The Sun.
London, England, 1864-10-22 00:00:00

SHIPPING-THIS DAY,

LONDON, Oct. 22.—Wind this day at noon—South-
Easterly; moderate breeze and cloudy weather, with
rain.

rORTS3IOITTII, Oct. 21.—Wind S.E.—Arrived--Acacia,
from Quebec.

BRISTOL, Oct. 20.—Wind S.E.—Arrived—Cromwell,
From Sagua la Gran'.

CLYDE, Oct. 21.•—Wind N.E.—Arrived—Britannia,
from Montreal.

(BY MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH.)
GRAVESEND, Saturday Morning.
Arrived, Oct. 21—Pelito, from Porto Rico—Harmony,
from Labrador—O'Keans, from Faro.
Arrived, Oct. 22—Alice, Wave, and Douglas, from
Guernsey—lsabella, from Dunkirk--Caroline, from Cron-
stadt—Raleigh, from Inuique.
Sailed, Oct. 22.—Saginey, for Akyab—Holland, steamer,
'or Ostend—Velocit y, steamer, for Calais—Victoria;
,eamer, for Brussels—Panther, for Boulogne.
DEAL, Saturday Morning.

No arrivals.

SUIT FOR WORK AND LABOUR.—A man down on
Cape Cod, who separated from his wife, married a second
woman, with whom he lived a year and a half, and then
died. His first wite took possession of the estate. The
wend wife sued her for services during the time she lived
with the deceased, and, after hearing the evidence last
week, a good-natured Cape Cod jury gave her a verdict,
allowing her 2 dollars per week.—New York 2imcs.
HE ,s MAKES A SOLITUDE."—Tne New Fork
Herald's correspondent cites as a specimen Of
General Grant'© orders the following 'Do all the damage
you can to railroad and crops, carry off stock of all descrip.
tions and negroes, so as to prevent further planting. If the
war is to last another year let the Shenandoah valley
remain a barren waste.—U. S. GRANT." In accordance
with this order the destruction done by Castor and Mari ill's
Louisianians was on tho largest scale possible. In the
course of ono day wheat enough to subsist the whole army
for a year 'was destroyed, besides collecting 1,500 head of
cattle and 3,000 sheep. Nor did the work of destruction
stop nest day.

V-10,
, ormkr.

HER MAJESTY.

BALMOnAL, Oct. 20.
The rain prevented the Queen and royal family
from going out but for a very short time yesterday.
Sir George Grey had the honour of dining with
the Queen and royal family.
Dr Sieveking left the Castle in the morning.

The Prince and Princess of Wales.
COPENHAGEN, Oct. 21, 10.0 a•m'
Their Royal Highnesses tha Prince and Pfil2COS
of Wales will leave Copenhagen to-morrow.

Foreign Courts.
PARIS, Oct. 20.
A Council of Ministers was held yesterday at 6t•
Cloud, the Emperor presiding.
The Press says :—" Orders have been given for
the departure of the Emperor Napoleon on Sunday
evening next for Nice, to return the visit which the
Emperor Alexander paid to the Empress Bugezile
at Schwalbach."

