The Sun.
London, England, 1836-04-15 00:00:00

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The average of the whole period is 17f. 78c. per hectolitre,
which is equal to 40s Bd. per quarter.
To compare the aver,..2,,e prices of wheat in France with
those of England and Wales, it is necessary to add :10 per
cent. to the latter, for difference it, the quality of the wheat,
and the difference in the mode of taking the averages, and,
it then appearing that the average price of wheat in England
and Wales for the six weeks ending the Ist instant is
445. 7d. per quarter, this, with the addition of 20 per cent.,
makes 535. 61. ; and the average price of wheat in France at
the same period being 355. sd. per quarter, it follows that
wheat is 51.06 per cent. dearer in England than in France.

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SHOCKING TM URDER.—A tinker named Butler has
been committed to Cork gaol, charged with the murder of
his wife. lie is suspected of the murder of another tinker
named Sullivan, and it is supposed he got rid of his own
wife in order to marry the wife of the latter.

T is British Legion has certainly nothing to thank
General Cordova for; while the claims he has to the grati-
tude of his country will be considered very low by the impar-
tial observer of passing events. General Cordova, who has
scarcely attained his 38th year, is unquestionably a man of
coasirable talent, but of that order of mind superficial rather
than profound, which, with peculiar tact, appropriates as its
own the profundity of others. Under a fascinating polish of
exterior and an air of military frankness, he conceals the most
restless ambition and a spirit of consummate intrigue, which,
fertile in resource and flexible in varying its means, has en-
abled him, while directing the operations of the army in the
north, to direct at the same time the manoeuvres of a strong
party et Madrid, of which he is the head. His political opi-
nions are notorious. One of the warmest partisans of the des-
postismo illastrado, Cordova has become a Liberal, par ton,
rather than par sentiment. His liberalism dates from the pe-
riod of his diplomatic mission to Portugal. Appointed since
to the command of the army, he has carried into the camp all
the wiles of diplomacy, and has filled the army with his crea-
tures. The game which he has been playing has been a deep
one. While opposing the Carlists in the north, he closely
watched the movements of the Exaltados in the south, from
the conviction that the extinction of the Carlists would insure
the Movement party in power. This party Cordova hates with
all the rancour of political animosity. Rather than see this
party in power, he would, to-morrow, make common cause
with the more moderate section of the Carlists. Hence the
Fabian policy he has pursued in the field—hence his dislike
to the Legion, a force that he feels, if brought into play,
would inevitably, by its operations, thwart his treacherous
policy—hence all the resources of his talent for intrigue were
called into play to lower it in the estimation of the Spanish
nation, and to compromise its military character, in which he
has well nigh succeeded. But one of those unexpected events
which often sport with the most profound combinations has,
at the eleventh hour, foiled him ; this was the despatch, re-
ceived lately, from Lord John Hay, the commander of the
British naval forces on the coast of Cantabria, announcing
that he ha'd received orders from his Government to co-operate
actively with the forces of the Queen. To Cordova this in-
telligence—delighted though he pretends to be—has been a
death-blow. Events are now beyond his controul, and he
already sees the necessity of changing his line of operations,
the first indication of which has been a well-feigned sympathy
for the sufferings of the legion, formerly with him a subject of
derision, and complimentary remarks upon the military ap-
pearance of the troops.
LOVE AND MURDER.—At the Assize Court of
Ardeche, France, Justine Pcssel, a young woman, aged 25,
appeared before the Court, charged with having murdered her
lover. The prisoner answered all the questions put to her
by the President without the least reserve, and entered volun-
tarily into the details of the horrid affair. The manner in
which she described the infliction of the fatal wound, the an-
guish of her victim, and the heartfelt sorrow which she now
experienced for what she had done, affected most of those
present, even to tears. She stated that they had a serious
disagreement, and she resolved to kill him ; but his caresses
had restored her love, and she abandoned the wicked thought.
He was lying beside her asleep, when she reached for some-
thing from a basket, which disturbed him, and he spoke an-
grily to her. Then returned all her feelings of resentment.
" I felt," she said, " under an irresistible influence which
urged me to the commission of the crime which I had before
contemplated. He turned round, and again went to sleep.
I pictured to myself Jamet (her lover) marrying Marie Ann
Giraud (a girl of whom she was jealous), and this thought
filled me with madness. I called to him to take me in his
arms, to assure me of his fidelity, but he slept on, and regarded
not my words. I then took up the knife [The pri-
soner here fainted, and fell senseless on the floor.] The Jury
were called upon to give their verdict, when they found her
guilty of homicide, but without premeditation, and under ex-
tenuating circumstances.

(Continued from our First Edition of Yesterday.)
The vote of James Quigley was objected to by the pets
tioners,as coming within the class decided by the resolution
of the Committee.
Mr. Aus'rEN denied this, whereupon the Learned Gentle-
man raised an ingenious argument on the extent to which the
doctrine of presumptive evidence could be pushed; and the
Committee having deliberated, came to the following resolu-
tion :—" That no sufficient evidence has been adduced to con-
nect James Quigley with the house alleged by Johnston to
have been in arrears, and that, therefore, the vote must be al-
lowed."
The Committee then adjourned till eleven o'clock this day.

OMMITT

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF LORDS, APRIL 14.

The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on tho Woolsack, at
tre usual hour.
The Arbroath and Forfar Railway Bill, ar.d others on the
table, were forwarded a stage.
On the motion of the Marquis of SALISBURY, the Bir-
mingham and Gloucestershire Railway Bill was read a second
time.

.....
The Duke of CUMBERLAND presented a petition from
the Mayor, Sheriffs, and Common Council of the City of
Dublin, against the Irish Municipal Corporation Bill.
Sir A. L. HAY and others from the Commons, brought up
the Dundee and Forfar Railway Bill, and some other Bills.