The Sun.
London, England, 1844-04-01 00:00:00

SUMMARY et MEWS

AND

iptitatt Opinton.

" Who runs nzay read."

FOREIGN.

The Princess Clementine of Orleans, Duchess Augustus of I
Saxe-Coburg Gotha, was on Thursday morning, at a quarter-
past five o'clock, safely delivered of a Prince, who, by corn-
mend of the. King, received the Christian names of Philippe
Ferdinand Marie Auguste Raphael, by which he was chris-
tened, at five in the afternoon, by the Archbishop of Paris, in
the presence of the whole of the Royal Family, the Chancel-
lor, the Grand Referendarv, M. Cauchy, Keeper of the Ar-
chives of the Chamber of Peers, the President of the Council,
the Keeper of the Seals, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, &c.
In the evening the King gave a grand dinner, to which all
the witnesses were invited.
The contest between the Government and the clergy on
the Education Bill becomes every day more keen. On Satur-
day, the Minister of the Interior received dispatches from the
Prefects of Morbihan and Finisterre, which give a most un-
satisfactory account of the state of these provinces. The
smaller clergy are doing all they can to excite the people;
and a great number of instances are given in which the
priests interrupted Divine Service to harangue the people on
the attempts made to destroy religion.
The National says:—" A letter from Marseilles, which
has been communicated to us, mentions that the son of the
Austrian- Admiral, M. Bandeira, has quitted Smvrna in a boat
with a few sailors of the port. It was asserted that this de-
parture was caused by certain unthinking acts, such as
young men might commit, but it is now known that the
cause was of a far graver character, and that a political
motive has caused this step."
The Civil Tribunal of Paris, on Friday, pronounced a sen-
tence of separation between an English married couple named
Langley. -The suit was instituted by the wife on the ground
of adultery on the part of the husband. The wife demanded
a division of their property ; but the Court, feeling itself
bound by the laws and customs of England, refused this claim,
and decreed the husband to make her an annual allowance
of 1,200 francs. The separation will, of course, hold good
only in France.
Before the Court of Assizes, on the same day, M. Dezami,
as editor of a work entitled " Almauach de la Communaute,"
was prosecuted for having therein attacked the rights of pro-
perty, committed an outrage against public morals and reli-
gion, exciting-contempt against the laws and hatred between
different classes of the people. Being found guilty, be was
sentenced to four months' imprisonment, and a fine of 200 fr.
The adulteration of salt is still going on in Paris with in-
conceivable audacity. From 27 to 30 millions of kilogrammes
are used every year in the capital, and of that quantity two-
thirds are said to be adulterated. The substances used are
earth, saltpetre, sulphate of soda, sulphate of lime or plaster,
and water, to add to the weight.
The Leipsic Gazette has the following from Constantinople,
March 5 :—" Rifaat Pacha has just given the most satisfac-
tory answer to the Ambassadors of }ranee and England on
the question of the persecution of renegades. It is not
known whether Sir Stratford Canning will insist on a formal
hatti-scheriff ; but, if he should do so, the Baron do Bour-
queney will concur with him."
The Russian Court has gone into mourning for 24 days, for
the late King of Sweden.
A letter from Vienna, March 23, in the Augsburg. Gazette,
states that the report of Prince Michael of Servia, who re-
sides at the Austrian capital, having applied, in quality of an
Ottoman subject, to the Turkish Ambassador for a passport
for England, is unfounded.
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_LAW AND POLICE!.

