The Sun.
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The London mail-to Falmouth was on Wednesday
delayed nearly three hours, in consequence of a
s?tnew..at serious accident which happened between
"akhampton and Bridestowe. It appears that on
the down Stourton-hill and turning a corner,
tile coach came in contact with a van, when the pole
broke, and the coach itself turned over. We re-
g!.et to learn, that one outside passenger, Captain
Poweeke, of Gwennap, just returned from Cuba,
broke the small bone of his leg. No other passenger
met with any injury.
We have some reason to believe that it is the in-
tention of the Queen to honour Brighton with a visit
011 her Majesty's return from Scotland.
It having been discovered that facilities were af-
'°rded for the commission of fraud, by permitting cases
°f wine, with cases of spirits and cordials to be depo-
sited under bond in the same room or floor at the ware-
houses at the docks and legal quays, orders have been
11„alled for the practice to be discontinued, and that in
future wines be deposited in a separate floor from that in
hich spirits and cordials in cases are warehoused.
An order has also been issued to the effect that high
and low duty spirits, or spirits imported from foreign
eountres and British possessions respectively, are to
kept distinct and separate in the vaults at the docks,
~1111c1 the several dock companies have received direc-
qms to cause the vaults to be partitioned for the pur-
Pose of separation under the locks of the Crown.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
Sin,—Why are the hospitals of London built in
inch
conspicuous and fashionable places ? Is it that
°lir gracious Queen and her family, together with our
aristocracy, may more easily catch the fevers which
'aye of late been so frequent in the metropolis ? Why
not such hospitals built some distance from town,
and not immediately under the nose, and in the midst
°f a vast population ? Surely this requires some
vonsideration.—l am, Sir, yours, &c.
A CONSTANT READER.
London, Sept. 22.

ROBBERY BY SERVANTS.
(From Galignani's Messenger.)
The Court of Assizes of the Seine was engaged
nth the trial of Francois Cigogne, 34, for having, on
day 7, 1842, stolen from the apartment of Sir C.
~nrbett, in the Place Vendome, a suit of diamonds
!Ind other jewels, worth 50,000 f., contained in agreen
Jewel-ease a dozen of dessert spoons, eleven tea
SPoons; and a sugar tongs. From the evidence ad-
A"oed, it appeared that in the afternoon of the
13' on which the robbery was committed,
Za._dy Corbett had shown the contents of the jewel
e, which she had only just purchased, to
~,4
ilitac ladies of her acquaintance, who came in
‘...0 visit her. She then locked it, and placed it on a
(7tair in a leather covering belonging to it, and went
ut with her husband and children to dine at a res-
taurateur's. The next morning, wishing to take
-" olething from the case, she proceeded to the
:13,t where she had left it the day before, and
121. Y found the leather covering, the jewel-case
having been taken away. A complaint was im-
Mediately lodged before the Commissary of Po-
and the prisoner and another man named
aillet,
who were both servants in the family, were
:,'‘en up on suspicion. Inquiry proved that they were
;tien of bad character, but for want of proof they were
fortuitous circumstance
in a few days. Eighteen months after, a
tortuitoui circumstance seemed to intimate that the
hard
suspicions were well founded. When Mr.
rd was murdered in the Rue de Londres,
~,,a
°ngst the persons taken up was a cook named
Limier ; this man, on his examination, declared that
lota j cjewels found at his lodgings were left there by a
servant named Maillet. The search brought to light
s ' poons which were proved to be those stolen
:111 Lady Corbett, as were the jewels. A few
49s after, 3,500 francs in bank-notes were seized
4, Pelagie amongst Lasnier's linen, which sum he de-
red was the fruit of his economy ; but this was
found to be untrue. He afterwards confessed that
Sillet had acknowledged to him that it was he who
iti stolen the jewels and plate from Lady Corbett's.
