The Sun.
London, England, 1846-11-20 00:00:00

Laboratory of the Cbemico-Agricultural Society.

Dispatches were sent off yesterday evenirg, from the
Colonial-office, for the GOY, Pn ors of Si rra Leone, St.
Helens, and Ceylon.
CLERK of THE OXFORD CIRCITIT..—The late Mr.
John Bellamy, who had filled the office of Clerk of
Assize on the Oxford Circuit for more than half a
century, and who died on Friday last, at the advanced
tge of 81, had travelled 120 circuits. The appointment
'sat the disposal of the Lord Chief Justice of the Com-
mon Pleas, Sir Thomas Wilde, in his capacity of senior
Judge of the Circuit ; and the Worcester Chronicle states,
that it is expected that one of the Learned Knight's
sons, in all probability Mr. Claude Wilde, barrister-at-
law, will be nominated to the vacant office.
MADAGASCAR.—A letter has been lately received
from Madagascar viii Bourbon, by a commercial house
much interested in the opening of our trade with that
country, from Captain Gevint, of the Ariel, dated from
Sainte Marie. He announces, that on his arrival at
Tamatave, where he hail directed his vessel to make
another effort to obtain the merchandise which belonged
to him, and had been in embargo for more than a year,
he communicated with the Flovas, and informed them that
the intention of the French Government was not to make
war on them. They appeared much satisfied with this
information, and recommended him to write to the
Queen, as she alone could authorise the delivery of his
merchandise. He therefore wrote to the Queen at mirne,
and sent the letter on the 18th of June, leaving Tama-,
tave for Sainte Marie, and intending to return 20 days
afterwards for an answer. The time which has expired
-ince then leads us to suppose that he has not succeeded,
and that the answer of Queen Ranavalo has not been
ravourable to his demand. We trust this supposition
will prove incorrect.—Mauritian, July 31.
FECUNDITY OF THE HARE.—A gentlemen of for-
tune, being anxious to ascertain the prolific powers of
an animal so eternally destroyed by every accumnl.ated
mode of sport and invention, turned a jack and bat)
females into a very large garden, walled entirely around.
where they were totally undisturbed and plentifully sup-
plied with every necessary for support ; when opening
the gates precisely that day twelvemonth, no less than
;even and forty were turned out, as the means of pro-
ducing a future good stock for the surrounding neigh-
bourhood.
SOLOMON OUTDONE.—At New Orleans, says the
Picayune, a prisoner was tried on a charge of entering a
house in the night-time, and committing a robbery. He
had made an opening into which he thrust the upper
part of his body ; and then he clutched the articles which
t►e coveted. His Counsel contended that the prisoner
lid not "enter the house ;" he only partly entered it.
The jury brought in a verdict of guilty against the upper
alf of hia bo,iy, and acquitted the remainder (or, ag.
Jonathan would say, the " balance.") The Judge then
sentenced the guilty moiety of the man to a year's im-
prisonment ; leaving it to his option to have the innocent
half cut off, or take it along with him.
Through the kindness of a friend at New Zealand
we are enabled to give, exclusively, an accurate detail of
the force•employed in that island. It consists of the

