The Sun.
London, England, 1862-09-05 00:00:00

CALEDONIAN RAILWAY.

The report of the directors recommends a dividend on
the ordinary stock at the rate of 5 per cent. per annum,
leaving a surplus•of £1.,2:38 to be carried to the credit cf the
contingent account, which will then amount to £13,050.

GLASGOW AND SOUTH-WESTERN RAILWAY.
The dividend for the half-year is at the rate of five per
cent.

The Solferino iron cased frigate has commenced
her trial trips at Lorient.

The Tribunal of Correctional Police of Moulins,
recently gave judgment in a charge preferred against a
notary of Montet, named Michel, lately a candidate for the
council of arrondissement, on charge of having distri-
buted electoral bulletins bearing his name, without having
previously obtained the necessary authorisation. M.
Michel being acquitted, a new trial was moved for, and
took place at the Court
,of Riom, which confirmed the deci-
sion of the lower jurisdiction. An appeal was then made
to the Court of Cassation, which ordered the case to be
again tried before the Court of Bourges. This third trial
has just come on, and has resulted in the caifirmation of
the judgments of the Courts of Moulins and Riom.

The Siecle relates the following act of religions
intolerance :—A short time since, an old man, aged 7d,
named Dennebeck, who had gone from his house on some
business to the neighbouring town of Mouy (Oise), stopped
rather late at a public-house, and the night i:eing dark, fell
into the river Cherin, along the bank of which he had to
pass, and was drowned. The cure of the parish attributed
his death to suicide, and in spite of the remonstrances of
his family, of the juge de paix, the commissary of police,
and other functionaries, who clearly established that the
death was purely accidental, refused Christian burial to the
body.

The Court of Assizes of the Seine-et-Oise has just
tried a man named Joubert, a labourer, on a charge of man-
slaughter committed on the person of another labourer,
named Cateau, at Noisy-le-Grand, on the 30th July. It ap-
peared from the evidence that the prisoner and his victim
had been drinking together, and that when both were rather
excited by what they had taken, the prisoner asked Cateau
to give him a blouse and waistcoat, which the latter earned
in a bundle, as a security for 101. which he had lent him.
On receiving a refusal, Cateau attempted to take the bun-
dle, and in the quarrel which ensued the priioner stabbed
him in the abdomen with his pocket knife, inflicting a
wound which caused the man's death two days afterwards.
The prisoner declared that he had used the knife under
great provocation and in self-defence, and the jury, believ-
ing this to be true, brought in a verdict of not guilty. The
prisoner was accordingly set at liberty.

A widow, named Chatenet, was tried two days
since by the Court of Assizes of the Charente on a charge
of murdering her newly born infant. The body was found
concealed in an outbuilding with the head nearly severed
from the body. The prisoner admitted that the murdered
child was hers, but asserted that it had been killed by its
father, a farm servant, living in a village three leagues dis-
tant. This, however, was proved'to be false by the young
man's employer, who proved that he was at home when the
crime must have been committed. The jury having found
the prisoner guilty, the Court sentenced her to 20 years'
hard labour.

THE POTATO DlSEASE.—Complaints are made
that potato disease has reappeared in West Suffolk, and in
the neighbourhood of Newmarket. The disease is at pre-
sent only very partial, and it is considered that the crop
generally presents an improvement upon last year, the
tendency since the disastrous year 1845 having been
towards a gradual although rather irregular amelioration.
A great festival for the conclusion of the harvest
has just been held at Munich. Mass was performed in the
Church of Notre Dame, and followed by a procession. The
crop in Bavaria has been one of the most abundant known.

An explosion of fire- damp took place three days I
ago in a coal mine at Elouges, in Belgium, not far froo, I
the French frontier. A considerable part of the side'
the pit fell at the same time and buried from 15 to 41.
workmen beneath the fallen mass. Prompt measuro r
no
adopted for their release, but up to the present ill°
account of the result has been received.
Toulon
The inauguration of the section of the
and Nice railway from the former town to Arcs, near
Eisenaeh
Draguignan, has just taken place.
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Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar, announnirlAmar.
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from to-day. The Emperor also stbec:
birth of the Princess
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Troyes, has just tried a lad •
slitaadnebeeeser
named Nicolot, 16 years of age,
on two charges of setting fire to a barn and a dwelling house
at Villaeerf ; his mother was also charged as an accessory
before the fact,----It appears that the woman Nicolot kept a
public-house at the above .named village, and lived on very
ill terms with her neighbours, whom she accused of spread-
ing scandalous stories about her. The two fires occurred
on the Ist and 6th of July last, and on the last occasion
Young Nicolot had been seen to run from the premises
where the fire occurred only a few minutes before the alarm
was given. He was accordingly arrested, and confessed
that he had set fire to the buildings at his mother's instiga-
tion. Ample evidence was soon found to prove the truth of
this confession, and the two prisoners were committed for
trial. In court the boy Nicolot repeated hie confession,
which was confirmed by many witnesses. The jury found
both prisoners guilty, with extenuating circumstances
and the Court sentenced the mother to hard labour for life,
the son to 15 years of the same punishment.
As M.
w J a
collecting clerk in a house of
business, --a
yesterday passing along the Rue Mont-
martre, a large dray horse, which was standing by the side
of the foot pavement, seized him by his wrist, and after
lifting him twice in the air, threw him with violence to
the ground. On his being taken up the wrist was found to
be Dram.