The Sun.
London, England, 1855-12-15 00:00:00

METROPOLIS LOCAL MANAGEMENT

ACT.

The following have been elected members of the Cen-
tral Board of Works, for the districts specified :
GREENWICH AND DEPTFORD.—Messrs. Bristow and
Thwaites.

PLUMSTEAD, CIIARLTON, AND LEwismig.—Mr. Chas.
Atkins, of Lewisham.
WooLwicri.--Mr. Lewis Davis.

Miss Nightingale has been in the habit of sending
home weekly considerable sums (often as much as 2001.
or 3001. a week) made up of small ones of 20s. or 305.,
which soldiers begged her to remit.

General Todtleben met with an enthusiastic recep-
tion on arriving at St. Petersburg a few days since. A
general, and officers of the army at Sebastopol, who
ha
log at the moment in the capital.
dinner was given bim by the Grand Duke Nicholas and
Yachtgt3Y Club has taken Cowes Castle, in the
the
Tppheenßedoytoalb e
lola of Wight, for a club house.
HACKNEY CHITECH RATE.—The following was the state
of the poll at its close yesterday, the second day :
Against the rate, 932 ; fur the rate, 704. Majority
against, 228.
MEATH ELECTION.—The following was the state of
the poll at its final close :—M'Evoy, 1,639 ; Meredyth,
899. Majority for M'Euvoy, 740.
The letters from Hamburg state that money has
again become very scarce in that city, and that the rate
of discount has returned to 6i per cent.

A banciiierwaB given on Tuesday evening, at Taun-
on his return from the Crimea.
ton, to Col. Chapman,
Yesterday morning a man was found lying dead on
the railway passing over Bridge-street, Hackney.
The commercial advices by the India mail yesterday
are, on the whole, slightly less unfavourable. At Bom-
bay such sales as bad been forced of manufactured goods
had been at a further decline, but at Calcutta there had
been an active inquiry at improving prices.
In the Court of Chancery on Thursday the case against
the original directors of the South Australian Copper
Mining Company was brought to a decision, and they
were declared liable to make good any loss occasioned to
the company by their mode of alloting the shares, and
to account for a difference of 8,0001. in the sum alleged
to have been paid for the mines. The question as to
the payment of costs was deferred, but the Court inti-
mated an opinion that they should be thrown upon the
defendants.
NEW PAMPHLET BY Ma. CoI3DEN.—Mr. Cobden, we
understand, is preparing a pamphlet for publication,
which will make its appearance in all probability in a few
days.—Manchester Examiner.
The cornoner's jury have held an inquiry into the
death of Mr. John Blaylock who was enfortunately
killed, a few days since, while attempting to leap upon
a train which was in motion at the Tranmere station of
the Birkenhead and Cheshire Junction Railway. It
appears that the trains do not stop at this station unless
a signal is exposed, and on this occasion the station-
master, William Williams, was absent from his duty.
The driver seeing no signal, of course did not stop at
the station, and hence the accident. A verdict of man-
slaughter has been returned against the station-master.
THE Crvin SERVICE COMMIESION.--As we intimated
in our last this unfortunate commission is in a state of
dissolation. Mr. Romilly has resigned his office as one
of the commissioners, and if we are not misinformed,
the experiment, having been tried and having signally
failed, will be given up "as a bad job." Mr. Henry
Lewis Wickham, late Chairman of the Board of Stamps
and Taxes, has been mentioned as his probable suc-
cessor to Mr. Romilly, but it is far more probable that
the Civil Service Commission will be knocked on the
head.—Civil Service Gacctte.
VACANIES, APPOINTMENTS, AND PRO3IOTIONS IN TIIE
CIVIL SERVICE--War Department—Mr. Richardson
has been appointed clerk in the Storekeeper's Depart-
ment, vice Forbes ; Mr. Charles D'Oyley Forbes has
been appointed clerk in the Storekeeper's Department
at Gibraltar.—The Board of Trade—Mr. Lancelot
Spence has been appointed a junior supplementary
clerk.—Customs—Mr. Henry S. Persse has been ap-
pointed a clerk in the Imports and Exports Office in
London. Mr. John B. Bunyard has been appointed an
extra clerk in the Imports and Exports Office in Lon-
don. Mr. Henry Jones has been appointed an extra
clerk in the Imports and Exports Office in London. Mr.
James Smethurst has been appointed an extra clerk in
the Imports and Exports Office in London.—Scotland
—A vacancy has been created in the office of Professor
of Military Surgery in the University of Edinburgh by
the death of Sir George Ballingall,
vacancy has been caused in the office of Vice-President
of the Itoyal Cork Institution by the death of Dr.
Baines.—Tasmania—Captain Hawkins has been ap-
pointed Suryoyor-General, and Mr. Sprent, Deputy
Surveyor-General of the Colony, in lieu of Mr. Robert
Power, retired on 5001. a year pension, and of Mr. H.
C. Cotton, either pensioned or otherwise provided for.—
Cape of Good Hope—Mr. Andrew Wyley has been ap-
pointed Geological Surveyor for the Colony of the Cape.
—Fast Indies—Mr. C. D. Russell has been appointed
collector of Sarun. Mr. G. L. Martin has been ap-
pointed collector of Purneah. Mr. E. F. Latour has
been appointed collector of Tirhont.—Ceylon—Mr. P.
W. Braybrooke has been appointed principal Assistant
Colonial Secretary, and clerk to the council. Mr. J.
Srvan has been appointed second assistant in the Colo-
nial Secretary's Office, in the room of Mr. J. Frazer,
deceased. Mr. E. R. Power has bden appointed Go-
vernment Agent for the Central Province, vice Mr. C.
R. Bullerr reeigned,—Civ4 Service Casette,