The Sun.
London, England, 1847-05-25 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, MAY 25, 847.

Commissioners of Lunacy are ordered to make
inquiries into the grounds of the confinement of any
alleged lunatic, yet such inquiry cannot be other than
a mere mockery, inasmuch as the alleged lunatic is
not permitted to cross-examine any of the witnesses,
to rebut any false charges, or to correct any mis-
apprehensions or misrepresentations. What chance
would Mrs. CUNNING have had of obtaining her
release from an inquiry so conducted? Clearly
none. In fact she was seen by the Commissioners,
and her incarceration was continued. Fortunately
she had property, and to get possession of this pro-
perty a public inquiry was necessary. She was
produced before a jury, and the public inquiry was
commenced. Mrs. CUMMING having no legal friend
to advise her, a solicitor, who was acci-
dentally present, proffered her his services—they wore
joyfully accepted, and when it was discovered that
there was to be a defence and a bond fide public in-
quiry, in the course of which witnesses would be
cross-examined and charges rebutted, a compromise
was proposed and accepted, and Mrs. CUMMING was
set at liberty. To what is she indebted for her
freedom ? Clearly to the fact that a public inquiry
before a jury was about to be instituted into her case.
To that inquiry she became entitled because she was
possessed of property, and such an inquiry we claim for
every unfortunate person accused of lunacy, whether
possessed of property or not. A public inquiry is the
only possible method of eliciting the truth, and if an
inquiry is to be instituted most assuredly it should
precede rather than follow incarceration.

plaint against a slave, or a slave against a free person.
It takes away the jurisdiction of the assize courts in
such cases, but leaves to them the jurisdiction in
cases where justice is demanded between slaves
and slaves, or between freemen and freemen. The
Bill will be discussed in a few days. During
the course of the debate some horrible-details were
given of the cruelties practised on the slaves in the
French colonies under the present system. A Bill
has been introduced, allowing an advance of
13,600,000 f., in nearly equal portions, to the Paris
and Lisle, the Marseilles and Avignon, and the Or-
leans and Vierzon Railways.

' MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.
CITY, QUARTER TO THREE.
The Cotton Market at Liverpool yesterday was firm
again. Sales 6,000 bales, of which 1,200 were
American for export, and 500 on speculation. Of the
total quantity sold 4,000 bales were American, at 6d. to
71d. per lb. The market closed firmly.—ln Railway
Shares there was more business doing than for some
time past, and better prices were obtained.
We have no ship arrivals today from any quarter;
but the accounts from the Continent in respect to the
weather and the supplies of grain are as favourable
as those noticed yesterday under this head, and
if the fall in grain can
,but be established
on two or three successive market days we shall have a
pressure of supplies little expected some weeks ago. If
such be not the case, we will then partly side with those
who stoutly maintain that there is but little grain in the
country, though we know by experience what the money
power of many large holders will enable them to do.
Upon the whole the aspect of affairs has most decidedly
improved ; confidence has been increased, and very
general and sanguine hopes are expressed that the
state of the Money Market must mend. The
Oiroctors of the Bank of England have not
had an easy tack to perform ; and no doubt
the desire to assist the Government has served
to check their free action. At present the
course is clearer, and we trust the Chancellor of the Ex-
cheqiier Rill find the new bills generally taken up at the
increased interest of 3d. per centum per diem. Certainly, if
the bankers and capitalists have much cash at their
disposal, a rate exceeding 4i per cent. upon a
security held for nierely temporary purposes, and
always safe and convenient, is not to be pronounced in-
adequate, especially if there can be any dependence
placed upon the Bank of England, and the continuance
of loans upon long dated paper, as low as 51
to 5 per cent. per annum. The effect of a
funding of bills wonld be injurious in more
respects than one, although the country would gave
for the time being the difference between 44 and 3 per
cent. paid upon its floating and fixed obligations respec-
tively.
Perhaps there is at the present moment no place abroad
to which parties here look with more anxious expectation
for an improvement in the Money Market than P-ris.
The embarrassed position of the railway companies, the
reiterated statements of a probable new loan, and the
tendency of French speculators generally, to " lose
heart " the moment a cloud hovers over the
financial horizon, these combined are circumstances
that constantly keep in check here the more buoyant
feeling which ever and anon displays itself.
The Funds have been very well supported, but there
bas been again a dogged reluctance to deal, because
neither Bulls nor Bears will exhibit any symptoms of
being the weaker party. To-morrow the " options" will
show, to use a common, but expressive saying,
" which way the cat jumps." Consols have been
871 ir for transfer, some indication that stock
is in request, but only 874 /I for account.
Exchequer bills have been quoted par to 2s.
premium. The New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents:
have been 874 to 88. Bank Stock has been steady at 189.
In the Foreign Market there is as little s ever passing.
Portuguese Four per Cents. have been to 34. Dutch
Four per Cents. are 88g. Danish Bonds - have been
at 84.

