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el uty 9, 1853. bread and water, and had complained bitterly of being deserted by the father of her child, a man named Metcalfe. She had pledged all her clothes for rent, after endeavouring in vain to earn a support by shirtmaking. Three letters, written in anticipa tion of the act afterwards committed, were found in her room. One was to the man Metealfe—in these terms : " the time you receive this I hope to be no more. It is you that has brought me to this—you bad, wicked man. 1 know that I was greatly in fault In giving way to you, and bitterly I have had reason to repent it, which 1 do from the bottom of my heart. But had you never have promised things which you did, it would never have happened ; end then, as soon as you saw how things turned, because I would not leave my dear baby at some work house, nor to the mercy of the world, you thought proper to leave us to starve and die. Oh! you bad, bad, winked man, hanging is too good 14 you. I h repent, before it is too late. I will say no more for to-night. I hope, please the Lord, to be in heaven and my baby as well, and may our blood rest upon your head, for it is you that is the reuse of it; but my kind love, for as I look for forgiveness, so do I forgive you. Farewell, farewell! -JANE PALPSON." Two other letters were also found, written in the same incoherent 'meaner, the one to deceased's father and mother at Folkestone, and the other to a cousin at Finchley, praying that should the baby be found alive it might be taken care of; and suiting the wretched state of her mind. At the inquest the jury returned a verdict that the child was wilfully mur dered by Emma Jane Papson, and that the said Emma Jane Papson did commit self destruction whilst in a state of mental derangement, brought on by destitution and want. 4)bituaq. Admiral Sir CHARLES BULLEN, one of tat►► most venerable and distinguished officers in the navy, died on Saturday at Shirley, near Southampton, at the age of eighty-six. The deceased commanded the .Britannia, flagship of Lord Northesk at Trafalgar. He began his naval service as early as 1779 ; was midshipman of the Loyalist at the reduction of Charleston in 17t41 ; lieutenant of the Bastille?' in Howe's action, and senior of the Monmouth at Cain perdown ; captain of the Britannia at Trafalgar, and commanded the Volontaire and Cambrian in co operation with the patriots, on the east coast of t 'atalonia. in INlt► H. He held a good-service pen sion of 3 0 /. per annum. By his demise Sir Hu g h lee- Admiral of the Red, becomes Ad miral of the Blue ; Rear-Admiral J. B. Purvis be con►es Vice. Admiral of the Blue, and vacates his command-in-chief at Queenstown ; and Captain the lion. R. S. Dundas, C. 8., one of the Lords of the Admiralty, becomes Rear-Admiral of the Blue. The Limerick Chronicle announces the death of Lady Caroline Adelaide, eldest daughter of the Earl and Countess of i)unraven, which took place at Mare Manor on Saturday morning, after a short but severe illness. A pocket-book, containing notes to upwards of 1001. value, was found on Monday by an insolvent at the Portugal-street Court. The finder took measures to trace the owner, and received 51. reward for his honesty. Lord Huntingtower has once more petitioned the Bank ruptcy Court in the trading character of a horae•dealer. This new application is said to originate in his having re newed some former liabilities, and not knowing the owners of certain hills of exchange. Catherine Hayes left Panama on the 9th ult., in the Bri- tish mail steamer Lima, for a professional tour through the principal cities in South America, previous to her return to the United States. Many of the guests at a ball given lately on board the Da nish ship Danebrog, in Kiel harbour, bad travelled by rail way from Alton& and Hamburg, 108 miles, in full dieas, ready for the festival. The silk crop in Turkey will be a certain failure this year, owing to the late frosts. immense damage has been done in Switzerland by the fall of torrents of rain and avalanches. The Junior United Service is to be much enlarged. 