The Sun.
London, England, 1861-05-04 00:00:00

DISTURBANCES IN NAPLES.

The Official Gazette of the Kingdom, a Turin
journal of the 30th ult., gives the following account
of the late disturbances on the Neapolitan terri-
tor3

"Among the ringleaders• and exciters of reac-
tionary movements are fanatical priests, chiefs of
the ex-Urban Guard, and persons recently arrived
from Rome, but the bands are only recruited by
Bourbonian deserters. The National Guard has
everywhere shown itself animated by the beat
feelings, and the mass of the people in general has
itself taken part in the defence of public order. In
the Ulterior Principality an unworthy monk placed
himself at the head of the reactionists ; his accom -
plice was a cure of Volturera. Both of them ex-
cited to outbreak by preaching in the Church
against the King and the National Government.
The Governor of province arrived with a cer-
tain number of troops and National Guards. In a
first conflict the brigands, 100 in number, were de-
feated, almost the whole of them being either
killed, wounded, or taken prisoners. The same
cure then changed his tone, and harangued the
people in favour of the King of Italy and of the
Statuto. Attempts at brigandage have also taken
place at Sorbo, but they were immediately re-
pressed by the National Guards of Candida and
Betlizza. The leader in the affair was a certain
spy of the Bourbonian police who, with others,
was arrested. In the Citerior Principality three
brothers, who had escaped from the prisons of
Salerno, had recruited among the ex-Bourbonian
soldiers a band of about 50 individuals, who
entered the territory of Laviano, where they
were attacked and dispersed by the troops and
National Guards. In the communes of Taviano and
Racale, several disbanded Bourbonian soldiers raised
cries of Long live Francis!" Down with Em-
manuel !' and tore down the national arms. The
Mayor of Taviano, who endeavoured to arrest them,
was killed by a stab from a stiletto. The Judge of
Casareno, who came to the place with a certain
number of National Guards, found the outbreak
quelled, but he caused searches to be made, and the
authors of the murder are believed to be among the
persons arrested. In the province of Terra de Bari
all attempts at outrage have been prevented by the
arrest of some individuals who, by means of false
reports, endeavoured to excite reaction. The pro-
vinces of Terra de Lahore, Benevento, and Molise,
are now tranquil. In the three Abruzzi nothing
has taken place since the affair of Introdacqua.
Only a single act of brigandage is mentioned as
having taken place in the Three Calabrias, and that
was committed at Tiriolo, in the Ulterior 11, '*here
a diligence was attacked, and a forced contribution
imposed on some individuals. The great criminal
courts of the provinces are now engaged in prepar-
ing for the trial of the different prisoners. We
have already rectified statements which the tele-
graph had brought from Naples, and shown the
true state of those disturbances, which have bon
much exaggerated. All the facts above-mentioned
took place from the 6th to the 20th ult., and all of
them have been isolated acts of brigandage com-
mitted by ex-Bourbonian soldiers ; and, in most
cases, they are ordinary crimes, with which politics
have nothing to do."

THE ILKESTON MURDER.

