The Sun.
London, England, 1840-09-26 00:00:00

MADAME LAFFARGE.

A letter from Tulle, dated the 21st instant, published
in the Gazette der Tribunaux, states that the inhabi-
tthanet,s.elriad(ilanfootunydetvgraeicnosvteAreidadtarmome
Laffargetheir asto;n
eisvhenn)etnhtosaet
who considered her guilty thought she would have been
acquitted for want of sufficient evidence against her,
but those who considered her innocent, and they were
numerous, gave way to despair.
M. Rasped, who was sent for by the Counsel for the
defence, did not arrive in time, his carriage having
broken down three times on the journey. He is going
to publish a memorandum, and asserts that he could
produce more arsenic from any piece of old furniture
than was found in Laffarge's body,
Madame Laffarge remained in a kind of lethargy all
the night after she had been found guilty ; the follow-
ing morning she recovered her energy. " It is not all
over between me and my enemies," she exclaimed ; " I
ran yet make myself heard, and the eonsciousness of
my innocence will support me. As to the verdict, it is
of little importance; a Judge more powerful than mine
has condemned me long since to a penalty which will
embrace us all. May I only live long enough to see
my innocence proclaimed."
A letter from Tulle, in the Presse, says that Ma-
dame Laffarge signed laer appeal to the Court of Ces-
sation on Sunday morning. "M. Raspail," the writer
adds," has been admitted to examine the arsenical spots
on the porcelain saucers obtained by M. Orfila, and
has declared his confident opinion that they result from
the nitrate of pot ass employed by that chemist, and not
from the body of M. Laffarge."

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CU It lOUS SUGARS.-Some beautiful specimens
of sugars have been deposited in the Royal Adelaide Gal-
lery by the Directors of the British India or Anti-Slavery
Sugar Company, through their Manager, Mr. Northoase.
The first is a specimen of refined sugar made from the
Palmyra tree of the East Indies; the second is the same
sugar in a state of jaggedly or kuroc.putte ; the third is
the same sugar without being crushed, as manufactured at
Pondicherry. The other spreimens are to illustrate the
enormously disproperrtioned prices we are compelled to
of the
at our cost, get the beautifully
pay for our sugars under the present system, and to show
refined
that foreigners,
sugar at the same price we pay for the coarsest and wore.
employed in
samples. Tee whole proving the necessity to the country,--
ta,hrseui meAspddoaeryltaeinddtrbxyt ,
Gallery,t liniethD 11 ob '
thisrCountry, during
Maywood,Ameri:a
and the vast profit to the Company of growing and i
clueing upon a large scale East India sugars, one intro-
ducing Company,
HAYMARKET THEATRE. M
after an absence of several years from
which he has been professionally
mayspe i amlsconsb ofe
seen which,
r
Hay-
market Theatre, on
where be enjoys a high reputation, is' to appear at the Hay-
, Pertinax ,Maxs)cophint. e character of Sir

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4:1/ EN ING EDITION.

POLITICAL DECLARATION OF
THE KING OF PRUSSIA.

The Prussian State Gazette publishes the following
" abschiect," or rescript, issued by the King of Prussia,
on the conclusion of the sittings of the Provincial Es-
tates of the kingdom of Prussia :
" We, Frederick, &c., to the assembled Estates of
our Kingdom of Prussia, &c., greeting.
" We have received the three memorials addressed
to us by our faithfuil Estates, and reply to them as fol-
lows—
" I. We willingly acpi.t. the donative of 100,000
guilders, the offering cerwhich is designated by our
loyal Estates an honorary right, with gracious acknow-
ledgments of the sentiments with which it is tendered.
"2. Respecting the election .of certain members of
the Order of Knights to represent the class of Lords,
our proposition was only designed to leave the ancient
right of the Knights of East Prussia to proceed to such
an election- *diminished, and to allow the Estates to
decide whether and in what manner they would proceed
to accomplish it. We do not withhold our assent from
the motives assigned by the Estates for not proceeding
to elect on this oecasion.
" 3. In reply to the declaration made by the Estates
conformably to our, proposition to them, to debate whe-
ther their privileges, or which of them, were to be con-
firme:l, we make known to them that a deed of assur-
ance to be drawn" -op in the usual and prescribed
manner shall be banded to them, in which the continu-
ance of the present representation of the province by
Estates is guaranteed. We likewise graciously decree
the assemblage of the Estates for the purpose of dis-
cussing the propositions made to them, conformably
to ancient right and custom, and that this ancient
right of the Estates of East Prussia be extended to the
Estates of West Prussia, who are legally incorporated
with t'e-em.