40,000/. are raising by subscription at four per cent., and 204) additional members will be admitted. _ . The deputy chief constable of Gloucestershire has ab sconded. taking him with nearly NW. of the county money. entrusted to him to pay the police. His official income was Wilt per annum. Iron shillings and sovereigns may easily be detected by P small pocket magnet. A grand statistical congress will he held at Brussels on the 19th of September next, under the auspices of the Go. vernment. Societies of all countries arc invited to take part in the proceedings. At some cotton-mills near' Derby a workman named Johnson was literally torn to pieces by the water-wheel, he having accidently got entangled in the gearings. The moors continue in prime order for the young grouse. There is a splendid prospect of sport by the 12th proximo, the coveys being numerous and the birds already strong. The Crystal Palace Company are about to raise 240,01141/. more capital by new shams. The Palace will not open anti! next spring. A . service of plate subscribed for by his late parishioners in St..laines's. Westminster, was presented on Monday to the new of J.iucoln. It villa,: is 7001. THE PRESS. THE QUARTERLY REV LEW. No. CLXXXV., will be Published ou SATURDAY NEXT. CONTNNTN : I. 'RI:LAND, BY THE FOUR MASTERS. 11. HAXTHAUSEN ON RUsSIA. 111. COMPARATIVE ANATOMY—PROFESSOR OWEN. IV. ECCLESIASTICAL FORGERIES. V. AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF !HONOR RUFEINI. VI. COUNT EICQUELMONT ON FOREIGN POLICY. VII. REPORT OF THE OXFORD COMMISSION. VIII. LIFE OF THOMAS MOORE. JOHN Mu ItRAY, arle-street. SECOND EDITION. SATURDAY EVENING. MOST IMPORTANT FROM TURKEY. CONSTANTINOPLE, June W. —Great excitement pre vails here. The Sultan, in consequence of the rumours that the whole Russian fleet has left Sebastopol and is directing its course towards the Bosphorus, has inquired of the Ambassadors of England and France whether, in the event of the Russians making a demonstration before the Bosphorus, the combined fleets aro ready to pass the Dardanelles. Lord Strat ford de &deli& and M. do la Cour at once replied in the affirmative. A swift Turkish steamer has just been sent into the Black Sea to reconnoitre. She has on board of her both English and French officers. Her return is looked for with the greatest excik: • ment, as the Ambassadors have declared that, if sh• bring the news that a Russian force is coining towards the Bosphorus, the fleets of England and France shall, without an instant's delay, pass the Dardanelles, and be placed at the entire disposition of the Porte. —Second Edition of the Morning Post. LATEST FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. (From our owes Correspondents.) BELA:atm—lnternal politics are in a state of COIN • plete stagnation. All attention is absorbed b 7 the Oriental question, which, since the warlike manifesto of the Emperor of Russia, has decidedly inclined to wards a pacific solution. Nobody, especially among the foreign diplomatists at, this Court, believes that the question could lead to active hostilities, mikes through the occurrence of events now unforeseen. Meantime the Belgian people are preparing for the celebration of the marriage of the Duke of Brabant in August next. The event will be marked by a series of popular festivities, of which a regular bull fight, with taurontaeliff engaged for the purpose from Spain, will not be the least furious. HOLLAND.—The controversy respecting the Roman Catholic ecclesiastical dignitaries appears likely to find a speedy solution. A note, of which copies haw been seen in political circles, has been addressed by Cardinal Antonelli to the Dutch Minister at Rome, in answer the complaints of the Hague Govern ment. In Lois note the Cardinal Secretary of State not only promises that the newly appointed bishops shall take the oath, but even under a form specially modified, to satisfy the susceptibility of the Protes tant part of the population. At the same time the new archbishop is permitted to abstain fron t t a kin g his seat at Utrecht, and to remain in his present residence at Bois•le-Due. It is supposed that these two concessions will satisfy the Cabinet. CONSTANTINOPLE, June 27.—8 y Telegraph from Trieste.—The powers continue their attempts at me diation. The Russian claims will probably be ac cepted, form excepted. The foreign fleets remain in Besika Bay. Schema was concentrating and arm- ing his Circassians. SWYRNA, June 27.—An Austrian officer of the navy has been killed by the foreign political refugees ; the Austrian consul required an ample satisfaction. Sik ST. PLTERSBURO, July I.—The imperial manifesto produced immense enthusiasm. The people sponta neously illuminated their houses, and perambulated the streets in a state of great excitement. When the Emperor appeared the mob fell on their knees in homage to the defender of the orthodox faith. The two corps of guards and grenadiers occupied the camp at Krasnojeselo, where the manifesto was read to them; the corps of cadets forms an encampment around l'etershot Of the three divisions of the Baltic, one is in the Baltic, the two others at Cron stain. WARSAW, July I.—The Russian officers are flocking to Czenstochow to make their hows before a miracu lous image of the Blessed Virgin, as they did before the Hungarian war. JAsiir, July 3.