The Sun.
London, England, 1840-11-16 00:00:00

POLICE

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GUILDH-4LL.

ATTEMPT AT SUICIDE. —MYSTERIOUS CONDUCT OF
A YOUNG MARRIED LADY.—Several days ago a young
lady, of the name of Alice Gordon, was arrested by a
policeman, when about to commit suicide by plunging
into the Thames at Blackfriars-bridge, whereupon she
was taken to the Compter, where she has ever since
been an inmate for safe custody, rather than as a pri-
soner. She was conveyed to Guildhall during the
week, and questioned by Alderman Humphery and
others to discover who are her connexions, as they are,
doubtless, persons of respectability, but she has evinced
would rather die in prison than apprise her parents
theand
no
as dogged
husband
her
disgraceful situation : she has been
importuned with a fatherly tenderness to make a state-
ment in private, on a pledge that she should not be ex-
posed publicly, but, down to Saturday, all was unavail-
ing ; hence the Aldermen consider it necessary
that a statement may be made of the facts which
have come to their knowledge, in order, if pos-
sible, that she may be placed under her natu-
ral protectors. She is a short, handsome little woman,
apparently about the age of 21, and in consequence of
some intercepted letters she has written, it is inferred
I that she has left her husband and lived nn terms of in-
timacy with one of the gentlemen to whom her letters
(post-paid) were addressed. It has been gathered, that
she and the person alluded to disagreed, and she sud-
denly left him, and, after pledging her shawl for seven
shillings for a temporary subsistence, she attempted, as
a dernier ressort, to destroy her life. On Saturday Mr.
Alderman T. Wood had a conversation with her, and
all that he could elicit from her was that she was born
at Frankfort, that she is a married woman, and that her
parents live at Southampton, aad their surname initial
is the letter B. She pointed to the intercepted letters,
and
dd
complainedtathe
y had beenthatthey should be exposed. She was
kept secret, and should remain
so if she would make a private but candid statement,
which she refused to do at all hazards, and she was con-
voyed to the Compter prison. The following is a verba-
im copy of letter, No. 1 :

" Nov. 4.

" Ma chore amie, votre pauvre ami Alice—As my
letter will be read, I may as well conclude in English.
I do not want my father and mother to know I am in
prison, as they will instantly send for my husband, and
you know I wish to avoid meeting him, as we have not
lived together so long. Excuse my not telling you what
I am imprisoned for, fearful you might say anything
before the children, and the whole affair be immediately
known. I want you to meet me at the office at Guild-
hall to-morrow at twelve or one, and I wish you to say
that you know me, and will see me safe home to my
friends. I have pledged my shawl for seven shillings on
Monday last, and wish you would send me one to ap•
pear in, as I am most disgracefully dressed, and in my
folly, perhaps, determined not to say where I am. If
you think they will question you too closely, deny all
knowledge of me, and do not appear at all. I have
gone (i❑ prison) by the name of Alice Gordon, and eta
heartily sorry that I have given my own name.
Your's s►ncerely,
A AA DON.

" To
" Field-court, Gray's-inn.

BOW.STREET.

Thomas Dale was brought up on the following
charge :—Policeman 4G F stated that about ten on
Friday night he saw the prisoner hiding himself under
a scaffolding that was erected iu front of a house in Sa-
lisbury-street, Strand. He asked him his business
there, when he replied that he had been sent for to put
a new pipe to the cistern of the house, and that the job
must be done that night, or the water would come in in
the morning. He then rang the door bell, but witness
told him that it was of no use his doing so, as the house
was unoccupied. The prisoner denied it, and continued
ringing. He had a basket with him, on searching which
witness found a quantity of lead which he nad no doubt
had been stolen, and therefore took the prisoner into
custody. Witness afterwards gained admission to the
house by means of a ladder which he placed against the
first floor window, and on examination, he found that
the cistern was not in want of any repair ; in fact, the
job about which the prisoner pretended to have come,
hail been finished that very day by the prisoner himself.
'File prisoner's master attended and gave him a good
character, and said the lead produced did not belong to
him, and he knew nothing about it.
The prisoner, in defence, said he found the lead out-
side the house.