At the Bodmin Assizes, awoman, named Elizabeth Moire,
was indicted for killing her son, a boy twelve years of age, by
striking him on the head with a stone. She had flung it at
the child in a moment of passion ; it did not appear she had
any intention of hurting it. The jury returned a verdict of
guilty; brit the Learned Judge said she was more an object
of compassion than of punishment, and sentenced her to one
day's imprisonment only.
The assizes of the Midland Circuit was opened at Coventry,
on Thursday, by Lord Chief Justice Tindal and Mr. Baron
Gurney. There were sixty-eight prisoners for trial, but the
offences charged were, for the most part, of an extremely
light character. One man stood charged with stealing an
egg, value a penny, and another with stealing an osier, value
a halfpenny. The former was sentenced to imprisonment for
fourteen days, and the latter was acquitted. In the former
case the Learned Judge strongly censured the prosecution,
and disallowed the expenses.
At the Liverpool assizes, William Bethell was indicted for
uttering a forged acceptance for 171/. 75., with intent to de-
fraud William Maddock. In a second count, the uttering was
alleged to be with intent to defraud Messrs. John and Thomas
Johnson. The prisoner was found guilty, and transported for 15
years. At the same assizes, Thomas Stanley Sudlow was sen-
tenced to two years' imprisonment for forging a cheque for 55/.,
with thlintention of defrauding Messrs. Jones, Lloyd, and
Co., bankers. Ann Jones, at the same assizes, was trans-
ported for seven years for procuring a false entry to be made
in the Registry of Deaths.
At the Oxford Assizes, a Miss E. Harbert brought an
action of breach of promise of marriage, against a respectable
farmer named Edginton. Everything had been arranged for
the wedding, when the defendant received an anonymous
letter, charging the complainant with being addicted to
drinking—in consequence of which the defendant broke off
the match. The attempt to prove the charge by evidence,
failed, and the jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff,—
damages 2001.
At the Assizes at Norwich, two young men named Samuel
Howlett and Thomas Williamson, were indicted for adminis-
tering a poisonous drug to a woman named Ellen Jarvis,
with the intent of procuring abortion, from the effects of
which she died. The evidence not being sufficient to sup-
port the charge they were acquitted.
CFOURT-10.ASNIONABILE.
Her :Majesty having taken Lady Isabella Blackford's
marine villa, Osborne House, near Cowas, for a term, the
Lords of the Admiralty have ordered a pier, or jetty, to be
forthwith constructed contiguous to the mansion.
The Duchess of Gloucester, whose health continues to im-
prove, is expected to leave Gloucester House, Park-lane, to-
day, for Bagshot Park for the recess.
The Duke of Cambridge continues an invalid at Kew
Palace, arising from gout.'
The Duchess of Buccleuch has left Montague House for
Broughton House, near Kettering, where the Duchess re-
mains with her family during the recess. The Noble Duke
comes to town to-day from visiting Lord Montague at Thames
Ditton' and on Wednesday goes 'to Northamptonshire.
The Duke and Duchess of Bedford have arrived at Syne-
head Court, on a visit to Mr. E. and Lady Caroline Sandford.
The Duke of Cleveland has arrived in St. James's-square,
from Raby Castle, Durham, where the Duchess and Lady
Augustus Paulett are staying till after the holidays.
Earl and Countess Cowper left town on Saturday, on their
return to Pansanger, Herts.
The Earl and Countess of Warwick, Lord Brooke, and
Lady Caroline Neeld, left Warwick Castle in the early part
of last week, for Bath.
The Earl and "iCountess of Jersey have gone to Belvoir
Castle on a visit to the Duke of Rutland, who is surrounded
by a distinguished circle of friends at that splendid residence.
Mdlle. D'Este has arrived at Mivart's Hotel for the season.
Hon. Miss
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Hndnytly, Lord and the
Jane Peel, Lord
and Lady Gray (of Gray), Miss Cochrane, Mr. and Lady
Janet Walroud, &c., are among the numerous fashionables
who intend to pass the Easter recess in the French capital.
return to Mivart's Hotel, from a tour in
the manufacturing districtsed
Prince Nicolas Troubetskoy, accompanied by M. Andre de
Miklackersky,
has .
Earl Delawarr is not expected to leave town until after the
departure of the Court for Windsor, when his Lordship pro-
ceeds to Buckhurst Park for the holidays.
MISCELLANEOUS.
.

