of our closest
allies, and was confirmed in her usurpation, which she
retained till her death, when, according to treaty, it
lapsed to our Government. She s2enis to have been a
strancr9e mixture of good and evil. On the side of
the former, she is said to have been kind to her people,
and a good mother to her adopted children. On
the other, it is argued that she was arbitrary, avari-
cious, and at times cruel. The worst story told of her
is her having been jealous 9f a Nautch girl, to whom
her husband had paid rather too much attention, having
her buried alive, and seating herself above the place,
smoking her hookah. The Europeans about her, how-
ever, deny the story, and say that, except to culprits,
she was never cruel. She built and endowed a Roman
Catholic chapel, which is very beautiful, inlaid like the
Taj, the whole of the interior being of white marble,
She is said to have died worth nuarly MOM., which is
all left to Mr. Dyee Sombre, her son-in-law, who is just
gone to England with it.—Five Pearl in India.

BARNARDCASTLE.—A great number of geese
have been stolen in the neighbourhood of Barnardcastle,
this winter, principally about Startforth. One knowing far-
mer, thinking to secure his geese from depredation, hui
a string conveyed from the door of the goose-house to
his bedside, with a fire-shovel attached to the end ; but
unfortunately, he one evening forgot to fasten the string,
and next morning he discovered that six geese had been
stolen.— Tyne Mercury.

THE SUN, LONDON,

PRESENTATION OF ADDRESSES
TO LORD MELBOURNE.
(Abridged froth the Derby Reporter.)
Monday last being the day fixed for the presentation
of the Addresses to Lord Melbourne, a numerous party
of gentlemen and tradesmen left Derby at eleven o'clock
in the morning, in carriages and on horseback for Mel-
bourne Hall. The weather, on the whole, was tolerably
favourable, though too severe to allow of some, who were
desirous of joining the cavalcade, to attend the presenta-
tion ; as it was, however, there was a very numerous and
highly respectable and influential deputation, and, we
believe, far exceeded, in respect of numbers, his Lord-
ship's expectations.
The deputation from Derby halted on the bill near the
Sir Francis Burdett public-house on this side of Mel-
bourne, to await the procession from that place. which
shortly afterwards arrived, headed by Samuel 'Robinson,
Esq., and other gentlemen and inhabitants on horseback
and on foot, and proceeded by bands of music and ban-
ners. The Derby party fell into the ranks, and the whole
then proceeded to Melbourne. As the procession ap-
proached Lord Melbourne, accompanied by the Hon.
W. Cowper, drove to the place selected for the-presenta-
tion in his carriage, and as the different parties took
their stations, acknowledged their greeting very cheer-
fully.
Dr. FORESTER then presented the address from the
borough of Derby, and Mr. HAIMES that from Mel-
bourne, to which his Lordship made the following reply :
Gentlemen—Both to you who have done me the grea t
honour to come hither from the enlightened and opulent
town of Derby, and to you who are my immediate neigh-
bours and friends in this place and in its vicinity, I am
anxious to express the deep sense of satisfaction with
which I receive this testimony of your confidence and
approbation. It is very natural that you should revert
to, and I have great gratification in remembering, the
autumn of the year 1834, when I had the honour of re-
ceiving you, in this very place, upon a similar occasion.
Some of those who now stand before me were then pre-
'sent; and they will probably recollect that I took the
liberty of pressing upon them the necessity of union and
concord, and of warning them that, considering the na-
tural strength, and the compact array of the adversary,
there was no hope of success except in combined and
unanimous exertion.—(Loud cries of " Hear, hear.")—
Those sentiments were, as I flattered myself, received
at that time with concurrence and approbation. They
were more than approved. They were adopted and
acted upon, and the usual conseque ce of success ensued.
—(Cheers.) Since that time, in:other parts of the
country, discords and differences of opinion have arisen,
which have also been followed by their natural and ne-
cessary consequences, defeat and failure.—(Hear, hear.)
It gives me, therefore, great satis action to find that in
your address you repeat and confirm that opinion, by
stating that in a free and enlightened nation the firm
and united voice of the people, when constitutionally
directed to just and legitimate objects, cannot long be re-
sisted." You are right, Gentlemen. Union alone is ir-
resistible, and union can only be ensured by the choice
of defined objects, not doubtful, speculative, and hazard-
ous, but dictated by reason, approved by experience,
and of a practicable character.—(Hear, and cheers.)
I have the more pleasure in referring to that former pe-
riod, because I have to render you the justice of declaring
that you have acted entirely up to the principles which
you then professed. Whether we have done our duty or
not, you have done yours. In the exercises of your rights
and franchises you have given to the Government which
you approved a steady, firm, unvarying support, and I
cannot refrain from observing that if the same consistent
line of conduct had been pursued by other constituencies,
the result of the late political contest would have been
differentfrom that which has taken place.—(Loud cheers.)
Both the addresses contain expressions of kindly feel-
ings towards myself personally, by which I am sensibly
touched. More than seven years have now elapsed
since that month of November, 1834, to which I have
already so often recurred, and the progress of time has
brought upon me, what it must bring upon all, im-
paired strength, less buoyant spirits, and diminished
powers of exertion. The consciousness of this decline
naturally renders me less ambitious of undertaking a
post of so much labour, such heavy responsibility, and
such unceasing anxiety as that which I have lately held;
but the deep debt of gratitude which I owe to my Sove-
reign and my country will not permit me to withdraw
myself from their service, nor to refuse any task which
may appear likely to conduce to their interest and wel-
fare.—(Loud cheers.) The great questions relating
to the commerce and revenue cf the country, which
were in appearance the causes i the dissolution of
of the late Ministry remain yet to be determined.
The financial difficulties of the State haveloot been the
work of this or of that Administration; they have been
foreseen, or rather they have existed, ever since, and
indeed long before, the termination of the great war with
France in 1815, and they are the consequence of a long,
series of events, of which it is vain now to inquire, ex-
cept as a lesson for the future, whether they could have
been avoided or prevented. The state of trade, forei4n
and domestic, and the severe distress which prevails in
many of the manufacturing districts, although I should
lament that they should be exaggerated for political
purposes, and employed as grounds and reasons for
political change, yet imperiously demand the most se-
rious and immediate attention of the Government and
the Legislature.- -(Loud cries of " Hear, hear.") It
was our opinion that the measures which we proposed,
and which you have enumerated, were calculated at once
to supply the pecuniary deficiency and to relieve the
commercial embarrassment. We proposed them in good
faith—(Cheers)—and for my own part with the expec-
tation that the greater portion of them would have re-
ceived the sanction of Parliament. They were opposed
entirely. A distinct declaration of want of confidence
in the Administration was carried in the House of
Commons. We advised an appeal to the people,
which was made, and has been decided against us.
It will now be for her Majesty's present advisers to bring
forward upon their part such plans as they may think
better suited to the circumstances of the times. And it
will be for your representatives to consider those plans
with reference to, and in comparison with, the measures
which we submitted to the last Parliament. I can only
say that for myself they shall receive a full and fair con-
sideration, and that, as far as in me lies, I will do to
others that justice which I hold to have been denied to
me and my colleagues, and in being denied to us, to
have also been denied to the country.—(Loud cheers.)
Three cheers for the Queen, and three cheers for
" Lord Melbourne and Reform," having been given, his
Lordship accompanied by the deputation proceeded to
the hall, where upwards of 200 gentlemen partook of a
sumptuous dejeune a la fourehette ; after which they
took leave of his Lordship, who, during the whole pro-
ceedings, behaved with the greatest affability towards all.
We calculate the number present during the presenta-
tion at between one and two thousand.

