The Sun.
London, England, 1850-04-08 00:00:00

ITALY.

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Letters from Rome of the 31st ult. deFcriba the
escape from the Castle of St. Angelo of Monsignor
G-AZOALA, lately condemned by an ecclesiastical tri-
bunal to perpetual imprisonment for having edited
the Positivo journal. One account states that he got
away in the disguise of an officer ; another, in that of
a Roman princess. The Pores return is fixed for
about the 14th instant.

We find the following on the subject in the Paris
Presse, under the above date :
" The escape of Monsignor Gazoala is the subject of
general conversation. According to some, he left the
prison in the middle of the day, in full costume, and in
company with an officer, and that the sentinels presented
arms to him as he passed; according to others, he left
in the dress of a Roman princeis, who is accused by the
police of having sated towards him the part of a Madame
de LavalettN It is positively stated that the Poi- e ex-
pressed Brost dissatibfsction at his unjustifiable condem-
nation, and that he supplied the funds for his escape."
The Giornale di Roma of the 27th ult. contains
the following official notice :
" The Government Commission of State having learnt
that his Holiness our Lord Popo Pius IX. will, as soon
as he shall have entered his states, in the week af.er
Easter, on the side of Terracina, visit Frosinone and
Velletis, has given proper orders for the necessary ar-
rangements in consequence."
The Bologna Gazette states that Pius IX. was to
arrive at Terracina on the 6th. Great preparations
were in progress at Frosinone, where some houses
adjoining the delegate's palace have been pulled down,
to widen the street through which his lioLINEss was
to pass.

A letter from Leghorn of the 24th ult., in the
Nationale of Florence, states that on that day a great
number of persons had gone to the new Cemetery to
place crowns on the graves of those who had fallen for
the cause of Italian independence, and that in the
contiguous church of La Buona Mort part of the con-
gregation having called for a Pater and Ave, to the
memory of those who had died for the cause of Italy,
a great disturbance ensued, which called the police to
the spot. A letter from Leghorn of the 29th in the
Statuto of Florence, adds that fourteen persons have
been arrested on account of the disturbance alluded
to. The following notice has been published at Leg-
horn by the military authorities :

"From the Imperial and Royal Military Command of
the City, all those who follow religious processions,
which are still tolerated, shalt have their faces uncovered;
arid the churches shall be closed at seven P.M., and not
re-opened till sunrise. Leghorn, March 28."

DARING ROBBERY OF A GENERAL PoSTIIAN THIS
MOI:NINGL —Shortly after nine o'clock this morning a most
daringly adroit robbery of a general postman was effected at
the corner of Leadenhall and Graceehurch-streets. It appears
that William Peckham, the Leadenhall " walk" letter-
carrier, was in the habit of meeting his assistant (a junior
postman) at the door of the establishment of Messrs. Mayne
and Reed, the large floor-cloth manufacturers, where they
opened their large letter-bag containing the letters for tha
whole of the walk. These letters were tied in bundles, ready
assorted for delivery. Peckham, it seems, this morning, had
a very large number, and while he was in the act of dividing
one of the bundles, he put the bag upon the floor, near to the
shop door. Just at this juncture three men rushed up to the
doorway, and almost momentarily the bag and the remaining
bundles of letters were gone. Instantaneously the fellows
escaped with their booty, leaving the postman perfectly be-
wildered. The matter has caused the greatest sensation
throughout the City, and the authorities at the Post office
are now actively engaged in making the necessary inquiries
for the purpose of detecting the highwaymen. Unfortunately,
at present, no clue has been obtained respecting the thieves.
APPREHENSION or THE BIRDS.—Bird and his wife,
who were recently acquitted at Exeter, of the charFe of
murdering Mary Ann Parsons, were apprehended on Friday
last at Coleridge, near Bideford, on a charge of having as-
saulted and . otherwise maltreating that
unfortunate child,
and were lodged that afternoon in the Bridewelluld the charge on
g of Bideford.
The prisoners were panio-struck when t
which they were apprehended, as they had entertained an
idea that no further proceedings would take place. They
were examined on Saturday before the magistrates, and were
both crying bitterly as they were conducted from the Bride-
well to the, county magistrates' office. During the course of
the proceedings the female prisoner was taken so ill, that her
removal became necessary; and the further proceedings were
adjourned to this day (Monday). She became rapidly worse
after her removal, and notwithstanding medical assistance was
promptly rendered, she became delirious, and continued in
that state when the last accounts left Bideford yesterday. It
is, therefore, probable that the examination fixed for to-day
will be still further postponed.
SKYE.—A Correspondent, who has extensive means
of ascertaining the condition of the people in Skye and the
outer Hebrides, expresses a conviction, that unless the Edin-
burgh and Glasgow sections supply many of the more desti-
tute crofter. with barley, oats, &c., to crop their lands, much
must remain untitled, and as the relief operations are to
terminate with the ensuing autumn, the bulk of the people
will be worse off than they ever were. The unanimous
opinion of persons who are surrounded by hungry neigh-
bours is, that both sections now possess ample means for
supplying such as are destitute of seed with that necessary,
the immediate putting down of which on every available
yard of land is the only chance of obviating, during the en-
suing autumn and winter, scenes of Irish misery and star-
vation. The secretary of the Royal PatrioCc Society, at
the instance of the Perthshire Ladies' Highland Relief Com-
mittee, is occupied in these islands in procuring leases for
crofters, instructing them in improved methods of cultiva-
tion, and in establishing agricultural schools. These efforts
have met with great encouragement, and the only source of
regret is that they were not long ago commenced, as
the relief operations have failed to ameliorate the condition
of the poor.
APPOINTMENTS.—Robert Southey, Elq., is ap-
pointed civil commissioner and resident magistrate at Swel-
lindam, Cape of Good Hope. J. J. Le Sueur, Esq., is ap-
pointed civil commissioner and resident magistrate at Wor-
cester, Cape of Good Hope.
EXHIBITION OF 1851.—When, some time ago, we
noticed the liberal way in which the persons in the employ
of Mr. Thomas Cubitt, of Pimlico, had set an example to the
workmen of this country, we little expected to have so soon
to report that tl.is same establishment should have added to
their first contribution the further sum of z6l. 75. 7d. This
activity may be looked on as a healthy symptom, and testi-
fying that the artisan class know how to value and assist any
efforts that may be conscientiously made to forward their
best interests.

