The Sun.
London, England, 1856-08-06 00:00:00

COWES, ISLE OF WIGHT.-Aug. 5.

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
ROYAL YACHT SQUADRON REGATTA.--The contest
this day for Prince Albert's Cup was a most exciting one.
The four yachts started at 10 a.m., with a nice breeze
from S.E., the Maritana taking the lead ; but in round-
ing the Nab the Extravaganza was first, the Aurora
second. Light and baffling winds, then fresh breezes,
alternately impeded and favoured the yachts. In round-
ing the vessel off Yarmouth the Aurora had the lead
by half a mile, the wind then fresh from the west-
ward ; but it fell off as the yachts ran up to Cowes,
the sternmost vessels holding the breeze the longest.
The Extravaganza passed the Aurora as thee neared
Cowes. They had to beat up against an E.S.E. wind
and an ebb tide—the yachts being to appearance but
a slight distance apart, each tacking in turn, the Ex-
travaganza leading, and eventually passing the starting
vessel first by five minutes, the Maritana second, the
Aurora third, the Caprice fourth.
The roadstead is so crowded with yachts that the
owners and masters of the passenger steamers have
published a handbill cautioning yachtsmen to keep an
open channel. It says :—" Masters of yachts and otheror
vessels are hereby requested not to bring up anchor
in the navigation of Cowes harbour, as neither the
masters nor the owners of the steam
packets
gating the tame will hold themselves responsible for
navi-
any damage which may arise by collision or other-
wise."

The Town Regatta is fixed for Monday next ; and
as her Majesty, with Prince Albert and the Royal
Fluldren, come to witness it in the Fairy yacht, which
is hauled close in to the Parade, in the midst of the
exciting scene, thousands attend from all parts of the
country ; and it is a question whether the Royal party
or the public in general enjoy themselves the most on
this occasion.

LITERATURE.

Little Doriit. No. IX. By Charles Dickens.
Very rapidly, indeed, we are getting-to-the end
of "Part I. Poverty." Another number being
about to bring us in, all probability, to "Part,ll.
Riches." For the present one terminates signifi-
cantly enough with "More Fortune Telling"—of
course by Pancks the Gipsy. The said Bohemian
grubber being so elatedat his discoveries that we lind
1 birnsmokingeigarslikea small steam-engine—'aking
part in "White Sand and Gray Sand," iu theSitug-
gory of the Marsbalsea, though he adds, in regard
to Lis carolling,
" I don't know anything about
it. Never mind. I'll take any part in anything.
It's all the same if you're loud enough"—excitedly
sticking his hair up "like a dark species of cocka-
too"—roughening it into somany additional prongs
that it flies up all over his bead " like the
,myriad
points that break out in the last change of a
great firewerg"—and finally, after getting fresh-
ened up undqu:the pump, and snorting him,ell dry
again in his handkerchief, flying in a wild burst of
leapfrog over rho head of Mr. Rugg, of Penton villel
" You are to understand," he says to Arthur Olen-
nam, at last, :in explanation of his boisterous
hilarity, •‘ that we are this very day virtually
complete. -We shan't be legally for a day or two.
Call it at the outside a week." Call it, we say
as among the breathless readers of Little borrit, a
month. Thca " we" shall in alt human likelihood
be admitted by Pancks the Gipsy, ' Pancks the
Tug, Pancks the Grubber, into some at least
among the many myteries affecting the good or
evil fortunes of the Dorrits of the Marahalsea.
Such creatures they are—these Dorrits--Little
Amy being the only endurable one among them :
she herself, in truth, being not merely endurable
bat very loveable indeed, a pearl picked up by a
tender fancy from the kennel of the old, sordid,
squalid, cruel, execrable Marsbalsea I Two other
chapters besides the one already particularised lend
their charms to the August number of Little Dorrit.
" The Word of a Gentleman " introducing us again
to the Murderer Rigaud under -the guise of a tra-
velling man of . fashion named Blandois, introduc-
ing US to him, and introducing him to Mrs. Olen-
naun (" Fate in a go-cart") in the grimly, old,
ghost-haunted, spectral " House upon Crutches"
where Flin twinch of the cut-down aspect shakes at
intervals the small remaining sanity of poor
Affery under her up-thrown apron. " Spirit'',
the title of the other chapter—being
the strangest disclosure of that commodity
by the sister, brother, and father of Little Amy
Dorrit—Fanny, Tip, and the Father of the Mar-
shalsea. In the developinent of very much of
which " Spirit"—Mrs. Piornish's father (" Old
Nandy" in the Workhouse, but " Old Mr. Nandy"
in Bleeding Heart-yard), is principally but at the
same time quite unconsciously instrumental. Here.
is Bon's Picture of—.

