The Sun.
London, England, 1826-01-10 00:00:00

MURDEIt AT MARSEILLES.

A single individual, with the most atrocious
designs, caused great confusion on the afternoon
of the 28th, in two districts of Marseilles. The
following are the facts: " Laurent Lelong, known
by the name of Chariot), about 38 years of age,
a scavenger, and liberated galley slave, was dis-
charged from his place on account of his insubordi-
nation. Last Wednesday, about half-past four in
the evening, he went to the counting-house of
the dust-contractor, who had discharged him,
situated in the Rue de Recolettes, where he met
a fellow-scavenger, named Christ, who had been
put into his place, and whom he accused of being
the cause of his removal. A quarrel ensued be-
tween ttt►em : two servants of the house inter-
fered, but at that instant Christ was mortally
wounded, and the two persons who interposed
were likewise stabbed by the miscreant, but less
severely. The assassin escaped, and Christ ex-
pired in the street, just on the threshold. All was
in commotion ; the populace united the judicial
authority (in the person of the procureur du roi, the
Commissaries of the police, the Bens d'armes),
was on the alert to pursue the criminal. As he liv-
ed in the in closu re of the Minimes, M. Magy, one
of the Commissaries of the Police, went, accom-
panied by the public officers and his own men,
towards the quarter of the plain. Having ar-
rived at the Street of the People, M. Magy
caught sight of the murderer, and pointed him
out to Evrard, a soldier, who was under his
orders, and who immediately advanced to
seize him by the collar. No sooner had he
approached him, than he fell to the ground under
a mortal blow inflicted by this monster. Pursued
to the Street of the Cyprians, at the entrance of
the Street Nau, Lelong defended himself against
the attacks of Brion, a police officer; and, in
spite of the wounds which the latter gave him,
he stabbed the officer in the groin with the same
knife with which he had destroyed his former
victims. A marine then seized on him, and the
anal result was, that in the struggle, lie fell under
the attack of the soldier, and thus justice was
robbed of its victim.—(Courier Franiais.)

INHUMANITY Or A WORKHOUSE KEEpER.-OR
Thursday last a Vestry Meeting
was specially
convened.at Cambridge, to take into considera-
tion the conduct of John Allum, the Keeper of
the Workhouse in the parish of the Holy Trinity.
The Meeting was numerously attended, and it ap-
penred that a poor diminutive youth, of the name of
Itobt.Silk', about I 5 years of age, had been in the
house some years ; he was dumb and an idiot, in-
deed a more distressing object had never excited
the sympathies of the Immune. The charge against
Allow was, that he had during the severity of
this season, and for a long time previous, confined
this poor creature in au out-house, without any
fire, penned up in one corner, there placed upon
a board, without shoes or stockings, and with his
arms hare, and only a petticoat on, and some
coarse covering for the upper part of his body ;
there he was accuslomed to wait till night,
trampling in his filth, when he was put
into a crib or manger, with a small portion
of short straw. There was no chair or stool
in the hovel for this unfortunate victim
of severity to rest upon. The cruelty thus
practised reached the ears of Mr. Alderman Coe,
a Magistrate, who went to the workhouse, and
saw the young man in the situation above des-
cribed ; he instantly ordered him to be removed
into tire house, there to he clothed with shoes
and stockings, and be placed near the fire, and
otherwise taken care of. Two days afterwards
the worthy Magistrate called again to see the
youth, when, to his utter astonishment, he found
no attention had been paid to his directions
by the humane master; but tire unfortunate
creature was still standing upon the board,
penned in the same corner, and apparently in ex-
treme pain ; still without shoes or stockings, and
tire very water and dirt he stood in gushing up
between his toes. Mr. Farish, the Surgeon, who
in his visit accompanied the worthy Alderman,
instantly ordered him to be reruoved into
the house. He examined his feet and legs,
and expressed seine apprehension lest mortifica-
tion should ensue ; and gave directions for them
to be put in a warm bath, after other precau-
tionary measure had been taken. A Vestry
Meeting was held, a few days after this hap.
period, to transact the ordinary business of the
parish ; when Mr. Alderman Coe attended, and
informed the parish of what had occurrA. Allum
was immediately suspended, and directions given
for calling a Meeting to inquire into his conduct;
when the statement being confirmed, the Meeting
unanimously agreed instantly to discharge him,
for acts of cruelty, from Iris situation.—(Cam-
bridge Independent.)
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The public-house called the Elephant, in Fen-
church-street, supposed to be one of the oldest
in London, is at last condemned to be pulled
down. It is not perhaps generally known that
in this house the inimitabla. IIOGARTII enjoyed
many of his convivial meetings, and on the walls
of the tap-room of which are t►►o paintings frost►
his hand of convivial meetings, which may pro.
bably contain portraits not only of himself, but
of c•,haracters well known in his (lay. It is much
feared
Part of them will be able to be
ou the
preserved. The ein e
'lies ea
oft
esiern being
tenantede il illl
by
a respectable widow of the name of EATON,
whose family has held it nearly half a century.

