The Sun.
London, England, 1852-01-29 00:00:00

IRELAND.

DUBLIN, WFDNESDAY.—TneSneciaI Commission
was opened yesterday, when the Lord Chief Justice
of the Queen's Bench delivered an effective charge to
the grand jury. He observed that a large portion of
that county—Monaghan, as well as large portions of
Louth and Armagh, were suffering from all the terror
and all the horror which Ribbonism was calculated to
produce. The Learned Judge then described the
late dreadful murder of Mr. Bateson, and told the
jury that two persons charged with that crime were
about to be put upon their trial. The bills against
Francis and Owen Kelly were then sent before the
grand jury, who found a " true bill." The prisoners
were arraigned, and the trial postponed to this
morning.
The railway from Dublin to Castleblaney is guarded
by policemen, so that no damage can be done to the
rail., and the entire road from Castleblaney to Mo-
naghan is covered with police. This precaution has
been deemed necessary from the excited state of the
country_
The official investigation at Forkhill, county of
Arwagb, regarding the attempt to murder Mr.
Chambre, will be resumed on Friday next ; and in
the meantime a number of prisoners have been re-
manded, besides the persons who stand fully committed
for trial. The magistrates hold their inquiry with
closed doors ; but it is understood that they have ob-
tained a distinct clue to the branch of the conspiracy
which has led to this atrocious outrage, and the police
are on the
alert to make further arrests. Mr.
. Chambre still in a somewhat perilons condition.
The bulletin issued on Monday states that " delirium
is still present, and no improvement in his symptoms
has as yet taken place.";
This morning we have received the following more
favourable bulletin :
" Mr. Chambre has had a very good night. The dO
is -
lirium this morning much Ices.
" The inflammation of the eye and neighbouring
structures is so much diminished that we have been able
to trace the course of the pellet into the eye, and have
reason to hope that it has not proceeded further.
We are thus enabled to report rather more favour-
ably, though his case is still very peecarious.
S 6 J. W. STRONGE, DLit

•' E. G. BRUNKER, M.D.

" Hawthorn Hill, Jan. 27, two o'clock."
Very unpleasant accounts are received from parts
of the county of Down as to the extension of the
Ribbon organization; and it is asserted that some of
the Presbyterian peasantry are connected with the
agrarian combination. There can be no doubt that
the secret confederacy, which has ramifications in
four counties—Armagh, Louth, Monaghan, and
Down—is mainly directed against rents. It ip, in
fact, one of the worst species of Communism, seeking
to work its wicked and impracticable objects through
crime and intimidation.
CHIEF SECRETARY FOR IRELAND.--Sir William
Somerville, Bart., left town yesterday by the mid-
day mail for London. It is stated that the Right
Hon. Baronet is to be raised to the peerage, and will
not return to this country as Chief Secretary. This
would create a vacancy in the representation of
Drogheda, for which two or three candidates are
already spoken of.

FATAL ACCIDENT AT WINDSOR.—On Tuesday
afternoon, about half-past five o'clock, William M'Rae, the
foreman porter in the Great Western Railway station in
Windsor, was standing on the arrival line in the Windsor
station of the Great Western Railway, nearly opposite her
Majesty's waiting-room, having just given instructions to
the porters under him to pull in two carriages which were
standing outside the station on the middle line to form the
following 7.20 train, he was watching an engine which was
backing some trucks on the arrival side, and had just called
out to the engine-driver to be careful, forgetting his own
perilous situation, when at that instant the buffer of the
second-class carriage, which he had just given directions
about, knocked him down, and the wheels passed over his
body and right arm, which were crushed in a frightful
manner, causing instant death. It is somewhat extraordinary
that the deceased should on this occasion have been off his
guard, as it has been a regular occurrence for several months
past to have the carriages brought in at this particular time;
and he had always had the carrying out of this arrangement
Yesterday ( Wednesday) an inquest was held on the body by
Mr. Thomas Martin, coroner for the borough, and a verdict
of accidental death recorded.

RESIGNATION OF THE EARL OF ARUNDEL AS M.P.
FOR LIMERICK. —We are in a position to state that the Earl
of Arundel and Surrey has finally resolved to resign his seat
for Limerick borough in a short period after the meeting of
Parliament. The Noble Earl is reported to be indisposed at
Carlton-terrace. His medical advieers recommended that he
should not attend the banquet given by his constituents in
Limerick on Wednesday last. —Advertiser.
DR. DARLING UTDONE.—ELECTRO-RIOLOGT.--
M. Louis Napoleon Bonaparte will continue his series of ex-,
periments on the people in a perfectly wakeful state, who will
go down on their knees to him at the word of command,
imagine themselves to be Negroes, and M. Bonaparte their
owner; believe him to be Alexander the Great, Julia.
Casar, the Caliph Haroun Alraschid, &c. ; and exhibit, in
every particular, the most perfect submission to the will of
the operator.--Palace of the Tuileries, daily, till further
notice.— Punch.