A project of law was presented to the bureaux to
restore the right guaranteed by the charter, of having
all cases of libel tried before a jury, the law courts hav-
ing recently ruled that libels upon public functionaries
might be tried by the judgeselone, without the interven-
tion of a jury. The Beaurocracy of the Chambers,
however, have refused even to discuss the project for
restoring to the press the rights guaranteed by the
charter. This reminds us of the worst days of the
Ministers deplorable. The proposal fur excluding rail-
way shareholders from the Chambers was rejected
almost unanimously.

The accounts of the sate of the manufacturing
population is gloomy in the extreme. Before the
end of the month 50,000 men will be out of employ at
Rouen. 1,600 men have been discharged from the
calico print-works in the neighbourhood of Paris, and
the directors of the Lyons Railway have declared
that unless they receive assistance from the Govern-
ment, they must discharge 30,000 of their workmen,
The Gazette d•'s Tribunaux states, that on Satur-
day last, at twelve o'clock, the Committee appointed
by the Court of Peers to investigate the charge
against General CUBIERES received the deposition of
M. DELP/lIN LENOIR, one of the shareholders in the
mines of Gouhenans, and of M. TUIRRIA, secretary
to the Mining Company. General CUBIERES under-
went .a further examination, which lasted until half-
past See o'clock. M. PARMENTIER, having published
and distributed to the members of the two Chambers
a pamphlet entitled " Short Observations," General
CUBIERES has addressed a complaint to the Attorney
against M. PARMENTIER on the subject of it.
Very little business was done in the Funds in
Paris on Sunday, the beauty of the weather having
attracted nearly all the world to the country. The
Three per Cents. were, however, still more firm than
on Saturday, the price being 78f. sc. (buyers). Our
letters contain the following provincial and German
stock lists :

It is of great importance to induce habits of clean-
iness among the working classes. Every voluntary
exertion that is made for granting facilities to the
humbler orders of society for keeping themselves
clean in their persons should be warmly encouraged.
On the other hand, when the public are enjoying
certain advantages conducive to their health, conse-
quent upon the opportunities benevolently afforded to
them by the contributions of the affluent, any mis-
representation that is made in public, and which, if
not shown to be such, would be calculated seriously
to affect, if not altogether to deprive, the labouring
poor of an important sanatory privilege, should he
visited with marked reprehension. A week since Sir
PETER LAURIE made a speech in which he declared,
that public plunging-baths led to gross immorality,
and stated that on paying a visit to the baths and
washhouses for the working classes in St. Pancras,
he had seen fourteen or fifteen great fellows stark-naked
indulging in disgusting gambols. Had Sir P. LAURIE
been at all borne out in his allegation people would
have felt thankful for the information. Not that Sir
PETER'S assertion, if supported, would have been con-
clusive against the use of public plunging baths; but
it would, no doubt, have had the effect of compelling
the committee of management of the above and
similar institutions to adopt such stringent regula-
tions, that public decency should be properly ob-
served. It appears, however, that Sir PETER was in
error in every tittle of his statement. A deputation
connected with the baths and washhouses of St.
Pancras waited upon a very numerous meeting of the
St. Marylebone Vestry, on Saturday last, for the pur-
pose of contradicting the statement advanced by the
Alderman. The Secretary, Mr. SMITH, informed the
Vestry that their baths were conducted by a com-
mittee of gentlemen, most of whom were clergymen
of St. Pancras ; that round the plunging baths boxes
were erected, with doors four feet high, for bathers to
dress ands undress in ; that no person was permitted
to bathe without a vestment ; that he had himself
accompanied Sir PETER LAURIE over the establish-
ment when there was but one person in the large
bath, and three or four lads in the smaller ones ;
that upwards of 70,000 had bathed in their
establishment since August last—that he had never
heard a single complaint of immorality or disgusting
gambols amongst the working classes whom they
chiefly benefited, and whom he, therefore, considered
had been grossly libelled. The Vestry considered the
above to constitute a complete refutation of the charge
preferred. Some attempt was made to establish the
immoral tendency of the plunging bath by alluding
to the fact that the committee employed a man to
look after the bathers.; but the secretary replied that
the surveillance of an, officer was required, not from
any doubt of the moral conduct of the labouring
poor, but solely in, case sudden, illness, or of any
liCcideni to persons unable to swim.' We rejoice to
learn that those institutions are so admirably ma-
naged. The plunging bath excepted, 411 the other
arrangements of the committee met with the entire
approval of the fastidious Alderman. The officers of
her Majesty's ships are constantly in the habit of
consulting the health of the crews, by allowing
them, in warm climates, wholly to divest them-
selves of their clothing and jump off the ships'
sides to bathe in the sea. An officer is ap-
pointed at the time to watch that the men do
not swim too far, and to afford protection in case of
any misadventure. The military are likewise in-
dulged in a similar recreation. We have, however,
as yet never heard of any objection being started
against this healthful recreation. But if Sir PETER
be right in his excessive notions of refinement in re

