The Sun.
London, England, 1829-01-15 00:00:00

FANATICISM IN FRANCE.

A Mission took place at the little tows of
Nogent-le-Rotron, and such missions generally are
followed by tumults and disorders, which prove a
deplorable fermentation in the minds of the people.
There was an Auto-dale of a small library. It was
burned by the hand of a Minister of the Gospel.
This is only stupid and ridiculous, but we mourn
over the following facts. A mother of a family be-.
came mad after hearing an energetic and threatening
sermon on the rewards and punishme,s,,,, ;.he next

life. A young wife, hitherto t 4 kindness,
was transformed by fanatacism into a Sort of wild
beast, and seizing her husband by the thro.a: at
niuht, endeavoured to strangle him, because, she was
damned, she cried—damned for eye,-. Among other
disturbances which ensty4 Maria Jeanne Der-
briard, Widow Pierre, called the Grenadier, and
the Swearer, was brought before the tribunal of
Nogent-le-Rotrou, charged with having assaulted
M. Fault, when he was passing through St,
Hilaire-street, ()ailing him names, such as robber,
thief, scoundrel, and with having, with appro-
bation of the riotous populace, struck him several
violent blows. Her apnearznce, when she came to
take her trial, corresponded with her names, She
confessed her crime, arid gloried in it. Explained to
the Court how she had pummelled M. Fillent, and
seemed so ready to repeat the operation on the
door-keeper near her, that he turned pale, and has-
tened out of her reach. Her gestures and demea-
nour were violent before the Court, and she returned
to the seat assigned her, after seer avowals, with an
air of triumph. The -p-Alic prosecutor requirA the
Court, as the el.arge was proved, to punish her, by a
fine of three francs, and the costs. The Court,
after some deliberation, sentenced her to two years'
imprisonment, the maximum of the punishment
allowed by the law for the offence, to pay a fine of
Vri francs, and to pay all the costs.—=Gazette des
Tribunaux.

The Duke of Wellington visited Mr. Secre•
tary Peel yesteT;tay at the Home Office.
Yesterday Viscount Melville held a Levee for
Naval Officers, at the Admiralty.

Lord Ellenhorough and Mr. Herries had in-
terviews yesterday with the Duke of Wellington.
HoMICAPZ 4T CARLINGFORD.--On the
evening of Saturday, a man named Murphy had been Lord Plunket transacted business yesterday at
drinking in a public house kept by one Larkin, and a the Foreign Office, Downing-street.
dispute occurred between him and the landlady with re- His Excellency the Mar of Anlesea en-
spect to the payment of a noggin of spirits. Two po-
q g
'icemen were in the house at the time ; to them Mrs, tertained a large dinner party on Tuesday, and another
L
ou whichpMurphy staruck the policemen,
large the Vice-Reg Lge, Plifenix arkin apealed for ssistance, they accordingly
and knocked interpoone, sed,
Palle, ondinner-party Wednesdayat last. There wasal od
an evening party,
if not both of them, down. At this period one of the
and a juvenile ball upon the evening of the former day.--
police ran off to the barrack, from whence he soon return-
Irish Paper.
ed, provided with his side-arena. During his absence, On Tuesday Lord Leveson Gower entertained
Mrs. Larkin, it appears, had struck Murphy with a salver, at dinner, at his residence in the Park, the Lord Mayor,
and cut his face. The latter, infuriated to a pitch of sheriffs, and a number of the Aldermen of the city.—lrish
phrenzy, and breathing revenge, waned the woman into a pap„..
back kitchen, whither he was followed by the policeman,
in order to protect her from violence. There a smart The laying down of the material& for the
scuffle ensued, the candle was extinguished, accidentally building of the New Bridge over the Clyde, nearly opposite
it is said, and before it could be re-lit, the unfne- the gaol is going on with spirit. A smith's shop is forth-
tunate man received his mortal wound. He had with to be erected for the sharpening of the tools; and the
time only to exclaim, "Oh murder l I'm killed," building will commence as soon as the weather permits.—
when he breathed his last. An inquest was held on the Glasgow Chronicle.
body on Sunday, before*Paul Parks, Esq., one of the Co- On Tuesday a child, sixteen months old, be-
ropers of the county of Louth. While the jury was kitting longing to a man named Wren, of this town, who carries
a mob, to the amount of several hundreds, assembled from
the Rochester mail, put into its mouth a metal button as
various parts, threatening to execute yengeance on the pa- Ilarge as a shilling, and, unfortunately, tho button slipped
lice. Their appearance and conduct were such as to excite into its throat. Medical assistance was obtained, but it
very gencral *Ma. The respectable inhabitants, in fact,
was found impossible to extract the obstructing metal, and
were in actual terror of their lives, until the arrival of J.
Wolf it was eventually forced into the stomach,. On Thursday
111`Neale,, Leg., accompanied by a party of the Lan- I
'
Vers from Dundalk, who reached Carlingford at a late hour the poor little creature expired.--Maidstone G.:zette.
on Sunday night. On the appearance of the King's 1 We regret to hear that the East India Corn-
troops, the mob quickly dispersed. The Lancers re- pany's purchases for serges in the West of England, this
turned to Dundalk on Monday, escorting the policemen, quarter, are likely not to exceed 25,000 pieces. The
who would probably haye loaf their lives, but for the usual order has been 40,000 per quarter, and the dineinu-
nr fo
ith which they were guarded. They are tion, arising, it is understood, from the pending disputes
a
the gaol of Dundalk, to abide their trial at between the Company and the Hong merchants, will, it is
htte present
n
uinr in egeastises. One of them (Campbell) is se much to be feared, be the cause of considerable difficulty and die-
injured,stroe
that his recovery is considered doubtful..—.Newry tress among the labouring class of manufacturers in the
Telegraph. iWest.—Hampshire Telegraph,