The Sun.
London, England, 1846-06-04 00:00:00

obstacles in their way, so much the worse for the Go-
vernment and the Chamber."

On the subject of the differences which have arisen
between the English and French Cabinets, relative to
the affairs of Greece, the Courrier Francais has the
following :
"Notwithstanding the frequent interchange of notes,
which have for a long time been passing between them,
the Cabinets of France and England are further than
ever from coming to an understanding upon the affairs
of Greece. It appears that Lord Aberdeen, in a long
conference with the Count de St. Aulaire, has insisted
on the recal of M. Placatory, whose position at Athens
eclipses England. It was in consequence of this con-
ference that our Ambassador sent to Paris the Count de
Jarnac, who has his full confidence, as well as that of
M. Guiaot."

The National, in a long article on the affairs of
Mexico and the United States, expresses an opinion
that the cause of Mexico is hopeless, in allusion to the
opinion expressed of some parties in America, that
England had incited Mexico to war. It says :
" Until we are better informed, we cannot help think-
ing that nothing is less probable: for, according to
our ideas, England can gain nothing by afording the
Americans, on one hand, a plausible pretext for seiz-
ing the California• ; and, on the other hind, compelling
them, so to speak, to fortify themselves against the
perfidious surprises so familiar to our neighbours."
According to La Prene, orders had been for-
warded by the Government to the different seaports,
to send several ships of war to reinforce the French
squadron cruizing in the Gulf of Mexico.
The Echo d' Oran of the 24th ult. confirms the
report of the massacre of the French prisoners by
ADD..EL-KADER. The Oran correspondent of a Tou-
lon journal, under date of Oran, May 21, writes as
follows :

" The number of French prisoners who escaped the
massacre of the deira is unfortunately very small, but
amongst them are said to be the Lieut.-Colonel of the
2d Hussars, and some other officers. General Cavaignac,
commanding the subdivision of Tlemcen, who had just
received a large convoy and a reinforcement of three
battalions, proceeded immediately to the extreme fron-
tier in the hope either of meeting with seine of the pri-
soners who had escaped, or to prevent any new out-
break. As yet, however, we have received no news of
the movements of the General."

The latest news from Oran is of the 25th, and is
published in the Semaphore de Marseilles of the 29th.
ABTh.EL-KADER was on the 25th stated to be within
a short distance from Stitten, in the Djebel Ksell,
awaiting the remnants of his deira, which was pro-
ceeding in that direction under the orders of BEN
TAMI. It was reported that the EMIR had been
joined there by Bou MAZA and HADa-SEGHIR, who
bad fled from the Ouarensenis, after their unsuccess-
ful attempt to organise an insurrection in those
mountains. A strong column, commanded by Co-
lonel RENAULT, had proceeded from Frenda to-
wards Stitten, to operate against ABD-EL-KADER
and drive him into the Desert. No direct news had
arrived from General CAVAIGNAC, who had marched
from Lalla Maghrnia on the 15th. Some Arabs
stated, at Tlemcen, that the General, after cutting off
several fractions of emigrant tribes and a number of
Moors, who had joined in an attack against Lalla
Maghrnia, on the 24th of March last, had crossed the
plain of Missouin and chased the Djaffras, Ouled-el-
Nahrs, and other refractory tribes, encamped at the
eastern point of Chott Gharbi.
The Governor of Ham, M. DEMARLE, was still
kept under close arrest, and treated with great
rigour.

There was a rumour in Paris of an approaching
modification in the French Ministry. It is said that
the health of the Minister of Finance is so precarious
45 to render his retirement from office necessary, and
that the Minister of Justice and the Minister of
Marine are also anxious to resign.
The Chamber of Peers is convoked for Tuesday, to
hear the indictment of LEcoarrs read.
The apprehension caused by the war of the United Stated
with Mexico weighed on the Paris money-market on Monday.
fire Three per Cents. clip.ed at 84t. 20c. ; the Five per
Cents., at 120 f. ; the Orleans Railroad shares, 1,2351. ;
Ronerr, I,olof. ; Havre, 745 f.; Great Northern, 733 f. 75c. ;
Avignon, 867 t. 50c.; Vierzon' 622 f. 50e.; Bordeaux, 6001 ;
Dieppe, 415 f. ; Paris and Strasburgh, 502 f. 50e. ; Tours and
Nantes. 511 f. 25c.; Paris and Lyons, 517 f. 50c.; Spanish
Three per Cents., 38%,
Lyons and Avignon, definitives, 516 f. 25c.; Bordeaux arid
Cette, definitives, 508 f. 50c.
MARSEILLES, MAY 28.-Marseilles and Avignon, 900 f. ;
Northern, 750 f.; Paris and Lyons, 5401.
Lyoxs, MAY 30.-Marseilles and Avignon, 875 E ; Paris
and Orleans, 1,2281. 75c. - Rouen, 1,005 f. 25c.; Lyons,
5361. 25c. ; Vierzon, 622 f. 50c. ; Northern, 7351.

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BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, JUNE 2.
Boulogne and Amiens, 11 fi —Central of Spain, 1% —Dutch
Rhenish, 7% —Northern of France Constituted, 13% —Orleans and
Vierzon, % —Orleans and Bordeaux, 105i—Paris and Lyons Con-
stituted, 6%.

