The Sun. — 1842-01-06 (London, England)

MURDER OF THE IDIOT AT PHILIPSTOWN. —The Evening Post and other journalists have asked, and very naturally, what is the Government about ? We have asked the same question ourselves, and we can positively state, that up to Saturday night, no intelligence had reached the Executive of any such outrage as that stated having been committed. Had such been the case, and a refusal to take suck steps as were calculated to bring the perpetrators of this terrible outrage to justice, on the part of the Government, they would have disentitled themselves to the support and good opinion of every well-thinking man in the kingdom.— Lublin Mail.  RUMOURED RESIGNATION OF CAPTAIN LAyAnn.,—lt is rumoured, but we cannot at present, vouch for its accuracy, that, Captain Layard, the representative for the borough of Carlow, is about to withdraw from Parliament at the opening of the ensuing Session,' having obtained military promotion since the late brevet. The-Radical party keep the matter secret, but are, we have heard, on the look out for a successor.—Carlow Sentinel. A mail leaving Antwerp a few clays ago .for Holland was passing over one of the bridges of the for tifications, when the leading horses shied, and leaped over the parapet. Here they were suspended for some time by the traces ; but, on being cut, they fell into the ditch, and were drowned. The vehicle was held back by the other horses and by the stone-work of the bridge, so that no further accident took place. The Municipal Council of Meta has voted 500,000 f. towards the Paris and Strasburg Railroad, but on the following express conditions ; viz., That the branch to Metz shall be carried on to the German from tier, near Sarrebruck ; that the branch from Frouard to Sarrebruck, by Metz, shall be executed simultaneously with that from Frouard to Strasburg, by Nancy ; and that the above-mentioned grant shall be exclusively devoted to that portion of the road which runs between Metz and the German frontier. The Council has also expressed a wish that negotiations should be opened with the neighbouring German States, to induce them to bring railroads up to the frontier, to join the Metz roads. Some days ago a woodman, named Michel, while employed on the woods of Mailley, near Courboux, in the Haute Saone, was assailed by a wolf, which tore him in several places and would have killed him, had not another woodman, named Iluot, come to his relief, and scared the animal away. Having, with some other men, placed Michel, in safety, Huot and his companions went to hunt up the wolf, resolved to destroy him. having discovered him, a terrible conflict ensued ; Jollivet, one of the men, was severely wounded and bitten in the arm and body. The beast was diverted from him by the assaults of the other men, and in his rage sprang upon the wife of one of them, and was tearing her with teeth and claws, when the husband, a man of unusual strength, seized the creature by the ears, turned it on its back, and there held it until his companions killed it with their hatchets. " You have given me only four sovereigns," said a clerk to his employer as he was going out to pay a bill of forty pounds. "Good heavens !" said the master, " I gave you forty this instant !" " Here they are," said the clerk. " Well, then, what do you mean by saying I only gave ,your four." " Why, Sir, you only gave me George 111., George I V., William. IV, and Victoria." " Get out, you witty rogue, and pay the bill directly."