The Sun.
London, England, 1842-11-05 00:00:00

MATERNAL DEPRAVITY.

The re-union of Deputie3, says the Journal des
Debats, which has been held for the purpose of opposing
the commercial union with Belgium,
most serious dangers, and is contrary, if not to the
letter, at least to thespirit,of constitutional
our
charter. It is an encroachment on the privileges of
the Ministers and that of the Chambers. offers the
It tends in
a word to despoil the Government of its right to pro-
pose measures of policy and of its liberty of action,
and the Chambers of the independence necessary in
deliberating upon _the plans which the Government
may wish to submit to them, and these facts we shall
examine briefly. But first we must remark, that
what is permitted to one party cannot be forbidden
to others. What is done to-day on a commercial,
may hereafter he practised on a political question.
At present we admit the question is legitimate, here-
after the object may be injurious to public order and
tranquillity. When the ordonnance is read declaring
the Parliamentary session to be closed, the charter
says that the Chambers should be immediately ad-
'ourned. Every deliberation had subsequently would
be illegal and null. Even the Committees appointed
by the Chamber no longer meet. No doubt the cha-
racter of Deputy remains the same, but the rights to
be exercised remain suspended. Now we wish to ask
this question. Can it be permitted to elude those
principles of the charter—those essential and funda-
mentalw rules of the division of power, which no one
would dare to violate directly ? At present from 20
to 50 Deputies assemble, they draw up and publish
resolutions. Who could prevent to-morrow one or
two hundred Deputies, or even the entire Chamber,
to assemble and constitute themselves in permanence ?
They would not meet in the official chamber,
but they would not want private houses for meeting.
They would not speak from the Tribune, but they
;
would have journals to report all they say. They
would not make laws, but they would concert mea-
sures, publish them ; the
spirit, though not the letter, of the law would be
violated. drav‘
wr,
e up
lear:eso all
sensible
lemen to consider the
consequences of so serious an infraction of the prin-
ciples of the charter. We entreat the members of
these assemblies to reflect seriously on the subject.
They are establishing a precedent without, perhaps,
being aware of it, and they create a right for the ad-
vantage of all parties. They tend to authorise by
their example all meetings of the same nature, what-
ever may be their object. They raise up those asso-
ciations which many of their members contributed to
destroy. They create a commercial agitation' for-
getful that political agitation may be produced by the
same means. We do not, however, confine ourselves
to political consequences, other interests are already
but too much excited against each other. The agri-
culturists demand new markets, the sea-ports reclaim
free trade, the manufacturers are never sufficiently
protected. Is the Chamber of Deputies about to di-
vide itself into as many hostile armies as there are
interests at issue ? Are the Deputies about to place
themselves each at the head of a legion ? And then
what authority will remain to the
Government, what
credit will the Chamber obtain in this conflict of
battalions organised in advance and well determined
to close their ears against all argument ? For, in fact,
you propose to combat the
plan of a union of cus-
toms, and you do not even know what it is. This
plan is not yet arranged. The Government is deli-
berating on it, and no person can tell what will be the
issue of this deliberation. No matter ; you interfere
in the question, you endeavour to stifle the plan be-
fore-it is brought forth, you do not discuss the measure
—because a plan cannot be discussed which has not
yet been brought forward—you merely threaten.
Once the plan is produced, you will have a right in
your places, as Members of the Chamber of Deputies,
to defeat it by your objections, to demonstrate its
faults, and to cause its rejection. The partisans of
the measure would have equally the right to defend
it. Public opinion could judge between you. It is
public opinion that is endeavoured to be stifled. Thus,
you Deputies, you alienate your vote beforehand. If
a parliamentary debate was to take place it would be
a mere matter of form. The deliberation took place
in M. Fulchiren's parlour on a plan which was not
known. On the other side the hands of the GoNern-
ment are paralyzed, the weight of an extra Parlia-
mentary opposition is thrown into the scale, and the
plan is not suffered to be laid before the public. It
may be asked, will this opposition succeed ? Very
possibly for the moment, but we consider it a danger-
ous example, and we consider it our duty to declare
our opinion. Bad examples remain. Authorised by
respectable names they become the law. A thou-
, sand legitimate modes were practicable to combat the
plan of a commercial union with Belgium, supposing
that this plan was contrary to the interests of