A RUMOUR.—On flit, that the Bishop of Exeter
contemplates secession, and that the first free church is to
be built under his auspices at Eldad, in connexion with the
proposed establishment of the " Sisters of Mercury."—De-
vonport Telegraph.
Mr. Bunn's benefit, on Wednesday next, at the
St. James's Theatre, offers a combination of talent that will
insure him a crowded house. The names of Carlotta Grisi,
Charles Kean, Mrs. C. Kern, Webster, Benedict, Sloper, M.
Samson, and a host of others, constitute the attractions of
the evening.

TIIE AFRICAN AMAZONS.—Our best friend in
Africa is a certain King of Dahomey, who loves us so well
that he will do anything for us but put an end to the slave-
trade in his dominions, unless upon the terms of our buying
off his royal interest in the traffic by a subsidy of B.oow. a
year. A smaller offer was actually made to his Majesty
without success, we suppose in the days when Mr. Stephen's
influence was all• powerful. This King of Dahomey goes
hunting for two or three months everyyear. The hounds for
his chats are an army of more than 8,000 couples. We say
couples advisedly, for nearly a half, or full 8,000 are women !
Upon this female force the'King places the greatest reliance,
and they constitute his Majesty's body guard. They are his
best troops. They arc trained to storm forts, which they do
with extraordinary bravery and skill. They are very fine
women, ranging in height from five feet eight to five feet
nine and ten. Marriage is not permitted. It would have

the proverbial elect of doing things by halves. The King
of Dahomey requested her Majesty to give Lim some war-
caps for his slave-hunting amazons; and to our astonishment
We see it stated in evidence that the request was gra-
ciously granted, and that her Majesty sent the Kisg 2,000
female war• caps. There must surely be some mistake al out
this, as it would, if true, involve a preposterous incon-

sistency. Our cruisers seize and make prize
of any vessel
With the slightest evidence of equipment for the slave trade;
and is it creditable that her Mojesty can have been advised
to furnish any article of equipment to the troops actually
employed in hunting down and capturing the slaves in the

