The Sun.
London, England, 1849-06-09 00:00:00

COWES, ISLE OF WIGHT
(FRom OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)

COWES, JUNE 8.
OSBORNE PALACU.—Soon after eleven o'clock this
morning a most terrific storm broke over the towns
of East and West Cowes ; the lightning struck the
clock-tower at Osborne Palace. Three of the work-
men were knocked down; one of them, named
Corney, was very seriously injured in the head.
When first seen his cap was in 'flames. Drs. Hoff-
meister and Cass, surgeons to the Queen, were sent
for express, and before they left the palace two of the
men were so much recovered as to be out of danger,
the other man though seriously injured is proceeding
favourably.
Soon after the accident at Osborne, the light-
ning struck the foretopmast-head of a new
barge just finished, in Mr. Joseph White's building-
yard, at East Cowes, shivering the mast and topmast,
ripping up the deck, and doing other damage. There
were in the same yard, the Princess Olga, R.T.1.0 ,
and the " Ariel," R.Y.S. schooner, under repairo, but
they escaped damage. The Cutter yacht Hebe, late
the property of A. Corbett, Esq., but now of the
Rev. Mr. Fryer, which is repairing in Ratsey's yard,
at West Cowes, was, at the same time struck under
the head of the masts, the battens flying off—the
electric fluid passed down the mast till it came to the
iron which, and that fortunately drew it off, and
prevented it passing into the hold of the yacht, or
in all probability she would have been a wreck. As
it is her mast is rent to splinters.
During the whole time the rain descended in tor-
rents, filling the houses in the lower part of the
town, and tearing up the roads.
Barometer 29.67; though such tremendous weather
it sunk but a trifle.

ROYAL YACHT SQUADRON INTELLIGENCE.

ARRIVALS.
June 1. Nymph Cutter, Sir John Bayley, Bart., from
Portsmouth.

4. Claymore Cutter, Archibald Campbell, Esq., from
Eastward.

4. Resolution Schooner, Duke of Rutland, from West
of Scotland.

5. Gauntlet Cutter, William Peareth, Esq., from
Sandgate.

6. Esmeralda Schooner, J. W. E. Rolls, Esq., from
Portsmouth.

7. Osprey Cutter, John Petre,-Esq., from Portsmouth.
7. Maud Schooner, Thomas Leigh, Esq., from
Cherbourg.

SAILINGS.

June 1. Nymph Cutter, Sir John Bayley, Bart., for
Boulogne. _ _

4. Elizabeth Cutter, Honourable Colonel Moreton, for
Channel Islands.

6. Esmeralda Schooner, J. W. E. Rolls, Esq., for
Channel Islands.

6. Gauntlet Cutter, William Peareth, Esq., for Chan-
nel Islands.

YACHTS AT AND ABOUT THE STATION.
Schooners—Resolution, gaud, Ariel, Ondine.
Cutters—Osprey, Spider, Claymore, Turquoise, Gon-
dola, and Duchess Yawl.

The following gentlemen have been at the Squadron
House this week :—Sir Bellingham Graham, Bart. (Vice-
Commodore); G. H. Ackers, Esq.; Thomas Thornhill,
Esq. ; James Manxe, Esq. ; Captain C. H. Williams ;
Sir John Bayley; Lord Crofton; the Earl of Ellesmere;
J. N. Harvey, Esq. ; Colonel Petre, and Lord A.
Churchill.

Earl de Grey is expected at Grantham House.
Lady Webster, it is said, is in treaty for Harriot Lodge

HAMBURGH AND FLANDERS
MAILS.

SCHLESWIG-HOLSTEIN.—The official report of the
Danish Minister of War, dated the 4th of June,
says :—" From official reports from Fredericia up to
the Ist, it appears that nothing of importance had
taken place there up to that period. With regard to
the occupation and subsequent evacuation of
Aarhuus by the German troops, it appears
that at hag. past seven o'clock on the morning
of the 31st a large body of the enemy had issued from
the wood of Marselisborg, and with the left wing had
endeavoured to close in the Danish avant-guard,
under Lieutenant Von Milner, which was, however,
averted by the fire kept up by the Hertha and two
gun-boats. The avant-guard then fell back
through Aarhuus into Riiswood, where it was
standing till half-past twelve, when it received
reinforcements. Upon this a movement was effected,
and the enemy was forced to evacuate Aarhuus,
which was again occupied by the Danish troops.
The loss on the side of the Danes was nice killed and
twelve wounded; of the latter four were wounded,
among whom was the Prince of Salm-salm, the second
Lieutenant in the let Russian Regiment of Hussars ;
fifteen horses and some baggage also was taken. The
enemy continued, however, to maintain its position
close to the city.
The third reading of the Fundamental Law is to
take place on the 4th, and be ratified by the King in
person, at a solemn sitting of the Diet on the follow-
ing day, after which it will be determined whether or
not the Assembly will be dissolved.
It is said that France has expressed itself very de-
cidedly on the Danish question, and intends sending
a fleet into the North Sea.