THE PAUPER !
" Anybody may pass, any day, in the thronged the-
rougbfares of the metropolis, some meagre, wrinkled, yel-
low old man (who might be supposed to have dropped
from the stars, if there were any star in the heavens drill
enough to be suspected of casting off so feeble a spark),
creeping along with a scared air, as though bewildered
and a little inghteued by the noise and bustle. This old
man is always a little old man. If he were ever a big
old man, hu has shrunk into a little old man ; if he were
always a little man, he has dwindled into a less old man.
llis coat is of a colour, and cut, that never was the mode
anywhere, at any period. Clearly, it was not made for
him, or for any individual mortal. Some wholesale con-
tractor measured Fate for five thousand coats of such
quality, and Fate has lent this old coat to this old man, as
one of a long unfinished line of many old men. It has
always large dull metal buttons, similar to no other but-
tons. This old man wears a hat, a thumbed and napless
and yet an obdurate hat, which has never adapted itself
to the shape of his poor head. His coarse shirt and his
coarse neckcloth have no more individuality than his coat
and hat; they have the same character of not being his—
of not being anybody's. Yet this old man wears these
clothes with a certain unaccustomed air of being dressed
and elaborated for the public ways ; as though he passed
the greater part of his time in a nightcap and gown. And
so, like the country mouse in the second year of a famine,
come to see the town-mouse, and timidly threading his way
to the town-mouse's lodging through a city of cats, this
old man passes in the streets."
A picture as wonderfully life-like and grotesquely
true as any ever touched in upon copper by the
magical etching-needle of Wm. Hogarth 1 Some-
times there is the glimmering of a moist and marshy
light in the eyes of the little old man, says
Mr. Dickens. " Then," he observes, " the
little old man is drunk"—adding, " A very small
measure will over set him ; he may be bowled off
his unsteady legs by a half-pint pot I' Just for all
the world precisely such a little old man as this,
" a little, reedy, piping old gentleman, like,
a worn-ont bird," is Mrs. Plornish's father,
John Edward Nandy, sublimely patronised
by the Father of the Marshalsea under the
name, style, and title of his " Pensioner." After
one of the occasional tea drinkings in Mr. Dorrit's
room, where the Father of the Marshalsea regales
his Pensioner upon ham and shrimps in the win-
dowsill—when the " company" has at length got
scattered again, leaving Arthur Clennam and Amy
Dorrit alone with poor old Maggy—there comes the
most exquisite half revelation of love between the
hero and heroine of the tale—a revelation not to
be perfected howbeit, we fear, nevertheless, until
the spinning-wheel of one inestimable life is stopped
for ever, as in the fairy legend related once upon a
time to a" poor thing of ten" about a Sacred Secret
and a Curious Princess !

MARSHAL PELISSIER AT MARSEILLES.

