The Sun.
London, England, 1850-06-06 00:00:00

ITALY.

Great indignation has been excited in Rome
against the l'orE and Cardinals for their brutal
treatment of CERNUSCIII, the innocent victim of the
vendetta pretina, the priestly vengeance, as the
Romans denominate the atrocities which have been
committed by the partisans of priestly Government,
ever since the day that OUDINOT entered Rome.
CERNUSCIII, one of the most learned and eloquent
of the Romans, was arrested by order of OUDINOT at
Civita Vecchia just as he was on the point of em-
barking with the Prince DE CANINO. He was
brought to trial before a court-martial of French
officers on the following charges :-1, inciting the
people to revolt ; 2, dilapidation of property belong-
ing to the Neapolitan Minister at the Palazzo Far-
nese ; 3, destruction of public property in erecting
barricades, &c., and acquitted ; notwithstanding which
he was detained as a prisoner in the Castle of St.
Angelo, from whence he was removed on the 27th
ult. and thrown into a damp and miserable dungeon
at St. Michele, to which he was conducted through
the streets handcuffed and guarded. The cell in
which he was placed is both dark and damp (a man
declared to be innocent by the sentence of a court-
martial), neither bed nor light being allowed him.
His Roman friends supplied the first, and some ge-
nerous and humane French officers obtained permis-
sion, after three days, for him to have a lamp.

SOCIETY or PATRONS.—The anniversary of the
charity children belonging to the ♦arious parishes of the
metropolis was celebrated, as usual, this morning at St.
Paul's Cathedral. The ehildren of the several schools began
to assemble shortly after nine o'clock. To avoid the con-
sequences of the frequent disappointments experienced by
the public, a number of seats were provided under the dome,
the; whole of which were occupied. After the early service
had bee❑ gone through a very impressive sermon was
delivered by the Right Reverend the Lord Bishop of St.
Asaph, in favour of the society, at the conclusion of which
a very liberal collection was made.

GRAND INSPECTION OF THE ROYAL MARINES.—
This morning the Woolwich division of Royal Marines
marched from their quarters, and took up a position on
Woolwich Common, for the purpose of undergoing their
annual inspection. Lieutenant-General Sir Thomas Doun-
man, C. 8., K.C.H., commandant of the division; Colonel
John Owen, C. 8., K.H., Deputy-Adjutant-General; Captain
S. R. Westley, Assistant-Adjutant-General, accompanied by
a brilliant staff of officers, having arrived on the ground, the
band struck up the National Anthem. After the men had
been minutely inspected by the staff, and put through their
several movements, which they executed with great preci-
sion, the staff left the ground, and the regiment returned to
barracks.

ROYAL CYCLORAMA.—The present selection of
music illustrating the views of this splendid panorama, forms
a great feature of attraction; the classic feeling pervading the
whole harmonizes so admirably with the passing scene as to
render this exhibition unique par excellence. The talented
performance of Mr. Pittman on the new Apollonicon, by
Bevington and Sons, ou which this takes place, have recently
received the marked approbation of fashionable and dis-
tinguished audiences.
CLAIM TO A DUKEDOM By THE EARL OF BAL-
CA SRES.—The Earl of Balcarres, who last year established
his claim to the Earldom of Crawford, in the peerage of Scot-
land, and whose title in that peerage is now " the Earl of
Crawford and Balcarres," though his Lordship sits in the
House of Peers only as Baron Wigan, has presented a peti-
tion to her Majesty, praying that he may be declared and
adjudged to be entitled to the ancient honour and dignity of
Duke of Montrose. The Noble Earl's petition has been re-
ferred in ,the ordinary course to the Committee for privi-
leges of the House of Lords.

ARRIVAL OF THE SPANISH AMBASSADOR.—His
Excellency Senor Isturitz, Ambassador from the Court of
Spain, arrived yesterday at Mivart's Hotel, attended by a
numerous suite.

IxDri-HousE.—Yesterday a Court of Directors
was held at the East India-house, when Lieutenant-General
Sir William Maynard Gomm, K.O 8., was appointed Com-
mander-in-Chief of the Company's forces on the Bombay
establishment.

GAM/MEND AND ROCIIECTER RAILWAY.—The
half-yearly meeting of this company was held yesterday, at
the office, New Broad-street, in compliance with the Act of
Parliament; but no business was transacted, the line having
been disposed of to the South-Eastern Company, and its
affairs nearly wound up.
No orator can measure in effect with him who can
give good nicknames.—Eliza Cook's Journal.

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JAMES DUNCAN, ESQ.—The obituary of the week
announces the death of Mr. Dungan, so long known as a
respectable publisher and bookseller in Paternoster-row. Mr.
Duncan was a Scotchman, and began his business career in
Edinburgh, from which place he came to London and got
into a partnership in Holborn. He afterwards went on by
himself, and conducted his affairs with so much astuteness as
to have considerable weight on " the trade." Mr. Duncan
retired a few years ago, on a well-earned competency, and
died at the age of sixty-six, at the house of his son-in-law,
Mr. Tayler.—Literary Gazette.

