The Sun.
London, England, 1857-06-08 00:00:00

CARMARTHENSHIRE.

Mr. David Pugh has issued the following address
to the electors of Carmarthenshire :
Gentlemen,—l have been requested by a large and
influential body of the electors of this county, to come
forward to supply the vacancy in your representation
caused by the lamented death of Mr. S. Davies, our late
member, and our friend ; for who that ever knew him
did not feel that in that sincere, that pure, that amiable
heart, he possessed a firm and constant friend
I have no Parliamentary career to appeal to ; but like
him, whose death we now deplore, I bare had the ho-
nour of serving for some years among you as chairman of
the Quarter Sessions. The friendships which I have con-
tracted here have known uo abatement, no change ;
and I have been brought into communication with all
classes of the community.
I retain the same moderate Conservative opinions
which I have ever held ; but none knew better than
yourselves how of late years political parties have been
mingled together, and the lines which separated them
have become less distinct ; while more liberal feelings.
have reigned in all hearts. It seems therefore to be now
more than ever necessary that those who are sent for
the first time to the House of Commons, not promising
a blind or undeviating adherence to any chief or party in
the State, should be prepared to decide on question■ as
they come before them according to their conscientious
conviction.
In common with the great majority of my country-
men, I admire the policy of Lord Palmerston, which in
a time of difficulty and danger, upheld the ancient glory
of the kingdom ; and I approve the determination, since
evinced in the Chinese waters, to cause the British flag
to be respected in every quarter of the globe.
The question of church rates I have long desired to
see settled ; and with that view I wish the subject to be
taken up by the Government of the day ; nor do I
think that the cause of general education, which all good
men have so much at heart, is likely to be brought to a
successful termination, if left in the hands of individual
members.

To any measure of Parliamentary Reform which the
lapse of time may have rendered necessary, which shall
propose to extend the right of voting to men of educa-
tion, intelligence, or wealth, I shall be prepared to give
impartial consideration ; and to enforce all economy in
the hands of the departments of the State, which is con•
sistent with good service, and with the maintenance of
the national defences. _ _ _ -

I wish that a contest on this occasion could have been
spared to the county ; that around the grave of our be-
loved and lamented friend all might have been peaceful
and tranquil as the death he died ; and no bitter or
unkind word be heard. But encouraged as I am by
promises of support, I have no right and no power to
recede.

The shortness of the time intervening between this
and the nomination day will render it impossible for me
to pay my respects to you personally • but I shall never
be indifferent to the discharge of the duties yon may
impose on me. I can conceive for myself no higher
earthly honour than that of serving you, no more noble
employment.

IRELAND.

DUBLIN, SATURDAY MOZNING.
THE DIVORCE BILL.

The Tablet of this day announces that the Catho-
lics, under the direction of the Cardinal Archbishop,
are " making some efforts at last to arrest the pro-
gress of that detestable Bill by which the Queen's
Ministers propose to legalise adultery." After a
considerable expenditure of ink in order to make
it apparent that the marriage of Napoleon and Jo-
sephine was not dissolved by the authority of the
Holy See, the Tablet proceeds to denounce Lord.
Cranwerth's Bill as the embodiment of all that is
vile and repugnant to the Christian religion, con-
cluding in these choice terms :

"It 'is not in the 19th century that the natural man
first felt the want of getting rid of his wife ; he has tried
it before, and probably in every century of the church's
history, hut he could not do it. The religion he professed
was against him, and he was forced to submit to the in-
exorable law, ' Let no man separate.' Lords Lyndhurst
and Cranworth are not the first lawyers who kicked
against the Jaw of Christ, but their predecessors were
not so stupid as to say that any earthly tribunal could
dissolve a marriage once complete. Henry VIII., in
the fury of his lust, did not go such lengths as these ;
he always contrived that his marriages should have a
flaw in them, for that Royal adulterer was not so Intel.
lectually corrupted as to imagine that he could be the
husband of two wives both living at the same time. H•
was a better theologian than the sect he founded, and w•
must regret to-day that his spiritual children do not
better observe the principles of their father."

STIRLING, JUNE 2.—SIR COLIN CAMPBELL.—Tbe
veteran general arrived here from Perth yesterday,
and took up his residence at Campbell's Golden Lima
Hotel. The general was, in the course of the day, eii.
gaged in looking over and inspecting the various books
which were submitted to him in the Castle. In the
afternoon, about half-past four o'clock, the companies
of the depots here were inspected so far as regards their
furnishings and equipments. The general also visited
the hospital, and remained for a short time. This morn.
ing, at a quarter-past five o clock, the several companies
of the battalion were ordered out on the esplanade,
when the gallant general put "The Old Black Watch"
through their facings as of old. It affords US muck
gratification to say that the general was pleased to state
to the commanding officer, that he was particularly
pleased, not only with the general bearing of the cotn-
panies, but with the whole departments of the garrison.
—North British Mail.
CRIME IN FRAHM—The Court of Asedizceis
Guillemet.
the
Rhone, three days ago, tried a peasant n
of St. Igny de Vers, for the manslaughterae oTal hisainaoentP
aged about 14, so far back as August, 1853. On tb:
10th of that month it was noticed that the boy had dis-
appeared, and nothing was seen h ofuntil
the 19tb, when his dead body wasorfouneadrinsn himanefxt
state of putrefaction in a hedge near his father's' house.
It was not possible, from the decomposed state of
the body, to see whether or not it bore traces
of violence, but as the man had for a long time treated
the boy with great brutality, little doubt was enter-
tained by the neighbours of his having murdered Jilin.
Strange to say, however, no investigation was insti•
tuted, and nothing was thought of the matter until
February last, when the man, having been arrested on
some other charge, of which, however, be turned out to
be innocent, manifested such profound terror at the idea
that his arrest might cause inquiries to be made respect-
ing the death of his son tbat the matter was investigated.
The result was that a labeurer named Chuzaville came
forward and said that on the 9th of August, 1853, he
had seen the boy lying beneath a tree covered with
blood, and that the boy stated. in answer to his in-
quiries that his ,father had
pat beaten him most
cruelly; also that the next day as be (Chuzeville) wai
passing near the house of Guillemet, he saw the boy
perched in a cherry-tree eating cherries, and that his
father, having come up at the moment, threw a large
piece of wood, which striking the boy on the head caused
him to fall senseless on the ground ; that the father
then taking him up in his arms carried him into his
house. This was the last time the boy was seen alive,
so that there was no doubt that the blow bad killed him.
The jury declared the prisoner guilty, but with extenu-
ating circumstances, aad the Court sentenced him to six
years' hard labour.

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