The Sun.
London, England, 1838-08-03 00:00:00

hair again, and swam some six or seven yards with him to-
wards the shore. She was making the greatest effort to gain
the bank, to the delight of the friend} of the young man, and
would certainly have saved him, when he was seen to raise his
hands ein% ulsively above the surface to grasp the dog, and im-
mediately both dog and man sank to rise no more.
MURDER.— A barbarous murder was committed not many
days hack on a man, near St. Andre, in the Pyrenees Oii-
cntales. The bo iy of the victim was found with forty nine
w'unds in it, some of them eight or ten inches deep. It is
stated that, notwithstanding this desperate condition, be had
strength to crawl for some distance in the wood where the
assassin had attacked him, before he died. The object of this
,turder was to get possession of the money which the victim
possessed, and the deed was committed in the middle of the
day.
The Conseil d'Etat has definitively settled the statutes of
the Paris and Orleans railroad company, a few not very im-
portant alterations having been made in those originally pro-

posed.
The Presse gives a table of the laws and ordinances de
haute administration passed and published since the Revolution
of 1830 up to the p-rqent time, of tvlii;•11 th, following is a
summary :—Organic laws, 34 ; Political, 68; ?Administrative,
132; Financial, 126 ; Agricultural, Commercial, &c., 113;
Ordinances, 465 ; besides a multitude of ordinances and laws
of a local or private nature.
IN s NITY FRANCE. —lt appears, from a statistical account
of the hospital of Bicetre, that out of 800 insane persons now
kept in it, 400 have been pronounced incurable. The mor-
tality among the insane is one in seven; and the average age
of those who have died has been found to be 19 years. The
average is 50 for females, as ascertained at the Salpetriere.
The average stay in the hospital of the patients is about three
years. The months during which the greater number die are
the first five months of the year. The months in which the
greatest number of patients are admitted are June and July.
It is known that the human mind is subject to aberration at all
ages, from 10 to 89 ; but the age in which madness most fre-
quently shows itself in men is from 30 to 39, and in women
from 40 to 49.

Last Saturday the rival steam-boat Companies
who run vessels between London and Boulogne commented a compe.
tition of a novel description. The owners of one vessel lately started
advertised to convey passengers to London at one shilling per head, and
another, not liking to be outdone, issued placards, announcing that they
would take them at sixpence each. The regular fares are, how-
ever, still continued from London to Boulogne. the Magnet and Har-
leqztin carried upwards of 600 passengers last week to Boulogne from
London ; among them were many distinguished foreigners, who had been
on a coronation visit to England.

MALTA, JULY 11.—Arrivals of Ships of War
and Packets—July 4, the French steam-packet Dante, Lieutenant Ba-
yaud, from Syra ; 6th French steam-packet Mentor, Lieutenant Labrouse,
from Marseilles, last from Naples ; 9th, Her Majesty's steam-packet
Blazer, Lieutenant Waugh, from the lonian Islands; Dutch brig-of-
war Mercury, Commander R. E. Tunning, from Tripoli. Departures
of Ships of War and Packets—July 7, French steam.packet Scamandre,
Lieutenant Maffre, for Marseilles; Her Majesty's frigate Sapphire,
Captain Rowley, for England; Sth, French steam-packet Tancrede,
Lieutenant Besson, for Syra ; 9th, Dutch brig-of-war Mercury,
Commander R. E. Tunning. In Port—The Ceylon, bearing the pennant
of Commodore Sir John Louis, Bart.; Asia,• 84 ; Wasp, 16 ; steam-
packets Spitfire and Blazer ; and French steam.packets, Mentor and

