The Sun.
London, England, 1847-08-24 00:00:00

THE IRISH RELIEF COMMISSION
The following is the fifth report of the Irish Re-
lief Commissioners to the Lords of the Treasury :
Relief Commission-cffice, Dublin,
August 17, 1847.
May it please your Lordships,—We have the honour
to transmit our fifth monthly report as Commissioners
under the Act 10th Victoria, cap. 7.
The greatest number ot electoral divisions under the
operation of the Act since our last report has been
1,826; the largest amount of gratuitous relief (which
attained its muximute at that period) supported
2,920,792 persons per day; and the number to whom
sold 99,920.
The returns to the Ist of August show a gradual re-
duction to 2,467,980 gratuitous, and 52,387 sold; the
cost of each ration, including establishment and ex
ruses, averages 2d.
The etormous number of 3,000,000 of individuals
(exceeding one-third of the entire population of the
c„uett)), supported by a gratuitous distribution of mere
food, demonstrates (allowing even ter some extent of
malappropriation) the awful amount of distress occa-
sioned by the failure of the crop of potatoes.
Where the evil was so great, and so generally spread,
no inoirt et method of affording relief could have been of
avail; ntr could any measure short of distributing food
to the multitude have prevented the effect of absolute
famine widely extended.
When we contemplate- that it has been attended with
that result, which, above all, was in the humane con-
sideration of the Legislature, a certain degree of
abuse, to which the system must be liable, may be sub
mitred to, although it cannot be justified on the part of
those committing it. or of those by whose arrangement);
it might have been prevented.
We have had occasion to deprecate these abuses,
which, unhappily, were but too numerous ; and our
circulars, instructions, and regulations, have naturally
tended generally to repress them, giving an impression,
perhaps, that the Occasion for such complaints was
almost universal. We may, therefore, reasonably take
this opportunity of reporting that this was Jar from
being the case ; and that, with the zefilous co-operation
of the greater number of the committees, aided by some
fortuitous circumstances, the amount of the expenditure
on this vast measure has been less than we at first an-
ticipated.
We have also to report most favourably to your
Lordships on the exertions of our inspecting officers.
who have carried on a most difficult and arduous service
with a degree of temper, energy, and intelligence, highly
creditable to there.
Much more of the conduct of the proceedings was
thrown upon them by the committees than was ever in
tended, or than ought to have been required ; and,
although frequently under the necessity of strenuously
opposing the propositions of committees and individuals,
there has been scarcely an instance of their giving per-
sonal offence, or of their losing the respect of the gentle-
men of character and influence ; and many of their
reports are highly interesting.
The period of the year that brings with it the greatest
amount of distress is notoriously that which immediately
precedes the gathering of the first crops, that is, during
July and the early part of August.
The absolute termination of advances on account of the
temporary relief has been fixed by Act of Parliament for
the eud ot September. It becomes, therefore, necessary,
within a period of six weeks, to throw on their own
resources 3,000,000 of persons who had been provided
with food.
Although those few weeks comprise the time when the
demand for labour is at its highest amount, and when
the crops (which promise to be very abundant) will be in
course of collection, still it is most necessary to make the
transition as gradual as is compatible with so short an
interval, and to endeavour to avoid the too abrupt ces-
sation of relief to such an enormous mass of the popu-
lation.
With this view we have urgently pressed for an un-
compromising scrutiny, and for reduction of the relief
lists, in proportion to the appearance of employment,
and to the available supply of food; and we are about
to discontinue, from the 15th August, making advances
to the unions which, from circumstances and situation,
seem to be best able to bear such a course, stiking
cases from the delay in
off the others by degrees, from fortnight to fortnight.
Almost every union struggles for a prolonged conti-
nuance, chiefly on the plea of wart of preparation for
makingthe change,arisingsl
general warning of what
would take place was given co far back as the month of
June.
, benevolence,
The discontinuance of this extensive tiouignh mita
system of relief,
in whatever manner carried oat, must be attended with
and public-spirited expenditure that can be applied will
distress and difficulty;
be required to meet the etnergency. h
The number of temporary feverhospitals ordered to
be established under the Act 10th Victoria, cap. 22,
amounts now to 326. and all the energy,
We annex copies of the circular instructions issued
since our last report, together with the summary of the
ace' ntit branch, and the returns and statements con-
nected with our continued operations.