interior? One would be curious to know what the pattern
of the cap could have been for the ladies enacting the part
of the dogs of war. We know something of the sort of caps
with which the ladies design enslaving hearts, but what is the
mode, the fashion of the thing for enslaving black bodies?
How do they set their caps at men to make booty of their
persons? What manner of cap does Bellona don when she
sets about the foulest conquest and enthrals in the cruellest
iron fetters? At 1 imbuctoo the body guard wear cast-off
lawyer's wigs; are the King of Dahomey's ladies' war-caps
of any such predatory symbol? Perhaps, after all, the caps
were percussion-caps, much more harmless than many of the
pink-ribboned genus. Or perhaps, and most probably,
there were no caps at all presented, as alleged. We hope and
believe it will so turn out. The statement, however, whe-
ther true or false, will be found in the evidence of Captain
Winniett, R.N., ex-Governor of Cape Coast Castle, in the
last blue-book of evidence on the African slave-trade, taken
by the Committee of the House of Lords.—Examiner.
THE DANGERS ATTENDING THE LANCASTER SANDS.
—As Mr. Joseph Brockbank, boatman, Greenodd, was ad-
justing the brogs which mark out the channel, near the
arend-hill last week, he intrusted himself upon a portion of
sand, which he had often crossed; but on this occasion the
sand proved to be rotten, and he was instantly ingulphed to
the Leek, without any means of extricating 'himself. For-
tunately, Mr. J. K. Hodgson, of Ulverston, saw him from a
distance, and speedily procured assistance and went to his
rescue; and to this party Mr. B. Storey, of Meanhouse,
crossed the channel, and joined himself; end being well
skilled in such occurrences, so directed the party that the
boatman was relieved front his perilous situation. It was
near six o'clock in the evening when this occurrence took
place ; a few minutes later, and the head of a man could not
have been seen from a distance, and then a lingering death
would have been inevitable.—Manchcster Courier.
EXTRAORDINARY FEAT.--OH Saturday last, at
Uxbridge, a youth named Ferguson, under 20 years of age,
walked 20 miles in less than three hours. For the first 300
yards the ground had a slight ascent, and, thereafter, a
uniform level. The road was in good order, and the youth,
who weighed some Bst, 91b., and measured in altitude
5 feet 6 inches, started- on his arduous undertaking. The
weather was favourable, save a scowl of cloud in the 19th
and 20th miles, and the mode in which the walker won may
be best gathered from his time:—
11. M. S 11. M. S.
2 miles
4
6
8
10 ..
Thus winning by 1 min. 43 sec., much distressed.
THE CONDEMNED CONVICT IN HORSEMONGERe
LANE GAOL.— Thomas Denny, the young man who was con-
demned to death at Kingston-upon-Thames, on Tuesday
last, for killing his illegitimate offsprig, at Ewell, with an
awl, was, immediately after his conviction, removed to
Horsemonger-lane Gaol, when be was placed by Mr. Keene,
the Governor, in the cell so lately occupied by Manning, the
murderer of O'Connor. He seems very much to feel his
awful situation, and cried the whole of Tuesday night. He
now and then protests that he is innocent, and that Eliza
Tarrant, the mother of the infant, committed the murder.
Should no respite be received, the unhappy man will be
executed at Horsemonger-lane, on Monday morning, the
220 instant.

