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The Sun. — 1844-12-06 (London, England)

THE LATE DR. THORN.  We have received several communications from English residents at Calais, complaining bitterly of the conduct of the English authorities there in relation to the late unfortunate murder of Dr. Thorn. They consider  that their interests have been neglected by the British Consul, and they attribute in a great measure the acquittal of M. Sallior to a memorial got up under his auspices, and signed by him and by twenty-two of the English residents in Calais. M. Martinez, the advocate of M. Sallior, in putting this memorial in evidence, said that those who signed it represented the wealth and respectability of the English residents  in Calais. The great body of the English residents protest against this assumption. This memorial was got up in secret—there was no public meeting called on the occasion—it was privately hawked about for signatures—and only twenty-two, out of upwards of a thousand English residents in Calais and its neigh. bourhood, attached their names to this certificate of character for M. Sallior. The second name attached to this memorial is that of the clergyman ; and of ail  the others, the only known name is that of Mr. Morton Dyer, the ex-Middlesex magistrate. The rest of the twenty-two are unknown to fame. The English residents, however, do full justice to the exertions of the Procureur du Roi, whose conclusions appear to have been unanswerable. The deceased and M. Sallior were observed standing closo together in the vestibule of the Hotel de Ville. Dr. Thorn was seen to fall by the sentinel, who picked him up and laid him on a table, while Sallior went into his office. The sentinel was loosening Dr. Thorn's cravat when Sallior entered the vestibule and said, "My dear friend is dead— send for a doctor." The defence of Sallior was that he was so intoxicated, that he recollected nothing— that he knew nothing of what had occurred. " That is impossible," replied the Procureur du Roi, " for while the sentinel thought he was only intoxicated, you said that he was dead. You were the first to desire that a doctor should be sent fur." The Prefect of the department, too, exerted himself to the utmost in behalf of M. Sallior. This was but natural, for if, as has been stated, M. Sallior is an agent of the secret police, he might, had he been condemned, have made revelations which would have been anything but agreeable to the Government; and as a proof of the extent to which the infamous spy system is carried in France, we may state that the English residents have deputed a member of their body to bring their complaints personally to this country, because they are convinced that any letters which they might write on the subject would he stopped at the French Post. office. The reflecting part of the French community appear to be as dissatisfied with the verdict of the St. Omer jury as the great majority of the English residents. With the feelings of the French, however, we have nothing to do, but the conduct of the English Consul in this affair certainly demands a searching inquiry.
The Sun. — 1844-09-27 (London, England)

THEATRICAL CRIMPING.  Nearly a century after this period (1663) David Garrick purchased a share of the property (Drurylane Theatre). He discovered that the company required considerable recruiting in the very lowest rank of actors ; and in the choice of these, he employed a whimsical fellow about the theatre—his name was Stone. He was a sort of theatrical crimp ; he had much humour, but never could be prevailed upon to open his mouth on the stage. Whenever this caterer brought a person who was permitted to make an essay, whether successful or not, he had a certain sum given for his trouble, and, for some years this man (who had acquired the name of Garrick's crimp sergeant) made, in this kind of service, a tolerable subsistence. A variety of letters passed between Garrick and Stone during the course of their professional negotiations; some of which letters are extant, and in the hands of the curious collectors of such literature. Amongst them are the following, which we have seen, written in 1748 : " Thursday, noon—Sir, Mr. Lacy turned me out of the lobby, and behaved very ill to me. I only axed for my two guineas for the last bishop, and he swore I shouldn't have a farthing. I can't live upon the air. I have a few cupids you may have cheap, as they belong to a poor journeyman shoemaker, whom I drink with now and then.—l am, your humble servant, W. Stone." The following is the answer in Garrick's well-known hand :—" Friday, noon— Stone, you are the best fellow in the world. Bring the cupids to the theatre to-morrow. If they are under six and not bandy-legged, you shall have a guinea a piece for them. Mr. Lacy will pay you himself for the bishop. He is very penitent for what he has done. If you can get me two murderers, I will pay you handsomely, particularly the spouting fellow who keeps the apple-stall on Towerhill—the cut across the face is quite the thing we want. Pick up an alderman or two for Richard the Third if you can, and I have no objection to treat with you about a Lord Mayor, in case Dunstan should be absent without leave. The barber will not do for dumb Brutus, although I shall make use of him as Crooked. fingered Jack.— David Garrick." There is another of Mr. CrimpSergeant Stone's letters, to the following effect : " Sir, the Bishop of Winchester is getting drunk at the Bear, and swear's he'll not disgrace his family by going on the stage with you tonight. Pm yours, W. Stone." To which Garrick sent the following very laconic reply :—" Stone, the bishop may go to the devil ; I don't know a greater rascal—except yourself." The person alluded to as the bishop was procured by Stone, and had rehearsed the part of the Bishop of Winchester, in the play of Henry the Eighth, to the satisfaction of the fastidious Garrick ; the fellow, however, never played the part, for the reason assigned in the laconic epistle.—Anecdotes of Actresses.
The Sun. — 1844-09-27 (London, England)