We have, &c.,
J. F. BURGOYNE.
T. N. REDINGTON.
R. J. ROUTH.
E. J, B. TWISLE'PON,
HARRY D. JONES.
D. M'GREGOR.
To the Right Hon. the Lords Commissioners
of herliaj sty's Treasur, &e.

POLITICAL IMPORTANCE OF
BUILDING SOCIEIL.S.
(FROM A CORRESPONDENT.)
Among the many benefits conferred on the country
by the late Anti-Corn-law League, perhaps there is
not one, taken in a political point of view, for which
the lovers of freedom ought to be more truly grateful,
than the lesson it taught the people on the import-
ance of the 40A. franchise. The rent charge system
of the League paved the way to other modes of ob-
taining county qualifications ; amongst those there is
perhaps not one more capable of practical develop-
ment than the building sc.ciety scheme; its gradual
mode of payment, comparatively light in its operation,
secures to the industrious working man not only a
freehold in perpetuity, but entitles him and his heirs
to vote for his representative in Parliament. That mem-
bers of building societies will support Liberal princi-
ples cannot be doubted, their interests must be identical
with all measures for the public good. One society
(No. 1 House Property Association) proved the
truth of tbis assertion on the 9th inst., at Bethnal -
green polling distriet,when 18 members voted in right
of their shares, one after . another, for the Liberal
candidates.

Mr. Warrener, who ha, for several months past
coniiucted with great success the preparation of food for
thousands of the poor, byMons. SayerSer s invaluable
System. at the Model Kitchen, Dolphin's Barn, exerted
himself so much to prove the extent and economy of the
system. that he has been in a very alarming state of
'
health ; but., we are glad to inform the public that there
is some hopes that the level has attained its worst stage,
and that he will soon be saved to his amiable "tie,
family, and friends.—Saunders' News Letter.
PHYSIOLOGICAL CURIoSITY.—Thomas Creary, a
youth of 17, who was tried at Lancaster last week for a
crime which, if proved,
would have subjected him to the
penalty of death, presented a singular instance of mal-
formhandsbeing ation, both his
foot. His toes are said to exhibit the same peculiarity;n
And we are also give
to understand that he was born
with seven fingers on each hand, which were reduced to
the natural number by
amputation in childhood.—Pres.
ton Chronicle.
Three whales were captured last week at Cromarty.
BALLOON RACE.—Yesterday evening a more than
usual number of persons were attracted to Crembrne-
gardens to witness the ascent of two balloons—viz.,
the Victoria and the.
Coronation balloons—the one
directed by the veteran Mr. Charles Green, and the
other by his brother, Mr. H. Green. The affair was
called an aerial race, and certainly from the rapid -rate
builder—manufactory burned down, contents consu-
med; back front of dwelling-house severely damaged
, and removal.
tailor and habitmaker—roof of building damaged by fire,
bhi
nyo,ousreefi
draeoi,
dn
the
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no
tusT windowsidt3aisicig
and contents by water: uninsured. Messrs. Berneiseon;
end Riddle, modellers. &c.—building and contents
slightly damaged: insured in the Atlas and Phcenix „ffices
Mr. Hawkins, sadder—skylight broken, and building.
damaged by fire. Mr. Collins optician—slight damage
at which toe balloons travelled, the term was up -
propriate. The wind was blowing very fresh from the
not tit-east at the time a the ascent, seven o'clock, and
the machines were carried through the air in the direc-
tion of Wimbledon-common with extraordinary speed,
the Victoria taking the lead. Amongst the spectators
were Lords Strangford, Cbarleville, Longford, Strath.
erne, &c., and many other persons of rank., On the
outside of the grounds many thousands were assembled.
The scene was full of excitement and may be said to
have been the best aeronautic display of the season.
