The Sun.
London, England, 1846-11-16 00:00:00

was invited to stop a week. It was during her stay that
she discovered where the cash-box was kept. The pri-
soner, after the expiration of a week returned to South-
ampton, first promising that she would return and bid
them farewell before she left for France. About a
fortnight after, the prisoner (having previously pur-
chased a cash-box in Southampton) went to Mr.
Purkis's house under pretence of bidding the family
adieu. She then complained of a severe pain in
the head, and asked permission to lie down on the
bed for a short time, which was readily granted. The
prisoner, having left her unsuspecting friends, started
back to Southampton, and told her landlady that she had
that day received a remittance of 201. from France, and
would settle her account, which amounted to 101.. She
then told her landlady that she intended to take London
on her way to Paris, and immediately left by the South-
Western Railway for the metropolis.
The robbery, however, was not discovered till Satur-
day last, and suspicion immediately lighted upon the
prisoner. A. reward of 204 was offered for her appre-
hension.

Mr. G. Hawes, the landlord of the Railway Hotel
proved her arrival at that establishment, and also wha
transpired there.

Mi. Richards, an ironmonger, of Southampton, identi-
fied the prisoner as the person who purchased the cash-
box produced by the superintendent, about a fortnight
previously to the robbery.
Mr. Purkis, sen., in the absence of his son (the owner
of the property), who is at present in Ireland, was
unable to speak to the exact amount in the cash-box
when it was stolen, but he identified the cheque and an
old guinea.

THRESHER asked the prisoner if she wished to
make any statement relative to herself or the charge ?
The prisoner, in a faint voice, said " No ;" but after-
ward's, in a vehement manner, said, "Don't let the world
know I am a De Saumarez."
Mr. THRESHER then committed her to take her trial
at the Quarter Sessious.

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The prisoner was removed, sobbing hysterically. She
was afterwards taken by the South-Western Railway to
Winchester gaol.

A MUSICAL DUEL.—Two musicians having quar-
relled at Athens,—one,*the Chevalier Vincenzo Mifsud,
who had composd a piece of music entitled La Partenza
dell' eroe Marco Bozzari, which he had offered to their
Majesties of Greece, and which by them had been gra-
ciously accepted; the other, Signor Gennaro Fabrichesi,
who had presumed to criticise it,—the former called on
the latter to appear within 24 hours, and compose a
piece of music, vocal or instrumental; at the same time
he would compose another, and both to be locked up
together in a room till finished. The compositions of
both were then to be submitted to any composer in
Europe for his opinion on the merits! A supplement in
the Courrier d'Athenes by the Chevalier thus fairly
announces:—" If your music should be found preferable
to mine, then I am content with your judgment on my
duet Marco Bozzari, but if the result of our mutual
challenge should be against you, then the discerning
public will learn that you depreciate the talent of another
from envy and the insufficiency, of your own ability."
How this singular duel will terminate time will show.
Malta Mail.
PUBLIC SAFETY.—For the last three days work-
men have been employed in demolishing the upper part
of a new house at the corner of Hart-street and New
Oxford-street, the necessity for which we have foreseen
for some time past. Is it impertinent for us to inquire
how it happens, that, spite of the Act which will not
suffer you to touch a brick in a wall without an over-
looker, spite of the official referees, the registrar, the
district surve) or, and the self-interest of the builder
himself, a costly structure may be erected which will not
stand until it is finished ?—The Builder.
THE SMALL DEBTS ACT.—The arrangements for
carrying into effect the Small Debts Act of last session
are progressing as rapidly as possible, but it will still be
some time before the machinery can be brought into
operation. The judges must first be appointed by the
Lord Cbanceller ; they (the judges) will then have to
select competent attorneys to officiate as clerks of their
respective courts, and then the treasurers of the several
districts will be nosainatcd by the Treasury ; but, in con-
sequence of the number of parsons who have hitherto
been employed under local Courts of Requests, and
whose vested rights are secured under the new Act, we
understand that few, if any, new appointments will re
main for clerks and treasurers of the new local courts...—
Observer.

REMOVAL OF THE SURREY TRAMWAY.—Active
preparations are in progress for the removal of this old
tramway, one of the first railway works sanctioned by
the Legislature of this country for general public traffic.
The undertaking was first projected about the close of
the last century. Mr. Jessop, a gentleman well known

in connexion With the early iailw"ay, or more properly
speaking, tramway enterprise of the north, being the
engineer. The advantages of the system were then be.
coming appreciated, and considerable improvements were
introduced in the construction of these works. An ap-
plication was made to Parliament in the year 1801 for
lease to construct the line, and a Bill was accordingly
granted.
The line extended from:Wandsworth to Croy—
don. In the march of modern locomotion the Surrey
Railway has only served as a landmark of the progress
of the system, and a recent Act of Parliament authorised
the dissolution of the company. The committee to
whom is entrusted the winding up of the concern are
now making arrangements for the removal of all the
works from Wandsworth to the termination of Pitlake
Meadow, near Croydon, as also on the branch from
Mitcham to Carshalton.

