The Sun.
London, England, 1855-11-16 00:00:00

OXFORD AND SOUTH WALES CIRCUIT.

Judge, the lion. Sir Ed.. Vaughan Williams, one of the
judges of the Common Pleas. Staffordshire, Saturday,
Dec. 1, at the Ca.tle at Stafford. Worcestershire, Thurs-
day, Dec. 6, at Worcester ' • City of Worcester the same
day, at tho Guildhall of the city. Gloucestershire, Mon-
lay, Dec. 10, at G 1• ,ucester ; City of Gloucester, the name
day, at the same place. Herefordshire, Friday, Dec. 14,
at Monmouth, South Wales ; Glaruorganshiro, Tuesday,
Dec. 18, at Cardiff.
The days and places on the Western and Home Circuits,
as also Livorpcol, are not yet finally fixed.

The Messager de Gand states that since the arrest of
Madame Van Thielen on suspicion of being connected
with the murder of the Marquise d'EnnetiZ;res at Somer-
gen, she has undergone several interrogatories by the
examining magistrate. She firmly persists in the decla-
rations which she had previously made of her complete
ignorance of everything connected with the crime.
EASTERN ARCHIPELAGO CO3IPANY.—At a meeting of
this company held on Wednesday—Mr. H. H. Lindsay
presiding—the report and accounts were unanimously
adopted. The progress of operations is stated to be
satisfactory, but, although the amount of revenue bas
nearly reached the expenditure, three calls are to be
made between January mad July to meet the liabilitiesn
incurred in building the screw-steamer Labuan, g`
supplying other requisiW means for developing the
under-
taking. It appears that Mr. Radford, the superintend-
ent, has entered into an arrangement with the Sultan d
Borneo, by which, instead of paying a du.t.Yeos:
an allow-
one dol.
per ton on the produce of the Morro m
anco of 3,000 doll. per annum is settled
asula royalty, in
addition to an immediate payment of 3,500 dole. in cash.
The coal is described to be
good,
n and
the
quality of the
the works have
steadily advanced. The reportso
coal supplied to the Peninsular and Oinriennntsawl Serteatem
qCtolems-
pany continued to be favourable.
the Government, and an
tions, it was mentioned that the subj Pct of the charter is
still under the consideration of
to for ascertaining the result.
adjournment was agreed
yirnEcK ON FIRE. —W e last
BROADSTAIR
(7elillyßin the arrival of the Ramsgate
week alluded to
engine when the brig Hope, Portsmouth,of_. took fire off'
re informed that after it got to Broad-
this place. IVe a ready for working, a large number of
stairs,
boatmen,
cal
dca'llinsgthehmsehlveds the salvors of the vessel,
rushed upon those w o a the charge of the engine,
and threatened to cut the hose and throw it over the
pier if any attempt was made to extinguish the flames.
hey subsequently obtained possession of the hose,
which they hauled from the vessel to the pier, and
forcibly prevented the use of proper means to put out
the fire for more than an hour, while, as the tide was
ebbing, the fire was extending from stem to stern. At
last Lieutenant Wells, of the Coast Guard ser-
vice, boarded the brig and induced the miscalled
"salvors" to permit the working of the engine, when the
flames were speedily ani effectually extinguished. The
reason assigned by the boatmen for their disgraceful con-
(itict was, that in case the flames should be put out by
the engine the superintendent would have a claim with
them for salvage. Had the engine been allowed to work
at first the vessel would have been worth at least 2001.
more ; and if it had not been got into play at all the
hull would have been burned to the water's edge,s case
and
her spars totally lost. The circumstances of t
have been submitted to J. Cutler, Esq., Lord Warden's
deputy, and through him to the Board of Trade.—Rams-
ggto Journal.