The Sun.
London, England, 1858-04-19 00:00:00

AMERICA.

The United States' steawer Fulton, Capt. Wol-
tnn, arrived at Southampton on S trurday with the
Unitel States' mails. She lett New York on the
3d inst. She brought over about 120 passengers,
106 of whom were for Havre. The Fulton passed
the mail steamer Africa on the 10th inst., steering
west. On the 16th sheexchangeffsignals with the
ship Roseborn.
The United States' HouSe of Representatives, at
Washington, on the 2d, decided, by a majority of
eight, that the Lecotnpton Constitution should be
submitted to the vote of the people of Kansas, aced
that the State should be admitted under it only ie
the event of its receiving their approval. The Se-
nate b:11 was taken up, and the question was taken
upon its simple rejection, without any attempt at
amendment. This vote was lost, 95 to 137, the
Republicans alone voting in its favour. Mr. Qtit-
man then offered a substitute, which was the same
as the Senate bill, except that it omitted the quasi
recognition which that bill contains of the right of
the people of Kansas to change their Constitution
at pleasure. This was lost by the decisive vote of
72 to 160. Then Mr. Montgomery offered the Crib.-
tenden amendment, which submits the Constitu-
tion to the popular vote, and this was adopted :
Ayes, 120 • Nays, 112. The bill thus amended
now goes back to the Senate, where the amendment
will probably be rejected as it has already been
once rejected by a majority of that body. It will
then go back to the house, where the question will
be—Shall the house recede from its amendment ?
Hopes are expressed in some quartets that the
house will recede, and pass the bill as the Senate
insist ou having it. The New York Times sees no
reason to believe that this will be done.
The .New York Herald reports the following hor-
rible and mysterious occurrence on the 2,1 in that
city : "The mutilated remains of an unknown man
were found packed up in a whisky barrel by the
freight agent of the Hudson River Railroad Com-
pany, at the foot of Canal-street. The barrel bad
been sent to this city via the Great Western, and
New York Central Railroads, and was directed to
W. T. Jennings, No. 185, Leon ,rd-street ; but it
was ascertained that there was neither such an
individual, nor such a number in that street."
Judge Hall, in the United States Circuit Court,
has made a decision denying the motion on the
part of the government for an injunction to prevent
the sale of the Collins steamship ; and on the is.
of April the Atlantic, Baltic, and Adriatic, were
sold by the shetiff on the pier near which they
were moored. There was only one biddy r, Mr.
Dudley B. Fuller, and they were knocked down
to him, with all their tackle ready for sea, at
50,000 dollars. The New York Herald says :
" Mr. Fuller proved to be a member of the firm
of Fuller, Lord, and Co , iron merchants, corner of
Cedar and Greenwich-streets. There seemed to
be some curiosity to find out for whom he pur-
chased the steamships. No one thought that t:e
bought them for his own firm. The general im-
pression was that they were bought in for James
Brown, one of the present company. At all events,
the purchaser got a decided bargain. All the
claims ag,inst these ships amount only to 657,000
dols., which, added to the 50,000 (1 la. paid for
them—supposing all the liens to hold good—makes
the price of the three fine steamships Baltic,
Atlantic, and Adriatic, 707,000 dols. The Adri-
atic alone cost over a million, so that the value of
the three cannot fall short of two millions and a
half."

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.
NEW YORK, April 3.

The foreign bill drawers, under the ease in money,
are getting a further advance on sterling, and the busi-
ness for the Fulton was at 1081 to 1081 per cent. ; some
leading parties holding for 109 per cent. at the close.
Franca are 5.181 to 5.161.
The sates of cotton yesterday were about 1,000 bales,
closing quiet, while prices were without quotable change.
Pour wa without change in quotations, while the mar-
ket exhibited more animation and with rather more
doing both in the local and eastern trade and for export.
Wheat was firm for prime lots, while small sales of white
Nlichigan were made a' $1 300., prime red Southern at
$1 2.00., and damaged do. at 93e. Corn was in good de-
mand, with free sales of yellow and white at 69c. to
to 69ic., and a lot of prime white do. at 71e. Pork
was firmer, with sales of mess at $l6 85c. to $l6 90c.,
and prime at $l3 75c. Str,rars were firm, with sales of
600 to 700 'Ads., and 475 boxes at rates given in another
column. Molasses was active and firmer. Coffee was
comparatively quiet ; the chief sales consisted of St.
Domingo, at prices given in another place. Freights to
English ports were to a fair extent, and at easier rates
for grain, while other articles were unchanged.

