The Sun.
London, England, 1841-10-15 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 15 1841.

which plies between Rouen and Elbeuf, took fire when
near the meadows of St. Etienne. Fortunately the Ville
d'Elbeuf packet being near, the passengers were able to
remove on board that vessel.
The Director-General of the Customs has addressed a
circular to the Directors of Customs in the departments,
announcing that in future webbing made of cotton and
caoutchouc may be imported in the same way as other
objects of caoutchouc mixed with other materials, and
which are admitted on payment of. a duty of 200 f. to
2121. 50c. the 100 kilogrammes.
A large and well-organised band of thieves and
swindlers have been detected at Angers, Nantes, and
other towns in the west of France. Many of them have
been arrested, and the police are on the traces of others.
Quantities of jewels of considerable value are said to
have been stolen, and merchandise to a great amount
obtained by fraud. Ono of the gang is said to have
carried on the system by pretending to be a courier at-
tached to the mail between Nantes and Bordeaux. He
is supposed to have been one of the chiefs. Another of
the confederates is said to be a member of a respectable
family in one of the principal towns of the west.
The Correctional Tribunal of Lyons hart just con-
demned to four months' imprisonment a priest attached
to the Hotel Dieu in that city, for abstracting ornaments
of various kinds from tombs in the cemetery of Loyasse.
He was possessed, it appears, of a mania for making a
collection of vases and similar articles.

During the last month the consumption of Paris was
4,812 oxen, 1,781 cows, 5,868 calves, and 33,812 sheep,
being a diminution of 626 oxen and 2,816 sheep as com-
pared with September, 1840. "The difference, says the
Commerce, " which is equivalent to 350,000 kilogrammes
of meat, is attributable entirely to the high prices re-
quired by the dealers."
On Monday evening a well-dressed young man en-
tered a ready-made linen-warehouse in the Passage-des
Panoramas, and, taking- a seat, desired the owner of it,
who is a female, to quit it immediately, saying that
it belonged to him. On her expressing her astonish-
ment at his conduct, he said he saw she wanted money
to induce her to quit, and threw down a handful of five-
francs pieces, adding that he had millions, and could
give her more money than she could carry. Some of the
neighbours having entered the shop for the purpose of
expelling him, he told them that he had hundreds of
millions, which were given to him by the Emperor, who
had sent him to take possession of the shop, and carry
it on in his name. There being no doubt as to his in-
sanity, the Commissary of Police was sent for, and he was
placed at his disposal, with a view to his being restored
to his family, or placed in an asylum.
A Few days ago, says the Courlier du Midi, M. de
Saint-Paul, Avocat-General of Montpellier, who was at
Milhau canvassing the electors as a candidate to replace
M. Nougaret in the Chamber of Deputies, finding him-
self suddenly attacked by a violent head-ache, resolved
upon a little country excursion in the hope of dissipating
it, and after writing to his wife that he was unwell, but
hoped the excursion would relieve him, set out for that
purpose. On the following day the conductor of the
diligence from Milhau to Montpellier, whilst crossing a
bridge over the Tarn, saw the body of a man lying at the
foot of a sloping-bank, and, on proceeding to examine it,
found that it was M. de Saint-Paul, and that he was
quite dead. It is supposed that he had been suddenly at-
tacked with giddiness and aneurism of the heart, had fal-
len off the bank, and, no assistance being at hand, had
soon ceased to exist.

