The Sun.
London, England, 1864-06-20 00:00:00

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PURSUANT to a Decree of the High Court of
Chancery, in a cause William White and others v.
Marian Lyons and another, the Creditors of MOSS LYONS,
late of Doughty-street, in the county of Middlesex, Floor
Cloth Manufacturer, who died in or about the month of
February, 1864, are by their solicitors, on or before the Ist
day of July, 1864, to come in and prove their debts at the
chambers of the Vice-Chancellor Wood, at No. 11, New-
square, Lincoln's-inn, in the county of Middlesex ; or, in
default thereof, they will be peremptorily excluded from the
benefit of the said Decree.
Thursday, the 7th day of July, 1861, at 12 o'clock at neon,
at the said chambers, is appointed for hearing and adjudi-
cating upon the claims.
Dated this 10th day of June, 1864.
HY. LEMAN, Chief Clerk.
ASHITRST, MORRIS, and CO.,
6, Old Jewry, London, Plaintiff's Solicitors.

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Naval and Military Intelligence.

The Galatea, 26 gun screw frigate, Capt. R. Maguire, ar-
rived at Spithead on Saturday from Corfu, Malta, and
Gibraltar, with troops and invalids on board. She sailed
from Corfu. on the 2d inst., Malta on the 6th, and Gibraltar
on the 12th. She brought the following troops from Corfu
—29th company of Royal Engineers—Second Capt. G. W.
Stockley, Lieut Jones, 5 sergeants, 13 corporals, 73 privates,
16 women, and 16 children ; Staff of the Royal Engineers—
Brevet-Major de Vere ; Lieuts. Savi, Rowe, and English,
Assist.- Surg. Meares Medical Staff—Surg.-Major Grant;
Ist class clerk of works Marshall ; 2d battalion, 4th Regi-
ment, 1 serg., 1 woman, and 2 children; Ist battalion, 9th
Regiment, 1 serg., 2 women, 9 children; 2d battalion, 9th
Regiment, 2 men, 1 woman, and 1 child; Commissariat Staff
Corps, 3 men and 2 women; barrack department, 6 men, 5
women, and 29 children; prison staff, 4 men, 3 women, and
17 children ; two widows of soldiers and 5 children. From
Malta the Galatea brought as invalids from regiments in the
garrison, 5 sergeants, 3 corporals, 97 privates, 8 women, 22
children. The Galatea steamed into Portsmouth harbour
and landed the troops from Corfu at the dockyard on Satur-
day afternoon, the 29th company
of Royal Engineers being
forwarded on by the military authorities to Aldershot by the
South-Western Railway at 4 p.m,, and the remainder to the
depots of their respective regiments. The invalided soldiers
will be landed from the ship to-day
and forwarded to the
Royal Military Hospital at Netley. A few naval invalids
brought home in the ship were transferred on Saturday to
her Majesty's ship Victory and the Royal Naval Hospital
at Haslar,

The hired sailing transport Star India, Capt. Morris,
arrived at Spithead on Saturday with time-expired and in-
valided soldiers on board from India, hav4g sailed from
Bombay on Feb. 26, and called in at St. Hele& on May 6.
The officers accompanying the troops on board consist of
Lieut. Budken, 82d Foot, Capt Robinson, 89th, Capt Lloyd
and Lieut. Sharpe, 98th. The troops comprise 22 sergeants,
330 men, of whom 150 are invalids and the remainder time-
expired men, 24 women, and 33 children. The whole will
be disembarked to-day under the supervision of Col. Shad-
well, Assist. Quartermaster-General, the invalids sent on
to Netley, and the remainder to their regimental depots.
The Walmer Castle, hired sailing transport, Capt. Orms-
ley, arrived at Spithead yesterday from Bombay with troops
and passengers as follows :—From Rurrachee—Brevet-
Major M'Bean, V.C., 93d Regiment; Capt. Malthus, 94th ;
Lieut. Burgoyne, 93d ; Lieut. Parkinson, 82d; 266 men from
various corps serving in India, 21 women and 25 children.
From Bombay—Mrs Westrop, 2 children and servant; Mrs
B. J. Poner. From St. Helena—The Rev. Mr and Mrs
Helps, 4 children and 2 servants ; 2 soldiers and 1 woman
of the St. Helena Regiment. One birth and 11 deaths
occurred during the voyage home. The disembarkation
of the troops on board the Walmer Castle will tato place
to-day at the same time and under the same supervision as
those on board the Star of India.

