The Sun.
London, England, 1845-06-02 00:00:00

IE SUN, L_ON_l3 ONI

drew up a note for the Divan, in which they blamed
the Turkish authorities at Jleyrout, and called upon
the Porte to adopt measures for restoring tran-
quillity. According to accounts front Alex-.ndria,
MEHEMET ALI cli4 .yed excellent health, and
was engaged in superintending the arming of the
fortifications of that pkce. An Egyptian frigate had
sailed fur Constantinople, conveying 1,000,000 piastres
as a present from the PACHA to the SULTAN, on the
occasion of his sister's marriage. The Turkish fleet.
under lIALIL PACHA, after a cruise off the coast of
Tenedos, reached the Dardanelles on the 15th of May.

We have received Madrid papers of the 25th of May.
On the previous day the QUEEN, her mother, and
sister, left Madrid. They were to arrive at Barcelona
on the sth instant, passing by Aranjuez and Valencia.
NARVAEZ was to join the Court at Aranjuez, and
MARTINEZ DE LA. ROSA. WORM follow, if his health
should permit. The editors of the Clamor Pub-
lico were arrested on the 25th for a libel-
lous article on NARVAEZ, and wan to be tried,
according to some accounts, by a Court-martial. No
public measures had been taken with respect to the dif-
ferences between the Government and his Holiness, tut
it was understood that fresh instructions would be sent
from Barcelona to the Spanish Ambassador at Rome.
Barcelona is a destined place for intrigues and plots.
On the 24th the Three per Cents. closed at 34i, at
60 days; the Five per Cents. 24. at 60 days; and the
Debt without Interest at 8 at 40 days.

The Paris papers are chiefly occupied with the abdi-
cation of Don CARLOS and the probable results. Many
conjectures are formed by those of the Opposition,
the Government journals merely publishing the docu-
ments. The Presse, Queen CHRISTINA'S paper, infers
that an arrangement has taken place between the
different sections of the Carlist party, and that the
marriage of the QUEEN to the Prince of ASTURIAS, now
Count DE MONTEMOLIN, will be the consequence. That
journals says:-" The abdication of Don Can Los is not
the work of a single day. It cost long and painful
efforts, and it crowns the negotiations which long
continued fruitless, but which were conducted
with great reserve and great skill. For many
years past Din CARLOS has lost all prestige and all in-
fluence. After having caused the ruin of his party in the
Basque provinces, he became at Bourges an obstacle to
every species of honourable compromise. The moment
however had arrived to adopt a decision, for there was
no possible medium between the abdication of Don
Catmoe and that of the entire Carlist party. The mar-
riage of Queen ISABELLA became every day more immi-
nent, and, right or wrong, the most influential men
amongst the Spanish emigrants regard this marriage as
a natural, legitimate, and honourable mode for all parties
to complete a reconciliation on a grand scale.
We are aware that the Progresista party and
a considerable fraction of the Moderate party
are opposed to every plan of a compromise
with the Carlists ; but, on the other hand, the
marriage of the QUEEN with the son of Don CARLOS is
supported by the party represented by the Marquis de
VILU3II and the Baron DE MEER, by the entire Spanish
clergy, all the officers who signed the convention of
Bergara, all the influential Carlists who have emigrated
to France ; and in Europe, all the northern Cabinets."
The National says :-" The abdication is the result of
an intrigue which has been a long time in prepara-
tion, and which Queen CHRISTINA considers to
have arrived at maturity;" but it is needless to
quote further, for we believe the Presse is correctly in•
formed. This upshot of the affair has greatly discon-
certed the Court of Naples, and it is said the KING is
going to Paris to urge the promises made to his brother,
the Count DE TRAPANI, but he will arrive too late.
The Courrier Francais states that Prince JERome
BONAPARTE has obtained permission from the French
Government to visit his cousin, the prisoner of Ham.
It is added, that the object of the Prince's visit to Hain
is to make a proposal to the Prince Louts NAPOLEON,
on the part of the French Government, which, if ac
ceded to, would set him at liberty.
The proceedings before the Chambers on Saturday
possessed no interest. The Peels, as anticipated, had
rejected the Bill for the conversion of the Five per
Cents. On a division the numbers for the Bill were only
28, and 118 voted against it.
The Three per Cents. closed on the Paris Bourse, on Satur-
day, at 85f. 90c. ; the New Loan, at 861. 15c. ; the Five per
Cents. at 121 f 60c.; Orleans Railroad Shares, 1,230 f. ; Rouen,
1,102 f. 50c. ; Vierzon, 830 f.; Havre, 887 f. 50c.; Avignon,
1,042 f. 50c.; Basle, 2721. 50e ; Spanish Actives, 40f. ;
ditto, Three per Cents., 42f. ; Spanish Passives, 7%.
The following are the quotations for the new lines:-
Orlear.s and Bordeaux, 2251. premium ; Boulogne, 120 f.
ditto ; Troyes and Nonteresu, 50f. ; Paris and
Lyons (Laflitte), 17f. 50e. ; ditto (Caton), If. 50c. ; ditto (Gan-
neron), 7f. 50e.; Northern line (Laffitte), 301. ; ditto
(Rosamel), 91. ; Tours and Nantes (Mackenzie), 101;
ditto (Drouillard), par; ditto (O'Neill), 15f. ; ditto
(Jacque.; Lefevre), par; Lyons and Avignon (Lecointe), 13f.
50c.; ditto (Talabot), 37f. 50c.; ditto (Compagnie Meridio-
nale), 10f. ; Bordeaux and Toulouse (Mackenzie), 2f.
50c. ; ditto and Cette (Lspeleta), 1 lf. 25c. ; Creiland St. Quen-
tin, 121. 50c. ; Paris and Strasburg (Ganneron), 11f.25c. ; Di-
jon and Mulhouse, 21. 50c.
LYONS, MAY 28.-Avignon and Marseilles, 1,026 f., end of
May ; Paris and Orleans, 1,227 f. ditto; Paris and Rouen,
I,IIOE, ditto; Orleans and Vierzon, 8161., ditto; Orleans and
Bordeaux, 705 f. ditto; Boulogne, 6031. ditto; Monterau,
5521., ditto.

