The Sun.
London, England, 1852-12-25 00:00:00

ITALY.

We learn from Turin, under date of the 21st,
that on the termination of the general debate in the
Senate the previous day on the civil marriage law,
the several sections were taken into consideration,
on the first of which M. d'Azeglio proposed an

amendment to the effect, viz.:—" In the case o.
citizens who profess the religion of the State, the
marriage contract shall entail no civil effect till
after the religious ceremony." This amendment,
destructive of the principle of the law, was rejected.
The article itself was then put to the vote, and lost
by 39 against 38 votes.
This decision will probably lead to the rejection
of the whole law. A deep silence ensued on the
announcement of the numbers, the sitting was im-
mediately ended, and the public retired with a dis-
appointed air.
The Prince of Monaco has issued the following pro-
test :—" We, Florestan I, by the Grace of God,
Sovereign of Monaco. By our protest of the 13th and
29th of Sept. 1848, we had informed the Foreign Powers,
parties to the treaties of 1814 and 1815, of the events
which had taken place in our principality, as also of the
decree of the King of Sardinia, of Sept. 18, 1848, which
stipulates that the communes of Menton and Roccabruna
shall be occupied without delay by his Government, in
order to be provisionally administered according to the
laws in force. We have subsequently protested against
a new decree of the King of Sardinia of the 20th of
December, 1848, which subjects the communes of
Menton and Roccabruna to the jurisdiction of the tri-
bunal of Nice ; as also against all the acts infring-
ing our Sovereign rights. Since then the tribunal of
Nice, disregarding our rights, being called upon to
pronounce on questions of expropriation on the ground
of public utility, pronounced, on the 14th of July, 1852,
a judgment to the effect that the town of Menton hav-
ing, by the law of the 18th of September, 1848,
been subjected to the authority of the King of Sar-
dinia, the town of Menton was bound to apply to that
Sovereign for the declaration of public utility, as being
the successor of the Prince of Monaco. The judg-
ment pronounced in the name of the King of Sar-
dinia, and by magistrates named by him, implies the
sanction of the Sardinian government, and obliges us to
protest, not only against the pretension of Sardinia to ad-
minister justice in a country depending from our sove-
reignty, but also against the pretension of despoiling us
of the said sovereignty, and giving us a successor in
virtue of a treaty which can neither modify existing trea-
ties nor impair our rights. It behoves us, by the present
protest, to defend these rights, which are not taken
into account, and the principles which guarantee re-
spect and inviolability to established sovereignty
against unjust encroachments. Hence we again
protest against the occupation of the towns of Men-
ton and Roccabruna by the troops of the King of
Sardinia, and against the intervention of the Sardi-
nian Government in the administration of these
communes. We address ourselves with confidence to
the powers who have signed the treaties of 1814 and
1815, which regulate the territorial limits of Europe,
and we pray them to defend and protect the principles
of those treaties violated in our sovereign rights.
Done at our hotel in Paris, Decemer 2, 1852.
(Signed) " FLORESTAN I."

HORRIBLE MUTILATION OF AN INFANT. - About
seven o'clock on the evening of Wednesday last, a female
named Sandon, who resides in Pye-street, passed thrOugh
the Horse Guards on her way home. She was accompanied

by three young children, and having reached the Parade
the Park, the youngest, named Mary Ann San(lon, four
years and a half old, left her side, and to obey a call of
nature placed herself over the horizontal railings immedi-
ately beneath one of the windows of the War-office. The
poor child had scarcely been there a moment when she gave
a loud scream and ran to her mother, who found, on exa-
mination' that blood was flowing profusely from the in-
fant's body down her legs to the ground ; upon which
she was instantly taken by her mother to Charing-
cross Hospital, where she lies with scarcely any hope
of recovery. On her arrival she received the prompt
attendance of Mr. J. E. Adkins, the house surgeon, and
that gentleman, on inspection, found that the poor infant
had been injured by a deep incised wound inflicted by
some sharp instrument, and which had evidently passed
from the dorsal vertebrae, extending towards the navel,
and in its course cutting completely through the most deli-
cate portions of the body. Such a horrid case has never
yet come under the notice of the officers of the hospital,
and should their skill and exertions succeed in effecting a
cure, (of which however there appears scarcely the shadow
of hope) the highest credit will attach to the institution.
From all which can be gathered from the infant it would
appear that some miscreant (whether below the railings or
on the surface does not appear) had suddenly dashed the
weapon into the body of the child. Police constable Lush
198 A, upon whose beat the outrage took place, was upon
the spot shortly afterwards, and immediately repaired to
the hospital, to make inquiries, and afterwards with Mr.
Inspector Sheppy, proceeded to the War Office, but no in-
telligence could be gained as to the perpetrator of this dia-
bolical outrage. Since, the most indefatigable exertions
have been used, but without effect, to elucidate the mys-
tery in which, at present, this extraordinary circumstance
is involved.
SHOCKING DEATH OF A WOMAN.—Mr. G. T. Brent,
the deputy coroner for Middlesex, held an inquest yester-
day, at the Great Western Beer-house, Hampton-street,
Harrow-road, Paddington, touching the death of Mrs.
Ann Susan Baxen, sixty-one years of age, a widow, re-
siding at 3, Eating-place in the same locality, which
occural in the following dreadful manner :—lt appeared
from the evidence that on Tuesday forenoon last, between
eleven and twelve o'clock, the deceased went out upon
the flat roof of an outhouse, 'which was accessible by the
stairs window, for the purpose of placing some recently
purchased fish to dry on the slates. She was observed by
a Mrs. Jones, a lodger in the same house, who was in the
washhouse at the time, to stagger for a moment, and fall,
with a dreadful shriek, on the pavement of the yard below,
a height of about thirty feet, where she lay bleeding and
insensible. Mrs. Jones's daughter ran out to her aid, and
some more assistance being procured, the deceased was re-
moved into her own room, but she only survived a few
minutes. Medical assistance was sent for, and upon the
arrival of a surgeon it was discovered, ou examining the
injuries, that the rough, pebbles with which the yard is
paved had completely forced in the skull in small portions
over the left eye, which in turn severely lacerated the
brain, thereby causing almost instantaneous death. It
was supposed that as the roof was without any railing the
poor woman became dizzy, and so fell forward. The
coroner and jury, after remarking on the dangerous and
imprudent act of the unfortunate deceased in venturing
out on such a place, returned a verdict of "Accidental
death." _ _ _ _

A POOR BUT HONEST MAN.—Yesterday afternoon
week, a man named Ellison, employed by the Hudders-
field Improvement Commissioners to scrape the roads,
was fortunate enough to find two Bank of England and
one Huddersfield Banking Company's notes, each of the
value of 51., and a promissory note for 291. ).Bs. 6d.,
while pursuing his employment near the gas house in the
Leeds-road. Mr, John Sykes, superintendent of pa-
viers, passed soon after, and Ellison mentioned the cir-
cumstance to him, and wanted to transfer the notes to
him. Mr. Sykes, however, declined. telling the man to

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the notes, &c., they were handed to him, when, at the
request of some of his friends, he gave
.Ilison 2s, for
his honesty and trouble.