The Sun.
London, England, 1849-06-11 00:00:00

DERBYSIIME.

...
H. Wilmot, Esq., b Bann .... 1 b Bum 4
J. Clarke, Esq , c Hartopp, b
Elmhurit _
A. Bass, Esq., run out
S. Potter, Esq., b Benn
H. B. Leigh, Esq., c Fenton,
b Benn
G. Clifford, Esq., b Coleman 7 b Benn 6
G. M. Kettle, Esq., b Benn... 4 b Bonn ..
H. Earle, Esq., b 8enn......... 2 b Benn
J. B. Story, Esq., b Benn ... 9 b Berm 3
T. Knox, Esq., b Berm .. ... 0 b Coleman ... ..
H. Whiston, Esq., Tact out ... 5 not out 0
Byes, 3; wide, 8 . 11 Byes, 1; wide, 3 4

72 as
LEICESTERSHIRE.
R. Elmhurst, c Potter, b
Kettle ... 25
E. B. Hartopp, Esq , c Clif-
ford, b Clarke .... 0
H. Hoskins, Esq., C Leigb, b
Potter .. 2
W. Benn, E-q., b Clarke...... 2 not out ..
K. Fenton, Esq., b Kettle-- 26
Cornet Lawson, b Clarke .....• 14
Carlyle, Esq., b Wilmot ... 2
J. C. Harris, Esq., run out ... 0 c Potter, b Wilmot
C. Coleman, Esq., not 0ut...... 2 not out 8
W. Seddon, Esq, c Clarke, b
Wilmot
H. Brown, Esq , absent.. ..... • 0
Byes, 4; wide, 11

Leicestershire therefore won by nine wicket's.

AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—VIENNA, JursE
6 per Cents. • • 89%
4 per Cent..... ••••• • • • • •
3 per Cent....• • • •••• • • -.
per Cent--
Iper Cent.-- .. • • .... • •
Loan, 1834................
Ditto, 1839
Bank Shares-- ........
Estsrhazy's Loan ........ .

•••••....1,130

RAILWAYS.

The Northern• • •• • • • • • • • •
Gloggnitz ........
Milan .. .

•• •• •• •• •• 97)4

SUDDEN DEATH Tills MORNING.—The female
servant of Mr. Souper, secretary to the Thames Plate
Glass Company, Savoy•street, Strand, after giving the
keys to the men at six o'clock, as was her usual custom,
took a walk on the wharf, when alter a short time she
returned to the kitchen of the dwelling•house, and her
mistress wishing; to give her some necessary directions,
proceeded there, and found her a corp e. She was about
twenty-ft ur years of age. A coroLer's inquest will be
held this evening, at the Savoy Palace, Savoy•street,
Strand.

CRUELTY OF TUE AUSTRIANS.—For the honour
of humanity we had hoped to be spared the recital of
such atrocities as the Vienna Presse (Ist June) fuel'
records. The indignation which even this muzzled
organ of despotism cannot absolutely stifle, a ill be widely
spread through every country where a spill of manly
feeling survives. We give the paragraph wi'hout
further comment .—" Vienna.—According to our ad
vic4- s from Pres,burg. a married lady, convicted of cor-
respondence with the insurgents, has been sentenced by
a court•tuartial to the punishment of flogging, and the
sentence has been executed. Our correspondent states
that even those of whose good disposition towards the
Government there can be no doubt, are indignant at so
barbarous an infliction. We lament, mostly deeply, that
such a punishment could be awarded. We can hardly
believe that the penal laws, tinder which military com-
missions exereisa their functions, leave no discretion to
the judges, to substitute some other penalty fur one so
deeply wounding to the ideas and feelings Of modern
civilintion. We rfally must not give the Magyars and
other enemies of Austria such proofs that savage laws
can still be put in execution among us."

BLACKHEATH GOLF CLUB.—The gold medal an-
nually presented for competition by the noblemen and
gentlemen of this celebrated club, which has now been in
existence for more than a century and a half, was con-
tested for on Saturday, on Blackheath. Some very fine
play was exhibited, and at the conclusion of the game it
was declared that the Rev. W. Marsh had carried off
the prize in 143 strokes. On the reassembling of the
members at the club-house, it was stated that a golf club
had been formed at Bombay, and that the members had
done this club the honour of forwarding a medal for
competition, and that the contest for the same bad been
appointed to take place on the second Saturdiy in Oc-
tober. I❑ the evening the members dined together at
the Trafalgar Hotel, Greenwich, when the gold
medal was presented to the winner with all the custo-
mary honours.

EARLY CLOSING ASSOCIATION.—At an interesting
meeting of the Church of England's Your.g Men's So-
ciety for Aiding Missions at Home and Abroad, held at
their Sloane-street Branch Institution, on Friday even-
ing last, the Rev. W. Cadman, minister of Park Chapel,
Chelsea, in eulogising the society, and other similar re-
ligious bodies, observed that a little time back there were
no such societies. The cause of this was subsequently
explained by the rector of the parish, the Rev. Richard
Burgess, who showed that the reason why they did not
previously exist was mainly because of the then all
absorbing nature of business. Now, he added, that
success to a certain extent has marked the efforts of the
Early Closing Association, we find s3cieties of this kind
springing up. Similar testimony to the extensive bete-
fits which the Early Closing Association is calculated to
confer, and has already actually conferred on the com-
munity, was borne by the Reverends W. W. Robinson
and W. Niv, n.

THE DAVIS' STRAITS FISHERY.—The well-known
whale ship Abram, is now fitting out at this port as
quickly as possible for a voyage to Davis' Straits. We
understand that Lady Franklin has purchased a con-
siderable share in her, and although she is to be fully
equipped as as a whaler, instructions have been given, it
circumstances are favourable, to search Smith's Sound
and Jones's Sound in quest of Sir John Franklin. She
is to be commanded by Captain Granville, late of the
William Ward, of this port.—Hull Packet.

