The Sun.
London, England, 1855-04-17 00:00:00

RAILWAYT RAPPIC RETURNS.

LONDON, BRIGHTON, AND SOUTH COAST RAILWAY.—
Traffic return for the week e[Sasnding April 14,
£13,912 2 9
Corresponding week last year 14,815 11 11
Total of the half-year to this date, 1855 146.i1,421 1' 3
Total of the half-year to this (late, 1854.-- 1,4,793 14 11
LONDON AND SOUTH-EASTERN R llLWA.Y.—Tratiic re-
tUra for the week ending April 14, 1855 i',lP,l4(l 1 9
Corresponding week last year 17,833 19 2

lucre:me in 1 C 5

.............. 30G 2 7

UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH. The Society of Solici-
ttooitsh leiesfitiurletthi
tee Seufprteini,r
sCeoeutrets
labvatei,naege liberally offered
a p
value of ten guineas for the best essay on the law
of the
ize
of
page in transits, this prize has been adjudged to"11°Ipr.-
Win. J. Elston, of Perthshire. The Stratonprize for
the best essay on the law of mandate or agency was
awarded to Mr. Robert Mailer, of Perthshir, and the
prize for the best-written answers to questions dictated
i,! the class-room, was Awarded to Mr. John Stirling
Henry, of Kirrierouir.—Edinburgh Courant.
THE TOWN COUNCIL OF GLASGOW AND THE EM-
PEROR NAPOLEON.—The Town Council of Glasgow, on
the motion of the Lord Provost, has agreed to transmit
a congratulatory address to the Emperor and Empress
of the French, ou the occasion of their auspicious visit
having to her Majesty. His lot dship, in commending the mo.
tion to the adoption of the council, reminded them that
the Emperor of the French was acquainted in the die-
trict,Eghnton Pabl . a '
ace, in Ayrshire, and would, therefore,
take more i been niegt at Hamilton Palace, and
interest in the address.—.Edinburuk Courant. 1

The screw steamer Zebra arrived in the Mersey, from
the Ciyde, yesterday, and iq being surveyed by Captain
Bevis, the Admiralty agent, with the view of being taken
up for the transport service,

- The sailing ships Onward and Lai v Russell, which are
being fitted for transports at Liverpool, will be ready f,,r
sea this week. The former will take out 65 horses and 78
men, and the latter 65 horses and 70 men.
The large sailing ships Saldanha and Great Ta,mania,
which are also being fitted at Liverpool, will be ready for
sea in the course of a month. The former will take out 75
officers and 750 men, and the latter 74 officers and 1,200
men. AU thesetransports are under orders to return with
invalided and wounded soldiers.

Twenty-four naval volunteers were forwarded from
Liverpool to London on Saturday, and 40 more will be
forwarded to-day.
The Princess Alice left Sheerness yesterday at 10 a.m.,
for Portsmouth. Her speed from Woolwich averaged
13 3.10 th knots. Rear-Almiral Dundas has selected this
vessel for the nurp ise of visiting his aqua iron pirsonally,
and more pa, ticularly the squadron of gun-boats attached
to the ships under his command.
The Thistle gun-boat, Lieutenant D. Spain, tender to
the Royal George, has arrived at Sheerness, from Green-
"tithe to wait orders.
The Phoenix screw steam-sloop, C inimander John M.
Hayes, has left Sheerness for the Baltic direct, taking
under her charge for towing, as required, the Starling
gun-boat, tender to the Royal George, and the Redwing
gun-boat, tender to the Nile.
The trial of the machinery of thelllawke, 60 guns,
was in every respect satisfactory. Her average speed
was 7 5-10th knots.

The Admiralty have decided on enlarging No. 1 dry
dock at Sheerness to enable ships of war of increased
dimensions to be docked therein. The conditions of
contract have been issued by the board.
The following appointments and promotions have
taken place :
Lieuter•ants—De l 3 Cheroig, recently promoted from
mate of the. Snake, to the Hawke ; George Borlase, to
the Childers.