METROPOLITAN IMPROVEMENTS.—OR Saturday,
by order of her Majesty's Commissioners of Woods, &c.,
public notice was given that application will be made in
the next session of Parliament for powers to make now
streets in various parts of the metropolis, and also for the
construction of a new bridge over the Thames, in lieu of
the present Westminster-bridge. The improvements con-
templated will be found to be, by the follwingsynopsis of
a most important character. Commencing with the
westward part of the metropolis, it is the intention of the
Commissioners to construct a new street from the south-
east end of Charing-cross by the south-west corner of
Northumberland House to the north bank of the River
Thames, near the end of Whitehall-place, passing
through Angel-court, Craig's-court, and Great Scotland-
yard. From this point the new bridge is to be erected,
and a new street formed to the York-road, near
Sutton-street, and continued to the Westminster Bridge-
road, into which place it will come out nearly
opposite Mason-street. The next improvement is the
construction of a new street from the west end
of Long-acre to King-street, Covent-garden, coming
out into that street opposite Bedford-street : it will
cross Rose and Hart-street, and destroy a great many
small courts and alleys. The next improvement is form-
ing a new street from Westminster Abbey to James-
street, Buckingham-gate, by the destruction of those
dreadful dens of infamy lying between Tothill and Or-
chard-streets. Going to the east end of London, the
most important is the formation of a carriage way from
Great Tower-hill to Little Tower-hill, by the removal of
Postern-row ;at the present time a person wishing to
get from the former to the docks having to make a cir-
cuit of somewhat like a mile and a half. The next im-
provement in that part of the town has reference to the
approaches to Victoria Park. On the south side of the
Park a new street is to be formed from the East India
Docks, at Poplar, to Bow Common, and from thence
passing by the East London Cemetery, across the Mile-
end-road, and form a junction with Grove-road, which
is to be widened, to the south-entrance of the park.
From the western entrance a new street will be formed
across Bishop Bonner's Fields and Old Ford-road to the
Bethnal-green and Cambridge-heath-roads, near the new
church at Bethnal-green. Another road is to be formed
from the Hackney-road, near the junction with the Cam-
bridge-heath-road, to the Bishop's-road, and crossing the
Regent's Canal, communicate with a road across the
west corner of the park to Grove-street-lane, Hackney.
NUMEROUS SUDDEN DEATHS.—Mr. Baker held
three inquests on Saturday, on the bodies of persons
who had died suddenly. The first at the Leigh Hoy,
Church-street, Mile-end, on the body of Mary Sullivan,
aged 40. The deceased, about a fortnight since,
ie
com-
plained of a pain in her limbs and a violentcold.
procured the usual remedies, but died on Friday, at 12
King's o'clock. A second inquest was held at the Arms,
Shoreditch, respecting the death of Alfred James, aged
six months. The deceased for some time past had been
suffering from inflammation of the chest, from which he
expired on Saturday morning. The third inquiry was
concerning the death of a child named Frederick Ham-
mom', aged two years. The deceased, on Thursday
last, was playing about the house apparently well, but
died the same day at two o'clock. The jury, in each
case, returned a verdict of " Natural death."

A fire broke out on the 9th in the harbour of Bor-
deaux, on board the Desire brig. Only two men were
on board at the time. They were at supper, when acci-
dentally the candle fell, and set fire to some tow, which
communicated the flames to the vessel. As the Desire
was at anchor close to the Garonne steamer, it was
thought necessary to cut the moorings of the burning
vessel, and let her float away. She was carried by the
current to some distance, and at last foundered opposite
the Royal dockyard. No injury was caused to any
other Tool,

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THE ROBBERY BY A FRENCH-
WOMAN.
FAREITAM, HANTS, FRlDAY.—Yesterday Mademoi-
selle Malvina Florentine de Saumarez was brought be-
fore Mr. W. Thresher, one of the magistrates for Hants,
at the offices of Messrs. Paddon, clerks to the magistrates
of the Fareham division, to answer a charge of having
stolen a cash-box, containing about two hundred sove-
reigns, two double sovereigns, a guinea, and a cheque upon
the Fareham Bat* for the sum of 991. 135., the property
of Mr. J. Purkis shipbuilder, residing at Fareham,
Hants.

The prisoner, whs appeared dreadfully ill, was led into
the magistrate's room in a fainting condition; two me-
dical gentlemen were in attendance upon her; and several
times during the examination she was led out in fits. It
was stated that since her apprehension at the Railway
Hotel, Nine Elms, on Monday, she bad not tasted any
food, and it was with the utmost difficulty she could be
induced to take any that morning.
When asked her name, she stated it to be Malvin&
Florentine de Saumarez, but who her friends are, or
where they reside, she positively refused to answer.
The circumstances connected with this extraordinary
case have been already so amply detailed that a mere
outline of the evidence will be sufficient. It appeared
that the prisoner arrived at Southampton from Guernsey
about two months ago, and took apartments at a very
respectable boarding-house, to the landlady of which she
represented herself as the niece of Lady de Saumarez,
of Guernsey, to whom she had been on a visit, and that
after spending a few days in England, she intended to
go by way of Havre de Grace to Paris, where her
mother resided. Her ladylike deportment and fascinat-
ing manners so won upon the lady at whose house she
was staying that she introduced the prisoner to the
family of Mr. Purkis, at Fareham, at whose house she