The Sun.
London, England, 1841-12-06 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1841.

no doubt that the afflicted fellow-creature
who thus brought herself and child to an
untimely end, was an industrious hard-work-
ing woman, was greatly attached to her
children, and made every exertion to keep
herself and them out of the workhouse. She
struggled on, day after day, sometimes by wash-
ing, and at other times by weaving, making out
2s. 9d. a week to support herself and three chil-
dren ; but finding all hopes of bettering her con-
dition vain, and worn out with hunger, suffer-
ing, and sorrow, she yielded at last to " out-
rageous fortune," and in a fit of despair put an
end to her child, whom she dearly loved—and then
hanged herself in the miserable abode, so long
the scene of her sufferings. The following brief
account by one of the witnesses, examined on
the first day, will enable the reader to jndge
whether this picture is exaggerated :

On Saturday night week she had half-a-crown, and
bought some coals and potatoes for the ensuing week.
She earned Bd. in a house where she had been washing ;
and she got 3d. from me. On Thursday night she bur-
rowed 6d , with which she bought 3d. worth of coals,
and 3(1. worth of jannock bread. On Saturday night she
came in to pay me the 6d., but I would not take it from
her, although lam very poor myself. This was all the
money she had to support herself and three children fir
the last week. She was a very hard-working clean
woman, and remarkably so according to her situation in
life. She had seldom more to live on, as far as I could
learn, than 2s. 6d. a week. James Smith, of Chuwbent,
is the landlord of the cellar, and he sent bailiffs there
twice for the rent ; but, seeing her destitute condition,
they could not find it in their hearts to sell the few ar-
ticles of furniture she possessed.—[A gentleman present
stated that, on one occasion, the bailiff was so much
touched with her destitute condition, that he gave her
half-a-crown.] The deceased had three children by
Wood, the eldest of whom is a boy, seven years of age,
and the next a girl, about eighteen months old, and the
child that was drowned, who was eight months old.
For the rest of the evidence we refer to the
report in another part of the Paper, and on
reading it we can come to no other conclusion
than that the unfortunate woman and her child
fell victims to the severity of the Poor-law.
The cruelty of the bastardy clause, and the un-
fair advantage given by it to a heartless se-
ducer, we took every opportunity of press-
ing upon the notice of the public when the
Bill was before Parliament; yet the original
clause was agreed to with little modification,
and this sad catastrophe is one of the results.
The relieving officer at Leigh put this beyond
doubt. " There is," said he, "a general un-
willingness on the part of -Unions to affiliate, on
account of the expense and difficulty of getting
the money from the fathers. They laugh at our
attaching their wages." The poor woman, no
doubt knew this well, she knew she could not
compel the father to maintain the children, and
she submitted to her fate. The Jury we consi-
der guilty of gross neglect of duty, in not point-
ing out the real cause of this lamentable event,
and pressing it on the attention of the Home
Secretary. They make no allusion to it

in their verdict, though the Foreman com-
mented in strong terms on the conduct of the
father " for not lending the mother and children
assistance." Out of evil, however, coinedi good,
and, when the Act comes before Parliament for
revision, this sad scene will not be forgotten.
It is a scene disgraceful to the age.
While the land abounds with wealth, while
Bishops and Peers and, pensioners contrive to
wring vast sums from the hard-earned wages of
the working classes, while Parliament levies
from them yearly enormous sums to put into the
pockets of a favoured class, a poor deserted
creature, of the same sex as our beloved
SOVEREIGN, with three young children, and
anxious to work for their maintenance, is
doomed to live on five-pence a-day, and even,
that pittance failing, is driven to commit murder
and suicide in the hope of finding relief in that
place "where the wicked cease from troubling,
and the weary are at rest." The severe
laws of the Church forbid her Christian
burial, but will she and her innocent offspring
sleep the less soundly, or will her merciful
CREATOR view as a crime the deed which stern
necessity and the cruel laws of man forced her in
an evil hour to commit ?

