The Sun.
London, England, 1855-08-22 00:00:00

BRITISH ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETY.

• NEWPORT, ISLE OF WIGHT, Monday.—This learned
association held the first meeting of their annual congress
for the present year at this town. In the absence of the
Earl of Perth, who is detained at Dieppe by the illness
of one of his family, Mr. Pettigrew took the chair.
Among these present at the meeting were Sir W. H.
and Lady Dillon, the Misses Pettigrew, Mr. Planebe,
Mr., Mrs., 'and Miss Gould ; 'Messrs. Wakeman, Davi.,
Chapman, Wright, Lawrence, W. H. Black, the Rev. G.
Kell, the Rev. R. Wallace, &c.

Mr. Pettigrew, having apologised for the absence of the
noble president, opened the proceedings of the congress
by an introductory .address upon the ant4quity of the
Ik4le of Wight, as illustrated by the British Archaeological
As:ociation.

After the inopection of a number of documents, the
party proceeded to the residence of Dr. Wallace, and in-
spected the grammar school, interesting from its having
been the roritn in which the commissioner of the Parlia-
ment had a lengthened conference with King Charles I.
To-morrow ti)e society visit the ruined castle of Caris-
brook and other interesting buildings in the locality.

VISIT OP THE COURT TO BALMORAL.—The offieials of
the Great Northern Railway have received instructions
to hold in readiness thr.ir train of State carriages for the
conve; ance of the Queen and the Royal fain ly from
King's-cross station, London, to Sc, thane], next week.
Her limn] Highness the Duchess of Kent proceeded t-r
the north by the same route at the latrer end of la-t
ek. Her Royal Highness travelled by the Great
Northrrn day express, occupying a saloon-carriae.e, and
beink accompanied by her usual retir,ue of attendants.
CRYSTAL P ILACE.—SHILLING DAY.—AUGUST 21.
Admissions on payment. 13 274 ; jitter byseason ticket,
6'3—total visitors, 13,967. Total number on corre-
sponding day la.t year, 11,889
At six o'clock yesterday mornicg the thermometer of
M. Chevallier stood at 15 6-10 centigrade, 60 Fahren
heit ; at noon it wa. 23 3-10 centigrade, 731 Fahrenheit;
and at two o'clock, 25 4 10 centigrade, 77i Fahrenheit.
DEATH PROM BATIIING IN THE THAMES.—Yester-
day another youth, bathing in the Tr,arnes at Rather
hithe, was washed out of his depth by the swell of a
passing steamer, and drowned. The body was re-
covered, and, re'. being owne'l, lies in Rotherhithe dead-
house. It is that of a lad of 15. with red hair.
DUSTON IRON ORE COMPANY.—The meeting yester-
day being called for the election of an auditor only, the
company did not think ths-presenne of a reperter neces-
sary,

QUARTZ ROCK MARIPOSA MINING COMPANY.—We
are informed that no business was transacted at the
meeting yesterday, it !laving been "irregularly called."
QuatAtSTIIVE NOTICE. —AticitsTE, August 13.—A1l
quarantines have lately been removed by our Board of
Health. and vessels arriving from any uninfected ports
of the United Kingdom are admitted to nratique.
COURT.NIARTIAL.—At a general court-martial, held at
the camp before Sebastopol, Aug. 4, 1855; Quartermas-
ter of Brigade B. H. O'Reilly, Land TranAport Corps,
was dismksed the service for not having accounted for
the sum of 671. 134. 9d., part of a sum of 2101., Govern-
ment money, intrusted to him.
THE MAGISTRACY.—NichoIas Dunscombe, Esq., is
appointed deputy-lieutenant for the county Cork, in
room of the late Sir Wm. Cbatterton. The Lord Chan-
cellor has been pleased to appoint Thomas Spotswood
Gilmore, Esq., of Bellaghy Hotise, a magistrate for the
county of Londonderry.
On a Post-office official, arrested the other day in the
duchy of Brunswick, the enormous quantity of 1,400
stolen letters were found. He had only been attached
to the Post-office for one year. _ _ _

