The Sun.
London, England, 1841-08-18 00:00:00

TRE SUN, LONDON. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST IS Is4i.

LAFFARGE.

those who had taken a Westerly course. They accused
each other of negligence, and the dispute led to a strong
contest. Several able mathematicians at last discovered
the cause. They found that the difference in time was
occasioned by the laws of nature, and not the fault of
navigators. The reason will be easily seen. Every 15
degrees upon the equator is equal to one hour of time,
and the vessel sailing East is always approaching sun-
rising. When they have sailed fifteen degrees East from
the meridian of London, it will be noon one hour sooner
than with those of London. When they reach the
meridian of Cairo, thirty degrees East of Lon-
don, they will have noon two hours sooner than
those at London, and so on in the same pp-
portion. Every meridian they arrive at will bring
the natural day one hour sooner than at London, so that
when they have gone quite round the globe, and return-
ed to London again, they will have gone 360 degrees, and
it will be noon, according to their reckoning, 24 hours
or a whole day sooner than to those who stay at London;
or, Thursday with them when it is but Wednesday
noon in England. On the other hand, if a ship set out
from London and sails westward, when they collie to the
meridian of the Canary Islands, 15 degrees west of Lon-
don, their noon will be an hour later than at London.
At 30 degrees west, it will be noon two hours later than
at London, and when they get round to London again
through the 24 meridians, their natural day will be
24 hours later than at London, or Wednesday noon
with them whilst it is Thursday noon at London.
In this affair it is not necessary a ship should go
round the globe upon the equator, it is sufficient if she
passes through the several meridians as all navigators
must who go round the globe eastward or westward.
For example : suppose a traveller embarks at Rochelle'
to go to the East Indies, when he shall arrive at
the distance of 180 degrees East longitude, half the cir-
cumference of the earth, it will be midnight there and
noon at Rochelle. It follows that, in making the whole
circle of the globe, he will gain twenty-four hours upon
the day at Rochelle. If it is Wednesday at Rochelle
when he returns, it will then be Thursday with him.
The next day is Thursday at Rochelle ; thus there are
two Thursdays in a week. To find a third in this same
week, we must despatch another navigator to sail from
East to West. When he has reached 180 degrees of
longitude he will find himself opposite to that of Ro-
chelle, and it will be Tuesday midnight when they will
have noon of Wednesday at Rochelle. And, as the thing
is very possible, if those who sailed East and those who
sailed West should meet at Rochelle, they would find a
difference of twenty-four hours between their reckoning.
The Wednesday at Rochelle is Thursday for those who
went to the East, because they gained a day. Secondly,
the Friday of Rochelle is Thursday to those who sailed
West, because they have lost a day. The Thursday at
Rochelle is the third. Thus, according to time, there
arc three Thursdays in one week.

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE
(LLOYDS.

