The Sun.
London, England, 1849-09-17 00:00:00

ITALY.

The following, paragraph is extracted from a letter
written at Rome oa the 4th instant, and copied into

Galignani :
" The President of the Republic, indeed, demands
nothing unreasonable. The Popo has declared repeatedly
that it is his intention to grant a wide amnesty, excluding
only the assassins of Count Rossi and the chief instiga-
tors of the republican movement—such as Charles Bo•
naparte, Prince of Canino, Mazzni, and a few others.
His anger against the Prince of Canino is strong, for he
does not regari him us a man erring from even per-
verted principles, but as a person who, from having
been ono of the most assiduous partisans of the sacred
college, had instigated the republican movement entirely
from ambitious motives. As to the secularisation of the
Ministry, the Pope had assured General Rost°lan that
he would do what was practicable, that he would have a
secular majority, and by degrees his Ministry might be
made exclusively secular. The question of the Cod©
Napoleon presented no real difficulty. The principle had
bean adopted by his predecessrl-, and he had shown his
desire to render it as general as the peculiarity of his
states would permit. The last point in the lettor of
Louis Napoleon—liberal government—was too vague to
prevent a good understanding on the subject."

SOUTH-EASTERN AND CONTI-

NENTAL STEAM PACKET COMPANY.

The half-yearly general meeting was held on Saturday
at the Bridge House Hotel, opposite the London Ter-
minus. J. M'Gregor, Esq., having taken the chair,
read the report, of which the following is an abstract :
" Thz accpunts of the company for the half-year ending
on the 31st of July last, show that the gross receipts for
the half-year were 10,6G91. I Is.
" The working expenses and the coat of repairs on all
the eight steam-ships belonging to the company (without
iniurance) were 9,2571. 17s. 51, leaving a balance in
hand of 4,4111. 13s. 7d., Wlich, with the balance from
the preceding half-year, 1001 Os. 5d., places 4,511/. 14s.
at the dispusal of the proprietors.
" The directors recommend that a dividend be de-
clared of 4s. per share, which will, after paying the in-
come-tax, leave a balance on hand of 2,222/. 85.83.: and
this balance the proprietors ‘vill probably resolve to add
to the reserve fund, which would thereby be increased,
to 12.2281. 17s. 11d.
" The capital account has been increased during the
last half-y. ter by 3,4131. Is. 81 the cost of the improve-
ments and substituticins effected in the hulls and ma-
chinery of three of the company's steam-ships.
" The merchandize traffic from Biulogne to Folkestone
by the company's boats is gradually increasing ; and
parties availing themselves of this route express much

satisfaction at the economy which they experianc4 in
using it, both in time and expanse."

The report having been inoved and adopted, and a
dividmid of 4s. per share having ben dee!ared payable
on the 21 of October, a vote of thanks was given to
the Chairman, and the meeting separated.

