The Sun.
London, England, 1842-01-04 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY, JANUARY 4, 1842.

prepare the way for surrounding her with the
French Camarilla, who made such a dupe of her
mother.

The French Journals have been received. They
are chiefly occupied with the Speech of the PRESI-
DENT of the United States at the opening of
Congress. Their comments amount to this :
That Great Britain cannot persist in exercis-
ing a right of search in the case of American
vessels engaged in the slave trade, without pro-
voking a war with that Republic.
The Borsenhalle, under date of Stockholm, 14th inst.,
states that an annual pension of 2,000 rix-dollars bunco
of Hamburg, has been granted to Baron Rothschild, for-
merly envoy at Copenhagen.
The Diario di Roma states that the Prince of Monaco
was received by the Pope on the 19th inst.
The Gazette de France says—" The establishment of
a Viceroy in Algiers, in the person of the Duke de Ne-
mours, is again talked of, and the mission of General de
Rumigny is said to be for the purpose of making the ne-
cessary administrative arrangements."
We find the following in the Handelsblad of Amster-
dam :—" The Governor-General of the Dutch settle-
ments in the East Indies has announced that, in virtue
of a Royal Decree, the Western India Bank at Surinam
was again authorised to issue its paper, from which it
has been interdicted since 1831. The cholera morbus is
making great ravages in the island of Java, and the
other islands of the Indian Archipelago, whilst the
islands to the north west of Timor are so reduced by fa•
mine, that upwards of 300 natives have died from this
terrible scourge, although the Government had afforded
them large supplies of provisions."
The remps says, " A rumour was current yesterday
evening, that an ex-Deputy, who is now Editor of an
ultra-Radical Paper, bad been arrested in consequence
of the new investigations of the Court of Peers. This
rumour does not appear to us to be probable. We be-
lieve that all the persons who have been arrested belong
to the working classes. We are assured that in the
course of yesterday the Court ordered new arrests.
Owing to the rumours in circulation, the approaches to
the Luxembourg have been crowded with curious per-
sons. The Journals which have announced the removal
of the prisoners from the Luxembourg for Doullens and
Mont St. Michel have been misinformed as to the mode
in which they have been disposed of. According to the
order of the Court of Peers, Dupoty, Bazin, Boggio, and
Mallet have been sent to Doullens ; and Petit, Jarrasse,
Dufour, and Launois. to Mont St. Michel." The Debats
states that the wife of Colombier was interrogated yes-
terday by Baron Pasquier.
A few days ago, says a Brussels paper, as two men
who had dug up some carrots in a field at Mariakerke,
and were preparing to carry them off, a man armed with
a fowling-piece made his appearance, and desired the
thieves to lay down their booty and retire. On their
refusal he fired, and one of them fell. He died of his
wounds on the following day, and the other thief has
been arrested.

The Journal de Bruges contains an account of the
murder of a poor woman, aged 69, at Saint Requiers,
during the absence of her husband, who was at church.
The murderers carried off a sum of ten sous, which was
all the money in the possession of this poor couple.
A good deal of snow has recently fallen on the Jura,
and in some places on the Lyons and Geneva road it has
drifted from 15 to 20 feet in depth.
Cardinal Mattei, the Minister of the Interior, and Pre-
sident of the Board of Health at Rome, has lately issued
an ordonnance whereby the physicians and surgeons of
all the public establishments in the Papal dominions are
bound to vaccinate all persons admitted into these re-
spective houses. The same is to be done for the troops
and persons confined in prisons. Days are appointed for
the vaccination of the poor gratuitously, and measures
are prescribed for isolating all persons affected with the
small. pox.
A letter from Ajaccio mentions that a notorious ban-
dit, named Stefanini, of Sari d'Orcino, in Corsica, who
had taken refuge in Sardinia, had returued to the island
with another bandit, and carried off by force the Mayor
of Sari, demanding 4,400£ for his ransom. Orders had
been given for a company of the Corsican Voltigeurs to
go in search of the malefactors, but they had been un-
successful, and the Mayor still remained in the hands of
Stefanini.

