The Sun.
London, England, 1855-04-02 00:00:00

ARRIVALS AT LINCOLN,
Janus, Kennpide Hero, and Saucebox.

MALToN.—NeII Gwynne and Queen of England leave
here this morning fa. Lincoln.

THE GOVERNMENT AND THE POLICE

FOR TO WINS.

The following circular has been received from
the Home-office by the mayors of the principal
north country towns :
" Whitehall, March 28, 1855.
" Sir,—l am directed by Secretary Sir George Grey,
to inform you that his attention has been called to the
inadequacy of the police forces in many of the large and
populous towns in the kingdom.
"The consequence of this is, that while inefficient
provision is male to check the commission of ordinary
crime, the civil force is nearly powerless in the event
of any disturbance of the public peace. It is of great
importance that there should be a sufficient police
force in all large towns, not only for the protection of
life and property under ordinary circumstances, but
also with the assistance of special constables, for the
repression of any sudden disturbance of the peace,
without requiring, as has been too often the case, the
aid of a military force, to which recourse never should
be bad unless when the civil power a!one, duly organised
for the purpose, is unable to maintain the public peace.
A. military force should not be relied on as a substitute
for the police, but when called for by the magistrates in
cases of serious consequences, it should act only in sup-
port of the civil power.

"Her Majesty's Government feel it necessary to dis.
continue, as far as possible, the practice of posting smal
detachments of troops in various parts of the country,
and their withdrawal renders it the more important that
an efficient police force should be maintained.

"Sir George Grey requests that you will take an
early opportunity of calling the attention of the council
to the subject, and that you will urge upon them the
necessity of taking prompt measures to place the police-
force of the borough upon a satisfactory footing. Sir
George Grey is confident that the council will be fully
alive to the importance of the subject, and that it will
receive their early and careful attention.

"I am, sir, your obedient humble servant,

" W. COWPER."

CADETS FOR THE Row NATI/ FROM THE COLONIES.
—Despatches were laid before the Legislative Assembly
of Nova Scotia en the 26th ult., from which it appeared
that her Majesty had been pleased to confer upon Canada
the privilege of nominating two young men, and New
Brunswick and Nova Scotia one each, as cadets in the
Royal Navy ; and that Master Sydenbam Howe, son of
the Hon. Joseph Howe, had been appointed on behalf
of Nova Scotia.

HORRIBLE DISCOVERY.—We are furnished by a gentle-
man from Lafayette, Indiana, with the details of a
rumour current in that city on Thursday which fills the
mind with horror in view of the sufferings of the persons
to whom it refers. On the Saturday preceding the me-
morable storm of the 21st of January two families,
numbering 10 persons, moving from Southern Indiana
to Northern arrived at Oxford, the county seat
of Benton county, Indiana, about 40 miles north-west of
Lafayette, with two ox teams, and well provided with
necessaries for the road. They remained there through
the storm, and on Monday morning resumed their jour-
ney. Last Tuesday morning a man passing over a
prairie only about five miles from Oxford came upon a
sight which filled him with horror. The carcases of
two oxen, from which the viscera had been re-
moved, lay upon the ground. Inside of one of
them were the frozen bodies of four children, and
in the other the frozen corpse of the mother,
with a nursing infant at her breast. Under the
snow was a heap of ogles, in which the iron of the wag
gun showed that the party had broken them up, and
burned everything they had in them, in the effort to
save their lives. Not far from this spot was found the
body of the other woman of the party, partly concealed
in a snowdrift, and near her one of the men. The two
other men had not been found. It is probable that the
party became inextricably involved in the snowdrifts on
the bleak prairie, and lost their presence of mind. After
burning up their waggons, it would seem that the men
had killed two of the oxen for a shelter to those found in
them, and then, accompanied by one woman, vainly en-
deavoured to reach the town they had left, and procure
aid to rescue their companions. The two other oxen
had wandered off. There was nothing about the per-
sons to indicate who they were, and nothing more is
known about them than was accidentally communicated
by them during their brief stay at Oxford.—Chicago
Press, Feb. 21.

LOVE CHARNI.—At the police-court, Hull, on Wednes-
day, a young woman named Hannnh Banks affiliated a
child upon a young man named Jonathan Watkins, and
several of the circumstances of the case provoked con-
siderable laugther. It appears that both defendant and
complainant were servants to Mrs. Lorrimer, a farmer
residing at Sunk Island, and that on one occasion the
latter procured a toad, hail it roasted, pounded into a
powder, and intended to mix it up with defendant's food
for the purpose of making him "love her." The toad
was roasted alive before the fire by one of the witnesses,
a young girl named Martha Stark, and the defendant's
sister was likewise aware of the circumstance. Defen-
dant got to bear of that and other plans to entrap his
affections, and fearing that they should be carried out,
he removed from the house, though he cnntinued to visit
the complainant. Stark and the complainant were
severely reprimanded by Mr. Travis for roasting the toad
alive, which he considered & very brutal act:— Yorkehire