POLICE IN'TELLIGENC_E.
MANSION-HOUSE.
THE BOMBAY STEAMER AGAIN.—On Saturday, a
miserable-looking man, apparently in the last staee of
consumption, with hardly a shoe to his foot, applied to
the Lord Mayor under the following circumstances:—
Applicant stated ha had been engaged by the Prince
Castelcicala (the Neapolitan Minister) to procure evi-
dence to condemn the Bombay steamer; that the Prince
agreed to give him 1/ per week for his services, reel that
he had been actively employed for upwards of 22 weeks,
when his claim amounted to 22/. 10e.; that on this
claim he had received 101. on account, leasing a balance
of 121. 10s. unpaid ; that he had for minths been en•
deavouring to obtain payment, but that the Prince re-
fused to pay him until he had received instructions from
the King, his master. Applicant further said, that
hearing the Minister was about to leave England for
Siberia, and being unable to summon his Excellency
before the Court of Requests, he being protected as a
Minister, he had ventured to apply to his Lordship for
advice, as he was actually starving in the streets.
Lle further stated that his name was Cato. He was a
native of Amsterdam, in Holland, and had been i❑
England twelve years; but as be spoke English very
imperfectly he hid made out a written statement of his
case, which he had addressed to his Lordship.
The LORD 61AYOR, having perused the statement,
said it was certainly a hard case, but regretted he had
no jurisdiction to interfere, as Prince Castelcicala did
not reside in the City, but in Princes-street, Cavendish-
square.
The applicant then left the court, loudly expressing
his deteruaination to bring the case before the public,
and to expose the Prince in every possible manner.
GUILDHALL.
On Saturday Mr. Alderman COPELAND entered the
court, and taking his seat on the beach, addressed Sir
Peter Laurie, stating that Mr. Herring the celebrated
animal painter, had applied to him for advice under rather
peculiar circumstances, which lie considered of such ims
portance, not only to Mr. Herring, but to the public at
large, that he thought it would be better it should be
mentioned publicly. It appeared that Mr. Herring had
discovered that some parties had been disposing of copies
of his paintings for large sums of money, representing
that they were original ones, noel bearing his name.
Under those circumstances that gentleman wanted to
know what course he engirt to take, particularly as his
name had been forged to these spurious paintings, some
of which ha could lay his hands on, from information
he had received.
The Chief Clerk asked if the handwrit:ng noted be
proved ?
Mr. Herring said it could not. He had been in-
formed that two copies of his paintings were sold as
originals for 100/. each. Another person asked him
whether a certain work was his painting, and he in-
stantly ieorrned the party that it was not, as he always
had his canvas from a house in Long-acre, whereas the
canvas which he inspected came from Rathbone-place,
Oxford-street. Again, a gentleman named Turner, re •
siding in Gloucester, had given a large sum for one of
these sham originals, and, therefore, he considered some
stop should be put to such a system of deception.
Sir P. LAURIE said it would be most desirable that
frauds of this description should be put an end to.
Alderman COPELAND slid that the complaint did not
apply to Mr. Herring alone. It applied to both Mr.
Landseer and Mr. Stansfield, copies of whose works are
sold to an enormous extent as originals.
Mr. Herring said, that a gentleman going to America
purchased what he supposed to be an original painting
by Mr. Stansfield, and mentioned the circumstance to
Mr. Macready, who doubted its genuineness, and a letter
being written Mr. Stansfield said it was not his work.
The Chief Clerk observed, that he recel looted an instance
where a picture of General Lord Heathfield, by Sir Joshua
Reynolds, belonging to the Corporation, was lent to be
copied. The artist returned the copy, which was excel-
lent, but nothing whenever had been seen of the original
since, and the painting now remained hung up, with the
words not "by Sir Joshua Reynolds," but " after Sir
Joshua Reynolds."
Sir P. Launte consulted the Chief Clerk as to what
course ceull be adopted, and the Chief Clerk said, that
with respect to Mr. Turner, the party who sold the paint-
ing could be prosecuted for obtaining money by false
pretecces, but he was of opinion that a charge of
forgery could not be established, there being a decision
that a signature on linen to a deed was not binding.
Alderman COPELAND said, he had no doubt the public
would now be upon their guard, when making what they
considered purchases of original paintings.
Sir P. Lamm had no doubt the public would be
thankful for the pains Alderman Copeland had taken in
bringing Mr. Herring to the court, and placing the com-
munity at large on their guard.
Mr. Herring thanked Sir Peter Laurie, Alderman
Copeland, and the Chief Clerk for their advice, and
then retired, _ _

BOW-STREET.
Henry Sollick, a conductor in the service of art Ful-
ham Omnibus Association, was summoned before Mr.
Jardine for having violently assaulted a lady named
May, residing in Sloane-street.
It appeared that the complainant, who was in very
delicate health, about twelve o'clock on the sth instant,
was in the Strand, when seeing three omnibuses coming
along she put up her parasol to hail the first, but the
next one having driven up rapidly at the mo-
ment, she was seized by the conductors of each, one
laying hold of her round the waist, and the other
round her neck, and kept lighting across her face
with such violence that her dress was torn, and being
thrown on the footway she was much bruised, and could
not recollect anything more. Subsequently she found
herself in the shop of Mr. Ackermann, the publisher,
where every kindess was shown to her, she having been
qaite exhausted and in a fainting condition from the
rough usage she had received.
Mr. Adolphus Ackermann proved seeing the com-
plainant knocked down twice, and 11,-,r chin having hit
against the kerbstone, but the confusion was se great
that he could not speak to the defendant's identity.
Mr. J. B. Proctor, landlord of the Woolpack public-
h-Juse, Gravel-lane, however, swore to the defendant
being the person who followed the complainant into Mr.
Ackermann's shop, and said, " You recollect you hailed
me first."

