The Sun.
London, England, 1849-09-25 00:00:00

THE SUN,

The report and accounts having been approved and
adopted, the necessary officers for the ensuing year
were elected.

New trustees of the life fund were then appointed,
in consequence of the death of several of the old
trustees, and it was directed that the whole stock
should be consolidated, and transferred into their
names.

Votes of thanks having been passed to the direc
tors and the Chairman, which were briefly acknow
ledged, the meeting separated.

FRANCE.

The Gazette de Hopitaux announces the still fur-
ther decrease of the cholera even beyond what had
been anticipated. On Thursday and Friday the
number of cases in the civil hospitals were only 16
from the former, and 17 the latter ; while the deaths
on Thursday were 13, and on Friday only 7. In
private houses the deaths were, on Wednesday 21,
and on Thursday 18.
The Municipal Council of Narbonne, having been
dissolved by a decree of the President of the Republic,
a new election took place on Sunday and Monday,
when, after a warm contest, the Socialists succeeded
in electing their 27 candidates, 25 of whom were
members of the late Council.

LONDON,

The Milan Gazette of the 17th states that a great
parade was held there on the preceding day, to cele-
brate the end of the revolution in Italy and Hungary.
In the absence of Field-Marshal Radetzky, General
\Vratislaw assisted in his name.
A letter from Leghorn in the Corriere Mercantile
of Genoa of the 17th states that the military Gover-
nor has threatened judgment by martial law against
all persons who are found with packing-needles about
them, in consequence of wounds having been lately
inflicted with such instruments.

By a decree dated Pavullo, 10th inst., the Duke of
Modena has reduced certain taxes as follows :-1.
The increase of one fifth upon the direct tax, imposed
by the edict of the 22d of January last, is remitted
for the two last rates to be paid ;• 2. Two of the four
rates to be paid as a forced loan by rich landholders,
merchants, and capitalists are suspended ; 3. The de-
duction from salaries and pensions ordered by the
decree of January 22 is to cease from the end of Sep-
tember ; 4. The increase of ten per cent. on indirect
taxes is taken off from the 15th inst.

