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great effect on buildings that were going on. He con-
sidered that the oscillation of the men running up and
down the ladder and scaffold was very likely to have
caused the toppling of the chimneys when the scaffold
was removed, which the deceased and Collins were en-
gaged in doing at the time of the fall. Mortar when
used ought to be let set ; for when it is moved by the
oscillation he had spoken of it gets rotten.
The DEPUTY CORONER said he should then adjourn
the inquiry until Wednesday next.
A person in the crowd here begged permission, before
the inquiry was adjourned, to address the Coroner. His
name was, he said, John Dowler, living in Chelsea. Ho
was a bricklayer, and wished to give his evidence in de-
fence of his order. He had examined the materials, and
could give evidence respecting them.
The DEPUTY CORONER asked him if he was employed
en the works ?—He said he was not, but he had exa-
mined the materials since the accident, and he wished
the Deputy Coroner would appoint some eminent sur-
veyor, quite unconnected with all the parties to examine
the materials, and give an unbiased and impartial opinion
of them.
The DEPUTY CORONER said he did not like volunteer
evidence, and therefore would not examine him that
night. He might, however, give his name and address
to the summoning officer, and might perhaps be examined
on Wednesday.
Strangers were then ordered .to withdraw, and the
Deputy Coroner remained with the jury for about a
quarter of an hour, when the inquiry was adjourned at
twenty minutes to nine o'clock.
The body of the deceased was removed immediately
after the adjournment to his lodgings at Kensington to
be " waked," and was followed by a large assemblage of
his countrymen.
Inspector Barefogt, B division, was present at the
inquiry and took cdpious notes of the proceedings.

EDUCATION IN BIRMINGHAM.
A c mmittee of inquiry, appointed by the clergy of
the Established Church residing in Birmingham, have,
after a long inquiry, produced the following report on
the state of education:--
"The attention of the clergy having been recently
called to the general state of education in Birmingham,
and especially to that of the younger children, a com-
mittee of inquiry was appointed by them to obtain sta-
tistics, and report more accurately on the facts of the
case.
"From this report it appears that the population of
the borough of Birmingham cannot be estimated at less,
than 200,000 souls; and of this number it is calculated'
that 92,000 are between the ages of two years and fif-
teen years, and of these probably 25,000 are in circum-
stances to require aid in providing for their education.
On dividing again this number into two classes, accord-
ing to the age at which children are deemed admissible
into infant or national schools, it is found that
about 10.000 are between the ages of two and seven,
and 15,000 between the ages of seven, and fifteen.
In regard to this latter class, educational provision
has been made, either by the Church of England or
by other bodies, fur 7,749 in daily schools; a proportion
which, comparatively speaking, must be considered sa-
tisfactory, when it is remembered how large a number of
these are necessarily occupied either at home, in do-
mestic service, or in the workshop. But in regard to
the 10,000 young children between the ages of two and
seven, the case is very different, and altogether unsatisfac-
tory. Provision in infant schools has been made by the
Church of England for 2,260, and by other religious
bodies, as far as it could be ascertained, for 530, leaving
upv.ards of 7,000 children, all capable of receiving in-
struction, but debarred from it by want of adequate op-
portunities.
" As practically acquainted with the value of early in-
struction and the circumstances of the population, the
clergy cannot look upon this state of things without
grave concern and alarm; chiefly for these reasons:—
" 1. These children cannot receive that domestic care
and instruction which children in a higher rank would
do; for in many cases the mothers, as well as the fathers,
are engaged in manufacturing employment, and their
children of necessity entrusted to the care of other chil-
dren, little older than themselves, and altogether inca-
pable of exercising over them any beneficial influence or
constraint, either for their physical or moral improve-

IRELAND.
EMPLOYMENT ON PUBLIC WORKS.
DUBLIN, Nov. 12. With a view of preventing, if pos-
sible, the mischievous abuse of leaving the land untitled,
which threatens to be one of the results consequent upon
the inducement hold out by the prospect of lighter la-
bour on public works, a placard, of witch the following
is a copy, has been extensively posted throughout the
North Riding of Tipperary:—
" TO TEE LABOURING PEOPLE.
" At a meting of the Relief Committee of Thurles,
held on the 29th of October, 1846, the following resolu-
tions, proposed by the Venerable Archdeacon Cotton,
and seconded by the Rev. William Barron, were unani-
mously adopted:—
" Resolved—That we have every reliance on the
quiet and peaceable conduct of the labouring population
of Thurles and its neighbourhood. At the same time,
we hereby declare most positively, that we will not a
second time recommend for work, nor give relief to, any
person discharged from the public works by the engineer
or those acting under his directions, or who shall in any
manner oppose or obstruct them.
" Resolved—That as we consider that public works,
though necessary at this time, ought not tc interfere
with the ordinary operations of agriculture, we will not
recommend for employment any person who shall have
left his work in the country, or shall have refused to
accept work when offered to him by any farmer in his
neighourhood, at fair and reasonable wages ; and if we
find any such persons already employed in the public
works, we will immediately withdraw our recommenda-
tions, and will recommend the engineer to dismiss
them.' " NICHOLAS V. MAHER, Chairman.
"JAMES B. KENNEDY, Secretary."
DAY OF HUMILIATION.
The following is a copy of the " Circular" addressed
by his Grace the Archbishop of Dublin to the clergy of
his diocese, in reference to the observance of the 20th
inst. as a day of public humiliation and prayer :
"Rev. Sir,—l have fixed ou Friday, the 20th of No-
vember, to be observed as a day of public humiliation
and prayer in reference to the impending famine.
"I have made choice of that day as being the same
that the Lord Primate has appointed for his own diocese,
and has recommended to the bishops of his province.
" You will, of course, take care to give due notice to
your congregation next Su-aday, at the time of Diving
service, and in whatever mode you may'think best.
"The hour or hours for divine service I leave to your
discretion ; but I think it most important that the cele •
bration of the Lord's Sapper, once at least, should form
a part of the service on the day. appointed. That holy
ordinance being so peculiarly significant of the Com-
munion of Saints' (i. e. the fellowship or brotherhood
among Christians), as to be frequently even designated
simply as The Holy Communion,' is the more especially
appropriate to such an occasion, as thus reminding us
of our duty towards our suffering brethren. It is, more-
over, usual for the Eucharist to be administered on occa-
sions of pressing danger ; and the practice is not unrea-
sonable, provided men are but guarded against the error
of thinking that it is to be reserved exclusively for such
occasions.
" And when your people are especially called on to
reflect on and turn away from their sins, it will be most
appropriate to remind them of one so obviously remark-
able as that of habitually absenting themselves from the
Lord's table, which too many even of those who do at-
tend Divine worship are guilty of. Those who are duly
sensible of the sinfulness of such neglect will, of course,
be anxious to embrace the very first opportunity of com-
mencing a new course in that respect ; which oppor-
tunity, therefore, it is most desirable should be afforded
them immediately.
"In your sermon you will, I trust, point out to your
people how such a calamity as that now impending should
be viewed, and should be met by Christians. And, in
particular,you will, I hope, see the importance of guard-
ing against an error which is but too prevalent—l mean
that of any one who presumes to pronounce that those
of his neighbours who are especial sufferers are neces-
sarily objects of Divine displeasure, on account of some
sins with which he thinks fit to charge them. Our Lord's
warning is at all times, but most especially on an occa-
sion like the present, needful to be impressed on men's
minds:—' Suppose ye that these Galileans were sinners
above all the Galileans, because they suffered such
things ? I tell you, nay; but except ye repent, ye shall
all likewise perish.'
" We know, indeed, the temporal calamities were, on
many occasions sent as Divine judgments on those-guilty
of certain specified sins; but we know this only from
.Scripture—from the declaration of inspired prophets and
apostles, who denounced, by authority from Heaven, the
very visitations which in each instance were sent; and
for uninspired and fallible men to take upon them to
pronounce any such sentence on their neighbours is not
piety, but presumptuous profaneness.
" You should also warn those who are themselves ex-
posed to the severest portion of the general suffering not
to be cast down in despondency, but to remember that
they are followers of a religion whose Founder was
crucified, and whose first preachers were exposed to
want, to persecution, and to hardships of every kind; all
which they endured with unshaken trust in their great
Master, who has given us no promise of immunity from
temporal sufferings, but who has held out to us a hope
of far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory,'
if we endure our trials with Christian fortitude an pa-
tient faith.
" Those, again, who are so circumstanced as not to be
likely to be, in any great degree; personal sufferers should
be warned against regarding this exemption as any sign of
their being special favourites of 11-aven, and more well-
pleasing in God's sight than their afflicted brethren. They
should be exhorted, on the contrary, to come forward with
liberal and considerate kindness to relieve their dis-
tressed neighbours to the utmost of their ability. To
these latter, again, you should point out the extreme
folly, as well as wickedness, of aggravating, by outrage
and destruction of property, the distress with which
the hand of Providence has visited the land, and
of making this a plea or a pretext for lawless
violence.

