The Sun.
London, England, 1840-10-26 00:00:00

ASTRONOMY.

SIX LECTURES by J. WALLIS, Esq.,
will be delivered at the SOCIAL, LI I'ERARY, ai.d
SCIENTIFIC INSTITUTION, 23, JOHN-STREET,
TOTTENHAM-COURT-ROAD, commencing To-stottuow
EVENING, 27th October, and continued on the five succeeding
Tuesday evenings, at Half-past Eight o'Clock precisely. The
whole to be ILLUSTRATED by splendid TRANSPAREN-
CIES and Machinery.
Cards for the Course—Hall, Is. 6d. ; Reserved Seats, 2s. 6d.
Single Lecture Cards, 4d. Hall Reserved Seats, 6d.

N.B. LECTURES also on SUNDAYS at Eleven in the
Morning, and Half-past Six in the Evening ; and on FRIDAY
Evenings at Half-past Eight.

ASSIZE COURT OF L'ALLIER.

(From the Gazette des Tribunaux.)
The Court has been occupied during the present
session with several charges •f stealing vases and other
consecrated articles from churches in France.

The first of these robberies took place in the Church
of St. Pierre, at Moulins, on the night of the 30th of
December last. The doors of the sacristy and taber-
nacle had been forced open by the aid of a crow-bar, the
marks of which were visibly enough left behind ; and
drops of wax on different parts of the floor showed that
the thief had used a lighted wax taper for the pur-
pose of assisting him to commit his depredations. In-
deed, on examination it was found that one of the wax
candles was missing from one of the lustre% in the
Church, and that to reach it the thief had stepped up on
the green cover of a large arm chair ; and the mark of
the heel of a boot in which there had been nails was
plainly to be seen both on this chair cover and at the
altar of the Virgin. On further search there were
missing two silver cups, a pyx, a patena, two proces-
sional crosses, a plated dish, and the wand of the ver-
ger, which was mounted with silver. It appeared that
the thief must have concealed himself in the church on
the day preceding the robbery, as there were no marks
of violence from without.

It was subsequently discovered that a man named
Tonard, a liberated convict, had been seen on the night
in question, about midnight, near one of the entrances
to the Church of St. Pierre, and during the evening
walking about the streets of Moulins. Suspicion at
once fell on him, and he was arrested at his lodgings at
Lenaz, in the canton'of Donjon, which being searcheci,
a large portion of a processional cross of copper, plated
with silver, was found, which had evidently been but
recently broken. Tonard himself was found to be pos-
sessed of about 150 francs, and of a paper which showed
that on the 4th January, 1840, he sold a pair of ear-
rings to a goldsmith, named Villard, at Gannet.
The prisoner was taken to Moulins, and recognised
as having been seen there on the day of the robbery.
On being questioned as to the churches of Moulins, he
declared-he had never visited any of them, but he was
identified by the sacristan of St. Pierre, as having been.
there several times. On comparing the heel of one of
a pair of boots found at his lodgings with the marks on
the chair cover, it corresponded exactly. Moreover the
broken piece of the cross was identified by the cure of
St. Pierre and his vicars choral and choristers, and was
the only portion missing, the other parts having been
found in a neighbouring wood shortly after the robbery,
as well as the other cross and the plated dish. It was be-
lieved that the prisoner had an accomplice, in the per-
son of a dishonest silversmith. He contented himself
before the Court with simply denying everything that
was alleged against him, and, when matters appeared
rather conclusive against him, he exclaimed, " Oh
settle it as you will."

At the conclusion of the evidence of the facts de-
tailed, the Jury returned a verdict of Guilty, and the
Court sentenced him to twenty years' hard labour with
public exposure.

MUTINY.—INQUEST ON THE BODY OF ONX
OF THE MUTINEERS.—An inquest was held at Cork, on
Wednesday, on the body of the man killed by Captain
Hubert, of the barque Troubadour, from St. John's, New
Brunswick, which arrived at Cork a few days since, when
the following verdict was returned :--" That the deceased
came by his death by a pistol bullet. discharged by Cap-
tain Hubert, of the barque Troubadour, and find that the
deceased, as well as a part of the crew, were in a state
of mutiny and insubordination at the time."
M. Guizot left London on Saturday evening,
and sailed from Dover yesterday morning in the French
Government steam-packet for Calais. His Excellency
was attended br a guard of honour to the place of embar-
kation, and received a salute of nineteen guns from the
heights on leaving the harbour.
DEATH OF Siß. JOHN W. LUBBOCK, THE
BANKER. —We have to announce the death of Sir J. W.
Lubbock, which event took place at his residence in St.
James's-place, on Thursday night, after a fortnight's
illness. His age was 66 years. He died of an affection
of the heart. His son succeeds him in the business.