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

)NNET, ADDRESS3D TO CHARITY.

By a R.3covered Patient of the Cancer Hospital, London,
ace3mpanied with Half a Soveralgn, 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 affluent, 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, thaughout the land ;
0, may an edifice soap tise
Worthy of Britain—worthy Thee.
0, Charity ! belov'd of Heav'n !
Thy suppliant plays this boon to see ;
That, heal'd like rue, glad praise may flow
From those now sunk in abject woe !
CHRISTI ANA V. CAIRNS.
10, Great Queen-street, Westminster.

PASSPORTS. FOREIGN-OFFIC EC, March 31.—A de-
spatch has been received by the Earl of Malruesbury,
her Majesty's Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs,
frmn Ein Cowley, her :.llaje3ty's Ambassador at Paris,
stati g that the cimpetent authorities will be authorised,
for the future as heretofore, to furnish to British sub-
jects rsident in France passports to travel in 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 MURDER.—On Monday morning, says
the Ipswich, Express, a reprieve was received by Mr.
Alloway, governor of the county gaol, from the Secre-
iary of State, in the ease of Emma Groom, upon whom
sentence of death was passed for the murder of her child,
at the late assizes at Bury.
RESPITE OF WILLIAM DAVIES, THE MuEDERER AT
SHREWSBURY.—Yesterday morning a respite was re-
ceived by the goverocr of Shrewsbury gall from the
Home Secretary for William Davies, who was con-
demned for the murder of Ann Morgan, the reputed
witch, at Wev,wo3d.c,,mtnon, near Much Wenlock, at
the recent a.,sizes at Shrewsbury. Since the wretched
mares condemnation strenuous of orte have been made
for a eommutation of his se,tence. The respite is during
her Majesty's pleasure. Tne execution, had the respite
not arrived, would have taken place on Saturday at
noon. Since his condemnation Davies has paid greata'-
tention to the spiritual instruction of the chaplain, the
Rev. J. Denning, and it is understood be has made a
full statement as to the quarrel and its fatal results.
The news of the lei...lke has given very general satisfac-
tion to the town.
THE OXFORD AND CAMBRIDGE BOAT RACE.—The
e.,x4vva,n of the Oxford boat describes asfollow-, an acci-
dent which happened to his crew on Saturday, and
which contributed to the re-ult of the struggle :—" At
the fourth stroke a wave in the roubled water caught the
stroke oar wi,h such tremendous force as to deflect the
strong outrigger of wrought iron a curve downwards,
and to cast the th0.,1 or forward pin of the rowlock, on
which the whole pressure of the oar comes, no less than
11 inch from the perpendicular outwards. This inane-
tii n one-third of the whole height of the rowlock,
woich was bent there ore 30 degree. from its rectangular
positioe. The effect of this deflection sva-, that there
remained no longer anytoing to row against, and,
the cord which bashes the two thowls together being
also s•Japped by the shock, the oar jumped up at every
stroke. In consequence, the rowing, which the day
before had been as perfect as any ever witnessed, became
a mere scramble, for the stroke was gone which alone
c ,old give the time and insure uniformity of work, and
the unflinching gallantry with which every man rowed
down to the very end c,)uld not countervail its loss."
He states that the training of the Oxford mien was
thorough, and that they came to the post in first-rate
order. _

A TELEGRAM AT FAULT.—.Great excitement was caused
in Cheitenhaiu on Saturday by a report of another and
more succee-ful attempt on he Ho of Louis Napoleon.
Tne rumour spread like wildfire, and some hundreds of
anxious inquiries were male at the .Exams-n,9. office in
course of the afternoon ,'s to its truth or ialsehood. Of
course the answer was that we had recived no despatch
announcing the intelligence, and therefore the supposi-
tion was that it was not true. It turned out, on inquiry,
that on the day in question a message was passed through
the Cheltenham station giving the result of the Uni-
versity boat-race ; the boat used by the Camt.ridge men
on the occa-ion was named " The Emperor," and the
message ran—" The Emperor shot ahead." A party
,a 11,) happened to be pre-ent misconstrued this pa-sage
to real, " The Emperor shot dead," and he immediately
disseminated the astounding news with ail the zeal of
one who felt himself in posses-ion of " exclusive if f
r-
mation." We have had a good many instances of tele-
graphic "cross readings " lately, but remember none
which have given so much excitement as this simple an-
nouncement that " the Rnperor shot ahead."—Clteltot-
hunt Examiner .

" ENTBAT '' INING BURGLARS UNAWARES."---The ether
day, in the neiv,:ho tit hood of retio, in Gloucestershire,
a very respectably-dret.sed man called on the wile of a
wealthy cheesemonger in the neighbourhood, a leading
man among the Quakers, particularly wanting to see him.
His wife being uncer at,i when her husband would re-
turn, asked the stranger to take some refreshment, and
it being Into in the evening, ant tut husband not re-
turning, even proffered a spare bed, which was readily
accepted. Tmre were three female servants in the
house, one f whom had a misgiving about this myste-
rious etrang, r ; not liking his looks, she managed to
secrete herself, after ad had gone to bed, in a side
parlour. In the middle if the nig it the stranger came
downstairs., put on his boot, which he had taken off in
the hall, leaving a carpet-bag on the hall chair, opened
q.
the do., and gave a 1 .ud wr,istlr,Thu girl, with great
presence of mind, immediately bolted the door, and, see-
ing every fastening sate, proceeded to examine the c:.n-
tents of the carpet-rmig, whtcb was found to contain a
revolver pistol, daggers, and every appliance used by
experienced burglars; ef course the respectable stranger
did not make his re-appearance.