The Sun.
London, England, 1855-11-17 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, NO 16, 1855

At the Court of Bankruptcy yesterday the last exami-
nation of Mr. J. C. Mare was adjourned, to allow time
for the preparation of his accounts, which, it is stated,.
will be very voluminous.
The report of the Trust and Loan Company of Upper
Canada, to be submitted on the 29th inst., shows profits
for the half-year ending the 30th of September amount-
ing to 8,278 t. A dividend at the rate of 7 per cent. per
annum is recommended, and one half of the profits be-
yond 6 per cent, are to be carried to the reserve, which
will then stand at 7,9631.
DARING BURGLARY AND ROBBERY OF JEWELLERY.—
Yesterday morning, between the hours of two and three,
the premises of Mr. Chenu, 32, Blackfriars-road, were
burglariously broken open, and property, consisting of
gold-rings, lockets, watches, and other articles of jewel-
lery, to the extent of 501. in value, stolen.

LORD RECTOR OF THE UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOIV.—His
Grace the Duke of Argyll, who, in accordance with
established usage, was entitled to a second year's term
of office, was, on Thursday forenoon, unanimously re-
elected Lord Rector of Glasgow University. It thus
appears that there has been no foundation for the ru-
mour which prevailed for some days past, that the re-
election of his Grace would be opposed.

APOTHECARIES' HALL.—Names of gentlemen who
passed their examination in the science and practice of
medicine, and received certificates to practise, on Thnrs-
day, N0v.•15, 1855 : —Henry Guard Knaggs, Kentish-
town ; Henry Jones, London; Francis Joseph Dowling,
Chew Magna, Somersetshire ; James Theophilus Beck ;
Paulin Orgias, Grenada, West Indies.
The Court of Cassation has rejected the appeal of the
slate miners of Angers against the sentences pronounced
by the Tribunal of Maine-et-Loire on the 16th and 22d
October last, which condemned them to various punish-
ments for attempts at violenee, massacre, and pillage.
The telegraph from Dantzic on Friday afternoon an-
nounces that Admiral Dundas has gone to Kiel. Ac-
curding to recent advices, however, from well-informed
parties, it was feared that if the Russian waters should
be left free thus early the fleet of vessels which were
well known to be equipped and ready for sea, to convey
munitions of war from Cronstadt for the restoration of
Sweaborg, would be able to make one or two trips be-
fore the setting of the ice. After the departure of the
allies last year seven line-of-battle ships effected the pas-
sage from Sweaborg to Cronstadt.
THE ALLEGED MURDER AT ALDERSHOTT.—Yesterday
afternoon Mr. Shebbeare, one of the coroners for the
county of Hants, and a jury resumed the inquest, ad-
journed from the 6th inst., at the Alliance Tavern, in
the village of Aldershott, on the body of John Gordon,
a private soldier in the West Kent Regiment of Militia,
now stationed at the camp at Aldershott, who was found
dead in the vicinity of the camp on the previous Sunday
morning, under circumstances which left no doubt that
he had come by a violent death, as related in this jour-
nal on Friday last. The jury, after a short interval of
deliberation, found that the deceased had come by his
death from the wounds on his head, but how those
wounds had been inflicted there was no evidence to show.
MADAME TUSSAUD'S EXHIBITION.—More novelties
have been produced here by the indefatigable exertions
of the proprietors, and among the most interesting is an
admirable likeness of his Imperial Majesty the present
Emperor of Russia, Alexander the Second. His Ma-
jesty is represented in his usual military costume, dark
green coat, with silver lace and epaulettes, the national
colour, with pantaloons and jack boots. The execution
displayed, both in the fiurc and dress, is of the best
description, and is certainly one of the most complete
and interesting object- in this admirable exhibition.
CIVIL SERVICE UNIFORM.—A very neat and appro-
priate uniform has been recently adopted by several of
the clerks in the Customs at Hull, and there is reason to
believe that it will eventually become general among
that body of civil servants, as its style is greatly admired.
It is not unlikely that a knowledge of this circumstance
may induce those gentlemen at other ports who are in
favour of a uniform for the service to make a similar
movement in this respect.—Civil Service Gazette.
On Thursday last the Emigration Commissioners
chartered the ship Earl Grey, for the conveyance of emi-
grants from Southampton to Geelong. The contract
price was 141. 163. 6d. The Commissioners have also
advertised fur a ship to convey emigrants to Melbourne.
—Australian, and New Zealand Gazette.
The clipper ship White Star sailed from Melbourne on
the 30th of August, for Liverpool, She has on board 70
tons of copper ore from South Australia for Birming-
ham ; 1,000 bales of wool, rags, sheepskins, &e.; 85,195
ounces of gold dust, and 150 passengers.—Australian
and New Zealand Gazette.
EMIORATION FROM LIVERPOOL.—It has been stated in
a recent Liverpool paper that Government emigration
was about to cease from thence, and that the depot at
Birkenhead was to be given up. This is not the case, for
we are enabled to state that Mr. De Wolfe, the contrac-
tor, has renewed an engagement with the Emigration
Commissioners to provide accommodation and rations
for emigrants at that port until the 30th of June next.
We believe, however, that in consequence of the stop-
page of emigration from Ireland that the numbers likely
to embark from Birkenhead will be considerably re-
duced, and that in consequence the Commissioners have
had to submit to an increase in the contract price, which
is now at the rate of 3s. per diem, the former charge
having been 2s. only.—Australian and New Zealand
Gazette.

