The Sun.
London, England, 1855-09-15 00:00:00

MAJESTY will act in thaaffair as b. coaxes a British
Queen, and the most exalted matron in the
world. We have got beyond the times of GEORGE
the Third; after all there is a people now, and
the immorality Of the Royal Marriage Act is
pretty generally scouted.

The Marquis and Machioness of Westminster, and the
Ladies Agnes and Theodora Grosvenor, left Motcombe
House, Dorset, yesterday, for Eaton Halt, Cheshire.
The Earl and Lady Constance Grosvenor have joined
the circle visi:'ng the Duke and Duchess of Sutherland,
at Dunrob'n Castle.
Lord Haddo, M.P., continuos in delicate health at
the Ranger's Lodge, Blackheath. It is thought the
noble lord n be obliged to resort to a milder climate
for the ensehm• winter.
Colonel the Hon. Alexander Cordon has i-turned to
Argyll House from visaing the Eacl of Aberdeen at
Hrddo House, N.B. The gallant colonel will, it is un-
derstood, immediately retura to Cie Crimea.
Lord and Lady Lindsay have arrived at Dunecht
House, from the Earl of Crawford and Balcarres' seat,
Haigh Hall, Lancashire.
The Rev. John Fielder Mackharness, M.A., has been
instituted to the rectory of Honiton, Devon.
The Rev. E. W. Wakeman, brother of Sir Offley
Wakeman, Bart., was found dead in his bed last Satur-
day morning, at his residence, Cotton Hall, near
Bridgnorth.
THE PLANET VENUS.—This beautiful planet will dis-
appear from our evening sky, of which it is now so
brilliant an ornament, a little before the 19th of this
month, soon after which it becomes a morning star.
The Princess Trivulzio Belgiojoso, well known in the
political world for the pert she took in the events of
Italy in 1848 and 1849, has just arrived at Montpellier
from the East.
M. A. Fould, Minister of State, has resumed the ad-
ministration of his department, which was held ad
interim by the Minister of Justice.
The Duchess of Genoa has sent I,ooof. to the com-
mittee for the Piedmontese army in the Crimea.
The Duchess of Montrose and family are staying at
Buchanan Castle, and do not return to the south until
the second week in next month.
The Marquis and .Marchioness of Huntly are enter-
taining a select party at Aboyae Castle, Aberdeenshire.
The Earl and Countess of Derby, the Hon. Frederick
and Lady Emma Stanley, left Gorton Castle on Thurs-
day on a visit to the Earl and Countess of Malmesbury,
in Inverness-shire.
The Earl and Countess of March, Lady Caroline Eliza-
beth and M. A. Gordon Lennox, Prince Edward of Saxe
Weimar, Lord A. Lennox, and Lord George Gordon
Lennox, returned to Gordon Castle on Saturday from
Glenfiddich.
Lord'and Lady Cardross have sustained a domestic
bereavement by the death of their youngest son, which
took place a few days ago at Edinburgh.
The viaduct, near Wellingborough, in connection with
the Hitchin and Leicester R Away, has given way, in
consequence of which three of the principal arches will
have to be taken down.
ATHOLE GATHERING.—This celebrated annual meeting
came off at Blair Castle on Wednesday last with the
greatest possible eclat. The weather was highly favour-
able for the performance of the games. The Athol°
guardsmen numbered about 'lBO stalwart Highlanders,
and there could not be fewer than from 4.000 to 5,000
spectators present. Among them were his Highness
Maharajah Dhuleep Singh.
A WIDOW, YET A WIFE.—An inhabitant of Corfu,
who some time ago returned from Spitzbergen, after an
absence of 28 years, found his wife in good health, but
the widow of three husbands.
THE ROYAL EXCHANGE.—This edifice is now further
disfigured by the shopkeepers being allowed to thrust
out awnings before their windows, and to do so without
any regard to uniformity, they being hung at different
heights.
The Vienna Prase states that a waterspout of a de-
structive character occurred near Massling, in Germany,
on the sth instant. Bridges, ano houses were
destroyed. There are from 70 to 80 persons missing,
and 40 persons have already been found drowned.
A DESERTED VILLAGE.—A. local paper states that
in the fertile pariah of Castleton, containing 80,000 acres,
with a population of 0n1y.2,130, there is not sufficient
grain raised to support the few inhabitants. The land,
with trifling exceptions, belongs to the Duke of Buc-
cleucb, and the farms are large.
TEsrimoNIAL.--Mr. George Robert Gepp, eldest sen
of the Rev. G. E. Gepp, head master of Ashbourn Free
Grammar School, has been presented with a very neat
dressing-case, as a mark of the estimation in which he
is held by his fellow-students, and as a remembrance of
many kindnesses performed by him towards them. We
understand that the young gentleman is on the eve of de-
parting for Rio de Janeiro.—Derbyshire Advertiser.
GREAT SCULLERS' MATCH.— The public will be grati-
fied to learn that preliminaries have been arranged for a
grand scullers' match. The competitors are Henry
Kelly, of Fulham, and John Mackinney, of Richmond,
the two men who rowed so extraordinary a race for the
Champion Scullers' prize at Putney, in the late Royal
Thames National Regatta. The race is for 200 f., and
is to take plate on Wednesday, October 24, from the
pier at Putney to the Ship at Mortlake. Articles of
agreement were duly executed at Mr. Salter's, the Fea-
thers, Wandsworth, in the presence of a large assem-
blage of sporting men.
RETIREMENT OF A RISHOZ..—The Bishop of Rochester
has hitirnated a deske to retire from the episcopate, on
account of his age and increasing infirmities. It is
stated that he is likely to be succeeded in his bishopric
by the Venerable Archdeacon Robinson, D.D., Master
or the Temple, and Canon Recidentiary of Rochester
Cathedral.
SHOCKING AND FATAL ACCIDENT AT BP.ISTOL.—Dur-
ing Thursday night a man named Balment, a servant to
a gentleman named Munro, accidentally fell over the
rocks at Clifon,and was killed on the spot.
ARRESTS AT VENICE.—The Piemonte of Turin states
from Venice that the number of parsons arrested in tint
city and province for political motives during the month
of August last was 414.
VENTILATION OF HOSPITALS. A patent has been re-
cently granted to Lieut. Cook, RN., F.R.S., Professor
of Fortifications, at Addiscornbe, "for improveenents in
the method of working gigantic fans, called punkas, for
agitating the air in hospitals, barracks, churches, and
other lai go buildings, in tropical climates, and, in the
height of summer, in more northern latitudes.
FATAL ACCIDENT AT THE LONDON AND BRIGHTON
RAILWAY.--Yesterday, Daniel Taylor, aged 28, No. 21,
Webb-street, Southwark, expired at Guy's Hospital from
the effects of injuries received while in the act of collect-
ing tickets of the travellers from a train in motion.
DESTRUCTION BY FIRE OP A NAPTHA. WORKS.—
THREE LIVES LOST.—WOLVERHAMPTON, Friday After-
noon.—Shortly after two o'clock this afternoon a fire
occurred at the Naptha and Creosote Oil Works, in this
town, of Messrs. Booth and Co., by which three persons
have been killed, about seven or eight others seriously
injured, and property worth several hundred pounds
destroyed.