.13'ssnier's guilt, as receiver of the stolen articles, was
tzldoubted, but he died in prison before he could be
,oldto trial. As to Maillet, he had absconded, and
,21141. not be discovered. The evidence against Cigogne
.t",as derived from three sources—his conduct before
he robbery, at the time, and since. He had contrived,
IA Was alleged, to get another servant dismissed,
it- make room for Maillet, whom he had
Corbett
in London. He made inquiries of Lady
`-'°rhett s maid if her mistress's diamonds were her
n or hired ; and also whether they were real
-11°11:8 or paste. On the day when Lady Corbett was
4
°wing the diamonds to her visitors, the prisoner was
the
the room as she was locking the box ; and when
dle man came for some of the plate, which was hired,
Is the family were leaving town two days after, the
Prisoner tried to prevent his taking it away, declaring
'eat it would still be wanted, and, in consequence,
part of it was carried away. It was argued
`aZt only Maillet, or the prisoner, could have taken
.f„,,:?; those things. It was proved that, when the
asene7 were at dinner at the restaurateur's, the pri-
wag fk"d Maillet were in the apartment. As this
au, Te only time that the roast was clear, it was pre-
thatCe the robbery was then committed. When
porter
robbery was discovered, Lady Corbett directed the
4"ter to search the prisoner's box, which the latter
rsitively refused to allow; and at the moment that a
21cet-Porter carried out his trunk by the front
tno
Cigogne contrived to slip out by the back en-
lee, having on his arm a covered basket. It appeared
so that the accused had lent in 1842, after the
t
ii°l3bery, not less than 4,000 f., to a person named
Oll9val, notes of hand from that person to that amount
4-ing been found at his lodging. This Duval, and
,Wo.man named Plantade, with whom he was on the
"'ost intimate terms, had been summoned as witnesses
°9 the trial, but failed to appear, nor was it known
what had become of them. The prisoner, in his
:fence, replied with much precision to all ques-
-on s put to him. He denied positively that he had
adtt3t a man dismissed, in order to introduce
il• let into Sir C. Corbett's service. Lady Cor-
i7tt dismissed the man because his face displeased
tiHe happened to meet Maillet at the
;rile, and told him of the vacant place. He declared
,that he had not the slightest suspicion of Maillet's
firmed
as to the robbery so boldly committed, and he
rrmed that lie was not in any way acquainted with
,_Etanier. As to the notes of hand which he had
`obtained from Duval, they were,- he said, for money
gent long before 1842 ; but in that year he had got
(Alter notes renewed, to the amount of 6,177 f., for
trilleipal and interest. The sums which he had lent
lb• /al had, he asserted, proceeded from several years'
and economy.
The Advocate-General, in his address to the jury,
4,4`r:og acknowledged that the gravest part of the
.1
`arg.e against the prisoner had not been proved, a
uverdict of " Not guilty" was returned.
The prisoner's counsel, in the course of his address
'0 the jury, read a certificate from an English gentle-
man to whom Cigogne had been a servant, and who,
for
his honesty and zeal, had settled upon him for
life a pension of 240 f. per annum.

BRUSSELS, SEPT. 22.—The Moniteur Beige of this
tto publishes the convention between his Majesty
:,"e Ring of the Belgians and his Ryal ighness
the Grand Duke of Baden, for the reciprocal extra-
dition of malefactors, of persons accused of various
;tiales viz.:-1. Assassination, poisoning, parricide, in-
antioide, murder, rape. 2. Arson. 3. Forgery ; in-
!lading that of bank-notes and public money securities.
'• Coining. 5. -False witness. 6. Robbery, swindling,
Peculation.
