The Sun.
London, England, 1842-05-12 00:00:00

STRAWBERRY HILL.

The road to Twickenham yesterday gave us a minature fore-
taste and assurance of what we shall see, in the course of a few
days, on the road to Epsom. The attendance was at least
threefold more numerous than on any previous occasion.
The bidding went on slowly and steadily until lot 60 was
brought out. 7 his, it may be remembered, is a 'curious old
jewel, consisting of a golden heart set with precious stones, and
ornamented with emblematic devices and Scottish mottoes. It.
formerly belonged to the Lady Margaret Douglas, and was
preserved by her as a souvenir of her husband, Lennox, the
Regent of Scotland. This lot was sold for 130 guineas.
Lot 66 was the beautiful rosewood cabinet, which was de-
signed by Horace Walpole, and ornamented with those won-
derfully expressive ea. vings in ivory by Verakovis, who ob-
tained so great a reputation in his day. This magnificent
meuble fetched 120 guineas.
Several lots of minor importance were next sold, but nothing
worthy of any especial notice until lot 77, the Raffael
which is so exquisitely illuminated, and richly ornamented
with rubies, turquoises, and large cornelians. After a hard
struggle, it was knocked down to Mr. Forster, for 110 guineas.
The bell was next. brought out, and was rung by order of
Mr. Robins, in order to let the world know that it was at
length about to pass away from its resting place at Straw-
berry-hill. As everybody has either seen this tintinabulum,
or read the numerous and elaborate descriptions of its
beauties, we need not detail them here. The bidding started
at 100 guineas, and was kept on gradually between an agent
for Mr. Beeklord and Mr. Forster. The latter at length bore
away the bell for 240 guineas, and immediately after it was
sold, every one was seen paying or receiving bets, which it
appears had been laid in great numbers that it would
be sold for at least 1,0001. The seal of his insolvent
Majesty of Corsica was not held in very high estimation, as it
was sold for six guineas. The quaint old silver tea-kettle, with
lamp-stand, and other paraphernalia, fetched 295. per ounce,
which greatly exceeds the price which was paid f.r the pla-
teau, which was ornamented by Hogarth's own hand. Foster
next gave fifty-two guineas for King Henry the Eighth's dagger,
with its calcedonix case and handle, and shortly after he pur-
chased the Julio Clovio missal for 420 guineas. This valuable
volume contains the Psalms of. David, written with a pen on
fine vellum, and is superbly illuminated by Julio Clovio. The
extraordinary brilliancy of the illuminations, and wonderful
manner in which they have retained their colour and effect after
a lapse of so many years, has been' thi theme of very general
astonishment and admiration. •

ST. GEORGE'S HOTEL, ALEEMARLE-STREET.—This
large establishment, which was lately destroyed by fire, has
been re-built in excellent style, and for internal elegance, con-
venience, and comfort, is not surpassed by any in the metro-
polis. In one of the drawing-rooms is a beautiful fresco, by
M. Song, of Munich , and a medallion of St. George and the
Dragon, which does great credit to the artist. In another
is Allen's picture of the landing of Mary Queen of Scots, on her
arrival from France. Both these rooms exhibit the finest speci-
mens of Scotch velvet cal pets, which produce a fine effect from
the richness of the colouring and beauty of the design. There
is also a fire-proof room for the plate, with births and cellars of
a novel description, and the whole establishment is get up in a
way highly creditable to Mr. Stewart, the spirited proprietor.
The General Steam Navigation Company's vessel,
the Giraffe, from Rotterdam, arrived off the Custom House,
at ten o'clock A. m., this day, with the Dutch Mail.
Yesterday morning returned here the Antwerp
Company's steam ship Antwerpen, Captain Jackson, with
numerous passengers, and bringing the Brussels papers of
Wednesday. The passages out and home were performed in
twenty hours.
FIRE AT HAMBURGIL—We are glad to learn that
none of the warehouses or other buildings, whether public or
private, in the city of Hamburgh,:are insured,by English Fire-
offices. A law of the city of Hamburgh requires that every
building shall be insured by the State ; and a public tax is
annually levied for that purpose.
The Dukes of Cadiz and Seville, sons of Don
Francis de Paulo, arrived a few days ago at the Hague.