" Respecting the prayer for a future extension of
the representation by Estates, with reference to the
ordinance dated May 22,1815, we find ourselves bound,
on account of this reference, to dispel all doubts for
the future, and all misconception, by expressing
openl!, and clearly our view of the position which
from titre itn nemorial German Princes have filled to
wards their s tbjects. The events which our Royal Fa-
ther, of blessed memory, experienced in other lands
soon after the -22 d of May, 1815, induced him, as we
are from unquestionable sources informed, to take into
consideration the meaning to be attached to his royal
word (die Dentung, welche nit seinen Konigliehen
Worten rerbunden wurde). In consideration of the
sacred duty imposed upon him by his kingly office,
be resolved to keep the word he had given, by
avoiding the common notion of a general represen-
tatbn of the kingdom, for the benefit of the people en-
trusted to his care, and adopted the course which was
the :nest natural, and which, being founded upon histo-
rical development, was most in accordance with Ger-
man nationality, with earnestness, and in consequence
of the fullest conviction. The result of his provident
care was the institution of provincial and circular
Estates in every portion of the monarchy. This insti-
tution is one rooted in an historical foundation, the
foundation of a dislocation of the representation, in
the form which it assumed by the operation of the
changes which time has brought about, and which have
been duly considered in its organisation. The imposi-
tion of an immovable barrier to the gradual develop-
ment of the national representation by Estates, is thus
on the one hand as carefully avoided, as a jumbling to-
gether of the separate bodies has been avoided on the
other.

" We had the honour to aid in the execution of this
deign, and from the moment of its origin it. has claimed
our most lively participation. To cherish this noble
work, and to conduct 'it to a development advantageous
to eur beloved country, is one of the highest and
dearest duties of the kingly office which God has en-
trusted to our Lands ; and in discharging it we are de-
termined to tread in the steps of our father of blessed
menv:ry. Our faithful Estates may put full trust in
ow intentions I;espccting the institutions for represen•

tation.
We have, however, perceived with a warm heart
and high feeling of pride the expression of the noblest
End purest sentiments of inherited loyalty in the me-
morials of our Eitates—sentiinents which they have at
all times approved by deeds. These sentiments and the
experience of the past give us courage to enter upon the
often rough path which kings have to tread with joy,
for they arc a pledge of the blessings of Heaven.
" '.Ye remain graciously bound to our loyal Estates.
" FREDERICK WILLIAM.
(Signed) " VON ROCHOW.
" Konigsberg, Sept. 9, 1840."

MORTALITY in the METROPOLIS•

The following arc the results of " A Table of Mortality
in the Metropolis, showing the Number of Deaths from
all Causes Registered, in the week ending Saturday, the
19th September, I 840." The Table is issued from the Office
of the Registrar-General:—

CAIISES OF WZAT2II.

Weekly
Total. Average

1833:

Epidemic, Fndemie, and Contagious Diseases 156 265
Diseases of the Brain, Nerves, and Senses l5l 156
Diseases of the Lungs, and other Organs of
Respiration
Diseases of the Heat and Bloodvessels
Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and other
Organs of Digestion
Diseases of the Kidnors, S:e..

Cliikibed, Diseas©s of the litcrus, &e.
Diseases of the Joints, Bones, and Muscles
Diseases of the Skin, &c

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THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT GARDEN.
UNDER the MANAGEMENT of MADAME VESTRIS.
THIS EVENING, SEPT. 26.
Will be repeated the New Play, in five Acts, written by James
Sheridan Knowles, Esq., entitled
-;lI1F, BRIDE OF MESSINA.
John di Procida, Mr. Moore; Fernando, Mr. Anderson;
Guiscardo, Mr. Cooper; Isoline, Miss Ellen Tree.
After which the popular Farce of
SHOCKING EVENTS.
Mr. Puggs, Mr. Keele2, ; Griffinhoof, Mr. W. Farren.
To conclude with
THE WATERMAN.
Tom Tug, Mr. W. Harrison ; Bundle, Mr. F. Matthews ;
Robin, Mr. Harley : Mrs. Bundle, Mrs. C. Jones; Wilhel-
mina, Miss Rainforth.
On Monday, The Bride of Messina, with the Sleeping
Beauty.
Dress Boxes, 7s. ; Second Price, 3s. 6d.; First and Second
Circles, ss. ; Second Price, 2s. 6d. ; Pit, 3s. ; Second Price,
2s. ; Gallery, Is.
Doors to be opened at half-past Six—the performances to
tommence at Seven o'clock.
Tickets and plat es for the Boxes to be taken of Mr. Grogan,
at the Box-office, from Ten till Four, where Season Tickets
may be had upon application.
Private Boxes to be had solely of Mr. Andrews, bookseller,
!67, New Bend-street.

TIIEATRE ROYAL ENGLISH OPERA MOUSE.
The ORIGINAL PROMENADE CONCERTS will coma

mence on MONDAY EVENING, Sept. 26.
The Promenade has been decorated in a most costly manner,
and painted by P. Phillips. The Orchestra will consist of
Sixty Instrumental Performers, selected from the Italian Opera
House, Philharmonic and Ancient Concerts.
PROGRAMME. _

Overtures—Gazza Ladra, Don Giovanni, La Dame Blanche.
Selection from the Opera •f Guillaume Tell.
Quadrilles—Krakoviak, Les Martyrs, Gais Loisirs, Momens

de Folic.
Waltzes—Wiener Gemuths, Die Kosenden, Brandhofen.
Galop—Fortuna.
On Monday and Tuesday, a Solo on the Bassoon, by Mr.
Baumann.
On Wednesday and Thursday, a Solo on the Flute, by Mr.
Richardson.
Admission, Is.—Balcony Circle, 2s.—Private Boxes, 21s. each.
Commences at Eight o'clock, and terminates at Eleven.