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• Ssme difficulty has arisen between the Government of
116Havia and the Ottoman Ministry, the latter having
replied in favourable term to u, netition of the Jews of
the province for greater freedom.
Great excite=ment was caused the other day amongst
the bather,. of Ramsgate by two great elephants belong-
lo .Cookee troupe centing down on the eande to
bathe am,dst the crowd.
ToTNES Eoreeroer.—lt is said that the vacancy in
the renresentation of this borough, caused by the call of
L( rd Seymour to the House of Veers, will be contested
by Mr Blount, a relative of the present noble duke. The
Conservatives are expected to bring forward a candidate,
but, as vet, nothing definite is known.
A reckless feat was performed at the Crystal Palace
a few afternoons since. One of the workmen engaged
in the completion of the circular water tower, for a wager
of a eallon of hoer ascended to the summit of the south-
ern tower by a rope which had been suspended there for
same purpose, and which hung down into the high road,
a height of more than 200 feet. He accomplished the
daring exploit, to the astonishment of a considerable
number of spectators, by pulling himself up hand over
band, and twisting his legs round the rope.
At a cricket match the other dsy between Earl Win-
tertnn'a Club and the 2d Surrey Militi), the whole 11 of
the latter were put out without a single run, nor was
there a ye or a wide ball given, so that the total of the
innings scored a 0. a tacit almost unexample l in the
annals of cricket. The curious part of the affair is that
in the next innings they scored 105 !
A CARD.—The Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone, artist
in hair. (late Chancellor of her Majesty's Exchequer).
Hairs carefully split with any degree of minuteness that
•ney he required. N.B. Hair-splitter to his Holiness
Pius IX.. the Roman Pontiff also to Alexander 11.,
Emperor of all the Russian.—Punch.
On Wednesday, the 15th inst., Mr. George Evans,
veterinary surgeen, of Carmarthen, South Wales, passed
his examination before a committee at the Cavalry Bar
racks, Hyde-park, for veterinary surgeon in the army.
PRICE OF GOLD.—The quotation of gold at Paris is
about at par (according to the last tariff), which, at the
English Mint price of 31. 17s. 102 d. per ounce for stan-
dard gold, gives an exchange of 25'17: and, the exchange
at Paris on London at short being 25•071, it follows that
gold is about 0.38 per cent, dearer in Paris than in Lon-
Inn. By advices from Hamburg the price of gold is
4251 per mark, which, at the English Mint price of
31 17s. 10d per ounce for standard gold, gives an ex-
change of 13•5 A ; and, the exchange at Hamburg on
London at mlinet being 13.51, it follows that gold is 0.06
eel. cent, dearer in London than in Hamburg. The
course of exchange at New York on London for hills at
60 days' sight is 110 per cent. ; and, the per of exchange
between England and America being 109 23-40 per cent„
it follows that the exchange is nominally 0.42 per cent.
in favour of England ; and, after making allowance for
charges of transport and difference of interest, the pre-
sent rate leaves a trifling profit on the importation of
gold from the United States.
THE CROPS.—An immense breadth of corn has been
cut. Simultaneously with the wheat harvest hay-
making has been going forward, of course under the
most favourable circumstances. As regards the character
ef the wheat crop reports are conflicting. From a care-
ful comparison of the accounts that reach us there can
he no doubt that the wheats are more or less affected
by blight and mould ;
at the same time we are bound
to ROW our cOnVktiOn that on this subject a good deal
‘c. exaggeration exists, and that the extent of the evil is
ennsiderahly over-estimated in certain quarters. —Sus.
sex A dvertieer,
RAILWAY 0-AMBLEES ROUGHLY HANDLED.—A party
of sailors lately travelling on the Glasgow and South-
western Reilway fell int,.
/limey was the handl of a number of
easel-W*0.14 ti;clcetere, Th, taro were soon lightened of
they began
tlie'r cash to the atneunt ot , ;Hell
think the fun had been long enough' on the side or too
sharpers. One of the tars rose up, and said that, if the
The sharper only smiled at what be deemed a foolish
not restored he should eject sharper No. 1.
threat. Jack coolly took the sharper by the shoulder,
and pushed him out of the window of the carriage.
Jack then went to sharper No. 2, and demanded the
money from him. He solemniy declared he had not the
money in his possession. "In that case," says Jack,
"you must follow your friend!" and out he went also by
- 'he window, There remained only sharper No. 3, who
i!ently did not, like the manner in which his friends