The Sun.
London, England, 1853-07-23 00:00:00

ITALY.

The Genoa Corriere Mercantile, of the 18th inst., an-
nounces the arrival, on board the Hellespont, of two
gentlemen banished from Naples, namely, Professor
Dominico Mandoj and the Marquis Luigi Dragonetti.
After an imprisonment of several years four citizens
were banished by the Neapolitan Government, and re-
ceived passports for America. On reaching Malta, two
of them, Messrs. Dragonetti and Mandoj, demanded
and obtained leave to reside at Genoa.

EXPORTS,—Yesterday a return to the House of Com-
mons was printed of the exports of 10 princpal articles
from the ports of London, Liverpool, Hull, Bristol,
Southampton. Newcastle, Glasgow, including the Clyde,
Dundee, Leith, Aberdeen, Belfast, Dublin, Cork,
Limerick, &e. From the ports of England and of the
Clyde the declared value of the exports in 1850 was
4,234,6041., and in 1851 4,046,8141. The amount of
customs duties collected in 1850 was 1,172,6311., and in
1851 1,177,064/.

Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent and Prince
Ernest of Leiningen, attended by Lady Anna Maria
Dawson and Sir George Couper, arrived from London
yesterday on a visit. Her Royal Highness crossed over
from Southampton in the Fairy, commanded by Cap-
tain Crispin.
Prince Albert, the Prince of Wales, and Prince Alfred
walked in the grounds.

A deputation from the parish of St. James, headed by
Sir John Shelley, M.P., had an interview with Viscount
Palmerston yesterday at the Home-office.
The Cathedral Commission had a meeting yesterday.
Present—the Bishop of London, the Bishop of Oxford,
the Rev. Dr. Wordsworth, the Rev. Canon Selwyn, and
the Rev. Richard Jones (secretary).
Sir John liersc:iel had an interview with the Chan-
cellor of the Exchequer yesterday at his official residence
in Downing-street.
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FOREIGN COMMERCIAL AFFAIRS.

Letters from St. Petersburgh have been received yes-
terday to the 16th inst., but they contain no political
intelligence. Business was very active, and the great
exertions made for the dispatch of goods had caused
freights to rise to double their usual rate.
Advices from Vienna mention that the subscriptions
received for the new Austrian Discount Bank, on the
first day of opening the lists, amounted to 450,0001.
The total capital of the bank is to be 500,0001., with
power to increase it to 1,000,0001.
The bar silver brought by the last West India steamer
has been sold yesterday at 611 d. per ounce, which is a
decline of id. Dollars maintain their price.
~...-....Komeloonds of the Brunswick and.: narkle,' Away
Company, of Georgia, in the United States, are under-
stood to have been offered for sale, the principal and in-
terest of which are stated on the bonds to be payable at
the banking house of Messrs. Coutts and Co. Upon
inquiry at that house, however, it is found that they
have never given their sanction to their names being
used in this way, and that they are entirely ignorant of
such bonds being in existence.

Misconception has been caused by a statement re-
cently published, that the Turkish Government has bor-
rowed 400,0001. from the Oriental Bank. This is a local
establishment at Constantinople, and not the Oriental
Bank Corporation of London, whose business is with
India, China, Ceylon, and Australia.

CONVICTION OP A MAN AND TWO WOMEN
FOR MURDER.

The High Court of Justiciary, at Edinburgh, was
occupied on Thursday with the trial of a man named
Hans Smith Macfarlane and three women, Helen Black-
wood, Mary Hamilton, and Ann Marshall or Young, all
from Glasgow, who were charged with murder and rob-
bery in a house in that city, on the morning of Sun-
day, the 12th of June last. The victim was Alexander
Boyd, a ship-carpenter, who, with an acquaintance
named James Law, were enticed in a state of ntone?,
tion late in the evening by some women into a house in
the New Vennel. The chief witness was a boy eleven
years of age, named William Shillinglaw, who said—
My brother James, who is going ten years of age, and I
slept on the night in question in the house in the New
Vennel, occupied by Hans Smith Macfarlane and
Helen Blackwood. We went to bed about nine
o'clock. We crept under the bed as usual, and fell
asleep. I awoke during the night and saw Mary
Hamilton and a man named Law (the companion
of Boyd, the murdered man). He appeared to be
drunk. In about five minutes afterwards, Helen
Blackwood, Ann Marshall, and Macfarlane en-
tered with the man (Boyd) that was killed. He was
drunk. Helen Blackwood asked him for money to get
some whisky. which he gave to her, and she brought in
whisky in a jug, and it was poured into a cup. The
whisky was handed round, and all the company drank
of it. I saw the man Boyd drink some of it ; but be-
fore he got it, Mary Hamilton took a paper of snuff out
of her pocket and put it into the cup among the whisky,
which she then handed to Boyd, who drank all that was
in the cup, and then he lay gasping. He appeared to
get sick from it and stupid. He rose up, and I saw him
attempt to strike Helen Blackwood. She was standing
near the bed. She lifted up the chamber-pot, and struck
him on the side of the head with it. When the man got
the blow, he fell back all his length. His head came
on a stone which was used for a stool. Helen Black-
wood and Ann Marshall said to Macfarlane, " Oh,
what'll we do wi' him ? " The man Boyd had his
clothes on. Macfarlane said, " Nobody will see, haiv
him over the window." Before Macfarlane said this the
man's clothes had been taken off. The woman Blackwood
, proposed to take them off. She said to Ann Marshall,
"Let us strip him." They then stripped him, and Black-
wood took out of his pocket a handful of money. The
man appeared to be quite unable to resist. Helen Black-
wood took one of the arms of the. man, Ann Marshall
the feet, the man Macfarlane the other arm, and Mary
Hamilton looked on. They " hove" him over the win-
dow. The head went foremost. I heard a fall on the
ground. The man did not resist in any way. Mary
Hamilton made no resistance to what was going on, and
said nothing. She was standing with her back to where
I was. She may have lent a hand without me seeing it.
She was close to the man. Ann Marshall (continued
the boy) threw over the window the pieces of the pot
that had been broken. The man Law was lying all the
time asleep across the fire-place. I afterwards beard a
great noise outside, and the police entered and took my
brother and me, with the man Law, to the police-office,
where I saw the dead body of the man Boyd. I was
under the bed when I saw all these things, but I could
see quite well. The brother of the preceding witness
gave similar evidence. Two girls, who had witnessed the
proceedings in the house through the chinks of the door,
gave some corroborative testimony, one of them having
besides overheard the woman Blackwood say to Mary
Hamilton as the party ascended the stairs, "It is a good
chance." They also witnessed the drugging of the
whisky, and heard the man Macfarlane say, " What'll
we do with the b ." Some one replying, "It's
dark, we'll fling him over the window." The deceased
was lifted by the police, apparently dead, immediately
below the window of Macfarlane's house. No exculpa-
tory evidence was led, but the prisoners in their decla-
ration alleged that the deceased had gone to the window
for a natural purpose, and had fallen over. After coun-
sel had addressed the jury, the Lord Justice-General
summed up the evidence, when the jury returned a ver-
dict finding the man Macfarlane and Helen Blackwood
and Ann Marshall or Young guilty, but recommending
the latter female to mercy. The charge against Mary
Hamilton was found not proven, and she was dismissed.
After an impressive address from the presiding judge,
the three first-named prisoners were sentenced to be exe-
cuted at Glasgow on Thursday, the 11th of August.