INCREASE OF RAILWAY RECEIPTS.—The increase
iu the receipts on the leading lines of railway for the
week ending the 2d of June, as compared with the cor-
n spending week of last year, is extraordinary and un-
precedented. On the Lancashire and Yorkshire, with
100. additional miles opened, the increase is no less than
8,3301.; en the Midland Counties, with only 40 addi-
tional miles, the increase is 4,600/.; on the London and
South-Western, with an additional 20 miles, the increase
is 3,600/.; on the Landon and Norte-Western, with en
addition of 7 miles, the augmentation is 3,250/.; on the
Great Western, with an addition of 40 miles, there is an
increase of 2 500/ ; on the London and South Eastern,
without any afaitional mileage, 2,5001; on the Man-
cheAer and Sheffi, Id, without any increase of mileage,
2,400/ ; on the London and Brighton, with the same
mileage as in the corresponding week of last year, the
increase is 2,100 L; on the Eastern Counties, with 27
additional miles, the augmentation is 1,700 L; and on the
Caledonian, with the same mileage, it is 1,5001 All the
other lines base increased, more or less, in the amount
of their traffic, and, now that trade is improving, it is
expected that the increase will continue. Nothing can
be more calculited to recover railway property from its
increaseeAß ino itch eAt rcarD
GasA
sheEreNgGiivNe
En.s—lll
undue depression thin such encouraging accounts of an
recom-
cat nding Baron Von Rathen to try the condensation of
carbonic acid gas in his locomotive air-bottles, generating
it from such carbonates of lime as marble or chalk, we
scarcely expected to hear so shortly of a definite inven-
tion for the very purpose. Such is the case, however;
and it is proposed, in order to cheapen the process and
render it all the more likely to be economically practi-
cable, that the condensed or liquified carbonic gas, after
the expenditure of its power in expulsion from the air-
bottles or reservoirs should be re-absorbed by qu'ek-
lime, so as to be as ready for re agency, with the help of
spuhlaptheuorfi cl acidime aas nad
marketablethe air- bot trleebsi,
dai
us aver;m.lt
leaving sul-
is
calculated
that, as a mere auxiliary, a steam-engine of 50-horso
power, by aid of such a carbonic acid engine, would be
equivalent to one of 95-horse power; and that, from the
saving of fuel, both marine and locomotive engines could
be worked with it to great advantage.—Builder.
prison is fearfully crowded
of-
fences. Over 700 prisoners are now in gaol, and yester-
witNhEdileAstGitllutleßpise°rsico;:lc'homismitted for most trivial
dav (Tuesday) SO vagrants from Thurles were added,
Tipperar y Vindicetor
ANTIQUITY OF TIIE POTATO ROT.—Thomas Baker,
a Quaker farmer, who is supposed to have been the first
to introduce the potato into the county of Durham, by
planting it about the year 1736, at Norton, near Stock-
'ton (a village famous for this root), was plain of speech,
arid, addressing his ftiends at the meeting-house at Nor-
ton, said " he was afraid some of them were like the po-
tatoes of that year, which, under a fair outside, concealed
a rotten heart."
IMPORTATION OF ZINC.—An importation has re-
cently taken place of a parcel of rods of zinc, rolled pre-
paratory to being made up or converted into bolt: ; and
although the zinc in the form alluded to might be consi-
dered in a crude or rolled state, the officers of the reve-
nue considered it to be chargeable with duty as being in
a partly manufactured state, and therefore the importers
urged a request to the authorities for their decision. L
was considered doubtful whether duty could legally be
charged on the article under notic which was stated to
have undergone no other process of manufacture than of
rolling, and therefore directions have been given for the
admission of zinc, when imported in the state mentioned,
free of duty.
COMMUNICATION BETWEEN HULL AND HAMBURGH.
—Since our last, the two steamers the Roe, Macgregor
and the Transit, both carrying British royal mail bags,
have returned from the Elbe, having been unable to obtain
admittance in coustquence of the strict blockade main•
tained by the Danes.—Hull Packet.

TO THE SECRETA.II.I( THE
I ii ET HOPOLITA N REFORM ASSOCIATION.
Sir,—On Wednesday the 6th, the Bankrupt and
Insolvent Members Bill, notwithstanding a consider-
able display of opposition, was read a second time by
a majority of 55 against 45. There seems a proba-
bility that in a larger House the opposition may yet
preponderate, and lead to the surrender, under com-
petent precautions, of the privilege against legal pro-
ceedings for debt now possessed by the Members, in-
stead of the present courting of unjust and crooked
interference, with nothing gained but the gratification
to individues of declaring their opinion that they are
better and more prudent than their neighbours.
Surely if the House were to frame a method by
which any of its Members might be given up to the
operation of the ordinary law cf debt upon due notice
given, it would be more for its independence
and credit then a pharisaic enactment capable of
actirg as an inducement to the fabrication or disco-
Very of debt with a view to the destruction of a poli-
tical opponent. There is hardly a Member in the
House against whom some claim fur the debts of an
Association,—as, for example, in the well known in-
stane3 of the Reform Club's claret,—might not be di-
rec:ed as the means of either alarming him into pay-
ment, or shaking him in his seat. There is not a
sharp practitioner in London who does not know,
that if the proposed law passes, the Member of Parlia-
Mt at will always be the best bird in the covey to
aim at.

The Affirmation Bill, which is for E x en ding the
permission of affirmation in lieu of oaths, was on
the same evening read the third time by 73 against
51. This process is generally held sufficient for
allowing a Bill to pass. But on the present occa-
sion the opponents of the Bill rose to speak on the
motion that the Bill do pass, while their friends to
the number of 22 (being the exact previous minority)
were brought up from the places where they were
to be found ; and it was only by the other side
bringing up four new votes, that the Bill was passed.
This may be slow process ; but nothing ever goes
backward.

