The Sun.
London, England, 1846-08-25 00:00:00

No. 16,t327.

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,49 affair of Messrs. de Redder and Borquet, engineers and
undertakers of public works, accused of peculation and
corruption.
The Courrier Belge has ten closely printed columns,
giving an account of the first two days (Thursday and
Friday) proceedings, which were not concluded.
BRUSSELS, AUG. 20.—Last night about ten o'clock,
M. Londoz, a rich proprietor, residing in the causeway
of Molenbeck, St. Jean, had just got home from a club,
when hearing a noise in the cellar, be took a pistol and
went down to Oiseover the cause. At the moment of
entering tho cellar he received a wound from some fire-
arm in the breast. He had just strength enough left to
get up stairs, but on reaching his bedroom, fell down
and expired immediately after. On hearing the shot
fired, Mrs. Londoz rose, and saw a person escaping
through the garden.
BRUSSELS, Auu. 22.—1 t appears that M. Londoz,
when he heard the noise in the cellar, took two pistols,
one lorded, the other not, and when he got to the list
step he was roughly attacked by a vigorous arm, and a
desperate struggle ensued, as is evident from the clothes
of the victim and various traces. The perpetrator pro-
bably wrested the pistol from M. Londoz, which was dis-
charged during the struggle, whether accidentally or
not is at present uncertain. M. Londoz, it seems, on
hearing the noise in the cellar, went up stairs to get his
pistols, and to inform his wife. The report of the pistol
awakened the servants and the neighbours. The ser-
vants immediately hastened down stairs and found their
unfortunate master lying on the ground, unable to say
any more than the word " wounded." They car-
ried him to the drawing-room and laid him on 'a sofa.
The physician and a priest, who had been instantly
sent for, arrived too late to see him alive. Only
orte pistol (that which had been discharged) was
T.ear the victim, so that it may be believed that the as-
ssssin, not knowing that the second pistol was unloaded,
took it to defend himself, if necessary, in his flight. It
is singular that the event was scarcely known when it
was generally reported in the neighbourhood that Mr.
Londoz had committed suicide, which every circumstance
proves to have been impossible. Of course we have only
conjecture on this event; the murderer has not been dis-
covered, and every suspicion respecting the author of the
crime must be suppressed. M. Londoz was a vigorous
man, of lofty stature, in the prime of life. He leaves a
widow and four young children. His fortune is said to
have been 40 000 francs per annum.
The Countess of Napua, widow of the last King of
Holland, William L, arrived at Brussels to-day at four
o'clock.
ST. PETERSBURGH, AUG. 13.—Our newspapers pub-
lish the following Imperial Ukase to the Directing
Senate on the 18th of July :—" It appears that the ill-
disposed persons who, in the month of February last,
made attempts in the republic of Cracow, in Posen, and
in Galicia, to overturn the existing Government, had
accomplices in the Governments of Wilna, Kauen, and
Grodnos. We have to extend to the said Governments
the measures already prescribed for the maintenance of
the public security in the kingdom of Poland, and the
government of Podolia and Wolhynia, and accordingly,
order the Governments of Wilna, Kauen, and Grodnos,
as in a state of war, and place them under the command
of the Prince of Warsaw, Prince Paskewitsch Erivanski,
Field-Marshal and Commander-in-Chief."
KIEL, Auc. 15.—(From the Weser Gazette.) We
believe that we may positively state that the Emperor of
Russia, on receiving a letter from the Grand Duke of
Holstein, respecting the succession of Sleswick-Hol-
stein, said he should not at present interfere in any
manner in this matter. As the several claims on Hol-
stein are expressly reserved to the Emperor by the
letters patent—(" It appears there are certain circum-
stances which hinder us from speaking with the same
precision of the hereditary right to Holstein")—this is
very intelligible, and the Emperor may quietly wait to
learn what offers may be made to him on the part of
Denmark to consent to " recognise the integrity of the
Danish state in its totality." In his position it is cer-
tainly more correct to let the affair takes its course. On
the other hand, it becomes more and more probable that
England, and doubtless France also (especially to coun-
teract the pretensions of Russia), have declared for the
maintenance of the union of dominions now governed
by Christian VIL
The national policy of Germany has of course no ad-
vocates among foreign nations, and can be promoted
only by the powers of the German confederation. All
will depend upon the two great German powers acting
as their duty and interest prescribe.
BRESLAW, AUG. 15.—A convention is said to have
been concluded between Austria and Prussia, by which
both parties are to exercise the strictest vigilance to pre-
serve the rights of Germany from being in the slightest
degree violated or infringed. The visit of his
Majesty the King of Prussia to Konigswarth,
though short, was decisive, and gave the final turn
to this affair. The approximation of Austria to
Prussia is more cordial than ever. Independently
of less important indications, there are two facts which
indisputably lead to this conclusion. The daily increas-
ing coolness in the relations with Russia, and the dif-
ferences between Austria and the Papal See. At all
events this approximation is decisive in the affairs of the
Prussian constitution. So much is certain, that at the
beginning of the year 1847, all the deputies to the pro-
vincial estates of Prussia will meet at Berlin, and that
the official notices on the subject will appear in the
course of this month or the next.
FROM THE RHINE, AUG. 10.—It was reported some
time ago, that his Royal Highness the Duke of Nassau
had asked for the hand of the Grand Duchess Cathe-
rine, younger sister of his deceased consort, daughter of
the Grand Duke Michael ; but that the permission for
this •union had been refused by the Chief of the
Holy Syud (i. e. the Emperor of Russia), as
contrary to the usages of the Greek Church. It is said
that the Emperor will now give his consent to this mar-
riage. Her Imperial Highness the Grand Duchess
Catherine was born on the 28th of August, 1827. In
her person and manners she is said to be a striking re-
semblance to her deceased sister, the Duchess Eliaabeth.
—Hamburyli Papers, Aug. 22.

