The Sun.
London, England, 1846-08-24 00:00:00

17th inst., there is every probability that the Zolive-
rein Congress at Berlin will come to a satisfactory
conclusion on the great points submitted to them for
consideration, as the delegates of the different states
are disposed to make particular concessions for the at-
tainment of general benefit.

Madrid journals of the 17th have arrived.

The Heraido and the Tiempo both represent the
illness of Mr. BULWER as of a very serious nature.
He is so much worse that he is unable at present to
move to St. Sebastian. Don FRANCISCO D'A ssis has
arrived at Madrid from Pampeluna.
NARvAEz, according to the Eco del Comercio, is
shortly expected at Madrid. It was not known
whether he would resume the command of the army,
Ia• proceed to Naples as Ambassador. M SALAMANCA
has applied for a renewal of the salt contract, and
also for an indemnity for losses experienced in con-
sequence of the insurrection in Galicia.

MADRID BoLSA, .Ana. 17.—The Three per Cents.
were done at 33i ; the Four per Cents., at 214; the
Five per Cents., at 21f ; the Debt without Interest,
at Ga ; and the Coupons, at 20.

We have received the Paris papers of Friday and
Saturday.

The Chamber of Peers, by a majority of 104 to 2,
voted the following address in reply to the Speech
from the Throne:—

"Sire,—The opening of a Legislature is always a solemn
epoch. The Peers created since the preceding session, and
the Deputies, recently honoured with the suffrages of the
country, consecrate afresh, by the oath which they take
before the King, the alliance of the Throne and free insti-
tutions.

" The noble and touching words which your Majesty has
pronounced on this occasion have deeply.moved us, and will
find their echo in every French heart. The Chamber of
Peers fully responds to them, as does indeed the whole of
France, by the respectful homage of a faithful affection,
and an inviolable devotedness to your sacred person and
your august family.
"The afflicting trials imposed on your Majesty, the dan-
gers which you regard with so tranquil an eye, and from
which you are so manifestly preserved by Divine Providence,
draw tighter, it possible, the ties which unite France to her
King, and more and more clearly prove how much the pre-
servation of your life is necessary for the pacific develop-
ment of the national grandeur and prosperity.
" Sire—The gratitude of the nation is due to the Prince
who luved and served France from his youth up. The loyal
concurrence of the Chambers cannot be wanting to the Mo-
narch who is so careful to maintain these great maxims of
public right—the glorious conquests of modern civilisation
which, when reduced to laws, guarantee the rights of all.
This unalterable patrimony of the nation, committed to the
guardianship of your descendants, shall be, in accord with
the Chambers, religiously preserved, the enjoyment of it
shall be guaranteed to our children, and from age to age the
blessings of posterity shall accompany your memory."

The only speech of importance in opposition to it
was that of the Marquis DE BOISSY, who attacked the
KING personally, then advocated electoral reform, and
concluded by calling for the restoration of the
hereditary peerage. The Chamber of Deputies was
still engaged in the verification of the qualifications.
Several returns have been declared null. The
Chamber had not decided on the case of M. MATER,
whose return was objected to on the ground that he
had promised to resign his seat within the year, but
it was generally considered that his election would
be declared void.

The Siecle states that the Minister of War had
actually prepared the draught of an ordonnance, con-
ferring municipal institutions on the town of Algeria,
but that in consequence of the remonstrances of Mar-
shal BUGEAUD he had abandoned his design.
The Moniteur Algerien of the 15th says :
.

"Our relations with the Kaid of Ouchda continue to be
excellent. The Morocco chief has interfered to prevent the
Angades from joining Abd-el-Kader. Men and families are
returning every day to our territory, and all, without ex-
ception, declare that the efforts of the Einir to re-constitute
his Deira have hitherto failed. The Angades have been kept
back by the Kaid of Ouchda, and the ➢iessiouin have fled
from the Emir's horsemen and taken refuge in the subdivi-
sion of Tlemcen. The Beni Ahmer, to whom the Emir
wrote at Fez to recal him to his Deira, have, it is said, re-
plied that ' they fled not from him personally, but from the
famine which always accompanied his course.' In fact, Abd-
el-Kader has not hitherto succeeded in making any progress
in tallying round him the emigrants from Algeria."

At the date of the last accounts Algeria was per-
fectly tranquil, and the tribes were regularly paying
the taxes imposed on them in consequence of the late
outbreak.

The Marquis of NORMANBY, her MAJESTY'S Am-
bassador to the Court of France, and his lady, arrived
at the Hotel de la Terrasse, Rue de Rivoli, Paris, on
Friday afternoon. It was still understood, that not-
withstanding the advanced period of the season, his
Lordship would proceed to Vichy for the benefit of
the waters.
The Three per Cents. closed on the Paris Bourse on
Saturday at 83f. 75c. ; the Five per Cents., 121 f. 80c.' •
Rouen, 9621. 50c. ; Havre, 7021. 50c. ; Great Northern, 7081.
75c.; Avignon, 908 f. 75c. ; Vier zor, 6251.; Bordeaux, 568 f.
75c. ; Boulogne, 4751. ; Troyes and Montereau, 360 f.; Fam-
poux, 4101. ; Pal is and Strasburg, 497 f. 50c. ; Tours and
Nantes, 507 f. 50c. ; Paris and Lyons, 5231. 75c.; Lyons and
Avignon, 490 f. ; Bordeaux and Cette, 485. ; Spanish Three
per Cents., 36%; Ditto Domestic Debt, 321/,.
MARSEILLES, Ara. 17.-Marseilles and Avignon, 892 f.
50c. ; Northern, 627 f. 50f.
LYONS, AUG. 20.-Paris and Rouen, 955 f. ; Avignon and
Marseilles,B96f. 25f. ; Northern, 702 f. 50c. ; Paris and Lyons,
517 f. 50c.; Orleans, 1,267 f. 50c.

BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, AUGUST 22.

Anglo-Belgian, 2%—Bordeaux, Toulouse, and Cettc (Espelet e),
114 —Demerara, —Direct Bombay and Madras, lA—Dutch
Rhenish, 6—East Indian, 3i—Great Western Bengal, % —Namur
and Liege, 3—Northern of France Constituted, 127(—Paris and
Lyons Constituted, 5% —Paris and Strasbourg Constituted, 4%.

CRIMINAL COURT.--(THIS DAY.)
OLD COURT.

(Before Baron PLATT and Alderman Sir P. LAURIE.)
CHILD MURDER.—Mary Ann Neltlefield, aged 18, spinster,
was placed at the bar, indicted for having, by means of a
cloth or otherwise, suffocated and murdered her male child,
at 3, Princes-street, Sparrow-walk, on the 9th of July last.
Mr. CLARIit'ON, in introducing the case to the jury, stated
that the prisoner, either by neglecting to secure the navel-
string, or by a piece of rag inserted in the throat of the
child, or by water with which she covered it, had been guilty
of putting her child to death.
Baron PLATT said the omission to secure the navel-string
could not be construed into an act of murder, otherwise many
married women who, in the agony of the moment, omitted
to do that which ought to have been done, might be incicted
for the crime of murder.

Several witnesses were called, who proved that the pri-
soner had the appearance previously of beirg pregnant, and
on the day in question that appearances Is ere seen in the
water-closet which led them to suspect that parturition had
taken place. The mother of the girl stated, that when she
returned from the water-closet, she said to her she had been
very ill—so ill, and in a way that she could not describe
to her mother.

Mr. Bailor, surgeon, on examining the prisoner, found all
the appearances of recent parturition, and on searching the
water-closet found the body of a child. A rag was forcibly
pressed into the child's throat, and the navel-string was tern
off close to the body. The lungs, on being subjected to the
hydrostatic test, showed that the child had breathed ; but
even if the rag had not been put into the mouth, it could not
have lived, from the injury to the navel-string. Mr. liallor's
further evidence went to show that it was possible for the
child to have lived and breathed before it was entirely sepa-
rated from the mother, and it might have been dropped invo-
luntarily into the privy.
Mr. HUDDIASTONE, with the sanction of the Judge, and in
accordance with the opinion of the jury, addressed himself to
the question of the concealment of the birth.
The JUDGE summed up the evidence and sent the case to
jury, who retired to consider their verdict.
On coming again into Court, after being absent upwards of
an hour, the jury returned a verdict of guilty of the conceal-
ment of the birth.

The COUMT sentenced her to imprisonment and hard
labour for twelve calendar months.

NEW COURT.
(Before the RECORDER and Alderman lluGuEs.)
George Bell, aged 19; Thomas Narks, aged 18 ; and George
Chandler, aged 19, were indicted for stealing a "railway,"
value 3/., the property of Morris Harris. It appeared that
Marks had been convicted of felony.
A police-constable stated that, while disguised in plain
clothes, he watched and apprehended the prisoner. This
witness, however, on being cross-examined, admitted that he
had been drinking gin with the prisoners on the evening on
which the offence was alleged to have been committed, and
also that he had been in the company of Marks' mother.
The jury immediately Acquitted the prisoners, and
The Learned RECORDIER deprecated strongly the conduct
of the officer.
BIGAMY.—James Hickman, a hawker, aged twenty-four,
was indicted for feloniously marrying Caroline Gower on the
6th of July last, his wife, Margaret, being then living.
The clerk of the church at Ilaggerstone, Hackney-road,
produced a copy of the marriage register, from which it ap-
peared that on the 10th of May, 1842, the prisoner had mar-
ried one Margaret Keefe, at which the witness was present.
She was then in court.
Mrs. Charlotte proved to having attended at the celebra-
tion of the first marriage, and that she had signed the church
register..
The second marriage was proved by the parish clerk of
St. Mary, Rotherhithe, which, he stated, was celebrated in
his presence on the day in question. This witness produced
the necessary document of the marriage.
The jury having found the prisoner Guilty, he was
sentenced to imprisonment, with hard labour, for twelve
months.

James Baker, who was convicted of picking pockets at
Camberwell fair, was sentenced to hard laliour for six months
the Learned Recorder not being of opinion that "everything
was fair at fair time."
The other cases were chiefly of the same description.

BOW-STREET.—(THIs DAY.)
One of those amphibious animals known as " mudlarks,"
who, like the heroes of several old ballads, "live on the
banks of a stream," was charged with assaulting a lad named
Edward Dyer, by throwing a handful of mud at him.
The complainant said that last evening he was standing
on the steps under ilungerford-bridge, looking at a number
of boys (amongst whom was the prisoner) who were
" scrambling" for halfpence thrown by people on the bridg,
into the mud, when the prisoner suddenly, and without pro.
vocation, took up a handful of mud and threw it at him.
An inspector of the Thames police, who took the prisoner
in charge, said that the practice of throwing halt-
pence. from the bridge was a very great nuisance.
A number of " bad characters," like the prisoner,
assembled at the foot of the bridge every Sunday