The Sun.
London, England, 1852-07-08 00:00:00

A MAD RAJAH.

Run Bahadur's Brahmin queen gave birth to three
children, and immediately after her confinement was at-
tacked with small-pox. Run Bahadur pow became
almost frantic; all the hakeens (native doctors) were
consulted, and large rewards were offered for a perfect
recovery. The doctors at Nepaul were propitiated and
consulted. Sacrifices and daily offerings were made to
them. The ranee getting worse, all became alarmed
and the king furious. His ministers and doctors then
advised that, as the holy city of Benares contained many
celebrated men, a deputation should immediately be sent
there to fetch as many as could be induced to come to
Nepaul under promises of large rewards for a cure.
These arrived in duo time, but all their art was in vain.
The small-pox had done its work most effectually, and
on the queen's recovery (she having stipulated the king
should neither see nor visit her until she was well), she
requested her attendants to furnish her with a looking-
glass. When she beheld for the first time the dreadful
ravages made on her once beautiful face, she became dis-
consolate, and dismissing her attendants poisoned herself.
The vegetable poisons of Nepaul are quick and deadly,
and to this day no antidote has been found for them.
Upon hearing of her death, Run Bahadur rushed into
her apartment, and, beholding his once lovely queen a
corpse, and dreadfully spotted with the small-pox, he
became
frantic. He cursed his kingdom, her doctors,
and the gods of Nepaul, vowing vengeance on all. He
first sent for the unfortunate Benares doctors, denounced
them as liars and impostors, and ordered them to be
soundly flogged, and each
This to
wa
have ve his right ear and nose
cut off in his presence. dulyriti
spherdfoormininedio performed; and and
they were afterwards started to tlese B
as
a warning to all future impostors. He then wreaked
his vengeance on the gods of
Pas Nepaul (not even edxcept-
ing the famous temple o
abusing them in the most gross way, he ac, and
them
of having obtained from him 12,000 goats, some
hun-
dredweight of sweetmeats, 2,000 gallons of milk, &c.,
under false pretences, and that he would take summary
vengeance for having wilfully disfigured his queen. He
then ordered all the artillery, varying from three to 12-
pounders, to be brought in front of the palace, with all
the made-up ammunition ae Khatmandoo. All the guns
were then loaded to the muzzle, and down ho marched
to the head-quarters of the Nepaul deities. On arriving
at Pas Pat Nath, all the guns were drawn up in front of
the several deities, honouring the moat sacred with the
heaviest metal. When the order to fire was given,
many of the chiefs and soldiers ran away panic-stricken,
and others hesitated to obey the sacrilegious order; and
not until several gunners had been cut down, were the
guns opened. Down came the gods and goddesses from
their hitherto sacred positions ; and after six hours'
heavy cannonading not a vestige of the deities remained.
Their temple sharing the same fate, the priests ran
away confounded, many escaping to the British terri-
tory, but those who were not so fortunate were seized,
and each deprived of his holy head. The Goorkha king
now became satisfied, vowing, however, no god should
ever again b 3 elevated in his dominions until his de-
parted queen was restored to him. His life after this,
as may be supposed, was a short one. The principal
chiefs of his court, therefore, who found themselves the
objects of his cruel and revengeful persecutions, again
formed a conspiracy against the rajah, which was brought
to a desperate issue rather prematurely.—Capt. Thomas
Smith's Narrative of Five Years' Residence at .Nepaul.

MORTALITY in the METROPOLIS.
NUMBER OF DEATHS FROM ALL CAUSES REGISTERED IN
THE WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, JULY 3, 1652.
Epidemic, Endemic, and Contagious Diseases ...*lB7
Diseases of Uncertain Seat ... 51
Tubercular Diseases 183
Diseases of the Brain, Nerves, and Senses... ... 131
Diseases of the Heart and Blood-vessels 44
Diseases of the Lungs, and ether Organs of
Respiration ... ... ••• ..• ... ••• 91
Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and other Organs
of Digestion.. 59
Diseases of the Kidneys. &o. .. •••
Childbirth, Diseases of the Uterus, &c. 12
Diseases of the Joints, Bones, and Muscles ... 17
Diseases of the Skin, &c. 6
Maiformations... ... ... 5
Premature Birth ... ••• 17

Atrophy ... ... ... ... 10
Old Ago ... ... 44

Sudden
Violence, Privation, Cold, and Intemperance 95
Causes not specified ... 3

DEATHS FROM ALL CAUSES ... ... 987
Population Deaths In corre- Deaths
Enumerated, Sponding week in the
1851. of 1851. Week.
West Districts... 376,427 • • 167 ... 152
North Districts.. 490,396 ~. 194 ... 183
Central Districts 393,256 ••• 176 ... 158
East Districts ... 485,522 ... 186 ... 241
South Districts.. 616,635 ... 280 ... 253

---
Totals... 2,362,236 ... 1,003 ... 987
Males ••• ••• ••• ••• ••• 516
.. ... 471
Females ... ... ... .

