The Sun.
London, England, 1842-06-17 00:00:00

BELGIUM.

BRUSSILLSp JUNE 12.--Lord Edward Somenet, with his
danghter and suite, corning from Italy, have arrived here, on
their way to England.
Just as we are going to press we are informed of the death of
the learned Polish refugee, Leleivel, at Brussels, where he lived
in the greatest poverty.
'The Court of Cessation has rejected to-day the appeal of
Vandermeere and the other three persons condemned to death,
f,r a plot against the State.

The heat continues to be much more intense than usual at
this season. On Saturday the mercury in the thermometer of
tie Observatory, placed in the shade, rose to 29 degrees of
Reaumur (97 degrees Farenheit). This excessive heat is com-
plained of in France, Germany, and Holland, and in the site of
Walcheten fresh water is so scarce that the Magistrates have
sent a vessel to Holland for a cargo of water, which will be dis-
tributed among the inhabitants?
It appears from a private letter from Brussels, in the Petites
Ajfiches of Caustray, that the number of Flemish workmen
who have emigrated may be estimated at twenty thousand.

Mn. W. liorziEs's CONCERT.—The private con-
cert by the pupils of Mr. Holmes, and under his direction, was
given on Wednesday at Mr. Hoare's residence, in Bruton-street.
One-of Chopin's concertos, with orchestral accompaniments,
was' excellently played by a young lady. Mr. Holmes himself
performed a capriccio of his own composition, and a duet by
Hummel with one of his pupils. Thalberg's fantasia on themes
from Mose en Egitto, was played by a young girl with great
cleverness. Master Henry Laurent and Master Noble respec-
tively played, the former a fantasia by Hertz on a theme from
Le Pre aux Clercs, the latter a hexameron, with their usual
eclat ; and Miss Theed gave a study in A flat, by Dohler,
with feeling and delicacy. The company was select, and grati-
fied with the pupils, their friends, and their mauler.
MENDELSSOIIN.—In consequence of the strongly-
expressed desire of the members and subscribers of the Sacred
Harmonic Society to hear Mr. Mendelsohn perform on their
organ in the large hall, Exeter-hall, that gentleman has kindly
cnsented to play there this evening.
SINGULAR DEATH OF A BOY.—Yesterday Mr.
Wakley, M.P., held an inquest at University College Hospital,
on the body of Johu Villiers, aged 13, the son of a surgeon in
the army, residing at 54, London-street, Fitzroy-square. It
L•peared from the statement of the deceased's father that the
deceased, who was rather a sickly boy, was exceedingly fond of
eating vegetables of every description. On Thursday he, an-
compa ied by some juvenile friends, went into the fields for
the purpose of gathering sorrel, of which, during the time he
was nut, he ate a great quantity. On his return home in the
eveoing, deceased complained of violent pains in the bowels,
which induced his father to administer medicine to him. He
slightly re covered on Friday, but again gradually got worse,
and his appearance left no doubt on his father's mind that he
.s attacked with cholera. He continued to prescribe for
him until the morning of Sunday, when the deceased's mother,
fearing he was dying, took him in her arms, and carried him
to the above hospital. Dr. Quaine, resident surgeon of the
ho,pital, proved the admission of the deceased about one o'clock
on Sunday, evidently, in his opinion, labouring under the
effects of cholera, 'He died in half an hour after. Mr. Quaine
liere detailed the appearances of the body on post mortem
'examination, which left no doubt on his mind that he had died
(st cholera, induced by the eating improper food above men-
-si"ned. The Jury returned a verdict of " Died from cholera,
caused by taking improper food."
DEATa FROIt SUFFOCATION.—Yesterday an inquest
was held before Mr, Wakley, at the White Horse, Drury-lane,
o the body of Mrs. Elizabeth Hiekey, residing at No. 49,
Parker-street, an army clothes maker, who was choked while
eating a piece of meat. Before the Jury returned their verdict,
the. Cooner said that it happened nearly on all occasions that
If a person died suddenly, while at a meal or eating, the death
was attributed to choking; but in the great majority of such
cases the person was seized with a fit at that moment, and died
from the effect of that attack, and not from choking. In the
present instance there could be little doubt that the death re-
sulted from suffocation, caused by the meat ; and the distinction
was to be drawn from the fact that the deceased was sensible
from first to last ; that she put her hands to her mouth ; and
that abe attempted to extract the meat with her finger, none
of which signs are present when a fit has come on at the
moment that the person happens to be eating. These consti-
tuted marked distinctions, and showed that the obstruction was
at the throat, and not a sudden effect of the brain or the heart.
Verdict--‘. Accidentally choked."
The mortal remains of Lord Congleton were con-
veyed from his late residence, 43, Cadogan-place, the day before
yesterday, for interment in the family mausoleum of the Parnell
family, in St. George's, Hanover-square, burial-ground, on
the fiayswater-road. The youthful Marquis of Drogheda,
grandson of the late Lord, came up from Eton College to attend
the funeral, which was strictly private. The present Lord Con-
gleton, the Hon. Henry Parnell, Bishop of Ripon, Mr. Edward
H. Cole, sons-in-law of his late Lordship, were among the re-
latives present at the mournful ceremony.
SINGur.I.II ESCAPE. The following accident,
arising from the highly dangerous practice of riding behind
the 'arious vehicles that pass along the roads, in which children
of all growths constantly indulge, and which a little extra
exertion on the part of the police would entirely prevent, took
1-lace on Tuesday afternoon opposite St. John's Church, in the
Waterloo-road. A little boy, about nine years cf age, named
Glean, the son of a printer, hying at No. l, Agnes-street,
Waterloo- road, was getting down from behind a hackney-coach
as it was going on, just as a carriage belonging to Mr. Menzie,
surgeon, of Stamford-street, was slowly passing. The boy did
not see the carriage, and ran ri-ht between the fore and hind
wheels. Before the horses could be stopped he was knocked
down, and the wheel went over both his legs. By Mr.
Alenzie's directions he was taken into the surgery of Mr.
Handy, at the corner of Stamford-street, and, upon examining
xamining
the little fellow, strange to say, not a bone was broken, and he
escaped with some severe contusions only., occurrence Accidents owf
which
description are of daily, and often fat
either an order from the proper authorities, or an increase of
vigilance by the police, would at once stop.
The arrival of the Antwerp Company's Steam-
ships at the St. Katharine's Wharf. Tower, on Wednesdaya
yesterday, were as follows :—The Bruges, Captain Main, from
Ostend, and the Antwerpen, Captain Jackson, from Antwerp.
The formtr was made in 13 hours, and the latter in 19 hours.

