The Sun. — 1858-07-29 (London, England)

MURDER OP A FRENCH MERCHANT.—The Presse d'Orient gives an aecouttt of a dreadful mord, r, c tatmitted in the open day on the person of M. Audibert, a French merchant at Constantinople, while in his warehouse. The on of a tradesman in the neiehbourhood, having to call on business, found him lying on the ground, weltering in his blood. An alarm was given, and a medical man having been sent for, found that his skull bad been split open by a heavy blow. He was bled, and his face washed with cold water, which restored animation; but in two hours after he breathed his last. His iron safe bad been broken open, and its contents carried off, as well as that of several boxes which had contained watches.  THE CENTRAL CRIMINAL CoUßT.—Yesterday merning ieformatioa was conveyed to the city authorities f the death of Mrejohn C'arke, c!erk to.the Central Criminal Couri, and oreik of the peace for the sty of London, which took place at an early hour yesterday merning from diphtheria.. Mr. Clarke became clerk to the Central Criminal Court in 1829, previous to which he had for a considerable period actually discharged the duties of the office, although filling a subordinate cepacity. To the tffice of clerk of the, Central Criminal Court a salary of 3,0001. a year is attached ; but the holder of the office out of that sum has to maintain an efficient staff of subordinate-clerks. The aopointment to this office rests with the Lord Mayor and the judges on the rota for the time being. The Superannuetien Act, which has just been withdra Nn from the House of Commons for this session, contained a provision for superannuating the clerks, sorters, an,Llet ter-carriers in the metropolitan post-offices of London, Dublin, and Edinburgh, but no provision for superannuating similar classes cf officers in the provincial postoffices. The latter officials are not rec-gnised as strictly belonging to the Peet-office department, although they are in the service of the Postmaster-General, and are d-prived of the elective franchige like other civil servants of the Crown. Arrengemente are making for organisiuo a movement to secure for all country poet-effice officials' whose labour is claimed to be at the sole di.vpo-al of the Postmaster-General the benefit of the civil service superannuation fund. A number of members of Parliament have already promised their support to this propoeition when the Superannuation Bill is again brought frward next session. THE NEW Leath CIIIIRSToN.—Sir John Yorde Bert., of Lupton, Devon-hire, whose elevation to the pe.er.ee as Lord C-Aerston, of Ceureton Ferrers, we mentioned in our columns yesterday, is the eldest son of the second baronet by the daughter cf J.ihn Holliday, Esq., of Ddhorne Hall, Staffordshire. He wai Horn in 1799, and educated at Oriel College, Oxford, where he graduated B.A. as a second clesa in claevicr in 1819, and proceeded t M.A. in 1825. He is an ac.ive megistrate and deputy lieutenant f-r Devonshire, and a special deputy-warden of the S annaries fie tree been lieutenant of thr; S uth Devon Militia since 1845 He cant-, ted the Southern Diviinn of •the coil, ty against Mr. Bulteel (me-in-law of Earl Gree) dthout success, at .the firs general election efter toe pasing of the Reform Bill. 1n,Dec.,1.834, ho • ever, bee wie retureed to Parliament as the colleague of Lord J. Russell, who loth s scat the foleewing April on acceptime effic e From that time down- to the prevent Sir John Yard, Buller bee continued t r represent South Devon in the Conservative interest. Lord Cleurston is one of the wealthiest cernmoneys and ler..iest landowners in the West of England, and is deservedly popular among his tenantry and in hie native county. L •rd Cu, rstee married, in 1823. E.;zabeth, daughter of Thomas Wilson Patten, Esq , of Bank Hall, Lancashire by whom (who di,d in 1851) his lordship ha+ issue an o-ly dan2titer and a son, John, born in 1823, now captain in the South Devon Militia, who in married to a daughter of E. S. Ctiandoa Pole, Esq., of Tiedheurne Hall, Derbyshere.