BIRTHS IN THE WEEK.
Males ••• ••• ••• ••• s 9
Females .•• ••• ••• ••• ••• 724

Total ... ... ..• ...1,513
*ln this number ar© ineludcd 33 by Scarlatina, 41
by Typhus Fever, and 17 by tharrhcee.,.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
BETTING AT MANCIIESTEII.—TUESDAY.
LANCASTER CUP.-3 IO 1 agst Black Doctor (t), sto
1 agst Gholsb Singh (t), 5 to 1 agst Lindrick, and 6 to
1 agst Little Fawn.
LIVERPOOL Cup.-3 to 1 agst Poodle (t)
\-J, 7 to 1 aget
Colstordo.le (t), 15 to 1 agst Cossack (t). Nothing
else
backed.
GOODWOOD STAKES.—I 3 to 1 agst Haricot (t), 13 to
1 agst Houlalcin (t), 20 to 1 agst
.Backbiter (t), 12 to 1
offered agst Chief Justice, but nothing done.

CHARITABLE BEQUESTS.—Mr. Thomas D unbar,
of Serles'-place, and Brick-court, Temple, left by his will
the following sums to be distributed to charitable institu-
tions on the decase of his 'widow :—To the Marine So-
ciety, 100/. ; School for the Blind, 1001. ; Deaf and Dumb
School, 100/.; Orphan Working School, 100/. ; London
100/.; Charing Cross Hospital, 100/. ; King's
eg
Hospital, 100/. ; Westminster Hospital, 100/. ; Middlesex
Hospital,
College 100/. ; Free Hospital, Gray's-inn-road,
2001.; Floating Hospital, Thames, 1001.; Masonic Boys'
School, 50/. ; Masonic Girls' School, 50/. ; Mendicity So-
ciety, 50/. ; Lying-in Hospital, Old-street-road, 50/. ; Lying-
-50/. ; City of London Truss Society,
Lying-
in
eity
INletropolitan Hospital, 50/. ;
Hospital,DYiosprk-enrseaadry:
501. -
P
Dispensary, 50/. ; Humane Society, 50/. ; City of
n on National Schools, 501. • St. Andrew's Parish School,
sLFllied
o.b;St. Clement's Danes School, 501.
A terrific thunder-storm burst over the New
Forest on Monday night. In Southampton the whole of the
day on Monday, the weather was exceedingly sultry, and at
times the heat was almost insufferable. Before dark light-
ning was seen from the west and south-west. It increased
in intensity towards midnight, when the flashes stfFcee:Ve
each other very rapidly, and were remarkably vivid.ll
,_-Lien
weather also was squally, but no rain fell within dozen
miles car-
miles of Southampton. In the heart of the forest,
the rain fell in torrents, so much so that many fa .
h a several
riages of the up-Dorchester night mail trainat In inches of water in them when they arrived.
,he lhtning
No rain fell after the train left Lynd,hooartstani;
ton water and
was of the sheet kind occasionally-
ir bted up with intense
the whole of the New Forest was g however,
brilliancy by it.
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GREAT EXUIBITION AT DUBLIN.—A few weeks
since Mr. Dargan, the Irish railway contractor, offered the
sum of 20,0001. towards a "Great Exhibition" in Dublin
next year. The matter is now fairly on foot, the committee
named, and the money placed in their hands. The exhibi-
tion is open to all, and the committee are desirous of the
co-operation of the English manufacturing body. The
secretary is Mr. C. P. Roney, formerly of the Eastern Coun-
ties Railway, and now manager of the greatly increasing
traffic through from London to the interior of Ireland.