LEAMINGTON SPA, APRIL 6.—Major Majendie,
one of the Assistant Commissioners appointed to act in the
counties of Warwick, Stafford, and Derby, has just visited.
the Spa, where an influential local committee has been ap-
pointed to raise funds in support of the Great Exposition of
1851. Amongst the latest arrivals are—The Bishop of
Chichester, Earl Gifford, Lady Emily Hay, Lady Mowbray
and the Misses Mowbray, Lady Matherson, Hon. E. Plun-
kett, Sir Wiliam Morrison, Bart., Sir G. Ruse, Lady Berry,
Lady Scott, Lady and Miss Selina Clinton, Colonel Byng,
Colonel Broadhurst, Mr. and Mrs. F. Howard, Mr. and Mrs,
Clavealy, &c.
DEATH OF GENERAL SIR ARCHIBALD GALLOWAY,
K.C.B.—Sir Archibald Galloway, chairman of the Hon.
East India Company, died on Saturday, at his residepce,
18, Upper Harley-street, aged 74, and alter a few-hours'
ness. He transacted business at the Indialiouse on Thurs-
day, and presided at the banquet recently given by the di-
rectors of the East India Company to Lord Gough. His
chairmanship would have expired on Wednesday next.
DEATH or LIEUT. TIILPSON, R.M.A.—lntelligence
has been received of the sudden death of First Lieutenant
Timpson, of the Roral Marine Artillery, on board the Asia,
84, flag. ship at Panama.
Loss OF THE BARQUE CONCORDIA.--TLYMOUTII,
Arm. s.—The crew of this ship have landed from her Ma-
jesty's brig Alert, Commander Dunlop. The Concordia re-
gistered 411 tons, belonged to Mr. Thomas Peake, of Ply-
mouth, and was commanded by Mr. Barrett, who, with a
crew of fourteen hands, left Plymouth about Christmas last,
bound to Sierra Leone, for timber. The barque had 250
tons of limestone for ballast, and on the 48th of February,
at eleven, p.m. when under all plain sail, steering S. by W.
Je:, W., with a light wind from the N.W., thich hazy wea-
ther, strong westerly current, struck on a sandbank at low
water. Got water and provisions ready in the ship's boats.
By daylight the ship bumped up three miles further inland,
and they found that they were in the Bay of Yofi; to the
south of Senegal, near Cape Verde, and seven miles north of
Goree Island. The natives, robust, tall men, continued to
increase in numbers in the vicinity of the ship, and in the
course of throe days numbered, perhaps, 8,000 persons on
the stores, ar:d from 500 to 1,000 in the ship. Captain
Barrett on the 19th went to Goree, and on the 20th re-
turned with two Frenchmen and an interpreter,
who erected tents on shore, but the natives were
unawed, and
.eventually stole everything off the decks and
out of the hold, all loose wearing apparel, charts, &c., and
tore away the deck.house, bulwarks, stanchions, &c. The
French Commodore at Goree kindly sent a post-captain and
a lieutenant to inspect the condition of the barque, which was
irretrievable. Her crew, by the help of camels, were, with
the remnant of their luggage. conveyed across the isthmus
of Cape Verde by the Pap mountains to the French station
at Goree, and placed on the '23d of February on board L'Utile,
raze line-of-battle-ship, now used as a guardehip, where,
among ether prisoners from the French flee', there was the
negro crew of a brigantine, the master of which, an English-
man, had been murdered by them, and his vessel run ashore.
The Concordia's crew complain that tor eight days they had
the same poor fare and foul water as were served out to the
prisoners, and that at night they lay where they could. Five
of them subsequently had the yellow fever, and one died on
board the Alert. On the Bth day, the 2d of March, they
took passage in a French merchant barque, and in 24 hours
reached the Gambia, where they were held in charge by
the English Consul until the 18th, when they joined the
Alert, and thus reached Plymouth on the 4th inst.
MURDER IN SUFFOLK.—SUDBURY, SATURDAY.—
Yesterday, Mr. Dowman, the borough coroner for this place,
held an inquest on the body of Charles Piper, who met his
death under the following melancholy and brutal circum-
stances :—lt appeared from the evidence of several wit-
nesses, that on oaturday last the deceased was at the White
Horse Inn, Balling, about a mile from this place, in cam.
pany with several persons. The deceased, his brother (Wil-
liam Piper), and several other persons, walked towards a
place called Bulmer. There were five girls amongst the
party, and, when they got to the bottom of the hill, the de-
ceased put his arm around the waist of one of the girls. A
person, named Agar, turned round to the deceased, and said
he should not go any further with the girl. Deceased said
he would. Upon this Agar went up to the deceased, and
ran a knife into his bowels in several places. Deceased im-
mediately fell down. He was carried home, where he died
on Wednesday last. The bowels of the deceased were com-
pletely cut out. It was proved by the brother of the de-
ceased (who was also stabbed), that, after his brother fell,
he saw Agar pass a knife to one of the girls who was with
them. The inquiry was at a late hour adjourned. 'I he
prisoner Agar will be brought before the magistrates on
Tuesday.
Mn. GUSTAVUS BRoox.r.—Among . the applies-
tions recently made to the Insolvent Debtors' Court, is one
from Mr. Gustavus Brooke, the well-known actor. lie has
not yet been heard, but in his schedule he attributes this,
his "first appearance" before the Court. to the breach of an
engagement entered into with Mr. Walter Watts; the late
lessee of the Olympic Theatre, whom he has inserted in his
schedule as a debtor to him for 3374, and placed the ex-
pressive word " bad " against the claim. The description
of Mr. Brooke's residences in provincial towns is very long,
and the question was, whether this court or a county court
should hear the case. It was, however, allotted to Mr.
Commissioner Phillips. According to the schedule, Mr.
Brooke has more owing to him, including the large claim on
Mr. Watts, than he owes. He has obtained protection from
the Court until his hearing. He is described on tha pro-
ceedings as a " comedian."
HER. MAJESTY'S THEATRE.--There were present
at her Majesty's Theatre on Saturday evening his Grace the
Duke of Wellington, the Marchioness of Douro and the
Marchioness of Salisbury, his Excellency the Russian Mi-
nister, the Baroness de Brunnow, Mdlle. Olga de Lechner
and Mdlle. de Brunnow; his Excellency the French Ambas-
sador, M. de Berg, the Swedish Minister, Baron Rehausen,
Marquis of Drogheda, the Hon. Claude Lyon, the Hon.
Major Needham, the Duchess of Leeds and Miss Elizabeth
Line Fox, the Dowager Duchess of Cleveland. der Ma-
jesty's box was occupied by the Hon. Mrs. Berkeley Drum-
mond, Miss Boyd, Lord Elphinstone, Lord C. Fitzroy, Col.
the Hon. C. B. Phipps, Col. Drummond, Mr. Birch and party ;
the Marquis of Bath, the Earl of Aboyne, the Earl of Cardi-
gan, the Countess of Lichfield and Lady Anson, the Countess
of Cardigan. the Viscount Enfield, the Viscount Duplin, the
Viscount Clifden, the Viscount Cranbourne, Lady Ans-
truther, Lady Augusta Baring, Lord George Paget, Lord
Adolphus Fitzclarence, Lord Ernest Bruce, Lord W. Lennox,
Lady Gordon, Count Perponcher, Count de Civry, Baron
Alfred Vidal, Sir Seymour Sadler, Sir H. Goding, Bart., and
Lady Goding, Sir Thomas Barrett Leonard, Bart., and Lady
Barrett Leonard, Sir Henry Webb, Bart., the Hon. Fitzroy
Stanhope, the Hon. Captain Sutton, Sir J. Lowther, Bart.,
General the Honourable 11. Cavendish, Lady Flint, the Hon.
Mr. and Mrs. Dudley Ward, the Hon. Mrs. Somerset, the
lion. F. Chichester, Mr. Henderson, Mr. Barton, Mrs. Col-
quhoun, Mr. Bedford, Mr. Holmes, Mr. Wilsmore, Major
Needham, Captain the Hon. A. Vivian, Colonel Thornton,
Captain Cockerill, the Hon. C. IL Neville, Captain Phipps,
Mr. W. (iodine.', Mr. and Mrs. Clarke, Mr. Alfred Douglas,
Mrs. Weston, Mrs. Dennistoun, Mr. W. R. Hamilton, Mr.
C. W. Packe, M.P., and Mrs. Packe Reading, Major Buckley,
Mr. and Mrs. C. J. Palmer, Mr. and Mrs. Brereton Trelawny,
Mr. Sackville Lane Fox, M.P., Mr. Attwood, Mr. Hubert de
Burgh, Mr. C. Barry Baldwin, M.P., Mr. Ford, Mr. J. Len.
nard, M.P., Mr. Megan, Mrs. Pulsford, Mr. W. Cubitt, M.P.,
Mr. Richards, Mr. Greigson, Mr. W. Delafield, Mr. H,
Bnadley, M.P., Mrs. Gore, Mr. Raikes Currie, M.P. Mr,
Moore, Mr. and Mrs. Conyngham, Mr. Drummond, &c.

