The Sun. — 1846-10-09 (London, England)

EAT EVENTS FROM LITTLE  CAUSES SPRING."  A curious incident, which occurred a day or two ago, in the market of Brussels, has led to a discovery of some importance. A woman, whose appearance was that of a workwoman in easy circumstances, had taken an apple from the stall of a fruiterer in the market, without paying for it, when she was taken before M. Lenoir, magistrate of police. The woman, who gave the name of Chariot, said, in jastification of her conduct, that she had no thought of stealing the apple, and that there was some mistake on the part of the fruit salesman. Inquiries were made respecting her character, which was excellent, and as the delinquency was of so trifling a nature, the magistrate was on the point of discharging her, but first thought it his duty to ask her some questions : he inquired the name of her family, to which she replied that her parents' name was Glatigny. This name struck M. Lenoir, who continued his interrogatory and at last elicited that Madame Chulot had already been condemned for theft, and that she was the widow of an individual_ who, after having followed the trade of a currier at Millers Cotterets, had be: arrested at Paris on a charge of assassination, in September, 1844, and was even suspected of being an accomplice in the murder of M. Donon Cadot. Chariot, after his arrest, had attempted to commit suicide. He was taken to the hospital of la Cheri* and there succeeded in accomplishing his project of selfdestruction by a somewhat singular trick. The physician had prescribed opium pills for him. Chariot, instead of taking them singly, as ordered, concealed them till he had collected a large quantity, when he swallowed them all at once, and thus poisoned himself. This information decided M. Lenoir in remanding Mme. Chariot, and on paying a visit to her apartments to make a search, where, to his great surprise, he discovered a complete stock of stationery, ticketed and carefully arranged in cases, as if prepared for sale. In fact, for about 12 years, Mme. Chariot had been at work with the principal stationers of Paris, who all considered her as an honest, clever, and intelligent workwoman, and during all that time she had abstracted, unnoticed, goods enough to set up herself as a stationer. This was a project she was about to realise, when the ill-fated apple of the market-woman destroyed her prospects. She possessed, besides, 14,000 francs in Bank of Brussels shares, and 400 francs in silver and gold coin. She was, moreover, very parsimonious towards herself, and although she earned good wages, frequently took from the houses in which she worked crusts of bread, which she toasted for her, own use, in order to avoid purchasing at the bakers. lied not the trifling incident of the theft of -an apple led to her detection, Mme. Chariot would doubtless have continued her delinquencies undiscovered, and enjoyed the reputation of an honest shopkeeper.  PORTUGUESE FRUlTS.—Theimportation of onions and grapes from Portugal has continued to take place to an extent quite unprecedented. One vessel had an entire cargo, comprising the large number of 843 boxes of onions ; another, from Oporto, in addition to a cargo of wine, 372 boxes of onions ; a third, from Lisbon, 340 packages of onions and nearly 500 boxes of grapes; a fourth, the Pravidence, from Lisbon, a large quantity of onions and 650 packages of grapes ; the Worthington, from Oporto, 668 packages of onions ; the Wysen, from Lisbon, the extraordinarily large number of 1,509 packages of onions and 831 packages of grapes ; and the Charles, from Oporto, 919 packages of onions ; all of which arrivals took place in one day, the vessels by which they were imported being more or less laden with wine and other Portuguese productions. To enumerate the whole of the importations of the kind is impracticable, but the above list of such supplies in one day will suffice to illustrate the extent to which they are now carried.