Dante.
Tuesday afternoon, as the Gipsy, a Greenwich
steamer, was going down the River, an engineer, named John Hawksby,
a passenger on board, who was sitting on the rail in the forepart of the
vessel, fell overboard into the river, nearly opposite the Thames Police
office, at Wapping. The vessel was proceeding at full speed at the time,
and before it could be stopped the unfortunate man was drawn under
the paddle-box, and most seriously cut by the wheel. He managed,
however, to keep himself above water until the crew of a Thames Police
galley picked him up. He was taken to the London Hospital. He is
net expected to survive. He states that a person was collecting the
fares when the occurrence happened, and that as he was about to pay his
money he fell back into the water, and that no blame was attributable
to the people on board the steam vessel.
THE LATE VICTORIA STEAM-BOILER EXPLO-
stox.—Yesterday morning. at eleven o'clock, the investigation relative
to the late calamitous steam-boiler explosion on board of the Viceoria
steamship, was resumed for the sixth time at the Watermens' Arms,
Shadwell, before Mr. Baker, the Coroner, and Jury. T he roomh
was
crowded. Mr. Hall, of the Hull Steam-packet Company, to whic
ill-fated vessel b.,longed, was present; and also Mr. Jacobs, solicitor, on
the part of the Company, to watch the proceedings. After a great deal
of discussion, it was agreed that another adjournment should take place
till the surviving sufferer had recovered. The inquiry was accordingly
adjourned till Tuesday. the 14th of August next. The Jury were seve-
rally bound over in the amount of 401. to appear on that day.
Tuesday morning, as a poor man named Jameson
was working on a scaffolding at a house in Wimpole.street, which is
at present undergoing repair, he missed his footing, and was precipi-
tated to the ground, a distance of upwards of thirty feet. His right arm
and leg were mutilated to such a degree that Mr. Corbett, the surgeon,
to whom he was taken, pronounced immediate amputation to be abso-

