The Sun.
London, England, 1854-05-06 00:00:00

BELGIUM.

The Moniteur Beige of yesterday contains the
following circular to the procureurs-general of the
Courts of Appeal, and the procureurs du Roi of
the Tribunals of First Instance :

" Gentlemen—l have the honour to call your at-
tention to the notice inserted in the Moniteur Belge of
the 25th of April, by the department of Foreign Affairs,
and to invite you to prosecute all persons subject to the
laws of the kingdom who may fit out privateers, or take
part in privateering, or who may do acts contrary to the
duties of neutrality.
" Cs. FAIDER, Minister of Justice."

SPAIN.

Accounts from Madrid are of the 30th ult.

The Queen bad granted the exequatur to M.
Antonio Peliu y Lafont, as Consul of Hanover at
Santander, and authorised M. Jose Alonzo Ber-
mudez to act as Vice-Consul of England at
Huelva.

The family of General Concha had left for
Bordeaux. _ _ _

It being Sunday, the Bourse remained closed

BANE OF FRANCE.—The next monthly returns from
the Bank of France are expected to show a further re-
markable increase in the stock of gold. The time now
taken for coinage at the Paris Mint is 46 days, and the
amount in hand is estimated at little short of 2,000,0001.
FOREIGN RA TES OF EXCHANGE.—The last accounts
from the Paris Bourse show a further improvement of
more.than a quarter per cent. At Vienna there has not
been much alteration, but the tendency is wain unfavour-
able, and the quotation on London is 1326, while gold
is 40i. and silver at 37 per cent, premium. The rates
of exchange from Paris show a slight improvement, and
only a very small sum was taken from the Bank yester-
day for remittance. From Amsterdam and Hamburg also
the quotations are better. At the latter place money
is plentiful at 2f per cent., and numerous parcels of
smuggled gold are arriving from Russia. About a dozen
small failures had just occurred among the speculators
at the Bourse.

INCAUTIOUS USE OF FIRE-ARMS.—On Wednesday
evening a young married lady, residing at Everton, near
Liverpool, died from the shock she received about a
month previously from the conduct of a youth, about
14, who, on the 2d of April, fired a pistol at another
youth of 17. The youths were inmates of the lady's house.
It appears that on the latter day, while the elder of the
two youths was tying his shoes, stooping for that pur-
pose on the stairs of the lobby, the younger one walked
from the parlour into the lobby with a loaded pistol in
his hand, and probably to gratify a mad frolic by
frightening his companion and the inmates of the house,
discharged the pistol in the lobby iu the direction of the
elder youth, by which the latter had the narrowest pos-
sible escape with his life, as the ball in its passage grazed
his hair close to the forehead. The youth, it appeared,
only suffered from alarm and agitation, but the lady,
who was enciente, became very ill, and died on Wednes-
day last, the cause of death being, as her medical atten-
dants state, the shock given by the occurrence in ques-
tion to her nervous system.
RUSSIAN VESSELS AT RIO JANEIRO.—A correspond-
ent at Rio Janeiro, writing on the 29th of March, says :
—" We have had a curious occurrence here in connec-
tion with the war. A Russian schooner hoisted anchor
in Rio Bay on Sunday morning, soon after the arrival
of the Lusitania. In an instant steam was begun to be
got up in the English war brig Rifleman, and before the
schooner could clear the fort at the mouth of the bay the
brig had followed and passed her, and taken up her sta-
tion outside, waiting to secure her. The whole place
was on the qui vive ; but the schooner dropped anchor at
the fort, and after lying a short time there came back
into the ordinary anchorage grpund, and is now 'for sale.'
This is a Government vessel or small burden. She could
not fight the other without certainty of being sunk, so the
captain will turn his vessel into cash. It has created great
excitement among the trazilians. Another Russian ves-
sel was sold a week ago.—Liverpool Mercury.
MURDER AT CHELSEA.—Much sensation was created
at Chelsea yesterday, by the discovery of the body of a
child under circumstances which leave little doubt but
that a brutal and atrocious murder has been committed.
The circumstances, as far as the reporter was enabled
to glean, of the case are as follows :—A young married
female, whose name did not transpire, but who for
some years had been separated from her husband, who
subsequently emigrated to America, lodged for the
last three years at 13, Evans's-buildings, George-street,
Sloane-street, but about three weeks ago she suddenly
left her lodgings. The interior of the house being in a
dilapidated condition, the landlord set about having it
put in thorough repair, and yesterday when the work-
men were engaged at the apartment lately occupied
by the before-mentioned female, they observed that the
flooring near the hearth-stone had been on more than
lone occasion taken up, and this aroused their curiosity
to see if anything was deposited under the flooring,
when, upon lifting up the boards, they were horrified at
discovering the body of an infant, much shrunk, but,
with the exception of the face, which was partly eaten
away by rats, quite perfect. On turning over the body,
it was evident that before it was placed in the position
in which it was found, it had been subjected to the ac-
tion of fire, which would fully account for the shrunken
appearance of the corpse generally. Having commu-
nicated the discovery to Mr. Green, the summoning
officer for the district, that officer had the remains con-
veyed to the dead-house. to await an inquest. Although
every inquiry and search was made for the young wo-
man who had occupied the room in which the body was
found, no clue could be gained of her up to last evening,
but as she is well known in the neighbourhood, there is
every probability of the police discovering her residence
before many days have passed.
TEIE CIVIL SERVICE.—Mr. Elliott, Chief Clerk to
the Master-General of the Ordnance, has been appointed
Assistant-Secretary ; Mr. John R. Godley, of the Irish
Income-tax-office, has been appointed a Special Com-
missioner in London, vice Dickens ; Mr. Edward Hyde,
Inspector of Taxes, Belfast, has been appointed Chief
Manager in the Special Commissioners' Department,
Ireland ; Mr. H. Thorn, Surveyor of Taxes, Padding-
ton, has been appointed Inspector of Taxes for the
Dublin district, vice Batterton ; Mr.F.Tarleton, Surveyor
of Taxes, Brixton, has been appointed Inspector of Taxes
for the Belfast District, vice Hyde ; Mr. George
Phillips, Assistant-Surveyor of Taxes, has been ap-
pointed Surveyor of Taxes for the Kingston District;
Mr. Edward Augustus Bond, Egerton Librarian, has
been appointed under-keeper of the manuscripts at the
British Museum, vice Holmes, deceased ; Mr. Richard
Holmes has been appointed an assistant, vice Bond, pro-
moted ; Captain Gambier, governor of Dartmoor Prison,
has been transferred to the Governorship of Portsmouth
Prison, vice Captain Knight, employed on a commission
in Ireland ; Mr. Morrish, Deputy-Governor of Dart-
moor, has been appointed to the Governorship of Dart-
moor Prison, vice Captain Gambier • Captain Forlong,
Deputy-Governor of the Defence hulk, at Woolwich,
has been transferred to the Deputy-Governorship of
Dartmoor Prison, vice Mr. Morrish ; Captain Keyt has
been appointed Deputy-Governor of the Defence hulk,
vice Captain Forlong. Irish Constabulary—Appoint-
ments from depot to out-stations : Mr. Holmes has
been appointed Sub-inspector at Antrim ; Mr. Fitzgerald
has been appointed Sub-inspector at Gort ; Mr. Royse
has been appointed Sub-inspector at Abbeyleix ; Mr.
O'Connell has been appointed Sub-inspector at Clan-
morns ; Mr. Sub-inspector at Castleluar, has been ap-
pointed Depot Adjutant, vice Fleming, removed from
depot toloberciirry,—Oivit Service Gauge.