The Sun.
London, England, 1870-04-20 00:00:00

THE LATE DUCHESS OF. BEnitr.

The death of the Duchess of Berri recalls many
facts connected with Continental history, in which
she herself played no mean part. She was a daughter
of Francis 1., the King of the Two Sicilies, and sister
of Bomba, and aunt of the ex-Kinc,, Francis 11. At
18 she married the Duke of Berri, the younger
son of Charles X. After three years her
husband was assassinated, just as she was
expecting her confinement with the Duke of Bor-
deaux, known afterwards to the Legitimists of France
as Henry V. Throughout the two subsequent reigns
the Duchess took no active part, but after the revo-
lution of. July she went to Rome, and was there
secretly married to the Marquis Lucchesi Pall. In
1832 she headed an abortive insurrection in La
Vend6e, with a view of dethroning the Orleanists. The
deceased lady was arrested and kept a State prisoner;
but what to do with her when they had got posses-
sion of her was one of the many embarrassments
which beset Louis Philippe and his ministers. Fortu-
nately for her she was enceinte, and in order to save
her reputation confessed her marriage with the
Marquis Palli. After this fact came to light she
was released. Subsequently the Duchess led a quiet
life. She lived to see the House of Orleans in
exile, the Bourbons driven from Spain, Naples, and
Parma, and a Napoleonic dynasty established
in France.

T. PANCRAS AGAIN. —.Dr. _Edmunds, a member of the
rate Board of Guardians for St. Pancras, has applied to
the Marylebone Police Court for a summons against a
aadesman of Kentish Town for exposing a printed libel

in his window. The bill in question had no printer's
name, but in a mock strain of solemnity told
" The Chronicle of the Good Citycalled Pancras,"and the
"fair hospital at Highgate," and how the adversaries pre-
vailed against it. But the chief were Collins, which is
called Job, and Watkins, surnamed the carpet-beater,
and Edmunds, the apothecary. And it came to pass that
these men, moved thereunto by their mean manners and
their little hearts, sought to prove that there was no
cause or need for the fair hospital at Highgate, and they
took counsel together how they might destroy it. And
they said one to another ' Let us clear out the old hospital
and let there be many spare and empty beds.'" The sum-
mons was granted.

CHARGE AGAINST A PRISON WARDER.—A labouring
man appeared at the Westminster Police Court to make a
complaint against a warder at the Westminster House of
correction. His wife was in prison for being concerned
in a robbery, and hearing of her illness, he went to see
her, according to the regulations. When he arrived there
the warder refused him admission, on the ground that
he had formerly been an inmate of the Clerkenwell
House of Correction, which he denied. The
magistrate sent for the dtcputy governor who attended
with the warder who Peisisted in his statement. Mr.
Selfo thought it was hard the warder should be allowed to
refuse admission to visitors. The deputy-governor said
the warder should have referred the matter to the matron.
The complainant announced his intention of laying the
matter before the visiting justices.

A POLICEMAN ABSCONDING.—Martin Daly, late a,
police-sergeant of the K division, has been charged at the
Thames police court with absconding from the
force. He has been for many years in the
service, and has only lately been promoted to be sergeant
for good conduct and efficiency. A. few days after his pro-
motion he told the superintendent he wished to leave the
next day. This notice could not be received, as a month's
notice is required, but the next day he was missing from
parade. It was ascertained that he had embarked for
New York. The prisoner explained his conduct by his
distress at the elopement of his wife, and the magistrate,'
in consideration of his domestic misfortune, reduced the
penalty to 40s.

THE CASE OF CHILD STEALING.—The further examina.,
tion of Mary Connor on the charge of stealing James
Cheney, a child aged one year and nine months has been
heard at the Clerkenwell Police Court. Harry.
Harding was called, and stated that he re-
sided opposite the Islington police-station. On the
morning of the 6th of April he saw a child on the
police-station steps, which he was told had been put there
by a woman. He went over and saw the child there, and
gave information to the police. The prisoner was not the
woman who told him that the child was left. Other wit-
nesses were called who spoke to seeing the child at the place
named, and one was positive that the prisoner was the woman
who placed it there. The prisoner denied that she was the
person who had placed the infant on the door-step of the
police station. On the Thursday she had given a woman
the child to take home, and, for aught she knew to the
contrary, when she was taken into custody the child was
at home. She had not the least intention that the child
should be abandoned. Mr. Barker committed the pri-
soner to the Middlesex Sesssons for trial.
PEPPER IN THE EYES.—A basket maker, named Emily
Walden, has been charged with throwing pepper in the
eyes of a woman with whom she formerly lodged. The
woman was nearly blinded, and had to be taken to the
hospital before she could recover her sight. The prisoner
was remanded.
PLEDGING GOODS IN TRUST.—Benjamin Kimberly, an.
English agent for a French silk firm, has been com-
mitted for trial at the Mansion House for pledging
a large quantity of the goods entrusted to him for sale.
EXTRAORDINARY ROBBERY BY A BOY OF 13.—A little
boy, named Sydney Herring, 13 years of age, residing at
Mortlake, has been charged at the Richmond Petty
Sessions with stealing a gold watch, two gold chains (one
of which was valued at £l6), two gold earrings, five gold
finger-rings, one gold brooch, one silver and agate bracelet,
one tortoiseshell and gold brooch, a pincushion, a ring
case, two gold pins, and other articles, of the value of
£52155. 6d., from the house of the next-door neighbour.
Mrs. Lucas, the mistress of the house, missed her
property
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Herring, the mother of the prisoner, came in
and said it was her little boy who had stolen the property
and she had found some of it concealed in the garden.
Mrs. Herring said her suspicions were excited by finding
her own daughter's dressing case had been broken open,
but she was afraid to say anything until her husband
came home. When the boy was charged with the robbery
he said " If Mrs. Lucas will forgive me, I will shew you
I where hid some of the things." He was remanded, ball
being refused. It is thought that there must have been
an accomplice in the robbery,
_which was facilitated by
the house on the other side of Mrs. Lucas's being empty. ,

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