Mr. oConnell arrived in Dublin on Friday evening, in
excellent health and spirits.
The millowners of Belfast have declared against the
ten-hour clause. A meeting of the body was held at the
Commercial-buildings, Belfast, on Wednesday last, when the
general opinion seemed to be that any deviation from twelve
hours would be prejudicial both to the employer and the
employed. The same parties have requested Mr. Mulhol-
land, one of the most extensive of the Irish linen yarn-manu-
facturers, to put himself in communication with a Scotch and
English gentleman. and that the three should form a depu-
tation to Sir Robert Peel, for the purpose of inducing the
Executive to interfere with the French Government in refo.
rence to the contemplated increase of duty on linen yarns.
The Working .Men's Association of Exeter being desirous,
according to the Western Tines, of testifying.their sympathy
with the oppressed Irish, sent an invitation to Mr. O'Connell
toot,
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ayof some days, in consequence
authentically known to Mr. O'Con-
nell, and he having been deceived, now makes it a practice
never to reply to letters unless the parties are known
to . him, the honourable arid learned gentleman ex-
pressed his great regret that he could not accept their
invitation, and in his reply paid some high and well-
merited complements to the working men of England.
Afterbeiiig a del
On Saturday night, the Marquis of Northampton, Presi-
dent of the Royal Society held his last conversuzione for this
season at his residence in Piccadilly. The attendance of Fel-
lows was very numerous, above 350 being present.
A beautiful phenomenon of the conjunction of Mars and
Venus appears now every evening in the west, and will con-
tinue for some time.
Miss Quentin, daughter of General Sir George Quentin, is
included in the reductions of the Palace; she retires on a
pension of 3001. a year.

SUPPLEMENTTO THE LONDON
GAZETTE OF FRIDAY LAST.

-—— -
Lord Chamberlain's-office, April 1, 1844.
Notice is hereby given, that her Majesty will hold Draw-
ing-rooms, at St.-James's Palace, on the following days, at
two o'clock, viz.—

Thursday the 18th instant.
Thursday the 25th instant, to celebrate her Majesty's
Birth-day.
N.B. The Knights of the several Orders are to appear in
their Collars, at her Majesty's Drawing-room on Thursday,
the 25th of April.
Regulations to be observed at the Queen's Drawing-rooms,
at St. James's Palaces--
The Ladies,
ing-rooms, are requested to bring with them two cards, with
who purpnso attending her Majesty's Draw-
their names legibly written thereon, one to be left with the
Queen's Page in attendance in the Presence-chamber, and
the other to be delivered to the Lord in Waiting, who will
announce the name to her Majesty.
And those Ladies, who are to be presented on Thursday,
the 18th of April, are hereby informed, it is absolutely neces-
sary that their names, together with the names of the Ladies
who are to present them, should be sent into the Lord Cham-
berlain's-office, before twelve o'clock on Tuesday, the 16th
of April, in order that they may be submitted for the Queen's
approbation ; it being her Majesty's command, that no pre-
sentation,shall take place unless the name of the Lady pre-
senting, together with that of the Lady to be presented,
shall appear on the cards to be delivered as before directed,
corresponding with the names sent in to the Lord Chamber-
lain's-otfice.

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Rumours are afloat that the King of the French,
on his approaching visit, will be received at the Pavilion at
Brighton, where her Majesty will meet him, and that he will
not visit Windsor or the metropolis. This arrangement is
said to have originated in a desire to regulate his conduct
by that of our Sovereign, on her visit to Eu last year. From
another source we have heard, that Louis Philippe will be
accompanied byhis Queen, that the Royal yacht will anchor
oil' East Cowes, and that their Majesties will sleep on board
every night. Should this latter rumour prove true, what a
magnificent flotilla of yachts will doubtless be gathered round
the Isle of Wight.—Court Journal.
RACES.—The four days' Spring meeting of the
South African Turf Club, at the Cape, appeared in Bell's Life
in London, of March 31, in which journal were given the
racing and steeple-chasing at Rome, on the 9th, 11th, and
IGth of March ; all the doings at Northampton last week ; the
Irish grand national steeple-chases. Bell's Life it regularly
published in time for the Saturday afternoon railways.
The Earl and Countess of Warwick, Lord Brooke,
and Lady Caroline Neeld, left Warwick Castle, in the early
part of lAA Week, fin Bittb.

