The Sun.
London, England, 1864-04-27 00:00:00

BY MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH.

GRAVESEND, Wednesday Morning.
Arrived, April 26—Alliance, from Gothenburg; Ban-
dion, from Uddowalla—Helena, from Porto Rico.

Arrived, April 27—Neptune, from Krageroe—Princo
Albert, from Guernsey—Frederick Maria, from Nykoping
—Oak, from Ghent—Ligerleon, from Jamaica—Susan
Gray, from Oporto—Kron Pinsen, from Landscona—
'Bolus, from Krageroe—Walhalla, from Sannesund—
Neptunus, from Warborg.
Sailed, April 27—Rainbow, steamer, for Calais--Gustaf
Wass, steamer, for Gothenburg—Belgium, steamer, for
Ostend.

DEAL, Wednesday Morning.
Passed—Spray of the Ooean, trona London for Sydney.—
Ellen, for Barcelona—Sea Serpent, for Alicante—Edith,
for Shanghai—all from Shields.
Anchored—Western Bottom, from Corfu for London—.
Emma Ives, from Matanzas for Hamburg,

ANOTHER MELANCHOLY ACCIDENT THROUGH
FIRE.—A lamentable accident occurred on Monday
to Mrs Conway, residing in Sutherland-street, Westbournc.
grove. Mrs Conway was in her dressing room attiring
herself for the purpose of proceeding to an evening party,
-hen by some means the flames of a candle on the dress.
ing.,..shie caught a lace cap placed on the looking-glass.
Mrs con,.-ay instantly snatched the cap from the glass,
and throwit,:r it on the floor imprudently attempted
to extinguish
at the time; but instead of en-
the flames by trampling on them,
when the fire ominunicatod itself to her dress.
A sorvaut was in the ro.otn
deavouring to assist her mistress, she ran screaming frons
the room, and on the other inmates rushing into the apart-
ment the unfortunate lady was discovered running wildly
about the room and completely enveloped in times. Mr.
Conway, w:th great presence of mind, immediately stripped
off his coat and threw it over her and succeeded in extin-
guishing the fire, but not before the greater part of the
lady's dress had been burned and various parts of her per-
son seriously injured. Iler recovery is despaired of.

TESTIMONIAL TO A POLICE INSPECTOR.-.4l:lSpet.
for Whicher, who for thirty years held an appoint_
ment in the detective departLrtent of the metropolitan police,,,
and had risen to be ono of the chiefs of the detective force
at Scotland-yard, took his leave of the service on Saturday
last, retiring upon a pension of £5O per annum. Advan-
tage was taken of the occasion, and, Lis brother offioera
having assembled in a body, presented their' late inspector
with a magnificent massive gord signet ring, of the value
of £5O, manufactured expressly for him, and engraved with
the monogram "J. W." Mr. Whicher, in thanking his
brother inspectors and the sergeants who had served under
him for this proof of their regard, said he was WO' to find
he quitted the force with the csteem and good wishes of
those around hint.

HENDERSON, in hie sr.,;cond character in London,.
Hamlet, came into more direct coutres; with Gar•
rick, whose greatest idolaters found heavy fault in Hender-
eon's young Dane for flinging away his uncle's picture—
subsequent to the famous speech in which he compares the
portraits of his father and uncle.
On the following night,
he retained the picture in his hand, and the same party
ridiculed him, on the
ground that if he was right the filet
night, he must necessarily have been wrong the second!
Ho was said, too, not to have managed his hat properly ore
first seeing the Ghost; and similar carpings were made
against the new actor,
only to hear those words " the fair
°Pheno I" peoph went, as to the most exquisite music.
But what was that to the Garrick faction who pronounced
him disqualified, because in the closet scene he did not, in
his agitation, upset the chair. " 61r. Garrick, sir, always
overthrew the chair:"—Their Majesties' Sovants, by
Doran.
FIVE YOUNG PERSIAN GENTLEMEN have arrived
in England to be educated at the expense of their own
Government, under the care of his Excellency Mahmoud
Khan, the Persian Minister iu this country.