Chaplains—Henry Jones, from the Formidable to the
Waterloo ; George Jackson, from the Waterloo,
to be chaplain and naval instructor to the Cornwallis.

Surgeons—John Jrffe,,tt, recf,ntly serving in the
Waterloo, to the Childers ; Win. M.`Derrnutt, to the
Waterloo.

Paymaster—S. Fisher, to the Duke of Wellington.
Clerir—Charles K. F,ulkes, to the Childers.
Clerk's Assistants—J. R. Horiiman, to the Impreg.,-
.
na,ble ; Nicholas 13. 13,.linys, t the Lightning.
Second Musters—George A, Stahl), recently serving
as acting master of the Greciadi ; John P. C. Clements,
and Henry Wm. Inglis, recently serving; as acting
master of the Styx, have been promote,l to be masters.
The Hecate steam-vessel, Commawler Glynn, left
Woolwich for Greenhithe on Saturday, to have her
compasses adjusted, and will then proceed to the Black
Sea.

The Locust left Woolwich yesterday for Greetthithe.
The steamer Cambria, Captain Brownless, has arrived
at Kingstown to ship horses for the artillery in the
Crimea, &c.

A Limerick paper of Saturday announces the depar-
ture on the previous day of draughts from the depots of
the 9th, 39th, and 89th fir the seat of war.

,
On Sunday a party of 26 wounded soldiers arrived at
the North Wall, Dublin, from Plymouth, in the Screw
Company's steamer Sylph. They consisted of one colour-
sergeant, two sergeants, two corporals, and 21 privates,
and were from various regiments of horse and foot. Some
of these brave fellows have beet engaged in the principal
13,,ttles fought in the Crimea, and all were more or less
severely wounded. They soon became objects of interest
to a large number of persons on the quays, and every
accommodation was provided for them by the p,lice on
duty. One man, a private from the 11th Hussars, ex-
cited special notice by wearing around him the cloak of
a Russian officer.

THE MILITIA.
The total strength of the Ist Regiment of Warwick-
shire Militia, now assembled for permanent duty, exclu-
sive of commissioned officers, is about 400 men. Parties
commanded by officers are stationed in Birmingham,
Coventry, Stratford, Atherstone, and other towns, for
the purpose of recruiting, which, however, does not
proceed very satisfactorily.
The second division of the Narthamptonshire Militia,
composed of 307, including officers and men, will arrive
at Liverpool, from Dublin, to-day. They will be imme-
diately forwarded to Plymouth.
There was a great muster of the city of Dublin regi-
ment on Saturday, in order to ascertain which of them
were willing to volunteer for foreign service, either at
Gibraltar, Malta, or the lonian Isles. Colonel Lat
Lieut.-Col. Routhe, and other officers were at the Linen•
hall Barracks at half•past 12. The men were formed in
hollow square, when the colonel addressed them in ex-
planation of the course before them. The officers, on
being asked if they would volunteer, walked into the
centre of the square, with the exception of the doctor,
Surgeon Leech. The men were then told off in com-
panies, and individually asked, when it appeared that
the great majority had volunteered to accompany their
colonel wherever he was going. There was loud cheer-
ing ou this being announced. It appears that not more
than three fourths of aey militia regiment will be re-
quired ; the remainder is to stay at home and act as a
depot.
The Antrim Riflep having given upwards of 75 volun-
teers to the line, Ensign Goddard ha•j been recom-
mended to the proper authorities for a commission in the
reenlarariny..

Teae Monaghan Militia has given 52 volunteers to the
regqiararmy.

The Galwav Militia, having been called on to volun-
teer for the Ordnance and line ilur;ng last week, their
c!,l"ne!, theM:!,lgilis of Clanricarde, addressed his regi-
ment on parade on -Friday morning, statitr that an
officer from the Royal Artillery, arid woollier from the
39th R-viment, were there in xtendance, by authority
from the \Var-office, to receive the volunteers. On
noticing a slight hesitation, in consequence of some mis-
underslaniling respectinE,r the ainoui.t of bounty each
)lunteer would receive in cash, Captain Eyre, of the
Galways, sprang forward, and sail, that he and his
I,rother officers volunteered, with their men, in a body
for the army of the Crimea. This met with a hearty
resp:mse by a cheer from this gallant corps.

