The Sun.
London, England, 1845-12-10 00:00:00

EXTRAORDINARY CASE.
The Court of Assizes of the Bas Rhin was occupied 00
he 29th and 30th ult. with the following extraorditlari
case. In August last, two soldiers, in garrison at ;iv's'
burg, named Tschupp and Bigalleu, crossed the frontier
into Baden to pass the day. On their return, and when
on a bridge, Tschupp said to Bigallet, who was nearly
intoxicated, "Come and see how strong the water runs.
Bigallet went to the side of the bridge, and having 1081:4
forward to look at the water, Tschupp suddenly laid
11.11 of him and threw him in ; then, supposing, as 8
matter of course, that the man must be drowned, as the
current was strong, and he was not in a state to hell)
himself, hurried to Strasburg, and entered his barracks
before the gates were closed. Providence, however, bed
willed that this atrocious act should not remain COw
coaled. The bridge. is built on boats, and the fall of
Bigallet was broken by one of the cabels by which al.
are fastened together. After his first immersion, which
completely cured him of his intoxication, he caught
by this rope, and, after struggling for a great time,
his cries were heard by some boatmen, just as he "?5
sinking from exhaustion, and they saved him. The
dismay of Tschupp was very great on the followill
morning, when he saw living the man whom he suppose°
to be dead. Bigallet made his declaration, and Tschupp
was arrested. At first he' declared that he had not
been in company with Bigallet ; but several witnesses,
who had seen them drinking together during the day'
having come forward to prove this fact, the prisoner
was confounded. Still, however, he refused to confess
his crime, which was unaccountable, as the two soldiers
were supposed to be friends. When Tschupp had been
in prison for some time, he resolved to avow his guilt.
and declared that he had been induced by the wife of the
man who keeps the cantine, whose name is Caphiot, to
commit the deed. This woman, in whose service he Was'
had, he said, told him that Bigallet, her former servant,
and with whom she had entertained criminal relations,
was constantly extorting money from her, on a menace
of apprising her husband of what had taken place, and
that she was therefore resolved to get rid of him. She
told the prisoner that if he would take Bigallet out for
the day, and in the evening throw him into the river,
she would reward the act liberally, and she gave bue
10E to spend, in order that he might so overpower
Bigallet with drink as to render him incapable of resist-
ance. Tschupp said that he objected to commit the
crime, but the woman told him that if he refused she
would stab him ; and that, therefore, partly from fear,
and partly from the hope of reward, he at last consented.
The woman was taken into custody, and both were tried
for the attempt to commit murder. The evidence on the
trial fully corroborated the statement of Tschupp as to
the female, and they were both found guilty by the jury.
T:.chupp was condemned to twenty years' imprisonment
with hard labour, and exposure on the pillory. The
female prisoner was condemned to ten years' imprison-
ment with hard labour, but without exposure on the
pillory.

POST-OFFICE MISMANAGEMENT.—It is a strange
and anomalous fact, that a letter from Paris reaches Gala-
shiels sooner than one from Glasgow, the latter usually
lying twenty-four hours at Edinburgh.—Border Watch.
THE WONDER OF WONDERS.—AN enormous bear
fed upon bread for the last twelve months, challenges corn-
parison with any of the prizes at the Bazaar. This an
will be exhibited dead and dressed, so as to show the dept.'
of fat, during Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturdays
the four days of the cattle-show, in front of Mr. Ray's pre-
wises, No. 8, Icing-street, Baker-street, two doors only from
the Bazaar, and was fattened by those celebrated
Perrequiers:
perfumers, hair-cutters, and hair-dyers, Messrs. Ross and
Sons, 119, Bishopsgate-street, London, of whom only can the
genuine bear's-grease be obtained.
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and Improved Hearing Trumpets of every description. Oen/
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Royal Society and Royal Institution of Great Britain. The
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extremely imperfect vision, it is brought to its youthful, Detains
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BIRTH&
On Saturday, December 6, at the Vicarar, Wickham-
market, Suffolk, the wife of the Rev. Weeden Butler, of Wilt
daughters.
On the 30th ult., at William-street, Lowndes-square, the
lady of R. F. Browne, Esq., surgeon, of a son.
On the 4th inst., at Highbury-place, Mrs. John Gosnell,
of a daughter.
On the sth inst., the wife of Mr. Thorna; Robert Dutton,
Stones-end, Southwark, of a son.
On the sth inst., at Rutland-gate, Hyde-park, Mrs- S'
Holmes Godson, of a daughter.
On the 7th inst., at Torrington square, the wife of
Fitzherbert, Esq., of a son.
On the Bth inst., in Portland-place, the lady of Charles
Bevan, Esq., of a son.

