The Sun.
London, England, 1857-08-17 00:00:00

MONDAY RVENING, AUGUST l7, 1857

LATEST NEIVs.

THE SUSPENSION OF RELATIONS
IN TURKEY.

CONSTANTINOPLE, AUG. 7.

No efforts have been spared on the part of the
Sultan and his Ministers to bring about an arrange-
ment satisfactory to all parties, and avo'd the rup-
ture which has unfortunately taken place. To
the note from the French Ambassador, complaining
that the Ministry did not treat the demands of the
French Government with proper deferenv, the
Sultan replied by dismissing the Grand Vizier Red-
schid Pasha. The new Ministry, with the vener-
able Mustapha Pasha of Crete at their head, im-
mediately
proceeded to examine a second time the
demands of the French Ambassador.
In the Council of Ministers Redschid Pasha
protested against an accusation by Vogorides of
interference in the elections, and solemnly declared
that he had never directly or indirectly trans-
mitted to Vogorides any orders that were not in
strict cDnformity with the Imperial firman. The
circumstances, although they did not authorise so
arbitrary an act as the immediate annulment of the
elections, rendered an inquiry imperative, and the
Council of Ministers, in the night of the 3d Aug.,
decided that the Kaimakans should be summoned
to Constantinople, and an inquiry be instituted
into their conduct the annulment or con-
firmation of the elections to be subject to the re-
sult of this inquiry. This decision was communi-
cated to the French Ambassador on the morning of
the 4th in a note coached ira most conciliatory
terms, of which the following is a translation from
the French :

way, and his three colleagues, to whom the note was
also communicated, soon followed his example.

AUSTRIA.

VIENNA, Aug. 12.—1 n virtue of the Currency l
Treaty bet ween Austria and the other German States
the Vienna Bank will have to resume its cash pay-
ments on Jan. 1, 1859, but it is by no means clear
that it will be in a position to do so with safety.
At present the reserve fund of the Bank is but
94,500,0001, with a paper circulation of nearly
394,000,0001 The moneyed word is of opinion
that the Bank would speedily get out of its difficul-
ties if it were to raise a loan on the domains
ceded ,to it by the State, but it is doubtful
whether Government would autliorise it to do
so. The domains in question are valued at
155,000,00011., and there would hardly be any
great difficulty in obtaining a loan on them if tt
were what is here called a " lottery loan." The
loan which was contracted in 1854 bears interest at
4 per cent., and the holders of shares (2501) be-
sides play once a year in a lottery in which there
are 4,000 tickets. In the lottery, in which there are
ro blanks, the highest priz3 is 200,0001, and the
lowest 300 fl. The 1854 loan was emitted. at 95, but
it now stands at 109, although the 5 per cent.
National Loan is down to 81g. The harvest has
been extremely good, but the drought has been so
great in some parts of the empire that there is a sad
want of folder. In Moravia the landed proprietors
are reducing their flocks and herds, as they foresee
that they shall have great difficulty in procuring
food for them during the winter. Some years ago
there was such a terrible dearth of fodder in Mo-
ravia, that many of the sheep were literally starved
to death, but an ingenious nobleman manlged to
keep all his sheep alive by mixing with their usual
food leaves which he had gathered from the trees
in summer, and dried like hay in the sun.

AMERICA.

LIVERPOOL, SUNDAY.

This morning the British and North American
royal mail steamship Asia, Captain Lo,t, entered
the river from New York, wi:h dates to the sth
inst., 41 passengers, and 917,000 dollars in specie.
We learn from her that the royal mail steamship
Persia had arrived on the sql.

The screw steamship Edinburgh had passed in
on the sth from the Clyde, and the City of Balti-
more, from this port, and the U❑ited Stares steam-
,4lllp Fulton, from Southampton, were passed by
the Asia on the Bth.

Tue news by the Asia, although four days later
than we previously had, is of very little interest to
the European reader.
Tue telegraphic a?.counts from the South report
heavy rains and destructive
_hailstorms, and that
crops bad suffered severely.
The United States steam-frigate Roanoke had
arrived at New York with upwards of 200 of Wal-
ker's filihust=rs on board.

Havana► advices to the 223 ult. report sugars
without change, the stock on hand amounting to
225,090 box-s. The iiland was healthy. The labour
market had received a supply, consisting of one
cargo of 400 Bozal negroes, landed near Cardenas,
from the brig W. D. Miller, and two cargoes of
Coolies, arrived from China. _ _ _

Advices from Texas Eta() that Senator Rusk
committed suicide at his residence on the 29th ult.
by shooting himself through the he:. with a rifle.
A letter from Boston, dated August 1, says :
" A ,despatch from St. Pierre, Miquelon, dated
July 27, states that the bark Monasco, of Warren,
Me., from Guttenburg for New York, was totally
lest near Burin, Newfoundland, on the 21st insb.,
together with fifty Swedish steerage passengers.
The captain and his wife, and the crew and six
passengers, were saved. The crew and the six
passengeis were landed at St. Pierre, and were sent
to New York in the brig Lewis Gilles, by the Ame-
rican consul. The captain goes home via Sidney."

