The Sun.
London, England, 1863-01-23 00:00:00

IRELAND.

DUBLIN, JAN. 22.
Several shipping casualties occurred during the
heavy gale on Tuesday night. About 11 o'clock
the Shamrock put in at Belfast. She is a steamer
of upwards of 300 tons, plying between Sligo and
Liverpool. She left Sligo for Liverpool on Monday
between 3 and 4 o'clo3k, and bad been beating
about since then. She had a large number of pas-
sengers, a general cargo, and cattle on board. The
steamer experienced the full severity of the
storm. The deck passengers were in a deplorable
state when landed, as they had suffered severely.
One man, named Debar, was standing on deck
with his wife and two children, when the vessel
shipped a heavy sea. The c3ildren were dashed
from beside their parents, and in a short time after,
when their bodies were found, they were quite life-
less. In another heavy sea a sailor, named James
Platt, got his leg broken. The wheel, the house on
deck, and several of the boats were carried away.
A number of pigs on board also died.
At Cork, about half-past 8 on Tuesday morning,
the Sabrina got aground on the bank opposite Horse
Head. She left Cork for Bristol early in the morn-
ing, and steamed down the river to Passage, where
all the vessels of the steamship company make a
short stay to take in passengers. Owing to the vio-
lence of the gale then blowing she could not come
alongside the hulk at once, and, in order to reach
the quay without accident, Capt. Stavely thought
it better to run down to Monkstown-bay, turn
there, and steam up slowly. This was accomplished
in safety, and the passengers having been taken on
board, the steamer ran up to Horse Head for the
purpose of wearing round and proceeding on the
voyage across. In turning she was caught by the
wind, which was blowing from N.N.W., and was
driven on the bank. The tide was about half ebb
at the time, but as she became firmly fixed in the
soft mud of the bank there was no danger whatever
of her heeling over at low water. It is expected
that she will be able to steam off at the flow of the
tide.

About three o'clock the same morning, while beat-
ing for the harbour, the brigantine Anne, belonging
to Gibraltar, with Indian corn, from Saffi, struck on
Canovan's Point, to the south side of Camden Fort.
The tugs William Wallace and Robert Bruce were
despatched to her assistance, but up to a late hour
yesterday evening there was no account as to whe-
ther they succeeded or not. The previous day an
Italian barque, the Calcutta, with corn, from Salina,
in endeavouring to make for the harbour, went
ashore to the west of it, and soon became a total
wreck, the crew having to abandon her the same
day. Measures were at once taken to save as much
of the cargo as possible, and yesterday efforts were
made to cut away the masts.

ARCHBISHOP OF YORK.—The confirmation of
the election of Dr. Thompson, Bishop of Glocester
and Bristol, to this, " the Primacy of the far north," is
fixed to take place this day at St. James's Church, Picca-
dilly, at 11 a.m. Her Majesty's Commissioners will, we
believe, on this occasion be the Bishops of London, Durham,
Winchester, Rochester, and Worcester. The ceremony
(which is partly religious—partly legal) will fi 1 the archsee
of York, and leave void the see of Glocester ani Bristol.

At the second private ball of the Empress Eugenie
on Monday night her Majesty wore a white dress of
a light texture, trimmed with a deep lace flounce, and wore
flowers wreathed in the hair, the whole kept together by
means of a diamond comb. Her Majesty did not dance.
Prince Napoleon and the Princess Cl3thilde were present.
The number of guests was about 600. At midnight dancing
terminated by a cotillon, when supper was served, and the
party broke up at half-past one.
REPRESENTATION OF REIGATE.—The nomination
of candidates for the representation of Reigate is
expected to take place on Monday, Feb. 2. The two candi-
dates, Mr. Granville Leveson Gower, of Tetsey Park, near
Godstone, and Mr. W. A. Wilkinson, formerly member for
Lambeth, are the only parties in the field, and their can-
vass having been completed, each one expresses himself
confident of victory. The contest will in all probability be
a close one.