VESSELS SPOKEN WITH.--The Maidstone, from Lon-
don to Calcutta, and Happy Return, of Falmouth, off
Scilly 14th inst. ; Woodland Castle, James, Cork to
Quebec, 29th ult., lat. 46, lon. 48, by the Thyatira, ar-
rived at Cork. Centurion of Scarborough, lat. 49, lon.
10 ; Aisthorpe, of Workington, lon. 13, by the Agenoria,
Sutton, arrived at Cowes. Daniel Grant, Liverpool to
Lima, 3d July, lat. 40 N., lon. 27; W. ; Cometo,
Nassel, Rio Janeiro to Antwerp, and supplied with
provisions, by the Alfred, Civrac, arrived in the Gironde.
Delftshaven, Nordlope, Rotterdam to New York, sth inst.,
lat. 48 N., lon. 15. W.,by the Maria Elizabeth,arrived in the
Texel. Julia, Palermo to Liverpool, 29th ult., off Cape St.
Vincent,by the Azores packet, Gibson,arriveat Gibraltar.
Kate, of Greenock, out thirty days from Liverpool, in the
Straits of Belleisle, by the Symmetry, Bridge, arrived at
Sunderland. Lancashire Witch, Liverpool to Quebec,
28th ult., lat. 46, lon. 56, by the Mary Coxon, arrived at
Cork. Enchantress, Liverpool to Venice, 23d ult.; Sally,
of London, from Ancona, 27th; Patriot, Alexandria to
London, by the Concord, Budley, arrived at Gibraltar.
Jenny, of Stockton, 25th June, lat. 2 N., lon. 20 W. ;
Diligence, of Rotterdam, 28th, lat. 7, lon. 19 ; Robert
Edwards, of New Bedford ; Sussex, of Bristol, 23d ult.,
lat. 40, lon. 36 ; Betsey, of Dundee, 24th, lat. 42, lon. 34;
Neptune, London to New York, 25th, lat. 41 ; Pennsyl-
vania, of Bath, bound westward, 7th inst., lat. 46, by the
Medora, arrived at Antwerp. Convivial, Liverpool to
Newfoundland, Bth inst., lat. 28, lon. 37, by the Cale-
donia steamer, arrived at Liverpool. China, of and from
Limerick, 23d ult., by the Llantarnum Abbey, arrived at
Bristol. Ontario, Liverpool to Wiscusset, 4th inst., lat.
45, lon. 33 ; Countess Mulgrave, from Bristol, sth, lat.
46, lon. 29, by the Henrietta, Johnston, arrived at Liver-
pool. Jane Sheriff, Green, from Brest, out fifty days,
29th June ; Catherine, Belfast to Quebec, 15th ult., lon.
.57 ; Francis, Barkley, of Liverpool, for Valparaiso, 29th,
by the Ruby, arrived at Truro.

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__TT 110 P INTELLIGENCE.
MAlnsroNt.--The weather of the past week has still
continued very unfavourable to the bines, most of which
are still reluctant to shoot out their burrs into hop.
There appears to be much inequality, not only in diffe-
rent grounds, but even amongst the bines in the same
grounds. We have seen a branch of hops, some of which
were two inches long, from the ground of Mr. Matthews,
of Farleigh, and other grounds may be seen where in
several acres it is difficult to find a hop. The mould is
rather on the increase. Yesterday was a fine day, con-
siderably warmer than the previous ones. The niptit
also appeared more genial, and as the moon change f, fast
night at half-past nine o'clock, a run" of better weather
is anticipated.
BRENCHLEY.—Our hops are looking very. unkindly.
The incessant rains combined with cold nights have so
not
that it is feared in many
y w
much
ill ounds the retarded their p
grow rogress,
0,...tt to perfection.
gr
HonsmONDEN.—T he
pa in the middle of the past
willeek, fared very bad, standing quite still from Tuesday
t Friday evyn'Aig. Since that, the weather being
warmer, they nave grown out in most grounds middling
well. 11:,;:tess we have more sun, and less wind and rain,
a fair -,:rop cannot be obtained.
3.IEREWORTH ANp WATERINGBURY.--The hops are
-generally spoken of as growing very slowly, in conse-
quence of the cold nights and damp weather, and most
persons express themselves against a full crop. The
wet has done some damage to the burr, in the strong
grounds, by rotting the strig of the hop asunder. At
the annual hop dinner at the Ring's Head, Water-
ingbury, on Wednesday, the 11th instant, there were
between forty and fifty persons present, consisting
chiefly of hop-growers and factors, and on naming of the
duty by each individual for the sweepstakes of 1841, the
average of the statements was between 143,0001. and
144,0001.—Maidstone Gazette.

