The Sun.
London, England, 1842-06-20 00:00:00

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The Council-General of Ponts-et-Chmitses has ex.
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amined the question of enlarging the Port of
and has adopted the proposed plan by. M. Renaud, for
the prolongation of the Florida dock, in front of the
fortifications, and the construction of a dock parallel
to the Vauban one reserving the question of a newentrance, and providing for present wants by improve-
ments in that which exists.
A letter from Bourges states that during the fair
of the commune of Sainte Vite a quarrel arose, and
' the Mayor of Saint Maur wishing to interpose be-
tween the combatants, received a blow from a stick.,
on the head, which almost immediately killed 11:rm.
The perpetrator of this act has not yet been disco-tered.
We learn from Toulouse that, at six in the morn-
ing of the 2d instant, Bonnet, the steward of the late
Lady Hawarden, condemned in March last to five
years imprisonment for robbery, having received a.
notification that his appeal against his sentence was
rejected, cut his throat with a razor. The wound is
desperate and dangerous, but the medical men called.
in have some hopes of saveing his life.
The Echo de la Nievre of the 2d instant, 5ay5,.....7.
" Yesterday the 3d battalion of the 23d regimen",eff'
the line, arrived from Oran, passed through Nei ers,
on its way to Orleans. Among them in an olast'Adiew
who lost his sight in Africa, and is led by e.
Arab
boy of fifteen. Having been taken prisoudar ,
sol-
dier's eyes were put out by the barbariau, the
were on the point of cutting off his har- ' ; and the-5-
were in turn surprised by our men, j, when they
pieces except one—viz., the /ad NO and all cut to
.o now serves
as a
guide to the blind soldier."
The Courrier de Loir-et-P.er states that a com-
pany of capitalists, in the nr.ghbourhood of Blois, has
been formed for the pre'Aase of the domain of Cham-
bord, the property of •' ease
Duke of Bordeaux, which it,-;
supposes will be brJught to sale.
The Patriote de Saone-et-Loire says :—" Mlle. Rosalie C. de -V.,, the eldest daughter of one of the
first mag4teates of the Pay-de-Dome, eloped a few -
days sil*e with, An Auvergnat, who was her father's
steward, and, the fugitives made their way to Chalon-
sur-Saor,,, They did not venture into any of the
grand, hotels of the town, but immediately 'installed
ttemselves in a humble dwelling near a ?arm, closfi i. to the small river called the Genise. Here they e-10-
pected to enoy, without interruption, all the s.treetsq,
of love and a cottage ; but, alas! cruel fate in two
days betrayed their retreat, and a party of gem acmes
surrounded it, and separated them. The you, ig lady
was sent back to her father, and the love_stricken
Auvergnat was committed to prison for travelling
with a false passport. The father missed from his
morwy-box a sum of 250 gold Napoleon..., but nothing
more was found upon his -worthy steward than 40f in
silver." ,

A charcoal-mr.n, ascending the Rue St. Jacques,
Paris, a few days since with a full sack or;
his shoulders, deposited it at the door of a vvine-shop,
and entered; to drink a glass offered him by a fellow-
countryinan he accidentally met with. When he
came out his sack was gone. Mother wit made him
at once conclude that the rogue who had Wizen it
would rather go down than up the hill `'sith his
burden, and our Auvergnat at once desce-aded with.
all his speed. Before he reached the bottum, he saw
kis sack moving on before him, and in a second he
brought the bearer to the ground with fine blow. The
fellow, however, was not stunned, and. before he could
be seized, gathered himself up and fl'ed. Finding that
he was pursued, he attempted tcs escape by throwing
himself over the parapet by 'the river-side. The
water was too low to make hi.; fall soft, and he broke
both his legs. In this state b' was carried to the hos-
pital of the Hotel Dieu.
A few days ago, says the Memorial des Pyrenees,
the village of Boruer es, near Tarbes, was visited by a
violent storm, during which the lightning struck an
ancient oak, but still In full vigour, the trunk of which
was twenty inches n diameter, stripping it of all its
leaves and bark. and carrying some of its heaviest
branches to a aistanoe of 300 yards. The tree) itself
was split b' Lo nearly two equal parts, leaving 'them
as dry as if they had long been dead. A hole of an
orul form was made at the foot. Other tr,y,3 in the
"quincunx, of which it formed the corner, were in-
jured in a less degree; but a wooden cross, which
had been sheltered by them from time immemorial,
remained untouched, nor were even the crowns of
immortelles hung upon it as votive otfetings in the
slightest degree scathed. A party of young men had
passed the evening under the oak, and had net left
the spot many minutes before the event took place.
The Prefect of Police has caused to be posted up
in all parts of Paris, the usual ordonnance at this
time of the year, that no dogs are to be suffered to
run about the streets, or to be at liberty in magazines,
shops, work-shops, or any other open establishment,
without being muzzled. All dogs also must wear a
collar, with the name and abode of the owner. To
this is added, by desire of the Board of Health, in-
structions as to the first measures to be taken in
cases of persons bit by dogs supposed to be mad.
A man of the name of Sciotta, one of the turnkeys
of the prison of La Force, came to the office of the
Commissary of Police two days ago, and delivered
himself into custody for the murder of his wife. He
stated that he had called on three other Commissaries,
but had found them absent from home. A quarrel,
it appears, arose between him and his wife, by whom
he has five children, from some jealous suspicions on
his part. Blows ensued, and in his passion he threw
her on the edge of the bed, and stabbed her repeatedly
with a knife. He then went coolly, as above stated,
ancl gave himself into custody. The woman died
the same day.
The amount already received by the Relief Com-
mittees of Hamburgh, says a letter from that city of
the 30th ult., already exceeds three millions of francs.
The following are the names of the different com-
mercial houses whose establishments were destroyed
in the late conflagration :—Huttner and Co. ; Albrecht
and Dill ; Ross Viedahl and Co. ; Husseden and Co. ;
G. Bebre and Co.; L. Behrens and Son ; Pernisch
and Co.;Ludwig Bahne; V. D. Linden and Co. ;
H. D. Hertz ; Biancore and Co. ; A. V. Dohren ;
E. Johns ; Popert and Van Halle ; F. Jastl ;
F. E. Bahre : E. B. Bandmunn-Eldam; W. Ritter ;
Schulte and Schemami • M. and W. Joost ;
Watchter and Co. ; Maschwitz and Co. ; Gallmever
Geffcken ; Bottornley4 Zicse and Co. ; Solomon
Heine ; Freres Schwartz ; Reddelen and Luich ;
Lorentam Ende and Co. ; H. E. Meyer, jun. ; Hens
and Menke ; Auffin Ondt and Son ; H. Steegman ;
G. and E. Gempel ; Fehr and Korthman ; Conr.
Lear ; Andr. Israel ; Devenpont and Co.;• Wenterhof
aid Pieper ; O'Swald and Co.; D. and F. Oppen-
heim ; Schluter and Maack ; Higson Boeckmann and
Co. ; Emmanuel and Sohn ; • Meyer and Schonfeld;
Gebr. Schwabe and Co.;• Gebr. Bing ; A. H. Groo-
thoff ; H. A. E. Gansland; Bank and Durkoop; 04.
Genequel; Schroeder Mahs and Co.; Perthes; B_ Baer
and Mauke; D. Jacques and Son; Feldmantk,
and Co. ; Simon and Jacoby ; Z. R. Hanamfeld.
An over-confiding girl (says the Dr*, seduced
by a man of fortune, left her native 'village, and fol-
lowed Mtn to Paris. For a time al•,e lived in joy and
luxury, but having become ene4nte, she was heart-
lessly deserted. Her child bei•ag born she placed it
out at nurse, and for a time supported the charge by
her industry. After a few- months her work failed,
and the payments fell into arrear. Two days riga
the nurse arrived with her baby, and and knocking&
the door of her lodging, in the Rue St. Spire, I t-
sired to be admitted. The poor distracted girt,
wanting bread for herself, instead of letting the nurse
in, seized a knife and cut her own threat. The Com-
missary of Police was sent for, and the room being
forcibly entered, she was found senseless on the floor,
but was not dead, and was carried to an hospital,
where, however, little or no hopes are entertained of
saving her.
FRAlvv.. • -

TRANCIS AFTER CONVICTION. Never has there
appeared within the prison of Newgate a convict more com-
pletely prostrated by the circumstances and result of a trial for
a capital offence, than the wretched creature who was con-
victed of having attempted to assassinate the Queen. Upon
being conducted, or rather carried, to the room in which be is
now confined, Francis sank down upon a seat, and moaned and
wept bitterly. Mr. Carver, the Ordinary, who from the mo-
ment of the prisoner's committal to prison, earnestly requested
him to expect the worst, and assured him that the whole of, 'the
public were exasperated against him, and that the pre faith-
fully recorded the opinions of the people to:,,fards him,
visited and endeavoured to raise him from the stupor
into which his fears seemed to be Is.A,rrying him ; and
it was evident, from the manner in whieh he received
the exhortations of the Reverend, Gentleman, that he
had entertained sanguine hopes of being settled for life in
Bedlam, or some other asylum, ir, which he might be main-
tained without any exertion of ).7,s own. He declared, amidst
tears and sobs, that he never 'meant to kill or even injure her
Majesty, and that all he sort by lettingpistol . off the was the
notoriety to which otber •eersons bad attained .by appearing to
raise their hands agaiir't the life of the Sovereign. His father
visited him on Saturday in the presence of the Sheriffs and the
Ordinarylanda c',nversation of some length took place between
them, The Vatoner seemed to be for some time overwhelmed
with grief i.,d terror. He covered his face with his hands wheat
his fatlme entered, and repeated most earnestly ant solemnly
the e:-.,se:rances that he never contemplated any mischief towards
her Majesty. and that he was perfectly aware there could be no
pretence for ententaining a s..ipgle thought to her prejudice or.
against her sacred Iverson. His father and the Ordinary urged
Inin to communicate to them whether he had been eonverstng
with anybody upon the subject of attacking her Majesty
before he made the diabolical attempt, to which he re-
plied, in a manner calculated to impress those who heard him
that he spoke the truth, that he never oi,ened his lips to a
human being upon the subject. It was quite manifest to the,
since he has become an inmate of Newgate,
who have had opportunities of observing the conduct *f the
prisoner
the
noise which w
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afterquarters
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was made about Oxford's attempt to ;geminate therttae Queen, and the reports in circulation relative the mu»
nanwdhtihe
rchtihdaitenlinendaivaiym
individual was dereiteditedin ifreaeture•
of the criminal, presented a combination which Francies'mind
was not able to resist. Indeed, we are given, to understand,
that
.Oxford, upon hearing of the attempt made by Francis t
assassinateinate her Majesty, made an obsereation- which proved tha
insanity had as little to do with the attempt made by the one, a
with the attempt made by the other. "If," said Oxford,
" they had hanged me, there would have been nothing of the
kind again."— Sunday Times.
The Governor of the Bank of England had an inter-.
view with the Chancellor of the Exchequer on Saturday.
at his official residence in Downing-street.

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