THE FIRE IN TOTTENHAM-COURT-ROAD.—The
fire that occurred yesterday morning upon the premises
belonging to Mr. J. Walker, organ-builder, of Francis-
street, Tottenham-et-Mk-road, briefly noticed in this
journal of the same date, has proved to be of a far more
disastrous character than was at first expected. The
manufactory and the timber stores occupied an area of
ground considerably more than acre. In the several
workshops were upwards of 50 organs of various sizes
(some of them bad been in hand nearly 12 months),
which are destroyed. The foreman of the works esti
mates the stock in trade destroyed as worth from 10,0001.
to 12,000/, and, with the buildings that have been le-
velled with the ground, and the value of the men's work-
ingcorrect statement of the damages
tools, he stated to the reporter that the whole da-
tbeis 11-ifficial report:—" No. 27, Francis-
mage could not be less than 20,000/ The insurances
upon the property will not nearly cover the loss.
; front ware.ta Theke
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Atlas fire-offices. Mr. Ripley,'
Francis-
street. Tottenham-court-rendbadub,ryn
by %Etter: insured iu the Sun. Tottenham-court- road.
—Messrs. Dunbar's ironfonndry—root and skylight
damaged by lire: insured in the Sun. New-inn-yarti.--
Nos. 5,6, 7, and 8, let out in tenements—buildings and
content, severely damaged by fire and falling in: ii:sured
in the Sun. No. 28, Francis-street. Mr. Goodchild, Op-,
titian--premises slightly damaged: insured in the Phis
nix. The cause of fire unknown. The fire was extin-
guished by firemen and engines of the establishment, the
parish. and West of England and County offices..
The late Admiral John Erskine Douglas, of the
Red Squadron of her Majesty's Fleet, has left 40.0001-
in personal property, which be has bequeathed between
his two daughters, subject to an annuity of 150/. to his
sister. His daughters are the executrixes of his will,
fire,edr vvola.tteviVratkcer' organ-
Which he executed in October last. 'lite pilau zid,thiiii
lived ;to the Wood ugu ci la ...

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• • ••

THE MURDER OF THE DUCHESS
DE PRASLIN.
(From the Constitutionnel.)
The Duke de Praslin was conveyed this morning,
at four to the Luxembourg prison, and placed in the
room lately occupied by M. Teste; but boards had
been put up at the windows, so as to let the prisoner
see but the sky. M. de Praslin was brought down
on a mattress from the room he occupied at the Se-
bastiani Hotel, and placed in a dormeuse, sent from
the Luxembourg by the Grand Referendary. His
valet accompanied him, as well as the persons com-
missioned to watch him. The magistrates, phisi-
chins, and police occupied three other vehicles. The
prisoner, who was greatly dejected at the moment of
ins departure, revived a little in the open air; he was
carried, still on the mattress, into the interior of the
prison, but was enabled to ascend a part of the steps
supported by his valet. The latter did not remain
in the prison ; he returned in a coach to the hotel
with the mattress. It is now considered certain that
the weak condition in which M. de Praslin
has been during the last three days is the conse-
quence of an attempt at poisoning himself ;
he is said to have swallowed the contents
of a small phial of laudanum when he
could doubt no more of his being suspected of the
crime. Since his arrival at the Luxembourg ked
beverages have been frequently given him in older to
stop his vomiting, which is said to continue. The
prison is guarded by the military as in the preceding
trials. It had been said that Madlie. de Luzy would
be conducted to the Luxembourg. The Patrie con-
siders the report unfounded. She is still at the
Conciergerie this evening. We know not what to
think of the Gazede de France's allegation that this
horrible trial is to take place with closed doors.
(From the Gazette des Tribunaux.)
We yesterday stated that the health of the Duke de
Praslin had excited some anxiety. It is affirmed that
it is due to an attempt at poisoning himself. The
Duke has swallowed a certain quantity of laudanum;
at what moment and how he made the attempt is not
said ; but it would appear that by the side of a phial
filled with nitric acid, another has been found which
contained the poison. The moment the first symp-
toms declared themselves the most active antidotes
were administered, and the more dangerous effects of
the laudanum were paralysed, ssithout, however, their
being completely neutralised ; thus frequent vomit-
ing manifested itself, and M. de Praslin remained
in a sort of atony, to which is, perhaps, to be
ascribed the silent and dejected attitude he has re-
tained towards the magistrates who have examined
him. The remedies given by the physician having
as early as yesterday (Friday) restored some
strength, it was deemed that be might be removed
from his mansion, and the Chancellor determined on
issuing a warrant to that effect. This morning,
therefore, at four, one of the ushers of the Chamber
of Peers went with the Chancellor's warrant to the
Hotel Sebastiani, where the Duke de Praslin was
closely watched. The usher was accompanied by
Dr. Andrei, physician to the Chamber of Peers, who
has, in the last three days, been frequently instructed
to visit the Duke and ascertain the state of his health.
