The Sun.
London, England, 1855-06-02 00:00:00

HER MAJESTY'S STATE BALL. THE CIiANNEL MAILS AND THE WE/
TITER IN THE CHANNEL.

The Queen gave last evening a (second) State Ball at
Buckingham Palace.
About 1,900 invitations were issued, and included the
Royal family, the whole of the Diplomatic Corps, and a
very numerous party of the nobility and gentry.
The whole suite of State saioons were opened for this
reception, and the Throne-room was prepared for danc-
ing, as well as the Ball-room, by having an orchestra
erected, and a haut pas for the Queen and Royal family.
The Picture Gallery and the other rooms were very
tastefully decorated with rare and beautiful shrubs and
plants in flower, and were brilliantly lit with magnificent
crystal lustres filled with waxlights, and also withor-molu
chandeliers.
A party of the Yeomen of the Guard was on duty in
the Grand Hall, under ,command of Major Phibbs, the
Eron in waiting. Sir George Calton, the Ensign of the
corps, attended.
A Guard of Honour of the Foot Guards was on duty
in front of the palace, with the band of the regiment.
The company began to arrive at the palace soon after
9 o'clock, and assembled in the Picture Gallery.
Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cambridge and
the Princess Mary were attended by Lady Suffield and
Major Home Purves.
Her Royal Highness the Hereditary Grand Duchess
of Mecklenburgh-Strelitz was attended by Lady Caro-
line Cast and Baron Luhe.
His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge was at-
tended by his Equerries in waiting.
His Highness the Maharajah Dhuleep Singh was at-
tended by Sir J. Login.
B.er Majesty and his Royal Highness Prince Albert
and the Royal family, accompanied by her Serene High-
ness the Princess Adelaide of Hohenlohe-Langenburg,
were conducted by the Lord Chamberlain and other
officers of the Royal household from the White Draw-
ing-room to the Ball-room.
The Queen wore a dress of white tulle over white silk,
trimmed with bunches of lilac and white lilacs, with
green leaves and rosettes of green satin riband orna-
mented with diamonds.
Her Majesty's head-dress was composed of lilacs, to
correspond with the dress and diamonds.
The Duchess of Cambridge wore a white glace silk
dress, trimmed with point lace, with three deep flounces
of point lace, each flounce trimmed with feather fringe.
The stomacher ornamented with emeralds and diamonds.
The necklace diamonds. Her Royal Highness wore a
diamond tiara and white flowers.
The Princess Mary of Cambridge wore a dress of white
tulle over a rich white glace silk petticoat, trimmed with
bunches of grapes and green and gold crape leaves, the
body trimmed to match and ornamented with emeralds
and diamonds. The necklace pearls and diamonds.
Her Royal Highness's head-dress was formed of bunches
of grapes with green and gold leaves and diamond
ornaments.
The Princess Adelaide of Hohenlohe wore a white
satin dress covered with tulle and trimmed with red
roses. Her Serene Highness wore a garland of red

roses.
Her Majesty and his Royal Highness the Prince and
the Royal circle were followed by the general company
into the Ball-room, where the Queen opened the ball
with his Excellency Count Persigny, the French Am-
bassador.
Quadrille bands were stationed in the Ball-room and
the Throne-room, and performed a selection of the newest
dances, including " The Imperial Guards" (galop) ;
" The Highlanders" (quadrille) ; the "Review" (galop);
the " Garde Imperiale" (quadrille) ; the " Lily of the
Valley" (waltz) ; and the "Fountain" (polka).
Refreshments were served to ber Majesty's guests in
one of the principal State apartments during the evening,
and the supper was served in the State dinner-room, the
gold plate which decorated the tables being relieved by
a choice assortment of flowering plants.
Her Majesty, his Royal Highness the Prince, and the
Royal Family were conducted to supper by the great
officers of the household.

