The Sun.
London, England, 1842-05-20 00:00:00

FIRE AT HAMBURGIL

THE HAGUE, MAY 10.—The Stoats Courant of this
date contains a Royal ordinance, prescribing a general
collection in all the towns and communes of the king-
dom, for the relief of the sufferers by the fire at Ham-
burgh, to be made before the 10th of June next ensuing.

ADISTERDA 31, MAY 17.—We have received from Han;
burgh the following accounts, dated May 13, which are
of the highest importance to the mercantile world
Among the 1,760 houses reduced to ashes, are 19
sugar-houses, of which 13 refined only colonial sugar.
The Assurance Companies have began to advance
money to those sufferers by the fire who are in the most
immediate need of assistance.
What may be considered as most wonderful, pay-
ment has not been refused of any bill of exchange—not
even by houses that are totally ruined by the fire.
Confiience is visibly returning, though discounts on
good bills does not exceed four per cent.
Since the day of the fire, above 300 ships have come
up the Elbe ' • 15 were consigned to one house alone,
which never before had so many consignments at once.
The imports, of one clay, were 10,00 chests of Ha-
vannah sugar, and 20,000 bales of coffee.
The loss might have been threefold greater had not
the continued prevalance of the east wind, for 35 days,
prevented all arrivals.
Magazines and warehouses were not to be had—the
rent has risen ten-fold, and the wages of the workmen
in the manufactories are tripled.
Baron Renjers, Member of the Household to King
William Frederick, has just arrived from Berlin. His
Majesty was daily recovering his strength.

At the last sitting of the Court of Assize of the
Vaucluse, a man named Louis Montjalard was con-
demned to death for murder, under the following cir-
cumstances :—Montjalard and Eugenie Saignon were_
both domestics in the service of M. de Ponson, Mayor of
ltustrel, in the Vaucluse. A too close intimacy took
place between them, and Eupenie became enciente. Louis,
alhamed of such an intercourse with a girl who was
plain in her person, and who had been. previously guilty
of a similar weakness with another and also fearing the
resentment of an aunt from whom he had expecta-
tions, earnestly entreated Eugenie to conceal her condi-
tion. About ten o'clock in the night of September 19,
Louis induced Eugenie to walk out with him, under
the pretence of getting her some grapes ; but, leading her
to, the brink of awell some little distance from the house,
lie suddenly pushed her in. She fell to the bottom, but,
rising again to the surface of the water, caught by a
projection, and sustained herself. Believing, it to be
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brought a loaded carbine, which he discharged at the
poor. girl, who was thereby wounded in the shoulder,
but still had strength enough to keep her held. Finding
no other means of killing her in the well, he helped her
out, and immediately put an end to her life, by beating
her brains out with the butt-end of the gun. Returning
once more -to the house, he dressed himself and fled, but
met an acquaintance, to whom he confessed what he had
done. Being arrested, he made an explicit declaration
of all the circumstances to the examining magistrate,
and was committed for trial.
The Princess Louise of Baden, eldest daughter
of the Dowager Grand Duchess Stephanie, and wife
of Prince Gustavus Vasa, died lately at Nice, in her 31st
year.

