The Sun.
London, England, 1853-05-19 00:00:00

'NE FRENCH EMPIRE.

.1.
M. Bil-
1-111s Legislative Body sat on Tuesday ;
;lb; 41. tb chair. The President read a
.decreoef
kathieh Me. de Sibert de Cornillond,
department
tr
of
41,4., secretary of the Ministerialin
. _
Ito Ice, is charged, in conjunction with M.
444411 mer, %
• Persil, member o
Vice-President
fofthtehesamCoeuncil
council,o Stotadtee,..
de-
the the Legislative Body and the Senate
ky4ii 411 lately presented for again putting in force
s
we.: _B6 and 87 of the Penal Code. A bill w
of ii7lted relative to the connection of the railways
Poe junction of the Rhone and the Loire. Re-
of 2,,nere presented on the bill according a credit
soldiers of the
itehy.o,ooof. for pensions to o
'tlkuc and of the Empire ;. on the bill to autho-
rdLue department of the Seine to tax itself extra-
-aril
141 to Y for completion of the works now going
410,,,ettlarge the Palais de Justice;
bainilds
tilth-'l. of local bills. The following
, o.a,
_oemn-eroaef
Proef.opted : one concerning an exchange kor Y between the city of Paris and Count de
de di.Y ; another, to accord to the heirs irs of Philippe
114 trard' inventor of the machinerye
ea...Ll_
national recompense.
4 thtra'u'ead, a pension as a for spinning;
of to concerning the cession to the city of Paris
of the Hotel des
Invaj;°,, ground in the vicinity
rei-Akes a fourth, to appropriate to the comat-
ihe°res tb
1%1 °1:1 °f the sisters of Christian Charity
- that t-o-e old convent of th.e.Visitatieoxnehsaintugaeteodf
r,,,'Peri Wn ; a fifth, authorising an
bo iltro
Itrbet.wee the State and the commune of
vt,edity43f6L:oern.,
inain:adn ansunixtsh, ,
ktzoowanppbryopriate to
ella-
(/' the ~-' the Cross," the old conventual.thebauPilPding
"Ilatoim-nle order situated at Paris, in the Rue de
Ivise a-te• Eleven bills of local interest wetre_.like-
,l3l4°Pted, and the proceedings termina
heavilyed yes.
7, day ~a at the Bourse commenced
,Iventl,,,,"4°roing ; an improvement,
.however,
‘Aal'a -kur occurred, and at the conclusion T. ues-
41Ight cillqations had been maintained, wik.th a
t,,,,i1s Tb.,(lvance in some descriptions of stock
al:
zliot theer Cents., both for cash and the
in
A" P'l,,,e was an improvement of 5c., and
'1 tie °1..„-and-a-lialf per Cents. for money,
111,1141sese" of 10f. took place in Bank of of 10c.
Cl'hres.ne,Tr,h final quoations were :—Foraclafshper
-ellts ' --3L'ents., 81f. 35c. ; Four-and-a-
°eciiri;,3d'ul, f• ; Bank Stock, 2,715•
l'llleh -}.;1111 the shares of the MortNgaogefcsßhfaa.nnotee.,
Pi4141.12t,e4 i-..,44'kuthenlain at 88.0/./ smoco.b;iliaerries,
fp . 50 ge of the Societe
13-11,1°ted i,,e There were not many treaensoloasientgionats
4-4
Til -...'
the Railway Share Market yesterday,.
oblea'illed-eustlati Y's quotations, in several cases, re
i.cllrreci • changed. A rise of 15f., howsefv. eirn,
ppatiac, andltinLYOrlS to the Mediterranean of -• 41, - urleaas •
cli- In. b.. . ; and in Paris and Strasbourgs