lutely necessary.
THE TREACHEROUS FAIR.--A young man, no
a hundred miles from Middlewich, courted an elderly spinster of the
same place. For some time matters went on smoothly, and so corn.
pletely had she gained the confidence of her lover, that he entrusted her
with a sum of money to keep till their wedding-day. Some weeks after
an altercation took place, which ended in mortal enmity on the part of
the female. She had not the honesty to return the money to the owner ;
but pursued a different plan, which would at once gratify her revenge
upon the offending lover, and procure another husband. She accord-
ingly made overtures to a youth, on whose juvenile senses her show of
wealth, and the felicity it promised, acted so powerfully that he at once
consented to be her partner for life. Witfi the money given by her
former beau the license wasbottght, with the adjuncts necessary on com-
mencing a married life ; and they were united in the indissoluble bands
a few days ago. This conscientious and amiable creature is about forty
years of age; her youthful husband is sixteen:—Maceleefield Courier.
CITY OF LONDON LYING-IN HOSPITAL, CITY-
ROAD.—The half.yearly general meeting was held at the Hospital on the
'sth instant ; Joshua Hobson, Esq„ V.P., in the chair. The committee,
in their report, stated that the admission of patients had been so great
during the past half year as to require all additional ward to be
fitted up, and that the numbers were greater than at any period since the
foundation of the hospital, and, consequently, the expenditure of the
institution had been greatly increased.
GLOUCESTER MUSIC MEETING —The Stewards
of the approaching musical festival are taking every pains to melte it
the most attractive meeting ever witnessed in Gloucester. Frequent
meetings of the Stewards have taken place both in London and in the
country ; the most minute particulars have not escaped their notice,
which could, in the slightest degree, add lorilliancy to the meeting—
order and regularity in the arrangements, and comfort and convenience
to the visitors. The very first talent in England. both vocal anti in.
strumental, with a power in the orchestra hitherto unprecedented in
our Cathedral—perhaps the best adapted to music in the kingdom. A
new plan has been devised for increasing and improving the accommo-
dation for refreshments at the evening concerts by flooring over the
Crown Court to a level with the galleries, and using it as a refreshment
room, thus avoiding the inconvenience experienced on former occasions
ofgoing up and clown stairs and through cold passages to the County and
City Grand Jury rooms, which will, on this occasion, Le furnished with
(very convenience, as cloak and shawl rooms. The performances arc to
be extended to four days, and the whole will conclude with a grand fancy
and full dress ball and supper, for which Weippartli celebrated band
is expressly engaged. The arrangements of the Cathedral, shire-
hall, and court, will be executed under the superintendence of Mr.
Thomas Fulljames, architect, the county surveyor. There will be an
inclined plane reaching from the floor of the nave to the great western
window of the cathedral, in which the seats will bo so arranged as to
give the increased comfort of a back to each scat, and from their being
secured to the holder of a numbered ticket will give the convenience of
easy legless and egress at any period of the performances. The whole
of the seats in the Shire.hall will possess similar advantages. A ballot
for priority in choice of these seats will take place a week or ten days
previous to the meeting, on the plan adopted on similar occasions at
Manchester and Birmingham. It is intended to give a new and bril-
liant effect to the evening performances by introducing a considerably
increased volume of light by means of eight or ten chandeliers of wax
candles, instead of three, as used on former occasions. With such im-
proved arrangement, and with such a musical treat as is offered by the
names of Grisi, Lablache, Ivenhoff, and Brabant, we cannot but anti-
cipate the fullest success to the very excellent charity, in aid of the fund
for which tile mcetings of the three chairs have been engaged.—Wilts
Standard.
On blonds} night, a horse that had trespassed on
the Grand Junction' Railway at %Vinwick Quay was overtaken by one of
the Birmingham trains. All the carriages, with the engine, went over
the animal, which was cut to pieces. No further damage was done, and
luckily the train was net thrown of the /too/ Chrome*.
It has been said of Franklin, that '• in his public
character, his words and his actions were ever at variance with each
other." In his fist interview with Lord Chatham (which was during
the intercourse with Lord Howe), upon Lord Chatham mentioning an
opinion prevailing here, that America aimed at setting up for itselfe3 an
independent state, Franklin says, " I assured him that having more than
mice travelled almost frost one end of the Continent to the other, and
kept a great variety of company, eating, drinking, and conversing with
them freely, I never had heard in any conversation, from any person,
drunk or sober, the least expression of a wish for a separation, or hint
that such a thing would be advantageous to America." Jonathan
Boucher, indeed, says, that " of any settled plan to overturn the Govern-
ment at the beginning of the contest, Franklin should be acquitted.
Such a plan had for years been formed by a Junto in the northern colo-
nies ; but they did not at first think him a proper man to be entrusted
with so important a secret." But after such a plan had been explicitly
avowed, as it was in the " American Whig" nine years before the final
breach, in a paper ascribed to Mr. Livingston, it is scarcely possible that
Franklin should have been ignorant of what was preparing and ex-
pected.—Life of Admiral Lord llowc.—Quarterly Review.
ROYAL BERKSIIIRE HORTICULTURAL SO'
CIETY.—The third show of this Society was held at the Castle-yard,
Wallingford, on Wednesday last, and although the morning was some-
what unfavourable, the attendance of visitors was highly flattering to
the managers of this useful institution The general arrangements of
the committee gave unbounded satisfaction to the company, and the
various specimens entered for competition far exceeded, both in num.
ber and quality, those of any previous show at this season of the year.
The carnations and pieuties were of the best character. A collection
from the garden of Mr. Willmer, of Sunbury, Middlesex, were parti-
cularly admired, and it is understood that this spirited and talented
florist has been recommended by the umpires as worthy, to receive
the Royal medallion. The large tent was tastefully decorated with
choice plants, from the conservatories of several gentlemen connected
with the Society. A profusion of cut flowers, of rare and beautiful va-
rieties, from the garden of R. Beynon De Beauvoir, Esq., the respected
President of the Society, excited great interest, having been tastefully
applied in the general decoration of the tent. The useful productions
of cottage gardens were beyond all praise, and the umpires, at the ex.
press desire of the committee, trebled the number and amount of prizes
which
have been given at former shows to the industrious and worthy
exhibitors.—Reading Mercury.
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guarantee the return of the aerobtri°cl for abfew sous—a
the umbrella is sent fur next morning,• or it may be returned, and the
deposit recovered at any of the stations.
The horses in Norway have a very sensible manner
of taking their food. Instead of swilling thetelselves like ours with a
pailful of water at a draught, no doubt from the fear of not getting any
again, and then overgorging themselves with dry food for the same
reason, they have a bucket of water put down besides their arowanee of
hay. It is amusing to see with what relish they take a sip of the one
and a mouthful of the other alternately, sometimes only moistening
their mouths as a rational being would do while eating a dinner of such
dry food. A broken-winded horse is scarcely ever known in Norway.