The Sun.
London, England, 1847-07-26 00:00:00

SUPERSTITION IN FRANCE.

M. Alcan and M. Rene were indicted before the
tribunal at Paris for having, without having been duly
authorised to do so, printed and published an engraving,
accompanied by letter-press text, giving an account of
" 'l'he apparition of the Holy Virgin to two Children on a
Mountain of Salette, on Saturday, September 19. 1846 "
The account sets forth how two children, employed in
watching cows in the mountains, beheld a vision of
the Holy Virgin, who sat weeping on a rock. She
called and spoke to them, making sundry complaints
of the irregular manner in which masses had been
said to her, and if matters were not mended,
threatened a continuance, with increased severity,
of the potato disease, which she said was owing
to the carelessne,s and inattentio❑ shown to
the rites of religion, which were left to the care of old
men, while the young ones amused themselvfs and
scoffed at its mysteries. It the potato disease did not
suffice to turn them from the error of their ways, she
threatened the world with an utter failure of the corn
crops the following year ; if that did not do, with a
complete famine the next year ; and if these man
did not do, she would kill all children under ten
years of age the following one. But if men turned
to her with true repentance, corn and potatoes should
flourish as they had never done before, and the world
would prosper. She commanded the two children to
relate to every one what had occurred. She walked
talking with them for about half an hour, and the ob-
served that the grass did not bend beneath her feet;
she then gradually faded away in mist till she was gone.
They gave a very accurate account of her dress and ap
pearance. Since then, a confirmatory account of the
first statement had appeared, which further declared
that a spring of water had sprung up where she sat,
and that the rock had been endowed with certain mira-
culous properties. Some officers of the neighbouring
garrison had experimented upon a piece of it at their
quarters. On striking it with a knife, it burst open
with a loud noise, displaying a head of Christ with a
crown of thorns. The deposition of the two children
was taken down in the presence of five ecclesiastic*, and
a number of laymen, and had made a great impression in
the neighbourhood where the vision occurred. Judg-
ment on the printer and publisher has been postponed.
—Gazette des Tribunaux.

THE QUEEN'S VISIT TO THE HIGHLANDS.—We
learn that Mr. Mackenzie, innkeeper at Aviemoor, has
received an order for twenty-six pair of horses, for the
purpose of conveying her Majesty and suite from Fort
William to Ardverikie, the Marquis of Abercorn's Lodge
at Loch Leggan, about the 14th of August next. This
order was received for Mr. Mackenzie by the Marquis
l ofh
Abercorn. We understand, also, that the Endinbu g t
the Messrs.
occasion, in prospect of which thefoorwnarer
Castle steamer is to be more or less employed on the .
Burns of Glasgow, have this weekh a
taming new clothing befitting suc
consists of fine blue
crew of that steamer. The dress
with the name of
cloth frocks, white trousers s d eweeeesdedieee,botercothne
—Rosshire Advertiser. _. T cLoNNEL,„--We have
THE ENDOWED SCHOOL AT
V. Thomas Kettlewell,
the steamer in gilt letters, andngold lace bands on each.
received a long letter from
School, complaining
the Vous° of Lords
The report 'rya as follows:
on the 24th June. ow-
hel presented a petition from
rixoltthofe
tchleo.r....ntnrooaamel D,,lgoaweisai
Earl of Monaco the
" The
othfeammerstere
master of the Endowed School at
Rev. Mr. Kettlewell.
moved for some returns with respect to
Clonmel, anel
certain pro in
propertyconnexion therewith. The petitioner,
aS we understood, complained of he conduct of the soli-
citor to the Commissioner of Schools, in dismissing him
from his situation.
The Earl and Countess of Enniskillen and suite
embarked at Blackwell, on Saturday morning, by the
General Steam Navigation Compsviy's steam-ship
Giraff., for Rotterdam, en route for Switzerland.
YORK AND NEWCASTLE, AND NEWCASTLE AND
BERWICK RAILWAYS.— At the approaching half-yearly
mee ins of the companies it is intended to bring for-
ward a proposition for amalgamation, the original shares
of the Newcastle and Berwick Company becoming, when
fully paid up, the same as York and Newcastle, and re-
ceiving equal dividends on 151. per share from the Ist
instant, and on the remaining 101. per share when the
bridges cross the Tyne and Tweed, and 5 per cent.
.be-
ing, allowed on the 101., or such portions as maybe
called up from the time of payment until the colt l ilari
of the bridges. The new shares of the Newcastle
atb:r
Berwick are to be called in for registration,
54.
1 already
call of 5/. per share made upon them. the York and
paid are to receive dividends equally
• ant, and the new shares
Newoastle stock from the let
et7l
respects, with York and
put upon an equal footing..
einlst of January next. The
Newcastle stock from th k 1
tad to ta e p ace on the 9th of next
' meetings are. extle°-- ,
elantb.e44lllWorilerfir''

