The Sun.
London, England, 1859-04-25 00:00:00

THIS DAY'S SHIPPING.

LONDON, April 25.—Wind this day at noon, S.E.;
fresh, with continuous rain.
PORTSMOUTH, April 24.—Wind S. to S.E.—Arrived—
Her Majesty's ship Mersey, from a cruise.
PLYMOUTH, April 24.—Wind E.S.E.—Arrived—
Calcutta, steamer, from Calcutta.
SOUTHAMPTON, April 24.—Wind S.E.—Sailed—Tas-
man, for Kurrachee.
FALMOUTH, April 24.—Wind S.E.—Arrived—Black-
ness, from Savannah for Hull. Sailed—Little Lucy,
steamer, for Bahia.

NEWPORT, April 24.—Wind S E.—Arrived—Ternandia,
from London for Hong Kong; Olivia, from London for
Sydney. Sailed—Zodaic, for Mauritius; Statesman, for
Rio Janeiro.

WATERFORD, April 23.—Wind S.E.—Sailed—Erin, for
Quebec.

CARDIFF, April 24.—Wind S.E.—Sailed—Lord Stanley,
for Melbourne.

OFF DOVER April 24.—Arrived—John G. Coster, from
Sunderland for New York.

(EY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)
LIVERPOOL, Monday Morning.

Wind E., rain.
Arrived, April 24.—Ganges, from Pensacola; I. A. U.,
I.om Bilboa; Owe* Jones, from Rouen.

(BY SUBMARINE AND BRITISH TELEGRAPH.)
GRAVESEND, Monday Morning.
Wind southerly ; tide, three hours' ebb ; weather cloudy.
Arrived, April 24.—Decision, from Antwerp ; Perlan,
from Friedriekshall ; Johanna, from Dantsic.
Arrived, April 25.—Sarah, from Dunkirk; Ida Berun-
dina, from Groningen ; Caledonia, from Rotterdam ; Cactus,
from Dantsic ; Countess of Lonsdale, from Hamburg.
Sailed,!April 25.—Farentheit, for Konigsberg ; Stork, for
Lisbon.

DEAL, Monday Morning.
Wind S., moderate, with rain.
Passed—Her Majesty's ship Dee, for Portsmouth; Morn-
ing Star, for Bombay.
Anchored—Gandreda, for Adelaide.

LOVE, JEALOUSY, AND ATTEMPTED MURDER.—
The Court of Assizes of the Ardennes three days ago tried
a peasant named Haguette, of Flize, for an attempt at Mur-
der. Twelve years back, when ho was only 17 years of age,
he paid remarkable attention to a little girl named Lebas,
then only 12 years of age, daughter of a farmer of the village,
and as they both grew older he began to regard her as his
future wife. For some time the girls's parents made no
objection to his visiting her, but when some months back he
began to talk of marriage they resolved to break off with
him because he was idle, and because also, the girl being
destined to come into possession of some property, they
thought that she might aspire to a person in a better
station of society. The girl herself, though she had readily
received the young man's addresses, consented without
difficulty to reject him. Being much attached to the girl,
he was plunged into despair at this decision,. and con-
stantly waylaid her for the purpose of supplicating her to
accept him as her lover, but she always refused. He made
repeated threats of vengeance against her and her family,
but they were not regarded. At length, oa the 6th March
last, a gendarme of the neighbouring village, whom the
parents had selected as the girl's husband, paid her a visit;
and whilst he was in the house, Haguette, in a state of great
agitation, flung open the window, and cried out, "You
shall regret this I" The next day the girl ascended to a
hayloft to take some hay for the oxen; the prisoner followed
her unobserved into the loft, carrying with him a double-
barrelled gun, and suddenly clasping her round the waist,
he implored her to fly with him. She refused ;he repeated
his prayer, and intimated that if she did not comply with
it, he would kill her. The girl, however, broke from him,
and he fired the gun at her twice, without, however, hitting
her. The girl's mother, however, who at that moment
happened to enter the hayloft, was slightly wounded in the
hand by some slugs from the second discharge. The man
took to flight, but was afterwards captured. In his defence
all that he could say was, that he was maddened byloveand jealousy. The jury declared him guilty, with extenu-
ating circumstances, and the Court sentenced him to seven
years' hard labour.—French Paper.
COST OF CEILING PAINTING.—Sir Peter Paul
Rubens received for his painting of the Plafond, at the
Banqueting House, Whitehall, the sum of £4,000. The
space covered by this painting is about 400 yards, so that
he was paid nearly £lO a yard. Sir James Thornhill, the
first Englishman who received knighthood for his ability in
art, was paid only £3 a yard for the laborious work on the
ceiling of Greenwich Hospital, and only £1 a yard for paint-
ing the ornaments on the walls. " The Duke of Montague,"
says Sir James Thornhill, in his memorial to the commis-
sioners for building the hospital, "paid Monsieur Rosso,
for his saloon, £2,000 and kept an extraordinary table for
him his friends, and servants, for two years, while the
work was doing, at an expense estimated at £5OO per
annum." Signor Verrio was paid for the whole palaces of
Windsor and Hampton Court ceilings, sides, and back stairs
at Bs. a foot, which is £3 12s. a yard, exclusive of gilding,
had wine daily allowed to him, lodgings in the palace, and
when his eye-sight failed him, a pension of £2OO per annum,
and an allowance of wine for life. Signor Rim had of the
Duke of Bedford, £l,OOO for painting three rooms ; for the
little chapel at Bulstrode, £6OO ; from Lord Burlington, for
his staircase, £7OO ; Signor Pellegrini, of the Duke of Port-
land, for work in his house, £BOO, and for a small picture
over a chimney-piece, £5O ; of the Earl of Burlington= for
the sides of his hall, 200. Other instances might be given
to show the large amount of employment this now compara-
tively unused description of house-deceratiou afforded to
artists of ability.-I'/if

General Gunckel has appealed against the con-
demnation to death pronounced on him by the Criminal
Court of the Ha, fie,
The Swedis ti war corvette Lagerbjelke, Capt. In
de P..,eton, arrived at Cherbourg two days ago from Gibraltar
0.,n the way to Carlscrona.
The Minister of the Interior of the Grand Duchy
of Baden has just informed the Archbishop of Friburg that
the Government has authorised the meeting of the Catholic
Associations of Germany, which is this year to take place
at Friburg.
ROYAL COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS. —At the Comitia
Majora, held on Saturday, the 23d inst., the following gen-
tlemen were admitted licentiates of the college, under the
recently enacted by-laws :—Dr. William Sall, Army Medi-
cal Department; Dr. Henry Osborn, Southampton; Dr.
James Russell, Birmingham ; Pr. Robert Stephenson,
Belfast ,• Dr. Thomas Jervis, Connaught-square ; Dr. John
Richard Wardell, Mornington-road, Regent's-park ; Dr.
Richard Budd, Barnstaple.
APOTHECARIES'-HALL.—The following are the
names of the gentlemen who passed their examination in the
science and practice of medicine, and received certificates to
practise, on Thursday, April 21:—Ferdinand Mikisch, 141,
Great Suffolk-street, Borough, Southwark ; Jas. Hochee,
East Grinstead, Sussex; Richard Whish Brigstocke, Mil-
ford, Pembrokeshire ; Curtis James Bird, Red River, Hud-
son's Bay ; Charles Henry Drake ; Newbold Pickford,
Manchester ; George Luke Priddle, Poplar, London ;
Francis Hepworth, Crofts Bank, Lancashire ; Walter Hart,
185, Church-street, Bethnal-green. The following gentle-
men also on the same day passed their first examination :
Joseph May, Stoke, Devonport, Devon; John Cockcroft,
Middleham, Yorkshire ; Matthew Algernon Adams, Mar-
gate, Kent; Joseph Brettell, Dudley; John Erskine Chal-
mers, Hull, Yorkshire.
ILLNESS OF THE BISHOP OF ROCHESTER. —We
deeply regret to learn that the Lord Bishop of Rochester,
who we recently stated had become convalescent, has had
a relapse ; and that the illness of the right re-v. prelate has
been of so serious a character as to excites the fears of his
family and that large circle of friends so warmly attached
to him. Prayers for his recovery were offered up in Chelms-
ford Church on Palm Sunday, and the clergy throughout
the diocese will rejoice to learn that the venerable prelate,
who has presided over them with firmness but fatherly
affection, is likely to be restored to them, as the last account
from the palace is that his lordship is much better.—Chef ns-
ford Chronicle of Good Friday.
CONSOLIDATION OF STATUTES.—The present Go-
vernment, through their law officers, have brought in bills
for consolidating the statute law of England and Ireland in
the case of criminal writings, malicious injuries, coinage
offences, personation, forgery, offences against the person,
and larceny. As a matter of course, these bills will have to
be renewed on the assembling of tho new Parliament at
end of May or the commencement of June.
RECIPROCITY DUES.—In the year 1858 there was
paid by Government, under the reciprocity treaties, 1,11,747
to the Hull Trinity-house for harbour dues and 'pilotage,
£3,355 to the Hull corporation for the same se-.-vice, and
£6,337 to the Hull Dock Company, as compos .tion. in liea
of dues. In Newcastle, £B,BlB was paid to the Trinity-
house for pilotage, £5,222 to the corporaticra for town dues,
and smaller sums below £l,OOO to the Tri;Lity-house and free
hostmen for lights, local dues, and anelorage • £8,510 was
paid to the pilots at Liverpool, and about £2,550 to the bal-
last corporation of Dublin for tonnage dues and various
other claims. The sums received by the other ports on tha
list, about 20 in number, in no case exceeds £1,000; and the
aggregate of the sums paid is £49,393. The total amount
paid under the reciprocity treaties up to the end of 1858 has
been £1,125,097.