MARRIED.
On the 7th inst., John Binns Wood, Esq., of WoodborrY.
down, Stoke Newington, to Maria, second daughter of BM"-
min Bel!chambers, Esq., of St. John-street.
On Sunday last, at St. Ann's, Blackfriars,
Park, collector of Yost Horse Duties to Miss Carliss of Picker'
ing, Yorkshire. , ,
lter
On Saturday, the 7th inst., at St. Luke's Church, A.
Finlay Tibbatts, L'N., son of the Luc John Tibbatts Esq., °
llotwood, Tyndall-place, Islington, to Miss Maria of aosw
street road. Mr. Thorne~

DIED.
On the 7th inst., at his houhe Scalcot-place, Lambeth, Ala"
ander Fulton, Esq., aged 62.
On the 9th inst., in Great Surrey-street, Elizabeth, the ettlr
surviving daughter of the late Samuel Levick, Esq., of 1.44)"
folk-street, Strand.
On Wednesday, the 4th inst., Mrs. Elizabeth Graven, 'fiat
of the late James Graves, coal-merchant, at Woolwich, in the
of Kent.

On the Ilth of November last, on his passage hams/ (TM,
Jamaica, Lieut. John Ilorsford Gibson, of the 33d re went,* .
on Tuesday, the 3d inst., aged frfl,
On the sth inst., at South Lambeth, G. Phillips, P'l
.-
aged 68.
f tha
late Mr. Robert King, of Maddox street, Hanover.square.
Ingering illness, aged 40.
On Friday last, at his house in Howland-street, Fitzroy,
square, Mr. John Parey, sen., mineral surveyor and engine"
of a paralytic stroke, in his 60th year. .
fter s
Sarah, the vac 0
On the Ist instant, at Knorren Lodge, Cumberland, A 14
of North Shields. '
Ned' On the 30th ult. the wife of Warren Al. I.famb, Esq•
castle-on-Tyne, deeply lamented.
Quinton 131ackbUrn, Esq. Orin° 1.
. st
On the morning of Tuesday last, somewhat suddenly, of
Hendon-Lodge, near Sunderland,- George ,Fenwick,• "'''' of
High Pallion, in the county of Durham,: eldest broker-6a
Thomas Fenwick, Esq. hanker, Newcastle-on-Tyne, 111""
deservedly respected and lamented.
Newcastle-on-Tyne, William Batson, Esq, In the 84th Year
sf:
On the 2.4 instant., at his house, in Northumberland-street,j
hicage. By his industry and strict 'attention to- busines
.17.
realized a very ;independent fortune; and what it amine 7,
portance, he leaves behind him the name of a benevolent t. 4
good man.
At Posen, on the 20th ult. the
Archbishop of Posen al4 ,
Onesen, Count Gorzenski, a very amiable Prelate, in the 84tn
year of his age,
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