MARSEILLES, Aug. 2.—Marshal Pelissier, whale
return from the Crimea was so long expected, ar-
rived yesterday, and nothing could be colder than
the reception be met with from the mass of the
population. By some extraordinary inadvertence
the arrival of the corvette Roland, carrying the
Marshal and his suite, was not announced from the
telegraph station at Notre Dame de la Garde, and.
when the steamer arrived in the Old Port there
was nobody to receive the Marshal. The first per-
son who presented himself on board the Roland to
pay his respects was the captain of the Caradoc,
which arrived here on Wednesday evening last,
bringing Sir William Codrington. Next came
General Roguet, the Emperor's aide-de-camp, who
congratulated the Marshal on his arrival in the
name of his august master. After a delay of nearly
two hours the Marshal landed at the Canebiere,
under a salute from the guns of forts St. Nicholas
and St. John: Having landed, the Marshal stepped
ii.to the carriage of M. Lucy, the Receiver-Gene-
ral, an old' and intimate friend, and the proces-
sion moved forward. First came a detachment of
gendarmerie, next the carriage of M. Lucy, in
which the Minitel was seated, having opposite to
him an aide-de-camp and an English staff officer ;
next the Miyor and the Municipal Council, fol-
lowed by the carriages of the principal merchants;
next the staff of General Rostolan, the Commander
of the Department, who is confined to his house by
a severe accident. The procession was closed by a
squadron of Lancers. The line followed was the
Canebiere, the place Royale, the rue Paradis, to
the house of M. Lucy, in the rue Sylvabelie, the
most frequented streets in Marseilles. During the
entire line of march not a cheer was to be heard,
nor was any demonstration of respect visible.
There was no crowd, and the few people who
stopped gazed in stupid amazement. The Marsel-
laise, whom I have reproached for their want of
enthusiasm and patriotism, excuse themselves by
saying that the hour at which the procession took
place, half-past 2, was au unfortunate one, being
the moment of the siesta after dinner, and that
the few people in the streets were half asleep.
The Marshal was dressed with great simplicity,
and wore a kepi on his head. He looks remark-
ably well, and appears to me to be very little
changed since the day I saw him embark for the
Crimea. To-day be drove in the Mayor's carriage
to R. oquevaure, to see the remarkable aqueduct by
which the waters of the Durance are conveyed to
Marseilles. To-night there is to be a representa-
tion at the Grand Theatre, to which none are to
be admitted except by tickets issued at the Mairie.
To morrow be is to attend the inauguration of a
wcade in the Zoological-gardens ; and at half-past
5, the grand dinner is to take place on the Boule-
vards, where tables sufficient to accommodate 1,500
soldiers are to be laid.
More than 200,000 hectolitres of wheat have
it
ar-
rived this week at Marseilles ; but as fast as is
landed it is carried to the interior of France. The
41b. loaf sells here at 26 sous.

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very good night, Mr. Moore :' he, however, speaks nag.
lish perfectly well. Thera was only their own family
party • and though the thing was first rather royal
and formidable, I soon found myself perfectly at my ease
among as unaffected and domestic a circle as ever I wit-
nessed in my station. The Duke drank -vine with me
l'Anglaise, ancl I was placed next the Duchess, who
did all the civilities of the partridges, pate.., &v., be-
fore her in a very quiet manner. After the dinner,
which was over unusually soon, the Duchess sat down
to work, and four or five fine children were admi4,:ted,
with whom the Duke played thost delightedly, making
polichinelle caps for them, &c. Mademoiselle showed
me a lithographic work lately published, " The Anti-
quities of Normandy," and the Duke and she at each
side of me looked through the whole of the engravings.
They then asked me to sing, and I have seldom had a
more pleased audience ; indeed the reiteration of 'char-
mant,' delicienx,' &c., became at last almost oppres-
sive. The Duke reminded me of the songs he bad
taught me at Donnington Park, ' Cadet Roussel' and
Polichinelle eat par tout bien rep,' and I played them
over, which amused him very much. Ile said he did
not see the least alteration in my looks since we last
met, which must be now near eighteeP years age—.
Memoirs of nomad lgoore.

HILALTH OF LONDON DURING TH.S

WEEK.