The Atalanta, hired sailing transport,also arrived at Spit-
head yesterday from India, with a part of the 74th R egi-
ment on board from Madras, whence she sailed on the Bth
of March, calling in at St. Helena on the 9th of May. From
the latter place she brought a mail, which was landed at
Portsmouth yesterday. The Atalanta entered Spithead by
the western channel, but before reaching the anchorage she
was met by Mr James Garrett's (Lloyd's agent) cruising
cutter, and received from her instructions to proceed to
Gravesend, where the 74th are ordered to disembark, and
she consequently passed through Spithead to the eastward
without anchoring. The remainder of the 74th are hourly
expected in the Hornet, which vessel will be sent on, like
the Atalanta, to Gravesend.
The Channel Fleet at Spithead is engaged filling up with
coal, provisions, and stores, in readiness to proceed to the
Baltic, should its presence be required in that quarter.
Every ship in the fleet is in the most perfect order.
The Pearl, 21, screw corvette, Capt. J. Borlase, C. 8., was
paid out of commission at Portsmouth yesterday, under the
superintendence of Captain F. Scott, C. 8., and Aide-de-
Camp to the Queen, commanding her Majesty's Victory.
James Hawton, coxswain of the Pearl's launch, and John
Stone, captain of the mast, received a silver medal and gra-
tuity for long service. ;
The paddlewheel steamsloop Bulldog, 6, Capt. Charles
Wake, left Plymouth Sound on Saturday afternoon for
Bermuda.

The screw steamship Lion, 68, at Devonport, went into
the Channel on Saturday to test her engines and machinery,
preparatcry to receiving Capt. Arthur Farquhar, and the
crew of the Hogue, the duties of which ship in the Coast-
guard are to be performed by the Lion.
The paddlewheel ateamsloop Gladiator, 6, Capt. Francis
IL Short, having discharged her freight of Irish provisions
at Devonport, was towed on Saturday from the Victualling
Yard, to the Dockyard, to be stored and victualled with all
despatch. It is probable that she will be ready for sea to•
day, and that she wiil be sent on troop service to the West
Coast of Africa.