TILE CONSERVATIVE LAND SOCIETY AT HACKNEY.—
A numerous meeting was held at the Memo? Assembly-
rooms, Church-street on the 15th inst., to receive a
deputation from the Executive Committee, to explain
the plan of allotment of the recent valuable purchase of
an estate in that locality, to be allotted on the 22d inst.
The Lord Viscount Ranelagh presided, supported by a
deputation from the board, consisting of Colonel Knox,
M.P., H. Pownall, Esq, B. 11. Adams, Esqs., C.
Grunerson, Esq. (the secretary), G. Morgan, Esq. (the
surveyor), Rev. T. W. 0. Goodshild (rector of Hackney),
the Rev. Dr. Hewlett, the Rev. Alex. Gordon, and some
of the principal residents of the neighbourhood. After
several addresses in explanation of the objects and suc-
cessful progresa of the society plans of the Hackney
estate were exhibited, showing'a division of the estate,
with nearly 200 lots of freehold land, varying in price
from 401. up to 4001., with building conditions well de-
signed to secure the erection of a class of houses to im-
prove as well as to accommodate the neighbourhood.
The estate adjoins the parish church of St. John, and is
close to the station of the North London Railway.
VACANCIES, APPOINTMENTS, AND PROMOTIONS IN
THE CIVIL SERVICE.—Board of Trade : Mr. J. J. Mayo
has been appointed assistant to the accountant, thejunior
clerkship previously held by him having been abolished.
Mr. F. T. Jennings has been appointed a junior supple.
mentary clerk. Customs : Mr. A. B. Delap has bean
appointed a clerk in the examiner's office in London.
Mr. G. S. Ellison has been appointed a clerk in the exa-
miner's office in London. Mr. J. Fitzgerald has been
appointed a clerk of general business in London. Mr.
G. Saunders has been appointed a clerk in the London
Docks. Mr. J. Evans, landing surveyor at Belfast, has
been promoted to be landing surveyor at Greenock. Mr.
W. W. Godfrey, landing surveyor at Gloucester, has
been promoted to be landing surveyor at Belfast. Mr.E.
J. Pretty, landing waiter of the first class at Belfast,
has been promoted to be landing surveyor at Glouces-
ter. Mr. Robert Taylor has been promoted from the
first class of clerks to be principal clerk in the legal
quays in London. Mr. J. Meggs has been promoted
from the second to the first class of clerks in the legal
quays in London. Mr. N. 0. Cribb has been promoted
from the third to the second class of clerks in the legal
quays in London.—lreland : Mr. Dillon Brown has
been appointed junior clerk in the Chief Secretary's
office. Mr. J. P. Prenderghast has been appointed
Dublin turnpikes abolition commissioner.
The treaty concerning copyright, concluded between
Prussia and Great Britain in June last, has been ratified
and officially published in Berlin and in London. This
treaty reposes on the same basis as those concluded by
the French Government with the majority of German
States.
A well-known member of the Prussian Chambers, M.
de Vincke, elected by the town of Hagen, has not ac-
cepted his nonnina.tion. The following explanations are
given by the Pest .4 mpt Gazette of that step. A short
time after the election the King passed through Hagen,
where he met a very warm reception. He said on that
occasion—" This reception gives me the greatest plea-
sure, proceeding as it does from a town which has
elected as deputy to the Chamber one of my enemies."
These words determined M. de Vineke to resign.
A letter dated the 12th, in the Cologne Gazette, says:---
" M. de Prokesch is to visit London before going out
to Constantinople. He will proceed to the English
capital towards the end of next week. The Emperor
has given his approbation to the proposed reduction of
80 men per company in the 2d. and 4th corps d'armeo,
now in Gallicia. That measure will effect a saving of
eight millions of florins " (the florin is somewhat over
two franca).
TABLETS TO THE MEMORY OF THE LATH MARQUIS
OF LONDONDERRY AND LADY CATHERINE STEWART.—
Yesterday two beautiful mural tablets were erected in
Newtownards Episcopal Church by the Most Noble the
Marquis of Londonderry, one in memory of his lamented
father, the other in remembrance of Lady Catherine
Stewart, daughter of John third Earl of Darnley, and
wife of General Sir Charles Stewart. The tablets are of
statuary marble, on a dove ground, and in the Grecian
style of architecture ; and we have no hesitation in ex-
pressing our conviction that they are among the very
finest specimens of designing and cutting which Belfast
talent has ever produced in the same department of art.
The marble is of remarkable purity, the lettering has
been cut with the most artistic accuracy and finish, and
the myrtle wreath which ornaments each tablet, and en-
closes an appropriate symbol of the departed—that of
the noble marquis exhibiting a sword and pen in
intimate union, and that of Lady Catherine Stewart
displaying a rose bush, its only flower falling to the
ground—furnishes an admirable illustration of
tho advance which has recently been made in
artistic execution in our town. The tablet to the me-
mory of the late Marquis of Londonderry bears the fol-
lowing inscription :—" Sacred to the memory of Charles
Wm. Vane, third Marquis of Londonderry, K.G. , G.C.8.,
G.C.H., Knight of St. George of Russia, Knight of the
Tower and Sword of Portugal, and Knight of the Sword
of Sweden. He was born 18th May, 1776, and died 6th
March, 1854. His remains are interred in the family
vault of the Tempest family at Lang Newtown, in the
county of Durham. This tablet is placed here by his
son Frederick, fourth Marquis of Londonderry, A.D.
1855." It is due to tho public to state that the tablets
are the production of Mr. Robinson, of York-street, in
whose yard they were elaborated from the rough block
into their present highly-finished and attractive form.
The Marquis of Londonderry, with a discrimination un-
happily seldom associated with the nobility. of this
country, deemed it right and proper thus to patronise
native talent ; and we know we are expressing his feel-
ing when we state that the work has been completed in
a style highly creditable to the artists and satisfactory
to laioaself.—Belfmt