The Sun.
London, England, 1838-04-24 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY, APRIL 24, 1838.

son of leading articles with a very laconic leader upon this
subject, which, considering that it conveys an official and
authorised communication to the public upon a subject of
considerable interest, might fairly enough have claimed a
more conspicuous position in the columns of our Ministe-
rial Contemporary. "There is no authority for the ru-
mour of her Majesty's visit to Ireland this year." We
have now quoted the whole information, as it appears in
rather a dark corner of the Chronicle. We cannot help
thinking that our judicious Contemporary, after the boasted
exultation which the Ministerial party, both in Ireland and
Great Britain, have expressed on the determination of the
Queen to visit Ireland this year, felt a little ashamed and re-
luctant to proclaim the absence of any other foundation for
this exultation than mere unauthorised rumour. " There
is no authority for the rumour," are words of equivocal
import. Does the Chronicle mean that there never was
any authority for the rumour ? Or does it only mean that
the authority upon which the rumour originally rested is
now withdrawn ? Upon the latter supposition the Chronicle
may be right ; on the former it would be rather difficult, as
it seems to us, to reconcile the assertion of our Contem-
porary with some very notorious facts. It is scarcely to be
imagined, for instance, that Mr. O'Connell left London for
the Easter recess without making some inquiry as to
the probability of the Queen's visit, if it were only for
the purpose of enabling himself to appease the anxiety
and gratify the curiosity of the friends whom he was
about to rejoin in Ireland. Nor can it be doubted that
Mr. O'Connell, in case he thought it worth his while
to inquire, had as good a chance as most persons to discover
how the matter really stood. But we find Mr. O'Connell
proclaiming in Dublin, no longer ago than Thursday last,
his confident expectation of the Royal visit, and turning to
the use which might have been expected the apprehen-
sions which some very silly people, both in Ireland and in
this country have expressed, of injury to the cause of the
Protestant Church and Constitution from that event.
There is evidently a change, a very recent and a very
decided change, in the intentions of the Court, as to the
Irish visit. To account for this is not within our province,
but we may venture, nevertheless, to hazard a conjecture
with respect to it. Whether that conjecture shall turn out
to be correct or erroneous it is certain that the coin-
cidence upon which it is founded is a very remarkable
one. On Saturday the intelligence reached London
that Mr. O'Connell had recalled into active exist-
ence the rebel Parliament of Ireland, which some
time ago he pretended to have dissolved, and which,
since that period, if not actually defunct, has at least been
altogether dormant. On Monday the organ of the Go-
vernment hastens to correct the misunderstanding in which
the public, both of Great Britain and of Ireland, had bee;
left undisturbed for several weeks, and to intimate that no
such thing as a visit of her Majesty to Ireland either is or
has been intended. It is not very easy to believe that
these two occurrences—one of which follows the other so
closely as almost to seem part of it—are entirely uncon-
nected. We think the circumstances fully warrant our
surmise that the renewal of the O'Connell agitation in Ire-
land, however agreeable it may be to her Majesty's Minis-
ters, is not regarded by her Majesty as the most suitable
or the most loyal preparation for her reception. To repel
the Queen of England from the Irish shore by a well-con-
certed and infallible contrivance for inflaming political and
religious animosities, so that they should not fail to explode
in her presence, is, if our conjecture be in any degree cor-
rect, the last of the eminent services which Mr. O'Connel
has conferred upon his country.—Morning Post.

lAie regret to state that the health of Mr. Ralpi
Lambton continues to be a source of great uneasiness and
anxiety to his friends and relations.—Sunderland Herald.
SINGULAR OCCURRENCE.—The child of a re-
spectable tradesman of Perth, about two-and-a-half years old,
swallowed, about nine months ago, a needle, and, as a natural
consequence, the parents were alarmed lest something serious
might ensue. Under this feeling, physicians were called,
who applied respectively emetics and purgatives, in vain, to re-
produce the swallowed needle ; but on the child for a number
of days making no complaint, they (the parents) did not judge
it necessary to persevere longer in a course of medicine.
Light months passed over, when the circumstance was entirely
forgotten. The other day, however, the forgotten terror of
the needle was again revived, by the agonising cries of the
child. The father, who was at the time at work, was sent for,
'and on examining the child, discovered and extracted the
needle. Digestion had the effect of reducing it about a fifth
part, the eye being entirely eaten away, but the point remaining
as sharp as ever.—Scotsman.
On Friday afternoon Captain Bastard of the Royal
.Horie-guards Blue, alighted from his cabriolet at the house of
oa nobleman hs Stratford-place, and gave directions to his
kroom, who was with him, to adjust a portion of the harness.
Nine was in the act of doing so, when the horse, which was a
i ft) spirited
the ousursdedeolfqtttst started
roffult ay
vehicle
was tremendousneary
ashed against one or two omuibusses which were passing
long. The alarm excited was intense, as several women and
children narrowly escaped being run over ; on arriving at the
end of South Moulton-street, the animal ran against and
knocked down a fine youth, named May, who was crossing the
road. Police-constable Hawker, 106 D, hastened to the spot
and found the gig of Captain Bastard on its side, and the
horse lying on the ground. He lifted up the unfortunate
youth, who was in a state of insensibility, and bleeding pro-
fusely from several wounds in the head, and having first taken
him to the house of Mr. Ash, Lower Brook-street, conveyed
him in a coach to the Middlesex Hospital, where he lies with
-but very little hopes of recovery.
A young man, named Baptiste Guyon, was brought
the Prefecture of Police, accused of the murder of his aunt.
uyon, who is twenty-one years of age, was an apprentice to
butcher at Boulogne. On Thursday last, he asked permis-:
on of his master to absent himself the next day, but was re..l
used. lie, however, contrived to obtain a key from a tenant•
the house, by means of which he could go out and return'
ithout his absence being noticed, and he left the house on
riday night. At Cormeil, Seine-et-Oise, Guyon had an
unt, seventy-one years old, who was known to be posseaset!
considerable property, and on Good Friday evening this
'oman was barbarously murdered. Two wounds were dis-
covered on her body, one of which had cut through the
jugular vein, and the other was in the stomach. A sum of
three thousand francs had also disappeared from an old cabinet
in the house. On Saturday morning Guyon went about his
usual occupations, apparently in much better humour than
usual ; but being suspected of the murder, a search was made
in his room, and after much trouble a blouse, which he
usually wore, was found, stained with blood. He could give
no satisfactory account of this, nor of where he was on Friday
right. This circumstance, and a suspicious cut on his right
ha:,d, led the authorities to order his apprehension. Galignani.
ALE ADULTERATORS--Mr. Finch, in his lec-
ture, made it out the other night as clear as possible, that
hardly fourpenny worth of malt was put in a gallon of ale :
for this wash some in the trade charge as much as tenpence
per quart ; in consequence of these causes, my trade, as well
as that of many others, has sunk one-third, and, unless the
alehouse keeper has something better to sell their customers,
the trade in general, as well as the health of the inhabitants,
must suffer who drink the beverage at present sold. The
brewers are getting as bad they were some twenty years back
in London, when a list of articles put into porter was pub-
lished in the papers of that day. Actions were threatened
against the editors, but not one took place ; they were defied.
Windsor ale was much drunk in London at one time of day,
hut, whether out of policy or kindness towards the brute crea-
tion, the grains were destroyed ; this got wind, and the brewery
soon after gave up business. It is to be hoped the trade will
return to malt and hops alone.—Correspondent of the Liver-
pool Albion.