The General Steam Navigation Company's British
steam-ship, Wilberforce, arrived from Antwerp this morning,
after a fine passage of only nineteen hours. Lady Hampson
and family were among the passengers.
COMMUTATION OF SENTENCE.—MichaeI Coote,
jeweller, of Golden-lane, who was sentenced to seven years'
transportation at the Commission, for having received stolen
property, has had the sentence commuted by his Excellency
the Lord •Lieutenant, to one year and a half's confinement, in
consequence of the state of the prisoner's health, and his pre-
vious good character.—Dublin Evening Post.
THE UNEMPLOYED AT YEOVIL.—The privations
of the 20,000 individuals who were thrown out of employ by
the stopping for a month of all business by the manufacturers
of this town, we hear, have been borne with the greatest and
almost unexampled patience, thus affording a gratifying con-
trast to the more turbulent spirits of the north.— Western Times.
The plan decided on:last year for the canalisation
of the arm of the Seine, which runs to the south of the cite,
and for deepening the bed of the Seine from Paris to the mouth
of. the Oist', is about, to be irumediately carried into effect.
Dredging-mac Lines of grea.;. power have Leen already prepared.

Mr. Atkinson, of the Roy-al Mint of England, who
arrived in Paris a few days ago, had the honour of a special
audience of the King on Wednesday, when his Majesty mcst
graciously expressed his thanks for the services rendered by
Mr. A. to a deputation which had been sent to England re-
specting the contemplated alterations in the French Mints.
presented a new five-sovereign Mr. A. piece, which elicited
the praise and admiration of the King as to the likeness of
Queen Vietnria, and th t.
the taste of the design,
A. had the butieLit ta:
ries on Friday.

THE LAZE RAILROAD ACCIDENT THE LINEN-DRAPERY TRADE
NEAR PARIS.
PARIS, MAT 10.—You will II In this case, which has excited considerable attent
WILLIAMS AND MOTTRAM'S BANKRUPinTnCinYt.he
linendrapery trade, and which has been several times before
was yesterday thought of or spoken readily believe that nothing ;
about here, but the kissed-
re orted, an examination took place at the Court of Bank-
ful accident of the preceding day on the Versailles Railroad.
rupecy yesterday, of persons to whom the is ankrupts paid
To-day the newspapers are filial with it. '1 o-nicrrow little
money shortly before their failure was entered into, the prin-
w ill be written, and less said or thought, respecting it, and the
cipal points of which are detailed as follow :
whole affair, with all the projected improvements to insure
safety in railway transport, will be forgotten. Mr. Maynard appeared, as on all former occas
assignees.
Individuals will, however, long lament the cruel loss of wag the
Mr. Peter Bruce Turner, of Basing-lane, solicitor,
parents, husbands, wives, children, relations, friends. So many Sone; for the
first examined, and stated at length the several discount trans
cases are already ascertained, that the number of dead will
actions their firm had had with the bankrupts. He swore lost
exceed the calculation of yesterday. The details published,
had no recollection of being at the house of the bankrupt Moe.-
and which I receive hourly, are heartrending. tram the Sunday evening before the firm stopped. When they!
Among the dead is the celebrated circumnavigator, Admiral
( Turner and Hensman) were paid the 1,0001. just prior to fie
Dumont D'Urville. He was seen ascending the third waggon
bankrupts' stoppage, they were not aware of the insolvency o 6
at the station of Versailles, with his wife and son, by a servant
the bankrupts. That payment was made inaccordance with"•
of the house in which he resided in Paris, who having seated
the terms of the advance. The bankrupts were now indebted'.
himself outside, was thrown off by the shock when the accident
to them to the extent of about 2,0001.
occurred, and broke his leg. With Admiral D'Ui vide was an
Mr. Moore, of the firm of Mottram and Moore, of Lamb's
officer of the navy, who, not finding room in the vehicle occu-
Conduit-street, was next examined.— He deposed to the
pied by his friend, placed himself in the fifth carriage, and as-
i nment made by the bankrupt, Charles Mottram, to him of
was fortunate enough to escape with only one arm fractured.