ALARMING ACCIDENT.—Yesterday afternoon,about
five
o'clock, a very serious accident happened to the car-
;~ag© and horses of Mr. Currie, the banker, in the Re-
=gent's Park, which occasioned great alarm and excite-
''''ent among the people assembled there. It appears that
icarriage was being driven at a steady pace towards
e New-road, when a fly, drawn by one horse, came
Niro
ugh the Cambridge-gate in the same direction, at a
t7:P pace, and the wheel struck the near-side horse of
e carriage on the shoulder, which caused both horses
of the carriage to swerve to the off-side, and in doing so
16 pole of the carriage snapped asunder, and the horses
74itte quite unmanageable, ran on to the foot-path, and
Vtlaged and kicked in a frightful manner. The oach-
tu in vain attempted to stop them, jumped
from the box at the imminent risk of his life, and the
footman also descended from his place behind, and, after
they had liberated a lady, their mistress, who descended
tom the carriage greatly terrified, they attempted
quiet the horses and to extricate them from the
marneila but they were so entangled in consequence
114. their hind-legs being over the splinter-bar, that
1111 their efforts were of no avail, until Mr. E
fllichings, an artist, of Royal-street, Lambeth, and
Is brother, Mr. C. Hitchings, who were engaged in
rlting up a large fountain in the Colloseum, rushed
horse
from the building, and extricated the near-side
,9rae by cutting the harness. The off-side horse imme-
diately broke away, and in doing so knocked down the
Ztlachina n, and the hoof of the horse struck him on the
inflicting a severe wound, and rendering him in-
sensible. The animal then started off at a furious pace
'owards the New-road, knocking down several persons
Burin
t its career, until it reached the Circus-gate, where
I come with great force against the ornamental iron
j‘ 112 P-post. The violence of the shock knocked down
-4e
..I, post, which fell with a loud noise, nearly crush-
ing ts descent two fruit-women, who were seated by
their stalls. The horse received a serious wound, and
411 with its entrails exposed, the wound extending from
thea Bank to the ribs. The blood gushed forth in a stream
from the horse's body, and after giving several violent
P. tinges
and attempting to rise, it fell over on its right
ettl'e and expired. The other horse did not sustain much
but the carriage was shattered, the pole and
Tr) toter-bar broken in several pieces, and the harness
anr.n. The horse which was killed was a remarkably fine
at worth 601. No blame is attributable to the coach-
,,thl
who is a very steady man.
THIRD-CLASS TRAINS ON THE LIVERPOOL AND
MANCHESTER RAILWAY.—The Directors of the
dLiver-
Pool and Manchester Railway have announced their in-
tention.ll and fro daily, of running a third-class train of covered carriages
on and after the first of next month.—
aliway Record.

HER MAJESTY AT BLAIR ATHOL:I

BL AIR ATHOL, SUNDAY.
The sun continues to shine with undiminished
splendour upon the royal visitors at Blair Athol ; the
good fortune which has universally attended her Ma-
jesty in her travels, and in her progress through her
dominions, has been more than ever propitious upon
the present occasion, and the extreme mildness and
beauty of the weather is the subject of general re-
mark and mutual congrafulation amongst the farmers.
A great number of Lord erlenlyon's tenantry, with
hired reapers, male and female, have been buisily oc •
cupied during the past week in getting in the harvest
on his Lordship's estates, but a great deal of corn is
still standing in some of the more exposed portion of
the Athol domains.

Her Majesty, according to her invariable custom
since her residence here, rose at seven o'clock yester-
day morning, and shortly afterwards was seen taking
her morning walk in company with Prince Albert
and the Princess Royal. The youthful Princess
gambols about the grounds in great glee with her
young playmate, the Master of Glenlyon, a beau-
tiful litttle boy with fine silken hair and a pair
of eyes that glisten like dew drops in the morn-
ing sun. This fine little fellow bears a strik-
ing likeness to the Lady Glenlyon, and is always
attired in the Highland costume. In his rides about
the country on his Shetland pony, attended by a
groom and servant, he is always saluted and treated
with the most marked respect by the tenantry, who
regard him with that reverence and respect which is
always felt in the Highlands for the chieftain's off-
spring. The guard of Athol Highlanders always turn
out to present arms to the Princess Royal when she
first walks abroad in the morning, and then the prac-
tice is discontinued for the remainder of the day.
