The Sun.
London, England, 1849-10-16 00:00:00

ITALY.

A grand funeral service for CHARLES ALBERT was
to take place at Turin on the 12th inst.
The Corriere Mercantile, of Genoa, of the 9th
inst., says :

The amount of capital offered for the purchase of
Rentes to meet the loan exceeds all expectation. It may
be affirmed, without any fear of mistake, that the thirty
millions and more placed at the house of Rothschild
would have been all easily taken by the capitalists of the
country itself." _ _

A fetter from Naples, of the 3d inst., states that
orders had been given to arrest P. DENTICE PRINCE
DE St. GiAcomo, a Conservative Deputy, who had
always voted with the Bozelli Ministry. Lately he
declared that the Ministry in question had acted
illegally, and could not any longer be supported.
Information of the intended arrest having been com-
municated to him he took to flight, preferring exile
to prison.

IRELAND.

(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)
DUBLIN, MONDAY EVENING.

Accounts reached us this forenoon of a bloody
conflict which took place last night at a place called
Killoughy, in the King's County, originating in an
attempt of a body of country people to carry off the
crops. The police, about eleven in number, inter-
fered, when the plunderers fired a volley, by which
one policeman was killed on the spot, two more
mortally wounded, and four more severely so. The
police fired in return, but with what effect is not yet
known, owing to the darkness of the night.
Another account says, at the first ,fire three po-
licemen fell, and while some of their comrades
assisted to carry away the wounded men, those who
remained were overpowered by numbers and obliged
to retreat into their barracks, into which several
valleys were discharged after them. The entire booty
was carried off in triumph to the House of Keys at
Rahan, with the exception of one load of corn, which
was thrown off on the road side to make room on the
car for the wounded banditti.

ELECAMPANE.
Sonnets and Odes have been echoed in praise
Of many grand doings on many grand days;
Days when a victory-scroll was unfurled—
Da) s when proud princes were born to the world;
But I've just tuned my harp to the lightest of notes,
And so smile as ye may while its melody floats:
For I must and I will play a merry refrain
On the red-letter days of sweet " elecampane."
Famed honey of llvbla, oh! where's thy renown
To the almond-stuffed hardbake's, so lusciously brown?
Olympian ambrosia, oh! what wert thou worth,
Compared with the " Everton toffy" of earth?
And the ox eyes of Juno! did ever they flash
Like the " bull's eyes" we bought with our Saturday's
cash?
Oh, tell us, Anacreon, was not thy strain
First awakened to rapture by " elecampane ?"
Who forgets the quaint shop, or the street-corner stall,
Where he purchased his " brandy" condensed in a " ball ?"
Where his tongue ran on politics freely and glib,
In the earnest destruction of " Bonaparte'a rib;"
Where the " peppermint twist" its fair rivalry tried
With the quite as fair "lemon twist" close by its side.
Tell me, men "upon 'Change," have your glory and gain
Yet extinguished the halo of "elecampane?"
How we crammed and devoured the treasures we got,
Rock," "candy," and " comfits," and heaves knows
what,
That were no Dead Sea apples with ashes beneath,
For the innermost morsel stuck most to the teeth.
What bites of ecstatic enjoyment we had,
With a "something to suck" we could never be sad;
The school and the lesson, the book and the cane,
Were endured by the tonic of " elecampane."
Say, who of us paused with the terrible question
01—how such indulgence would suit the digestion ?
Whoever asked whether such doses were good
For the " tone of the system " or " state of the blood?"
Whoever at that time turned nervously faint
O'er the drop of molasses and streaks of red paint?
Whoever discovered the weight of a brain,
When its trouble was balanced by " elecampane."
You may set us down now at the feast of a night,
Where " temples of sugar" gleam out in the light;
Where the " bons-bons" of France in pro!usion appear,
And the saccharine " crackers" come thick on our ear;
But whoever dreams there of beginning to eat,
Whoe'er thinks the mysterious things are as sweet
As the " stuff" that we craved, in King Lollipop's reign,
In the vulgar formation of " elecampane."
The Bard that's immortal has plainly averred,
That the man whom the breath of soft music ne'er
stirred,
Who hears nothing divine in Eolian reeds,
Is fit for nought else but the blackest of deeds,
I as truly and firmly believe that the child
Will grow into a monster, all dark and defiled,
A Lucretia or Nero, where hope is in vain,
If its heart is untouched by sweet "elecampane."
Weekly Dispatch. ELIZA COOK.