THEATRICAL CRIMPING.  Nearly a century after this period (1663) David Garrick purchased a share of the property (Drurylane Theatre). He discovered that the company required considerable recruiting in the very lowest rank of actors ; and in the choice of these, he employed a whimsical fellow about the theatre—his name was Stone. lie was a sort of theatrical crimp ;he had much humour, but never could be prevailed upon to open his mouth on the stage. Whenever this caterer brought a person who was permitted to make an essay, whether successful or not, he had a certain sum given for his trouble, and, for some years this man (who had acquired the name of Garrick's crimp sergeant) made, in this kind of service, a tolerable subsistence. A variety of letters passed between Garrick and Stone during the course of their professional negotiations some of which letters are extant, and in the hands of the curious collectors of such literature. Amongst them are the following, which we have seen, written in 1748 : " Thursday, noon—Sir, Mr. Lacy turned me out of the lobby, and behaved very ill to me. I only axed for my two guineas for the last bishop, and he swore I shouldn't have a farthing. I can't live upon the air. I have a few cupids you may have cheap, as they belong to a poor journeyman shoemaker, whom I drink with now and then.—l am, your humble servant, W. Stone." The following is the answer in Garrick's well-known hand :—" Friday, noon— Stone, you are the best fellow in the world. Bring the cupids to the theatre to-morrow. If they are under six and not bandy-legged, you shall have a guinea a piece for them. Mr. Lacy will pay you himself for the bishop. He is very penitent for what he has done. If you can get me two murderers, I will pay you handsomely, particularly the spouting fellow who keeps the apple-stall on Towerhill—the cut across the face is quite the thing we want. Pick up an alderman or two for Richard the Third if you can, and I have no objection to treat with you about a Lord Mayor, in case Dunstall should be absent without leave. The barber will not do for dumb Brutus, although I shall make use of him as Crooked fingered Jack.'— David Garrick." There is another of Mr. CrimpSergeant Stone's letters, to the following effect : " Sir, the Bishop of Winchester is getting drunk at the Bear, and swear's he'll not disgrace his family by going on the stage with you tonight. I'm yours, W. Stone." To which Garrick sent the following very laconic reply :—" Stone, the bishop may go to the devil ; I don't know a greater rascal—except yourself." The person alluded to as the bishop was procured by Stone, and had rehearsed the part of the Bishop of Winchester, in the play of Henry the Eighth, to the satisfaction of the fastidious Garrick ; the fellow, however, never played the part, for the reason assigned in the laconic epistle.—Anecdotes of Actresses.
The Sun. — 1844-05-11 (London, England)

LAW AND POLICE. The jury orr the trial of the man Crouch for the murder of nis wife, after being locked up without food till a late hour, returaed a verdict of guilty, and Baron Alderson passed sentence of death on the prisoner. William Henry Gower, 42, a person genteelly dressed, and who was stated to be an attorney, was indicted at the Old Bailey for feloniously uttering a forged certificate of marriage, alleged to have been solemnised oetween himself and one Amelia Drayson. The prosecutrix had agreed to live with the prisoner as his wife, and the copy of the register had been prepared to show, in order to produce a belief that she was married to him. They had become acquainted in consequence of the prisoner being employed by her to copy manuscript for the press. The jury returned a verdict of guilty, and he was sentenced to two years' imprisonment, but in consequence of the circumstances of the case, a representation in his favour will be made to the Secretary of State. Mr. Wilkins applied to postpone the trial of William Burton Newenham, charged with the abduction of Miss Wortham, until next sessions. No opposition being made to the motion, the Learned Judge ordered the trial to stand over until next sessions. At the Excise Court, John Sykes, tobacco manufacturer, of Red Cross-street, Barbican, was charged on various informations with having in his possession articles for the purpose of adulterating tobacco--namely, sugar, molasses, logwood, nutgalls, and copperas, by which he had incurred penalties to the amount of 800/. He was convicted on one informa tion, and fined 251. Henry Dawkins, a warehouseman, in the service of Mr. Swainson, a worsted and fringe manufacturer in Woodstreet, was charged at the Guildhall with stealing a large quantity of goods from the premises of his employer, and George Buxton, of Eden-place, Horton, fringe and linemanufacturer, was charged with receiving a portion of the stolen goods. They were both remanded. A well-dressed man, named Thomas Franks, was charged with having written and sent to the Rev. Clement Strong, 78, Oxford-terrace, Bayswater, a letter, couched in such violent and threatening language, as to cause him (complainant) to consider his life in danger. He was held to bail. Margaret Morgan, a young, handsome, and very fashionably-dressed Frenchwoman, was charged at Marlboroughstreet with robbing Mr. Thomas Graham, of No. 7, Trevorsquare, Knightsbridge, and a member of the Stock Exchange, of ten shillings in silver. She was committed for trial. John O'Connor, a boy thirteen years of age, was charged at Queen-square with a gross imposition on Mr. Spottiswoode, of No. 15, Great George-street, Westminster, by obtaining money, under the representation that his mother, whom the complainant had frequently relieved, had been knocked down by a cab and had her leg broken. One of the officers of the Mendicity Society stated that he had known the mother for some years as a begging-letter writer. She had met with no accident. He was sent to hard labour for three months in the House of Correction.
The Sun. — 1844-11-18 (London, England)