A FEMALE SWINDLER.
A woman named Bulle, who was an associate of
the celebrated female, known as La Contemporaine,
made har appearance, on Friday and Saturday, before
the Court of Assizes upon a double charge, first, of
having been guilty of fraud and robbery by means of
forged bills and notes, and, secondly,tas an accom-
plice with another loose woman, named Bourdeau,
who was confined with her at the same time in the
prison of St. Lazare, in attempting to set fire to that
' establishment. This last accusation, however failed en-
tirely, from want of sufficient evidence, and both the
prisoners were fully acquitted by the Jury. From the
indictment, so far as it regarded Bulle exclusively, but
which was by far too long for us to attempt to reproduce
it at the same length, it appeared that Bulle had for
many years led a life of disorder, licentiousness, and
fraud. She hasrbeen married, but within a fortnight
after the ceremony, she eloped from her husband, and
termed numerous successive temporary connexions, re-
peatedly changing her name and abode. In 1820 she lived
with a student, named Albert, whose means she ex-
hausted, and who was at length obliged to fly his
country, and has since been seen in London, although
she assumed herself to be his widow, and as such car-
ried on her frauds. In 1835-1836, she lived with a
person named Boucher, and so also called herself.
Boucher, having involved himself by negotiating ac-
commodation bills, was imprisoned for debt. The
prisoner then formed a similar intimacy with a per-
son named Gautier, but who assumed that of Fran-
cois Julien de la Geraudiere, which name Mme.
Bulle also assumed. They entered into an exten-
sive business with no real means, but obtaining cre-
dit to a large amount on fictitious bills, and Gautier
being obliged to abscond to Belgium, he made an
act of :procuration, whereby he :appointed the
woman Bulle, under the name of Gautier, to be his
representative. By this power she contrived to
paralyse the proceedings against Gautier till she
could join him in Belgium, whence they went toge-
ther to England. At London, Gautier paid his rent
by a bill on the widow Albert, of Paris, for the sum
of 3,000 f. This piece of paper was remitted to the
house of Laffitte and Co., to obtain payment, but
when presented was at once discovered to be fraudu-
lent. After a time the prisoner returned to Paris,
and renewed her disreputable mode of life. She was,
however, soon recognised and arrested, under an accu-
sation of having committed forgery. On her interro-
gation by the President, she admitted many of the
facts above stated, but endeavoured either to justify or
palliate them. She acknoWledged that at one time
she had assumed the name of Larochefoucault, which
, she said was given to her by an elderly lady of that
family, who took a great interest in her. She admitted
also that she had declared her expectations of millions
of francs from a Mr. Book, of Calcutta, who, she said
afterwards, had arrived and died at Liverpool. Ac-
cording to the evidence, inquiries had been made, but
no traces of any such person could be found. She had
likewise stated that she was in the regular receipt of
1,500 f. a-year. This she declared to the Court was
true, and that the payment was made to her up to the
time she was arrested and sent to prison. When taken
into custody, there were found in her possession two
bills of exchange for 20,000 f. each, drawn by her
upon Boucher. These were, she said, for moneys
advanced by her to Boucher, and lent by him to
third persons, among whom was the son of General
Mallet. The witnesses on this count of the indict-
ment having been examined, the Jury found them-
selves warranted in delivering a verdict of guilty of
forging commercial bills, upon which the Court con-
demned her to imprisonment with labour for eight
years, and _to be exposed on the pillory.

LORD ASHBURTON'S DINNER
AT WASIIINGTON.-AMUSING DESCRIP-
TION.

(From a New York Paper.)
Lord Ashburton's first official dinner came off
April '23, at 6 p.m. This functionary is a very plain,
gentlemanly looking man, with a face somewhat
careworn, and a complexion which belongs to those
who have lived long and well. His suite are tine
young men, generally bald, but with intellectual
heads, though not very remarkable countenances.
The private secretary of his Lordship is said to 1)2
the cleverest of the legation. In manners, they are
all self-possessed, somewhat stiff in the movements of
their bodies, and few or no gestures escape them while
speaking. How different from the oilers of the
foreign Ministers here ! Why, a lively Frenchman
will gesticulate more in one minute with the pha-
langes of his dexter hand, than Mr. Mildmay could in
the whole course of his natural life.

The dinner was served up soon after the hour of
dining arrived. Late hours are, of course, in fashion
everywhere among the diplomatic givers and eaters
of dinners, and this one was to take place at six.
The table was of the longitidinal character,
and there were present about 16 guests. Among
them were the foreign Ministers generally, the
heads of departments, and some of our leading men in
Congress. There was no ceremony in entering the
dining-room. The guests " stood not upon the order
of their going, but went at once." Lord Ashburton
took the centre of the table. On his right was John
Quincy Adams,. on his left John C. Calhoun, oppo-
site him sat General Scott.

Mr. Fox was not present It has been rumoured
that Mr. Fox feels a little sore at this mission extra-
ordinary. He, perhaps, supposes the business might
have been better entrusted to him. But while we
think very well of Mr. Fox's abilities, we imagine that
the length of time he has been in public life has some-
what case-hardened him—that he takes no interest
in public affairs beyond what his instructions require
of him—in short, that he has more head than heart,
and that a negotiation controlling the destinies of two
great nations, affecting every cottage in remote Eng-
land, and every log-hut beyond our mountains, is no
more to Mr. Fox than any other negotiation, and that
he would conduct it on the same cold, skilful, and
gentlemanly manner which he would a game of
ecarte' and in no other way.
Lord Ashburton is rather a man of the people—is
identified with the prosperity of the commercial classes
—would be unhappy, truly unhappy, to see mother
and daughter at variance ; and he would rather sacri-
fice the 25 townships he owns in the State of Maine,
but to which he has scarcely given a thought for
many years, and of which now, for the first time, he
learns the real value, than involve us in a war, the
scourge of nations and the desolation of mankind.
The table was beautifully laid out, but as all his
Lordship's plate has not arrived, there was no plateau
in the centre, and no vases elaborate in art, and per-
fuming the saloon with the choicest cullings of the
conservatory ; but it was still very elegant, and dis-
played the skill of an accomplished major-domo.
There are 21 servants in the house, and the reader
may well imagine what a god's-send a score of beef-
eaters must be to the cattle graziers in this city.
Indeed, the out-go of his Lordship's establishment
I will be so large, and the profits so immense to the
retailers here, that we should not be surprised if they
proposed, in the course of a few months, to pur-
, chase the claim of England to the disputed territory,
and present it, as a mark of their gratitude, to the
people of Maine, for being so much the cause of the
present mission.
As his Lordship has three cooks of the utmost
talent, artists whom Ude himself would not have
blushed to take by the hand, the dinner was not only
superb, but magnificent. The meats were all nicely
carved, and handed round, as is now the fashion ; and
the game, of which there was a great variety, was all
cut up and divided by the cooks before it was served
up ; then reinstated in form and figure, ready to drop
apart at the touch of the first fork. Course after
course succeeded, delicious to the palate and agree-
able to the eye ; the wines were rich and soft, and
high flavoured, having the body and strength which
belong to the English cellar.
Champagne was passed freely round, but no other
wines of France, and none from the Rhineland, met
our eyes. If diplomacy expresses its feelings at the
dinner table by its preferences for meats and drinks,
then we say to Germany and France, England likes
not the Zoll Verein, nor the backing out from the
Quintuple Treaty for the right of search. No ! no !
hard cider and Monongahela, which stoutly represent
the apples. and the corn-stalks of Brother Jonathan,
shall find favour on the festive board of John Bull
when Chateau Margeaux and Vin de Grave shall be
forgotten.
ale conversation it would be improper to divulge.
We do not believe it right, though it may be fashion-
able, to retail conversations and steal correspon-
dences. We will only say, that the remarks were
all of a friendly spirit, now and then approaching
the confines of rigid propriety, when they related to
the quality of our steam-ships and the differences of
our discipline.
The dessert, among other things, exhibited'a large
number of the choicest fruits of England, beautifully
preserved, fair to the eye, and delightful to the taste.
They were much admired by the guests, and pro-
duced a round of encomiums on the garden from which
they were brought.
In due time coffee succeeded, and then the guests
departed, much pleased with this first of a series of
entertainments with which the new Envoy commences
his mission. For some years " the meteor-flag" of
England has not floated very gaily in Washington.
Mr. Fox is a man of retired habits, somewhat pe-
culiar, and does not care for popularity
" with the
natives. A new system of operation is commenced.
The boundary-line is to be adjusted on the dinner-
table in streams of sherry, the right of visitation is
to be exercised in diplomatic hospitalities, and the loss
of the Creole is to be made up in black and white.
In taking our leave we did not forget that the
fourteen servants in livery—blue coats, black velvet
shorts, and striped waistcoats—had done their best to
fill our plates with the dainties of his Lordship's table.

In consequence of Mr. Roebuck having gained the
appointment of his Committee, Mr. Boothby, the barris-
ter, is come down to Nottingham to obtain evidence.—
Derbyshire Chronicle.