The Sun.
London, England, 1845-02-19 00:00:00

SUMMARY OF NEWS

AND
Pubttt Optitton.

" Who runs may read."

rOR,EIGN.

The accounts from Switzerland arc not favourable. The
Zurich gazette, the Friend of the Constitution, published at
Berne and several other journals of late dates represent that
interesting country as in a state of great excitemeat. Two
large popular meetings had been held at Lutzig and Cossonay,
at which very strong language was used by the speakers.
Accounts received at Paris state that the weather in the
Provinces contined very severe. At Strasbourg on the 13th
inst. Fahrenheit's thermometer bad fallen to five degrees.
The price of bread in Paris for the second fortnight of the
present month has been fixed at 29 centimes the kilogramme
first quality, and 22 centimes the second quality. Thus, the
best bread costs rather less than three sous the French pound.
The King on the recommendation of the Minister of
Public instruction has, by ordonnance dated the 15th inst.,
ordered the establishment of a Faculty of Science, at Besan-
qon, and fixed the number of professorships at six—viz.,
theoretical mathematics, practical mathematics, natural phi-
losophy, chemistry, zoology and botany, geology and mine-
ralogy. A Ministerial order, dated the 16th, nominates the
new professors.
The Messager says there is no truth in the statement of the
Count d'Appony having entered into a contract with the
French Government for a supply of tobacco.
M. Radiguel Goury, who went to *he Marquesas with Ad-
miral Dupetit Thouars as his private Secretary, has been
made a member of the Legion of Honour.
The Procureur du Roi has given notice of appeal against
the judgment of the Tribunal of Correctional Police, acquit
ting the prisoners in the late trial for fraudulent gambling
transactions. They will remain in custody until the appeal
can be heard.
The following is given in one of the Paris papers as a cor-
rect account of the facts relative to the late arrest of two
Englishmen :—" Their names are Parker and Williams.
They went on Friday to a money-changer to get French
money for a Bank note for 100/. ; the suspicion of the latter
was excited by the manner of the parties, and he sent his
shopman to follow them. He saw them in succession call at
three other changers, at each of which they exchanged a note
for 100/., after which other exchange offices were visited for
the purpose of again turning the French money into English
gold. These circumstances strengthening the suspicions of
the money-changer, he caused them to be taken before the
Procureur du Roi. On searching their lodgings nothing
however was found to criminate the parties, and they were
set at liberty. The notes were on examination found to be
genuine, and formed no part of those stolen in the late rob-
bery at Messrs. Rogers and Co.'s bank. The parties came to
Paris from Boulogne, Parker merely accompanying the other
as his interpreter."
Some sensation was created in the Spanish capital by the
receipt of letters from London, mentioning that General
Espartero had sent a hostile message to the Spanish Ambas-
sador, because of some rudeness to Madame Espartero in his
Excellency's chapel, who, perhaps, unconsciously had taken
possession of that part of the gallery usually assigned to the
Ambassador.