THE ADVANCED SQUADRON OF THE
BALTIC! FLEET.

the Arrogant, Nyborg, Great Belt, April 9.
We had a good pa.sage to the Scaw, having rounded
that point on the third day, when Captain Yelverton, in
Tartar, and the Cossack, under his orders, to proceed to
Landscrona,
Elsinore and Copenhagen but, meeting with the ice
bef ire reaching the latter place, he did riot get bey(2n,l
46 was detached with the Esk, the
where his squadron is contin-d by the ice.
The Imperieusi>, with the Eorvallis and the Conflict,
Proceeded irmards the Great Belt, and arrived off IZeef
Ness on Sunday aft.ernonn, the 14 inst. Tire former
ship. touched the ground off that point, but came off
again without the slightest injury. On the 3d a great
accumulation of ice surrounded the shins. and, in order
to e.cape being drifted away by it, the three ships were
removed to Seiro Bay, where they remained till the
morning of the 9th. On the 7th the Cor.flict was senttowards Nyberg
to report. the state of the ice, and On
reaehinz that place found it breaking up, and a southerly
current has since drifted it into Kiel Bay. Yesterday
having been unfavourable from snow and sleet for '
moving the ships, we all got under way this morning at
6 o'clock, and arrived at this anchorage soon after noon.
All well."

[ADVERTISEMENT.]-11olloway'ei Ointment and Pills
again ,uccessful in curing a Bad Leg.—Mr. E. Williams,
of Dylife Mines, Madly/114th, states that a Mend of his
in Flintehire, suffered for two years with a dreadful bad
leg, which defied the efforts of several persons to cure,
notwithstanding various remedies were tried. He en-
dured excruciating pain for several months ; and when
paying him a visit, he recommended him to use Hollo-
way's ointment and pills, from the effects of which a
change for the better was quickly produced, and ulti-
mately his leg was soundly cured. He cow enjoys ex-
cellent health. Mr. Williams will satisfy any party of
the truth of his statement.—Sold by all druggists, and
at Professor Holloway's establishments, 244, Strand,
London, and 80, Maiden•lane, New York.

Miss Roy, a benevolent lady, in the Isle of Mull, who
kindly paid fair wages for the society, in return for
work, has thus written :—" If the benevolent donors
could see the eagerness with which the poor people
crowd for work, and the blessings they bestow on those
who sympathise with them and mitigate their distresp,
they would feel highly gratified at the result of their
efforts." The testimony of Miss B. M'Lean, of
Coll, and of the Rev. Mr. and Mrs. M‘Leod, of Mull.
is to the same effect. The Rev. Mr. M`Tavish, of
Islay, in reincsiing a grant of 15/. (since sent.) says,
"I find destitution is becoming more general, es-
pecially among the females." A veteran officer. Cap-
tain E. Ross, lath 93d Highlanders, who superintended
the distribution from our fund of a grant in a district on
the mainland, says, "I never knew so little money in
the way of relief do so much good."
Mrs. M'Allister, the lady of Dr. WA., of Broadford,
with reference to another recent grant, says in a letter
our secretary, Mr. Bond, dated the 10!h ult., "Be-
fore the females got employrn, nt I certainly dreaded
serious consequences from want, but since they have
had knitting I take heart, as there are, comparatively
Teaking, few complaints. They are so eager to earn as
much as they can that they sit up two nighfs in the
week, they say they will have time enough to sleep when
they will have nothing to do." In another letter from
the same lady, dated the 31st ult., in describing the
earnest desire of the most elderly and infirm to earn the
hr,al they require, Mr 4. WAllister says, " One aged
woman, in trying to do the work as well as possible,
hal singed all her hair, by stooping to the peat fire at
night ;" many districts in the Hebrides being deficient.
in the roots of the pine, which give light in the " ingle
nenk of more favoured island districts.
From the Island of Harris, where the Society hal
previously afforded valuable assistaxee, in a letter now
before me, dated 31 April, addressed, to our secretary
rom the schoolmaster of Scalear, asking for renewed'
aid (since granted to a small extent) to that remote
I island, he says, "The poor creatures are in a famished
state, without food or clothes ; neither have they a par-
ticle of seed to crop their lands with. Unless some
seed be sent them, they will next year be worse off that:
they are this one. I never saw such severe destitution.
I tear many of the poor creatures have already starved
for want of fond ! I hope your commitiee will take
their sad position into consideration, by sending them
immediate relief."

