The Sun.
London, England, 1851-04-11 00:00:00

GERMANY.

At Vienna the courts of law are occupied with
the trial of an old woman for witchcraft. It appears
that with her two sons she has been carrying on a
very lucrative trade under pretence of buying souls
out of purgatory. Upon payment of a certain sum
she would use various incantations, upon which one
of her sons, disguised in a mantle, would act the part
of the soul in purgatory, and fixed the conditions for
the sum to be paid by his relations, who were
present in order to effect his release. The trial is
still pending.
No answer has yet been returned to the Prussian
proposition on the subject of the Diet.
The SULTAN has refused to accede to the de-
mands of; Austria to exclude: KOSSUTH and, seven
of his companions in exile from the benefit of
liberation.

The powder magazine at Temeswar blew up on
the 3d inst.

The Bavarian Chambers have voted the funds
necessary for the construction of the railway from
Augsburg to Ulm.

HOLLAND.

THE HAGUE, Aram 9.—The accounts respecting
the inundations are more satisfactory. We hear from
Zwolle, of the 7th, that the Yssel is returning to its
bed.

The bridge at Deventer was carried away, and the
communication from thence to Kemfen is now carried
on by means of rafts.
The committee of reporters to the Second Chamber
has presented its report on the responsibility of the
province. The debate is postponed.—Amsterdam
Courant.

TURKEY.
Advices from Bosna Serai are of the 26th ult.
The fort of Jaiaa has been evacuated by the in-
surgents and occupied by the SULTAN'S troops.
The Seraskier was slightly wounded in the engage-
ment.

ITALY.
In its sitting of the sth, the Chamber of Deputies
of Turin commenced the discussion of a Ministerial
Bill for the institution of an annual national festival
in honour of the Constitution. The Government
proposed the second Sunday of May; the committee,
on the contrary, proposed the Bth of May as the
proper time. After some discussion, the Ministerial
proposition was consented to by the Chamber, but
the Bill was again referred to the_ committee for a
verbal amendment.
The second battalion of French chasseurs (light
infantry) left Rome on the 31st ult. for Civita Vec-
chia, where it was to embark for Algiers.
On the 30th ult., his Holiness the Porn, according
to custom, performed the ceremony of the benedic-
tion of the Golden Rose in the chapel of the Vatican.
Cardinal ALFIBRI Said mass on the occasion, and
Father PRIORI, Procurator-General of the Car-
melites, preached a Latin sermon in the presence of
the college of cardinals, the prelates, the Roman ma-
gistracy, and the whole Papal Court.
The Venice Gazette of the 30th ult. states frog
Rome that one of the daughters of the Prince of
Ciao has just married the only 8011 of Count
CAMPELLO, the Minister of War and Marine under
the late Roman Republic.
On the 4th Count GIULAY resumed the military
command of the province of Lombardy, provisionally
entrusted to General SINGER, while Count GIIILAT
was at Trieste, in obedience to the EMPEROe6 COM:
mends.
The Imperial Lieutenant of Milan, Count STlth.•
SOLDO, has issued a notification, reminding those who
in gambling that they are liable to a fine of
or three months' imprisonment if they be
9i indulge
florins,g e
insolvent.

e; s--itylllnlatghaezipnae paragraph rtahpeh presentof ou rn
month,otic einOwf
which
Dubin EI
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nii::l
mention is made of Mr. Roche's work for " "Vanities of
, Literature" read " Varieties of Literature."
THE BOILER. EXPLOSION AT MANCUESTER.—The
proceedings in this unfortunate affair terminated on Wednes-
day night after our report had been despatched. After a
long charge by the Coroner, the jury retired at nine o'clock,
and after three hours' absence, returned the following ver-
dict :—First, the jury are of opinion that the boiler was di-
cient and perfectly competent to perform all the duties re-
quired from it. Second, they are also of opinion that g.s .
negligence has been exercised in the management abriaa.k
.
tendance of this boiler, and great want of ordinaryc care.
Thirdly, the jury are unanimously of opinion that the deaths
of the parties visited by the jury arose from culpabl:.
) and
negli-
gence on the part of Thomas Egerton (the eng_Td the =-
Thomas Williamson (the lessee of the premises,"'
bis verdict,
plover of Egerton). The Foreman, in deliveringverdiet of man-
said that twelve of the jury returned a Egerton is al-
slaughter against Egerton and Willianleesat•
t at the infirmary,
ready under police surveillance as 3 P 8 finspectorMlltillen.
and Mr. Williamson is in the custody4j?ur .
ect are rapidly We believe that five of the person In
.13-saries were more severe,
re-
covering; the other two, whose if.jr a long time, are also and whose whose recovery was doubtful williamson'a 'f
- wi e was in.
petted to be restored ultimately.ei
li, the verdict fainted.
waiting with him, and on be _
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INFIRMARY, likg,GibiE.......
ROYAL SEA BATSINO .
t tkl , this socie y oo piace yesterday, at
The annual meeting or Ludgate-hill • Mr.r ph -
, u)bert ug in
the London Coffee-house,
t d t sta e a the two auditors had
the chair. The reP°l.tfo 1850 and f .
r , ound a balance against
examined the accoraai The
~,,i 3s. secretary reported that in addi-
the society of JOh
e sum due to the bankers, there was also due
tion to the ahoy
tradesmen,
London . 6651. is. 11d., making a total of
to the
towards which there was in hand, 1791. 6s. 10d.,
737/. 45., ... .
the liabilities of the society, 17s. It was re-
making
solved that a committee of seven members be appointed to
to the present state andcondition of the Royal Sea
report as
Bathing Infirmary, and to suggest such alterations in the
rules and management as might appear most conducive to
the future success of the institution. The meeting was then
adjourned until the 30th inst., the infirmary remaining
.at
present closed for want of funds.
LONDON HosmAL.—Yesterday the annual festival
in aid of the funds of this valuable charity was held at thehe
London Tavern, Bishopsgate-street; Mr. Buxtonin of
chair. The cloth having been removed, at
Mated conclusion teh
t that Sir E.
an excellent dinner, the Chairman, having es
o to be
N. Buxton, who should have officiated, WA.
'mai bligedlo yal toasts,
at the House of Commons, proposed the
evening "Success to the
and, after them, the toast of the ,s it a-
London Hospital." From Mr.
Buxton
noable lessspeech than 3,894
peered that during the past
year
r(1850)
ad-
patients, each for an average period
mitted into the wards of the of 30 days, had been
hospital,T whilst a much greater -
number, 16,403, had enjoyed advantages accorded to
.
elu repair extes,
e,
out-patients. '1 he exp
enditur
14,47 2/.i n
12s din.
I Ig d., and,s, incomnse ionper-
and improvements, was
plications might have been
a re-
mitting, hundreds more I'
ceived. A liberal response
followed the chairman's appeal,
ri tions having been declared, the
and the amount of subsc p
company dispersed.
His Excellency
Mr. Clemson, ex-American Minis-
ter at Brussels!, ,',
ladyand family, arrived here
theyes-
terday his
Antwerpen steamer, Captain JackliOn.
terday morning by
made in
Ili
=tem
hours and
4 half.
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