DESTRUCTION OF THE SHIP OCEAN QUEEN.--Ad-
vices from the Cape of Good Hope, mention the complete de-
struction by fire of the British ship Ocean Queen, on her
way to Suez. The Ocean Queen was 800 tons burthen, and
wan chartered last October by the Oriental and Peninsular
Company, to supply their deptit at Suez with coals. The
vessel started from Gravesend on the Ist of September last,
laden with coals; and on the 21st of December, when in
latitude 23 S , long. 52 30 E., it was found that the coals had
spontaneously ignited, and the vessel in a short time was
enveloped in flames, and continued so for sonic hours before
she went down. The crew, about 30 in number, escaped in
four boats, but a gale springing tip the following night, the
boats parted company, and two of them, not having since
been heard of; it is feared they must have perished. The
captain, whose name is Tawall, and a party of ten, were
picked up by the French ship Gabriel, and landed at Table
Bay. The value of the ship is estimated at 15,0001.
THE LATE CASE OF POISONING IN CAMBRIDGE-
SIIIRE.—AIthough several petitions have been presented,
playing for a mitigation of the sentence of Elias Lucas and
Mary Reeder, the two persons now under sentence of death
lying in the county gaol, no notico has been taken of them,
and it is expected that the two culprits will suyer the ex-
treme penalty of the law on Saturday next. Since the con-
fession of the female criminal she has appeared perfectly
tranquil, and seems fully prepared fur her fate. Lucas, also,
evinces much penitence; he has made no direct confession
of his guilt, although he repeatedly says he deserves to be
hanged, and that he had brought it all on himself. It is a

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remarkable fact, that the relative of the female, named Wil-
liam Feeder,, was executed in MA iu company with two
other men, for arson, on the same spot where the culprits will
suffer on Saturday next.— Weekly Chronicle.