The Sun.
London, England, 1847-07-07 00:00:00

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DECEPTION.
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eene, a: a w.el , • ,nee.s•i tt eeeied
of teel years, as a wealthy tu.•:chant travelling with
hie family for pleaeure. At Heidelberg, especially,
and in the neighbourhood of that city, he twice re-
sided for a length of time, on each occasion with his
wife and family—an object of general esteem and admi-
ration. His establishment was of the richest kind ;
his entertainments were noble and frequent ; his man-
ners, except for a certain tendency to boasting, were
thought to be in the highest degree winning and delight-
ful. The pubic regard acquired by a prosperous air
and sociable disposition was enhanced by the domestic
virtues and admirable conduct of hie_ very h,elsome
wife. She seemed to be a pattern of propriety—cheerful
and amiable when in c enpitny, but greatly preferring
retirement ; in which she dent. tl ltarsett i,h f xem-
piary care—especially during the frequeet ales( rice of
her husbnn 1 on short !nisitiess journeys—et) the educe-
cation of two lovely and see 11 conducted children.
After this happy family had lived for some time in Hei-
delbere, universally popular and adinhed, in 102
some questionable circumstances took place in con-
nexion with the member.; of a family that litol b. come
intimate with the Grandiseon4, in which en unaccount-
able loss of money cane to be talked of, with sorce
other strange transactions, but all in a manner that ap-
peared to reflect chiefly on ere of the young torn of that
family, who hal fallen, as it seemed, hopelessly in love
with the merchant's beautiful w:fe. The matter came
to no certain conclusion ; the youth fled, and the Gran-
dissons left Heidelberg in consequence of the disgust
which this occurrence had caused. Eight years later
they reappeared there, with the same splendid equipage
and living in the same admirable manner. This se-
cond sojourn lasted for three years, when a mere
accident led to the discovery of the facts which
render the case surprising. The wealth of Grandisson
was the fruit of a regular plunder of the public mails,
which, without any accomplice in the act, he had syste-
matically carried on for years with entire impunity.
His short absence was employed on expeditions of the
kind; during which he must have committed almost
countless robberies of large sums of money and other
valuables, without detection in a single instance,—
returning to the bosom of his family with the plunder
which he had coil, cted. The discovery was brought
about, during one of these absences, by a letter,
intended to extort money, from one who had
accidentally found out some of his minor peculations
and had traced the offender at last to his abode. It
then became apparent that the whole life of this flourish-
ing person had been a series of every kind of theft.
While the wealth gained by his larger felonies was ex-
pended in keeping up a stately appearance, he could
not repress the petty desire of stealing any trifle
that fell in his way, in shops, dwelling houses—nay,
even in the very place where he lived on the foot-
ing of a grand personage. Yet of this not a suspicicrt
was raised until the detection of his greater robberies
had come to pass. The condition and history of the wife
are hardly less curious than this long success of a whole-
sale system of plunder combined with the incessant
practice of the meanest pilfering. She appears to have
been at once conscious of her husband's iniquities, studi-
ous to conceal them, wavering between fits of abandoned
conduct and long intervals o domestic propriety—but,
on the whole, sick of the deception which she was made
to practice and sincerely desirous to give a virtuous edu-
cation to her children. Both husband and wife were mere
adventurers at the outset. The man began his course
of crime, when a valet, by robbing his master ; and soon
afterwards entered upon a career of pretences, treacheries,
and felonies, on the grandest as well as on the smallest
scale,—so dexterously planned, and so long undetected,
that the story of them sounds more like a romance than
a reality of the nineteenth century. To complete the
tale, it may be added that the culprit, when apprehended
at .Berlin, escaped punishment by committing suicide, in
• meaner showing desperate resolution, before his
examination could take place.

HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.---Her Majesty the
Queen Dowager's box was occupied last evening by the
Marquis and Marchioness of Worcester, and Lady
Blanch Somerset. There were also present the Prince
Louis Napoleon, the Prince Troubetskoi, the Marquis of
Huntley, the Earl and Countess of Shelburne, who oc-
cupied her Majesty's box, the Earl and Countess of Har-
rington, the Baroness Brunnow and Madlle. Olga de
Lechner. his Excellency, the Hanoverian Minister,
Count fioudriaffsky, Baron Nicolay, Lord and Lady
Charles Wellesley, Lord Sandys, Lord Saltoun, Lady
Freemantle, Lady G. Palmer, Lady Grant, Lord Gardi-
ner, Lord Southampton, Mr. and Lady Augusta Went-
worth, the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor, Lady and the
Misses Carroll, Sir H. Webb, General Sir A. Barnard,
Sir R. and Lady Howard, Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Wil-
liams, Mr. Broadley, Mrs., Miss, and Captain Bagot,
Mr. and Mrs. Hodgson, Mr. C. W. Packe, M.P., and
Mrs. Packe Redding. Mr. and Miss Ewing, Mr. and Mrs.
E. Phillips, Mr. and Mrs. Grote, Mrs. S. Douglass, Cap-
tain Smith, Captain and Mrs. Griffiths, General the
Hon. A. P. Upton, &e. &c.
Lieutenant-Geieral Sir Colin Campbell, K.C.8.,
Colonel of the 72d Highlanders, late Governor of Cey-
t,n, whose de ith occurred on the 13th of June, had
made his will at Colombo in the year 1842, in his own
i•andwritin,;. His reriorfil property in this country has
been estimated at 100,000/. H. was poses.ed of East
India stock, Dutch stock, and Be!gian bonds, which,
he has directed to b. divided into nine equal parts, leav-
ing- two start's to his el le,t, son, and one ,•11%!re to each
..if his other children, and a Aare to be laid out in pro-
viding annuities ft,r his sis'ers ; to his brother. C.l tnel
Campbell, Royal Artillery, 5001. ; and the residue of his
property to his eldest son, LieuteLat-Colonel Patrick
Fitzroy Wellesley Campbell, of the Scots Fusilier
Guards.

