The Sun.
London, England, 1847-04-24 00:00:00

LUNATICS' ASYLUMS BILL.

The report on this Bill was brought up, and after several
clauses had been added to it, it was agreed to.
Captain PECHELL moved for a return, showing the
particulars of the several disbursements constituting the
difference between the sums of 1,1521. 18s. 1(41. and
1681. 14s. Ild., paid as the net proceeds of the
slave vessels Jehovah and Diana, into the Vice-
Admiralty Court at the Cape of Good Hooe, on the 12th day
of December, 1842, and the Bth day of December, 1846, re-
spectively, and the sums of 1,202/. 7s. 6id. and 2151. 3s. 9d.,
being the gross proceeds of sale of those vessels respectively,
less the sums of 4761. 18s. 9d. and 2731. 175., mentioned in
the return presented on the 15th day of April, 1847.
Agreed to.

Captain PECHELL postponed till Thursday next the
mot on for a return of all fees payable in the several V iee-
Admiralty Courts at the Cape of Good Hope and St. Helena ;
with a return of all officers and persons holding appointments
in the said Courts, with the nature of the duty performed, and
the amount of salary received by each, and, if paid by fees, the
annual amount received by each since the Ist Jan., 1842.

Mr. WAKLEY moved that the petition of George John-
ston, presented April 22d, be printed with the votes.

Agreed to.

Mr. BRIGHT moved that the petition of a chairman of a
meeting at Crosby Hall; London, against the Government
educational plan, presented April 20th, be printed with the
votes.—Agreed to.

Sir GEORG'''. GREY obtained leave to bring in a Bill to
amend the laws relating to the removal of poor persons from
England and Scotland.
PASSENGERS' ACT.

Mr. HAWES gave notice that he would, on Monday, move
fur the introduction of a Bill to amend the Passengers' Act.

LAW OF SETTLEMENT.

Sir GEORGE GREY moved for leave to bring in a Bill to
amend the law of settlement.
The Bill was read a first time.
The House then adjourned at One o'clock.

STATE OF MR. O'CONNELL'S
HEALTH.

Private letters received in 'London, as well as the ac-
counts which appear in the Continental journals, are
confirmatory of the apprehension that Mr. O'Contell,
since his departure from Paris has not as yet derived
any material benefit from his tour, but that, on the con-
trary, owing to the extreme severity of the weather, he
is sinking under the malady which afflicts him. Letters
received within the last two days represent the invalid's
condition at Lyons as peculiarly distressing. His phy-
sical vigour, for which Mr. O'Connell was once so dis-
tinguished, is stated to be very much shattered, and he
is afflicted periodically with a mental depression which
it is painful for his friends and companions to contem-
plate. The inclement weather prevailine, in the
south of France since the opening of the month,
has had a sad effect on him, and rendered the progress
from La Palisse to Lyons exceedingly trying on
the Honourable and Learned Gentleman. On his
arrival, in company with his chaplain, the Rev. Dr.
Miley, and his son, the Member for Dundalk, at the
Hotel rUnivers in Lyons, a few days, since the Catholics
of the city assembled in large numbers, and resolved
upon presenting him with an address, expressive of their
admiration and condolence, thus following the example
of the Catholic party in Paris, whose address, drawn up
by the eloquent pen of the Comte de Montalembert, has
already obtained publicity in almost every French and
British newspaper. The Lyonese deputation, however,
were denied the gratification they had promised to them-
selves; fiir, in reply to a personal application for an
interview, they received a letter from Mr. Daniel
O'Connell, jun., expressive of his regret that his father
was in such a state of health as to be wholly unable to
give them an audience. The letter, which is addressed
to the head of the deputation, and bears date the 13th
April, is as follows:—
am directed by my father to express to you
his deep regret, that his physicians having enjoined the
strictest repose, it will be out of his power to give an
audience to the Catholic deputation of Lyons.
"Your faithful and obliged servant,
" DANIEL O'CONNELL, Jun.
"lintel de l'Univers."

Doctors Bonnet and Voricel, the two first medical
men in Lyons, were in daily attendance on Mr. O'Con-
nel during his sojourn in the city. The same letters
which convey this intelligence, give a deplorable account
of the state of the weather in the south of France, and
attribute to it the aggravation of the patriot's malady.
The rain has been incessant, and the cold intense, and
the Rhine is represented as being swollen to an almost
unprecedented degree, and inundated whole plains.
Talking of Mr. O'Connell, a Lyons paper (La Rhone)
observes, " The illustrious invalid never stirs out, nor
does he receive visitors. Many of the highest persons
in Lyons have called at his hotel, but they hare been
invairiably received by his son."
.Th! physicians, who
held a consultation as to the advisability of their Irish
patient continuing the journey in his state of extreme
weakness, recommended further sojourn at Lyons until
the weather becomes more genial.

plosion, • attended by the complete
took place at the gunpowder manufactory
exten-
sive powder mills,
Bainbridge,at the village of Sedg-
EXPLOSION OF A POWDER
demolitionlllLi Aof tseormrieficez-
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of Messrs. Wakefield and
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ing the raw material, the four mills being wholly
erectedwaswhat
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wood. Closely adjoining to the two latter mills was called the preparing mill, built of stone, to Which was
attached the composition house. From some unknown cause,
at the time above-mentioned an explosion occurred, by which
the entire of these six erections were completely demolished,
leaving only here and there a vestige of the walls standing.
Happily the two night watchmen had but a few minutes be-
fore retired to the watch-house, believing that the manufac-
tory was proceeding in its usual safe course; consequently no
life was lost by the accident. After the explosion a mass of
burning timber was scattered about, and at one time the
flames from a quantity of ignited saltpetre 'were very alarm-
jug, but by the assistance of the Kendal fire-engines were
the only daughter of a rich shop-
keeperes Lombards, threw herself into the Seine,
in the Rue d . .
order to avoid a marriage
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from
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' displaced her. She was carried rapidly down by the
which displax: .
stinct of life prevailing, she seized a ring
current, and, the in
wall, and was soon after rescued by
• from the quay
Pont Marie, in
hanging
ome boat men.—Paris Paper.