VICISSITUDE OF FORTURE:—Every one who has
passed through St. Paul's Churchyard to Cheapside on a
rainy day, when birch-brooms are very much in requisition,
must have noticed the well-known Hindoo crossing-sweeper,
who has for years past regularly stationed himself at the
north-east angle of the cathedral. A day or two ago he
was at his post as usual, when the attention of the Nepaulese
Ambassador, who was passing at the time, was attracted to-
wards him. His Excellency ordered the carriage to stop,
and entered into conversation with him, the result of which
was that he threw his broom with desperate eagerness over
the railings of the burial-ground, and then scrambled into
the carriage and took his seat by the side of his Excellency,
who immediately drove off with his singularly-acquired coin •
panion. We understand that our ex-crossing-sweeper is
engaged during his Excellency's stay in this country, which
will probably be about two months, to act as interpreter to
him and his suite. lie now appears in the carriage of his Ex-
cellency every morning arrayed in a new and superb HinHindoocostume, and is not too proud to recognize his old acquaint-
ances and friends of the broom.

MANsioN-HousE.— The Lord Mayor and Lady
Mayoress have issued cards of invitation to the archbishops
and bishops, and a large number of clergymen, to dine after
the sermon for the Society of the Propagation of the Gospel,
on Wednesday, the 19th instant.

ENTOMOLOGIAL SOCIETY. -- The usual monthly
meeting of the society was held last Monday evening, G. E.
Waterhouse, Esq., president, in the chair. Messrs. C. E.
Bree, John Dashwood, and Meade were elected subicribers
to the society. Mr. Bedell exhbited specimens of Lithocol •
letis hortellu and Tinea Zinchenii, from West Wickham; Mr.
J. F. Stephens exhibited a shoot of Riles sangnineum, com-
pletely destroyed by Coccus Serpuliformis ; Mr. Shepherd
exhibited a specimen of Cloantha conspicillaris, taken in Da-
renth-wood ; Mr. Westwood exhibited a pair of Lyda fas-
ciata, one of our rarest hymenoptera, which fed in the shoot
of an espalier pear-tree; he also exhibited the cases of a
species of Coleophora, feeding en the pear, which was ex-
ceedingly abundant at Hammersmith. Several exhibitions
of considerable interest were made, and the meeting ad-
journed at a late hour.

WESTMINSTER NEw
Committee have decided that the standing orders may be
dispensed with in the case of the promoters of this measure,
for a temporary bridge at Westminster.
ROYAL MARINEs.—
to-rnorrow (June 6)WooLIVICU, JUNE s.—The
BRIDGE.—The Parliamentary
annual inspection of the Woolwich division is to take place
Downman, C.B. Kv. 1-
' ---I Commandant of the Garrison ;
Colonel Parke, C. 8., Commandant of the Division; Colonel
John Owen. C. 8., K.ll.
return, obtained b Mr. Ewart,
—, Deputy Adjutant-General, and Cap-
tain S. R. Wesley, Assistant Adjutant-General.
by Lieutenant-General Sir Thomas
ADVERTISEMENT DUTY. Yesterday a Parlia-
mentarywas printed, show-
ing the number of writs issued by the Stamp-office for the
recovery of duties on advertisements in each year since 1829.
The largest number was issued in 1849, when 127 writs were
issued, and the smallest number in the year ending the sth
April last,
when only 37 were issued. The writs have
averaged in the twenty years about 50 a Year. The duty on
advertisements was reduced in 1833. In Scotland only 55
20 years,
writs were issued in the and 28 in Ireland in the
same period.

SUICIDE AT TUE WESTMINSTEIt lIOSPITAL.--Yes-
terday an inquest was taken by Mr. Bedford, at the West-
minster Hospital on view of the body of Thomas Couthard,
aged forty eight, who precipitated himself from a window of
a corridor, on the third story, at the Westminster Hospital.
The deceased, who
was a woodcutter, living at Crossfield-
place, Deptford, was, on Friday last, admitted into the insti-
tution suffering from a dislocation of the thumb. Deceased
was progressing favourably under the treatment of the sur-
geons till Monday night about half-past eleven o'clock, when
an attack of dilirium suddenly came on. He then started out
of bed and began to dress hi-inself. The nurse of the ward
endeavoured to quiet him, when he observed that he was not
going to stop in the hospital to be hacked about, and that he
would go home that night. She called up the house sur-
geon, who attempted to calm the deceased, but he ran away
into the corridor adjoining. He was followed by the sur-
geon, who, thinking he was going into a lower corridor, pro-
ceeded down stairs to meet him. Deceased, instead, rushed
into the one above, from whence he flung himself out of a
window, falling a height of between forty and fifty feet. Ile
was taken up in an insensible condition, bleeding from the
mouth and nose, and both ankles were broken. He died in
four hours from the shock to the system. Verdict —" fem-
porary insanity,"