INTENDED DEMOLITION 01
KINGSTON HOUSE.
This fine old residence at Kensington Gore, at
present tenanted by the Marquis of Wellesley,
is about to be entirely pulled down, so that in a
few weeks probably no vestige of it will remain.
The purpose for which it will be demolished, is
to make way for a series of grand edifices to be
erected on its site. Before, therefore, the vene-
rable fabric falls under the inroads of a Vanda-
lism that pays no reverence to celebrated or
ancient buildings, we turn with the devotion of
antiquaries to indite a few lines to its memory
and origin.
The celebrated Duchess of Kingston, who was
in the year 1776 tried before her Peers for
bigamy, and who defended herself in her own
person in Westminster Hall, was the builder of
this mansion about a century ago. The apart-
ments were fitted up and designed under her
own immediate direction, and great taste is ob-
servable in many of its arrangements. The con-
servatory and the hot-houses have long been
admired by horticulturists. Little more than
sixty years ago the Duchess herself tended the
fine exotics that bloomed within them, and dis-
severed many a fair rose from its branch to inter-
twine amid her hair, or decorate her breast.
Kensington Gore, on which this mansion is
situated, was called in ancient times Kyng's
Gore, as appears by a record dated 1270 (54
Hen. III.), and it is there stated to be a part of
the ancient demesnes of the Crown. Kensing-
ton itself, in the antiquated spelling of Dooms-
day Book, is called Chenisitun, and in other
ancient records Kenesitune and Kensin-
tune. Chenesi appears to have been a proper
name : a person of that name held the manor of
finish, in Somersetshire, in the reign of Edward
the Confessor.

In the year above-mentioned, however, there
was but little peace for the good Duchess, in her apartments at Kingston, and Horace
Walpole, who, with the fine and sarcastic nature
that ran through his veins, loved nothing better
in the midst of his correspondence and gossip
than to have a sly fling at some coronetted Duke
or Duchess, found in the calamity of her Grace
of Kingston, abundant food for his malignant
and severe wit to exercise its darling propensities.
The following arch letter, written at the time
was addressed by him to the Countess of Ailes-
bury, dated Dec. 11, 1775, and runs thus :
"Did you hear that scream ?—Don't be fright-
ened, Madath: it was only the Duchess of
Kingston last Sunday was seven-night atChapel ;
but it is better to be prepared; for she has sent
word to the House of, Lords that her nerves are
so bad she intends to scream for these two
months, and therefore they must put off her
trial. They are to. take her throes into consi-
deration to-day, and that there may be sufficient
reason for the length of her Veil and train, and
attendants, have a mind to treat her with West-
minster-hall, I hope so, for I should like to see
this comedie tarmoyante, and besides I conk..lude
it would bring your Ladyship to town. You shall
have timely notice."
The circumstance of the trial which shortly
after potted, vis„ an the 15th of April, 1776,
have doubtless passed away from the minds of
most men of the last generation, and as they are
curious, and so pleasantly serve our purpose at
the present minute, the following
Short recur-
rence to them will not be ungra-tifying. The
charge against the Duoheas of bigamy stood thus:
ii' Miptment on the occasion set forth that she,
Elizabeth Duchess of Kingston, indicted by the
name ofElizabeth Hervey, wife of Augustus John
Hervey, did, on the 3d of March, in the 9th year
of his Majesty's reign, marry Evelyn Pierpoint,
Duke of Kingston, deceased, at the Church of