The Sun.
London, England, 1855-10-16 00:00:00

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waved irom windows, St: Patrick's bells rang .merry
peal; cheers filled the air at intervals; in short the city
was one entire scene of rejoicing.

[PRICE 4D. STAMPED SD•

In Hamilton the Independent Artillery Company,
commanded, by Captain Booker, turned out and fired 30
rounds in the Market-square. The fire brigade likewise
mustered in fall force, and, forming into a torchlight
procession, escorted le artillery to the ground. Rockets
were set off in great numbers, bonfires were kindled in
various parts of the city, a display of fireworks took places
and at the close a large number of our citizens partook
of a collation at the Burlington Hotel. The demonstra-
tion was every way worthy the loyal character of that
City,

THE FALL OF SEBASTOPO u.

RECEPTION OF THE NEWS IN AINIERICT
(From. the New York Commercial Advertiser.)

THE FALL OF SEBASTOPOL.—This is, of course, the
engrossing topic of the day. The intelligence took the
city by surprise. Its effect in the street, on board.the
various ferry-boats, and indeed, everywhere, was imme-
diately perceptible. Even those who have professed to
anticipate such news by every European steamer were
betra, ed into the admission that they feared it was " too
good news to he true." The telezraph despatch which
the Coniniercial early placed before its readers was
perusLd with eagerness, and then doubt giving way to
certainty the report rapidly spread, and men waited
anxiously for further details, which it.was hoped would
be brought by the Washington. The accounts spread
before our readers today, though they can scarcely be
said to enter into details, yet supply information of the
deepest interest, and show substantially how the work
was accomplished. The 'citadel which has been so
bravely defended was, we must admit, bravely won.
Circumstances seem to have given to the French the
more glorious participation in the final struggle, and in
the capture of the Malakhoff the valour, perseverance,
and chivalry of the French troops have been made as
conspicuous as in the palmiest days of their world-re-
nowned
glory. The English forces, though less nurne-
rous,iand on this occasion less favourably circumstanced,
have added to their renown.

In Guelph the news was received with every demon•
stration of loyalty. Bonfires, illuminations, and perpetual
discharges of firearms. together with the cheerful strains
of music and the loud hurrahs of the spectators, bore
testimony up to a late hour of the night to the lively
sympathy of our townsmen for the heroes of the allied
troops.

At King4on great excitement prevailed. The belle
were set ringing, flags of all descriptions were hoisted,
the little boys shouted, and every indication of great
rejoicing was manifested. Everybody was in the streets,
and everybody rejoiced at the success of the allies.
At Brockville, on Friday night, 100 guns were fired,
and a general illumination took place. The news was
received with great joy.
Ottawa city received the news with great satisfaction.
The British, the Albion, the St. Lawrence, and other
hotels, with Telegraph-office, were brilliantly illuminated;
a large bonfire blazed on the Barrack-hill, some gun-
powder was burned, and many of our citizens enjoyed
themselves amazingly. A public meeting was held on
Friday, at which resolutions were passed requesting
Cept. Turner to fire a salute. A committee was ap-
pointed to draft an address of congratulation to her
Majesty, and that the mayor be requested to issue his
proclamation for a general illumination.

(From, the New York Herald.)
The news of the fall of Sebastopol took this city by
surprise on Thursday, and spread with the greatest ra-
pidity—and especially among the French and English
residents of New York, who were greatly excited and
rejoiced. At one place, in the vicinity of Wall-street,
where the news was read out to a promiscuous crowd of
merchants, including some English and French buinessi
men, three hearty cheers were given for the fall of Sebas-
topol. On 'Change the great event formed the principal
theme of conversation, and many mutual congratulations
were exchanged. In the evening the usual resorts of our
French citizens, including Dehnonico's and seve-al other
restaurants, were crowded, and the greatest hilarity dis-
played, enhanced by t'ie free ti-ie of champagne and oth.:r
wines, which was kept up until a late hour of the
night.

ROBBERY OF A CHURCH IN THE CITY.

