The Sun.
London, England, 1834-07-12 00:00:00

PAGANINI AND MISS WATSON.

Paganini, in a letter to the editor of a Paris paper, has en-
tered into an elaborate defence of his conduct and intentions
with respect to Mr. Watson and his family, both of which he
complains has been so grossly misrepresented in the London
and Boulogne papers. After going—in a very bad spirit by
the way—into a variety of details, referring to his pecuniary
relations with the father, and boasting of the many munificent
things he had done for him, which are wholly alien to the
case, the Signor proceeds to the charge of abduction, with
which he has more urgently to do. Upon that subject his own
language is this—" I now come to the accusation of abduc-
tion, the burden of which is, that it was an anwurette which
actuated Miss Watson to join me at Boulogne. Perceiving
in that young person a great talent for music, which her father
was not in a condition to cultivate, I proposed to him to make
her my pupil, assuring him that after three years study she
would be able, by her talents, not only to secure an independ-
ence for herself, but be the means of assisting her family, par-
ticularly her mother. My propositions, at one time rejected,
at another accepted with warm expressions of gratitude, were
still undetermined upon when I quitted England, again re-
newing to Watson my offers in favour of his daughter, Miss
Watson, who, by the way, is 18, and not 16, as has been
stated, and has already appeared upon the stage, and with
every fair prospect of success, if it had not been marred. Not
feeling happy at home, she fled the paternal roof, andrecollect-
ing the proposition which I had made to her father, came, of
her own accord (so marked in the original), to claim protec-
tion from him whose counsels and kindness had encouraged
her to hope for a better future. It is not true, then, that I
have enleve Miss Watson, and if I had had any such intention
the opportunities for carrying it into effect were numerous and
seasonable enough, as she was often left alone in the house.
But I have the courage to avow that Miss Watson was sure of
finding in me the protection and assistance her father denied
her. In this, Sir, I obeyed only an impulse of kindness and
generosity which, instead of blame and false accusations,
would merit the praise of all well-meaning persons, who are
alone capable of appreciating a good action. As for those
who see in it but libertinism and disgraceful sentiments, I
treat them with pity and contempt. And to conclude upon
this unpleasant affair, I protest strongly that my conduct has
been without reproach, my intentions honest, disinterested,
and conformable to the ideas of morality and religion, both of
which inculcate the giving assistance and protection to the
oppressed. Thus my conscience is free from any pang as to
all that has passed respecting this young person, who deserves
a better fate. In conclusion,' I may say that I still feel
strong enough within myself to despise this fresh attack of
bad faith and malice against a man for whose life some glory
and false persecution appear still to dispute, without, how-
ever, at all shaking his courage.—NicoLo PAGANINI."

The Rev. John S. Wagstaffe, M.A., Curate of
Wycomb-cum-Chadwell, Lincolnshire, has been presented to
the Wednesday Lectureship at Grantham, void by the decease
of the Rev. W. P. Thackray. Patrons—the Mercers' Com-
pany of London.

M. T. SADLER, ESQ.—This gentleman, formerly
M.P. for Newark, and candidate for the representation of
Leeds at the first borough election, is no longer an inhabitant
of this town, having removed with his family to Ireland.—
Leeds Times.

We understand that while the Lord Chancellor
was delivering his speech in the House of Lords on Wednes-
day, certain ultra-Tory females were assembled in the gal-
lery, and attracted much notice by the indecorum of their
behaviour. In particular, one babbling Countess was heard
to give vent to her rage in the most foul and outrageous slan-
ders, and these being reported to the Noble and Learned
Lord, it is said that instructions have been given to com-
mence a prosecution. When females, whose chief ornament is
modesty and quiet, and attention to the duties of private life,
mix themselves in the fury of party, and become the propa-
gators of slander and falsehood, they lose the privilege of their
sex, and must expect to be treated as men would be in the same
circumstances.—Morning Chronicle.