strt;ng-th;—viz., Royal Artillery-1 captain,
1 subaltern 1 sergeant, and 25 gunners; the 85th Regi-
ment-3 field officers, 8 captains, 15 subalterns, 6 staff,
47 sergeants, 19 drummers and fifers, and 771 rank nod
tile ; a detachment of the 94th Regiment, consisting of
1 field officer, 2 captains, 4 subalterns, 1 staff, 7 sergeants,
Ind 147 rank and file ; a detachment of the 99th Regi-
•nent, of 1 field officer, 2 captains, 6 subalterns, 1 staff,
15 sergeants, 6 drummers, and 241 rank and file. Total
trength-5 field officers, 13 captains, 24 subalterns,
7 staff, 70 sergeants, 28 drnmmers, and 1,181 rank aul
file.—United Service Gazette.
HORRIRLE ATTEMPT OF A FATHER TO MURDER
CHILD.—A week or two ago, a circumstance which
excited considerable interest and indignation occurred
it West Bromwich ; but fur the ends of justice it was
considered proper that the matter should be kept as quiet
as possible. These considerations are now, however,
removed, by the apprehension of the offender. It
appears that some time ago a man named Isaac Davies,
a miner, married a widow, to one of whose children, by
a former husband, he appeared to have a violent anti-
pathy. On the 20th ult., his wife had gone out in
the evening, leaving her husband, the child, and a young
man in the house. After sitting for some time, Davies
said he would take the child up stairs and put him to
bed ; but the young man having a presentiment of some
injury to the lad from his father's apparent dislike to
him, requested him to allow the child to remain in the
kitchen till his mother came home. Davies piqued at
the young man's suspicion, ordered him out of the house,
at the same time taking the child in his arms up stairs
with him. The young man, however, although he left
the house, remained at the door, and shortly after, hear-
ing the child scream in a fearful manner, he got the
issistance of a female neighbour, and again entered the
house. Davies, hearing some one come in, came down
stairs, hurriedly, in an excited state, and having his
shirt sleeves covered with blood. In answer to the in-
quiries of the young mar, he stated that the child had
fallen out of bed and hurt himself. This, however, did
not satisfy them; and on examining the child, it was
found with its mouth full of blood, and nearly, choked.
The brutal fellow had introduced some hard substance
or other into the child's co ,uth, and endeavoured to

choke him by forcing it down his throat, in the attempt
severely lacerating the flesh. Davies immediately ab
sconded ; but a warrant having been issued for his ap-
prehension, in about ten days he was taken into cus-
tody. Meanwhile the child continued in a very danger-
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ous'state. Davies was brought before the magistrates
(the Earl of Dartmouth and J. E. Piercy, Esq ,) at
Elandsworth, on Saturday last ; but in consequence of
its having been stated by Mr. J. 0. Deswitt, surgeon, c f
West Bromwich, that the child could not be consider( d
out of danger, the case was still further remanded.--
Birmingham Journal
The Charante Inferieure has the following respect-
ing the unfa.ir conduct of a priest in abducting two
young girls from their parents, and placing them in n
convent .—"Numerous inhabitants of Pont l'AbEd hnNe
written to us, and have affixed their signatures to the
letter, in which they advance some very serious charges
against the Cuts of the Commune. We are not fond
of scandal, but we like still less the meddling
of priests in the private affairs of families, and we
consider his influence detestable when it hi carried
to the length of severing the afkctions Of chi:dren and
their parents. We do not, therefore, hesitate to publish
the unhappy effects of that influence ; and the ex-
posure of it will prove, we trust, the means oitibriei
venting its repetition. The Curs of
r them nputiti-s
gthhavi
called La itsakeehnatrwgeOlyouwn'i
pose of forcing them to
Thisenter a convent,
Pro-
vidence, at Saintes.
amongst the inhabitants of the
femalesn having
from in
theirj less
parentsth
f
extraordinary sensation
double event has produced .n
town, and has,
moreover, been the means of exeiting
such
a transport of passion in the mother of one of the
girls, as to force her to outrage the sanctity of the
church, which was made the scene of an exhibition
which is truly lamentable. Last Sunday, during the
celebration of vespers, this unhappy woman came
with a wild countenance to the church, and openly de-
manded of the priest in language of passionate despair
the child she had lost through his deceptive and abomi-
nable agency. These terms are much weaker than

those actually made use of by this unfortunana
woman, who, if she bad badly selected the place
for uttering them, may well make tne of others,
still stronger, to express , her feelings on so painful
an event. The Curs hastened to free himself from
her imprecations, and, while several persons present re-
strained the woman's violence, he escaped from the
church. The crowd, however, excited by witnessing
the extreme grief of the mother —too deep even to
preserve her respect due to the house of God, and his
minister—and being aware of the facts of the case, ex-
pressed its indignation for the auth, r of them. Now,
say our correspondents, behold the dilemma from
which the Cure cannot eseane. He either has mis-
deeds of the gravest kind to reproach himself with,
in inveigling two young t,irls away from their parents,
and therefore merits punishment; or else this afflicted
mother has unjustly reproached him, and has raised
scandal in the church, which nothing can justify, and'for
which she is, of course, liable to punishment. But these
events, which have carried griet and affliction unto the
bosom of families are too true; an entire population has
witnessed them too closely not to be &Noy concerned
for all interested. It is this population, in fact, that
stances
comes forward to attest the truth of the circti.n
here mentioned."

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