The Sun. — London, England, 1862-06-09 00:00:00

THE NAVY. The paddle-wheel steam surveying vessel Porcu pine, 3, Master Commander Hoskyn, at Devonport, appointed on the application of the directors of the Atlantic Telegraph Company, to take soundings in the Atlantic, will be provided with a donkey-engine on deck to assist the men. The machines which will be used are those called the " Bulldog" ma chines. They are constructed on the principle best adapted for bringing up portions of the bottom. l3rooke's apparatus will also be employed. The Porcupine, it is expected, will in the first place go to that part of the Atlantic where there is what is popularly called a " in the bed of the ocean, at which point it is supposed the former cable was broken. At the head of this declivity, about 200 miles from Ireland, there is a depth of 550 fathoms, and at the foot 1,750 fathoms, showing a difference of 1,200 fathoms. But this decline extends over a distance of eight miles, so that the fall is only one in eight. Other portion's will no doubt be sounded. It is stated that in the event of a second attempt to establish telegraphic communication across the Atlantic some place on the coast of Ireland, further north than Valenta harbour, will be selected for the purpose of obtaining a more convenient bed for the reception of the wire. The burden of the Porcupine being only 382 tons, she is rather small for the duty. The donkey-engine alone will weigh 10 tons, and this, with the fuel necessary to be kept near it on deck, may cause her to roll, especially when her stock of coal is diminished. While employed sounding very little coal will be expended, but as she cannot stow above 100 tons frequent communications with the shore will be necessary. Galway, or some other western port in Ireland, will be visited for this purpose. Mr.. John E. Davis, Master, R.N. (borne on the books of the Fisgard), who has had great experience in surveying, and who accompanied Capt. Allen Young in the Fox, in 1860, to sur ve y the proposed northern route via Faroe, Iceland, Greenland, and Labrador, has been appointed by the hydrographer to go in the Porcupine for the purpose of aiding the present inquiry. The Prometheus, 5, paddle, Capt. Bedingfield, arrived at Spithead yesterday afternoon from Ascen sion and the West Coast of Africa. Subsequently to the recent important services of the Prometheus at Lagos, where for some time Capt. Bedingfield was senior officer, she was surveyed and pronounced un seaworthy owing to the defects of her hull. She has, nevertheless, been navigated home in safety. She awaits orders at Spithead. The Megtera screw troopship, Commander Hen derson, arrived at Portsmouth at 5 a.m. yesterday, from Guernsey and Jersey, with three batteries of artillery on board. Two batteries remain in garrison at Portsmouth, and the third was despatched by special train on the South Coast Railway yesterday morn hag, immediately after disembarkation, for Dover. The screw steamship James Watt, 80, Captain E. Codd, from Malta May 8, and Gibraltar May 22, arrived in Plymouth Sound on Saturday morning. Contrary light winds from the north were expe rienced in the first part of the voyage. For the last two days she had fine winds from the southward. The James Watt was commissioned March 5, 1859, and comes home to have her crew paid off. The ship is in good condition. She embarked at Malta Mr. C. F. B. Homan, clerk in the dockyard ; Brigade Major C. E. Burt, Royal Artillery ; Capt. T. Tyack, 22d Regiment, Lieut. W. H. Irvine and Ensign E. C. Dickson, 3d Regiment, Mr. Hallett, Mr. J. Lit tlejohn, Serg. F. Thompson, and three privates be longing to the 22d Regiment, and at Gibraltar, Major H. P. Gore, 6th Regiment, Ensign J. Co ventry, 7th Regiment, Ensign H. Dawson and 60 military invalids, two women, and one child. She left at Malta the screw steam sloop Icarus, 11, Com mander N. Salmon, and the paddlewheel steamship Medina, 4, Capt. T. A. B. Spratt, C.B. ; and at Gib raltar the screw steam corvette Scylla, 21, Capt. R. Lambert ; and the screw steam sloop Intrepid, 6, Commander J. H. Marryat. The United States war steamer Sumpter, and the Confederate steamer Tuscarora were in the Bay. The following appointments have been made at the Admiralty :—Commander S. Greville to the Sanspareil ; William L. Southey, master additional to the Victory; George P. Burney, master additional to the Cumberland ; Henry S. Ley, master to the Sanspareil ; Samuel W. Webb, surgeon to the Aka; John MSwiney, surgeon to the Sanspareil; Arthur B: Johnson, assist.- surgeon to the Antelope; Fred. Piercy, assist.-surgeon to the Cornwallis ; the Rev. R. Croker, chaplain and naval instructor to the Sanspareil ; W. Pitt, chief engineer to the Sans pareil ; Jeremiah P. Lloyd and George W. Robins, first-class assist.-engineers to the Sanspareil; Henry J. R. Miall, paymaster additional to the Victory ; Charles W. Sturgess, paymaster additional to the Indus ; Richard C. Beale, paymaster additional to the St. Vincent ; George Penfold, paymaster to the Sanspareil ; Henry Hodge, assist..paymaster to the Revenge ; Alfred J, Boyton, assist.-paymaster to the Indus ; Cecil P. Walker, clerk to the Sanspa reil ; George E. Alarcon, clerk supernumerary to the Royal Adelaide; Berry N. West, H. T. Gleason, William Scriven, B. J. Sims, H. G. N. Walsh, William S. R. Gow, Charles M. Dobson, William B. Heade, William E. Farrington, and Herbert G. Packer, master's assistants additional to the Earplug. THE ROYAL NAVY. (From the Economist.) An absolute government has motives to economy which a representative Government has not. A great king or a great minister wishes to render his rule palatable to the people. He has no shield; there is nothing between him and the community he taxe s . But i —if, as •18 often th e ease,f Parliament will vote money readily Parliament wildly and eagerly p roffers money—ae minister has little re sponsibility. In see n th ings a free Government is b e tter than a desp ot ic , o overnment, but in unseen t hi ng s it is often worse , l expenditure be popular a Government which live, b y ypopularity will spend ; if economy be popular ,anch G ov ernment so living expenditure w ill save. But both the iture and the eco nomy will be equally mistim e d. The sole remedy against the se settlement against folly in our ex p enditure and against wingineon ers - 0 f the of some elusiveness in our deb ates, is the principle by which the a rmaments should be determined. Unless we settle aur unt , r Y ciple, our labour of detail will be vain, and alltn our words and discussions useless. Suppose, for example, we should lay down a s canon that our navy should be half as powerful again as that of the next most powerful nation— and this would be no irrational rule, since our com merce is much more extended than that of any other people, and ou r insular p osition rendered a great navy so necessary to us. In that case we should have a sort of measure to apply to the requisitions and estimates of Government ; we should be able to fix with some rough accuracy when our arma ments are sufficient and when they are excessive. In many states of the world this criterion might perhaps be inadequate. If two great and hostile .powers were threatening us or likely to threaten us we might find it necessary to have a navy equal to them both together. But in the