The Sun.
London, England, 1857-05-09 00:00:00

THE COUNT DE CHAMBORD.

The France-Centrale of Blois publishes the fol-
lowing letter addressed by the Count de Chambord
to General Count de la Rochejaquelein on the oc-
casion of the death of }his sister-in-law :
" Venice, March 17.

"In reply to the letter by which you 'have charged
.the Duke de Levis to announce to me the serious loss
you have sustained, I am anxious to express to you
myself, my dear General, all the part I take in your
affliction, and in your fraternal regret. Why could I
not have been a witness of the great homage
which has just been paid to your venerated sister,
and in her person to the whole of La Vends; e.
I wish I could have heard the magnificent tribute of
just praises paid to so exemplary a life by the successor
of St. Hilary, who added to all these honours the
authority of his presence and the seal of his eloquence.
I could not read without deep emotion the affecting
recital of the funeral solemnity ; I joined from a distance
in this family mourning, conducted by the first pastor
of the diocese, shared by a faithful people, and become
in a moment for France a source of public affliction.
My mind and heart accompanied to her last dwell-
ing, with the crowd which followed her coffin,
that high-minded woman, the wife, the daughter, and
the sister of those heroes and martyrs who fought so
valiantly, and whose generous blood was shed SO la-
vishly in one of the most sacred and most glorious
struggles that ever took place. I am anxious also to
again express to you, on this occasion, my esteem and
my lively gratitude to the illustrious name of La Roche-
jaquelein, so nobly borne by you, and which, I doubt
not, will revive in your grand-nephew Julien. Tell
him from me that such is my firm confidence, and I am
sure that I shall not be mistaken. Be, under these
melancholy circumstances, my interpreter to him and
to the rest of your family, whose invariable devoted
ness I have known for so many year:. Rely, my dear
General, on my gratitude and my constant friendship.
(Signed) " HENRI."

ROYAL BRITISH BANK.—A further divid end of 2i. 6d.
in the pound will be paid next Wednesday.
ELECTION LOGIC.—" I tell you wot ; the Haristo-
cracy is a set of harrogant, parse-droud hupstarts ; and
wot is wuss, boftentimes no better than paupt

REVERSE OF FORTIINE.—One of the country papers
states that among the competitors for the clerkship of
the Abbeyleix Poor-law Union was a gentleman who
had spent S,OCW. in contesting the representation of the
Queen's County with Sir Charles Coote, one of the pre-
sent members, and was only defeated by a majority of
11 votes ; he was, moreover, a magistrate of the county,
and a Master of Arts in Trinity College, Dublin. None
of those circumstances, however, were of any avail, and
the appointment thus coveted was won by a person in
comparatively humble life.
Cm OF LONDON UNION.—FRAUDS OF MANINI AND
PAUL.—The guardians of the City of London Union
have summoned the overseers of the parish of St. Ste-
phen, Coleman-street, to a special sessiou of magistrates,
to be holden at Guildhall, this day (Saturday), at eleven
o'clock precisely, to show cause Why a warrant of dis-
tress should not issue against therr goods for the sum
called for by the guardians, and which includes the de-
falcations. The question affects every ratepayer in Lon-
don, and is therefore a highly important matter.
The Austrian steam-frigate Novara, which, as already
stated, left Trieste on the 30th ult, in order to c;rcuni-
navigate the globe, is under the command of Commodore
Bernard Wullersdorf Von Urbair, and Captain Peeck,
second in command. The Novara is a vessel of 1,800
tons, and is pierced for 44 guns, but in this expedition
she carries only 30. Her total length is 350 feet, her
breadth 45 feet, and her bulwarks stand 18 feet above
the water. Her crew consists of 351 men. The
committee of scientific men she has on board is composed
of Dr. Hochstetter (geology and natural philosophy),
M.M. Trauenfeld and Zelebor (zoology), Dr Schwartz,
and a gardener, M. Jrllineck (botany), Dr. Scherzer
(ethnography, anthropology, national economy, and
commerce), and lastly, M. Selleny (painter). It should
• not be forgotten that the Novara is ordered to proceed
to China, and the captain has fill powers to negotiate a
treaty of commerce with the Celestial Empire, as soon
as we have paved the way for Austria.
Two MILLIoNs OF TONS OF SILVER.—The ocean
holds dissolved two millions of tons of silver. To
three French chemists the discovery is due. They
took gallons of water from the coast of St. Malo, a few
leagues from land, and analysed it in two ways. A
portion of the water they acted upon by the usual tests
for silver ; and the presence of the precious metal
was clearly ascertained. The remainder of the water
they evaporated, and the salt they obtained they boiled
with lead. This gave them a button of impure lead,
which they subjected to what is termed cupellation.
This rather grand word denotes a very simple process.
The button is placed upon a little tiny saucer made
of lime, and is submitted to heat sufficient to melt
lead, but not high enough to affect the silver, should
any be present. The lead soon begins to melt, and
as it melts it is sucked up by the porous little saucer
or cupel ; it grows smaller and smaller until no
lead remains, and in its place is a little brilliant speck,
far brighter than the boiling lead. The cupel is then
removed from the fire, and as it cools the red hot spark
cools too, and you have a homesopathic globule of silver,
very much like one of those small pills that druggists de-
lode smokers into buying to take away the smell of the
fragrant weed. The operation, as I have said, is very
simple, and is the ordinary mode of procuring silver from
the ore. Analyses are being made in this way every day
at the Mint. When the presence of silver is doubtful
the work is most exciting. I raw an English ore so
tested the other day, and sure enough, after a fe w
minutes of anxious watching, shone forth a bright spark
about the size of a pin's head, for which our eyes were
longing. The ore proved a very rich cne, and we shall
most likely soon hear more about it.—Dickens's louse-
hold Words.
STATISTICS OF THE LONDON POLICE FOR 1856.—1 t
appears that in all 73,240 persons were taken into cus-
tody, of whom 45,941 were tables, and 27,299 females ;
18,000 of the apprehensions were on account of drun-
kenness, 8,160 for unlawful possesien cf goods,
7,021 for simple larceny, 6,763 for common as-
saults, 2,914 for assaults on the police ; 4,303
women were taken into custody as prostitutes. The pe-
riod of life most prolific of crime is that between the
20th and 25th years. The conviction upon trial in 1856
were in the following proportions :—Uncii-r 10 years of
age, 1 ; -10 years and under 45 years, 91 ; 15 fear'
and under 20 years, 610 ; 20 years and under 25
years, 770 ; 25 years and under 30 years, 390 ;
30 years and under 40 yease, 41.0 ; 40 years
and under 50 years, 188 ; 50 years and under
60 years, 90; 60 years and upwards, 37. The commit-
tals for murder in the year 1856 were 11 ;
they were 12
in 1855, le in 1854, 7 in 1853, 11 in 184;2, 8 ire 1851,
11 in 1850,19 in 1849, 11 in 1848, and 10, in 1847. Of
the larcenies in dwelling•house- last year e my
committed by means of false keys; as many' as 21175
315 were
through doors being left open, 679 by lifting
.up
a window or breaking glass, and 31 b ent!ri_ry_
attic windows from empty houses. Aga in, 1,595
1,701. by
such larcenies were committed by lodgers,
servants, and as many as 637 by means of false messages.
The cases enumerated under the last three heads are
such as the police could hardly be expected to, prevent.
2,371 persons were reported last year to
'Gale police
as lost, and of these the police restored 1,08 In the
same period 127 wieides were committed.

1,728
2,540

874
2,398
16,417
5,990
2,097
4.002

2,010

35,062