The usher having been admitted into the room where
the Duke de Praslin was in bed, and Dr. Andrei
having made sure that a material improvement had
taken place, and that the vomiting, which had been
abundant, had ceased, and that he might be removed
without danger from his residence, the warrant
was notified to him, with the King's ordonnance
convoking the Peers as a court of justice. The Dui e
heard the notification without uttering a word; he
only made an effort to sit up, as if to denote
that he was ready to comply with the injunctions of
justice. His valet then dressed him, and he was soon
enabled to descend, supported by two persons, to the
door of his mansion, where the Duke Decases's car-
riage awaited him. He was helped into it. After
naming the official persons who accompanied or es-
corted him, the Gazette adds—the carriage then
moved on slowly, owing to the Duke's weakness; the
whole route was watched by police agents, for the
maintenance of order and the preventing of any ob-
stacles, whilst a brigade of town-sergeants followed
the carriage at a certain distance. It took an hour to
proceed from the Hoiet.Sebastiani to the Luxembourg
Palace by following the quays and streets, which were
nearly deserted; there were but a few workmen pro-
ceeding to their early labour ; they stopped and gazed
at the passing procession whose slow and silent
march was solemn and melancholy. They who saw it
envied, perhaps, the carriage with its armorials, and
suspected not that it was conveying to prison a Duke
and Peer accused of murder. At five o clock the car-
riage conveying the Duke de Praslin stopped in Rue
Vangirard, in front of the Court of Peers' gaol.
During the whole time the Duke, whose face was vio-
lently contracted and deadly pale, had been silent.
On being required to descend from the carriage, he
proved so weak that it became necessary to carry him
to the room prepared for him, which is that succes •
sively occupied by General de Cubieres and M. Pel-
lap' a. The moment he was brought into it, the Duke
de Praslin was put to bed by his valet, who, at his
request, was permitted to continue a short time with
him, but soon obliged to quit the prison. Yesterday,
and this forenoon, Mdlle. de Luzy, who is still at the
Couciergerie, has been again questioned. She con-
tinues to affirm with energy that her relations with
M. de Praslin have been most pure. It is by mistake
that several journals have represented her to be an
Englishwoman. She was born at Paris, and the
name of Luzy, which has been the cause of some
papers giving her a noble Corsican or Italian origin,
would appear not to be her real or at least only name.
Mdlle. de Luzy's real name is Laure Desportes ; she
is '29 years old ; her figure is most elegant and
dist,ngue ; and her magnificent light hair adds to the
sweetness of her features, which are remarkably
beautiful. Her cultivated mind, her character, and
her superiority as a governess, painter, and musician,
had, it is said, yielded her in the Praslin family
quite a confidential position, at the same time that
they had secured the affection of the young persons
whose education she was entrusted with. In her se-
veral examinations she has constantly answered with
great clearness and propriety. It appears that she is
not to be removed to the Luxeiiibourg. It is affirmed
that the physicians intrusted with the examination of
the corpse of the unfortunate Duchess de Praslin have
reported near thirty wounds or bruises.
The aspect of Paris has changed, says the Union
Monarchique, in every place, and in every class of
society, this fearful drama is alone talked of.
(From the Naianal of Thursday.)
" What shall we dwell on if it be not on the sub-
ject which occupies the whole capital ? From the
top to bottom of every bonze, on the Boulevards, as
in all the other public places, in private drawing-
rooms, as well as in the garret and porter's lodge,
everybody talks of yesterday's murder. Well, then,
do you know of it? The husband is arrested !
