The Sun. — 1844-10-08 (London, England)

FLANDERS MAIL. (RECEIVED THIS DAY.) 20th BRUSSELS, Om 5.—A. letter from Verviers, of the of September, published in the Universal German Gazette, has the following account of the attempted suicide of the celebrated Polish General, Uminski : All the inhabitants of the town are afflicted. by the misfortune which has befallen General Uminski, who is so well known for the part whieh he acted in the Polish revolution. The General resided at Spa, at which place the Commissary of Police caused him to be arrested, and conducted on foot, and under escort, to the prison at Verviers, for a trifling debt General Uminski, who is sevent contracted at Brussels. y years of age, could not endure to live after this disgrace. He first aempte to hang himself with his cravat, but was cut down the by the keeper ; he then opened a vein in both arms, and though he has received all possible assistance he is not yet out of danger. While the old General is on the point of expiring on a bed of straw and his son-in-law ,and in prison, his daughter are living is opulence, and all his former friends have abandoned him. The b sale of the firme British Queen has not been cony the Government, as we said would probably be the case. The sum of 170,000 franca, for which it ,Was knocked down to M. Vande Leemput, was indeed below the estimate which was made by order of the Government to ascertain the intrinsic value of the ve It is presumed that it will be shortly put up to eale again.  Mr. Alderman Copeland directed the City Solicitor to support the Magistrates' orders, which had been appealed against, in two cases of affiliation. Just before the closing of the Queen-square policecourt, a labouring-man, named Joseph Cripps, was placed at the bar, charged with having caused the death of a child. He was driving a cart slowly in Peter-street; child who was crossing caught its pinafore in some baskets standing in the road, and the wheel of the cart passed over it. As no blame attached to the prisoner he was discharged. At Marylebone John Tanzan, a foreigner, was placed at the bar before Mr. Rawlinson, charged by Mrs. Frances Elizabeth Plummer, residing at 46, Berner* street, Oxford-street. with having stolen from her person a reticule, containing a silver snuff box, a white cambric handkerchief, &c. The prisoner snatched the reticule from her arm and ran off with it, but was pursued and captured. He was fully committed. At Lambeth-street, Robert Murray, an able seaman on board the Westminster, American line-of-packet-ship, was charged with smuggling 251bs. weight of manufactured Cavendish tobacco. He was convicted in a penalty of 100 L, and imprisoned in default of payment. Thomas Hume, a Scetchman, applied to Mr. Broderip, at the Thames-office, to request his assistance in recovering 71. 125., wages due to him from Charles Freeman, the American Giant. The Giant had engaged Hume as his servant in Edinburgh, had taken him to Paisley and Dundee, and brought him up to London in the Elbe packet and discharged him, promising to pay him his wages next day. The applicant's luggage, as well as that of his master, was detained, as their passage had not been paid for. He had since frequently seen Freeman at Tom Spring's, in Holborn, but could get no money from him. Mr. Broderip directed an inquiry to be made for the purpose of ascertaining what could be done.