In the very " thick" of the electioneering excite-
ment there has been issued from the press by Mr.
Butterworth the law publisher, one of those remark-
able volumes which, more than any other individual
undertakings, are calculated to influence the votes of
the community, and, by so doing, to affect the cha-
racter of a Parliament. A more extraordinary com-
pilation of its kind has perhaps never before been
given to the world—certainly not one more rigo-
rously impartial, more. scrupulously accurate, or
more carefully compacted together. In the systematic
manner of its arrangement it constitutes the very com-
pendium of the laws relating to the formation of the
lower branch of the Legislature; whereas in its copious
accumulation of all the principal facts referring to
that all-important subject the book is little less than a
minute and comprehensive encyclopaedia. Mr. Warren
has evidently devoted to the work a surprising amount
of application. His abilities have manifestly been ab-
sorbed in the task of concentrating into a single focus the
lights capable of being thrown upon the difficult ques-
tion of " Elections"—but which had been hitherto
almost useless because scattered, and in some instances
therefore, altogether dissipated. Everything that can be
desired in the way of information upon the subject
which the author has here treated with a really
masterly lucidity may be found on the instant
without difficulty. This, of itself, is an advantage
sufficiently important. The materials of the volume
are so ordered as to be at once accessible—a merit
however which, with all its unquestionable value, is,
perhaps, of all, the least noticeable in the compilation.
Superior at any rate in a marked degree are the merits
of fidelity and completeness—a fidelity which no
partizan predilections have interfered with, and a
completeness which has mastered every separate de-
tail, no matter what its apparent insignificance.
The scheme of the work may be readily indicated.
It embraces a rapid but luminous history of
the progress made in the election law during
the course of the last quarter of a century, together
with an epitome of its character in reference to
Scotland and Ireland—the position of the law in
England and \Vales being, of course, considered
in detail, and this, moreover, with more than
ordinary elaboration. The last mentioned division
of the " Manual " relates, firstly, to the present ar-
rangement of places returning Members—secondly,
to the constitution of the franchise—thirdly, to the
method of ascertaining it by registration—fourthly,
to the incapacities for electing—fifthly, to the
qualifications and disqualifications for being
elected—sixthly, to the mode of exercising the fran-
chise through the agency of the returning officer and
his staff of functionaries—seventhly, to the mode in
which a voter may throw away his vote—eightly, to the
disturbing forms by which the exercise of the franchise
may be defeated, that is to say, by undue interference
by intimidation, by violence, by bribery, and by
treating—lastly, to the ultimate adjudication upon the
exercise of the franchise, when impeached by electors
or candidates, by the House of Commons. The work
is manifestly, therefore, as may be recognised even
from this cursory synopsis of its contents, one
eminently calculated to prove of great practical
utility to all parties engaged in the responsible
labours of electioneering—to voters as well as to can-
didates—from the returning officer to the most subor-
dinatenetfo a e
ep Whig,s person engaged in the toils of canvassing, or
representative. 'of polling, or of any other of the difficult
and arduous processes required to be passed through
ibor
nTtaotriyv,e . p
or Radical, di cal,
practicalc an be
purposes,transformedh
ow-
ever, it is to be feared that in many of the boroughs
and cities of England the volume . will have ar-
rived too late to admit of
with a view to guidance upon points of legality.
However this may be in those •
particular quarters,
it is unquestionable that the work will be peculiarly
acceptable to all parties involved in the labours of
county electioneering. Amongst the various divisions
of the manual above enumerated, especial notice must
be accorded to the one specified as the eighth_
namely, the one in which Mr. Warren has treated
with uncommon sagacity the most delicate theme
having reference to electioneering—that touching
" the disturbing forces by which the franchise may
be defeated," making separate and particular mention
of undue interference, of violence, bribery, treat-
ing, and intimidation. From the singular im-
portance of this part of the Election Law we
could have wished the present " Manual " had
appeared somewhat earlier. Fortunately, even now
there are time and opportunity by availing
themselves of which many of the possessors of the
franchise throughout the United Kingdom may
derive from the warnings given upon this
head in the eleventh, twelfth, and thirteenth
chapters incalculable advantages. If for nothing
else, the book would necessarily for those
chapters alone be welcome as one of indisputable
importance. Another section would complete
the volume so as to render it a permanent authority,
and that section—defining the procedure before
election committees—we are gratified to oh-
serve, through au announcement in the course
of the preface, is already promised. At this moment
we cannot but think that the fourth chapter will—
from its being the most happily timed in its appear-
ance—be the most generally acceptable, relating as
it does (in reference at least to England and
Wales) to the peculiarities affecting the county
franchise. It will be borne very satisfactorily in
remembrance by all who consult Warren's Manual
of the Election Law that the statements contained in
it are, in every instance, based on the existing
common and statute law relating to the sub-
ject under consideration. And bearing in
recollection the number of statutes which have
recently passed through the Legislature, leading
to a multiplicity of alterations of the laws previously
enforced in regard to the labours of electioneer-
ing, it must be sufficiently evident that a book
precisely of this character was at this particular
instant in the highest degree desirable. It will be
hailed, therefore, even in the eleventh hour by all in-
dividuals interested professionally or otherwise (but
especially professionally) in the pending struggle—
by Parliamentary solicitors and agents, by clerks of the
peace, by town clerks, by revising barristers, by counsel,
by the electors themselves, and by the different gen-
tlemen who, as candidates, are aspiring to be repre-
sentatives. It will be observed by those who consult
the volume that Mr, Warren has inscribed it as "a
slight memorial of cordial friendship and respect" to the
Right Hon. Spencer Horatio Walpole, her Majesty's
Secretary of State for the Home Department. Upon
the title-page, as an appropriate motto, occurs that
sententious remark of Chief Justice Holt, "A
right that a man has to give his vote at the election
of a person to represent him in Parliament, there to
concur in the making of laws which are
to bind his liberty and property, is a
bmost
transcendent thing and of a high nature"—an o obser-
vation it is scarcely possible to repeat _ at . this
a general election,
moment, in the midst of the
ofdin
at the work-
without a glow of patriotic exultation
of
government.
work-
ing; of our representative system . .
—the occasion, the subject,
Everything considered
and the author—the volume before us cannot but
command for itself a very general, and we might
almost say, national consideration.

