The Sun.
London, England, 1864-05-25 00:00:00

BANKRUPTS.

The following are the only bankrupts of commercial im•
portance in the Gazette :
William Stradling, baker, Bristol
Samuel Lane, factor, Wolverhampton
Samuel Amery, builder, North Peckham
Henry S. Withers, clothier, Chipping Norton
Hugh James Hordern, salesman. Cheapside
William Moody, basket maker, Greenwich
Josiah F. Wickens, builder, Plumstead
Henry Denton, carman, Hammersmith
George T. Parnell, engineer, Wardour-street, Soho
Lewis Wells, boot maker, Great Peter-street, Westmin.
ster
Afred Grainger, grocer, Camberwell
Tom Surridge, licensed viotuller, Coventry-street
Edward Thomas, rope maker, Fowey, Cornwall
Sarah Moorey, ironmonger, Stroud
Richard Fryer, contractor, Merthyr
Wm. Wemyss, draper, Old-street
SCOTCH BANKRUPTS.
Thomas Skene, eating-house keeper, Dundee
Wm. Anderson, builder, Craigband, Stirlingshire
Andrew Jardine, Greenock
Alex. Shearer, miller, Dunipace Mills, Stirlingshire

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE—(This Day.)

LONDON, May 25,-Wind this day at noon—West;
moderate breeze and cloudy weather.

PORTSMOUTH, May 24.—Wind N.W.—Sailed—Her
Majesty's ship Victoria and Albert, for Antwerp.
PLYMOUTH, May 24.—Wind S.E.—Arrived—Sophia
Joackim, from Sunderland for Calcutta, with maintopmast
sprung.
CLYDE, May 23.—Wind N.W.—Arrived—Burtratos
from Mauritius—Shaftesbury, from Calcutta.

NEWPORT, May 24.—Wind N.E.—Sailed—Rose, for
Gilboa.

SWANSEA, May 24.—Wind N.E.—Sailed—Samson, for
Rio Janeiro.

BY MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH.

GRAVESEND, Wednesday Morning.
Arrived, May 24—Salvadore, from Terceira—Palmyra,
from Guernsey—Amici, from Lagos—Jarlen, from Ha,
vannah.

Sailed, May 25—Lord J. Russell, steamer, for Dunkirk.
DEAL, Wednesday Morning.
Passed.—Mary Spicer, for Tobago—City of Norwich,
screw steamer, for Corunna—both from London,

Foreign Mail Packet List.

MAILS DUE.

tiustralia and Mauritius, via Southampton .. Jane 18.

. .
via Marseilles ... June:l2.
Brazil and Cape Verde, by British packet. June 5.
Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St. Helena.. May 29.
China, Penang, and Singapore, via Southampton. June 2.
via Marseilles ...May 27.

Falkland Islands • . O
Gibraltar, via Southampton .. .. May 27.
India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southampton.. June 2
via Marseilles.... May 27.
India (Bombay), via Southampton .. ..May 27.
via Marseilles Jane 5. ,
Portuga1....
Malta, Egypt, and Aden, via Southampton May 27,
via Marseilles May 27.
Newfoundland .. May 25.
Oporto and Vigo
U. S. and British N. America, by Brit. packet.... May 25.
by U.S. packet....
by Canadian packet. May 27.
W.C. of Africa, Madeira, and Teneride .. June 10.
Bahamas, via New York June 2.
Mexico..

