The Sun.
London, England, 1853-07-14 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, JULY 14, 1853.

fled his vindictive feeling by the cowardly and
brutal assault of which so many serious marks
remained. The dastardly scoundrel was most
justly sentenced to six months' imprisonment
with hard labour, and without the option of being
enlarged on payment of a fine.
Last week, three ruffians named DEIGHTON,
STEVENS, and BURRIDGE, were sentenced respec-
tively to terms of six months, four months, and
four months with hard labour in each instance.
In the latter case a further term of two months
was ordered for an assault on the daughter, who
appealed to her sottish father for mercy to her
mother, " who worked so hard for them"—a
melancholy commentary on the drunken violence
of the moody ruffian who transferred his duty
to his wife. Each case presented the same
features of atrocity the same brutal and
unprovoked outrages—inflicted on patient and
long-enduring women. In one case the idle and
profligate scoundrel, who was living on his wife's
industry, seemed conscious that the law, which
had previously afforded him impunity, had been
altered. On being arrested on the warrant,
DEIGHTON exclaimed, " What a fool I was, to be
sure, not to sell off all the things before this came
off ; and the new Act about women has passed too !"
—a significant acknowledgment of the value of
the recent enactment. The prisoners in each
case appeared astonished at the sentences passed
upon them. There can be but little doubt that
the examples thus afforded will have very benefi-
cial effects in a district which has obtained an
unhappy notoriety for the violent and unwarrant-
able conduct of married persons towards each
other, and which is not limited to the male sex,
the more recent case of Mrs. CARMICHEL showing
that a woman can at times forget her sex, and be
even more violent than a male ruffian, when
giving way to unrestrained passion. If the evil
can be checked, the energetic and decided con-
duct of Mr. HAMMILL is well calculated to
arrest its progress—if not, fresh powers must be
conceded to Magistrates by the Legislature to
enable them to abate tke fearful nuisance.

OVERLAND MAIL.

We have received by electric telegraph from
Trieste a dispatch, dated 'Alexandria, July 7, and
which was conveyed from that port to Trieste by
the steamer Calcutta.

The Calcutta reached Trieste at a quarter past
11 o'clock p.m., July 12, after a run of 110 hours
from Alexandria.

The dispatch is as follows :
" The Calcutta mail of the 3d of June has ar•

rived.

" Negotiations with Ava have been terminated
by the Burmese envoys refusing to sign the treaty
proposed to them by the British, and declaring that
they would not sign away any part whatever of the
Burmese dominions.

" They were ordered to re-consider their answer,
or to leave our new territory within 24 hours.
" They left it in ten hours.
" It is said that Lord Dalhousie does not intend
taking any other steps beyond extending the fron-
tiers and appropriating the country seized.
" Should an attack be made on the outer terri-
tory, an immediate advance will be made on Ava
and the King dethroned.

" Trade throughout India is dull.
"No news had been received from China, the
steamer from Hong Kong not having arrived at
Galle in time for the Calcutta steamer.

LATEST FOREIGN NEWS.

FRAN CE.

Queen Maria Christina is about, says the Union,
to take up her residence at Malmaison with her
family.
The president of the Legislative Body has left
Paris for Bourbonne.

General Yussuf left Paris yesterday for Mar-
seilles, where he will embark for Africa. He is
charged to inspect the three regiments of spahis
stationed in the provinces of Algeria, Oran, and
Constantina.

A telegraphic dispatch, addressed by the Minister
of the Interior to the Prefects, says, that " reports
from all parts indicate a marked decline in the
price of corn, and that the crops are everywhere
satisfactory."
By an order of the Minister of Public Instruc-
tion, the Imperial Council of Public Instruction
has been convoked for an ordinary session, which
is to open July 20 and close August 11.
The Minister of Marine was present on the 11th
at a grand dinner given to him at Brest by the
town. At the dessert he made a speech which
was repeatedly greeted with cries of " Vive l'Em-
pereur !" The next morning he had a long con-
ference with the Chamber of Commerce of Brest,
and afterwards proceeded to visit the forges of
Villeneuve. He was to leave in the evening for
Lorient.

At the Bourse yesterday, the market has been
dull, with a downward tendency in prices—the
Three per Cents. fell 45c., and the Four-and-a Half
per Cents. 60c., both for cash ; whilst, for the ac-
count, the Four-and-a-Half per Cents. declined
50c., and the Three per Cents. 30c. In Bank of
France Shares there was a fall of sf. The final
quotations were :—For money—Three per Cents.,
76f. 25c.; Four-and-a-Half 101 f. For the end of
the month—Three per Cents., 76f.25c. ; Four-and-a-
Half do., 101 f. Bank Stock, 2,655 f. In Mortgage
Bank Shares no variation took place, being still
quoted at 660 f. ; in those of the Societe Mobiliere a
decline of 10f. occurred, and they closed at 740 f.
In the Railway Share Market yesterday but a
limited amount of business was transacted, at a
general decline on Tuesday's final quotations, al-
though, excepting in Western of France Shares,
which experienced a fall of 10f., the amount of
depreciation in no case exceeded sf. Closing prices :
—Northern, 846 f. ; Paris and Orleans, 1,065 f. ;
Paris and Strasbourg, 889 f. ; Paris and Lyons,
890 f. ; Paris and Rouen, 1,035 f. • Lyons to the
Mediterranean, 718 f. ; Western (3/France, 715 f. ;
Rouen and Havre, 478 f. ; Bordeaux and Cette,
605 f. ; Caen and Cherbourg, 603 f. ; Dijon and
Bensancon, 510 f.