FOXLEIG2I.  On Thursday evening their Majesties the King and Queen of the French received M. de Varennes, the French Minister at the Court of Lisbon; Count de Bondy, and I. Odier, Peers of France ; Generals Bougenel and De Saint Yon ; Baron Rothschild, and M. Brogniart. Prince Elim Mitchersky, Chamberlain of the Emperor of Russia, died two days ago, aged 36, at his residence, in Paris.  A Marseilles journal states that the schooner Curieux of that port has been captured by an English cruiser, on her way to Guree, on suspicien of being a slaver. The journal asserts that there was nothing on board to warrant the capture. The schooner had, it says, ten empty casks and twelve sacks of rice on board, but they were down on the manifest, and were for the use of the crew. The vessel had been confiscated, and was about to be sold when the account left. By a letter from Guadaloupe of the 9th September, we learn that since the earthquake not less than 429 new houses had been built, of which 118 cost each 15,0001. and upwards, exclusive of the purchase of ground ; 166, 6,0001. to 15,000 f.; and 145 under 6,000 f. At the date of this account 173 houses more were in the course of construction. The following curious circumstance, says a Dunkirk paper, happened a few days ago in the burying-ground there. While the sexton was digging a grave, a skull rose from that which adjoined it, and which was also open, and as the terrified man started back, advanced towards him. He then fled on to the road, crying aloud for mercy. Another man hearing the alarm, and being told the cause of it, had sufficient courage to go to the spot, and there saw the head still moving. Undaunted he took it up, and, on examination, found within it two moles, which had made it their retreat, and had given it motion. The Second Chamber of the States General of Holland has come to a resolution to send back the address to the First Chamber in its primitive state, with a slight modification of the paragraph objected to. It remits to be seen whether it will finally be adopted by the First Chamber. The following lamentable accident happened a short time ago in Piedmont. The Countess de Samaz, wife of the Grand Master of the Household of the King of Sardinia, in opening a drawer at the top of a very high chest, drew the whole piece of furniture upon her, and was crushed to death. She was found a lifeless corpse by her son-in law, Count Maurice de Samaz, en his entering the apartment shortly after the accident. M. Sallior, the Commissiary of Police at Calais ruspected of having murdered the English physician, all the circumstances of which we have given, is ordered for trial before the Court of Assizes for the Pas•de-Calais. Tke Marseilles journals announce that a grand banquet is to take place on the arrival in that city of Marshal Bugeaud, in honour of the illustrious visitor. The price of bread in Paris, for the second fortnight of November, has been fixed at 31 centimes the kilogramme for the first quality.  00173Z1P-
The Sun. — 1844-12-18 (London, England)