604° of ei.s and Lyons shares there_ wasns a_r.d_eL..-
Los• ; Pa 11s Closing prices :—North.er , utzasti_ llrg elB aod Orle 1 110 f. • Paris and S r
and ho -47 f.• p • alls' 3 '96Bf. 50c. ;Paris
keneil i
~.,ris and Lyons,
. 4:le• ' 'l°eL ; Lyons to the Mediterranean,
• ; Westeria. of France, 790 f.
aceh, Madrid -
lio:_e iyhicii Gazette of the 13th contains a royal
the minces , suppresses all the emoluments and
for Interic,ruteretofore granted by the Minister of
in istration
etehlinkforesee,° tile employes of his
herli °Yes shall', .LexPenses, and orderasthat certain
NA °l‘ Galicia Placed on the retired
Madrid to
toNsuemek-
Drev,°,,oleol n ns had arrived in 3110
t that
tEl'' (`road in Zerierlief, owing to peteteframstianeeswhich
omit, oneii 0, province. A .
by tbg day
iv' Ministers held at Aranjuez the pre-
the °, au ~ r of Finance. Some of these reforms.
4'4 of koistr °CellPied with the reforms proposed
141'
prhuppre,s-4tiolii nistrative character, others consist m
ilalt °I-ernellt°llfolliatuiecessary places, others in the.
an,' and
tho- the administration of tobacco and
vliv 4.1 0 _e,.., •
•uhe Ape iitit.o-. 111 Modifying the tariffs so as to
Ivill -Litiister ttation. of certain prohibited articles.
tll, it •canse calculates that some of these reforms
lvdi a losa f
0 co,-
ell%to,kkoll b ° 800,000 reals a year, but that
°I l' 1-3• The 1,.."-iPensated by an increase in the
11141 e 'Wo I.4•uallietrY of Foreign Affairs and that
I..ks have not yet been filled up.
4 1 ,
'IIC/t/,etter fr I it A L Y.
4ble 11,-74ento orarp ilollinzona of the 13th, in the
°l' the-easine -4.,urin States that there is consider-
kcle. r,diffieni.B4 I'l grin,
(Ticino) on account
*bile k'orn. is)!_s arising from the Austrian block-
eider the I)o,,,ecorairtg scarce and rising in price,
hatit4l)l3, a1,,,'17.tin, which used to diminish con-
to4t4tioq eta. b this time of igrat•the year, being in the.
th Oary. Several log to Lombardy, now remains
ill je,%am r, petitions have been addressed
"°k 1111cil • d • • • h l tter
e tile ai, , an it is believed t e a
o of the Confederation.
tThe ............____
sai ,Ngui j), T, ?1-I,MANY.
44,11)„- of
She
--Ittce of Q
Ot, k4tll i_ Lie °hate__ ~axe Coburg opened the
coatllra th,ust• iii tb"_ers of Coburg and Gotha on
ttra " followin " speech which he delivered
BentNl „sotly to have g Passage : " I had desired
(Tfat rin-iil, it in ni3- power to announce
blitt-th4t,p kY aguat':fliental law has obtained the
4or, - tai4ll,rPose hoe
.• . The negotiations opened
t4:i..,,,ttaillit 1 ratty
ex not led to the result expected ;
hti,tione b that obie(4rePs the hope that we shall
°fli takes that
'the,
..if the regularisation of the
thztdr 110.4!. Place with 11l of Gotha and Co-
tt the 47 but for that
guarantee of the rights
woat agony ahau b 'oat purpose it is necessary
-gki)ex.:4l,Lapirit !,,aPpreciated by my agnates
4411 ut prejudice and that the
1!1"Millirle it with impartiality and