SIR C. NAPIER UPON TILE INDIAN

ARMY.

SINGULAR APPENDIX TO TEE

BURDELL T HAGE'DY.

(Abridgel from the New York. Weekly Herald.)

MoSt of the readers of The Sun will recollect the -
remark dele trial and acquittal of Mrs. Emma
Cunningham for - the mysterious murder of Dr.
Burdell, of Bond-street, New Yoik. A curious
supplement to that crime, by whomsoever com-
mitted, has just come to light in the Empire City.
Mrs. Cueningh im, otherwse Burdell, who claimed ,
to be widow of the rum derel 'than, and corse-
quontly entitled to her yellow's poi tiou, or third,
of the large estate of which he died seised, the
relatives and next of kin have been ever since
disputing her claim in the Su'r gate's Court.
Hundreds of with., saes have been examined on
each side, any amount of false swearing has
he n done, and the question was for the pre-
sent lying in abeyance, awaiting the result of a
commission sent to examine a witness in Cali-
f rnia. To anticipate the judgment of the Surro-
va'e, to incline the chances more strongly in her
favour, and at the same time to obtain, not a third
portion, but the whole of the estate in litigation,
she resolved to produce an heir, which in legal pre-
sumption would have t 4, be taken and regarded as
the child of her alleged husband, and the sole heir
to his estate. In the consummation of that scheme
she has just been detected.
The facts as discl ised in the voluminous affidavit
of Dr. Uhl, and of other witnesses may be thus con-
densed :—Rurnours had been rife, after the murder
of Dr. Burde 1, and. the allegation of Mrs. Cun-
ningham of her marriage to him, that that mar-
riage was not to be an unfruitful one. It was
stated. that Mrs. Cunningha,w was in a condition
that promised in due time to add one more to the
populaion of the city. She herself did not
deny the truth of the rumour, hut adopted every
means to give it the appearance- of truth. Her
counsel broadly intim ite I so much when she was
on her trial, and arguments before the Surrogate
have been bisecl on the assumption that theme
would be an h'dr to the Burdell estate forthcoming
in due time. Her " make up" and other corrobo-
rative circumstances removed all doubt from the
matron of tee prison's mind as to the reality of the
claim. She also consulted Dr. Uhl as to her con-
dition, and got him to prescribe the medicines
fitted for a lady so situated. Dr. Uhl had been
her phyeician for some time previously, and was
an important witness in her favour on the trial.
Subsequently, after her acquittal by the jury,
she again on several occasions consulted Dr. Ural,
and desfrel to engage his services on the event-
ful occasion soon to arise. He suggested to her
the propriety, in view of the importance of the
matter, of having a preliminary examination
made by two or more respectable physicians.
Mts. Cunningham at first admitted the force
of the suggestion, and express-d herself wilting
and anxious that the necessary preliminary
examinaiion should be made, requestiug Dr. Uhl
to
,make arrangements for it. The doctor, how-
ever, could riot fail to perceive that she avoided
such an examination as he proposed. This and
other little circumstances which he noticed
awakened his suspicions, and led him to believe
that the pregnancy of his patient was all a sham.
He communicated his suspicions to his counsel and
some friends, and was advised to place himself in
communication With the district attorney, and in-:
form that functionary of all he knew or suspected.
He did se. Mr. Hall, who had suspected from the
intimations,of Mrs., Cunningham's counsel that this
trick would be attempted, urged Dr. Uhl to continue
to wink at the deception uwil,m.atiers shOuld be
fully ripe for a complete exposure and detection.
The doctor at first demurred to what might be re-
gardei as a violation e f professional confidence ;
but it was submitted to him that he was bound, as
a good citizen, in justice to the whole community,
to lend his aid to the complete working out and
consequent exposure of the fraud. These argu-
ments overcame Dr. Uhl's conscientious and pro-
fessional so uples.
At a subsequent interview which the doctor had
with Mrs. Cunningham she male a clean breast of
of it ; she admitted that her pregnancy was an im-
posture, but expressed her de;ermination to have
an heir, let it come from where it might, and pro-
mised him 1,000 dollars if he would aid in her
plans, procure the child, and assist at her acconche-
ment. To this Dr. Uhl assented, and notified the
district attorney of what had taken place.
This latter official undertook the delicate task of
finding an heir for the Burdell property. He aF-
certamed through Dr. Uhl that Mrs. Cunningham
had selected the 28th of July, or thereabeuts for
the time of her accouchement, and Mr. Hall was
sure that by the aid of the officials of Bellevue Hos-
; pital thele would be no necessity of postponing the
interesting event.
6 The plan which Dr. Uhl proposed to his patient,
and which seemed to please her immensely, was
this :

