The Sun.
London, England, 1864-03-22 00:00:00

FOR II OF APPLICAT:ON FOR SHARES.

To the Directors of the Sab!onierb Foreign Hotel Company
mited), London.
Gentlemen,—Having p tid to your Blinkers the sum of
I request that you allot me shares in the above Com-
pany, and I hereby agree to accept the same or tany leis
nul4Ll32r that may be al otted to me, and to pay all Calis
when dne, and I authorise you to place my name on the Re-
gister of AI embe• s for the number of s ares a Doted.

I am, Gentlemen, Sour obedient servant.
.Name in full
Profession or occupa ion
Residence
Date

A GRAND MONUMENT has been finished for Ajac-
cio of the Bonaparte family. The group is composed of
five statues in bronze, each one two metres in height, re-
presenting Napoleon I. on horseback, attended by his four
brothers. They are in Roman costumes, and the group will
be placed on a pedestal of white marble.
AN ADVENTURE ON TUE HUMBER.—Ona of those
" Hair-breadth 'Stapes," said by Shakspere to ap-
pertain unto " field and flood," occurred on the Humber
yesterday. As the New Holland Railway Company's
steamer was crossing from New Holland to Hull, at 5,30
in the afternoon, the passengers on board were suddenly
surprised to see the captain rush up the bridge, com-
municate with the engineer, and give hurried orders to
the man at the wheel. The engines were at once re-
versed, and, in mid-stream, the vessel was brought to, and
remained as motionless as the wind and tide—both of
which were strong—would permit. It was soon discovered
that about a furlong ahead of the steamer was fluttering,
a mere spech in the distance, a signal of distress, in the
shape of a white handkerchief attached to a walking stick,
and held aloft by some one in a small boat. Directly the
packet got up to this singular object, all passengers rushed
eagerly to the side to get a glimpse of it. There were two
young gentlemen, shivering with cold, and splashed and
bespattered with water and mud, in a small frail boat, and
they had neLheroarginor sails,nor any means of steering their
little craft. A rope was thrown them, and they were soon re-
leaead frog their perilous position. When on board, th.
young fellows were plentifully " chaffed" as to their nautical
adventure, one burly passenger of the fore-cabin, with a
third-class ticket, and a regard for "naught or nobody" in
yirticular, drily asking, " Heaw lung h'd bin out ? Any
provisions left ?" Tl 3 e young men then told the cause of

their predicament. They said they had walked along from
• Hull to Faull, and there carelessly stepped into a little
boat which lay by the river's bank. Some fellows passing
gave it a push into the stream, and away it went up the
river without oars or any means of steering. They have
determined to take proceedings against the man who thus
ro heartlessly treated them to a practical joke that might
have ended as many jokes have, fatally.--Eastern Morn-
ing IVezos.
The Akhbar of Algiers publishes a decree of the
G,vernor-General, on the occasion of the Prince Imperial's
birthday, rescinding the warnings inflicted on the political
journals 01 the colony during 1863 and up to the present
day.

'rile steam frigate Dryads has just left Cherbourg
for "Vera Cruz, having on board about 200 Mexican officers,
recently prisoners of war in France, who have been libe-
rated after having given their e.dhesiou to the new Govern-
ment-.
The Riedl Correspondence of Vienna confirms the
report that the Emperor Francis-Joseph will proceed from
Miramar to Verona, and adds that his Majesty will probably
inspect the fortress and the Ausixian army in Italy, The
Empress will await the Emperor's return at "Miramar.
THE COAL EXPORTS OF TAE UNITED KINGDOM.
—The coal exports from the various ports of the
United Kingdom during the month of February amounted
io 575,933 tons, an increase of 90,320 tons compared with
February, 1863, The total exports during January and
February, 1364, were 1,107,637 tone, an increase of 227,643
tons as compared with January and February, 1863. During
February, 1864, the total imports of sea-borne coal into
London were 228,233 tons, a decrease of 37,616 tons as
compared with February, 1863. From the Ist January to
the 28th February, 1861, there were 1,533 ships containing
676,880 tons coal, being a decease of 201 ships and 22,468
tons of coal as compared with the first two months of 1863.
By railways and canals the imports were 132,354, being
an increase over 1863 of 92,313 tons. The actual increase
of imports in February, 1864, was 54,667 tons, and from
Jan. 1 to Feb. 29, 1864, as compared with 1363, 96,697
tong.

