The Sun.
London, England, 1848-08-04 00:00:00

LOMBARD Y.

The last advices from the seat of war represent
the army Of CHARLES ALBERT as completely dis-
organized. He had been attacked by the Austrians
at Goito, and compelled to retreat to Cremona. The
Austrians were advancing against Peschiera. They
were now in possession of both banks of the Mincio.
CHARLES ALBERT has, it is said, himself applied to
France for aid.

The Ventidue Marzo of the 28f1 of July publishes
the following " latest news" :

" A Sardinian courier, from Bozzolo, without any dis-
patches for Milan, reports having heard say that the
King had moved in the morning from Goito, taking the
direction of Volta, at the head of a powerful column."

SEIZURE OF GUNPOWDER
BOUND FOR IRELAND.

PLYMOUTH, AUGUST 2.—Yesterday a gentleman re-
siding in Stonehouse received information that a
vessel named the Emerald Isle, Captain Buck, had
left London, bound for Ireland, with a quantity
of gunpowder on board, which she had entered on
her papers as flour. We have also 'heard that
the gunpowder was taken on board at Yarmouth.
When the information was received here, it was im-
mediately communicated to the pilots and officers con-
nected with the coast service, in order that they might
keep a look-out. Yesterday the Emerald Isle put into
the Sound in consequence of adverse winds. She was
immediately boarded, and the captain was asked what he
had on board ? He replied that he had flour, and was
bound for Dublin. Mr. Rea, the tide surveyor, asked
to look at some of the flour, and directed that some of
the barrels should be handed up to him ; on this being
done, they were found to contain gunpowder. The whole
of the other barrels are believed also to contain gun-
powder, and it was bound for Ireland for the benefit of
the insurgents.
The ship and all parties connected with it are now in
the care of the authorities here, waiting instructions
from the Admiralty as to what course shall be taken
against the vessel and its owners. There are said to be,
three hundred barrels of powder on board. The caso
will probably come before the magistrates in some way,
for their adjudication, on Friday.

MISPLACED HUMANITY.—The Democratic Paci-
fique has the following in the dietary table of the insur-
gents who are in prison:—" All observers agree on the
point that the consumption of adults in carbon is from
10 to 15 grammes per hour, that is to say 240 to 360
grammes per day. On the other hand, experience shows
also that the elements must contain about 28 grammes
of azote. Let us see if the aliments indicated by the
commission really contain these quantities of the chemi
cal elements of nutritive substances. The calculation,
founded on chemical analysis, gives the following
results:—
Daily elements. Carbon. Azote

gr. gr.
850 gr. of bread contain . . 237.5 13.2
179 - meat 7.4
120 - vegetables ... ... 42.5 7.4
327 - wino ... 22.9 0.0

1476 of good. 348.4 24.5
It results from these figures that the nourishment
adopted by the commission of the political prisons is
sufficiently rich in carbon, but somewhat feeble in azote,
for to make our calculations, we have supposed that the
vegetable employed in alimentation were beans, that is
to say those which contain most azote, and still there
are wanting 3 gr. 5 dwts. of that element essential to
life. To make up this deficiency, the.quantity of meat,
the food which contains most azote, must be somewhat
augmented. In increasing it to 250 gr. per day, that is
seven times a week instead of five, all exigencies would
be satisfied." Would not bread and water have been a
more suitable diet for such characters?:
SHOCKING DISASTER AT SEA.—The Bagnall, of
Wisbech, Captain Bagnall owner, was on a voyage to
London, with a very large cargo of wheat and flour, &c.,
on Thursday week, and about four o'clock in the after-
noon, during a terrible thunder-storm when off the Nor-
folk coast, a sudden gust of wind took the vessel side-
ways and blew her completely over, in deep water, when
she immediately turned bottom upwards. The com-
mander, Frederick Yorke, and his wife, who was ill in
the cabin at the time of the accident, both perished. The
remaining persons on board, John Tate, John Kingston,
and two sons of Captain Bagnall, clung to the bottom of
the vessel, and continued nearly three quarters of an
hour in that dreadful situation, expecting every moment
to be their last, when they were picked up off Blakeney
by the Mary and Theodorson fishing smack, of Hastings.
In endeavouring to render some assistance to ono of the
young Bagnalls, the seaman Tate had his leg broken in
two places by a tar barrel rolling against him .—Bury
Post.

