The Sun.
London, England, 1844-07-01 00:00:00

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ronEXGag.
The King of the French, accompanied by General Duros-
nel, Colonel Dumas, and ie Count de Strada, paid a visit to
Saint Cloud on Thursday afternoon, but returned to Neuilly
to dinner. In the evening their Majesties received the
Turkish Ambassador, the Minister of Wurtemburg, the Duke
General Jacqueminot, and M. de Lahaye Jousselin.
According to one of the journals, his Majesty will speedily
set out for the Palace of Eu, to examine the works that have
been executed there lately.
The Prince de Joinville, says the Moniteur, being obliged
to proceed to the coast of Morocco, wrote, before his depar-
ture, to Vice-Admiral Leblanc to express his regret at not
being able this year to visit Rochfort a second time, as he
had promised.
"It would appear," says the Constitutionnel, "that all the
Powers are to have a naval force on the coasts of Morocco.
Orders have been sent from Turin to Cagliari, that the Sar-
dinian squadron should set sail for Tangiers."
A letter from Toulon, of the 25th, states that no news had
arrived there from Algeria since the dispatches of the 20th.
A communication received at that period contains the intel,
ligence that Abd-el-Kader had been named Khalifat of the
eastern part of the kingdom of Morocco, and that the Arabs
subject to France were busily employed in getting in their
crops, through fear of some razzia.
_ News has been received at Trieste, from Corfu, stating that
forty Italian refugees, among whom were D. Moro and the
brothers Bandiera, naval officers, embarked in the night of
the 12th, in a Neapolitan or Roman vessel, with the intent
of landing on some
point on the coast of Italy. It was be-
lieved that they had steered their course towards the coast of
Calabria.
d, Bo -4gsburgh Gazette states, from Goritz, that the Duke
urination-w( has notiAed to the Courts of Europe his deter-
mid ,_,to retain the title of Count de Chambord. This is
oe for the purpose of avoiding the alternative of ae-
pavrting °r
, refusing the title of King of France, which his
r
d'Ag
onuaiesmgei.ven to him since the death of the Duke
in inAt Paris, on Friday, ten condemned criminals were exposed
the
w e pillory, on the Place du Palais de Justice. Amongst
them as a man named Barrois, who has been sentenced to
imprisonmect for life, with hard labour, for the murder of his
wife.

