The Sun. — 1850-04-06 (London, England)

LANCASTER AND PRESTON JUNCTION RAILWAY.  —A special general meeting of this company was held at their offices in Lancaster on Thursday. The report was read and agreed to. The directors were congratulated on the amount of the dividend, which' (although a small portion was drawn from the rest) amounted to something more than 51- per cent.  There lives in Edinburgh a lady, in the use of all her mental faculties, whose brother .by the same mother died 122 years ago, in the 14th year of his age. She is upwards of 100 years old. The brother died in April, 1728.— Edinburgh Post.  Reason and faith are coeval with the nature of man, and were designed to dwell in his heart together. —Eliza Cook's Journal.  On Wednesday last, two married females, with their attendants, went to the Church of St. Sidwells, for the purpose of having their two children christened. One of them proposed to have Mr. Flood, the sexton, as sponsor previous to the commencement of the service, but the Rev. Mr. Courtsnay refused to accept him, and proceeded with the service, at the close of which he left the church, without performing the solemn rite of baptism upon either of the children. Our informant states that he has heard that the mother of one of the children took the babe to the Free Church, where the baptismal water is remarkably pure and unadulterated, and there had the dear lamb duly baptised by the hands of the Rev. Mr. Mitchell—that baptism being held as lawful as if it had been done out of a bishop's slush bucket, and ten times more agreeable.—Western Times.  A girl, named Josephine Dumas, was found, yesterday morning, lying in her room, in the Rue du Chantre, stabbed in seven places, two of the wounds being through the heart. Towards five in the morning a woman, who slept in the next room, heard some noise, but thinking it rag only a quarrel took no notice of the disturbance. A friend of the deceased, named Caroline Baugrand, coming to see her about ten o'clock, found the door half open, and the body of Josephine lying on the ground, bathed in blood. All that has been known was that a young man passed the night with the deceased, but was not seen to go out in the morning. None of the property of the murdered girl was touched, which leads to the idea that some feeling of jealousy or revenge must have actuated the murderer. An investigation was immediately commenced, and two warrants, it is said, have been issued against suspected parties.— Galignani of Wednesday.  Mr. David Small, the worthy tenant of the Milton of Abernyte, has a cow which a few days ago brought him two fine calves at a birth, while it is not quite eleven months since she had other two—four calves within eleven months. We believe such a circumstance is of rare occurrence, but what is partly still more remarkable, the fruitful and thriving animal has had altogether ten calves, while she is not quite nine years old, and she was three years old before she had her first calf. Twice she bad one calf at a birth ; then four times in succession she had twins. We understand she is originally off Lord Kinnaird's stock.—Dundee Courier. On the 29th September last the Tribunal of Correctional Police condemned by default the well-known Cabot. chief of the Icarian Communists, to two years' imprisonment, 50f. fine, and five years' interdiction of civil rights, on the charge of swindling ire connexion with his Icarian community. Cabet, who is in America, caused an opposition to be made to this judgment, and by his desire the case was to be definitively heard in January. In that month, however, his friends obtained a postponement to the 2d April, on the condition that he should be present. Yesterday the case was called on, but Cabet not only did not appear, but caused a further postponement to be demanded. This, on the opposition of the public prosecutor, the tribunal refused to grant, and the condemnation was carnally cousrwed.--Parie paper.