The Sun.
London, England, 1848-11-11 00:00:00

HOLLAND.

A letter from ,Rotterdam of the 6th inst. states
that the cholera, which appeared there on the Ist
inst., has raged with great violence. On the pre-
ceding day 41 new cases were declared, and 29
deaths, whilst there were but seven recoveries.
During the previous five days there had been 298
cases, 157 deaths, 121 recoveries, and 16 remained
under cure.

ITALY.
A letter from Botzen of the 2d instant, in the
Allgemeine Zeitung of Augsburg, announces the
arrival on that day of a courier from Olmutz, on
his way to the head-quarters of Field-Marshal the
Count Radetzky. He was said to be the bearer of
the Imperial assent to the prolongation of the armistice
for three months.
The Opinione of the 6th instant quotes a letter
from the Lake of Como, of the 2d, stating that the
insurgents maintained themselves in the 'Val d'lntelvio,
and that the Austrian troops had not advanced beyond
the town of Agegno. The writer says that troops
were marching in every direction to surround them.
The valley of Camonico, and the centre of Valteline,
were also in open revolt. The Italian General Apice
had been wounded in an encounter with a party of
Tyrolese Chasseurs, at Mount Bisbino, and sought
refuge at Capo Lago.

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NEW COURT OF CRIMINAL
APPEAL.—(THIS DAY.)
The new Court, appointed under the important Act
introduced by Lord Campbell last session, for trying
criminal appeals from circuit sessions, sat for the first
time this afternoon in the Exchequer Chamber. The
Judges appointed to constitute the Court during the
present term were :—The Chief Baron, Mr. Justice
Patteson, Mr. Justice Cresswell, Mr. Justice Erle, and
Mr. Justice Maule. Nearly 80 gentlemen of the bar
were present.;
Their Lordships, immediately on taking their seats
upon the bench, proceeded to hear the case of
THE QUEEN V. EMANUAL MASTERS.
Mr. MILLER said he had to submit to the considera-
tion of the Court two questions of law ; first, whether,
under the new Act, the 11th and 12th Vic., c. 78, sec. 1,
questions of criminal !law might be reserved by recorders
for the decision of the Court, and, secondly, whether the
conviction was a good one. The Learned Counsel sup-
ported the conviction, and stated that the Recorder,
before whom the defendant was tried, apprehended that
he had no jurisdiction, and wished to have the opinion of
the Court upon the subject. It appeared that the Act
applied to prisoners " convicted before any court of
oyer and terminer, or gaol delivery, or court of quarter
sessions," but that no allusion was made to prisoners
tried before Recorders. Mr. Miller, however, held
that as the recorders for boaoughs were also ex-officio
justices of the peace, no exception was intended by the
Act with respect to their courts, although there was
some ambiguity in the terms employed in the Ist section.
With respect to the second point, it appeared that the
prisoner was convicted under the 7 and 8 Geo. IV., c. 29,
sec. 47, of embezzlement, and the question was, when
property was received by one servant, handed to another
in the ordinary course of duty, and then forwarded to
another, whether the appropriation of it by the second
servant amounted to embezzlement.
The COURT was of opinion that recorders had juris-
diction under the Act to refer appeals for the decision of
this Court, and also that if one of the servants alluded
to received the property and appropriated it to his own
use, he was guilty of embezzlement.
The conviction was therefore affirmed.
INDUCING PERSONS TO CONFESS.—THE QUEEN V. GAR-
LAND.
In this case a conviction had taken place. The de-
fendant is a girl, aged 13. She was accused of admi-
nistering fag water (a compound of arsenic, used for the
cure of the diseases with which sheep are afßicted,) to
her mistress, a Mrs. Smith, in milk, wish the intention
of murdering her. :It appeared that a Mr. Gilby, a
doctor, who had been called in, remonstrated with the
prisoner, saying, without any caution as to the con-
sequences that might ensue from her statement, " You
had better tell the truth." She at once admitted she
had committed the act, saying she did it to " get rid of
her service." The counsel for the prisoner at the trial
urged that this confession ought to be struck out as ir-
regular. Tho counsel for the prosecution declined, after
consulting Lord Denman upon the point, to do so, con-
tending that the evidence having been given, it would be
useless to strike it out, since the jury could not dismiss
the evidence from their minds. The evidence, conse-
quently, went to the jury.
The Comm. were of opinion that the evidence was in-
admissible, and that the conviction was bad.
Conviction quashed.

QUEEN'S BENCH.-(THIS DAY.)
The Court took the Crown 'paper to day. No causes
of the slightest public interest occurred during the whole
of the day.

THE ARMY AND NAVY.
(From the United Se7vice Gazette of this day.)
COMMODORE SIR CHARLES HOTHAM.—By a private
letter from the coast of Africa, we tare informed that
Commodore Sir Charles Ilotham, K.C.B. has positively
expressed a desire to be relieved in the Command-in-
Chief of the station in March next. There is no doubt
the Admiralty will meet the gallant officer's wishes in
this respect.
. _

Captain the Hon. James Robert Drummond (1846),
who was promoted from the command of the Scout
sloop, whose name was mentioned last week as a candi-
date, is to succeed Captain Charles Eden in the com •
mend of the Victory.
Commodore Superintendent Sir Gordon Bremer,
K.C.8., &c., will resign the command et Woolwich on
the 15th or 16th instant; but Captain Henry Eden will
not take charge, it is !said, until after the revision of
the establishment by the Admiralty Committee. The
Confiance steamer, is ordered to carry Sir G. Bremer's
baggage to Plymouth.
Captein Sir Henry Blackwood, Bart., has not been
appointed to command the Vengeance, 84, as reported,
for at present there is no vacancy. In the event of Cap-
tain Lushington's resignation, we have heard that Sir
Henry Blackwood will have a competitor for the Ven-
geance more likely to succeed than himself.

THE WEST INDIAN MAILs.—A correspondent in-
forms us that, at the request of the Admiralty, the Di-
rectors of the Royal West Indian Mail Company have
most promptly assented to their steam-vessels calling,
and exchanging letters and dispatches, &c., at Mobilo
Point (where a British Consul, Mr. Nicolas, has been
appointed), instead of at Ship Island, as heretofore; and
the directors have also determined that the steamer that
leaves Southampton on the 2d January next shall carry
out the new arrangements.

We believe that the appointment of a Captain of the
Royal Navy to the Superintendentship of the Indian
Navy has not yet taken place. Another candidate has
been named for the post, Captain the Hon. F. Pelham,
now commanding the Odin steam-frigate, in the Medi-
terranean, and it is said that the vacancy will not be filled
for a fortnight.
QUARTERMASTERS OP ROYAL MARINES. - With
respect to any alteration as regards the retired pay of
these officers, nothing officially has transpired; all, there-
fore, at present is mere rumour, which may, neverthe-
less, be well founded, and at sny rate carried into effect,
the scale of payments being similar to that of regiments
of the line. _ _

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UNATTACHED PAY.—Major-General W. Lindsay Dar-
ling and Major-General Sir Joseph Thackwell, K.C.8.,
have succeeded to the unattached pay of twenty. five
shillings per diem. Both of these officers have seen
much service, and Sir Joseph Thackwell is one of those
men whose reward has borne no just proportion to his
deserts. Major-General Darling served at Guadaloupe
in 1810, and received a wound in storming the heights
of Matauba. In 1812 he was in the Peninsula with the
51st Light Infantry, and was engaged at San Christoval,
Salamanca, Madrid, and Burgos. Returning to Eng-
land, a victim to typhus, in 1813, he lost no time in
seeking a restoration to health, and was thus enabled
to rejoin his regiment in five months, and to share
in the affairs of Nivelle and St. PS. In 1813 he was
appointed to the Staff of Major-General Hay's Brigade,
and served in the operations before Bayonne. He joined
the sth Division as Assistant 'Adjutant-General in 1814,
and was afterwards with the 4th Division in 1815, serv-
ing
.at Cambray, and subsequently at the capitulation of
Paris. Sir Joseph Thackwell began his career in Spain,
serving under the immortal Sir John Moore at Corunna.
In several of the great actions in the Peninsula he dis-
tinguished himself as a first-rate Dragooa officer,
and was foremost in the fray at Quatre Bras and
Waterloo. He received a contusion at Vittoria,
and lost his left arm at Waterloo. In the
year 1837 he proceeded to India with the 3d
Light Dragoons, and in the winter of 1838 was dis-
patched to Caubul at the head of the Cavalry Division of
the Army of the Indus. After the captnre of Ghuznee,
at which he was present, Sir Joseph returned to India,
in command of the second column of the Army, and re-
ceived the distinctions awarded to those officers who
had taken a leading part in the expedition. On Lord
Ellcnborough's taking up arms against the Gwalior
Durbar, Sir Joseph Thackwell's services were again put
into requisition. He commanded the Cavalry Division
in the action at Maharajpore. In the same year we
find him on the banks of the SutlEj, heading the Ca-
valry at Sobraon, and sharing in the dangers, but get-
ting none of the substantial honours of that memorable
campaign.
THE COMMAND OF THE SUPERB, 80. -- We may
etate, on good authority, that Captain Edward Purcell
(182 S), will re-commission the Superb, 80, on being
paid off at Portsmouth by Captain A. L. Corry. The
Superb will be refitted, without being dismantled, by
which, it is said, a saving of no less than 3,0001. will be
effected; but we query whether, on examination, she

