The Sun.
London, England, 1863-06-20 00:00:00

THIRD EDITION

SUN OFFICE, SIX O'CLOCK.

SPORIING INTELLIGENCE.---This Day.

NORTHUMBERLAND PLATE.
CITY BETTING—TiIts DAY.
sto 1 agst Polynesi% (offered)
7to 1 agst Carbineer (take Bto 1)
7to 1 agst Caller Ou (taken)
9to 1 agst Brighton (taken)
14 to 1 agst Monk (taken)
20 to 1 agst Brilliant (taken)
20 to 1 agst Alice (taken)

GOODWOOD STAKES.
10 to 1 agst Anfield (taken freely)
11 to 1 agst Blondin (taken)
13 to 1 agst Knutsford (offered)
16 to 1 agst Evenhand (taken)

LEGER.

4to 1 agst Ranger (taken)
7 b 1 agst Lord Cli'den (taken)
9to 1 agst Queen Bertha (taken)
11 to 1 agst Saccharcraeter (taken)
14 to 1 agst Onesander (taken)
GOODWOOD CUP.
3to lon the field (offered)

THE CASE OF THE ALEXANDRA.—The case of the
Queen against the owners of the Alexandra, the
vessel seized a short time since at Liverpool on the ground
of being a Confederate cruiser, is to be tried in the Court,
of Queen's Bench on Monday week before a special
jury, A very strong Bar is retained at either side, the
Solicitor-General " leading" for the Crown, and Sir
Hugh Cairns for the defence. The Solicitor-General,,
who has already an enormous equity business (and is
said to be dreadfully overworked) brought down his
brief in the Alexandra case to the House of Commons on
Thursday evening, and, retiring to a snug bench in
the Ministerial gallery, lay down at full length to study
it. The brief was either very heavy reading or the
debate was very dull, but in either or both events the
effect upon her Majesty's Solicitor-General was the
same. The brief gradually fell from his hand, and the
great legal luminary surrendered himself to the arms
of Morpheus. The hon. and learned gentleniam slept
serenely for some hours, during which one or two divi-
sions took place without his knowledge. The Speaker
either did not detect him, or, sympathising with a fellow-
sufferer, affected not to see him.—Cor. of Bedfast .News-
Letter.

INCREASING INFLUENCE OF THE POLISH NA-
TIONAL GOVERNMENT.—The Temps of yesterday
says,—" Poland is decidedly slipping away from Russia.
The most striking fact is not the incapacity, now completely
demonstrated, of the Russians in the open field, but the
power of the occult national government sitting at Warsaw
in the very midst of the Russian bayonets. That Govern-
ment works regularly; it has its newspapers, it imposes its
taxes, and, what is more significant, it sends its summonses
even to the Russians residing in Poland, and those persons
consider it unsafe not to bow to them. One of these Rus-
sians could think of no better plan of avoiding payment of
the tax levied upon him than that of quitting the country.
These significant facts are admitted by the RusstAn in aiid.
The same journal, under the pretence of giving a lesson
to parents and teachers, acknowledges that young people,
' almost children,' it says, are leaving their colleges to join
the insurgents. Nor is this all; the national Government
has ordered all the Polish officers in the Russian army to
quit the army, and to act as becomes true patriots. Acting
upon these orders several very distinguished officers of tho
garrison, and amongst them General Berg's own nephew,
at once disappeared. Such symptoms speak for themselves,
and need no comment."

KILLED BY A FLY.—A young officer of the 27th
Regiment of the Line, named Pondevaux, aged 23,
in garrison 'at Evreux, has just died under afflicting cir-
cumstances. Being at Paris on a few days' leave, he visited
the Jardin des Plantes, where he was stung on the upper
lip by a fly while standing near the wild beasts' cages. On
returning to Evreux he suffered some pain in the part
wounded, but in spite of the counsels of his friends refused
to obtain surgical advice. The symptoms btcame aggra-
vated. and the poison spreading rapidly, the young man
expired two days back in great agony. It is supposed that
the insect had previously been feeding on putrid meat in
the dens of one of the carnivorous animals.