Oa Thursday there was not a House; being Asect
day.

On Friday, in one form or alto., the House was
occupied with debates on Irish distress. The case
seems simply parallel to one where a ship's provisions
should have been found to have sunk unexpectedly
through the bottom. There is absolutely no remedy,
but that those whose provisions are thus gone down,
should be fed out of the stocks of those who have
any left. There is no use in complex speculation ;
the fact is short and terrible, that the support of the
people has vanished, and they must consequently die
unless something can be done towards supplying the
deficiency. If the food in the country was a fixed
quantity, as it is in a fleet at sea, there would be no
remedy but putting everybody, the lady passengers
included, upon short allowance of bread. But in a
commercial country there is the resource of buying
less claret and more Indian corn, importing fewer
opera singers and more macaroni. A good governor
of a furtress, or an admiral who had been at sea on
two-thirds allowance, would perhaps have a livelier
idea of the position of the case, than the majority of
the House of Commons.

In the course of the evening the former scene was
repeated, on the subject of the exclusion of strangers.
The reporters for the press were exclUded, came back,
and were excluded again, and strangers of all kinds
continued excluded, or at all events none were
present, during the remainder of the sitting ; all to
the great discontent of Members who had various
operations
.in hand, the knowledge of which they
counted on coming to their constituents. It is pro-
bable this new experiment will lead to the House
taking some order for remedy.
I am, Sir, your obedient servant,
AN OLD REFORMER.
London, June 11, 1849.

PRINCE LOUIS NAPOLEON.
TO THE EDITOR OF TIIE SUN.
Sia,—ln The Sun of the Ist June, 184], you have
inserts d the enclosul, wherein Louis Napoleon tells
Madame De Faverolles he was allied with Russia,
Austria, Sweden, Bavaria, Wirtemberg, Baden, and
Portugal. Would not this alliance justify the fears
of the French Republicans, that he aims at a coup
d'etat? And is not the recognition of the Republic
by Nicholas a dust thrown in the eyes of the nation
preparatory to his recognising the empire ?
The re•printing of that article would be interesting
to the French Republican people.
May 28, 1849. A LIBERAL.
(From The Sun of June 1, 1841.)
The Commerce of Saturday contains the following letter
from Louis Napoleon, complaining of the undue severity
exercised towards him during his imprisonment at Ham.
The Commerce introduces the letter in the following
manner:—
"We have received the following communications.
Our respect for misfortune, and our constant desire to
concur in alleviating all uncalled-for rigour, make it our
duty to give them the publicity of• our journal. We
trust that the Government will appreciate the claims
thus made on its consideration and on its generosity•
We desire it for the sako of the prisoner who suffers, and
for those who think themselves compelled to guard him :
" TO THE EDITOR OF THE COMMERCE.
" Sir,—l have the honour to enclose you the copy of
a letter I have received from Prince Louis Napoleon, and
of a protest addressed by him to the Council of Minis-
ters. I trust to your impartiality for the insertion of
these two documents in the earliest number of your
journal.—Receive, Sir, the assurance cf my perfect
consideration.
(Signed)
"' May 28, 1841.' "

" i SALVAGE DE FAVEEOLLES.

"IC3PY OF A LETTER ADDRESSED BY PRINCE NAPOLEON
LOUIS BONAPARTE TO MADAME SALVAGE DE FAVE-
ROLLLS.

" Item, May 24, 1841.
" Madame,—l send you a copy of the protest which
I have addressed to the President of the Council, v 6 hich
I beg you to have inserted in the journals, and to send
a copy on my behalf to the Ambassadors of all the
Powers with whom I am allied—viz., to the Ministers of
Itus,ia, Austria, Sweden, Bavaria, Wirtemberg, Baden,
and Portugal.—Rneive the renewed assurance of my
friendship._

(Signed)

" NAPOLEON LOUIS B.' "

" I PROTEST.

