The Sun.
London, England, 1854-08-26 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

OSBORNE, FRIDAY.
His Royal Hichness Prince Albert, attended by Col.
the Hon. C. B. Phipps and Captain Du Plat, went to
Newport yesterday, to lay the firs,-, stone of St. Thomas's
Church, about to be erected there.

The Prince was received by the mayor and corpora.
tion of Newport, the 'Bishop of Winchester, Lord Downes,
and Mr. Fleming. A guard of honour, with the Royal
Marine Band, was in attendance.

The Queen and Prince, with Princess Helena and
Princes Loui-a, drove out in the afternoon.
The Maharajah Duleep Singh left Osborne yesterday.

The Earl of Clarendon arrived in town yesterday from
he Grove, near Watford

The Dike of Newcastle has arrived in town from a
visit to her Majety at Osborne.
Despatches were sent yesterday from the Colonial•
office to the Governor-General of Canada D-soatches
vt ere also sent to the Governors of Hong Kong, Ceylon,
and Matta.-

During the last week there arrived at Gordon Castle,
on a visit to the Duke and DucheAs of Richmond, thr
Prince Guillaume Ra.lzivill of Prussia and son, Lord and
Lady Churchill, Lord Hill and Mr. B.l.lwin, Lord
Arthur Lennox, brother to his grace, and Lord Henry
G. Lennox.

CRYSTAL PALACE, FRlDAY.—Shilling day : Admis-
ion at the doors, 7,305 ; admission by season tickets,
792 ; total number of visitors, 8,097.
THE GENERAL BOARD OF HEALTH.—Mr. J. F. Camp-
bell, barrister, late secretary to the Duke of Argyll, is
appointed assistant secretary to the board, at 6001. per
annum; Mr. H. Austin, C.E., consulting engineer, at
1,0001. ; Mr. Ranger, C.E., superintending inspector,
at 8001. Mr. Rammell and Mr. R. Rawlinson. late su-
perintending inspectors, were offered appointments, and
have declined. There are to be two superintending in-
spectors. One appo; ntment remains to he made. The
appointment of Mr. Tom Taylor, as secretary with salary
of 1.0001. per annum, was announced earlier.—The
Builder.

SHOCKING MURDER IN THE 87TH REGIMENT.—Let-
ters from the 87th Regiment, at present stationed in
India, at Rawul Pindee, in the Bengal Presidency, men-
tion the particulars of a very shocking murder, perpe-
trated by a private, named Costelloe, on his wife, a young
woman from the Butts in Dublin, named Mary Walsh,
aged twenty-two years". It appears that the deceased
had a brother in the regiment, a man of very excellent
character, and
through him became acquainted with Cos-
telloe, whilst at the depot in Chatham, where she mar-
ried him. When Walsh and Costello° were going out
to join the regiment in India, the young woman was not
permitted to accompany the draft, but she was sent out
to her husband along with the last draft, and joined the
regiment' at Rawul Pindee last February. Several of
the soldiers who are natives of Kilkenny frequently ac-
companied her brother to see her ; and although there
was no blemish whatever upon ber character, her hue-
band exhibited much jealousy of any man who spoke to
her, and they became very unhappy. In the begin-
ning of May a detachment was sent from the regi-
ment to Murree-hills, to remain for the summer, and
Costelloe and his wife being of the number he there con-
tinued
paroxYerni of jealousy frequently beat and ill-treated her.
his .unjust suspicions of the woman, and in the
On May 24, he made a murderous attack upon her, but she
got away, and reported his conduct to, the commanding
officer, who
the evening
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3 ind SPAIN.
Regiment), ordered his release, and upon leaving the . The 21st being on Monday, the only Madrid
guard-room he proceeded to drink, and, maddened by ar. Journal of that date which we have received is the
dent spirits, he went home and beat his wife in the most Gazette. It contains an address from M. Sagasti,
dreadful manner. As soon as he freed her s'ae ran out of civil governor of Madrid, to the electors on the
the bungalow, with the intention of again reporting him, elections fur the Constituent Cortes, which are
but he pursued and overtook her. She cried out that he about to take place. The new Cortes, he says,
was choking. her, and although there were about twenty will introduce into the constitution the ideas pro-
of the soldiers within a few yards of the scene, they did claimed by the liberal army, and the principle
not interfere, supposing he only meant to stop her from written on the barricades in the blood of the
going to make the report ; but almost instantaneously n
population of Mulrid. As to the policy of the
they saw her fall to the ground with her throat cut
Government with respect to the elections, he
from ear to ear, and her head nearly severed from her
cptent programme of the
states. that it_is summed up in the simple and do
body. The murderer was at once seized by his comrades,
deed . with a Duke de la, Victoria—
and it was found that he had committed the dreadful
"Let the national will be accomplished ! '' lie tells
viously perceived -in his hands, as it was-dark at-the. the electors that they will be allowed to meet, and ,
'iazor which the spectators bad not pre-
time. The wretched murderer, who is a Conuaught to exercise all their rights freely. In a notification I
man, was expected to be tried by cowl-martial. . , from .theltame-anttority, also inserted in tbei -Ga-i

