The Sun.
London, England, 1847-06-23 00:00:00

presence at Madrid. The Seinaine says that a few
days ago M. PUNANT, an Attache of the Ministry of
Foreign Affairs, left for Madrid with dispatches.
Three days afterwards M. DECLERCQ, Consul at
Corunna, returning to his post, was charged with a
private mission for M. DE GLUCKSDERG, and yester-
day (Saturday) a Cabinet courier started from the
Foreign-office for Madrid."
The boiler of a locomotive employed on the Amiens
and Abbeville Railway burst on Sunday last, and
killed the engineer and the stoker.
The Presse publishes the following letter from
Arles, detailing the prospects of the harvest, and the
success of the experiment of growing rice in the
south of France. It is dated June 16th :

" The growing wheat in our neighbourhood has a
most magnificent appearance, but there is another crop
still finer, namely, that of rice—a new grain, which has
been sown in the salt marshes watered by the Rhone,
and which has succeeded beyond the most sanguine
expectations. The Italian farmers, who came here last
winter to superintend the cultivation, state that they t
never witnessed such a magnificent crop. They believe
that the produce of rice this year will not be less than
4,000 pounds weight the hectare (2i acres), and that it
will be increased according as the cultivation shall be
improved. In Lombardy rice, which is a grain the least
liable to injury from a variation of the;temperature, yields
25 for 1, or 7,000 pounds weight per hectare. But it is
not necessary for us to carry our pretensions so high, as
the annual expense of cultivation, including the interest
of the capital employed, is not more than 300 f. (121.
sterling) the hectare (2i acres), whilst, calculating the
produce at 4,000 pounds weight, at a rate of 30f. for 200
pounds weight, the not profit would amount to 3,000 f.
(1201. sterling) the hectare."
It is decided, says the Constitutionnel, that there
shall be a camp formed this year at Compiegne, and
contracts have been made with the farmers for the
use of such parts of their fields as will be required for
its site. Orders relating to the encampment were
sent off on Saturday to the Palace of Compiegne.
The MOniteur de 1 Armee announces the following
appointments :—General SEBASTIAN' to be Inspector
of the Fire Brigade at Paris; Lieutenant-General
MOLINE! DE SAINT YON to be Inspector of the Poly-
technic School, and of the special military school of
the Royal Military College; and Lieutenant-General
THOLOSE to be Inspector-General of the Staff School,
of the staff officers employed in the Map-office, and of
the Department of 'Works in the office of the Minister
of War.

The Duke DE BROGLIE, Ambassador of France at
London, is, says the Debats, to leave for his destina-
tion at the end of the month.
The Three per Cents. closed at 77f. 70c. ; the Five per
Cents., at 118 f. 15c. ; the Orleans Railroad Shares, 1,276 f.
25c. ; Rouen, 970 f ; Havre, 660 f. ; Great Northern, 585 f.;
Avignon, 715 f. ; Vierzon, 615 f. ; Bordeaux, 510 f. ; Bou-
logne, 407 f. 50c. ; Basle, 187 f. sc. ; Dieppe, 3151. ; Paris
and Strasburg, 428 f. 75c. ; Paris and Lyons, 4471. 50c. ;
Lyons and Avignon, 4481. 75c. ; Bordeaux and Cette, 4551. ;
Spanish Three per Cents., 34i; ditto, Domestic Debt, 29i;
ditto, Passives, 4a.
MARSEILLES, JUNE 17.—Marseilles and Avignon, 727 f.
50c. ; Northern, 5951.
BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, JUNK 22.
Ceylon, %--Louvain a la Sambre, I—Luxembourg, DA
—Namur and Liege, 3%—Northern of France, 111-It—Sambre
and Meuse, 714.

CHANCERY.—(THIS DAY.)
The LORD CHANCELLOR sat in the Old Hall, Lincoln's
nn, to-day, and took appeals.

THE CORPORATION OP LIVERPOOL r. NORRIS.
This part-heard appeal motion stood in the paper to-day
to be further argued, but upon the case being called on
its further consideration was postponed, Counsel suggest-
ing the propriety of doing so, in order to give the parties
an opportunity of seeing if they could not compromise
the matter.

QUEEN'S BENCH.-(THIS DAY,

HILTON V. LORD GRANVILLE.
This case was again resumed at the sitting of the
Court this morning, and witnesses on the part of the
defendant were called to show that it was not the cus-
tom in the duchy to remunerate the owners of houses
which might be injured by the working of mines below
them. and that the expense of repairing them fell in-
variably on the owners themselves.
The case will probably be concluded late this evening.

SECONDARIES.-(THIS DAY.)
There was only one case set down for hearing, and
.hat was not of the slightest interest.

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS.
(THIS DAY.)
James Sunter, a fashionably-dressed young man, was
indicted for stealing a diamond pin from the person of
Charles Seivewright, on board one of the River steam-
boats.

