The Sun.
London, England, 1860-11-21 00:00:00

THE KING OF SARDINIA.

The following sketch of the King of Sardinia,
from the pen of Alexandre Dumas, appears in the
Indipendente of Naples :
" Victor Emmanuel, who looks like a man
of of abo
sportsman at
vigorous, 40 years of age, is frank, sincere,
tem-
perate, an early riser, and a keenorous with
gun and dog. He bears the fatigues of
active a long day's
shooting better than many of the
most
moun-
taineers, and he generally starts on such excursions
before sunrise. He makes
a verylighti breakfast,
cold meat or
merely a piece of bread and a slice
cheese which he eats like a peasant without sitting
at table ; but he always
makes a hearty dinner,
day court or
laying aside all etiquette, withoutof _general receptions
cham-
berlains. On Sunday, the
are thrown open at eleven
o'clock, and anybody
w
at the Palace, the doors arc
feels disposed may enter
till three. If any person desires a private audience,
he must apply lbe
by letter, and on the morrow or
following days he surely obtain it, for Victor
Emmanuel opens all his letters himself. One t
shooting, he met a peasant,
day, when out
Kin bring down two t .(1
who, on seeing the g partridges,
ri ges,
with his double-barrelled gun, went
right and left,
up to him an
d said :—' You shoo t
i well, you do.'
..,
'lt was not amiss, was t f responded the King.
—' Perhaps you could rid me of a fox which steals
my hens ?" Most willingly.' If you do, I will
give you two mutte ' (70e
) ' Agreed,' said the
King. ' I will come to-morrow morning with my
dog, and shoot your fox.' ' Give me your liturd on
it,' said the man. The King immediately shook
hands with him, and, true to his word, went the
next morning, found the fox, and shot it. ' Thank
God for that !' exclaimed the peasant ; ' You have
fairly earned your two mutte, and there they
are. the King took them, and said, ' This is the
first money I ever earned.' Then, tossing up the
pieces in his hand, he added, " It is a pleasure to
receive money one has fairly gained.' The next
day, in exchange for the two mutte, his Majesty
sent a dress, necklace, and earrings for the peasant's
wife. It is impossible to be more easy of access
than Victor Emmanuel. He goes out alone on
foot, and enters the theatre at the public doer. One
day, the portress of the Angennes theatre caught.
a gentleman in the act of puffing the smoke of his
corner
cigar at her cat, which he had found
ineascue her
and kept there. Rushing forward to. r
,i_e
arm,
favourite, she seized the tormentor b.
the Zne
and on is turning round recognised La