About four months ago, Letang, a chaser by trade,
married a young woman from mutual affection. The
bride was so brought up that she had a peculiar horror
of drunkenness, and perceiving., three days ago, that her
husband was, when he came home to her in the evening,
somewhat heated with liquor, determined to watch him.
Next day she went to the shop where he worked to in-
quire for him, and learnt that he had not been there for
two days. This intelligence had such an effect upon her
that she lost her reason, and determined to destroy her-
self. Instead of returning home, site first went up the
stairs of a house in the Rue Maubuee, but, not finding it
suit her purpose, came down again, and, entering No.
43, in the Rue des Blanes Manteaux, ascended to the
fourth story, opened the window on the landing-place,
bound a handkerchief over her eyes, and threw herself
down into the street. This did not cause immediate
death, but she was carried, with both her legs broken, to
the Hotel-Dieu, where she has undergone amputation,
and now lies in imminent danger.
The architectural and internal decorations of the new
Chamber of Peers are all finished, except the allegorical
paintings of the Conference-room, but the sittings will
not be held in the new hall till the middle of next month.
The construction of this building has cost 300,000 f.,
and the ornamental sculpture and paintings 800,000 E
It was commenced in 1837, and has been four years in
execution. The new Chamber in which the sittings
are to be held is placed between the archives-rootn and
a spacious library, with windows looking into the gar-
den. The cabinets for the President and the Grand Re-
ferendary, and the committee-rooms, are to the right and
left of the Chamber. The ceiling is both rich and grand.
The four pendentives are ornamented with figures of
Wisdow, Law, Justice, and the country, executed by M.
Abel de Pujol. The three grand medallions, and the six
window compartments, representing Prudence, Truth,
and Confidence, and the six most illustrious law-givers
of the ancients--Moses, Draco, Solon, Lycurgus, Numa,
and Justinian, are by M. Vauchelet. On each side of
the semicircle, in which the President's chair is to be
placed, are two allegorical paintings by M. Blondel. To-
wards the centre of the ceiling, in six medallions round
the opening, to permit the passage of the chandelier, are
the profiles in bronze of Charles V., Louis XII., ran-
cols 1., Louis XIV., Napoleon, and Louis XVIII. The
gilding and accessory ornaments by Messrs. Adam Bro-
thers. The Minister of Public Works, the Commission
of Monuments, and a great number of Peers and Depu-
ties, hare highly congratulated M. Gisors, under whose
direction the whole has been accomplished.
BOURSE—PARIS, FRIDAY, DEC. 31.

!lest Highest Lowest Last
Price Price. Price. Price.
French 5 per ; Ild 60 116 65 ... 116 55 116 60
3 per Contr. ex div 78 kl) .... 78 25 ... 78 15 78 15
Loan ex d1r....» 74 70 ... 78 70 ••• 78 70 78 78
Bank of France
Latfitte Bank:1,000f. Shares 1017 50 ...1007 50 ...1007 50 ...1007 50
Aminan Bank
Belgian 5 per Cent'., 1840 102% ... 1028 i ... 102% ... 102 X
Active OOOOOOOO Y 5 .•• 254 ... 24% .6 25 %
... 5% ... 5% 5%
Portugueses per Cents. ...... 28% ... 28% ... 285 i ...484
Dutch 2% per Cents. 53% 533fi ... 53% ... 53%
doirian lO3 ... 103 ... 103 103
RAILWAY SHARES.
Versailles. L.B 212 50 212 50 „. 207 50 ... 2:0
K. B 340 340 3:38 75 ... 340
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Itrasburg to Bahr 232 50 .. 23.5 ... 232 50 ... 233 75

The Marylebone Vestry have come to the
sage conclusion of postponing the question
of wood pavement for Oxford-street for a
period of three years. This was carried
by a majority of only two. We recommend
the inhabitants to resent this insult offered
to the deputation by calling a public meeting
without delay. Let them persevere, and they
will compel this speechifying vestry to act as
well as to speak. To postpone the consideration
of such an important subject for so long a period,
is a disgrace to the inhabitants of this large
district.

THE TEN HOURS' FACTORY
QUESTION.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
SlR—After the amusing description which has
been given of the interview of the Ten Hours'
Deputation with the Minister, it remains only to
anticipate the time when the manufacturing
capitalists shall present themselves to the Grand
Vizier of the hour, with a corresponding request
to have the evils of the agricultural management
looked into, and repressed by the strong fingers
of the law.

When this time comes, how pathetic will the
remonstrants be, on the evils, physical and moral,
which always arise from agriculture where the
manufacturing interest has not a controller on
the spot. To say nothing of the toils of harvest-
women, and the total absence of care, for the
fingers of female and infant weeders, when the
thermometer is below 40, the moral view alone
will be terrible and sad. Our popular
poetry is full of little but the moral dangers
inseparable from the encouragement of an
agricultural population. The bush, the brake,
the " rigs o' barley," and the "rushes green,"
have each their several temptations, leading all
one way, and calling for pensive reflection on the
legislator and the parish officer. Shall there be
no balm for this, while an active superintendence
on the part of a moral and religious manufactur-
ing public might do so much to prevent the ap-
prehended evils? Why not appoint an inspector
of hay-fields ? Do the landlords properly box off
all dangerous places? Are these matters to be
left to adjust themselves ? or ought the law to in-
terfere to ensure the doing right? The require-
ments of humanity imperatively demand it.
The landlords may find out some time, that it
is just as easy for one set of men to plague and
vilify another, as was the converse. Of course it
will be understood, that if the question has been
treated here with levity, it was in the full per-
suasion that what is called the Ten Hours' ques-
tion, after making the needful reservations for
well-meaning blunder, is a fraud directed to the
preservation of the evils it pretends to remedy,
and by the active operation and encouragement
of those who made and maintain the evils for the
sake of their own personal and dishonest gain.
Yours very sincerely,
T. PERRONET THOMPSON.
Blackheath, Jan. 3, 1842.