The Sun.
London, England, 1848-07-15 00:00:00

Ctitrb Vbition

LATEST FROM PARIS.

The National announces that the indemnity claimed
for the losses sustained by the French residents at
Naples in the affair of May 15, has been paid in full,
and that Admiral BAUDIN and M. Bois LE COMTE
had orders not to leave their respective stations until,
by their efforts, they had obtained the performance of
this act of justice.

ELECTION COMMITTEE.
(THIS I)AY.)
DUBLIN.

The Committee were occupied the whole of the day
in hearing counsel argue pro and con. as to the validity
of the grand jury cess rate. At the termination of the
argument the room was cleared, and the Committee,
after a short deliberation, decided that the cesa was not
legally due at the time the election took place.

BRISTOL SUGAR MARKET, JULY 14.—A large
business has been transacted this week both in British
plantation and foreign descriptions, at steady prices.
For rnm we are still without inquiry.—Bristol Mercury.
The rumour is revived that Lord Hardinge is to
succeed Lord Clarendon as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland.
It has been thought that the appointment of a military
Governor would have the effect of irritating the already
sufficiently irritable Irish, and so the change has been
postponed until the country is comparatively tranquil,
and free felons upon paper have become incarcerated
felons on bread and water.—United Service Gazette.
INVALID DEPOT, CHATHAM.-1,702 invalids, wait-
ing their final discharge from their respective regiments,
are now at this place, where their cases will be decided
on by the Commissioners of Chelsea Hospital, for the
purpose of being placed on the pension list. That
board granted pensions to near 5,000 men during the
year 1847.—Ibid.
Captain Robert Pitzßoy (1834), late Governor of
New Zealand, and who commanded the Rhadamanthus
steam-vessel on her first being fitted, it is confidently
reported will have the command of the new 46-gun
frigate Arrogant, when she has her screw propeller ma-
chinery fitted.—lbid.
HER MAJESTY'S DOCKYARDS:OU making a pro-
motion recently of an officer who had shown great supe-
riority over his competitors, the Board of Admiralty, in
a public minute, expressed an anxious desire that the
artificers of her Majesty's dockyards should be
thoroughly satisfied that merit alone is considered in the
selection of men for advancement; and that by perse-
verance and ability they may obtain the highest honours
and the highest position in their department. Their
Lordships desired to impress upon the dockyard men
that their patronage is distributed with the strictest im-
partiality. We recommend the Admiralty not only to
avow but to practise the same impartiality in the selec-
tion of officers for promotions and appointments in the
navy!—/bid.
A greater proof cannot be afforded of the ex-
cessive poverty of the island of St. Vincent than is fur-
nished by the uccount of a conference between the mem-
bers of the Assembly and the Lieutenant-Governor of
the colony. It appears that a supply of rifles was ap-
plied for some months since, " when the colony was in a
position to defray the cost thereof," but now that they
have arrived—some time having intervene! since they
were ordered—the colony is too impoverished to pay for
them. It is, therefore, asked that the rifles be made a
grant to the colony.—lbid.
TIIE IRISH " FELON."—The back of rebellion was
fairly broken in Ireland by the arrest, trial, and de-
parture of Mitchel. Since then, Lord Clarendon has
placed it on the rack, and joint by joint he dislocated
the monster. Duffy has been stopped—Meagher is in
the hands of the law; and now Messrs. M`Geo and
Hollywood have been arrested. But little sympathy is
manifested by the people. They appear heartily tired of
sedition, and its effects upon the general prosperity of
the country.—/hid.
THE MURDER AT LivEurooL.--The inquest on
the body of the woman Gallagher has resulted in the
committal of her husband for the capital offence. Tho
other man was discharged.

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE,
NORFOLK ClRCUlT—Buckingham, July 13.
The commission for the county of Buckingham was
opened yesterday by Mr. Baron Parke, who this morning
proceeded to charge the grand jury.
The calender contains the names of sixteen prisoners,
of whom four can neither read nor write, tour can only
read imperfectly, and the remaining eight can read and
write, but only imperfectly. Tho calendar does not
make any statement respecting the skill of the prisoners
in arithmetic, although the report of the chaplain to the
Model Prison points out proficiency in arithmetic as the
best test of the amount of instruction received by per-
sons in the situation of the ordinary run of prisoners.
The crimes charged are for the number dispropor-
tionately serious ; there being three cases of arson,
two of burglary, two of felonious wounding, ono of
felonious killing, and one of an unnatural crime. The
cause list is very meagre, three cases only have been en-
tered in it.
CROWN COURT._( Bef_ore Mr. Baron Psair.)
, George Hari was indicted for having feloniously killed
and slain Frederick Sanders on the 10th of May last.
Mr. Prendergast appeared for the prosecution ; Mr.
O'Malley defended the prisoner.
From the evidence, it appeared
that
in some the parties had
been drinking together a public-
house, for hours,
on the night of the 10th of Mayi; that, a boast
made about his prowess by the prisoner had induced
the deceased to insist on fighting tura; that the prisoner
was at first reluctant to fight, but that after the parties
left the public house, and after many attempts of the
deceased to provoke the prisoner to fight, the latter en-
tered into conflict with him, and dealt him a heavy blow
on the head, of which he died in about an hour after-
wards.
The jury found the prisoner guilty, and recommended
him to mercy.
Mr. Baron PARKE said that ho also thought the facts
such as made the prisoner a person on whom a lenient
sentence ought to be passed. There had not been any
unfair fighting, and the prisoner, far from being eager to
fight, had been desirous of avoiding a conflict. The
sentence, therefore, would be, that he be imprisoned for
the space of one month.