The Sun.
London, England, 1853-12-23 00:00:00

l2aSt I ith o: month

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* When any of these dates lail 03 a Sunday, the mails - t'
dispatched on thb following day, with the exceptien of the India
Southampton), and the Malta, both of which will bo dispatched
day preceding.

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DECIMAL COINAGE. MEETING IN LP7ERPOO'''he
A. requisition was, a few days ago, presented to. ,” $
Mayor, T. B. Lloyd, Esq., requesting him to efti
meeting for the purpose of hearing a statement of the b,
dente taken before the committee on the above 014
ject, and of the advantages pointed out in the r 011.%
likely to accrue from its adoption. His worship
,i 1;
complied with the request, and has named Wedneee%
28th inst., at the Sessions House, Liverpool, whee__.,"
is probable William Brown, Esq., M.P., the chairw:i.
of the. decimal coinage committee, will furnish an eeh-0
line of the advantages derivable from this change in
currency. •
A VISITOR TO THE EMPEROR.—A young women
tween 25 and 30 years of age, wearing the costume 01
the peasants of Brittany, but who, from the delicacy,,,o
her features, evidently belonged to a respectable ep
of society, went recently to the Tuileries, and requee;,a,
to speak to the Emperor, saying that she had all •`--0.-
portant communication to make to him. The doeit
tics wanted to send her away, but she insistetL'i
earnestly on being allowed to • see his Majesty, the
she was taken before M. Barlet, commissary /0 1,6 g
imperial residences. He questioned her, and from to
answers considered her out of her mind. He sent be
M. Bertoglio, commissary of police of the section of
Palais Royal. In answer to his inquiries she said tit%
her name was Marie R—; that she had been brougn,
up in a convelk.the rules of which were very aust ereh,n.
and that in the preceding week she had had in the 0;4
a vision, in which her patron saint had appeared to h
had communicated a secret important to the welfareble
France, and ordered her to come to Paris in he 1330.
costume to make it known to the Emperor. The coat
misary pressed her to tell him what the secret was, to
she peremptorily refused. He pretended to taken
ho
of what she said, and placed her in a cab, and drove
to a lunatic asylum.

BIRTHS.
OF A BON. of
On the 17th inst., at Oban, Argyleshire, the lady
Lieutenant John Ward, R.N.
On the 20th inst., at Skeffington-hall, Leicestershire'
the wife of Richard Sutton, Esq. of
On the 21st inst., at New Romney, Kent, the wife
Benjamin Wood, Esq.

OF A DAUGHTER.
OCio
On the 21st inst., the wife of Richard Hemming,
of Bentley-manor, Worcestershire.
On the 20th at Worthing, the wife of Mr- 0.1/11
H. Chambers.

MAX-RIED.
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On the 20th inst., at St. Alphege Church, Greenwich,
P. Morrison, Esq., 19th Regiment, only son of Rie
Morrison, Esq., to Jane, fourth daughter of the late Co
G quhoun rant, Esq., Staff Surgeon at Zante, and of gin'
chirdy, Morayshire, N.B.
On the 20th inst., at St. Peter's Church, Dublin, Eliz3‘
beth Jane, eldest daughter of the late John Pomeroj
M`Robert, of Ballyclough, in the county of Down, t,,c11;;:
and formerly of the 78th Highlanders, to Ferdinand
bury Williams, of Coldbrook-park, Monmouthshire 94'1.

Northamptonshire; ED.
eVad,
On the 20th inst., at th DIe
Rectory, Weston-brVir 67th
year. c inberviell?
On the 20th inst , at Mornington.place, a
the Rev. James Halke, in his
'Mrs. Elizabeth Dixo.n, in her Gist year. Mary
01
On the 21st inst., after a short illness,
Mr. S. H. Shutt, of Limehouse, in her 70th year.

LONDON : Printed and Published by MIJEDO
No. il
of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at Vic Sum Offic
count" e, l
Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in tbe
Middlesex Friday, Deceraber 23, 1853.