In our yesterday's impression we gave a brief
account of the murder of a man named Joseph
Smith, of Ilkeston, Derbyshire, by his son, George
Smith, who blew his father's brains out with a pis-
tol. We now give some further particulars. It
appears that the murderer purchased a pistol, with
which the murder was perpetrated, at Mr. Daniel
Webster's, general dealer and pawnbroker, Clumber-
street, Nottingham. On Wednesday afternoon, about
one o'clock, Smith went to Mr. Webster's shop and
asked for a pistol, stating that he wished to purchase
one. Smith being a stranger Mr. Webster asked him
what he wanted it for, to which Smith replied that
he wanted it " to fly pigeons with when they were
r racing." Mr. Webster was satisfied with Smith's
I answer, and accordingly supplied him with a pistol,
for which he paid 4s. Smith then asked him if he
could furnish him with powder and caps, to which
Mr. Webster replied in the negative, adding that
his neighbour, Mr. Carr, on the other side of the
street, could supply him with all he required. Ac-
cordingly, Smith went there and asked for a half-
penny worth of caps, which were supplied to him by
Mrs. Carr. He put one of the caps on the pistol, and
was in the act of letting it off, when she told him she
was afraid of firearms, and if he wanted to let it off he
must go into the street. He then went outside the
shop and fired the cap off, after which he returned
to Mrs. Carr, and asked for a halfpenny worth of
powder. She told him that she did not make that
quantity, but he could have a pennyworth if he
thought proper. He replied, " Well, give me
enough for one charging; I want to try the pistol."
She accordingly put a small quantity in a piece of
paper, and he threw down a penny for it and went
away. He then went home, and, it is said, called
his father up and deliberately shot him. Mr. Smith
immediately fell dead, and his son was soon after-
wards taken into custody. While he was being
apprehended he asked for a carving-knife, stating
that he would have revenge on the body of his
father, adding that, when he was hanged, if his
limbs trembled, his name was not George Smith.
We stated yesterday that the murderer wrote a
note in lead pencil to his sweetheart, at Belton, on
Wednesday, in which he said he was afraid his
father would make away with himself. This turns
out to be correct, for on Thursday evening Detec-
tive Davis went to Belton, had an interview with
the girl, Ellen Cox, who at first denied having re-
ceived a letter but afterwards produced the follow-
ing, written in lead pencil, which she said she had
received from the murderer that (Thursday)
morning :
" My dear ',—l told my father this morning,
and he is like a madman, and I am sure he will make
away with himself ; but, Ellen, never mind ; you
will soon become my wife, and then all this bother
will be over. Please send me word when you are
at your grandmother's, and you must come and
meet me at the station on Sunday morning, be
there at 8 o'clock. So good-bye, sweetheart. I
have given the banns in at Ilkeston."
(The letter is not dated from any place, nor bears
any signature.)
Mr. Whiston opened the inquest on Thursday
afternoon, at the Queen's Head, Ilkeston, and the
proceedings were adjourned until this day.

THE MURDER AND SUICIDE IN

CARLISLE.

On Wednesday the adjourned inquiry into the
death of Mrs. Davidson, the landlady of the Pack
Horse public-house, who died so mysteriously a few
weeks ago, and also into the death of the young
man Horsley, who was found dead in the above
house, was resumed by Mr. Carrick, coroner, in the
Coffeehouse Hotel. The father of the young man
produced another batch of letters, similar in import
to those put in at the former inquiry. They were
from Mrs. Davidson to Horsley, and indicated her
desire to have her son-in-law in her company.
Sergeant Cowen, of the City police, deposed to
having found the body of Horsley, and to going
again to the Pack Horse, to look after the clothes
which Mrs. Davidson had on when it was supposed
she had strangled Horsley. He produced Mrs.
Davidson's dress, and pointed out the bloodstains
upon it, as well as upon the apron the unhappy
woman had worn. Dr. Hendrie and Mr. Temper-
ley, who at the former inquiry had deposed, to
having found arsenic in the contents of Mrs. Da-
vidson's stomach, now stated the results of the post
mortem examination of Horsley's body. From the
appearance of the neck, the congestion of the eye•
lids, and the protruding of the tongue, they were
of opinion that the unfortunate young man had
been put an end to by strangulation. Margaret
Rickerby, keeper of a public-house at which it had
been stated Horsley and his mother-in-law had
met, and on one occasion had slept together, denied
the statement ; but the coroner told her that further
inquiries would be made, and that if the allegation
proved true witness should be indicted for perjury.
Horsley's mother said she had suspected an im-
proper intimacy between her son and his mother-
in-law. She took him to task about it, and he said

it would not continue long. The husband of Mrs.
Davidson deposed that he had not lived with her
lately,. and another witness spoke to having been
sent by Mrs. Davidson to watch Horsley. The
coroner then summed up the evidence, after which
the jury returned a verdict of " Wilful murder and
suicide" against Jane Davidson ; that is, she had.
murdered Horsley, and afterwards poisoned her-
self. The coroner expressed his approval of the
verdict.