Who? The Duke de Praslin—himself—a Peer of
France--precisely; he has killed his wife, the mo-
ther of nine children. Is he, indeed, among those
who are accused ? Oh, how horrible ! What a
world this is—good heavens ! what a world! Such
is the exclamation everywhere, and all are lost in
conjectures ; opinion is prompt in its inferences ;
j ustice is bound to slower and more cautious formali-
ties. The press duty, in presence of so awful an
accusation, also commands a great reserve. It is,
indeed, a most shocking chapter to add to the melan-
choly pages of these times. Nevertheless, the mys-
tery is a strange one ; and the obscurity of the
drama adds to our shuddering. A woman, still
handsome, though no longer young, is found ex-
piring; her bedroom is but a pool of blood; the
splendour that surrounds her is stained by crime ;
broken china, a subverted table, hangings and
ornaments whereupon bloody fingers have left
their marks, and, amidst the confusion, the vic-
tim, whose neck and breast present huge wounds
—the victim, with her eyes open which see no more,
having but a last breath, already enveloped with the
shadows of death, and expiring, without it being pos-
sible to extract from her either a word or a sign.
Yet there remain-visible -Marks of a struggle ; the
unhappy woman escaped for a second from the blows
of her murderer, she rushed to the bell-rope, which
her convulsed hand violently shook. It was the last
effort of the poor creature, whose breast was man-
gled and strength gone. Servants hasten to her,
the door is closed ; it must be broken open, as groans
are heard. The servants enter distracted. They
hasten to the husband, who is found up ; he exhibits
great sorrow. It is then suspected that the assassins
have effected their entrance by the garden. Close to
it is being built a house for M. Cibiel, the Deputy,
and a house that is being built is usually a den of
thieves. There it is that the malefactors must have
concealed themselves, and thence it is that they must
have crept into Madame de Praslin's bedroom; they
must have surprised her in her sleep, done the deed,
and robbed the apartment. All these suspicions upset
one after another with the rapidity of lightning. But
the physicians are sent for; there is no hope, the
victim is dead. The terrified judges come
up to this scene of desolation. They at first
have the same opinion as the servants ; they
search and ransack the apartment ; everything
is in its place, and nothing is wanting. The mur-
derer must have either broken a window or a pane of
glass to malie his way in. The windows are un-
touched, the door had remained closed. The walls
are minutely examined; every walk in the garden is
inspected, and no vestiges of damage or steps are de-
tected. Ten hours are spent in this fruitless exami-
nation. The magistrates are then convinced that they
must look, not outside, but around them. All the
inmates of the mansion, saving the children, are kept
in sight; and, immediately, the rumour spreads about
the town that the husband is accused of the murder,
and this rumour is confirmed by the measures subse-
uently, adopted by justice. And yet the Duke de
Praslin is a rich man ; he is a Peer ; he bears a name
on which his ancestors have conferred renown ; he is
attached to the' royal household, as chevalier &hon..
mo, sad the vigaasu be 1186 alga bas given hiza blue

children. Alas! the times we live in know of no-
thing that is improbable, and would even say that the
very rank of the man adds credence to the accusation.
Justice inquires, and is reminded that two or three
years ago, AI. de Praslin, having fallen in love with
the governess of his children, his wife had compelled
him to turn her out. _ He had followed her. She had
returned to Paris. Police agents repaired to her,
seized her papers. On her return home she was ar-
rested and placed in solitary confinement. Suspicions
then increase against the husband. Stains of blood
have, it is said, been found on his clothes. He is in-
terrogated, and says that having heard a noire in his
wife's bedroom, he hastened to it; that he found her
wounded and struggling with the assassin. He then
rushed between the victim and the murderer, and, in
his distraction, he had been unable either to cry for
assistance or keep hold of the assassin, who escaped,
he knew not how. He then returned to his room to
wash his bloody hands, &c. It is said that a pistol has
been found, and a burnt dressing-gown ; it is
added that the hair round in the victim's left
hai d is in every respect like that of the husband.
Other circumstances of an aggravating natureare men-
tioned. In short this horrible crime is accounted for
by the blind passion that prompted the man to destroy
his wife, in order to marry another woman. Adultery
in this case, as in many others, has given birth to as-
sassination ! All these rumours have filled the town
to-day, but they must be received with reserve.
Other reports have also been current which would
confer a very different character on the murder and
its cause. In all this there may be but vague sup-
positions and even calumnies. The moment justice is
investigating we must wait till it clear up this dread-
ful mystery. If we bestow attention on it to-day it
is really because this horrible mystery seems a new
chapter of the deplorable history we are daily doomed
to write. One would fancy that the genius of evil
were pleased to multiply these terrible dramas. He
leaves us no rest, and his hand seems to fall with-
out mercy on those even whom he had overwhelmed
with favours."