On Friday and Saturday the C, G, E, and II troops of
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the 16th Lancers arrived at Colchester, where they will
occupy the recently-erected cavalry barracks. The head-
quarters
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Colchester. It is not expected that the regiment, which is
under the command of Colonel Dickson, will remain more
than a year in England, as it stands.
first on the list for
India, and will doubtless proceed to the east in the course
of 1865. The detachment stationed at Ipswich is under
the command of Major Burnell,
In accordance with the finding. of district court-martia I
held at Aldershott, Troop Sergeant-Major a Morton, sth
battalion Military Train, has been ' dof having, in
his capacity of pay-sergeant, received discount on moneys
expended for vegetables, Sze,, suppliede t the men of the
battalion, and been sentenced to b reducedto
to the ranks,
The charge was brought by Mr De
to Messrs Chidell Brothers, army. urston,
the offence
alleged being in contravention of par. contractors, 4
par. 29, p.. 154,, Queen's..
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any No
finch-
vidual of whatever rank in the army
gratuity in the shape of discount, o! isdteur receiveany otherdeno-
mination or pretence, on Paymet forun articles furnished
work done for the troops." At the
Major Morton pleaded his entire iunenuortcence of the offence against
.him, denied having received any discounte
from the complainant or his late employers, and
allowed legal assistance. This asked to be
dapplication
the
ref used.
The finding of the court martial was to prisoner at
the sergeant's mess of the battalionas rea A
on Thursday
.morning,
and was then carried out,
Memorandum has since been
issued, in which the Lieutenant
_General
calling attention to the ease-Gaehndertal
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paragraph
above quoted, mentions his expectation that
beet commanding..
officers of regiments will afford him their to eradicate the system
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enabling
received on payment of articles furnished to the troops--" a
system which in;t only engenders discontent among pri-
vate soldiers, because ... Is prejudicial to their interests, but
induces and promotes fraun and dishonesty among pay-ser-
geants and others." The memo,:andum concludes by ex-
pressing the determination of the lieu, enact-general com-
manding to bring to trial any person undo: his command
who may be reported for receiving discount, either directly
or indirectly, and to visit upon the offender the utn:ost
penalty the court martial may award.
The headquarters of the Scots Greys, under the command
of Colonel 11. D. Griffith, C. 8., arrived at the North Camp
Aldershot, on Thursday, , from Birmingham,
via Reading.
The strength of the regimentin marching in was—officers,
30—sergeants, 38—rank and file, 510_-officers' chargers, 65
—troopers, 365. The women and children of the regiment
are still at Birmingham, Coventry, and Weedon, where
they will probably remain until the regiment moves into
barracks.
The Aldershot Camp Industrial Exhibition will be opened
at the Clubhouse at noon on Wednesday, the 20th inst., by
the Duke of Cambridge, Field Marshal
Commanding-in-
Chief, who early extended his patronage to the undertaking.
The idea was originated by Lieut.-Col. Ponsonby, com•
manding the 2d battalion 12th Regiment, and was first car-
ried out by that battalion at Dublin under his superin-
tendence, and with signal
success. 'Ph
--0 articles to be ex-
hibited will be divided into two classes_first, those in-
vented or made by officers, non-commissioned officers, and
men now quartered at Alder.shott, shott, or
by their wives and
children ; and, second, of articles collected by officers, non-
commissioned officers, and men now quartered at Alder-
shott, or by their wives and children (bona fide their own
property), during the course of their service in various parts
of the world. The exhibition will be open until the 14th
of July (Sunslays excepted), and the sum received for ad-
mission at the doors will go to defray general
expenses,
and
any surplus will be divided among committees of regiments
and corps exhibiting.
The flying column, detaching from the Aldershot division,
under the command of Major General Russell, consisting
of the 6th Dragoon Guards, the Royal liorse Artillery, de-
tachments of the Royal Engineers, Military Train, and the
37th and 87th Regiments, after
encamping at S indhurst for
several days,' in accordance with instructions, returned to
Aldershot on Wednesday, and took Part in the evolut:ons
of a field-day on Thursday.
We have to record the death of a distinguished Indian
officer, Major-General W. Sage. The deceased served as an
ensign in Rawab. in 1812, and as a lieutenant in the Nepaul
war in 1815, for which he received a medal. He was as a
major with the army of the Indus in Affglianistan, and at
the storming and capture of Ghuznee. A medal was
awarded him for his services on that occasion. lie was the
brigadier who commanded the Saugor field force, an during
the great mutiny of 1857 he held the fort of Saugor with a
small and inadequate garrison during upwards of seven
months, under trying circumstances, and until relieved by
the fore() under Sir Hugh Rose.

British Policy in Japan,

Lord Grey has given notice of the following reso-
lutions for Friday, July 1:-
1. That the relations between this country and Japan
appear to this house to be at present in a highly unsatisfac-
tory state.

2. That it is shown by the papers laid before Parliament
by command of her Majesty that the treaty concluded be-
tween her Majesty and the Tycoon of Japan on the 26th of
August, 1858, gives to British subjects in Japan rights and
privileges which the Government of that country was
avowedly reluctant to grant, and was on:y induced to con-
fer upon them through dread of British naval and military
power.