—RAZIL.—In some of the papers allusion is
made to an aggression said to have been committed by,
the Brazilian authorities upon English subjects, the par-
ticulars of which are stated on the authority of the Rio
papers received by the ordinary packet. The private
letters thence, however, give quite a different version of
the story. They state that . a man-of-war's boat arrived
on May 20 at the town of Campos (an inland town some
"i3O miles up the river Varaiba), with a lieutenant, a mid-
Pman, and 13 sailors on board. It was the first in-
dstearcteoorif any British sailors having passed up the river,
and their arrival naturally created pa
great sensation.
The Justice of the Peace was obliged by his standing or-
armed,
so, but w*
4ent lodgings,
11,7hetoain any party, and particularly foreigners, if
themh
(ie. ewreednthotemprovided with passports. He did
it
slreness, referring to his regulations, gave
sPect, and allowed plirboevritdyedonfoprarottm
whinileevtehrey
an-
s'wer from Rio Janeiro, a distance of about 160 miles,
was received. It arrived in due time by estafette, with
mem ei
an order to release them immediately,
diat lyit was evident'
no offence was meant by the
vrbeoeaat'nstce-re aswi afterlio,
their release Commodore Shortly
the
returned to the bar of St. Joao, some' 030 miles below, in-
quired the particulars, and received a full explanation.
The officers and men are said to have stated that they
were not in any manner ill-treated, but, on the contrary,
were treated with every possible respect.
Poor Drury-lane Theatre has undergone various
changes and humiliations within the last few years, but
the climax is to be consummated on Friday,
when it is
to be devoted to the disgraceful exhibition of Sir Francis
Burdett filling the chair at a dinner to celebrate the re-
turn of a Tory candidate for Westminster !
A DISASTROUS JOKE.—A young lady, whose
name we forbear from mentioning, was brought before
Mr. Duffy, charged with having stolen a ring from a
person called " a gentleman," whose name we also
suppress, lest the lady's name might thus be indirectly
revealed. The facts of the case are these :—The accus-
ing individual, who resides in the neighbourhood of
Dlountjoy-square, went to visit •the lady on Wednesday
evening, when she, taking a fancy.' to his gold ring, re-
moved it from his finger, and jokingly observed that
she would not give up the prize. He left the house, and
next day meeting her in the street, called a policeman
and gave her 'into custody. The lady, who was much
agitated and shed tears, stated that she took the ring
merely in joke, and without the slightest intention of
keeping it. Her feelings had been greatly outraged by
the charge, and her imprisonment in the station house
all night. The MagiStrates instantly' discharged the;
fair and injured prisoner.—Dublin Pilot.
SUPPOSED MURDER AT STRANTON, NEAR
HARTLEPOOL.—On Tuesday last, the body of a female
was found floating in the Hartlepool Dock, supposed to
have. been murdered. It appears that her husband, with
whom she had quarrelled on the previous evening, is an
excavator, residing at Stranton. As soon as a report was
spread that the woman had been discovered under the
above circtuns:ances, the -man stated that it would, ncr,
doubt, be his wife. This expression excited a suspicion'
that she had come to her death by
,unfair. means, and
the man was immediately taken into custody. The par-
tic Wars of the affair hays not yet transpired,—Noraent
Times.

