The Sun.
London, England, 1850-12-19 00:00:00

SUN,

and t,moking in the Social-hall, and to f.l-e repeated
inquiries of Captain ill.‘l.3rifle and others as to hi;
injuries, stoutly denied that he was hutl, although
two bullet-holes were plainly viAble in his clothes.
"On the following morning (Tue;iday) Wynn did
not get up as usual, and, in the course of the fore-
noon, Captain M'Bride and several others called in his
state-room, and insisted upon his wounds la?ing
' dressed, but he obstinately refused, and would not
even suffer his clothes to be taken off. He remained
in this condition, regularly receiving his meals from
the cabin table, until Saturday morning, when he
arose, was shared by the barber of the boat, put on
some clean clothes, and again retired. Soon after be
sent for the captain, and made some inquiries re-
garding hospital arrangements in this city, and ex-
pressed a desire to be sent to the best regulated, as
soon as the boat reached part. An hour or so later,
and but a few moments before the boat touched at
the landing, some gentleman in the cabin called
at his room and found him in the last agonies of death.
Yesterday morning the coroner of our city was called
upon by Captain ill• Bride and held an inquest, at
which the above facts in substance were elicited, and
a verdict was returned that Michael Wynn, the de-
ceased, came to his death trim the effect of pistol-
shots, tired by the hands of one Dr. It. Crane.
" Upon stripping Wynn's body it was discovered
that not less than four pistol bills had taken effect, all
in the region of, the hips and groin, and producing
frightful wounds. His coolness at the time of th.,
rencontre and subsequent conduct can alone be ac•
counted for from the fact that he was partially in-
toxicated, and remained in that condition nearly up
to the time of his death. He was destitute of means,
the captain having but a short time previous to the
difficulty lent him a small sum of money.
" Dr. Crane, we are informed, was on his way to
Louisville, Kentucky, to attend the medical lectures
this winter, and when the Amazonia reached Cairo
he got off and proceeded up the Ohio, and is, up to
the present time, no doubt, unconscious of the fate of
his victim."

A lERICAN NEWS.

TWO DAYS LATER.
SOUTHMPTON, DEC. 18.

The American steam-ship Franklin, from Nei;
York, en route for Ilavre, arrived off Cowes this
morning soon after eight o'clock, bringing letters anc
papers to the 6th instant, being two days later than
those brought by the Niagara. The Franklin brought
a full general c ergo, and a large number of passen-
gers, and has made the voyage in less than twelve
days.
Both Houses of Congress had adjourned, after the
delivery of the President's Message, until Monday.
the Bth instant. Ni business of importance ww.
transacted in either House.

The Neu. York Morning Express says—
" The President's mrsiage has had the most tooth
ing effect upon Congress. flit declaration that he am.
his Administrktion stand upon the Compromise Bills, and
ail the Compromise Bilis, just as th, y ore, take from th
southern DisunioniAs ail their influence for mischief
and upon the northern Disuni,nists and Nullifier.
throws a dash of cold water, which is cooling them off
Nevertheless, Ihe Ohio Fcce Seders are foil of fire arm
brimstone. itot.t and Cans b• 11 threaten terrible things
and Thad. Stevens promises to work with them.
New Yi•rkers are compara ivily cool. Amt rig all the
New England Whige, there seems now to be a vein
pure good senee4

"The messztie thus takes from Southerners Fei
means of mischi. f, and northern Nullifiers their power
to do mischief, and promises a more soothing session of
Congress than many had expected. None of the Com-
promise Bills can be or will be touched, and it is only
exciting a vain agitation to try to touch them. None
but an enemy in disguise of the Administration will at-
tempt it. So, then, this turning out so, the coming three
months may be expected to be devoted to the white
man, in return for the last ten months devoted to"the
negro.
" The statement of the Postmaster-General, N. K.
Hall, delights all sides here; they make sure of a re•
duced postage this Congress. Mr. Hall, by the way, is
working himself to death. Washington has never yet
seen such a workie in a public office. He knows h 5
whole trade here from top to bottom, and all about ir."
Jenny Lind, we are glad to learn, has entirely
lost her hoarseness, and made her debut in Baltimore
on the Bth instant.

