The Sun. — 1841-02-15 (London, England)

LOTE AND MURDER IN THE  EAST.  The sulj ioeci account is given by the Oriental Ob.  SCI VC!' : No individual was better known in Pera than Louis Soulier, the director of the Circus. When he passed on his beautiful horse Superbe,' people pointed at him, and whispered c'est lui metric.' Franconi was not more renowned in Paris, nor could the tame of Ducrow in London exceed that of Saulier here. He was a handsome and remarkably powerful man, though rather too material for great agility. Finding that people here got tired of looking at horses run round a ring, with men, women, and children standing on their backs, and that his circus was consequently but a beggarly ac. count of empty boxes,' he some two or three months ago, sent off his family, horses, black slaves, and splendid dresses to Bucharest, where they were to await his arrival, and in due time he intended to make a triumphal entry into Vienna, in the character of a conqueror returning from the East. But alas! l'homme propose, etc. His wife's eldest daughter, Madelena de Bacla, had just bloomed into womanhood, and, being a good looking girl of sixteen, it was very natural that some youth or other should fall desperately in love with her, and that she should return his passion. One of the horsemen, and the best looking of the troop, young Tardini, was the favoured swain, but he and Soulier not agreeing, he left the company some time back, and turned horsedeuler here. When Madelena went off for Bucharest, however, he sold his nags, shut up his stables, and galloped off himself in the same direction. He no sooner arrived at Bucharest than she eloped with him, and, not to be suffering for want of ways and metres, it is said she took with her jewels 13z7longing to her mother to the extent of about 40,000 piastres. To lose daughter and diamonds was rather too bad ; still there was no remedy till Soulier himself arrived, so she remained quiet in the meanwhile. A month afterwards he reachA Bucharest, and lost ne time in seeking and finding Tardini, who, aware of his approach, had armed himself with a brace of pistols. Soulier held in his hand a whip, with which he commenced belabouring Tardini after having discharged at him a volley of abuse. Tardini lost no time, produced his pistols, and warned the enraged father-in-aw to keep his distance. The latter was a man of in-.. petuous courage. Instead of withdrawing, therefore, est a more prudent antagonist would have done, he spran; forward to seize and disarm Tardini, but, before he could reach him, fell dead on the spat. Tardini heal fired, and his ball had passed through Soulier's heaclt We have not seen an authentic account of the and have heard many versions of it, but the above is the one most generally credited. The deceased was exceed.., inely violent and quarrelsome ; and had, it is reported, ELIA several persons in duels, so that he was a vely likely man to end in this way."  ir oi gh Lord Jocelyn, who is IT be d. A.A , F a tc h let sl 1 °f rue m China, and who arrived 1.1 thee Orientaleai steam ship, is still undergoing quarantine at Liverpool, we believe that sufficient of the intellteecee which he brings has transpired to enable us to account for that protracted stay of Admiral Elliot at Chusan, whole has been the subject of so much discussion- in misinformed( Indian and B, itish journals. The fact we believe tut be, that Admiral Elliot, on his return to Chuaant from the Peiho River, after an absence of about two months, found that it was necessary to make certain military and other arrangements at Chusan before he proceeded to Canton. The death of that gallant vat. able officer, Colonel Ogiarler, threw the command of tho military force into the hands of Colonel Burrell. His ire. :lees, no doubt, bad prevented him from taking those mea... sures which Adinirle Elliot, on his return, found to be 1"..`7, ccssary, and which he had remained to complete. Wett hear that the gallant and distinguished officer, Sir Have Gough, who was to be dispatched from India to aesumm the command of our military farces in China, would pro.. coed with all haste t 3 Chusan.—Observer. ItuFEcTI NO