The following is a summary of Madame Laffarge's
Life, now in the course of publication in Paris in three
volumes octavo :
Marie Cappelle was born in 1816, at the chateau of
Villers-hellon, in Picardy, belonging to her mother's
'father, M. Collard, ex-contractor to the Republican ar-
mies, and the intimate friend of M. do Talleyrand. Her
grandmother (the adopted daughter of Madame de Gen-
, lis, and said to be descended from one Colonel Compton,
an Englishman), was brought up with the Orleans fa-
mily; and, speaking in her memoirs of her grandmother's
origin, Madame Laffarge adds that this story was related
to her only with mysterious reserve, which would appear
to confirm the accredited report of the prisoner of
Tulle having Royal blood in her veins. The eldest of
M. Collard's three daughters was the mother of Madame
-Lafarge, and was married in 1815 to M. Cappelle, a
Captain in the Artillery; the second was united to M.
C. Baron de Martens, a distinguished Prussian diploma-
tist, and the youngest to M. Garet, Governor of the
Bank of France. The first part of Marie Cappelle's life
passed away, half amidst the noisy gaieties of Strasbourg,
where she spent the .winter, and where her father was
garrisoned, and half amongst the rustic festivities of Vil-
lers-hellon, whither she repaired every spring. She de-
picts the visitors at her father's house with great anima-
tion ; these, for the most part, appertained to the high
classes of society. She says of M. de Talleyrand, who
often came to her grandfather's, that he " limped with art
and wit." She relates the promenades at Villers-hellon
of the Orleans family, stories of Mdlle. Mars, to whose
house her godfather, Colonel de Brack, used to take her;
of the climbing morning parties given by General
on the rich mamelons of the Vosges ; of the elect com-
pany of Strasbourg ; 'the country neighbours ; the Mon-
tesquiou family ; the Princess of Eckmuhl ; Madame de
Cambaceres ; the beautiful Chatelaine of Montgobert ;
the Montbreton family ; the de Valence ; the phalanx of
Paris dandies swarming to the shooting and gipsying
parties at Corey, or at Villers-hellon. In a word, all the
masculine and feminine celebrities of the French aristo-
cracy are analysed and dissected by Mdme. Lafarge,
who renders their portraiture with a fidelity most des-
pairing to the subject.
Marie Cappelle's first trouble was the loss of her fa-
ther, in consequence.. of . the wound inflicted by the
gursting of a fowling-piece in his hand.
Her mother, who was young, married again ; she
thus describes the wedding-day :—" The day of the
ceremony was dull ; we were compelled to assist at it
without allowing a tear to flow from our hearts to
our eye-lids, and to leave off our mourning, although
we became orphans in a two-fold sense ;we were ob-
liged to smile at the consecration of this oblivion ;
to smile in abdicating a portion of our mother's heart
to the rule of a stranger. M. de Coehorn was a Pro-
testant ; the religious rites were performed in the
drawing-room ; the work-table became an altar ; a
geatleman in black read us a cold sermon, and next
gave a simple blessing. Shall I confess it ; I was
pleased the ceremony was so meagre, that my dear
little church of Villers-hellon had not been decked out
—that the wax flambeaux of the altar were not
lighted, that the censors were left without incense. I
was. pleased that the Grand Cross, the Virgin, the Ta-
bernacle had not been dis-poiled of their trappings to
bless the oblivion of my father."
In order to tame her ardent disposition she was sent
to the Maison Royale de St. Denis ; but by the lapse of
some months she had fretted herself to sickness, and
she was set at liberty. The pleasures and rejoicings at
Paris succeeded the austere life of St. Denis ; she fre-
quented the balls at the Tuileries and at the Palais
Royal.
In 1832 she lost her mother, and her grandfather
folloWed not long after ; she was thus in the midst of
the world without a guide, without a prop, having but a
slender fortune, and possessing the superficial affections
of her family, judging by the manner in which she was
cast into the arms of a man unknown to her.
The part of the memoirs in which Madame Laffarge
describes the period when she was considered mar-
riageable is extremely interesting, and here began her
connections with Mademoiselle de Nicolai, actually
Madame de Leotaud.
The history of the theft of the diamonds is related
with minuteness as to the hour, tho spot, the accom-
plishment of the robbery. Her story is the same as she
told at her trial.
Marie Cappelle leaves Busaguy for Corey, a country-
seat belonging to Mdme. de Montbreton, who had con-
ceived a lively affection for the young orphan. In the