We find the following extraordinary, and, as it ap-
pears to us, incredible stat*ment, in a letter from Al-
giers of the Ist instant, published by the Sentinelk of
Toulon :—"A lady of Algiers, who some time ago buried
one of her children, recently obtained permission from
the municipal authorities to have the grave and coffin
opened, for the purpose of placing in the latter a still-
born infant. The coffin was found to be entirely empty,
and an inquiry being set on foot as to the cause of the
disappearance of the remains of the first child, it was
ascertained that the grave-digger, who is the owner of
an immense number of pigs, and who supplies most
of the pork-butchers of Algiers, fed his pigs with the
corpses which he buried. In his house were large quan-
tities of human flesh chopped up, and, on examining the
graves in the cemetery, every. coffin was found empty.
A discovery was also made, in the house of the grave-
digger, of jewellery to the value of about fifty thousand
francs, which had been buried with the bodies. The
criminal is arrested, and the prosecution is going on ;
but, what a dreadful reflection it is for many persons to
think that they may have been eating pork fed with the
flesh of their .own relatives. The use of pork has been
interdicted for some time, and all the grave-digger's pigs
have, by order of the Procureur-General, been killed
and instantly buried."

BOLTRSE-PAUIS, WEDNESDAY, OCT. 13.

Mit

Highest Lowest

Last

Price Price. Pric. Price
French 5r er Cent,. ex. div. 114 6) ... 114 6) ... 114 61 ... 114 73
4% per Conti .... 106 10 ... 106 10 106 10 ... 106 10
4 p r Ccrts fB 50 ... 9bl 50 ... 96 50 ... 1-8 50
3 per 79 40 .. 79 45 ... 79 35 ... 79 45
4,nk or trance'
LaGte flank 1.0001. brans 1432 51 —1032 50 ...lr"12 ...1032 50

5,000 f. Shares 5062 50 ...5062 ...:062 50 ...5062 50
relgian b per Cents.
5 ?er Cent!., 1810 10214 ... 1P254 ... 109% ...
Dutch 236 per Cents. 52 b 2 ... 52 St
*wish ACLIVe ..... :11% t. 0% 1154
Passive 5 ... 5 ... 5 ... SIA
Portuguese 5 per Cents.
!..eapolitan
11-nnan..„ ................

RAii,WAY
Versailles. R. B as 75 2C6 75 ... 3nB 75 —.llOB 75

L.B 2B 75 2(8 7.) 2t:B 75 .. 208 75
Moulin

Orlean,

473 75 ... 47z4 73 478 75 4",3 75

Strasburetnßutteshares red. 2.5 25 235 25 ... 23Z 25 ... 235 25

t:F.t,(3IAN .I.YNDS—lsaussia.., Ocr 13
ACtizni Debt, tt!,i per Cent.
Rotnarhild', Loan, 5 per Cant........
Loan of Thirty 7.1 Miens, 41,er Cent 11.35¢
----------- 3per Cent. —
----- Th ; r ty aeven --.. 71%
..--..--_—.---.(13.14)) l!',i
Loan of City, 1:32, 4 per Cent on
Society et Cornin?ree, 4,,iper Cent 43
Bank of Belgium, 5 per Cent.... ........
NationalSPc:ety.
Exelnoig.ft en L0nd.414 (she' t)
_Brussels Paper:, Oct. 13.
AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—VIENNA, OCT. 6
Fiveper C,119. Metalliques
Fair i Tr Cente Se.l,,
Three p:r Certß.
Bank :Thar .g
-.4l:gemesne Zeftuntr„ Oct. 10.

The Queen is said to have much wished that
her accouchemcnt might take place at Windsor;
but the many inconveniences which would at-
tend this arrangement forbid it. Her Majesty
is said to have permission from her physicians to
remain here until Wednesday next, which it is
thought she will do; in the Castle, however,
every day next week is spoken of as the day of
her departure for town.
DESECRATION OP THE SABBATII.-At a meet-
ing of the Edinburgh Commissioners of Police,
held on Monday last, a member of the name
of Richardson read a long paper in support of
a motion, "That the Scavengers discontinue
cleaning the street on the Sunday mornings.'
The substance of his argument was,—such em-
ployment was a direct breach of the fourth
commandment, and could be avoided by late
cleaning on Saturday night. A lengthened dis-
cussion followed, and the result was that clean-
ing the streets was no desecration of the
Lord's Day, the mover and seconder only voting
for this absurd motion. We have hopes yet
that the Scotch People will see the folly of their
ways, and get rid of the character which they
DOW enjoy, of being more addicted to useless
observances than even the Jews themselves.

