The Sun.
London, England, 1835-03-30 00:00:00

POLICY OF AUSTRIA.

Speech of Count Munch Bellinghausen, the Austrian Minister
and President to the Diet, at the opening-of the Sitting, on
the 12th instant.

It is with sentiments of profound grief that I fulfil a melan-
choly duty in communicating to this illustrious assembly, that
on the 2d inst. the Emperor Francis I. died at Vienna. At
the same time, I have the honour of laying before it new let-
ters of full powers from the reigning Emperor Ferdinand I
dated Vienna, the 7th instant. I leave it to this assembly to
appreciate all that the deceased Emp ror has done for Ger-
many ; with what perseverance and firmness the venerable
Cliie.f of the Empire sustained the conflicts which have%arise
in late unhappy times; how, after triumph, he co-operated
one of the first to draw close ties to bind the Sovereigns and
free towirs of Germany in one united body, and since the
tormation of this union has directed all his efforts towards
the preservation, extension, and consolidation of the Con-
federation, as I am persuaded that it participates in all my
sentiments on these subjects. I haVe also, by the express
command of the Emperor Ferdinand, to declare that
his Majesty is determined to reign in the spirit of his
august father, and after the example which he has given during
a glorious reign of forty-three years, the path which his Ma-
jesty will follow in relation to the German Confederation, and
in which he will continue to march faithfully, is therefore
clearly traced out. The fulfilment of federal duties, the most
active participation in the maintenance and consolidation of the
Confederation, and co-operation with all the forces at his com-
mand in supporting the existing principles, in order to attain
the common object—the internal and external safety of Ger-
many. and to protect the independence and integrity of these
States—such were the views of the Emperor Francis, for the
accomplishment of which he laboured with so much zeal. The
Emperor Ferdinand will be constantly animated with the same
viows and principles, and his Majesty will feel himself happy
if that honourable confidence which his allies of the Germanic
Confederation have always testified in the late Emperor shall
descend to him, who inherits the intentions of the deceased,
and is, as he was, impressed with the conviction that the union
which has been established between his empire and the other
states of Germany cannot for their reciprocal interests be too
close or too intimate ; the sincere wishes and imrriediate ob-
ject of the reigning Emperor will constantly be directed to-
wards the prosperity and towards strengthening the power of
Germany. _ _ _

(This address was answered by the Prussian Minister.)

AMERICAN DUELS.

William S. Cowan and Washington Coffee, two intimate
friends, had on the 17th ult., near Little Rock, Arkansas,
a rencontre, in which the former was killed and the other
mortally wounded. Mr. Cowan was shot through the
body, and lived only two hours. His ball entered Mr.
Coffee in the breast, and lodged near the left shoulder.

Mr. Jarvis, member of Congress from Maine, lately
challenged F. 0. J. Smith, also a part of the representative
dignity of that State, to meet him in mortal fight. Smith,
however, informed Mr. Lytle, of Ohio, who bore the chal-
lenge, that Jarvis was so decided a scamp, that he would
have nothing to do in the premises. Whereupon, Lytle
told Smith that he endorsed his principal's character, and
would step into his shoes if it would be any accommodation.
But the Hon. Mr. Smith declared upon his honour that he
had no enmity to Mr. Lytle aforesaid, and no disposition to
fight him, and here, after the customary discharge of" cow-
ards, paltroons, &e.," the matter rested.
Dr. Johnson and Dr. Grisham, two warm politicians of
opposite politics, encountered each other, a sh rt time since,
in Nottaway County, Va., when the latter shot the former
through the body—inflicting so deadly a wound that he
survived but a few minutes.

A rumour circulated generally throughout the city yes
terday, that a duel had been fought between a distinguished
senator of South Carolina and a senator from Missouri, in
which the former was wounded and the latter killed. We
traced the rumour to a letter received in the city from Bal-
timore ; but as the Washington mail arrived last night
brings no information of the occurrence, we are happy to
believe that it has not taken place.
SCANDALOUS OUTRAGE IN A LEGISLATIVE HALL.—AS
the p 3aker of the Louisiana Hou-e of Representatives,
t' eHo A'ger Labranch, WAS entering the H4ll to take
h s seat a►-d cJi the House to order, he was assailed by
John R. Grymes, Esq., who raised a cane to strike him.
Mr. Labranch, to defend himself, drew a small pocket pis-
tol and discharged it at the assajlant, but without effect..
Grymes then drew a horse pistol loaded with a hall and
buck-shot, and fired at Mr. L. The ball passed between
two members, and grazed, the forehead of one of them.
while two of the buck-shot took effect, and lodged in the
arm and band of the Speaker. The House immediately
appointed a Committee to report the proper steps to Le
taken to punish this gross indignity.

