The Sun.
London, England, 1844-12-03 00:00:00

IFIAMBURGH MAIL.

STOCKIIOLM, Nov. 22.—The King and Queen went
yesterday to Upsal, and are expected back to-morrow.
The Crown Prince is said to be entirely recovered.
The merchants of Gefle have addressed a petition to
the Government, praying for the conclusion of a com-
mercial treaty with Brazil.
CHRISTIANA' Nov. 22.—The King is expected here
in January, and will probably open the Storthing in
person. Besides the 200,000 lately received by the
Bank from Konigsburg, 60,C00 dollars more, in dol-
lars and half-dollars, are just arrived. From one of
the mines a mass of silver ore, weighing 1,6801b5.,
which will probably yield 8401bs. of pure silver, the
largest lump, perhaps, that has ever been extracted
from a mine.

FROM THE RHINE, Nov. 22.—Accounts from Berlin
say that the Emperor of Russia has refused to allow
Russian officers to take part in the war in the Cau-
casus. We likewise learn that Russia will not ex-
tend the advantages granted by Prussia to the Zoll-
verien, which it does not recognise as a Power.
BERLIN, Nov. 25.—T0 the four or five plans of
colonisation hitherto proposed (Texas, the Mississippi,
St. Thomas, Brazil, and the Mosquito shore), another
is now added, situated by the west coast of Africa,
which causes much attention, because the great
Elector of Brandeberg had acquired possession of a
spot on that coast. This is Cape Mount, half way
between Sierra Leone and the North American
negro colony, Libeira, bounded to the south and east
by Little Cape Mount, and the north-west by the
river Sugari. This spot was formally ceded, on the
23d of February, 1841, to the present proprietors,
George Clavering Redman and Theodore Canot,
under the protection and assistance of the British
naval force, in order to abolish the slave trade, by
means of a lawful commerce. The owners have
already erected dwelling-houses and other buildings,
and built two ships. Mr. Redman is now in Berlin,
and endeavouring to gain friends for the establishment
of a colony. He particularly invites attention to the
ample revenue of the rich soil and of commerce, and
likewise to the gold mines, which might be worked
wining to advantage, no operations ever having been
carried on in that country.

SINGULAR OCCURRENCE.—The Lanarkshire and
Renfrewshire foxhounds, under the charge of Mr. Cun-
ningham of Craigends, have been kennelled at Hamilton
for upwards of a month, and have hunted the neighbour-
hood almost every alternate day, and had good sport,
only meeting with one blank day. About a fortnight
ago one of the leading dogs, named Libertine, disap-
peared when hunting at Jervieston, and, notwithstand-
ing every search, was not discovered until eleven days
afterwards, when the pack were in the same locality,
and some of the dogs stopped suddenly at the mouth
,of a coal waste, and would not leave it. The huntsman.
in looking down the pit, discovered a dog which he sup-
posed to be Libertine ;,and having got ropes and sent
down a man, the missing dog was brought up so little
the worse for having dropped down twenty fathoms, or
120 feet, and been starved for eleven days, that he was
able, after getting some warm milk, to walk to Um
kennel, and he is again in good hunting trim.
FIRES.—On Saturday evening, shortly after five
o'clock, a fire broke out at No. 32, Old Change. It
originated in the cutting and store-room belonging to Mr.
G. Hogg, tailor and man's mercer, situate on the first floor
of the building, The flames in less than an hour were
entirely subdued, but not until a large quantity of silks and
cloth of considerable value was burned and much damage
done to the premises. The origin of the outbreak is
unknown. Mr. Hogg was uninsured. About three hours
later the bakehouse belonging to Mr. Fell, bread and
biscuit baker, 18, Paradise-row, Chelsea, was discovered
to be on fire. The fire was confined to the building in
which it began. The loss will fall upon the Phoenix
Fire-office. A third fire occurred shortly before mid-
night upon the premises of Mr. J. Reeves, pastry-cook,
1 97, Limehouse-causeway, a very narrow thoroughfare.
The flames were soon extinguished, not, however, until
the roof was partly burned off, and the remainder of the
premises, with stock in trade, seriously injured. The
building was insured in the Phoenix-office, but the occu-
pier was uninsured. The cause of the two last fires was
from the overheating of the ovens.
THE NEW HISTORICAL ROMANCE, " THE PALAU
ROYAL."—Of all the many gay places to be found in the
French capital, " The Palais Royal" possesses the most
pleasant and romantic associations, and this perhaps ac-
comas for its giving the title to the new historical ro-
mance by the author of" Henri Quartre or, The Days
of the League." The subject is an admirable one for such
a writer, and has been very effectively treated ; for we
are presented with a stirring fiction of the most ro-
mantic character, in which figure many interesting per-
sonages, such as the Cardinals Mazarin and De Retz,
the Prince de Condi, Gaston of Orleans, the Duke de
Beaufort, Anne of Austria, the Duchesse de Chevreuse,
and the rest of the brilliant coterie who figured so pro-
minently in the numerous intrigues that distinguished
that remarkable epoch in the annals of Frans* The
work exhibits a striking picture of Court life in the youth
of Louis the FourttortBh, that can scarcely fail of be-
coming equally attractive with " Richelieu," or any
other of the animated fictions of a similar class illus:
trative of. French history.
ATTEMPT TO POISON A WHOLE FAMIL
Thursday last, John Wall, of Oadby, framework knitter,
aged twenty-five, was examined before I. Hodgson, Esq.,
on a charge of attempting to kill his sister, mother, and
brother, by mixing a quantity of arsenic in sugar, and
administering some to them. It appears that on the
morning of the 19th instant, about an hour after the
family had taken breakfast, they were seized with violent
sickness, which continued during that day and part of
the next, and at length they became so greatly alarmed
that Mr. Beasley, surgeon, was called in, and he imme-
diately discovered that they were suffering from the
effects of poison. The sugar which remained had been
made away with. The prisoner's brother and sister are
partially recovered, but his mother still remains in a
very dangerous state, and but little hopes are entertained
of her recovery. The only motive that can be assigned
for the perpetration of so diabolical an offence is, that
the prisoner wished to get possession of a sum of money
to which he and his brother and sister were entitled on
the death of their mother. He was remanded to Mon-
day next for turther examination.—Leicester Mercury.
The Rev. Dr. Cramer, Principal of New Inn
Hall, and Professor of Modern History in the Univer-
sity of Oxford, is appointed by her Majesty to be Dean
of Carlisle.