The Sun.
London, England, 1847-06-04 00:00:00

LA2IIBETH.

Mr. James Loftus Brock, a half-pay lieutenant in the
army, was charged with attempting to murder his wife.
Mrs. Ann Brock deposed that she had been married
to the prisoner for upwards of 20 years, and for the last
three years of the time his conduct towards her and his
family was of the most violent description. About three
years ago he formed an improper intimacy with a mar-
ried woman, and since then she and her family had not
enjoyed the slightest happiness, his manner had so
changed, and his conduct was so violent. On Tuesday
and Wednesday nights he stopped away, and did not
return until near ten o'clock on that morning. As soon
as he entered the room, he as usual commenced abusing
her, and his manner was such that she left the
room. Presently she returned up stairs, and was
in the act of preparing the dinner, when her
husband came behind her and made a stab at her on the
left side. Her eldest son at the instant pushed his arm,
so that the blow fell upon her left arm, and the blade of
the knife passed right through the fleshy part. Her
screams brought the landlord of the house and other
persons to her assistance, and her husband was secured
by a policeman. The surgeon who had dressed the
wound said, that if she had been struck by the knife on
the place where the blow was aimed at, instantaneous
death must have been the result, as the instrument must
hare penetrated the heart.
In reply to the questions from the Bench, the witness
said that her husband had evidently been drinking on
the night before and on that morning, but still was per-
fectly well aware of what he was about. He had fre-
quently told her he was determined to take her life, and
that he knew how to do it, by stabbing her close to the
fifth rib.

The prisoner, who declined offering anything in de-
fence, was remanded to a future day.

FLANDERS MAIL.

BRUSSELS, JUNE I.—Her Majesty the Queen, accom-
panied by their Royal Highnesses, the Duke de Brabant,
and the Count de Flanders, arrived to day at the Palace
from Lacken.
A letter from Mersch, addressed to the Courrier de
Luxembourg, tn..), e-
L "At this moment all nature stands in unrivalled
beauty and luxuriance. Not only are our crops and
f vegetables as fine as possible, but our orchards are
laden with blossom. The wheat and the rye, which
were checked by the cold of April, have suddenly
sprung up. Our apple and pear trees, in a word, all
our fruit trees, have been richly covered with blossom,
some of which has already gone off and fine fruit set."
CARLSRULIE, MAY 26.—We have just learnt that our
Government has issued an ordinance which is of im-
portance, especially to those parts of our country which
abounds in game. The most decisive measures are to
be taken to prevent the increase in the quantity of
game, in all places to the detriment of agriculture, and
the authorities are even authorized, in cases where the
farmers of the hunting grounds do not themselves re-
medy such an abuse, to order per force hunting parties
at their expense.
VIENNA, MAY 26.—Count Stadino, the appointed
Governor of Lineburg, is preparing to set out for his
Government, and will probably leave Vienna before the
end of the month. Count Munich Billinghausen, the
President of the German Diet, is likewise preparing to
set out for Frankfurt. The following diplomatic
changes are spoken of : Baron Von Neumann,
from Florence to the Hague ; Count Moritz Es-
terhazy from the Hague to Florence ; Count
George Esterhazy, from Carlsruhe to Lisbon ; Count
Rudolph Appongi, hitherto Secretary of Legation in
Paris, as Ambassador to Carlsruhe ; Count Ingelheim,
as Ambassador to Rio de Janeiro ; lastly, Baron von
Bremer, hitherto Secretary of Legation in London, as
Chargé d'Affaires at Munich. His Majesty the Em-
peror will go on the 27th to his summer palace of Schon-
braun. His Imperial Highness the Archduke Francis
Charles, with his family, were at that residence a few
days ago. Her Imperial Highness the Grand Duchess
Helen returned from Warsaw a day or two ago.
ST. PETERSBURGII, MAY I2.—Though we have had
some remarkably fine weather, the Court is still here.
The weather has changed since yesterday, and it is
now sensibly cold. The masses of ice from Lake La-
doga continued to pass across the Newa to the Gulf, and
contributed not a little to the chilliness of the tempera-
ture. The sea before Cronstadt is still covered with ice,
and foreign vessels waiting on the coast still find it im-
possible to enter the harbour. Yesterday the infant son
of the Imperial Prince Vladimir was christened, and the
city was illuminated in the evening. The inland cor-
respondence of Russia, in all parts of the empire, is in-
creasing every year, in consequence of the present ad-
mirable organization of the post-office. According to
the last report of our Postmaster-General of the year
1845, the number of 10,136,142 letters were forwarded in
the empire ; four years before the numbers were onl
7,902,314. This is a proof of the increasing desire of al
classes to extend their correspondence. The two capi
talc, St. Petersburgh and Moscow, have the fourth par
of this correspondence. The largest portion is to Prus.
sia, it amounts to one-half of the whole.

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BERLlN.—According to the Silesian Gazette, the com-
mercial circles here are thrown into a state of extraordi-
' nary excitement by the forgery practised by Wm.
L—s, the great timber merchant, who has put into
circulation forged bills of exchange to the amount
of between 200,000 and 300,000 dollars, by which fraud
several houses, and even the royal bank have suffered.
The police were in pursuit of the forger, but it is feared
that he has already succeeded in escaping to America by
way of Hamburg, England, and the ocean.
BERLIN, MAT 29.—0 n the 27th his Majesty gave a
grand dinner in honour of the birthday of her Majesty
the Queen of England. The resident British Ambas-
sador, the Earl of Weatmoreland, and his Countess, as
well as all the English who have been presented at
Court in England were invited on the occasion. Her
Majesty's health was proposed by the King and drunk
with enthusiasm. His Majesty wore the Order of the
Garter in honour of the occasion.
BELGIAN FUNDS.—narssELs, Jun 1.
Actual Debt, 2% per Cent .. ... ••.• • - •
Rothschild's Loan, Five per Cent .. •.• • • •
Loan of Thirty Millions, Four per Cent •• • •
Ditto Three per Cent .. .. .... . ....
Ditto Thirty-seven Millions, ditto ......
Ditt0,ditt0,1840............ • • • • • • • ... 100%
D.itt0,ditt0,1842............ •• • • •. . . 100%
Diti,o, 1844............... •••• . • • • ... 96%
Ditto, 18'3..5 . • • • .
Ditto of the City, 1832 ................
Ditto, 1843 .. ~• ••••••••••• • • • • • • • • • • 9674 i
Bank of Belgiura..... •• • • ........• ..... 89%
—Ev-tliels k.apers, June 1.

AUSTRIAN TUNDO.—VIENNA, MAT 25.
2.5 per Cult. MetaWques...., ... • • . 106
4 per Cent, ditto— • • •
3 Too O'. dlttc„, •• .•• • • • 69
Loan, 1834.. „
Ditto, 1839 .. 119
Banlt Shares ....... .
Esterhazy's Loan . • .......... 63K
RAILWAYS.
The Northern, or Ferdinand ... • • 1641,6
.. 124
Vienna—Milan • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • ••• • • • • 110
Perth • ........ ••••••••••• • " • • • • • • • • 94
Pesth BrOge ••••••• • '' • ' ' • •

PRGIUBZ Or EARLS HARVEST. On Tuesday a
fine full•.ahot ear at wheat of the current growth was exhi-
bited in the Leeda cow Anaeket by a corn and flour dealer,
who
-421 gathered it on i previell: !Jay *t a short distance
from. Lovas.