CENTRAL CRIMINAL
IVEW COURT.

O URT.

(Before the RECORDER.)
y 27, postman, pleaded guilty to steal-
ing George
co'osnuntaainstienrqt'-ear-aslo.vereign, it being the
P transported
I° was Jacobson, 25, watchmaker, and Thomas
for seven years.
Lafilwraentihceel: 23, dealer, were indicted for receiving stolen
plt appeared that Lawrenceh kept the Oak beer-shop,
chenias.tnews,.Totten am-court-road, and Jacobson was
t tunaker in the same road.
a wsarn-ictb, the sergeant of the E having some
suspicion, went to the beer-shop to make a search, where
ho found nearly 1001. worth of base coin, sovereignS,
crowns, half-crowns, and shillings; he also found an im-
ost
mense deal of other property, consisting of silks, watches,
rr o° pPaee rr Pt
fTI
thnt
een
rer
and other things stowed away between the floors, and at
the other prisoner's place silks and other property was
found, and all identified as the result of railway and other
robberies.
The evidence, which was very lengthy, was most con-
clusive, and the jury, having found the prisoners Guilty,
they were sentenced to 10 years' transportation.
Mr. Gurney sat in the afternoon, and disposed of the
remaining business on the list in this court.

THIRD COURT.
(Before the Coat MON SERGEANT.)
Thomas If.
eston, 44, chaser, pleaded Guilty to an in-
dictment for perjury.
The circumstances giving rise to the indictment were
these :—The prisoner had become bail for two men who
were yesterday tried at the Surrey Sessions and trans-
ported for ten years. He, at the Southwark Police-
court, swore that he had kept house and paid rates and
taxes for two years, which was wholly false.
.
He was sentenced to twelve months' imprisonment.
The remaining portion of the day was occupied in
importance;
and some charges of felony, of no great
and several prisoners having, by application, been per-
mitted to traverse until next session, the business was
brought to an end, and the court stands adjourned until
Monday, Aug. 16.
•

THE RIOTS AT STocsi:orr.-0n Monday the in-
vestigation into the recent riots at this place was resumed
by the magistrates. The evidence of Mr. Hewitt showed
that about 20 minutes ,past eight o'clock on Tuesday night
last he saw a great muititude of boys, principally Irish, as-
sembled, and also that he saw a young man break the win-
dows of Mr. Graham's house, and the windows of the ware-
house of mr. White. A shower of stones was thrown at the
the Irish, who afterwards attacked Mr. Graham's
servant.itness by
man. A body of English 'Ethan came down Lord-
of whom seized an Irishman and took him into
custody,oaml another Englishman seized another Irishman.
streetne
Witness took a boy into custody. The mob then commenced
the Irishmen's windows, and a little bov was
down and otherwise injured. The Court atto-urned
tkbinrlleCVkieenddgUeBdas morning.