The Sun.
London, England, 1862-09-19 00:00:00

HEALTH OF GARIBALDI.

The following telegram, dated September 18, has
just been received from Dr. Partridge :
" SPEZZIA, Thursday Night.
" Tha General is progressing as favourably as
could be wished."

Viscount Palmerston arrived in town yesterday,
from his eeat, Broadlands, Hants.
The Duchess of Inverness, who has been suffer-
ing from indisposition for some days past, is now much
better.

The Earl and Countess of Kinnoull have arrived
at Brighton from Worthing.

Lord and Lady Herzies and the Hon. Misses
Maxwell left Thomas's Hotel, Berkeley•square, for Ever-
ingham Park, Yorkshire.

Mr. Thackeray and family, John Leech and
family, and all the various members (forty-five) of the
Rothschild family, are staying at Folkestone.

VACCINATION.—The public returns, as far as
they are complete, show that in the year ending at Michael-
mas last the number of persons vaccinated by the public
vaccinators in E gland was but 432,806: only 425,739
were successfully vaccinated, and of this number .00,641
were above a year old. Yet the number of registered Wells
in the year in the unions making these returns was 68- ,646,
more than double the number of the infants under one year
successfully vaccinated by the public vaccinators. The
number of the vaccinators was 3,731.

The Court of Assizes of the Gers has just tried a
man and his wife, named Caillau, for the murder, on the
9th April last, of a girl named Marie Estingoy, 15 years of
age. It appeared from the evidence that the girl lived with
her grandfather, Michael Estingoy, a farmer, at Bourcag-
neres. She was the illegitimate child of Estingoy's
daughter, who afterwards married the prisoner Caillau, and
had two sons by him. The mother of Marie Estingoy died
in 1856, and Caillau soon afterwards was married to the
female prisoner, Marie Estingoy then going to live with
her grandfather, who was much attached to her. Caillau
and his wife were highly incensed at seeing Marie thus
preferred to the other grandchildren, etalieu's sons, and
they were frequently heard to utter threats against both
her and the old man, because they feared that he would
give her the greater part of his property. They accord-
ingly resolved to murder her, and accomplished their pur-
pose by drowning the poor girl in a pond near her grand
father's house. The evidence was most conclusive against
the prisoners, who were found guilty by the jury, but with
extenuating circumstances. The Court accordingly sen-
tenced Caillau to hard labour for life, and his wife to five
years of the same punishment.
LORD RAGLAN UNDER FIRE. —From the moment
of the first advance of the British troops, and when the
enemy opened their terrible fire of grapeshot, &c., we found
our situation on the mortar battery anything but pleasant,
and, considering the danger we were in, it was wonderful
that any escaped alive. Lord Raglan desired every one,
both officers and men, to sit down, so as to keep under cover
as much as possible, and not to attract the attention of the
enemy by looking over the parapet. But he himself and
Gen. Jones, from the first moment that we came into the
battery until after our troops had retired, leant over and
watched the assault of our allies first, and afterwards our
own. It was strange to watch the countenances of these
two veterans. Perfectly calm and collected, they talk
earnestly to one another, but without any excitement being
apparent in voice or gesture, disregarding alike the heavy
round shot and Minie ball which every moment flew past
them. Shortly after the first advance of our troops, Gen.
Jones, while leaning over the parapet conversing with
Lord Raglan, was struck on the forehead by a grape shot,
which knocked him backwards, we all thought dead; he
was caught when falling by one of his aides-de-camp, and
gently laid down on the ground. It was a pitiful sight to
see the poor old General with a frightful gash across his
forehead, his face covered with blood, which came streaming
down from the wound. However, to the great delight of
all, upon being given some water, he appeared to revive,
and his wound being dressed, and a bandage placed round
his head, he shortly afterwards took his place again by
Lord Raglan's side, who, when he ascertained that General
Jones was not mortally wounded, had returned to watch the
progress of the attack.--Letters from Head Quarters.
There is always an alarm set up in some quarter
or another about German influence; and nothing ever comes
of it, For a whole generation there has been railing at the
German party in Russia : there used to be dismal shakes of
the head about a little German Prince when the Princess
Char otte was marrying, and about a little German Princess
when the Duchess of Kent was educating the Princess Vic-
toria, and again about him who filled the post to which
Prince Leopold was destined : we have heard evil bodings
for Portugal, and even for France in the days of the Orleans
rule, on account of their German matrimonial connections ;
yet each country is as much itself as it ever was. Each
absorbs and transmutes the foreign element it takes up, and
in this way the Prince of Wales is English and his bride is
Danish not the less for the father of the one and the mother
of the other having come from Saxe Coburg and Hesse
Cassel. The Scandinavian connection will be peculiarly I
welcome to Englishmen from the deep affinity which 1,000 1
years have not extinguished. We should have hailed an
amiable and sensible young lady from any Protestant coun-
try, but if we had been offered the choice of her birthplace
it would doubtless have been one of the northern kingdoms
from which the maritime element of our national character,
with all its perdurable virtues, was derived.—Once a Week.
Two days ago a little girl living in a house Rue
de la Corderie, at Havre, fell from a second floor window
on the pavement, and immediately got up without assist-
ance; the only icidzies received were a few slight britises I