The Sun.
London, England, 1848-04-24 00:00:00

SOUTH AMERICA.

SOUTHAMPTON, APRIL 22. —The Flunburgh
schooner Fortune, Captain Vil, arrived in Cowes
Roads this morning, in 62 days, from Month Video.
She is Wen with 6,852 hides, &c., and bound for
Hamhurgh. We had received advises up to the 20th
of February from Monte Video and a file of Comercio
del Plato, with later news than has yet come to Eng-
land. Mercantile affairs were paralysed by the strict
blockade observed by the British and French squa-
drons at Buenos Ayres. Oribe was encamped at
Cerrito, and General Rosas has taken possession of
the province of Corrientes. The Cornercio del. Plato,
of the 19th of February, publishes a very lengthy'
letter addressed by the principal editor of that jour-
nal to Lord Hovvden at Rio Janeiro, vilifying the
conduct and proceedings of Rosas, and desiring his
Lordship's interference.
Exchange at Monte Video on London was 40-k to
41 ; on Paris, sf. 22c. to 51. 25c. ; on Rio Janeiro,
8 to 9 per cent. premium.

DENMARK AND SCHLESWIG
HOLSTEIN.
The following official letter has been received from
Lord Palmerston through his Secretary, in answer to
an application made to him upon the subject of Prus-
sian vessels laden with the property of British subjects
being taken or detained by the Danish Govern-
ment :

" Fort ign Office, April 19, 1848.
" Gentlemen,—l am directed by Viscount Palmer-
ston to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the
19th instant, requesting to be informed whether, in
the event of your property, now laden in Prussian
vessels, being taken or detained by the Danish Go-
vernment, her Majesty's Government will demand the
restoration of the same to you on the payment of the
invoice cost and charges. In reply, 1 am to inform
you, that in the event of a war between Denmark and
Prussia, Danish ships of war would have a right to
capture and carry in for adjudication the merchant
vessels of Prussia, notwithstanding that the cargoes
which such merchant vessels respectively might be
laden with should be the property of British subjects.
Her Majesty's Government would not be justified in
interfering to prevent the exercise of such belligerent
right by any of the contending parties ; but British
subjects, being owners of such cargoes, would be
entitled in their character of neutrals to obtain resti-
tution of their property, by means of claims duly
made and substantiated in the prize court of the coun-
try of the captor. Her Majesty's Government could
only be called upon to interfere in case of denial of
justice.
" I am, Gentlemen, your most obedient servant,
E. J. STANLEY."

THE PRINCE OF PRUSSIA
Yesterday forenoon his Royal Highness the prince
of Prussia attended Divine service at the German
Lutheran Chapel, in the Savoy-. The Count de
Portalis, Count Charles Goltz, Major Oelrichs, and
Captain Boyen, gentlemen in the Prince's suite, also
attended. His Serene Highness Prince Lowenstein,
and his Excellency Chevalier Bunsen, were also of
the congregation.
After luncheon the Prince, accompanied by Mr.
Ernest Bunsen, went on foot to Westminster Abbey.
The dinner circle at the Prussian Legation, last
evening, was confined to the Prince and aides-de-
camp, and the personnel of the legation.
His Royal Highness, accompanied by Chevalier
Bunsen, and the several noblemen and gentlemen in
his retinue, leave town by the two o'clock train from
the Great Western
.Railway for Reading, whence
'
they go to Strathfieldsaye on a visit to the Duke of
Wellington, until Thursday next.

LOUIS PHILIPPE AND THE NUMBER THIRTEEN.—.
The cabalistic number thirteen is attached in a most
singular manner to the life of the King of the French,
as appears by the following, written in 1843 :—Louis
Philippe was born in 1773 ; he emigrated in 1793 ; his
emigration finished in 1813. He has reigned and
governed for thirteen years. In thirteen years the
Count of Paris will be of age. The king has thirteen
clurteaux:—Les Tuilleries, Le Louvre, Le Palais Royal,
L' Elissee Bourbon, Neuilly, St. Cloud, Meudon, Ver-
sailles, Compiegne, Fontainbleau, Eu, Pau, and Le
Rainey. The Civil List has a total of thirteen children
and grandchildren. His life has been in danger thirteen
times since 1830. And, lastly, since his birth, he has
seen thirteen governments succeed each other in France,
including his own.

