The Sun.
London, England, 1834-10-16 00:00:00

CRICKETTING.

The return match between Brighton and Duncton was
played in Sir John Byng's Park, near Petworth, on Monday
and Tuesday, in the presence of a large concourse of specta-
tors, and terminated in favour of Duncton by five wickets.
The batting of Box, the Brighton wicket-keeper, and Mr.
Broadbridge, one of the crack players of Duncton, was a fine
display of cricketting ability, and excited great admiration.
The Duncton rustics proved their superiority as bowlers—
hence the success which attended their exertions; but in point
of batsmen, Brighton has the superiority. The famous bowler
Lillywhite, who is considered a Brighton player, was excluded,
or the game would, we opine, have taken a vary different turn.
Sir John Byng, the patron of the Duncton eleven, was exceed-
ingly gratified with the success of his party. The game IA as
as follows :—Duncton, first innings, 73 ; second ditto, 25 ; total,
98 : Brighton, first innings, 49 ; second ditto, 48 ; total, 97.

ASSIZES OF THE LOWER LOIRE, OCT.i.

(Under the Presidency of M. PAULIZAC.)
JEALOUSY AND MURDER.

As soon as the doors were opened the court was filled
almost exclusively with females, whose curiosity had been
excited by the circumstances of this case, there being
scarcely a male visage to be seen.
Jullen Tatard, aged 44, a shoemaker, was accused of
the murder of Auguste Bracquemard. The prisoner was
rather a good-looking man, very stout, and having the ap-
pearance of great strength. He appeared in the uniform
of the National Guard, and was decorated with the cross
of July. He seemed to labour under great emotion ; he
concealed his face in his hands, and continued to shed tears
during the greater part of the trial.
It appeared that on Sunday evening, the 31st of August
last, as the prisoner and deceased were returning home,
after having supped together with some friends at a small
public-house not far from their residences, prisoner and de-
ceased quarrelled, and subsequently fought, in the Chemin
de Misericorde ; in the contest Tatard received a wound in
the arm, though not of a serious nature, but Bracquemard
received two stabs in the breast, of which he died during
the next day. It was rather remarkable, that out of 12
witnesses who gave evidence on this trial, the depositions of
11 were iu favour of the prisoner, and strictly corresponded
with each other in the main facts of the case. The one
that differed from the rest was the brother of the deceased.
The substance of the evidence was as follows :
Bracquemard, who passed in his own neighbourhood for
a man of violent passions, and was very prompt in making
use of his knife when he quarrelled with any one, had se-
veral times left his wife and travelled about the country,
leaving her to pay the house rent and provide for her chil-
dren as well as she could, without troubling himself at all
as to the means she used. She was consequently obliged
to sell her furniture to provide herself and family with sus-
tentation. The absence of Bracquemard continued many
months together. On one occasion he stayed at Paimbceuf
six months, and on another eight at Tours. During his
last absence she was put to great straits, and undertook to
wash and act as housekeeper for Tatard, who is a widower.
Julie Dilet, the wife of deceased, is 34 years of age, ten
years younger than the prisoner, and a report got bruited
about that an illicit commerce existed between them, which
inspired Bracquemard with strong feelings of jealousy. On
his return to Nantes he made his mother take back the
linen to Tatard which his wife had then to wash, and de-
sired her to tell him to abstain from any further intercourse
either with himself or his wife. The mother of Bracque-
mard delivered the message she was intrusted with, and,
according to her own statement, was not very well received.
She added, that he said " This fellow shall not prevent me
speaking to him in the streets ; nor shall he give me the
credit of disturbing his peace for nothing. I'll make him
pay for it, if I lose my decoration of July, or even my life
by it. When he thinks me his best friend, I will take ad-
vantage of my situation, and if I fire a pistol at him I'll
warrant he shan't escape."

This statement was denied by another witness, who de-
posed that on the 15th or 17th of August, Tatard having
yielded to the repeated invitations of Bracquemard to go
and sup with him at the cabaret, he saw the latter throw
his wine under the table to keep himself sobs r,while he
continued to fill Tatard's glass and persuaded him to drink,
When they left the house Bracquemard took hold of Ta-
tard's arm, and said to him, " I know that you think me
guilty of the death of your brother" (it was said that the
brother of Tatard had died from injuries once received in a
quarrel with Bracquemard), and pointing toward the
Chemin de Misericorde, said " There is the place !".
Why, I certainly always thought so," replied Tatard.
" Very well, then," said Bracquemard, throwing off his coat
and waistcoat, "let's have it out." A fight then took
place, and their friends had much difficulty in separating
them. Bracquemard then snatched up his waistcoat, took
his knife from his pocket, and just as he was opening it
some one cried out, " What are you going to do, you
scoundrel ?" and seizing the knife, shut it and gave it to his
wife. This encounter took place about a fortnight before
the occasion on which Bracquemard lost his life.

