The Sun.
London, England, 1850-04-02 00:00:00

ITALY.

Cardinal YEANzoNr, Prefect of the Sacred Congre-
gation of the Propaganda, arrived at Rome on the
21st ult. from Naples.
By a decree of the Tuscan Government the Ist of
October of every year is fixed as the day on which the
shares of the Tuscan loan, to be paid off, are to be
drawn by lot.

The lifilan Gazette, of the 27th ult., publishes a
decree revoking the prohibition of exporting from
Italy to Hungary scythes and other agricultural im-
plements which might be used as weapons of offence.
Letters from Naples, in the Genoa Gazette, state
that the departure of his HOLINESS is fixed for the 6th
inst. It is believed he will go by land, and stay
some time at Terracina.
The French squadron now at Naples is composed
of five vessels of the line, and six steam frigates.

THE AWFUL WRECK OF THE
ROYAL ADELAIDE STEAMER.
LATEST PARTICULARS—(THIS DAY).
The agents of the City of Dublin Steam Navigation
Company, to which the ill-fated steamer telonged, are
still without information of the exact number of unhappy
creatures who have perished.
The additional information received this morning on
the melancholy subject of the steamer's loss is subjoined.
The shoal where the wreck lies is termed the Tongue
Sand, eight or ton miles off Margate, and to those mai:-
acquainted with the spot, we may mention that it
divides the Queen's Channel from the Prince's. Of late
years the latter channel has bean lighted, and from that
circumstance it was the only one that could be safely
traversed at night. The Tongue Sand extends some
twelve or fourteen miles in length, and may be said to
nearly join the Goodwin. In some parts the Prince's
Channel is scarcely more than three-quarters of a mile
in breadth, a dangerous sandbank, termed the Sheigles,
forming the eastern boundary. To render the spot pro-
bably more familiar to the reader, it may be stated that
the " Tongue," which bears a lightship cf that name,
stretches some miles outside the well known Margate
Sands.

Without imputing any blame to the unfortunate com-
mander of the lost vessel, it is to be reqrctted that he
attempted to run through the Prince's Channel during
such weather as was unfortunately the case on Saturday
night. At all times, we believe, it is deemed by ma-
riners to be a delicate passage, but in an easterly wind,
which throws an immense surf over it, and thick
feather, its difficulties are considerably increased. The
pilot of a West Indian barque (whose name at present
we have not ascertained), bound for London, appears to
be the last person who saw anything of the Royal Ade-
laide. About half-past six o'clock on Saturday evening,
when about abreast of the North Foreland, a long black
steamer, apparently without a figurehead, passed the
barque, and the pilot, on looking at her stern, saw the
words " Royal Adelaide." The steamer went on, and
on the barque nearing the Prince's Channel the wind in-
creased to an alarming height, and the weather
thickened to a dangerous degree. The pilot, perceiv-
ing the peril he would be placing the ship in by taking
the Chennel in such trying weather, suggested
that the ship should be brought up for the night, and
she accordingly did so. In about an hour afterwards
two rockets were seen to ascend, as if from the centre of
the channel. The report of guns were afterwards heard,
and it was immediately concluded that some unfortunate
vessel was in distress on the Sands, the pilot congratu-
lating himself upon bringing up. On the following
morning all were anxious to see the cause of firing for
aid on the previous night, and on the edge of the Tongue
was observed the broken paddles of:the wreaked steamer.
The pilot drew the attention of the captain to the wreck,
and said, " That is all, Sir, that is left of the long black
steamer that passed us last evening about the North
Foreland." The pilot of another Indian trader, saw her
about the same timr. And it is the opinion of many
competent navigators of this part of the coast, that the
deceased commander lost sight of the unfavourable
weather in his anxiety to get through the Channel be-
fore dusk, and hugging the Tongue too closely, struck
upon that portion of the shoal about two miles north of
the beacon light. It was low water at the time, and, as
the tide rose the mountains of sea, swept out of the
German Ocean by the easterly gales, rolled in and car-
ried the vessel further on the Sands.
At Margate on Saturday evening the gale was expe-
rienced very severely. The Wind blew heavily from the
S.E., and the weather was dangerously thick. Since
the melancholy catastrophe has been made known seve-
ral parties have recollected the firing of guns on Satur-
day evening; at the time but trifling notice was taken of
the circumstance, probably from the fact that the bois-
terous state of the sea would involve their own lives in
the event of their putting off to the vessel supposed to be
in distress. About midday on Sunday the real charac-
ter of the calamity was learned, and a swarm of luggers
and smacks put off with a view of getting what they
could from the wreck, and at the time of this informa-
tion being forwarded several dozen craft of all descrip-
tions were busy about the Tongue picking up fragments
of the ill-fated ship.
There is little doubt that the watch on board the
Tongue light beacon ship were eye-witnesses of the
whole appalling scene. To render succour in such ter-
rible weather, and in so frightful a spot, was beyond all
human power; in fact, it is doubtful, if any vessel had
been nigh, whether she would net have shared the same
fate as the Royal Adelaide. Minute signal guns were
fired from the beacon the whole night, with At view of
attracting the attention of those on shore, as well as
vessels that might be near. The Father Thames, which
left London with passengers for Margate on Saturday
morning, and encountered the gale, was beating about
until midnight before she reached her destination. The
captain saw the fleshes of the guns, and thought that
assistance had been sent out. The weather, however,
was very severe, and it was with difficulty the Father
Thstnes.could weather it, and fir the security of his
passengers he deemed it best to see to their safe landing.
A large muss of the steamer's stores, with fr agments
of the wreck, as also bedding, passengers' t aggage,
were picked up in the course of Sunday aftermoun, and
landed at Ramsgate, Margate, and Broar4stairs. In the
course of yesterday as many as 200 luggers were ' in the
neighbourhood of the Tongue Sands, dragging fort unken
property, but nothing worthy of notice has it seem, 4 been
found.