3. That the Government of Japan has also been induced
by this same fear to make with other European nations and
with the United States treaties generally situilar to that
which it has concluded with her Majesty.

4. That under the above named treaty British subjects
are entitled to claim admission into certain portions of the
territory of Japan without being subject to the jurisdiction
of its Government, her Majesty having taken upon herself
the obligation of enforcing on their part good conduct and
obedience to the law.

5. That the reports of her Majesty's diplomatic servants
show that her Majesty has not been able to fulfil this obli-
gation; the provisions of the statutes authorising her
Majesty's consuls to try and punish British subjects for
offences committed in Japan, and the means available for
carrying these laws into effect, have proved altogether in-
sufficient to prevent gross outrages and insults from being
inflicted on the people of Japan by British subjects and
persons assuming that character.
5. That the animosity against foreigners excited in the
minds of the Japanese by these outrages and insults has in-
creased the repugnance long felt by the most powerful
classes among them to increased intercourse with European
nations, and has led to the perpetration of some murders
and several daring and desperate attacks upon foreigners,
diplomatic servants and other subjects of her Majesty
having been among the sufferers from these acts of violence.
7. That the Government of the Tycoon has professed the
strongest desire to prevent the commission of these crimes
and to punish their perpetrators, but has declared itself un-
able to do so; nor does there appear to be any reason to
doubt the truth of these declarations, since two Tycoons
and a Regent of Japan have themselves been murdered ; and
one of the principal Ministers narrowly escaped the same
fate, owing to the hostility they had incurred from being
supposed to favour an increased intercourse with foreigners.
8. That in order to enforce a demand made by her Ma-
jesty's Government of redress for the murder of a British
subject it was found necessary to undertake hostile operations
against one of the Daimios, in the course of which consider-
able loss was experienced by her Majesty's ships and a large
and flourishing Japanese town was burnt to the ground.

9. That this experience of what has already taken place
leaves little hope for the future of its being possible to avert
fresh collisions between her Majesty's subjects and the Japa-
nese if the existing arrangements for regulating the inter-
course between them are maintained unaltered ; and if such
collisions should occur they must sooner or later lead to a
war which would necessarily cost many lives and much
money both to this country and to Japan, and would pro-
bably bring upon the latter the heavy calamities of general
anarchy and confusion, from the destruction of its existing
Government, while there would be no means of creating any
other authority to replace it.

' 10. That, apart from all higher considerations, the true
interests of this country, and especially its permanent com-
mercial interests, require that such calamitous results should
not be risked by maintaining the existing treaty with Japan
unaltered, and that it is desirable that the provisions of this
treaty should be so modified as to place tha future inter-
course of the two nations on a better footing for the future.
11. That it would therefore be advisable that her Ma-
jesty's servants should without delay enter into friendly
communication with the Government of Japan and with the
Governments of other nations having treaties with Japan
similar to our own, for the purpose of determining what
changes it would be expedient to make in the provisions of
these treaties.

12. That an humble address be presented to her Majesty
to lay before her Majesty the substance of the foregoing re-
solutions, and humbly to pray that her Majesty will be
graciously pleased to take the same into her serious con-
sideration, with the view of adopting such measures as
may be found best calculated to avert war between this
country and Japan, and. to provide an increase of trade and
iendly intercourse between the two nations to their mutual
Advantage.

