The Sun.
London, England, 1848-09-28 00:00:00

PIEDMONT.

The Risorginiento of the 23d publishes an address
in English to the British nation, signed by Vicenz3
Gioberti, President of the Central Committee for the
Promotion of the Italian Confederacy. The atten-
tion of the British public is therein called upon the
Italian question; and after enumerating the various
arguments in favour of Italian independence, and
calling upon England not to be led back to the policy
of 1814, the conclusion is as follows:—" We are
armed yet. We are gathered together, unbroken in
spirits. One-half of our population homeless, hope.
less. Fire and sword have done their utmost. We
have little more to fear. We are inured to evil. The
world may deny us justice; but we are sure of our
vengeance."

SUN,

LONDON,

VENICE.

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Letters from Trieste of the 18th instant state that
General Durand() had landed at Venice with 2,200
men from Ancona.

NAPLES AND SICILY.

The Roman Gazette of the 18th, says--" Traveller-
from Naples have brought the intelligence that the
Neapolitan Government has just ordered the arrest of
many excellent and industrious citizens. The latest
accounts from Messina are that General Nunziante
has divided his army into three corps, one of which is
destined against Catania, and the other against
Palermo.

DEATH OF DR. YVM. CAMFBBLI, EDIY,BURGII.—
«'e regret we have to announce the di cease of our re
spected townsman, Dr. William Campbell. He has for
many years been well known in our city as an eminent
accoucheur. His reputation has not been limited:to this
country alone ; his writings on the particular depart-
ment of medicine professed by him havrfrg gained him a
European fame. Some of his works have been trans•
lated into German! and the medical and scientifir
societies of Berlin, Vienna, Heidelberg, and other foreign
university towns, conferred on him the honour of mem-
bership. To the gentlemen who have studied in the
Medical School of this city he has been torn; and it-
vourably known as a successful teacher and attached
friend. We have heard it said that the pupils of his
class are scattered over the entire globe, and that not a
few of them are indebted to his instructions and kind
offices for their present position and success. To tto
poor, when in distress, his services were at all tim,,s
available, and for many years he supported two dis-
pensaries for their benefit at his own expense. it
all classes of our fellow-citizens, as well as by our
Medical School, his loss will be severely felt.—Edin-