zette, it is state that the complete execution of the
law of 1837, relative to the press, cannot be de-
layed, as otherwise liberty would degenerate into
license, and the enemies of the popular cause
would be able to dishonour it by clandestine and
libellous publications, which might lead to distrust,
disunion, and anarchy. " This," he says, "is what
the Queen's Government is determined to prevent,
and, in so doing, it counts on the support of all
good patriots." The notification is followed by a
declaration that all the periodical publications
which shall not have made the depot of 40,000
reals at the Bank of San Fernando, and shall not
have a regularly appointed publisher, as required
by the said law of 1837, shall be suppressed. The
declaration adds that the term " periodical publi-
cation" shall be applied to all printed papers pub-
lished at dates and within periods determined or
undetermined, with or without title, and which
shall not exceed six printed sheets. The Gazette
contains a royal decree which enacts that, in
provinces in which there are not sufficient
provincial deputies of from 1840 to 1843, the
number shall be completed by others, and
that then the election of alcades of the judi-
cial districts shall be proceeded to. The Duke
de Sotomayor, first injordotno to the Qaeen, has,
says the Gazette, addressed a letter to the constitu-
tional mayor of Madrid, 'informing him that " the
Queen having learned that a bull fight is to take
place for the benefit of the wounded in the events
of last month, and of the orphans of those woo
were killed in them, and desiring to contribute to
this charitable and philanthropic enterprise, places
at his disposal, as president of the commission of
the bull fight, 12,000 reals de veillos in her own
name, in that of the King, and in that of the
Princess of the Asturias." The Gazette fulther
states that the Minister of the Interior has given
strict orders to prevent the mails from being need-
lessly delayed on the roads of Arragon and Anda-
lusia.

Several provincial juntas in Spain, and amongst
them that of Cadiz, have decreed the aboli-
tion of death for political crimes ; and at Madrid a
petition is being signed praying the Government to
extend the measure to all the kingdom.