Four trouts, weighing twenty-eipht pounds, were
taken in a pool belonging to Mr. Morris, of Cacheilin, Mont-
gomeryshire, on Wednesday week; one weighed eight pounds,
two seven pounds each, and one six pounds. The fish had
been in the pond about ten years.

On Monday Mr. John Stanley. sen., formerly of
the Elephant and Castle Inn, Newt Own, Nlontgomvryshire,
was going to Black Hall, about a mile distant, to visit his son,
in company with two friends ; he had gone about half a mile,
when he fell down and expired. He was in his 78th year.

DUBLIN, MARCH 24.—(From a Morning Co-
temporary. )—A great deal of mystery is observable here re-
lative to the re-assumption of the Irish seals by Sir Edward
Sudden. I have every reason to believe—my authority having
been the very best—that the terms of the compromise are, the
young lady or ladies of the family henceforth to be considered
as privileged Castle visitors, the lady herself choosing London
as her future place of residence. The Master of the Rolls
has left us for London, anticipating, perhaps, that his presence
m;ght be necessary, in case of any new difficulties springing
up in the settling of the affair. Should such difficulty un-
fortunately arise, it is said that Sir William will certainly be
Sir Edward Sugden's successor. Dr. Lefrov succeeding Sir
William in the Rolla Court ; this would, of course, leave a
vacancy in the ropresentation of the University ; in which Mr.
Litton, K. C., would, I think, be returned without opposition,
as he is extremely popular with the constituency, both on ac-
count of the high church tone of his polities, and his general
abilities. The trial of the persons implicated in the fatal
affray at Gortroe, will, I understand, be postponed till the
Summer Assizes, as the prosecutors arc of opinion that justice
could not and would not be done them, in the absence of their
leading Counsel, Mr. Feargus O'Connor.
SINGULAR REVERSE OF FORTUNE.--9 singu-
lar and distressing occurrence took place last week at Sligo.
A gentleman there, named Archibald Fleming, who had been
for some time in. declining circumstances, was obliged to have
recourse to the Insolvent Act for relief. Mr. George Ellis,
a solicitor, of this city was employed to prepare his petition
and schedule. Mr. Ellis, however, was prevented by pro-
fessional engagements in Dublin from proceeding immediately
to Sligo to take his instructions ; but a gentleman whom he
sent for the purpose having had an interview with Mr. Fleming,
some difficulty arose concerning certain deeds, of which Mr
Fleming could not give a sufficiently-clear account to be placed
on the schedule. Limier these circumstances Mr. Ellis was
written to, and his
personal attendance requested. He pro-
ceeded to Sligo, and, after an interview with Mr. Fleming,
succeeded in discovering that he was entitled to a property of
between five and six hundred pounds per annum, of which he
had not previously the slightest knowledge. The ease came
on the following day before Mr. Commissioner Burt owes,
and Mr. Ellis, to the no small astonishment of the opposing
creditors, made application for leave to have the schedule
amended, by inserting the newly-discovered property, and
Mr Fleming was disct arged. He passed the evening in the
society of some friends, and retired to rest at his usual hour.
On his servant entering the room on the following morning he
was discovered to be a corpse. It is supposed that such a
sudden reverse of fortune, at a time when he could least have
expected it, had such an influence on his mind as to produce
the lamentable occurrence...Dub/in Evening Post.

MURDERS BY 1-01S0NING.