THE LATE MURDER AT MARYLE-
BONE,CORONER'S INQUEST.
(THIS DAY.)
Mr. Wakley, M.P., the Coroner for Middlesex, having ap-
pointed the inquest on the body of the female murdered on
Saturday evening by her husband, to be held this morning at
nine o'clock, at the Three Compasses, Little Marylebone-
street, a great crowd of persons assembled from an early hour
in front of the premises, anxious to have a look at the mur-
derer, as it was well known that the Coroner had determined
on his being present during the proceedings. This morning,
shortly before ten, at which time, for-the better convenience
of, jurors, the inquest had been ultimately fixed, the
wretched prisoner was conveyed in a cab, in the custody of
Inspector Tedman of the D division, and accompanied by Mr.
Joseph, surgeon, of Great Marylebone- street, from the St.
Marylebone Infirmary to the place appbinted for the holding
of the inquest. The appearance of the prisoner was the
signal for a yell of the most frightful character from the as-
sembled mob, and it was with considerable difficulty that a
posse of police was enabled to protect him.
Mr. Wakley, M.P., and Mr. J. G. Mills, his deputy, hav-
ing arrived, the jurors were sworn in, and the first witness
called was •
Mary Lynes—l am a married woman, residing at No. 4,
Little Marylebone-street, where the body of the deceased at
present lies. On Saturday evening last, a few minutes
before seven o'clock, I was scrubbing down the stairs, when
William Crouch, the deceased's husband, came up, and said
to me, "Is my missus up stairs?" I said that she was. He
then went up into my room, on the first attic, where she was
nursing her baby, and singing to it. The instant he went in she
ceased singing. I was at the time only some three or four steps
from the stair, and I heard my little girl, who was also in the
room, scream out, " Oh, mother, mother, he has cut her
neck." I ran up stairs, and saw Crouch standing at the door
wiping a razor with a bit of rag. When I got inside the
room I found Mrs. Crouch sitting on a stool, with her head
leaning against the side of my door, and her throat cut. I
said to Crouch, " Oh, you villain, get out of the room ;" to
which he replied, " If one man is not sufficient for her twenty
is not." Deceased never moved nor spoke after. I ran down
stairs and called Mrs. Mayhew, another lodger, and at the
same time Crouch passed me and ran out. I rushed down
stairs after him, and found that he had reached the corner of
Chesterfield-street. Mr. Davies,.my landlord, followed him,
and caught him in that street. On his being given into cus-
tody he was brought back to my room. He then asked, "Is
she dead?" and I said, " Oh, you villain." I did not see the
razor then, and Crouch on being questioned said he had
thrown it away. Mr. Joseph, surgeon, was sent for, and the
prisoner was taken away.
By the Cows:En—Scarcely a half minute elapsed between
the time when Crouch passed me on the stairs, and my child
screaming out. I saw him before on Saturday morning, and
he asked if his wife was up stairs, when I told him no. He
was a sober man, and no words arose before he committed
the act. When he ran away after committing the murder,
I saw him conceal the razor in his left waistcoat-pocket. He
lived at 7, Great Chesterfield-street, and, I believe, was at one
time a gentleman's servant, but afterwards a potman. He
did not keep the last place long.
Sarah Simpson, the little girl alluded to by Mrs. Lynes,
said she was seven years of age. About seven o'clock on
Saturday night she was with Mrs. Crouch, who was sitting
with her baby on her knee, when her husband came into the
room. He stood by the side of her, and then took her by the
hair and cut her neck with a knife. She fell off the stool on
to the floor. They had not quarrelled before he cut her neck.
She was singing to her baby at the time. After he had cut
her, he stood by the drawers, and when her (witness's)
mother came in he ran away.
Sergeant Bennett, 18 D, said that at a quarter after seven
o'clock on Saturday night he was in Great Marylebone-
street, when he was called by a little boy, who said that he
was wanted in Little Marylebone-street, where a man had
cut his wife's throat. Went there and found a mob of people,,
with the accused in the midst of them. Witness asked which
was the man, when some one there said, "That is him, don't
you see his hands covered with blood." Crouch said,
" Dont collar me ; I'll go quiet." Took him to the house
where deceased lay, and in going along Crouch said, " There,
you see I've not hurt her." The floor was covered with
blood, and it was still pouring from the wound in her throat.
He said to the prisoner, " What have you done with the ra-
zor," when he replied, " I have thrown it away." He then
took prisoner downstairs, and met Mr. Joseph at the door.
In going to the station-house the prisoner said, " I don't care
anything about it ; she deserved it for leaving me. You may
hang me, and be d-s—d." And on going further he said,
" Oh, this cursed drink; she left me, and if she had mot left
me I should not have done it." On searching him at the
station house, found a razor-case in his right coat pocket.
Found also Is. 7id. On taking off his handkerchief found
that he had cut his own throat also.
Robert Davies merely proved the prisoner's running away,
and his capturing him.
Mary Ann Smith, sister of deceased, had last seen her
alive on Tuesday, when she informed witness that she had
left her husband, but said nothing of his treatment of her.
Mr. E. Joseph, surgeon, of Great Marylebone-street, was
sent for to see deceased soon after seven on Saturday night.
Found her in the front top attic of No. 4, Little Marylebone-
street. She lay on the floor in a pool of blood. Examined
the wound in her throat, which commenced about an inch
anterior to the leftjaw, severing the windpipe, and reaching
to the angle of the right jaw, in length about eight inches. It
had divided the muscles of the throat, the jugular vein, and
carotid artery on the right side. The entire structure of the
throat to the spinal process had been injured, and he should
suppose that the throat had been drawn into a state of ten-
sion before the prisoner bad inflicted the cut.
The prisoner, a thin and wretchedly emaciated-looking
creature, was asked if he wished to say anything to the Court,
when he stammered out, " The cause was "—he then hesi-
tated, and appeared almost fainting. At last the words could
be indistinctly heard, " Oh, I cannot ; don't ask me. Take
me away, take me away." The wretched creature was then
removed.
Mr. WAKLEY briefly addressed the jury, and said that
from the very clear evidence adduced, and the admission of
the prisoner himself, he thought there could be no reasonable
cause for hesitation in delivering their verdict. He would, if
they wished it, repeat the nature of the witnesses' statements.
The jury replied that it was altogether unnecessary, and
at once returned a verdict of " Wilful murder."
The prisoner was then taken to Marylebone Police-court,
where the same evidence was gone into.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