The indefatigable Lamartine has just sold a history of
Turkey, from his pen, to the proprietors of a Paris daily
newspaper for 4,800/. sterling.
THE AFRICAN MAILS.—PLYMOUTH, FRIDAY.—The
contract steampacket Forerunner, Captain Johnson.
with mails, a full cargo of British manufactured goods,
and passengers, left yesterday for Sierra Leone and
the West Coast of Africa. She is relieved from the
conveyance of a mail officer, the duties being performed
hy Captain Johnsen, in consequence of the owners
having arrangeu with the Government that, on the pas
sage out, she shall expend 48 hours, if necessary, in
seeking to communicate with the Niger expedition. If
enseccessful going down the coast, she is, on returning,
to make a second effort. The Pleiad steamer, which
is at the heal of the expedition, is supposed to be in
the river Nun, one of the mouths of the Niger. The
Forerunner has, on previous voyages, returned many
lays before her postal time ; on the present occasion it
is very improbable that she will reach England before
rh 7th or Bth of November, the date when due. The
Candace, the only mail steamer now out, is due in
September.
THE STRIKE AT DONCASTER.—A few fresh hands from
London were put on the works at, the parish church on
Thursday. Three of these were German, only one of
ehom could at all understand English. The turnouts
-eat for a Hungarian mechanic from Sheffield, and
rhrough the medium of his interpretation endeavoured
to dissuade the Germans from commencing work, but
without the desired effect. A few of the society hands
have given in their cards and resumed work, for which
they have been abused by the turn-outs, who assert that
iy persevering in the strike they will not only obtaie
their present demands, hut ultimately an advance of
wages. Mr. Ireson, the contractor, has offered to give
he men an hour on Saturday afternoons, and also that
their names shall be called in his time ; but this dues not
-atisfy the turn-outs, who demand also an additional
eour on Monday mornings, and the prohibition of rubble
yellers from setting ashlar and doing masons' work
file contractor has obtained the promise of a number of
'lands from Scotland.
THE DUNMOW FLITCH.—The local committee ap-
.oitited to revive the ancient custom of Durtinow have
received a communication from Mr. Harrison Ainsworth
to the effect, that he will gladly present a flitch of bacon
to any one couple who may claim it next summer, and
.vho can juetify their title to the prize. He will also be
happy to contribute five guineas towards the expenses of
'he entertainment on the occasion, which he feels cer-
tain will be well carried suit.
REDUCTION OF POSTAGE ON LETTERS TO ST. THOMAS
—On and from the Ist of September next, the packet
rate of postage on letters addressed to St. Thomas, or
my other Danish colony in the West Indies, will be re•
luced to :—When not exceeding half an ounce in weight,
6d. ; when exceeding half an ounce and not. exceed', g
ene ounce, ls. ; when exceeding one ounce and not ee-
eeeding two ounces, 2s. ; 'and so on. according to the
scale for charging inland letters. The postage of these
letters may be paid in a'lvanr'e, or they may be for-
warded unpaid at the option of the senders.
THE SUICIDE IN A RAILWAY CARRIAGE.—The Stamford
Mercury says that it has been discovered, since the
last adjournment of the inquest, that the gentleman
who saw the body on Monday came down from
London by the Great Northern train, arriving in
Lincoln at 11 am. He left Lincoln for London by
the Midland at 5.15 p.m., shortly before the interment
took place. lie was a tall elderly and gentlemanly man,
apparently between 60 and 70 years of age, was dressed
in black with a white neckcloth, and from the length of
time coat worn and other circumstances was evidently a
clergyman. Upon looking at the face of the deceased
through the glass in the coffin lid he gazed earnestly for
about three seconds, and then being asked if be had ever
met the deceased, he replied "No ;" but though his
!lands were clasped one over the other in strong menta•
effort to prevent the outward display of inward emotion,
he trembled visibly ; and when he turned away to
descend the stairs the tears trickled down his
cheeks, and some time after this he was seen weep-
ing at the book-stall. Before he saw the
tie was particular in his inquiries of several parties
as to where the body was, and whether it was
in a stable or not, and after he had seen the
c4ipse and the coffin, it is discovered that he got some
one to point out to him the house where the inquest was
held, and the churchyard in which 'he interment was to
rake place.
Several circumstances point to the conclu-
sion that the deceased was a literary man, and that he
was from London is beyond all question. The photo-
eraphic likeness is preserved, • and though the deceased
.vas studiously careful to obliterate from his clothing all
that could aid in tracing his name, matters were over
looked which, used skilfully, will materially aid the dis-
covery which the satisfaction of justice and of the public
mind demand.
FATAL THuNDER-sToßef.—On Wednesday a terrific
'hurader storm burst over the perisili of Yester, in East
Lothian. %Visite it lasted showers of hail. or rather of
ice, fell with considerable force, some of the pieces being
about half an inch in size. We regret to add that as
some women were returning home from working in the
fields, the lightning, attracted by the iron hoes which
they thoughtlessly carried ever their shoulders, struck
two of the number dead. Several of the others we-e a
little stunned by the shock, one woman, singular to say,
having the iron heel of her shoe knocked off by the.
electric fluid. One of the women who were killed has
left a family of five children. —Edinburgh, Courant.
At the Canterbury election of 1852, when bribery and
corruption were practised by the Tories, the numbers
eere for the Tory candi later as follow —Bittler.Tohristone,
758 : FL P. Gippe, 766. For the Liberal candidates,
,vho indulged in no ill, gal expenditure, —Somerville, 570;
Roil-lily. 533. Now that bribery has been abandoned,
the Tories poll oily 671 for the Tory, and 729 for the
Liberal Conservative, the letter receiving many half
votes from moderate reformers. So the Tory interest
loees 87, and the liberal gains 129 votes. Is not this
tolerably significant ?—ffeet Herald.

