The Sun. — 1841-09-09 (London, England)

TIIE HUMAN PANORAMA.—Mankind moves onward through the night of time like a procession of torch-bearers, and words are the lights which the generations carry. By means of these they kindle abiding lamps beside the track which they have passed, and some of these, like the stars, shall shine for ever and ever. During the storm of thunder and lightning, on Friday afternoon, a man named Suckling fell down at Roxwell, and was taken up lifeless ; and a labouring man, at Hatfield Peverel, in the employ of Mr. Ellis, was struck senseless to the ground, but he soon after recovered.—Essex Herald. A FRENCH FRIGATE AT dRONSTADT.— The Danae frigate, which is to bring back to Fiance Baron de Barante, entered Cronstadt on the 12th ult. This is the first time for 17 years that a French man-ofwar has been seen here. She was hailed with acclamation by the populace and by the authorities. Her Captain, M. 011ivier, and some of the officers, were presented to the Emperor, who invited them to dinner, as also the Ambassador and Ambassadress of France, and treated them with marked distinction. Next day the Emperor went to Cronstadt, taking Captain 011ivier with him. He showed him the port, a new fort in construction, and a division of the fleet. When his Imperial Majesty passed by the Danae, the second in command hoisted the Imperial standard, and fired a salute of forty guns; the whole crew were in full dress. Prince Mentschikoff, Minister of Marine, twice went over the vessel, and examined all her details with the greatest attention; addressing several questions to the officers, whose knowledge and capacity produced on him, as he said, the most favourable impression. On leaving the frigate he returned the salute and hoisted the French flag. Two officers of the Russian navy, the Emperor's Ades-deCamp, the Grand Master of the Horse, Prince Dolgoroucky, and other distinguished personages also came on board. Next day the Grand Duke Constantine, the Emperor's second son and Grand Admiral of Russia, was brought on board by his tutor, Admiral Lutke. On the 21st M. de Barante embarked, and a few hours afterwards the frigate set sail for France. She will cast anchor for a few days at Copenhagen.—Moniteur of Sunday.  A few days ago a man, dressed as a waggoner, having a whip in his hand, applied to a money changer, in the Cloitre St. Honore, for change of a 500 f. note of the Bank of France. The money-changer, perceiving that although the note was genuine, the vignettes had been removed and re-pasted on other paper, requested the man to go with him to the Bank, to have the note examined, to which he consented with apparent cheerfulness. At the Bank he was interrogated by Count d'Argout, the Governor, and stated that he had received the note from a person who had it from a discounter in the Rue Gadot Mauroy. As this was found to be untrue, further inquiries were set on foot, the man being in custody all the time, and it was soon ascertained that his name was Adelaine, formerly a bookbinder in Paris, who had lately disappeared from Arpajon and Lonjumeau to escape from his creditors. With some difficulty his lodging was discovered to be in the Rue des Cannes, and here were found convincing proofs of the fraudulent operations which he had been carrying on. It appears that, after long study as to the mechanism of the Bank of France, Adelaine had conby means of ink, essences, acids, a press, ceived the idea of splitting them in two, and transferring, &c., the impression of the vignettes from the front of the note, upon the divided paper, thus making two notes out of one. Although Adelaine, when detected, wore the dress of a waggoner, as we said above, a rich and elegant wardrobe was found at his lodgings, as also many articles of jewellery, works of art, albums, &c., and a curious correspondence with some gamblers at Baden-Baden, with a drawing, on large paper, of gaming-tables and the cylinder of the roulette, on which he was apparently studying some combinations, as was done by M. de Labourdonnaye, in his games of chess with England, Germany, and India. After these discoveries Adelaine was handed over to the Procureur du Roi. " Two days ago," says the Moniteur Parisien, " the owner of a hotel in the Rue du Bouloi had removed to the Hopital de la Charite, Madame Rey, an actrice of talent, who was found in a dying state on the floor of a small room, which she occupied in the hotel. This lady had been reduced by the backruptcy, or breach of contract, of some managers with whom she had engagements, to a state of destitution, and was too high-minded to solicit charity. 'When her removal to the hospital became known, several persons came forward to assist her, but it was too late, as she expired almost immediately." A suicide of an extraordinary nature took place at Coignieres, in the Seine-et-Oise, a few days since. A peasant, who had been accused unjustly of getting his livelihood by poaching, was so much depressed in spirits by the imputation, that he went into the middle of a wood, got on a pile of about 400 faggots, and then setting it on fire, allowed himself to perish in the flames. On the inhabitants coming to the spot, alarmed by the conflagration, they found a letter near the pile, explaining the man's intention, and stating that it was not true that he was a poacher,—that he found he could not follow the line he wished, and that he preferred death ; but adding that he was not poor, for he had left GOO francs to his widow. On the fire subsiding, a black shapeless mass in the middle of the ashes confirmed the indications of the letter. The Mayor drew up a certificate of his opinion that the poor man had been deranged, and, on the presentation of this document, the cure of the parish gave his remains Christian burial.