will not, like the Albion, be found so defective
in her masts, spars, and standing rigging, thas
all of it will have to come out and be re-
placed by new. The Superb will only have an advanced
complement (496 officers and men) at port, like the
Caledonia and Ganges, to be filled up, as in the case of
the Powerful, 84, when required to proceed on foreign
service. Captain Purcell is about fifty-six-years of age,
and, we believe, has been selected for the command of
this ship upon no other recommendation than of his owsi
professional merits.
WATERMAN'S STEAM PACKET COMPANY. This
Company having yielded to the orders of the Admiralty
with respect to the possession of a place called the
Grove, at Woolwich, has made application to be allowed
the use of a fire there occasionally for the repairs of
their vessels.
RUSSIAN FRIGATE.—Another iron steamer, named
the Taman, built for the Russian Government, is to be
launched from Messrs. Robinson and Russell's Iron-
works, Millwall, on Monday next. We have heard
that the cost for demurrage of this vessel, if exacted,
would be enormous, she has been so long on the stocks.'
SEAMEN AND MARINES' ScitooLs.--The Admiralty
have given orders to the authorities at Portsmouth, that
a space of ground and building which formed part of the
laboratory, are to appropriated to the use of the institu-
tion for educating the orphans of seamen and marines.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
BETTING AT MANCHESTER.-FRIDAL

LIVERPOOL STEEPLE CIIISE.-7 to 2 agst Proceed_.
6to 1 agst Alfred (offers to take)-7 to 1 aget St. Leger
—7 to 1 agst Wolverhampton.
DERBY.-9 to 2 agst Flying Dutchman (t)-7 to 1
agst Tadmor-12 to 1 agst Honeycomb-20 to 1 agst
Osterley (taken to 251.)-20 to 1 agst Uriel-33 to 1
agst Escalade-35 to 1 agst Strongbow (t.)
0/.103.-7 to 1 offered on the field.
HUNTING APPOINTMENTS.

Sherwood harry., Tues., Mansfield Racecourse; Fri.,
Rushley Farm-11.
Mr. M. Ingram's lids., Mon., at Longford; Thurs.,
Drakelowe; Sat.,Henhurst—ioi.
_ _