MARSEILLES, MAY IS.—Marseilles and Avignon, 717 f.
50c.; Northern, 598 t. 75c.; Paris and Lyons, 432 f. 50c.
BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, MAY 22.
Luxembourg, 114—Namur and Liege, 39—Northern of
France, I lA—Parts and Lyons, 54.

FRIGHTFUL ACCIDENT.
(FROM A CORRESPONDENT.)
CHESTER, MAY 24, HALF•PAST 8, P.M.-I have just
time to inform you of a frighttul accident that has oc-
curred on the Chester and Rhuabon Railway, by the
giving way (it is supposed) of the girder in the centre of
the last arch of the viaduct over the Dee, and close to
the race-course here. The train left the station at about
a quarter past six, and in less than another quarter, every
carriage was smashed to atoms, and are at the time 1
write being taken away in piece meal. A great number
of persons have been killed, several taken to the infirmary,
but what number of carriages there were, I have not
now time to ascertain.
A Mr. J. Matrhews, a highly respectable coachman,
who drives from Barmouth to Rhuabon daily, and from
thence per steam to Chester, was on his return home, and
is one amongst the unfortunate individuals. The city is in
the greatest state of excitement, and thousands are at
the spot.
The accident was seen by numbers who were playing
at cricket on the Roodu at the time.
I will give you full particulars to-morrow.
P.S. I Ought to add that the engineer, being in the
engine, cleared the fatal spot, and saved himself, but saw
the stoker killed, he, with the rest of the carriages be-
hind, all falling, in one common gulph, into the Dee.

Business in the Share 'Market is still very dull, but
ho'ders do not press sales and obtain fuller prices. It
appears to us that this caution on all hands is satisfac-
tory, and is the best possible preparative for a steady
improvement.
BRITISH FUNDS

ONE
tank Stock .. •• •• O'CLOCK.
•• • • 190
Three per Cent. Rec.: xed Annuities .. 861,14
three per Cent. Consols Annuities 87
New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cent. Anna. 88 87%
Long Annuities, Expire Jan. 5, 1860 .. 8% 9
Ditto. 30 years. Oct. 10. 1859 .• 8 13-16 %
Ditto, 30 years, Jan. 5, 1860 .. • • 91,%
India Bonds, 1,0001. ..
Ditto, under 1,0001.
Consols for May 27
Exchequer Bills.
1,0001...
5001. .
Ditto, Small

CLOSINC
PRIt:ES.

. . . . :.• : : . : par
87%
llid. 2d.
par 2p 4,
4 1 p
6 3 p
ONE
O'CLOCK.

FOREIGN FUNDS.
Brazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent ..
Danish, 3 per Cent • • • • • • •• 84
Mexican Bonds, 18,16, 5 per Cent ..
Peruvian Bonds, 6 per Cent.
Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent
Ditto, 3 per Cent ..
Ditto, 4 per Cent ..
Russian Bonds ..
Sdanisli Bonds, 5 per Cent

•• .. •• 34 33%
•• .. .. 110

OFFICIAL ACCOUNT.
An accident, attended with fatal consequences, oc-
curred last evening on the Chester and Holyhead Rail-
way, about miles from the Chester station, by the
?allure of one of the girders of the bridge across the
River Dee, and which is supposed to have arisen
from a defective casting. The engine and tender
got clear over the bridge, but one of the carriages
in the train was precipitated into the river, and four per-
sons are killed, and about five or six others more or less
injured. The stoker also is killed, having been thrown
off the engine by the jerk. No official statement has yet
been received at the London office from the engineers
further than reporting the circumstance.