RAPID BUTTER-MAxmo.--Yesterday was ex, ili-
bited before the Lord Mayor, the Lady Mayoress, and sieve' al
of their friends, in the justice-room, the American churn, •
which in tett minutes produced four pounds of butter fiom v

four quarts of cream. The merits of the invention were pal-
pable. One of its recommendations is its great simplicity.
It operates on a beautiful principle, as was acknowledged by
all who witnessed the experiment. The mechanical action
of the air, which is mingled with the cream in such a man-
ner that a thorough separation of the particles takes place,
prevents the cream from frothing on the surface, and does
its work with astonishing rapidity and in the meat complete
manner. The result of the experiment of yesterday exceeded
the expectations of those before whom it was made; the
statement made by the exhibitors being that the butter
would be produced from cream in twelve minutes, and from
milk in fifteen minutes. The butter was washed in the churn
by pouring off the milk, putting in cold water, and pressing
the butter against the sides of the churn, moving the dish
backwards and forwards, and changing the water until it re-
mained clear.

YACHTING.—The season for this truly national en-
joyment is now commencing, and happy are we to observe
the activity and bustle on the Gosport side of the harbour,
which clearly shows we have a pretty good share of it at this
port. We find Mr. Camper has in progress of building two
schooners and one large cutter, while the beautiful schooner
Erminia, the property of the Earl of Ellesmere, is nearly
ready for her trial trip; thej schooners Gipsy Queen, Coral
Queen, Fernande, and Cybelle, and cutters Alfred and
Nymph are fitting out with all dispatch. The Janette and
Circassia schooners are bought by Russian noblemen, and
also preparing to leave for Petersburgh as soon as possible,
while there are laid up, waiting for orders, no less than 10
schooners and a host of cutters and small fry; particulars of
which, as they move, will be duly announced to our nautical
readers who take great interest in yachting.—Portsmouth
Times.