Mr. JARDINE said, much as he was accustomed to hear
complaints against conductors, he had never met with a
more atrocious outrage upon a woman in one of the
most frequented thoroughfares of the metropolis. He
should commit the prisoner for six weeks, with hard
labour, and suspend his lienles for three months.
MARLBOROUGH-STREET.
THE CHARGE OF ATTEMPTING TO EXTORT 5001.—The
gentleman, and a lady whom he represented to be his
daughter, who were charged at this court, on Saturday
last, with attempting to extort the sum of 5001. from
Messrs. Harries, Farquhar, and Co. bankers, St. James's-
street, Pull-mall, and who refused to give either their
names or addresses,. were again br3ught before Mr.
Broughton (who sat in the afternoon for Mr. Hardwick),
in order to have the depositions taken on the last exami-
nation read to them. _ _

A lengthened report of the former proceedings has al-
ready appeared in this journal of Monday last, and it will
be in the recollection of our readers that the case was
adjourned till to-day, in order to allow time for the depo-
sitions to be completed, and also for the officers who bad
the case in hand to make inquiries as to who and what
the prisoners were. Smith and Shaw, the detective
officers employed in the case, now stated that they be-
lieved the male prisoner's name to be Pym, but that he
had gone by at least twenty other names. The female
prisoner was not his daughter, as was alleged, but
merely a woman of loose character with whom ho was
living.

Ttia
depositions were then read, and the prisoners
fully committed for trial.

THE RECENT CONCEALMENT OF BIRTH AT HOB-
BITRY.—On Monday last Mr. Craven, the reputed father
of the young female who was delivered of a child at Her-
bury recently, the discovery of whose remains attracted
so large a share of public attention, delivered himself up
to the Wakefield authorities. He was examined in pri-
vate, together with tho several witnesses, and his exa-
mination resulted in his committal to York for trial at

the next assizes. Bail was accepted for his appearance,
and some circumstances were alleged in his defence
which raised a doubt as to the truth of the grave charge
of immorality involved in the supposition of his being
the father of the child. It was alleged that Miss Craven
had been receiving the aidresscs of a elergymaa and
others, and the inference drawn from the allegations was,
that some one of her suitors was the probable parent.
The caso drew together a considerable number of per-
sons. Miss Craven is still at large.—Leeds Mercury.
Tan BOARD OF lIEALTIL—The prevailing epide-
mic has been much felt at Westminster, where persons
in high places have been attacked. Many persons in
Government offices have suffered severely. A very large
proportion of the staff of the Board of Health have been
amongst the sufferers, from the fatigue and anxiety to
which they have been subjected, owing to the great in-
crease of their labours and responsibilities. Mr. Chad.
wick was obliged to be absent for two days on account
of a very serious attack, and Dr. Southwood Smith for
more than a week. Mr. Austin, the secretary of the
board, wae also absent for a week and seriously ill, as
was the chief cleric, Mr. Edwards, for three days One
of the inspectors and the chief office-keeper at Gwydyr-
house have been confined by fever, and another has lost
his wife by an attack of cholera. During the vacation
Lord Ashley has been most anxious and unremitting in
his attention to his duties as chairman of the Board of
Health. He was relieved by the Earl of Carlisle, who
took his seat as president of the board on Friday and on
Saturday. Many deputations have been received, and
scientific persons, native and foreign, constantly con-
sulted. The duties altogether have been of a most ha-
rassing and laborious nature.
ALIVE! ALL ALIVE 0 !—A clergyman at Oxford
who was very nervous and absent, going to read prayers
at St. Mary's, heard a showman in tligh-street, who had
an exhibition of wild beasts, repeat often, " Walk in,
walk in, ladies and gentlemen! All alive, all alive, 01"
The wound struck the absent man, and ran in his head
so nand], that when he began to read the service, and
came to the words " and doeth that which is lawful and
right, he shall save his soul alive! (the clergyman then
called out with a louder voice) shall save his soul alive!
all alive! alive Or—Horace Walpole.
RAILWAY FAEES.—It is pretty extensively under-
stood that a combined move will be made next session
by the great railway interests, in part to repair the
madness of 1845 and 1846, by getting powers to charge
higher fares. The Government is considered not to be '
averse, provided reductions are made in the charges for
the conveyance of the mails,--lierepath's Journal. s