INDIA AND CHINA MAILS.

The Pera, Captain Jameson (Admiralty agen
Lieutenant Cashman, R N.), arrived at Southamp
ton on Saturday with the heavy portion of the
India and China mails. She left Alexandria on
the 4th inst., Mal'a on the Bth, and Gibraltar on
the 13th. She brought home 124 pas-engers.
Lord Lyons's squadron was about to leave Malta
for a cruise. Her Majesty's ship Curlew and the
Portuguese brig Pedro Nunez, Captain the Duke
of Oporto, were at Gibraltar. On the 7th the
Pera signalled the Ripon and Euxine steamers ;
on the 9th, the British brig Eupatoria ; on the
10th, the barque Waterloo ; on the 11th, the mail-
packet Colombo ; on the 17th, the Alhambra and
La Plata mail-packets. On the out ward voyage the
Pera, experienced fine weather. She received the
Marseilles portion of the India and China mails at
Malta from the Valetta, and delivered them at
Alexandria in 7 days 10 hours from the time they
had left the General Post-office in London. On
the homeward passege the Pere, met with bid
weather. On the evening of the 14th inst., just
after sunset, whet' the Pera was a few mtlea south
of the Bet brigs, a brilliant meteor, of a p de colour,
was seen in the west at an elevation of about 25
degrees, traversing the sky from south-west to
north-east ; it lasted several seconds. The Egyp-
tian railway is getting on slowly. Mr. Green, or
Green Bey, as he is termed in Egypt, a brother of
our consul there, and who has been at the head of
the transit administration, has retired from office.
The Pacha has given him a retiring present of
10,000/. The Isle of Perim, at the entrance of the
Red Sea, is rapidly being fortified by our pe tole.
The Simla, which was obliged to put back, to Suez
with the Austalian mail, is still there. Her screw
has got loose, and was repaired once, but found n tt
to answer. She will have to be beached at Suez.
The mail which sunk in the Ava, and afterwatds
recovered, is expected home in the Ripon, due in
England on the 26th instant. The letters and
papers were being dried very carefully at Point do
Galle. The letters in the centre of the boxes were
not wetted much, but those around them were
saturated. All but one box of the specie sunk in
the Ava had been recovered, up to the last accounts.
It was feared that the Alma's shaft sunk in the Ava
could not be fished up. One of her Majesty's ships
was at the wreck, and divers were very busy. It is
much lamented by passengers through Egypt the
transit administration is nut entirely in the bandsr
of the English, who would work the ratlroada
more successfully and profitably for the Pacha thant
is done by the present arrangement.
The Duke of Oporto, whowasat Gibralliteara.„iasottednindeod
dined
a ball given by the Governor there.
t.
The duke
with the mess of the 48th Reg
had likewise visited the Norivt.igo
laa-ention of the com-
imu corvette Ornea,
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at Gibraltar, to inspect a peowl
Wedel Parlsburg,
pass, by Baron Ferdinand
The inventii,n is tilled
lieutenant of the corvette.
It works during several hours
a control compass.
every fifth minute, or oftener.
the course steered
ut the size and shape of an
This instrument l and Ass the invention is a very simple
erdinarycornla.
but beautiful con'trivance.
„,r,,,„ passengers landed yesterday at South.
aniTphtoer Amongst them were Lieut. Graham, of
the anddegment, who was at the relief of Luck-
eow, at the battle of Cawnpore, where he was
severely wounded in the leg ; Capt. Ca-sidy, of the
34th Regt., who fought under Wyndham at Cawn-
pore, and was wounded in the leg ; Capt. Roche, of
the 34th, who also fought under Wyndham at
Cawnpore ; Lieut. Grant, of Bth Native Infantry,
who lost his thumb and forefinger, under Havelock
' at the relief of Lucknow ; Capt. Bacon, of the 3d,

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THE HAYIVARREP MURDER:.