Mr. JARDINE convicted the prisoner of having unlaw-
ful possession of the lead, and committed him to the
House of Correction for one month.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

WILFUL DAMAGE.-117 Awn Frimbley was sum-
moned before Mr. Dyer, for having wilfully damaged
the cabriolet of a gentleman, named Reade, residing in
Portland-place, Clapham-road.
Mr. Grove stated he was in Mr. Reade's cab, driven
by the groom, a few days ago ; and when in High-street,
St. Giles's, the defendant, who was in a cart going in
a contrary direction, came out from behind a wagon,
and attempted to pass the waggon. Seeing that a col-
lision would be inevitable if the defendant persevered,
the groom drew up, and witness called twice to the de-
fendant to stop. The defendant,although it was quite
manifest there was not sufficient room to pass between
the cabriolet and the waggon, disregarded the solicita-
tion to stop, and the consequence was that the wheels
of the cart and the cab came ino contact, and the cab
and the horse were overturned Mr. Grove said the
portion of the conduct of the defendant which appeared
the most reckless, and of which he more particularly
complained, was this—that when the defendant, after
being desired to stop, went on, he caught the wheel of
the cab, asd lifted it up , but instead of then pulling
up he pushed forward, again caught the wheel, and
overturned the cab.
Mr. DYER asked Mr. Grove if he was injured ? Mr.
Grove said he was not seriously injured, though very
much bruised. Both himself and the groom were
thrown out.
The damage done to the cabriolet, according to the
coachmaker's bill, amounted to 31. 13s.
Several witnesses were called, who all declared that
the accident was entirely owing to the want of forbear-
ance on the part of the defendant.
In defence, the defendant attempted to show that the
mat such a speed that he
wasroo
unable
time sufficient to avoid collision.
groom was in
to fault,poil Ph y
o going
Proof having been brought forwarOthat this assertion
was not founded on fact, and the amount of damages
having been properly authenticated,
Mr. DYER said the evidence clearly established a
case of wilful damage against the defendant. It was an
indisputable fact that the recklessness of drivers in the
streets of London was every day becoming more noto-
rious, and it was therefore proper to use all lawful
means to secure the public safety by discouraging such
conduct. . .

The defendant was then fined the full amount of the
damage, or one month's imprisonment.

PARIS POLICE.

MUSIC AND BEAR'S GREASE.-M. Pelerin, a worthy
knight of the curling•irons, and moreover a manufac-
turer of, according to his own account, a never-failing
pommade, for restoring to the human head its natural
clothing, was cited before the Magistrate, a few days
since, by a musician, who claimed the return of a sum
of money paid for a pot of this inestimable grease
which had failed of producing the desired effect on his
pericranium, when the following colloquy took place :
M. Verdinet—M. Pelerin, I have no enmity towards
you. I have summoned you to appear at the bar of
justice, but it does not follow;from that that I am your
enemy. Our opinions differ on one point. We will
refer it to the opinion of the Magistrate, and there is an
end of it. lam a musician, and therefore fond of har-
mony. that pun is not a new one, but no
matter, it is nothing the worse for that.
M. Pelerin—Well, Sir, let us bring this matter to an
end, for my customers are waiting for me.
M. Verdinet—The longer they wait the better for
them. Whew ! whew ! I do not say that to annoy you.
M. Pelerin—Well, let us finish this affair, I beg of
you, Sir, for you trespass on my time.
M. Verdinet-1 do not trespass so much on that as
you have taken advantage of my credulity. It is not
by way of reproach that I make the remark.
M. Pelerin—Well, Sir, do you intend to—
M. Verdinet—Do not lose your temper, Sir. lam
about to state the cause of our difference to the Worthy
Magistrate. (To the Magistrate)—Sir, you must know
lam a bachelor, and just entering on my :37th year. I
i felt an nclination to become a Benedict, but, as you
may observe, Sir, I have had the misfortune to lose my
hair. lam bald, as you see—as bald as an egg. I
considered, and perhaps not without some reason, that
this defect might prove a bar to my matrimonial pro-
tects ; that a forehead so completely despoiled of its
natural covering
might present some inconveniences
only to me as a husband but to the wife I might choosF,
and under this impression I entered the salon of this
distinguished artiste, and purchased from him. a pot of
, not
bear's-zrease, for which I paid him the sum of six,. francs,
M. Pelerin—True; genuine bear's-grease, Sir—from
a white bear of Siberia, brought from that country by a
remnant of the campaign 9 of 1812, who had been exiled
for twenty-five years to those
M. Verdinet—l do not wish to wound your suscep-
tible feelings, M. Pelerin. From my profession lam
fond of harmony, but all I wish to observe to you. in the
presence of the Magistrate, is, I paid you six
your bear's grease, in order to have some hair on my
head ; examine the spot and say if any is visible. No
one replies in the affirmative. You gee, then, my
esteemed friend, Pelerin----
francs for
M. Pelerin— Well, Sir !
M. Verdinet-1 do not believe it is your fault, but it
is the fault of your grease—(correcting himself) I mean
to say of your bear's grease. It has co virtue, 1 do
not mean, from that remark, that you have none, but
in my instance your grease has not come up to the pro-
mises held out in your programme. It it, therefore, but
natural that I should claim the return of my money.
M. Pelerin—You will not get a liard of it.