—Part only of the Russian forces have entered the principalities ; the remainder await further orders at Ishmail. The Sultan's Orman of June Bth, giving new guarantees to his Christian subjects, has been here this fortnight, but has not been published in the principalities. The Russian consuls forbad the Hut podari to promulgate 11) 1014 reminded them that the artnies of the Sovereign were at band. The German Gazette at Bucharest Wa.4 suppressed for a leading article on the Oriental ques tion. M. °sena is at the head-quarters of General Gortiithakoff. The peasants in Moldavia are selling their draught oxen at any price, fearing their im pressment. HANOVER, July 7.—lt is confidently stated that a royal proclamation concerning the late events will be published on the return of King George. A last attempt will be made at a conciliatory solution of the differences relative to the reform of the constitution. The Chambers will meet again in October. Beaux, July Pl.—The King and Queen of Bavaria have arrived. Councillor Hennig, Prussian pleni potentiary, was elected chairman of the customs eon ferenees, which yesterday. Prince Frederick of the Neth which at Stockholm on July 1. MAnaiv, July 6.-11. Court has left for La Urania. The Queen Mother lewses to-day for Paris. Tuats, July 7.—The Senate has approved the bill for the establishment of a steam navigation wankel between Genoa and New York. (Sy Submarine Telegraph.) The English Cabinet has addressed tn Paris a note de elaring they would not allow the British Aeet to enter the Dardanelles, unities a last attempt at con ciliation should have failed. Rolm, July 2.—Father Becks, a Belgian, has been elected General of the Jesuits, in the room of the deceased Father Ronthan. Tun Constantinople correspondent of the Oest. Notesche Post, writing on the 'Bled ult., undertaken to state that the commander of the American squadron in the Mediterranean has, in a private audience of the Sultan, offered the active sup i trzt the United States in the event, of a war with This offer is attributed to the success obtained by the American tnissionaries in several provinces of Turkey. it has produced a great sensation. Nunez tiorrscnaserr reached Bucharest on the 8d inst., ro whence he sent the Russian General Nip kontsch inski with despatches for Omer Packs to Schumla. Crrv, Saturday Evening. There is very little doing in the funds; the price of Consols has been 081 ; and the close, 2146 1. The French funds come rather lower, but the bus;• ness in shares is very limited, and the market scarcely presents any alteration. As wo anticipated, the surplus income is to ho invested in Exchequer Bills ; therefore it is probable that Mr. Gladstone will dispose of it in purchasing part of the 2,700,0001. the public declined to renew. Ir is announced, on authority, that the intended royal visit to Ireland will be postponed, if not aban doned altogether, this season, in consequence of the indisposition of his Royal Highness Prince Albert, who is suffering from an attack of measles. The two royal yachts and the Blenheim, which bad sailed on Tuesday hum Portsmouth, have been ordered hack, and the preparations for the reception of her Majesty in Dublin have been stopped. This compu ls ory postponement of a visit which has excited sor= enthusiasm in Ireland was officially communicated to the Lord Mayor of Dublin yesterday. The fol lowing bulletin has been issued :—" Buokinghent Palace.—His Royal Highness Prince Albert has an attack of measles. The eruption has come fully out, and the (fisem° is proceeding favourably.—James Clark, M.D." TIM PRINCE OF WALES is now perfectly reroversd. and rides out in Windsor Park twice a day. The youngest children of the Royaliamily, namely, Prin cess Eleanor, Princess Louisa, Prince Arthur, and the infant Prince Leopold, who have not had the measles, arrived at the Cantle yesterday, having tra • veiled to Windsor by the Great Western Railway. Tint Grand Duchess Marie of Russia, eldest daughter of the Emperor, and widow of the Duke Lenchtenberg, is ego the eve of visiting this country for the benefit of the health of her youthful family. —The Grand Dictums Cathesine of Russia, daughter of the Grand Duke ifiehael and niece of the Emperor, is also about to pay another visit to this country, in company with her royal consort, the Duke George of Mecklenburg-Strelitz. Her Imperial Highness was so pleased with her residence in the Isle of Wight, last year, that. she has decided on again inhabiting the same locality, and a mansion has been taken for her at Ryde. By her Majefuya graciona command, an extra week will be added to the eliciting Midsummer vaca tion at liarmw Subool, in honour of the birth of Prince Leopold.