The Sun.
London, England, 1854-10-21 00:00:00

TUE COUNTESS OF MONTEMOLIN.

The Spanish papers relate a story, which has
much the air of romance, to the effect that the
Countess of Montemolin came to Spain to be con-
fined. The tale is told as follows :
" At the end of August aforeign lady, accompanied by
a medical man and several servants, arrived at the
baths of Elorrio (Guipuzcoa). She was encientc. During
her stay at the baths nothing remarkable occurred,
until one night the alcalde, the priest, the notary, and
two or three persons known from their Chartist opinions
were summoned from the adjacent village of Elorrio to
the apartments of the noble stranger. She was in the
pains of labour, and as soon as she was confined the
persons above referred to were introduced into
her bed-room, when she declared to them that she was
the Princess of Naples, Countess of Montemolin. She
requested the notary to draw up an act in due form, to
testify that her first-born son had come into the world
in the Spanish territory. The priest and the others
were requested to sign the document as witnesses,
and all were enjoined to keep- the matter profoundly
secret until such time as she should have safely left Spain.
All was done as she desired, and five days afterwards
the countess recrossed the frostier. Such is the tale as
it is told. We need hardly add that we consider it to be
a mere tale."

EARLY CLOSING.--A meeting of tradesmen in the
hosiery trade, and carrying on business in Cheapside
and the Poultry, took place at the Cathedral Hotel, St.
Paul's-churchyard, on Monday evening last. The ob-
ject of the meeting was to consider what should be done
under the circumstance of one of the trade persisting in
keeping open till nine and half-past nine o'clock in the
evening, whilst all his neighbours in the same line were
closing at eight o'clock.
ROBBERY OF GOLD COIN AND JEWELLERY FROM A RAIL-
WAY STATlON.—Yesterday, the polies received informs'
!ion of the following extensive robbery at the Victoria
Railway Station, Manchester. It appears that a box,
covered with black leather, and studded with brass-
headed nails, was entrusted to a boy to carry from the
train, but he watched an opportunity to get away, and
got clear off. The box contained 150 American five-
dollar pieces, a gold watch, maker's name " Julian,
Paris," a plain gold ring, aid several other articles. The
boy is described as about 15 years of age, about 5 feet
high, dressed in a dark jacket, moleskin trousers and
cap.
MURDER IN ABERDEENSHIRE.—On Friday night last,
Mr. William Davidson, of Kebbaty, had a small party
oh young people assembled at his residence, Tillyfro Cot-
tage, Cluny, about seventeen miles to the north-west of
Aberdeen. Drink, it would appear, had been indulged
in to a considerable extent, as it is stated that when the
company broke up, shortly after twelve o'clock, the host
and his housekeeper Catherine Davidson were both in-
toxicated. What may have actually taken place during
the night it is impossible to say (the two persons named
living alone in the house), but the first intelligence of
anything serious having occurred was conveyed by Mr.
Davidson himself, who, about half-past five on Saturday
morning, entered, in a state next to nudity, a neighbour-
ing house, crying that he had found his housekeeper
lying dead or dying beside him. Alarmed, the people
at once proceeded to Tillyfro Cottage, and found that
his statement was too true, the unfortunate woman hav-
ing evidently bled to death from two large wounds on
the top of her brow. Mr. Davidson, on being ques-
tioned, said he could in no way account for the circum-
stance—he could not even say how or when he got to
bed—all he knew was, that on wakening in the morning,
he found his servant lying beside him, cold, with her
head on his arm, and with all her clothes on. In a
short time a medical gentleman who had been sent for
arrived, who immediately on examining the poor woman's
head caused the room in which the body was lying to
be locked, so that no person might get near her, and
information of the melancholy affair was sent to Mr.
Simpson, fiscal for the county, at Aberdeen. On Sun-
day morning Mr. Simpson, accompanied byh t twosar
ate
sur-
geons, proceeded to Tillyfro Cottage, and body
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parts of the accused's shirt were also covered with blood,
but how it came there he says he cannot tell. Re was
brought to town on Suhndanigcleht, and committed to
prison on Monday on t e awful arge. Mr. Davidson
is a tall, handsome man, aged forty-four, a widower,
and has a family, who resided. apart from him. A. con-
siderable time ago he was, for as
rhoobmrente
nl2oeong period,tasol.
utend ofer Keb-
batytrus.
of the Aberdeen Lunatic Asylum,
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Cluny, and Kincardine O'Neil, \pyaheeisnheins
dorfinkMhidemwaur,
very violent, but in his sober moments kind and good-
hearted. The unfortunate deceased was a person of
middle age, and bad been in Mr. Davidson's service for
several years, and belonged to the parish of Fergus.—
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of Hamlet at the BurnleryETße
THE GHOST IN A. NEW CHIRAC .h—e
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npd ea ry
evening, the gentleman who played the part of the Ghost
Was so annoyed at sundry exclamations by the gods,
who, during the whole evening, had been more than
usually uproarious, that, after in vain attempting to
reason them into good order, he doffed the winding-sheet
in which he was wrapped, and left the stage for the gale
lery, to inflict bodily chastisement on some of the of-
fendere. The interference of the police was necessary to
secure quietness.—Preston Guardian,
A NEW USE FOR FURNACE CINDERS.—A. useful in-
vention, for which we are indebted to a Dr. W. H. Smith,
of Philadelphia, has lately been the subject of experi-
ments made at Merthyr Tydril, under the authority ofa
Lady Charlotte Guest, and other proprietorhseoefuo793
werles. Dr. Smith professes to produce from
daily us©, such as square tiles, paving g_
Rand 'the anneal•
oast aside from the blast furnaces a varifletys oafnatdrtbicoltetsleisn,
the last of which are much strongelmou
glass bottles,
relent more completes than in the co
thrown into a mould before
tinguished. The scoriae Ifs
t should turn out to be epos-
they have time to cool.
from which in apprance they are scarcely to be dise
cepuo2ritteance to proprietors of
Bible to put the furnace cinders to such uses, the inven-
btiloanstwfuilrluhaeueogfi_gr.,feafth: