The Sun.
London, England, 1848-07-12 00:00:00

north; moderate breezes and fine weather.

HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.—IIer Majesty and
his Royal Highness Prince Albert honoured the per-
formances at her Majesty's Theatre with their presence
yesterday evening. In attendance upon her Majesty
and his Royal Highness were the Countess of Charle-
mont, the Hon. Miss Kerr, Lord Camoys, Major-
General Wemyss, and Lieutenant-Colonel Seymour.
His Royal Highness Prince George also honoured the
theatre with his presence. Amongst the audience we
observed—His Grace the Duke of Wellington and the
Marquis and Marchioness of Douro, his Royal High-
ness the Conde de Montemolin, the Duchess of Leeds
and Miss Lane Fox, the Duchess of Hamilton, his
Excellency the Russian Minister, his Excellency
the Sardinian Minister, his Excellency the Swedish
Minister, his Excellency the Hanoverian Mi-
nister, the Marquis of Huntley, the Marquis
of Donegal, the Earl of Falmouth, the Earl of Besbo-
rough, the Earl Delawarr, Lord Ward, Lord Walpole,
Lord James Hay, Lord Burghersh, Count Arthur de
Courcy, Lady Colborne, Lady Sheffield, Lady Howard,
Lady M. Bentinck, M. C. Koudriaffsky, Gen. the Hon.
A. Upton, the Hon. W. A. Bathurst, the Hon. G. S.
Jerningham, General the Hon. H. Cavendish, General
Shubrick, Major Gordon, Major Waite, Major Buckley,
Colonel Wildman, Sir John Duckworth, Bart., and Lady
Duckworth, Sir R. Brownrigge, Sir Henry Dymock and
Lady and Miss Dymock, Sir J. Bailey, Bart., Sir Ralph
Howard, Bart., Mr. and Mrs. Wheeler, Captain Crow,
Captain Scott, Mr. Barry Baldwin, M.P., and Miss B.
Baldwin, Mr. Parnther, Captain Somerset, Mr. Drum-
mond, Mr. H. Broadley, M.P., Mr. and Mrs. Ewings, &c.
ROYAL HUMANE SOCIETY.—The half-yearly ge-
neral court of the Royal Humane Society was held yes-
terday afternoon, at tbe offices, No. 3, Trafalgar-square,
B. Bond Cabbell, Esq., in the chair. The minutes of
the previous court having been read, and confirmed, Mr.
Charlier, the secretary, read the report, from which it
appeared that since December last the number of per-
sons who had been successfully treated after immersion
in water was 64, beyond recovery 3, attempted suicides
18. In Hyde-park, since December last, 19 cases had
come under the attention of the Society, out of which
17 persons were successfully treated, and two beyond
recovery. There had also been 11 attempted suicides
during the same period. The Society's honorary re-
wards were voted to Lieut. W. R. Smith, R.N., for sav-
ing the life of Mr. West, the second Master of her Ma- ,
jesty's ship Endymion ; to Mr. F. Hutchinson, surgeon,
of Farringdon-street, for restoring by skilful and unre-
mitting exertion, George Thornton, also for his valuable
and prompt assistance rendered on frequent occasions,,
and to Mr. H. A. F. Lusignan, for saving the of
Edward Blundell. The Archbishop of Canterbtuhr 1
eyrbaaamv-
ing been elected one of the Vice-Presidents
a ins
passed to
of the late Archbishop, a vote of thanks w
the Chairman, when the proceedings terminated.
