The Sun.
London, England, 1856-03-18 00:00:00

THE LATE FATAL D&EL IN BERLIN.

A correspondent of the Cologne Gazette thus re-
lates the more specific causes of the duel :
At a fashionable club here, called the Jockey Club,
some young officers had been playing so high that their-
financial resources had become seriously affected. The
matter was reported to the King, and Hinckeldey re-
ceived orders to put an end to such proceedings. The
official charged by Hinckeldey with this duty may not
have proceeded with the requisite tact and delicacy ;
that is very likely. The gentlemen felt highly indignant,
and some of them, Herr Yen Rochow among the rest,
demanded from Hinckeldey an explanation of the treat-
ment they had experienced. Hinckeldey, in consequence,
informed them confidentially, for this he ex:rlicitly
dwelt up in, that he had acted in obedience to orders.
This confidential communication was taken advantage
of, for the purpose of compelling Hinckeldey to state the
alleged order either by signing a document or in some
' other official way. This he refused to do, and because
the affair was to become official, denied that he had
made such a communication, since, in as official poiht
of view, it. would be considered non avenue. Upon this
he was accused of having uttered a "lie"—an emphatic
insult, which was made without the slightest coal flea-
Con, and with some additional coarse remarks on seve-
ral occasions. The same word was &so used, it is
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the meantime the bearing of several gentlemen of
high position towards Hinckeldey grew more and
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more uncourteous. If they chanced to meat him in
company anywhere they cut im, so that all direct s tci, it
intercourse was at an end. In the Carrousel, that lately
took place, some additional insults were offered him,
and matters had come to such a pitch that Hinckeldey
determined on bringing them to a crisis by means of a
duel. For more than a week his intimate friends were
aware that a hostile meeting was imminent, nor, indeed,
is there a doubt of the fact, that had the duel of the
day before yesterday let him seathless, other duels would
hare succeeded. Prevented from taking part in one on
account of his official position, Hinckeldey sent in his
resignation a week before his death. As this resignation
at the end of a week was not accepted, Hinckeldey nor -
sidered himself to be no longer tied down by official
considerations, and so the duel took place.

- SUICIDES IN PARIS.

An Englishwoman named Henrietta B-, in the
service of an American family staying at the Hotel
da Louvre, on Saturday requested a fellow-ser-
vant to procure her a bottle of brandy, and the latter,
knowing that she was given to drink, did so. But from
what Henrietta said on receiving it, the other Servant
suspected that she had some fatal design, and instead of
going away she stood listening at the door. Presently
she heard some faint groans, and she caused the door,
which Henrietta had locked, to be forced open. Hen
rietta was then found lying on the bed, with blood flow-
ing profusely from a deep cut in the throat, and from the
arteries in the arm ; and a razor stained with blood was
near her. Medical assistance was procured for her, and
she was subsequently conveyed to the Hotel-Dieu. The
cause of this rash attempt is not known.---Another at-
tempt at suicide of the same kind waroilso made on Fri-
day. The occupiers of the house No. 32, Rue Chabrol,
at La Chapelle, heard in the morning faint groans and'
cries in a room oceupied by an elderly man, a labourer,
named Paul, and on entering it they found hint lying on
his bed with a deep cut in the throat, and with two cut=
in the bend of each arm. Medical assistance was pro-
cured for him, and he was sent to the Hospital Laribois-
siere. He states that as he was dazing on the bed, some
man, whom he did not know, came in and inflicted the
wounds with a razor which had been lying on the
table ; but as it does not appear that the man had
any personal enemy, and as besides it was ascertained
that eo robbery had been committed in the room,
it is supposed that he endeavoured to commit sui-
cide, but that, failing, he was ashamed to say so.
In addition to the above, three persons committed sui-
cide the same day. A married couple named Franco*
hawkers of vegetables, of the Rue Saintonge, in the
Marais, suffocated themselves with the fumes of char-
coal ; they were found lying dead in their bed, clasping
each other by the hand. The man was 60 years of age,
and the woman 31, and it is supposed that it was misery
which caused the fatal act. The third person who com-
mitted suicide was a washerwoman at Bagnolet, who
also effected her purpose with charcoal. Her reason was
profound sorrow at the death of her daughter, aged 18,
which took place some months ago ; in her hand she
bold tightly grasped a daguerreotype portrait of the
youn, woman, and in'a letter to her husband she en-
treated him to keep the girl's tomb constantly decked
with flowers.

SUB3ILIRINE TELEGRAPH BETIVEE
EUROPE AND A MISRIC.A.

The charter granted by the King of Sweden to the
American citizen, Mr. T. P. Schaffner, containing the
exclusive permission to lay down a submarine telegraph
wire between the coasts of North America and Norway,
is dated Jan. 24, and contains the following articles :
" 1. The company is permitted to lay down a tele-
graphic wire from the continent of North America to
the coast of Norway, and to establish a telegraph station
there, but permission is not granted them to continue
the line by land through the dominions of Norway.
" 2. The eonceFsion granted by these present. is de-
pendent on the company's subscribing the sum necessary
for the undertaking within five years from the present
date, en 1 completing the submarine telegraph before the
expiration of another period of five years.
3. Should any interruption of the communication
take place after the opening of the line, the company is
bound to repair it at their expense as soon as possible,
and not later than after a year's delay.
" 4. The Norwegian Government engages to construct
separate lines of wires on the telegraphs of the state, for
the purpose of forwarding the despatches from America,
if so desired, and on the guarantee of a minimum amount
of receipt,.
" 5. The oempany, and their agent, and servants,
shall be subject to the same laws and jurisdiction as
Norwegian subjects, as far as regards the telegraph in
the sea and land dominions of the King of Sweden and

Norway. •
" G. Should a war break out between Norway and
the United State,,, or between Norway and any other
state, through whose territory the proposed telegraph
shall pass, the Norwegian Government reserves to itself
the right of suspending the communication during the
continuance of the war, without detriment to the privi-
leges contained in this charter."

CURIOUS CEREMONY AT ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCHES.
—Sunday last being Palm Sunday the ceremony of
" Blessing the Palms " was performed at most of the
Roman Catholic churches throughout the metropolis.
At Moorfields the ceremony was performed by Cardinal
Wiseman. At St. George's Cathedral, Southwark,
th,•re was pontifical mass ivad other vespers. Rossini's
" Stahat Mater " was given' with full orchestral accome•
panimentg.

SERIOUS ACCIDTZT.—Az Mrs. Hughes, of the Packet
Ho el, Voryd, and one of leer daughters were sitting by
the fire in the bar of the ho tel, on Saturday last, about
n:mn, a b 'We coetaining hal f a pint of turpentine, which
gnfortunately happened to ',be on the mantelpiece, aoci-
dentally broke, when in an ii ,stant the inflammable con-
tents were in a blaze, and th,e daughter's clothes caugLt
tire. She was dreadfully 10,urnt, and her clothes were
almost entirely consumed. She rushed out and plunged
herself into the river ; and bad it not been that her fa•
.her happened to be close b y at the moment she would
have met with a watery gra ye, it being high water at the
i ne, the water being about , 20 feet in ieight. Miss Har-
i i t Hughes has just obtain ed her majority. We regret
to state that she still remai se in a most precarious state.
Her mother escaped unhurt Carnarvon Herald.