MAW AND POSACIII.
In the Court of Queen's Bench a German, named Schle-
singer, received a verdict with 50/. damages, against a fel-
low-countryman of his, named Flersheim, for a libel.
The case of Sawyer, a butcher, at Slough, was adjourned,
in the Court of Bankruptcy, sine die.
At the Guildhall a young man, named John Griffin, was
brought before Mr. Alderman Hughes, charged with at-
tempting to steal from the warehouse of Messrs. Deacon, the
carriers, in London-wall, a truss of goods which had arrived
from Norwich, and was lying in the delivery warehouse.
After evidence, Mr. Alderman Hughes said the prisoner had
committed a felony by removing the goods, but he was afraid
a jury might consider it was only an attempt to steal. The
Alderman, therefore, committed him to hard labour and
low diet for fourteen days. If he committed himfor a longer
term he would be better fed, and the punishment would
really be less.
An omnibus conductor was convicted at Queen-square in
the penalty of ss. and costs, for suffering another person to
ride with him on the steps of the carriage.
At the Thames Police-court Thomas Hazen, a labourer,
was charged with committing an outrageous assault on Miss
Priscilla Smyth, a young lady, the daughter of a surgeon re-
siding in High-street, Bromley. He was committed in de-
fault of bail for trial.
COURT—rASHIONABLE.
The Lord Chancellor gave a grand banquet last evening,
at his mansion in George-street. The following formed the
dinner circle :—The Duke and Duchess of Buccleuch, his Ex-
cellency the Austrian Ambassador and the Countess Diet-
richstein, the Earl and Countess of Jersey and Lady Clemen-
tine Villiers, the Earl of Ellenborough, Lady Peel, Lord
Brougham, Lord Forrester, Lord and Lady Beauvale, Lord
Macdonald, Lord Lovaine, and Baron Koller. After the
banquet Lady Lyndhurst held a reception, which was numer-
owl), and fashionably attended.
't'he Duke of Hamilton arrived in Portman-square on
Monday evening, from Hamilton Palace, Lanarkshire. His
Grace is improved in health.
The Earl of Cardigan has left town for Deene Park, North-
amptonshire. The Noble Earl's last grand hunting party
for the season at Deene Park is not expected to take place
until next month, owing to the recent demise of the venera-
ble Countess of Aldborough, her Ladyship's grandmother.
The Marquis of Granby, Lord Forester, and many of the
leading members of the Melton Hunt, are expected to be pre-
sent on that occasion.

The Right Hon. the Earl of Stradbroke has left the
Brunswick Hotel, Jermyn• street, to attend the Lent New-
market meeting.
The Earl of Ellenborough entertained a select circle at
dinner on Monday evening, at his residence in Charles-
street, Berkeley-square. His Lordship has issued cards for a
grand dinner party on Saturday next.
The Earl and Countess of Albemarle have arrived in
Berkeley-square from Newmarket, where the Noble Earl and
Countess passed a few days.
Her Serene Highness the Dowager Grand Duchess
Stephanie, of Baden, and suite are expected to arrive at the
Duke of Hamilton's, Portman-square, on Friday, from Man-
heim. The Grand Duchess intended to have left Germany in
the early part of last month, but her departure was delayed
on account of the severity of the weather.
The Earl of Munster has arrived in town from a visit to
Lord Frederick and Lady Augusta Fitzclarence, at Etal
House, near Coldstream, Berwickshire.

sissamzz.arnious.
By the death of the Earl of Effingham a vacancy has been
occasioned in the borough of Shaftesbury, which Lord
Howard (now Earl of Effingham) represented in Parliament
since the general election of 1841. The present Earl is a sup-
porter of Whig principles, but voted against the abolition of
the corn-laws. He is now in his 39th year.
At the Repeal Association on Monday Mr. O'Connell said
he had been told he ought to oppose the additional grant to
Maynooth College, according to his own principle of allow-
ing each persuasion to support its own clergy. He would do
so dell parties agreed to do the same ; but while the Catholics
continued to be taxed for the support of the Established
Church he would take all he could get. The rent for the
week was 7511.

Government has granted 1001. a year pension to the widow
of Captain J. M'Leod, stipendiary magistrate, who was mur-
dered at Ballinamore, Leitrim ; and at the demise of thatlady
501. a year will devolve en her daughter, Miss M'Leod.
The Norwich Musical Festival Committee have made an
engagement with Staudigl, as principal ban for the ensuing
festival.

Yesterday a two hundred yards running match was de-
cided in the Copenhagen-fields, Maiden-lane, between Reed
and Marsden ; the men were matched for 31. aside, and after
a well-contested race Marsden came off the winner.
Mr. Henry Russell was employed last night by the mana-
gers of the Mechanics' Institution, to give a vocal entertain-
ment in aid of the library funds. The theatre was crowded
to excess, and the clever vocalist, who sang a series of his
most popular pieces, was loudly applauded.