It is understood at the Horse Guards that Major-
General Sir Frederick Mulcaster, K. C. H., will be appointed
Inspector-General of Fortifications, vice the late Major-Gene-
ral Pilkington, and Colonel Sir Howard Elphinstone, now
commanding the Engineers at Malta, will succeed to the
vacant commandership.
DEJEUNE AT WIMBLEDON PARK.—The Duke
of Somerset and the Ladies St. Maur gave their second grand
dejeune for the season the day before yesterday, to 250 of their
Noble Friends. The grounds presented a most delightful
scene in consequence of the late refreshing showers. The
refreshments were laid in the four principal apartments on the
ground floor. At five o'clock the company partook of a
dejeune a la
.fourchette ; and shortly after six o'clock dancing
commenced to the music of Litolff and Adam's fine quadrille
band. It was after midnight before the whole of the company
had retired.

SURGEON'S HALL, LINCOLN'S INN-FIELDS.—
Besides an enlargement by the addition of the site of the house
to the eastward, lately occupied by Mr. Pollock, very exten-
sive alterations are designed in the interior of Surgeon's Hall,
and for the effecting these it has been found necessary to re-
duce the edifice to the condition of a ruin. It has been dis-
mantled of its roof, and the front reduced to a level with the
portico, and of the interior nothing remains but the theatre,
and an internal party wall behind the theatre which runs in a
line parallel with the front. Even the poftico itself when the
front is reconstructed, must either be removed, or extended
eastward, in order to preserve the uniformity of the building.
POOR LAWS AMENDMENT BILL—PARISH OF
ST. CLEMENT DANES.—Yesterday foronoon a vestry meeting
of the above parish was held, to receive the Report of the
Committee respecting the proposed Act for altering the laws
relative to the poor, and to consider and decide whether any
and what measures shall be adopted by this parish relative
ReportErsgec" the senior Churchwarden, took
thethrecommended the inhabitants to pre-
ereto.
Chair. Joseph Holl,

_ . .
scra a peti-c:-, 'he House cf Peers egainsttli.s., Poor La: s'.'
Billtlrrml-thcs•rneetirt t•Tfti•afiriresscd by Messrs. Jon, -Edy,
aitColher -gentlema, agaNiFi the Bill.; and Messrs. Bannister
and Smith, in favour of it. Two-amendments to the :atop- -•
tion of the Report were proposed and seconded, to the effect,
that the vestry petition the House of Lords to pass the Bill,
and that the further consideration of the Report be adjourned
to the next vestry. After a long discussion, a petition to the
House of Lords against the passing of the Bill was carried,
and the vestry adjourned.

The New English Opera House will be opened to
the public on Monday next, which is within a few days of the
time originally specified for its completion, though it was by
many considered almost impossible that so large and elegant
a building could be finished in so a short a period. It is some-
what singlar that an architect of Mr. Beazley's acknowledged
skill and great experience should have made an omission in
the plan of the Theatre, which occasioned some perplexity.
It was not discovered until the building was nearly finished,
that no provision had been made for access to the gallery ;
and as the " gods" of the present day are not gifted with
wings, it was found necessary at the eleventh hour to con-
struct a wooden staircase outside, and to break an entrance
into the gallery through the outward wall.
We understand that Mrs. Butler has come to the
determination of remaining in this country, and will not, as anti-
cipated previously to her marriage, return to England. Mr.
Kemble will, however, shortly proceed to England, but intends
soon to return, to settle in this country.—New York Gazette,
June 17.

MRS. SIDDONS.—I was at Edinburgh one year
when she was electrifying the northern metropolis with many
characters, and with none more than this ( Queen Katherine).
One of her fellow performers (Mr. Russell) told me an in-
stance of her power in the part; a poor fellow, who played
the Surveyor in Henry VIII., was met by Mr. Russell com-
ing off the stage, having just received Queen Katharine's
(Mrs. Siddons's) rebuke—" You were the Duke's surveyor,
and lost your office on the complaint o' the tenants." The
mimetic unjust steward was perspiring with agitation. "What
is the matter with you?" said Mr. Russell. " The matter 1"
quoth the other ; " that woman plays as if the thing were in
earnest. She looked on me so through and through with her
black eyes that I would not for the world meet her on the
stage again."—Campbell's Life of Mrs. Siddons.