CHOLERA IN THE CITY.
On Sunday the Lord Mayor sent for the City
So!icitor in order to ascertain what had been done by
the committee en health suhserpently to the meeting
on Tl,lursday, and the following ad !teas from that
body to the inhabitants was laid before hi 3 Lordship
for his approval preparatory to its circulation through
thaCity.

The Lord Mayor said he entirely concurred in the
sentiments expressed ia the address. He thought
such a document was calculated to allay, and no; to
,xcite, alarm in the minds of the citizens. The state-
ment that the disease was on the decline might be even
more strongly expressed, but that circumstance wwild
not warrant the committee in n,la:ling their eff..irts.
The capricious character of the disease was one of its
peculiarities, and it appeared to him that while the
various authorities took advantage of the duration of
the calamity to tranquillize the public mi:l,l it became
their peculiar duty to adopt every measure which
prudence suggested to avert its progress and mitigate
its force.

" DUKE, MAYOR.
" The Coaunittee of Health of the City of Len.len
respectfully but earnestly iiavite thAr fullow cit'z 3:LS to
pertne, and consider in a spirit of candour aril confidence,
the following brief remarks upon a subject of eq IJ im-
portance and interest to all.

" This committee was appointed by the Court of Com-
mon Council to watch over the sanitary state of the
city during the visitation of the cholera, and it received
Authority to employ the influence and resources of the
corporation in cases of ens,A.gency, to aid the effirts of
the local authorities, wls,), under the superintendence of
the Government Board of Health, were empowered to
make all requisite preparations.
" The committee have endeavoured from the date of
their appointment Ttietly to discharge the primary duties
that had been devolved upon them, and they had hoped
that the calamity would have pased away without the
necessity of calling into action any of the other powers
vested in them by the Court; but this is nit now the case.
" On Wednesday last the El:ght Hon. the Lord Mayor
received through the city officer of health an of fi !ial in-
timation from the Government Board, that their expe-
rience in the provinces, and in some of tho districts of
the metropolis where the epidemic most prevailed, had
demonstrated the fact, that frequent visitation by medical
officers from house to house to detect, and subj.ct to ins •
mediate treatment, incipient cases of cholera and diarr-
heel —cases which, if neglected, would lapse into that
disease—afforded the only means of checking that
calamity, and had been rendered instrumental, under the
blessing of the Almighty, in saving a vast amount of
huma❑ life which might have been sacrificed if aban-
doned to thoughtless carelessness and neglect..
This communication from the Government Board or
Health was accompanied by a strong statement that
the local boards who had been required by them to
carry this system into execution in the city had 'partially
omitted, or entirely declined, to comply with their re-
quirement.

" In this emergency the committee, under the sanction
of the Lord Alayor, and in concurrence with the recom-
mendation of the officer of health for the city, have au-
thorised that gentleman to obtain the services of an
adequate number of medical practitioners to carry out
:be proposed system in conjunction with, the medical
Jilicers of the three city unions, and the committee pre-
sent this appeal to the good feelings of the inhabitants of
die city of all orders and degrees to give them their
4nnetion and co-operation in the prosecution of this un-
dertaking.

