The Sun.
London, England, 1848-10-13 00:00:00

LONDON, FRIDAY

is still able to work as a carpenter, but those who arc in
a position to employ him are afraid to do eo, l st it
should get to the ears of the. Marquis and give Off,DCP
The old near, who, after having brought up a family, and
kept aloof from parochial aid, now feels the misery of
his position, declares with tears in his eyes that the N ote
he gave to Mr. Holt wa:, given by mistake, cud owing to
the confusion which prevailed at the polling-booth :
there can be no doubt of the truth of this, so that he is
fairly entitled to the sympathy of all, including those
even who think it more expedient to truckle to the no-
minally great, than to manifest an honest spirit of lode-
! endence.—Stanyerd Mercury.
'TILE STATE TRIALS.—DOBBIN AND DALTOS.—
" Call Henry Dalton!" said the crier. There was a
breathless pause. " Here he is," said flit; same func-
tionery, as an uncommonly curious looking character
made his way to the witness table. There was a sup-
pressed titter as he appeared ; and some almost audibly
said, " Oh!" Imagine a youngish man, with a whisker-
has, bald, and somewhat comical face, his neck embraced
by a high black stock, and habited in a faded and rather
abused shooting jacket, or short frock, of dark green
cotton velvet. What from the singularity of the cos-
tume, and the jaded appearance of the face, the effect
produced by tho appearance of Dalton—who is a true
type of the " Peor Scholar" genus—was not the most
favourable. However, as you will perceive by the re-
port, his testimony was clear, consistent, and without a
single flaw; and though the Attorney-General put him
literally on the rack, by the most searching cross-ex-
amination, still he never wavered for an instant, or con-
tradicted himself in the slightest particular. During the
examination of Dalton, the pranks of Do'-)bin were dis-
gusting, though irresistibly comic. At limes, he would
turn up his eyes to heaven,
as if expecting a visible man:,
hetation of Divine wrath, in the shape of a thunderbolt,
for the especial head of Henry Dalton ; then lie would
laugh, as it were at the audacity of his perjury; anon, he
wetild be convulsed with mirth, the thing was becoming
so preposterous. In fact, he overacted virtuous indigna-
tion and amazed innocence to that degree, that, when he
joined his hands together, and swore " Upon my oath, I
never Few the man in all my life," there was a loud and
general burst of laughter in the court. It forcibly re-
rn;ndt d me of the same description of compliment paid
by a London audience to Vandenhoff's 'personation of
logo,- when that human devil kneels t down
with his
furious dupe, and appeals to heaven. In both cases—
Dobbin's and lago's—there was a kind of comic pro-
fenation that excited mingled laughter and disgust.—
Dublin Evening Mail.
JOHN MITCHEL.—We yesterday (says the Stir-
ling Observer of Thursday) saw a letter dated Bermuda,
12th of September, from an officer of the 42d Regiment,
in which he notices Mitchel, and says that he is a poor,
miserable, broken-hearted looking creature, . and in
wretched health. Ile is not set to work with other
convicts; indeed, he is net fit for it.
SINGULAR CASE.—About two Or three weeks ago,
as we are informed, a man named Willium Dyer, a shop-
keeper, of Diglis-street, and who was formerly in the
City police force, having a bad finger, put a blister to it,
soon after which it is said he handled a potato which
was diseased, and it is presumed that the effect was poi-
sonous, for his finger and hand soon presented a serious
aepect, and he went to the Infirmary, where moitifica-
tien ensued, and he died on Saturday last. We under-
stand that a post marten' examination of the body has
been made, and that the internal appearances were de-
eith-dly healthy, leading to the conclusion that death
could only have been occasioned by the introduction. of
some poisonous matter to the system.— Worcester Chro-
nicle.
STOCKPORT. MELANCHOLY ACCIDENT. Two
FEMALES KILLED BY A HORSE.—On Tuesday night, a
carter of Alfred Orrell, Esq , of Cheadle Grove, re-
turned from Manchester, with a waggon laden with
cotton, drawn by three horses., and the waggon was, as
usual, drawn into the yard at Travis Brook Mill, Heaton
Norris. A valuable mare, nearly thorough bred, had
been placed in the team for the purpose of breaking it
in for carriage: purposes; when taken out, the drag-
chain accidentally fell upon the heels of the young
mare, she took fright, and galloped out of the yard
towards Brinksway-bridge, where three women were re •
turning to Hope Hill, from their work at Mr. Hunt's
mill. The animal attacked them with great ferocity
with its forefeet, beating them violently to the ground,
and then trampling upon them with continuous fury.
It then stopped quietly upon the bridge, without inflict-
ing any further mischief, and was conducted back to the
mill. The females being seriously injured—two of them
fatally so—were carried to the Woolpack Inn, Brinks-
way. Ann Faulkner was wounded :bout the head and
body in a frightful manner, so much 40, that she died
the same night; whilst the other (Ann Sherrock) had
sustained such severe fractures behind the right ear
from the hoof of the animal, that no surgical aid could
prevent her death, which occurred the next day. The
carter was instantly dismissed from his situation, and
the noble-looking animal, worth 120 guineas, was de-
stroyed on Wednesday, by direction of the owner.
BATHS AND WASHHOUSES.—On Wednesday a nu-
merously attended meeting of the supporters of the above
institution, founded for the benefit of the labouring
classes in the north-west districts of the metropolis, was
held in the committee-room of the institution, in George-
street, Euston-square. It appeared by the report, that
from the formation of the institution in 1846, up to the
10th of September last, the total number of bathers had
been 278,77) ; and 87,376 poor women had washed, dried,
ironed, and mangled the clothes of themselves and fami-
lies, averaging at least four in number for each family.
The present building is totally inadequate to the num-
bers who daily apply, both for the purposes of bathing
and washing, to meet the exigency, a subscription has
been opened for its extension. Amongst the donors are
her Majesty and Prince Albert, the... Queen Dowager,
the Archbishop of Canterbury, and many of the nobility.
The institution is self-supporting, so'that all sums re-
ceived for its extension will be applied exclusively for
that purpose. The committee, also, on the Ist of Janu-
ary, 1848, established and commenced a branch for the
purpose of affording the poor in the north-west districts
the means of purifying and cleansing their dwellings.
Since then, in the most wretched, unhealthy, and over-
crowded dwellings, they have cleansed and purified with
chlorides, &c., 273 rooms,l4o staircases, 235 closets, 154
passages, and 62 areas. The labouring man is offered
by the committee the means of purifying his dwelling at
the cost of one penny; and in cases of illness, &c., the
work is done gratuitously. The expenditure of this
branch has exceeded the sum originally contributed.
A MISERLY MARQUIS.--A few days ago the
furniture, &c., of the chateau of the Miserable Marquis
d'Aligre, in the village of Chatou, between Paris and St.
Germain, was sold by auction. This old Marquis was
the richest man in France; he possessed 300 /menses ire
Paris and other towns, 50 estates in different parts of the
kingdom, and upwards of 2,000,000 L capital placed in
the public funds of different countries; and yet the fur-
niture of his favourite :chateau was old, dirty, wretched
in the extreme, and would have disgraced a low lodging
house. There was not a decent picture, not a cushion
or carpet that was not ragged, nor a chair or table that
was not ricketty, not a piece of crockery that was not
cracked.