MELANCHOLY DEATH OF AN Ac
Mr. Bedford held an inquest, by
adjournment
Yesterday,
from Sa-
turday last, at the Coach and Horses,
mi, aged 48, for many
York-street, West-
minster, on the body of James
s Sth
years an actor at several oft h eminor theatres.York
. street, Theand
deceased, it appeared, resided at Na 12,
was in very bad circumstances, being in arrears with his
landlord to the amount of 5i 18s., at 4s. per. week. He
was last seen alive on Thursday, the 29th of last month,
and on Thursday last was found dead under singular
circumstances. On that day a quantity of putrid liquid
matter oozed through the floor of the deceased's room,
and fell into the shop underneath. The deceased's door
was forced to seo from what cause this proceeded, when
his body, far advanced in decomposition, was found
lying on the floor. A bottle labelled " hydrocyanic
acid" having been found in the room, the contents of
the bottle and also of the stomach were analyzed, but
nothing of a deleterious nature was found, and the
t
general opinion was, that he had died in a fit. The
jury returned a verdict of " Found dead."
THE BRAZILS.—LIVERPOOL, JULY ll.—The
barque Priscilla arrived in the Mersey to-day, with
dates from Pernambuco to the 7th of June. Freights
were at 635. per ton for sugar in cases, and 1 per lb.
for cotton. Business was extremely
dull. Exchange
closed at 2s. Id., but good bills could not be obtained at
that rate.
Viscount Morpeth left town yesterday morning, to
attend the agricultural meeting at York.

S V N
•
BY A SUPPOSED BI thlritati,
A mulatto, named Henry Desbu
manded several times, was again bei.aightljegiOittit'•>:-
day last, before the Cheltenham initgistriAitinliaiged„,„.
with assaulting his wile so as totlanierifiU
From the evidence adduced it a eared'. th 11/45,/
prisoner had married this wn,mol,-, o the
25th of January last, in London,' 'fib id/10124 \'
lived with her until the latter end of March, when he
started off with some girl. The forsaken woman,
after many inquiries succeeded in tracing her
husband to Cheltenham, where she arrived some
few weeks back, and took up her abode at 15,
Ambrose-street. Having ascertained that her husband
was living with some woman supposed to be mar-
ried to him, at 1, St. Philip's-terrace, she proceeded
thither on Wednesday, the 24th ult., at about seven
o'clock in the morning, accompanied by Mrs. Elizabeth
Eliis, of 2, Gratton-terrace. On her arrival at the
house, after knocking twice, the door was cp.ued by a
female in her night-dress, supposed ,to be the woman
with whom the prisoner was living. Mrs. Desbury in-
sisted upon seeing her husband, and asked the female
if she was married to him. The woman made
no reply, but Ordered Mrs. Desbury out of
the house. Mrs. Desbury refused to go, and
said she considered it to be her home, as she knew
her husband was there. The woman ran up stairs
into a ned•room, and Mrs. Desbury followed, but
~e!'ere she had reached the landing. place the pri-
soner came out of the room, and without uttering a
word, threw some missiles at her head, Mrs. Des-
bury ran down stairs into the passage, which she
had no sooner reached than she fell senseless. A plas-
terer, named Thomas Tibbles, who resided in the neigh-
bourhood was called to her assistance, while Mrs. Ellis
went for a medical man. Tibbles asked the prisoner if he
was not ashamed of himself ? to which he replied in the
negative, saying that he would have done it again if he had
had anything else in his hand. He then told Tibbles to take
his wife out of doors or to a public-house and let her bleed
there—she should not bleed in his house. Prisoner
pushed his wife out and struck the door against her
head, whereupon Tibbles gave him a slap on the
head, and prisoner ran into a room, crying " Where is
my knife?" Mr. Robert Askwith, surgeon, of Huntley
Lodge, was shortly in attendance. Mrs. Desbury was
taken into the parlour, and information having been given
to the police, Constable James Thomas, and Sergeant
George Seyes soon after arrived. By direction of the
surgeon, Mrs. Desbury was removed to her abode in
Ambrose• street, where she has since been lying in a
dangerous state. The prisoner was taken into custody
by Seyes, and, on his way to the station-house, ac-
knowledged committing the offence. He said that Mrs.
Desbury was not his wife, but a person with whom he
' had fbrmerly lived in London, and when he saw her
come into the house he was under the impression
that she was going to kill his children, and, in
order to save them, he threw the before-mentioned
pans at her head. After he had arrived at the
police-station, the sergeant showed him a marriage cer-
tificate, and then he acknowledged that the unfortunate
woman was his wife. These facts were brought before
the magistrates. Mr. David Hartley, surgeon to the
hospital, who had attended Mrs. Desbury, appeared and
deposed that on the 21st of June he was called in and
found her perfectly insensible and in extreme danger;
she was suffering from concussion of the brain; depo-
nent subsequently examined her head, and found three
contused wounds—two of them were considerable, being
upwards of an inch in length—which had evidently been
inflicted by some blunt instrument, such as the utensils
described. Constable Thomas produced a bonnet, a pair
of gloves, a pocket handkerchief, cap, and piece of lace
covered with blood, said to have been worn by Mrs.
Desbury; as also a quantity of hair and some pieces of
white ware, the whole of which he had found at the back
of the house in St. Philip's•terrace. It transpired that
the door which the prisoner pushed against his wife's
head was covered with blood for some days after. Mrs.
Desbury, who is a young woman, possessing great per-
sonal attractions, while giving her evidence, fainted
several times from weakness. The whole of the depo-
sitions having been taken down and read over to the
different witnesses, the prisoner was asked if he had
anything to say. He replied in the negative—he should
reserve his defence for another place. The magistrates
fully committed him for trial at the assizes.—Cheltenham
Journal.

TIIE LATE SUICIDE AT BLACIFRIARS-BRIDGE.—.
Last eveting, Mr. William Payne, the City Coroner,
held an inquest at the Glaziers' Arms, Water-lane,
Blackfriars, on the body of Mary Ann Colwell, aged
34, the unfortunate female who was so frightfully in-
jured by jumping over Blackfriars- bridge on Saturday
night last. Charles Greene, of 3, Meeting-house-court,
said that on Saturday night he saw the deceased, who
was in the company of a man and a child, run into a
recess and throw herself over the bridge. Witness laid
hold of her clothing, but was unable to keep her from
jumping over. The man who was with her did not run
after her, or pay any attention to her. Mrs. Elizabeth
Biddlecombe, of Brentford, said that the deceased was
her sister. She had taken some money from her hus-
band, and he had in consequence ill-treated her. The
bruises on her face and over her arms were caused by
his ill-usage. Nicholas Colwell, of 12, Downs-street,
Southwark, husband of the deceased, said that his wife
had run him into debt, and pawned almost everything
he possessed. He believed that she destroyed her life
because she was afraid of meeting her neighbours again.
Vei dict—" Temporary insanity."
THE HOLYHEAD RAILWAr.—TME TUDULAB
BRIDGES.-We had an opportunity last week of in-
specting the stupendous iron tubes which are in course
of construction u short distance above the Menai Suspen-
sion-bridge, tor the purpose of forming a passage tor the
trains of the Holyhead Railway across the strait. Im-
mense piers of granite are being erected on each side of
the strait, and a massive pier of the same material is
rising in the middle of the stream. On these solid
.masses of masonry the vast hollow metallic ways will
rest, forming a line continuous with the railway. The
must cursory inspection of the tubes will at once con-
vince the spectator of their prodigious strength, and
show them to be capable of sustaining a far greater
weight than any that is likely to pass across them. They
are not either cylindrical or elliptical, as many have
supposed, but rectangular, their form being what is not
uncommonly called an oblong square, about 30 feet
high and 15 feet wide. They are constructed of thick
plates of iron, firmly rivetted together, and strengthened
by girders at the top and bottom. The chief ele-
ment of strength, however, is in the bed or
base of the work, which is composed of plates of
iron set edgewise, so as to form cells, the under
and upper surfaces being firmly rivetted to the inter-
mediate perpendicular plates, the whole with the walls
of die tube and its covering firmly girded and bound to-
gether with the utmost skill and ingenuity, forming a
a compact piece of workmanship, the strength of which
is beyond conception. These enormous tubes are built
on stages erected over the stream. The spectator won-
ders, when contemplating them, how fabrics of such
stupendous weight, amounting to many thousands of
tons, are to be removed and lifted into the position which
they are destined to occupy. They will be floated to
the piers on pontoons, and lifted to their final resting-
place by hydraulic pressure. On the same day we
passed in the evening train of the Holyhead Railway
through the tube at Conway. As the train was pro-
ceeding at considerable speed the passage was effected
almost in an instant. We were not conscious of any
vibration, or indeed of any sensation different from that
experienced in passing through an ordinary tunnel.
