The Sun.
London, England, 1849-10-20 00:00:00

TURKEY.

Accounts have been received from Constantinople
to the 3d inst. They affirm the accounts which had
been previously received of the adoption by Bern of
the Mussalman faith. His real religion, as he himself
expressed it, is hostility to Russia.
On the 2d 60,000 men were reviewed at San Ste-
faro, on the coast of the Marmora, by the Sultan.
Sir Stratford Canning and General Aupick were pre-
sent. After the review both Ambassadors were
honoured with an audience by the Sultan. Sir
Stratford Canning presented the Hon. Mr. Jerning-
ham, Secretary of Embassy, and Lord Mandeville, to
his Majesty ; and the Vicomte de Gabriac, First
Secretary of the French Legation, was presented by
G(neral Aupick.
Her Majesty's steam-frigate Odin arrived on the
3d from Corfu and Athens, with dispatches for Sir
Stratford Canning. It is understood that the Odin
is to remain for some time under the orders of the
Ambassador. Her arrival caused a great sensation.
She brought the news that the English and French
fleets were shortly expected at Vourla-bay, near the
mouth of the Dardanelles.

ITALY.
The Prefect of Police of Rome issued the following
ordonnance on the 9th :

"For some days past certain individuals have tra-
versed the streets of the capitsl singing, and crowds
have collected and accompanied them. Although those
assemblages have not hitherto disturbed public tran•
quillity, they are, nevenheles, contrary to the ordon-
ances of police, and may servo as a pretext for culpable
manifestations.
" The Prefect has consequently ordered the following:
—Art. 1. All assemblages of people, stationed on the
public squares, or traversing the streets, singing or not,
are forbidden. 2. Singing is also forbidden in coffee-
house and other public places without a licence from
the Administration. 3. The police agents and public
force are charged, under their responsibility, with the
execution of the present ordonnance. The military com-
mander shall lend them assistance when required, to
disperse such assemblages. 4th. All infractions shall be
punished according to the laws on tu.nultuous meetings.
" LE ROUXEAU, the Prefect of Police.
" Rome, Oct. 8, 1849."
The Constitutionale of Florence states, on the au-
thority of private correspondence, that at Naples all
the functionaries who formerly held offices under Del
Carretto were being re-installed. The Jesuits were
omnipotent at Naples.
A letter from Venice states that an immense num-
ber of passports had been applied for by inhabitants
of Venice and of the Venetian provinces, but that
the Austrian Government generally refused to give
any. Although the city is not openly subjected to a
war-contribution, the richest families are privately
forced to pay large sums. The port and city are
deserted, misery is at its height, and commerce at a
stand. The writer adds, that if the free port of Venice
is abolished, the city will be ruined for ever.

BEDMINSTER —A RAILWAY RIDE FREE OF
CHARCE.—A curious and amusing accident occurred tc
one of the lads belonging to the national school of this
town. It appears that the young gentleman was idling
for a day, when his saunterings took him to the neigh-
bourhood of the railway as the luggage train was passing.
As the part of the line at Bedminster which he was then
on is not far from the terminus, the engine had not got
up its speed, and was then, with the vans, moving at a
comparatively slow rate, a circumstance which induced
the youthful truant to lay on behind by the buffer of the
last waggon for a short run. Gradually, however, the
pace quickened, until at length the rapid rate at which
he flew along convinced the young shaver that it would
be dangerous to descend frog. his perch, and not perhaps
quite safe to continue there, so he crept up the back of
the waggon and under the tarpaulin, crouched up snugly
in a corner amongst the goods. Here he remained,
afraid to show himself at any of the intermediate stations,
until they reached Exeter at four o'clock, when, on the
porters coming to unpack the waggons, he was found in
his hiding place. " I'm very hungry," was his first cry
on being detected, which was probably the case, as he
had been six hours travelling; so the porters very
kindly gave him some food, and ou telling his story, the
people at the station sent him back by another
train; thus the youth had a good ride and dinner for
nothing.— Somerset County Herald.
PLYMOUTH, OcT.l7.—An inquest was held yesterday
at Burt's Ordnance Arms Inn, Devonport, before A. B.
Bone, Esq., the coroner, on the body of Jane Bell, a re-
sident in Andrew's-lane, who was found in her bed on
Monday evening in a state of stupor, from the effects of
which she never recovered. The unfortunate woman is
the widow of a surgeon in the navy, who died eighteen
months since. Since his death, it appears :he had con •
tracted dissolute habits, and was often intoxicated. On
one of these occasions, some six months since, she had a
quarrel with a naval officer who was in the house, and
nearly broke his head with a poker, which was seized by
the police, who were called in upon the occasion. In
her fits of intoxication the deceased used to rave violently
upon this subject, which, it appears, alwa) s remained on
r mind. She was the sole occupant of the house
where she was found ; and this circumstance, added to
the fact of its being known that she was possessed of
considerable property, led at first to the supposition that
some foul play might have taken place. It was quite
clear, however, from the evidence, that the deceased
roust have poisoned herself—adding another to the list of
those who have caused their own death from a too free in-
dulgence in intoxicating liquors. She had upwards of
2004 in the savings' bank, and, besides the property pro•
duced in the evidence, it is said she has a chest of plate of
considerable value. The jury returned a verdict that de-
ceased died from the effects of a peiscn called morphia,
taken when in a state of temporary insanity.
SHIPSTON-ON-STOUR. BALLOON A •CENT. -On
Thursday last, Mr. Green, Rhe well known aeronaut,
made a splendid ascent from the delightful garden oF the
Blisworth Hotel, adjoining the North-Western Railway
station, at the Northampton junction. On this occasion
Mr. Green was accompanied by Mr. Rash, of Elsenharn-
hill, Essex, for the purpose of again testing the merits
and action of the newly invented aneroid barometer,
which performed well during the ascent arid descent,
indication the elevation and depression of the balloon to
11.000 feet, the greatest altitude attained. The descent
was effected in Tredingham Field, near Shipston-on-
Stour.— Worcester .Journal.

A man may be great by chance ; but never wise
nor good, without taking pains for it.—Eliza Cook's
Journal.