burgh Paper.
DEATH OF LIEUTENANT GENERAL SIR CHARLES
MAXWELL, C. 8., K.C.H.—This officer died on the 23d
instant, at Broadstairs. He was the eldest son of Charles
Maxwell, Esq., of Dumfriesshire, by the eldest daughter
of James Douglas, Esq , of the same county, and was
born in 1775. He entered the army in 1795, as Ensign ;
in 1796 he was advanced to the rank of Lieutenant; in
1797, to that of Captain; in 1808, to that of Major; in
1809, he became Lieutenant-Colonel; in 1819, Colonel;
in 1830, Major General; and in 1841 ho was advanced
to the rank of Lieutenant-General. He received the
colonelcy of the 3d West India Foot in 1843. Sir
Charles was employed on the coast of Africa in 1809,
and succeeded in reducing the French colony of Suri-
nam. He was engaged in the defence of St. Vincent
until the entire subjection of the Capihs. He landed
with the 63d Foot in North Holland in August, 1799,
and was present at the surrender of the Dutch fleet in
the Helder, and in the actions of the 19th of September,
and the 2d and 6th of October. In the following year
he took part in the expedition intended for the attack of
Belleisle, and afterwards in the affair at Ferrol, and in
Gibraltar and Malta, until the peace of 1802. In 1806
he served in South America. In 1809 he commanded
the land force in the capture of the French fortress and
settlement of Senegal. He was Governor-General and
Commander-in-Chief of the island of Goree, the settle-
ments of Senegal and Sierra Leone, to July, 1815. He
was subsequently Governor and Commander-in-Chief of
Dominica, St. Christopher's, Nevis, and other islands.
THE LATE LIEUTENANT-GENBRAL SIR MAURICE
O'CONNELL, K.C.H.—This distinguished officer, whose
death is stated to have occurred at Sydney on the 26th
of May last, after a lengthened colonial service, was a
distant relative of the late Mr. Daniel O'Connell, M.P.
After serving with the rank of Captain in the emigrant
army under the Duke of Brunswick, he entered the Bri-
tish army in 1793, still holding the same rank. In 1805
he was advanced to the rank of Major; in 1809 to that of
Lieutenant-Colonel; in 1819 to that of Colonel; in 1830
he became Major-General; and in 1841 Lieutenant-
General. He received the Colonelcy of the 80th Foot in
1844. Sir Maurice served at Dominica, and commanded
the light company of the Ist West India Regiment at
Roseau on the 22d of February, 1805, and successfully
resisted the repeated attacks of a very superior French
force. At the conquest of the Kandian territories, and
capture of the reigning monarch, he commanded a divi-
sion of the army under Sir Robert Brownrigg. He re-
ceived the thanks of the House of Assembly at Dominica,
and was presented with a sword, value 100 guineas, for
his services in that island. He also received a sword
value 50/., and a piece of plate value lOW., frJlrn the com-
mittee of the Patriotic Fund. The decetioeLl was for
some years engaged in New South Wslses scs well in
the civil as in the military departments; and it appears
that he was on the point of returning home when death
cut him off.
THE TRAGEDY IN TOXTETII-PARK.—The inquest
upon Robert Howarth and his wife, who were found
dead in the house of the husband, in Toxteth-park,
Liverpool, was commenced on Monday and adjourned to
the following day for further evidence. On Tuesday,
Mr. Haverty, the surgeon, who had made a post rnortem
examination of the bodies, deposed that he had found a
large quantity of poison in the stomachs of both, but
was not satisfied as to its nature. He was curtain, how-
ever, that it was not pure arsenic. The Coroner said he
should again adjourn the inquiry, in order that the
poison might be analysed, and the inquest was again
adjourned. Yesterday, Mr. Haverty, the surgeon, de-
poed that both the above had died from the effects of
arsenic, a small quantity of which the male deceased
was proved to have bought six weeks ago. After the
Coroner had summed up, an open verdict of " Found
dead" was returned.

AN ENORMOUS RAILWA2 "TRAIN.-One of the
trains on the Wakefield, Pontefract, Doncaster, and
Goole line, on Wednesday week (the St Leger day) de-
part( d from the Wakefield station with three engines,
and was half a mile in length.
ANOTHER MEETING OF THE CHAIRMEN OF THE
LEADING RAILWAY CostrAsiEs.—Yesterday afternoon,
at half-past one o'clock, another meeting of the chair-
men of the Great Western, the London and South-
Western, and the London and North-Western Railway
Companies took place at the residence in Lombard-street
of Mr. Glyn, M.l'., chairman of the London and North-
Western. In order that the meeting should be as pri-
vate as possible, none of the other directors or the secre-
taries of either of the companies were present. The three
gentlemen, Mr. Charles Russell, Mr. Chaplin, and Mr.
Glyn remained in deliberation for a considerable time.
The resolutions come to have not transpired, but it is
understood among the friends of the three gentlemen that
the best feeling prevailed, and that all of them expressed
their deep anxiety to act hereafter in concert in the
adoption of those means by which confidence
in railway property may be restored, and its
market value improved. It is due to Mr. Charles
Russell, the chairman of the Great Western, to say,
that he expressed in the most emphatic manner his
earnest desire that in future the three companies should
cultivate the most friendly relWtions with each other,
and should do everything in their power to promote the
general prosperity of the railway interest. One of the,
subjects which occupied the anxious attention of the
meeting, was the necessity of adjusting the differences
which existed between them regarding their respective
lines, and from the friendly spirit evinced on the part of
each gentleman, it may be regarded as a settled point,
that there will not from this time be any further misun-
derstanding between them. It was also agreed that
fewer trains should be run on each of the lines, that no

