The Sun.
London, England, 1851-10-10 00:00:00

STRANGE STORY.

We find the following in the Gazette des Tribe-
naux :—"ln 1814 Lord W— was colonel of au
English regiment, and joined the allied army which
invaded France. Shortly before his departure from
Dover, where he was in garrison, the colonel marrie d
a rich heiress, but he left her with her family whilst
he went to encounter the risk of combats. The cam-
paign of France being terminated, nothing farther
was heard of the colonel ; it was known, however,
that his regiment had been almost entirely destroyed
in a combat with the French in the south of France,
but his death not having been regularly proved, some
law proceedings took place between the different
members of his family respecting property to a very
large amount. These proceedings, which are not yet
terminated, will, no doubt, receive a solution from
the following singular circumstances :—Some time
ago an old soldier, M. R--, residing in the envi-
rons of Marseilles, came to Paris on family affairs,
and took up his residence in an hotel in the quarter of
the Chaussee d'Antin. Having run short of money,
he begged the hotel-keeper, M. D—, to advance him
100 f., and as a guarantee he left him provisionally a
superb gold watch, ornamented with diamonds, and
on the back of which was the miniature of a
lady, with the initials E. W— M. R—
told the hotel-keeper that in a combat, in 1814, in
the south of France, he had wounded and taken pri-
soner an English colonel ; that the colonel dying
almost immediately after of his wounds, his watch bad
remained in his hands. He recommended M. D—
to take particular care of the watch, and he went away,
some days ago, announcing that he would soon send
by the messageries the sum lent, and 'demand restitu=
tion of the watch. Two days back there Was such a
numerous gathering of travellers in the hotel of M.
D—, that he was obliged to give up his own room to
an Englishman. On seeing the watch hanging over
the chimney the Englishman uttered a cry of sur-
prise, and examined it closely. From the minia-
ture on the back, and the replies of the hotel-keeper to
•
his questions, he recognised it as the property of his
brother, Colonel W—. With an obstinacy peen.,
not
liarly English, the Englishman wouldt
watch, and offered to pay 100,000
for it give up the
it required,.
for it was, with the testimony of _ the proof
of the decease of his brother, and the termination of
the law proceedings, which had been pending 30
yea
keeper could not dispose of it. To
years • but in the absence of the proprietor of the
satisfy,wat,c hthehowever,
hotel
the obstinacy of the Englishman he
called in the commissary of police, who consented to
take it as a deposit. The same day the Englishman
set out for Marseilles to seek for Mr. R '

RESToRATION OF DIOCESAN SYNODS. DERBY,
WEnszsDAY. —To-day a great public deliberative meeting of
the clergy of the midland counties and other parts of Eng-
land, for the purpose of promoting the revival of diocesan
synods, was held in the Athenaeum rooms of this town. The
meeting vas an adjournment of a similar gathering held a few
months since, and it is to be followed up by another, to take
place in London in January next. The chair was occupied
by the Rev. Thomas Collins; and among those present were
the Rev. W. Pound, of Melton ; the Rev. Canon Trevor, the
Rev. W. H. Teale, the Rev. Mr. Abney, the Rev. Arch -
deacon Denison, the Rev. Mr. Merryweather, the Rev. Mr.
Carter, the Rev. Mr. Grenside, the Rev. F. Mes:qngbtrd
(rector of Ormsby, Lincolnshire), Rev. G. Barlow, Rev. 11113
Sweet, Lev. Mr. Gilbert, Rev. Mr. Cooke (rector of Cut ..
bington, Warwickshire, and rural dean), &c. Several. influen-
tial.H. Dickinson, Captain
lay members of the Church also took- p9rt•lll the pr -
ci\eie„tolirnsognis„ammro.ntinN(Nirheoimi,
were adopted. awaedreothlerr.s.lT. no resolutions proposed
The accounts from the continental bourses state
that public securities presented
.sy.mptom3 of flatness, the
j amount of business having been limited.