THE COURT AT BALMORAL.—On Monday last her
Majesty, who was accompanied by her Royal Hie"'
ness the Princess Helena and the Hon. Lady Augusta
Biuce, lady in waiting, drove through Braemar via luvereY
to the " Black Colonel's Cave," in the wilds of Gleuer3.
Here, having alighted from the carriage, her Majesty de'
scended into the rocky den which, 300 years ago, was for
some considerable time the safe retreat of the proscribeu
and outlawed Col. Farquharsln of Inverey—hence the cog'
nomen it bears to this day. The cave is a most roinanno
and delightfully secluded spot, and stands close to the EY°
stream, which winds like a Kerpfint through the green glerj.
It cor sista of a narrow ledge of rock, only accessible from
one point, overhung by a frowning, rugged precipice) fes-
tooned with wild herbs and creeping plants, which thrusts
itself forward over the glen at an angle of about 90 degrees.
Her Majesty and party, after a very interesting
exploratio
a
of this famed rock fortress of a once brave Highland chic!'
tain, partook of a sumptous luncheon, and returned fia
Braemar to Balmoral about half-past six. Horses wcr°,
changed both in going and returning at the Inverealli"
Arms Hotel, under the personal superintendence a gr
Fisher.—Dundee Advertiser.
THE INFANT PRINCE.—A Hull paper statea
that when Prince Victor Albert ,was landed a
Mrs Davis presented the infant Prince with a " stuffed
lamb," and that the cow which was provided on board the
Salamis for the purpose of supplying his Royal Highness
with new milk has been purchased by Mr Alderman
The same paper contains the announcement that a confer'
tioner presented a box of toffy to Mr Norton, the Queen's
messenger, for the young Prince.—Manchester Guardia,'"
His Royal Highness Prince Alfred is expolted
to arrive at Windsor at an early hour this morning (satur-
day), and remain at the Castle till the arrival of the Qugg'
next week.

His Royal Highness the Field-Marshal Col'
manding-in• Chief will hold a levee at one o'clock on Wed"

nesday next.
The Duke and Duchess of Wellington have 163
Apsley House for Strathfieldsaye, Hants, where they are
about to receive company. .
The Duchess of Somerset and Lady Gwendolino
St. Maur are expected to arrive at the First Lord's official
residence at the Admiralty, in the course of the ensuing
week, from Paris,
The Marquis of Bristol is not so well as the Pre'
vious medical reports had induced his friends to suppose'
The bulletin up to 3 30 p.m. on Thursday was as subjoined
—" The symptoms of dysentery are very much relieved'
but the Marquis of Bristol appears to be rather more ex-
hausted th s afternoon." From the reports which reached
town late yesterday evening it is feared that his lordship is
in a very precarious condition.
The Earl of Malmesbury has left town for Heron
Court, his seat near Christchurch.
The Earl Cowper left his shooting-box in 100'4
ness-shire, in the early part of the week, for the south. The
noble lord is expected daily to arrive at fanshanger, Tier"'
The Countess (Dowager) of Jersey is expected to
return to her house in Berkeley-square, on Friday rot,
from Brighton.
The Dowager Countess Fortoscue has arrived at
the Queen's Hotel, Upper Norwood, from Bournemouth.
The Right Hon. ,Tbomss Milner Gibson, M.P.'
arrived in town on Wednesday, from Bordeaux. Yester-
day the right hon. gentleman left town to visit Mr George
Tomlin, M.P., at his seat in Nort..)lk.

Mr George Cavendish has arrived in town frets
Paris.

The marriage of Miss Congreve, eldest daughter
of Mr Richaid Jones Congreve, Mollance, to Mr John
Bainbrigge Story, jun., of Lockington Hall, Leicestershire,
was celebrated in St. Ninian's Chapel, Castle Douglas) on
Wednesday last,

