The Sun. — 1841-11-18 (London, England)

HAND-LOOM WEAVER. Little Bolton, Nov. 9, 1841. —Letter in the Bolton Free Press.  Our readers will remember that a man, named Serein, was arrested some time ago near Orleans, for having carried off two female children from that town, and, after a criminal assault on them, having murdered them under circumstances of peculiar atrocity. He was brought to trial a few days since for this crime, before the Court of Assizes at Orleans, and the proceedings lasted three days. From the prisoner's own declarations it appeared that he had suffocated the poor children in his cart, and concealed their bodies for some time in a loft in his house, under a heap of straw ; he had then conveyed them to the wood in which their mangled remains were found. Several witnesses were heard, who established the identity of the children, and the circumstances or their being inveigled away from Orleans ; but the Crown lawyers required that the public should be excluded from Court during the remainder of the evidence, as it was of a nature not fit for public disclosure. The circumstances being fully proved, Serein was found guilty, and condemned to death. He was in a state of apparent stupefaction during the proceedings, and was removed from the Court amid the loudest demonstrations of indignation on the part of the auditory. This affair has created a great sensotion at Orleans and in the neighbourhood. _ _  The Temps states that an instance has just occurred at the Hopital Saint Antoine to confirm the opinion that the glanders is a disease which may not only be communicated by the horse to man, but also from man to man. A young dresser of the hospital, having to dress the wound of a patient afflicted with the glanders, has caught the disease, says this Journal, and no hopes are entertained of his recovery. The Minister of Agriculture and Commerce has just addressed a circular to the members of the Councils General of Agriculture, Manufactures, and Commerce, . whose Session is to commence on the 10th of next month, recommending to them to take into consideration the question of foreign cattle, as regards the customs and octroi duties, and the mode of levying them ; the sugar question, which, he says, affects so many 'interests, that it demands further examination ; the question of patents for new inventions, with a view to aiding the Minister in the preparation of a law on the subject, and other points of industry ; the high or prohibitory duties on iron, cotton, and woollen goods, B:c., and the duties payable on oleaginous seeds. The Minister calls upon the Councils to collect all possible information upon these different subjects, and to discuss them carefully, in order that they may come to a calm conclusion as to iheitnprovements and changes which may be necessary in the general interest of the country. EDINBURGH, Nov. 15.—0 n Saturday we had the first indication of the approach of winter, in a heavy fall of snow, which completely covered the street,. Towards evening it melted in the city ; but the hills in the neighbourhood, we perceive, are whitened with the shower. Yesterday was dry and clear, but frosty ; and at night the frost set in with an intensity such as we are only accustomed to in the depth of the season. '