The Sun.
London, England, 1846-06-02 00:00:00

but to us by the Opposition. The country is now well
acquainted with both. The Conservative policy is no
kriger a mere theory ; the country has %itnessed its
effects ; it knows what it has produced and what it is
likely to produce ; it enjoys the blessings it has be-
stowed—a glorious and fruitfill peace, tranquillity,
liberty, wealth, and progressive amelioration, at home ;
abroad, force, grandeur, and security, and prosperity
everywhere.' "
The 4th of June is fixed for the commencement of
the trial of LECOMTS, who will be defended by M.
DUVERGIER, the battunier of the Parisian bar. Forty
witnessess have been summoned on the trial.

The Journal des Dibats, of Friday, publishes the
following particulars of the escape of Prince Louis
NAPOLEON :

"On leaving his apartment, at seven o'clock A. 31., the
Prince was dressed as a workman, and carried under his
arm a shelf of his own library. He had taken the pre-
ciution of shaving off his mustachios and whiskers,
which made it impossible to recognise him. A cabriolet
was writing outside the town, and he got into it with
his servant- man, who, being well known to the
inhabitants of Ham, had made a long circuit
to meet him. The Prince proceeded directly to St. Quen-
tin, where he took a post-chaise, and immediately left
for Valenciennes. He paid the postillions liberally, re-
commending them to drive as fast as possible, being
desirous to overtake a rich Englishman, who was going
to Brussels. He reached Valencientus at half-past two
o'clock, stopped there an instant, and asked the post-
master if he would consent to keep his carriage, his in-
tention being to continue his journey to Brussels by the
railway and to return in a few days. Having received
a reply in the affirmative, Prince Louis, without waiting
until his servant had settled his account, repaired by a
back street to the station of the railroad, and departed
by the first train. He must have arrived at Brussels in
the evening of the 25th, the day of his escape."
In the Chamber of Peers, on Friday, the Prince
DE LA MOSKOWA asked what information the Ministers
had received respecting the massacre of 300 French
prisoners by ADD-EL-KADER ? None of the mem-
bers of the Cabinet were present, and the Prince
gave notice that he should repeat his question. In
the same sitting the Chamber received the reports of
the Committees on the Bordeaux and Cette, the Cen-
tral and the Western Railway Bills.

The Journal des Chemins de Fer announces that
the Northern Railroad would positively be opened on
the 14th inst. A report had prevailed during several
days on the Paris Bourse, that the Avignon and
Marseilles Railroad Company was under the necessity
of negotiating a loan to complete the line. The
loan, according to that journal, was to be applied to
the construction of the branch to Aix, which had
been conceded to the company, and the 20,000,000 f.
subscribed and paid was more than sufficient to ter-
minate the principal road. It was considered pro-
bable that the Dijon and Mulhausen Railway Bill
would not pass the Chamber of Peers this session.
The receipts of the Paris and Orleans Railroad dur-
ing the week ending on the 26th ult. amounted to
171,2741., or 31,000 f. more than in the corresponding
week of 1845 ; those of the Paris and Rouen line,
during the same period, were 151,6631., or 18,000 f.
more than last year.
The Paris Bourse on Saturday wore a sonsewltat
different aspect from that which it presented during
many preceding days. An express had arrived with
the division of the Lords on the Corn Bill, and al-
though qualified by the declaration of war by Ame-
rica against Mexico, it caused a sensible improvement
in stock. Sl3ares, generally speaking, participated
in the upward movement.
The Three per Cents. closed at 84f. 25c.; the Five
per Cents., at 119 f. 85c ; Orleans Railroad shares,
1,247 f. 50c. ; Rouen, 1,020 f. ; Havre, 750 f.; Great
Northern, 745 f.; Avignon, 880 f.; Vierz, n, 6321.50 c.;
Bordeaux, 615 f.; Boulogne, 487 f. 50c.; Troyes and
Montereau, 380 f. ; Basle, 217 f. 50c.; Dieppe, 415 E;
Paris and Strasburgh, 5051.; Tours and Nantes,
515 f. ; Paris and Lyons, 543 f. 750 ; Spanish Ac-
tives, 321 ; Ditto, Three per Cents, 381.
The following are the quotations in the new lines:
Lyons and Avignon, Definitives, 5171. 50c.; Bor-
deaux and Cette, 508 f. 75c.

BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT TIIE

LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, MAT 30.

Boulogne and Amiens, 11%—Th:itch Rhenish, 73%—East Indian,
7 —Great Indian Peninsular %—Jersey, %—Namur and Liege.
3%—Northern of France Constituted, 13%—Orleans and Vierzen.
14—Orleans and Bordeaux, 9%—Paris and Lyons Constituted, 6
—Paris and Strasbourg Constituted, 4% —Sambre and Meuse, 4%—
West Flanders, 2%

DRURY LANE THEATRE,—MadIIe. Carlotta Grisi ar-
rived yesterday afternoon, and in order to give every possible
effect to the representation of the new ballet of Paquita, in
which she is to appear, the theatre will be closed this even-
ing, for a night rehearsal. We are given to understand that
an unusual degree of splendour will be displayed in this work,
the principal part of the costumes having been made in Paris.

Baron Brunow and suite arrived in London, at an
early hour, yesterday morning, by the General Steam Navi-
gation Company's mail-packet, Caledonia, Captain H. W.
Gibbs, from Hamburg.