" The committee are acquainted with the apprehen-
sions expressed by some persons (whose opinions are
sntitled to consideration) that the system of house-to-
house visitation by medical men, perhaps strangers to
:he neighbourhood, is calculate.l to (1.,) mischief, by
creating time cessary alarm, and by abating the zealous
sxertions which are put forth in every quarter by the
medical practitioners within their localities.
" The c:munittee are of opinion that these objections
to medical visitation, when fairly looked in tile face,
will pass at once from the judgment of the intelligent,
and will not be allowcd a place even in the minds of the
less-educated part of the community.
" It is not proposed that the suggested medical visita-
tion shall supersede, but only act as auxiliary to the in-
estimable services which have been constantly re:leered
'sy night and by day by the professional men of the
city, as well to the poor as to the rich, during the pre-
valence of this calamity. The medical genie:nen to be
appointed for the intended service will co-operate with
die medical efficers in their several district-; and at a
meeting of those gentli men which has been recently hold
they have expressed their entire satisfaction with the
suggested arrangement; and this committee rely with
confidence o❑ the enlightened views and feelings of the
'nerabers of a liberal profession, whether in or in
private practice, to give their generous co-operation to
:he proposed plan.
" That accompanied by these explanations, the pro-
posed system of domestic visitation will excite no un-
founded alarm the committee feel confident. They are
assured by the officer of health that the disease is on the
decrease, and that, judging from its course in other
countries and the period of its departure from this coun-
try in 1832, there is reasonable ground for hoping that
the approach of the cold weather will terminate the pre-
sent visitation; but whether the Almighty Disposer of
events shall allow a longer or a shorter duration to the
calamity, the committee are assured that a calm and
humble confidence in Him who holds in his hands the
issues of life will not be weakened by the adoption of
measures which prudence and experience may suggest.
" By order of the Committee,
" THOMAS BARKLEY, Chairman."
Twenty thousand copies of the appeal have been
ordered to be circulated in the City this 'day. A
similar address, which was issued from the City Board
of Health, appointed by the Corporation in 1832, had
the effect of removing all apprehension from the minds
of all classes, and the house to-house visitation, which
was prosecuted with great vigour, inspired the
villicted with singular comfort and confidence at that
period of calamity.
Mr. Barnard, a member of .the City Committee of
Health, ascertained that from the 17th of June to the
13th of September there were received into St.
Bartholomew's Hospital 404 persons afflicted with
cholera, of whom 160 died ; of the remaining 244 the
treat majority have been cured, and the rest are under
treatment; that 48 have been buried at the expense
of the hospital, and 112 by the various parishes and
friends of the deceased ; and that since the 231 of
August no care of cholera had been interred in the
ground belonging to the hospital, the authoritiei
having determined to send the dead to cemeteries.

It 'Must be understood that most of the fatal cases
were brought to the hospital in such a state ofdisease
as to defy the ordinary remedies administered there;
and the opinion of the medical officers is, that if they
had been prescribed for at the commencement of the
disorder, in :all probability there would have been
very few victims.

The reports made to the Lord Mayor of the state
of the city prisons as to the health of the inmates is
very satisfactory. Mr. Burden, the Governor of
Whitecross-street Prison, states that he never recol-
lects a period in which the debtors' gaol was more free
from disease; that not a single case of cholera has
occurred, and that the few cases of diarrhoea which
have taken place yielded in a very short time to the
skilful and prompt treatment of Mr. Watl, the
medical officer of that establishment. Mr. Cope, the
Governor of Newgate, describes the condition of that
prison to be no less favourable; and Giltspur-streot
Prison, although the most incommodious and crowded
place of confinement in the metropolis, enjoys like
exemption from the inroads of the fatal malady. Mr.
Childs, the medical officer to the city police force,
has not lost a single patient, although the men have
been constantly day and night doing duty in the most
unwholesome neighbourhoods in the city districts.
We understand the course uniformly adopted by him
is to attack an incipient disorder with doses of ether
and laudanum, a mixture which he seems to consider
to ba a specific in cases of diarrhcca. At the same
time that intelligence of the favourable state of the
health of the city districts reached his Lordship, it
was intimated that there was not one Jew case in
Petticoat-lane or its filthy neighbourhood.

