The Sun.
London, England, 1846-12-26 00:00:00

%TONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS
(From The Sun of last Night.)

There are no arrivals to- day, except the Belgian mail,
and i❑ this we find no commercial news. The working
classes are again described as suffering great privations
from scarcity of food, and the weather was very severe.

ACCIDENT TO THE EMPEROR

OF RUSSIA.

On Wednevlay, the 9th of December, an accident,
which had nearly been attended with fatal results, oc-
cuired to the Emperor of Russia, at Kiow, in Poland,
upon the high road between St. Petersburgh and War-
saw. The Emperor was on his route to Warsaw, and
had arrived at the border of the large river at that
place, wl.ere there is no bridge. A temporary platform
had been con'tructed to run the Emperor's travelling
carriage into the ferry-boat, when by some accident the
platform broke down, and the carriage was precipitated
into the water. The Emperor, with Count Orloff, whc
was also in the carriage, was obliged to escape from the
windows and wade up to his middle in the water, and as
the current was running very strongly and the river full
of ice, no little danger was incurred.
So much time was lost, that the Emperor, who had
arranged to be by a certain day at St. Petersburgh,
was obliged to renounce altogether his visit to War-
saw, and to turn back immediately to the Russian
capital.

The river at Kiow is nearly half an English mile in
width, and the erection of a suspension bridge, which
has long been contemplated, will no doubt be now imme-
diately decided on, especially as the Emperor was unable
last year, on his journey to Warsaw, to pass the river at
K:ow.

ATTEMPT TO ASSASSINATE THE

ARCHBISHOP OF VIENNA.

A letter from Vienna, of the 13th, says—" The Prince
Archbishop of Vienna, M. de Milde, has just had a
narrow escape from assassination. In the morning of
Wednesday last, while the prelate was still in bed, his
valet de chambre came into his room, and pulling open
the curtains, exclaimed, Monseigneur, Jesus Christ has
appeared to me during the night, and ordered me to cut
the throat of the Archbishop of Vienna." Immediately
on pronouncing these words he drew a razor from his
pocket, and held it towards the throat of the prelate.
M. Milde, who perceived that his servant was labouring
under an attack of mental alienation, had the presence
of mind to say to him, 'Listen, my friend; if the Saviour
has really charged you to take my life, you must do it,
for no one should disobey God's commands; but you
must do nothing without first addressing a prayer to the
Almighty. Pray, and I will resign myself to die, by
your hand." The domestic placed himself before a
crucifix, and began a silent prayer; whilst he was so
engaged, the prelate arose, and went into an adjoining
room, locking the door after him. The servant was after-
wards secured, and placed in a lunatic asylum."

The Russian Government has just ordered the cap-
tains of foreign vessels laden with cotton and bound for
the Russian ports in the Baltic, to provide themselves at
the Sound with certificates from the Danish authorities,
declaring that the cotton of which their cargo consists
is not of a dangerous kind, as without this piecaution
the vessels will incur a risk of being refused admission.
It is added that it may even happen that the authorities
in the Russian ports will require the destruction of the
cotton.
EXTRAORDIN ANY SUPERSTITION AND SUICIDE.—
Thursday afternoon an inquest was held at the King
and Queen public-house, High-street, Newington, before
Mr. Carter, one of the coroners for Surrey, on the body
of John Gruff, a German and Dutch clockmaker, aged
twenty-four, who committed a most determined act of
suicide under very peculiar circumstances. From the
evidence it appeared that the deceased and another
young man, a countryman of his, named Ruff, occupied
two small rooms in the house No. 17, Cross-street, New-
ington, in one of which they carried on their business
us Dutch clockmakers, while the other they occupied as
a bed-room. During the latter part of last week the de-
ceased
complained of slight illness, and on Saturday
night he received some grapes from a young woman
who had been in the habit of calling on and washing
for him. On eating a part of the grapes he
fancied himself poisoned, and subsequently de-
clared that the fruit had been charmed by
the young woman, in order to increase his
affection for her. So strong was his belief, that he
got out of his bed between ten and eleven o'clock on
Sunday night, and went a considerable distance to the
residence of the young woman, to request that she would
revoke the charm. He returned home more reconciled,
and went to bed, but about two o'clock he got up, ex-
claimed to his fellow-lodger that his time was come,
that the devil had hold of him, and he must destroy him-
self. Buff, his fellow-lodger, ran up stairs to request
the assistance of his landlord, and on both coming
down, they found the deceased lying on the floor with
a deep wound in his throat, from which the blood was
rapidly streaming, and a rasor tightly clenched in his
right hand. The wound was of so serious a character,
that death rapidly followed its infliction. A verdict of
" Temporary insanity was returned, and Brookes, the
beadle, produced a bag with twenty-nine sovereigns, the
savings of the deceased, which his fellow-lodger had do-
livered up to that officer.

THE NEW COURT OF COMMON