MR. FREDERIC PENNA Will give a new enter•
tainment, called " The Highways and Byeways of Song,"
at the Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly, on Tuesday next, and
every Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday during the month.
The reputation this gentleman has already acquired by his
Musical Entertainments will render this likely to be hailed
as a pleasant addition to the attractions of the present busy
musical season.—Era.

The suspension was announced yesterday after-
noon of Messrs. P. Hava and Co., Levant merchants, con-
sequent upon the failure last month of their correspondents,
Messrs, Hava and Co., of Marseilles. The house has long
held a high position, and it is understood that its engage-
ments will to a great ex ent be withdrawn by the interven-
tion of third parties. For the remaining liabilities the
assets are said to be not merely sufficient, but likely to leave
a considerable surplus.

The efforts to sustain the other firms compro•
raised by the Marseilles failures have thus far prevented any
fresh difficulty, and it is generally felt that their conduct
has entitled them to the highest confidence and forbearance.
No doubt is entertained of their solvency provided the
securitia they hold from the Turkish Government can be
rendered available, and it appears that the Bank of France
have resolved to send two or three delegates to Constanti-
nople to examine and report upon these claims, and have
invited the English firms to take a similar step. Although
the entire affair is of great magnitude, and characterised
by political as well as other complications, anticipations
are expressed that it will be brought to a satisfactory ter-
mination.

DESTRUCTION OF A MILL IN DERRYSIIIRE.—EarIy
on Wednesday morning a fire was discovered in the mill be-
longing to Mr. Swallow, at Hanging. bridge, Ashbourn,
Derbyshire, and before assistance could be obtained the
mill was completely gutted, the roof and front wall falling
in with an immense crash about 3 o'clock. An alarm having
been given, the Ashbourn fire engines were quickly on the
spot, and by their instrumentality the warehouses, contain•
ing a large quantity of cotton, and the adjoining dwelling-
house, were fortunately saved. We believe the damage
amounts to between £6,000 and £7,000. The mill was partly
insured. The loss is aggravated by the fact that a great
deal of machinery had just been added, which is entirely
destroyed, even to the water wheel. Had the wind been
active the entire mill-yard and dwelling-houses would have
been swept away. The fire broke out in the packing-room,
it is eupposed, and was discovered by one of the mill hands
living in the yard.
IS A GRANDFATHER THE PARENT OF HIS GRAND•
man ?—After the disposal of the usual business at the
Greenwich Police-court yesterday, a respectably-dressed
woman attended and asked Mr. Maude, the sitting magis-
trate, t o sign a declaration made Ly her relative to-her child
being admitted into an asylum. The declaration had to be
signed also by two witnesses, neither of whom, it was de-
clared, "shall be the parent of the child." On examining
these signatures his worship inquired who, the witnesses
were, when the mother replied that they wero the child's
grandfather and grandmother. Mr. Maude was of opinion
the school committee would consider the grandfather and
grandmother as parents of the grandchild, and he conse-
quently declined to attach his signature to the document
presented to him, at the same time telling the mother to got
another declaration prepared, and to obtain other persons as
witnesses.

'I7ITETEE'iIL—Mr. Eskell has just published an
admirable treatise on Dental Surgery, with instructions for
the preservation and restoration of the teeth. It is written
in a clear, simple, and unpretending style, and therefore
well calculated to effect the desired object of the author,
and at the same time confer great benefit upon all those who
peruse its pages. The volume contains in all thirteen
chapters, amongst which we have the causes of the decay
of the teeth ; accidental causes of injury thereto ; toothache
in its various phases, withremedies ; and valuable hints where
extraction is rendered necessary. The effect of using acids in
the removal of tartar from the teeth, the author states, is
peculiarly hurtful, as the application dissolves the enamel,
and the earthy part of the bone, whenever it comes in con-
tact with these acids, may render the teeth white for a short
time only, as discolouration and decay is the inevitable re-
sult. The subject of artificial teeth is also treated of in
very comprehensive manner ; and small as the volume is
it really contains all that is necessary relative to the good
keeping of the mouth and teeth, and deserves the serious
consideration of all who adequately regard their health,
cmf9rt, and appearance,