Ditto, for the Account .. —
Venezuela bonds, 2 per Cent ..

Dividend, on the above payable In Lendon.
Dutch Two-and-a-Bail per Cent
Ditto. 4 per Cent. Certiticatea

5814
.. 88% 8871
PRICES OFBUSINESS CLOSING
RAILWAY !SHARES. PAID. DONE AT „,,,„Es.
ONE O'CLOCK. "``-'
Amber., Notting., Beaton, and
Eastern Junction .. •• 2% .... 1 % .......... 114
Eastern Counties . . 20 .... 18?, 19 .... 19
Do. Vernet., 5 per Cent. No. 1.66 13s. 4d. —•—
Ditto, ditto.. .. No. 2. 61. 13s. 4d. •
.. •• .• • par
Ditto, York Extension .. .... •6 • • 6
East Lancashire .. • • .. 17
Ditto New .. .• 5% 5%
Ditto, ditty New Scrip .. . • 114 1.. ...... 1
East Lincolnshire .. .. • . 634.... 711 •••• • • • • 7%
Great Northern ... 3 .. . . 2%
Great Western .. .. 85 .• 109 108 109 • 109%
Ditto, Half :Shares .. 50 .... 6356 •• • 6334
Ditto, Quarter Shares .. 12% .... 16% .. • • ... •• • 16%
Ditto, New .. • . 434 ... • 731 %• • ...... 73s
Leeds and Bradford .. • • .. 40 .... 8439 . ...... ••• 84%
Leeds and Thirsk • • .. • . .. 26 .... .. •••• • .. 19
London, Brighton, & South Coast 50 • • 51% .. . . 51%
London an North-Western • . iOO ....171 .• • • 171
Ditto. Quarters L. and B. 7 .... 21% 21%
Thtto ditto, New Shares .. .. 2 .... 11% .. •• • ll %
Ditto, 40/. Shares M. &B. • • 40 .. • 65 .......• 65
London and South-Western 41/. 6s. 10d... 62 .• • • 62
Ditto, New .. .• • • 2734 .... 27 •• • • 27
Ditto, Tenths (Consolidated) .. 50 .... 5134 •• • • 51%
Ditto, Tenths (ditto) .. 40 .... —..••• • • • • • 403
Lynn and Dereham .. 20 .... 20% • • 20%
Manchester and Leeds .. 82 . •• • • 9B
Ditto, Fifths .. .. • . 5 .... 836 B%
Ditto, Thirds (Reg.).. —7l. 45..... % die..... •• • • % dis
Manchester, Buxton, & Matlock 425. .... y 4 dis. ••••• % dis
Manchester and Southampton 2 .... 34 •..• • • 34
Midland
..100 115.. •• • • 115
Ditto, New .. .. 36 .... 3814% 3834
Ditto, New . .. 6 .... 731 .• ..
Newcastle and Berwick .. .. 20 •••• • • • •
Ditto, New .. .. •• 5 • ... 6% % . • 6%
North British .. . • .. 25 30 ..... •• . • 30%
Ditto, Thirds .. .. i..• . 2% • • 2%
North Staffordshire .. 7% .. ••9 34 % •• • • 9%
Preston and Wyre.. .. • • •• 25 ••• • ••••• • • • • • 33
Ditto, Half Shares (A) .. 8% .. •• 12 ... • •
.• • 12
Shrewsbury and Birmingham .. ..... ,
.
Ditto, Class B •• •• • • 3 • • 2 ..........
South Eastern and Donor .. • • 33% .. • . 353 i •....
Ditto, N e (iss. at 321,) No. 1. 20 • . 1914 .. %
••
•• • •
Waterford and Kilkenny ..
••13% .... 6 ;il4 . • • •
West Riding Union .. • •
~4/.25..... % dis -•. ......
York and Newcastle .. 25 35 3414
Ditto, Preference .. 4 .... 636 % ••• • • •
York /tad North Midland .. .. 50 .... 82 •• • •
Ditto, Extension .. .. 25 .... 40 3036 ••• • • •
Ditto, Preference • • • • .. 2 .. • • 9% ••••• • • • • •

THE COURT.—IIer Majesty and Prince Albert, the
royal children, the Prince of Leiningen, and the ladies
o'clock this afternoon,
BanudagienngthleammenraolfacteheaCboouutrt, are expected to return to
five
from Claremont.