M. Verdinet—l think lam very reasonable, I paid
six francs for a pot, which was to procure me hair. The
hair does not come. Give me, then, the hair, or restore
my six francs.
M. Pelerin—The Magistrate must see clearly that
this whole affair is a paltry piece of chicanery, got up
to injure me by parties, of whom M. Verdinet is the
agent, and who are envious of the fame of my inimitable
bear's grease, and the reputation of which they think
to injure by this proceeding. M. Verdinet, this is not
handsome conduct.

M. Verdinet—l let you go on. I will not lose my
temper with you. You pursue your business by extol-
ling the virtues of your grease—that is, of your bear's
grease. But for me, lam in the position of purchaser,
and claim the return of the price paid for your ineffi-
cacious compound.
M. Pelerin—lnefficacious! Take care what you
say, Sir.
M. Verdinet— Dam ! Look at your prospectus, and
look at my skull.
M. Pelerin—Well, Sir, and pray what does my pros-
pectus say ? First, That it prevents the hair from
tallir: off. You cannot say it made your's fall off.
M. Verdinet—Certainly not ; for I had none to
fall off.
M. Pelerin—Secondly, That it prevents the hair
turning gray. Has it turned your's gray ?

M. Verdinet—No ; for I had none to turn.
M. Pelerin—And, thirdly, my prospectus states tha

it promotes the growth of the hair.
M. Verdinet—Yes, yes, there I have you. I anointed
my head with your pommade, and you see that it is in a
perfect state of nudity. I have a skull as clear and
shining as a newly-scrubbed floor, and yet it was well
rubbed with your pommade.
M. Pelerin—Well, sir!
M. Verdinet— Well, sir !
M. Pelerin—Well, sir, what does that prove ?
M. Verdinet—What does it prove? Why, it proves
that your grease—l should say your bear's--
M. Pelerin—That proves nothing at all. My grease
possesses the virtues of promoting the growth of the
hair. But where is your hair ?
M. Verdinet—l have none.
M. Pelerin—Well then, what could you expect? In
order for the growth to be promoted, the hair must be
first there.
M. Verdinet (with a stare of stupid amazement)—
Bah! that is true ; certainly there is some truth in that.
M. Pelerin—Certainly ; I am no charlatan ; I do
not pretend that my grease has the power of planting
hair on a skull as barren as yours. My prospectus says
that it promotes the growth. If yourhair had been thin it
would have thickened it—if it had been short it would
have lengthened it ; but having none at all on your
head how the devil do you think it could make it grow ?
M. Verdinet—Ma foi ! you are in the right. Ibe
your pardon for having taken these steps against you. It
is I who am a fool.
M. Pelerin—lt is what might have happened to any
one else. But do you absolutely wish to have a good
head of hair ?
M. Verdinet—Certainly I do.
M. Pelerin—Well then come with me, and I will sell
you --
M. Verdinet—Not another pot of pommade ?
M. Pelerin—No, a wig !
The parties left the office of the Magistrate the best
friends in the world—the one to get fitted with a fine
head of hair to carry on his matrimonal scheme, and the
other still upholding the sovereign virtues of his grease
from the white Siberian bear.

