The Sun.
London, England, 1858-04-02 00:00:00

S EVNET, ADDRESSZD TO CHARITY.

By a Incovered Patient of the Cancer Hospital, London,
accompanied with Half a Soveraign, gratefully and humbly
presented in aid of the Building Fund of that much re-
quired and most beneficial Institution.
0, Charity I thee invoke
With grateful heart—with voice of love !
0, breathe thy spirit on my verse,
The afamnt, and the good to move !
A mite thy humble suppliant brings,
To aid sweet Mercy's blessed hand—
Put forth to shelter pain and woe,
The most severe, throughout the land ;
0. may an edifice soon rise
Worthy of Britain—worthy Thee.
0, Charity ! belov'd of Heav'n !
Thy suppliant playa this boon to see ;
That, heard like rue, glad praise may flow
From those now sunk in abject woe !
CHRISTIANA V. CAIRNS.
10, Great Queen-street, Westminster.

PASSPORTS. FOREIGN-OFFICE, March 31.—A. de-
spatch has been received by the Earl of Malutesbury,
her Majesty's Secretary of Scate for Foreign Affairs,
from Ein Cowley, her Majesty's Ambassador at Paris,
statirg that the competent authorities will be authorised,
for the future ac heretofore, to furnish to British sub-
jects resident in France passports to travel i❑ the inte-
rior of the French territories ; and also in ca es of
urgent necessity to grant passports to British subjects
to return to England.
THE OAKLEY MUM/FR.—Oa Monday morning, says
the Ipswich Express, a reprieve was received by Mr.
Alloway, governor of the county gaol, from the Score-
,ary of State, in the else of Emma Groom, upon whom
sentence of death was passed for the murder of her child,
at the late assiz,s at Bur,.

RESPITE OP WILLIAU DAVIES, THE MIIHDERER AT
SHREWSBURY.—Yesterday morning a respite was re-
ceived by the g,verocr of Shrewsbury gaol from the
Home Secretary for William Davies, who was con-
demned for the murder of Ann Morgan, the reputed
witch, at Westwood•c'itutuon, near Minh Weolock, at
the recent a,,sizes at Shrewsbury. Since the wretched
mass's condemnation strenuous eff ;its have been made
for a eommutation of his re teoce. Tne resp,te is during
her Majesty's pie sure. The execution, had the respite
not arrived, would have taken place on Saturday at
noon. Sinus his condemnation Davies has paid great a -
tPntion to the spiritual instruction of the chaplain, the
Rev. J. Denning, and it is understood he has made a
full statement as to the quarrel and its fatal results.
The news of the teopite has given very general satisfac-
tion to the town.

THE OXFORD AND CAMBRIDGE BOAT RAGE.—The
t; x ,viate of the Oxfor I boat describes asfellows an acci-
dent which happened to his crew on Saturday, and
hich contributed to the re-ult of the struggle :—" At
he fourth stroke a weve in the roubl-d water caught the
stroke oar wii la such tremendous force as to deflect the
strong outrigger cf wrought iroa a curve downwards,
and to cast the the Al. or forward pin of the rowlock, on
which the whole pressure of the o tit come-t, Ert tees than
1 inch from the perpendicular outwards. This ieclina-
ti .n equl, one-third of the whole height of the rowlock,
welch was bent there ore 30 degree, from its rectangular
position. Tne effect of this deflection way, that there
remained no longer anything to row against, and,
the cord which lashes the two thowle together being
also s rapped by the shock, the oar jumped up at every
stroke. In consequence, the rowing, which the clay
before had been as perfect as any ever witnessed, became
a mere scramble, for the stroke was gone which alone
c iuld give the time and insure uniformity of work, and
the unflinching gallantry with which every man rowed
down to the very end could not countervail its loss."
He states that the training of the Oxf toen was
thorough, and that they come to the post in first-rate
order.

A TELEGRAM AT FAULT..—areat excitement was caused
ire Chelteuham on Sa..uroay by a report of another and
more succ ,ssful attempt on the life of Louis Napoleon.
The rumour spread like wildfire, and some hundreds of
anxious inquiries were male at the _Examiner office in
o curse of the afternoon as to its truth or fallehood. Of
course the answer was that we had renedved no despatch
announcing the intelligence, and therefore the supposi-
tion was that it was nut true. It turned out, on iequiry,
that on the day in question a message was passed through
the Ch-ltenbain station giving the result of the
lloi-
versity boat-race; the boat used by the Carnf,ridge men
on the occasion was named " The Emperor," and the
message ran—" The Emperor shot ahead." A party
aho happened to be present misconstrued this pa-sage
to real, " The Emperor shot dead," and he immediately
disseminated the astounding news with all the zeal of
one who felt himself in posses ion of " exclusive 41
matiou." We have had a good many instances of tele-
graphic "cross readings " lately, hut remember none
w bleb have given so much excitement as this simple an-
nouncement that " the E:nperor shot ahead."—Cheltut-
hum Examiner.
" ENTERTAINING 13IIRGLABS UNAWARES."—The ether
day, in the neigh it Alibi:rod of Szond, in Gloucestershire,
a very respectably-dressed man called on the wife of a
wealthy cheesemoeger in the neighbourhood, a leading
man among the Quakers, particularly wanting to see hint.
His wif- belt g un-...Er au, when her hu,band wouli re-
tarn, asked the stranger to take some refreshment, and
it bring late in the evening, and tile husband net re-
turning, even proffered a spare bed, which was readily
accepted. There were three female servants in the
house, one a whom had a misgiving about this myste-
rious strang,r ; not liking his looks, she managed to
secrete herself, after all hadgoienhe
etohabdetda,kienn
at iu
aside
parlour. In the middle (f the nig the stranger came
dt
hoew
hall,na rl
vputingoan
carpet
etboot,:tg which
on the hall chair, opened
the door, and gave a Leid whistle. Th.: girl, with great
presence of mind, immediately bolted the door, and, see-
ing every fastening safe, proceeded to examine the con-
tents of the carpet-bag, :nd every
hich was found to contain a
reviver pistol, daggers, appliance used by
experienced burglars; of course the respectable stranger
did not make his re-appearance.