The Sun.
London, England, 1855-04-06 00:00:00

DEPARTURE OF DR. KENT-GRAND
MASONIC DEMONSTRATION.

The subject of the following memoir is the son of
Mr. Kent, of Ridley-hall, near this city, and brother-
in-law of Dr. Emerton, of Hanwell College Middlesex.
(Front the Adelaide Observer, Dec. 20.)
"And you, farewell, whose merits claim
Justly that highest badge to wear."—BuuNs.
Saturday having been fixed on for Dr. Kent to go on
board the Antelope steamer, an invitation appeared in
the papers, addressed to all Frse and Accepted Masons,
to join in a farewell demonstration to their provincial
Grand Master on the occasion of his departure for the
mother country. Shortly after 2 o'clock a considerable
number of the officers and brothers of the various lodges
assembled at the Masonic-ball, North-terrace. When
the room was nearly full, a deputation proceeded for Dr.
Kent in a chariot drawn by eight'horses, all iron greys,
most spirited animals, and beautifully matched. This
imposing turn-out, with its postilions in scarlet and
gold, and other brilliant appointments, attracted gene-
ral notice. On the arrival of Dr. Kent at the Masonic
Hall, the Grand Lodge was opened in due form by the
Deputy Provincial Grand Master, Brother Lazar, and
the di4pensation appointing him to act during the ab-
sence of the P. G. M. was no, t by the Prov. Grand
Sec , Brother Dr. Moore. The Prov. Grand Master,
Dr. Kent, then presented the patent of authority (granted
to him by the Earl of Zetland, Grand Master of Eng-
land) to Brother Lazar, who in a short but appropriate
address acknowledged the honour that had been con-
ferred upon him. The Prov. Grand Master then took
leave of the Grind Lodge in an affecting speech, and the
Leckie was closed according to ancient usage.
While those proceedings engaged attention within the
lodes, numerous vehicles arrived with brothers anxious
to join the procession. Tnis concourse, together with
the strains of a brass band, attracted a considerahle crowd
outside of the Masonic Hall, and several ladies secured
seats under the ornate verandah which shades the front
of the building. When the door of the lodge-room was
thrown open and Dr. Kent appeared, escorted by the
principal officers in the regalia, several persons pressed
forward, anxious to grasp the hand, to breathe a parting
word, or catch a nod of recognition from one who seemed
to have enjoyed the rare good fortune of living many
years among them with universal respect, and whose de-
parture was looked upon by all with regret. As the
worthy P. G. Master proceeded to his seat in the chariot,
he was saluted with masonic honours by the Craft.
When they subsided he arose, and taking off his bat, he
bade farewell to all his friends present who were not
Freemasons. This courteous act elicited a round eif
cheers in reply. The procession started along North-ter-
race in an easterly direction until it reached King Wil-
liam street, when it turned into Hindley-street. At the
top of Hindley-street the cavalcade paused for a few
moments, where the ;eat arrangement of the procession
was effected, and it proceeded rapidly to the Port, being
loudly cheered at various points throughout the journey.
When the cortege arrived at the Port, the harbour pre-
eented a most animated appearance. Nearly all the ves-
sels were decorated with flags, and several displayed
the "hieroglyphics bright," which none but craftsmen
understand, and as the leading carriages of the proces-
sion drew up in front of the Britannia hotel, some of the
ships fired a salute. A double line was formed by
brothers from the carriages to the entrance of the hotel,
and the Prov. Grand Master Kent was met on alight-
ing by Brother Leon, the W.M. of tile Lodge of Unity,
with several of 'his officers, who escorted him to the
lodge-room, where the ceremony of leave-taking was the
most impressive. The procession again formed and pro-
ceeded to the steam-tug which was hoarded by all the
Brethren, who seemed determined not to part from their
respected President until the last moment. On the sig-
nal to start being given, the air was rent with cheerings
from the shore, and the deep booming of guns from the
saluting battery below the Company's Bridge. On
boarding the Antelope, the party proceeded to the sa-
loon, which presented a most imposing appearance, as
nearly two hundred Masons, in their rich regalia occu-
pied it. D.P.G.M. Lazar proposed the farewell toast in
a brief but impressive spee .h ; it was received with an
unmistakeable manifestation of sincerity, and was re-
sponded to by P.G.M. Kent, who was deeply affected, in
an eloquent reply. He acknowledged for himself and his
family the great honour conferred upon him by the craft
in that public demonstration ; he referred regretfully to
the suspension of the intercourse that had evoked such
kindly feelings, and declared that
" Strong memory on his heart shall write
Those happy scenes when far awa'."
Ile then bade " a heart-warm fond adieu" to every
brother present, and they, wishing him all prosperity,
-ook their leave. On their landing, the cavalcade re
formed and returned to town, where it arrived safely
about ten o'clock.