UNIVERSITY AND CLERICAL

INTELLIGENCE.

OxForm, Nov. 12.—0 n Tuesday last, Henry Went
worth Acland, Esq., and the Hon. Adolphus Frederick
Octavius Liddell, both Bachelors of Arts of Christ
Church, were admitted Fellows of All Sools.
In a Convocation holden this day, it was .i.i&.l.A.Laasl
resolved that the sum of 1501. should be given out of
the University chest to the Episcopal Library i❑ Ja-
maica, to be expended in the purchase of books printed
at the University Press. The selection of the books to
be left to the Lord Bishop of Jamaica.
In the same Convocation the Rev. William Alleyn
Evanson, M. A.., of Trinity College, Dublin, was ad-
mitted ad eundem, _ . _

Ina Congregation holden the same day the follow-
ing degrees were conferred :
Doctor in Civil Law—Richard Clarke Sewell, E3q ,
barrister-at-law, Fellow of Magdalen.
Masters of Arts—Sir Walter Charles James, Bart.,
Christ Church, Grand Compounder ; Rev. Wm. John-
son Burgess, Exeter ; Rev. Edward Boyss Ellman,
Wadham ; and Alfred Stocock, Trinity.
Bachelors of Arts--Rowland Hill, Worcester, and
James Hemery Jancrin, Oriel, Grand Compounders ;
William Francis Baron de Paravicini, Wm. Percival
Walsh, Thomas Edward Dorville, and Henry Winford
Cooties, Worcester ; John Durrell Durrell, and Rev.
Isaac Fidler, New Inn Hall ; F. William Cartwright,
St. Mary Hatt ; George Border, Henry Strong, and
Edmund Roberts, Magdalen Hatt ; James H. Ashurst
and George John Ford, Exeter ; Nathaniel Morgan,
Abraham Burnett Stuart, and Win. Charles Howell,
Brasennose ; Frederick Leigh Colville and Godfrey
Edward Alexander, Trinity ; Charles George Torring•
ton Barlow, Thomas Wodehouse, and John Cooke,
Balliol ; Charles 1). Everett, Queen's ; Richard Lloyd,
Merton ; Arthur Bigge and John Edward Cox, Uni-
versity ; Arthur Mosley, Oriel ; Octavius A. Hodg-
son, Magdalen ; Thomas Knapp Chittenden, Fellow
of St. John's; Frederick Wm. Trenow, John Scotland,
Clark Whitehead, Edward Boys, Logan Dobinson, and
Wm. Osborne Maclain, Wadham ; Robert Cozens,
Pembroke ; Thomas Dabury, John White, and Joseph
Leopold Longmire, Lincoln ; Philip Story and Hon.
Edward L. Gower, Christ Church.

OXFORD, Nov. 14.—There will be an election at Lin-
coln College on Friday, December 11, of a Fellow of that
Society, candidates for which must be natives of Lincoln-
shire, and are required to wait on the Rector with the
usual certificate and testimonials on Saturday, Dec. 5.
The Archdeacon will receive the certificates and testi.
monials on or before Saturday, November 28.
The Lord Bishop of Bath and Wells has instituted the
Rev. T. F. Dymock, of Ballihl College, to the rectory of
Hatch Beauchamp.
The Lord Bishop of Salisbury has licensed the Rev. E.
Caswell, of Brazennose College, to the perpetual curacy
of Stratford, under the Castle of Old Sarum, Wiltshire.
The Rev. W. H. Hale, of Oriel College, has been col-
lated by the Lord Bishop of London to a fourth Canonry
in St. Paul's Cathedral.
The Rev. P. E. Boissier has resigned the incumbency
of Malvern Wells, and as patron, has presented the Rev.
E. Meade, of Wadham College, to the same.
The Rev. F. B. Twisleton, of New College, has been
nominated by the Dean and Chapter to the office of Canon
Residentary of Hereford Cathedral.
The Rev. H. E. Fryer, of Pembroke College, has been
instituted to the Rectory of Winterslow, Wiltshire.
The Rev. H. Gough, of Queen's College, has been li-
censed to the Assistant Curancy of Penzance Chapel.
CAMBRIDGE, Nov. 13.—The following is the subject for
the Nerrisian prize essay for the present year :—" Both in
the Old and New Testament everlasting life is offered to
mankind only through Christ."