MYSTERIOUS MURDER NEAR RUNCORN.-011
Sun-
day evening last a mysterious affair occurred in the
neighbourhood of Rocksavage. Three boys, who were
strolling in the fields near the dilapidated buildings of
that ancient pile, picked up a pedlar's box, which they
found empty and bespattt red with blood. Proceeding
onward a little, they found various jewellers' trinkets of
little value, scattered in different places along the foot-
path of the fields. Marks of blood were also traced in

the course of the track. Two of the lads brought tie
box to Runcorn, and Kent with it direct to Mr. Richard-
son, the constable of the town, who immediately took
active measures for the discovery of the murderers ; and
on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday, the fisluponds in
the vicinity of Rocksavage were dragged for the purpose
of finding the body of the victim. Very active measures
are still persevered in, but up to Thursday evening the
body had not been found. It is a remarkably lonely
path from Runcorn to Frodsham, through the It)cksa-
vage fields. It it supposed that the murderers flung
away the less costly jewellery, and took away with them
the more valuable trinkets. Six constables, under Mr.
Richardson, are on tl:e alert to discover, if possible, the
murderers, and the body of the murdered. The ltarious
pawnbrokers in the immediate neighbourhood, and at
Liverpool and Manchester,tyvill do well if they can assist
in the discovery. The person who owned the box is
pretty well known to several of the inhabitants of Run-
corn ; he was a young Jew, about 17 years of age, with
black hair, and a rather light complexion. The affair
has caused a great sensation in the neighbourirpd.—
From a Correspondent of the Manchester Guardian of
Saturday.
ROYAL BOTANIC SOCIETY OF LONDON.--At a
meeting of this society, held on Saturday, the Right
Hon. Lord Sondes in the chair, a ballot took place, and
the following ladies and gentlemen were elected fellows
of the society :—His Grace the Archbishop of Cs nter-
bury, Miss Eades, Miss J. Tottinghain, Miss F. Wilson,
Captain C. Twistleton Graves, Tobiah Teape, Esq.,
J. G. Walker, Esq., John Graves, Esq., which with
those previously admitted, make sixty-two fellows anted
this season.

EASTER TERM EXAMINATION OF ARTICLED
CLERLS.—The Examiners have appointed Tuesday th©
2d day of May next, at half-past nine in the forenoon,
at the llall of the Incorporated Law Society, in Chan-
cery-lane, for the examination of persons applying to be
admitted attorneys. The examination will commuice et
ten o'clock precisely.

A large rough yellow•coloured dog might have
been seen on Thursday lying quietly on the steps of the
estrade when the Provisional Government were distri-
buting the colours. His master was killed during the
late revolution, and he was himself wounded on the same
occasion with a ball in the leg and a sabre cut iin the
shoulder. His 'right paw was, besides, crushed by the
hoof of a Municipal Guard's horse, which causes him to
limp. The animal entered the Hotel de Ville oil the
24th, and remained there since, always staying with the
Republican Guard. He has not been seen since T3ours-
day, and the Republican Guard now request any one
that finds him to bring bim back to his old quarters.

WINDSOR, SUNDAY' EVENING. THE EitICHE-E8 OF
KENT.—Her Royal highness, attended by the Beefiness
de Speth, left Frogmore House yesterday morning, at
half.past eight o'clock, in a carriage and four, for the
Weybridge station, on the South-Western line of Rau.
way, where a special train was in waiting to convey- the
Duchess to Gosport, en route to the Isle of Wight, to
spend the Easter holidays with her Majesty and the
Prince Consort. Colonel Sir George Cowper left at an
earlier hour for Weybridge to receive her Royal High-
ness at the station ; and afterwards proceeded, in atten-
dance upon the Duchess, to Osborne House.
THE WIDOW OF BELZONI.—The widow of that
great and enterprising traveller, Belzoni—that traveller
to whose zeal and enterprise antiquarian science and
ancient history owe so much—is now living in a state of
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closely connected with him to whom literature and
learning are so deeply indebted. Surely, upon being
made acquainted with the case, her Majesty's Govern-
ment will take it into their humane consideration, with
a view to afford this amiable and exemplary lady some
aft ctive assistance.— Observer.
111ARYLEBONE VESTRY.—At the usual meeting of
this body on Saturday, the loyal address to the Queen,
of which notice had been given the preceding week, was
brought forward for adoption. Mr. W. Williams (late
M.P. for Coventry) said he could not concur in the
portion of this address which tended to express a con-
fidence in the Government and in the present Parlia-
ment. Now he must confess that he had no confidence
whatever in either.—(Hear, hear, and oh.) He believed
that he was telling the truth when he asserted his con-
viction that the country at large had not the slightest
confidence either in the present Government or Perlis-
mcnt.—(Loud cries of " oh, oh, and " hear, hear.")
A good deal of discussion ensued, but the address was
finally adopted.
His Excellency Lord Howden, according to letters
from his Lordship from Rio Janeiro, is expected to
arrive from the Brazils on the 2ith proximo.
STATE or TRADE.—There is a decided improve-
' went in business in Lancashire since the public mind
has been set at rest by the peaceful and gratifying re-
sult of the recent political movement in London and the
country. Both the cotton and the woollen trades are
improving; and we are glad to find that the demand for
several kinds of produce has improved in Liverpool