The Sun. — 1831-05-16 (London, England)

SAXONY—the Duke of ()ELEA Ns—the Archduke JOHN of Austria, &c. Among the fine collection of autographs which accotnp inies the volumes, will also be !aund fac-similes of the hand-writing of many of the above. While PASTA and LALANDE were at Milan, a feud broke nut between them, in their characters of prima donna of the Scala and Canobiano. The adherents of each were as furious in their animosity as the Guelfa and Ghibelincs of old. Each party had their place of rendezvous, their Catt!t Pasta or Lalandesta, where they discussed politics over sherbet and lemonade. A hundred duels were or would have been the consequence, but for the interruption of the police, who could not, how • ever, prevent a little private and polite assassination.— Affairs at length ran so high as to attract the attention of Government ; and the disturbances at the theatre being suspected to be the cloak of some treason against the State, all hissing in public was interdicted on pain of imprisonment. An inveterate Pastaist was at a party where LAovercome. " Make LALANDE was present, and was so pleased with her. goodnature, affability, and, above all, with the refined skill with twhehchiolyst. His request being his heresy, and professed which she sang an exquisite aria of her own compost. ntiloenimtol.iwat complied with, himself the most enthusiastic of her worshippers. Triumph for an instant glanced in her eye, but, checking the expression, she said, " Do not deceive yourself; I owe your nhtios leer,"i saidec prejudicesabtwee recanted praises to my rival's absence; you will change your opinion to-morrow at La Scala,"  on -Trent, currieldUatßllDlaErnßhalltnY oamc-, county C.— Ao nf No Brenttti ng h on Tuesday evening week, which has caused a sensation in that neighbourhood almost baffling description. An old man, Wl4l. PAGE, nearly '7O years of age, a labourer, resided in a small cottage there with his wife, an industrious woman, a few years younger than himself. They had been married 40 years, and four of their children are now living. PAGE had been a class leader in the Methodist connection upwards of 20 years; latterly, however, lie betrayed symptoms of derangement by the 'flightiness of his manner, but by prompt medical attendance, he recovered, and pursued his avocation as a labourer on the road as usual. On the day above-mentioned he was sitting 'with his wife and a neighbour, the latter left them about half-past five in the afternoon, and PAGE, up to that time, appeared to give no indications of the dreadful tragedy that was speedily to follow, but, on the contrary, seemed perfectly tranquil and happy with his wife, and had made an arrangement to proceed with her the next day to visit one of her sons, who was I ill, at Carlton-upon-Trent. She left the house at the hour stated, to get some linen from a hedge, which the poor woman had placed there to dry, and whilst in the act of doing so, her husband came unawares behind her, and striking a deadly blow with a hatchet on her head, felled the poor creature to the ground ; this was sufficient to cause instant deith, but he made a second stroke with the same murderous weapon, which caught her on the shoulder ; she gasped once or twice and expired. A child belonging to a neighbour witnessed the ' affair, and gave instant alarm, exclaiming that " William Page had killed his wife." The dreadful news soon spread, and the murderer was secured, hut he could give no account why he committed the act. After examination before the county Magistrates, he was conveyed on the following Friday to the gaol Nottingham, and fully committed for wilful murder till the ensuing assizes. He appeared indisposed on his way thither, but refused on his arrival to state any c tu-e for his conduct, or even t ) name what complaint he was labouring, under; he likewise objected to take any sustenance or medicine, saying, " It was no use to him." H, was locked up for the night in his cell, but carefully axaminea, and deprived of any means of destroying himself. .., his prison door oot unIn the morning, about six o'clock closed, and his lifeless body lay, face downwards, prostrate on the bed. An inquest was held on his remains, on Satur. lay last, and after a careful investigation, a suitable verdict of "Died from natural causes was returned, it having been proved by a post mortemexam examination in the presence of ;he faculty, that the wretched mans death had been occaIby an inflammation of the brain and bowels. After he apprehension of PAsr, he Was heard to say that he had k.-pt the hatchet in the house solely for the purpuse he had used it for.