The Sun.
London, England, 1844-04-16 00:00:00

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No. 16 122. LONDON T U ESDAY rq:ka F',72
Nl.l APRIL 16 1844.
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LITERAT'L _ N
1;
GASTO DE
_ollX. 3 Vols.
.Mortimer, Londbiz 1844.
Most readers of history are:Aquainted with the
.., range career of Gaston do Poix, Duke tie Nemours,
and nephew of Louis the Twelfth of France. At the
early age of twenty-two, this extraordinary.young
man made a successful stand against v:cli); of the
ablest commanders of his day, ovnrau all Lombardy,
of which he was appointed Viceroy, and closed his
triumphs by the decisive victory of Ilavritta, one of
the most fiercely contested battles of ancient or mo-
dern times, where he received his death-wound.
Gaston de Foix seems, like Napoleon, to have been a.
born genius for war; prudence, enterprise, and skin
were combined in him in nearly equal proportions;
and had he not been cut short in the very dawn, as it
were, of his greatness, there is little doubt that ho
would have achieved a renown in arms Second
to that of no warrior in molern - hist,:xy.
His character is delineated whir very re-
spectable accuracy . in the volume, _ 1-,efore u 3,,,
of which he is the hero, and the piliAcipll inci-
dents in his public career appear to be detailed
pretty nearly as they occurred, with but little help
from the fancy; while, by way of relief to the uni-
formity of a mere military chronicle, the antbor
has represented Gaston de Foix .as desperately
enamoured of a high-born Venetian girl, M.ariana,
daughter of the Count Avogaro, who has been taken
in arms against the authority of France, and is con.
demned to die the death of a traitor on a public
scaffold. The scenes wherein Gaston vainly endea-
vours to persuade Mariana to accept his hand,
assuring her that by so doing she will save her father's
life, are witten in a "very impassioned spirit, and con-
stitute by far the most effective portions of the story.
The closing sketch of the battle of Revenna is some-
what wire-drawn, and deficient in the nerve and
animation that should characterise such a description.

OIL FROM NEW ZEALAND.--Yesterday sifternoort
the brig Victoria, Captain Sinclair, arrived in the St. Katha--
rine's Dock, from New Zealand, with a cargo of oil, turpef2.-
tine,&c. Stte sailed from New Zealand on the 13th December.
REVOLTING CHARGE.—At the Bristol Quarter Ses-
sions on Tuesday, the Rev. Henry-ileathcote, who was de-
scribed in the' calendar as forty years of age,' and whO is a
clergyman of the Church of England, a married man with
two sons, was placed .at the bar charged with a series of
offences of the most disgusting character. It is utterly int..
possible to give 'the evidence, which • disclosed a state of'
moral depravity on the part of the prisoner scarcely possible
to.exist with sanity of intellect. As respects the first indict-
ment, the jury acquitted the prisoner of all the serious counts,
and found him guilty of only the common assault; on the
second indictment they found him not guilty of the intent,
but gull*, of the solicitation, and of the common assault.
The other indictment was withdrawn. The Recorder then.
on the first indictment, sentenced him to pay a fine of twenty
shillings ; for the offence in the second, of solicitation, &c.,
twelve months' imprisonment in the common gaol of the
city ; and for the common assault in that indictment to pay
a further fine of twenty shillings.—Baik Herald.
FUNERAL OF THE LATi.: LORD ABINGER.—This
mournful ceremony took place on Sunday morning last, at
the small village of Abinger, about four miles from Dorking,
in Surrey. The remains of the late noble Lord were removed
from Bury to London on Tuesday, by a special train on the
Eastern Counties Railway, °and subsequently conveyed to
Abinger Hall, where the body lay in state on Saturday last,
in one of the drawing-rooms of the mansion. At nine o'clock
on Sunday morning the melancholy cavalcade, with all the
trappings of funeral pomp, preceded by about thirty of the
Noble Lord's tenantry, attired in deep mourning, left the
Hall and proceeded to the church. On arriving at the church,
which was hung with black cloth, the procession was met by
the Curate of Abinger (in the absence of the Rev. Mr. Daw-
son, the Rector), who read the service in a very impressive
manner. This portion of the ceremony concluded, the coffin,
was re-conveyed to the churchyard, in one corner of which
the family vault is situate, Lady Scarlett, the deceased
Baron's first wife, hating been interred there in the year
1829. The body was here lowered into the grave in the
usual manner, and the customary prayers having been read
over it, the mournful procession returned to Abinger Hall.
LEAMINGTON, APRIL 15.—Duritur the Parliatnen-
tary recess there has been a large accession of visitors at this
watering=place, and the fineness of the weather has much
contributed to the gay appearance of its promenades and other
places of public resort. In the list of arrivals are the Duchess
of Cleveland and Lady Augusta Paulett, Viscount .and
Viscountess Newry, Lord Howard, Lord Macdonald; Lady
Grace Gore, Sir'George and. Lady Cockburn, Sir David ;e and
Lady Gould, Sir Seymour Blane, Bart., Colonel Carmichael,
Mr. and Mrs. Spottiswoode and family, Mrs. General Bowen,
Mr. and Mrs. Dalrymple, &c. The recent acceleration of the
Birmingham mail trains has proved a source of great advan-
tage here in the early delivery of letters, and the benefit of a
day mail to and from London is generally acknowledged by
all classes as highly serviceable to their interests.
AIMACICS.—There was a meeting of the lady
patronesses yesterday morning at Willis's, when it was
arranged that there not being any appointments for Thursday
beyond the opera, that the opening ball should be appointed
for that night, instead of the 24th inst., as originally content -
plated. It being the day on which the Queen holds her seem',
Drawing-room, and there not being any full-dress assembly
as usual announced by our leaders of fashion, the applica-
tions for the first subscription are likely to be exceedingly
numerous. Tolbecque will be unavoidably detained in Paris
until the ensuing week, so Collinet will, en attendant, direct
the orchestra.