OIL FATAL TO FLEAS.—Mr. Henslow, of Hitcham,
writes thus in the Gardener's Chronicle :—" Our Bob, clever
dog as he is at a rat, cannot contrive to rid himself of fleas.
Partly Scotch terrier, and partly undefined mongrel, he is
short-necked and short-legged as a turnspit. In spring and
autumn, more especially, the fleas take up their quarters in
two positions, one along bis back, and the other on his chest,
where they increase and multiply to an extent sufficient to
make the life of Bob very uncomfortable. I recommended
some sweet oil (any oil would have answered) to be poured
over the infested parts, and rubbed in with a rag, knowing
how instantly fatal such an application would be to insect
life. The application succeeded perfectly. I am told the
dead fleas tumbled out by scores; and hundreds fell off him
as the rubbing proceeded. He was afterwards washed with
a solution of common soda, in order to get rid of the oil;
and Bob has assumed the air of a decidedly comfortable dog
ever since."

DEATH OF AN ECCENTRIC LITERARY CHARACTER.
--Yesterday an inquest was held at Camberwell on the body
of Mr. Richard Alfred Davenport, aged 75, author of his-
tories of America and India, and several poems of great
ability. On Sunday, about four o'clock, the attention of
police-constable Dwyer was attracted by low moans issuing
from Brunswick Cottage, Park-street, Camberwell (the resi-
dence of the deceased). He knocked at the door, but could
obtain no answer, and he therefore broke into the front
dead, with a bottle that had contained . lied laudanum in his
hand.
which he was in
few minutes after his
parlour, and found the deceased lying in the passage nearlyis
hand. A surgeon was sent for,
sh.,,i,
arrival the deceased expired.
uan i while writing.
Cties the
constantroohmabcitonetafintainkgiulganidararmq,
w the body, the house presented a
appearance rooms were literally
to
Upon
ethed
jury
appeansuripts, pictures, an •
upwards of eleven years, during which
ancient coins,
crammed most extraordinaryw ith gbooi nokg s ,
al
and antiques of various ven
descriptions.cleansed,
and Tthhee deceased has re-
boks, beds, and
decaying, everything being covered
sided in the house forrn
Ydows of the ' The winhouse (of which deceased
with dust~ were all broken, the freeholder). the whole place
s e
nd . e
dt dfri le% i d all ead
vaeprpteeaurtal
yn
ftiamrneitiut rneadw eni7rearPiPd 7
was pre-
taking an overdose of
ting a o°B • d ce. Verdict, " That the
deceased i
opium"
ADULTERATED PEPPER.—
At the Court of Inland
OSpapmosuite Lindsey
el
thelri a grocer,etoriuThe atorfe)L.o,
was
sold
dation
mustard husks, rice, and ether
isi Revenuearsb ,
Lambeth
a Y ,(
sAac i charged
h,
et whf
heietrehea
arthihseaeegv 1
ni
and in imitation of pe,vper.
onafdguthlste evidence, the Court said they (lon-
ade out ; and, as the defendant had teseri
convicted of a similar offence on the 26th of March, 185 .I,
when the penalty of 1001. was mitigated to 251., they 8 h ul ti
now give judgment against him in the penalty
of 501. °
A FRENCH CARD —A. certain Professor in Eng-
land advertises lessons in " Dancing and Deportment." Pro-
fessor Louis Napoleon, who gives balls at the Tuileries, and
sends French citizens to Cayenne, may be considered as a
teacher of Dancing and—Deportation.—Punch.
PORTLAND BREARWATEE.—A lithographic marine
view of Portland and its Breakwater, dedicated to Mr. John
Murray, has just appeared from Sherrer's Office. It is taken
from the sands on the sea shore, beneath Sandsfoot Castle,
and is a very creditable production.
NATURAL GAS.—The stream of natural gas on
Chat Moss, near Manchester, is still eo abundant that it