DIABOLICAL MURDER IN KEN-

TUCKY.

The Louisville Courier contains an account of a
most atrocious and cold-blooded murder. A few
gentlemen, five in all, among whom was Dr. J. F.
Pendergrast, united in establishing a school in the
vicinity of Dr. Pendergrast's residence. In February
last Mr. W. W. Buchanan, of Pennsylvania, was
employed as a teacher; and Dr. Pendergrast having
taken a dislike to him, not only refused to send his
children to the school, but in every way attempted to
injure Mr. Buchanan in the estimation of those whose
confidence he had won. At length Mr. Buchanan
having submitted to this treatment as long as he
thought suitable, addressed a letter of remon-
strance to the Doctor, and hereupon, as it seems,
the Doctor declared that Mr. Buchanan should never
teach in the school -house again. The neighbours of Dr.
Pendergrast were still satisfied with Mr. Buchanan's
teaching, and three of the five owners of the school-
house employed him for another quarter, one of the
three being the husband of Dr. Pendergrast's sister.
On the 14th of June Mr. Buchanan went to one of
the owners of the school-house, who had the key, and
requested him to go over with him and put him in
peaceable possession of the house, in order to guard
against a difficulty with Dr. Pendergrast. This
gentleman, Colonel Montgomery, complied with
the request, and took his daughter with him as a
pupil. Soon after they reached the school-house, in
which some six or seven children were assembled,
while Mr. Buchanan was sitting on the step near the
door, and Colonel Montgomery was sitting inside of the
house near the door, Dr. Pendergrast was seen sally-
ing forth from his dwelling with his three sons and a
negro man, the negro carrying a basket of rocks and
the doctor's double-barrelled gun, and when they
reached the school-house the doctor saluted both Mr.
Buchanan and Colonel Montgomery with the most
offensive and insulting epithets he could muster into
service, and commanded them to leave his house,
accompanying the order by throwing rocks twice
at Mr. Buchanan. Colonel Montgomery mildly
replied to Dr. Pendergrast that he had as much
privilege to be there as he had ; upon which one of
the boys assaulted Colonel Montgomery with a rock,
in which the others joined; and while the colonel was
defending himself from the boys, both the Doctor and
the negro also assailed him. It is supposed that while
the family were on Colonel Montgomery, Mr. Bu-
chanan endeavoured to take some of the assailants off
his friend. All that is positively known is, that Dr.
Pendergrast called his negro to hand him his gun and
he would shoot the —. Colonel Montgomery had
one of the boys down, and the others on him, and
supposing the threat was for him, he turned his eyes
towards the Doctor, and saw the gun was pointed
beyond him, and, looking in that direction, he saw
Mr. Buchanan fall on his face when the gun was
fired. This stopped the fight, and when Col. Montgo-
mery got to the young man he found him dying—he
had been pierced with forty shots but a shade less than
buck-shot. These are the uncontroverted statements
of the case. It is not unimportant to mention, that
after Mr. Buchanan was killed, one of the boys went
to the corpse and turned his head over, to show where
he gave him a blow with a rock, and another, after
surveying the dead body, met with the hat of the
murdered man in his; path, and furiously kicked it as
far as he could send it. We regret to add to this
horrible recital, that the cowardly murderer was still
at large when the courier wrote. The officers of
justice (?) who were at hand at the time winked at
the murder, and abstained from any attempt to arrest
the miscreant, and when more faithful men were
found, he had disappeared, though a magistrate boasted
that he knew where he was.—Washington Globe.

ARRIVAL OF DISABLED SOLDIERS FROM NEW
ZEALAND.—On Saturday asternoon two detachments ec
regiments serving in New South Wales, consisting of
two sergeants and twenty-five rank and file of the 58th
regiment, and two sergeants and twenty-five rank anal
file of the 99th, arrived at the General Hospital, Fort
Pitt, Chatham, under the command cf Major Bichttrd
Denny, 58th. The whole of these troops were at tilt
attack of Heki's Pah, which they stated was impreg
nable, being built with 'trunks of trees, to the height
of fifteen to eighteen feet above the surface of the earth.
aid trebly stockaded, with walls, embankments, an-
ditches, and of such magnitude that the l'ah formed a
fortress for the protection of a thousand men. Major
Denny commanded the Light Company of the 58th on
that disastrous occasion. These troops embarked at
Sidney on the 16th of last March, and sailed on the
18th, on board the ship Tasmania, Captain W. Black.