THE ROYAL VISIT TO CAMBRIDGE.—CAMBRIDGE
May 24.—The following is a list of those upon
whom honorary degrees will be conferred during the ensuing
royal visit :—His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, his
Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, his Royal High-
ness the Prince Louis of Hesse, Earl Granville, the Duke
of Manchester, Earl Stanhope, Earl Spencer, the Earl of
Carnarvon, Viscount Palmerston, Viscount Eversley, Lord
Alfred Hervey, Lord Leigh, Lord Harris, Sir Edward
Lytton Bulwer Lytton, Sir William Page Wood, Sir Chas.
Wood, Sir Charles Lock Eastlake, General William Thos.
Knollys, the Rev. the Dean of Westminster, A. J. B.
Hope, Esq., M P., Dr. Watson (President of the College
cf Physicians), M. Charles Gabriel Cobet, Dr. A. W. Hoff-
man, Professor Wheatstone. All the above-mentioned will
be creatcAel Honorary Doctors of Law by special grace. At
a meeting of the corporation this morning, the presentation
of an address to their Royal Highnesses was agreed to, and
also that the same should take place near the old conduit
head, near the old London entrance into the town, and also
that the electric light be fitted up on the top of the great
tower of St. Mary's Church, and used during the nights of
the 2d and 3d of June, From the Senate House down-
wards, the busy hum of preparation is going on, and all
tells of anticipation of approaching festivity.
The Spanish Cortes have just passed a law em-
powering the Government to make arrangements
with the municipality of Madrid for the erection of a colossal
bronze statue of Christopher Columbus in one of the public,
places of the city. It is proposed to inscribe on the pedes-
tal the device of the Dukes do Veragues, the great disco-
verer's descendants, of which the following is a translation :
—" To Castille and Leon Columbus gave the New World.'
A Florence letter of 19th says :—" The corn.
mittee charged with the erection of a statue to Dante
having heard that there is now at Verona a family of that
name, the present head of which is Count Sarego Alighicri
have addressed to King Victor Emmanuel an application
praying him to confer the Florentine patriciate, with en
emption from taxes, on all the members of that illustrious
family, and their male descendants. At the same time the
municipality of Florence have, at a general meeting, decided
ou applying to the authorities of Ravenna, where the mortal
remains of the great poet have been deposited since hie
death, to have them removed to his native city.
forcity. Tian
interest now shown by the good people of Florence k
everything concerning Dante forms a remaontrast
to the oblivion in which his memory has been r able co
long
allowed to remain.
THE POPE AND SigKINDRED.—The Semaine
Liturgique of Poitiers gives the following details
respecting the family of the Pope :---Pius IX., now 72, is
the youngest surviving so
brothers, Counts Gabriel son
of his family. He has still two
and Gaetan, who are 84 and SO
yfaetahresr,ofCaoguen' His sister, the Countess Benigni, is 77. His
Count Jerome, died at 84, and his mother at 82.
His grandfather, Count Hercules, lived to the age of 96.
The Alastai family is very numerous. The Pope's eldest
brother, Count Gabriel, has two sons, one of whom is mar-
ried to the Princess del Drago, the other to the niece of
Cardinal Cadolini, Count Gaetan is a widower, and has
no children. His deceased brother, Count Joseph, who
was a captain in the gendarmery, died without issue ; but
his four sisters, of whom only one survives, have left a nu-
merous e rogeny
of sons and grandsons. It must be said to
the honour el the Pontiff that his brothers, sisters, and
their descendants have not cost the State a single penny.
None of them has ever been in (Zee, or employed in any
mission, so that it cannot be said that the elevation of Car-
dinal Mastai to the supreme dignity has made any addition,
to the fortunes of his family.
THE BABY TOWERS OF SHANGHAI.—One day
we went to inspect one of the Baby Towers, of which there
are numbers near Shanghai. They are wells surrounded
by walls, with apertures through which the bodies are
thrown in. It appears that all poor people's children, which
die in infancy, are wrapped up in straw and deposited in
one of these towers, to avoid the expense of coffins and'
burial
ceremor sitersa. They emit a terrible odour, and when
the
mass w bundles almost reach the top of tho
tower, it is emptied, the contents are burnt, and the ashes
spread as manure over the fields. Such a mode of dispos-
ing of the bodies of infante struck us as a great incentive
to infanticide, a came which is so very common in China.
—d Lady's Visit to Manilla and Japan.