CRACOW, MAY 29.:---The five piquets have already
been replaced by the Russian Hussars, as the Hun-
garians suddenly received marching orders, it is said
to Germany, and we are of cpiniun for the present to
Bohemia. The castle is said to be occupied by a
mixed garrison, half Austrian and half Russian.

The Russians have brought us the cholera—forty
are laid up with it at the hospital, and five are al-
ready dead.

Field-Marshal Paskewitsch is expected here to day,
and the speedy arrival of the Czar is spoken of.
Apartments have been prepared for his Majesty at
the Archiepiscopal Palace.
About an hour since 1,000 men of a new Russian
Infantry corps marched into Cracow.
BUCHAREST, MAY 17.—Next to the insurrec-
.

tionary movement in Transylvannia, the nomination
of our Hospodar excites the greatest interest here.
The two candidates who stand the best chance are
the Kaimakan, Katakuzens, and the brother of the
governing Prince, Barbu Steibeg. Bibesco has been
created a Russian Prince, with a yearly stipend of
100,000 paper roubles (90,000 ducats) from the Rus-
sian treasury.

The fortress of Carlsburg, in Transylvania, still
holds out. In Transylvania, as well as throughout
the whole of Hungary, strong bodies of recruits are
being made. Every male without exception, from
16 to 30 years of age, is compelled to join the army,
and those from 30 to 35 years of age are placed as
guards of the cities and boundaries.
At Kronstadt and Hermantistadt the Hungarians
are giving such splendid balls as have scarcely ever
been seen in Transylvania, of course at the expense
of the Burghers.
The est Ate of Ferdinendsberg, in Transylvania,
presented by the Hungarian Government to Bem,
has, by order of the Minister of the Interior, received
the name of Bemberg.
Large bodies of Poles continue to emigrate from
Galicia to Hungary. The vast extent of the Car-
pathian mountains affords ample opportunity of so
doing with impunity.
The Constitutional Blatt of Bohemia says that there
is not a word of truth in the story which has gone the
round of all the newspapers, of the taking, the trea-
chery, and the lamentable end of Kaschau' by
the Russians. Not a single Russian has yet
been seen in Kaschau, and, indeed, up to this
very moment, there is probably not a Russian
soldier on the Hungarian soil, save and except the
20,000 men at Tyran.—.Hamburgh Papers, June 5.

A FAIR EXCHANGE NO Ronnernr.—The other
day, a carrier's porter stepped into a china-merchant's
shop in town, and throwing down an empty crate,
significantly cried out., "A penny!" wishing
puyment for the trouble he had been at. Be-
fot e the merchant had time to attend to the
demand, or to notice that the incomer was almost as un-
suited to the precincts of a china shop as a certainn quad-
ruped, the porter uncouthly, and as it turned out un-
luckily, planted himself against the window, and in doing
so upset a rich and rare porcelain ornament, 2/. or 31.
in value, which was of course smashed into fragments.
The owner was, as may be well conceived, greatly
incensed, but the cause of all the mischief kept his cool-
ness. Slinking out of the shop, and casting quite a
composed louk at the broken china, he nodded compla-
cently to the merchant, and then added, with emphasis,
" Gude day, maister; I'll no charge ye the penny noo !"
—Edinburgh Paper.
CHOLERA IN THE ClTY.—Yesterday an inquest
was held before Mr. Payne, the coroner for London, at
the Fountain Tavern, Redcross-street, on the body of
G 'ergo Robertson, aged 12 years, whose parents reside
in Glover's Hall-court, Beech-lane, Barbican, whose
death was imputed to an attack of cholera. It appeared
from the evidence of the father, that on Monday last
the deceased was perfectly well, but that after returning
from a walk on Tuesday ho was seized with illness, and
died soon after. Another child of the witness had died
since, and a daughter on Sunday last. He could only
account for the suddenness of their deaths from the
filthy state of the house in which they lived, one room
of which was occupied as a sleeping-room by !ourteen or
fifteen persons. The evidence of the medical man
examined confirmed the evidence of the father of the de.
ceased children, and described the effluvia from tie cel-
lar as the cause of the attacks of disease. The case
had been since represented to the board of guardians.
Th„ jury returned a verdict of Death from cholera,
arising from the effects of an accumulation of noxious
matter in the cellar," and attached great blame to the
landlord for not having removed the filth.
A RELIC or '4s.—ln digging a grave last week in
the north part of St. Cuthbert's burying.genund, a 24.
pound cannonball was taken up at the depth of about
seven feet from the surface. It is much corroded from
the length of time it has been embedded in the clay,
which, it is probable, cannot be less, than upwards of;
century, as it must have been fired from the Castle; and
the last occasion on which the firing of ball from it is
likely to have taken place could not have been later than
the year 1745, during the presence of the Highland
army. The 1).11, we understand, lies at the Recorder's--
1 office, West Kirke—Edinburgh Weeny Register.