sthge old debts of Lamb's Conduit-street, and admitted that be
Since then all the researches made by his mother-in-law, and
had heard shortly afterwards that the firm was riot in good ciras
by order of the Minister of Marine, have been fruitless, and
cumstances. The bankrupt, Charles Mottram, in addition to
to-day, at noon, no accounts had been received at the Admi-
this assignment, owed him 7001. His (Mr. Moore's) partner,
rays house of any of the party. The Admiral, your readers
Mr. 13 rce Mottram, had told him 301. had been received under
may recollect, returned last year from his second voyage round
the assignment. 3
the world, during which he discovered and explored, previously
Brierl , of Manchester, followed. He said on the Ist
unknown regions contiguous to the South Pole. Since his ar-
of NoremberYWilliams and Mottram owed him 4421. 13s. 7d.,
rival in Paris he had somewhat recovered, and was entirely
and he having failed to receive the bills "accepted which he
occupied in preparing for the press and putting in order the
h
materials for the history of his second expedition, when ho met
was tnawdnd reanw nthe the
p sth of
f November,athees
and amount, a
ft
cr waited a n
interview
he mwith
n
his unhappy fate. It as on him (then a Captain of the Navy)
o
both the partners, during which he said he would rather have
that the mission of conveying Charles X. from Cherbourg to
England devolved in 1630. cash than their bills, as there were rumours about their diffi-
culties, Mottram gave him 1001, in bank notes, and a bill for
It was rumoured throughout yesterday that several scholars
951/. 2s , which bill he had paid away ; but Williams and Mot-
of the Polytechnic School were among the sufferers. A simi-
lar report followed the Revolution of 1830, for the public take tram had. accepted the bill, and they arrived at Manchester
he had left
deep interest in that institution. In the present case, as in the after for
Mr. Bennett, a sLondo n.
olicitor, of Manchester, was examined as
Revolution, one student only of that school met his death, as
respected some bills which he received from the bankrupts pre-
you will see presently. vious to their stoppage, but his evidence was of no importance.
Many persons of distinction escaped this calamity by being
a moment too late, or by finding the train full. '1 he King's . Dlr. Fawcett, of Lawrence-lane, examined—Was a bankrupt
n July last year. The bankrupts were indebted to him for
youngest son, the Duke de Montpensier, came by it a short
'bills for value received. Did not recollect having the bills in
distance from Versailles, and then got out. M. Chambolles
his possession, as his business was so extensive at th e period;
(a Deputy and editoraia-cliief of the Siecle) was on the point
it was at the rate of 300,000/. per annum. Before fte was a.
of entering with his three sons, when a friend offered hoz' seats
bankrupt he had in his employ a clerk of the name of Sorrell,
in his carriage, which he accepted. Mr. Henry Bulwer ar-
and several others. When his bankruptcy occurred, Sorrell
rived at the station before the train started, but could not
took for himself part of the premises he had occupied. Did
obtain a place. A son of Colonel Thorne, a wealthy American
not recollect ehether or not he sold goods in the name of Sor-
gentleman, resident in Paris, who was yesterday said to have
rell to the bankrupts in July last, but he might have dot to so.
been one of the victims, had attempted to obtain a place in the
Sorrell was now in his employ. In Sorrell's day-book, kept
train, but failed. Several other incidents of the kind are men-
while lie sold on commission fur him, there was a sale ma de to
tinned. 1 shall not, however, continue my narrative, but lay
Williams and Mottram, and dated the 27th of July, but by
before you extracts from all the well-informed Journals of Paris
whom that sale was made he could not recollect. The amount
on this most painful subject.
'° We have been able, says the Moniteur, "to collect the might have been paid for in a bill, but he had not the bill.