PIG MANURE.—Mr. Samuel Pocock, of Thoul-
stone- farm, after referring to a debate on the subject, at
the last meeting of the Frome Agricultural Society,
remarks—" Well knowing the excellence of pig manure,
five years ago I was induced to try it solely for turnips.
I tested it against guano and bone dust. The result
was quite equal to the guano, and beat the bone dust
hollow. My farm is one part clay and another sand; I
found the same result on both. I have also the manage-
ment of a farm at Hampstead, a poor thin soil, and there
the manure was equally beneficial. I have continued to
use it ever since with the same results. To carry out
any plan convenient farm buildings are necessary. I
have a large dry shed, in which, first of all, I put a layer
of dry coal ashes, about a foot thick and four feet wide,
to which the deposit of the pigs is taken both liquid and
solid, and as soon as it begins to ooze out I put on more
ashes, and so on till it gets to about four feet in thickness.
I then begin a fresh layer, and treat it in the same man-
ner. After lying some time it is turned two or three
times and then it is fit for drilling. I have put in this
year 45 acres of turnips with nothing but this manure,
and the result is now open for the inspection of any who
may choose to see it. I found the droppings of three
pigs, carefully preserved, to be ample for two acres, and
quite equal to three sacks of bone dust per acre. lam
notl speaking theoretically, but from actually experience;
and I consider that if we can get such valuable manure
for nothing but the labour, it is much better than to put
our hands in our pockets and paying 28s. or 30s. per
acre for artificial manures." The plan suggested from
practical experience of preparing a drill manure for
turnips, by an admixture of ashes and pig manure, I
believe might be extended to a very large number of
farming districts wiTh decided advantage. In the
ease of the ashes, they should be always prepared with
as large a portion of charcoal iu them as possible.
Those from coals are, it is true, peculiarly useful for
many soils, from containing a portion of sulphate of
lime in them as well as charcoal; but these are not com-
monly obtainable to any large extent; but then the
farmer has very often the means of sharing vegetable
substances; but let him ever remember not to burn, but
to merely char these matters.—Somerset County Gazette.
OCEAN CURRENT.—A bottle was picked up on the
3d instant on the shore of South Uist. In it was found
an enclosure showing that the bottle was thrown over-
board from a whaler off Cape Farewell, in April. This
enclosure was immediately carried by the person who
found the bettle to Mr. Young, the factor, who has
kindly sent it to us, and as it seems to have been thrown
into the sea for the purpose of testing the direction of
a great ocean current, we have pleasure in making the
enclosure public :—" John Young, surgeon of the ship
Alexander, of Dundee, journeying to Davis Straits, 19th
April, opposite Cape Farewell, I cork and hermetically
seal this bottle, and commit it to the deep. Should any
chance to pick this up, have the goodness to report us in
the newspapers. Ships in conreany, viz., the Lady Jane,
of Newcastle, and Regalia, of Kirkaldy. Bo faithful.' "
—lnverness Cow ier.
A FRENCII CENTENARIAN.--The Constitationne/
records the demise of an old lady named Moulinet, in
the commune of L'flotellerie, in Normandy, at the ad-
vanced age of 102 years. At the ago of 72—i. e., 30
years ago—the old woman sank her pro, erty in an an-
nuity, and the seller of the annuity flattered himself that
ho
~had made a capital bargain, whereas be has paid
about four times the value of the property. Widow
Moulinet, like almost all centenarians, preserved her
faculties almost up to the hour of her death. A short
time since she kept fowls ; one of the hens laid its eggs
in the garret, which .was reached by means of a ladder.
She told her daughter to ascend and fetch some eggs,
but the "girl" (herself some 75 years of age) was afraid
of falling, and came down again. " Come away !" ex-
claimed the mother of 100 years old ; "you are fit for
nothing." On which she actually clambered up the
ladder herself, and descended with an apronfull of eggs.
" Really," she said, " the young people of the present
day are not worth a rush."
THE AMERICAN EXPEDITION TO CUBA..—EI He-
raldo (the official organ of the Spanish Government)
says:—" The President of the United States, General
Taylor, has just published a proclamation wherein he
warns the citizens of the Union not to compromise
themselves by taking part in an expedition which is beign
organised in that country for the invasion of the island of
Cuba. The document to which we allude may serve as a
piece of salutary advice to the zealous Spanish autho-
rities on the other side of the Atlantic, in order that they
may be prepared to receive the invaders and administer
to them the severe chastisement which they deserve;
as the Honourable President says, there is no doubt that
the expedition is directed against Cuba, and not against
3lexico, as at first believed. This is in accordance with
our own advices, which some time ago informed us of the
plots that were being hatched abroad by certain spurious
sons of our possessions, expelled thence for their vices,
their anarchical tendencies, and from a regard for the
tranquillity bf the peaceful, loyal, and laborious inhabi-
tants of the mother country, under whose parental laws
they enjoy so much happiness and prosperity. We do not
hesitate a moment to affirm that if the authors of the expe-
dition, which is said to be composed of some 400 men, the
very dregs of the populace of the United States, succeed
in effecting a landing in Cuba, they will dearly pay for
their temerity. Oar valiant solders will give a very
good account of the affair, and it is probable that not a
single individual of those who tread the soil of the island
will be allowed to re -embark. But although we are
quite easy and confident of the issue, we cannot but feel
astonished at the benevolent calmness with which the
first magistrate of the United States confines himself to
warning his fellewecitizens not to take part in the enter-
prise—an immoral enterprise, destined to carry brute
force and anarchy into the territories of a friendly nation
and an ally. We believe that he might have operated
more efficiently had he availed himself of the police and
the armed force of the state for dissolving the expedition
at once. Perhaps the laws of his country do not allow
of this course. In this case we will only observe that
we are no admirers of that cherished unlimited liberty
which, in order to propitiate all, consents to the public
organisation of robbery, piracy, an el assassination. We
believe that the President of the United States would
not have spoken in such mild terms if, instead of dealing
with a conspiracy against the rights of Spain, he had
been called upon to deal kith some society formed in
Jamaica for fomenting the insurrection of the negroes of
Louisiana and Carolina, or of the Indians of Florida, and
for laying the basis of an interminable civil war in the
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James Powell, formerly secretary to Espartero, bat
latterly acting as waiter at the Druid's Hall, Farring
don-street, committed suicide. During Monday he
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seemed extremely dejected, so much so that his wife
deemed it prudent to ask Mr. Taylor, hatter, who oc-
cupies the shop under the Hall, to go up stairs and
speak to him. Mr. Taylor did as requested, when, on
entering the front room, he found him looking out of
the window. Having inquired what was the matter
with him, the unfortunate man turned round and looked
him full in the face. Mr. Taylor laid his hand on:bis
shoulder, when all of a sudden he heard the report of a
pistol, and in an instant Powell reeled round three times
and fell to the ground a corpse. Medical aid was in-
stantly sent for, and Mr. Bullin promptly attended. He
found that the deceased had shot himself through the
heart. The deceased, when he went out in the morn-
ing, pledged his coat at a pawnbroker's, and with the
money advanced on it bought the pistol. At one time
he was in very affluent circumstances, but was then
about to leave his situation. About six weeks since he
lost the sight of one of his eyes in drawing a cork from
a bottle of ginger beer.
SUSPICIOUS DEATH IN 111/DE-PARK.AbOIIt half-
past five o'clock on Sunday morning, a lad, while pass-
ing through Hyde-park, discovered a man's hat on the
south bank of the Serpentine, near to one of the seats
directly opposite to the receiving-house of the Royal
Humane Society, on the north bank, to which place the
lad immediately proceeded and gave information of the
circumstance. The officers of the society with the
greatest promptitude instantly manned one of the boats
and rowed across to the spot, where, on throwing in the
dreg close to the shore, the body of a man was got up,
placed in the boat, and conveyed to the receiving-
house and put in a hot bath, but life was found to be
quite extinct. Oa an examination being made of the
body the deceased was found to he about fifty years of
age, and that his face was covered with bruises, there
being also a large wound over the left eye, from which
fresh blood was still flowing. The deceased was dressed