(From the Report of the Registrar-General.)
The rate of mortality in London is still below the ave-
rage rate which the inhabitants have suffered in former
summers. 1,025 deaths were registered in the week
that ended on Saturday, Aug. 2, while the corrected
average of the week is 1,259, or, omitting the week of pre-
vious years when cholera was epidemic, 1,102. Of the
persons who died 515 were females, 510 males ; and in
previous week the deaths of females exceeded the deaths
of males. Although the females living in London greatly
exceed the males in number, the deaths are generally in
the inverse proportion.
Of 1,025 deaths 595 occurred at ages under 20 years ;
152 were of the age 20-40 ; 120 were 40-60
were 60-80 ; and 27 were of the age of 84 years and
upwards. Two old widows, one of 95, the other of 96
years, died in Hackney.
Of the 152 deaths at the age of 20-40, 66 were re-
ferred to consumption (phthisis), 5 to diseases of the re-
spiratory organs. In the aggregate 224 deaths in the
week were referred to these causes.
Diarrhoea is the prevailing disease of the week ; it
killed 125 persons ; namely, 94 infants under a year
old, 17 children of the age,l-2, and 2 of the age 2-3, and
3 of the age 5.10, 9 adults of the age of 20 and upwards;
89 of the deaths were on the north, 36 on the south side
of the Thames. To cholera 16 deaths are referred ; 12
children under 5 years of age died of this disease, the
rest were adults.
The cleansing operations in the streets and houses
should proceed at the same accelerated rate as putrefac-
tion, in this hot weather. When diarrhoea comes on it
requires immediate attention.
Medical informants are requested to state in all cases
the precise time that intervenes between the stage of
diarrhoea and collapse in cholera cases.
During the week the births of 869 boys and 870 girls,
in afl 1,739 children, were registered in London. In the
ten corresponding weeks of the years 1846 55 the ave.
. age number was 1,431.
The wind blew generally from the south west and
south east during the week, which opened ie clouds and
rain, but became bright and cloudless on Thursday, Fri-
d,y, and Saturday. Electricity was positive and gene-
iaAy of moderate tension. The barometer was 30.006 in.
on an average, an I did not fluctuate to any extent. The
beat was excessive for this climate ; the mean highest
day temperature was 82.4 deg., the maximum was
early 90 deg. (89 8 deg.) in the shade on Saturday; the
mean lowest night temperature was 56.1 deg., ard the
mean temperature of the week was 67.6 deg., or 5.4
deg. above the average. The highest temperature in
the Pun rose progressive7y from 95.4 deg. on Sunday
to 111.0 deg. on Saturday. The mean temperature
of the Thames at Greenwich was 68.5 deg. The
air was exc,s-ively dry during the sunlight of the last
tbree days, and dew could only have been deposited on
Thursday in the day time by a fall of 25 4 deg. of tem-
perature ; at nigh, the air was r.early saturated.

MORTALITY IN THE METROPOLIS
.3.`171111E1t OF DEATHS Fll.Oll ALL CAUSES REGIS7rEREt,
IN THE WEER ENDI-1'.41 SATURDAY, AUG. 2
Zymotic Diseases
Diseases of Uncertain Seat
Tubercular Diseases
Diseases of the Brain. Nerves and Senses
Diseases of the Heart an,.l. Blood-vessels 35
Diseases of the Lungs and other Organs of
Respiration . lOO
Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and other Organs
of Digestion -
Diseases of the Kidneys, we.
Childbirth, Diseases of the Uterus, (t-c.
Diseases of the Joints, Bones, and Muscles
Diseases of the Skin, itc.
Malformations .. 3
Premature Birth and Debility 23
Atrophy
Old Age
Sudden
Violence, Privation, Cold, and Intemperance 23
Causes not specified

323

MUMS 713.031 ALL CAUSES
Population Deaths hi corre- Death
Eriumer,,te4. sponditi4 week hi U)
i A;'7 i . of 105. Wee:
Wrest Districts
North Districts 00,396
Central Districts 393,256
East Districts 485,522
South Districts

Totals

963

Males
F=alei
BIRTHS IN THE WEEK.

Males
Females

Total ..

1,025

870

4•7v9

THE LATE DOUBLE MURDER AND

ATTEMPTEI) SUICIDE.

EXECUTION OF MURDOCK.

LEWES, TUESDAY.

31ANSLAUGHPER AND SINGULAR
ARREST.

CANTRRBURY, Tuesday Evening.—Derlea,
the murderer of Caroline and Msria Back, lies in a very
precarious state in the hospi-al, at Canterbury. He has
inflicted three wounds on hirnse!f. one of dram havirg
extended, it is believed, to the left lun:;. The incisions
are about six inches in depth, but not necessarily mortal.
Bedanius apnears to be a man somewhat above the com-
mon level of his ceunt:ymen ; he is a Servian, and comes
from Belvrade. He speaks very good,German (the Aus-
trian dialect), and cm also converse in Italian, having
served in the Austrian ar:nv. His c mntenance is rather
mild and intelligent. Dr. Rhost, a linguist at St. Au
gustine's Colleve, has been to see him, but he does
not appear inclined to say much at present in refer-
ence to the crime he has committed. He merely alludes
to it in general terms, and states that "he did it out of
love." During the night, when he was quite composed
and sensible, one of the nurses in attendance asked bow
he could have done it? Bedanius merely replied that he
stabbed her, and she was dead in a minute. When asked
by Dr. Rhost it he wished to make any voluntary state-
ment, or was desirous of communicating with his friends,
he replied, " Not at present : I am too weak to speak
yet." About 11 o'clock on Zilonday evening it was ex-
pected that he was near his death, and upon being asked
if he should like to see the priest, Bedanius replied in the
affirmative. The Rev. Mr. Siddens, the Romau Catholic
priest of the district, was therefore sent for. Upon the
arrival of the rev. gentleman the usual questions were
put to the sufferer, and subsequently the rites of the
Roman Catholic Church were admini-tered to him. At
a later period, however, he asked for his knife, as he
wished to finish himself. He is watched by a constable,
in case he should make any further attempt upon his
life. He has not shown any kind of delirium.