THE EARL OF ANTRIM—We are glad to learn that
the Earl of Antrim, who lately sustained a severe acci-
dent, is progressing rapidly and favourably to con-
valescence.

A meeting of the shareholders of the Demerara Rail-
way will be held on the 20th.
The half-yearly dividend on the shares of the Bank of
Australasia, together with a bonus of 563. per share,
will he paid on and after the 17th inst.

The specie brotio:ht yesterday by the West India
-teamer amounted to the unprecedented total of 560,0001.,
chi€-fly in silver. A. considerable portion of this arrival
will most probably be sent. to Hamhimz and Amsterlam,
where it will tend to maintain the satisfa-Itery state of the
exchanges.
HOLIDAYS AT THE LAW AND E OFFlCES.—Yes-
tetchy ne several ortices of the Common Law Courts
were clos, d until Wednesday for the E aster recess. The
offices •f the Equity Com is will not re-open before
Thursday.
THE WEST INDIA MAIL.—THE TAY.—Tnis vessel
'eft Southampton yesterday afternoon at one o'clock
with the West India mail, her machinery having been
put in order.

THE EAST INDIA AND CHINA MAlL.—Southampton,
Thur-day.---The steam-ship Euxine, of the Peninsular
and Oriental Company, Captain John Weeks, arrived
with the heavy portion of the above mail this day at, two
o'clock p.m. Her dates of sailing were :—Alexandria,
March 23 ; Malta, 27 ; Gibraltar, 31. The pa-sengPrs
by the Euxine numbered 123 ; and on freight, 29 boxes
of gold dust, the value of which was not stated in the
.hip's manifest ; 6 cases of opium, 120 bales of silk,
130 cases of shawls, 18 cases of gum, 10 cases of silk,
31 case; of date', several cases of Malta stone-work, 179
packages of general merchandise, and 36 packages of
bag,gage. -
THE OUTWARD MAILS.—G ERALT AR, March 27.—
Yesterday the weather still continued very tempestuous,
the wind blowin; strox“, with a heavy swell on the sea.
The commander of the Indus, steam packet, which ar-
rived about ten o'clock, with the mails from Southamp-
ton, not deeming her anchorage in the bay to be cafe,
crossed over to Algeciras roadstead shortly after land-
ing the 'nada destined for this place, and there rode out
the storm in perfect safety. The weather having mode-
rated during the night, the Indus came over shortly after
o clock this morning, and began to coal, preparatory
to proceeding on her voyage to Malta and Alexandria.
She left at one p.m.

ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS.—The following gen-
tlemen having undergone the necessary examinations for
he diploma were admitted members of the college at
the meeting of the Court of Examiners on the 4th inst.:
—Messrs. 'William Greave Johnson, Clapham ; Charles
James Devonshire, Hampton Court ; Freeman James
Eaton, Army ; James Faweus, North Shields ; William
Henry Salter, West Bromwich, near Birmingham ; W.
El. C mk, Wordsley, near Stourbridge, Worcestershire ;
Charles Browne, North-terrace, Camberwell ; Andrew
K. Rickards, Army ; Ja.mes Walter Cavanagh, Army ;
Robert Henry Si.wyer, Guildford-street, Russell-square;
William Pylle Hugoe, Truro, Cornwall ; John Storey,
North Shields ; Charles Rice Williams, Birmingham ;
Joseph Evans Smith, Kensington ; Neil B. Baillie,
Montague-place, Poplar.
UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, LONDON.—The cotncl, at
their session on Satarday last, appointed to the Pro-
fessorship of Arabic in the college, Dr. William Wright,
of Edinburgh, editor of the "Travels of Ibn-Jubair," in
Arabic. Applications for the Profes orship of Hindos-
tani were reserved far further consideration. Leave of
absence for a year was granted to Professor Parkes,
M.D., nom:mated as superintendent of a civil hospital
about to be established near Constantinople by the Go.
vernment. Offers were received from the Baron de
Goldsmi of prizes of 251. for the session of 1856 for
ach of the four following ci:stes—Geology, Hebrew,
Civil Engineering, and Analytical Chemistry ' • and of
the sum of 3001. for the hospital, conditional on the
dinner collection, then amounting to 1,4001., being raised
to 1,7001. by other contributions.
CREMORNE.—These gardens will be opened to the
public this day (Good Friday) for promenade, and on
Monday for amusements. Although the severe winter
has made sad havoc among the shrubs and ornamental
trees, with which these grounds abound, we understand
that increased energy and strength will have repaired
the injury done, and that in natural and artistic beauties
this popular resort will put forward increased claims to
public patronage. In the hotel department many im-
provements have been made, and the coffee, dining, and
refreshment rooms have been completely redecorated.
THE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON.—At the
monthly general meeting, held yesterday at the Society's
House in Hanover-square, Robert Hudson, Esq.,
F.R.S., in the chair, Lord Saltoun, Sir Richard Sutton,
Bart., Hon. Frederick Byron, and Messrs. J. G. Cole
and E. Browne, were elected Fellows of the Society;
and the Hon. E. S. Russell, Mrs. Baker, Miss Fearn,
and Messrs. C. Beevor, E. A. Darwin, and C. Sullivan
were proposed as candidates for the fellowship. The
report of the council announced several births in the
menagerie, including another eland (boseLyltus orcas).
This is the sixth fawn which has been produced since
the herd bequeathed by the late Earl of Derby arrived
in the gardens at the end of 1851. The rapidity with
which these noble antelopes increase, their capability of
enduring the E: glirl climate, and the large size which
they will attain in this country are now sufficiently
proved, and the only conditions required for their com-
plete acclimatisation in Europe are time and suitable