AWFUL STORM AT LIMERICK,

AND LOSS OF LIFE.

A most awful and long -continued storm of thunder and
lightning, accompanied by heavy rains, visited this neigh-
bourhood and the country for some miles around on Sun-
day, and was, we regret to learn from statements made by
correspondents, accompanied in several places by loss of
limbs and life, destruction of cattle, houses and trees, and
was the cause of the greatest consternation throughout
the extensive district it swept over in its merciless course.
The storm arose from the North East, and went on with-
out abatement, pursuing a south-westerly direction, from
twelve till near seven o'clock, P.M. At Scariff, Killaloe,
Sixmile-bridge, and the country generally in that quarter
between the Claremountains and the Shannon, the storm
first broke out with vehemence and fury. We regret to
say that about five o'clock, P.M., the fluid struck the house
of John Branton at Sixmile Bridge, and killed a fine boy
about four years old, who was sitting at..,the moment be-
tween Branton's knees, leaving Branton speechless, tear
ing up the floor, and killing some sheep which this poor
man had brought from his fields for protection. In the
same neighbourhood a man was knocked down and left
senseless, and two women who were scorched are now
lying without a hope of recovery. The market-house roof
of Stxmile-bridge was thrown down and some cattle were
killed in that vicinity. At Glin, thirty miles to the west-
ward, the house of Capt. Hamilton, we learn, was burned
down, and a man was killed—several casualties are said
to have occurred to cattle. At Newcastle a man was killed
and a house was burned down also. Some of the largest
trees in the demesne of Mount Shannon and Adare, in
Cratloe—indeed, throughout this part of the country al-
most without exception, were split into fragments, and,
in some instances, were thrown across the roads. The
river in a few hours rose about several feet, and the
lowlands adjoining, the valleys in the interior, the moun-
tain gorges, and every channel which had been dry in
the morning has been flooded. It is impossible for us to
give anything like an accurate estimate of the amount of
injury done.—Limerick Reporter.