present state of the world probably it is enough to have a navy half as powerful again as the naval nation next to us in the Beale. The mode in which a definite rule of this sort, when o nce a d opted and once accepte d as sufficient, not for all times alike, but for present times and present circumstances, would work, may be exem plified. Prance is now the greatest naval nation in the world except ourselves, and a Parliamentary piper just issued gives the exact force of the French navy on the let Jan., 1862—50 far at least as the number of ships is clncerned. A Parliamen tary paper, laid on the table o f th e House of Com mons on the 17th Feb.) 136 2, gives the state of the English at that time. From Com pa r ison of the two some results may be easily drawn o ut, though it is not easy to reco nc ile them with the s t atements of various speakers o n Tuesday evening. Take first the steam navy of the two countries, on which the principal dependence must be placed by both sides. Now the figures are : Total steam navy of England built and build'r g 580 /) „ France „ „ 360 Difference in favour of England,... whereas an excess of 180 would be a (pate for our purpose. In ships of the line we have (including block ships) 85 against 37, which is again much more than we should have by our canon ; but in frigates—a most important kind of vessel now-a days for the protection of our commerce—we, have not enough. The account stands English frigates built and building French Differanco only [n gunboats, which we suppose in a defensive war :o be of critical importance, we have a large surplus : The number of English gunboats built &building is 197 Of French Excess 139 Of iron-plated vessels, the figures given in these papers do not correspond with those given by Lord Palmerston, either as far as respect the English navy or the French. He said the French had 36, and the English 25. The returns give FRENCH. Building. Total. 10 6 Built. and they can only be raised to the number men tioned by Lord Palmerston by including—. Floating batteries mentioned in the return Seven additional mentioned in a subsequent return 7 On the other hand, the English list only gives 15 iron-cased ships, whereas it is said we now have 25, though some of these too may be floating batteries. Even now, therefore, we have no adequate informa tion upon this material item. But still we should look on our steam navy as a whole. We can and we should case our existing vessels with iron; but the expense of so doing is not vast, is not compar able to the expense of building now iron ships, and the experiment of the Merrimac shows that even under unfavourable circumstances, such metamor phoses may be very successful. In England, too, in an emergency, such operations could be effected with singular speed. The general aspect of our steam navy, if these re turns may be relied on, and if we have rightly in ; terpreted them, would certainly indicate no unusual or unnecessary exertions are needful now. Some constructions are necessary; and iron-casing must be a feature of the times ; but no spasmodic recon structions can now be required, even if they were so formerly. We may have built too many ships of war and tco few frigates, but we should be warned by this as well as stimulated; we should remember that as in this, so in future instances, we may be constructing vast and expensive ships which will become in comparison less efficient with the pro gress of the time and the change of warfare. IMIL TVAY INTELLIGENCE. LANCASHIRE AND YORKSHIRE: A Wharncliffe meeting of this company took place at Manchester on Saturday to consider a bill for making the Shawforth branch• Mr. WICKHAM, M.P., the chairman, said he was informed that a return to the company of six per cent, on the outlay might be expected. He con cluded by moving approval of the bill. Mr. RADCLIFFE, director, seconded the motion. The motion was opposed by Messrs. Thomas, Joshua, and Samuel Fielden. Mr. Broadbent, Mr. Wilson, Mr. Scott, and Mr, Lever supported the motion. On a show of hands there appeared several against the motion, and a poll was taken, when there ap peared,— For the motion ;—Present, 4,143 votes, represent ing £415,555 stock; proxies, 29,787 votes, repre senting £2,987,717 stock ; total, 33,930 votes, and £3,394,272 stock. Against the motion ;—Present 3,784 votes, repre senting £379,011 stock ; proxies 2,324 votes, repre senting £232,960 stock ; total, 6,108 votes, £611,971 stock. The CIIAIRMA.II congratulated the meeting on the result of the poll being in favour of the till, and then declared the meeting adjourned to the 25th inst., for the purpose of considering another bill now before Parliament. MANCHESTER, SHEFFIELD, AND LIN. COLNSHIRE. The Wharncliffe meeting of this company, which had not concluded when our report left on Friday, resulted in the shareholders having to go to a poll upon four of the six bills submitted to it—namley, the Godley and Woodley, the Garston Abandon ment, the Trent, Ancholme, and Grimsby, and the West Cheshire. The result of the first poll was ; For the motion, £1,623,273 stock ; against it, £35,436 ; majority, £1,587,107. The majority was nearly as great on the other motions, and the Chairman declared all the resolutions carried. COLCHESTER AND STOUR VALLEY. A Wharncliffe meeting of this company was held on Wednesday at Colchester, Mr. T. L. Ewen in the chair. The object of the meeting was to consider the Eastern Counties, Eastern Union, Norfolk, &c., Amalgamation Bill, as regards its bearing on tho interests of the company. The Solicitor stated that the new Great Eastern Company, when incorporated, would be liable for rent of the Colchester and Stour Valley in the same manner as the Eastern Counties was at pre sent. On the motion of the CHAIRMAN, a resolution approving the bill was unanimously agreed to. MID-WALES. A Wharneliffe meeting of this company was held on Saturday at Bridge-street, Westminster, Mr. J. Koch in the chair. The following bills were submitted and unanimously approved, viz.: —A Bill to enable the Mid-Wales Railway Com pany to alter the line and levels of their railway, and to make a junction between the Mid-Wales and the Central Wales (Extension) Railways ;" and " A Bill for authorising the Llanidloes and Newton Railway Company to make and maintain a line of railway for the joint use of the Mid- Wales Railway Company and the Manchester and Milford Railway Company, and a station at Llan idloes for the joint use of three companies, and to raise further moneys ; and for other purposes." NORTHERN OF CANADA. The total receipts on this company's line from the Ist of January to the 10th of May amounted to £23,646, against £26,640 for the corresponding Period of last year, showing a decrease of £2,994. ROYAL SWEDISH. The traffic receipts on this company's lino for 18 we e k, ending the 14th of May amounted to nod of limit £ . 