PIRACY AND MURDER.—On May 18, there was
a special session held at Singapore, by Sir Christopher
Rawlinson, the Recorder, for the trial of twenty-six
Chinese convicts, escaped from the General Wood. After
an investigation, which lasted two days, they were all
found guilty, and sentence of death recorded against them,
except four, on whom sentence of death was passed. Of
these four, three were hanged on the 26th of May, the
fourth being respited. The twent -thlee convicts have
been sentenced to transportation to Aombay, chiefly for
life. Several new facts were elicited on the trial, but the
confessions of the culprits have served chiefly to explain
the way in which the catastrophe was brought about. It
appears the ship's carpenter, a Chinese, planned the un-
dertaking, with the assistance of two of the crew (also
Chinese); all three were found guilty, anti sentenced to
transportation to Bombay. Sixteen of the Chinese on
one chain it was arranged should be released by the man
at the end of the chain forcing the lock. One of the con-
victs, who acted as a cook, tapered pieces of firewood to
be used as means of attack. The 16-head men were to
divide themselves into four parties, each party to attack
and murder the captain and his three officers, whilst the
Chinese crew and the carpenter were to persuade the
Lascars to take to the rigging. According to the con-
fessions, on the sixteen being released, they first killed
the sepoy in charge of the key, and with the latter re-
leased the other Chinese secured on another chain. On
reaching the deck they murdered the captain and chief
mate, and threw the bodies overboard; the second mate
was wounded and missed—he could not be found; the
third mate fought the Chinese at every point until nearly
exhausted—he made for the wizen-top, from whence ho
was dragged down by Ung-Hee (a Chinese lascar), and
dispatched with a sword just before dawn of day. It
formed nu part of the original plot to kill the passengers,
as the Chinese were Hot aware of there being any on
board until the night the vessel sailed from Singapore.
But it appears never to have entered into the minds of
the convicts to have seized the vessel until instigated to
do so by the Chinese carpenter and three Chinese hiscars,
one of whom, Ung-Ilve, had been three years in the ship.
CORONER'S IN-QuEsr.—Yesterday an inquest was
held at the Angel public house, in Lambeth-walk, before
Mr. William Carter, the coroner for East Surrey, and a
respectable jury, touching the death of Mr. William
White. It appeared that the deceased, who was sixty-
five
years of age, and who resided with his son, a sta-
tioner in an extensive way of business ix Lambeth-walk,
had for sonic time past exhibited signs of imbecility, and
had a particular fancy for lighting pieces of paper and
bits of wood in the candle. Oa Sunday night he retired
to rest at his usual hour, and some time after his son,
who slept in the same room, was horror-stricken on en-
tering the chamber, and finding his aged parent crouched
up in a corner of the room, and burnt in a shocking
manner. It appeared that he hail got out of bed and set
himself on fire, and was in the agonies of death when
found by his son. A verdict of " Accidental Death" was
returned.

Novsz. FRAUD.—A well-known chain• dropper,
named Muir, was apprehended at Glasgow, on Thursday
last, charged with fraud of a rather novel description.
The offence was committed at Milngavie (Stirlingshire)
one day last week, and seems to have been effected in the
following manner:—Muir, accompanied by another indi-
vidual, who has not yet been apprehended, made their
appearance in the above-named village as tea-merchants,
and produced samples of the commodity, which they of-
fered to sell at a very low price. One of the small
dealers in the town, after tasting the sample, which was
taken out of a largo bag, agreed to purchase the entire
quantity (about 201bs. weight), and paid for it the sum
of 2/. ss. Not long after the disappearance of the pre-
tended tea-merchants, the dealer ascertained that, with
the exception of about an ounce of tea dexterously
inserted into the mouth of the bag, its contents
were composed of chaff, &c. A correct description of
the swindlers was given to the local police, and, as
Glasgow was thought the most likely place to find
them, two cfficers proceeded thither in quest of the
parties, one of whom (Muir) was soon apprehended.
He has been since removed to Stirling.
MoNET-AIAaKET.—The premium on gold at Paris
is 10 per mille, which, at the English Mint price of 31.
17s. 100. per ounce for standard gold, gives an ex-
change of 25.40; and the exchange at Paris on London
at short being 25.30, it follows that gold is 0.40 per cent.
dearer in Paris than in London. By advices from Ham-
burgh the price of gold is 434 k per mark, which, at the
English Mint price of 31. 17s. 10A. per ounce for
standard gold, gives an exchange of 13.91 ; and the
exchange at Hamburgh on London at short being, 13.91,
it follows that gold is 0.11 per cent, dearer in Hamburgh
than in London.

DESTRUCTION AND RAPID RE•CONSTRUCTION OF A
RAILWAY BRIDGE.—One of the wooden bridges on the
Newcastle and Carlisle Railway, a little west of Hex-
ham,wenedker from the grate a . was
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fire burned with great rapidity, and every portion of the
wooden frame-work was destroyed, leaving only the stone
piers standing. Messrs. Rush and Lawto'n, the eminent
railway contractors, were called in to reconstruct it •
they commenced operations at five o'clock on Friday
morning, and opened the bridge for the mail train on
Sunday, singe when the general traffic has been unob-
structed! The bridge consisted of four river arches,
and its permanent re-construction, in so short a period,
reflects great credit on the skill and available resources
intrusted.
TILE the eminent firm to whom the work was
TILE LORD BISIIOP OF MANCHESTER.—It is
uA-
derstood that his lordship the Bishop of Manchester will
be in this city at the latter end of the week, on the oc.
casion of a visit to the diocese, to consecrate the new
church at Walsden, near Rochdale, on Monday. His
lordship is announced to preach the consecration sermon
at the church,—Manche4er Courier.