CHRIST-CHURCH ORGAN.
PERFORMANCE OF MENDELSSOHN.
Dr. Mendelssohn Bartholdy, the first organist living,
performed yesterday afternoon on the large organ at Christ
Church, Newgate-street. Never have we before so fully
appreciated the powers of this most noble instrument. 1-h
took hiA seat at the organ at two o'clock, and commenced
with one of Sebastian Bach's magnificent voluntaries.
Those alone who are acquainted with the compositions of
Bach, the Milton of music, can form any idea of the gran-
deur, sublimity, and power, which Mendelssohn infused
into this most magnificent composition. It was
indeed, a high treat to hear a composition
of Bach's performed by Mendelssohn, on, per-
haps the finest instrument in London. The
composer, the performer, and the instrument, were
alike worthy of each other. Mendelssohn afterwards
performed several fugues and voluntaries, and among
them many compositions of his own. In these last his
astonishing powers of execution were brought admirably
into play. We had always hitherto considered Thalberg's
pianoforte playing as the ne plus ultra of execution, but he is
surpassed, both in rapidity, preciseness, and power, by
Mendelssohn. When we consider what would, by a
mere pianiste, be thought the insuperable difficulties of
organ playing ; that the performer has not only to work
several sets of keys with his fingers, but also several sets
of pedals with his feet, that he frequently depends solely
upon one finger for preventing him from falling
forward on the instrument, that it requires a firmness,
united with a delicacy of touch, of which the mere
pianiste can form scarcely any idea, and that the finger
must continue resting on the key as long as the note
is to be sounded ; when we consider all these
things the powers of Mendelssohn appear little
short of miraculous. Is it to these difficulties that we
are to attribute the paucity of organists in England ?
We hope not—it would argue ill for the future progress
of music in this country if such were the case ; but it is
a lamentable fact that we have no rising English organist
at the present day. Who is to be Samuel Wesley's
successor is a question to which the English musical
public will find it somewhat difficult to reply. This ought
not to be ; while flutists, pianistes, and violinists, are
elbowing each other in the race for fame and patronage,
surely there ought to be some musician to support the
claim of the most sublime of instruments—the organ
The church was crowded, and the thanks of•the public
are due to the parish authorities for their kindness in
lending the instrument, and in throwing open the church
to all who chose to come. To Dr. Mendelsshon a high
debt of gratitude is due from the British musical public,
and we thus publicly tender him our thanks for the
high treat he has afforded us.

HIGH COURT OF JUSTICIARY.
EDINBURGH.

CASE OF WILFUL FIRE RAISING.—Our readers will
r member the subjoined case, of which an account was
given some time since in The Sun, and in which Harris
Rosenberg and Alithia Bennet or Rosenberg, his wife,
had been convicted at the Circuit Court, held at Aber-
deen, of wilful fire-raising. The verdict of the Jury
was then accompanied by a recommendation to the
leniency of the Court ; and the trial, which commenced
on Saturday morning, April 15, had been protracted
until the following Sunday forenoon. Lord Moncreiff,
before whom the trial took place, in consideration of the
extraordinary circumstances connected therewith, ab-
stained from pronouncing sentence, and certified the case
to the High Court of Justiciary.
On Tuesday last judgment was accordingly passed ;
when Lord Moncrieff, in passing sentence, observed, he
did believe that the attempt was not a thing of her (Ali-
thia Rosenberg's) contrivance - and with respect to the
woman, he thought the Court should abstain frotn a sen-
tence of transportation. He would propose in her case
a sentence of long imprisonment—namely, of imprison-
ment for two years.
The COURT having expressed their concurrence, the
Lord Justice-General, in appropriate terms, pronounced
sentence of transportation beyond seas for the term of his
natural life on Harris Rosenberg, and of imprisonment for
two years in Perth Penitentiary on Alithia Rosenberg.