The Marchioness of Clanricarde and Lady Emily
De Burgh, have joined the circle visiting the Duke and
Duchess of Norfolk, at Arundel Castle.
The Marquis and Marchioness of Londonderry and
Lady Adelaide Vane arrived at Holdernesse House on Thurs-
day, from Bath, and are about to proceed on a short visit
to Paris.
The Marquis of Tweeddale has joined the Mar-
chioness and the Ladies Jane, Elizabeth, and Louisa say,
and Lord Charles Hay, at Leamington Spa, from visiting the
Duke of Rutland at Belvoir Castle. The Earl Clifford was
to leave town yesterday, to meet the family circle.
The Countess (Dowager) of Carlisle and Lady
Mary Howard have left town on a visit to the Duke of De-
vonshire, at his marine residence at Kemp Town.
Lord and Lady Foley have arrived at Arundel
Castle, on a visit to the Duke and Duchess of Norfolk; and
the circle has been increased by the arrivals of the Earl and
Countess of Arundel and Surrey, and Lord Edward Fitz-
alau Howard.
FESTIVITIES AT BELTOIE CASTLE.—The Duke of
Rutland has during the last week received the following per-
sonages of rank at his ducal seat in Leicestershire :—His Ex-
cellency the American Minister and Mrs. and Miss Lawrence,
Prince Montleart (step-brother to the King of Sardinia), the
Marquis of Tweeddale, Lord Forester, Sir Frederick Trench,
Colonel and Mrs. Wyndham and Miss Wyndham, Hon.
Colonel Lowther and Miss Lowther, Mr. A. and Lady
Elizabeth Drummond, Captain Burnaby, Mr. Allis, Mr. and
Mrs. Norton, Mr. E. Hartopp, &c. The Marquis of Granby
and Lord Charles Manners are staying at the castle and
assisting in the duties of hospitality. A large and distin-
guished:party will assemble at the castle next week for the
Croxton Park Races.
The Duke of Manchester returned to Kimbolton
Castle, near Huntingdon, last week, from town, and has
since been joined by Lord and Lady Olivia Ossulston, and
Viscount Mandeville, M.P. Captain Steele and Miss Steele
are also staying at the Castle ; and we are happy to learn
that the Gallant Captain is now pronounced by his medical
attendants as going on favourably after his alarming acci-
dent when recently out bunting.
HALSTED.—On the night of Good Friday, the Rev.
Dr. Adams, who has for forty-six years been the vicar of
this parish, expired at the vicarage, at the advanced age of
eighty-six. The event became known on the following
morning, and universal gloom overspread the town. The
charity and benevolence of the deceased were ever found to
be equally extended towards all his parishioners, of what
sect soever they might be, and the loss of the venerable vicar
will be severely felt by the poor, to whom he was a friend
and a father.—Essex Lierald.

PREMIUMS IN APPRENTICESHIP.—The Lord Chan-
cellor has just decided in a case where the master died and
the offer of his executors to transfer an apprentice to a suc-
cessor was refused, that as the premium was paid to the
master for services to be rendered by him, when the antici-
pated condition failed by accident, or by the act of God, the
party paying was entitled to have a fair proportion restored
to him as an equitable debt.
A writer in the Gardener's Chronicle recommends
spent taners' bark as a good manure for strawberries.
FATAL ACCIDENT.—On Sunday afternoon, a man
named Edward Bull, a driver of one of Glover's Westminster
cabriolets, conveyed a party to Twickenham on a pleasure
excursion. Having agreed to bring the same party back
again, Bull put up his horse and cab at Mr. Carter's yard
Isleworth, and afterwards went, as was imagined, to take a
walk to pass the time away, Hour after, hour, however,
elapsed without Bull making his appearance, and inquiry
was made for him throughout the neighbourhood, but not
the least tidings of him could be gleaned during the whole
of Sunday night. Yesterday morning, however, his lifeless
body was found a short distance from the Isleworth station,
on the rail, dreadfully mangled. None of the engine drivers
or guards saw the accident, and no one can form any opinion
as to what object the deceased had in trespassing upon the
railway. The unfortunate deceased has left a widow and
six small children, now entirely unprovided for.
A FRENCH SMUGGLER. A French lugger was
boarded by the Defence, revenue cutter, off Portland, on
Friday last, and brought into this harbour, on suspicion of
smuggling contraband goods, and after the crew had had a
hearing before the magistrates, the vessel was ordered to be
detained. A Portland man found on board is in custody.—
Salisbury Herald.
Cases of poisoning of husbands by wives have of
late been rather numerous. We have to record the con-
demnatioa by the Court of Assizes of the Loziire, of a woman
named Maliger, of a village near Mende, for havin4 caused
the death of her husband by putting poison in his food. She
had married him against her will, having loved another man,
and had always refused him the privileges of a husband.
She commenced a criminal connexion with her lover, and
it was, she said, in compliance with his advice that she poi-
soned her husband.— Galignani.
A WORK or NECESSITY.—Three hairdressers,
charged before the Glasgow magistrates, on Tuesday, with
" following their calling on the Lord's Day, commonly called
Sunday," as barbers, were severally acquitted on the ground
that their employment upon the chins of the devout, pre-
vious to their attendance at the Free Kirk, was,.strictly
speaking, " a work of necessity."
Pauperism is the hot-bed of crime, and good cir-
cumstances are the best security for good
.conduct. —Eliza
Cook's Journal.
SENSE AND TACT.—Sense sometimes makes
mistake in its calculations; tact seldom errs. Sense may
know best what to do; but tact knows best when and how
to do it; and in these matters of social experience every-
thing depends on promptitude at the right moment. While
sense is watching its opportunity, tact strikes.—" The Ladder
df Ge'd," in Beniey's Miscatany for April.
CMURCH-RATES.—The Mayor of Southampton has
refused to sign about forty summonses of parties who have
declined paying church-rates in that town. The Mayor also
presided at an Anti-State-Church meeting held last week in
Southampton.
ASPHALTIC MANURE. —At a weekly council of the
Royal Agricultural Society, held on Wednesday, a statement
was read from Earl Grey, showing the satisfactory results ob-
tained by Vice-Admiral the Earl of Dundonald, in command
of her Majesty's naval forces on the West Indian station,
from manure prepared from the asphaltum of the great pitch
lake in the island of Trinidad, and tried in the Government
gardens at Bermuda. His Lordship further stated to the
council that Lord Dundonald had sent to the Colonial- office
a box containing three specimens of the manure in question,
and which would be forwarded to the society for the inspec-
tion of its members. The council ordered their best thanks
to be transmitted to Earl Grey for the favour of this commu-
nication, and gave directions that the specimens referred to
by his Lordship should, on their arrival, be placed in the
hands of Professor Way, the consulting chemist of the society,
with a request that he would make a chemical examination
of the new manure, and report to the council his opinion of
its value in an agricultural point of view.
POLITE UNTRUTHS.—when you have put yourself
a little out of the way to accommodate a friend, in replying
to his expressions of regret at giving you trouble, it is not
necessary to say, "Oh, it is not toe slightest trouble at all—
it was perfectly convenient." It is quite as polite to answer,
" I am most happy to have been able to render you any
assistance," as you ought to be if you felt right upon such
matters. A little tact and discretion, united with that
kindly feeling to all around you, which constitutes the basis
of sound morality, as well as true politeness, will always
enable you to avoid giving offence, without compromising
your conscience. —Eliza Cook's Journal.
The annual dinner of the members and friends of
the London Coffee and Eating-house Keepers' Association is
fixed to take place on Wednesday, the Ist of May pent.
John Masterman, Esq., M.P., for London, has kindly con-
sented to occupy the position of chairman. The Sheriffs of
London and Middlesex have signified their intention of
being present on that day, and in the list of stewards may
be found the names of many gentlemen liberal supporters of
the numerous charities of this metropolis, among whom
we may mention—Sir James Duke, Bart., M.P. ; W. Ewart,
Esq., M.P. ; C. Lushington, Esq., M.P. ; Jno. Williams,
Esq., M.P. ; M. W. Attwood, Esq. ; James Harmer, En. ;
and M. J. Pearce, Esq. Every arrangement will be made
for the comfort of the guests, and a numerous party is ex-
pected; and it is to be hoped it will be as beneficial for the
objects contemplated as most similar meetings are found
to produce in their results.

