The Sun.
London, England, 1855-09-07 00:00:00

Co IVES, ISLE OF WIG TlT.—Sept. 6.

(iMO.II OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)

ROYAL YACHT SQUADRON INTELLTGENCE.-Arri va's—
Sept. 2. Sibyl, schooner, Francis Rufford, Esq., from
West of Scotland, came into harbour to lay up. 3.
Minx, yawl, Lord Londesborougb, Belfast ; Eugenie,
schooner, John Wardlaw, Esq., Eastward, and pro-
ceeded West ; Zoe, schooner, H. M. Hammersley, Esq.,
West of Scotland. 5. Beatrix, schooner, Sir W. P.
Carew, Bart., Plymouth and other ports. Sailingc—
Sept. I. lone, schooner, Sir H. Oglander, Bart., f,r
Cowes Harbour, to lay itp. 5. Gloriana, schooner, J.
Gee, Esq., Hamblo River, to lay up ' • Frisk, cutter, G.
Arkwright, Esq., Portsmouth. 6. Stella, cutter, R.
Fraakland, Esq., Cork. Yachts at and about the
Station—Capricorn, Cecile, Irene, Zoe, Enchantress,
Alarm, Wizard, Nymph, Brilliant, Aurora, Minx,
Plover, Gem, Beatrix.

Lieutenant-General Sir R. Gardiner, late Governor of
Gibraltar, has arrived in England.

THE WILTSHIRE ARCLIEOLOGICAL SOCIETY. —This as-
sociation will hold its annual meeting at Chippenham,
on September 11th, 12th, and 13th, under the presi-
dency of George Poulett Scrope, Esq., M.P.
A VESSEL ON SOHRE.-.- SKAGEN, August 29.—Tlie
Jacob Prentiss, Kelly, from Memel to Bristol, with
timber and hemp, was stranded on the Scaw reef this
morning, and is very leaky. Endeavours are being made
to get her off.
H.M.S. NERBUDDA.—Some uneasiness has been occa-
sioned by the protracted absence of her Majesty's steamer
Nerbudda, which left Algoa Bay on the 10th instant
for Simon's Bay, and has not yet been heird of. The
Hydra and Frolic were both sent to sea on Thursday
to look out for her.—Cape Town Mail.
COLLIERS' STRIKE.—The colliers are still out on strike
in Wishaw and Dalzell—Coatbridge and Airdrie also
sympathise. The aim is is. a•day advance. Meetings
and processions with music are taking place daily.—
No;•th British Daily Mail.
KEYHA.3I STEAM-YARD.----An immense block of granite
weighing 121 tons, forming the centre-piece over the
gateway of the principal entrance to the yard, was put
in place on Monday week. It is a beautiful specimen of
granite, and was brought from the quarry of Messrs.
Greenwood and Co., Gunnis Lake.
PENT: OF BREAD IN EDlNBURGH.—According to the
price of wheat and flour in the Edinburgh market, the
four pound loaf will be sold at 90. and 10d. ready
money, according to quality ; and 101 d. credit.—North
British Daily Mail.
REDUCTION IN PRICE OF MALT WHISKY.—The act
of last session permitting the use of malt duty-free in
the distillation of spirits, and which comes into opera-
tion on the Ist of next month, will, we are informed by
a distiller, reduce the price of malt whisky about 6,1. a
gallon proof, or sd. a gallon 11 over proof.—Banif
Journal.

A MORMON PREACHER DROWNED IN THE LYNHER.—
A young man named John Dudman, of Bath, aged 20,
a Mormon preacher, who had for several days been in
the neighbourhood propagating the doctrines of the noto-
rious Joe Smith, was accidentally dr iwned in the River
Lynher •vbilst in the act of bathing. Deceased was a
comtan'ed to the river by a'Persen named Gartrell,
whom he nrged to bathe with him. Gartrell refits d, and
persua lad the preacher not to vehture in a particular
nert of the river on amount of a strong current there.
Disregarding advice, Dudman immediately plunged into
the stream, and for some time bore himself up by swim-
ming, stating that he was providentially protected and
feared nothing. His situation in the river being danger-
ous, Gartrell handed out a pole close to him, by the aid
of which he might have saved himself, but, refusing this
proffered assistance, he almost immediately after sank
Plymouth Mail.
THE LAsir.—On Tuesday last, at Winchester, Staff
Sergeant Crowdy, of the 23d Royal Welch Fusiliers, un-
derwent this punishment in accordance with the finding
of a court-martial, which had sentenced him to be degraded
to the rank of private, to forfeit all claim to a pension, to
receive 50 lashes, and to be imprisoned for 6 months for
robbing Pay-sergeant Pursell, of the same regiment, of
the sum of 37/.105., money he had in hand on regimental
account for payment of the men. It appears that while
Serjeant Purcell was out on business in the town,
Crowdy, by means of another key, unlocked the door of
the room in the barracks where Purcell was quartered,
and where he had left his cash-box, with the key in it.
Crowdy having abstracted the money, no suspicion fe'l
on him for a day or two, when it was found he had been
trying to get gold for two pound, worth of silver, and
about that amount of silver was known to have been in
the cash-box. On searching his room the sum of 291. 15s.
was found tied up in a handkerchief belonging to Ser-
jeant Purcell, and which was lost at the same time as the
money. In the face of such evidence, it is not surprising
that the delinquent was sentenced to the most degrad-
ing punishment the law would allow.—llarapetire
Independent. . .