The Paris Journals contain no pOlitical news
of the slightest interest. The organs of the Court
including, of course, the Presse .and the Journal
des Debats, repudiate the proposal to replace,
M. SAUZET by M. DE LAMARTINF, as Presi-
dent of the Chamber of Deputies. Both are Mi-
nisterial men, and the attempt to place them in
opposition to each other, the Journals denounce
as a trick of the Opposition—clever, certainly,
but which will be unsuccessful.
A letter from Bou!ges, in the France, states that the con-
sort of Don Carlos is entirely recovered from her indis-
position.—Gatignani's Messenger, Dec, 2,
Pants, DEC. 2.—The last accounts from Bosnia and
the Herzegowina are still afflicting. The unhappy Bos-
nian Christians who took part in the late insurrection,
and who escaped from the axe of the executioner, are
now compelled to live in the forests. As to timed who
took no part in the movement, they are not the less ex-
posed to persecution. The Vladika continues his excur-
sions on the Turkish territory with success, and it Is easy
to foresee that in the event of a new insurrection of the
Christians in Turkey, if it should be at all general, this
chief is destined to play a leading part in it. The Em-
peror of Austria has sent to the Vizier of Bosnia a silver
gilt sugar basin, in order to remind him that the friend-
ship of this monarch is as sweet as the produce of the
sugar cane, and he has added to the sugar basin a valu-
able drinking cup, with the expression of a hope that
the Vizier may empty it frequently to the health of the
two monarchs who arc united for the welfare of humanity.
The trial of the persons implicated in the republican
plot, which broke out at Marseilles on the 23d of March
last, tlie ramifications of which extended to the districts
Orange, Avignon, and Carpentras, commenced on the
27th of November, before the Court of Assize of the
mouth of the Rhine.
As early as eight in the morning an immense crowd
filled the avenue to the Court of Justice. Two com-
panies of the 31st regiment were stationed in the Court-
yard. The accused were 53 in number.
After the reading of the indictment the Attorney-
General stated the case for the accused. Rana Gittotier,
Martin, and Ravel, were interrogated ; all four retracted
their previous declarations, and positively denied all the
facts imputed to them in the indictment.—Constilutionnel.
On Tuesday Queen Christina of Spain dined with
their Majesties. The Prince and Princess d'Angola,
Count and Countess de Toreno, M. Zea Bermudez, M.
Zea Colembi, General Bernelle, late Commander of the
Foreign Legion in Spain, Admiral Rosamel, and Captain
Lent"-, of the Navy, were of the Royal party. In the
evening the King and Queen received Marshal Soult, the
Duke de la Rochefoucault, the Duke de Massa, the
Marquis de Louvois, M. de la Villegontier, the Count de
Segur, the Count de Bondy, M. de Gasparin, the Count
de Simeon, Baron Feutrier, and General Saint Simon.
The plains between Beaumont and 'lsle Adam are
entirely inundated by the overflowing of the banks of
the Oise.

The Journal General de l'lnatruction Publique says
—" The Municipal Council of Paris have just resolved
that teachers of both sexes in the municipal schools,
after five years' service and constant good conduct, may
have their salaries increased from 2,000 fr. up to 2,400 fr.
for the male teachers, and 2,100 fr. for the females. All
teachers now in the exercise of their functions will be
allowed to enjoy the benefit of this vote, from the Ist
January next."
The Minister of Foreign Affairs opened his saloons on
Tuesday evening for the first time since the close of the
last Session, and although nearly a month must elapse
before
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The Gazette 4e rrawe s??'s that the proposition of M.
Remilly for roldbring a seat in the Chamber of Deputies
irreoMpatible with a Government appointment will cer-
tainly be renewed next Session.
A few days ago a young girl of fourteen, who Whe jy
love with a young man living the Rut Oreniere-St.-
Lazare, left her mother's hoot, and joined her lover at
his residence. She wag discovered there two days after-
wards by her mother and the Commissary of Police, and
compelled to return to her home. The young man,
although he declared that the girl had voluntarily gone
to him, which was confirmed by her, was taken into cus-
tody on a charge of seduction of a minor.
The sentence of death pronounced by the Court of
Assises of the Seine upon Huot, aged seventeen, for
attempt at murder and fOr theft, in the Wood of Vin-
cennes—a case which we mentioned some time ago—has
been commuted by the King into imprisonment with hard
labour for life.
" A letter from Athens," says the Temps, " states that
the disputes between the Ottoman and Greek Govern-
ments, concerning indemnities claimed by Turks fur pro-
perty still held by Greeks, are settled. There now only
remain the arrangements for the district of Pthiotis, the
property of the mosques, and the questions of Zubcca and
Thebes, which are in suspense,
By a Royal Orclonnance, dated the 22d ult., a credit
of 100,000 francs is opened for the Minister of Foreign
Affairs, under the head of " frais d'etablissement," and
by another ordonnance of the same date 50,000 francs are
allowed for extraordinary missions and unforeseen ex-
penses.
The Council-General of the hospitals of Paris has
just decided
cdecounidciled on suppressing for a month the salary of a
chaplain of the Hotel Dieu,- as a punishment for his
having attempted to extort
confessions from the patient;.
has agreed to refer the oosideration of