The Sun.
London, England, 1845-07-29 00:00:00

MATRICIDE.

On Sunday, the 16th of February last, the children of
Jacques Jordy, a woolspinner, at Guebwiller, who had
been at an evening service, returned to their mother, who
had been an invalid for five weeks. Salone, her eldest
daughter, on entgring her mother's room, called to her,
but received no reply. She remarked that the bed was in
disorder, a knife lying on it, and that there were marks of
blood on her mother's face. Becoming alarmed, she went
up to her, and found she was dead, and immediately ex-
claimed that her mother had been murdered. The marks
of a man's fingers were visible on her neck ; her face was
black, and the body much bruised. The doctor, who
was called in, did not hesitate to declare that her death
had been caused by strangulationTrom the handkof a man,
who had knelt on the body of the victim. Suspicioa fell
on Chratien Jordy, youngest son of the deceased. During
vespers he had remained at the bedside of his mother,
and about four o'clock had been seen to leave the house,
to which he had not since returned to take share in the
general affliction. The next evening the officer of gen-
darmerie, charged with his arrest, found him at the foot
of his blind old father, of whom he was imploring for-
giveness. Shedding abundance of tears, and delivering
himself up to the utmost despair, he avowed all. " I
asked my mother," said he, "to buy me a cap. She
refused, and I attempted to strike her, and menaced her
with my knife. She screamed. Confused and maddened,
I knelt upon her ; with one hand I stifled her cries, and
with the ether strangled her. lam a wretch. Pardon—
pardon me, father." But the old man, strongly excited re-
plied, Thy mother alone can pardon thee." The above
facts were elicited in evidence at the trial of the prisoner
on the 26th ult., at Colmar; the prisoner persisted in his
confession, and exhibited the most lively remorse. The
jury found him guilty, but with extenuating circum-
stances, and he was sentenced to imprisonment for life,
with exposure in the public square of Guebwiller.—
Gazette de Tribunaux.

THE PADDLE-WHEEL AND SCREW.—The Me-
chanics' Magazine, in an article under the above:head, after
describing a trial of speed which took place recently down
the river, between the royal yacht tender Fairy, propelled
by the screw, and the Meteor paddle-wheel steamer, when
the latter had considerably the advantage, observes,—" We
are not aware that any material exception can be taken to
the fairness of this trial, on account of any difference in
point of tonnage or steam-power between the two vessels.
The Meteor was 170 feet in length, and 18 in breadth ; the
Fairy 145 feet and 21.2 feet. The former draws 4 feet 5
inches, the latter 4 feet 9 inches. The cylinders of the
Meteor are 37 inches in diameter—stroke, 3 feet; the cylin-
ders of the Fairy, 42 inches—stroke the same. The Meteor,
therefore, though it is the larger and (perhaps) better pro-
portioned vessel of the two, and presents a less midship
area of resistance than her rival, is decidedly her inferior in
point of steam-power." The writer then contrasts the per-
formances of the Fairy with those of another well-known
screw-vessel—the Waterlily. The Fairy made the distance
between Greenhithe and Portsmouth in 18 hours, including
four minutes' stoppage at Dover. " The Waterlily left
Blackwell at 37 minutes past one o'clock on the afternoon of
Thursday, the 3d inst., and performed the passage to Ports-
mouth-harbour in 17 hours 11 minutes, having had to en-
counter a strong head-wind all the way from the North Fore-
land, her average speed during this trip being something
over fourteen miles an hour." " The Waterlily,' it is added,
" is a smaller vessel, and of less engine-power, than either the
Fairy or Meteor. Her length is 132 feet; breadth, 16 feet 6
inches ; cylinders, 291/2 inches ; stroke, 14 inches. Seeing
that she went the distance from Blackwell to Portsmouth in
17 hours 11 minutes, this is a greater performance than that
of the Fairy, which took 17 hours 56 minutes to pm form the
distance from Greenhithe (only) to the same port of des-
tination."

TRADE :OF PAISLEY.—We learn that our weavers
are at present on full employment in the preparation of plain
cloth for printed shawls of a cheap description. It will be ob-
served, that her Majesty has had the condescension to exhibit
specimens of our Paisley manufactures to her royal visitors, the
King and Queen of the Belgians, and we earnestly hope that
those expensive and finished productions of the Paisley loom
will ere long be the prevalent fashion among the higher circles,
and thereby give ample and profitable employment to our
manufacturing population.—Renfrewshire Advertiser.
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cious answer, with a donation of 1201. sterling.