A case of horrible depravity was yesterday, after
two sittings, decided by the Tribunal of Correctional
Police of Paris. A woman named Labar was tried
for having placed her daughter in the hands of a
wealthy seducer under the following circumstances :
—lt appeared from the evidence that when the child
had attained the age of fifteen, the mother, who was
then in a state of destitution, discovered the address of
an elderly gentleman named Delagen, with whom
she had formerly lived as a servant, and, having called
upon him, she persuaded him, as there had been -at
the period of her service intimate relations between
them, that she was pregnant when she left, and that
the child in question was the fruit of their intercourse.
M. Delagen refused to recognise the girl as his own,
as he was requested to do by the mother, observing,
that this would be to declare her illegitimacy and de-
stroy her prospects, but generously offered to adopt
her. The offer was accepted, and the girl went to
live with M. Delagen, who provided for the mother.
From this time the girl was treated with unvarying
kindness by the supposed father, and her conduct
was highly proper, until M. Delagen had the misfor-
tune to make the acquaintance of a rich man named
Delamotte, whom he first met at breakfast at the
house of a friend, and when his adopted daughter
was with him. M. Delamotte fell in love with the
girl, and it being ascertained by M. Delagen that he
called frequently upon her during his absence from
home, he removed to Versailles, in the hope of pre-
serving his adopted daughter rom seduction. His
address was kept concealed from Delamotte, but not
frem the mother of the girl, who basely became the
medium of correspondence between her and the
wealthy profligate, and at length carried her off clan-
destinely, and delivered her up to her seducer. M.
Delagen was one of the witnesses for the prosecu-
tion, and gave a most affecting account of the whole
transaction. Delamotte was afterwards heard as a
witness for the prisoner. He denied that there had
been any criminality in his attentions to Josephine,
the daughter of the woman Labar, and indulged in
gross abuse of M. Delagen, who, he said, had done
all he could to promote the seduction of Josephine,
and now, in his disappointment at not having ob-
tained his terms, deposed against him. The President
of the Tribunal remarked, in terms of great indigna-
tion, on the conduct of this witness, who is a married
man, but was separated from his wife in 1841, and
concluded his severe admonition in the following lan-
guage :—" Reckon yourself fortunate, Sir, that the
part taken by the prisoner in this sad affair has pre-
vented your taking your place at the criminal bar in-
stead of appearing here as a witness. But if the law has
sheltered you from prosecution, you are not the less
branded in the eyes of morality. Was it not you who
corrupted a mother to the debauchery of her child ?
Was it not you, who, by the seductions of wealth,
wrested this child from the protection of her father ?
If opulence be honourable when it is employed for the
relief of the unfortunate, it is degrading when it is
employed, as you have employed it, in acts of corrup-
tion and immorality." After this dignified rebuke,
the Tribunal heard several witnesses, who declared
that the daughter had avowed to them the conduct of
her mother in urging her to accept the offers of De-
lamotee, on account of his wealth, as she had no
affection for him, being neither young nor handsome,
and then proceeded to deliberate on its sentence. It
declared the prisoner to be guilty, and condemned
her to two years imprisonment, a fine of 100 f., and
interdiction of civil rights for ten years.--Galipiani's
Messenger.