An Amsterdam letter announces the landing of the machine
for draining the lake of Haarlem. It was constructed at the
foundry of Messrs. Harvey and Co., at Hayle, Cornwall, is
12 English feet square, and weighs 31,0001 b.
From Venice we learn that the works on the railroad, be-
tween that city and Milan, arc being carried perseveringly on,
and that the Government has just allowed the importation of
400 tons of English iron at half the imposed duty.
So abject is the condition in which the State pensioners of
Spain are left, that an old colonel on the retired list, who
lived at Tarragona, died lately in such destitution, that his
body received the interment of a pauper.
Comrr —wAssioN4l.BX.Z.
The Court is expected to return to Buckingham Palace to-
morrow afternoon, from Claremont.
The Earl of Delawarr, as Lord Chamberlain, at the com-
mand of her Majesty, has issued invitations for a grand
dinner on Thursday next.
The Duchess of Kent will return to this country on Mon-
day next, on the morning of which day she will embark at
Ostend on board the Princess Alice, Dover mail packet,
Master Commander L. Smithett, who is ordered to Ostend
on the 7th to be in readiness. The Princess Alice will land
her Royal Highness at Woolwich.
Preparations are in progress at Cambridge House for the
reception of their Serene Highnesses the Hereditary Grand
Duke and Duchess of Mecklenburgh Strelitz, who are to ar-
rive on Thursday next, to remain some weeks on a visit to
their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge.
The Grand Duchess (Princess Augusta of Cambridge) comes
expressly to stay it, is said, until the close of September,
with her illustrious parents.
The Duke and Duchess of Buccleuch give a grand enter.
tainment, on the 10th inst., to her Royal Highness the
Duchess of Gloucester; and on the 12th a similar banquet to
meet their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of
Cambridge.
The Earl and Countess of Essex were honoured by the
company of a select and brilliant, circle of the nobility at
Cashiobury Park, near Watford, Herts, on Saturday last.
His, Excellency Count de St. Aulaire, Duchess de Coign), and Madlle. Coigne Countess of Jersey and Lady Clemen-
tina Villiers, Earl of Mansfield, Lady Lyndhurst and Hon.
Miss Copley, Hon. Fredenck and Lady Elizabeth Villiers,
the Rev. John Massey Stanley, Viscount Cantalupe, Lord
Forester, Mr. Spencer de Horsey and Miss de Horsey, &c.,
were among the visitors.
_cThe Right Hon. Edward Ellice, M.P. and Dowager
ountess of Leicester, arrived at Longford Hall, the Dowager
Countess's seat in Derbyshire, on Tuesday, where they pur-
Pose residing some weeks, before going to Scotland.
St. Earl and Countess de Grey are not expected to arrive in
Jamm'itsquare, from Dublin Castle, until the end of the
month, as it is understood to be his Lordship's intention to
make a short sojourn at Buxton Wells, en route from Ireland.
Lrdshi-
fordshoire. will afterwards visit his seat, Brest Park, Bed-
Mr._ Baring Wall,M.P., received his Excellency M. Dedel,
Lord and Lady Ashburton, and Hon. Miss Baring, Lord and
Lady Jemima Eliot, Lord and Lady Methuen, Lady Morgan,
Sir John Cam Hobhouse, Mrs. Mildmay, Mr. and Mrs.
Vivian, Mr. Barrington, Mr. Ward, and a select party at
dinner on Thursday last, at the honourable gentleman's
house in Berkeley-square.
His Excellency Count de St. Aulaire, the French Ambas-
sador, left Hertford House last evening for Dover, on his way
to Paris. His Excellency's conge is limited to the Ist of Sep-
tember, when the Ambassador will return accompanied by
the Countess de St. Aulaire.

IX 011713.
Joe Smith, the MoD SCELLAIS
rmonicandidate for the Presidency
of the United States, and is said to have a better chance than
" Jack Tyler."
The annual distribution of prizes to the students of the
East India Company's College at Haileybury, near Hertford,
took place on Friday last, attended as usual by a deputation
from the Court of Directors.
The Directors of the London and Birmingham Railway
have given instructions that the eleven o'clock a.m. down
train stop at Harrow on Thursday next, July the 4th, being
the day of the speeches.
The Lord Chancellor of Ireland has dismissed Mr. Cornelius
O'Brien from the magistracy, for presiding at a meeting to
express sympathy for Mr. O'Connell.
Glasgow paper says Mr. James Rodger, butcher, of Ayr,
has let two acres of Alloway- croft (for which he pays his
flandlady 2/. an acre) to the committee of the Burns's festival,
or one day's use, for 201. The national enthusiasm will be
beneficial to one individual, at all events.
slr. Vincent Fitzpatrick has received from an anonymous
friend 1501. towards the payment of O'Connell's fine of 2,0001.
Mr. Corbally, M.P. for Meath, refuses to attend at Con-
ciliation-hall instead of the House of Commons, upon the
summons of some of his constituents. This act of insubordi-
nation will most likely insure him his dismissal from the
county's representation.
"We hear," says the Bury Post, "that there are nine pri-
ntsone our gaol on the charges of arson, and one for send-
ing threatening letters ; at Ipswich gaol, ten for arson, and
trewcotifqor sending threatening letters ; at Beccles house of cor-
burn 'n
, waiting for trial at the next assizes.

