The Sun.
London, England, 1855-09-08 00:00:00

RUSSIA.

A letter, dated Warsaw, August 29, says :--
"General Buchozanett, who has been appointed to
succeed the late General Read in the command of
the second army corps, set out for Sebastopol yes-
terday. He has hitherto held the rank of chief of
the artillery of the active army. He is a man of
intellect and energy, and a thoroughly accom-
plished soldier, his military attainments being in
nowise limited to the range of that special branch
of the service to which he has devoted himself.
Another levy of conscripts is impending here. The
Government of Kieff, which until now has been
subordinated to the Commander-in-Chief of the
Crimean army, is now placed, with all its military
establishments, under the care of Prince Paskie-
witch."

A letter from Berlin of the nth says :—" The
Duke of Saxe-Coburg has communicated to the
other German Courts the reservations he has made
against the intervention of the Diet in the settle-
ment of constitutional questions relating to his
States, and that he has also invoked the mediation
of the two great German Powers. The Prussian
Government has refused tainterfere in the matter,
and refers the solution to the Diet itself, which is
the supreme central authority in Germany."

The Madrid journals of the 2d have arrived.
An official return represents that the number of
persons attacked by cholera at Madrid from the
c,immencement of May to the end of August, was
2,958, and that 1,783 of them died. The cholera
has broken out with extreme violence at Pampa-
lima ; on the 28th ult., not fewer than 40 persons
died of it. A letter of the 3d, received in advance
of the mail, says, that the Queen continued to be
in perfect accord with her Ministers. It states
that the Captain-general of Catalonia had reported
that two Carlist bands, under chiefs named Gui-
bert and Hilignet, had been routed at Osort and -
Adrian, and it announces that extraordinary heavy
rains had caused great damage to the railway from
Madrid to Albaceta.

AMERICA.

SOUTHAMPTON, SATURDAY MORNING.

The United States mail steam-ship Union, Capt.
Adams, has arrived off Cowes en route to Havre,
with the French and English mails, &c. She left
New York on the 25th ult.

THE LATE HORRIBLE AND MYSTERI-
OUS MURDER AT BRISTOL.

A very remarkable circumstance has just transpired.
It will be remembered that at the time of the discovery
of the unfortunate girl's mutilated remains an opinion
was entertained that the assassination was the work of
some lunatic, and that a man seemingly insame had on
more than one occasion been seen near the spot, where
he had frightenel several ladies, and had on one occa-
sion run after some children with what was believed to
be a razor in his band.

A day or two since a letter was received by the super-
intendent of the police force, Captain Fisher, from the
police superintendent at Neath, stating that a young
man, evidently in a state of insane depression, had been
found sitting down near the Vale of Neath Railway. The
communication stated that the young man had no hat,
that his clothes were torn and disordered, as if he had
been lying about in woods ; that he was exceedingly sul-
len, and would give no account of himself, and that
the only clue which could be discovered to his place of
residence was the fragment of a Bristol grocer's bill,
which had been found in his pockets. Inquiries were
made by the police, and it was ascertained that a young
man, of somewhat gloomy and eccentric habits, had gone
away from there, and had been sought for in vain.
Nothing had occurred at that time to suggest inquiry
as to the period of his departure, but the superintendent
of police at Neath was at once communicated with, and
the lunatic was brought to Bristol by packet. All
the way on the voyage he preserved the same sullen
silence until he bad got up the river above the Black
Rock. He then pointed right across to the gully where
the body was found, and said, " There's where a mur-
der was committed." The officer in whose charge he
was affected ignorance of the occurrence, and said,
" Who was murdered there—a man or a woman ?" to
which he replied, " A girl." After this he returned to
his former sullen mood, and said scarcely a word more
until delivered to Jiis friends. Now, it is very possible
that the young man might have spoken of the murder
from having heard of it, but the circumstances altogether
were so remarkable that the police are employed in mak-
ing a diligent inquiry on the subject, particularly with
reference to how he was employed on the day of the
tragic occurrence.

THE EXAMINATIONS • FOR CIVIL SERVICE A PPOINT-
MENTS. —The standard of examination adopted by the
Civil Service Commission varies with the different
offices, but we are assured that, as respects nine-tenths
of the junior situations, no candidate need fear rejection
who possesses a good acquaintance with arithmetic,
writes a plain hand, Fad can. Spell properly.. Civil
Service Gazette.
FRENCH COTTAGE ORNES.—I was much Pleased with
some newly-erected villas and cottage orn4s which I saw
at Passy and Auteuil, in which a highly picturesque
effect was produced by the employment of black and red
brick and stone without any elaborate decoration. Some
of these were in the late:domestic French Gothic style—.
a style peculiarly adapted, I think, for modern resi-
dences, and of which there are numerous specimens ex-
isting in good preservation. Its adoption and introduc-
tion to this country would give cne more element for
those new combinations of known forms which must
henceforth in architecture take the place of originality.
—251 Buijdrrl •