The evidence of several watermen showed that the
prosecutor got on board the vessel at Nine Elms,
and was in the act of landing at the new Pimlico pier,
when he was informed that the prisoner had stolen his
pin. He then turned round and found the prisoner in
custody of the person who had observed the robbery.
The prisoner was also seen to attempt to steal the pro-
secutor's watch, but failed.
The jury acquitted the prisoner, and
The Learned ASSISTANT-JUDGE addressing the pri-
soner, said, Go along, sir, you have had a narrow escape.
It is the intention of the Court to visit all you gentle-
men who go on the river with the severest sentence ;
crowded steamboats are too much at your mercy.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
NEWCASTLE RACES.
NEWCASTLE, MONDAY NIGHT.
The following horses have arrived since our last:—
Eryx, Van Tromp, Do Witt, Plaudit, Sheraton, Tim
Whinier, Prince, Alderman's Daughter, Luminous,
Daring, BLllenden, The Spaniard, Barnton, Meux, La
Comte, Vermicelli, Maid of Motherwell, The Pilgrim.
Nine more from Dawson's stable expected.
LATEST BETTING ON THE PLATE.
sto 1 agst Conjuror (t) 115 to 1 agst Milden
6to 1 agst Conspiracy (t) 16 to 1 agst Eryx (t)
6to I agst Blackbird (t) 20 to 1 agst Tom Tough (t)
7 to 1 agst Grimston (t) 20 to 1 agst Geo. Hudson
10 to 1 agst Executor (t) 20 to 1 agst Red Robin
15 to 1 agst Morpeth (t) 100 to 7 agst Inheritress
Nothing done on the Cup.
NEWCASTLE RACES.—(YEsrEnnAr.)
The Produce Stakes of 50 sovs. each, h. it. for two yrs olds.
Three-quarters of a mile. (13 Subs.)
Mr. J. Scott's The Stinger (F. Butler\
Mr. Allen's Camphin•
„ .

4 to I on the Stinger.—Won easily by four lengths.
The North Derby of 25 soya. each, p.p, with 100 added ; the
second to receive 50 sous. Once round. (18 Subs.)
Lord Eglinton's Van Tromp (J. Marson) 1
TYorll S
Lord Zetland's Hellas . . 2
Mr. J. Taylor's George Hudson
Mr. W. Scott's Christopher 4
3 to 1 on Van Tromp, 6 to 1 agst Hellas, 8 to 1 agst
George Hudson, 10 to 1 agst Christopher. Won cleverly by
a length.
The
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Mr. Pedley's Lady Ma
Mr. W. 11. Johnstone';'l3lack Ball
Mr. Dawson nd The Spaniard.
The following also ran but were not placed :—Mr. S. L.
Fox's Lecomte—Mr. Meiklam's Bellenden—Mr. Hobson's
Hatherley—Mr. Merry's Jock-o'-ilazeldean—Mr. Moore's
The Prince, and Mr. J. Scott's Miss Cobden. sto 2 agst
Jock, 7 to 2 agst Spaniard, 4 to 1 agst Black Bull, 5 to 2 agst
Prince, and 8 to 1 agst Lady Mary.
Won by a head after a fine race.
The Hunters' Stakes were won by Mr. Merry's Pilot, beat-
ing the Falcon and Rough-and Ready.
The Maiden Plate was won, in four heats, by Lord Glas-
gow's Miss Whip filly, beating George Stephenson and four
others.

ERRATUM.—The last sentence but two in our first
leading article of yesterday is incorrectly printed ; it
should have ended thus:—" Or whether, in obedience to
the dictatei of a purer purpose, she is to become the
assertor of the national liberties and the object of na-
tional gratitude, is a consummation still hidden in the
womb of futurity."
SUICIDE UNDER SINGULAR CIRCUMSTANCES.—A
man of the name of Stevenson,- who resided at Cross
Stabbs, near Barrhead, committed sucide on Thursday
morning, under the following singularly painful circum-
stances :—The person in question, some time ago, was
following some business at Leith, and was at that time
sentenced for a certain crime to be executed, but
through the sympathy and pleadings of a number of in-
dividuals on his behalf, the sentence was commuted to
that of transportation. By some means or other, how-
ever, he
years. managed to escape, after a period of about two
At this time he resolved, that whenever in
depressed circumstances, or otherwise unfit to maintain
himself, he would carry the sentence of the judge into
effect, which he did on Thursday last, while under the
effects of strong drink, by " hanging himself on a tree "
with his own cravat, by the side of Thornly dam, a few
hundred yards from Glenfield. The wretched individual
tied himself so low, that when discovered his knees
nearly touched the ground, which showed how deter-
mined be must have been in the perpetration of his
wicked act.—Renfrewshire Advertiser.
SUICIDE or A LUNATIC n BETEILEM HOSPITAL.
—Yesterday, Mr. William Payne held an inquest in the
the hall of Bethlem Hospital, relative to the death of
Sarah Fordend, aged forty-five years, late an inmate,
who committed suicide. Alice Crick, head laundry-
maid, proved that she had known the deceased about
three months, as being an inmate of the above institu-
tion, and an occasional assistant in the washing room.
On Monday last, shortly before twelve o'clock, witness
and the several washerwomen were partaking of lun-
cheon in the laundry, when they suddenly missed the
deceased. Witness instantly ran into the wash-house,
and saw the deceased standing on the top of a large
copper, which was then filled with boiling water. Wit-
ness called to the deceased, but before she could reach
her, she jumped into the boiling liquid. Witness ob-
tained the assistance of another female, but was unable
to get the deceased out, as she resisted, and crouched
herself down in the water. Several men were hums-
mediately called in, and the deceased was taken out in
about two minutes, in a most frightful condition, and
removed to the infirmary. The usual remedies were
applied, but the injuries were of such an extensive nature
that she expired at six o'clock the same afternoon. The
jury returned a verdict of "Temporary Insanity."