On RESPITE OF DALMAS.
Saturday afternoon Mr. Kean, the Governor of Horse-
Illoager-lane Gaol, together with r. Under Sheriff Abbott,
iiwa_j_ted upon Sir James Graham, the Home Secretary, at the
,nne-office, relative to the execution of this criminal,
which the High Sheriff of the county had appointed to take
place this day, at nine o'lock. Up to a ate peiod on Fri a
night' or even so late asc Saturday noon,l there was not the slightest expectation of a reprieve. On Friday afternoon
the ::.onvict had made up his mind for the worst, and ex-
ressed himself ready for the change which awaited him.
The Under-Sheriff and the Governor of the prison arrived at
the Home-office about three o'clock, and had an interview
with Sir James Graham, the result of which was that the
Rome Secretary undertook to grant a respite to the convict
until this day week.
. We understand that this respite has been granted in order
to afford time for the completing certain inquiries respecting
On Saturday afternoon the final interview took place
between Dalmas and his daughters, which was of a heart-
parted, description, and the unhappy young women de-
fully impressed that they had taken their last fare-
well of
Which was
well of their only surviving parent. On the respite being
placed in the hands of Mr. Kean, the
rernor, that gentleman, accompanied with the chaplains
from
the ,-;..
P-won, together with the surgeon, immediately went
roes the office of the Secretary of State to the county gaol,
Iwhere they arrived about six o'clock, and proceeded to the,
())11ideillned cell, to announce the intelligence to the convict.'
portion of
a mess at tpriod was busily employed in reading some
the Sacred Scriptures, recommended to his atten
141 by the chaplain. The convict rose at the entrance of
the gentlemen into his cell, and when the intelligence of a
IN)te was,
carefully and considerately conveyed to him
!nrough the medium of the chaplain and the Governor, it
mwas
on evident that it was totally unexpected, and for a few
resselents he Was completely overpowered, but finally ex-
d
his gratitude to those gentlemen for the interest they
had i
taken n his behalf. Mr. Kean also caused this act of the
respite to be conveyed to the daughters.