ment.*
"2. The number of private or dame schools esta-
blished throughout Birmingham, while their existence
proves the utter inadequacy of the present eductaional
provision, forms but a very partial and insufficient
remedy; the mariner of instruction is loose and ill-
directed, the instruction itself defective, and the places in
which it is carried, on close and unwholesome.
" 3. When children thus brought up attain fo the age
of seven years, and become admissable to a National
school, the wandering andunsteady habits acquired from
past years of idleness forma new and serious impedi-
ment to impr3vement.
" 4. The value of labour, and the variety of employ-
ments in which the young are now engaged, make it ab-
solutely necessary that education should begin whilst
yet they can be spared from labour, at'the earliest mo-
ment the mind and feelings are ready to receive it. In
a manufacturing population, children, if not educated
very young, will for the most part not be educated at all.
"5. The state of the Infant Schools already estab-
lished in Birmingham, shows their value by the eager-
ness with which the poor avail themselves of their ad-
vantages. They are, without exception, well attended ;
and what is of great consequence, are found capable,
when established in proper situations of nearly, if not
entirely supporting themselves.
" The remedy for the present evil would seem, there-
fore, to consist in the establishment of infant school
rooms, of a cheap and simple construction, in the most
crowded parts of the town. More than thirty situations
may be pointed out where such rooms could be advan-
tageously placed. But, of course, the question whether
this want can be supplied, depends upon the answer to
this question, viz.:—Whether the merchants, manufac-
turers, and inhabitants, who possesi the means of sup-
plying it, feel the responsibility of endeavouring to re-
move this fearful source of misery and crime, which the
absence of early care and instruction necessarily produces.
" We are confident that our brethren of the laity need
only to have the state of the case put before them, in
order to secure their liberality and exertions in a case
so deeply involving the spiritual and temporal welfare of
the next generation. They will, therefore, be earnestly
requested to attend a meeting, on an early occasion,
when details to whic-h reference has been made can be
fully laid before them, and the question decided whether
these seven thousand infants shall remain without the
means of education, or whether a general effort shall be
made throughout Birmingham to remedy a state of things
so greatly injurious to the best interests of the children
themselves, and the good order and well being of the
community.
" William Spooner, M-A., Archdeacon of Coventry.
" John Garbett, M.A., Rector of St George's, and
Rural Dean.
" John C. Miller, M.A. Rector of St. Martin's.
" Grantham M. Yorke, M.A., Rector of St. Philip's.
" Edward Bird, 8.A., Rector of St. Thomas's.
" S. F. Morgan, M.A. Rector of All Saints.
" James Prince Lee, M.A., Head Master of King Ed-
yard's School.
Sydney Gedge, M.A., Second Master of King Ed-
ward's School.
" W. B. Smith, M.A., Incumbent of St. John's Dc-

ritend.
" John Casebow Barrett, M.A., Incumbent of St.
Mary's.
" Josiah Allport. Incumbent of St. James's. Ashted.
" George Lea, M.A., Incumbent of Christ Church.
" Isaac Spooner, M.A., Incumbent of St. George's,
Edgbaston.
" M. A. Collisson, M.A., Incumbent of Bishop Ryder's.
" G. S. Bull, Incumbent of St. Matthew's.
" Daniel Ledsam, M.A., Incumbent of St. Mark's.
" James Oldham Oldham, M.A., Incumbent of St.