Donningion hds., Mon., Gotham Villa e; Wed., Ca-
vendish Bridge; Sat., Belton Village-10 .
Rufford hds., Mon., Winburn; Thurs., KKneesal Green;
Sat., Park Hall-10f.
Mr. Lumley's hds., Mon., Barn Moor; Tues., Clay.
worth ; Thurs., Rossington Bridge; Sat., MalpasHill-14
Sir R. Sutton's lids., Mon., Keythorpe Hall; Tues.,
Steward's Hay ; Wed., Wymeswold; Thurs., Barisly;
Sat., Kettleby-11f.
Duke of Rutland's hds., Mon., Croxton Park; Tues.,
Weaver's Lodge; Wed., Croxton Park ; Fri., Syston
Park-10f.
Cottesmere hds., Mon., Withamrommon; Tues., Lode
dington; Thurs., Grimsthorpe; Fri., Langham.
Lord Yarborough's hds., Mon., Lacely Cross-roads;
Wed., Rye Hill; Fri., Blyborongh Hall-11.
South Wold hds., Mon., Dovendale; Tues., Tumby
Wood; Thurs., Burgh-on-Bain; Sat., Greenfield-11.
Earl Fitzwilliam's hds., Mon., Long Orton; Wed.,
Stahwick Pasture; Fri., Lilford Cross-roads.
Barton hunt Monday, Langworth Bridge; Tues. So-
merby Hall; Wed., Faldingworth Grange; Thurs.,
Thorney; Fri., Branston Wood; Sat., Glentworth—at 11.
South Essex hds.. Tues., Ingrave Church, Sat., Cor-
ringham.

Suffolk hds., Tuesday, Shadwell Park; Fri., Horse.
heath Mill.

Cheshire hds., Monday, Daresbury Hall; Wed., Han-
kolow ; Thurs., Cholmondeley; Sat., Ravensmoor Wind-
mill-10f.
Sir W. W. Wynn's lids., Tues., Styche; Wed., Hawk-
stone; Fri., Nescliffe; Sat., Borealton-104.
Hambledon hds., Mon., Fisher's Pond; Wed., Werth-
ing; Fri., Corhampton Down.

BRISTOL SUGAR MARKET, Nov. 10.—In the ab-
sence of supplies the market is badly attended, and the
sales of the week are unimportant ; refining descriptions
are in demand, every fresh parcel brought forward finds
a ready sale at full prices. In rum there is nothing
doing. Refined goods are steady at former rates.—
Bristol Mercury.
The saddlers of Bristol have come to the determi-
nation to close their shops at seven o'clock in the evening.
KING'S COLLEGE, LONDON.—We have much sstu-

faction in stating that the Council of this college have
come to the resolution of immediately electing professors
of military science, with the view of commencing with
the ensuing year a class for military education. The
report, however, is without foundation, that communica-
tions have taken place between the Horse Guards and the
college authorities on the subject.
The Gazette of last night contains an order, signed
by the Commissioners appointed under the Board of
Health Act, directing that similar regulations to those
which have been issued by them in reference to the
several districts in England should be enforced by ma-
gistrates and other local authorities in Scotland.
THE LORD Meroies SHOW.—The novelties of a
civic pageant, with its men in armour, and the pomp
and pageantry which distinguish the Lord Mayor's Day
of the far-famed city of London, are objects upon which
the eyes of countrymen seldom linger; it was, therefore,
not a matter of surprise to behold the town of Chelms-
ford thrown into excitement, by the announcement that
arrangements had been made to convey passengers from
this place to London and back for two shillings each.
Accordingly yesterday morning a great number of
tradesmen, artisans, and. mechanics, casting aside for a
time the anxieties of business, and emerging from the
workshops and the counting-house, were seen hurrying
to the railway station, clothed in holiday attire, to gratify
their curiosity, and by a brief relaxation to be the better
fitted to resume their varied occupations on their return.
A goodly company were brought from Maldon and
Braintree, and about nine o'clock, the train consisting of
several carriages, and propelled by powerful engines,
started for town.—Essex Standard.

