The Sun.
London, England, 1844-06-10 00:00:00

DEPARTURE OF THE EMPEROR

OF RUSSIA.

The Emperor of Russia, with a rapidity charac-
teristic of all his movements, left Buckingham Palace
sLortly after five o'clock last evening, for Woolwich,
and having inspected the Royal dockyard at that
place, in less than two hours embarked on board the
Black Eagle steamer for Rotterdam, en route for his
own dominions.

HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS PRINCE ALDERT.-It will
be seen by The Sun of this day that his Royal High-
ness will perform the ceremony of laying the founda-
tion stone of the New Hospital for Consumption and
Diseases of the Chest, at Brompton, at one o'clock,
to-morrow, precisely: Every preparation has been
made by the Secretaries and Committee to render the
affair as impressive as possible ; and immediately
his Royal. Highness has performed his benevolent
task, a sort of Italian Festa, or fancy bazaar, will
commence in the spacious grounds of Chelsea College,
which include those of the renowned ilanelagh. There
will be no less than three military bands in attendance,
and everything promises to pass off with the greatest
eclat. .11uring the course of Saturday last the office
of the Secretary to the Institution was literally be-
sieged for tickets of admission, both to witness the
ceremony and to the grounds of the intended fete,
which will last until Wednesday evening. Tents and
every provision has been made in anticipation of any
change in the present propitious weather; and re-
freshments will he supplied by the eminent Gunter.
There can be little doubt that the efforts of the bene-
volent founders of this truly Samaritan charity will
meet with that success it so richly merits.

THE QUEEN DOWAGER.-;—BRUSSELS, JUNE 6.—Her
Majesty Queen Adelaide had indeed given up the plan of
coming to Antwerp,. as we have stated, but not her visit to
Germany. Her Majesty left London on the 3d, went by way
of Dover to Calais and Lisle, and arrived at Courtray on the
4th, whence she came by a special train to Ghent, where she
arrived at five o'clock in the afternoon. She was received at
the station by the civil and military authorities, and a com-
pany of Grenadiers paid her the honours due to her rank.
Her Majesty entering the city alighted at the Hotel de la
Port, accompanied by Prince Edward of Saxe Weimar and
a numerous suite. In the evening she visited the Cathedral
of St. Bayou and some other remarkable monuments in the
city, and on the sth in the morning set out by special
train to Cologne. A letter from Cologne of the sth says:
—That her Majesty arrived in that city, and put up at the
Royal Hotel, where apartments had been engaged for her
and her suite. Her Majesty was to proceed the following
morning to Mentz, in the Victoria steamer, belonging to the
Dusseldorf Steam Navigation Company, which the Queen
had caused to be engaged some days ago through the London
Company.
CATCHING A TABTAH.—As Deaf Burke, the pu-
gilist, was on Wednesday afternoon passing through Smith-
field, accompanying a friend and his wife in a phaeton, intend-
ing to pass a few hours in the country, the party were grossly
insulted by an athletic country wagoner— one of those nu-
merous ruffians who arc mostly to be found in that vicinity,
and who think, from their physical strength and prowess, to
escape with impunity in insultirg any well-dressed person.
On this occasion the yokel was completely out of his reckon-
ing ; the deaf-un, with true gallantry, allowed the carriage
to pass on to a short distance on account of the lady-present,
and then returned to the aggressor. The insulting terms
were repeated, the Goliah of a countryman looking down
with contempt upon his dwarfish opponent. A" set-to" im-
mediately took place, the countryman was floored three
times in almost as many seconds, and much punished about
the face before he could tell who he had to deal with. The
countryman having declared he had had enough, the deaf-un
retired amidst the congratulations of several respectable per-
sons who had witnessed the insult, and its speedy and ef-
fectual chastisement.—Sunday Times.
DELUSIONS or DRUNHARDS.—On Saturday an in-
quest was held by Mr. Wakley, M.P., at the Middlesex Hos-
pital, on the body of a man named Sheen, who died on Thurs-
day last, from the effects of injuries received by his falling
down stairs while in a state of intoxication, on the night of
the 23d ult. Deceased, while in the hospital, repeatedly
stated that he had been piished down the stairs by some one.
Mr. Wakley said it was remarkable under what delusions
persons laboured when intoxicated. There was at that time
a carpenter in the 'hospital who had injured himself while
tipsy, by falling down stairs with a chisel in his pocket, but
who persisted in saying he had been thrown down. It was
doubtless the same with the deceased. It was only a short
time ago that Dr. Burne had cut a man for two apparent
tumours in the neck and back, and had extracted a handle of
a fork from one, and the iron work from the other, and the
man had not the slightest recollection how they came there. ,
It could only be presumed that the fork had been swallowed
by the man—(Laughter)—while in an unconscious state.
After citing several other instances, which went strongly to
prove the inability of either man or woman to speak to facts
while intoxicated, the Jury returned a verdict of " Natural
death."

SINGULAR PRESERVATION FROM DEATII.--On the
29th ult., a boiler at South Towan mine, in the parish of
Illogan, exploded while the engineman was standing on the
tap of it. The poor fellow was blown through the roof of the
engine-house, but after a little time he was so far recovered
as to be able, with the assistance of a friend, to walk home._
IVest Briton.