MEETING OF THE WINE AND SPIRIT TRADE.
—A meeting of the gentlemen connected with the wine and
spirit trade was held yesterday morning at the Commercial
Sale-rooms, Mincing-lane. Mr. Hathorne took the chair
about half-past one o'clock, and after a few remarks from him,
urging the importance of forming an association to protect the
trade, and to communicate with the public, Mr. Walton pro-
posed several resolutions in accordance with the object of the
meeting, and in the course of his address expressed the deter-
mination of the trade to resist the coalition which had been
formed between the London Dock Company and the St. Ka-
tharine Dock Company. If the trade did not resist the en-
croachments of that company, he contended there would be
nothing to prevent them from making a landing charge of 20s.
the butt, and making a charge for rent of Is. per week. The
resolutions were unanimously agreed to, and thanks having
been voted to the chairman and other gentlemen connected
with the trade, the meeting broke up.

On Thursday afternoon, between 2 and 3 o'clock,
the family of Holrop, Esq., of Grosvenor-place, Pimlico,
was thrown into much 'consternation and alarm by the dis-
covery that Elizabeth Emmerson, a young woman between 23
and 24 years of age, who held the situation of upper house-
maid, had attempted to destroy herself by cutting her throat
with a penknife. She was found by one of her fellow-servants
lying on the floor in her bed-room, with a frightful incision
inflicted across her windpipe, and her clothes saturated with
her blood, which was still profusely flowing from the wound.
She had but about half an hour previously sat down to dinner
with the rest of the servants, and nothing particular was
noticed in her manner or appearance. She had, however,
been rather in a desponding state of mind, through hearing
of the dangerous illness of her mother, who resides in the
country. The wound has not separated any of the principal
blood-vessels of the neck, and time is some hope of her sur-
viving. The knife with which she inflicted the wound she
had taken from her master's writing-desk.

What a curious thing it was, that all of a sudden
the remotest nation of the East, otherwise unknown and foreign
to all our habits, should convey to us a domestic custom, which
changed the face of our morning refreshments; and that, in-
stead of ale and meat, or wine, all the polite part of England
should be drinking a Chinese infusion, and setting up earthen-
ware in their houses, painted with preposterous scenery 1 We
shall not speak contemptuously, for our parts, of any such
changes in the history of a nation's habits, any more than of
the changes of the wind, which now comes from the West, and
now from the East, doubtless for some good purpose. It may
be noted, that the introduction of tea-drinking followed the
diffusion of books among us, and the growth of more sedentary
modes of life. The breakfasters upon cold beef and cool
tankards" were an active horse-riding generation. Tea-drink
ing times are more domestic, given to reading, and are riders
in carriages, or manufacturers at the loom or the steam-en-
gine. It may be taken as an axiom—the more sedentary, the
more tea-drinking. The conjunction is not the best in the
world ; but it is natural, till something better be found. Tea-
drinking is better than dram-drinking, a practice which, if our
memory does not deceive us, was creeping in among the po-
litest and even the fairest circles, during the transition from
ales to teas.—London Journal.

On Sunday evening a young woman, twenty years
of age, threw herself out of the window in the Rue de l'Egout.
She fell upon a woman carrying a child, both of whom were
seriously hurt, whilst she escaped without the slightest injury.
—Paris Paper.

UNHEARD-OF FEROCITY.—The day before yes-
terday the neighbourhood of the Rue St. Victor was horror-
struck by the commission of one of those atrocious crimes that
make one ashamed of his species. A man (if such an inhuman
fiend can be so called), residing in the Rue du Murier, tore
out the eyes of a woman who lived with him, cut off her
breasts, severed the head from the body, and cut the letters of
her name on her neck. The monster was immediately arrested
but not till a most determined resistance. He is said to have
gained his livelihood by thieving. --French Paper.
THE EMIGRATION COMMITTEE.--On Thurs-
day upwards of 340 female emigrants, under the direction of
the Emigration Committee, embarked in the Hero steamer, at
St. Katharine's wharf. The great majority of these females'
are young persons whose ages vary from sixteen t 9 twenty-five,
and among them were many whose personal appearance was
certainly prepossessing. They are all young women of good
character, and they are all obliged to furnish testimonials of
their respectability befere they are allowed to embark. Among
them were a mother and seven daughters, a father and mother,
the.former of them a fine specimen of the old English yeoman,
accompanied by ten daughters and two sons. Several whole
families almost equally numerous. There were in the whole
15 agricultural families. These emigrants are to be conveyed
to Sydney, in Australi;, at an expense to themselves of 5/. a
head, the Government paying the additional expense of their
passage, and in cases where they are not in a situation to pay
the 5/. immediately, time is allowed them to make the payment
after their arrival at the place of their destination. They were
all in the best possible health, but showed great regret and
sorrow at taking leave of their friends and relations.