Yesterday morning, at an early hour, it 'was disco-
vered that a most daring robbery had been committed
in the vestry-room of the parish church of St. Giles
Without, Cripplogate, by some expert thieves.
Itappears that late in the evening of Sunday the pot-
man of Mr. Wiltshire, whose establishment adjoins the
yard of the church at the back, nearly contiguous to the
window of the vestry-room, heard something like a tap-
ping at a pane of glass, and a sudden rustling, as be
passed his maeter's back door, before the hour of closing.
Not taking any further notice of this circumstance, how-
ever, he made fast the back entrance, and, with the
family, retired to rest. Yesterday morning when he
took down the back shutter he found the vestry window
in the churchyard broken, and the lattice-work torn from
its place. He immediately inf rmed Lis master, who
sent for the churchwarden. The latter, proceeding to
inspect the premises with the sexton, found that the
vestry had been entered, and the master-key of the
iron safe abstracted from its usual place of safe keep-
ing. The thief, or thieves, had evidently entered by
the opening
.in the window, which they caused by a
most ingenious cutting away of the glass. They had
apparently carefully examined the safe and its con-
tents, and succeeded in taking away the gold and silver
there deposited, which, however, was not a very consi-
derable sum. Several of the drawers in the vestry bad
been "prised," or forced with a lever. The thieves
having been defeated in obtaining any important amount
of plunder, then forced the door from the vestry leading
into the church, and apparently attempted to force the
contribution box and the plate chest,' which resisted
their efforts, for the contents remain secure. Being thus
foiled, it appears that they thee opened the closet con-
taining the " tent " or " sacramental " wine. This, it
appears, was not according to their palate, as they left
the bottle upon the floor, and the glass they bad used,
partially filled, standing beside it, but a small portion
having been used from the bottle. The closet containing
the best wine was not touched, nor were some pounds
in money in the sexton's drawer. The fellows having
regaled themselves, left the vestry in a state of confusion,
leaving behind them the bags which contained the
money they had stolen, and the iron safe open. It is
supposed that they obtained admission on Sunday even-
ing to the churchyard, where one or more of them se-
creted themselves, and that, awaiting their opportunity,
they effected the robbery about midnight, and subse-
quently decamped by the vicarage-house, which at the
present time is not inhabited. Fr ,rn some facts which
transpired in the course of yesterday, there is no doubt
that a clue to the parties has been obtained by the po-
lice, who are actively engaged in tracing the fellows
concerned in the sacrilege.

BOSTON, Sept. 29.—Upon the arrival of the Royal
Mail steam-ship America, at her wharf here, a salute of
twenty-seven guns was fired by the American artillery,
at the request of the English and Irish residents of the
city, in honour of the victory at Sebastopol.

(From the New York, Daily Times. )
The partial capture of Sebastopol gives pause suffi-
cient to post the books. At the opening of the contest,
that of Russia was the most powerful and Influential
government in Europe. Its navy, constructed on the
must stupendous and improved scale, crowded• the Bal-
tic and manoeuvred within the horizon of Constantinople.
Its armies amounted to a million of well disciplined and
provided troops. The art of fortification was reputed
to have achieved itsutmest in defending every approach-
able point on the coast. No treasury was more plethoric;
no credit so dear to capitalists. Its external commerce
of export and import was enormous ; the progress of in-
ternal development rapid and magnificent. Ties of blood
and gratitude were supposed to have united Prussia and
Austria indissolubly to the Imperial interests, whatever
field they might select for exercises ; and as advanced
posts for the accomplishment of traditional designs upon.
the Ottoman Empire, Moldavia, Wallachia, and the
navigation of the Danube were substantially in its pos-
session. Money, diplomacy, - position, arms, political
sagacity, and unscrupulous ambition could • net have
done more to strengthen the empire for any conflict, and
especially for the greatest it could anticipate—that which
was sooner or later to decide the destiny of its sick
neighbour at the South—When the initiative in the
existing war was undertaken by the Czar.
Three years have not gone by, and ambition has its
lesson. The navy is annihilated ;of those vessels that
flaunted the Muscovite flag within sight of the Turk-
ish capital on the day when the Allies entered the
Black Sea not one remains. The victors of Sinope have
suffered a poorer fate than the vanquished. The men-of-
war which patrolled the Baltic have been driven into the
rivers or sunk at the gates of harbours. Marine traffic
has ceased to exist; what little, trade is left is conducted
at great cost overiand. The blockade temporarily aban-
doned by the Baltic and White Sea squadrons will be
still more vigorously maintained by Admiral Frost. The
army has been defeated at every encounter, until all its
prestige is lost. And Sebastopol, the master-key of the
Euxine, the custodian of that best theft from the Mussul-
man, the Crimea—and the Crimea itself, which ,Ptincelde
Ligne, at the period of its occupation by his imperial
mistress, described as a " Tartar. Paradise," will, in all
probability, remain at the end of the campaign in the
hands of the invaders. With the cessation of external
trade domestic industry must be suspended. If Eng-
land suffers industrially with the loss of the Russian
market, what must Russia suffer, who losss the market
of a world g Its great enterprises are suspended. Its
currency is debased by the substitution of paper for
coin. Both at home and abroad the credit of the
imperial exchequer is seriously impaired, if not by
recent events destroyed. Added to these evils is the
occupation of the Principalities, and of the shores of the
Danube by the Austrian, who will helie all his antece-
dents if he fail to employ this hour of extremity in trea-
son to his best helper; and the picture of change is com-
plete. No contrast can be more striking than that be-
tween the Russian monarchy of 1852 in prosperity with
its crown on the brow of the astute Nicholas, and that
monarchy today, in calamity, with its fate in the un-
practised hand of a comparative stripling.