Her Majesty is, as a matter of course, always treated
by the same mark of respect whenever she appears,
but Prince Albert has requested that the custom may
be dispensed with, as far as he is concerned personally,
as his Royal Highness is in the habit of going in and
out of the Castle very frequently, and with that kind
consideration varich he has invariably evinced, he
wishes to rvoid giving any additional trouble or in-
convenience to her Majesty's faithful guard of stalwart
Highlanders.
On returning to the Castle yesterday morning her
Majesty partook of luncheon at three o'clock, and
proceeded with Prince Albert to take another drive
up the Glen Tilt, where preparations had been made
for his Royal Highness to go deerstalking. Her
Majesty was exceedingly anxious, if possible, to wit-
ness the noble sport, and her Alajesty's pony had been
sent on before with one of Lord Glenlyon's gillies, in
order that she might alight from her carriage and
ascend the rocky brow of the hill, where a more fa-
vourable opportunity might be obtained of seeing the
herds of deer. Lady Glenlyon had preceded her
Majesty up the glen, and the Queen was accompanied
by Prince Albert, Lady Canning, Lord Glenlyon,
Lord Charles Wellesley, and Sir Edward Bowater.
On arriving at Lochlass, which is at a consider-
able distance up the glen, her Majesty and Prince
Albert mounted the grey ponies, and climbed along
the rugged and precipitous sheep-walks which lead to
the summit of Cairnchlamman, or the Hill of Gleds,
so called from its being the favourite resort of hawks,
which are called " gleds" in this part of the country.
The wind was not exactly favourable for deer-stalk-
ing, but her Majesty and the Prince succeeded in
attaining the loftiest point of Cairnchlamman, and
perched on this dizzy eminence they obtained a niag-
nificent view of the vast domains which belong to the
princely house of Athol.
In ascending these rocky mountains, nothing ap-
pears to daunt her Majesty, and the gillie who leads
the pony often pauses, and looks along the craggy
precipice, as if fearful to conduct his precious charge
into the midst of such dangers ; but her Majesty
orders him always to go on, and keeps her seat with
the same graceful nonchalance as if she were cantering
down the long-walk in Windsor Park. Yesterday,
when her Majesty and the Prince were
"Perched on high, above the world's career,"
they were certainly repaid by the extraordinary beauty
of the scene for all the trouble and risk which they
had encountered, but we fancy there are but few of
the fair equestrians who frequent Rotten-row during
the height of season, would care to follow her Ma-
jesty up the Tulloch, on the hill of Cairnchlamman.
It is said that her Majesty has even expressed her in-
tention of ascending the barren mountain of Ben-y-
Glo, but this is a feat which but few persons in the
neighbourhood have ever accomplished, and the at-
tempt is fraught with so much danger and trouble
that we should hardly think her Majesty would ex-
pose herself to such risks.
A fresh inundation of visitors has been pouring in
here during the last two days from Perth, Edinburgh,
Dunkeld, and from all parts of the adjacent country.
The two excellent hotels here are absolutely crammed,
and the utmost anxiety is evinced by the respective
landlords to secure accommodation for their guests.
We were scarcely justified in saying that the charges
were exorbitant, as but a slight addition has been
made to the usual charge, and the civility and atten-
tion at the Blair Athol Inn is acknowledged by all
who are at present sojourning here. During her
Majesty's visit to Lord Breadalbane, at Taymouth,
last year, the most flagrant impositions were prac-
tised upon unwary travellers, many of whom paid
five guineas for a bed, and two guineas for permission
to lie down in a stable; but notwithstanding the im•
mense influx of visitors no such exorbitant charges
have been made here since her Majesty arrived at
Blair Athol. Although many persons would gladly
submit to such extortionate demands, the principle of
" first come, first served," has been hitherto acted
upon, and those who have obtained rooms can retain
them at a moderate rate.
Her Majesty will again attend Divine service at
the village church of Blair Athol, this morning,
although she is much fatigued by her exercise of yes-
terday, and Dr. Macleod, the minister of the High-
land church of St. Columba, at Glasgow, will have
the honour of preaching this morning before her Ma-
jesty. Carriages are still driving in here from all
parts of the surrounding country.—Post.