FRENCH RAILWAY TRAFFIC.
The following are the last returns of the gross re-
c.ipts of the principal French Railways :
NORTHERN.—From Dec. 5 to Dec. 9: Passengers,
175 1751.; goods, 263.2021.; total, 438,377 f.
ROUEN.—From Dee. 3 to D,,c : Passengers,
60,156,.; goods, 90.3931.; total, 150,549'.
HavßE.—From Dec. 1 to Dec. 7 Passenger,,
18,9151.; goods, 36,846 f. ; total 55,779 f.
ORLEANS.—From D. c. 2 to Dec. 8 : Passengers,
72,2531. ; goods, 128,602 E; total, 200,8551.
BORDEAUX.—Froin Dec. 2 to Dr e. 8 : Passengers,
33,722 c; goods, 49,2821.; total, 83,0041.
VIEIiZON —From Dec. 2 to Dec. 8 : Passengers,
34,667 f.; goods, 42,8331.; total, 77,5001.
BoULOGNE.—Frouti Dec. 2 to Dee. 8: Passengers,
10,647 E; good,, 20,1791.; total, 30.826 c.
DIEPPE.—From Dec. to Dec, 7: Passengers, 3.222 f.;
goods, 11,8261.; total, 15,0481'.
NANTES.--From Dec. 1 to Dec. 7 : Passengers,
17 7281.; goods, 10,7851*.; t0ka1,28,513f.
:.,TuASBURG —From Deo. 2 to Dee. 8: Passengers,
63,1481.; goody, 62,6381.; total, 125,886 f.
BALE.—From Nov. 25 to Dec. 1 : Passengers,
18 396. ; goods, 24,2571.; t0ta1,42,643f.
MortTEREAu. —From Nov. 26 to Dec. 2: Passengers,
8,95111; goods, 16,2861:; total, 25,2371.
LYONS. —From Nov. 24 to Nov. 30 : Passengers,
127,511£; goods, 34,3821.; total, 165,893'.
CLIARTRES.—From Nov. 25 to Dec. 1: Passengers,
38,770 f.; goods, 11,985 E; total, 43,7551.

A great fracas ocourred on the Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad, near Summit Level, on the 4th inst.,
between the Irish and German labourers, in which
three Germans were killed and several badly
wounded. The military were called out, and arrested
twenty-five of the Irish and lodged them in Cumber-
land Gaol.

VILLAGE COURTSHIP DESCRIBED BY
CHARLIS SWAIN.
Tapping at the window,
Peeping o'er the blind;—
'Tis really must surprising,
He never learns to mind!
'Twas only y,ster evening,
As in the dark we say,
My mother ask'd me stmrply
"Pray, Mary, who is that?"
Who's that indeed—you're certain
How much she made me start;
Men seem to lose their wisdom
Whene'r they lose their heart.
Yes—there he is—l see him;
The lamp his shadow throws
Across the curtain'd window;
He's stepping on his toes!
He'll never think of tapping,
Or making any din;—
A knock, though e'en the slightest,
Is worse than looking in!
Tap! tapl—would any think it?
Ile never learns to mind;
'Tis surely must surprising—
He thinks my mother blind !
'Tis plain I must go to him;
It's no use now to cough;—
I'll ope the door just softly,
If but to send him off !
'Cis well if from the door-step
He be not shortly hurled—
Oh, man, there no'er was trouble
Till he came in the world!
Tapping at the window,
And peeping o',l- the blind;
Oh, man, but you're a trouble,
And that .e maidens find!
.Devonport Independent.

Tile LONDON UNION ON CHURCH MATTERS, AND
THE REV. Mn. Re.NNETT.—The Guardian of last night says
that at a meeting of the committee of the London Union on
Church matters, held on Tuesday, the following; resolution
was adopted :—" That inasmuch as misapprehensionfollowing; has
arisen respecting the resolution expressive of sympathy with
the Rev. W. J. E. Bennett, which was adopted by the ge-
neral meeting of the London Union on Church matters on
the lOth instant, and it being a principle of this union to
pay dutiful and affectionate deference to episcopal authority,'
and nut to intrude itself into the office of 'judge in spiritual
matters, but that such matters be left to the authorities of
the Church'—this committee think it their duty to the union
to make known that the resolution was adopted by the Lon-
don Union in reference solely to the disgraceful interruptions
at St. Barnabas Church, and to the instigators and perpetra-
tors of those wicked acts, before the corrsspendenee between
the Bishop of London and Mr. Bennett was in the hands of
the members of the union, and did not, and was not intended
to, express any opinion upon that correspondence, or upon
the questions which were, or had been, under discussion be-
tween the Bishop and Mr. Bennett, upon which questions it
would be contrary to the before-mentioned principles of the
union to express any opinion either way."
SMITHFIELD MARKET.—Last night a meeting of
butchers and others connected with the trade of smithfield
Market took place at Farringdon Hall, Snow-hill, at which
Blacket presided. The meeting had been convened to
take into consideration the proposed toll which the Corpora-
tion have intimated their intention to inflict upon cattle on
their egress from the market of Smithfield when enlarged
according to the corporate plan. Mr. Charles Pearson, with
Deputies Bedford, Hicks, and several common councilmen,
were presto:. After a few preliminary remarks from tile
Chairman, he introduced Mr. Charles Pearson, who said he
felt the greatest interest in the proposed extension of the
market by the Corporation, who were desirous to do all
they could to meet the wants and wishes of the public, and
with respect to which he felt that those who objected to the
existing market had not fairly considered such propositions.
As to the sanitary part of the question, he thought that would
be improved in the proposed alterations. Better arrange-
ments were proposed for the management of the market, for
increased space, and getting rid of the alleged cruelties. lii
conclusion, he expressed his opinion that nothing could be
better than the proposed enlarged market for the sale of live
and dead cattle. Other gentlemen addressed the meeting,
and thanks having been given to Mr. Pearson, and also to
the chairman, the meeting broke up.
EXTRACTS FROM THE IRISH HITE AND Car.—Tony
Gowan is advertised as having lost " a pig with a very
long,ltail, and a black spot on the tir) of his snout that
curls up behind."—A cow is described as " very difficult to
milk, and of no use to any one but the owner, with one horn
much longer than the other."—John Hawkins is alluded to
as having " a pair of quick grey eyes, with little or no
whiskers, and a Roman nose, that has a great difficulty in
looking any one in the face."—Betsy Waterton is accused of
having " absconded with a chest of drawers and a cock and
hen, and has red hair and a broken tooth, none of which are
tier own." The manager of the savings bank at Dunferry,
near Goofowran, is spoken of in these terms: " He had on,
when last seen, a pair of corduroy trowsers, with a tremen-
dous squint rather the worse for wear, besides an affected
lisp, which he endeavours to conceal with a pair of gold
spectacles."—A burglar has his portrait taken in the follow-
ing manner: "Ile has little or no hair, but black eyes on a
turned-up nose, which is dyed black to conceal its grey-
ness."—Punch.