The Madrid Gazette of the 15th contains a royal
decree appointing the President of the Council,
the Marquis de Miraflores, to be Minister of the
Interior, ad interim, during the absence of Don
Rodriguez Vaumonde, who is proceeding to Vichy
to drink the waters. The Correspondencia pub-
lishes a telegraphic despatch from Vigo, dated the
15th, announcing the arrival there of the steamer
Puerto Rico. Tne mail would not reach Madrid
till the folowing day. It was reported that she
brought details respecting the capture of Puebla.
At the Academy on Saturday last, says the
Queen, M. Mignet, the perpetual secretary of the
Institute, read a paper on Macaulay, who had in
his lifetime been one of the foreign members of that
body. M. Mignet, who is himself a finished scholar and
gentleman, was perhaps better than most of his colleagues
and auditors fitted to appreciate and record the life of our
great statesman, poet, and historian. His praises of the
departed genius, whose loss England must so severely de-
plore, were written in language at once chaste and elegant,
and pronounced with that exquisite harmony of voice and
manner, which have gained M. Mignet the well-deserved
reputation of one of the most elegant scholars and refined
speakers of his day.

Seventeen Polish officers in the service of the
Porte have resigned their ceremissions, and lett for the
Principalities. en route for the theatre of the national move-
ment. A young Levantine doctor, of Polish origin, has
also left for Paris, to proceed by that route to the sauce
destination.
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only son,
heretofore Majesty's Court of Probate by his
MarquisY surviving
of Lansdowne,
The personalty was sworn under
F.R.S.,late. 1a rwqausisoi'
heretofore Earl of Shelburne, now
edfoleldowitentgh. His
.lordship attained the
willor bears date
the title
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g 83. daughter of
arjiueedly,ofianndltSOSep, Lteowsuubi?secare,
ter, whom he survived. The first Marquis, as Earl of
Shelburne, was Premier in 1782-3. The testator, in addi-
tion to the provision made for his daughter, Lady Louisa
Howard, bequeaths to her ladyship his residence, The
Wick, at Richmond, To his granddaughter, Lady Mary
Herbert. in additicn to her marriage portion, he leaves the
sum of £30,003. There are liberal legacies to servants, and
the following charitable bequests :--To the Salisbury In-
firmary, £3,000 ; the Barrington Hospital, Limerick, and
for the use of the natives of Kerry, £3,000; and £l,OOO to
a school at Calne, instituted by his lordship. The residue
of his property he leaves to his son, the present marquis.
The will of Mr. Henry Powell, formerly of Leamington,
Warwickshire, late of Tunbridge-wells, was proved in Lon-
don under £loo,ooo,—lllustrated .News.

ALLEGED MANSLAUGHTER BY A BROTHER.—
An inquiry was held by Mr. Wm. Payne, the City
coroner, at St Bartholomew's Hospital, on Thursday, re-
specting the death of Esther Reilly, aged 24 years, who
was alleged to have lost her life through being savagely
kicked by a relative. Deceased was the wife of a general
dealer residing at No. 19, New Nichol-street, Shoreditch.
She was admitted to the hospital on the 19th of May with
a dreadful bruise in the side and thigh. She told Mr.
Ellen, the house surgeon, that her brother had kicked and
dreadfully injured her. A fortnight afterwards a miscar-
riage took place, and she expired on Tuesday last from
pyemia consequent upon it. The evidence as to deceased's
own statement as to the cause of her injuries and death was
clear, and was not denied, and after some further evidence,
which was immaterial, thr: Coroner said that there was
quite as much testimony to show that deceased's injuries
had been caused by most cowardly and unmanly ticks, as
by the alleged fall. 'The evidence, however, was so con-
tradictory that even if the individual who was alleged to
have kicked her could be indieat3d, a conviction could not
be hoped for, and therefore under all the circumstances the
best coutse would be to return a verdict, merely stating
the immediate cause of death. The jury, after a long deli-
beration, returned a verdict of death tient pyewia, pio.
due,.:d by miscarriage:"