The extreme penalty of the law in the case of this un
happy culprit for the murder of the Hastings gaoler,
Weilard, was carried into effect to-day at 12 o'clock, at
the east end of the county gaol. S.:ine sympathy was
manifested in the public mind on his behalf, anii the rg-
eommendation of the jury for mercy on the ground that
they did net believe it was the culprit's intention to com-
mit murder, but merely to incapaci ate the gaoler from
making any resistance to his escape from custody, met
with general approval. All attempts, however, to arrest
the judgment of death proved fruitless.
Since the culprit's condemnation, on July 16, his de-
meanour in prison has been in every way befitting his
awful position, and the spiritual efforts of the chaplain,
the Rev. R. Burnett, have had apparently the effect of
producing a repentant feeling in the culprit's mind. At
times he exhibited signs of intense grief, and in reference
to the murder, although he admitted the deed, he has
always qualified it by saying he had no intention to
take the old man's life. On Saturday last his mother and
stepfather visited him, and the meeting and separation
was a painful scene.
At the hour appointed for the execution, 12 o'clock,
there were not more than from 1,500 to 2,000 persons
present to witness it. The unhappy man walked with a
firm step across the prison yard, and ascended the scaf-
fold without assistance. He took a slight glance at the
people, but made no attempt to speak. On being Waced
in proper position, Calcraft put on the white cap, ad-
justed the rope, and then withdrew the bolt, and the
wretched criminal appeared to die almost without a
struggle. The crowd was very orderly, bat some few
gave expression to their ft:elings by exclaiming "Shame"
and " Murder."
It is said that Murdock has written a letter to the
son of the deceased gaoler, expressing his contrition for
depriving his father of life.

Oa Fri•lay last an icquest was held by Mr. w.
Carter, Coroner for Last Surrey, on the body of Mr.
John William Adams, a traveller in the employ of Mr.
Fleet, soda-water menufocturer, at Walworth ; and the
evidence tended to chow that the death was caused by
his having been stroek under the ear by Frederick Fisher,
also in the same establishinect. A verdict of manslaugh-
ter was returned against Fisher, who was in the court at
the time, but when his name was called by the coroner
was found that he bad su,idenly disappeared. The
warrant for his committal to Newgate was placed in the
bands
.of Thomas Cooke, the coroner's of cer, for execu-
Mon. The funeral of the unfortunate deceased took
place on Monde and on account of some information
be bad received,yithe officer proceeded to North-street,
East-lane, her e h
and on onenin •mourning coaches were in waiting,
Cooke Bras about
tth door of one of them he saw Fisher.
so earnestly, arrest the accused, but be begged
Y. end with the . .
a„
et,
the urea ,eet pertinacity, to be ,
church-
yard, tnhai7
theatt• odcficer
cfonsented,
at Old Deptford.cburah-
oh7sseet.ed, but also gut into the
coach and accompanied baying previously
to etartiripe, real the warrant aver bhp. After the
funeral ceremony, at the officer'' v.,"
cloak and
Fisher imme-
d band, entered a
tclaiebtewlyb
cohokivoaffs twhaeitniizrnainngd
s conveyed to Horse-
monger-lane Gaol. The proceedings connected with the
arrest were carried out in such a manner that not the
slightest disturbance took place, and it is but just to add
that Fisher was deeply affected and evidently felt most
acutely the position in which he was placed, the deceased
and himself basing known eacb. ether for several years.
On the day prresling the funeral Fisher called at the
residence of Gooke to give himself up, but that officer
was not at home. The assizes at Guildford are now
pending, and the prisoner will be tried there.