The Sun. — 1862-06-30 (London, England)

OTERPRAYED HIMSELF.—During the prevalence of the cholera in Virginia the negroes on the different plantations became dreadfully alarmed, and thought they would certainly die with it. Among others, in one of the upper counties, was negro boy who, having heard his father say that the cholera would soon be along that way, left his work one day and betook himself to the woods. Hero he was found by his overseer, soon after, fast asleep. Being taken to task by him for leaving his work, he excused himself on the ground that, not being "prepared to die," ho had gone to the wood "to meditate." " But," said the overseer, " how was it that you went to sleep ?" "Well, I don't know, Massa, how dat was 'zactly," responded the negro, " but I speck I must have overprayed myself." The other day a man, whose coat tails, wonderful to relate, suddenly burst into flames as he was quietly walking the streets of St. Petersburg, was arrested, and very nearly lynched by the people. As subsequently appeared, the poor fellow, who had vainly tried to effect his escape from the infuriated mob, was a gas-fitter, just on his way to the imperial palace on business. Unfortunately the combustibles about his person, which exposed him to the danger of a double death, were mistaken for the kit of an incendiary.  Mr. Hall, the father of the young lady who Was murdered at Fordingbridge last Sunday, is so ill from the calamity which has befallen him that he is not expected to live.  RECAPTURE OF ONE OF THE THREE CONVICTS —On Friday week, in the afternoon, three notorious convicts effected their escape from the county gaol, Horsemonger-lane. On Thursday two detective officers of the M division, whilst looking after a thief, espied one of the escaped convicts, named G. Brunel', emerging from a small gardener's cottage, in a gentleman's garden at Highbury. 'I he detectives pounced upon him, but they met with a desperate resistance, for the man being armed with a life-preserver made a desperate attack upon the two policemen, but they succeeded in securing him, and handed him over to the governor of the gaol. When the convict found he was in the hands of the police he coolly remarked, " If you had come five yards nearer the cottage I would have settled both ball, -upon searching the cottage, a pistol, loaded with o u' " was i found therein, which, f the detectives had of y entered, would no doubt have been discharged at them. MADAME GRISI AND SIGNOR MARlO.—These celebrated artistes have sent a letter to Mr. Gaskin,requestlog him to put their names down for £5 each towards the erection of a statue to our "great countryman, Edmund Burke." Madame Grisi has tent Mr. Gaskin her portrait with an appropriate inscription, as a souvenir of her memorable farewell to Dublin, on 21st December, 1861, when an address from her numerous admirers was presented to her. She concludes her letter with " Long live Old Ireland,more especially Dublin." It is but just to Madame Grisi to say that, since the night when she bade a final adieu to the scenes of her early triumphs, she has been the kind friend and generous patroness of our Irish cantatrice, Ellen Conran.-11' orthern Daily Whig.