NIIEEEIELD, SUNDAY MORNING, EIGHT O'CLOCK.—
FIREAT LORD WHARIICLIFFE'S FARM, WORTLEY ITALL—
About one o'clock this morning a large corn stack, in the
press N,Yardstack at Wortley Hall, was discovered on fire. An ex
fire-engines,
-as sent off to Sheffield, distant 8i miles for the
which arrived:about three o'clock. Owing to the
calmness of the night, and the great exertions of the tenants
of his Lordship and the inhabitants generally, the fire was
confined to;one stack, containing about sixty quarters. It 13
81113p0Sed to be the work of an incendiary. Lord 'Marneliffe
has made himself very unpopular in the West Riding for his
advocacy of the new poor-laws.
SUDDEN DEATH OF A WATERLOO-BRIDGE TOLL-
CoLLETOR.—Last tnight Caleb Tilt, a toll-collecto rof the
money on the
Waterloo-bridge
lowe Company, was busily engaged in taking
Surrey side of the bridge, when sud-
denly he was noticed to fall back on his seat. Having been
removed to the toll-house Mr. Cooke, a surgeon, was in
prompt attendance, when a large quantity of blood was taken
from Tilt's arm, but he never afterwards rallied, and a cab
having been procured b Con y Constable Goose, No. IGO L, he was
it iv home, where, after two or three hours lie expired,
in hiss `posed,u in an apoplectic fit. The deceased had been
ation since the opening of the bridge.
Tux CONVICTS BARBER AND FLETCHER. —Tl:e
sultjoined document, forming a declaration of the innocence
of b'
for publicati arber by his fellow.
to
convict Fletcher, has been submitted
us
on by Mr. Braman, of Verulam-buildings,
the solicitor on behalf of Barber in the late trials. It ap-
pears to be a complete and apparently truthful exculpation
on behalf of Fletcher of his supposed participation in the will
forgeries and their attendant frauds; and is made at a time
:when
disguise or e
falsehood wou bv an aditional
iniquitous. Barber and Ftch
leerldre a DOW ain
bothd don board the Tuvict-ship Agincourt, lying off Woolwich, and will sail on
name is
uesdaY next for their destination. The witness whose
the convic
r)tpendedssel to the paper is, we believe, an officer of
-ve :
_ ". solemnly " June 28.
belief, declare that, to the best of my knowledge aad
the will William Henry Barber had no guilty knowledge that
of Anne Slack was a forgery, or that it was other-
wise than a It%itimate and proper matter of business. As
such it was introduced by ire to him, as stated in my first
examination at the Mansion-house. And I further declare,
that my knowledge and belief he had no guilty knowledge
of either of the cases which have recently formed the subject
of indictment. I make this declaration with no other motive
thaner t. o do an act ofjust ice to Mr. Barber rs far as lies in my
POW
(WitlleSS .JOSHUA FLETCHER.
) " MATTHEW 4t
HALL CUTTRISS."
Observer.
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BLACKWOOD'S MAGAZINE. I
In a closely reasoned essay on the " Causes of the
Increase of Crime," which leads off the present Num-
ber, the author states that the habit of strikes, which
of late years has been so frequent among operatives,
has been one of the principal causes of the alarmi'ag
spread of vice, observing that the effects of these
strikes invariably appear for a course of years aftrr-
wards in the increased roll of criminal commitments,
and the number of young persons of both sexes, who,
loosened by these protracted periods of idleness, never
afterwards regain habits of regularity and industry.
Another cause, he tells us, may be found in the cus-
tom, so prevalent in the manufacturing districts, of
parents sending out their children at the earliest pos-
sible period into the factories, who " thus come to be
looked on not as objects of affection but as instruments
of gain ; in fact, the children are, practically speak-
ing, sold for slaves, and the sellers are their own
parents ! Unbounded is the demoralization produced
by this monstrus perversioh of the first principles of
nature." This is a sad state of things, but it will
baffle, we fear, the ingenuity and wisdom of our most
enlightened statesmen to find a remedy for it. We
must take the evil with the good; if we will insist on
being the first manufacturing country in the world,
we must put up with the vices that the manufactur-
ing system engenders. The " Heart of the Bruce"
is a spirited ballad, penned in imitation of one of the
Percy Relics. " Memorandums of a Month's Tour
in Sicily," skims the surface of things in a very light,
readable manner. The tourist is an inveterate John
Bull in his predilections, for he actually prefers our
English fruits to those mellow and delicious ones which
ripen beneath Sicilian skies, arid along the snores of
the Mediterannean ! His passing description of a
visit which he paid to the ruins of the Temple
of Segeste, breathes a glowing spirit of classical
enthusiasm such as would have warmed the
heart of Eustace. Of the general character of the
Sicilian inns he speaks with marked contempt, and is by
no means enamoured of the great, healthy, hungry
fleas and bugs—which, it appears, are in season all

MAGAZINE DAY.

the year round—that bivouac in the beds of thos)
establishments. " Poems and Ballads of Goethe"
contain translations, executed with evident pains-
taking, of some of the minor lyrics of this great Ger-
man poet. In the present chapters of " Marston, or
the Memoirs of a Statesman" we find the hero once
again landed in England, after his perilous adventures
among the French Republicans, and seated as a visitor