THE REPRESENTATION OF WEST SOMERSET.—
Mr. TN. Gore-Langton, who represented West
Somerset from 1861 to the general election of 1859, has
issued an address to the electors. It is generally supposed
that there will not be any opposition to Mr. Langton. Mr.
Bouverie has been spoken of ; but that gentleman has not
put forward any address, and it is fully expected that the
Conservative party being so strong, Mr. Langton will be
allowed to walk over the course.— Western Morning 11-eics.
PROSECUTION OF '• ESSAYS AND REVIEWS."—
Yesterday morning, at the sitting of the Court of
Arches, Mr. Toiler, the proctor acting for the Bishop of
Salisbury in the prosecution of the Rev, Dr. Rowland
Williams, vicar of Broad Chalk, made an application to Dr.
Lushington in reference to the appeal against his lordship's
judgment, of which notice was given at the time the case
was last before the court. Mr. Toiler said that considerable
delay was likely to take place in the prosecution of the ap-
peal to the Judicial Committee of Privy Council unless the
learned judge interfered and issued a peremptory order. The
appeal in the case of the Rev. J. Fendall against the Rev.
H. Bristowe Wilson, 8.D., vicar of Great Staughton (the
writer of the article on " The National Church"), Mr. Toiler
remarked, was going on rapidly; but, for some reason or
another, which he could not understand, the inhibition on
the part of Dr. Williams had not been served, and it was
very desirable that the two cases should be heard before
the Judicial Committee at the same time. He could not
account for the delay unless the appellants had some object
in view best known to themselves. He prayed the court
for a peremptory order upon the proctor of Dr. Williams to
serve the inhibition. Dr. Lushington said he did not like
to interefere, as the matter more properly came within the
jurisdiction of the surrogate sitting in the court of appeal;
but at length after Mr. Toiler had shown that the appeal
would be greatly delayed if further time were allowed, Dr.
Lushington consented to an order being issued that the in-
hibition should be served within three days, and intimated
that, in the event of the order not being complied with, he
would issue a suspension, so that the appeal in each
it case
might be proceeded with at once and without further inter-
ruption. Now that the ground has been cleared is ex-
pected that the Judicial Committee will be able to hear the
appeal after Easter term. •
rHE ADULTERATION OF MILK.—At the Sheriffs'
Court, Red Lion• square, yesterday, before Mr. Un-
der-Sheriff Burchell, an action brought in the Exchequer
was tried in which a defence was made under the Adultera-
tion of Food Act, Vic. 23 and 24, cap. 81. The plaintiff,
Moses Godwin, a farmer, at Farnborough, Hants, claimed
£6 14s. Id. as a balance for milk supplied to the defendant,
John Pigg n, of Harp-alley, Farringdon-street, milkdealer.
The plaintiff had sent milk from his farm by the South-
Western Railway, and the defendant fetched it from the
Waterloo station. He complained that the milk was
watered, but paid the first bill. The second bill, in August,
he refused to pay, and had a certificate from Dr. Letheby,
the analyst under the Adulteration of Food Act for the
City of London, and two parts only were found to be milk.
The defendant had paid for the milk two-thirds of the ac-
count, and refused to pay the balance of £6 14s. ld. for
water. Dr. Letheby attended the ceurt, but his certi-
ficate was received as evidence. The plaintiff and his man
stated that the milk was sent to the railway perfectly pure
and unadulterated, and the ticket-collectjr of the Farn-
borough station proved the manner in which it was placed
on the railway, unlocked, and came to the Waterloo station.
The defendant declared that the milk was watered, and he
had thrown some away ; and two milkdealers, named Cole
and Davis, had tested the milk at the Waterloo station and
found it adulterated. These were " middlemen." supplying
dealers, and they stated that they did not adulterate their
milk, but could not state the condition in which it.was sup-
plied to the London customers. Mr. Peckham, solicitor, on
the part of the defendant, said the question raised under the
act was one of public importance, and he relied on the certi-
ficate of Dr. Letheby. The action was for milk, and, as he
had proved that water had been mixed with it to the ex-
tent of one-third, the defendant had paid two-thirds of
the claim and resisted the remainder. On the part of the
plaintiff Mr. Kigby contended that if the defendant suc-
ceeded the jury would convict his client of gross dishonesty
—he had proved that the milk was sent to the railway in
an unadulterated state. The learned Under-Sheriff said
the jury had to determine whether the milk had been sent
by the plaintiff in a pure and unadulterated state, or whe-
ther when it reached the Waterloo station it
aad been
mixed with water. The jury gave a verdict fur the plaintiff
for the amount claimed.
SNOWSTORM IN SCOTLAND.—On Tuesday morn-
ing Edinburgh was visited by a severe snowstorm,
following upon several days of very cold and squally
weather. The snow commenced to fall shortly before day-
break, a strong wind blowing from west-north-west, and
the fall being very dense and blinding. The violence of the
storm, as well as its direction, was peculiarly shown by the
appearance of some of our octagonal steeples—which, on the
side immediately exposed, exhibited a heavy incrustation
of snow, the other sides being nearly bare. The fall was
renewed at intervals during the day, but the amount of
snow deposited was not groat, excepting in the corners into
which it had drifted. The temperature all day hovered
between fresh and frost, some of the streets being laid in
slush, while others more exposed were glazed with ice. At
night the weather was severely cold, not so much from an
access of host as from the keen and chilling wind. The
snowstorm, we learn, was experienced in the north of Eng-
land, all over the border di,tricts, in the west of Scotland,
and as tar north at least as the Perthshire Highlands,—
Edin ba7gh Courant.