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.

FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF YESTERDAY.

GLOBE.—The recent melancholy occurrence at Clare,
where a crowd that had assembled round a store were
fired on by the police, has, it will be seen, led to an in-
vestigation at the instance of Government. As the
matter is. one which may very seriously affect a great
number of individuals, we abstain from giving any
opinion as to the criminality of the proceedings which
are the subject of inquiry, and can only express a hope
that every one whom appearances may seem to inculpate
will be enabled to justify his share in the unfortunate
event alluded to.

Without, however, throwing any blame upon parti-
cular parties, we cannot but remark that the loss of
life which ensued at Clare was altogether needless,
and that there was nothing to justify the firing upon the
people. This appears to be admitted on all hands ; and
even those who had the command of the police force are
most desirous to establish the fact that they gave no
orders to fire ; and consequently it must be inferred that
they acknowledge the impropriety of the act, which, had
it been necessary, it would have been their duty to com-
mand, instead of being one which, for their credit, they
are eager to repudiate. Whatever maybe the result of
the investigation which is now going on, it must be clear to
all persons who have read the evidence already adduced,
that there is at least a want of a sufficient understanding
between the officers and men of the police force, which
has been the cause of the fatal error that has been com-
mitted. The men who fired doubtless acted upon
either a real or a supposed order of their superior, and
it seems admitted oa all hands that he addressed some
words to them ; but whether the expression used was
" Fire," or " Don't fire," is left undecided by the
'contradictory testimony of the witnesses. The
most favourable construction that can be placed
upon the conduct of the police is, that they mis-
took the words of their cfficer ; fur we are unwil-
ling to believe that he could have been so criminal
as to have given orders for the needless sacrifice of life—
since needless he declares it to be, when he maintains
that he endeavoured to prevent his men from firing on
the popul.ce. It does not appear that any feeling of
irritation against the police nad been manifested by the
erovvd before the occurrence of the fatal calamity, and
there had been nothing in tne conduct of the mob to
excite a fear of outs age. It is not even pretended that
the people might not have been disp rsed without re-
course to firing ; and is is therefore to a most fa al mis-
understanding, if to nothing worse, that the deplorable
event must be attributed.

STANDARD.—Sir Richard Vyvyan has addressed a
letter to his constituents upon the several subjects of the
Corn-laws, Income-tax, and Tariff, condemning the mea-
sures of Ministers with reference to all three, "%,"Ve have
read this letter with a mixed feeling of admiration and
pain. Every sentence bears testimony to the high
talents, the overflowing benevolence, boundless pa-
triotism, and noble spirit of the writer ; in a
word, to that combination of the best gifts of nature
and education, which constitute him, perhaps, as per-
fect a model of the accomplished English gentleman as
England possesses at this day. Painful it must be,
under any circumstances, to differ from such a man ;
but to us, who for more than fifteen years have been
proud to follow in his course, to take the guidance of
his public Conduct when we could have it as the
safest direction, and where we had been com-
pelled to act without this guidance, to test our
actions by their conformity to his principles, the
pain is great indeed. We find ourselves opposed to
Sir Richard Vyvyan, and we scarcely know
why. Were not his station, his career, his
genius, sufficient guarantees that his prin-
ciples have sqffered no change, the letter
before us affords proof that a change in him is impos-
sible, for such must ever be the case with one whose
principles are the highest and the purest. Indeed, there
is not a principle enounced in the letter—and it is full
of political principles—to which we do not at this mo-
ment most heartily subscribe. We hope, on the other
side, that our principles have undergone no change ;
and we must therefore ascribe the opposition in which
we stand to the writer of the letter to Helston to some-
thing different from princip:es—to the application of
principles in an imperfect state of society, and a per-
plexed conjuncture of affairs.