serves to heat the boilers and work the engine and threshing
machine at Messrs. Evan's farm, which is situated about
fifty yards from the place where it issues from the earth.
The insurance on the building has been changed to suit it
to this novel kind of fuel.
Mr. Wakley, M.P., held an inquest at
SUDDEN DEATH OF GENERAL SIR LEWIS GRANT.
Yesterday morning,
do
end tahte3lb,oHdY of General Sir Lewis
,Harley-street, Cavendish.-
GthreaulNtilidadgleedselt,Hwohspeitraesil,
square, and whose death took place under the following cir-
cumstances :—On Monday evening last deceased got into an
omnibus in Regent-circus, Piccadilly, to side to Mortimer-
street, and as he was nearing his destination he was sud-
denly attacked with a violent pain in his side. On this
being intimated to the conductor, the omnibus was driven
out of its route to the Middlesex Mospital, and the deceased
was taken into the institution, when upon Mr. Corfe, sur-
geon, attending upon him, he found when,
to be quite extinct.
The medical gentleman having made a post mortars examina-
tion, proved that death resulted from disease of the heart,
and the jury returned a verdict of "Natural death" ac-
cordingly.
;
GLASGOW, WEDNESDAY.—Thestearn-sh.p Glasgow
which sailed from the Clyde on the lOth inst.,urwintehdttyr-four
e e last
passengers and freight valued at 106,0004, returned
of
night. She was struck by a dreadful sea the
on evening
Tuesday, the 20th inst., which carried away
the starboard
binnacle, and filled the I six son
bulwarks, the wheel-house,
and obertson, the se
with three feet water. r
hid.rowned. The firstcond °fester,
was swept overboard andand third
three of the crew w
officers, the carpenter, andt. therefore, thought it
severeV
it prudent to'
injured. Captain Stover-,
ship
and engines return. The hull of the
t ot be confounded are injured.
with the " City of
(The" Glasgow"
now n
w loadin tL'
g a iverpool.)
Glasgow," which is
ROYAL ARTILLERY, WOOLWICH, JAE. 28.--The
detachment at the Tower was relieved
h I f yesterday by tln,e fol-
tachment, wic e t Reff'a-wharf in one of the
lowing de
~. Steam-packet Com ,
W°°lvri'- t 'n, l subalt pany a boats for Lot elces-
bridge :-1 cadrivers a ern, 6 non-commissioned off leer%
42 gunners and 1 trumpeter, of Captain . Hen-
10th,b n
derson's company, ittalion. Captain Henderson com-
manded the detaetment
man l, and was accompanied by Lieti mint
Newbolt.
OCEAN STEAMERS.--The United States mail
steamer Pacific, Captain Nye, sailed from Liverpool y aster:
day at twenty minutes to two o'clock for New York, 'with
the usual mails, a full cargo, and 41 passengers. A `15.21
Lind is expected to arriv in ,
e Liverpool by the Atlantic, wh 'lca
is due on Wednesday next. The City of Glasgow sails for
Philadelphia on the 4th of February. We learn that t Ns
steamer Glasgow, which sailed from Glasgow to New York . 011
the 9th instant, has put back into Glasgow greatly damage 4
RAPID PASSAGE.—The Refuge, Wilson, a Briti sb
North American built ship arrived at Liverpool on Tiles( lay
last from New Orleans, having made the passage in twen tr
three days. This is much the shortest patine e'er nu iske
between the two ports.

Atol
41 7 14) gov

.TTERSALL'S.—THIS EVENING,
Sic o'cLocx.

LINCOLN HURDLE RACE.
2 to 1 agst View Holloo
3 to 1 agst Melford

LINCOLN TRIAL STAGES.
3 to 1 agst Lady Agnes
4 to 1 agst High Sheriff
4 to 1 agst lanthe
6 to 1 agst Maid of Lincoln
CHESTER CUP.
25 to 1 agst Nancy
33 to 1 agst Ariosto
33 to 1 agst Grand Duke
33 to 1 agst Scarecrow
40 to 1 agst Cock-crow
40 to 1 agst Hothorpe
66 to 1 agst C out of Duc-an-Dhurras's dam
100 to 1 agst Burndale

DERBY.