Lieutenant Colonel the Hon. A. Hardinge, Cold.
straam Guards, has arrived at the Crimea as successor

to Major• General Cuninghame.
The amount raised for the various objects of the Free
Church of Scotland for the year ending March 31, 1855,
was 308,0501. 9s. Bd.
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A private letter from Bucharest, of May 19, says that
the Hospodar Stirbey has for some days exhibited symp-
toms of mental alienation, which occasions great anxiety,
insanity being hereditary in his family.
THE IRISH BENllll.—Chief Baron Pigott has arrived
in Dublin, and it is stated that his health has been mate-
rially improved by his visit to the genial climate of the
south of Spain.
The Marquis Sebastiano Tanari, of Bologna, who had
been arrested at Turin at the request of the French
Government, was escorted on the 28th to the frontiers
of Switzerland with the whole of his family, after under-
going an imprisonment of seven days.
The vast estates of Sir John Henry Keane, situate in
the counties of Waterford and Tipperary, have come
into the market, and will be put up for sale in the
month of November next before the Court in Henrietta.

street.
Letters from Athens come down to May 26. On the
evening of the 25th it was said that M. Mavrocordato
was likely to resign, in consequence of the complaints
made by the Western Powers of the insufficiency of the
mea,,s taken by him to repress the brignnds.
All the campaign furniture of the Emperor, which
had been sent to Constantinople when his Majesty's
visit to the Crimea was in contemplation, was broaght

back t France by the last packet.
CRLCKEP.—ENGLAND v. SuaaET.—This match was
commenced at the Oval yesterday (Friday) ; the sub-
joined score will show the result. No play took place
on Thursday, owing to rain. score—Surrey, Ist in-
nings, 68; England, Ist innings, 148.
GOLD IN ALGERIA.—MM. Dumas and Pelouze, the
well-known chemists, have been directed by the Aca-
demy of Sciences to analyse a specimen of gold ore lately
transmitted by Marshal Valliant, when announcing to
the academy, as already stated, the news of the discovery
of a gold mine in Algeria.
APOTHECARIES' HALL.—The following are the names
of gentlemen who passed their examination in the science
and practice of medicine, and received certificates to
practise, on Thursday, the 31st of May, 1855 :—George
Meaden, Shillingston, near Blandford, Dorset ; Thomas
Brickenden Blandford, Army ; Samuel Atkinson
Riehlrds ; Henry Gibbons, Wolverhampton ; John T.
M. Symons, Trevalga, Cornwall ; Henry Harris, Park-