MELANCHOLY OCCURRENCE.—Between one and
two o'clock, yesterday afternoon, a finely grown little boy,
named Charles Shepherd, aged three and a half years, the son
of respectable parents, living at No. 25, Rochester-street,
Pimlico, was brought into Westminster Hospital, in a state of
perfect insensibility, from having swallowed a quantity of lands-
num. It appears that the mother was affected with the tooth-
ache, and having applied some laudanum to relieve the pain,
heedlessly left a cup, containing about a table-spoonful of the
poison, on the table, which the child got hold of, and drank
off unnoticed, and the fact was not discovered until after the
lapse of upwards of half an hour. The child was then lying
in apparently a profound sleep, on the floor. The usual anti-
dotes were applied, but no hope is entertained of a favour-
, able result.

COURT OF COMMON COUNCIL.'
THE OFFICE OF TOWN CLERK.
Mr. R. L. JONES moved that the Report of the Officers
and Clerks' Committee, relative to the office of ToWn Clerk,
recommending that the salary of that office should be fixed
2,0001. per annum, &c., &c., be agreed to. He stated that a
negotiation had been opened, and was likely to be satisfactorily
concluded, with the gentlemen of the Mayor's Court on the
subject of their claims, which would be prejudiced by the alte-
ration proposed by a bill in Court, to provide for the due en-
tering on the journals all acts and proceedings of Common Coun-
cil and Common Hall.

Mr. PEACOCK moved as an amendment that the salary be
reduced from 2,0001. to 1,5001. a year.
A long discussion took place, when, on a division, the original
motion was carried by a majority of 52 to 41.
The Lord MAYOR informed the Court that the election for
the office of Town Clerk would take place on Thursday neat.
THE REPAVING LONDON BRIDGE:
Mr. KNOTT brought up the Report of the Committee. It
recommended that, as well for the convenience of the public as
the durability of the work, the bridge should be complctey
closed, as regarded the traffic' during the repairing of it.
Alderman LUCAS and Mr. WIRE supported the Report.
Alderman Sir M. WOOD said the inconvenience to the
public business would be dreadful if the bridge was wholly
closed, and suggested the propriety of keeping open one 11:1f
of the carriage way during the period of the repaving. Pe-
titions were presented from the managers of the joint stations,
and others, against closing the bridge entirely, and the great
majority of the Court cheered the suggestion of Sir M. Wood.
The Report was ultimatdly referred back to the Committee,
with instructions that during the repairing of the bridge the
public accommodation should be properly attended to.—Ad-
journed.

NARROW ESCAPE of the BRITISH

QUEEN STEAMER.

By the British and North American Royal Mail steamer
Acadia, Captain Ryrie, which arrived at Liverpool from Bos-
ton, on Tuesday morning last, accounts were brought over re-
specting his Belgian Majesty's steam-ship British Queen,
which was nearly lost en her last voyage from Southampton to
New York. This magnificent vessel, it will be recollected,
left Southampton about the sth of last month, having on board
upwards of fifty passengers, and a cargo of merchandise and
specie to a large extent, he appears to have progressed fa-
vourably on her voyage until the 17th day, the 12th of May,
when the ship encountered a heavy gale of wind from the N.N. W.,
when it became necessary to ease the steam to three-quarters
of her speed. According to the log of the chief mate, this hap-
pened late in the afternoon, in lat. 49 10, D. R., long. 18 IS,
D. R. and course S. 31. As the night came on the gale so in-
creased that it was deemed prudent to alter the course, and bear
down with the wind. In this condition she continued till the
following day, when, at about half-past twelve o'clock, she
shipped a tremendous sea; and so terrific was its force, that
every timber apparently trembled again under its violence.
The sea made a complete breach over her, carrying with it
part of the bulwarks, fore-yard-arm, part of one of the paddle-
boxes, and several coal-lumpers that were on deck. The com-
mander, chief officer, and several of the crew, had a most nar-
row escape of being washed overboard. They were standing
on the fore part of the vessel when the sea struck her, and were
swept a considerable distance along the deck. The Captain
was thrown nearly into the engine-room, while the rest of the
crew were dashed against the hatchways and other obstacles on
the deck, and they all were more or less injured, one seaman
in particular had his skull frightfully fractured. During the
remainder of the day the vessel pitched heavily, owing to there
being a dead weight of upwards of three hundred tons of coals
in the fore and aft holds, but it could not be altered until the
weather &bated ; as it was, a great quantity of water get down
the engine-room. On the 14th, the following day, the gale
ceased, and she was brought back into her proper course, in
which she continued until the 21st, when she vas again driven
back in consequence of the ice and icebergs, some of which
were of immense height and thickness. Fortunately, she got
clear of them, and arrived at New York in safet3 on the 2.5 th
day of her passage.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
WORSHIP-STREET.

