The Sun.
London, England, 1850-07-13 00:00:00

ITALY

IMPORTANT FROM
IRELAND.

(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)

DUBLIN, JULY 12.

[We have received the following from W. Et
Smith and Son, 1, Eden-quay, Dublin :—]

NORTH OF IRELAND-12.m OF JULY-
AFFRAY BETWEEN ORANGEMEN AND
THE POLICE, CLOSE 'lO THE TOWN OF

BELFAST.

Last night (Thursday), about twelve o'clock, a
great number of persons assembled near Malone-
turnpike, moving towards the town. The police,
though numbering only five, under Constable Hind,
prepared to meet the crowd of several hundreds,
and, as they came through the turnpike, the police
noticed a procession in the act of forming, headed
by a young lad, beating a large drum, decorated
with orange lilies. The police arrested the youth,
when the mob hooted and pelted them with stones,
and endeavoured to rescue the prisoner. The
with the prisoner and the drum, reached the barrack,
which was at once attacked, and all the windows in
front broken. The crowd would listen to neither en-
treaties nor threats, the police loading their carbines
and fixing their bayonets without avail ; when at last
the police were compelled, in self-defence, to fire first
one shot, which being unheeded, a volley of four
more was fired, on which two young men-( William
Walker, 17, bearer of the drum, and William Ander-
son, one of the rescuing party) fell badly wounded.
An investigation before the Mayor and Mr. Tracey,
11.. M., is to be held at the police-office this day
(Friday).—Chronicle.

SUICIDE OF WALTER WATTS.
This morning the greatest excitement prevailed in
Newgate amongst the turnkeys and others, when it
became known that Walter Watts, the late 1 ssee of the
Olympic Theatre, had, at three o'clock this morning
committed suicie:e by hanging. But a few hours
before hai Donovan terminated his existence in pre-
cisely a similar manner, and during the day had both
the deceased received their sentence for their separate
crimes from the same judge, and in the same court. It
appears that Walter Watts had, during his confinement
in Newgate, been so ill, that for the last few weeks be
had been an inmate of the ward infirmary. In the same
room were six other prisoners. It also appeared that
the unfortunate man had been lately troubled with diar-
rhoea, and that ho was nightly in the habit of getting
up and going to the water-closet. In order
not to catch cold be had always a dressing-
gown and pair of slippers ready to put on. At
about three o clock this morning the person who slept
next to him was astonished to find the deceased out of
bed and his gown and slippers in their usual place.
Thinking something might have happened, having heard
Watts say how severe the sentence was that he received
that day, he went down to the water-closet, where, to his
horror, be discovered the unfortunate man quite dead,
having hanged himself in precisely a similar manner to
that of Donovan, to the bar of the cell window by a
piece of rope and his cravat. Ile was immediately cut
down, and Mr. M'Murdo, the prison-surgeon, called,
but it was too late, the unfortunete deceased having
breathed his last an hour before being discovered. The
excitement which prevails in the neighbourhood is in-
tense, and the circumstance of two prisoners hanging
themselves in one day requires looking into.

CABINET COUNCIL•—(TIIIS DAY.)—A Cabinet
Council was held at the Foreign•otfice to-day, at
twelve o'clock. There were present the Marquis of
Lansdowne, Lord John Russell, the Earl of Carlisle,
the Earl of Mint(); Earl Grey, Viscount Palmerston,
Sir George Grey, Sir F. T. Baring, S r John C.
ifilahouse, the Right Hon. Fox Maule, and the Right
Hon. Henry Labouchere. Several of the Ministers,
after the breaking up of the Council, Froceeded to
Buckingham Palace, where a Privy Council had been
summoned for three o'clock. _

DIRECT EXETER, PLYMOUTH AND DEVONPORT
RAlLWAY.—Yesterday the Master in Chancery, Sir W.
Home, made a call of 115/. upon each of the 48 members of
the provisional committee to this undertaking, to pay off
the expenses already incurred in ihe process of winding-
up the concern, and independent of the payment of its out-
standing debts, which will have to be liquidated by a se-
cond call.