NORWICH MUSICAL FESTIVAL.—Some dissatisfaction
has been expressed in Norwich in reference to the long
periods for which the accounts of the musical festival
held last year have been withheld from the public. The
sums derived for the local charities from the festival have
been progressively declining of late years, and it is stated
that no surplus accrued from the last meeting. This
supposition would seem to be warranted from the follow-
ing statistics of the attendance at the festival since its
establishment in 1824 :
Year. Patrons. General Comp.
First meeting 1824 ... 495 ... 6,993
Second meeting 1877 ... 709 ... 8,362
Third meeting
Fourth meeting 1833 ... 699 ... 5,385
Fifth meeting 1836 ... 850 ... 5,362
Sixth meeting
Seventh meeting
Eighth meeting 1845 ... 1,013 ... 6,721
Ninth meeting
Tenth meeting
Eleventh meeting

A suggestion has been made in one of the local papers
that two grand concerts should be given every year, in-
stead of six triennially.
DRURY-LANE THEATRE.—THE AFRICAN TWINS.—The
twin neern children, who are joined together at the lower
part of their backs by a ligament of flesh sixteen inches in
circumference, were onWednesday shown to a number of
medical gentlemen and persons connected with the press,
in the saloon of Drury•lane Theatre. There can he no
doubt of the genuineness of this rare physiological
curiosity. The children, it must he avowed, do not
seem at all the worse in health, intelligence, or hap-
piness, for the extraordinary bondage in which they have
been placed by the caprice of Nature at their birth.
They ran to and fro, they talk, laugh, and sing, and are
pleased with the notice of strangers. One of them
exclaimed, in answer to a remark she overheard, " I
don't look like a nigger." Their hair is woolly and
complexion a dusky brown. They will be five years old
next month, and are both girls, one being named
" and the other " Bessy." We believe they
manage to be unanimous, as it is desirable they should
be, upon all their movements, and they will kies each
other with much sisterly fondness, although it is not
very easy for them to turn their faces so as to look at
each other. Their pulses do not beat together, and all
the internal organs are belived to be quite separate ; and
it is satisfactory to learn that there may yet be a chance
of releasing them, before they grow up, from the incon-
venient situation in which they now are. It is said that
their parents are nearoes in slavery, in one of the
Southern States, and that the first profits of their exhi-
bition in England will be devoted to purchase the
liberation of the father and mother.
DETERMINED SUICIDE IN A RAILWAY TRAlN.—Yester-
day morning a mast determined act of self-destruction
was committed in a railway carriage, between Notting-
ham and Derby, by a young gentleman named Payne,
son of Dr. Payne, of the first-mentioned town. It ap-
pears that deceased left Nottingham by •the ordinary
train at 8.40 a.m., travelling in a second-class carriage.
In the same compartment were two gentlemen who pro-
ceeded as far as the Trent Junction, where they got out,
and deceased was left alone. Trent Junction is equi-dis-
taut between Nottingham and Derby, being about eight
miles from either place. The train on leaving called at
Sawley and Draycott, two small stations, and then
stopped at Borrowash ; the station-master at which place
was proceeding to open the door when he saw the body
of Mr. Payne hanging close to the door. The deceased
gentleman had taken a black silk neckerchief from his
neck, and had suspended himself from the ventilator at
the top of the carriage door. He had also taken off his
shoes, and turned his trousers up to the knees. He was
immediately cut down, and although life was apparently
not extinct, he was beyend hope of recovery. The un-
fortunate gentleman was conveyed to Derby, and Mr.
Gisborne, the company's surgeon, attended him, but life
was extinct. To show how determined deceased was to
commit the rash act, we may state that from the time
the two gentlemen got out at Trent Junction until he
was discovered at Borrowash not more than 10 minutes
could have elapsed. No letters were found upon him to
throw any light on the cause of the deed, but he had 21.
in money, a band-box, slippers, &c., as if proceeding
on a journey. His parents have been made ac-
quainted by telegraph with the melancholy Circum-
stance, and the body awaits an inquest at the Derby
station. On the same day an inquest was held upon
the body by Mr. Wbiston, coroner, at the George Inn,
near the railway station, Derby, when evidence was
adduced as to the finding of the body, and an opinion
was expressed that Mr. Payne had taken away his life
whilst suffering from an attack of inflammation of the
bowels, to which, it appeared, he was very subject, occa-
sionally to such an extent as to deprive him of his senses
for a time. The jury returned a verdict to the effect
that "deceased had destroyed himself, being at the time
in an unsound state of mind."
REFORMATION OF JUVENILE CRIBIINALS.--The quar
terly court of the governors of the Philanthropic So-
ciety was held at their offices, Crown-court, Thread-
needle-street, on Tuesday, for the purpose of hearing a
detail of the working of their institution, Redhill Farm,
Reigate, for the reformation of juvenile criminals. Mr.
William Gladstone occupied the chair. The Rev. Sidney
Turner, chaplain to the establishment, reported that
since April, 1849, there had been admitted into it 816,
and that 629 bad been discharged from it, so that the
present number on the farm was 187. He added that,
of the 629 discharged, 402 had been sent out as emi-
grants to the colonies, chiefly to New Brunswick, where
there were at present 60 of them. During the last three
months the admissions numbered 40, and the discharges
52. Of those discharged, 35 had been assisted to emi-
grate, 12 had been provided with employment (of whom
one had turned out badly), and the other 5 either de-
serted or were sent away as incorrigible. Of those at.
present in the institution, 150 were the nominees of
Government, which paid for their maintenance ; the cost
of which for the whole establishment was, during the
last six months, with an average of 196 boys, 3,2321.,
irrespective of 5904 paid in emigration and apprentice
fees. This report was unanimously adopted, and some
routine business disposed of, when the proceedings ter-
minated with a vote of thanks to the chainalay.