James Griffiths, a porter, employed at a warehouse in
Thames-street, was charged with having violently assaulted
and attempted to strangle police constable, G 203, and Eliza
Griffiths, the prisoner's wife, was charged with having attempted
to rescue him from custody.
It appeared from the evidence of the policeman, that he was
on duty near Old-street, on the preceding night, when he was
called upon to quell an uproar occasioned by the violent conduct
of the prisoner who was engaged in beating his wife in a most
unmerciful manner. He remonstrated with him upon his un-
manly and brutal behaviour, and desired him to desist ; but the
prisoner set him at defiance, and said that as the woman was
his wife, he had a right to' treat her as he thought proper, at
the same time making a practical assertion of his assumed pre-
rogative by striking her another violent blow. The police-
man then seized him by the collar, upon which the prisoner
turned round and struck him a severe blow under the
ear, and after a short struggle succeeded in breaking away
from him, but the officer pursued him as far as his own
door, and was about to secure him, when his poor, injured wife
forced herself between them, and having pushed the prisoner
into the house, she fastened the door against her protector.
After procuring assistance, the policeman broke open the door,
and entered the house, when the prisoner assailed him with
some instrument, which he threw down on being closed with,
and thrust both his hands under the policeman's stock and
pinned him against the wall. The policeman was unable to
move, and the prisoner pressed his knuckles against his throat
with so much violence, that his breath was stopped, and a quan-
tity of blood gushed out of his mouth and nose. Some of his
brother officers ran to his assist•lnce when he was on the point
of being strangled, and dragged the prisoner away, but it re-
quired the combined exertions of seven men to convey him to
the station-house.

Sergeant Hull stated that the policeman had been attended
by a surgeon, and the injury he had received would prevent him
from resuming his duties for some days. Several other officers
whom the prisoner had assaulted were in waiting.
Mr. BINGHAM said, that before hearing any additional
evidence, he wished to know whether the prisoner had anything
to say in extenuation of his outrageous conduct.
The prisoner, with much apparent penitence, said that he
would not attempt to justify the violence of which he had been
guilty, and which he attributed to the maddening effects of the
liquor he had been drinking. He begged the Magistrate to
deal with him as leniently as poSsible, in consideration of his
previous g6od character, and the punishment he would sustain
in the loss of his situation, as his employers would not keep
him another hour in their service after such conduct.

A respectable looking person stepped forward, and said that
he had known the prisoner for some years, and when he was
in a sober state a more peaceable and well-conducted man did
not exist.

Mr. BINGHAM said, that if it had not been for the poi
character that was given of him, and the extreme contrition he
exhibited, he should most certainly have committed the pri-
soner for trial ; and he was afraid the punishment that he was
about to inflict as far from being adequate to the serious
nature of the offence. He should require the prisoner to pay a
fine of 405., or be committed fur one mouth to the House of
Correction.

.....
The prisoner was locked up in default of payment, and his
wife was discharged.

CORN AVERAGE
GENERAL AVERAGE PRICES OF BRITISH CORN,
For the Week ended June 10, 1542 made up from the eturfis t
the Inspectors in the different Cities tr
and Downs in Englan4 ai d
Wales, per Imperial Quarter.
Wheat 64s Odd Oats ''Os. Bd.' Beaus 33. Id
Barley 2l3s Eki I Rye

AVERAGES OF THE LAST SIX WEEKS.