The Sun. — 1841-01-01 (London, England)

CURIOUS INSTANCE OF LONGEVITY.—.. the 25th of last November there died in a commune "Tre tween Chalon and St. Yrieiz, in France, a cesteO whose demise presented this remarkable circumstance' 4He was born on the 25th of November 1740, and died o the 26th of November, 1840, having thus lived exact,/ century and a day. Extract of a letter, dated from on board 111 e Princess Charlotte, Marmorice Bay, Dec. 13, 1840 ',, on " 1 am sorry to inform you that the Zebra was driven er shore and totally wrecked, with the loss of three of I'l, ~ crew. The Bellerophon was nearly lost, and the 4,1 c lost her masts. Dreadful weather on the coast. We, tbtri God, have escaped, but most miraculously ; four aneu°,o a-head. I never saw worse weather. Wo have Wl' sail of the line here, and a host of small craft." It is calculated that at the Shrewsbury Christlo: market there were sold in one day 6,000 turkeys, vtbit, realised the sum of 1,8001. ; 8,000 geese for I,Bo°' ducks and fowls (couples), 7,000 fur 1,0504 ; making $ grand total of 4,650/. Worcester Journal, LIABILITY OF PARISHES AS TO E XPOSI CHILDREN AND DEAD B ODIES, —At an inquisition 11°on the Ist ult., at the Gloucester Arms Tavern Gloucester-road, Kensington, before Mr. Waklelt M. P., Coroner for the western division of oid; dlesex, on the body of a male child about the months old, tst.,su tato been found exposed on •-,, night of Friday, the 28th Nov., at the gate of the house No. 14, Maida-hill West, Paddington, and who died in few ohurs after its removal to the workhouse of tvKensington Union, a question arose as to the pole:, of the parish officers of the Board of Guardians issue advertisements offering a reward for the covery of the inhuman, parents, which has slot from the Poor-law Commissioners an opinion that " parish officers have no power to incur any expenses ;;,,, the prosecution of vagrants, and have no duty b. provide for the burial of a corpse found in the par r the Commissioners consider that there is no authority I°/ their incurring expense in advertising for the discovery ° the person who exposed such child or such corpse. If, i°' deed, upon any such advertisement the party were discovere,lr a prosecution might be instituted, but the Commissioners not know bow any reimbursement of the expense incurred could be compulsorily obtained from such party.., The re' suit of the correspondence from which the above is all es'tract, appears to be, that there are no funds whatever aPPi;" cable to the payment of expenses incurred in the proseew Lion of persons deserting and exposing their children, eves should the offence amount to murder, as in the above case, nor to advertising a description of the child, &c., or offer ing a reward for the apprehension of the delinquents. His Excellency General Alava, Lord Grenville Somerset, and a crowd of fashionables, have visited the Royal Polytechnic Institution, in Regent street, &nig the present week. The attractions of this place of in: structive amusement are daily receiving additions, sou' amongst the novelties that are announced as in preparation are a new form of railway carriage, which is to be exhibited in the Great Hall, and an ingenious modification of the powers of the hydro-oxygsn microscope, which by entirely novel invention can be adapted so as to magnotS# by reflection, opaque bodies. The first application of th. le discovery will be to exhibit the pictures thrown by the, , Daguerreotype on metallic plates, which will thus have a" the effort of a natural panorama, strictly faithful to the original view.