TUE CONSUMPTION OF BRANDT.—In the Board of
Trade Tables, which we publish this day, there is a
striking evidence of the rapid increase in the consump-
tion of brandy during the month ending the ith of
August, and which we have no doubt will be even more
perceptible in the month ending the sth of September,
when the accounts are published. In the single month
ending the sth of August, the quantity of brandy duty
paid for consumption was 205,968 gallons, against
136,379 gallons in the same month last year, thus show-
ing an increase of no less than 69,589 gallons in the
month; so that the additional duty derived from bran ly
for the single mouth was no less than 52,1911. In the
quantity imported the increase is even more striking.
In the same month it amounted to 552,178 gallons in
the present year, against 57,325 gallons in the cor-
responding month of last year. The quantity imported
in the first seven months of the year amounts to no less
than 2,407,117 gallons, against only 1,623,096 gallons
in the same period in 1848. The effects of the prevail-
ing epidemic are hero most strikingly seen by the in-
creased consumption of this spirit.—Econeniist.
The new novel, by Mrs. Trollope, entitled " The
Old World and the New," in 3 vols., is published this
day by Mr. Colburn, and may bo had at all the
Libraries. Also, just published-2. The Fortunes of
Woman, edited -by Miss Lamont. 3. British Homes
and Foreign Wanderings, by *lndy Lister Kaye. 4. The
King and the Countess, by S. W. Fellom, Fn. 5. Va-
lerie, by Captain Marryat. 6. Rockingham; or, The
Younger Brother, second edition. 7. Mordsuut Hall,
by the author of Angela, and Emilia Wynham, second
edition, 8. The Midnight Sun, by Miss Bremer, 1 vol.
STAMP ALLOWANCES.—On the 10th of October the
present stamp allowanc,s on the purchase of stamps of
" 74 per cent." will be discontinued, and "11 per cent."
substituted. In the year ending the s:h of J.lnuary last
the allowances amounted to 43,568/. 10s. 31, which have
been considered excessive, and hence the alt.Tatien.
Supposing as many stamps to be purchased under the
new regulation, Government will obtain a large annual
sum by the diminution in the rate of allowances under
the new Act, which will come into force from and after
the
_loth proximo. _ _

A Rica VAGRANT.—On Wednesday morning, an
itinerant organ player, who had been sleeping on the
public green, discovered that he had been robbed during
the night, while asicep, of no less than 17 sovereigns, a
hair-crown, and some coppers.—.Nort4 British Daily
IVews,

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.
PORTSMOUTLE, SUNDAY.—The Infl.-xiblesteatn-sloop,
Commander Hcseason, arrived yesterday from the
East India station. Her dates of sailing are—from
Hong- Kong, May 25 ; Singapore, Jane 2 ; Point de
Galle, 13ch ; Bombay, July 4 ; Mauritius, 22 ; St.
Helena' August 18 ; Ascension, 21 ; Madeira, Sept.
8. She did not put in at the Cape of Good Hope,
but found ,the Brilliant from that station at St. He-
lena, with dates down to the 4th of August, being 25
days later than those in The Sun of Saturday, by
which we learn that the colonists have assumed an
attitude of determined hostility to the convict impor-
tation. So universal and threatening in appearance
was the manifestation upon the subject that Sir Harry
Smith, the Governor, had made arrangements on the
arrival of the Neptune fog her convicts to be turned
over to her Majesty's receiving hulk Seringapatam,
in Sinaon's Bay, to await further instructions from
the llnme Government. The colonists, ho Never,
insisted that they should be sent away the moment
they arrived.

The Southampton, 50, Rear-Admiral Reynolds,
C. 8., the Geyser and Dee steam sloops, and the
Seringipatam depot.ship, were in Simon's Bay on the
2,1 of August. The Eurydice, 26, was at Mauritius
when the Inflexible touched there, and the Orestes,
14, was in the Mozambique Channel. Admiral
Reynolds was daily expecting the arrival of the
Castor, with Commodore Wyvill, to relieve him in
the command at the Cape, when he would proceed
to Rio and relieve Commodore Sir Thomas Herbert,
K.C.B.

The Randolph convict-ship put into Simon's Bay in
the middle of July for medical assistance, in consequence
of her late surgeon superintendent having committed
suicide by jumping overboard at sea while labouring
under temporary derangement, caused by erysipelas
in the head. Mr. Lawrence, senior assistant-surgeon
of the Southampton, 50, was appointed by the Admiral
to fill the vacancy when the Randolph proceeded to
Australia.

The Calypso's freight, amounting to about 2,700,000
dollars, in specie and California, unrefined gold, was
conveyed to the Bank on Saturday by special train
on the South Coast Railway, in charge of Mr. Super-
intendent Sutton. The Calypso sailed on the previous
evening for Chatham to be paid off.
The Arrogant, 46, Captain Fitzroy, sailed yester-
day for a cruise at the back of the Wight to try her
machinery, Sze._

The Pliitomel, Commander Wood, sailed at sunrise
on Saturday morning for Plymouth, to be paid off.
The Commander-in• Chief returned from leave last
evening, and re-hoisted his flag on board the Victory,
Captain Black wood.