On the evening of this tragical occurrence, when the
party had been supping together at the house before alluded
to, the wife of the deceased was going to take his arm, but
he would not let her, and kept behind with Tatard ; all the
others of the party were walking about two hundred yards
before, singing as they went, when suddenly cries for help
were heard, and [Met, the brother-in-law of deceased, ran
back and separated the two combatants. He pulled de-
ceased away, and as he was doing so, he struck a blow at
him with his knife. Some of them called out " Dilet is
wounded !" upon which his wife fainted away, and while the
attention of the others was drawn towards her, Bracque-
mard rejoined Tatard, and in his turn finding himself
wounded, called out, " You have used your knife." This
exclamation was followed by cries for wisistance, and
when one of the party ran up he found deceased seated
on the bank at the road side, with his legs in the ditch.
Dilet took him up on his shoulder and carried him off; as
he passed under a lamp he perceived that he (deceased)
was losing blood very fast. A medical man was sent for,
who did not think the wound dangerous ; he came to see
him the next morning, and went away without saying any.
thing. A few minutes after deceased expired.
Tatard (the prisoner) after the fray was over, said to
several of his companions, as well as to the surgeon who
bound up his arm, " If Bracquemard has not killed me, it
was not for want of trying." The knife of deceased was
produced ; it was stained with blood, and the prisoner and
a witness recognized it as his (deceased's).
Julie Bracquemard, widow of the deceased, stated that
when angry her husband was in the habit of using his knife,
and showed several scars of wounds she had received at his
hands in proof of her statement.

Bracquemard, the mother of deceased, said that the pri-
soner was the cause of the quarrels which took place be-
tween her son and his wife ; she entreated her daughter-in-
law to break off the connexion with him, but her advico
was disregarded. She believed that prisoner and her
daughter-in-law had premeditated the death of her son.
Jean Minguet deposed that he heard Tatard say one day,
when he was hammering the sole of a shoe on his lapstone,
that he should like to strike as hard upon the head of
Bracquemard.
Counsel having been heard on both sides, the jury, after
a short deliberation, Acquitted the prisoner.
As soon as the result of the trial was known, crowds of
females assembled round the gates of the Palais de Justice,
waitinc, for the widow of the deceased, in order to inflict
punishment' on her. She was consequently obliged to wait
at the lodge until an• opportunity should present itself for
her to escape without molestation.

THE POET.—If nature bath been more lavish of
her bounties to one being than to another, it is surely to the
poet. 'What is there within the realms of thought, or the
reach of imagination, and he calls it not his own ? Sun, moon,
and stars, form a portion of his acknowledged heritage : the
beasts of the forest are his, and the sheep and cattle upon a
thousand hills ; and yet, amid all this abundance, he sitteth
down to a table that would shame the vegetable meals of
Franklin.

The Revue Encyclopedique gives some very inte-
resting information relative to the children who are abandoned
by their parents throughout France, and who are supported in
the hospitals and other institutions of the country. The
Revue states, that according to official accounts that have been
made, since the year 1819, the number of foundlings had in-
creased from 99,346 to 122,981. The last number was during
the year 1831, since which period no accounts have been made
up. According to the law, the male children should be placed
on board the vessels of the Royal Navy, but the captains are
so averse to take them, on account of their birth, that but very
few are employed in this manner. They are under the care
of the nurses until they arrive at the age of 12 years, from
which time, until they arrive at the age of majority, they are
employed in the fields and in various ways, but do not receive
any salary for their labour. After the age of 21, they are
turned into the world to seek their own subsistence. Accord-
ing to the statistics of the mortality among these children, it
appears that formerly nine died out of every ten before at-
tuning the age of 12 years. At the present time the average
is about one in three. In 1830, 198 died out of 593 who
were admitted into the hospital of Montpellier. This amelio-
ration is accounted for by the increased sum which has been
allowed for the children's support, and likewise to the visits of
the medical gentlemen, who have by a recent regulation bee-
appointed to that service.

THE LATE INGENIOUS ROBBERY AT THE
CASTLE AND FALCON INN, ALDERSOATE-STREET.—It ap-
pears that the fellow who committed the ingenious and expert
robbery at the Castle and Falcon Inn on Sunday last, had a
short time since succeeded in a similar one at the George and
Vulture Tavern, in George-yard, Lombard-street, and carried
away a large sum in sovereigns, which were deposited in a
portmanteau belonging to a gentleman who stopped there, and
which was deposited in his room. Lea, the Lambeth-street
officer, who has taken much pains to discover the offender, suc-
ceeded in ascertaining the number of the cab which conveyed
him from Aldersgate-street, and from the driver he learned
that he drove him to the Bull and Mouth booking-office in
Regent-circus, where he got out, took in his luggage, a port-
manteau and a carpet-bag, and inquired at what hour the first
Dover coach would start, and being told at seven o'clock in
the evening, he discharged the cabman, who he had paid
Is. 6d. more than his legal fare, in consideration of his going
out of the usual route there, and driving very fast. Lea had
further ascertained that he had taken another cab there, and.
drove about to different places ; and after the most minute in-
quiry he found that a person answering the description of the
offender had taken his place on one of the Dover coaches at
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