Sorrell would have the bill. There were other goods sent on
following details respecting the deplorable accident of the 6th
Sorrell's account to the bankrupts, but he could not say by
instant: whose directions. He had re-commenced business early in
" The train of the left bank of the Versailles Railroad, which
the month of November. He received five bills from 111 ot-
left that town at half-past five o'clock, p.m., for Paris, con-
tram to get discounted at Manchester. Four he left at th
Fisted of eighteen waggons—two open, three diligences, and
lace, in Messrs. Brodie's hands, as he had told Moti'ram ; -the
thirteen waggons of the second class. It was drawn by two
fifth he now produced and handed over to the official Assignee-
engines. On its reaching a short distance beyond Bellevue,
Had no claim against the four bills.
the axle-tree of the first engine broke, and the wheels be-
It being now past four o'clock, the Court rose.
coming detached from the vehicle, the latter got off the rails,
and placing itself across the road, was thrown on its side by the There are other persons to examine, and the case will pr oceed
tain next week.
shock of the second engine. The latter, hurried along by its
own impetus and that of the train, went over the first engine,
and was followed by two open waggons, two of the second class,
and a diligence, of which latter the front part got above the
back of the carriages which preceded them.
" The shoch was dreadful; the waggons were smashed in
pieces, and a great number of persons were killed and wounded.
This misfortune was aggravated by a still mote frightful cir-
cumstance. The fire of the first engine fell on the road,
that of the second was soon added to it, and the coke,
carried in the tenders, added fresh food to the fire.
The first five carriages arriving over the furnace, were
instantly ignited, and were almost entirely consumed
with awful rapidity. The succeeding waggons stopped,
and the travelers alighted from them. The consequences of
this terrible misfortune were truly deplorahlee_Forty•three per-
sons perished, and fifty were more or less dangerously wounded.
On the first engine was, independently of the ordinary engineer
and stoker, Mr. George (an Englishman), the chief engineer.
On the second, besides the engineer and stoker, was one of the
Directors of the railroad. The administration of the establish-
ment reckons among the dead Mr. George, the chief engineer ;
two other engineers, the stoker and guard ; and the Director
had his leg broken and his shoulder put out of joint.
" It was reported by mistake that two trains had come in
contact with each other. It was also erroneously stated that
one of the boilers had burst, but the boilers of both engines
remained intact. As soon as the authorities became aware of
the accident, the Prefect of Police repaired to the station of
the railway to give the first orders, and procure every assist-
ance. He afterwards proceeded to the spot, where he was
joined by M. Jalon, the King's Attorney at Versailles, and a
great number of the physicians of the Paris hospitals, whose
zeal on the occasion was admirable.
" Already the first cares had been bestowed to the wounded
under the direction of the authorities of Meudon. The medi-
cal men of that village and of the adjoining districts were
already engaged in dressing the wounds when the Prefect ar-
rived. The inhabitants of Meudon had opened their houses,
and afforded relief with an eagerness beyond all praise. The
Chateau 'of Meudon had been likewise converted into an hos-
pital from the onset, and the officers of the Civil List and of
the Palace vied in zeal with the rest of the population.
" The moment the King was informed of this sad event his
Majesty ordered the Chateau of Meudon to be opened for the
accommodation of the wounded, and directed that every care
should be taken of them, and that every necessary should he
placed at their disposal. An Aide-de-Camp of the King,
dispatched in all haste to Meudon, saw his Majesty's orders
carried into execution. The next morning Count Montalivet
repaired, at six o'clock, to Meudon, and saw that his Majesty's
intentions had been exactly fulfilled. The physicians who at-
tended on the 14 wounded lying in the Palace on Monday,
w ere of opinion that 13 were in a condition to be removed to
Paris. he other remained in Meudon under the care of one
of the resident pupils of the Hotel Dieu.
" The General commanding the Polytechnic School informs
the families of the pupils, that in the cruel occurrence of the Bth
inst. he had only to deplore the loss of the, pupil Guilland, born
at Bourgoin, department of the Isere. No other pupil was
wounded, even slightly."
The Gazette des Tribunaur says that " all the dead could
not yet. be recognized, and it will be impossible from the man-
gled and shapeless form of others to discover who they are.
Two police officers, whom the Prefect of Police had sent to
Versailles to keep order during the fete, have been cruelly mu-
tilated. One of them, M. Aubiniere, who sat in the fifth
waggon, is despaired of ; and the other, M. Amy, was dan-
gerously wounded in the leg. We have heard of a family re-
siding in the Rue de la Poterie, composed of eleven persons,
not one of whom has been since heard of. A Paris merchant,
who was in a waggon w.th his wife and daughter, 14 years of
age, saw the latter killed in the coupe, and his wife burnt a
little further on, having himself miraculously escaped; he has
lost all recollection of what passed. A number of other tra-
vellers appear likewise to have lost their reason from the com-
motion they experienced, and the dreadful impression of the
spectacle which they had witnessed. This morning fragments
of human bodies in a carbonised state were picked up at some
distance from the spot where the accident occurred. The
number of deaths hitherto ascertained is 73. That of the
wounded is considerable. Yesterday and to-day numerous
amputations were performed.
