The Sun.
London, England, 1864-06-15 00:00:00

Liverpool Cotton Market—This Day.

Market firm. No change since yesterday. Sal°
will probably foot up to 8,000 bales.

EXTRAORDINARY FLIGHT OF PIGEONS.—A 61-
respondent sends us the following :—" Six pigeons Wel:
let loose this morning (lune 14), at Northampton, at
minutes past 6 a.m., and arrived at Denton—five oft tern 8
50 minutes past S, the remaining one in two hour i after°
The distance is, I think, over 120 miles.
In the last sitting of the French Acade my 19„f
Sciences, M. Magnus, of Berlin, was elected a corree pencil%
member for the section of natural philosophy, in I die Pl'lc
of Mr Barlow, of Woolwich, deceased.
General Dembinski, who was commander .in•chief
of the Polish army in 1831, and of the Hungarian troops in
1849, died yesterday morning at a maison de sant 6 in the
a sadD E Tn lld
flaNtaAl la Vc
cEi Ld
irt
Rue Notre Dame des Champs, aged 73.
a
clef' that
Wocecurrergerdetitno atnhneo,rit'iliage 0
Crowfield, Suffolk, yesterday morning, to Mr Jc Jan offorcl,/
~
of Coddenham, extensively known in the locality 3 9':o
eti
sinker. It appears that Lady Middleton (widow of 01° .`";
Sir W. Middleton) had kindly undertaken to Pr°videth„
well on her estate for the comfort and conveni ante of
poor and others of the parish of Crowfield, a ad had
trusted the execution of the works to Mr Offord. The works
had been in progress same 10 or 12 days, and the digiginng
had been carried to the depth of some 70 feet. 012
•
day the presence of foul air was discovered bu t n°t to any
great extent, and the work was cArried on, as Usual up to
breakfast time yesterday morning. After b reakfast fide
Offord was lot down in a basket to continue hi: 3 labours ; as
soon as he reached the bottom, howeve.", he initneditelY
called out, "Pull up I" The person in ch erg of the
epul-
ley at once attended to his instructions, but 1N Olon decease
was raised about eix feet be anneeraa to oo las contact
with the foul air, which so stupefied him as tc r cause him to
lose his hold, and he fell back to the botto: as of ibe well.
Every exertion was made to release the poor man frt. te. his
perilous situation, but the presence of the fee 11 air rendered
it impossible for any person to venture down,. At the time,
the report left the body had not been brough .t to the surface.
THE ADMIRALTY AT FAULT.—Tho f Dilowing is on
extract of a letter from Rev. S. Jens er to Aorinirel
Eden, dated " The Vicarage, Camberwell, Sune 9,1864
" I was very reluctant to trouble you on so email a matter as
the washerwomen of Plymouth, b at I really knew not hoW
tthoepArodcmeeidra,
lantydshlouhladvehalvoengsomtia:::,
,gghtiti,altiorana2yevteelnl you, at
etb.h:art
matter, for young cadets and midd lies get sadly takes ad-
vantage of by these people, who cl Large enormously for the
washing. This is what fathers lik' a myself, with large faint-
lies, cannot afford, and it ought n ,ot to be allowed. Thew
should be, allow me to say, in eve iry naval port authorised
persons to do this work at certain f ixed charges. As I hope
the honour to belong to that est, ite which in the Pr°"-
day is said to rule all others—nag aly, the public press"-L-e
wall not, perhaps, deem this vriva ea hint unworthy of
ally
Lide:ation. I should be very sorry to have to reakei._,
public .strictures upon the Adm iralty as the control :,
power over the navy, for which. .I entertain unbound
admiration.--Believe me, dear ejr, yours vary faithiuo ert
STEP. JENNER."
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THE LAST OF THE PITTS.- - Monday .ast
died a lady whose life had 'Deen i o prolooged endwhose career had been so much associated with long
events that, though cheerful an, active, in the full grejo
meat of all her faculties, and w ,th a keen interest in peesii
_go
events, her existence seemed al most an anachronism. A
e,
Grenville, only daughter of thefirst Lord Camelford,
sister and co-heir of that half-' mad son of whom We read sadiu
the memoirs of Lady Hester f ;tanhope, and who found si;
appropriate death from the pie tot of Captain Best, barn
London in 1772, and married 20 years later to Lord G 7..
ville, died also in London-92 years afterwards—last Al
Lord Lyndhurst, in St. Georg e's, anover-square,tuaPpt;eare
day. We noticed last year tier fortuitous meeting
._wtilltr`a
occasion of the marriage of INI iss Copley.
;Graeu
Saturday last, when she see) pod to be in her an
g.
ante in public was in the Bet anic Society'silEershilebeiutison, (911,i
health and spirits. She was taken ill the same
are
t' aid
only survived till Monday. ,:lei large estix,t(er
accordance with the wish of the husband, Georg°
wi,o died not less than 30 you re ago, tu
Fortescue, brother of the late and uncle of the present earl