" Citadel of Ham, May 22,1841.
"'For the nine months that I have been in the hands
of the French Government I have borne every oatrage
patiently, but I can no longer refrain from speaking,
nor authorise oppression by my silence.
" My position ought to be considered in two dif-
ferent points of view—on its moral and on its legal side.
" Policy has rights which Ido not dispute. it would
be just for the Government to act towards me as towards
an enemy, and to remove from me the means of injuring
it; hut, on the other hand, it is inconsistent to treat me,
the son of a King, the nephew of an Emperor, allied to
all the Sovereigns of Europe, as a common prisoner.
"‘ In invoking foreign alliances, I am not ignorant
that the plea has never been of use to the conquered,
and that misfortune breaks all tie:; but the French Go-
vernment ought to recognise the principle hich has
made me what I am, for this principle is the cause of its
existence. The sovereignty of the people made my uncle
Emperor, my father King—and 1 am a French Prince
by bieth. I have, therefore, a right to the respect and
rega-d of all those with whom the vote of a greAt people
royalty, glory, and misfortune a7e of any weight.
" If, for the first time in my life, I boost of the
chance which presided at my birth, it is that pride be-
longs to my position, and that I have paid for tt e first
favours of tortune by twenty-seven 3 ears of trouble and
suffering.
" As to my legal position, the Court of Peers has
created for me an exceptional punishment.
" In condemning me to perpetual imprisonment, it
has only legalised the decree of fate, which made me
prisoner of war; it has endeavoured to ally humanity to
policy by kflicting the mildest punishment for the long-
est possible time.
" Accustomed from my earliest infancy to a life of
hardship, I do nut complain of the inconvenient simpli-
city of my dwelling; but Pcomplain of being subject to
vexatious measures which are not necessary to my safe-
keeping. During the first months of my captivity, all
kind of communication with the outside was denied me,
and in the inside I was kept perfectly aloof ; but since
several persons have been admitted to communicate
freely with me, the internal reArietions have no longer
any object.
" It is, however, since the time that these rettrictions
became useless that they have been more rigorous. The
attendance of a faithful servant—who was permitted to
follow me into captivity—meets with every annoying ob-
stacle.

"'So much terror has been instilled into the minds of
the garrison and the employ6s of the citadel, that they
scarcely dare to look towards me, and it is with great
danger to their interests that they can be P9re
one who evinces any wish to soften the rigoursl:' Eve
of my
captivity, even without deviating from their duty, are
threatened to be denounced to the authorities and dis-
charged frem their posts.
" In the midst of that France, which the chief of
my family has rendered so greet, I am like au cx-
coninaunictated b,ing of the thirteenth century; every
one flies at my approach as if my very breath wire
contagious.
" But this insulting inquisition, which pursues
me into my chamber, which attaches itself to my
steps when I go to breath the air of 11ea.% en
in a retired corner of the fort, is not confined
to my person; it extends even to my thoughts. My
family letters, the outpourings of my heart, are submitted
to the most rigid censure, and if a lett, r expresses
too much sympathy, it is sequestrated, and its author
denounced to the Government. It appears as if it were
wished to remind me every instant that I am a captive,
and to cry incessantly in my ex's, J7te
"`lt is not unimportant here to mention that none of
the measures I have pointed out were adopted against
the Ministers of Charles X. (whose chambers I now oc-
cupy), and yet those Ministers were not born on the
steps of a 'Throne; they had not been corAlemred to
simple imprisonment, but to a punishment more severe—
banishment. In fine, they were not the represcntative:,
of a cause which is the object of the veneration of France.
4, "The treatment to which I am subk eted is nei;ker
just, legal, nor humane. If those that. order it think by
oat means to vanquish m*, they are deceived; it is not
outrage, but kindness which softens the heart of these
who starer.
(Signed)

" LOUIS NAPOLEON B."