" We learned this morning with lively grief that two mem-
bers of the bar had fallen victims to the cruel event. M. Le-
pontois, a young lawyer, one of the secretaries of the Con-
ference, who had given the most brilliant expectations, was
seated in one of the first waggons with his brother, his cousin,
M. Lemarie, arid his niece, fourteen years of age. At the mo-
ment of the shock the latter was thrown out of tke waggon,
and it was impossible to know whether it was the result of the
accident, or if she had been flung out by her relatives, who,
seeing the danger imminent wished to save her. Carried
senseless to a neighbouring house by a gentleman, who had
himself been thrown from the top of the waggon, she then
recovered, and told who she was. She said she was in the
same waggon with her father, uncle, and cousin, all of whom
perished, and it was even impossible to recognize their remains
among those pf the thirty. two persons deposited in the ceme-
tery of Mont Parnasse. M. Rebel, another lawyer, was in one
of the central waggons. He was dangerously wounded in the
head, but we are happy to hear that his situation inspires no
serious uneasiness. M. Rebel was received at Metnion, to-
gether with several other wounded, in the country house of one
of his colleagues, M. Walker.
" Among the persons wounded are the two nephews of M.
Dahamel, a member of the Academy, and M. Aclocque, a
young engineer of the Bridge and Road Department, whose
leg was fractui ed. The youngest son of the Duke de Cazes,
and the Duke's two nephews, who were in the last waggons,
escaped without injury.
The National says, " One of our friends, who has just ar-
rived from Sevres, states, that at eleven o'clock on Monday
evening the adjeint of the Mayor of Sevres had ascertained 62
deaths. There were 16 wounded conveyed to the Chateau of
Meudon, of whom two are since dead. There are several
killed and wounded in the neighbouring houses. A consi-
derable number of carriages are employed to convey the
wounded to Paris, and we ourselves saw several brought by
the steam-boat doureur. In the course of the morning a
number of fragments of human bones were collected on the
spot; together with several watches and pieces of money.
The conflagration commenced a little before six o'clock, and
was not extinguished until eleven. One of the rails was
broken to the extent of four or five yards. Some frightful
cases are mentioned. The chit f engineer, an Englishman,
named George, having rushed into the fire to open the doors
of the waggons, was himself suffocated. At Sevres, Meudon,
and Bellevue, persons are to be seen in a state of distraction
running and searching amongst the ashes to endeavour to dis-
cover their friends.
" The Academy of Sciences could not remain indifferent on
such an occasion. At a meeting called for the purpose, 111.
Cordier read, in the midst of the most profound silence, the
report addressed by MM. Combes and Senarmont, engineers
attached to the service of steam machinery in the department
of the Seine. 't hose gentlemen, on being apprized of the ac-
cident, repaired to the spot.
" The report contains the following passage relative to the
cause of the calamity The accident is due to the fatal con-
currence of circumstances, which are as many gross faults,
easy to have been foreseen and still more easy to have avoided,
so that the future prosperity of railroad companies is by no
means compromised by this sad affair. The first cause of the
accident was the employment of a locomotive with four wheels.
It is essential that every carriage intended for service -on a
railroad should rest on six wheels at least, in order that if one
of the axles should break the carriage should still rest on sup-
porters, end continue its course. The second fault consists in
the employment of two locomotives for a single train. The
consequences of this arrangement are self-evident.
" ' A third circumstance on which several members of the
academy strongly insist is, the precaution taken to lock the
doors of the waggons, so that in such a case as that which oca
eurred all escape was prevented, and the travellers were con-
demned to suffer all the consequences of the first accident.
Another cause, which had much influence on the catastrophe,
was the neglect to isolate the train from the locomotive, so as
to prevent the shock occasioned by the sudden check to the speed
with which they were proceeding.
