The Sun.
London, England, 1851-09-15 00:00:00

ITALY.

The Bilancia of Turin of the 9th announces from
Naples that sentence of death had been pronounced
Ministers, one ambassador and two
priests.
It is hoped the KING will commute these
dueppountie forty-six
ex x.prisoners of State, including ten
sentences.

CONVERT TO PROTESTANTISM.—A gentleman named
Alfred Clarke, a resident of Taunton, and for many years a
stanch adherent of the Roman Catholic Church, has publicly
renounced that communion, and has been openly received into
the fellowship of the Church of England. The ceremony of
renunciation was celebrated at the Church of St. Mary Mag-
dalene, Taunton, the officiating minister being the Rev.
Temple West. At the conclusion of the service the Rev. Mr.
West presented the convert with an elegantlyy bound Prayer-
book of the Reformed Church.

MELANCHOLT OCCURRENCE NEAR LANARK.—On
the evening of Tuesday last a man named John Armstrong,
while walking with his wife on the south bank of the Clyde,
in the vicinity of Lanark, was seized with a suicidal frenzy,
and immediately thereafter plunged into the rives at a place
known by the name of Mary Dick's Hole, which was here
very deep. His poor wife, who was far advanced in a state
of pregnancy, rushed into the water with the view of rescu-a
ing him, but both sank and were drowned. The occurrence
was observed by some persons who were near, and the
bodies were not long in being recovered, but life was extinct.
Armstrong was a native of the village of Kirkfieldbank, and
had, is is understood, been for some time previously in a
disordered and desponding state of mind. The tragedy did
not end here. Among the crowd who had been collected to
the scene of the catastrophe was a man named Lochead, a
native of Rutherglen, but for some time residing at Kirkfield-
bridge, who fell down in a fit, and was carried home in estate
of insensibility, from which he never recovered, expiring the
next morning, about five Yelock. The cause of Lochead's
malady is not known, but it is conjectured that his sudden
death is to be attributed to the high state of excitement into
which he was thrown by the melancholy occurrence nar-
rated above.

THE COAL TRADE or LIVERPOOL.—It was pretty
generally expected that the proposal of th 3 London and North-
Wes:ern Company to construct a line of railawy from the
Wavertree-bridge to Toxteth-park, at the south end of
Liverpool, would have been met by the dock trustees under-
taking to erect docks there, and, by this measure being car-
ried into execution, Liverpool would have become one of the
first places in England for shipping coal. This expectation,
however, it appears, will not be realised, the dock trustees
having, at their meeting on Thursday, declined the proposal,
on the ground that it would be attended with great diffi-
culty and unnecessary expense.--Railleay Record.

HOTEL SoAr.—And first of the soap—of that
little inconvenient latherless cabs of indurated composition
which is a part and parcel of the old hotel system. What is
it? Where is it bought? How is it made? What is sup-
posed to be its use? Is it really soap, or cheese, or wax, or
chalk, or gutta percha, or cement, or all these things cum..
bined ? If you try to wash with it in cold water, you might
as well use a square of ivory—if you put it in warm, after a
time a film collects about it, as we have seen about a dead
perch in the well of a punt; but you will get no lather.
And if, in your desperation, you try to rub it hard on your
coarse single towel, its nipped-up cornerless form offers no
hold; and slippery, withlut being saponaceous, at last it
darts out of your hands, like a bullet, into a corner of the
room, where you had better let it lie, and purchase some
brown Windsor on your own account.— The Month.

NEWCASTLE AND CARLISLE RAILWAY.—The direc-
tors of this company on Monday last inspected the Alston
branch, which is now in course of formation. This branch
proceeds from the station at Haltwhistla, through a moun-
tainous country, thirteen miles to Alston, rising in that dis-
tance about 500 feet. The great mineral treasures of the
district, it is calculated, will afford a large traffic for this
branch. The works are in a state of great forwardness, but
owing to the nature of the country and other circumstances,
the line will not probably be opened before the ensuing
spring.— Carlisle Patriot.

The Spener Gazette contains a letter from Berlin
of the 11th, which states that the Turkish Government is
about to establish lines of electric telegraph in Turkey.
Orders km been gout to Berlin for the necessary opparatua.