MORTALITY in the METROPOLIS.
The following are the results of " A Table of Mortality in
the Metropolis, showing the Number of Deaths from all Causes
Registered in the week ending Oct. 29, 1842." The Table is
issued from the Office of the Registrar-General:—
Weekly
Average
1838-9-40-1

Total.
Four Four
Autumns lYears
Epidemic,Endemie, & Contagious Diseases 176 190 190
Diseases of the Brain, Nerves, and Senses 144 140 149
Diseases of the Lungs, and other Organs of
Respiration ...
11);seases of the Heart and Blood-vessels
Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and other
Organs of Digestion ...
Diseases of the Kidneys, &c 6 5 4
Childbed, Diseases of the Uterus, &c l5 15 10
Diseases of the Joints, Bones, and Museles 5 6 6
Diseases of the Skin, &c
1 1
Diseases of Uncertain Seat lO6 106 104
o'.d Age, or Natural Decay
Deaths by Violence, Privation, or Intem-
perance
Causes not specified 1 8 7
Deaths from all causes
Average Weekly Deaths 912 912
Population: Average Death
Weekly in
merated Deaths the
Ib4l. 1833-9-40-1. Week,
West—Kensington, St. George
( Hanover-squ are ), Westmin- Four I Four
ster, St. Martin in the Fields, Ye,rs.lAutumns.
St. James
North—St. Mary-le-bone, St
Pancras, Islington, Hackney 365,660 162 161 174
Central—Saint Giles and Saint
George, Strand, Clerkenwell,
Holborn, St. Luke, East Lon-
don, West London, City of
London 373,806 188 185 187
East—Shoreditch,Whitechape ,
Bethnal Green, St. George
in the East, Stepney, Poplar 392;498 206 207 229
South—St. Saviour, St. Olave,
St. George( Southwark),Ber-
mondsey, Newington, Lam-
beth, Camberwell, Rather-
hitke, Greenwich .... -.438,060 221 228 237

CAUSES OF DEATH.

Total 1,870,727 912 912 967
It is stated that under the term Metropolis are comprised the
32 districts herein mentioned, which include the City of Lon-
don with and without the walls, the City and Liberties of
Westminster, the out-parishes within the Bills of Mortality--
and the parishes of St. Marylebone, St. Pancras, Kensington,
Fulham, Hammersmith Chapelry), St. Luke (Chelsea), Pad-
dington, St. Mary (Stoke Newington), St. Leonard (Brom-
ley ), St. Mary-le-bow, Camberwell, Greenwich, St. Nicholas
and St. Paul (Deptford), and Woolwich. The population, as
enumerated in 1831, was 1,594,890 , and in June 1841, was
1,870,727. The weekly average for 1838, 1839, 1840, and
1841, was obtained by dividing the deaths in the four years by
208, and the deaths in the four winters by 52.
TEMPERATURE IN THE WEEKS ENDING
Oct. 22. Oct. 29.
58s) 510
33 34
47 43
3, 1842.

Highest
Lowest
Daily Mean .........
General Register Office, Nov.

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circumstances MalMal 1,
MELANCHOLY CASE.—Mr. Carter, the Coroner for
Surrey, took an inquisition on Thursday, at the Wind-
mill, High-street, Lambeth, respecting the death of
Saraht
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peared by the evidence of the another that she had been
for some time in the most heartrending state of poverty.
The room in which the accident happened had but two
old chairs, a table, and a mattress ; in fact, the house
in Calcite-court was miserable in the extreme. On
Sunday morning, at nine o'clock, she went to see a
person of the name of Rose, in Guy's Hospital, who
has since died. Her husband deserted her about eight
ears ago, and she has for some time been living with
Rose. Soon after she had left home a person of the
name of Ascott heard dreadful screams issuing from
the house, and upon going to the first-floor he found
it full of smoke, and he could not enter. He went to
the next floor, and creeping on his hands and knees,
opened the window, and let out the smoke. He then
went back, and found the deceased lying on the mattress
enveloped in fire, and burnt almost to a cinder. Mrs.
She arman said she had left her other children in care of the
deceased, as she had often done before, and from what
another child told her, the deceased had been broiling
the head of a red-herring, when her frock caught fire.
A Juror said, it was dreadful to read the accounts of
the deaths of children by fire. The Coroner remarked,
this was a most pitiable case, for one of such extreme
destitution he had never witnessed. A verdict of Ac-
cidental Death was returned, and the Coroner made a
present to the mother out of his own pocket.
REMARKABLE FACT.—We learn from a corres-
pondent that although there were each day 40,000
persons at the races of Caher, not a blow was struck,
and very few drunken men were seen ! Tipperary is
Wont% Chritian.—.Dublin Mau.