HOUSE OF LORDS-(THIS DAY.)
The House sat to-day to hear appeals. The Peers present were
the Lord Chancellor, Lord Brougham, and Lord Campbell.
RICARDO V. GARCIA%
The arguments in this case, which came before the House upon
an appeal from the decision of the Vice• Chancellor of England, dis.
allowing a plea put in by the Messrs. Ricardo to the plaintiff's bill,
claiming an account of certain loans, occupied their Lordships the
whole morning. We refrain from entering further into the case
at present.

ROLLS' COURT.-(THIS DAY.)
The Master of the Rolls, after disposing of the cases of Meryon v.
Collett, and the Attorney-Gentral v. Richards, heard the remain.
ing motions and causes in his paper.

VICE-CHANCERY.-(THIS DAY.)
(Before the VICE-CHANCELLLOR of ENGLAND.)
BEARD V. EDGERTON.
The arguments in this case, which our readers will recollect was
an application to dissolve an injunction that had berm obtained by
the plaintiff, restraining the defendant from using the far-famed
Daguerreotype, were resumed and concluded to-day,
His HONOUR gave judgment dissolving the injunction, directing
an action to be brought by the plaintiff' and giving him liberty to
inspect the process made use of by the eefendant.
(Before Sir J. K. BRUCE.)
Bankrupt petitions and causes occupied his Honour the whole day.
(Eefore Vice. Chancellor Sir J. Wiaa.sm )
His HONOUR, after disposing of the case of Rogers v. Tonsey,
proceeded to hear causes.

LATE MURDER IN ST. GILES'S
EXECUTION OF JOSEPH CONNOR.—(THIS DAY.)
THE CONFESSION.
This being the morning appointed for the execution of Joseph
Connor, for the murder of Mary Brothers, the Old Bailey pre-
sented those appearances which it always does when a human being
is about to forfeit his life for the commission of murder.
As early as six o'clock a great number of persons had gathered
round the scaffold, and those places from which a good view of the
culprit and the scaffold could be obtained were taken possession of,
even at that early hour. There were many women amongst the
crowd. The majority of the spectators were of the labouring class.
At a few minutes after seven o'clock, Mr. Sheriff Sidney and
Mr. Sheriff Hunter, accompanied by the Under-Sheriffs, Messrs.
Ashurst and Martin, arrived, when the reporters were admitted.
Mr. Sheriff Sidney then came forward and stated that the pri-
soner made a full confeision the day after his trial, which was
drawn up in writing, and having been signed by him, was trans-
mitted to the Secretary of State. Mr. Sidney said he had no ob-
jection to give the purport of the confession, though be could not
favour the reporters with a copy. The prisoner stated in it that he
committed the crime from the motive imputed to him—namely,
because he believed he had contracted a disease by his Intimacy
with the unfortunate woman; that he was not right in
his head at the time, from weakness, caused by the ill.
ness under which he was then labouring, and from the
quantity of medicine which he had taken to cure it; and that whilst
in this state he had previously committed many acts of violence
towards his parents, and had killed a cat and some birds, of which
he at other times was particularly fond. He had also stated that
the daughter of Mr. Oldham, the cutler, of High street, St.
Giles's, where he bought the knife with which he committed the
n-urder ; was correct in saying that he had a pimple on his nose at
the time; that it was not at the side of his nose, as she had stated,
but on the front of it. Shortly before his trial he offered
to plead guilty to the charge, and to make a confession,
if the Sheriffs had not provided him with counsel.
They declined, however, to receive any statement from him then,
and assigned him counsel. Mr. Ashurst said that the prisoner's
father came to him on Saturday, and said, that his wifz had heard
that the coat in which her unfortunate son appeared at his trial
was to be sold for the purpose of being exhibited on a figure in-
tended to resemble him, and that she was, in consequence, in great
distress of mind. He stated that they should have the coat, but
that he would keep it a month before he delivered it up. From
the time the prisoner came to Newgate he had conducted himself
in a most becoming manner, paying the greatest attention to all
that was said to him, and denoting, by his whole line of conduct,
that he was most grateful for the kindness which had been
shown him, not only by the Sheriffs, but by Mr. Cope and
every one connected with the prison. He had not attended the
prison chapel since his trial, and at his father's request, who is
said to be an honest consistent man.
It now only wanted a few minutes to eight o'clock; the Rev.
Mr. Davis, the Ordinary, the Sheriffs, the Governor, the Deputy
Governor, and the reporters were then admitted into the cell, the
Rev. Mr. Rolfe having previously prepared the prisoner for the in-
terview. Calcraft, the hangman, had come in after the Sheriffs.
Connor was sitting on a form, and was repeating after his spiritual
adviser some of the prayers of the Catholic Church, which the
Rev. Gentleman read from a book. He looked very pale, and was
wonderfully Balm and re!igned. He was dressed as at his trial.
He submitted to the process of pinioning with the most astonish.
ing coolness, and instead of offering any obstruction to the execu-
tioner, he placed himself in a position in which the painful task
might be easier performed.
The procession having been formed, he walked out of the cell
with the same undisturbed demeanour which has characterised
him throughout the whole time he has been in custody. At the door
of the cell he bowed slightly to the turnkeys, Hurnphery and
Absale, and passing through the chapel-yard and the few passages
which lead to the door at which the scaffold was erected, where he
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