SINGULAR CASE OF MISTAKEN IDENTITY.—Some
days ago. a man of the name of Middleton, employed at
Logic Works, received a letter from an intimate
acquaintance of the family, conveying the distressing
intelligence that a son of his, a tradesman iii
Glasgow, had unfortunately been drowned while
bathing in the Clyde. This information, as might
be expected, plunged the family into the deepest
distress ; and the father, accompanied by another son,
proceeded to Gla,.gow, and on their arrival repaired,
along with their correspondent, to the receptacle of the re-
mains of their deceased relative. On gazing on the pallid
countenance, they all . recognised the well-known
features of him they loved and res,iected. Having made
some arrangements respecting the interment of the body
they proceeded to the empty lodging, as they believed,
of the deceased. On knocking at the door, to their
unspeakable surprise, it was opened by the son sup-
posed to he dead, who was in his usual good health
and cheerful aspect. Of course, it is easier to con-
ceive than describe the feelings to which this un-
expected interview gave rise, Suffice it to state that '
g,atness and gratitude took the place of sadness
and sorrow ; and the father and son, who left this
quarter mourning, returned rejoicing. The effect on the
young man's mother has had a deeper impression, as
we are informed that, from the moment of receiving
the first intelligence of her lose, she has not been able
to leave her bed. It is a singular coincidence in this
affair that, besides the striking resemblance between
the real and supposed deceased, they were both of the
name of Middleton. —Montrose Review.
CHOLERA IN BELFAST.-- -A meeting of the guardians
of the Belfast Union was held in that town on Wed-
nesday, when the report of cholera cases in the Belfast
District was as follows---Number of new cases for the
week ending the 221 inst., 77 ; remaining' from last
week, 13 ; total, 90 ; died, 15 ; cured, 30 ; sent to hospi-
tal, 25 ; remaining under treatment, 20. The total
number since commencement has, therefore, been 435 ;
died, 105 ; cured, 136 ; sent to the hospital, 174; re-
maining, 20. The total admissions into the hospital
have been 243 ; died, 134 ; cured, 101 ; remaining, 8.
A report was also read of the cholera cases for the week
in Ballymacarrett, which stated that there were nine

new cases, in addition to one case remaining from the
previous week. Of those, four died, five were cured,
and one in hospital.
MALT FOR HARVEST LABOURERS. —Most of the
farmers in the extensive corn district of Cit2rove have
supplied their labourers with malt for the harvest, in-
stead of ale and b3er, as in tines past. - Each " harvest
man '! receives two bushels, or "strikes "
he brew to his own liking at home.. .The pUs -gives the
greatest EStisfaction to the men in ge4oral. - • -