The Sun.
London, England, 1848-01-14 00:00:00

FRENCH CRIMINAL AND PAUPER LUNATICS.

At the July session last year a Frenchman, named
Peter Tesside, was convicted and sentenced to three
months' hard labour, for having presented a pistol
loaded with a ball at the breast of a youth, and threa-
tened to shoot him. Soon after his admission into
Westminster House of Correction he exhibited marked
symptoms of insanity, and it was soon discovered that
he was a confirmed lunatic, and had been trans-
ported to this country without passport, .V order
of the French Government, his alleged offence
being his having been found under very suspicious
circumstances at the Chateau d'Eu, armed, and it was
said with the intention of shooting at King Louis
Philippe. The visiting justices communicated with
the Home-office, when they were informed by the
Secretary of State that there were some negotiations
pending upon the matter between the Governments
of England and France relative to the maintenance
of pauper and criminal lunatics in either country,
and that the French Government would defray the
expense incurred by, the county of Middlesex in
maintaining Peter Tesside. Tesside was, therefore,
placed in the county Lunatic Asylum, at Han well.
A short time ago an application was made at the
French smbassy for payment of the expense the
country had been put to in Tesside's case, but the
answer was that no official notification had been re-
ceived from the French Government ; upon this, Mr.
Allen wrote to the Secretary of State, and the fol-
lowing answer from the Home-office was now laid
before the Court

" Whitehall.

•
" Sir,—With reference to your letter of the 23d.
ult., as to the repayment by the French Government
of the expense incurred by the county of Middlesex
in maintaining a French pauper lunatic named Peter
Tesside, I am directed by Secretary Sir George Grey
to acquaint you, for the information of the visiting
justices of the Westminster House of Correction, that
it appears from, a communication which has been re-
ceived from the Foreign-office upon this subject,
the French Government to the :proposal made
to them by her Majesty's Government that they
should defray the expenses incurred !.y the znainte-
nance of French pauper lunatics in this country, and
that the proposed arrangement between the two
countries will again be brought under. the notice of
the French Government in order to obtain their
answer thereupon.
" Peter Tesside will, therefore, remain in the
Hanwell Lunatic asylum for the present, and when
the determination of ithe French Government :shall
have been received, Sir George Grey will address
a further communication to you upon the subject. •
" I am, Sir, your obedient servant,
" S. li. PHILLIPS. •
".Mr. Allen."

Mr. B. ROTC', as one of the visiting justices con-
cerned; called, the attention .of the Court to the sub-
ject matter of this correspondence, which he said
involved a rather important question between the
Government of this country and that of France, with
regard to the maintenance of pauper and criminal
lunatics who might be in either country. The. French
Government had chosen to transport this man to this
country, denying him a passport,- and because he did
not possess that passport they refused to take him
,back again. He considered it a violation of the law
and property of nations, and a matter less for the
Home than the Foreign-office. He would urge upon
the Court the necessity of Lord Palmerston's taking
the matter in hand, with the view of bringing the
French Government to some positive
with regard to this question.—(l.lear, hear.) determination
This suggestion met with general approbation from
the other Magistrates.
The Court then adjourned.

DARING HURGLARY.—On Wednesday morning
last, about half-past one o'clock, another of the violent
robberies which seem to be getting common in the
neighbourhood, was perpetrated near Waterloo, in Live-
sey, about a mile and a half from Blackburn. In this
instance the robbery was again committed-by-men with
blackened faces, and otherwise disguised. The intended
victim of the robbery is James Haworth, stonemason,
his wife,. was sole
who is at prcient employed and resident during the
men entered ,by the
Illicahwotrhteh,
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ley.
.removal of a back window. On obtaining. an entrance
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of the robbers pinioned Mrs. Haworth in bed, and
one
the other proceeded to search the house for money, and
1 succeeded in obtaining -nineteen sovereigns, one half-
sovereign, and 2s. Mrs. Haworth struggled -hard- for
her release,
.and inflicted-rather a severe bite upon the
hand of the robber who held her. On obtaining•their
intended booty the robbers were in the. not.of decamping,
when 'Mrs. Ilaworth seized a hedge hook, which they
bad brought with them, with which, she valiantly Lt-
taelchd the retreating robbers, and inflicted a severe cut
on aid hand of the one who held the .money,._causing
him to drop eighteen sovereigns, on the- floor. They
escaped With one sovereign, half sovereign, and 2s.
The police are the Mere for the apprehension of the
robbers,
who are riot supposed to be the same who com-
mitted the robbery at the Hill Farm.—Blachburu Stun-
third..

•
ROME. ---- &now the English families of rank
I)6itig the winter iu " the eternal city," arc—the Mar•
quis of Conyti.,aam, the Earl Mount Charles and family,
the EarVand
6ouutess Balcarres, the Ceuntcsa(Fran-
cob) of Waldegrave and M. G. V. Harcourt, M.P.. Lord
and Lady
and Lady Lindsay, Viscount
Cranbourtli,, Lady Eleanor Butler, Sir Trevor Witeley
and ftimiiy:B;r*Wm; Gordon, the Right lion. Sidney
Herbert, M.P., and Mrs Herbert, :dr. Gcddart,
and family, this Hon. Sydney Pierrep:_nt,'.Lad? CJhzir-
lotte Bury; she • Hon. 12,1t1 pit and Lady
croulby I.lelu..!..7aptain-Lintisity, Col,•nel ?Ay.
and Lady Mr..-y Ross and
I\l'olollBnd ,ataily, the Hon. Mr. Willoughby;
sir 11.
Doyle, Genera the Right 11, n. Sir F..Adaul, Nl,rynyee
Solabre, Sir J. W. • Guise! and. tinnily, _LOY:
Mr. and' Mrs. Raelehous,;, Cdonel Bowers, Mai. B.
kd
Clive, M.P.;•Lady Harriet Clive, and Mit:sys tee,
A
fracas, hiehLwag to be attel ed ;with
serious consequences, toc3l: place a 61,41-eon
Captain H. and Mr. D. 1-1.1 i.„, a magistrate, end ust ex-
tensive landed proprietor in this • and the ad- -
county. We understand that au amicable
took place,—Roscommon Journal,

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