REPRESENTATION Or HULL.—It is understood
that Sir I. Graham will be br,ught before the electors
as a candidate for th:s borough.—? Imes of Wednesday.
[ln these days every town should have a partial omni-
presence about six hundred miles in diameter at the
least, in order to be well informed of the events trans-
piring within itself. Sir J. Graham a candidate
for Hull ! Our contemporary has made a mistake in
the announcement. The following will act as a sort of
commentary to the above :—A hitter arrived here by
post yesterday, addressed to " The Chairman of Sir J.
Graham's Committee," which passed through several
gentlemen's hands, who could not open a letter addressed
to a gentleman unknown. It was eventually exhibited
on 'Change, that every chance might be given for its
passing into the hands of the non inventus official, should
he happen to make his appearance. This, however, did
not occur, and the strange fated document, after being
suspended during the hours of business in the presence
of all, was returned to the Dead Letter-office as wanting
an owner.—Hull Advertiser.]
The Right Hon. Sir George Grey left town yesterday
for Cambridge.

The late Sir Alexander Woad, of Georgie Lodge,
Edinburgh, Knight Commander of the lonian order of
St. Michael and St. George, executed his will at Lau-
riston Castle, in May, IS4I, leaving the whole of his
Property in England, Scotland, or elsewhere, for the free
use and disposal of his wife, Lady Wood; and appointed
her Ladyship and his nephew, Lord Wood, executors.
By a codicil, dated Tunbridge Wells, July 3, 1842, he
has requested 800/. should be paid to each of Lady
Wood's brothers and sisters, and to David Erskine, Esq.,
and a few others.

Numerous charitable bequests are left by the late
Mrs. Small, of Brighton, who died on the 21st of June.
To the Orphan School at Brighton 5001., and to the
Orphan Working School, London, 1001.; Brighton Dis-
pensary, 2001.; Brighton Lying-in Institution, 1501.;
Brighton Blind School, 2001; the Rev. W. Hethering-
ton's Charity for Instructing the Blind in Christian
Knowledge, 2001.; Royal London Opthalmic Infirmary
and Hospital, 100. each; Royal Westminster and West
London Opthalmic Institutions, 100/ each; Metropolitan
Convalescent Hospital, 150/.• Islington Dispensary,
1001.; Holloway and North Islington Dispensary, 100/.;
Royal National Institution for the Preservation of Lives
from Shipwreck, 1001.; and 100/. to the Shipwrecked
Fishermen's Benevolent Suciety.
PRINTERS' ALMSHOUSE FUND.—Yesterday evening
the sixth annual meeting of the subscribers to the
Printers' Almshouse Fund was held at the Mechanics'
Institute, Southampton-buildings. T. S. Duncombe,
Eiq., M.P., took the chair at half-past eight o'clock, and
meeting in a short
ersesado I thtehereport, which was of
sheaevrientgary7
f the
satisfactory
that
the eo nature;mm i
tcommittee
inhatdhe
speech explanatory o
h. object of the institution, the
menre.dj.thDearbu.isnin,
course of which
so far progressed
in the preliminary
7.friv,e,:strsetmateelyd
arrangements
_as to have selected en
eligible plot of ground at W
only requiring the
sando 1 Wood -green,
the -green, Tottenham, it
. meeting to conclude
the purchase. The funds now in hand amount, after
deductinc, the, expenses of management for the current
year 7/ (only cP
. -.--), to 2,0101 7s. 3d. The complete transfer
of the land would be effected for about 450/, and the
erecting of six almshouses, to accommodate twelve in-
mates would be completed at a further outlay
of 1,500/. At the end of the report a goodly list
of subscriptions was announced, amongst which was a
third donation of 21/ from Messrs. Clowes, 10 guineas
from James Harmer, Esq., 10 guineas from Messrs.
Harrild and Sons, &c. A resolution empowering the
Committee to purchase the site and proceed to the erec-
tion of the almshouses, was unanimously carried, with
the addenda, on the suggestion or the chairman (Mr.
Duncombe), after severely commenting on the recent
rejection by the Lords, of the non-separative clause in
the English Poor-law Bill, that accommt?cl
~ ation be pro-
vided for twelve pensioners " and their wives. Thank*
having been accorded to the various officers, and the
chairman of the evening, which was duly acknowledged;,
the meeting broke up. A well-executed desis,n of the
proposed asylum, ,
,executed by W. Webbe, Esq, (the
architect of the adjoining asylum for the fishmeagerS
and poulterers), was exhibited to the subscribers as-
sembled, which was left for the consideration of the
committee in their future arrangements.
DEPLORABLE ACCIDENT.—Last evening Mr. J..
Payne, the Deputy Coroner, held an inq test at the Vestry
Hall, Tooley-street, Borough, on the body of William
Hull Bennett, aged 27, whose death occurred under the
following deplorable circumstances. It appeared from
the evidence that the deceased belonged to a Deptford
boat, called the Mercury, and on Friday evening he pro-
ceeded to Billingsgate with some of the crew, and early
the following morning (Saturday) he was at 'Battle-
bridge stairs, Tooley-street, and in getting into rs •water-
man's boat he missed his footing and slipped i•aso the
water. Being unable to swim he was carried , iith the
tide, and was never seen more above the sue /ace until
the body was hooked out by means of the drags. fora.
distance from the spot where he fell. Verdict, "Accl
dentally drowned."