DEATH OF THE BISHOP OF LLANDAFF.

We are sorry to announce the death of the Bishop
of Llandaff, Dean of St. Paul's. His Lordship ex-
pired at his seat, Hardwick House, near Chepstow,
at half past one on Sunday afternoon. He had been
seriously ill for several days past, and his recovery
was not expected. The great bell of St. Paul's tolled
yesterday at noon from twelve to two o'clock. The
deceased Bishop (Right Rev. Edward Copleston,
D.D.) was born in 1776; elected scholar of Christ
Church, Oxford, in 1789 ; fellow of Oriel in 1795 ;
professor of poetry in 1802 ; provost of Oriel in 1814 ;
dean of Chester in 1826; and afterwards dean of St.
Paul's Cathedral; was created a D.D. by diploma in
1814, under special vote of Convocation for his services
in the University; was patron of six livings. The
diocese includes the counties of Glamorgan and Mon-
mouth. Annual value, 1,0001.

We understand that the Lord Mayor has invited
some of the most influential merchants, bankers, and
traders of London, to meet at the Mansion House to-
morrow (Wednesday), for the purpose of receiving a
deputation of members of the Society of Arts, who
have been charged by his Royal Highness Prince
Albert, the President, to explain the outlines of his
Royal Highness's proposal for establishing a great
exhibition of the works of industry of all nations, in
London, in 1851.
I3ROUGLIAM ON ITUNGARY.—A letter from Paris
says:—" On Thursday evening Lord Brougham dined
with the Marquis of Normanby at the British Embassy;
all the Foreign Ministers, except those of Austria and
Sardinia were present. An animated discussion of the
extradition question took place between Lord Brougham
and Kisseleff. On the latter asserting that all the noise
in England was made by the 'Liberal press,' his Lord-
ship assured the Russian Minister that Whig and Tory,
Lord Aberdeen and Sir Robert Peel, were united as one
man upon the question, and resolved to support Turkey.
This silenced Kisseleff, who abstained from pronouncing
another word on politics."
ABERNETHY'S COURTSHlP.—Abernethy, the cele-
brated surgeon, is stated thus business-like to have
wooed and won his wife:—While attending a lady for
several weeks, he observed those admirable qualifications
in her daughter which he truly esteemed to be caleulated
greatly to make the marriage state happy. Accord-
ingly, one Saturday, when taking leave of his patient,
he addressed her to the following purport:---" You are
now so well, that I need not see yeu after Monday
next, when I shall come and pay my farewell visit.
But in the meantime, I wish you and your daughter
seriously to consider the proposal I am about to
make. It is abrupt end unceremonious lam aware,
but the exceFsive occupation of my time by my pro-
fessional duties, affords me no leisure to accomplish
what I desire by the more ordinary course of attention
and solicitation. My annual receipts amount to 10,000/.
and I can settle 5,000/. on my le ife, my character is ge-
nerally known to the public, so you may easily ascertain
what it is. I have seen in your daughter a tender and
affectionate child, an assiduous and careful nurse, a
gentle and ladylike member of your family; such a
person must be all that a good husband could covet,
and I offer my hand and fortune to her acceptance. On
Monday when I call I shall expect your determination,
for I really have not time for the routine of courtship."
In this way, however, the lady was wooed and won, and
the union proved a happylone in every respect.