AN AUSTRALIAN VENTURE.—In 1852" a gentleman
sent, from Scotland, among others, a package of goods
worth 2SI. to Melbourne, fondly hoping for a good re-
turn. During last month (August 1855) he received an
account sales of his goods, amounting to 4/. odd, the
281. worth of goods having realised 11/. 10s., and having
been subjected to charges amounting to 71. odd. On
applying for payment of the balance in the account sales,
he was thunderstruck to find that outward freight and
charges were still to be deduCted, and that, instead of
receiving any money, he was indebted V. ss. 7d.
LOCAL MANAGEMENT ACT. ST. GEORGE'S-IN-THE-
EAST.— Yesterday Mr. Pulling, the assessor, attended at
the vestry-room for the purpose of dividing the parish into
wards. Mr. Howard, the vestry clerk, put a question to
the learned assessor, whether non-resident landlords who
compounded for the rates were to be considered as rated
householders. Including the non-resident landlords,
there were 2,588 ; but the non-resident landlords being
656, reduced the number of resident to 1,932. The ques-
tion had therefore been raised 'whether under the act the
aesessor had any power to divide the parish into wards
at all, there not being really 2,00 resident householders.
After a protracted discussion, the assessor agreed to
adjourn for a fortnight, in order that he might consult h;s
colleagues, and, if necessary, take the opinion of the
Attorney-General on the point which had been raised.
SEEASTOPOL.—The distinction made by Le Nord be-
tween the Sebastopol of the South and the Sebastopol of
1 the North, is simply ridiculous. Sebastopol, properly so
called, was situated on the south of the bay, and con-
tained the arsenals, the storehouses, the docks, the dock-
yards, and, in fact, all the resources of the maritime
power of Russia in the Black Sea. All that is now a
heap of ruins, and in possession of the allied forces. Oa
the northern side, undoubtedly, there exist some exceed-
ingly strong forts, but which can be regularly invested,
and taken with unerring certainty in a determined space
of time. These forts can have no claim to the pompous
appellation of Sebastopol of the North ; and isolated as
they are in reality, no mere constitute a fortified place
of war than a few massive columns standing here and
there could merit the name of a building.—Galignani.
A horrible murder has just been discovered at Belle-
ville, close to Paris. On Saturday last the inhabitants
of the Rue des Annelets, having remarked that a lady
named Gaillard, aged 55, living at No. 7, had not made
her appearance for a couple of days, called the atten-
tion of the police to the fact. The house, which con-
sisted of but one storey, and had no porter, having
been opened by order of the magistrate, the body of
e unfortunate lady was found lying on the floor
a pool of coagulated blood. It was ascertained
at the murderer had used some heavy instrument
kik

,0 inflict the wounds which caused the death of his

victim. The chest of drawers, desk, and every other
kind of repository, had been ransacked, apparently for
the family papers of the deceased ; but a pair of diamond
earrings and a diamond ring were still on her person, as
were two gold watches, which were hanging up near the
bed, untouched. The murderer has not yet been dis-
covered.

BuxToN,--This fashionable spa is at present full of
company. On Sunday afternoon the Bev. Dr. 11I'Neill, of
Liverpool, preached in the open air. The rev. gentleman
teak his stand in the colonnade of the Crescent, and
preached a powerful and eloquent sermon from Acts
xxiv. 25, to a large and attentive audience, who occu-
pied the area, the slopes, and the windows of the
Crescent. The language was simple, the voice clear
and distinct, and the subject argumentative, but to
be comprehended by the most unlettered mind.
After stating the style and matter of the preaching
of St. Paul, the learned gentleman entered into the
subjects of his text with earnestness, using illus-
fra,tigns at once striking and familiar, and affectionately
urging upon his hearers the groat doctrine preached by
St. Paul. There was neither singing nor prayer. The
doctor had previously expounded portions of Scripture
to the inmates in the large rooms of several hotels.—
Depitire 44146ifer.