further responsibilities of any kind should be imcurred
and that every measure which the law allows will be
adopted to raise the market value of railway stock, so as
to insure better dividends for the shareholders.
THE CURRENCY.—On Monday and Tuesday even-
ings Mr. Jonathan Duncan delivered two lectures at
Liverpool, on the evils of the present currency system.
FUNERAL or LORD GEORGE BENTLIKK. The
funeral of this lamented Nobleman has been fed to take
place on Friday morning next, at MarylebonhAl church.
The remains have not yet been removed fram Welbeck
Abbey.
LLOYDS' Rooms.—A general meeting of the mem-
bers was yesterday held in the Underwriters'-room Mr.
G. R. Robinson, M.P., in the chair, to,receive the re-
port of the committee for twahe past half-year. The re-
th e ee
m andfe r t sub-
committee
atidport having been read, s unanimously adopted, and
avoteofthfearnkthtrseprope
convenience of the members during the recent altera-
tions in the rooms of the establishment. The following
xoesretidons to
tt o he
insure committee
votes from the funds were then unanimously carried:—
To F. Jerome, boatswain of the American ship New
World, 104 and an honorary bronze medal, for his
courage in rescuing a number of passengers from the
Ocean Monarch. To Jonathan Bragdon, ,chief mate of
the Ocean Monarch, an honorary bronze medal. To
Mr. Whiston Bristow, passenger in the Ocean Monarch,
/., and the sum of 100/. in aid of the funds of the
Shipwrecked Fishermen's and Mariners' Benevolent
Society.
ABERDEEN, MONDAY EVENING.—It is now ar-
ranged that the Queen will leave Balmoral on Thursday
morning for Aberdeen, by the Dee-side-road, and that
the Victoria and Albert will sail at two o'clock on Fri-
day morning for London. The Royal yacht will be
piloted by Captain Cargill, of the City of Aberdeen
steamer, and accompanied by the Virago, the Black
Eagle, and Vivid steamers, now in the dock here. In
consequence of the inconvenience which the Royal
Family felt on the passage north from the occasional
rolling of the vessel, the present beds in the Royal
ath'haetsewhcioethsela,erre
sisdoe
tchoensytruchtted,
ayarirdelwlitlel btehesyo
will always hang steadily in the -
sapeartmen apartments are to be removed, and cots slung in their
ptlaacded. ,
perpendicular,acm and thus
the violent motion of the vessel will be little felt. On
Saturday and Sunday last we had an easterly gale, but
to-day the weather is fine, and generally her Majesty
has enjoyed sunny days.
EARTHQUAKE AT NEW YORK.—Between ten and
eleven o'clock on Friday night, a sudden, dull, rumbling
noise was heard in this city, as if a heavy vehicle was
driven rapidly over the pavement, and it died away
almost as soon as it came. It is now ascertained that it
was the shock of an earthquake. A gentleman from
Norfolk (Ct.) informs us that he felt the shock sensibly
there; and in Brooklyn, Newark, Tarrytown, Nyack,'
and many other places in this vicinity, the noise and
shock were also remarked arid experienced. At Nyack
the hands on board of a steam-boat lying at the wharf
got out of their berths and went on deck, under the
belief that a collision had taken place between it and
another vessel. In other places it was a cause of general
alarm, but it was not so much remarked here.—New
York Courier. Sept. 12.
SURREY THEATRE.—Mr. 11. Webb, a gentleman
of considerable fame at the Marylebone Theatre as a low
comedian, has lately been playing a round of characters
at the Surrey. Upon the occasion of his benefit last
night he appeared as Mawworm, in the Hypocrite,
wherein he developed an abundance of grotesque -
pertinent humour, which the audience enjoyed
The outward signs of success coul.l
triumphant, The house volP

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