4,521, ea t i mit £4,310 for the corresponding pe le".ehowing an increase of £2ll. The traffic receipts NOirnitu7 OF FRANCE. on this company's old and new lines for the week amounted on 701 mil es , touLinlgpv7the 27th of May OD 623 miles, being an increase of again s t £47,435 T o il f Z 4,438, of which the traffic above date £2,571 was on the old lines. re ceipts from the Ist of January t o amounted to £1,007,640, and for the e e period of last year to £950,522, sho w i n o a rr a e n sl . madin g of £57,185, of which £27,137 was on the old lines. PUNJAB. It appears that the traffic on the section of thi s company's line from Llhoro to Umritsur, 33 m il es in length, amounted, from the 10th to the 30th of April, to £1,071, the number of passengers con veyed being 42,744. The receipts average about £ll 3s. per week. RAILWAY BENEVOLENT INSTITUTION. The annual meeting of the members was held on Saturday at the Railway Clearing-house, Mr. Brookes in the chair. The report of the board of management stated that during the half-year end ing the 30th of April the receipts amounted to £937, of which £3OO was invested before the ac counts were closed, making the total invested capi- THE SON LONDON, MONK tal of the institution at the present time £4,500 By a collection made at most of the railway stations throughout the kingdom on behalf of the institu tion, on the Ist of January last, the sum of £299 was added to the funds. The annual dinner in aid of the institution, at which the Duke of Bucking• ham is to preside, will take place on the 18th inst., at the International Exhibition building. It was stated that when the invested funds amounted to £lO,OOO it was intended to increase the annual allowance to widows, and to extend the operation of the institution to other deserving cases. The report was adopted, the retiring members of the board of management were re,•elected, and five new members were added. Two out of three can didates, the widows of deceased members, were elected to receive annuities of £lO each, and the proceedings terminated. THE COTTON FAMINE. PRESTON. For the week ended June 7th the Relief Com mittee at Preston have distributed 10,030 loaves of bread, weighing 31b. looz. each, or 36,3601 b. of bread, and 14,601 quarts of soup and coffee. The number of cases now in the visitors' books is 4,062, comprising 16,894 persons, the increase over the preceding week being 88 cases and 106 persons. The total number now receiving relief exceeds that of a month ago by 2,242, showing the rapid rate at which the pauperisation of the community is aug• menting. On the books of the Union, according to the last return, are 3 974 cases of outdoor relief, representing about 10,000 men, women, and chil dren. In the corresponding week of last year the number of cases was only 1,125. The amount ex pended in outdoor relief ' is £660 2s. lid., in the corresponding week of last year it was only £135 14s. ld. The number in the workhouse is 951 ; in the corresponding week last year it was 578. The return shows that there are 1,057 me„ and boys labouring on the Moor for the pay which they re ceive from the parish. The poor-rate for Preston in ordinary times is about 2s. 6d. or 2s. Bd. ; for the current half-year it will be 35., and people who think upon the subject have already made up their minds that if the crisis lasts, as it appears likely to do, two half-yearly rates of 4s. or ss. will be re quired to meet it. If that should be the case, the effect upon the small tradesmen and owners of cot tage property will be crushing in the extreme ; for while, on the one hand, they are unable to obtain their debts and rents from their customers and tenants, they will be compelled to pay the demands of the rate collector. The havoc created by this state of things may be better imagined than de scribed. The attitude of the poor themselves is nowise changed. They are still patient and well conducted, and there is a notable diminution of offences as com pared with the number in good times. Hope that things will mend soon sustains them in the trial. People at a distance who imagine they can get more cheap labour from Preston are under a mistake, and hence the refusals which have been given to applications from, doubtless, well-intentioned ladies and gentlemen for domestic servants and farm workers. The young women, the power-lopm weavers of the cotton districts, are not the class from whom domestic servants are to be drawn. The good wages to which they are used make them " above" such kind of employment, while their train ing and habits totally unfit them for it. The other day Sir John Swinbourne wrote to the guardians for 20 labourers to go into Northumberland and work as drainers, 10 hours in the day at 10s. a week. The guardians laughed outright at the ap plication, and especially at the rate of wages. First of all, the factory operatives are unfit for such work ; and, secondly, used to earning from 20s. to 30s. a-week in the spinning-room, they could not be induced to submit to such a laborious employ ment for such small remuneration. On Friday the cotton factories of Messrs. Bashall, at Farington, a place three miles from Preston (which for three months had been running half-time) stopped en tirely, and, as a consequence, 1,100 operatives are thrown out of work. On Saturday morning 40 of the number applied to the relieving-officer for as sistance; so that the claims upon the union are in creasing, and likely to increase on every hand. The donations in aid of the relief fund, we are glad to say, continue to keep pace with the expenditure. The amount given daring the week is about £530, which includes £250 from the Provisional Relief Committee in London, £lOO from Baron C. J. Ham ' bro, London, and £lO from the operative plasters of Preston—a very creditable act on their part. Baron Hambro expresses " deep sympathy with those who are suffering, and his high admiration of their intelligent and patient conduct." There is also a sum of £4, from Price's Patent Candle Company, near Birkenhead, part of an amount subscribed weekly by all the workers in that establishment, at the rate of ld. for each 10s. received in the shape of wages. This arrangement is intended to operate during the crisis, and the money so contributed is to be equally divided among the various towns suffering the most. The relief committee make the following report for the week :—" The increased intensity of the distress can only be told by those who visit the houses of the poor, and la ho, in the gradual disappearance of articles of furniture from the house of many a hitherto well-to-do working family, as the scanty clothing, and sadly too often in the hunger-pinched features of those upon whom the pressure of the distress rests most heavily, are afforded painful evidence of the still growing privations under which so many of our industrious fellow-townsmen are suffering. Considerable additions have been made to the fund during the week, chiefly by ben:.volent persons at a distance. Owing to the lukewarm manner in which some of the collectors perform the duties they undertook, local subscriptions appear to have almost altogether-fallen off, although there are many persons in the town who have not yet contributed, simply because they have not yet been asked." BLACKBURN. At a meeting of the Blackburn town council on Thursday afternoon, the Mayor, Mr. - R. H. Hutch inson, called attention to the existing distress owing to the cotton famine, and said Baron C. J. Hambro, of London, had forwarded £5OO to Mr. Heugh, of Manchester, for distribution to the operatives suf fering from the insufficiency of cotton, of which sum Mr. Heugh had intimated his intention to send £lOO to the Blackburn Relief Fund. He also acknowledged the receipt of £2O from Messrs. Briggs and Co., of Alexandria, being part of a sum of £lOO sent by that firm for the relief of the dis tressed operatives of Lancashire. During the past month the Relief Fund Commit tee had distributed 55,012 lb. of bread and 54,300 lb. of oatmeal, at a cost, including the loss upon the sale of 16,025 quarts of soup at id. per quart, of £716 lls. 81d. From the returns pre pared for Mr. Farnall he learned that there were 10,000 operatives out of employ in Blackburn. If those people were relieved at a rate similar to that given at Stockport they would have to expend £330 instead of £lBO per week, The amount of relief granted here required to be increased, and something must be done to increase it. Before it could be accomplished a much larger fund would be re quired. The money which they had lately received from other places ought to act as a stimulant to greater exertions at home for the increase of con tributions. There was a very large mass of the population who had been long-residont in the town who were not able to procure the requisites of life, and who, although now much distressed, did not come forward to make applications for relief. Those persons had been living upon their own resources, which were, a l as ! now a lmost exhausted—having dispo se d o f much of the i r property. H e me t a p oor woman who had that d a y got r elief from the com mittee, who h a d so ld near l y every thi ng s h e was pos sessed of, and, when asked why she had not applied earlier for relief, she said there , Were other l because she thought could not get anyptheo'p e a great deal . worse . off and he could learn was not The onlya sufficient o j e e t lon objection. which against receiving subscrip tions from the nati on of the eottok trade was that some wished to be Theindependent—but present aggra vated, and they could not see • a termination of the crisis. They should, however, remember, that in 411, matters of national or imperi a l policy and when condition el itittLw subscriptions were required in aid of the Patriotic Fund, the famine in India, or any other public ap peal, the people of Blackburn had ever been ready to give their contributions, and he did not see that at a time like the present the spirit of inde pendence manifested should be so respected as not to allow the benevolent and the charitable to give them a helping hand in the alleviation of their pre sent distress, and particularly in a difficulty like the present. He was sorry he could not hold out any prospects of any settlement of affairs which would relieve them of having to support the poor opera tives of the town through the coming winter. Government had sent down a commissioner to inquire into the distress, and they had his state ment before them. Respecting the statement made by some persons that they should meet tha emergency by rates, supposing the rate men tioned by Mr. Farnall as being requisite to tide them over the present year were laid, their rates would amount to Bs. Bd. in the pound, including property tax, improvement rates, &c., which had to be paid on property. There was a large number of working, painstaking, industrious men, who had ' saved a little money, and had invested it in the building of a few houses. What, he asked, was the prospect of those men iv regard to the payment of rates amounting to Bs. Bd. in the pound out of their little earnings, or their property? The great chance was that they would have to undergo a great deal of hardship during the crisis, many of their ten ants being unable to pay any rent. (Hear, hear.) He should be glad indeed if his remarks influenced every member of the council to procure subscrip tions in aid of the suffering poor, notwithstanding what had been said about the manufacturers not having given. lie felt that a great deal of money had come from a distance, but it was not too much, even supposing they had a fund in hand of £lO,OOO instead of £2,000. He trusted the fund would be largely increased to meet the emergencies. A sug gestion was then made that the surplus fund of £l,OOO in the hands of the Town-hall News-room Committee, accruing from the management should be paid over to the relief fund, but it was objected by members of the committee that it was the pro perty of the subscribers to the room, and that, in all probability, it would be employed in aiding the erection of a new Exchange, the interest aris ing from the £l,OOO to form a local charity. With the recommendation that the subject should be brought before a meeting of the subscribers, the discussion dropped. STOCKPORT. `s , The condition of Stockport, which is partly in Lancashire and partly in Cheshire, is probably not so bad as Blackburn or Preston, but it stands next to them. It is dependent almost entirely on the cotton trade. There are a few hat manufacturers and other trades not affected very much by the present crisis, but nine-tenths of the inha bitants are connected with cotton. The number of mills in the borough is sixty-nine, which usually employ 17,038 hands, men, women, and children. In good times the weekly wages of these hands would average about half-a-guinea per head, or a total of nearly £9,000 per week. Of the number of hands only 5,068 are this week on full time, and their earnings are much reduced through the poor material which they have to use. The number working short time is 5,770, and those wholly unemployed are now 6,200. Including other trades affected by the condition of the cotton crisis, there are out of employment about 7,000 persons. The loss of weekly wages is estimated at £5,000, though some make it much more. The number of persons in the receipt of parochial pay in the Union is this week 5,406, and in the borough alone about 4,500. The population of the Union, which in cludes Hyde, is 94,360, and that of the borough about 55,000 ; consequently, one person in 171 in the Union is on the parish, and in the borough nearly one in 12 of the population are in receipt of parish pay. In the borough there is a good organisa tion of relief ; 10 district committees and a central committee are in full operation. During the past week they have spent £177 2s 9d in relieving 3,313 cases, including 11,819 individuals. The average income of the recipients is only 9d per week. The relief has been given in bread 2 l.B,ls4lb ; soup, 6,254 ; meat, 2,0951 b ; rice, 5351 b ; and por tions of coal. The total sum spent from the com mencement of operations is nearly £2,500, contri buted chiefly in weekly subscriptions. The donations of the Lord Mayor and others have enabled the committees to enlarge their operations. By these means the people have been preserved from starva tion and disorder. There never was a time when crime was so small in the borough ; when the magi strates and police had so little work. The working classes are unusually quiet and orderly, and show no or accuse Government or theiremployers fault in the matter. By complain, ofan y means of local and distant charity the crisis may be endured if it does not extend beyond the summer; but if it should continue till the next winter the consequences will be serious. INSTALLATION OF THE DUKE OF DEVONSHIRE AS CHANCELLOR OF TILE UNIVERSE( Y OF CAMBRID 9E. CAMBRIDGE, SATURDAY. The proceedings in connection with the installa tion of his grace to the high office to which he has been appointed may be said to have commenced to day, although the note of preparation has been