The second Trial Trip of Mr, Coxwell's New

Balloon,

Death of the Rev, Canon Cureton, D,D,, F,R, S,

" A whole treasure-house of learning," said Dean
Stanley yesterday iu Westminster Abbey, " has
descended into the untimely grave" of William
Cureton, the most eminent Syriac scholar in Eng-
land, and almost in Europe. Dr. Cureton, a canon
of Westminster, and rector of St. Margaret's, chap-
lain in ordinary to the Queen, and the royal trustee
of the British Museum, died on Friday mottling at
his country seat, Westbury, near Shrewsbury. The
doctor had received a shock on the railway, some-
where near Streatham, about a year ago, and not
more than three days before his death had obtained
from the company an unusually large amount of
compensation, £3,170, for himself and his little
daughter, who had sustained som injuries. But his
last illness was attributable in a much greater degree
to recent annoyances and disappointments. He has
never been well since an unexpected occurrence at
the close of last year; he went to his seat in Shrop-
shire a brokensdown invalid some weeks ago ; and
there he sickened and died of rheumatic fever.
There can be no doubt that his death is a very con•
siderable loss to the world of letters, and, as the
Dean of Westminster truly remarked yesterday, he
has left no one to fill his place in the peculiar line
of scholarship which he had marked out for himself
from his early manhood.
William Cureton, D.D., F.R.S., a member of the
French Institute and of nearly every learned society
in Europe, was born about 1808. There is no secret
about his early struggles in life, which Dean
Stanley twice feelingly alluded to yesterday. One
circumstance should be indeed recorded to his
honour. He inherited from his father a
small income which might have enabled
him to enter as a commoner at the univer.
sity, but this he resigned to hie mother who
was not left very well provided for, and matricu-
lated in the humble position of servitor of
Christ Church. In Michaelmas term, 1830, he gra-
duated as a double third class, when the Bishop of
Salisbury, Dr. Manning, the Rev. William Palmer,
and the Rev. H. W. Wilberforce (the latter three
converts to Rome) were first class men. In 1834,
shortly after his ordination as priest, when he was
a chaplain of Christ Church, he became sub-librarian
of the Bodleian Library at Oxford, in succession to
the Rev. Ernest Hawkins, now secretary of the
S.P.G. and prebendary of St. Paul's. In 1837 he
removed to London, on his appointment as assist-
ant keeper of the MSS. in the British Museum, at
which post he remained, working diligently, till
1849, when he received a canonry at Westminster,
to which an act of Parliament—which all Church-
men condemn, and always have condemned—had
attached or bound the rectory of the great parish
of St. Margaret's. Two years previously he had
been appointed chaplain in ordinary to the Queen
—an honour due to the remarkable character of his
literary labours, which secured the hearty patronage
of the late Prince Consort.

Dean Stanley spoke yesterday of the late canon
as a man of truthfulness, candour, perseverance,
and honesty, as hating subterfuges and shams, and
as always avoiding controversial intolerance. Cer-
tainly due honour was paid to the doctor yesterday,
for the Dean preached in the morning at St. Mar.
garet's, and in the afternoon in the Abbey, in his
honour. At three services was the " Dead
March in Saul" played, and all the anthems and
psalms in the abbey and the church were of a
funereal character.

Dr. Cureton married about 18 years ago the
daughter of Mr. Blore, the eminent architect, by
whom he leaves a large family, art infant only a
few months old being the youngest. Two of his
sons are at Westminster Scboo:. It was Mrs.
Cureton who executed the facsithile of the MSS.
on the authority of which the Syriac text of
the Epistles of St. Ignatius is based. For her and
her family much sympathy is expressed in West-
minster, and, whatever may be the differenoes which
estranged the doctor from his parishioners, there is
no difference on this point. It only remains to be
added formally that Dr. Cureton was honorary D.D.
of Halle, corresponding member of the Institute of
France, and of the Oriental Society of Germany,
member of the Asiatic Society of Paris, honorary
member of the Historico-Theological Society of
Leipsic, &c. In fact, he was universally honoured
abroad, and, by scholars, at home, and it is much to
be regretted that he was ever placed in a position
which he could not fill with comfort to himself or
satisfaction to his parishioners.