GERANIUM LEAVES.—It is not generally known
that the leaves of geraniums are an excellent application
for cute, where the skin is rubbed off, and other wounds
of that kind. One or two leaves must be bruised, and ap.
plied on linen to the part, and the wound will become
cicatrised in a very short time.-2lnier lean
paper.
IVEY so FAR?--Baron James de Rothschild has
seat to Egypt for two donkeys,

LONDON, TUESDAY, MARCH 22, 1864,

The opening of the spring assims has again
brought before the public the horrible case of ill-
treatment of a lunatic which some time ago excited
so much astonishment and disgust. The evidence
brought forward in substantiation of the charge in
no degree mitigates the matter, since the particulars
given by the witnesses for the prosecution more
than confirmed the worst of the reports which have
been current on the subject. The miserable man
has, it seems, been insane or idiotic for more than
thirty years, having become mentally efflicted when
he was about twenty years old, and having dragged
on a wretched existence until he is now fifty-five.
In what manner he has passed the years in which
he has been under his brother's care may be better
imagined than described. At first his father, it
appears, took charge of him, and after his death he
was left in the hands of his sister, who went to
America in 1853, at which epoch he passed into his
brother's keeping. At first he was confined in a
room adjoining a house in which he then lived, but
in the early part of the year 1863 he was removed
by night in a wheelbarrow to a ne w house which
the brother had built, and in a small outer room the
miserable creature was confined. His prison was
twelve feet long by nine feet wide, and eight
feet high, without fireplace or stove. Ia this little
den he remained, crouched and crippled in the
depths of filth and wretchedness, in a state which
would hardly appear to be possible to a creature
bearing the name of humanity. The room, accord-
ing to the defendant's communication to the Lunacy
Commissioner, was constructed on purpose for the
lunatic, and it is a noticeable part of this story of
'cruelty and ignorance that the perpetrator of the
evil should be a man of some wealth and position.
Whether he was conscious of the full extent of the
atrocity of his actions is uncertain ; the jury gave
him the benefit of the doubt, but it is evident that
he preserved a degree of mystery regarding his un-
fortunate prisoner which goes far to prove him
wilfully guilty. No one had ever caught a glimpse
of the unhappy lunatic since he was under his
brother's charge save one woman, who accidentally
came upon him, and was horrorstricken at the sight
of his dirt and nakedness. After a good deal of
evidence in favour of the prisoner, which, however,
did not affect the startling disclosures of Dr. BYRN E
and the Lunacy Commissioners, a legal point was
brought forward on behalf of the culprit. A doubt
was raised as to the extent to which he was amen-
able to the statute, since it was designed for keepers
of asylums, and a man who neglected the charge of
his lunatic wife had previously been acquitted on
this ground. Mr. Baron MARTIN said he would
obtain the opinion of the Court of Crown Cases Re-
served on this point, and consequently postponed
his sentence until he had learned it. The jury re-
turned a verdict of guilty of neglect, but said they
did not think the defendant was aware of the law,
and therefore recommended him to mercy. We
cannot but regard this as a most extraordinary and
uncalled for recommendation, since, whatever his
ignorance of the exact terms of the law, he had
been guilty of prelonged and deliberate cruelty
which unquestionably deprives him of all claim on
ar indulgence or sympathy. It im difficult to be
sieve that a man in his position was so obtuse o
sense and feeling as to be unaware of the suffering
he was inflicting. Hie strict oonostgaleat of the