" Letterkenny, Nov. 18.
"The deceased James Murray, a Scotchman, was
formerly steward and caretaker to Mr. Adair, and
from what I am informed it would appear that he
has lately become his tenant—certainly some of the
sheep on the mountain bear the brand `J. M..' He
was married and leaves a wife and one child. He
left his house on Tuesday morning, putting a loaded
revolver in his pocket, and told his wife that she
might expect him home at 3 o'clock in the after-
noon, or thereabouts ; he was accompanied by two
dogs. At 6 o'clock one dog returned, and an hour
afterwards the other. When the second came .home
without his master one of the shepherds prognosti-
catedimmediately that Murray was not alive. At
that late hour a ;search was immediately com-
menced ; it was continued early on the following
morning and throughout the day (Wednesday). It
was endeavoured to entice the dogs (one of them
had a blood mark on his neck) to return to the
body, but they could not be got to do so ; they
shrank back—in fact, blinked. To the north-
east of Glenveagh, where Murray residetJ, runs
another valley, separated from Glenveagh by a
high mountain ; the hills forming the side of i;.his
valley incline to each other at an angle of about 40
degrees, and at the bottom runs a small streams
About half way down one of the sides of the valley
(that which faces the north-east) the body was
discovered. About 150 yards higher up on the
mountain face a stick was found, stuck in the
ground ; this stick belonged to the deceased. Imme.
diately below where the stick lay is roekabouttbit
feet high, and the space intervening between b
rock and the position of the corpse is occupied y
shelving masses of granite and stones not forming a
continuous surface, but separate here and there
Ct
intervals ; it is from the rock up near the stick that
some suppose poor Murray may haveaccidentallyfallen. The inquest commenced yesterday att hree
o'clock. There were present the coroner, Dr. Long,
Mr. Dillon, R.M. ; Mr. Stewart, Justice anthe
Peace, of Church-hill; Sub-Inspector Corr, d a
large constabulary party, and the jury, 16 in num-
ber. Only two witnesses were examined--one of
the shepherds and Dr. Thorpe, of Letterkenny.
The shepherd proved the finding of the body and
the circumstances referred to, and, in addition, the
following important facts :—lmmediately beneath
the uppermost rock were footprints ; these the
shepherd swore were produced by deceased's shoes;
he knew them by the size, the heel-taps, and the
nails; these footprints he traced in the soft ground
towards the right a short distance, when two other
sets of impressions made their appearance; first,
large marks of bare feet ; second, other shoe-marks,
not Murray's. The three other varieties of im-
pressions were seen close together—Murray's in the
centre—for afew yards, until they all disappeared
in the adjoining moss and long grass, to be again
recognised lower down, where ,the body was dis-
covered on soft ground. Murray's cap lay 15
yards from the body. There were no bloody marks
on it. Hard by the corpse was a piece of granite,
about six pounds weight, stained with blood, and
having hairs attached to it ; the pistol with one
barrel discharged, and broken into three piecee—
two close to the body, and the other some three or
four yards away; the left breast pocket of the•
coat, where deceased carried his pistol, was par-
tially inverted. These were the facts proved by
the shepherd. Dr. Thorpe gave evidence that,
with the exception of an abrasion below one of the
knees, a slight contusion on one of the hips, and a
ruffling of the cuticle on one of the fore-arms, the
trunk and extremities exhibited no marks of vio-
lence whatever—no fracture, no dislocations, no
wound. The head presented a sad spectacle;
seven scalp wounds penetrated to the bone, in ad-
dition to several others of less severity below the
right eye ; three teeth of the lower jaw were stove
in, the lips split open, the skull fractured in tw
places, with extensive effusion of blood on the brain.
The decided opinion of the doctor was that :the
man's death could not have resulted from accident.
",The inquest was adjourned till Thursday next.
Two persons are under arrest on suspicion."

TIIE TRENT VALLEY RAILWAY ACCIDENT.
At half-past 11 yesterday morning the Hercules
steamer, belonging to the London and North-
Western Railway Company, arrived at the North-
wall, in this city, having on board the mangled re-
mains of the unfortunate men who were killed is
the collision on the Trent Valley Railway, at Nun-
eaton, on Friday. The names of those whose
bodies have arrived are:—Edward AP Donnell,
Castledermot ; " John APDonnell, Urlingford ;
Andrew ;Darby, Tinnakill ; John 'Fallon, Blessing-
ton ; James Hickey, Dunlavin ; Vaughan,
13arrack-street, Dublin. On the arrival of the
vessel there were seven hearses and a number of
mourning coaches in attendance, to convey the
bodies to their respective localities for interment.
Three were taken to the terminus of the Great
Southern and Western Railway, two were at once
removed for interment to Glasnevin, and one body,
that of Vaughan, was conveyed to his late home in
Barrack-street. All the steamers and vessels along
the quays testified their sympathy for the deceased
by lowering their flags while the melancholy cor-
tege passed. The bodies were brought from the
scene of the calamity to Holyhead by a special
train furnished by the directors of the London and
North-Western Railway Company, and were then
put on board a steamer provided specially for the
purpose by the same company. It is right to add
that the officers of the company were most assidu-
ous in their attention, and in carrying out as well
as they could all the arrangements consequent on
this most deplorable event.