" And all classes should be exhorted to labour not
so much for ' the meat that perisbeth as for that which
endureth unto eternal life;' remembering that we have
here no abiding pine,.,' but are on our journey towards
that world in which all temporal blessings or afflictions
will be thought of as utterly insignificant, except so
far as the use we shall have made of each may deter-
mine our final condition; all the dispensations of Provi-
dence, whether of adversity or prosperity, being capable
of being converted either into a curse, or, through
divine help, into a blessing, according to our conduct
under them.

Luk
" Edward Garbett, 8.A., Incumbent of St. Stephen's,
" Rtrisell Cope, Minister of St. Jude's.
" D. B. Moore, Incumbent of St Andrew's, Bordesley.'
* See " Sanitary Report," page 17, State of Females.

ARMY PROMOTION.
(From the Inquirer of Saturday).
With our feelings about war and military affairs, our
interest is not very strong in the details of army ma-
nagement. Yet, considering the army as one of the in-
stitutions of the country at present deemed necessary,
engaged in, consistently with their sense of right, by
many excellent men, and secured by the people, for their
supposed service, at an immense annual cost, we have a
right to watch the fairness with which its honours and
rewards are distributed, and, if there is any appearance
of individuals being neglected and deprived of what they
might justly expect, because they have bestowed their
leisure in endeavouring to be useful to their country be-
yond the sphere of their profession, such a circumstance
ought to be exposed and condemned.
There are few names more honoured by the friends of
freedom and progress in the British Isles than that of
Colonel Thompson. His various writings show intellec-
tual qualities of the highest order, and his integrity,
consistency, and ardour, in endeavouring to serve his
country, are unquestionable, and above all imputation.
He has the distinguished honour of having first made
the real merits of the Corn-law question understood by
the masses ; and, by his clearness of statement, force of
argument, variety of illustration, and brilliancy of wit,
having dispelled all obscurity, and made men feel the
real practical importance of free trade.
As a politician, Colonel Thompson has sometimes
been called impracticable, and there are both honest and
enlightened Liberals, who cannot always go with him.
Oa the present occasion we will allow ourselves neither
to blame nor to defend him. We never heard any rea-
sonable person question his great usefulness, on the whole,
as a public man, or the disinterestedness and self-de-
votedness with which he has laboured to promote what
he thought right. Allowance must be made for differ-
ence of opinion, as to principles and modes of action ;
but an honest zeal for the public good, supported by
great acknowledged talent, and high personal character,
ought to command respect everywhere ; and what must
be the state of the country, where such qualities are a
disqualification for advancement in the public service?
It appears from the Army List, that Colonel Thomp-
son was the oldest Lieutenant -Colonel of 1829, and, con-
sequently, his name ought to have stood first among the
eighty-three officers promoted to be Colonels. Whence
is this omission? What will the people think of their
friend—the friend of freedom and improvement—the in-
domitable enemy of corruption, monopoly, and all mis-
government—being thus deprived of the reward of his
past services? Her Majesty's Ministers are now men
who are called Liberals,—they are men whose public
conduct has distinctly recognised that Colonel Thomp-
son has been right in his arduous Anti-corn-law struggle,
and has done a great service by.his eminent success in
that cause. The Commander-in-Chief may not like
free-trade, but he has been obliged to submit to it, and
it is intolerable that he should be allowed to express his
vexation at its success, by indirectly punishing its advo-

" I remain, Rev. Sir,
." Your affectionate brother in the Lord,
" RICHARD DUBLIN.

" Palace, Dublin, Nov. 9."

