The Sun.
London, England, 1850-03-30 00:00:00

sutler there with a piece of cord round her neck. Wit-
ness ran down stlirs and called Mr. Brown, a hatcher
living opposite, and they Loth went into the room where
she had left the prisoner. On seeing witness, she ex
claimed " The baby i 3 dead." Witness was then sent by
Mr. Brown for a surgeon; she also got a nurse, and
went for the prison' is husband.
Mr. Heauminn—What state of mind has the prisoner
exhibited latterly? Witness—During the last fortnight
she has been very low in spirits. When 1 left on
Thursday af terncon she was much depressed.
John Brown, 27, Wimbern-street, Heston, said that
on entering the back room of the first floor, he observt d
the deceased infant on the bed. The prisoner was rest-
ing against the eJge of the bed. On seeing witness the
prisoner remarked, "You hale come too soon, or me
and my baby would have been happy together." Wit-
ness then saw a piece of cord tight round the prisoner's
neck, and there was another piece round the bedstead,
the end of which she had in her haad. She was in much
mental excitement. He removed her to the front room,
where she said, " Of course I shall now be hung." Wit-
ness observed, "It is a dreadful thing." She replied,
"It is a pity we did not die together, as I am sure
I shall be hung." The child was nearly cold.
Mr. Hammun—Have you lately observed her state
of mind ? Witness—Yes, Sir. On the Wednesday
previous, I, my wife and sister, remarked that there ap-
peared a vacancy in her eye, indicative of great melan-
choly, and of insanity.
Mr. G. J. Amden, No. 1, Critchill-place, surgeon,
stated, that he had examined the deceased child, and
observed a mark on its throat, as if a cord had passed
tightly round it, which was about a sixth of an inch
in width. The child died of strangulation. There
were marks of a cord round the prisoner's throat.
He attended her at her confinement. During the last
few days she has been in a low state. The child had a
mark on his forehead and nose, which the prisoner con-
sidered was a disfiguraticn, Real which preyed upon her
mind. She was told by some persons that it um through
her fault the deceased had the mark. Ho endeavoured
occasionally to reason with her.
Policeman Collard, N 53, produced the cords.
The prisoner, who was much depressed during the in-
quiry, and who had attempted suicide at the workhouse
of Shoreditch, where she had been removed, was re-
manded.

FALL OF THE STRUCTURE FOR
THE CHINESE JUNK.—(TIIIS DAY.)
An accident of a very serious character, but fortu-
nately unattended with any loss of life, happened this
morning to a large wooden structure which has lately'
been in the course of. erection at the Essex-pier,, at the
bottom of Essex-street, Strand, for the purpose of ex-
hibiting the Chinese Junk. This building was erected
on piles driven down into the river, and was about 400
feet long, GO fret high, and about 50 broad; and one
side, the ends, and a portion of the roof, had already
been enclosed in with boards.
Throughout the night the whole shook and
trembled under the influence of the wind, which pas
very high, and about ten this morning, while half•a-
doaen workmen were engaged in securing the wood-
work, the structure fell dOwn with a loud crash. A
strong gust of wind was blowing at the time from the
east, and the piles were not strong enough to resist the
pressure occasioned by the wind acting on the whole
length of the side. Fortunately all the men escaped
unhurt, except one, who was precipitated from a con-
siderable height on the mud below, into which he sank
several feet, and another, wholve regret to say received
such injuries on his arm as to render it neces-
sary to remove him to the hospital. We un-
derstand that men have been employed on
this building nearly a month, and that the cost
of it will be about 5001. It is clearly apparent that the
piles were by no means strong or numerous enough to
bear the superincumbent weight, and, as we presume,
the wood work must have been raised either under the
supervision of the district surveyor, or with the consent
of the City corporation, there must have been consider-
able neglect on the part of the authorities. If the acci-
dent had happened at some future time, when the place
was full of visitors, a serious loss of life might have
ensued.