sounding for some time past. The duke, accom panied by his daughter, Lady Louisa Cavendish, arrived at Trinity College at half-past five o'clock, and alighting at the great gates, or principal entrance, proceeded across the court to the lodge, where he was received by the Master of Trinity College (of which his grace is a member), whose guest he will be during his stay in Cambridge. A notification of the Chancellor's arrival was imme diately conveyed to the Vice-Chancellor (the Rev. Dr. Phillips) at Queen's College, and he, with others of the University authorities who were in waiting, immediately set out to wait upon the Chancellor. Arrived at the lodge, the Vice-Chan cellor formally resigned the insignia of his office, and the authorities having paid their respects to his grace, withdrew. The maces were left at the Chan cellor's abode, as is usual when that officer is in residence, as an official sign of his authority. In the evening the Master of Trinity entertained a distinguished party to meet his grace at dinner. Visitors have already arrived here in large num bers, and many more may be expected before the congregation appointed for Monday, in order to confer honorary and other degrees. It has been finally notified that these will be conferred on the following celebrities : _ _ _ Honorary Doctor of Laws.—The Duke of Argyll, the Marquis of Bristol, the Marquis of Hart ington, Lord Lyttelton, Lord Brougham, Lord Stanley, Lord John Manners, Lord Bel per, Sir Edmund W. Head, Bart., Sir H. C. Raw linson, K.C.8., Sir James Emerson Tennent, K.C.G., Sir Hugh M'Calmont Cairns, Sir W. Arm strong, C. 8., M. Chevalier, Mr. Selwyn, Q.C., M.P., The 4itronomer Royal, Professor Faraday, Dr. Acland (RegiusProfessor of Physic, Oxon), Mr. Faisbairn. Doctor of Music—M. Meyerbeer. Most of the above-named have already arrived, and are guests at the various colleges. SUN DAY. His Grace the Chancellor attended Divine service at Great St. Mary's (the University Church) this afternoon. The sermon was preached by the Lord Bishop of Chester, Dr. Graham, formerly Master of Christ's College, in this university. The text, John iv., 38. The church was densely crowded. The Chancellor occupied a seat upon the throne, and was surrounded by the heads of houses and other privi leged persons. The right rev. prelate made some feeling and graceful allusions to the late lamented Prince Chancellor, and some happy ones as to the eminent fitness of his grace to follow so illus trious and venerated a predecessor. --- BENSON'S WATCHES AND CLOCKS..—" Perfection of mechanism."-3lorning Post. Gold watches, sto ICO guineas; silver watches, 2 to 50 guineas. Benson's new Illustrated Pamphl€t, free for two stamps, descriptive of every construc tion of watch, enables persons in any part of the world to select with the greatest certainty the watch est adapted to their use. Watches sent free and safe by post on receipt 01 a remittance. —J. W. Benson, 83 and 34, Ludgate-la, 0 and 17, Ccanhil,,Lond9n, E.C.—Established 1714 VENING, JUNt 9, 1862. THE FLOOD IN THE FENS. LYNN, SUNDAY NIGHT. Though a month has gone past no remedy has yet been provided to avert the sad disaster to the county. Every effort that has been hitherto made to stop the waters from the sea from rushing up the cut has failed. Bridges have been knocked down, sunken barges violently thrown out of the current, and about 60,000 sacks filled with earth thrown in without any benefit. The Dutchman's dam (which was being formed by the use of " cradles," a kind of wicker work clunch, and earth in bags, about 500 tons of the former and 2,000 of the latter being deposited daily) was abandoned just on the eve of success, and a cofferdam was commenced about a fortnight to-day. This cofferdam, constructed on a new principle of Mr. Hawkshaw's, C.E., is to all appearance very strong, and when completed will probably be cap able of resisting almost any force ; but we cannot hold out any prospect of its completion for at least another fortnight. Some few of the panels have been dropped into their places between the piling, but they have not been driven more than 41 feet into the earth. This is hardly a sufficient depth to prevent so strong a current from scouring beneath them, and so it is intended to make an effort to drive them still deeper. When they are all put into their places it is intended to strengthen them by driving some sheet-piling in front. To-day at suitable intervals of the tide the divers were down filling up the bottom of the dam with sacks of earth, which were being laid with considerable care to prevent the water from soaking through. At length a resident engineer has been appointed, in the person ,of Mr. Lynn, C.E., under whose direction the extensive works in Wis. bech Fort were carried out several years ago. Five or six hundred men are at work, some making the famous coffer dam, others preparing the materials, in carpentering and blacksmiths' work, others fencing the sides of the cut, where extensive slips have been and are being made. On Saturday the engineer to the Magdalen Fen Commissioners (Mr. A. Saunders) called the atten tion of the Middle Level Commissioners to the fact that another hole had been scoured about seven feet through the cutting of the east bank, opposite the first breach that was made in the western bank. Mr. Lynn, C.E., at once proceeded to the spot in dicated with Mr. Saunders, and promised that im mediate steps should be taken to stop the scour and fill up the hole. The whole of the east bank for several miles is still in a very inse cure state from the want of puddling, as all above the level of the land the bank is com posed of a spongy, turfy soil, and when the tide is up the water is perhaps 15 feet above the level of this fen land, and considerably more in some parts. It is gratifying to find that for the present all fear as to the hole opposite the breach, still open, has been removed, immense quantities of cliff stone and thousands of sacks, filled with earth, having been put in. Workmen are still engaged in this employment to prevent it again scouring. It is intended to carry off some of the back waters by way of Well Creek so soon as the channel is stopped up by the completion of the dam. Here a number of men are at work clearing out the creek for this purpose. This is about the only remnant that is left of the mode formerly adopted for drain ing the 140,000 acres of Middle Level. The tides began to lift yesterday, and on the 12th they wll probably be at a very great height. The greatest attention will be requisite to preserve the country on the east side of the dam from inunda tion. The Middle Level Commissioners have agreed to meet the various bodies desirous of having the bill now before Parliament amended, for conference thereon, on Thursday next. THE CEMETERY _REVELATIONS AT SHEFFIELD. An inquiry with respect to the proceedings at St. Philip's burial-ground, Wardsend, was com menced.on Saturday. The magistrates present were 11. Vickers, T. Dunn, J. J. Smith, E. Vickers, W. Smith, and It. Bayley, Esqs. In the first cases, that of Gretorex, aged 56, it was shown that the body had been used for surgical dissection, and that it was not usual to read the burial service over dissected bodies. Mrs. Harriet Shearman was sworn, and said—l am the wife of Wm. Shearman, miller, Philadelphia Mill-yard. My little