midst of a round of pleasure, and whilst playing her part
in a comedy got up for the amusement of the visitors,
she is called away to Paris by her aunt, Mdme. Garat,
to face a twelfth or a thirteenth suitor, M. Laffarge, a
man recommended by an office-keeper, M. de Foy, whose
employment is making up marriages for a certain remu
neration,based upon the property of the contracting indi-
viduals. M. Lafarge was net prepossessing ; he was
unknown,—his character, his habits, his tastes, his fa-
mily,—but he gave himself out as worth 37,000 f. (1,4001.)
per annum ; that Miss Cappelle's dowry, by allow-
ing him to increase his business, would in a year in-
crease it to 50,000 f. (2.0001.) per annum. He was pro-
vided with pompous letters and friendly recommends •
tions ; a Parisian artist had drawn up for him a superb
painting of a castle, with terraces, waterfalls, and draw-
bridges, and he had not beheld' his future wife a minute,
ere he declared himself deeply in love with her " smit-
ten with an eternal love." ,
In his rusticity he was mild and obsequious, and the
young girl was allured by the 50,000 francs revenue.
The marriage was solemnised, and within three days
the youthful female and her dowry were in the power of
a man whose rr_orality and character were more than
doubtful; v..no was overwhelmed with debts, and who
sought a wife to save him from a bankruptcy which was
deesared three months subsequently.
I The ceremony was scarcely at an end before a post-
chaise received the couple, and bore off Marie Cappello to
unknown regions. Her description of the first tete-a-tete
is charming, but we cannot give it here entire; the fol-
lowing are a few oxtraets :
After describing the prospect around her, and the in-
(
cidents on the road, at some length, she continues,
" Amidst all these beauties I looked about me, and cast
my eyes on Lafarge; he was asleep. I began to reflect."
"A jolt awoke M. Laffarge, who extended his arms and
mouth with a sonorous and lengthened gape ; he kissed
me on both cheeks and said, ' Now my little dear, we'll
breakfast.' M. Laffarge seized a cold fowl, which was
in the coach, by the wings, and divided it, offering me
t.ie half, which I refused with a degree of disgust that
made him suppose me ill. He became uneasy, anxious,
kindly attentive, begged me to take at least a glass of
Bordeaux, but on my refusal, drank off the entire bottle
to himself, saying—for thee and me, who are one. As the
odour of the repast was. unsupportable, I got on the box,
exchanging places with my maid Clementine ; towards
noon I re-entered the carriage, and attempted to con-
verse on literature, on theatricals, of Villers-hellon and
the fine forest, which latter part of the conversation ap-
peared to interest M. Laffarge ; but my ignorance of the
prices of wood and of charcoal reduced him to silence,
He took from his pocket a portfolio, and buried himself
in calculations which appeared to occupy his mind dis-
agreeably."
Madame Laffarge, who had dreamt of Romeo and
Juliet's affectionate scenes, was destined to be deceived
on every. point. At Orleans the deception was more tan-
gible. It was here that the scene of the bath took place,
which was adduced on the trial, and Marie Cappelle re-
lates it in detail. The husband shakes the door, and
when his yet virgin wife begs him to wait as she is un-
dressed, he brutally replies" it is because you are un-
dressed that I will come in; do you take me for a nin-
compoop ? Do you think I am going to be made game of
by a young wench of a Parisian?" and when the young
girl, offended at this indelicacy, resisted energetically,
and he went away, it was in saying " this May do for
once, but let me get you to the Glandier, I'll soon bring
you to your senses."
Her arrival at the Glandier dispelled the magnificent
illusions of Madame Laffarge. The fine castle, so beau-
tiful upon paper, was but an old tumble-down house,
open to the winds and to the rain ; the young stranger
brought up to the refinements of Parisian life, arrived
there at night by frightful roads, through pelting rain,
fatigued by the length of the journey, horror-struck at
the thought of the future prospects that awaited her, of
the menacing night then approaching, and which would
surrender her to the brutal caresses of her rustic spouse.
Under these impressions she obtained leave to retire to
her chamber, where she wrote the famous letter in
which, in order to obtain the more easily permission to
quit immediately the sad and solitary dwelling whither
a culpable deceit had led her, she accuses herself of ima-
ginary crimes. This letter, which bears the stamp of
the delirium of terrified imagination, was the foundation
of the accusation.