THE HISTORY CP MART ANNE WELLINGTON.—
BY THE REV. R. COBBOLD. DEDICATED (BY PERMIS-
SION) TO HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN DOWAGER.—At a
time when a great national monument is raised, con-
spicuously, to the Hero of a Hundred Fights, it is aid-
mating to find our fellow-countryman, the Reverend
Author, stepping forth to lift from the rank; a private
soldier well worthy of admiration. In the volumes be-
fore us we have the stirring scenes of a soldier's life,
and the history of his daughter, wife, and widow, under
the various difficulties of a situation calling for all the
energies of a manly heart, and all the strength and re-
lying love of a woman's unshrinking spirit. The first
and third volumes are for the most part taken up with
domestic scenes of a most interesting character, af-
fording good examples for our soldiers, and for civilians
also, for few can read without benefiting themselves.
The second volume is an admirable epitome of the Penin-
sular war, from the beginning to the end—from the vic-
tory of Talavera to Toulouse—full of incidents, narra-
tives of extraordinary events, perils and preservations.
Upon the whole, m e are persuaded,? whatever may be the
present impression this most interesting work may make
upon the public mind, it will stand the test of posterity.
—Bury Herald _ -_ _ .

The first purchase of gold for export since October,
1840, occurred on Friday, a small quantity having been
taken for liamburgh. It must be understood, however,
that this is an abstraction from the market merely, snd
not from the currency. Last week several arrivals of
gold took place from South America, all of which went
to the Bank of England, as usual ; this week arrivals
still continue, but it has been found now worth while, as is
shown in the above case, for parties seeking remit-
tances to the continent to give the same price (31. 17s.
9d. per ounce) as would have been given by the Bank.
Consequently, instead of passing into the hands of that
establishment, to swell the existing amount of the cir-
culation, the gold in question has left the country im-
mediately after its arrival, the only effect being that the
circulation remains stationary where it would otherwise
have increased. When the arrivals shall altogether
cease, and it shall prove profitable to purchase gold for
export at the rate of 3/. 17s. lOid. per ounce, then the
demand, operating wholly on the amount held by the
Bank, must produce, step by step, a corresponding con-
traction in the money market.
How TO MAKE A CHEAP LOAP.—At the annual
dinner of the Williton and Dunster Agricultural Asso-
ciation, held at Williton on the sth instant, the Rev. Mr.
Escott produced an excellent loaf of bread, which he said
could be easily made at 40. the 41b loaf from wheat
worth Bs. a bushel. The Rev. Gentleman gave the fol-
lowing explanation of the process :—" Take a bushel of
wheat, as it comes from the mill, and remove it from the
coarse bran. Boil this bran in water, till it makes a thick
gruel. Strain this through a cloth, and mix it with the
flour, instead of water, having added salt and yeast, as
for other bread. After the sponge is-set, leave it for six
hours, then knead it with the brad gruel, and let it rise
for twelve hours. Bake the 41b. loaves two hours and a
half. Now this bread could be made at the rate he had
stated ; and he would venture to say that better bread
need not be placed upon any rich man's table." Upon
this subject the chairman (Sir W. Trevelyan) remarked
that he had heard a labourer say that he had put up an
oven in his cottage, at a cost of 11., and he found, from
baking his own bread, he saved a shilling a week.
THE OLD WOMAN AND THE TELEGRAPH.—Last
week a hawker called with his goods at a small house
by the side of the York and Newcastle (Brandling Junc-
tion) Railway, about half a mile from the station at
South Shields, and found an old woman at home alone.
His oily tongue and glittering wares tempted her to
break into a piece of gold, and become a purchaser.
After he had taken his departure by the train she de-
tected a bad half-crown among the change he had given
her. She had read the newspapers and had also heard
her neighbours talk of the wonderful electric telegraph ;
so, snatching up the kitchen poker, and climbing up the
embankment, she rushed to the wires to give an alarm.
But the poker was not long enough to reach the ma-
chinery. Back she ran to her cottage, caught up the
' long brush," and remounting the railway, rattled the
wires of the telegraph and bawled out at the top of her
voice to
hatoinvfeorm I`dr. Johnson, at Gateshead, of the fraud,
and desire him to detain the rogue of a hawker that she
him punished for his crimo.—Gateshcad
Observer,