" East India-house, Oct. 21.
" SIR,—On the occasion of your return to your
native country, the Court of Directors of the East
India Company are desirous of presenting you with a
testimonial of their esteem, and of the approbation
with which they regard the public benefits conferred
by you upon British India, by the liberal encourage-
ment you have afforded to the diffusion of education,
and to the introduction of the arts and sciences ; and
by the generous support you have given to the chari-
table institutions of Calcutta, whether established for
the relief of the Hindoo or of the British community.
The Court trust that the noble course which you have
pursued will have the effect of contributing to the ac-
complishment of that object which it has ever been
their anxious desire to promote, viz., the identification
of the feelings and interests of the native and Euro-
pean population committed to their Government, and
thus strengthening the bonds which unite India with
Great Britain.

" Impressed with these sentiments, the Court re-
luest your acceptance of a gold medal, for the prep--
ton of which they have given the necessary instruc-
tions. In making this communication on their behalf,
permit us to assure you of the satisfaction which we
derive from being the medium of conveying the
Court's feelings and wishes, in which we most fully
participate, and to express our sincere hope that your
visit to this country has been productive to you of
much gratification, and that your future career may
be marked by happiness and prosperity. We have the
honour to be, Sir, your most obedient humble servants,
" J. L. LUSHINGTON.
" JOHN COTTON.
" Dwarkanauth Tagore."

" Paris, Oct. 25.

" Gentlemen,—l have received with a pride and
pleasure I cannot find words to express, the letter
with which you have honoured me. If my efforts to
promote the improvement of my countrymen, and the
welfare of my native land, had been attended by suf-
fering, privation, or evil to myself, I should have
sought no higher recompense than the flattering opi-
nion the Honourable Court of Directors have been
pleased to express of my conduct, and the gratifying
testimonial of that opinion to which you advert, and
which I shall indeed be proud to wear. I repeat
that if distress and danger had beset my path,
I should have considered myself more than re-
warded by the distinguished honour now con-
ferred upon me ; but I felt with confidence, and not
less with gratitude, that under the just and liberal
rule of the lion. Court an honest citizen seeking to
improve the condition of his country by legal and not
unworthy means, had everything to hope for, and no-
thing to apprehend. I have worked in my humble
sphere under a firm conviction that the happiness of
India is best secured by her connexion with your
own great and glorious country; andthat the more the
people of that vast empire were enlightened, the more
sensible they would become of the invincible power
of the protecting State, and of the excellence of a
Government whose pure and benevolent intentions,
whose noble solicitude for the welfare and improve-
ment of the millions committed by Providence to its
charge, may challenge the admiration of the whole
world.
" To yourselves, Gentlemen, allow me to offer my
unfeigned thanks for the manner in which you have
communicated the gracious sentiments and intentions
of the Hon. Court. The honour, so great in itself,
has been rendered doubly acceptable by the terms in
which vour kindness has conveyed it. Indeed, if I
might be allowed, I would solicit permission to pre-
sent my humble and grateful acknowledgments to the
Hon. Court individually, as well as collectively, for
their generous hospitality, delicate courtesy, and un-
varying goodness, which I shall not cease to remem-
ber with gratitude while I live.
" I have the honour to be, with the greatest respect,
" Gentlemen, your most obedient servant,
" D WARKANAUTH TAGORE.
" Sir J. L. Lushington and John Cotton, Esq., &e:,