EASTER RECREATIONS.—Few capitals offer greater
opportunities to the intellectual holidaymaker than this vast
metropolis. The following is a list of the different edifice
ad-
and places open gratis or on payment of a small s
mission:—Museums.—Asiatic, Grafton-street; Antiquarian,
Guildhall ; British, Greet Russell-street ; College of Surgeons',
Lincoln's-inn-fields; East India Company's, Leadenhall-
street ; Geological, Somerset-house; Ilunterian College of
Surgeons', and Linnman, Soho-square; London Missionary's,
Blondeld-street, Finsbury; Missionaries' ; Saul's Alders-
gate-street ; Economic Geology, Craig's-court, 'Charing-
cross ; Royal Institution, Albermrle-street ; Roys'al SocietSomey' 's.
s,
Somerset-house ; Koval Society of Antiqukrie ;
Lincoln's-inn-fields; United Service, Scotland-yard. Bank
of England, Custom-house, Guildhall, Gresham College,
Dulwich Gallery of Paintings, Royal Mint, National Gallery,
Royal Exchange, School of Design, Somerset-house ; Trinity-
house, Tower-hill; University College, Westminster Abbey
(to some parts only) ; Westminster-hall, Woolwich Arsenal,
Greenwich Hospital, House of Commons, House of Lords,
St. James's Palace, &c.;—the above are all open free to the
public, or by tickets, which may be easily obtained on ap-
plication. Admission to the following is by payment of
C Is.
to 2s. :—Cosmorama, Regent-street; Royal Colosseum, y-
clorama and Diorama, Regent's-park. (Is.)—Madame Tus-
saud's Exhibition, Baker-street ; Burford's Panorama, and
Panorama of New Zealand, Leicester-square ; Overland Route
to India, Waterloo-place ; the Nile, the Mississippi, and
Missouri, Egyptian-hall, Piccadilly; Arctic Regions, Hyde
Park-corner; Royal Polytechnic Institution, Regent- street ; ,
,
'
Society of Arts, Adelphi. Monument and Tower of London,
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Gd. St. Paul's Cathedral, free during Divine service, 2d. any
ether time. Thames Tunnel Id., &c. Besides the above are
the St. Katharine, London, West India and East India Docks ;
the Soho, the Pantheon, Oxford-street, and other bazaars,
and numerous other places well deserving a visit—the courts
of law, &c.
FATAL CONFLICT.—We have to record an occur.
rence which has stained this hitherto peaceable county with
crime, and stamped the brand of disgrace on the townland
wherein it took place. The particulars of this fatal outrage,
which hurried a human being into eternity, took place on
Tuesday last, at Gortnaghy, within one mile of Dungiven,
on the road leading from that town to Newtownlimavady.
On the morning of Tuesday Mr. 'William Stevenson, a col-
lector of county cess and poor rates in that district, pro-
ceeded to the townland in question, accompanied by some
five or six assistants, for the purpose of seizing upon the
goods of defaulters who had not paid their county cess. After
calling at the houses of several peasons, who, although they
exhibited symptoms of hostility, nevertheless did not pro-
ceed to open violence, he at last seized upon and was
driving off the ground three cows belonging to a man named
Robert Guinn ; but before he had proceeded with them
above two hundred yards, the people rose indiscriminately,
rushed forward, armed with stones, spades, and other
deadly weapons, and closed in upon the party who were
taking away the cattle, attacking them with as much fury as
revf they had been beasts oM r. f prey whenson himself, and some of
had met to sur-
ound and destroy. St
his assistants, narrowly escaped, after being pelted with
stones; but one of them, named Thomas Andrews, who
happened to be nearest to the cows, was
was cut struck win ith a sp
ade
and and severely injured, and, in addition, the
of the head with a stone, and received another heavy blow
from a missile in the back. his assailants, having thus
and m hl-
treatedtheir unhappy victim, quietly withdrew,
own party returned, and succeeded in conveying.him to Dun-
given. Doctor Moore was promptly in attendance, for the
purpose of examining and dressing his wounds, but before
the operation was performed he had breathed his last,
having only survived about an hour from the time the at-
tack was made. A warrant has been issued by Mr. Ogilby
for the apprehension of Robert Guinn, his wife, Margaret,
and his son, Robert, who have all absconded. —Derry
Standard.