cites.
The times have been when officers were struck off the
list of the army for giving a vote in the House of Com-
mons displeasing to the Commander-in-Chief for the
time being. It might be supposed that such arbitrary
proceedings would no longer be endured; but their
principle is completely revived in stopping a man from
the promotion to which length of service entitled him,
because, according to his conscientious conviction, he
has endeavoured to advance the true interests of his
country. The people may now see how devotion to
them is appreciated in high quarters, and to what
extent they have reason to confide in a nominally-liberal
Administration. They are called upon to consider
whether officers not on active service are forbidden to
express an opinion, and adopt an independent course on
public affairs ; whether the Commander-in-Chief, or
any one acting for him, is entitled to punish noncon-
formity to his views ; and whether military rank is dis-
tributed according to his private tastes, or is bestowed
on the part of thy public on those who do their duty.
We confess we are disgusted and indignant at this un-
worthy treatment of a man eminently deserving
admi-
ration and reward ; and we could not be satisfied with-
out directing public attention to so gross an abuse of
the power intrusted to individuals in disposing of
honours and rewards for. the service of the nation.

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THE KING AND. THE DANSEUSE.—A report has
reached us from Munich that the celebrated Lola
Montes, of horsewhipping notoriety, who lately made
her appearance at the Hof-Theater in that city, has
danced herself into the good graces of a certain royal
author and newspaper editor, who, it is said, finds an
agreeable relaxation from his literary labours in the so-
ciety of the fair danseuse. It is to be hoped nn contre-
temps will arise to disturb the harmony that at present
exists between the pair,. as the lady's anger, when roused,
is of rather a formidable character. The police at Berlin
can testify to this Wt.—Examiner.

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY_ EVENING, NOVEMBER 16) 1846.

THE MYSTERIOUS ROBBERY AT

PASSY.

A trial before the Court of Assizes, which commenced
on Saturday morning, and was continued on Sunday till
near midnight, has elucidated the mystery which has
hung over the robbery committed at Passy, in the night
of the 6th of May last, and which, for mare than a month,
gave rise to innumerable and contradictory conjectures.
The house No. 35, in the Avenue de St. Cloud, at Passy,
standing alone, with a small garden in front and yard
behind, in which are a coach house and stable with lofts
over them, was occupied by a M. Vasseur and a young
person named Mdlle. M‘lanie Lamartiniire, who lived
with him as his wife, and went by his name. They had
known each other from childhood, and had become firmly
attached to each other. M. Vasseur, who is a man of
some fortune, would have married the lady immediately
on his coming of age, but could not obtain the consent of
his grandfather, who stood towards him in loco parentis,
as he had lost his father and mother. Their conduct in
every respect was so correct, that every one in the
neighbourhood believed them to be man and wife. On
May 1, M. Passeur set out on a journey for about ten
days. Upon this Mdlle. Lamartiniare male their ser•
vant, Marguerite Berkeley, bring her mattress and bed-
ding into her own room, and sleep beside her. In the
night of the sth their watchdog, which during the day
was chained up in the yard, but in the night put into the
stable with two English dogs, awoke by his barking
Mdlle. Lamartiniere, who immediately made her servant