512 tons, and arrived off Gravesend after a passage of
foui months. Dr. Ford, medical officer, inspected the
troops, and thirteen were ordered into hospital. The
remainder were conveyed to St. Nfary's Barracks, to be
discharged on pensions. The worst cases of the wounded
are still remaining at Sidney.
EXTENSIVE SEIZURE Olr OBSCENE PEINTs.-- On
Saturday Davis, an active Custom-house officer, assisted
by several constables of the F division, proceeded to the
streets leading out of the Strand, and made several
seizures at the instance of the Society for the Suppres-
sion 'of Vice. In one establishment no less than 373
prints, with a quantity of song-books and other articles,
were taken, and in another 173 books of a most abomi-
nable character. together with other articles, were seized
for the purpose of being destroyed. The officers also
visited another well-known shop for the sale of such
articles, from which they took 100 unbound books, with
frontispieces of the most disgusting character, with 243
books of the same description, and other articles. The
society has also preferred bills of indictment against a
man and a woman at the Central Criminal Court, two
others against whom proceedings have been taken hav-
ing escaped, in addition to which an aged man, named
Chepney, is ordered to find bail to answer a charge at
the sessions.

THE LITTLE WONDER.,--A powerful little vessel,
belonging to the Waterman Steam. packet Company,
running between Westminster-bridge and Gravesend,
performed her homeward trip in the incredible short
period of two hours and twenty minutes—distance up-
wards of thirty-three miles. She landed her passengers
at Greenwich in one hour and thirty-five minuires
after leaving the Town-pier, Gravesend, leavingw .
.e.-
hind one of the fast Star Company's beau, lll2
started at the same time, and called Woolwich,at..stane
Cnarltun, Blackwell, and Greenwich cu
This wonderful
in-
cluding stoppages,
rse power and patent
little craft is very sttwroenngtyly-
with one steeple engine of 40-h.
D . and is considered
paddles, manufactured by
Na' ler sh' which has
perfectpieces of workman IP
ficovensTroiulecsted of iron, is fitted
one of the most P-r---,rshames, She carries about
yet floated on old Father
400 passengers
couragement.
AN [TAMAN GENTLENAN.—An
and receives suitable en-
sum:milDzAcTognToerniently,
by yr. Bedford, coroner
the Sablioniere Hotel, Leicester-
for Westminster, at of Signor Vincenzo Visconti, aged
square,. on thebody
inquest was held lastt vening,
died whilst entering the above hotel on
forty-eight, r olast. The deceased gentleman, it sp.
Friday evening
red left Milan on the
3d instant forthis country, on
pea . a
tour of pleasure. Whilst at Turin he complained to a
fellow-country man, travelling with him, of a burning
sensation at his chest, which continued until they reached
Cologne, when the pain left him. On Wednesday he,
with others of his countrymen, arrived in England, and
took up their abode at the Sabloniere Hotel, the de-
ceased appearing in the best of health and spirits. On
Friday evening the deceased dined, between five and
six o'clock, v.ith a party of friends at a house in the
neighbourhood of Piccadilly, and on his return was
about entering the hotel, when he complained of a mist
being before his eyes, and fell into the arms of ,one of
his companions a corpse. Mr. Lenton, the surgeon,
who was call. d in, said that, on a post modem examina-
tion, he found the deceased's heart to be twice its natural
size, and much ossified. The jury returned a verdict
of Natural death from disease of the heart, producing
apoplexy."
wants to
A DESIE/31LE NEIGHBOIIII.--.'" Mother
se
We
know if you won't please to lend her yourrerrv:ive
kettle, 'cause as how she wants to h
preserveis,tb.last time
would with pleasure, boy. but the trrut
I 'Po effectu-
we loaned it to your mother she
..p
_lice._
7 " Well, you
ally that we have never see: it to
Id keetii. Guess, it was,
needn't be sarsy about poured
it ; and mottZt wouldn't
full of holes when we borrowed , ..ringing
home_
a troubled yoo again-031*w setra you 4'
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