The Sun.
London, England, 1837-07-26 00:00:00

THREE O'CLOCK.

The new Companies have been formed in _
for the manufacture of beet-root sugar.
Two letters received from Lyons mention that trade
was recovering a little. The port returns from Marseilles
for last month showed, as compared with the corresponding
month of 1836, a falling off of the revenue in the amount of
411,000 francs, and that the number of vessels arrived and de-
parted the last month bad been 208 less than in the month of
June, 1836.
A letter from Naples, dated the 4th inst., says :
" There have been already 150 deaths from cholera at Pa-
lermo. Here, within the last 2 days, there seems to have been
some improvement, but the daily deaths are still very little
under 400. The theatres have been re-opened, and Dom-
zetti's new opera, Belisario, draws good houses. Several
families have been completely swept away by the epidemic;
and the other evening, walking through the Strada di Toledo,
I met no less than 39 dettd bodies in less than an hour. In
no European city has the cholera raged to the same extent as
here, and heaven knows what we have to expect during the
hot weather, which may soon be expected to set in."
THE ANIMAL'S FRIEND Ttze ho-
norary secretary and agents of the Society, last week, charged
the driver of a cab, without a number, with having' lashed a
horse in the most barbarous manner, its sides having been lite-
rally covered with wheals, and its car having been tied to its
neck with a sharp cord at the time. George Heath stopped
the offender, and three of the offender's comrades who had in
turn ill-treated the horse made their escape. The offender was
taken by the Policeman 176, and 103, L, on the spot, and con-
veyed before Mr. Wedgwood, who fined him 2/., but not paying
he was committed for 14 days. A boy, charged by the Society,
named Greenaway, was also strongly reprimanded by Mr. Je-
remy for cruelty to an ass. Two Paddington omnibus drivers,
SO, Warburton, and 16, Taylor, were likewise charged by the
Society, before Alderman White, with having, while furiously
driving with a load of passengers, violently lashed the horses
for 200 or 300 yards. It is a pity that the worthy alderman,
though he approved of the Society, could not consider that
this was cruelty such as ought to be punished, and he therefore
dismissed the cases and fined the Society in costs
The Sentinelle des Pyrenees gives the following
intelligence from the Basque Provinces ;—" General Don
Jose Uranga has just set at liberty the Count de Casa Eguia,
who has so long been confined in the castle of Sorlada. The
late prisoner is gone to Elorrio. By another order of General
Uranga, the Police of Safety established in the three Basque
Provinces and Navarre had been suppressed, as contrary to
the Fueros or privileges of these provinces."
The Princess- Suhnona gave birth to a Prince on
the 6th inst. at the Villa Aldobrandini, near Frescati, where
the event was immediately celebrated with much public re-
joicings. The baptism of this infant heir to the honours of
the house of Borghese was shortly after solemnised with much
pomp by Cardinal di Gregorio, Cardinal Bishop of Tuseulurn,
The names conferred were Camillo John, the former a
vourite family name among the Borgheses, the latter was given
in compliment to the Earl of Shrewsbury, grandfather of the
little Prince. Both the mother and the infant are doing well.
The Duke and Duchess of Bedford have been pass-
ing the last four weeks at their seat in Devonshire ; to
they return to town, and next week their Graces will go
to Woburn Abbey. Early in August they will leave for the
Highlands of Scotland.
Yesterday morning, at five o'clock, a meeting took
place in a field at the foot of Primrose-hill, near Chalk-farm
Tavere, between Augustus Finchley Irvine, E,q., and Vin-
cent Butler, Esq., residing in York-street, Bryaniton-square.
Both parties arrived on the ground with their seconds, who
proposed a reconciliation, but it was indignantly rejected by
both. The distance being measured the hostile parties took
up their positions. The signal having been given to fire, Mr.
Irvine received the contents of his antagonist's pistol in his pis-
tol arm, above his wrist. Mr. B. immediately advanced to Mr.
Irt ine, who shook bands with him, and after the wound was
dressed both parties quitted the ground. The cause of the
meatirig is not known.
The M.!rquis and Marchioness of Westminster will
remain at Grosvenor House until they learn the result of the
elections ; they then go to Moor Park, near Rickinansworth,
until ti,e month of September, when the family will proceed
to Ett.crt Hall, Cheshire, for the winter,

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