BRITISH ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH COMPANY.--.ThiS
company's Bill passed safely through the Committee of the
Lords last evening.
ROTTERDAM.—It is announced in the advices from
Rotterdam, that the Second Chamber of the States
General have sanctioned by a majority of 50 against 15,
the Ministerial projects abolishing all differential duties, be-
sides the transit duties and the Rhine dues; as also the im-
portant change in the navigation-laws, according to which
foreign vessels can now obtain the Dutch flag by paying a
registration duty of four per cent. ad valorem. These pro-
jects will soon be submitted to the approval of the First
Chamber, and to the sanction of his Majesty the King; after
which they will be carried into effect with as little delay as
possible.

ADULT DEAF AND DUMB INSTITUTION.—Last
evening a meeting of the friends and subscribers to the above
institution was held in the board-room, 26, Red Lion-square,
Bloomsbury. The routine business having been disposed of,
a warm tribute was paid to the memory of the late president
of the institution, the Duke of Cambridge, to whose liberality
and ready personal exertion much of the progress and
prosperity of the charity was indebted. His Royal Highness,
it was observed, had already warmly advocated the institu•
tion, and had conseuted to preside over the ensuing anniver-
sary festival. The meeting expressed its deep regret in the
demise of his Royal Highness—a loss that would be severely
felt by many public charities, and equally by the public at
Lugo. The liberal donation of thirty guineas from his Grace
the Archbishop of Canterbury and the trustees of the Chol-
mondeley charities having been acknowledged, the meeting
separated.

and the
ALARMING COACH ACCIDENT.—The Retaliator
coach, returning from Writtle races on Tuesday night, on its
way to Rumford, was overturned near Shenfield toll-gate,
passengers, about twenty in number, were precipi-
tatedi with great violence to the ground. Though many
sustained bruises, happily not a bone was broken. The
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*vehicle was shattered, Chebilford Chronicle,

The Advocate CERNIISCHI, who for the last twelve-
month has been confined in the dungeons of Rome to
gratify the truly sacredotal hatred of the priests and
cardinals, has at length been released, after having
been twice tried on the same charges before a French
court-martial and twice acquitted.
The Official Gazette of Naples, of the 7th instant,
says, the note of the English Minister relative to the
demand for
.indemnities for the losses of English
subjects had been received and laid before the Com-
mittee appointed for investigating such claims, and
that the Ministers of Prussia, England, France, and
Austria, bad been invited to a conference on the sub-
' jest, at which it was resolved that the matter should
be arranged by peaceful negotiation, and that there
is no fear of other measures being resorted to.
The Senate of Turin, in its sitting of the 64),
voted by a majority of 48 to 15 the Bill already
passed by the Chamber of Deputies, granting a
credit of 100,000 f. for the relief of Italian emi-
grants.—ln its sitting of the same day, the
Chamber of Deputies, after some discussion, voted
the order of the day- on the question addressed
to the Cabinet by Signor Gavolli on the subject of
the artillery of the national guard of Genoa. The
Minister of Agriculture and Commerce afterwards
presented two Bills, one for the general reorganiza-
tion of differential duties, and the other on navigation
dues.

The Giornale di Roma of the 2d states that Cardi-
nal Altieri having convoked the provincial council of
the province of Rome, according to the law of July
.5, 1831, that body assembled on the Ist, in his palace,
and after a short speech addressed to the Cardinal as
president of the province, immediately proceeded to
business, which related chiefly to the good adminis-
tration and direction of the interests of the province.
The Aldan Gazette of the 6th officially announces
that the great electro-telegraphic bne of the Austrian
empire will in a few days be extended to Milan, and
will be open to the use of the Government as well as
that of the public.
The Duke of Castiglione returned from Vienna
on the 4th to Florence, and immediately resumed the
portfolio of Foreign Affairs. The Grand Duke is
expected back shortly.