MARRIED.
On the 4th inst., at Claydon Church, Robert Roder ell,
to Elizabeth, eldest daughter of Lieutenant-Colonel Kirby,
late of the Royal Artillery.
On the 4th inst., at the British Embassy, Brussels, the
Rev. -Vaughan Thomas, of Oxford, to Catherine, third daugll-
ter of the late Lieutenant-General G. Johnston, of Norbiton
Hall, Surrey.

On the Bth inst., at Marylebone Church, Mr. W. Skinner,
of Bermondsey-street, to Caroline Elizabeth, second daughter
of Mrs. Barnes, of Providence-row, Finsbury-square.

lED.
On the IStli of October, D
at Calcutta, John Campbell Dick,
Esq., Bengal Civil Service.
On the 6th ult., at Kingston, Jamaica, James Jackson
Sewell, Esq.
On the 3d inst., at Torquay, Captain the Hon. Charles
Leonard Irby, aged 56.
On the sth inst., at Turner's-hill, Cheshunt, Thomas Sil-
ders, Esq., surgeon.
On the sth inst., at the Vicarage, Chieveley, Berks, Charles
Wetherell, third son of the Rev. J. E. Robinson.
On the 6th inst., at Cambridge, Eliza, the wife of Zachariall
Scrope Shrapnel, of St. Peter's College.
On the 7th inst., at the Lodge, in Hyde-park, Mall
Cecilia, daughter of Henry Frederick and Lady Mary Stephen-
son, aged 10.

London : hinted and Published by DIURDO YOUNGr, of
No. 112, Strand, Printer, at The Sun Office, No. 114
Strand, in the Precinct of the Savvy, in the ColultY
Middlesex, Wednesday ,December 10, 1846.

" top of his voice," and charging him yeti beng an itn'
poster, and declaring that the only &Ject in view Ives ro
'make money, although, the complainant said, no ch arge inn
been made to the public fur admission. Immediately urn
that, as if by concert, a most extraordinary and " sr
parently unearthly" noise of yelling and sere aming re
sounded through the church, so that the lecturer wan
obliged to leave the platform, and the greatest excite'
meat was occasioned amongst the audience, especially
the females. This scene of disorder continued about e
quarter of an hour, and complainant fearing that
property of the church was in danger of beingdestrore°,
and that perhaps it would end in a serious riot, sea for
the police, and the defendant was given in charge to
them. Order being then restored, the lecturer resanaeo,
and afterwards the meeting quietly separated.
The defe ndent, in answer to the charge, denied that
he had made such a disturbance as had been alleged,
although he certainly did der:ounce the exhibition of the
New Zealand chief as an impostor, for he had known,
that person about town fur perhaps twenty years, and
had seen him exhibit in the same cLaraeter when de'
fondant himself was some years ago at the Garrick
Theatre. When he saw his old acquaintance, therefore,
as a lecturer in the church on Monday evening, he did
put a few questions to him, and requested to be informed
when he came from New Zealand to this country? The
other pretended to answer him by counting upon his
fingers to the amount of two years and seven months'
Defendant then exposed the imposition, and it was the
exposed imposture, he said, that caused the uproar, god,
not his wish to cause disturbance. It was true, he addeet
that no charge had been made at the doors for acmes' •
sion to the meeting, but in the course of the proceed-
ings collection of money was hinted at, and the question
was raised whether it should be 2d. or 3d. each, but lle,'
addressing the complainant, who was in the chair, wishes
to know to what purpose the money was to be applied,
and the question was then dropped.
The complainant said there was no imposture intended
as intimated by the defendant, and the cries end gestures
of the chief, which the defendant had now grateequelf
mimicked, to cause a laugh amongst those around, were
not those of the lecturer himself, but to give the auditors
an idea of the savage manners of the natives.
Mr. Bmortaat told the defendant that if he deemed
the alleged chief to be an impostor, and wished to ex'
polo him, he must not do so by creating in the meetings
disturbance, which might have had serious cense'
quences, and he was liable to punishment under the
statute.

The complainant now said that his object was not to
have the defendant punished, but to be insured against
future disturbance, for the last of the three lectures WO
yet to be delivered.

The defendant was held to bait, one surety in 1001
[The " New Zealand Chief," whom the defendant de'
dared to he the lecturer above mentioned, was at
this Court some years back, charged with being drunk
and with beating his wife, and he was proved to be an Irish-
man of the name of Byrne. From the account which be
then gave of himself, it appeared that in his youth be •
had fallen into the hands of the New Zealanders after
shipwreck. His shipmates, he said, were eaten by the
Cannibals, but his life was preserved, and he lived
amongst them, taking part in their wars, until he be'
came a chief ; and the beautiful tattooed marks about kis
face and other parts he stated to be so many marks el,
honour for various victories. He stated to Mr. Broughton,
the magistrate, that he was about to proceed again to
New Zealand upon missionary affairs, so that he may
possibly have been there in the interval and recently re'
turned to England as stated.]