•
BRIGHTON, MONDAY, APRIL 15.—Lord and Lady
Granville, who have been staying at the Duke of Devonshire %
house in Kemp-town all the winter, took their departure
this morning for London. Baroness Bray also left Brighton
this morning for London, after a stay of several months.
Lady Louisa and Miss Georgiana Lygon, Lord Calthorpe,
Lady Burnett, Lady Gamier, and Lord Win. Graham are
among our latest arrivals. The unexpected arrival of a
company of the Scots Fusilier Guards on Saturday afternoon,
and their being immediately placed on Palace duty, led us to
believe that we were to be honoured by a visit from some of
the Royal Family. The rumoured meeting of her Majesty
and the King of the French at the Pavilion was spoken of;
but on inquiry we ascertained that the Inniskilling Dragoons,
who were to have relieved the 7th Hussars, have been de-
tained at Sunderland, where a disturbahce was expected in
the collieries, and that the Guards had merely arrived to do
duty till quiet is restored in the north. Two troops of the
7th Hussars marched from Brighton this morning en route
to Cotentry. The remainder of the regiment will fellow on
Wednesday. The General Steam Navigation Company's
packet, the Menia, Captain Goodburn, arrived this morning
in Shoreham Harbour from Dieppe, with about fifty pas-
sengers, most of whom took their departure by railway, im-
mediately after their arrival, for London.
CORONER'S INQUEST.—Mr. Higgs held an inquest
on Monday evening, at the Rose and Crown, Knightsbridge,
on view of the body of Margaret Orger, aged sixty-eight.
William Woddock, boatman in the employ of the Royal Hu-
mane Society, stated that about six o'clock, last Saturday
evening, while he was dragging the Serpertine river for the
body of a young lady who was suspected to have drowned,
herself there, he found the body of the deceased on the south
side of the river, about two hundred yards from the bridge.
Witness conveyed the body to the receiving-house, where
every means were used to restore animation, but without suc-
cess ; deceased had evidently been in the water a long time.
Mary Elizabeth Phillips, an inmate of St. James's Work-
house, Poland-street, said that deceased was a widow, and
had latterly been an inmate of the workhouse with witpess,
arid in the same ward. Deceased had leave to go out last
Saturday for the day, and left the house at one o'clock in the
afternoon.• For some time past she had been suffering under
great depression of spirits. She was never seen after leaving
the workhouse on Saturday, and no one knew what had be-
come of her, until her body was found in the Serpentine.
She had been in the workhouse two years, and was much re-
spected there by the master and matron. John Brodie, de-
ceased's son-in-law, said that deceased had been dreadfully
affected, about two years ago, by losing the society of her
daughter, who went to America. She always said she was
well treated in the workhouse. One of the 'deceased's sons
had also been absent in America during the last three years,
and had never written to deceased, and that also preyed upon
her mind. Deceased had been very infirm for some years
past. Verdict—" Temporary insanity."

