The Sun.
London, England, 1855-04-27 00:00:00

THE CONVICT BU.RANELLL

MEMORIAL TO SIR G. GREY, BARONET, M.P., SECRE-
TARY OF STATE FOR THE HOME DEPARTMENT, IN
FAVOUR OF LUIGI BURANELLI, ?RESENTED APRIL 23,
1855.
We, the undersigned physicians and surgeons, having
carefully examined the evidence hereunto annexed, re-
lative to the case of Luigi Buranelli, now lying in New-
gate under sentence of death for murder, do hereby ex-
press our solemn and matured opinion that the.prisoner
was insane at the time he committed the crime.
We do further affirm that, had we been consulted on
the evidence now disclosed as to the condition of the
prisoner's mind before the act was perpetrated, we should
have had no hesitation in subjecting him to medical
treatment for mental disease.
We therefore are confident that, had the prisoner been
in a different rank of life, such steps would have been
taken respecting him as would, in all probability, have
prevented the commission of the murder ; and, accord-
ingly, we do earnestly pray that the extreme sentence
of the law may not be carried into execution in the ewe
of a person whom we believe to have been a lunatic
when he perpetrated the act for which his life has been
,leclared forfeited.
(Signed)
JOHN CONOLLY, M.D., consulting physician to the
Han well Lunatic Asylum, &c., &c.
WILLIAM BALM, M.D.. F.R.S., physician to the
Milbank Prison ; assistant-physician to St. Bar-
tholomew's Hospital, &c., &c.
FORBES WINSLOW, M.D., &c., &C.
ALEXANDER &sew, F.R.C.S., surgeon to the Mid-
dlesex Hospital, &c., &c.
MITCHELL HERVEY, F.R.C.S., assistant-surgeon to
the Middlesex Hospital, &c., &c.

• SERGEANT BRODIE, OF THE INNIS-
KILLINGS.

Evening.—The arrest and
CANTERBURY, Thursday
confinement of Sergeant A. Brodie, of the Ist Royal
Dragoons, for preventing a duel, has created quite a
sensation throughout the city ; all classes, from his wor•
ship the mayor downwards, deeply sympathising with the
injured cornet, Baumgarten, and the equally injured
sergeant, who bears a most exemplary character in his
regiment, and who has already bleu confined to his
room for six days for his kindness in preventing a
hostile meeting that might have resulted in the sacrifice
of life. AS the facts connected with the arrest of
Sergeant Brodie were not all brought out on the ex-
amination before the mayor and magistrates, it may
be briefly stated that A.,Tatant Webster (when Ser
geant Brodie bad succeeded in preventing the duel, by
causing the detention of one of the principals) three
times distinctly told the guard "to knock the ser-
geant down with the butt-end of their carbines, if he
resisted them," although the sergeant had then given
himself up as a prisoner. Having been taken to the
room and searched, the sergeant was subsequently
ushered into the presence of the colonel of the
regiment in the orderly-room as 4 prisoner, when he told
the colonel all the circumstances of the case. The adju-
tant said Sergeant Brodie was drunk at the time. The
colonel then or:iered the corporal to be brought in.
When qnestio-ded, he said the sergeant was perfectly
sober when be arrested him. After further interro-
gations, tl.ie colonel ordered the sergeant to be taken
to his r „sem, to await his trial by general court-martial.
The e,rder was obeyed, and asentryplaced outside Sergeant
13r:idle's room ; but on Sunday a second sentry was added,
adid a notice placed outside the room door to the effect—
" That no person was to hold any conversation with Ser-
geant Brodie except in the presence of the acting adjutant
(Webster.)" As soon, however, as the magistrates'
proceedings had terminated, the sentries were removed,
and the notice taken down. Still te sergeant remains
under arrest, and confined to his own room, although in a
debilitated condition. Under these circumstances the
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On Wednesday evening the colonel received a tele-
, graphic message to attend at the Horse Guards, and he
,eft for that purpose to-day, in company, it is void,
with Adjutant Webster, one of the principal actors in
the disreputable proceedings.

I POSTAL COMMUNICATION IVITII LONDON AND DUBLIN.
—A numerous meeting of Irish members and others in-
terested in the promotior., of postal facilities between
England and Ireland took place y'sterday at the
King's Arms, Palace.-yard, Mr. H. Vance, M.P. for
Dublin, in the chair, to consider the provisions of the
,ill now under discussion in the House of Commons
iipon the subject. Mr. G. A. Hamilton explained the
provisions of the bill, and said that clauses had been
introduced to mqet the objections made to the original
scheme, Several gentlemen spoke of the present
..insatisfactory state of the postal communication be-
ween England and Ireland, and Sir C. Honey explained
;he improvements whit's it was proposed to introduce. Mr.
Grogan having referred to the trip to the Dublin Exhi-
',ition in eleven bc.urs, air C. Honey said that was an
exceptional case, and that such a speed could not be
!ontinuously maintained. A resolution was carried,
stating the desire of the meeting' to impress upon the
(loverntnent the imp ortance and necessity of improving
ihe postal cornmunicistion between London and Dublin
as much as posslble. It was understood that the mem-
:,ers present would support the second reading of the
reserving to themselves the right to deal with its
details in committee, in gut:44 manlier a 3 they ghoul('
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VIENNA CONFERENCES.

VIENNA, THURSDAY EVBNING.

To-day, at the request of the Russians, it was
made known that they would make new proposi-
tions. The issue of the Conference has not yet

transpired.
Baron Hess goes with the whole of the general
staff to Galicia on the 2d of May, but probably

only to inspect the army.
By a second despatch we learn that the Russian
propositions have been rejected by the allies. M.
Drouyn De I'Huys leaves to-morrow.
Railway shares have fallen 3 per cent.

THE OVERLAND MAIL.
TRIESTE, FRIDAY MORNING.
The steamer Bombay arrived yesterday at a
quarter past nine p.m., in 124 hours from
Alexandria.
The India Mail brings advices from Calcutta,
March 24 ; Madras, 28 ; Bombay, April 3 ;
Shanghai, March 9 ; Canton, 13 ; Hong
Kong, 15.
A rupture with Persia is imminent ; the Shah
openly avows his preference for Russia.
Mr. Murray left Bagdad for Teheran on the
12th of March. V'
The meeting between Ryder Whou and Mr.
Lawrence took place near Peshawur on the 19th
of March.

Trade in India is dull, and money scarce.
Lord Dalhousie reached Ootacamund on the Bth
of March much better in health.
The traffic on the Calcutta railway exceeds all

expectations.
Shanghai and Canton have been evacuated by
the rebels.

The Russian frigate Diana has been lost in
Japan from the effects of an earthquake.

The steamer Shanghai arrived at Hong Kong
on the 20th of February. The Living Age and
the Tom Bowline have been wrecked on the

Prahas.
Exchange at Canton, 48-i ; Shanghai, 64k.
The ratification of the Japanese and American
treaty took place at Simoda on Feb. 21.