SWAN RIVER.—(From a Correspendent.)—Ac-
counts have been received to the 14th of February from Swan
River. The natives continue on friendly terms, and at Free-
mantle, Perth, and Guildford, often receive provisions from
the settlers. Some of the natives had caught the hooping-
cough from the soldiers, and suffered much from it. The co-
lony was going on favourably, but the settlers were very anxi-
ous for the return of the Governor, Sir James Stirling, in
hopes that he might be enabled by Government to carry on
further improvements. The barracks of Perth were nearly
completed: they are built of red bricks, which cost on the
spot 20s. per 1,000. A large building for a Government store-
house has been commenced. A wild herd of cattle, nearly to
the amount of 200, had been discovered on the Murray River.
The natives, on seeing a picture of a group of cattle, made
known that they had seen these wild cattle, and Mr. Narcott,
the superintendent of the native tribes; was conducted by them
and found the herd grazing in a fine pasture. It consisted
chiefly of cows and calves ; they are supposed to have sprung
from some which strayed from the earliest settlers. Free-
mantle would soon be a fine town, but that labour is so dear,
as most of the materials for.building are abundant and cheap.
Stone is found two feet under the surface of the ground ; it is
soft when first dug, and hardens when exposed to the air.
Lime is from 9d. to Is. per bushel: timber also is cheap. The
high price of labour holds out great inducements to labourers
to emigrate to this settlement ; and some who had left the co-
lony have returned from Van Diemen's Land, and others would
follow their example had they the means of paying for their
transport thither. The settlement at York, on the river Avon,
which is the most distant from the coast, is going on prospe-
rously, and is surrounded by an extensive tract of land, which
proves suited both for grazing and culture.

Last week Mr. Best held an inquest on the body of
a man who was found dead in a coppice called Sling, or Heath
Coppice, in the parish of Cropthorne. The discovery of the
body caused much excitement in the neighbourhood; several
scars and bruises observed on the head and neck of the de-
ceased, coupled with the circumstances of the body having
been found in so private a situation, inducing a belief that he
had been murdered. After, however, an inquiry lasting se-
♦eral hours, with a jury of 21, an unanimous verdict of " Died
by the visitation of God, from inflammation of the stomach
and bowels," was returned. The head and body were most
minutely and carefully examined by Mr. Haynes, surgeon, and
his opinion being that the scars and bruises were not sufficient
to cause his death, but that inflammation of the bowels was
the immediate cause, the jury decided as above. The de-
ceased had the appearance of an Irish cloth-seller. The
cloths, &c., are in the care of the constable of Cropthorne,
who will show them to any friend of the deceased who may
apply. One sovereign and eleven half-sovereigns, with some
silver and copper, were found in his pocket. We subjoin a
description of his person, &c. :—Apparently about fifty years
of age, about five feet nine inches high, thin visage, prominent
and good teeth, aquiline nose, dark brown hair, intermixed
with a few gray ; shabby black hat, blue coat with gilt buttons,
very much worn ; gray gambroon trousers, black and white
checkered waistcoat, light shoes, and dark worsted stockings,
with coloured neckerchief. Upon him were found a penny
loaf, about half a pound of brown sugar, a comb, a razor, some
cheese, map of England and Wales, tin cup, black holland
purse with gilt clasp, small pencil, pocket knife, two blades ;
large key, about the size of an inner-door key; and a pair of
cotton socks stitched up in the waistband of his trousers__
Worcester Journal.