boy Edward Charles died about eight months ago ; he was then two years and ono month month old. He was interred at the St. Philip's ground on the 23d Sept. last. In conse quence of what I heard I went up to the ground on Wednesday a little after noon. I went to a large pit there was in the cemetery, and saw some coffins there. Some of them had the lids off, and in one these I recognised the features of my own child. I got it taken out of the pit, with the coffin, and caused it to be taken home to my own house. When I got it home I examined the coffin, and found it was the same wood. I found a piece of a " bump" sheet which I had placed beneath the head of the child. lam quite sure from the features, and from this sheet, that it was my child. Robert Dixon—l am a labourer in the service of Mr. Oxspring, of Wardsend. I know Isaac Howard, the sexton of this cemetery. I agreed with him to go and live in his house in the graveyard. Shortly after I had gone there I observed a curious smell in the room above the stable. In consequence of the strong smell I spoke to the sexton, but ho " passed it off." I went and tried the stable door and found it was locked. I then went upstairs and thrust some three knots out of the deal boards, and looked down into the stable. We had then been there two or three weeks. I saw about 20 coffins—some of persons about 15 and 16 and 10 years old—others were those of still-born children. None of them ap peared to be the coffins of grown-up persons. I lifted up the lid of one coffin, in the shed, about six weeks ago. The night following the body had been removed from the coffin, but the coffin remained in the shed. I lifted the lid with my toe, and saw the face of the body. It looked very fresh, as though it had been buried a week or two. It looked like the face of a body about 15 years of age. The witness then spoke to seeing something done to the corpse of the child, as if a limb was being cut off with a knife. I could not be sure that he was cutting the limb off the child, but he was doing something with a knife. I mace found the stable door unlocked, about three weeks ago, and saw about 20 coffins and 24 coffin plate 3. I took the plates away, and gave them to Mr. Oxspring. They are the same he has given to the chief constable. I had pre viously told Mr. Oxspring, and was acting under his advise in what I did. BetVah Dixon, wife of the last witness—We went to live at the house in the graveyard on the 24th March. When we first went I noticed a pecular smell in the room over the stable, and it got worse. I spoke to the sexton about the smell, and he said he would remove it—it would go away. The smell made me ill, and I had a miscarriage in consequence. I have seen the porter from the Medical School go up the burial-ground. He came more than once. I first saw him there on the Thursday in the second week we went to live there, which would be on the 3d April. I told the sexton that the man had been to see him; and the man came again on Friday morning, but did not see the sexton. I told the sexton again, and he said he had seen him, but he (the porter) had no money for him, and until he got some money he (Howard) should not let anything else go. I have seen a man named "John," who assisted Howard, remove coffins from graves, and [ut them in the open shed. The sexton afterwards put them into the stable. The men opened the graves and removed the coffins from them. These graves were not distinguished by mounds of earth. Judging from the size of the coffins which " John" and Howard removed, I should say that they were those of children about 10 or 12. About a fortnight ago I saw Howard remove some coffins from the stable into the large pit. He took some in the day time, and towards evening he got the assistance of another man. Mr. J. Barber, surgeon, was examined, and stated the manner in whioh bodies were obtained for the purposeS of dissection at tilt Medical School from the Workhouse. No bodies were obtained except by a legitimate way. The inquiry was then adjourned until Friday next. ALLEGED ILL.TREATMENT AND STAR IATIOX OF A MILD. On Saturday Mr. Humphreys, coroner for the county of Middlesex, opened an inquest at the Royal Standard public-house, on view of the body of Ellen Rose, aged four months, the illegitimate off spring of a housemaid named Rose, in the service of a lady at 44, Oxford-terrace, Paddington, which presented a frightful spectacle of emaciation and disease. The mother, in her examination, deposed that she had bestowed as much consideration and care over the deceased as her circumstances would permit ; but admitted that she had had another illegitimate child besides the deceased, which died last April in its fourth year; that she knew but little or nothing of the fathers of them ; that they had never given her anything towards their support. Mrs. Pugh, 44, Shouldham-street, said, on the 21‘st May, her little daughter, by her directions, took the deceased in to nurse, on the understanding that it was healthy. On her return home in the evening she was horrified to find it in a frightfully emaciated condition, unquestionably from starvation, and covered with sores caused by neglect and dirt, so large that she could not cover some of them with penny pieces. She at once admitted her determi nation not to keep the child in her house, and it was removed to the house of a person named Mar shall, where it died. She believed death was occa sioned by starvation. Harriett Marshall, 8, Croydon-street, deposed that she got her living by selling matches and by relief from the parish. She took charge of the child on the 22d May, in a horrible state from filth and want of proper food, and suffering from cough. She sent for no doctor, but did the best she could with it. The coroner and jury were of opinion that it was a serious and disgraceful ease, and adjourned till next week, to afford time for a post mortem exami nation of the body, and farther evidence respecting 1 the mother. POLICE INTELLIGENCE.---June 7. WORSHIP-STREET.—Meyer Jacobs, a young German Jew, was charged before Mr. Leigh with violently assaulting Jane Moss, a pretty girl, 16 years of age. Mr. Maynard, from Mr. Beard's office, attended in support of the complaint, and from his statement, which was borne out by the injured girl and a wit ness, it appeared that she was in the employ of a tailor in Fort-street, Spitalfields, who had numerous hands engaged at the stitching machines; that on the 20th of May last she was asking some person in the workshop for a coat to finish off, when the defendant, who is foreman there, desired her to go instantly to her machine ; that she told him the occasion of her absence from it, which he appeared to consider unsatisfactory, and repeated his order, adding, "If you do not, I'll throw the mochine at you ;" that she then remarked, " You dare not do so;" upon which he seized her by one arm and twisted it, at the same time striking her five or six blows on the bosom with his fist, the consequence of which was that she fell to the floor, had a fit, and became afterwards a patient at the London Hos pital. A certificate from Mr. Dyte, house-surgeon there, showed that complainant had suffered from contusions in the breasts and arm, but was not in danger therefrom at present. Mr. Vann for the defence observed that although it was quite impossible to justify the foreman's con duct, it was yet unreasonable to suppose that be committed such violence intentionally or without provocation. The fact was, the girl had slapped his face when he desired her to return to the machine, and that act no doubt irritated him to lay his hands upon her. The contusions might have occurred from a subsequent struggle, and to a cer tain extent have been the result of accident. De fendant had been only four years in this country, three of which he had passed in the service of his present masters. Mr, Maynard entirely disproved that the com plainant had assaulted the foreman or been imper tinent, and Mr. Leigh, with strong remarks upon the gross ness of the outrage, inflicted a fine of £lO and all cosis, or, in default, six weeks' imprisonment. Defendant was locked up in default. MARLBOROUGH-STREET.