DISASTROUSACCIDENT—DUBLINt Thursday E vening.
Accounts have reached Dublin of a melancholy acci-
dent, resulting in the loss of four lives, which occurred
yesterday morning on Lough Gonna, between the coun-
ties of Cavan and Longford. A boat, in which was a
party of eight gentlemen, was by some mismanagement
upset, and four of their number drowned. Their names
are—Mr. John Dopping, stipendiary magistrate for the
county of Cavan ; Lieut. Levin, of the revenue pclice ;
and Messrs. Fox and White, both in the Longford
Militia ; the former is the son of the county member,.
the latter the son of Colonel White, Lieutenant of the
county of Longford. The remainder of the party were
with some difficulty rescued irons the fate of their com-
panions,

LATEST NEWS.

CONSTANTINOPLE, MARCH 26.

Ali Pasha leaves on the 29th, via Trieste. He
will be at Vienna on the 6th or 7th of April.

For the last few days we have had very fine
weather. The wind is still in the south. Our
men-of-war and transports coming from the Medi-
terranean arrive rapidly, and continue their jour-
ney to the Crimea.

The French having agreed with the Ottoman

Government to construct in two years a barrack

capable of receiving 20,000 men, have had a
building belonging to the University ceded to
them for seven years.

The health of the troops in Anatolia has im-
proved since a favourable change has taken place

in the weather.

Letters from Athens of the 30thult. state that
a band of brigands had attacked a convoy carry-
ing money belonging to the State, and took pm:-
session of the treasure. Two vessels, with some

allied troops on board, have been despatched in

order to repress these outrages.

THE SIEGE OF SEBASTOPOL.
CAMP BEFORE SEBASTOPOL,
FRIDAY AFTERNOON, MARCH 23.

The enemy have' either become desperate or
have been inspirited and- encouraged by their re-
pent encounters with the French on our right.
Their guns are nearly silent day and night, but
they have not been retired. Every embrasure is
armed ; , the muzzle of the gun is -visible under the
screen of cloth which is hung across from gabion to
gabion. Their sorties are made night after night,
in greater force and with more confidence on each
occasion. Last night, indeed, they received "a Ee-
vere check, but it was not until they had got up to
our second parallel on the left, or 'Green-hill at-
tack, had got into our mortar battery on the right
attack, and had inflicted a severe loss en our allies
on the right towards Inkerman. Iu the affair of
last night, the particulars of which will be found
below, we had seven officers killed, wounded, and
;taken prisoners, and about 100 men put hors de
combat or carried into Sebastopol. The French, it
is believed, loSt between 300 and 400 men and 15
officers killed, wounded, and missing. On the
other hand, the enemy muet have suffered a loss
of 600 or 700 men, although they succeeded in con-
cealing the severity of their loss by carrying off
their dead and wounded as usual. Still, the num-
ber of dead bodies lying along the front of our
trenches proves that they received a heavy loss.
The bodies of 12 men and of one officer remain in
the trenches of our left attack. The bill sides
below the Round Tower and the Mamelon are
covered with their dead, mingled with the bodies
of the French. The corpse of a Z9uave officer is
distinguishable on the slope, close up to the abattis
of the Round Tower, where the gallant soldier fell
as he led on his men in pursuit of the Russians. No
flag of truce has been sent iu from either side to
demand permission to bury the dead. They are lying
about among the gabions which have been knocked
down in front of the French sap towards the rifle
pits in great numbers. Looking at any of the in-
accurate maps which have been published of the
position, there will still be, nevertheless, two
mounds indicated to the east of the Round Tower.
The first of these is " The Mamelon." On the
second the Russians have erected a work on the
spot from which the French were repulsed in their
attempt to dislodge the enemy. The rifle pits
which have been so hardly contested are in front
of the Mamelon. Three of them are still occupied
by the Russians, and three of them now belong to
the French ; but the latter were obliged to aban-
don them for a time last night during the first
rush of the enemy. The enemy have already opened
guns from the Mamelon, which they direct against
the French approaches towards the pits, and we
may expect that the work east of it will soon be
armed also. Its fire will enfilade a portion of our
lines, and the Mamelon will be able to direct from
one flank an awkward fire on the flank of our right
attack. The Rassian'engineers have displayed con-
summate ability in their works, and it is well for us
their artillerymen are not as expert as those who
place them in the batteries. Conscious of the
strength they have gained by the possession
of those 'positions, and of the advantages they
have secured in defending the town, the Rus-
sians appear determined to make the most of
their new attack. The Mamelon is exposed to
the fire of the guns in the right of our right at-
tack and to the fire of the second French redoubt
over Inkerman, and every two or three minutes a
shot or shell is thrown into the work, but the
enemy maintain their ground; though the desert-
ers inform us that they lose 100 men every 24
hours within the parapets of Mamelon. The prac-
tice of our artillerymen is splendid. Scarcely a
shot fails in striking the top of the parapet just at
the right place, and a black pillar of loose earth
shoots up into the air from the work after every
discharge from oui guns ; but the Russians hold
it still, and they are determined to keep their hold
as long as they can. The defence of the place is
conducted on a new principle, and we shall be se-
verely tried, with our present numbers, in doing
the work cut out for us. •