FIRE, AND FOUR LIVES LOST.--A fire occurred
on Sunday night, at Osborn, Churchstow, three miles from
Kingsbrioge, in the farm-house and premises occupied by
Mr. Moysey. It appears that at two o'clock on Monday
morning, Mr. Moysey was awakened by hearing his children
cr;ing in an adjoining room. lie went thither, and dis-
covered that the room was filled with smoke, and imme-
diately on alarming the household the flames were obsered to
burst forth from various parts of the building. The family
having taken refuge in the farmyard, Mr. Moysey went to
call the apprentice boys, who were sleeping in an outer part
of the building, but could net get near for fire and smoke—
he then went into the garden to endeavour to rouse the poor
fellows, but did not succeed ; the room was in a blaze. The
engines soon arrived from Kingabridge, with the active au-
derintendent (Mr. N. Gillard) and his effective brigade.
The firemen, with their hooks and tomahawks, soon suc-
ceeded in cutting off the communication, and with a good
supply of water, and the energies of the superintendent and
his men, the fire was soon got under. On going into the
room where the boys slept, a frightful spectacle was pre-
sented. There lay the half-consumed bodies of the poor
fellows. The remains of the elder lads, aged eighteen and
twenty-one, were brought out. The heads and legs, below
the knee, and the arms below the elbow joint, were com-
pletely consumed. After further search, the trunk only of
one of the younger boys, aged twelve years, was found. The
body of the other poor little fellow, ten years of age, was en-
tirely consumed.—Western Times.

THE GREAT EXHIBITION IN 1851.—The Minister
of Commerce has addressed a circular to the different Cham-
bers of Commerce and Manufactures, calling their attention
to the exhibitition which is to take place iu 1851 in Loudon,
and urging on them the necessity of using their utmost
efforts among the manufacturers in their respective districts
in order that the products of French industry sent to Eng-
land may be such as to keep up the character of the country
for ingenuity and skill in workmanship. The circular also
explains that the exhibition will include agricultural pro-
ductions, and calls the attention of those connected with
such pursuits to the benefit which may result from their
taking part in it....Galignani's "Messenger..