in a dark dress-coat, silk Waistcoat, and dark buckskin

trousers with a check on the cloth, white cotton stock.

ings, and low shoes, nearly new. On both legs, from
the feet up to nearly the knees, were largo scars, cover-
ing nearly the front of his legs. On his person were
found a pair of silver spoetacles, a pair of wire spectacles,

a p3nkriffe, e, hall crown and a b..Nipence in silver, r.nd
threepence halfpenny in coppir, but nothing whatever
to load to hia identity. The body was subyiequently
removed to the dead-house of St. Margaret's, Westrnin-

ster, at Knightsbridge, where it awaits a coroner's in-
quest. Up to a late hour yesterday tho body had not
been identiiied.

FOREIGN CATTLE.—The steam-ship Wilberforce,
arrived at Blackwall from Tonningun, has brought 183
head of horned eattla; and the Eider, from the same

place, 152 oxen and cows, and a quantity of grain, the
produce of Denmark. The vessel Neptune, which

arrived on the same Jay from Bremen, brought 170 oxen
and cowa, in addition to a large general cargo of provi•
sions and merchandise, the produce of the Hanseatic
States. It will be observed that the arrivals mentioned

as having taken place on one day comprise threo of the
largcst average supplies of horned cattle from the conti-
nent, but they offer also other features entitled to special
notice, inastnueh as there have never before been two

such arrivals from Denmark on the same day, and no
such supplies have lately taken place from firemen, in
conscquonce of the late disturbed state of affairs in that
part of the continent of Europe.