ACCOUCHEMENT IN A HURRY.—On Tuesday after-
noon a lady drove up to one of our fashionable hotels,
and on stepping from her carriage made a hasty entrance
into the hotel, and proceeded at
at once up stairs. So
singular a circumstance attracted the attention of the
landlady, who followed her U.
The lady inquired for
a bed-room, but was told she could
were all engaged, the hotel being not have one, as they
full. She would not,
however, take a denial, but
an
proceeded at once to a bed-
room, where, in less than half hour she was confined
with twins. The infants are dead, but the lady, who is
of good family, is, we are happy to
doing well. We
understand that she had been seekingay for lodgings, but
could not succeed in obtaining
might be extremely inconvenient, if not and,t finindangerous,dgit
to
prolong her search, she determined on taking posses•
sion of the first bed-room she came near.—Brighton
Gazette.
ARRIVAL Or LORD ASHLEY AT EDINDIIIIGn.
We understand that Lord Ashley, one of the Commis-
sioners of the General Board of Health, arrived in Edin-
burgh last night, in order, it is understood, to assist
the local board in making the necessary arrangements
in connexion with the appearance of cholera in this
quarter.—Ediriburgh Witness. ,
T lIE Two Ditomios.—Among the persons present
in the Liverpool Police court on Saturday, were two
gentlemen, named Hutton, brothers, whose countenance,
dress, and figure were so exactly 'alike, that it would
have been perfectly impossible to have sworn positively to
the identity of either; and, in fact, one was addressed by
an officer of the court in mistake for the other.—Liverpool
Mail. :
Her Royal Highness the Princess of Parma and
her August Consort, with the Conde de Montemolin and
his Royal Highness Don Fernando, attended by the
Marquis de Pastoret, Mr. Borthwick, and M. Marcelin
de Fresne, visited yesterday Bt. Paul's Cathedral, the
Temple, and the new palace at Westminster. After in-
specting, under the polite direction ofe
re the authorities,
the Cathedral, the Royal party werceived at the
Temple by Mr. Rogers, Q.C., and treasurer, who con-
ducted their Royal Highnesses over the
magnificent
church and the hall of the Middle Temple, in both of
which they expressed Much interest. At the new
Houses of Parliament the illustrious visitors were re-
ceived by Mr. Barry, who accompanied them over every
department of the works. Their Royal llighnesses ex.
pressed their great admiration of the buildings, and at
each place their thanks to the authorities for their atten.
lions. The Princess of Parma and her Royal Consort
will proceed on Saturday to Windsor, on a visit to her
Majesty the Queen.
Mrs. Nisbett and her sister, Miss Mordaunt, com-
menced an engagement at the Brighton Theatre on
Monday, and have been playing to good houses.
THE PoNVIS SCHOLARSHIP.---BIRMINGHAM, WED-
NEsDAY.—The first examination for the Powis Scholar-
ship was concluded at King Edward's School in this 1
town yesterday. Theso scholarships (founded in honour
of the Earl of Powis) are intended to promote the
cause of literature in Wales; they are open to all natives
of the Principality under twenty .years of age, and may
be held at any colleges in the universities of Cambridge
or Oxford. Fourteen candidates presented themselves,
and were subjected to a long and searching examination
in the Welsh language and literature, as well as in
classical learning and theology. The examiners were
the Venerable Archdeacon Williams of Llandovery, and
the Rev. Rowland Williams, fellow and tutor of King 's
College, Cambridge. The Earl of Powis and Lord Lyt-
telton were present, and took an active part in the exa-
mination. The following is a copy of the examiners'
award:—" Powis Scholarship, Birmingham, 1848.—we
have agreed, after careful examination, to place the
candidates who aro worthy especial mention in the fol-
lowing order:—William Evan Hughes, David Thomas,
John Skinner Jones, Ebenezer Wood Evans We ac-
cordingly recommend that Mr. Hughes and Mr. Thomas
be elected scholars; and we certify that the two others
acquitted themselves creditably.—John Williams, Row-
land Williams, examiners."