MARKET NE WS.--(THIS DAY.)
HAY NIARICE TS
Smt-rtrFuELD.--Meadow Hay, 215 s to 31135; Clover ditto,
3/ 8s to 4/ 13s; and Straw, 1/ 6s to 1/ lOs per load. Supply
good, and trade very dull, at drooping prices.
CUMBERLAND.—Meadow Hay, 21 8s to 3/ 14s; Clover
ditto, 3/ 8s to 41125; and Straw, 118 a to 1/ 12s per load.
Trade dull, at the above, quotations.
WHITSCHAPEL.—Meadow Hay, 2/ 5s to 31 13s; Clover
ditto, 3/ 5s to 4/ 15s; and Straw, 1/ 6s to 1/ lOs per !val.
A full average supply, and a heavy trade.

gard to the public plunging bath, they could clearly
be as reasonably urged to prevent our sailors and
soldiers from bathing in the sea or in rivers, as they
have been permitted to do from time out of mind.
Extremes meet, and over-refinement is as dangerous
to morality as over-coarseness. But this, we take it,
is a truth too subtle for the limited comprehension of
Sir PETER LAURIE.
Madrid papers of the 18th have arrived.

COLONZA.I
SUGAR.—The market tor British Plantation has been
.tteady, about 400 casks having been disposed of, includ-
ing 100 Wads Barbadoes by auction, which sold from
44s 6d to 49s 6d for mid to good yellow. The public
sales have offered 4,193 bags Bengal and 2,885 bags
Madras ; the former was chiefly disposed of
at rather lower prices, but the latter was
nearly all withdrawn. The principal transactions
privately consist of 1,800 bags Manilla, and about 170
cases Bahia, the former at 42s 6d to 435, and the latter
at 42s 9d to 435. The quantity of British Plantation
landed last week at the East and West India Docks was
3,084 hhds 374 tierces 862 barrels, and there were taken
for home consumption 864 hhda 69 tierces 193 barrels.
The stock in the same places is 12,400 hhds 1,197 tierces
2,805 barrels.
COFFEE.-2,353 bags Ceylon sold at an advance for
Native, and very good ord at 40s to 40a 6d per cwt. Mid
Plantation was taken in at 60s to 625, and Peaberry
50s to 57s per cwt.
RUM.—The quantity landed last week at the East
and West India Docks was 868 puns 125 hhds. There
were taken for home consumption 500 puns 74 hhds,
and exported'4B puns 50 hhds. The stock in the same
places is 9,239 puns 1,876 hhds.

The differences between the QUEEN and her Con-
sort have risen to such a height, that the propriety
of adopting immediate measures to secure a divorce
has, it is,said, been discussed in the Cabinet.
All the Ministers have returned to Madrid, leaving
the QUEEN alone at Aranjuez, to which place Senor
OLOZAGA had gone at the command of her
MAJESTY, it was said to advise on the state
of affairs between ISABELLA and her husband.
It was rumoured in Madrid that a new Alinistry
was about to be formed, comprising General SEE-
' RANO and Senors MENDIZABAL and OLozs.GA., and
that ESPARTERO would be created a Senator, and no-
minated Ambassador to London.

35N
19%
% dig
34
6%

FOREIGN RAILWAYS.
Northern of France • • .. 8 1134 % • •
Paris and Lyons .. 8 5t4 .. • •
Paris and Orleans .. .. 20
Paris and Rouen
Paris and Strasbourg ..

11%
514
46%
3614
1%

s .... i 3; .........

JOINT-STOCK BANKS.
British North American ... .. 50 .... .. •• • •
London and Westminster .. 20 .... ......
MINES.

Real del Monte, Unregistered 3N

'MADRID BOLSA, MAY 18.—Threes, 301 ; Fives, 19
Exchange on London, 49 35.

LLOYD'S SHIPPING—(THIS DAY.)
LONDON, MAY 25.—Wind moderate breeze,
and tine weather.