" It is worthy of remark, that if all those causes had not
existed together, and if only a single precaution had been taken,
the accident would not have happened. If the first engine
had been furnished with six wheels when its axle broke, it
would not have lost its equilibrium. If a second locomotive
had not been employed, the only consequence of the accident
would have been a shock ; and even admitting that the two
first causes of the accident existed, had the doors of the wag-
gons not been locked, a number of the passengers might have
escaped the flames. In fine, the interposition of the elastic
system would have saved the train, even if no other precaution
had been observed.' "

ag
MONEY MARKET and CITY NEWS.
FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAY.
HERALD.—The letters from Mexico advise of the agree•
able intelligence that a reduction in the duties on foreiiglt
manufactures is about to be operated to the extent of 28 iser
cent. This is an important concession, but a concession int ich
more in the interest of Mexico than of any foreign countries
which may be benefited by the reformed tariff. It may be takeit
for granted that Mexico will gain more by the change, that 114
by the lowering of duties, in point of amount of custom-hoost
receipts, than by the late high and prohibitory duties, which
only led to a contraband trade on her tea-board in the Atlantic,
and Pacific, by which she was defrauded of duties altogether.
The proposed remission of duties on wines and spirits there, test
the extent of 50 per cent., is intended to favour Spanish wines'
and spirits, which are the general objects of consumption, and
to the use of which the inhabitants have of course been long'
habituated. The liberal tariff of the Mexican Government
comes opportunely to meet that large and liberal reduction of
duties on commodities, those of Mexico inclusive, which is cow
templated by the new tariff about to be passed here,
the dtif'
SUN.—The Stock Market has been flat durinil
and Consols left off rather between the prices of jestertlay. This;
has been principally owing to the Bank brokers delive ring cer'.
tain parcels of stock sold last week, which has for the time a',
tisfied the jnbhers. Consols closed at 921 921 for money, a"
92/ 92k for the account. Bank Stock, 167 168; India Stodgy
249 250 ; Exchequer Bills, 39 41 prem.
Foreign Securities were also a little flat, and prices rather
less than those of last night. Belgian, 1011 1021 ex divi dead%
Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents., 52k 521; the FiN tet,
Cents., 1004 101* ; Danish, 80k 814; and Brazilian, 6'.7
Mexican was allowed to remain quiet, the quotation I belie
35.36 j.
The bonds of the insolvent States stand thus in the oi
s.
lists:—Colombian, 26; Spanish, 234 for the Five per Cei ati• '
and 22b for the Three per Cents.
The Share Market was firm. London and Birtninp ;10'
180 182 ; Birmingham and Gloucester, 53 55 ; Great We stell4.,
93 94 ; the Half Shares, 64* 641; sbuth Western, 631: to".4'
Gosport, 634 64k ; North Midland, 65 137 ; the New Italare
32 33 ; South Eastern and Dover, 30 301 „, the Scrip, 71 '
Eastern Counties, 94 94 ; Blackwall, 111 12; the New Share'
91 10 ; and Brighton, 36k 364 per share.
The letters from Hamburgh, received via Hull, are Is°
satisfactory than the previous accounts would i.,ave led to ttl',
expectation. Although the loss has been immOnse, :yet .p
merchants were to be seen standing in the streets' talung„,-,01
their bills with hard money, although their places b‘ltt" 01
were destroyed. The accounts are still more vaguer A'
agree in the immense destruction of property. useired
The usual expressed communication from Liverpool, r 4
at the North and South American Coffee-house, date(' to he
past Seven A.M., 11th May, states the Great Wothtrnba. CI.
outside the port, waiting for water, and that she u'lg
pected up by half-past nine o'clock.
kagllM.l'loN OF THE CAII4
oF.