REGISTER OF THE WEATHER AND STATE OF THE
CROPS NEAR WORKSOP FOR NovEMßEL—November has
been in general a tine month, the first portion of it being par-
ticularly mild and autumn-like. From the perturbed state
and lowness of the barometer, from the 18th to the morning
of the 20th, great tempests must have been raging in distant
localities. Here a heavy fall of rain took place, with a mo-
derate gale of wind. The month ended with a very keen
frost fur the season, the ice being an inch and a half
thick in still ponds, and fit to fill ice-houses. Rain fell
on sixteen days, the total amount registered by the rain
gauge being 1 inch and 83 parts, or rather below the average
fall. The thermometer was highest on the 2d, 62 degrees,
•nd lowest on the morning of the 30th, 34 degrees or 8
degrees frost. The barometer was-highest on the 29th, 30
degrees 0 minutes, and lowest on the 20th, 28 degrees 3 mi-
nutes. The prevailing winds were from the S.W. and
N, W. The mean temperature of the month, from 120 ob-
servations, was 51- degrees below the average. Owing to the
fine open weather in the early part of November, all out of
door operations in farms and gardens are well advanced.
The sharp frost at the end of the month has checked the
growth of the early sewn wheat, which on early soils was
getting rather too far advanced for the season. There are
few complaints this year o: the potatoes keeping badly where
properly pitted and stored; we may therefore conclude from
this circumstance, and from the reasonable price they are
selling at in the market, that this admired esculent is plenti-
ful, and freer from disease than usual.— Sheffield Times.
FINDING OF ONE OF THE 130D1E5 OF THE SEAMEN
DROWNED OFF WORTHlNG.—Ytsterday afternoon as some
of our Brighton fishermen were pacing the cliff in the brief
intervals of fair weather, they observed a dark object float-
ing in the surge. Always on the look out, not "for squalls,"
but for the prizes that squally weather may bring them,
they lost no time in inspecting the object. The inspection
proved that it was the body of a fisherman, and no doubt
was entertained of its being the remains of one of the un-
fortunate men drowned a fortnight since off Worthing.
Which of them it was it was difficult to say, as the face and
hands were entirely eaten away,
mutilated trunk. It had on a 'and there remained only a
guernsey, a pair " of drawers,
and
drawers
and socks. The body was taken to the Town-hall, where
it awaits an inquest. Two more bodies are reported to have
washed ashore between Lancing and Worthing. The find-
ing of the bodies is not unexpected, for the weather being
rough, and the wind W.S.W.,t hatis' blowing
up.
—Brighton,
the direction where the accident happened, it was con-
sidered probable that the bodies would float
Guardian.

THE TORNADO AT CAPE GIRARDEAN.
CINCINNATI, DEC. 6.—The St. Louis:papers con-
tain full particulars of the recent tornado on the
Mississippi river, by which the beatiful village of
Cape Girardean, in _Missouri, was almost entirely de-
stroyed. The convent, Catholic church, and other
buildings in the immediate vicinity, are heaps of ruins.
The St. Vincent College is also prostrated, and the
Methodist church, and all the other houses
between that and the bridge are injured. The
professors and students were at the college
at the time of the awful visitation, and
many of them were severely injured. One has
since died. Upwards of one half of the residents of
the place were left without a roof to protect them
from the weather. It is said that for a distance of
fifteen miles back and around Cape Girardean, every-
thing bears the aspect of utter destruction. The ac-
counts do not give the number of injured and killed.
Prompt measures have been taken at St. Louis for the
purpose of extending aid to the distressed and suffer-
ing families who have been rendered houseles3 by
this awful visitation.

LONDON, THURSD Y EVENING, DECEMBER l9, 1850.