In asking you, sir. t•-) bring these painful facts be-
f )re your -ceders, I know I need make no further ap-
peal, and will merely observe, that in the worst phases
of Irish destitution, the able-bodied po,r were entit'ed
to relief; had workhouses t ) go to, or could way der forth
to plead fir f, +I. These pnor people in the Hebrides,
the kindred of those brave High7anders, who have per-
formed prodigies of valour on behalf of their Queen end
c iuntrv, are not entitled to relief while able-bodied ;
when disabled they may have miles to travel, to find a
poor-law inspector ; they have no workhouses in which
they can take refuge ; they cannot ..wander forth, and
invade, like hungry wolves, our southern towns, for
rugged mountains or stormy seas hem them in, with
nothing but the skies above, and the barren muir around
them to derive succour from, unless benevolence and
Christian charity respond to our advertised appeal for
largely-extended help.
I remain, sir, your obedient servant,
CHARLES FORBES, Bart.
Broom-wood, Clapham, April 14, 1855.
P.S.—I may add, in reference to a parac,rraeh of my
letter that, though possessing, as a Highland laird, up-
wards of twenty miles of turnpike road throtelt.m
estates, among a thriving., well-doing tenantry, I may
be considered as tieing interested in keeping down
poor-rates, yet I do feel fiat justitiain ruat cce!um,
and that what is humane and Christian for England
and Ireland must be the same for the poor Scot.
Were matters so, we, the society, would have less need
of urging "the case of the poor Hebrideans and West
Highlanders.

LA TV INTELLIGENCE.-April 16.

COURT OF EXCHEQUER.
BOYLE V. WISEMAN.

This was an action for libel, triel at the last assizes for
Surrey, before Mr. Baron Platt and a special jury. when
a verdict was found for the plaintiff, with 1,0001.
damages.

Seieant Shee now moved for a rule nisi, calling upon
the plaintiff to show cause why that verlict should not
be set aside, and a new trial granted, on the grounds that
evidence was improperly received and rejected, misdirec-
tion, and excessive damages. Reasonable evidence, he
said, was given of the original letter being abroad, and
not being able to have it produced in England. The
secondary evidence as to publication was proved by the
Rev. H. Ivers, who swore the original letter he saw be-
gan "Monsieur l'Aleb6," wh,.?roa,r-, the liter he was cross-
examined upon began simply "Monsieur." Affidavits
were novrread from Cardinal Wiseman and two others,
deposing that the letter beginning " Monsieur" was the
only original letter, and that he did not write the letter
referred to by the Rev. H. Ivers. The original letter
the Cardinal had written was in court in the possession of
the party who bail come aver and had it in his custody.
It became a question of serious importance now—a ques-
tion far beyond any amount of damage—and that was
whether the cardinal had been guilty of a falsehooci and
more, for the evidence of the Rev. H. Ivers was to the
effect that the cardinal was putting forth as a genuine
document that which he knew to be a forgery. The
judge, he contended, should have received that letter.
The Lord Chief Baron—For the purpose of obtaining
a rule you need not further labour that point.
Mr. Serjeant Shee—Upon the second point he had
wanted to show at the trial that the word " expulsV
was not in the original letter—that it was wrongly
translated.
A rule nisi was ultimately granted, on the ground that
the judge ought to have decided whether the letter ten-
dered was the original or not, and excessive damages.