Railway'. I Pahl I Nominal Priam. 'Business doze
to-day.
1 Aberdeen •• • • all • • ••• •• 41.18.
• Aberdeen. No. 2, 7 pr. ct.•"
Caledonian 101. • • • • 10 7
r Chester and Holyhead .. all 143( 14%
o Dund. Per. & Aber. Junc, all
f East Anglian (31. 10s.)
. 6 per cent. .. .. • • all 1% —l%
Eastern Counties Uteri.,
• 5 per cent. No. I .• all par p pm
• Do. No. 2 • • • • • • all % die par die.
▪ Do. New 6p. cent. Stock 10 10% 10% 10%
Eastern Union, Scrip
guaraa. 6 per cent. • • all 10 10%
Do. 101. Deben. Shares . all
East Lancashire, 6 per
cent. quarter shares .. all •• ••
E. &W. York. June. 6ths all .• —• •
Effin. Per. &Dun. 5} p. ct. ell 34 dig. par
Glasgow & 5.-W. Coning. 100 • • —• •
(It. Northern, 5 per cent. all 13% 13% 1334
Great South. & Western
(Ireland) eighths .. 5 1 P.
Lancashire and York-
shire, F. 201. .. • • • . 6 •• ••die.
Do. 6 per ct. Stock .. 100 129 131
Leeds Northern, 6 per
cent., No. 1.. •. .. 11 p
Do. quarters, 1848 .. •• •• p
London, Brighton, and
Meath Coast guar. 5 per
et., late Croydon thirds 100 •• •••• ••
De. pref., I p et. Stock,
1851, from 50/. share. E 100 ..
Ds. new guar., 6 per et 100 ..
Lon. & N. West. (Coy. &
Nuneat.) 5 per cent. .. 1334 •••
London &S.-W., new . 5 2 —234 p.
Stanch., Sheffield, ands
[inc., guar. atm., No. 1 all 11 —l2
Do. new, 101. •• all 11% 11%
Do., 61. • • • • • . .. 3 % %
Midland Con. 6 p.e..tock 100 • •
Do. Consel. Bristol &
Binning., 6 per ceat.• • 100 127 —199 127
Do. Bristol & Glouces. all .•
Norfolk Extension .. all 15 —l6
1)0. guar. 534 per cent. all ••
Do. Wayeney Valley .. 2 • ••
North British • • .. 5 4% —4%
Oxf. Wor. &W 01.151.6 p.c 6 34 p
Shrewsbury and Birm.
New Guaranteed all 10
Shrews. and Ches. (Nor.
W. Min.) 8 per cent. all 14% 153(
South Devon .. all 12 —l4
South-Eastern, 434 p. et 10 • • —• •
WestLondon,lst Cl. (1010 all • • "
Do. 2d Class de. (par) ali •• ••
York, Newc., and Berw.,
Gt. N of E. Par. .. all 16 1634
4 4)4
York and North Midland
H. and S. Parch. .. 10 1% —l% al. 1%
romaxGN.
Boulogne and Amiens all 1034 11% 1034
Central of France (Or-
leans and Vierzon) •• 1111 16% 1734
Demerara .. .. ail
Dutch Rhenish .•
.8 5% .-4 die.
East Indian • • • • .• .6 2% 334 p.
Do. do. do. • • 20
Great ludi an Peninsula.. all
% —%Ditto ditto • . a% %-% P.
Louvain ala Sambre .. 7% .
Luxembourg • • •• 34 —1
Ditto •• •• •• 10 1% 2
Madrid and Valentin 2
Starla Antonia • • .. 271 6s 84 •
10
Ditto, New ..• 8% 8 4
Namur and Liege .. • • IA
Northern of France .. 16 14% 14% 14%
Orleans and Bordeaux .. 9 4% 434 es. 4%
Paris and Orleans .. all 33 —ss
Paris and Rouen • • •• ail 23 -- 24
Paris and Strasbourg .. 17 6 dis.
Rouen and Havre .. all 9 —9% 934
Sambre and Meuse .. all 2% 3
Tours and Nantes 14 $34 die. 4%
Tourney, Jurblse, Lan.-
den, and Hassan p_• ntl
Welt rianderi • % I 234