ROBBERY OF SIGNOR EMILIANI, BY ITALIAN
BANDI rrx.—We are truly concerned to hear that Signor Emi-
liani, the celebrated professor of the violin, had in the course
of last month made a very narrow escape with his life, having
been plundered and maltreated by banditti, on his way from
Rome to Naples. The party attacked consisted of Emiliani,
Mr. G. Lee, an English gentleman, in whose carriage the
former had accepted of a seat, and Mr. Lee's servant; and
the spot where the affair took place, was a little beyond Vel
letri, at the entrance to the Pontine Marshes. Here they
were surprised by four brigands in masks, armed with cutlasses
and fusees, who stopped the vehicle, and stabbed the vettarino
in the breast, though not mortally. They then dragged
Emiliani out of the carriage, threw him down, rifled his
pockets of their contents, including a gold watch, and seeing
that he was reluctant to give up th key of his portmanteau,
they dealt him several heavy blows with a fusee, from tho
effects of which he has suffered severely. Mr. Lee and his
servant were also robbed (including the loss sustained by
Signor Emiliani) to the amount of 1501. sterling. Strangely
enough, however, the only persons upon whom the assassins
ventured to lay violent hands were their own countrymen,
Emiliani and the postilion. Front certain circumstances con-
nected with the robbery, there is every reason to believe
that these masked ruffians were no other than the Pope's
soldiers, The, bandits of the Abruzzi are a set of " gay bold-
faced villains," who seldom, if ever, adopt the precaution of
a mask, It appears, also, that the affair took place in open
day, at ten o'clock In the morning, and within a very short
dis,ance from a station where there ought to have been five
soldiers, but, at the time our travellers reached It, after the
robbery, four of these had disappeared. We trust that the
Roma.] authorities made thom account for their absence.—
Caledonian Mercury,
SHIP DESTROYED BY FIRE.—DEAL, APRIL
is.—The brig Charles, Hutchings master, from London to
Newfoundland, reached the Downs yesterday, mid anchored
about three p.m., all well. In the course of the evening
she was discovered to be on fire in the hold. The smoke
v.,as 45' 4 l'es;l ridino near !l(1.; the mi!Gtpr Witioh
immediately lowered his heat" and sent all the hands he
coil(1 spare to her assistance, when evtry means were
1.56,1 to Subdue the flames. All their efforts, however, proved
unavailing. About ten p.m. the flames burst from the hold
with incre4seci violence, Thu crow and pasongers were
rescued from their dangerous situation by the intrepid Deal
boatmen, and were put on board another vessel. She con-
tipUp4 Pvping tien a.m. this morning, when she 2uol;
and totally disappeareril
At Harwell, near flinckley, a poor woman named
flinits ha? her body completely covered with white scales as
large as a half-crown, upward's of a lint measure of which
come eff every morning : what makes this more afflicting is,
that the poor sufferer is enceinte.—Derby Reporter.

SPORTING INTLLLIGENCL

TAT TER SAL S-YESTERDA P.

TWO THOUSAND GUINEAS STAKES, P.P. (TUESDAY NEXT).
Several bets were made about Bamboo and Grey Momus, sonic)
at sto 2 agst each, and others at 9to 4. The last quotation was
2 to 1 agst Bamboo (taken in fifties, and 5 to 2 agst the Grey
(taken), 3 to 1 offered agst Mr. Thornhill's Saintfoin, anti takers
of 4 to 1.