FALMOUTH, July 20.—The relaxation of the Naviga•
tion-laws, and its results of free-trade intercourse, have
.been strongly demonstrated by the advent at this port,
in the past three days, of no less than 135 vessels of all
nations from every part of the world, independently, too,
of such ships as received orders for ulterior destinations
outside, from the agents of the consignees, and pro-
ceeded without dropping their anchors. At the present
moment there is in Carrick Roads and the inner har-
bour a fleet of no less than 149 vessels awaiting their
destination, and they embrace as the following list exhi-
bits, 21 different flags, viz. :—English, 47 ; Greek, 7 ;
Hanoverian, 2 ; Dutch, 7 ; lonian, 1 ; Maltese, 1 ;
Sardinian, 12 ; Norwegian, 13 ; Neapolitan, 4 ; Aus-
trian, 14 ; French, 5 ; Hamburg, 2 ; Swedish, 7 ;
Prussian, 6 ; Russian, 8 ; Danish, 3 ; Roman, 1 ' • Wal-
lachian, 1 ; American, 1 ; Mecklenburg, 2 ; and
Spanish, 5.
MURDER AND SUICIDE.—The city of Bologna was the
scene of a horrid tragedy on the 10th. Several large
drops of blood under the windows of a well-known gen-
tleman, named Dr. Accusi, roused the attention of some
people, as it seemed as if those drops must have fallen
from some wounded person who had gone to the win-
dow. Cries, groans, and lamentations being also
heard to issue from the same house, the police were
called, who after repeated summonses to open, which
were disregarded, had to force open the outer and some
inner doors, when a frightful spectacle presented itself
to their view. Accussi and his maid-servant were
found lying dead in one room, both evidently murdered ;
while in the next lay Dr. Giuseppe Salvi, Dr. Accusals
nephew, who from a sharp surgical instrument in his
hand, was conjectured to have been the murderer of
the other two, and to have afterwards committed suicide,
to avoid being arrested. The cause of this melancholy
event is attributable to family dissensions,
.but nothing
certain has as yet been elicited.—Galignan4.
THE TELEGRAPH IN SPAIN.—The Madrid Gazette
p a Royal order to the director of the tele-
graphs. to proceed immediately to a general survg, with
a view to the establishment of electric telegraphic wires
throughout the kingdom.
GENERAL SIR JOSEPH THACSWELL, G. C. B.—This
distinguished officer arrived in our (Cork) harbour yes-
terday, per the Sabrina. As the steamer passed along
the coast, bonfires blazed on the hills, at Roche's
Tower, Light-house, and Carlisle Fort. The detach-
ment of the 39th Regiment, which served with the
gallant General in India, assembled on the ramparts of
Carlisle Fort, the flag was lowered as he passed, and the
people cheered enthusiastically. At Queenstown the
ships, dressed out in their flags, looked gay and beauti-
ful. On the steamers approach, the Admiral's barge shot
alongside, under command of the flag-lieutenant and
took Sir Joseph en board. As he left the steamer
the
crew and passengers gave several hearty cheers, which
he duly acknowledged, and on reaching the Admiral's
te
yacht it immediately steered for Whiteo- from whence
he proceeded to Captain Roche's of iallimunis. The
people assembled in large numbers to give him a cordial
Captain greeting. The road leading to Roche's gate
was lined with laurel branches and spanned with tri-
umphal arches. In the evening tar-barrels were burned
and the village illuminated looked gay and well from the
water.—Cork Examiner.

CONSECRATION OF A NEW CHURCH NEAR HOLYWELL.
—A new church, designed to supply the place of one
erected some time since by Lord Fielding, at Pantasa,
and afterwards alienated from the Establishment on his
conversion to the Church of Rome, was consecrated on
Monday by the Bishop of S. Asaph.