SUICIDE OF MR. L. BLANCHARD.

CORONER'S INQUEST.
On Monday evening Mr. Carter and a highly respectable jury as-
sembled at the Spread Eagle Tavern, Canterbury-road, Lambeth, to
inquire into: the cause which led the late Mr. Laman Blanchard,
the well-known contributor to the metropolitan periodicals, to com-
mit suicide.

The jury, upon beim sworn. Proceeded to the late rocidence of the
deceased, No. 11, Union-place, Canterbury-road, to view the body,
which was lying in the bed-room.

Upon the re-assembling of the jury,
The CORONER stated, that what they had to inquire into would be
the state of the deceased's mind at the time he committed the act of
self-destruction, and upon the evidence adduced they would find their
verdict accordingly.

From the statement of the nurse, it appeared that about twelve
months since the wife of Mr. Blanchard was attacked with illness,
which, in the end, terminated in insanity. At different periods Mrs.
Blanchard's disease became more confirmed, when, about two months
since, while sitting in the drawing-room, she exclaimed to the de-
ceased that she was afraid she was attacked again, and shortly af-
terwards her intellect disappeared. On that occasion Mr. Blan-
chard carried his wife up to her bed, from which she never rose.
From the period of the death of Mrs. Blanchard up to last Friday
evening, the deceased had been observed to labour under a great de-
pression of spirits, and that to such an extent that he was afraid to
be left alone of a night, so that when the nurse departed, his youngest
child, a lad about eleven years of age, slept with him. The result of
the loss of Mrs. Blanchard, acting upon the susceptibility of the mind
of the deceased, created a disorganisation, which ended in the pros-
tration of the nervous system, and Mr. Blanchard became subjected
to fits. In the course of last Friday he sustained two attacks,
from
both of which he recovered, and at the usual hour, which was
son,between
nine and ten, he retired to his bed-room, accompanied by hisand
attended by the nurse. The deceased, as was his usual custom, per-
formed his devotions, which he concluded by the Lord
f his
's Prayer, and
at that time he appeared to be in the full enjoyment o , left theintellects. room,
The nurse, on the termination of the evening pus c
of his parent,
r_
aYeemmitted suicide,
and within three minutes afterward
ssh the dtheceits
The boy, on seeing the blood Ka
hold of his hand,
exclaimed, "Oh,
from e
sprang towards him, and catching
father 1" when the deceased fell, and
had ceased
all probability died. Medical
of Mrs.
Blanchard.
aid was called In, but the deceased
It was farther stated that since the de a thto
the deceased had
been most desponding, and, although giving exist-
ence to those charming pieces which pleased all who read them, he
was sinking under a moat
painful state of mind.
The CORONER, at
s stage of the proceedings, remarked that the
sou of the deceased who, it appeared, had slept with his father since
the death of Mrs. Blanchard, was in attendance ; bUt from what had
come to his knowledge, he felt satisfied that no additional information
could be arrived at.
The jury said they were perfectly satisfied, and returned a verdic
ra ry t,
That the deceased destroyed himself while labouring under tempo.
insanity."
It is to be regretted that the deceased has left four children to
lament his untimely loss.

THE HOUSELESS Poou.—The asylums in Play-
house-yard, East Smithfield, and Ogle-street, continue crowded with
unfortunate visitors, men, women, and children, although the Com-
mittee are daily engaged in indeavouring to procure admittance for
the
sons is applicants to their several parishes. The influx of destitute Per-
so great, that the benevolent individuals engaged in conduct-
ing the affairs of the charity have been obliged to make a pressing
appeal to the public for assistance in saving their fellow-creatures
from Perishing. They have relieved this season upwards of 10,000
persons, at an expense of 1,5001., and their funds have become fright-
fully diminished. •
ARTESIAN WELLS.--An artesian well is being sunk
in Berkeley-square, in lieu of the old pump, which has for many years
pot supplied the square and its vicinity.