- -
DEATH OF PROFESSOR JAMES MILLER, OF
EDINBURGII.—This eminent surgeon and medical
author expired on Friday morning last. He was born in
1812, the son of a minister, and received his education
from his father till he was entered at the University of St.
Andrew's. He studied medicine at Edinburgh as pupil of
the great Liston, whose assistant he became, and whom he
virtually succeeded in his practice when Liston came up
to kettle in London. He became M.D. and Licentiate of
the College of Surgeons, and in 1842 was elected Professor
of Surgery in the University of Edinburgh. He was also
Professor of Anatomy at the Royal Academy, Surgeon in
Ordinary to the Queen for Scotland, a Fellow of the Royal
Society, and he held a long list of important appointments
in connection with the hospitals and public institutions of
Edinburgh. His literary works are highly esteemed. The
principal are "A System of Surgery," and " Surgical Ex-
perience of Chloroform." He was, moreover, the author of
the article on surgery in the new edition of the "Encyclo-
paedia Britannica." _ _

TWO MEN DROWNED AT ABERDEEN.—Friday,
during the breakfast hour, three young men, ap-
prentice carpenters in Messrs. Hall's shipbuilding-yard,
Aberdeen, were taking a pleasure sail in a boat in the har-
bour. The boat missed stays, and there being some wind
at the time, it filled with water and settled down, all the three
on beard being thrown out. The dockmaster (Mr. Leys)
and others at onoe put off in boats, and succeeded in res.
cuing one of the young men, named M'lntosh, who was
taken home and is expected to recover. The other two,
however, named Milne and Robb, were drowned. The ages
of the young men varied from 17 to 21.
THE ALLEGED MURDER AT ANERLEY.....AppRE.
HENSION OF THE SUSPECTED MEN.--Through the
activity and skill of Inspector Thomson and Sergeant
Thomas from the detective department of the metropolitan
police, Scotland-yard, the supposed murderers of Louisa
Dyer have been apprehended and conveyed to the lock-up.
The excitement in the district is very great, and as the hor-
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perpe-
trators of such a dreadful crime increase in intensity. It is
anticipated that the two suspected men will be taken before
the local bench this morning.
A VERY OLD JOBE rechaujee (in the Saturday
Review).—" my
dear fellow," said an old and intimate col-
lege friend to another, looking down from the balcony of
St. James's Hall over the crowd of bonnets below, "do just
take the trouble to count in the second block, far away in
that corner of the room, the sixth and seventh places of the
eighth row; there are two of the most astonishing figures
I ever beheld in my life; you must look at them—one looks
so like a cook, and the other so like a housemaid." "I see
them," his friend answered very quietly—" the cook is my
aunt, and the housemaid is my cousin."
MR. MATTHEW MARSHALL....-Mr. Matthew Mar-
shall, whose name has been so long prominently and
honourably identified with the Bank of England, has just
resigned his responsible office as chief cashier. Mr. Mar-
shall's labours in the service of the Bank extend over no
less a period than 54 years, for 29 of which he has been
chief cashier. His retirement now, at 73 years of age, is
solaced by a well-deserved tribute on the part of those
in whose employment he has passed a long and laborious
life.
FRIGHTFUL EXPLOSION.—On the 26th ult. a
train was conveying a number of soldiers and negroes
and four torpedoes from Nowbern to Bachelor Crest, West
Carolina, the latter intended to complete the blockade of the
Neuse river in the direction of Kingston. The last of the
four was about reaching the station platform, when an
accidental blow from a log of wood striking upon the cap
exploded the torpedo. The concussion was so great that
the other three followed on the explosion of the first, and so
quick as to make but one mighty report like the crash of a
thousand pieces of artillery fired simultaneously. Heads,
bodies, and limbs were scattered for a quarter of a mile
around, and in many instances it was found impossible to
recognise the remains of the unfortunate victims. The
signal tower and a commissary building, 20ft by 80ft, built
of logs, were thrown into the air a distance of SOOft, and
strewed the country for a great distance around with the
fragments, Forty soldiers and negroes were killed.