The Sun.
London, England, 1858-07-17 00:00:00

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SUN OFFICE, ,six o'Clo(k

AUSTRIA.

A Vienna letter says :—" Cardinal Silvestri
has arrived here from Rome and taken up his resi-
dence in the monastery of the Mechitarstq, where
he received a visit from the Papal Nuncio on the
day after his arrival. The cardinal subsequently
returned his visit, and the two prelatrs went to-
tgether to the country-house of the Cardinal
Arch hi-hop, de Rauscher. The arrival of Car-
dinal Silvestri Las very naturally given rise
to a variety of suppositions. But I under
stand from a grod source that his eminence
has been charged to present to the Emperor
ard Empress, in the name of the Holy
Father, sr me valuable relics." The same letter
says :—" The Emperor has authorised the c-)nvo-
cation of a synod of I:)shops of the non-united
Greek Church. The bishops of the Bukowine, of
Dalmatia, and of Transylvania will take part in
this synod. General Count Coronini will al•o be
present in the capacity of Imperial dommissioner."
Further accounts state that Cardinal Silvestri had
been received by the Emperor and treated with
great consideration.

CASE OF MARGARET ROBINSON.

GUILDHALL.-(THIS DAY.)

Inspector Hamilton this afternoon informed Sir
P. Laurie that he had made the inquiries he bad
directed as to the extraordinary statement made be-
fore him on Thursday last by the girl Margaret
Robinson of her having been inveigled from
Scotland by a woman named Da Silva for im-
moral purposeP, and found the whole of the state-
ment of the girl on that point altogether untrue.
Since she was in Court she had made another
statement, which she said was as correct as the
other was false.

The statement No. 2 was_ then read. It attri
buted the present condition of the writer
to the unkindness and unnatural conduct
of her sister, to escape from whom she
was glad to undergo any privation. It then
entered at length into the manner in which she had
been admitted into one cf the charitable institu-
tions in Scotland, and, on the representation
of a clergyman residing at Renfrew, had been
sent from thence to the Westminster Reforma-
tory, where she remained for a short time,
but ultimately she left the institution of
her own accord. The paper next alluded
to the extraordinary story she had
told to the policeman on London-bridge,
about her having, been brought from Scot-
land by a woman named Da Silva, and taken
by her to a brothel in London. Tbis was
altogether untrue, nothing of the kind ever hap-
pened to her, and how she happened to think of
the tale was in consequence of a story in every re-
spect similar having been t3ld her by a girl named
Porter, and she (Robinson)thought if shesubAituted
her own name for that mentioned by Porter she
should be sent home by the authorities in Lan-
don. The only object she had in view was to
return to Scotland. .

Miss Davenport, a hay connected with the
Westatinister Reformatory, confirmed the state-
ment about the girl having been in that institu-
tion, and having left of her own accord, and that
she had been admitted on the representations of a
gentleman residing in Renfmwshire.
Sir P. Laurie said he had received the follow-
ing letter from the girl :
Dear Sir,—I am extremely sorry for having
told you the story I did, and I am glid it's all
found out. I feel happy now I have told the truth ;
I have much to answer for, and I hope you will
forgive me. I leave my case in your hands and
those of the other gentlemen.
" Your humble servant,
MAB.GARBT ROBINSON."

The girl refuses to return to the reformatory,
and for the present she remains in the City of
London Workhou:e.

MINING INTELLIGENCE.

(From the Mining Journal of this day.)

We have upon several occasions remarked upon
the injury done to mining and to the Mining Mar-
ket by speculating for the " account." It induces
numbers of pirsons to speculate beyond their
means ; it partakes largely of the nature of gamb-
ling ; and, too often, some of those who operate in
this manner, whilst ready enough to receive profits
if they win, are not always capable of paying if
they lose to any extent. The loss in Wheal Har-
riett, which has-been the all-absorbing topic of the
week, has, it is understood, fallen not so much
upon the public as upon some of the dealers in
the market, who had purchased largly for cash,
and to a still greater ex•ent for the " ac-
count," at 2 ...to 21 par share ; and when the
news arrived tint the lode had failed,
shares dropped in a moment to 20s , and a panic
seized the market ; good shares, in consequence,
have been sacrificed, and mines, which were rising
in price, as well as in public estimation, received a
blow, declined in market value, and a general stag-
nation ensued. We understand that more than a
dozen experienced agents inspected the ccurse
of ore at the 74, and concurred in valuing
it at 601. per fathom ; and although at first
the suddenness of the . change was con-
sidered unprecedented, we learn that at Condur-
row, the adjoining mine, the same thing once hap-
pened, and the lode afterwards became rich again.
Here, then, is comfort for Wheal Harriett, and
probably the holders may again see the shares rise
when the effects of the panel° are over. Two hours
before the ore failed, it is said, a Cam borne agent
went underground and inspected it, and on getting
to the surface purchased shares at 40s. each, which
showed his opinion of it. The shares opened at
20s. to 215., have fluctuated from 17s. 6d. to 205., and
leave off at 20s. to 225., and firmer. North Roskear
have been in request, and advanced to 305., 325. ;
a lode having been cut worth 601. per fm. in the
60 cross-cut in the whole ground. South Frances,
230, and very little doing. • North Frances, owing
to the number of sellers, have declined from 8i to
7/, 8 ; the lode, valued at 301. per fm., is not
looking so well, and many parties have been selling
" bears " in consequence ; the position and pro-
spects of the mine, however, are such as to beat the
market in time.