The Vernon, Blenheim, and Gloriana, three splendid
specimens of naval architecture of the 50-gun frigate
class, arrived at Spithead yesterday, and are preparing
to sail for the East Indies. The Vernon is already
under weigh.
Mr. Edward Waller, R.N., late secretary to Rear-
Admiral Reynolds at the Cape, has been compelled,
from ill health, to resign his appointment, and come
home passenger in the Inflexible.
Wind S., light airs and cloudy.

LOVE AND ASSASSINATION.—A dismal tragedy
was enacted at Orleans, is the Rue de l'Aiguil-
lerie, on Sunday last. M. Desbordes, a young man, 20
years of age, residing with his mother in the rue Na-
tionale, was desirous of marrying Mdlle. Estelle Hareem,
a youthful workwoman, of that city. Some time ago he
addressed to her a love-letter declaratory of his affection
and his honourable intent'ons; the young girl asked
" time for reflection," knowing well that to wed in haste
was to court unhappiness for life. At length, in spite of
the ardent appeals and passionate intreaties of the gal-
lant lover, Mdlle: Estelle decided adversely to his suite,
on the ground that she Has too young to marry. On
Sunday morning the distracted youth presented himself
to the father of her whom he still called his betrothed,
and asked to see her. He was told that she was working
at her atelier' in the rue de l'Aiguillerie, and immediately
repaired thither. He asked permission to speak to the
young girl, and was allowed to retire with her to an ad-
joining apartment. M. Desbordes forthwith locked the
door, put the key its his pocket, and asked Estelle to re-
turn him his first letter, declaratory oi his flame. She
replied that it was at home, but that she would return it
at her earliest convenience. The lover, pale and dis
trasted, hereupon exclaimed, " Ah! Mademoiselle, you
know that I love you dearly, and the love of a man is
not to be trifled with. You must die!" Suiting the
action to the word, Desbordes seized the unhappy girl
by the head, drew forth a pistol, and fired at her twice.
,lie then retired to the other end of the room, took from
his pocket two other pistols, and administered the same
deadly discharge to his own person. The report of the
firearms alarmed the neighbours; they rushed in, and,
seizing Desbordes, conducted him to the meirie, whence
he was remanded to prison. The young girl was but
slightly wounded by one of the balls, but the other pe-
netrated to some depth into the nape of the neck. Des-
hordes fired into his mouth and temples. Estelle was
promptly attended to and is now out of danger. It is
even hoped that the wounds of Desbordes are not mortal.
Eitelle Hareau is a girl 19 years of age, and of remark-
able beauty.
FUNERAL OF WILLIAMS, TUE CHARTIST CONVICT.
—Yesterday the remains of Joseph Williams, the
Chartist convict, were conveyed to their last resting
place in the Victoria Cemetery, Bethnal green. A
mourning coach followed the hearse, containing his
father, mother, and other relatives. There were
several private cabs in the rear, which were followed to
the cemetery by upwards of 10,000 persons, the twen-
tieth part of whom were carrying the Chartist staffs of
office. In accordancd with the wish of the convention,
Williams was interred in the same grave with the young
weaver, who was killed on Sunday, June 4,1848, when
attending the Chartist meeting held in Bishop Bonner's
Fields. The usual religious ceremonies over the de-
ceased being gone through, the concourse left the ground,
contributing liberally as they departed to a fund being
raised for the benefit of Widow Williams and her six
children. The boxes for the subscription were held by
femalss, and had inscribed on them " The Liberty and
Victim Fund?' There were a strong body of police
present, but their services wore not required.
DEATH FROM CHOLERA OF ANOTHER CHARTIST
CONVICT.—On Saturday morning, at six o'clock, James
Sharpe, who was tried for sedition at the Central Cri-
minal Court with Ernest Jones and others, and sentenced
to two years' imprisonment, died in the Westminster
House of Correction, Tothill.fields, from an attack of
Asiatic cholera. Mr. Langham, the deputy coroner, has
fixed this day for holding am inquest ou the body of the
unfortunate man.— Weekly Chronicle.
THE SPECIAL FORM OF PRAYE2.—Yesterday being