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 21 (after post-day).

Sir John. Burgoyne-left the camp to-day and pro-
ceeded to Kamiesh, where he took a passage by
the mail steanler, on his way to England.
The following tribute to Sir John Ourgoyne from
the Conimander-in-C.hief appears in orders to-
night :
" GENERAL AFTER ORDER. •

"Head-Quarters before Sebastopol, March '2l.
" Lieutenant-General Sir John Burgoyne, G.C.8.,
having been recalled to England for the purpose of re-
suming tbo duties of the important situation of Inspector-
General of the Fortiiicat'ons, the Commander of the Fel cas
cannot allow him to leave this army without bearing tes-
timony to the eminent services he has rendered, Lord
Raglan begs the Lieutenant-General to accept his warmest
acknowledgments, and takes this opportunity of assuring
him that his exertions are uniiersally appreciated, and
that be is received by all with the highest respect and
regard.

" By order.
"J. SIMPSON, Chief of the Staff."
It will he observed that the orders are now
signed by General Simpson, and that the name of
the Adjutant-General, Estcourt, is no longer ap-
pended to them. It is the Chief of the Staff who
waits on Lord Raglan each day to ascertain' his
wishes and to receive orders, and lie communicates
those orders to the Quartermaster and Adjutant-
General, and sees that they are duly executed.
General Simpson is very active for his years, and
walks as well as most men. He has been on foot
in all directions about the camp. Major-General
Jones possesses activity and energy, and it is
trusted that these two appointments will contribute
to the improvement of the social and internal
economy of the army, and to the accomplishment
of the objects of this expedition. As yet the lines
of our batteries remain very nearly identical with
those from which we opened fire on the 17th of
October.

The news of Prince Menschikoff's death is geue-
rally believed. It will be strange if it is true, for
the hand of Heaven will then have removed at
the very crisis of this bloody struggle the two men
from whose evil passions and ambition it originated.
The Russians consider this war as Prince Menschi-
koff's doing. He mainly created the defences of
Sebastopol, and never ceased his exertions to make
it what it is from the time he became Governor of
the Crimea till he was removed from the conduct
of the defence.

THURSDAY, MARCH 22.

The contest for the rifle-pits terminatede
forin the
this
forts morning, amid a blaze of fire from h
pale light of dawn, in favour of thet French, who
now occupy three of the pits, and direct a sharp
fusillade against the Mamelon. Round Tower. from
the sandbags. The Russian riflemen arein
The
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in of
the pits still ; two seem to be unoccupied.
enemy have also placed riflemen the ame on
and the now work on the right, and a gun from
Gordon's trenches and one from the French redoubt
on the right are constantly engaged in firing round
shot and she'll into the former place throughout
the day to reduce the fire and impede the men in
their works. Our two service mortars fire seldom,
but surely; their range is very great. One shell
yesterday evening went far over and beyond the
Round Tower and burst among the buildings in the
rear of it. Another burst through the roof of one
of the public buildings, and it instantly collapsed
into a cloud of dust and. rubbish. There are all kinds
of absurd stories afloat to-day; with which you pro-
bably have met in some phase or other ore this
through the electric telegraph, to the effect that
there has been a mutiny in Sebastopol, that a Rus-
sian general marching his troops down to the city has
been assassinated by them, and that Prince Gort-
schakoff has informed the army in the Crimea that
he is to be supported by an Austrian corps to drive
the allies out of the country, We hear that Gene-