The Sun.
London, England, 1864-01-05 00:00:00

MAILS DUE.

Australia and Mauritius, via Southampton Jan. 18.
via Marseilles J an. 12.
Jrazil and Cape Verds, by British packet. Jan. 4.
Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St. Helena Jan. 29.
China, Penang, and Singapore, via Southampton Jan. 13.
via Marseilles Jan. 24

Falkland Islands
aibraltar, via Southampton Jan. 9.
[ndia (Calcutta), and. Ceylon, vi.,.. Southampton Jan. 13.
via Marseilles Jan. 10.
India (Bombay), via Southampton ..
via Marseilles Jan. 5.
Portugal.... Jan. 11.
,laltit, Egypt, and Aden, via Southampton Jan. 10.
via Marseilles

Newfoundland
Oporto and Vigo
U. S. and British N. America, by Brit. packet.... Jan. 6,
by U.S. packe
by Canadian packet..J an S.
Vir.C. of Africa, Madeira, and Teneritre Tan. 10.
Bahamas, via New York Jan. 14,
Mexico
All parts of West Indies, including Chili, Peru,l Jan. 2,.
California. and British Columbia.

THE CONVICT SAMUEL WRIGHT.—The memorial
on behalf of Samuel Wright, emanating from a meet-
ing of working men held at the Lambeth Baths on Chris t-
mas Eve, was yesterday presented at the Home Office.
It contains 2,540 signatures. Other memorials have been
forwarded to the Home Secretary, numerously signed by
housekeepers and others. Several declarations prepared by
Mr. Scott, solicitor, of Staples- inn, containing important
statements with reference to the prisoner and the deceased
woman, were also handed to' Sir George G:ey yesterday

morning.
ARMY MEDICAL SUPPLIES.—The Lancet com-
ments on the serious complaints, by the officers of
the Indian Medical Service, of the defective supply of
medicines, and states that the disasters of the Crimea,
though not meeting with an exact parallel in India, are, in
the aggregate, vastly exceeded. The important medicines
which of late years have been introduced into the practical
treatment of various familiar diseases—such as podophylliir
in liver affections, saracenia in smallpox—are completely
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unattainable; and others, in constant use in England—
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also points to deficiency in the supply of instruments, and
well asks, why, in a country where opthalmia is so preva-
lent, the opthalmoscope is not available, and why the
microscope, laryngoscope, and the hypodermic syringe are
still withheld ?
' DOUBTFUL IRRESPONSIBILITY.—III all times there
has been the fiction of some necessity for involun-
tary crime. In antiquity there were the Fates, superior to
the gods in ruling the destinies of men. In the middle
ages the stars had to answer for all human iniquities. Well
says Moliere's Argante in reply to the plea of destiny—
"Ah; Ah 1 Voici une raison la plus belle du monde. On
n'a plus qu'a commetre tousles crimes imaginables, tromper,
voler, assassiner, et dire, pour excuse qu'on y a Cite pousse
par sa destined." The French more latterly discovered the
force of circumstances to be the prime cause of offence,
And our mad doctors, changing the external for the inter-
nal, call it uncontrollable impulse, the impunity allowed to
which is too certain to appear iu multiplied crimes of un-
controlled impulses.
PRINCE TORLONIA has lately bcrne the cost of
the restoration of the " Gesu" Church, the marbles
which were employed on the occasion having been of the
rarest:and most exquisite kind,exhibiting, moreover, in their
superb mouldings and cornices proofs of the most elaborate
workmanship. The Prince is further pledged to have exe-
cuted at a later period, and in the richest style, the gilding
of the vaulted ceiling, and the decoration of the several
altars. Nor are his donations confined to the churches of
this city, as the interesting cathedral in course of constr
he
uc-
tion at Boulogne-sur-bier will ere long attest, in which
has engaged to erect the pz incipal altar, and to
flhavear it in
every way worthy of the grand proportions and ne c •
tecture of that imposing edifice.
• learn that IVlaittlebury Lodge, the seat of We
regret to
L Southampton, near Towcester, Northampton, was totally
DESTRUCTION OF WIIITTLP;PURY LODGE.—We
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such by a
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smorning. The flames
oulf the mansion ware saved ; and the noble lord and his iv:),
prorand infant daughter narrowly escaped with their lives.
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