—Michael Zumpf, the Hungarian tailor, charged with stabbing John Rachell, the Polish courier, was brought up on remand. It was now stated by a surgeon that the wound must have been inflicted with a sharp instrument, and he ,had found the point of a stiletto in the dressing applied to the cut. The prisoner denied that he had any knife or other instrument in bis hand when he struck the prosecutor. Committed for trial. MARYLEBONE.—A tall, respectable-looking man, who gave the name of Robert Law, aged 31, cattle-salesman, residing at Elm-villas, Upper Clap ton, was placed in the dock before Mr. Mansfield, charged under the following extraordinary circum stances : William Shorts, butler to Mr. Samuel Gregson, of 32 Upper Harley-street, said—A little after two o'clock this morning I heard a noise in the kitchen, and went to see what it was, and found a man there. I locked him in the room while I went to ring the alarm bell. Whilst I was doing this he broke open the door and came into the passage. I attacked him and struck him a blow on the face with niy fist. He returned the blow and followed me into the pantry, and as we got in there I seized the poker and struck him over the head with it several times. He grappled with me, and got me down, and said he would cut my throat if I did net allow him to carry away the property. At this time two female servants, who had heard the alarm, came down, and seeing me struggling with the prisoner, went to the street door, and called " Police !" and " Murder !" The man still struggled with me, and after throwing me he rushed out at the door. I was so smothered in blood that I could not identify the man, but the prisoner is very much like him. Cross-examined—The man seemed quite sober, and fought very hard. When I struck him the blood flew out from his nose. When I struck him with the poker we were both in the dark. The house was entered from the skylight about 20 feet high, from which they had taken the top off. It is over the kitchen. I cannot say how the man was dressed. I will not swear that the prisoner is the man I attacked. Mr. Mansfield—Will you swear that the prisoner is not the man? Witness—l will not swear that he is not the man. Fanny Hussey, cook in the same service, said—l heard the alarm, and on going sown the kitchen stairs saw a man struggling with the butler. Shorts said, in the midst of the struggle, that there were thieves in the house, and the man whom he was contesting with said, " I am not a thief ; he has insulted me, and will not let me go." I ran to the street door and called " Police," and, whilst doing so, the man ran out of the door and through the gates into the Marylebone-road. The prisoner is very much like the man, and when the police brought him to the house the bruises on his face appeared quite fresh and bleeding. The contents of the cupboard had been turned over. Cross-examined—l had the candle in my hand when I came down after the alarm. Elizabeth Edmonds, housemaid, said—l went down with a candle in my hand, and saw a strug gling in the passage. The butler's face and shirt were covered with blood. I asked him what was the matter, and he said there were thieves. I ran to the door and called " Police." The man ran out at the time. Felix Sims, 349 D—A little after two o'clock this morning I heard " Murder" called. I ran as far as Cleveland-street, and saw the prisoner, and asked him where he had come from; in reply to which he said from Portland-place. His face was to bleeding, and I told him he must come with Harley-street. When we got there, the mornei cook saw him she said, " That is the man." was t sergeant asked the butler if he (priso ne r) was. man, when he said he was positive h e moment The me to Cross-examined—Prisoner was drunk, but not y drunk. Mr. Mansfield (to butler)-- Did you inflict many blows upon the man P Mr. Lewis addressed his g e h s i i ta tti u ng p The butler—Several, ansdwoanreshwipasfea;:hcelipnrcihseere.e"r and called Lane, 216 D, who siwooyaelepaoksitthivaetlymetornhinaving seen the prisoner ab ou t He then had move on. fl . asleep in a stateofintoxication. He wok made him thebruises on his face, and blood was owing from them. (The bruises appea red fresh done as though from a person falling ' down in a stave of intoxication, and the f ace com ing i n c ontact with gravel.) Mr. Mansfield discharged the priso ner , and said that whatever expense or inconvenience he might have been put to he had brought it upon himself through his drunkenness. It may be stated that on the police-sergeant look ing over the house, he found several housebreaking implements, including j =my ; And chisel. the skylight hook and line, THE LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET. (From the Liverpool Albion of 'Saturday.) The sales of cotton for the week, as made up on Thursday evening, amount to 72,323 bales, of which speculators have taken 14,290, exporters 12,060, and spinners 45,970 bales. These large transactions, in which it will be perceived the trade have very actively participated, have resulted in an advance of id per lb in American descriptions, /d in Surat, and id to din Egyptian and Brazil. The sales of Surat cotton alone are 47,780 bales, the business in which has not been confined to the stock in Liverpool, but has extended to that at sea, a considerable quantity having been purchased to arrive. As the season wears on, opinion strengthens as to the improbability of obtaining any weight of supply from Ame rica for some time, even should the issue of the impending conflicts at Corinth and Richmond be of the most favour able character to the arms of the North, for it is felt that the strife will not end there, and that it will require the forces of the South to be utterly crushed before cotton is released by the successes of the Federals ; and, in the event of such a contingency, there is little doubt that the greater part of the crop of last year will be given to the flames. While, on the other hand, should the South bo successful in the coming battles, they will not open a road for her com merce, as the blockade of her ports will, in all probability, be closer than ever, the North haviag entire command of the sea. India, as we pointed out a week or two since, so far from assisting us to meet this American deficiency, falls fat short of last year's exports, and the accounts to-day give no hope of this want being made up later in the season. Nor:is this to be wondered at, for last year we not only had the crop . of that season, but the accumulations