PRICE SD.

THE MOORS.

PERTIISHIRE.—Sportsmen could not have obtained a
day more favourable than the 12th for their first opera-
tions, and the success that has attended some of them
shows that they must have been diligent in improving
the favourable opportunity. The birds are represented
as being as strong as they were ever seen at the season
of the year ; and, on the whole, the sport has been
reckoned as good as could be expected.
INVERNESS.—In this quarter sportsmen found the
12th all that could be desired. Tapo•worm, we are
sorry to learn, is prevalent this season—fatal to the
birds in some moors; on others it is only suspected,
from the grouse being less plump than usual. The de-
mand for shootings continued to increase r.s the 12th
approached.—lnverness Courier.
STIRLINGSIIIRE.—On account of the previous rains,
the grounds were uncommonly wet, and the birds, al-
though not scarcer than last year, wild, would not allow
a near approach. The sportsman had thus to be con-
tented with single birds, and the numbers bagged were
not numerous.—Stirling Journal.
AYRSIIIRE.—In consequence of the soaked state of
the grounds, wherever the heather was burned or short.,
the birds took instantly in packs to the low grounila-
where they were seen in flocks of from twenty tr; fifty.
On such moors or hills the best shots had no chelce; and
we have notice of several parties of two each, some of
which never burned powder, and others tat got only a
brace or so each, afterhard fagging. On 'strictly protected
grounds, owing to the wetness, the 'oirds, though moro
plentiful, were also wild. In the virinity of Barrhill, on tho
confines of Ayrshire and Galloway, game is abundant,
and sportsmen are enjoying much better sport than
was anticipated. On the 12th August, one gentleman,
along with a gamekeeper, on a single farm of no great
extent, bagged 40i brace. Another sportsman, on the
same day, bagged 12i brace. The birds, however, are
in general much inferior in quality to those of last year.
Ayr Advertiser.

TUE REV. JAMES FORIIBY v. TUE GRAVESEND AND
RocnsSTEN. RAILWAY COMPANY.—The dispute between the
Rev. J. Formby and the Gravesend. and Rochester Railway
Company was brought to a conclusion about a month ago,.
It will be recollected that in the month of October
last some labourers of the company were brought before
the Mayor and magistrates of Rochester for cutting down
some trees, the property of the reverend gentleman,
when the parties were fined, and it was afterwards settle
that all matters in dispute between the parties should be
submitted to arbitration. The wall which the company
had built for the Rev. Gentleman, who had given some
land up to the company for the purpose of making a coach
road from the station at Frindsbury, the award ordered,
that as it was not built properly it should be
taken down and rebuilt, which accordingly has been
done, and in addition a gateway of the Reverend
Gentleman's has been blocked up by the company, by
placing a nine-inch wall between the piers of the gate
which has much annoyed Mr. Formby, and as the work-
men had been found to have done some damage to the
gates, the subject was brought before the Mayor and magis-
trates of Rochester, on Saturday, the 22d inst., and John
Parkes and John Ashdown, bricklayers, were charged with
wilfully and maliciously damaging and spoiling two gates,
and two piers thereof belonging to the Rev. Mr. Formby,
which, under the Wilful Damage Act subjects the of-
fenders to the penalty of 51. Mr. W. Hayward appeared for
the Rev. complainant, and Mr. Wickham for the defendants,
who pleaded not guilty. Mr. Hayward, in opening this
case, said his client had acted through all the proceedings
from first to last with the greatest forbearance, and was
about to enter into a brief history of the long pending
disputes between the parties, when the Bench observed
that they had nothing to do with any dispute between
the Rev. Mr. Formby and the Canal Railway Company, that
took place six months ago. Evidence then was given by
Mr. Formby's gardner, that the two defendants were on
Saturday, the 15th, building a wall between the piers of his
master's gateway. The gate was painted, and is now
smeared over with mortar. The damage done may be 11. or
M 51. On the part of the defendants,
Dir. George Ward, anin-
dependent gentleman, living at Dartford, deposed that he
gave orders to stop up the gate, and it was done according to
his instructions. The bench convicted the defendants, 64.
damages, and costs 14s.
NINETY-SECOND HIGHLANDERS.—The hoad-quarters
division of the gallant 92d Highlanders, under the command
of Lieutenant-Colonel BP
Donald, marched into this city Ott
Thursday, en oute from Belfast to Enniskillen, to relieve the
26th Canerenians, ordered to Dublin from that garrison.
The men were billeted through the city for the night and
proceeded on their march on Friday morning. The regi,
ment is composed of fine soldier-like athletic young fel-
lows, and the band is one of the best, it is said, in
the service. Our Belfast contemporaries express great re-
gret at the departure of the gallant corps from that garrison,
as their conduct, while quartered there, was most regaler and
exemplary. It is on the march that the irregularities
_oef
any corps, inclined to be irregular, will be most o.bselimbit:
and if the conduct of the regiment was such, while in Baer
as we observed during the short stay of the head quters'
division, and the other divisions that
Ithe gallant regiment deserves. all thoezt.e.,encomiums
press has bestowed on ii.—Gister a preceded it,
thineoußrevoscityt,