The Sun.
London, England, 1849-09-21 00:00:00

RUSSIA.

ST. PETERSBURG; SEPT. 11.—The journals con-
rain a very flattering letter from the EMPEROR to
Count NESSELRODE, accompanied by a portrait of his
MAJESTY, to be worn suspended from his button•holP
in token of the EMPEROR'S acknowledgment of his
services.

TURKEY.
REFUSAL OF THE SULTAN TO DELIVER
UP THE HUNGARIAN REFUGEES TO
AUSTRIA.
Honour to ABDUL AlEsuin ; honour to the
Turkish Ministers! They have nobly done their
duty, and have refused to become the panders to
the vindictive blood-thirstiness of FRANCIS JOSEPH
and of NICHOLAS. The Russian and Austrian Am-
bassadors at the Porte demanded 'the extradition
of the Hungarian chiefs, KOSSUTH, DEMBINSKI,
MESSAROS, and their companions. A
arrived in Constantinople in the
l mission, that special mission being
tPIOSEt
bullyon
Russian
the
General
sseuLi
T4is into a compliance with the de
mands of Austria. A council was held, and the
' Turkish Government resolved not to surrender the
Hungarian refugees to either the Russian or
the Austrian Government, and on this decision
being communicated to the SULTAN, he declared in
the most impressive and determined manner that the
refugees should not be given up, let the consequences
be what they might. We trust that Lord PALMERS•
TON will do tis duty as nobly as the SULTAN has done
his, and that Russia and Austria will be given dis-
tinctly to understand that war with Turkey for such
a cause • mears war with England. We are rejoiced
to find that KOSSUTH and his companions are fur-
nished with passports from the English Ambassador,
and we trust that every assistance and support will be
afforded by England to the SULTAN which he may
require, to defend the independence of his country
against the attacks of Russia and of her vassal,
Austria.

THE INSURRECTION IN THE
lONIAN ISLANDS.
We have received the Extraordinary Gazette of
Corfu of the 7th, and extract the following :
"Cephaloniots "Argostoli, Sept. 5.
,—:n my Message to the Senate recom-
mending an rimiest; for the events of September, 1848,
I expressed the feelings with which my first visit to your
island had inspired me—my sense of the industry and en-
terprise displayed there, and my hopes that the new r ra,
upon which we were entering, would be marked, on both
sides, by confidence and peace. I visit you a second time
under very different circumstances. In the midst of
profound tranquillity, and at a moment when the
whole population ought to have been employed in
securing that harvest, upon which its prosperity, and
even its existence, during the coming winter, depends,
an outbreak has occurred in the districts of Leo, and
Scala, marked by crimes of so atrocious a nature,
that, if I could suppose them to indicate the spirit
of the peasantry in general, I must deem unworthy of
the name of Christians, or of men. Between the 28th
and the 31st of August, the houses of seven resident
proprietors were destroyed—murders of the most dia-
bolical character were committed. The Cavaliere
Metaxa, a man universally respected, was burnt, with
four servants, in his own house, while the whole popula-
tion of Scala looked on. Citizens well known to all of
you were seized and imprisoned, in order to enforce
compliance *ith the most iniquitous demands; and,
although the actual outrages were confined to the dis-
tricts of Leo, Scala, and Valtes, attempts were deli-
berately made to extend the system of terrorism through-
out the island, there being hardly a family residing upon
its estates that was not warned that its turn was coming,
while the wildest reports were circulated of intended
attacks upon Argostoli itself. The first information of
these excesses reached Corfu on Thursday, the 30th of
August, at 8 A.M. At 11 A.M. I wrote to his Highness
the President, and proclaimed martial law in the dis
turbed districts. At 3 r sr. the lonia sail, d with the
troops on beard who were to carry this proclamation
into effect. They reached Argostoli early on Friday,
the 31st, proceeded to Scala at 11A.M., landed at
3 P.M, and, though resisted by the ruffians—
who, after disturbing and desolating their own
country, had the audacity to fire upon her
Majesty's troops—they were in possession of the vil-
lage by seven post meridian, and will now proceed to
iuflict upon it the chastisement, which it has so justly
des, rued. Anxious to see the measure s resolved upon
by the Government promptly and effectually carried out,
I left Corfu on the night of the Ist of September, and
1 ended in Argostoli on the 2d, at nine Liu. I found
you in a state of unprecedental excitement and alarm.
The rebels were said to be advancing in large numbers
upon the districts of Icossimia, Livato, and Ornate,
while a combined movement of the disaffected upon the
town was talked of, in which the mountain villages
were to take part. The ships in the harbour were
crowded with the families of your citizens. All busi-
ness was suspended, and the Custom House closed. My
first care was to ascertain to what extent these appre-
hensions were well founded, and I give you here the re-
in so grave a case, I
Ire personally, as will
owtnohyiincoh'f the military detach-
meats, the primates. and the police. I believe that in
Scala the number of robbers and murderers—for I will
not honour them with the name of insurgents—in arms
amounted, at one time, to between two and three hun-
dred. They were headed from the first by Theodore
Vacco, and the Papa Gregorio Nodaro, justly surnamed
' the Assassin, who has been unceasing in his efforts to
poison the minds of the peasantry, and to involve them
in a struggle which would have made Cephalonia a de-
sert, had it been possible for it to be attended with suc-
cess. '1 here is ample evidence to prove that secret socie-
ties were connected with this movement—that it has been
many months in preparation, and is countenanced by
persons still resident amongst you, who fancied that they
could guide the passions which they stimulated and let
loose. It was probably in the hope of giving a political
colouring to crime that the rebels, on their marches
during the short period of their impunity, were received
by a flag and a cross—never so horribly desecrated
before. After the occupation of Scala by Major King,
Vlacco and the Priest Nodaro fell back upon Icossimie
and Livato, where they endeavoured to induce those vil-
lages to join them by entreaties and threats. The first
were resisted ; the second they had, happily, not the
power to enforce, the number of their folios, ors having
been reduced from 300 to 42, with whom Vlacni arrived
at Pirgi on Sunday morning, Sept. 2. n Sunday eve-
ing, it was reported in Argostoli that thensurgents werne
crossing
,the mountains with large masses of men,
and had reached San Liberale, on their way to San
Gerasimo. A strong detachment marched to occupy
the convent of San Gerasimo that night, and was pre-
ceded by Captain Middleton, one of my aides-de-camp,
and Mr. Fyers, the head of the police, who ascertained
at Valsamata that Vlacco, Nodaro, and forty-five men,
bad arrived in their neighbourhood on Sunday after
noon, and invited them to take part in en attack upon
Argostoli, but that the Contadini of Valsamata and
Frangata had refuse to have anything to do with such
projects, and had desired Vlacca to leave their district,
which he had promised to do the next day. In order
to satisfy himself that this information was correct,
Captain Middleton proceeded on foot to the spot where
the party was said to be encamped, and having ascer-
tained that they were actually, at midnight, in the
place, and in about the number stated, returned to
meet the troops, who arrived at three A.)!, on Mon-
day—just half an hour too late to capture the whole
band. Having followed the troops to San Gerasimo
at four AM ' and doubts being entertained as to the
route taken by Vlacco in his flight from Valsamata,
I directed the village of Trojanata to he searched
by Captain Nugent, on his return to Argostoli. I
have to regret there the death of the Primate, who
was killed while executing my orders, by a ball fired,
from a window,
and aimed at those who were standing
with me near the entrance of the church. He died al-
most at my feet. The two other men were killed,
drew their fate upon themselves,
by resisting the en-
trance of her
—ai'ety's troops into their houses, and
firing upon Captain Lawley, while forcing open a
door. It being now nearly certain that this infamous
M
gang of marauders is in the Black Mountain with its
two chiefs, and it being most essential for the interests
of Cephalonia that an end should be put, as speedily
as possible, to a movement which is not more remark.
able for the smallness of its means than for the great-
ness of its guilt, I have offered, on the part of the Go-
vernment, a reward of 1,000 dollars for Theodore
Vlacco
or Gregario Nodaro, if brought in dead or alive;
and the gallant officer who commands her Majesty's
forces has directed a combined movement to he
made, for the purpose of hunting them down.
Your excellent archbishop Las not hesitated to excom-
nrahicate a priest whose
garments are steeped in the
blood of the Motaxa famil fled, if tak. ti alive, lie
Shall certainly expiate his crime upon the spot
where the bodies of four of his victims are now
buried, as two of his associates will do this day, the
clearest evidence of their guilt having
has alreadyrazed to the been ground, in the been obtained.
His haus°