get up to see what had disturbed the animal. The girt
to pacify him, threw some bread out, and then under the
pretence of necessity, went down into the yard. During
the following night, the same alarm was repeated I'y the
dogs in the stable, but the watch-dog remained silent.
Again Marguerite was made by her mistress to get up.
but, on looking out of the window, she assured her mis-
tress that there was nothing to be seen. As the dogs
continued barking, Mdlle. Lamartiniere got out of bed
herself, but, upon the repeated assurances of her servant,
returned to it. She however had scarcely laid herself
down again when, by the light of a small lamp in the
room, she saw a man standing by her side, and gave a
scream. He covered her mouth with a pillow, and, hold-
ing a poignard or knife in his hand, threatened to stab
her if she made any noise, but assured her he would do
her no harm if she would inform him where her money,
plate, and jewels were to be found. He said that other
men had come with him and would murder her but for
his protection. After this, the villain proceeded to acts
of brutality upon the person of his victim, who sunk into
a tainting fit. The servant was not in the room at this
time, but came as her mistress was recovering her
senses, and gave ber at her desire a glass of water. She
was then shut in alone in her dressing-room. which had
a window opening into the yard, through which she saw
with astonishment her servant come out of the coach
house. About three in the morning, after remaining
three or four hours, the man went away, and her servant
rejoined her. They locked themselves in the chamber;
but the man soon came back to take, he said, a pocket-
book which he had forgotten. In the secretary he had
found a will, left by M. Vasseur, in which he bequeathed
all his property to Mdlle Lamartiniere. This will, the
readers of the Messenger will recollect, gave rise to many
vague and absurd reports, but which the robber said he
thought was a packet containing bank-notes or bills to
the amount of 10,000 f. When he was finally retiring.
Mdlle. Lamartiniere complained that she was left without
a sous till M. Vasseur returned, whereupon he gave her
20f. out of the money he had taken, and st. to Margu-
erite Berkeley. When she became a little tranquil,
Mdlle. Lamartiniere observed to her maid that she had
not been locked up as she was, for she had seen her come
out of the coach-house. The girl replied that she had
been sent there for the umbrella, which had been seen
there by the robbers. At eight in the morning Mdlle.
Lamartiniere went to the mayor of Passy, and gave in-
formation of the robbery, describing the only man she
had seen as short and fat. with a broad face, and a dark
beard which covered the lower part, and grew very thick
under his chin. Her deposition was confirmed by the
servant girl, who added that when the man went away
he made her give him the keys of the iron gate leading
from the garden on to,the road. She said that there
were four men in the house, but she only saw two. How
they got into the premises she could not tell, as the doors
were locked, and none had been forced. On examination
of the premises by the mayor, it was evident that the
robbers were let in by some one inside, and also on ask-
ing why the watch-dog had not seized any of the thieves,
Marguerite asserted that they had shut him up in his
kennell by placing a ladder in front of the entrance.
This, however, could not be, as the dog had more than
sufficient strength to push it aside, and make his way
out. 'This raised strong suspicions against Marguerite,
which were afterwards confirmed by the following inci-
dent:—The brother of Mdlle. Lamartiniere and M. Pil-
lion, who, after the robbery, went to sleep at the house,
went up to the loft over the coach-house, and there found
two packets of linen, one tied in a sheet, and the other
pinned up in a blue apron, evidently left there by the
thieves on the night of the robbery, and which they
could entertain no hope of getting away without the
aid of some person in the house. This circumstance,
connected with the fact of her being seen by Mdlle.
Lemartiniere coming out of the coach-house while
the robbery was going on, led to the arrest of
Marguerite Berkeley. To her accusation this infamous
woman retorted the most infamous charges against
her mistress, but which the whole tenour of her life, not-
withstanding the unfortunate relation in which, from
obstacles against their marriage, as has been stated, she
stood twards M. Vasseur, was a sufficient contradiction,
and the woman Berkeley was committed to prison. The
truth soon afterwards came out. While at the prefecture
with three girls, named Gourvert, Beauchene, and Gil-
ardot, and a woman named Guerin, who was to be dis-
charged that day, Marguerite gave to to the last-named
a note, written by Gilardot for her, addressed to Bas-
te le, the keeper of a wine shop nest. the Hippodrome,
at the Barriere de l'Ecoile, who, she ,said, was her
brother-in-law. This was related by Gourvert to
Mdlle. Latnartiniere, whom she saw at the infirmary.
Being afterwards interrogated as to this act, Marguerite
positively denied it. and maintained that she had nor
nor could have any brothetein law, as she was a found
ling. She afterwards, before the examining magistrate,
repeated her vile calumnies against her mi-tress, all cif
which, however, were afterwards complelely refuted.
Bost a le, on being summoned before the examining ma-
gistrate, denied all knowledge of Marguerite, but as he
bore a strong resemblance to the robber described by
Mdlle. Lamartin4re, the magistrate decided upon con-
fronting them. He sent for her without the slightest
intimation of the reason. On entering his cabinet she
found the girl Berkeley and Besside, and almost imme-
diately recognised the latter as the man who had robbed
and so brutally ill-treated her. Berkeley endeavoured to
invalidate this declaration by observing that the robber
had a thick beard under his chin, whereas BetFa le had
only mustachios and thick whiskers ; but Mdlle. Lamar-.
tiniere persisted, and it was afterwards proved that
Bessede, at a period immediately subsequent to the rob-
bery, had the lower part of his beard shaved off. This
he admitted, but pretended that it was only according to
his habit during the heats of summer. Consequently
Bessede and Marguerite Berkeley were both committed
for trial for the robbery. Berkeley was also accused of
another robbery. She was, it appears, a natural child,
found abandoned at Nancy, at which place, and at
Metz, or the environs, she passed the early part of
her life. She afterwards lived in concubinage with a
man named Peyrot, whom she left, taking with her
200 f., his watch, and other property. She was also
brought to confess that she had been the mistress of
Bessede, and in short had lived a most licentious life.
All the charges in the indictment were satisfactorily
proved, the jury pronounced both the prisoners guilty,
and the Court sentenced them to hard labour at the
hulks for fifteen years, and to be exposed in the pillory.
It is but just and right to add to this sad tale,
that M. Vasseur, in his conviction of the fidelity and
propriety of conduct of Mdlle. Lamartiniere, and as a
consolation for all she has suffered, resolved to make
her his wife, and by his name she appeared in court as
a witness. On applying again to his grandfather for
his sanction, he received a positive refusal; but firm in
his purpose to do justice he determined to send the
three sonanations required by the law, but the second
being delivered the old gentleman gave his formal as-
sent.—Galignani.