Dr. Üblprofessed t j have the good luck of being
engaged by a woman in Elm-street, in the vicinity
of Mrs. C.'s hon.e, to assist her in her approaching
confinement. This woman was represented to las
one of those matrons known as "Californian

widows," who would be overjoyed at being relieved
of a responsibility on which her husband had not
calculated. Neither woman was to see or know
the other, and there need the; efore be no appre-
hension of unpleasant explanations.
Thus the plan was arrange 1. Apartments were
procured on Monday at 190, Elm-street, and were
furnished by Mr. Hall for the proper reception of
the woman. Officers Dilks, Hopkins, Speight, and
Walsh were detailed to keep a close look out on
81 Band-street. Mr. Hall busied himself on Mon-
day evening about perfecting the arrangements. An
infant that had been born on Saturday was procured
from Bellevue hospital, and h eying been mirkei with
nitrate of silver on the ears,;so as tobe easily ident.fied
was sent down with a nurse to 190, Elm-street.
There a physician was in waiting, duly night-capped
and metarnorpho,ed, to personate the Calif-rnia
lady ; and Dr. Uht was there to deliver over the
blessed baby to a Si-ter of Charity, to be repre-
sented on that occasion by Mrs. Cunningham. The
hu.ur of nine o'clock was fixed as the time for this
denouement. Mrs. Cunningham was to proceed to
Elm-street dres.ed as a Sister of Charity-, to re-
ceive the little stranger. The melo-drama, of
which Mr. Hall was the getter up, stage manager,
and prompter, went through better than usual,
even without the advantage of a rehearsal.
Mrs. Cuniughem "was duly tracked by Captain
Speight from 31, Bond-street' to Elm-street,
and seen to return with a basket contiining the
baby. She was permitted to en er her house, and
at eleven o'clock a domicil ary visit was p.tid by
the ufficera. Mrs. Cunningham was found playing
the sick woman to perfection, with a nurse sitting
by the side of the bed holding the child in h-r arms.
There were alsopresen, aworoan named Anne Burns,
Claiming to be Ms. Cunningham's sister, Dr.
Catlin, of Court-street, Brooklyn., and others.
On being informed of the object of the police vi-it,
Mrs. Cunningham cried out that they had no legal
right to be there. She was placed under arrest, toge-
ther with her nurse, Jane Bell, her so-called sister,
Mrs. Burns, and Dr. Catlin. It is rumoured that
D Catlin has boasted of having got up the device for
Mrs. Cunningham' and that tbis woman has boasted
that Nile had Dr. Catlin under her thumb. It is
also stated, as a remarkable fact, that this was the
doctor who a tended Mr. Cunningham at his death.
In the "late-t" of the Herald, we arc told 'that

Mis. Cunniugzham requairis couned. at No. 31,
Bend-sheet. The police have possession of the
house, and will see that uo attempt at escape is
made by the accuse]. Mrs. Cunningham still re-
mains in bed, and is to all appearance much
affiic-ed. She is labouring under strong mental
exciC,ment, and is so ill (so Ler medical attendant,
Dr. Smith, says) that it would be unsafe to remove
her from the room.

Mrs. Barnes is also an occupant of 31, Bond
street, much against her will. She will be used as
a witness, and is only detained in custody as such.
Dr. Catlin is confined in the Fifteenth Ward
station-house, under charge of Inspector' Dilks.
The district attorney proposes to make a witness of
Catlin, and use him as State's evidence ; but Jus-
tice Davison is averse to such a proceed,ng, for ho
thinks the accused ought to be held as a principal
in the affair, and be made to suffer equally with
Mrs. Cunningham for,the offence, if
any, was com-
mitted by him.

FORBIDDING THE BANNEL—At the parish church of
Bo Sunday
o marriage w eek, the
betweenc l e r-
ytrini3y
was
Wpuobrleisehsitnegratitihree,
banns s
William Bruton and Elizabeth Corbett, both of Brom.
yard, but before he c,..uld utter the words, "last time
of asking," un individual arose from his seat, and
grn
shouted, " I for id it !" The clergyman ordered the
speaker to attend in the vestry after service. As soon
SS service was fairly concluded, an old man, with a
white jacket on and a stick in his hand, limpingly made
his way to the vestry. The object.r proved to be no
)ther than the ktended bridegroom, who said he bad
found out that Corbett was mahied some 20 years ago
to ono Harter, and, therefore, be could not marry her
The old man says, that the rea,on he forbade the banns
being published was because he had been told be should
be obliged to marry her if he did not, and that if be did
forbid them be cowl I Lave his money returned.
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