moderation." After the delivery of the address,
the Duke handed to the aulic Councillor Becker
the original of the oath which his Royal Highness
had sworn. The session was then declared to be
open.
The locksmith, Haerter, who was arrested at
Berlin on a charge of being engaged in a plot
against the Government, has been set at liberty
after an imprisonment of nearly two months.
A letter from Vienna, of the 14th, states that
the French Ambassador in that city has presented
to Count O'Donnell, in the name of the Emperor
of the French, the Cross of Commander of the
Legion of Honour. It is now twenty years, says
the letter, since a French order was conferred on
an Austrian. Two days before Count O'Donnell
received this distinction from the Emperor Napo-
leon 111., a deputation from Trieste presented him
with a sword of honour, which was worn by Sultan
Mozol-Akbar in the 16th century, and ou which
are engraved the words " Help comes from God."

THE MURDER AT BACTON RECTORY.

The police have at length succeeded in apprehending
a man who is supposed to have been the perpetrator of
the horrible murder of Maria Steggles, the aged house-
keeper of the Rev. E. B. Barker, at Bacton Rectory, on
the morning of Sunday, the Bth instant. He is a
labourer, named Wm. Flatt, about twenty years of age,
and lived in the village of Bacton. His character is a
very indifferent one, and he appears to have been several
times summarily convicted by the magistrates—once for
stealing lead from the parish church. He generally
went about in a very reduced state, his clothes were
ragged, and he had the usual look of an idle tramp.
The circumstances which gave rise to his arrest are
these. During the latter part of last week Flatt was
found in Bury, regaling himself in rather a profuse
manner, at the Shoulder of Mutton beer-shop, Long
Brackland. He spent a considerable sum in drink, and
expended as much as 1/. ss. for some new clothes. In
the course of Thursday night he gave one of the men
who were carousing with him into custody for robbing
him of a canvass bag containing Bs. 6d. The party was
detained, but Flatt did not appear on the following
morning to support the charge. He seems to have re-
turned to the neighbourhood of Bacton. The police
were subsequently apprised of his doings at Bury, and
the unusual circumstance of his having so much money
about him. His explanations were very vague and con-
tradictory as to how he became possessed of it, and how
he happened to go to Bury. In order to ascertain the
correctness or otherwise of his representations, the
police accompanied him to that town on Monday, and
inquiries were instituted as to his movements. His
story was not confirmed, and the police then deemed
it prudent to arrest him on suspicion of being concerned
in some way with the dreadful crime. He was re-
moved back to Bacton for examination before the magis-
trates, and more minute inquiries led to a greater clue
being obtained, which, it is thought, will connect him
more strongly with the crime. It will be remembered
that the old lady was left alone in the house at about '
half-past ten, and circumstances have led to the belief
that the murder was committed shortly after eleven,
her reverend master and the servant girl having, doubt-
less, been watched out by the guilty party, in order
to accomplish his dreadful object. Flatt had a toler-
ably good knowledge of the character of the pre-
mises of the rectory, and it appears that only a few
days previous to the murder he had been there in-
quiring for employment. On the Sunday morning,
the deed was committed Flatt was seen in the vici-
nity of the rectory at about half-past ten o'clock,
and between half-past eleven and twelve o'clock was
met some five fields off the rectory, in a direction from
the back of it towards the cottage where he lived. Some
footsteps were traced at the rear of the house, which
corresponded with the marks upon some soil which was
found on the floor of the kitchen neaa where the tragedy
was perpetrated. This gave rise to the supposition that
the murderer had taken flight from the back of the
rectory. The accused has undergone an examination
before the magistrates, the Rev. D. Day, Rev. G. E.
Frere, and the Rev. R. Alderson, but it was conducted
quite in private, nothing being allowed to transpire. It
is understood that Flatt was remanded, in order to allow
the police time to sift other suspicious facts against him,
when the whole matter will be gone into. As yet, all
search has failed in discovering the weapon which was
used in destroying the deceased. A number of labourers
are engaged in dragging the moat which surrounds the
house, in the hope of finding it, it being thought very
probable that the murderer threw it in there on making
his escape.

COWES, ISLE OF WIGHT.--Map 18.

(PROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
ROYAL WET•NURSE.

Her Majesty has again honoured the Isle of Wight,
by having appointed a wet-nurse for her infant from this
town. It appears that the young prince was in any-
thing but a thriving condition ; the milk of the first wet-
nurse not agreeing with it, it became necessary to try
another. Drs. Hoffmeister and Cass, her Majesty's
medical attendants here, were directed to procure one,
and they, on the 7th instant, selected Mrs. Francis, wife
of Mr. John Francis, shipwright, of this town, a fine
healthy young woman, in]her 22d!year, whose child was
about the same age as Prince George. From the evi-
dent improvement in the Royal infant's health, after a
few weeks' trial, she was duly appointed, and Mrs.
Mackintosh, the Highland nurse, left Cowes on Monday
last for Aberdeenshire, but not without some regret on
the part of the Royal household, as the young Scotch
female had conducted herself in a way to give general
satisfaction.