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

ITALY.

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

CONVERT TO PROTEST ANTISM.—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 commun;on, and has been openly recelved 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 Rey. Mr.
West presented the convert with an elegantlyy bound Prayer-
bouk of the Reformed Church.
MELANCHOLY 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 rivee 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-
ing him, but both sank and were drowned. The occurrence
was observed by some persons who were near, and the
bodies were not lung in being recovered, but life was extinct.
Armstrong was a native of the village of Kirkfieldbank, and
had, i; 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 astate
of insensibility, from which he never recovered, expiring the
next mcrning, about five o'clock. The cause of Lochead's
malady is not knov,n, 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.

1,
HE COAL TRADE OF LIVERPOOL.—It was pretty
generally expected that the proposal ails 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.—Railway Record.
HOTEL SoAP.---And first of the soap—of that
little inconvenient latherless cube 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 gutty percha, or cement, or all these things c,,m-
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, without being sapouaceous, 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.—Time "Trails.
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 iu 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 estabish lines of electric telegraph in Turkey.
Orders have been sent to Berlin for the necessary apparatus.