The Sun.
London, England, 1850-09-21 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 21, 1850.

MANSION-110USE.—(THIS DAY.)
Barney Hagan and Mary Hagan, father and daughter
were brought before Mr. Alderman Gibbs, the latter
charged with stealing a valuable brooch, the property
of her master, and the former with having it in his
possession. _

It appeared that the male prisoner went yesterday
afternoon to a pawnbroker, named Harrison, in the
Minories, to pledge the brooch, but some suspicion being
entertained a policeman was called in, and he was given
into custody. He said he had received the brooch from
his daughter, who was a servant, but he pre-
tended not to know whore she lived. It was,
however, ascertained that she was in the employ
of Mr. Benjamin Meyer Louis Rothschild, a
jeweller, who carried on business at No. 2, South-street,
Finsbury, and on the policeman going there he saw the
female prisoner, who, on being questioned, admitted
having had a brooch in her possession, but said it had
been given to her by a boy two or three months ago,
when she was passing through Petticoat-lane, and that
she had lately made a present of it to her sister. An
interview was then obtained with her master, who said
the brooch belonged to him, and that he had lost it for
eight days.
The prosecutor, who was called, identified the brooch,
wh;ch he said had been stolen from an iron safe in his
counting-house. The female prisoner had only been
about ten or twelve days in his ser►ice.
Both the prisoners were remanded until the evidence
of the pawnbroker could be obtained.

WESTMINSTER.—(THIS DAY.)
Mary Cumming was charged before Mr. Burrell with
an assault on Sarah Ferguson.
Sarah Ferguson stated that she met the defendant in
St. Martin's lane at half-past seven last night, when she
abused her; saw her again about half-past eight in
York-street, when she again called her bad names, and
struck her with such violence as to knock her dawn,
when she stabbed her with a pair of scissors in her neck,
and inflicted a terrible blow on her eye.
Mr. BURRELI. (to complainant)—What is the cause
of defendant annoying you? Complainant—l was some
time ago witness against her, when she bad 21 days for
stealing a purse, and she has been annoying me er
slum

The prisoner denied having interfered with com-
plainant till she struck her, when she being the strongest
woman, got the best of her. She denied having had
scissors or anything else in her hand. Complainant had
constantly taunted her since she had bcea in prison.
Fined .54 or two months' imprisonment

The congregation of Bayswater Episcopal Chapel
have presented to their pastor, the Rev. C. Smalley, M. 1.,
on his completing the 21st year of his ministry at that chapel,
a splendid silver centre piece for the table, weighing 140
ounces.

Major Jones, of the 11th Hussars, was put under
arrest by Lieut.- Colonel the Farl of Cardigan, at Norwich
Barracks, on the 19th of September. •
DELIBERATE ATTEMPT AT MURDER.—An attempt
at murder, accompanied by circumstances of much delibera-
tion, occurred on Tuesday last, at Crew's Hole, near this
city. A dispute had arisen between two men named James
Price and William Hicks, about blasting a quarry, which is
the property of Price, but which he has let to Hicks. On
the afternoon of the day in question Price, having armed
himself with a loaded gun, went to the quarry, accompanied
by his son-in-law, a man named James Bryant, and ordered
Hicks's men to leave off working ; they declined to do so,
apon which he said, " H you do not desist I will shoot you,"
and Bryant said, "hoot them, shoot them, I'll stand the
racket." Price immediately levelled his gun, and shot a
man named Joseph Pearce, shattering his hand to pieces.
The poor fellow was immediately removed to our Infirmary,
where he now lies. Intelligence of the outrage having been
conveyed to P. S. Hazel!, No. 70, that active officer, assisted
by P. C. Porter, 71, succeeded in apprehending the offenders,
Price and Bryant, who were taken before Mr. Hughes, by
whom they were remanded to await the recovery of Pearce.
—Bristol Mercury.
CAUTION AGAINST GOING ON RAILWAYS.—On
Wednesday last a fatal accident occurred on the South Wales
Railway, near Skewen. Whilst one of the trains was passing
along at a rapid rate, an old man on crutches, between eighty
and ninety years of age, got knocked down by one of the
carriages, and had his leg fractured in two places. He suffered
so much that he expired yesterday. From what we have
learnt, the accident was entirely the result of his own impru-
dence. He has been warned off the line frequently, but to
no purpose. When the train came in sight, he was seen
standing on the line, and although the engine-driver sounded
the whistle, put on the breaks, and took every possible pre-
caution to attract attention, the poor old fellow took no
notice, and thus fell a victim to his want of caution and dis-
obedience of orders. —Cambrian of Friday.
We regret to bear that the Bishop of London, who
is absent on the Continent, has been for some time suffering
under great indisposition, occasioned, in a great measure, by
the anxiety of mind to which he has been subjected by late
events in the Church.—Church and State Gazette.
A FACT FOR THE PROTECTIONISTS.—At the
weekly meeting of the Board of Guardians of the Swansea
Union, held yesterday, there was not a single application for
relief from one of the seventeen agricultural parishes com-
prised in this union. The only applications made were by
parties residing in the town, and those numbered only two.
Some months ago, the business of the Board generally en-
gaged the attention of the chairman and the guardians from
ten till four, o'clock in the afternoon. For some weeks past
the number of applicants for relief has diminished so mach
that the business has not detained them more than a few
hours. Such has been the effect of free-trade in the Swansea
Union.— Cambrian of Friday.