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SMUGGLING.—At the Rochester Petty Sessions,
on Friday, a Deptford waterman, named James Pattison,
was charged with having :on board his boat seven three-
quarter pounds of contraband smuggled tobacco, when in
Sea Reach, on the Bth instant. Lieut. Henry of the Coast
Guard Station at Holyhaven, deposed, that on the Bth
about twelve o'clock, he boarded defendant's boat in Sea
Reach. Witness was not in a galley, and had on a shoot-
ihllaphpea;thto.
rTechoerasmoleinciatora
shoot-
ing dress. -Found a box of cigars on the stern seats
another under the head sheeust:exceamnnuptlahrst,opaonfpaotnwremtoitrotefdthArt
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a
finafnp3riititsniagpii punishment, considerationstnhohil
ern shouldt nn nt no and the histb hee magistrates accordingly
hisotherßea cd defence,
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said
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Gravesend
lingldanwr:iestf
waterman,ioo anr
ienargts ioispno proved
,vsei
that he saw the cigars floating down the river on the day in
the recent City of London contest, is the question, but would not pick them up. The Chairman tola
Pattison that they must convict him, and gave him the
SALE OF HER MAJESTY'S
Delight,
vguessnes,ls,23blelotonngsin;g
stowatnhe SHIPS.--The following
the hammer at Soinwerse -hou2s3ei . The Lyra,
tderantoesbebel•railc
Govern-
ment candidate for Huntingdonshire,
andshortly to
Harriet bcie
guns, 432 tons n•
s;iti Jaseur,
guns, 387 tons ; Pylades, 18
(cutter), t1a4137,ar: tons; 10
guns, 231 tons ; Weazle, 10 guns, 237 tons ; Termagant,germe' 1
(lighter), 83 tons.

Mr. Charles Dickens and various other literary
gentlemen will be at the festival of the Governesses' Benevo-
lent Institution on Saturday next. As several noblemen and
gentlemen of distinction are pledged to support the Royal
Chairman on this occasion, it is expeeted that this entertain-
ment will be of peculiar interest. _

During Divine service on Sunday, a house in Aber-
deen was entered by false keys, and a large quantity of silver
plate, to the value of 801., was carried off. A house in
Dundee was broken into on Sunday, and a quantity of silver
plate, of the value of was stolen. Tuesday information
was received at the police-office here, that a quantity of
clot lies had been stolen-front a gentleman's house iu Glasgow,
and a ,loseription of the thief was also given. - Yesterday,
11PLevie, that active aiminal officer. §itecoded in appre-
hendire, the thief in a tome is the' lii,ish-strect. 'A pawn.
ticket for the stolen gfios, f4e,i;ed was found in
the man's possession.-?-Edinbaigh Court-W.
A:ND:DOTE OF TUE LATE Slit EDMIND
When' a vaang rn,,n, travelling' in pozA-chulie up
Shooter's-hill, a highwayman rode up, presented a pistol
into thewindow, tkad demanded ills money or his life.
Sir Etinutn3, then a very athletic man, seized the arm of
the ruffian, twisted the pistol from it, dragged him
through the window, and, placing him beside 'him to
keep him quiet, ordered the post-boy to drive on. The
humble supplications of the highwayman were answered
with, oße euay, bey; be easy, I won't hurt ye." Still
the conaeleuee-stricken robber kept pleading, till, at
length the chaise reached the captain's lodgings, when
he hauled the fellow out of the coach, walked up to the
garret, and locked themselves in. He dam took 'off his
own poet, and said, "Now, Sir, I neither mean-to hang
7e, nor hurt ye, but I'll just give you a broth of a beat-
ing," which; having ecoomplithed, he opened the door,
bade the robber be off; and.the next time he stopped a
?otteli, to rap at the window, and ask if Pat Nagle was
betbze he yentured to poke his pistol into it.