The Holyhead Railway will he a great favourite with
tourists and those who travel for pleasure. The pros-
pects from the carriages on both sides are exceedingly
interesting. The line runs principally along the sea-
coast and the banks of the Dee, so that throighout
nearly the whole journey from Bangor to Chester we
have on one side a fine view of the Irish Sea, and on the
other a perpetually changing succession of mountain
scenery.—Liverpool 411biost.
EMIGRATION. Two Parliamentary documents
have recently been printed by order of the House o
Commons, on emigration. The 'first contains a return r
from each of the British colonies of the amount of
the
land revenue, and the particulars of its
to-
wards the introduction of emigrants;
a and emigration thei com-
m
second con-
twins the report (Attie coloniain land d and
first paper, in a tabular
form, is given a return otte
missioners ter the year lB4h
7.number of persons, with their
average cost per head to the parishes, who have been
aided in emigration under the provisions of the Poor-
law Amendment Act. From the report of the colonial
land and emigration commissioners, it appears that in
as many as '158,270 persons emi-
grated from the United the course of last yFar, ringdom, 63,000 from England,
5,600 from Scotland, and
179,400 from Ireland, being
considerably beyond the number •of emigrants in pre-
ceding years.
We regret exceedingly being called on to announce
the decease of the Countess of Winchilsea. Her Lady-
ship expired on Monday last at Haverholme Priory, to
the inexpressible grief of her noble husband and other
surviving relatives.
Die Dec DE STACIEPOLE.—We have to announce
the demise of le Due de Stackpole, which event took
place on Saturday last, after a short illness, at the Crown
inn, Lyndhurst, where he had been sojourning for a few
days since his return from a visit to Wales.
TIIE FIRST EXPEDITION IN SEARCH Or SIR
JOHN FRANXLIN.—Letters have been received from the
Herald, 26,
surveying vessel, Captain Kellett, C. 8.,
dated at sea, May 13, in 7 25 N. lat., and 87 18W. .
She was then on her way from Panama to Behrineo
Straits, having (with the tender, the Pandora) been
towed from Loboga out of the trade winds by the Samp-
son steam frigate. The Pandora had parted company with the Herald two days before, and proceeded to Ho-
nolulu, awl the Sampson was on the point of separating
from the Herald on the day the letters were written.
EXTRAORDINARY CASE Or MURDER AT LunizzooL
—On Thursday last Charles Gallagher, an Irish labourer
at the docks, was married to a young woman, a servant
in a sailors' lodging-house. On Saturday morning the
bride was found dead in bed, lying between the bride-
groom and his friend, another young Irishman. On
examination, it was found that the young woman had
been strangled. Both the men are in custody.
SINGULAR DEATH.—An inquest was held on Sa-
' turday, at Bradfield St. George, before H. Wayman,
Esq., coroner, touching the death of a poor woman,
named Last, aged 60. It appears that the deceased has
for some years been in the habit of attending upon bees
in the swarming season; and on Friday, while engaged
in such employment, she was stung by ono of them on
the thumb of her right hand. She went into her house
and sat down on a chair, exclaiming " How bad I feel I"
She then fainted, and never spoke afterwards. She
trembled very much, and in the course of half an hour
she was a corpse. It was the opinion of the medical
gentlemen who were present that the nervous system re-
ceived such a shock as to stop the circulation of blood
in the heart.—lpswich Express.