13 to 1 agst Augur
13 to 1 agst Ortlio
20 to 1 agst Kingston
20 to 1 agst Alfred the Great
30 to 1 agst Chief Baron Nicholson
30 to 1 agst Hotnebrewed

LIVERPOOL STEEPLECHASE:
200 to 1U agst Hardwicke
12 to 1 agst La Gazza Ladra

FRANCE.
The Constitutionne/ contains an article on the recent
decree of the Government relative to canals, in which
it is stated that the fifteen canals the formation or
termination of which was authorised by the laws of
the, sth August, 1821, and the 14th August, 1822,
are 2,515 kilometres in extent ; and that 2,818 kilo-
metres of them were executed by the State, at an
expense of 284,903,2861. The estimated expense of
execution was, it appears, only 126,000,0001., which
was authorised to be raised by loan. That sum being
found insufficient, credits had to be opened, and that
closed delay in the execution. The total expense, how-
ever (on an average 130,000 f. per kilometre), did not ex-
ceed that of other canals in France or those of foreign
countries. The canals have been of great service in
facilitating the communications of the country, espe-
cially in the coal districts. The receipts from them
in 1844, were 3,382,5661. ; in 1847, 5,167,4881.;
in 1848, they fell to 3,193,0241. ; but in 1850, rose
to 4,251,82.5 f. The net revenue, after deducting
extraordinary expenses, has averaged during the
last six years, 1,209,0001. ; but taking a favour-
able year as the basis of calculation, it may be
estimated at 2,245,0001. The receipts are much
larger than they were some years ago, and this is
owing to the adoption of moderate tariffs. Indeed,
it is calculated that if the original heavy charges
had been maintained, the traffic would hare been in-
considerable. One fact will show the importance of
moderate tariffs :—During the last few years the
Government fixed the tariff fur the conveyance of
coal, on what are called the Quatre Canaux, at lc.
per ton per kilometre ; the Canal Company demanded
that it should be fixed at 9c.; but if this had been
granted, the cost of coals from the centre, delivered
in Paris, would have been 2f. 50c. per 1,000 kilo-
grammes more than Belgian coals. The consequence
would have been that the French coals could not have
supported competition with the Belgians. It is ex-
pected that now that the canals have passed into the
hands of Government, important improvements will
be effected in them.

About two months since, says the Journal de
Chartres of the 25th, the gossips of Chartres were all
put on the qui rive by a report that a young work-
woman in that town, named Leonie Lehoux, whose
parents were well known there, had suddenly inherited
a considerable fortune, and this was borne out by
seeing the father give up his situation as conductor
of a diligence, the mother dressed out in the gayest
attire, and Leonie assuming all the airs of a fine
lady, and walking out attended sometimes by her
femme-de-chambre, and at others by a footman
in livery. According to some accounts the Bros lot
in the lottery had been gained, while others at•
tributed this sudden fortune to a legacy made to the
demoiselle by some rich Russian or Englishman
from a feeling of paternal remorse. All accounts,
however, agreed that the fortune was an immense
File. At length it was announced that the lucky
heiress was about to be married to the son of a rich
Lerner in the neighbourhood ; all the tradesmen in
t"e place were put into requisition to furnish dresses,
vellery, &c., a grand banquet was ordered for
the 28th instant, and cards of invitation were
already issued, when suddenly the scene changed.
The grandfather of the intended husband appears to
Lave suddenly entertained some suspicion, and on
Taursday last, he called on the Bishop to ascertain
the genuineness of two letters which had been re-
ived by the family, said to have been written by
that dignitary, relative to the marriage .and to the
redden fortune which the bride elect had inherited,
aed which were immediately declared to be for-
.l-eries. It then became clear that a grand system of
swindling had been carried on, and information
having been given to the police, a domiciliary visit
t ek place, when a number of letters, all pretended to
.re been written by the Bishop of Chartres, and
vin a sum of 200,000 f. to Leonie Lehoux, were
found. The mother, daughter, and the two servants,
are all arrested, and, after a preliminary examina-
tlor, committed to prison.
A few years since, says the Siecle, a robbery was
committed in an apartment in the Rue St. Honors,
occupied by a N. de L-, an attach 6 to an em-
bassy. Among the articles stolen that which the
owner most regretted was a snuff-box, set with
diamond, a present from a foreign prince. That
circumstance, and the intrinsic value of the article,
were not, however, the only motives of regret for
its loss. The box had a double bottom, which
opened with a spring, and beneath which were
toncealed a note and medallion. At the beginning
of last week M. de L-, being at a soiree in a
diplomatic saloon, was thunderstruck at seeing the
identical
snuff-box in the hands of a distinguished
Personage. He approached the group of which this
gentleman formed part and related the history of the
snuff-box. He afterwards borrowed from the
and as if by
gentle
ram u
% the box which he thou ht was hi,=
accident, let it fall. Theesgnuff thus' thrown
ut, he touched the secret spring and produced the
note and the medallion. The gentleman in whose
possession the box hariallen offered immediately to
restore it to him who'had so clearly shown himself to
have been the original
fused, being satisfied ownerof
it, but the latter re-
objects which it contained.Tihmeceovering the valued
gentleman gave the
be hadh
name of the jeweller from wh
d by the exertions of the
police
in Franceaspurchased it,
been traced
in its various peregrinations
and England,
f2' Rd the robber discovered among the men taken during
the razzias recently made by the police.