IMPORTANT POST-OFFICE
NOTICE,

The following important Post-office notice has been
issued from the General Post-office to the public.—
" NOTICE TO LETTER-RECEIVERS.
" Several cases having occurred from which there is
reason to believe that some of the receivers are in the
practice of receiving general post letters, with a fee,
after the regulated time has expired, viz., half-past five,
and sending such letters in the general post-bag, keeping
the 'bag open till called for by the collecting clerk; or
that they hand the letters to the letter-carrier, who
collects at six o'clock; I think it right to inform them
that such practice is not only contrary to the regulations,
but is a fraud upon the revenue, as all general post
letters, posted after half-past five o'clock to be forwarded
the same night must have an additional stamp upon
them, and be posted at the General Post office, or at the
branch Post-office in Lombard-street, between six and
seven o'clock, or at the branch offices before a quarter to
seven o'clock. The receivers will, atter this notice, take
particular care that the regulations be attended to, for
should any case be established against any one, it will
be reported to the Postmaster-General.
" R. SMITH, Superintending President.
" London District Post-office, Nov., 1846."

DEATH FROM INJURIES RECEIVED FORTT YEARS
Aco.—On Friday an inquest was held before Mr. Baker
at the George and Dragon, Hoxton-market, on the body
of George Jenkins, a blind man, aged fifty-eight, late of
No. 1, Queen-street, Pitfield-street. The deceased, when
a child, was attacked with the small pox, which caused
the loss of sight in one of his eyes; the eye became
diseased, and grew to an enormous size, being more like
a bulhick's eye than that of a human being. When about
fifteen years of age his aunt, in if. passion, struck him
with the back of her hard, and in doing so knocked the
eye out of the socket. The irritation thus caused brought
on disease of the hr in, and caused the loss of sight of
the other eye; and from that period the deceased was
subjected to fits of epilepsy. The deceased was for seven
years in the Blind School, and afterwards supported
himself by ropemaking until the death of his aunt, who,
to make all the reparation in her power, left him the
house in Queen-street and 501. ayE Ir. On Tuesday last
the deceased paid a visit to his sister, and on his return
home in a very agitated state was taken ill. Mr. Packer,
a surgeon, attended him, but medical aid was unavailing;
he expired in a few hours from an attack of epilepsy.
Verdict, " Natural death."
BRIST3L SUGAR-MARKET, Nov. 13.—Our raw sugar
market is very dull, and prices have still rather a down-
ward tendency. The business of the week has been ex-
tremely limited for all descriptions of sugar. Raw con-
tinue in fair demand, and nearly all the stocks are in
second hands.