1
J presezice of the whole of the inhabitants-of Scala, and
one of the men about to be hung is the Abate Eustachio
Zapandi, Nodaro's follower and
pupil, who assisted him
1
in carr)ing the cross, and in administering unlawful
oaths. The peaceable and well-disposed inhabitants of
Cephalonia, whose lives and properties have escaped a
danger which no efforts of their own could have averted,
will see, by this plain recital of facts, that the Govern-
' ment has gicale its duty with nn energy befitting the

Last night, between the hours of eight and nine o'clock,
the inhabitants of Princes-road, Lambeth, were thrown
' into a state of the greatest excitement in consequence of
a report being forwarded to Lambeth Workhouse to the
effect that a man named Henry Weston, a waiter at the
United Service Club, Piccadilly, who resided in Wood.
street, Lambeth-walk, had deliberately murdered his
daughter, a fine child about eighteen months old.
It appears that the man Weston wsei a waiter at the
United Service Club, but for some reason he had not
been engaged at that place for some time past. He re-
turned home in the afternoon and partook of tea, when
he seemed in his usual state of health and spirits, and
after he had sat for a short period, Mrs. Weston stated
that she should leave the child in bed and go into Lambeth-
walk for a few articles that she required for house-
hold use. She had pieced the infant on the bed, and
having put on her shawl and bonnet she left the house
for about a quarter of an hour, and when she returned
her li-:band was st-.7l,iing at thu doer. They both en-
tered the Iront parlour, when Aim Weston asked him
where the child was, when ho coolly replied, ‘• I have
murdered her, and you will find her in the :water-but."
He afterwards added, " You may give me in charge if
you like." An elarin was raised by Airs. Weston, when
several of the neighbours came to her aid, and a light
having been procured they repaired to the garden at the
rear of the house, and upon looking in the water-but
the body of the poor child was found at the bot-
tom in its night clothes. The child was imme-
diately rescued and carried with all speed to Lambeth
workhouse, and in the meantime messengers were dis-
patched to procure the aid of Mr. John Jeffree, the sur-
geon, of Paradise-street, Lambeth. walk. That gentle-
run atWuded with thy :greatest pcomptittule, and used t