EXPECTED BREVET.—It is confidently said that the long-expected brevet will take place at the commencement of the new year. This has been long due to the army, and we are sure that it will be gratefully received.—Herald.  William Henry Kershaw—ls the son of the last witness. His mother sent him to see what the man and woman were doing. Saw the man part from the woman, and as he was running he stumbled into a gutter. That was at thirty yards off, and in the middle of the brick croft. He ran away towards Dale-street. As he ran away she turned the corner, and put up her hand to her throat. Witness went into the house. Heard an alarm of a woman having been killed about a quarter of an hour after. Went to the place where he had seen the woman, and found a pool of blood. Cross-examined—When the man ran away he ran from me. It was about four or five yards from the corner of Brigg-street. I saw them separate. Mary Barlow—Lives in Arlington-street. Saw a woman, about the hour mentioned, passing up Arlingtonstreet, opposite Dean's-buildings. She was staggering. She had her left band to her throat. There was a gurgling sound in her throat. She passed near witness, and put her hand on witness's shoulder with a sort of push. She went up Arlington-street, until she 'got opposite Mr. Senior's shop, when she fell against the door. Witness`gave an alarm, and the woman was taken to tht Rob Roy public-house. She had a cap on, and no bonnet.  His LORDSHIP, in charging the, grand jury, expressed an opinion that the grand jury and others would feel great inconvenience from having to attend the Winter Assizes at this inclement season o f the year. The count) which he had just left (Yorkshi re), however, showed that the course pursued was not without necessity. The advantage of frequent gaol deliveries was great in one respect, that it prevented persons wrongfully charged from being long confined in prison ; but the evil was as great individually in cases where there were few prisoners as in those where many were confined. During lasb year between 8,000 and 9,000 prisoners had been discharged without conviction, from one cause or another, and tst the last Winter Assizes 306 had thus received their discharge. The ground of a long commitment, however, did not attach in this case, for, with the e xception of five, all the rest had been committed to gs:ol since October. His Lordship observed, at some lengith, on parties procuring themselves to be inserted on the special jury lists, in order to get quit of attendanco on the petty juries—a practice which, he said, was much to be deprecated, not only on the ground that it inflicted an onerous and unjust burden on the lower classes of jurymen, but also because it deprived the Judges of the assintance of men of greater moral and intellectual attainments in somo of the more important cases—such as murder, manslaughter, forgery, and the like. The power of remedying this by the magistrates was so difficult as to be almost impossible. His Lordship then proceeded to remark on the cases in the calendar, but nothing of a general nature was contained in his observations.
The Sun. — 1844-02-09 (London, England)

POREIGN. The accounts from Spain are very alarming. Alicante and it is said several other places had revolted against the Government, arrested the civil and military authorities, and formed juntas. The , Gazette is fall of the most severe decrees directed against the insurgents. The provinces of Alicante, Murcia, and Castellon de la Plana, are placed under martial-law, The examination of the Budget continued in the bureaux of the French Chamber of Deputies. The seventh and eighth bureaux terminated the discussion on the Estimates of the War and Finance departments, and then commenced the Budget of Receipts. The other seven bureaux would not terminate their labours until Thursday, or perhaps later. In the eighth, a strong opinion was given in favour of the conversion of the Five per Cents. A late letter from Philippeville (Algeria) announces the arrival there of 200 military convicts, who are to be employed on the projected works at Stora. It states that the spring, which in ancient times supplied Stora with water, has been discovered, with parts of the Roman aqueducts and conduits, many of which are still in remarkably fine preservation. The letter states that they are to be restored, and the water brought down again to the village. " Foreign commerce," says the Echo de la Frontiere, " begins to take advantage of the Valenciennes railroad. A portion of the merchandise sent to France, either for consumption or transit, and which formerly was sent by Forbach, now comes in by Valenciennes, and thp commission agents-of this town begin to enjoy the profit arising from the opening of this new way of communication with Germany. The Seine has risen in consequence of the snow which has lately fallen. Its level is now upwards of three feet higher than what it was a few days back. A few days ago, as M. Guichard, mayor of the commune of Villediere, in the Cote d'Or, owner of the mill of Beaulieu, was seated about eight in the evening .by the kitchen fireside, surrounded by his wife and three servants, he was fired -at through the window, which had neither shutters nor curtains, and two bullets were lodged in his back, by which the spine was broken. He lingered several days in great agony, and then expired. The execution of Poulmann, condemned a few days back for the murder of the innkeeper of Nangis, took place, on, Tuesday morning, about eight o'clock, at the Barriere St. Jacques. From the time of his condemnation the pris-ohel• testified an anxious wish to have it all over. Dr. Marel Lavalleei in a communication to the Presse, on the atatc of iiiiaioionty in China, says :—" The Chineie frequently boast, and with justice, of their great advancement in civilisation, but their medical men scarcely know as much of anatomy as every unprofessional man in Europe. They never inspect the internal organs, but leave all to the imagination. As a proof of this, they conceive that there is a long vessel descending from the heart through the perineum, which directs the moral functions of the heart."