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MANSLAUGHTER,—An act of Parliament was
passed in the late session, which received the Royal assent
on Tuesday, to enable coroners in England to admit to bail
persons charged with manslaughter. The act provides that
in every case in which a coroner's jury finds a verdict of
manslaughter against any person, the coroner or deputy be-
fore whom the inquest was taken may accept bail with good
and sufficient sureties for his appearance to take his trial,
and thereupon the person, if in custody of any officer, or in
gaol under a warrant of commitment by such coroner, is to
be discharged. A recognisance is to be taken in the form set
forth in the act. Further, the act provides that any time
after all the depositions of witnesses have been taken, every
person against whom any coroners jury may have found a
verdict of manslaughter is to be entitled to have from the
persons having custody thereof copies of the depositions on
which the verdict has been found on payment of a reason-
able sum for the same, not exceeding the rate of lid. for every
folio of 90 words. The act is the 22 of Victoria, cap. 33.
I !NEW Acr ON EVIDENCE BY COMMISSION.--An
Act of Parliament has just been printed to provide for tak •
ing evidence in suits and proceedings pending before tri-
bunals in her Majesty's dominions in places out of the
jurisdiction of such tribunals. The superior courts at West-
minster and Dublin, the Court of Session in Scotland, and
the Supreme Court in any colony or possession, and any
judge of the courts, and the judges of a colony, &c., who
may be appointed for the purpose, are to have authority
under this Act. A commission for the examination of
witnesses out of the jurisdiction in relation to any suit
pending before any court or judge having autho-
rity under this Act. The expenses of -witnesses are to be
paid, and for false evidence the penalty is perjury. The
witnesses may refuse to criminate themselves or to produce
documents. The Lord Chancellor, with the assistance of
the judges, is to make rules to carry out the provisions of
the Act.

A case of interest to persons who give public per-
formances or exhibitions in the country was three days ago
submitted to the Tribunal of Commerce of Valenciennes.
The director of a travelling company of comedians in whose
district the town is comprised claimed from Mlle. Anguinet,
who gave sleight of hand performances in the summer at
the Pre Catelan at Paris, the fifth of the receipts obtained
for performances given by her at Valenciennes in March
last ; and he insisted that royal ordinances of 1814, 1815,
and 1824 clearly justified the pretension. But Mlle. An-
guinet contended that by a proper interpretation of the ordi-
nances in question, a director could only claim the fifth of
the receipts of a public performance given in a town where
his company was actually performing--and she showed
that when she had given her perfonnances he was not in the
town, and the theatre was closed. The tribunal, taking that
view of the case, rejected the action. and ordered the direc-
tor to pay Mlle. Anguinet 50fr. damages for having sub-
jected her to inconvenience by causing two nights' receipts
of her performances to be seized.
A LUDICROUS INCIDENT.—In a market town not
100 miles distant from Holt, Norfolk, an incident occurred
on Good Friday last, illustrating very remarkably the dif-
ference in the talent required for a Cambridge B.D. and a
preacher of the gospel. The parish rector, after reading the
morning service, having changed his robes, ascended the
pulpit, when lot horror of horrors 1 the sermon which had
been so carefully selected was not in his pocket. The rec-
tory being too far distant to admit of sending for another
sermon, he returned to the vestry, and, not making his
appearance, was sought for by the parish clerk, in whose
company he presently issued, clad again in his priestly
robes of surplice, &c., and with hurried steps returned to
the altar, and commenced reading the ante-communion
service, concluding his labours with the prayer for the
whole church militant. The occurrence of such a scene
would have been ludicrous, but for the painful reflection
that the system was still unreformed which permitted
men unqualified for their office to be thrust as teachers
upon the people, and upon whom their Master's " agony
and bloody sweat, his cross and passion, and precious death
and burial," fail in influence, creating no spontaneous
audible echo in their dull hearts; but reminding their
congregations of the exclamation of the prophet—" His
watchmen are blind ; they are all ignorant, they are all
dumb dogs, they cannot bark."