CONFESSlONsatisfactorytothoOseFwLhooNbjfe.
It will be cttotapital
punishment, ire cases of conviction upon circum-
stantial evidence, to know- that Lani, who at first
so st; enuously denied his since.his con-
vic ion, admitted that the unfortunate. 'Heloise
Thaubin met her death at hie hands, and that thus
I all doubts ae to the jte-tice of the verdict returned
rgainst him by the jury, if any sucheheve existed,
ire now removed. When first placed in the con-
demned cell, where he has been watched night and
day by turnkeys, LaM preserved a silent, and even
sullen demeanour; but being constantly visited
by the priest attecl.,cal to the Sardinian. Chapel, he
yielded to the influence of religiOus exhortatione,
arid gradually became calm: Each cotnniunica-
that has passed between him acrd his spiritual,
adviser upon the subject of the js, of
course, a mat er of reserve upon the pert of the
latter ; but in conversing with his attendants, Lath
has not scrupled to allude to that subject, and, ap-
pareetly, has gained ease of mind by dwelling.Opon
it. He has felt aggrieved at the supposition, so
Freely expresse I by many, that he sought the soe
eiety of his unfortunate victim, after being re.
,erlsed by other women of greater external wealth,
i h the design of murdering her for the sake of ob-
taining possession of her watch and ornaments--a
,upposition which he indignautly .repudiateS, as-
serting that, iu the accomplishment of the fatal
deed he acted only upon an impulse arising out of
provocation received by hie'. He states that being
lb ,ut to enter upon a long voyage, ho sought, as
he should from its duration be debarred from the
ompany ot women, for amusement in their society
for the last time ; and that when he went with
Thaubin te her apartment, it was with that view
only. Everything, he adds, was quiet and plea-
sant between them, until the middle of the night,
or rather an early hour in the morning, when he
detected her in the act of rifling his pockets, and
jumped out of bed to prevent her from robbing him.
A.:struggle between them was the c:neequence, in
the course of which he threw her upon the bed, and
held her down,lwithout the remotest intention of
inflicting any serious mischief upon her ; but, still
further provoked by scratch whichsliegave him on his
face, he entirely lost his self-control, and squeezed
her too tightly round the throat. Still he had no
idea that he had inflicted more than a slight chas-
tisement upon her, until, finding that she became.
quiescent beneath him, he reeased his hold, and
found, to his surprise and dismay, that she was
sem eless. He endeaveured to awaken her to con-
sciousness, but without success, and there soon
dawned upon his mind, with an overwhelming
terror, the fact that she was dead. For some little
time he was prostrated mentally and bodily, but
the necessity of exertion in order to escape restored
hiS faculeies to their proper state; and after dress-
ing himself, and before be quitted the room, a
sudden int rul,,e urged him to steal the property of
the woman he had just killed. Hastily possessing
himself of her watch, her ring, her meal.) and a
few articles, he quietly opened the door of the room,
and made leis way down stairs, were the sight.of a
woman (Mrs. Disher, the lodger), lying on the
landing, occasioned him a momentary trepidation ;
but passing her without let or hindrance, he soon
reached the street, made his way to his hotel, COM-
plettd his preparation,. for departure from England,
and was just imagining himself secure from pursuit
and punishment, when lie wes arrested on board
ship off Gravesend.
Such is the nature of his confession, which, it
roust ho admitted, is not without an air of verisi-
militde ; but which is, nevertheless, not credited
by the officers of NeWgate, who do not believe that
Heloise Thaubin attempted to rob him, as he asserts.
At the same time, however, they elo not charge him
with having sought her company with the intention
ot murder lurking in his soul, but rather cling to
he opinion that he has pretty fairly described the
events of that fearful night. with the exception of
that part which charges Thaubin with having
attempted to rob him, in their onuion, Lani went
to Arundel-court to seek female society, with or
without an intention of robbery ; they hesitate to
say, bu• they conclude, that he rose from bed, leav-
ing his companion asleep, and commenced appro-
priatiog her property to himself ; that she awoke
up suddenly, detected him in the ac', and threat-
ened to call in assistance, and that then, fearful of
being handed over to the police, and prevented
from setting out upon that voyage to South America
for which lie had already prepared, he sprang upon
her with the intention of reducing her to silence
while he made his escape, and killed her bygoing a
little too far. This solution of the mystery seems to
be much more likely titan the conviet's own state-
ment, and is, probably, not far from the truth.
It is not, however, to be concluded that Lani is a
rufilian in outward appearance ; ou the contrary, he
is rather mild-looking and inoffensive of mien. In
the condemned cell he conducts himself even se-
renely, having to all appearance resigned any hope
he may have at one time harboured of a pardon,
and reconciled himself to that ignominious death
which, in another week, he will meet on the scaf-
fold. There is nothing coarse about him, and, on
the whole, he may be pronounced " as mild a man-
n(red man as ever did a murder."