(Abridged f om the N rulich Mercury.)
The town of Burn am Market, in Norfolk, and the at
einity for some miles round, has, for the last week. been.ia
the most dreadful sta e o ex 'itement, caused by the dis•
covery of three diabol cal murders which have already bee°
comm.tte t, and a plan laid 4or taking away the lives of se'
veral other people.
The circumstance that led to the discovery was as .‘11."
lows :—A woman named Mary Taylor, the wife of Peter
Taylor, a journeyman shoemaker, was t iken with a vialeat
rutc:ling after dinner on Thursday, the 12th instant, °lld
taoulai medical assistance was procured, she died at nre
tlle same afternoon. Mr. Cromer, the- surgeon, as soon as
he saw her, pronounced her to have been poisoned. An
inquest was held on the body on the following Saturday
when the Jury, after siting tiil eleven o'clock at night'
adjourned the inquest till Monday. and then having n°
evidence as to Low the deceased came by the arsenic
whir.th had been found in the stomach, returned a ver;
diet to the effect that she died by taking arsenic, but
that it was unknown by what means it was administered.
There, were certain ru.-nours that the husband of the
deceased had been connected with a married wani.
named Fanny Billing, who 'lived at the next door, and
this connection seemed to have been a great cause of tug'
easiness Letween Taylor and his wife, and a week or 01
before the deceased had, it seems, taxed Billing with it, an
they had had a qUarrel. It was also discovered that 13i'i
ing had a short time' before bought three pennyworth of
arsenic of a druggist. Some flour that was in Taylari
house was also found to contain a quantity of arsenic, an
from this the deceased had made dumplings on the day stet
died. These facts coming out the Magistrates tha,
proper to hold a special meeting on the Wednesday for 01
further investigation of the matter, and Taylor and %Ilia!
were brought before them, examined, and remanded fai
further examination. As Billing, however, was going' away
a woman living next door, named Frary, who was frequentlyt:
in and out of Mrs. Taylor's, was heard to say, "
hold 3 our own, and they can't hurt us." This led to fa;
ther suspicion, and Frary was apprehended. It was thet
recollected that Frary's husband, and a child they
,keP
died about a fortnight before very suddenly. Orders we.,",
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then given to have them disinterred ; their stomachs we'il
sent to Norwich to be analysed, and they also were fan°
to contain arsenic.
On Tuesday, Billing was fully committed to take he.e,
trial for the murder at the forthcoming Assizes. SheL
nearly fifty years old, hiss had fourteen children, and 11,7,4
are now alive. She has confessed the whole, but says tr",
Frary gave the poison to Mrs. Taylor. She has also Oa:
fessed to other acts of the same kind with Frary, and liTt
there were several other persons that they had marked bee
as their victims. She had made an attempt to poison,
husband about the same time, but he did not take a 51/
cient quantity, and recovered Taylor is still remanded
and Frary has been taken speechless since Tuesday, nest
cannot be recovered. The wife of her brother, who livetut
Burnham Overy, di. .d about the same time saddenlY, k
his not yet been taken up. Ta3lor says he was taken Si t
on Thursday with his wife, but that he threw up an) rd
batter. Mrs. Frary was sent for to attend on Mrs, 441;
and a witness of the name of Rowley says when he her
at Taylor's to be shaved, he saw Frary, in making °hit
some gruel, put something into it from a paper on the P.Nr,
of a knife, white, almo,t like flour, so that in all probaht;
to make assurance doubly sure, she poisoned also her grebee
ult was, too, the merest wonder in the world that Le
poisoned flour (for it had not then been found to
ded ed,
poisoned) was not taken to provide for the funeral--ia
this seems to have been anticipated by the wretches, abut
then the whole family would have been their victims ;
the management was fortunately taken out of Fral'ua
hands, and the flour proVidentially unused. Taylor
borne a good character for many years until he got 100
netted with this woman. His wife was a very industrv:e
v d
rson, and although they had no family, they had or
very comfortably together. She was forty•seven Years
age, and he is about the same.

CORONER'S INQUESTS.
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AWFUL. VISITATION AT A WEDDlNG.—Saturaai
;Inquest was held at the Plough Inn, Clapham, on the b
or Miss Elizabeth Hussey, aged twenty-eight. ge,
phia Blount, of 12, H(:mmincir's-row, St. Martinstr
st,,ted that she and her husband, who is a Sheffi w
eld "(I,
houseman, had known the deceased from her ellildhlir
On Wednesday afternoon she accompanied them to C`3lof
.1) im, where she acted as bridesmaid at the marring re,
witness's son, with the daughter of Mr. W. Hands' 'I a
n
soectable stationer in that town. On Thursday 00_,'"ost
the deceased spoke of her night's repose having been 'tile
rereshing, 'and conversed with much sprightliness .03:
si.b.:ect of the wedding. After breakfast she Was sit re'
on the sofa, and several persons were conversing on nrpthe
pcsA trip to Hampton Court, when the countenance 0 sr
d ceased was observed to become very pale, and the rern:d
was scarcely made when blood issued from her mouth' for,
completely saturated her dress. A surgeon was sent j,
but before he arrived she expired, having ruptured bl°°ol
v, ss.:l in the lungs.—Verdict—Died by the visitation -
God.
EXTRAORDINARY SUICIDE ORA GlRL.—Saturday
irg al inquest was ha tat the yal S,:aniard,
p .ee, Bryanston-square, on view of the body of Sarah, 41,
'KA •on, a fine girl, aged thirteen years. Mr. John I‘l`'Lre,
a chemist, of Seymour-place, on Thursday evening Wasro,
qu ‘sted to attend at No. 36, Seymour-place, and on rrss
ee ling there he found the deceased suspended to
hook at the back of the door in the first room first
He immediately cut her down ; life appeared quite el''/joa,
He had recourse to the usual means to restcre anima the
but without effect. The cord was here Wilkinson,
for ch
inspection of the jury. Mr. Thomas Wilkinson, °dr
trimmer, at No. 36, Seymour-place, deposed, that tb:ince
ceased was his sister, and be had bad charge of her ;
the death of their mother about two years since. °,l: ore'
a very good girl, and all witness required of her was ''"hf (Id
p ire tile meals. On Thursday witness and his wife sc-fter
the deceased for some trifling omission ; and, in the Ad bis
noon of the same day, during the absence of witness Oster
wife, the unfortunate child committed the rash act'