•
QUEEN-SQUARE.-(THIS DAY.)
For some time past the churchwardens, and other autho-
rities, of St. Margaret's parish, have been endeavouring, by
every means in their power, to put a stop to Sunday trading,
and although their exertions in some instances have been
crowned, with success, gin-palaces, cigar-slMps, confectioners,
&c., continue to supply the lieges with articles in their pe-
culiar line of business, in defiance of the wrath of the heads of
the parish, or of the commandment which saith, that they
shall labour six days and rest on the seventh day of the
week. However, many respectable shopkeepers have con •
ceded to the wishes expressed ,in a handbill, industriously
circulated throughout the parish, but persons carrying on the
above-mentioned businesses are by no means favourable to
the adoption of the new plan, which they declare will ma-
terially reduce their profits. The police, however, have been
instructed to use their utmost endeavours to put an end to
Sunday trading in this neighbourhood.
Ellen Haggerty, a poor Irishwoman, was brought before
Mr. Bond, charged with hawking a basket of .ranges about
for sale whilst the congregation of St. Margaret's Church was
leaving that edifice.
60 B said that, a few minutes after one o'clotk yesterday,
he saw the defendant with a basket of oranges opposite St.
Margaret's Church. She was moving slowly along, and on
desiring her to go away, she became very indignant, but did
not make use of any bad language, and would not go, but
kept moving along." She did not ask persons to buy, but
was evidently there for the sole purpose of disposing of them.
She said 'she was going to Milbank to serve sonic persons
there, who were in the habit of buying oranges of her.
The woman, in answer to the charge, said she had seven
children who were solely dependent upon her for support, and
that she was compelled to go out to endeavour to get them
sonic food, as she had taken very little during the week.
She was not in the habit of selling oranges on the Sabbath.
Mr. BOND discharged the defendant, tblling her that there
were six days for labour and one for rest; and that if she
was brought before him again charged with a similar offence,
she would not be so leniently dealt with.

UNION HALL.-(THIS DAY.)
Hannah Boyd, a girl in the service of a Mrj. Trindall, in
Bermondsey street, WAS charged before Mr. Trail with steal-
ing a neck chain, and. a variety of other articles, the property
of her mistress.
The prisoner, who is a young and well-looking female,
had been in the. service of the complainant for the last six
months, during which period she was in the habit of attend-
ing in her mistress's shop. The prisoner, however, absconded
about a fortnight ago, and, when she was gone, a variety of
articles were missed, amongst which were those above de-
scribed. Upon subsequent inquiry it was found the prisoner
had formed most improper connexions, and, when taken
into custody, the stolen articles were found in her possession.
Mr. TiLtua. said that he should consult the feelings of the
complainant, and either commit the prisoner for trial, or deal
summarily with the charge, and at once comiett her for a
limited period to gaol.
The complainant said, that with a view to sever the con-
nexion between the prisoner and her associates, she should
wish to prosecute. •
The pr,isoner was, therefore, committed for trial.