The scene which follows is disgusting. Madame Lac-
farge has unwittingly produced the famous scene he-
tween Rebecca and Brian de Bois Guilbert in Ivanhoe.
Like the ferocious Templar, the Limousin blacksmith
retires before the intrepidity and resolution of Marie
Cappelle.

The MS. in our hands leaves us here. Thesequel has
not pit arrived from Tulle; it comprises the whole pro-
ceedings at the Glandier, after the second journey to
Paris of M. Laffarge.
Whatever the judgment pronounced upon Madame
Laffarge, we must recognise in her the qualities neces-
sary to a great writer. If this woman is innocent, what
a fate is her's! If guilty, what an infernal organisation?

FIRST IMPRESSIONS OF THE GANGES.—
Every thing is strange to him ; groves of pall's-trees
meet his eye on every hand ; he sees the foot-prints of
the tiger upon the mud deposited by, the last high tide ;
jackalls tweet him on his walk, and hardly move out of
his track ; and monkeys mimic the cries of dying inno-
cence in the adjoining copse : he sees the alligator bask-
ing upon the sand-bank like a log of wood; vultures
and adjutants flapping each other with their wings, as
they neat by him rafted on a dead Hindoo ; vampire-
bats skim silently through the evening air in search
of prey ; fire-flies glimmer and gyrate among the blos-
som-laden forest trees ; his ear is assailed and stun-
ned by the noise, the buzz, and hum, and hiss, and
clatter of ten thousand insects. The native tomtom
sounds front the bazaar of neighbouring village. The
houses are mere wigwams, shrouded in most luxuriant
vegetation. The people are almost naked, or clothed in
muslin robes, with silver rings upon their ankles and
their arms, their fingers and thir toes, and golden orna-
ments in thtir ears and their noses. He is agreeably
surprised to find them so. fair ; and more so to find
them more handsome and with more regular and finer-
turned features than his own countrymen ; graceful in
their gait, easy and polite in their manners, and in their
intercourse highly polished and civilized.'; speaking an
unknown lauguage, and yet making themselves under-
stooa ; kneeling in prayer along the highways, regard-
less of the turmoil around them, or pouring out libations
into the satre 1 stream.--Dr, M'Coslt's Medical Advice
to the Indian Stranger.

Cross-examined—To build a new cottage would pro-
bably cost 60/. or 70/. The cottage, with a quarter of an
acre of land, would let for 51. or 6/.
This was the evidence on behalf of the defence.
Mr. Sergeant SHEA then addressed the Jury for the
plaintiff, and thus concluded :—The plaintiff claimed
by long possession to be the owner of the property
in question. The law allowed him to do so, and
half the great estates in the kingdom were only held
by the same tenure, and the poor • plaintiff had as
much right to the: undisturbed possession of his cot-
tage and a quarter of an acre of land, as Lord Grantley
had to his immense possessions. He called upon the jury
by their verdict to protect his poor client, and to show
the world, and all those who might be disposed to act
in a similar manner, that they would not oppress their
poorer brethren with impunity. He would ask them after
all the plaintiff had suffered, whether two hundred and
fifty pounds was too great an amount of compensation.
He did not wish for vindictive damages, he merely
asked for sufficient to enable the plaintiff to remove,
with his family, to another parish, where he might
obtain employment, and forget the injuries ho had
received, and pass the remainder of his days in peace
and quiet.
Lord Chief Justice TINDAL then addressed the jury,
and said the present was an action against the defendant
for trespass, and assault upon the plaintiff, hut there
had been no proof of any assault, and that part of the
subject must therefore be dismissed from their minds.
They must not be led away by the addresses of the
Learned Counsel, but they were bound to give their
verdict upon the evidence alone. The Learned Judge
then proceeded to remark upon the circumstances
of the case, and he said it was for the jury to decide
whether Lord Grantley had made out a clear title
to the property in question, and if the jury
thought he had failed in so doing, the plaintiff had a
legal title by posession, and the trespass must be taken
as proved ; and the only question would be the amount
of damages that should be awarded to the plaintiff for
the suffering and the inconvenience le had undergone.
The Jury then retired, and, after being absent about
half an hour, they returned into Court, with a verdict
for the plaintiff. Damages—Two hundred and seventy-
fiveWe understand that, in the case of Bogle v. Lawson,
pounds.
application was made to Chief Justice Tindal, on behalf
of the plaintiff; to certify in order to enable him to get
his costs, but the LE-aimed Judge refused to do so.