BREACH OF PROMISE OF MARRIAGE.

ARBITRATION CASE.-SATURDAY.
ROGERS V. THOMPSON.

This was an action for breach of promise of marriage,
in which the damages were laid at 1,000/. The case came
on fur hearing at the close of Trinity Term, in the Court
of Exchequer, but owing to the singular revelations
which the defendant's counsel said he would be compelled
to make, as the basis of his defence, the Lord Chief
Baron suggested that it would be advisable to refer the
case to some gentlemen of the bar. This course was
adopted, and it was mutually agreed that this in:itter
should be submitted to Mr. Serjeant Shee, for arbitra-
tion, whose award has just been promulgated.
Mr. E. James, Q.C., who conducted the plaintiff's case
at the trial, submitted that if "injured innocence' was
to be protected, his client was ja,tiy entitled to full com-
pensation for the wrongs she bad sustained. The plaintiff,
Miss Emma Rogers, the daughter (.4 a deceased artist,
had been re.iiing with her widowed mother at the vil-
lage of Old Charitm, in Kent, and by her skill iu paint-
ing for papier macho work, she was enabled to acquire
the means of supporting herself and her parent in re-
spectability. In the exercise of her professional duties

he had to come up to London for orders, and upon one
occasion, in the course of last year, she became accident-
ally acquainted with the defendant (Mr. Thompson),
who carries on the business of a machine rule manufac-
turer, and who is also a bill discounter. Though consi-
derably older than the plaintiff, Mr. Thompson was fas-
cinated by the mental and personal charms of the young
lady, and after repeated interviews the defendant be.
came an accepted suitor, and the wedding breakfast was
fixed to take place at the house of Mrs. Kirkland, in the
Westmi' ster-road, and it was settled that two of that
lady's daughters should officiate as bridesmaids. The
bridegroom, however, did not make his appearance, and
the plaintiff subsequently discovered, to her grief and
astonishment-, that he was a married man, having a wife
living and a large family of children. Under these cir-
cumstances the action was brought to irdemnify the
plaintiff for the injury she had .4ustaine'l. [Three letters
were put in f,ir the purpose of establishing the alleged
promise of marriage.]
Mr. Serjeant Wilkins, for the defence, in a strain of
withering sarcasm, denounced the claim of the plaintiff
as a vile attempt to extort money from his client ; he
undertook to prove that the letters relied upon were base
forgeries, concocted by an artful and unprincipled young
woman, or, if not by the lady herself, by some injudicious
friends, under whose advice she had thus foolishly
asked for 1,0001., as the moderate compensation due to
" injured innocence." Let us see, said the learned Bei:-
jeant, what are the real facts of this shameful. case ; and,gon
first of all, what is there so very attractive in the person
of my client that a young woman shouldso
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did address her, vrarepulsed, and the lady ad-
journed with them to a tavern, where they bad sundry
f
purse of the, party, so far ingratiated himself
into Miss Roger,
:6 favour that he had the supreme
felicity of escorting her in a cab to the railway rersh
longeste refreshment, and, eventually Thompson, who was the
sta-
tion, and they continued to meet on subsequent occa-
sions, by the lady R
own appointment, for in one of her
letters she wrute thus:—" I will be at the corner of the
court at the u,ual time. We will go to Drury-lane
(Theatre), and I will stop." All this was, no doubt,
highly immoral—in a married man more especially, but
still it did not constitute any claim for breach of promise
of marriage, as set out in the declaration. From the evidence adduced before the learned arbi-
trator, it appeared that the defendant had frequently
given the plaintiff sums of money, but there was nothing
to sustain the alleged complaint, with the exception of
some letters which were proved to be mere fabrications.
The award wag, consequently, for the defendant.