The Sun.
London, England, 1857-09-24 00:00:00

BELFAST.

There is no news of the least importance from
the proclaimed districts this morning. .The Go-
vernment inquiry drags its slow length-along, and
nothing has occurred to alter the opinion that
many a week must elapse before the report of the
two commissioners shall enlighten the public as to
the originating causes of the Belfast savageries.

The Sardinian Minister of War has issued a circular,
prohibiting for the future the dinners which the officers
of a garrison about to leave have hitherto been in the
habit of giving to the officers of the troops which are
to replace them. The reason assigned for this measure
is, that it weighs heavily on such officers as have not
ample means at their disposal.
The brig-of-war Railleur, which has just sailed from
Brest for New Caledonia, bad on board several convicts
sentenced to transportation, who are to be landed at the
Island of Pines, where a provisional penal settlement
has bden established.
The French Government has received despatches from
Admiral Rigault de Genouilly, dated Hong-kong, the
Bth ult. The admiral announces that he was about to
make a reconnaissance in the direction cf Shanghai.
ATtie French frigate Pomone anchored at the Piraeus
on the Bth inst., cowing from Syra. On her arrival the
flag of Admiral Bouet-Villausuez was saluted by the
Russian frigate Polkau and the Austr:an brig of war
Elussard. Three Russian Bere.v corvettes were at the
Dardanelles on the 15th inat., waiting for a firman to
enter the Black Sea. These vessels are, it is said, to
serve as guardships in the ports designated by the treaty

of Paris.
Tile Esstern of France Railway Company are adver-
tising Sunday excursion trains between Paris arid the
camp at Chiltern,.
FOREIGN BONDS.—At the meeting of, holders of Vene-
zuelan Bonds yesterday, a series of resolutions strongly
condemning the conduct of the Venezuelan government
in the recent negotiations, were passed, and it was
further resolved that measures shall he immediately
taken to formally represent to Lord Clarendon the un-
fortunate position of the bondholders, with a view to
induce the English government to take the matter up.
BRUTAL MURDER OF AN INFANT.—Yesterday mornin
a man went to Mr. John Welis'e, pawnbroker, Broad-
street, St. Giles's, when in one of the boxes he found a
bundle, which on untieing ho was horrified at discovering
the body of a full-grown female child. Mr. Wm. Ben-
nett, surgeon, on examining the body, found marks of
violence on the head and other parts of the body, suffi-
cient to show it came to an untimely end.
CRIMINAL OFFENDERS (SCOTLAND). VOIUtRiROIIO
tables, showing the state of crime in the various districts
of Scotland in the year 1856, have just been presented
to Parliament by command of her Majesty. The num-
ber of persons charged with offences in Scotland in 1856,
exhibits an increase as compared with 1855 of 83, or
2'2863 per cent. The proportion of cenvictions to com-
mittals in 1855 was 75.152 per cent. ; in 1856 it was
74'3873 per cent. ; while the proportion of acquittals to
committals in 1855 was 24 848 per cent., and in 1856 •
25.6127 per cent. The principal increase is in the
offences against the person and against property, while
forgery and offences against the currency have very
considersbly diminished.
MALTA, Sept. 18.—On the 16-b, after four months'
dry hot weather, Malta was blessed with a good shower
of rain, accompaneed with thunder and lightning. The
rain has done the country a deal of good and cooled the
air. A ridiculous affair took place during the storm.
A. lady, famed for her beauty and perfection in dress,
was out taking a walk when the storm overtook her.
Like most ladies now-a-days she indulges in a balloon
sort of petticoats, but the heat of the weather precluded
the possibility of her wearing the usual hoops, so she
had a very skilfully male petticoat of steel. When the
lightning began to play about her she became alarmed
lest her steel petticoat shoull attract the electric fluid,
and.rather than risk her life, she, sans cerentoni4, let go
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jesty's ship Coquette arrived from Constantinople, last
from Smyrna. She has been relieved at Constantinople
by the Osprey. Commander Glyn, of the Coquette, has
had the misfortune to break his caller bone, but is doing
well. Lord Lyons, with the fleet, is expected off the
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will proceed to Corfu, and return early in October.
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