CciOteTmTenOtNhaBFAbeCe'nfOcrlteaYr.t,
AWFUL OCCURRENCE IN A
d in the neigh-
! Very greatex
bourhoud of Hyde, in consequence of the death of a Nirl
named nay Dior, at the Kingston M;ll, belonging 4.0
J. Sidebuihaw, Esq. The facts of the case will be best
under,iuu, irom the evidence as given at the inqUest on.
Monday.
J. istirdsley said—l am an overlooker in the card-
room, at Kingston still, Hyde, in the employ of Mr. J.
Stdebotham. The deceased Mary Ellor, was a " breaker
off" of the engine cans in the card-room. She was 13
years of age. I was not present at the time she was
killed, but I helped to take her down from the shaft.
She was then quite dead. It was about seven o'clock on
Friday morning last. The carding engine is turned by
means of a strap passing over the pulleys fixed to an
horizontal shaft at the top of the room. There -is a
loose pulley fixed to the carding engine ; and
when the carder or stripper wants to put the
engine out of gear, the strap is put round the loose
When the carder is grinding the engine is
turned the other way, and the strap has to be taken off
the engine entirely. When I first saw the deceased, she
was hanging down from the shaft, the strap being
unier her chin. The other part of the strap was wrapped
close round the shaft and the drum or pulley. The
strap was drawn quite tight under her chin. I got her
down by cutting the strap. The deceased had only
worked about five weeks. Wm. Bottomley was the
stripper to that engine. It was his duty to manage the
strap. He was there when deceased was taken down.
This forenoon I asked him how it happened. He said
that he was pulling the strap off, when it caught her
told
der the chin, and pulled her up. This was all he
me. It was very dangerous to play an trick with
the strap while the s,hiatt was revolving.
William Turner—I am in mseventeenth
a stripper at Air. Sidebotnain'lirtill. .I am
It
engine as Bottomley. Aboutwseven
atotehltes
' k:one
Friday morning I was engaged stripping out ; that is,
taking the cotton off the cards. Bottowley Andearl tied
the machine that we strip with from one engine to the
other. 1 was setting that engine on that we had left,
and he went to stop the other. I saw him pull the strap
off the loose pulley on the carding engine, and .the strap
then hung down from the shaft. Bottomley laid hold of
the strap as it hung down with both hands, and pitched-
it over the neck of the deceased. The deceased stood
between the engines, and about a yard from where
the strap hung down. Bottomley said something
to her at the time he threw the strap round her
neck, and she said something in reply, but I could
hear what it was. I turned round and saw them
laughing. I then turned to mind my work. In half a
minute, or less, I looked round again, and saw the •
decea,ed going up towards the shaft with the strap fast
round her neck. Bottomley was endeavouring to pull
her down. I ran towards him to help, but the shaft took
her round before I got there. He tried all he could to
get her down; he stood upon the engine, and I called to
him to get down, or he would be taken round himself.
He then let her go, and the shaft took her round until it
was out of gear. The deceased had been taken round
about five times. I stood there till she was cut down,
which was immediately afterwards. The whole only
occupied a few minutes.
Tne jury returned a verdict of Manslaughter against
William Bottomley, and he was committed for trial.
Leeds Mercury