RAILWAY
is of
RE MARK
BRISTOL, JAN. 28. ETS.
3Tocx ExckrAva.—The share market was more
active
to-jay, with a tendency upwards. The transactions
as follow:—Great Western (Original Stock), 85%—Bristol
were
and Exeter, 84—Taff Vale, Quarters, 34.
LIVERPOOL, JAN. 28.
I"rocit EXCHANGE.
—There was an improved feeling ex-
bi,ited in the share market to-day, and a good business
Ins been done at advanced prices. The transactions were as
f()ll"—Caledonian, 1514—Lancashire and Yorkshire, 621 A
—Ditto, Fifths, 71. 13s. 9d. dis. -.Ditto, West Ridings, 534
dis.—Leeds Northern, 1414—Liverpool, Crosby, and South-
port, 134 di&—London and North-Western, 116—Ditto, New
Quarters, 3 P.—Ditto, Fifths, 234 P.—Ditto (C), Quarters,
1:13 p.—Manche4ter, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, 314—Ditto,
1 reterence. 12%_Ditto flaw,
Midland, 5634 —Ditto, iiN:boanrtha
, 61. Preference, lls. 3d. p.—
British, 7 —tiorth'Stl'ffN_oredwrehPirree,feBrtncdeikB-3.Sopudih-dEisa.s—te
Dover, 201. Bs. 9d.— -., , _
Ditto, Preference, d'is......k, Newcastle, and Berwick, 11 ~i,
. York and North Midland, 21%
Bizokenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire j •
Di!to (Chester and Birkenhead unction, 121% dis.—
Iv:ad, 2u - Ditto, Preference 16n ), 1614—Chester and ynly-
, .4 Eastern Counties, L'e2—
...
Atabeorerns, 1814 —Great W Fst-
eras, 86—Aberdeen, 11
314 dis. gate and Eastern Junction,
MANCHESTER, ,JA_N. 2,
*roar EXCHANGL—There has been --
a buoyant
amount of
business done to-day, and prices were
full rates of yesterday. The transactions were at the
ant
678 —East Lancashire,
I.e as follow :
"'astern Counties,
dunian, 1514 Ditto, Preference, 7%—Midlaial3-16—Cale-
Staith-Eastern and Dover, 2044 Lancashire anti. 55'4'
*tie—Ditto, Fifths, 6% Manchester, Sheffield, and orlishire,
• "e, 101. Preference, 12 %Q—Dublin and Drogheda Lincoln
—llorth Midland, 6%. , Thirds, 11

FATAL COLLIERY ACCIDENT,—On Monday last an
a"ident occurred at the RingleY Fold Colliery, near Bury,
Lancashire, belonging to Messrs. Scott and Knowles, which
his resulted in the ith of three persons, viz., Thomas
Hndley y
, aged 19 years, Fleur Page, aged 28 years, and
George Gruudy, aged 3')
years. The accident occurred in
consequence of the ignitio of foul air ; but the cause of the
explosion has not yet been ascertained Ten other persons
-,vere in the pit at the time of the fatal occurrence, most of
whom are so seriously burnt that there is not much prospect
;:f their recovery.
The following Ire the
sour, cheese, &c., importPd into
quantities Gf for oign grain,
Liverpool for the fortnight
nding 21st January, 1852
....
5,437 bags wheat, 79,612
hu,hels ditto, 3,454 barrels of flour, 7,028 sacks ditto, 25,081
toehels Indian corn, 2,118 ditto, 53,n0 bushels beans,
53 barrels oatmeal, 354 boxerscheese, and 16 casks ditto.
FLOGGING YOUNG CULPRITs.—The Home Secre-
tary and Lord Advocate have aproved of certain regula-
tions necessary to the working oft the recent Prisons' Amend-
which magistrates will now be enabled to in-
dictament Act, by
as a puT_sh_metnt upon flogging young culprits. A pair
ws are to be provided, o the satisfaction of the sheriff,
and the punishment is not to exceed thirty-six lashes. The
flogging is to take place in the prison at the sight of the
Young culprits, and those
surgeon ; and the age at which
only of the male sex, may be whipped is limited to fourteen.
—.North British Nail.