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Prince Charles de,chwargenberg left London on
Saturday morning by the General Steam Navigation Coal
pany's ship Princess Royal, for Hamburg, en route to Vienna'
Baroness Paldert and Captain Cardigan were among
the passengers that arrived in London on Saturday afternoon
by the Sir Edward Banks, from Ostend.
THE CoLosszuar.—Among the most favourite places
of amusement is the Colosseum, the powers of attraction of
which still continue undiminished. On several recent occa-
sions, when we have visited it, we have found it crowded
both in the morning and the evening. A stranger, visiting
London, should pay his first visit to the Colosseum. It fur-
nishes him with an admirable carte du pays.
OPENING OF THE SOUTH DEVON LINE FROM EXETER
TO TEIGN3IOUTIL—The South Devon line of railway from
Exeter to Teignmouth, was opened to the public on Saturday
last. The railway consists of a single line of rail only, and
is intended to be worked on the atmospheric principle; as,
however, the apparatus is not quite complete, it is for the
present worked by locomotives. The scenery along the
line of the South Devon is the most picturesque in the
world, and we doubt not but that, during the course of the
summer, excursions to Teignmouth will become quite po-
pular. The directors and officers of the company were pre
sent. The weather was brilliant, and riot the slightest
contre temps occurred to mar the pleasure of the day.
The Duke of Wellington left A psley House on Satur-
day afternoon, to pass the Whitsun recess at Strathfieldsaye,
where his Grace will entertain a small circle, and return to
town on Wednesday. His Royal Highness Prince Albert is
expected to honour the Noble and Gallant Duke with his
company at dinner at his Grace's annual Waterloo banquet
on the 18th instant.
Lord Stanley has recovered from the effects of a cold
under which he was suffering at the latter end of last week.
We have the gratification to announce that Lady
Louvain war safely delivered of a son and heir, on Friday
las,, at the family mansion, in Charles-street, Berkeley-
square.
t.ord and Lady Vaux, of Harrozvden, have arrived in
Wilton-cresent, from C aighton Court, Warwickshire. _ _

The Cambridge papers state that the lien. and Rev.
G. N. Grenville, M.A., who has been appointed to the deanery
of Windsor' has no intention of resigning the ma•ter.,hip of
Magdalene College, Cambridge, as there is no law to prevent
the two offices being held by one person, very short residence
on the part of the Dean being required at Cambridge.
PRINCE LOGJfi NAPOLEON.—We are given to under-
stand that Prince Louis Napoleon intends to quit England
for Florence in the course of the ensuing week, there to join
his invalid father, whose health is rapidly on the decline.
The Prince, since his arrival here, on Wednesday last, has
preserved the strictest incognito.
Prince Louis Napoleon Bonaparte wag amongst the
promenaders in St. James's-street, on Saturday.
COAL FOR THE METROPOLIS —A correspondent in-
forms us that if the Midland Railway Company obtain their
Acts now before Parliament (and which they are likely to do,
there being no opposition to them) for new lines and branches
in Nottinghamshire, a great deal of coal will be sent from the
pits in that county (that are already open and others to be
opened) to the metropolis. The coal, too, in that locality is,
generally speaking, very good. Let us have "free trade" in
coal as well as other things.
SUICIDE AND ATTEMPTED MURDER.—GLOUCESTER.
FRIDAY.—The town of Newnham, about twelve miles from
Gloucester, wasthrown intoconsternation on Wednesday last,
by a most extraordinary suicide and attempt to murder com-
mitted by Mr. John Knowles, of the above town. On Wed-
nesday afternoon Mr. Knowles went into the shop of Mr.
Morse, the postmaster; Mrs. Morse put out her hand for Mr.
Knowles to shake, but instead of doing so, he took up a
mallet used for breaking sugar, and struck her a blow on the
forehead, which felled her to the ground. The shopman
seized him by the arms behind, and, while in this position,
Knowles contrived to open a razor, which he had concealed
in his breast, and, drawing it across his throat, he fell to the
ground, and died shortly afterwards. The deceased was a .
respectacle shopkeeper at Newnham, and no motive is assigned
for his extraordinary conduct. The general opinion is that
he was labouring under insanity. Mrs. Morse is recovering.
DREADFUL STEAM-BOAT EXPLOSION IN SCOTLAND.
—An awful accident took place on Thursday. The steamer
Finn, Maccoull, left Wigtown at twelve o'clock for Liverpool,
and on the passage called at Grtrliestown for goods, and when
just loosing the rope to leave the quay the boiler burst, and
the under engineer and one firemen were killed, and the head
engineer and two men were dreadfully scalded, and are not
expected to live, None of the uassengers were injured. The
boiler burst at the bottom; if it had burst at the top there is
no saying what amount of lives might have been lost. The
steam had just been shut off about one minute before the ac-
cident took place, and the poor fellows had to lie in the en-
gine-room upwards of five minutes before assistance could be
got, on account of the great quanti.y of steam and dust.
THE BELGIAN CORN-LAW.—The Belgian Govern-
ment, who suspended the corn-law of that country before our
Ministers had begun seriously to entertain the question, have
now, we learn, determined to continue the admission of grain
and rice duty free till the Ist of October, instead of closing
the ports on the Ist of June, as had been intended.—Man-
cheater Guardian.

NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC ASSOCIATION FOR CLEAN-
ING
Cochrane,THE STREETS.
Esq.,
—A deputation, consisting of the Duke of
Grafton, Lord Robert Grosvdnor, B. B. Cabbell, Esq., Charles
objects of thesq-, IL F. Richardson, Esq., and others, waited
from the Com
on Lord J. Russell, on Saturday, at his mansion, Chesham...
place, His Lordship received the deputation most cour-
teously, and pledged his support to the useful and benevolent
Much dissatisfaction having arisen among the artisans
engaged in the production of the Llama Cl°r h in the West of
England, by reason of a rumour that it was the intention of
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the Messrs. Nicoll, of Regent-street, to remove such manu-
facture nearer to the metropolis, those gentlemen have issued
a circular denying
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such to be their purpose, and which has
allayed the fears of a large body