DRAB RELICS AND ALTAIt-PIECE

BASLE. . .
fe.
th
This exhibition, which has deprived one °
leading cathedrals of tile Continent of its best 0113:
meats, to present them to the English public, is nor,
open at 28, Old Bond-street. It consists not only 0:i
the golden altar-piece bequeathed by fienry IL 1,
Germany to the ecclesiastics of Basle, at a cost o.l_
7,000 gold crowns, but of several other noticeahr
relics, distributed in two saloon-I:7ke ap:trtments
. sre
which are fitted up for their reception. -"Iv ~e°
aware of the nature or make of "the Golden 801115,
which the Pope is in the habit of presenting to
is
more favoured elect on great occasions. in iii,a
exhibition that consecrated curiosity may be seep' ii,
will convey an excellent idea of that which, o'4'.
some seven days since, the successor of 1,0
Peter presented to the Queen of Portugal 0
godfather. The Altar-relic itself, which forms a 543.0
of golden frontispiece, is about four feet in height, it,
nearly six in width, and contains five figures, ea7ije;
a separate arch or compartment, representative of ci;
Saviour, the three archangels—Michael, Gabriel, .:
Raphael—and, admitted into their company, St. vti,. ,
nedict. The carver's art, however, it must be et)„,-,
fessed, has imparted little beauty or comeliness to stid
of the figures, and they appear no less rude as eelestip,,
transcripts, than the incongruous medieval lillo.,
which, in the shape of inscription around them, 011, to
tises the spectator as to whom they are intedeu, 6,
configurate. This relic—treasure, notwithstanal7el
it must be considered—was purchased by Co,
Theubet, its present possessor and exhibitor, 11t,fr,
sale of Church property in the canton of 13',1,
which took place in 1834. A German drinking7co
of the Archduke Ferdinand's, forms also an alltlie,
rarity : the neck of the stag is removable,. all_.„%e,
body intended to contain, as it once did, the red 7.46
draughts which 'delighted the heart, or gave c'oittwori,
to the drinker. A crook from the Abbey of
.tr,,s;
formerly handled by a Prince-Abbot of the Gat.*., •
a silver gilt bust of St. Verena ; a brace of 00,4,1
resemblini as much as may be fancied, two classV
watchman s lanterns ; along with some gold 12.4,.
silver ornaments, which were once among the re-el
cieuses of some dark Spanish Contessa, and en/11°,1.4
her beauty, are among other of the attractions '0,1"7 ,
will invite the attention of antiquarians and visitoro';l,
t
Or'
The Journal du Havre publishes a letter frolo_ae•
master of a merchant vessel of that port, in which here':
that, whilst he was in Australia last year, a French ve5.50441',
Ville de Bordeaux, was seized by the English Customs olitor,
0
text of smuggling ; but, on investigation, the charge was
1"
to he false, and the conduct of the seizing officer, a Vona
only 22 years of age, was generally censured. The GoverP/
of Sydney, says the writer of the letter, convinced that tbkgsf/es
sel had been improperly seized, ordered its restitution, sr
condition of the owner paying all the expenses of the, ninc
and, as he had refused to do this, the vessel had been 7,010 f
months lying useless to all parties. There is a good deal o',", 0:1
about this letter, and the writer goes so far as to insinoa„— 0%"
the Ville de ordeaux was seized upon a mere P:0
Lecause she was a fine vessel, and at the time of seizorvaelitir
had arrived at 'Sydney, relative to the affairs of the EltsittV ig.
ing to indicate that a war between France and EngladuA,S,
evitable, and, therefore, the possession of the Ville 'I i P,
owner,she shouldm ahya,
vi be
deaux by the English was desirable. The fact of refto"bLty' !
lease the vessel without the payment of the expenais-,itrd
however,nFrbeenechorre
propertyct, aid i int
orderis not
to sco
it. The practice of compelling the owners of vessels to r:1,14'
expenses of seizure even when it is admitted that 1/1° 1,0/1,4
upon which the seizure was made has not been estab,lia''t 101
very common in England, and has been protested agrldir,
frequently. Unjust as such a proceeding is towards
vessels, it is doubly so towards a foreign one. . i

10.
DIED. JOle'
On the 9th inst., at Bromley Bow, 51iddlsex,23.
wife of H. Harvey, Esti., Commander, R.N., aged jolo
On the 6th inst., at Bury St. Edmund's, the Rev 79, j;,
wick Sams, 8.A., Rector of Honington, Suffolk, aggillist?„oo.
On the 11th inst., in Portland-place, the Res offlir
Hall, M.D.,late Curate of East Cowton, in the doe

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Ti,c Sun oilicc,..No. •
the County of Middlesex, Thursday, May 121 "--