We have received the Paris papers of Sunday.
They confirm the truth of the report of the death of
Mr. O'CONNELL. That illustrious man died at Genoa

HicE.-5,100 bags 2,273 pockets Bengal, 350 ba,gs
Singapore, and 385 bags Carolina was only partially
disposed of at a further decline of 3d to 6d per cwt.
SALTPETRE.-300 has Bengal brought steady prices.
SPICES.-500 bags Malabar Pepper realised 3id to
3-id per In.

DEAL, MAY 24.—Wind S.W., moderato.—Arrd.
Anjer, Gerrats, Java, for Amsterdam; Corinth, West
Indies, for ditto; acima, Stith, Batavia, for ditto. Sid.
Calypso, Eliringham, Jamaica; City of Derry, Quebec;
Arrd. from the river, Susan, Crisp, Cape of Good Hope;
Concord, Batavia; Emerald, Antigua; Marlborough,
Jamaica; John Brown, Porto Rico; Sunbeam, Cubs.
LIVERPOOL, MAY 24..—Wind S.W., moderate.—Arrd.
Eu, Williams, Callao; Isabella, Tilley, Pernambuco;
Victoria, Londy, Honduras; John Marshall, Murphy,
Phil..delphia; Joseph Meiss, Wood, New York. Sld,
Algoma, Boston; Albert Edward, Shanghae; Aurora,
Madras; Enterprise. Halifax; Sophia, St. John's, New
Brunswick; New York packet, Quebec. Off port,
Brilliant, Mauritius; Star brig, and Columbia.
WHITELIAVEN, MAY 23 . —Wind S. Sld. Brazil
packet, Antigua.
....
___

on the 15th of May. The following letter troth the

Rev. Dr. MILEY, his chaplain, addressed to the editor
of the Univers, and published in that journal, leaves
us no longer any room to hope or doubt :

EiLLow.—P.Y.C. is 47s 6d to 48s per cwt. on the
spot, and town 49s 6d.

TEA.—There is not much doing.
INDIGO.--rhe sales conclude to-day, haling rather
improved since they commenced. Up to last evening
13,162 chests had passed, of which 4,896 were sold.

" Genoa, May 17.
" Alas, my dear friend, O'Connell is dead! lam so
completely overwhelmed with the blow that I am almost
incapable of writing. His death was serene and happy.
for it was sanctioned by the sacram,nts, and alleviated
by the consolations which our divine religion lavishes
with so much mercy on its children. He replied at first
in words, and afterwards with look and gesture, to the
exhortations s hich I addressed to him up to the last mo-
ment. He rendered up the last sigh, with the calm of
an infant that falls off to sleep, on Saturday, at twenty
five minutes to ten at night. He requested hit heart—
that heart which always beat for the cause of religion
and liberty—to be taken to Rome. We have had that
noble heart embalmed, and have enclosed it in a silver
urn. The body, which has also been embalmed, will re-
main here in a chapel until our return from our pilgrim-
age to Rome with his heart; and then he will be trans-
ported to his native mountains, to remain there to the
day of resurrection. The heart of O'Connell at Rome,
his body in Ireland, and his soul in heaven—is not that
what the justice of man and the mercy of God demand?
Adieu."