STETTIN.—SOV? KITCHEN FOR CHOLERA PA.
TIENTS.—The Jewish Community of this town have es-
tablished a soup-kitchen for the relief of the poor and
the refreshing of the sick, which is now particularly op-
portune during the prevalence of the cholera. The es-
tablishment is in the centre of the quarter where cholera
is mostly raging. Not only strengthening soup, but
likewise good meat, is distributed to the applicant& To
fatilitate the distribution, a number of tickets are given
to the surgeons and physicians, who may give them
away where they are needed without any previous ap-
plication. The medical men have to report in the even.
ing the number of tickets distributed by them during the
day, so that the soup and meat, which is fresh every
day, may be ready for the number of applicants on the
following day. This is the proper mode of doing charity.
To give it—to give it before it is asked for—and to give
it liberally.—Jewish Chronicle.
EXAMINATION OF DIRER MORE MEMBERS OF THR
HALSTEAD GANG.—The revelations of the convict Bryant,
followed up as they are with zeal and tact by Superin-
tendent Hunt, promise fair to thoroughly break up this
desperate gang, and bring all the parties in it to justice,
three more members of it having through these means
fallen into the hands of the officers—William Ritchie,
William Smith, and Henry Finch, all young labourers,
on various charges of sacrilege and robbery. On Wed-
nesday last the prisoners underwent an examination at
; the county gaol, at Springfield, before J. J. Mayhew,
Esq., they having been sent there for farther exami-
nation, in order that they might be confronted with Bry-
ant. Mr. 0. Hustler, jun., attended to take the depost-
tions.—Chelnisford Chronicle.
THE COGGESHALL GANG.—Yesterday there was a
further examination of the parties connected with the
Coggeshall gang, the charges principally arising out of
the statements of Wade, the convicted accomplice in the
case. Another of the gang, William Everitt, a dealer
in fish, was apprehended on Saturday, and was charged
with the others with further burglaries in the neighbour-
hood of Coggeshall. The examination took
_place at the
county gaol, Springfield, the Rev. Sir J. P. Wood, Bart,
attending for the purpose; Mr. Corder was present, as
usual, to take the depositions and discharge the duties of
magistrates' clerk, which, from the number of cases in
which the gang are implicated, required much tact aid
judgment.—Chelmsford Chronicle.
LUZIECK.—PROGRESS Or TOLERATION.—Even this
" free" city, which has kept up the partition wall be-
tween Jews and Christians longer than any other town
in Germany, and where no Jew is permitted to reside,
is giving signs of toleration. The partition is decaying,
and will soon give way. The Jews of Moislingen (a
few miles from Lubsek)
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out
adjacent city of Lubeck. A draft for the formal estab-
lishment of a synagogue and congregation is also under
onsideration.—Jewish Chronicle.
POLITICAL GEM —Reader, did it ever occur to you
that when the glorious dawn of the millennium shall
burst forth upon your astonished vision; when theillars
of the earth shall be upheaved and creation shat rock
upon its broad basis; when the stars shall " shoot madly
from their spheres," and when yon orb of day, as he rolls
ou in his meridian splendour, shall involve the mations of
the earth in one general conflagration—we say, did it
ever occur to you that, amid this " wreck of matter and
this crash of worlds"—when Heaven's last thunder shall
shake this sublunary sphere—that you can smile un-
dismayed o'er the ruins, consoled by the pleasing re-
flection that you once voted for Cass and Buder?-1/fis-
sissipi Paper.
Tam WEATHER.—During the last few days we
have had alternations of wind, rain, and cold. Wednee.
day night was a regular soaker, but yesterday morning
the house-tops and the streets had a coating of snow and
sleet, and the latter having frozen after its fall, the foot-
paths and roads presented difficulties to biped and qua.
drupeds, not often seen at so early a period. In many
parts of England, Scotland, and Ireland, there have been
heavy falls of snow and severe frosts, but whether this
very early setting in of winter predicates a long and
severe, or a short and mild one, is a matter best left to
the weather prophets, between whom experience will
decide.—Liverpool Mercury of Friday.
TER TRANSIT OF AIIERCURT ON TEURSDAY.---The
announcement in the newspapers of the approach of the
transit of Mercury over the disc of the sun, has excited
more interest in the public mind than could well have
been expected in a time of such a pressure of momentous
events in politics and commerce. The interest taken
in astronomy is evidently great, and only waits a
favourable opportunity for its full development. The
transit began at eleven o'clock, and had not finished at
sunset. The day was highly favourable, and, with the
help of weak telescopes, the planet was seen distinctly to
traverse from the eastern to the western limb of the
sun's disc, passing, in its course, one very large dark
spot, and another less extensive on the sun's surface. It
greaterandthe
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event,
1861, still the uncertainty of the weather may
planets. Although another transit of Mercury will take
place
in
make this the last that will be seen here for many years.
—Liverpool Mercury.
It is calculated that within the next five years there
will be upwards of 10,000 miles of railway open in Great
Britain.— Woolther's Exeter Gazette.