EXTENSIVE FIRE IN FINSBURY.—On Friday, in
addition to the fire at Deptford, which destroyed so much
property, three others took place in different
.parts of the
metropolis. The most serious of the whole was in Finsbury-
street, Finsbury-square, the property of Mr. W.Breadstreet,
box manufacturer. The misfortune commenced in a range
of manufacturing premises nearly 50 feet long, and which
contained a costly stock in trade, some finished and some
partially so. The moment the discovery was made, an
alarm was given, and messengers were dispatched in diffe-
rent directions to call the engines. In a space of time
almost incredibly brief sundry engines of the London
Brigade attended, but the fire had previously obtained
such a strong hold that it was attacking with full
vigour the premises of Mr. Harman, and the houses
numbered respectively 3,4, 5, and 6, in Finsbury-
street, which were all let out in tenements. So fearful an
appearance did the scene present, that there appeared
at one period not the least chance of saving any building
near. -The engines of the brigade, under Mr. Fogo, the
chief officer of the A district, were set to work, but in spite
of the exertions of the firemen, the conflagration could not
be subdued until the workshops of Mr. Breadstreet were
burned out, and the five other houses severely damaged by
firej_water, and hasty removal.
EASTER EXCIIRSIONS.—Express trains of the
South Eastern Railway, at cheap fares, economising the time
and money of the excursionist, afford him the opportunity
of spending a few hours on either Easter Sunday or Mon-
day, at the most attractive places on our sea-coast,
as well as the ether accustomed haunts of the Lon-
doner. Dover, Ramsgate, Margate, Hastings, Canterbury,
TunbridgeWells, Aldershot, Cam, Reading, Box Hill, and
various places in these directions are rendered accesible
for the day by cheap excursion trains, or for longer periods
by the special arrangements in connection with return
tickets. The South-Western Company afford every facility
for the conveyance, at low fares, of the metropolitans to the
various attractive spots along the banks of the Thames and
to many inland picturesque places to which their system
of. railways extends. Not the least attractive of these
trains are those which are advertised to run to Windsor,
Twickenham, Richmond, Kew, and Hampton Court ; the
Isle of Wight, Portsmouth, 'Winchester, and the Channel
Islands. The Great Northern issue, for the holidays, day
tickets at cheap rates to all important stations on their line ;
and the Great Western have issued a liberal programme,
which offers every convenience for travelling to the many
beautiful scenes traversed by their railway. The Eastern
Counties and Brighton Companies also run excursion trains
at cheap rates.
AFFIDAVITS BY COMMISSION.—Among the late
acts was one to enable the judges to appoint commissioners
within ten miles of London and in the isle of Man and the
Channel Islands, to administer oaths in common law, and
to authorise the taking, in the country, of bail in error, and
recognisances and bail on the revenue side of the Exchequer.
By an act of Charles 11. commissions were granted by the
judges to administer oaths in proceedings in the superior
courts of common law, but such commissions were not
granted to persons residing within ten miles of the city of
London, except to the clerks of the common law judges.
The act states that the convenience of suitors and witnesses
or deponents would be much promoted, expense saved, and
the business of the courts expedited and facilitated by tar-
thorisino• a certain cumber of attorneys of the courts prac-
tising in different parts of London and its neighbourhood,
and other fit and proper persons, to administer oaths elndto
pro-
ceedings in such courts. The judges are
now empowered
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likewise empowered to appoint commissionersAi for the Isle
made are to be read and
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ments. The provisions of the
Exchequer by thepreex-
tendedsent
act, to the revenue side of the
cap. 4, as to bail in error and recognisances, are
act, in the following clause :—" Be it therefore further
enacted, that the said recited act and all and every provi-
sion therein contained, and also all commissions heretofore
issued in pursuance thereof and now in force, shall apply
and extend to and authorise the taking of bail in error
and the recognisances of bail in error in all actions and
suits commenced in either of the said courts (of common
law), in like manner as in the case of special bail in actions
and suits depending in either of the said courts, to all intents
and purposes whatsoever; and the said act, and all and
every the provisions therein contained, and also all com-
missions heretofore issued in pursuance thereof under the
seal of the Court of Exchequer, shall also apply and extend
to and authorise the taking of all recog,nisancei of every
kind, and all bail, as well in error as otherwise, on the
revenue ado of the Court of Exchequer,"