MISS JULIA BENNETT'S BENEFIT.—That delightful
and fascinating actress, Miss Julia Bennett, takes her benefit
this evening at the Haymarket, on which occasion the fair
beneficiare appears for the first time as Lady Teazle, in the
School for Scandal. We expect that Miss Julia Bennett
will make a great hit. Her youth, her beauty, her archness,
and her lady-like manners, all combine to point her out as
an admirable representative of the part. She afterwards
appears as Gertrude, in the Lolin of a Lover, with Webster
as Peter Spyk. In addition to these attractions, Herr
Wilhelmkne is to perform a fantasia on the grand piano-
forte. There can be no doubt but that the house will be a
bumper.
HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY.—The ordinary meeting
was held on Tuesday afternoon, when the chair was taken by
J. R. Barchard, Esq. Although the show of specimens was
limited, there were many of a very singular character,
amongst which was a plant of phahenopsis, from Java,
grown at the Society's gardens, and pronounced to be the
dnest ever yet cultivated in Europe. Amongst the miscel-
laneous plants were some hybridized cacti from the gardens
,f Sir P. G. Egerton, at Oulton Park, in Cheshire ; several
orts of calceolarias from Air. Colley, of Stratford, and gera-
Alums from Mr. Chandler, of Vauxhall. Mr. Keeling, of
llonument-yard, exhibited some samples of potatoes from
Norway, a sort which, from the analogy of climate, was more
sike those of the English markets than any other introduced
from foreign sources, and which were also interesting as
Another instance of the readiness of cultivators abroad to
orovide for the exigencies of the English consumption. The
irizes awarded were silver Banksian medals to Mr. Widnall,
SA' Cambridge, and the gardener to the Earl of Carnarvon,
(or specimen plants ; and certificates of merit to Mr. Veitch,
,f Exeter, and Mr. Fish, gardener to Colonel Sowerby, for
peaches.
DESCENT OF THE BALLOON.—OH Monday night, the
Albion" balloon, in which Mr. C. Green, the aeronaut,
ascended with a friend at Cremorne Gardens, crossed over
the Thames on this side of Putney-bridge, when, after re-
urning, it proceeded toward Uxbridge, and about eight
o'clock, having been an hour in the air, safely descended in
• meadow on the estate of— Way, Esq., of Denham Park,
Budss.

lc AMWAY ACCIDENT.—NEWCASTLE-ON TYNE, MoN-
)Ay NIGIIT.—An accident occurred this evening on the New-
%one and North Shields Railway, at the Newcastle termi-
us, bet fortunately without any serious consequences to
ife or property. The seven o'clock train from Shields.
eavily laden with passengers, overshot the station, and ran
vith tremendous force into a stone building, used as a ware-
louse at the end of the line. The engine struck the gable
eler, and brought down nearly a third of the building,
flitch it penetrated about a yard, when it stopped, being
ittle more than a couple of yard= from the edge of the coal
epot, a fearful precipice 15 or 16 feet below the level of the
ne. The engine was partially covered with the debris,
hich arrested its progress, or the catastrophe would have
'een appalling, fur if the engine and train had gone over the
,recipice a serious loss of life would have been inevitable.
is it fortunately happened, however, the steam had been
qrned off, and the warehouse checked the momentum of the
rain. Tne shock was, of course, extremely alarming, and
he screaming of the passengers, principally women and
into the
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coon as possible and closed the station gates. None of the
-arriages were broken or displaced, and they were very soon
letached from the engine and removed on to the other line.
Another engine was brought and attached to that which had
t from its bed. Winches were then applied, and on the en-
aused the accident, but the power was insufficient to draw
;hie being lifted bars were placed under the wheels, and on
he steam being applied it brought itself out, apparently
laving sustained very trifling damage. The accident would
seem to have arisen from the great momentum of the train,
rhich was unusually heavy. It being holiday time, a re-
narkably fine day, and Shields races, many persons were
induced to travel on the lines from Newcastle, and the car-
riages were crowded with persons returning. The engineer
states that he turned off the steam at the Ouse Burn-bridge
(the usual place), and on observing the train approach the
station too rapidly he applied all the power of the break,
hut was unable to prevent the accident. Several of the pas-
,engers received severe blows, and two or three had slight
abrasions; one lady fainted. All, however, were able to
leave the station soon after the accident, and we have not
heard of any serious case.
SUICIDE.-1 he following melancholy case of suicide
occurred at Gloucester on Saturday last :—Mr. George Beard,
the landlord of the Star Inn, and a large boat-owner and
coal-merchant, had been indulging too freely with liquor on
Friday morning last, notwithstanding which he went to the
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which he left the house, swearing he would never enter it
'gain. After having called at two or three places, at each of
which he took " another glass," he got back to the Lower
George, when the landlord seeing the state he was in,
very kindly, and with a great deal of difficulty, induced
him to go to bed, and afterwards
went into his room to
see that all was right, when he appeared to be very fast
asleep. About ten o'clock on Saturday morning the land-
lord took up some coffee for him, when, to his great horror
and astonishment, he found him fastened up to the bed-post,
and quite dead. He bad tied a large scarf to the bed-post
and round his neck, with what in bargemen's phrase is
termed a bowling knot, and had then apparently fallen for-
ward from the bed, as his legs were quite doubled under
him, and his elbow resting on the bed ; but being a very
heavy man, his great weight had drawn the knot up tight,
and occasioned strangulation. No cause but drunkenness
can be assigned for this melancholy circumstance, as he was
in very good circumstances, and had a good business. We
are sorry to add that a widow' and six young children are
left to deplore his untimely end. A coroner's inquest was
held on the body on Saturday, when en the jury returned a ver-
dict of Temporary Insanity,1