The Sun.
London, England, 1855-08-27 00:00:00

PRINCE ALBERT'S BIRTHDAY.

On Saturday night the shops of the various court
tradesmen and purveyors, as also those of several other
inhabitants in the west-end, were illuminated in honour
of the Prince Consort's birthday, which fell yesterday,
the 26th August. At one o'clock, after service had
concluded in the different churches, the Park guns fired
off eighteen rounds to commemorate the anniversary.
Among the illuminations a large Brunswick htar, with
the initials P. A. in jets of gas, exhibited by Mr. Mit-
chell, of the Royal Library, Old Bond-street, was con-
spicuous for its brilliant nod beautiful appearance.

SHEERNESS, SUNDAY.
A Royal salute was fired this day from her Majesty's
ship Waterloo, and also from the Formidable and the
batteries in honour of the Prince Consort's birthday.

PORTSMOUTH, SUNDAY.

This day being the birthday of the Prince Consort,
the ships of war " dressed," and at one o'clock (being
Sunday), fired a Royal salute. The garrison battery also
fired a Royal salute.

CRATHAM, SUNDAY.

This day being Prince Albert's birthday, it was cele-
brated at this garrison. At eight o'clock in the morning
the Royal standards were hoisted at the flagstaffs, Fort
Amherst, Royal Dockyard, and Gun Wharf. The Wel-
lesley, 72 guns, ordinary guard ship, Poictiers, 74, and
other ships of war, were gaily dres'ed with flags of all
nations, with the exception of Russian. At two p.m. a
salute from the 32-pounders in the saluting battery was
fired.

The Doke and Duchess of Beaufort, with the Mar-
quis of Worcester and family, have arrived at Llan2at-
toch, Monmouthshire, and will shortly visit Troy Rouse,
one of the ancient family seats, for the first time since
the noble duke's acce'sion to the dukedom.

The Duke and Duchess of Northumberland have left
Alnwick Castle for Keilder Ca-tle, to remain there for
the shooting season, when the duke and duchess return
to Alnwick to receive company. _ _

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The Duke of Arun will leave town next week for
Inverary Castle, N. 8., and to attend the meeting of the
British Association at Glasgow.

The Marchioness (Dowager) of Londonderry, previous
to leaving Wynyari Park for her seat in Ireland,laid
the foundation-stone of a new church at New S aharrk,
in aff ctionate remembrance of the late gallant marquis,
her husband.

Lieut.-General Sir George Brown is still residing, with
Lady Brown and family. at Leamington Spa.
MONEY ORDER OFFICES.—GENERAL POST-OFFICE,
August, 1855.—0 n the Ist of September the following
alterations will be made : England.—A major money
order office will be opened at Stonehouse, Devonshire,
under Plymouth. Minor money order offices will be
opened at the undermentioned places : Crosshills, York-
shit() ; head office, Leeds. Surbitton, Surrey ; head
office, Kingston. The money order office at Oulton is
now served from Leeds, instead of from Wakefield, as
heretofore.

MONEY ORDERS.—General Post-office, Aug. 1855.
On the Ist of September and thenceforth, the following
regulations, in regard to the issue and payment of money
orders, will come into force :-Ist. When the remitter
of a money order presents a requisition for the order, he
will not be required (even when the order is not made
payable through a bank) to give more than the surname
and the initial of one Christian name of the payee,
though he will have the option of giving the name more
fully; and it will suffice if the payee's signature be as
full as the name given by the remitter, and be not in
any way inconsistent therewith ; 2d. The payee will be
henceforth required to furnish the address of the re-
mitter, though he will still have to give the remitter's
name. Although it will no longet be necessary to
inter the remitter's address in the advice, the remitter
will still h 2 required to furnish it, and postmasters must,
as heretofore, enter it in their journal.
CASE OF CHILD STARVING LIVERPOOL, Saturday.—
A dreadful case of this nature has just been made known
to the authorities. The parties implicated are a man
named Aspinall and his wife, residing in Lawton-street.
Aspinall is a clerk in one of the Liverpool departments
of the London and North Western Railway. It ap-
pears that up to within a period of three years past they
bad behaved kindly to their children, nine in number ;
but latterly they have dissipated their means in habits
of intoxication, and refused the children food. One of
the public officers on Friday went to the house of the
partien, and was horror-stricken at what he witnessed.
There was scarcely any furniture in the room in which
the children were, and alongside the grate he saw
something crouched near the wall, and en approaching
it he found it was a child about four years old, in a
state of' nudity, and gathered up like a dog. Its hip
bones were nearly protruding from the skin. It
could neither walk nor stand. A child fifteen months
old was also in a most emaciated condition and dying'.
while a third was likewise in a state of nudity. The eldest
daughter stated that the youtgest child, which was then
dead, was required to be washed about three weeks ago,
but the mother would not perform that duty, but re-
quested one of the children to pump water on it, which
she did, until it was cleaned. This was of frequent
oc-
currence, and the result was that the child took cold, The
and having no food, became debilitated and d
other child is not expected to live. An inquest was
held
this afternoon, and Dr. Kemp gave it as thatopinionhise
ntof
the child died from gross neglect and constant wa
food. He added thathe never saw a child so emaciated,
the leones actually being all but the skin. The
man and wife inculpated each other as to their drunken
habits, and constant neglect of the children: Th e jury,
however, returned a verdict of Murder"l against
b0,..413. parties, and steps were taken to provide properly
• - for tha, _ other children.