of those . , preceding it; from this latter cause it is that our exports from Bombay show such a decrease as compared with 1861. The letters from Bombay of the 12th of May, received this morning, give the export of cotton to Liverpool since the departure of the previous mail (27th of April) as 53,000 bales against 56,000 bales in the corresponding period of last year. The total at sea therefore this evening from Bombay is 225,000 bales against 286,000 bales in IS6I. The Beechworth was wrecked on leaving Bombay harbour, but 1,000 bales of cotton and wool had been landed from her up to the 24th of May, and they continued working at her day and night with a view to saying as much of the remainder as possible. In regard to the Bombay market, both for imports and exports, we have now the full particulars of which we had last week a synopsis by telegram. In regard to goods, im proved prices, say 1 to 2 annas per piece, had been obtained in the face of only a moderate demand. Yarns were in more request, especially water twist, at an advance of of an anna per lb : Nos. Price—Mule Yarns. Price—Water Twist. 20's per lb Sid .. 91d to nd 30's —101 d llid llid 40's .. -12 d The improved accounts from this side, and the settlement of the differences in America between the North and South being again considered remote, prices of cotton had further advanced. A day or two before the mail left, the cotton which had been detained above by the southerly winds com menced to arrive, and by the 12th of May 800 craft had left Bombay with about 20,000 candies on board, equal to about 35,000 bales, which would be exceedingly opportune for completing orders. The delay in the arrival of these boats and the early change in the monsoon would not allow them to complete another voyage to the north and back, and Bombay would thus be deprived of 80,000 to 100,000 bales till the change of the monsoon to the northward in Sept, The advance in prices had brought them in Bombay pretty much on a par with those now ruling..in Liverpool, as here shown : Description of Price per candy . Price per Ib, Cotton, in rupees. including freight. Broach 245 to 250 .... 9d Dhollua Oonuawuttu .. > 215 235 .... 82d Compta 222 .... 8d Saugiuned Darwhar 290 .... 101 d The succeeding mail from Bombay, of the 26th of May, reached Jubal yesterday, and telegrams of that date were received here this forenoon, which report that freights had receded to 45s and cotton had advanced, our report says, 8r since the 12th May ; but another, giving prices of Broach and Dhollua, shows that the former had declined 2r and the latter had advanced 3r. The decline in freight, how ever, would place shippers in a better position. A further improvement had taken place in imports. Goods had ad vanced in price from la to ,ca per piece, with-large sales, and twist had improved la per pound. Exchange 2s *I per rupee. Yesterday 7,000 bales were soli in Liverpool, and to-day 6,000, speculators and exporters doing half the business. The market continues very strong, and large operations, in addition to the above, are going on for cotton to arrive. The following are the comparative prices of the three descriptions of American fair and middling cotton, as quoted yesterday, and at the corresponding period of last year, with the imports and estimated stocks of all descrip tions : 1862 1861. Fair. Middling. Fair. Middling. New Orleans .. 141 d 124 d .... 82d 7 15-16 d per lb Mobile Uplands .. l3ld 121 d .... Bid 7 11-16 d „ Stocks at commencement 622,600 .. 545,679 bales. of each year Imported since Jan. 1 Stocks, June 6 : American Surat Brazil Egyptian 63,130 West Indian, &c .... 2,570 Other descriptions .... 1,540 — „ Totals 324,690 1,148,560 bales At sea from America From India . . 172,000 Total COUN 7 .R 1 1114 BEL 2 05. .. ...p. LEICESTER-SATuRDAy. The supply of wheat to-day at market was scarcely an average for the season, but some good samples came to hand. Farmers obtained the prices of last week. Wheat sold as follows :—White, 56s to 608; red, 50s to 56s ; old red, —s to —s per 36 stone. Barley was in limited de mand—grinding, 30s to 325; malting, 38s to 41s per qr. ; oats, 26s to ',Os per 24 stone. Beans were a quiet sale— new, 40s to 43s ; old, 43s to 45s per 38 stone. Fine flour, 42s I Seconds, 39s J Thirds, 378 per sack. NORWICH-SATURDAY. There was a thin attendance of farmers at market to-day, with a rather short supply of wheat. Last week's prices advanced Is per qr. Little or nothing doing in all other descriptions of grain. Flour unaltered. White wheat. 56s to 59i I Red wheat 53s to 55s Malting barley....4os to 41s I Chevalier barley 37s to 40s New do.. .... •—sto —s Oats. 25s to 30s Flour, 38s Od to —s Od per sack from the miller. NORTHAMPTON-SATURDAY. Since last week the condition of the growing wheat plant has made considerable progress in this neighbourhood. To day buyers purchased cautiously, and wheat was scarce. —Best wheat, old, 60s to —s, and common, 52s to 50s. A slow demand for barley—malting sorts, 38s to —s, and grinding 32s to 36s per qr. Oats quoted at 22s to 28s per 24 stone. Beans, old, 40s to 445; peas, 36s to 445. YORK- SATURDAY. We had a thin supply of wheat on offer to-day, and the demand ruled inactive ; late prices underwent little alteration. Barley and oats dull. Beans in moderate de mand, and scarce. Wheat, red 56s to 60s Oats.... 22s to 25s White do .60s to 64s Beans 4W to 43s Barley .30s to 32s Peas ....—s to —s Malt, 64s to 6Gs per qr. ; rye, 32s per qr. ; flour, 42s to 45s per sack. . NOTTINGHAM-SATURDAY. The show of wheat to-day was again very scanty, and the condition varied. A steady inquiry, at former prices. —White wheat to-day, from 58s to 61s; red, 50s to 58s. Barley—malting, 37s to 425; grinding, 29s to 31s. Oats slow, at 30s to 3.55, old ; 23s to 27s new. Beans were sold at 44s to 59s per qr. Flour, 42s to 48s. 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Mrs. Parnell, of a daughter. 6 s t e ll ot i t n , s o t t ., t a w t h l l sT d or a f u o g lk ht H er o s u . se, London, Lady S S c oa cr F : s n E: a . ll --- lito o hp n ee the 4th inst., at Southsea Hants, the wife of Colonel Ed ward Somerset, C. 8., of a 'daughter. surgeon, MARRIAGES. DERING—HA ZEL. —O n th e s t h i ns t ., a t S a i n t P ancras Church, Ch ar l es D er i ng , E sq ., o f H.M.' s C us t om s, to Helen M ary, t h e e ld est d aug h ter o f G eorge Hazel, sq., London. LEECII—TURNER.—On the 4th inst., at Christ Church, Surrey, Thomas Leech, Esq., of London, to Harriette Thorpe, youngest daughter of William Turner, Esq., of Gravesend, Kent. DEATHS. Conn.—On the 6th inst., at Hastings, the Rev. W. F. Cobb, rector of Nettlestead, Kent, aged 66. GnAY.—On the 7th inst., at Brighton, Donald Gray, Esq., of 91, Great Tower-street, and Albion-road, Stoke New ington. HANcocx.—On the sth inst., at Croydon, Surrey, Edwd. Hancock, Esq., aged 67. LUCAS.—On the 6th inst., at 11, Westboutne• terrace, Hyde park, Lionel Lucas, Esq., aged 40. MARSIL—On the 6th inst., the Rev. Wm. Marsh, M.A., Blackheath, aged 57. WARWICK.—On the 6th inst., at his residence, Wydding ton House, Pittyille, Cheltenham, Richard Warwick, Esq., aged 74. LONDON : Printed and Published by JOHN CIIAPLIN, of N 0.112, Strand, Printer, at THE SUN Office, N 0.112, Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the County of Illialleseze—Monday, Juin 9,,1862.