The Sun.
London, England, 1842-06-16 00:00:00

RIOT AT NEW ORLEA g.
(Correspondence of the Cottrier find Enquit er.)
Jti W ORLEANS, MAY•2O-12 M.--linos, Moe, Sze.--
You are probably aware that during the suspension of
specie payments by the banks of this eity the tl!re-e- mu-
nicipalities issued, on their pledged faith, a large ameunt
of bonds of various denominations under five dollars, for
the purpose of supplying small change in the absence of
specie. These i ssues are supposed to exceed over $1,000,000
of which more than a third has been put forth by the
smallest and poorest of the corporations. The extreme
suddenness of the resumption precluded the possibility
of adopting immediate measures for the redemption
of these municipal notes, while at the same
time it rendered their rapid depreciation a matter
of absolute certainty. The poor and humble
classes, as is usually the ease, were the sufferers.
Yesterday the butchers refused them save at a ruinous
rate of discount, and thq went on falling in value
hourly throughout the day, until this morning the issues
of the third and poorest municipality are refused in
foto , and only negotiable at a discount of 50 to 60 per
cent., and those of the first and second municipalities re-
ceived at the rate of 75 cents to the dollar.
In this state of things, with the minds of the disorderly
and motley classes—which compose the mass of a great
city—in an exasperated and excitoable condition, an
immense number of labourers and loafers, consist-
ing of French, Spanish, and Irish, with but few
Americans, made their way before the Council
Hall of the first municipality, and appeared to con-
template an attack on the edifice. The Mayor—Mr.
Denis Prieur, a man of extraordinary popularity with
these very peAle—harangued them, entre-ating them to
disperse, assume-' them that projects were then in for-
mation for the redemption of the municipal issues, and,
in short, employing every means of persuasion in order
to arrest that frightful spectacle in a great city—a reck-
less mob. His arguments and plausible statements had
the edict of inducing- the rabble to leave the council hall
unscathed. But a cry arose among them, " A bas les
courtiers de change" (downwith the money brokers), and
in a twinkling a tremendous concourse, numbering seve-
ral hundreds, were rushing their headlong way along
Chartres, towards Canal street, where the first and se-
cond municipalities unite, and where the brokers' shops
are principally stationed. Before the slightest resist-
ance could-be offered, end almost before the residents of
that part of the city became aware of what was in con-
templation, four or five large brokers' establishments
were assaulted, broken into, and, I understand, gutted.
One firm I know lost Bor 10,000 dollars. By the lime
this disorderly scene had been enacted, the citizens be-
gan to recover from their alarm, and the police rushing
into the midst of the mob, arrested about a dozen of the
ringleaders and carried them to prison.
At this moment the city is toierably cok . hlow
long it will con:lune so I have nu means of discovering ;
but there exists a determination on the part of the citi-
zens to preserve peace and order at all hazards.
Quarter-past One o'Clock.
About twelve O'clock it was rumoured that an attempt
would be made to liberate the rioters from gaol, and it
no doubt would have been carried through, but the Gc-
vernor very properly ordered out the military, and whets
the rabble got up to the seeond municpality hall, they
epand 200 muskets with ball cartridges ready to give
them a warm reception. I have no fears of any more
riotous assemblages during the day time, but should not
be surprised if something of the kind wtis to occur to-
night.

Business is at a stand to-day ; nearly all the stores in
Camp-street are closed.

The weather is intensely hot—thermometer at present
69 in the shade— just the very kind of temperature to
convert the most peaceably disposed citizen into a down-
right savage.

