The Sun.
London, England, 1851-04-11 00:00:00

A STRANGE STORY.

The following very strange story appears in one of
the Paris journals:—" A M. Macquart, contractor for
slaughtering horses at Montfaucon, purchased, four
days ego a lot of thirty-three worn out animals, and
amongst them were several which had formerly be-
longed to the army. The thirty-three were soon
killed, and the men proceeded to cut them up. Judge
of the stupefaction of one of the men, named Matelot, on
finding in one of them a small box in silver, containing a
cross of the Legion of Honour, and a paper, in a perfect
&ate of preservation, containing the following lines: 'As I
cannot survive the defeat of my Emperor, and as I have
neither wife, child, nor cousins, I am about to get myself
killed in a last charge against those scoundrels the Eng-
lish, and as I will not let them have my cross, I will make
my faithful horse Chateau-Margot swallow it. He will
give it up when ho can.

"` PIERRE DARDENNE.
"`Sergeant of the 21 squardron of Red Lancers.'
Matelot took the things to the commissary of police
of the district, and that functionary allowed him to
keep the silver-box. As for the cross, it was sent to
the Grand-Chancellerie of the Legion of Honour. From
documents published by the professors of the Ecole
d'Alfort, it appears that certain horses have lived to the
age of 45; that which Charles XII. rode at the battle of
Pultowa attained that age. The white charger of Napo-
leon lived 29 years. Chiteau-Margot is supposed to have
been about 40."

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
LAMBETH.
CHARGE OF Hf CUSF.ING AND ROBBERY.—Yester-
day Mary Ann Clark and Sarah Smith were placed
at the bar before Mr. Norton on a charge of drugging
and robbing Thomas Smith, at a common brothel
kept by the latter prisoner in Granby-street,Waterloo-
road.

_
The prosecutor, who described himself as a fish
salesman, deposed that on the evening before, when
passing the house of the prisoner Smith, he was in-
vited in and asked to stand treat. He gave Clai,k a
shilling, and she brought in some gin and half-ind-
half, of which he partook, and immediately atter he
lost all consciousness, and remained in a state of stupor
for some hours. When he came to his senses he found
that he was nearly naked, and all his money, about
27 shillings, gone. He told the prisoners, who were
still there, that he should smash everything in the
place if they did not restore his money, and, in a
struggle that ensued, he received a severe wound on
his right arm, and was obliged to be taken to the
hospital to have it dressed.
Mr. NORTON—What was the wound inflicted with?
Smith—l have no doubt, Sir, it was by a knife—
a black-handled table-knife that I saw in Clark's
band.

The prisoners, after being cautioned by the magis-
trate, and told that the charge was a very serious one,
to
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and acquaintances
the magistrate, said that from perfect similarity
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of the name, many of his friends
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Mr. NORTON replied that he had no doubt that the
gentlemen who represented the press would set the
matter right.

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Cut this out, and carry it about in
your vest pocket, ye who idle at the corners of streets.—
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