The Sun.
London, England, 1852-04-30 00:00:00

GERMANY.

An electric dispatch from Berlin, dated yesterday
morning, says : ' Yesterday (the 28th) the Presi-
dent of the Council of Ministers presented to the Se-
cond Chamber a Royal message, announcing that
from the 7th of August next the article of the
Constitution relative to the organization of the peerage
met in the large 7
would be abolished, and that its re-organization will
be settled at a future period by a Royal ordonnanee."
A public fete took place at Berne on the
and several speeches were 24th, in
honour of the vote of the 18th.
had been spent in rejoicing, Delegates from ever
where
part of the canton, 600 in number,
vroeroemd.of
After
eteCr atshien o,
day
procession by torchlight took place to th
the statue of Rodolph d'Erlach, the hero :f so
erected. potljlc puelgn: deli_:

ITALY.
TERRIBLE DISASTER AT TURIN.
The following brief account of a terrible and de-
structive explosion at the Sardinian capital, one quar-
ter of which city is stated to have been injured, was
hurriedly written upon the margin of the Opinionc
of Turin, of April 2(3, immediately before the de-
parture of the mails on the afternoon of that day, and
which arrived in London by this morning's post. The
literal translation of the hasty but apparently truth-
ful communication, which it may be observed is
received through perfectly reliable sources, is so
follows :
" TURIN, APRIL 26, MID-DAY,—Ex
lolled
der magazine of the Place Pullone, by the sidepof the
the Pow -
Dora. One quarter of the capital hashe
not yet
on injured.
Every one is in consternation. The details
known, nor are the causes. It is fearednf .
Since the above was receive , that, the other
two magazines will follow.
All
Ishe°Juaionournal
.
de Turin
d t
of the above date has arrived. Under the head of
" latest intelligence" is the following paragraph, con-
firming the foregoing :
T o successive shocks have
" TURIN, 11.45 A.DI.— VI
earthquake. The powder
been felt like those of an e exploded. The popula-
tion is hurrying to tho
magazine of Borgo Dora
All the faubourg is on fire.
hass
of the disaster. The
rappel is being Two hundred deaths are
A barrack has fallen down. ~
spoken of."
Gazette of the same date as the
The Piedmont:
t news in a postcript, stating that a
beaten:
foregoing gives -
portion of the
if
00 Dora, blew up on the morning
of that day. It giveslarge
called no particulars of the disaster,
but states that
the main depot has been saved; some
houses of the neighbourhood were on fire at the time of
and that the Duke of GENOA and the
Ministers o
press,
going to pref
War, the Interior, and of Public
Works
were on the spot.

RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS.
LIVERPOOL, Aram 29.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—There was an improved feadin,g ex-
hibited in the share market to-day, and a good busintsa
has been done at improved prices. The sales reported were—
Eastern Counties, 9:;i—Lancashira and Yorkshire, 73 c.—
London and North-Western, 124 A e.—Ditto, New Quarters,
.sis p.—Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, WA--
Midland, 69%—North British, Preference, 514—South_
3 di s.—South-
Eastern considerable amount of buLsii,ricet
Eastern and Dover, 22?. c.—Cork and Bandon, 16ii,
—South-
Smelt ExcmNektESTEß' APRIL 29.
and Birming-§
was transacted in our share market to-day,
aanndd
Nonret:
had an upward tendency. The
ssha,rleesvis‘bvuerre3:-Shrewsbury
shire, 17%—Midland, 69—Shropshire Union,is.
Eastern and Dover, 22%—Leeds, F. I—London
Western, 124—Blackburn, 6
ham (A). 7/—North Staffordshire, 7-'%' i
2 n.—Eastern Counties, 9 5 --hi ....(l"'l_ , dis.— )1 atl mks,
U
Wolverhampton, Preference, p. ord! Worcester, and

OUR EXISTENCE.—The moan, general duration of
human life is bPtween 38 and 42 years; the natural limit
from 80 to 90. Of all new-born infants, 1 out of 4 dies Us.
first year, two-fifths scarcely attain the sixth year, and be-
fore the twenty-second year it is reckoned that one-half of
the generation are consigned to the grave. The number of
males in a given number of births exceeds that of females
in the ratio of 16 to 15, but the mortality among male children
is at the ratio of 27 to 26.