A NAVAL HERO OF THE OLD SCHOOL.—
Old Commodore Napier has done wonders 'on the coast of
Syria. He has settled the Turco-Egyptian question iu
far less time than the French journals have spent in talking
about it. He has enacted more marvels than a hot-brained
boy in the first glow of warlike aspirations, and confronted
danger, " e'en in the cannon's mouth," merely for the plea-
sure, it would seem, of being foremost in the field of glory.
The old Commodore is a fine specimen of the British tar;
his very errors smack of pitch and salt water. He evi-
dently *dislikes wordy altercation, and thinks that the best
of all ways of settling a dispute is to fight it out. Cannon-
balls are the arguments for which he has the greatest par-
tiality, and in this respect his mode of reasoning is irresis-
tible. His logic carries everything before it, and although
not given to arguing in a circle, his " demonstrations" take
a tremendously wide sweep. He will be sorry for the pros-
pect of peace. Rather than not fight at all, he is not par-
ticular to the clement of water, as was proved the other
day, by his putting himself at the head of some Turks, and
administering a drubbing to Ibrahim Pacha on dry land.
There ought to be a war always on hand, if only by way of
keeping such heroes in wholesome exercise. Sunday
7 biles.
THE LATE Mn. CURRIE, OF LIVERPOOL.—
Mr. Currie's vocation was confined exclusively to the
agency for the Royal Exchange Assurance Company, and
his energy, punctuality, and habits of business, rendered
him a favourite with the commercial community. He was
not rich, in the mercantile sense of the word, but compe-
tent to support his station as an independent gentleman.
He married, about sixteen or seventeen years ago, Miss
France, daughter of Thomas France, Esq., of Bostock
Hall, in Cheshire, and has died without issue. In conse-
quence of rather precarious health, he lately made a tour
on the Continent. He was accompanied thither by Alder-
man Wm. Earle, and, after passing through Pau, a bathing
place in the South of France, visited the Pyrenees, remain_
ing some time at Bareges. He returned precisely a month
before his demise, in, as he and his friends concurred, im-
proved health ; but it was remarked, on Monday last, that
his complexion indicated the inroads of disease. In the
opinion of Dr. Brandreth, the immediate cause of death
was an apoplectic attack ; or (though less probably) an af-
fection of the heart, which, it is known, also frequently oc-
casions sudden death. We learn that a surgical examina-
tion of the body will take place, under
,the direction of the
Coroner. The funeral, which, it is understood, will be
private, will take place on Tuesday next; and the inter-
ment will be at St. Michael's, Toxteth-park, in the neigh-
bourhood of his own estate and house, of Ellerslie, near the
Dingle.—Liverpool Standard.
ONE OF THE QUEEN'S SUITORS.—It may be
recollected that a short time back a man named Afflet was
apprehended for riding on horseback in front of the
Queen's carriage, and by his gestures causing great an-
noyance to her Majesty. He has subsequently been in
custody for stealing an apple in Covent-garden Market,
assigning for that act disappointment in having his ad-
vances to the Queen thwarted, and his hopes blasted , and
on Friday night it appeared that he made up his mind to
commit suicide, he having been observed by Sergeant
Scuffe, of the N division, to deliberately throw himself
into the New River. With some difficulty ho was got out,
and conveyed to the Islington station-house, when Acting-
Espector King, feeling convinced that the poor fellow was
insane, sent him to the infirmary, at the workhouse, were
he now remains,