,SMOTHER MADAME LAFARGE.
At the Assizes of the Rhone, on the 6th inst., the
wife of a workman, named•Pre, was tried for attempt-
ing to murder him by cutting his throat with a razor.
The victim of her fury escaped, bleeding profusely,
betbre she could consummate her crime by repeating
the attack, and with skilful attention recover, d in less
than a month. The motive assigned for this offence
in the act of accusation was jealousy, but the evi-
dence left no doubt that the woman was at the time,
and had long been, labouring under monomania. On
the day of the attack, after some words with her hus-
band, she had requested him to kiss her, and, on hits
refusing to do so, she seized a razor and drew it across
his throat. In her defence she declared that she had
acted under a momentary impulse, for which she
could not account, and it was proved that she was at
the time under an impression that she and her
fonr children had been drinking something which
would cause death, and that she had attempted to
murder her husband in order that the whole family
might go out of the world together. She was very
indignant, however, on her trial at the attempt of her
counsel and the medical witnesses to establish her in-
sanity, and her replies were intended to T.ertibv&this
belief from the minds of the Jury, but therewereloc-
casional symptoms of incoherence which left no
doubt of the fact, and the Jury consequently returned
a verdict of acquittal, after which the President of
the Court ordered that she should be placed in .fa- lu-
natic asylum. In the course of the pleading -isr her
cottn3el, he cited several instances of monomania to
show that the prisoner was really insane, and in il-
lustration of his argument, amongst other cases, re-
lated the following extraordinary anecdote:—Madame
Adelaide, sister of the King, in 1836, took under her
protection a young lady of family, placed her at tr
boarding-school, and received her frequently on holi-
days at her own apartments in the- palace. Suddenly
the protegee announced to the schoolmistress and her
intimate friends that she was about to be married,
under the auspices of-her patroness, to a young Lieu-
tenant-Colonel, to whom she had been introduced by
her Royal Highness, and in evidence of the truth of
her assertions produced letters on the subject with
the seal of the Princess, and in a handwriting which
all acquainted with that of Madame Adelaide believed
to be hers. Subsequent letters wore also displayed,
in which her Royal- Highness was made to state,
first, that the intended husband was detained away by
his regimental duties—then that he was dangerously
ill, and ultimately that he was dead and buried. The
young lady upon this gave herself up to such violent
grief that fears were entertained for her own life. The
only consolation she would listen to was a permission
to put herself into the mourning of a widow, and go
to weep over the tomb of her lost lover. The under'
governess accompanied her to the cemetery of Pere
la Chaise, and, at the gate, desired to have pointed out
the place of interment of Lieutenant-Colonel Count
M., who had died a week before, at the age of twenty-
five. The Concierge searched the register, and then
assured the inquirers that it did not contain the entry
of any such burial, which consequently must, he said,
have taken place elsewhere. This answer increased
the despair of the young lady, who prevailed upon
her attendant to go with her to the other cemeteries
of Paris, at each of which they met with the like dis-
appointment. It was night before they returned
home, and the stricken pupil retired to rest in deeper
despair than ever. The governess, the next day, telt
it to be her duty to go to Madame Adelaide, and re-
late all these mournful circumstances, taking with her
the letters announcing the events which had so en-
tirely destroyed the peace of her pupil. The asto-
nishment of the Princess on hearing the extraordinary
narrative, and at seeing letters apparently in her own
hand-writing, but which she had never written, and
recognising impressions from a seal which did really
belong to her, could not be described. No such per-
son as Lieutenant Count M. was known to her Royal
ighness, consequently she never could have contem-
plated any such alliance ibr her pupil, nor have an-
nounced to her his illness and death. In fact, the
young lady had been induced by a morbid imagina-
tion to invent the whole tale--to purloin one of her
patroness's seals, imitate her handwriting, compose
the fictitious letters, and, by bribing an old servant,
indme her to put them into the post. Her mind,
hov ever, was affected with the same grief, from her
own deliberate invention, 'as if all the circumstances
had really existed.

DEATH OF THE EARL OF ERNE.-HiS Lordship
expired at his residence in the neighbourhood of London, on
the afternoon of Friday, and is succeeded in his tit!eand estates
by* Colonel Crichton, of Crum Castle, in the county of Fer-
marlagh, Lord-Lieutenant of that county, and one of the best
iind most improving resident landlords in Ireland. The family
is descended from a branch of the Crichtons, Viscounts Freu-
draught, in North Britain, which title ceased with Lewis, Ilse
fifth Viscount, about the year 1690. An ancestor of
Lord Erne's commanded a regiment of foot at the battle
of Aughrim in 1692. Another was celebrated for his gallant
defy nce of the family seat of Crum Castle, against a large body
of King James's army. Having repulsed the assailants, young
Crichton—for he was a very youth—made a sally at the instant
that a corps of Euniskilleners were approaching to the relief of
the castle, which movement placed the besiegers between two
fires, and caused dreadful slaughter. The enemy, attempting
to accomplish his retreat across an arm of Lough Erne, nei&
Crum, Castle, that spot became the scene of such carnage, that
it Las ever since borne the name of the " Bloody Pass.

A. SISTER SHOT BY HER BROTIIER. —On Thursday
las' at Lelarit Downs, near St. Ives, Cornwall, a miner, named
John Edwards, aged 19, told his sister that he had some per-
cussion caps which he was about to try. She carne oot of her
/ 00111 to look at him, and, net knowing that the gum was loaded,
the brother discharged the piece, when the %hole of the
contents lodged in the temples of his unfortunate sister,
who dropped life'ess on the floor. A Coronet's inquest has
hibleecit'''''al brother i(l'i:l'dati.
uponbeentlilelibqlL'uoduit.: girl was about 16 years of age, and
and a verdict returned of " Acei-
e' frantic with grief ever since.
SPECIAL COMMISSION.—The Government, we un-
derstand, has decided on issuing a Spec al Commission within
a fortnight or so of the vonnneneement of the Assizes—for the
trial of the prisoners now in custody of the gaolers of Tippe-
retry ; and, in order to give eclat to the proceeding, the two
Chief Justices, Pennelather and Doherty, have been selected to
preside at the trials. That Tipperary is, or rather was, in a
most disorganised state notiody can deny ; but we question
whether a Special Commission will do touch towards restoring
it to pert*, et t ratiquillitv. —Dublin Pilot.
LIGHT (ot,H.—Some tradesmen are still deduct-
tug 3d. for every pain deficient. This is evidently unjust.
There are 2411) half-grains in a sovereign of the current weight,
and as a sovereign is equal in value to 240 1 ence, the trades-
man who buys gold at a penny the half-grain must gain five
pence if he can buy a, many grains as amount in value to
sovereign.

A letter from Ilesdin, of the sth instant, in the
Progres do Pas de Calais, states that the Canton du Pareq
has for a fortnight been infested with a band of robbers, so
numerous and bold, that the Alagistrates have not dared to
take any measures to stop their depredations. They are maid
to use threats of incendiarism, and lay the inhabitants under
contribution to save themselves from this terrible infliction,