street, Grosvenor-square.
REGISTRATION OP COLONIAL SHIPS.—The Gazette of
last night contains a copy of a letter which the Lords of
the Committee of Privy Council (Board of Trade) have
addressed to the Commissioners of Customs, recom-
mending them to continue for a time the system of re-
gistering colonial ships de novo in this country, as prac-
tised before the Merchant Shipping Act came into ope-
ration. The commissioners have issued an order in
conformity with this recommendation.
THE GREAT GLOBE.—The following is a list of dis-
tinguished visitors !.who have recently visited the Great
Globe, Leicester-square :—His Grace the Archbishop of
Canterbury, his Grace the Archbishop of York, the
Bishop of Manchester, their Serene Highnesses the
Prince Vetor and,Princess Hohenlohe and suite, Prince
Napoleon, the Duke and Duchess of Northumberland,
Lord Palmerston, Lord and Lady John Russell, Lord
and Lady Walsieghain, Lord Waldegrave and family,
Earl Fitzwilliam and family, the Countess of Sandwich
and family, the Dowager Marchioness of Exeter and
family, the Dowager Marchioness of Londonderry and
family, Lady Constance Grosvenor and party, Lady
Rolle and party, Lady Laury, Generai Outran], Colonel
Tennant, Colonel Stevens, Sir C. Morgan, Colonel
Joliffe, Colonel Merrick, Major Elliott, Sir Felix Edgar
and family.
LETTERS FOR ABYDOS.—The following notice to the
public and instructions to all postmasters have been is-
sued, by command of the Postmaster-General :—" Gene-
ral Post-office, Juue, 1855. In order to prevent as far
as possible the delay of letters and newspapers for invalid
officers and soldiers in the British Hospital at Abydos,
which would result from such letters, &c., being sent to
the head-quarters of the army, a separate hag will in
future be made up in London for the correspondence
referred to, and letters and newspapers will be forwarded
in this bag, if they are plainly addressed to The British
Hospital, Abydos, Dardanelles ; and if the postage upon
them is duly paid in advance, according to the following
scale :—Weighing under / oz., 3d. ; I oz , and under t,
oz., 6d. ; exceeding l oz., and not exc,,edirr:; 1 oz , ls. ;
exceeding 1 oz., and not exceeding 2 oz., ls. 2d.; exceed-
ing 2 oz., and not exceeding 3 oz., ls. 4d. ; exceeding 3
oz., and not exceeding 3Ji oz., 1.. 6d. The regular mars
for the British Hospital at Abydos, intended to be for-
warded tl.rough France, and by French packet, via
Marseilles, will be made up in London every Monday
evening ; but supplementary mails will be made up on
the morning of the following day, containing such
correspondence as may bested or received in London in
time for the day mail to France.—ROWLAND HILL, Se-
cretary.
CRIMINAL JUSTICE BILL.—A bill, brought down from
the Lords on the 20th of March, and recently amended
by a select committee of the House of Commons, pro-
poses to diminish expense and delay in the administra-
tion of criminal justice in certain cases. For example—
in eases of petty larceny, where the property stolen is
not above ss. in value, the parties accused may be sum-
marily convicted by the justices of the peace at petty
sessions and committed to prison for three months, un-
less the accused object, or there appear to be reasons for
thinleing that the charge is fit to be made the subject of
prosecution by indictment. The justices must ask the
accused whether be consents to the charge being sum-
marily determined. Persons charged with larceny or
embezzlement, or attempting to obtain property by false
pretences, may plead guilty before justices in petty ses-
sions and be sentenced forthwith. The justices are to
warn the accused that he is not obliged to plead.
Justices may order restitution of property and pay-
' merit of expenses. The petty sessions under this act
are to be an open court, and held for the petty seS-
sioreal division. Every conviction under this act will
hav e the same effect as one pn indictment, save that it
will not be attended with any forfeiture. Any metro-
poli tan police magistrate or stipendiary magistrate may
act alone, and do all acts by this act authorised to be
done by justices of the peace in petty sessions. This
act is not to affect the Juvenile Offenders Act (10th and
11th of Victoria, chap. 82, and 13th and 14th of Vic-
toria, chap. 37). Conilmu.sation is provided for clerks
of the peace and others " whose fees may be seriously
diminia.aed by the operation and effect of this act."
Portions of two very old acts, the 12th of Richard 11.,
chap. 10, and the 14th of Richard 11., chap. 12, pro-
viding payment for justices of the peace and their clerks
in each county, as wages by the day for the time of their
services, to be payable by the sheriff, are repealed. The
act is not to extend to Scotland.

Within the memory of the oldest inhabitant there has
never been such a continuance of had weather and a
succession of gales of wind as have prevailed during the
last four months in the English Channel, and scarcely
any weather has been worse than during the last ten
days. In consequence the French and English mail
service between Dover and Calais has been altogether
deranged, and until yesterday morning nothing like any
regularity has occurred for several days. In many in-
stances the mail-packets have been from 10 to 14 hours
under steam waiting in the Calais roads to land or em-
bark the mails. They have gone over to Calais from
Dover, and a boat has put off to them, but the
French mail agent has not deemed it prudent to risk
the bags, and under these circumstances the steamers
have waited in harbour, when they have got in, un-

til there was sufficient water for them to come out.
On Thursday the wind blew very roughly from almost
all points of the compass, varying from north-east in the
morning to southwest at night, accompanied by violent
squalls, with showers of hail and rain. Yesterday
morning the new mail-packet Queen got over to Dover
in excellent time, and with the usual skill of her director
was placed alongside the famous Admiralty Pier, and
the passengers walked on shore. The Belgian Govern-
ment steam-packet from Ostend arrived some two hours
before ; but she not venturing to make use of the safe
Admiralty Pier, dropped her mails into the harbour-
boat and bore up for the Downs with her passengers.
The weather has been so rough that sometimes the mail
only has been got off into Calais Roads, and the mail
company have used another of their steamers to bring
over their passengers. A change to seasonable weather
is much prayed for on the coasts.

STATE OF TRADE.

( From the Manchester Guardian of this day.)

IVIMANCHESTER, June I.—The Whitsuntide holidays
have, as usual, very much thinned the attendance on
'Change since Tuesday, and cut off each day in the
middle. Of necessity, therefore, business has been inter-
fered with in a considerable degree, and very few words
will suffice to give our readers an idea of what has been
going on.
As the Liverpool cotton market has continued to
harden in price, until the quotations for Americans
stand at 0, per lb. higher now, at the close of the week,
than they did on Friday the 25th ult. A strong impetus
in the same direction has been daily imparted to the
Manchester market for yarns and goods. It may be
stated generally that spinners have raised their terms in
a ratio commensurate with the advance in the raw
material.