d.c:—Temporary Derangement. -
1113 Per
Satnr lay an inquest was held at the Wheatsheaf, Oa
M tryh.b.me-street, on the body of William Sedly' a""live.
y ,ars. The_unlortunate child ran to his mother, o“).ng to
in Cleveland-street, with distorted features, and lab°"ir'ols
respire. His mother screamed, and medical assistance,)ol
sent for, but the child died in a few moments. (11:11;11e
modem examination it appeared' that a marble v"i'n liP
was probably rolling about in his mouth had lodged -
throA, and prevented the passage of air.

UNIONIST'S PETITION: —A petition filo este'
inhabitants of Nottingham for the release of the 13°0'''
Unionists is in course of signature. • Wife'
A man this morning, at Boherbuy, cut itIS theis'
throat, in consequence of a dispute that arose between
on account of her not having breakfast ready on his "d°, so"
home to that meal. The woman, we uolerstand, is dea
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the husband in custody.—Limerick Herald. e
On Monday movingi' about half-past ticil'e
o'clock, as William Trowbridge, a workman employed $ Slao4
works of the Imperial Ga,light Company, Battle-bride'
endeavouring to move a large pips of the hydraulic Ili% die
handipike which he was using for the purpose slipped if°: ore,
fulcrum, and catching him by a short frock which 'tea: 01
threw him with great force on a heap of old piping. '-eYev
taken up in a state of insensibility, and immediately el bt,
to St. Bartholomew's Hospital, he remains w'tl, '
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little hopes of recovery. The unfortunate man has sns; eis
a fracture of his thigh, has broken his jaw, and his n-5
literally separated from his face.
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NORFOLK ASSlZEi.—There are nearly 1 11 ca
vs
soners foe trial at our Assizes, the business of Which " these
mence on Monday next. The most singular feature in ii,cru'
Assizes will be the appearance of one of the Judges ea 041"
Abinger) as a witness on a charge of bribery conneetie., coal
his election as M. P. for the City. His Lordshipsequence preside on the Civil side. There are five e iscs
bribery for trial.the
'n
On the evening of Friday last, two ostlers jr
employment of a respectable stabler in the west end,ll—a pitcnt
in the absence of their master, when of them seise, gt
fork and levelled it at the head of the other. The 'n—rnd
penetrated the socket of the eye, inducing immediate a.ore,"ev
lent inflammation of the brain. The poor man was er°r-neici,so'
to the Infirmary, where he died in consequence 0" ," morl`;
morning. On Wednesday, Dr. Laurie held a P°s` • Pe":
examination in the operating theatre of the InfirmarPtiulidel
sence of several professicnal gentlemen, and of the sfon;°.
attending that institution, when it was found that the 1:"-bol.
the fork had passed upwards of three inches into thei
The ostler who inflicted the wound absconded on 1%e5:3;40611f
has since been captured, and secured in gaol. 11",qiiis 0f
deaf and dumb, and is, we believe, subject to oceas'°.b-ibit
insanity. His compani ms, it appears. were in the lob f
paying off practical jukes upon him, which had the
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effect of exciting him to freilzy, and it is said that °;
these occasions the deceased had his face severely. b'ty, 91'1
quarrel which here ended so fatally originated in this on aogr,
sh )old read a solemn lesson to thOse who sport with the tber
spele.,s
asysiosn_s, of:cionidth Guardian.ii/i:bialsvttre incapable of gove"ilig

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On the 30th inst.. at Brook GreT
en, Mrs. Hearle, Of a °lt; 13,urof
On the 28th inst., at her father's, Henry Revell, EsfybariL"
ton-crescent, the lady of Don Pascual de Gayangos, of
a son.
On the 2Sth inst., at Harlesdon House, Willesden, the
William Curtis, Esq., of a daughter.
DIED. die late Jet°
inst.,
On the 1 ith Janet Livingstone, (laughter 0.,
Plenderleath, of Upper Seymour-street, and of Tweeckla`e.
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