The Sun. — 1842-11-14 (London, England)

SCANDAL IN HIGH LIFE.  The following letter has been addressed to the Observer of yesterday, and in giving it insertion we have only to remark that the report to which it refers has been prevalent for three weeks, and that the distance between Leeds and London can be per• formed in less than ten hours :  " Sir,—His Royal Highness Prince George of Cambridge's name having appeared in the Observer of the 30th ult., connected with certain infamous and Calumnious reports, reflecting upon the honour of a member of a Noble family, I am commanded by his Royal Highness to give his most unqualified and indignant contradiction to them, and to request that, as you have (though doubtless without any ill-feeling) assisted in giving currency in your paper to these reports by a quotation from another paper, you will, in common justice, give insertion to this letter without delay. " His Royal Highness Prince George's absence with his regiment at Leeds has prevented this con• tradiction being sent to you in time for your paper of last Sunday. " I am, Sir, your most obedient servant, "'JOHN PARKINSON, " Solicitor to H.R.H., 66, Lincoln's Inn-fields. " 11th Nov., 1842."  We have good reason to know that a confidentia, agent of the Government is at this moment engaged in examining the speeches delivered at the various AntiCorn-law meetings, and in selecting and arranging what appeared to him to be the most violent passages. This compilation will contain the names of the several speakers, the places at which they were delivered, and the dates of their delivery. Care will be taken to set down the names of the members of the various Committees over the country, the position they hold in scciety, whether magistrates or town-councillors ; but, above all, whether they were in any way connected with the late Government. Strict orders have been given that the most violent passages shall be printed in italics or large type. It is not for us to say what the object of this proceeding is, but we should not he at all surprised to find that these elegant extracts should some night be produced in the House of Commons as a justification for some coercive measure, which the Government would lay at the feet of the Corn-law Lords as an act of homage to those monopolists, to whom the Duke of Richmond declared the Tory Ministers owed their origin, and to whom alone they were indebted for continuance in office.—Observer! Two days ago the landlady of a lodging-house in the rue de Clery, surprised at not having seen for several days two young females (sisters), one 26 years of age, the other 21, who lodged in the house, went up to their room, and finding the door locked, called on the commissary of police, who broke open the two suicidesisters by werethe ufound f thheaviudgooru. charcoal at least ten days before, as was evident omrmrhiteted from the advanced stage of decomposition of the bodies. A new-born child was also found lying dead by one of the females. A letter was left stating that they had both quitted their places in consequence of pregnancy, and had resolved to destroy themselves in order to hide their shame. The piercing cold which has so suddenly followed an almost tropical summer, that rendered all the rivers nearly dry, seems to threaten us with a long and most rigorous winter. We see with no small uneasiness the impediment this lowering of the waters of the Seine has thrown, and will continue to throw, in the way of the navigation of the river. When we observe the emptiness of the wood-yards in the neighbourhood of the Boulevard du Temple, and of the coal-stores at La Villette, and see that the coke from the gas-works is carried off as soon as it comes out of the retorts, there is every reason to fear that the supply of fuel for Paris will become inadequate to its demand for consumption.—Paris Paper.