NOTTINGHAM, May 31.—Whitsun week, as usual, has
been more devoted to holiday making than to business,
consequently there has been a limited trade both in
hosiery and lace. The great speculation going on in
cotton will have a tendency to cause prices for that arti-
cle to be enhanced in this market.
LEICESTER, May 31.—Employment is on the increase,
though less than usual at this season for several years
past. The American orders are on the most limited
scale, and we do not hear of any fresh Government con-
tracts being given out.

WOOLLEN TRADE.

( From the Manchester Guardian of this day.)

LEEDS, June I.—There was a very lively market last
Saturday in both the Cloth-halls. Heavy goods were in
active demand, in which, as well as in nearly all other
descriptions that are adapted for the approaching Beason,
a considerable business was done. There was also a
fair attendance of buyers in the market on Tuesday, and
the transactions were quite of an average character.
HUDDERSFIELD, May 29.—The market continues to
wear much the same aspect as for some time back.
BRADFORD, Thursday.—Wool—There is still a very
meagre supply of combing wools, and the prices sought
in the country are too high for the rates current here.
Yarns—There is a disposition to demand higher rates.
Pieces—The present prices for cotton and worsted yarns
is such that old prices cannot any longer be submitted
to, and the manufacturers are seeking an advance.
HALIFAX, May 26.—We have more activity in the
market generally. Yarns are slightly enhanced in value,
and there seems a disposition to buoyancy in the wool
trade. The stock of fleece wool is very low yet, which
is enabling sellers to get rather higher rates for what
they have to offer, particularly in the superfine descrip-
tions of combing. Down ewes scarce and looking up.
All kinds of short wool very firm.