in the House of Comnions in the hope of hearing Pitt
rise and defend the warlike, anti-Gallic policy of the
Cabinet. The description of the mannerand appearance
of this minister's great rival Fox, as he walked up the
house and took his usual Feat on the front bench of
the Opposition, is very adroitly introduced, and reads
just like an extrat from Wraxall's Memoirs. The
" Week of an Emperor" is a record of the daily pro-
ceedings of the Czar during his recent visit to the me-
tropolis, and is happily adapted to the lounging
tastes of magazine readers. There is some ingeni-
ous speculation, bordering in places on the fan:astic,
in the article headed "Traditions of Fairy Tales of
Upper Lusatia ;" but, as a whole, it is heavy, and
even were it not so, still the subject is one at variance
with the tastes of this incredulous matter-of-fact age
—an age that seems to have faith in nothing but the
steam-engine, the spinning-jenny, and the infallibility
of that most fallible of statesmen, Sir Robert Peel. It
is nearly two centuries since Bishop Corbett, in one of
the most delightful little poems of the day, lamented
the decline of the popular oelief in fairies ; and if his
lamentation was well-founded then, what must it be
now ? From the article on "Portugal," which com-
prises a short biographi :al sketch of the celebrated
.Marquis of Pombal, we quote a description of the
great earthquake at Lisbon, which took place, it may
be remembered, during the administration of that en-
lightened statesman :
" On the morning of All-Saints' day, the Ist of No-
vember, 1755, Lisbon was almost torn up from the foun •
nations by the most terrible earthquake on European re-
cord. As it was a high Romish festival, the population
were crowding to the churches, which were lighted up in
honour of the day. About a quarter before ten the first
'hock was felt, which lasted the extraordinary length of
six or seven minutes ; then followed an interval of about

tive minutes, after which the shock was renewed, lasting

about three minutes.

The concussions were so violent

in both instances that nearly all the solid buildings were
.lashed to the ground, and the principal part of the city
almost wholly ruined. The terror of the population,
rushing through the falling streets, gathered in the
churches, or madly attempting to escape into the fields,
may be imagined ; but the whole scene of horror, death,

and ruin, exceeds all description. The ground split into
chasms, into which the people were plunged in their
fright. Crowds fled to the water ; but the Tagus, agi-
tated like the land, suddenly rose to an extraordinary
height, burst upon the land, and swept away all within
its reach. It was said to have risen to the height of five-
and-twenty or thirty feet above its usual level, and to
have sunk again as much below it. And this phenome-
non occurred four times.

"The dispatch from the British Consul stated, that the
especial force of the earthquake seemed to be directly
under the city ; for while Lisbon was lifted from the
ground, as if by the explosion of a gunpowder mine, the
damage either above or below was not so considerable,
One of the principal quays, to which it was said that
many people had crowded for safety, was plunged under
the Tagus, and totally disappeared. Ships were carried
down by the shock on the river, dashed to pieces against
each other, or flung upon the shore. To complete the
catastrophe, fires broke out in the ruins, which spread
over the face of the city, burned for five or six days, and.
reduced all the goods and property of the people to ashes.
For forty days the shocks continued with more or less
violence, but they had now nothing left to destroy. The
people were thus kept in a constant state of alarm, and
forced to encamp in the open fields, though it was now
winter. The Royal Family were encamped in the gar-
dens of the palace ; and, as if all the elements of society-
had been shaken together, Lisbon and its vicinity became
the place of gathering for banditti from all quarters in
the kingdom. A number of Spanish deserters made
their way to the city, and robberies and murders of the
most desperate kind were constantly perpetrated.
" During this awful period, the whole weight of go-
vernment fell upon the shoulders of the Minister ; and
he bore it well. He adopted the most active measures
for provisioning the city, for repressing plunder and vio-
lence, and for enabling the population to support them-
selves during this period of suffering. It was calculated
that seven millions sterling could scarcely repair the da-
mage of the city ; and that no less than eighty thousand
lives had been lost, either crushed by the earth or swal-

lowed up by the waters. Some conception of the native
mortality may be formed from that of the English : of
the comparatively small number of whom, resident at
that time in Lisb3n, no less than twenty-eight men and
fifty women were among the sufferers. The Royal Fa-
mily were at the palace of Belem when this tremendous
calamity occurred. Pombal instantly hastened there.
He found every one in consternation. What is to be
done,' exclaimed the King, as he entered, to meet this
infliction of Divine justice ?' The calm and resolute
answer of Pombal was—' Bury the dead, and feed the
living.' This sentence is still recorded with honour in
the memory of Portugal.'