LLOYD'S SHIPPING-( THIS DAY.)

LONDON, OCT. 15.—Wind this day at noon W. to S.W.
DEAL, OCT. 14.—Wind S.W., strong breezes.—Ar-
rived the Abbotsford, Chambers, from Calcutta ; Carshal-
ton Park, Quebec ; Washington, Virginia ; Volusia,
Westward, Isabel and Jane, Hartlepool, -for Rouen, with
loss of sails. Arrived from the River the Hebe, for Val-
paraiso ; Prince Albert, for Halifax. Put Lack the
whole of the outward bound.
LIVERPOOL, OCT. 14.—Wind, N.W., fresh.—Arrived
the Britannia, Iligginson, from Savanilla. sailed 29th
August ; Lucy 'Wright, New Orleans ; Pet, St. John's,
New Brunswick ; Eagle, Buchanan, Lasca, Davies, Mi-
ramichi ; James Ridden, Prince Edward's Island ;
Henry, Halifax. Put back the Pilot, for Cape of Good
Hope. The Maria, bound to Sydney, on shore on
West Hoyle, capsized this morning, and has become a
complete wreck.
OFF THE GALLOPER, OcT. 11.—The Neptune, Al-
tone, for Rio Janeiro.

PORTSMOUTH, OCT. 14.—Wind W.N.W., very squally.
—Sailed the Numa transport, Eastward. The Christina,
from New York to Amsterdam, got on shore off Gosport,
on the ebb to-day„and lies in a very awkward situation,
with a considerable list, but is expected will come off
on the flood.

it Wind N.W. to W.S.W., strong
FALMOUTH, OCT.
breezes.

Scuth, OCT. B.—Arrived the Giraffe, from St. Sebes-
tion ; Princess Victoria, Leghorn.
SWANSEA, OCT. 13.—Arrived the Charles Clark,
Rosewell, and Commodore, from Cuba ; Eden, Laureste,
Valparaiso.
KINGsTowN, OcT. 12.—Arrived Astrea, Silk, Quebec.
YARMOUTH, OCT. 14.—The Independent from Quebec
to hull, got upon the cross sand last night, but was
assisted off this morning and proceeded. The Britannia
and William and Thomas, both of Whitby, have come
into these roads, having been in contact this morning off
Southweld, the former with lost of maintopmast and
bulwarks, the latter with bows stove and loss of anchor
and chain. The Annatalia, of Newcastle, is in the roads
leaky and with loss of bowsprit, having been in contact
with a vessel. The Hero of the Nile lost anchor and
chain last night under the Ness.
SHIELDS, OCT. 12.—Sailed the East London, Bombay.

THE WEATHER.—NOON, OCTOBER 15.
ROYAL GALLERY OF SCIENCE, ADELAIDE-STREET.
Barometer 29.60
Thermometer.. 66 I Highest 56 I Lowest
Wind N.W.—Freezing Point 32 Deg.

The late Admiral Sir Thomas Williams.
G.C.8., whose death at Durwood House, Surrey, on
Sunday last, appeared in our obituary on Wednesday, had
been in the navy upwards of 65 years. He was in 1779
promoted to a lieutenancy, and in 1790 obtained post
rank, and in the war with Holland and France ably dis-
tinguished himself. In 1811, in consideration of his
services, he was made Commander-in-Chief at the Nore,
where he remained until 1814. He was latterly ap-
pointed Groom of the Bedchamber to his Royal High-
ness the Duke of Sussex. _ _ _

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The mortal remains of the late Lord 11,10n,0n
are to be removed on Monday next from Brighton for
Gatton-park, Surrey. The Earl of Warwick and Lord
Brooke will attend the funeral, as also Lord Monson,
who is tkt Brighton.