HAMBURG, MAY 31.—The War: w Official Gazette
mentions, among the killed, on the side of the Russians.
in the affair of the 22d of May, Major-General Alder-
berg,. Commander of the 2d brigade of the 9th division
of infantry.
A letter received by a commercial honse of Marseilles
announces that the Russian Government had purchased,
on different points of the Sea of Azoff, 500,000 chetwerts,
or 650,000 horse-loads of wheat for the supply of its
army. The possession of that sea by the Allied forces
will consequently deprive the Czar of those provisions,
the want of which will be the more severely felt as the
crops in the Crimea are likely to prove this year a com-
plete failure.
The Hon. J. Stanley, of the Grenadier Guards, son of
Lord Stanley of Alderley, is about to proceed imme-
diately to the Crimea, to join the third battalion of his
regiment.
CRYSTAL PALACE, JUNE 1 (ONE SHILLING DAY).—
Admissions on payment, 3,288; ditto, by season tickets
515; total visitors, 3,803.
A letter from Lorient states that the second floating
battery Foudroyante was to be launched in a few days.
The floating battery Lave will soon be ready to put to
sea ; she is 51 yards in length and 15 in breadth ; her
armament consists of 16 50-pounders, worked by elite
p,unners ; she will he mounted by a crew of 200 men,
and carry besides 200 marines ; her screw propeller is of
220-horse power. The weight of these floating batteries,
when armed, will be about 1,400 tons—their iron sheet-
ing alone weighs nearly 400 tons.
AN EXTRAORDINARY PERSON. —Last summer a para-
graph appeared m this paper, noticing the an-
nual visit of Mr. John Watkin of Darlington, to
Newcastle, during the hottest part of the season,
when, although the old gentleman had attained his
85:1 year, he walked the whole distance, being 33
miles, in one day, and we saw him the next morning
quite fresh, after a good night's rest. This was a
teat which, perhaps, not one in ten thousand could
have accomplished at the same advanced age. Toeday,
however, we have to record a still more extraordinary
piece of conduct in the same individual. An ad-
vertisement from Mr. Watkin is inserted in another
column, announcing to the creditors of his son, Vibe
failed as a draper in Newcastle nineteen years ago, that
if they, or their representatives, will send in their ac-
counts, he will, on their being found correct, discharge
them in full !—Newcastle Courant.
SUPPLY OP SPIRITS TO THE NAVY.—A Parliamen-
tary paper, published yesterday, gives the contracts en-
tered into for the supply of the Royal navy with spirits
from Aug.,853, to May, 1855. The description of
spirit was rum, principally from the West Indies, vary-
ing in price from 2s. 0, d. to 3s. 11d. per gallon. The
quantities contracted for this year have been as follows :
—in January, 67,307 gallons ; in February, 113,811
gallops ; in March, 95,066 gallons ; in April, 115,527
gallons ; and in May, 134,232 gallons. It would have
been well if in this return the grand totals of each
month and year had been cast out by the persons ap-
pointed to compile it.
PUPIL TEACHERS.—Yesterday a return was made in
a Parliamentary paper relative to pupil teachers ap-
prenticed under the minutes of the Council of Educa-
tion. From 1846, the first operation, to December
last, 12,274 were apprenticed. On the 31st December
there were 7,596 serving under apprenticeships. The
number who had terminated their apprenticeship at the
end of last year was 3,369. There are now in training
colleges 1,017. There are now engaged as assistant
teachers or in charge of schools, 1,439 ; and of 694 not
engaged, 33 had emigrated, 515 in other occupations
than teaching, and 146 returned as unknown or unoc-
cupied (principally females married or living at home);
added to which 32 were seeking employment, 29 inva-
lided teachers, 47 deal, and 111 inquiries unanswered.
LEEDS CHAMBER OF COMMERCE. THE BELGIAN
TARIFF.—The Earl of Clarendon has replied, through
Mr. Baines, M.P., to the memorial presented by the
Leeds Chamber of Commerce, on the subject of the dif-
ferential duties levied on British manufactured goods
imported into Belgium, and states that the attention of
Government is directed to the question. He informs the
chamber that a project of law for the alteration of the
tariff was submitted to the chamber by the late Belgian
ministry, but was withdrawn by the present cabinet,
who have under their consideration the question of a
revision of the tariff, and that the British minister at
Brussels is using his best efforts to obtain a remedy of
the grievance of which the Leeds Chamber of Commerce
justly complain. The council of the Leeds
.Chamber
of
Commerce have further steps in contemplation on this
question, which is of great importance to this district.
TIE CIVIL SERVICE.—Audit Office : Mr. Henry
Glover, Temporary Clerk, has been appointed Assistant
Examiner, vice Sterling, resigned ; Mr. Henry Madgin
has been appointed Assistant Examiner, vice Fraser,
resigned ; Mr. Edward Boor has been appointed Tempo-
rary Clerk, vice Denton, appointed to the Admiralty ;
Mr. Thos. Hurst has been appointed Temporary Clerk,
vice Wroth, appointed to the Solicitor's Department of
the Inland Revenue. Ordnance Department : Mr.
James Maxton has been promoted to be a Senior Clerk
Of the First Class, vice Durrant, superannuated ;
Mr. H. L. Hearsum has been promoted to be Senior
Clerk of the Second Class. vice Masten ; Mr. H. Bond
has been promoted to be Junior Clerk of the First
Class, vice Hear sum. The following gentlemen have been
removed from the Ordnance Department, Pall-mall, to
the War-office, in consequence of the Artillery and Engi-
neer cornhaving been placed under the Commander-in-
Chief, viz.' ----Messrs. James Maxton, First Class Senior
Clerk ; S. Bennett, W. A. Cockburn, A. Brandon,
Second Class Senior Clerks ; A. IT sea, F. T. Woodgate,
W. W. Vassey, E. H. Burnidge, First Class Juniors ;
A. G. Hastings, W. B Fitzpatrick, J. 0. Neill,
Second Class Juniors. Customs—Mr. D. Evans has
been appointed Clerk in the Tea Department in
London ; Mr. Louis Harris has been appointed Extra
Clerk in London ; Mr. R. Noblett has been appointed
Clerk in the East and West India Docks in London;
Mr. G. G. Reid has been appointed Clerk at Dublin.
A Clerkship is vacant in the Accountant and Comptrol-
ler General's Office of the Inland Revenue, Stamps and
Taxes Department Somerset-house, caused by the death
of Alfred Coppin Byers. The appointment of police
magistrate at Sydney is vacant, caused by the death of
Mr. Charles Wiadeyer.--Civi/ Service Gazette.