DEATEI OF TIIE OLDEST MINISTER IN SCOTLAND'
—To-day we record the death of the Rev. Mr
Young, United Presbyterian minister, Logiealmond, in 110
89th year, and the 65th of his ministry. Mr Young wail
ordained to the pastoral charge of Logiealutond in 18001
and at the time of his death he was the oldest minister of
the United Presbyterian Church, and the oldest officiating
minister of all the religious denominations of Scotland. Ile
was well known, especially in his earlier years, as all
.
quent preacher, and in his old age he retained much vigoU
and clearness of intellect. Mr Young was highly esteere"l
by his brethren in the ministry, and will be lamented 11
deeply-attached congregation.—Edinburgh Courant. A
MANSLAUGIITER OF A WIFE AT LIITERPOOL."-P'
coroner's jury on Thursday returned a verdict of man..
slaughter against John Robinson, a tinplate worker,
having caused the death of his wife. On the night of t.ll°
Ist of October, Robinson, while in bed with his vofe:
asked her to give him some money in order that he 'nigh;
buy some ale. The woman refused, and he then Bat.,
her several violent blows in the pit of the stomach with 'ad
elbow, which caused internal hemorrhage. The dcceasere
was also struck in the face, and the bones of her neeo he
v/6.0
fractured. 6he was taken to the Northern Hospital,
she remained until the Bth, when, having been delivercclf
of a still-born child she died. The immediate causi° °
death was exhaustion, proceeding from the loss of
Manchester Courier.
THE QUEEN OF THE GIPSIES.—WO are glad to,
report that her Most Gracieus Majesty Queen Ettl elkl°Yt
excellent health, and that the past season has been a ra°B„
prosperous ono. Her comfortable and neatly-kept palace nai
been visited by a considerable number of tourists, soca°. °
them occupying distinguished positions, and mallYll6:hlre-r
gene to Yetholni for the special purpose of payingllB
respects to her Majesty. Even proud Republicans fro° ,„
other side of the Atlantic, who can hardly speak of roye"'e
without a sneer, have sought a queenly smile in the pal e¢
of her Majesty ; and other foreign visitors have also he
graciously. received by the accomplished ruler of the iv°
oastl.ot
dering tribes. 'sVo understand that the Mayor of Nal
paid her Majesty a visit one day lately, and he did not gut
the royal abode without testifying his friendly feeling t.
wards her by presenting her with a beautifully engravett
"work of art" in the shape of a five-pound note. We °lt:
understand that her Majesty is not without some hope °f
receiving a visit from Prince Alfred on the occasion of
sojourn at Floors Castle next week.— Kelso Chronicle.
TIIE TOWNLEY CASE.—g. he Townley case has 00°
cropped up. At the Derbyshire Quarter Sessioall;
on Wednesday, the whole cf the visiting justices tendered
their resignation, on tho ground that the refusal of the
court to ratify their recommendation for the dismissal °f l)
Gisborne, the gaol surgeon, fur his conduct in the TowLdeY
matter, implied a want of confidence in them, which reote:,
rlally lessened their influence in the gaol, In the end th.
visiting justices were induced to act for another quarter.
anticipation that in the meantime Mr Gisborne would el,
press his sorrow for what he had said and written: 431 r

mingham Post.
THE LATE DUKE OF NEWCASTLE.—The Noith2g4,
ham Journal states that the late Duke of Na iv
castle had during the day of his death been unifslll“'
~,„ ple
well, and had conversed freely with his w°l."-19-nd
about the estate. He had also visited the stables a—G,
inspected the hofses. About 6.25 p.m. ho was conver3/11j7
freely with his solicitor, Mr Ouvry, of the firm of FOret;
Ouvry, and Farrer, London, that gentleman having been
the church festival at Shireoaks, and his Grace had bee.
expressing his satisfaction at the great auccess of the k"W.'
val, when he suddenly threw up his arms, gave A Ser.1)111;
and died in about four minutes. His Grace's physician, t
Kingsley, of London, and two or three persons, were pro at
at the lime. A telegram was received by Dr Kingsley'
Clumber, from Sir G. Grey, at Balmoral, on behalf of
1.1%
Majesty. Nene of his Grace's family were at Clunaber
Q/ et;
the time of the sad event, his Grace's second son, I'la
Edward Pelham Clinton, having left Clumber a few °c—
aw) to join his regiment in Canada West.
FATALITY AT SEA.— The brigantine 31Yrtit
Anne, 142 tons, Captain Latnzed, of Dartmouth, P%
in at Plymouth on Friday morning, 70 days from Sic%
Leone, for London, with all her crew dead through Affic3,
fever. She brings a cargo of palm oil, and on leas in
Sierra Leone had on board the captain, a crew six in I'l/Inca°
ber, a West Indian black, one passenger., and two distret!s
British subjects, seamen. The crew sickened after leaca'r:
and five of them died shortly after, tho remaining orfo:,u_v,,
viving to within 2) days of Plymouth, when ho died
andi
The two British subjects were sick all the ptle3agt" Clad[
unable to assist. The captain, the paseenger, and the
had to navigate the vessel, and they also suffered from tv"'
10Vcr on the passage.