the day appointed for the offering up of a special suppli-
cation to the Almighty to remove from this country the
pestilence which at present rages in it, the different
churches in the metropolis were densely thronged, and
in all of them a more than usual solemnity was observed.
'rho visitation has in itself been so severe as to leave
comparatively few who have not suffered directly or
indirectly. It was probably owing to this circumstance
that the recital of the form of prayer seemed, in many
of the churches, to excite an unusual feeling of devotion.
The sermons, either of the morning or evening services,
and in some cases both, had especial reference to the
existence of the plague, and contained innumerable
examples of the visitation of sin by the Divine ven-
geance, and of the efficacy of prayer, repentance, and
humiliation as a means of removing the wrath of the
Almighty and the sufl'ering consequent upon it.
TOWER HAMLETS REGISTRATION.—On Saturday
Mr. Thomas Young M‘Christie held a court at the
Court-house, Wellclose-square, for the purpose of re-
vising the lists of voters for Members to serve in Parlia-
ment fi'r the borough of the Tower Hamlets. Neither
the Conservative nor the Liberal party was represented
by an agent. There were forty-eight claims made,
thirty of which were allowed, and eighteen rejected.
Only one objection was taken, and it was sustained. In
the course of the revision Mr. M'Caristie remarked
upon the charges made by the overseers for cab hire,
&c., which in some instances amounted to four and five
guineas, and he reduced the sum in each case to ss.
ANTIQUITIES FOR THE BRITISH MUSEUM.--A
vessel which has arrived at Chatham from Bombay has
brought twenty tons weight of antiquities from Nineveh,
which are intended to he forwarded to the British
Museum fur deposit in that national establishment. The
authorities of the Treasury have given the necessary
directions for the unshipment and free delivery of the
antiquities to the Museum, and arrangements have been
made for the packages containing these valueble relics
to be forwarded direct to the Museum without being
previously disturbed, and there opened and examined by
the proper authorities, in order that every care may be
taken that no damage should be sustained by them.
DEATH OF ONE OF NELSON'S FAVOURITE
OFFICERS.—Died, August 27, at Little Hampton, Sussex,
Augustus B. P. I'. Hamilton, Esq., second son of the
late Admiral Charles Powell Hamilton, of Fir Hill, in
the county of Hants, and grandson of Lord Ann Hamil-
ton. The deceased, who was father of Alfred Hamil-
ton, Esq., of Gidea Hall, in this county, was born in the
year 1781 ; he was one of Lord Nelson's favourite
officers, and served under that
.great commander with
much gallantry and distinction in the late war, during
which he was frequently and severely wounded. For
his intrepid conduct in one of those actions he received
a medal. Nursed in the cradle of war, when peace was
re-established the service had few attractions loft for
the deceased, and he withdrew into private life, where
he lived and died admired and beloved by all who knew
him. lie has left a widow and large family to deplore
their loss.—Essex Standard.
TESTIMONIAL TO A CLERGYMAN.--The congrega-
tion assembling at St. John's Chapel, Broad court;
neLo.nrgs:
Long-
acre, presented to their minister, the Rev. Henry
_soln.
on Saturday last, a very handsome silver poetic C
rnunion Service, together with a Book of Offices, beauti-
fully bound. The inscription expressedttiat the testi-
menial aas presented by the subscribers "as a mark
of their affectionate regard."
ABOLITION OF OATIIS.—_
There is a clause in the
New Bankrueecy Act abolishing oaths, so far as a bank-
rept and his rife may be concerned. By the 246 sec-
tion, it is provided, " That all persons who are now, or
shall hereafter be declared bankrupts under any fiat or
petition for adjudication, and the wives of such persons
respectively, shall and may be examined before the Court,
after making and signing the declaration contained in
the schedule to this Act annexed, without being sworn
on oath.' "

The Baron and Baroness Nahays, and Sir Henry
and Lady Willuck, embarked at Black wall on Saturday
morning, on board the General Steam Navigation Como
pany's mail steam ship Columbine, for Rotterdam, en
Mid to BOVA, on the Rhine.