Baron Brunow (the Russian Minister) has re-
turned to London from St. Petersburgh. His Excellency
had only reached the Russian capital a few days before he
received the distressing news of the demise of Mdlle. Olga de
Lechner, his step-daughter.

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ACCIDENTS ON THE RIVER.—On Thursday two fatal
accidents took place on the river. The first was that of a
boy named John Walker, aged 10 years, who was employed
on a barge moored off the Tunnel Pier, Wapping, and who
whilst walking along the side of the vessel fell overboard.
An alarm was raised, and every exertion made to save him,
but he never rose to the surface of the water, and was conse-
quently lost. The body has not yet been found. The
second accident happened to a man named James Conway, a
mariner belonging to a vessel called the Scarborough, lying
off Hermitage7stairs, near the London Docks. He by some
means fell overboard, and before assistance could be afforded
was carried away by the tide.
As the shadow follows the body in the splendour
of the fairest sunlight, so will tho wrong done to another
pursue the soul in the hours of prosperity.—Eliza Cook's
Journal.

In Russia there are special hospitals for the tjse of
the distressed nobility. An official notification, in the last
number of the Police Gazette of St. Petersburgh, makes
known that in consequence of the closing of one of the nobles'
hospitals, in that city, a new one of 66 beds is to be opened
for male nobles in the town of Oboukhoff.

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The following is the text of the clause of the will
of the late King Louis Philippe relative to his testamentary
executors :—" I name for my testamentary executors, M.
Dupin, Baron Laplange-Barris, Count de Montalivet, the
Duke de Montmorency, and M. Scribe, to whom I am happy
to give this proof of my confidence in, and my feelings
towards them."

YANKEE RAT TRA?.—Among the list of new
patents issued in June last, is one for an invention of Mr.
Stephens, of Maryland, whereby he has endeavoured to
bring the science of optics to aid him in constructing a trap
for catching rats. In this new trap a mirror is so arranged
that the rat which looks at the bait shall see his own image
reflected in such a position as will lead him to believe that a
second rat is trying to get before him in seizing the bait;
and when the first rat has been caught, his image will be re-
flected by:a mirror, so that the next rat who shall look arthe
bait shall see two rats apparently striving to seize it, thus
decoying him upon the turning table, which yields to his
weight and precipitates him into the body of the trap._.
Lowell Courier.
We regret to learn that Christopher Kreeft, Esq.,
Consul-General for his Royal Highness the Grand Duke of
Mecklenburg-Schwerin, died rather suddenly on Thursday
last, at his residence in town.
The boats of the fishermen at Scarborough have
been so loaded within the last few days with herrings, cod-
fish, and salmon, as to make fish attainable almost for
nothing. Herrings in Sunderland are ten a penny. Cod-
fish, weighing from Six to eight pounds, have been sold there
for 6d, each.

I absence, or to increase the votes of the council in
certain cases. The vice-president, ordinary and ex-
traordinary councillors, the secretary, and the subal-
tern functionaries of the council of state are named
by his 'lola:suss. No Councillor of State can exer-
cise the business of advocate or attorney. The coun-
cil of state discusses matters relating to government
or to administration, as well as to contentious affsirs.
It is divided into two sections, one for Legislation and
Finance, the other for the interior. The former
section takes cognisance of all matters belonging to
finance and justice, the latter discusses all affairs re-
lating to the other Ministerial departments. The
more important matters referred to the council of
state consist in projects of new laws, the interpreta-
tion of existing ones, questions of competence of
Ministers, the examination of municipal laws, and of
the acts of provincial councils, and all affairs directly
sent to the council of state by the Porz. The power
of the council of state in non-contentious matters is
merely consultative; its'resolutions, whether taken
in the general or in the sectional sittings, are consi-
dered as mere opinions. In all contentious matters
of administration, the council exercises the functions
of a magistrate within the limits to be determined by
a special regulation. The Ministers may be
present at the general and at the sectional
sittings. When, at a general sitting, the
cardinal president or the vice-president de-
clares the discussion closed, the council imme-
diately proceeds to the vote. Six council-
lors, five of whom must he ordinary, and either the
president or vice-president, form a quorum. The
sections cannot deliberate unless there be at least
three councillors present, two of whom must be ordi-
nary. All the members present sign the resolution
or opinion which they have voted ; it is then submitted
by the president to the POPE, if the affair has been
sent by him to the council ; if not it is submitted to
the Council of Ministers, or to the competent Mi-
n er ,the POPE decides. The
general
council of state take place
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sittings whose
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once a week—the sittings of the sections twice a week.
may convoke extraordinary
proper. The ordinary coun-
cillorsBisittings
The cardinal
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have a fixed salary. Both
these laws bear the date of the 10th.
The Piedmontese Gazette of the 16th publishes an
official contradiction of the rumour of an outbreak in
Sardinia. The tranquillity of the island has never
been disturbed, neither have any troops been ordered
from Genoa to Cagliari. The Archbishop of CAG-.
LIARI has been placed under arrest.
The mission of Signor PINELLI to Rome has failed.
Mr. FREEBORN is about to resign his functions as
British Consul at Rome.