MADAME CELESTE'S BENEFIT. The talented
directress of the admirably-managed Adelphi Theatre
takes her benefit to-morrow evening-, when the beautiful
new drama of the Flowers ofthe Forest will be performed.
In which Madame Celeste will sustain her original
character of
Cynthia, a character which she has herself
created, and in which the enthusiasm which she excites is
beyond description. The drama will be fielowed by a
new comedy, in which, in addition to the strength of the
Adelphi company, Mr. Webster will appear ; and the
comedy will be followed by other entertainments. We
ex that the house will be crammed to overflowing
within a few minutes after the doors are opened, and
that those who do not secure places beforehand will
findr some difficulty in getting them.
7,owitch, lion,
The Royal Polytechnic Institution was visited
yesterday by the Grand Duke Constantine of Russia,
attended hy Admiral Liitru Baron Frederike, Dr. How-
, His, Royal Highness expressed himself
hi hl gratifieu with the scientific arrangements, more
Colonel Grey', Al De Berg, and Captain
particularly with the diver and electric eels.
SUICIDE FROM LOSSES ON THE DERBY.—Yesterday
dmorning the domestic peace of a respectable family was
disturbed by a
painful event arising
Epsom races. Mr. Frederick Crust)", lan of the late
dlord of the
Crown and Sceptre, Great Titchfield-street, Nlarylebone,
poisoned himself with prussic acid. He had latterly
out
attended much more to sporting matters, races in par-
ticular, than to his business, and from his irregularity of
living it was suspected that' his mind was d sordered.
Not long ago, after some heavy losses on the turf, he
found his affairs in an embarrassed condition, and, in a
manner that indicated he had a wish to die, desired his
wife to get some charcoal that they
might, children and
all, suffocate themselves. ' He was a loser to a consider-
able amount on the last Derby,
and was to have settled
his bets on Tuesday evening, but it is supposed he was
unable to meet them. Yesterday morning he left home
in a cheerful state, and returning at eleven o'clock, went
to his be Toore, Not lung
afterwards his ,ei e entered
I hp. room and found him lying on du! floor . insensible.
Mr. \V, bb, a surg, ct on, was "caih. it, ieluiedektely, and
niund that he had taken a large. quantity of prussic acid.
-The unfortunate man died in ten minutes. After his
death a razor was found in his pocket.

WATERFORD, MAY 23 —Wind S.S.E. to W.S.W.—
Sid. 1-I,,rnet, St. John's, Newfoundland.
LIMERICK, MAY 23. Wind W. Arrd, Robert,
Demean, New York.
BRISTOL, MAY 24.—Wind S.W. Arrd, Caledonia,
Havant-mil.
SOUTHAMPTON, MAY 24. Arrd. Iberia steamer,
Gibraltar.

ASCENT OF 31E. GYPSON, AND NARROW ESCAPE
OF THE AERoNAllT.—Yesterday, at the Royal Albert
Saloon, among the entertainments offered to the holiday
folks, Mr. Gypson was announced to make a night
ascent in his balloon, to whieh was to be attached a
model of the late Royal Exchange, when, upon ascend-
ing a certain altitude, its destruction by fire was to take
place, in the midst of a discharge of fireworks. The
model was constructed of wood and canvass, and was
about eight feet long by three feet broad. Shortly before
nine o'clock, the inflation being stated to be sufficient for
the buoyancy of the aerial machine, the gas being sup
plied from the Independent Gas Works, llaggerstone,
the car was attached to it,which Mr. Gypson and a gen-
tleman atept into, when, by means of a long rope, the
moffel was connected to the car. The fusee which was
to ignite the pyrotechnic machinery in the model was
then lighted, and the balloon was released from terra
firma. Its ascending power not being sufficient to raise
tt e model, it reclined outside the garden, when, while in
that position, the fireworks began to discharge, and in a
few seconds the moth! was in a blaze. Much alarm in-
stantly prevailed for the safety of the aeronaut, as had
the balloon caught, the immense volume of gas in it
would have exploded, and have caused their instant
death. Several of the men in the gardens hastened to
detach the model, but it is supposed that the rope was
cut by Mr. Gyt sen, who took the precaution to provide
himself with a knife. The balloon was then seen gra•
dually to tt,,cend. invoived in sea:.-,ke, mid Mr. GypFon
w„..ved hi, fie.,, when all tears were removed fur his
safety and that of his companion. The total destruction
of the model took place in the garden, no personal in-
jury having been received by any of the company.

A letter published in the Journal des Debuts gives
,he following account of his last moments :

" Genoa. May 16.
" He (Mr. O'Connell) only spoke a very few words
to his physician ; and these were to make an earnest
request that the coffin should not be closed too soon over
his remains, because he was sure (he said) that he would
have the appearance of being dead before yielding up
his last sigh. His most ardent wish was to reach Home,
and to receive the benediction of Pius IX., and in the
course of his journey he expressed a wish that, if be
should die on the way, his heart would at least be sent
to the capital of the Catholic world. This idea is said
to have been suL•gested to hits by the rec'dlection of
Robert Bruce, who, before dying, requested that his
heart might be deposited in the Holy Sepulchre. The
wish of O'Connell will be fulfilled, and, in conformity
also with his last wishes, his body will be carried to
Ireland."

M. GUIZOT on Saturday presented a Bill to the
Chamber of Deputies for the better ad.ninistration of
justice in the French West India Colonifrs. It grants
to six members of the Cour Royale of each colony,
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