The Sun.
London, England, 1850-05-25 00:00:00

BELGIUM.

BRUSSELS, MAY 22.—Lord HOWDEN, the newly.
appointed British Ambassador at Madrid, arrived at
Brussels on Sunday last. His Excellency is charged
to carry to the KING the thanks of the British Go-
vernment for his efficacious intervention in arranging
the differences between England and Spain. This
mission he accomplished in an audience which he bad
with the KING.

Chevalier HEMET, Ambassador from Spain, also
had an interview with his MAJESTY, to convey the
thanks of his Government for the same services.
The Chamber of Representatives has been convoked
by the Minister of the Interior for the 28th of May.
—Journal du Commerce d'Anvers, May 24.

IRELAND.
DREADFUL MURDER.
DUBLIN, FRIDAY EVENlNG.—Accounts have reached
town of the murder in open day of Mr. Robert Lind-
say Maulever, an extensive land agent and a magis-
trate for the county of Londonderry.
The dreadful event took place yesterday morning
at Crossmaglen, on the borders of the counties of
Louth and Armagh. Mr. Maulever had been em-
ployed for the last few days in giving each tenant a
plot of bog free, and had just transacted all his
business in time to go by the train that passes Col-
ville at one o'clock P.M. He left the hotel at
Crossmaglen on a car for the Colville Station, and
in less than half an hour the car returned with
the melancholy intelligence that he had been
brutally murdered. The driver states that be was
shot from behind a hedge. The sole object of this
great crime appears to have been the gratification .of
revenge, as a considerable sum of money was found
on his person after he was removed to town.

RETURN DINNER TO THE ,LORD MAYOR OF LON-
DON.—
.On Wednesday last a. preparatory meeting of the
Mayors was held at Derby. when it was decided that the
Lord Mayor, the Prince Albert, the Royal Commissioners,
and her Majesty's Ministers,' should be invited to a dinner
provided by the Mayors of England, to be held at some fu-
ture time at York. The Lord Mayor of York and the Mayors
of Leeds, Bradford, Manchester, and Hull, were appointed a
committee to make the necessary pmarations.--Nottingham
Guardian.

PRESENTATION OF A GUTTA•PERCHA BOAT TO LADY
FRANKLIN.—Messrs. Searle, boat-builders to her Majesty,
have presented a very Ina boat, of a novel description,
which has been constructed by them, to Lady Franklin. It
is similar in form to a whale-boat, 23 feet long, 5 feet 8
inches broad, 2 feet 21 inches deep, strongly framed with fir,
the external part covering the ribs being a perfect skin of
gutta-percha. She, will go out with the expedition under
the command of Captain C. C. Forsyth, now about to sail for
Regent's Inlet, in search of Sir John Franklin and party ;
and as she is calculated to carry six or seven men and 1,600
pounds of provisions, and moreover possesses the advantage
of extreme portableness as well as strength, there is no doubt
she will be found exceedingly useful. She has been inspected
by several aquatic men, and has elicited their warmest ap-
probation.
• THE ALLEGED MURDER AT KENSINGTON.—Yes-
terday afternoon, at three o'clock, Mr. H. M. Wakley, the
deputy coroner for the western division of Middlesex, held
an inquest at the Coach and llorses, Palace-yard, High_
street, Kensington, on the body of Mary Barry, aged 46, who
was alleged to have been murdered by a kick on the temple,
given by Patrick Barry, her husband. The jury were sworn,
and went into the inquiry in the same room the corpse lay.
On the examination of the body a lacerated wound of about
half an inch or three-quarters in length presented itself on
the right tern?le, and it was such a blow as might have been
given by a heavy-nailed boot or shoe. The facts, which
have been already given, were then proved in evidence. At
the close the room was cleared 'for half an hour, and a verdict
of " Manslaughter" returned.

Pleasure loves the garden and the flowers ; labour
loves the fields and the grain ; devotion loves the mountain
and the skies.—Eliza Cook's Journal.

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS.—ThP Court Sat yesterday
at Clerkenwell to hear appeals. There were thirty-nine en-
tered, and a number of them were disposed of, but they in-
volved merely uninteresting questions urder the Law of
Settlement, and were not worth reporting. Several appeals
against convictions by magistrates, and against parochial
assessments, were postponed, and the Court adjourned.

THE CHELSEA PENSIONERS. -- INSPECTION THIS
DAY.— The Woolwich division of enrolled Chelsea Pensioners,
under the command of Major Forbes, and also the Pensioners
of the Greenwich and Deptford districts, assembled this day
on Blackheath. for the purpose of being inspected by the
commanding officer, Colonel Tulloch. At the hour appointed,
the gallant Colonel, accompanied by a numerous staff, ar-
rived on the ground, and the pensioners having taken re-
view order; commenced their evolutions. Colonel Tulloch at
the conclusion expressed his high admiration of the disci-
pline of the gallant veterans, and the inspection terminated.