We ask advice, but we mean approbation.—Eliza
Cook's Journal.
Tun FIRE AT NAPLES.—A very curious coincidence
has happened here; the King's enormous stock of English
coals, upwards of 75,000 tons, and which is stowed in sub-
terranean caverns near the Arsenal, having shown signs of
spontaneous combustion on the very night of the outbreak
of Vesuvius. Against the advice of the chief contractor, the
King had these coals stowed here close to his palace, in-
stead of at some caverns that had been recently dis-
covered near the grotto of Possillippo, where atmospheric
air would have obtained free access to them, and ob-
viated this catastrophe. Shortly after the French revolu-
tion, when affairs in Europe were so utterly deranged, the
King feared communication with England would be cut off,
in which case his war-steamers would lie in harbour use-
less, an easy prey ; because here, as all over the Medi-
terranean ports, the steam communication is entirely de-
pendent on perfide Albion, for the means of locomotion.
The quantities of smoke that burst n
and f
these
caverns, and from under the pavement and read near
the arsenal, prevented all traffic of foot passengers ;
and as the whole is near the dockyard, and quite
in front of Vesuvius itself, the curious spectacle was pre-
sented of a mimic volcano belching forth volumes of smoke,
accompanied bit a
sulphurous overpowering stench, that
quite rivalled " the big concern over the way." Gangs of
foreats and dockyard men work night and day bringing out
this immense stock of coals, the greater part of which ap-
pears charred, resembling coke soldiers patrol the road
to prevent the appruach of the public, as there is danger from
the flames, several of the labourers having fallen down insen-
sible while exposed to them.
DIORAMA OF THE OVERLAND ROUTE TO INDIA.
—Some portions of this beautiful exhibition, which is to be
opened to the public on Easter Monday, at the Gallery of
Illustration (late Rainy's Gallery) Regent-street, were exhi-
bited to private view on Thursday, and from what we saw on
that occasion, we have no hesitation in affirming that, as a
work of art, the Diorama of the Overland Route is infinitely
superior to any moving diorama that has yet been presented
to public notice. The portions exhibited on Thursday con-
sisted of views of Gibraltar and of Malta, of a moving
Diorama of the transit across the Desert from Cairo to Suez,
of a view of the Island of Ceylon, and another of Calcutta.
The views were most effective, and as we understood from
several gentlemen present, who had performed the journey,
that they are as accurate as they are beautiful. Mr.
Stocqueler explained and commented on the exhibition as
the different views were exhibited, and his intimate know-
ledge of Oriental life, manners, and scenery renders his re-
marks exceedingly valuable, as well as interesting. Several
of the most emieent artists of the day were present, and
there was but one opinion expressed as to the merits of this
most interesting exhibition.
ASTLLY'S AMPDITHEATRE.—WE understand that
the forthcoming Easter spectacle at Astley's will transcend
anything that has hitherto been attempted even at this, the
theatre, par excellence, of spectacle. It is entitled The Four
Sons of Aymon; or the Days of Charlemagne, and the writer
has availed himself of the incidents of the legend to produce
one, perhaps, of the most splendid hippodraniatic spectacles
ever presented to the public. Several most Interesting effects
have been introduced, which are perfectly new to the stage,
and during the course of the spectacle the whole of Mr.
Batty's unrivalled stud (including camels, &c.) will be intro-
duced. After the spectacle young Hernandez, who has been
re-engaged, will appear every evening.
THE CARNIVAL.—NAPLES, FEB. 24.—Yesterday
was the last day of as stupid a carnival as could be con-
ceived. The fact is, the " the times are out of joint."
There is universal gloom, depression, and uncertainty all
over Italy, and, I may say, Europe. Every day here sinis-
ter reports are spread as to outbreaks at Paris, Berlin, or
Vienna. The weather, too, has been most rascally. Gales
of wind, torrents of rain, with intermittent:; of a tramontana
;t that penetrates to the marrow, and the thermometer (Fah-