The Sun.
London, England, 1848-10-18 00:00:00

ITALY.

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The Piedwentese Gazette, of the 12th instant, an-
nounces that Baron Hector Perrone de San Mar-
tino, Minister for Foreign Affairs, had been ap-
pointed President of the Council, in the place of the
Marquis Alfieri de Sostegno, whose resignation had
be(ri accepted. Another decree of King Charles
Albert revoked the extraordinary powers conferred on
Get eral Durando on the 6th ult., the causes which
had rendered that measure necessary having ceased
to exist. The King reviewed on the 11th the gar-
ri?,on of Turin, composed of 10;000 men, and was
rcceired with the greatest enthusiasm by the troops
and population. The National Congress of the
Italian League met at Turin on the 11th, under the
presidency of M. Mandan, and divided itself into
three sections—political, economical, and military.
Count Cabrio Cassati was elected chairman of the
first section ; P. Sterbini, of the second ; and General
Racchia of the third. The Congress afterwards pro-
ceeded to admit the Neapolitan members, Spaenta,
Massaria, and Leopardi, and the Roman members,
Sterbini and Pino. The Tuscan Professor Giorgini
had not arrived.

The Lords of the Admiralty have placed her
Majesty's steamer Lightning at the disposal of his Ex-
cellency Count Reventlow, who will proceed in her on
Thursday morning to Copenhagen. We believe that
this visit of the Danish Minister has been rendered
necessary by the negotiations still pending for the settle-
ment of the Schleswig-Holstein question.
ARRIVALS AT HULL.—Recent arrivals at this im-
portant northern port from foreign parts have com-
prised the large number of 117 vessels in the space
of a week, being the largest number we remember
to have taken place in the time at the port alluded
to. They were laden with various articles, the
pr.( ducts of foreign countries, and comprised among
other supplies of different articles of food, the fol-
lowing large importation of corn from pc its in Europe,
viz., 10,820 quarters and 2,304 bags of wheat, 849 bags
and 2,961 quarters of peas, 12,218 quarters and 3,411
bags of barley, 1,906 quarters and 824 bags of beans,
443 bags and 6,248 quarters of oats, 52 bags and 156
quarters of rye, 30 quarters of tares, 390 bags of bran,
and 400 bags of pollard. The whole of this large num-
ber of vessels, with but one or two exceptions, arrived
from the northern and central states of Europe, with the
usual imports from those several countries.
SUSPECTED MURDER.—From circumstances which
have transpired, there is reason to fear that the young
woman whose body we stated last week had been found
in a ditch, had been murdered. It appears that her
name was Abbott. She was a widow, and a
witive of liawkhurst. She had been in ser-
vice at Gravesend, and was about to go thence to
Maidstone, and stopped at the Silver Oar on her way.
She left that house on Friday morning with very re-
spectable apparel, and had just reeetved change for a
sovereign. When found in the ditch, in which there
was barely water enough to cover her, her bonnet was
off, some of her clothing and her money gone, and a
piece of
carpet covered over her
head, which she
tightly clenched with one band, and it seemed evident
that the poor creature was suffocated in the mud. The
police are using every means to unravel the mystery.._
Maidstone Journal
Love AND SUIgIDE.—Last night, an inquest was
held on the body of James Hierns, aged twenty, late
potman at the Horse Shoe, Goswell-road. Deceased
was a very steady young man, and bore an excellent
character, but he had formed some connexion with a
female living at Highgate, to whom he appeared
much devoted. Latterly it seemed that there
had been some dispute between them, which
weighed heavily upon his nsind. He became exceed-
ingly despondent, and sometimes spoke of destroying
himself, but would immediately afterwards exhibit such
consciousness of his folly, that it was not thought that
he would have committed so rash an act. On Friday
morning he awoke rather strange in his manner, and in
the evening, having procured some arsenic, for the pur-
pose of killing rats, as he said, he swallowed the poison,
and died from its effects on Sunday morning. Verdict
—" Temporary insanity."
VON RATIJEN'S COMPRESSED AIR LOCOMOTIVE.—
In noticing an experiment with the Baron's machine,
identical, if we mistake not, with one some weeks since
recorded in the Builder, even down to a stoppage
at Wandsworth, a correspondent, who " hails with
pleasure the ingenuity of the idea of fabricating,
wholesale, a propelling power, as if it were cotton"
(gun cotton ?), says that " the plan of the in-
ventor," •so far as he understands it, "is to have
large steam-engines fitted up at stations, at nearly
voluntary distances, to be regulated by the nature
and extent of the traffic—say at ten, twenty, or
thirty miles the one from the other ; also to
have extensive stationary reservoirs at each of these
stations. where the propelling power is extensively
fabricated. The locomotive reservoir-tenders are filled
with compressed air from these, of an adequate power
calculated for the distance, and the locomotive is then
charged." " The economy," ho continues, " must
be very great in thus fabricating the power
wholesale." Without identifying our own opinion
with that of our correspondent, or indeed offer-
iny opinion on the merits of the Baron's
pt rsevering endeavours to perfect his mew mode
of propulsion, we may here remark that the idea
reminds us of one some time since started for the fabri-
cation of locomotive force by means of powerful springs,
wound up by stationary steam-engines, and shipped—
like the Baron's bottles of wind, or rather like the main-
spring and drum of a watch—with fitting apparatus, re-
gulators, &c., on to some simple wheeled machinery for
locomotion.—The Builder.

At the meeting on Monday last of the West-end
Joint Tenant Association, Edgeware-road, Mr. George
Wiggall in the chair, a letter from Lord John Russell
was read, declining to give any explanation as to vibe-
tiler lodgers were entitled to vote under the •, Joint
Ratepaying Clauses" of the Reform Act.