The Sun.
London, England, 1863-01-19 00:00:00

COLONIAL APPOINTMENTS.—The Queen has been
pleased to appoint Mr. Henry Newton, of the Bombay civil
service, to b: a judge of the High Court at Bombay, in the
room of Mr. W. E. Frere, who has resigned. J. It. Semper,
Esq., has been appointed member of the Exec utive Council
of the island of Antigua ; William Robinson, Esq., presi-
dent and senior member of the Executive Council of the
island of Montserrat, Edwin Donald Baynes, Esq., and
Dr. William Steventon to be members of the Executive
Council of the island of Montserrat; George D. Harris,
Esq., and Timothy Darling, Esq., members of the Executive
Council of the Bahama Islands; R. Hutchison, Esq., and
G. Blankson, Esq., members of the Legislative Council of
her Majesty's forts and settlements on the Gold Coast ;
Charles Boyes, Esq., a member of the Legislative Council
of the island of Jamaica.

MR. CHARLES DICKENS'S READINGS IN PARIS.
—Mr. Charles Dickens's soiree at the Embassy, for
the benefit of theßritish Charitable Fund, has been a great
success, writes our Paris correspondent. He read an abridg-
ment of " David Copperfield," so skilfully arranged as to
make a complete drama, with a light and serious plot inter-
woven. Lord Cowley's large drawing room was quite filled
bya fashionable audience—ladies, all in evening dress, form-
ing the majority. The reading lasted scarcely more than
an hour and a half, and it is wonderful to think what
varied emotions passed through the mind in that short space
of time. Mr. Dickens does as he likes with his audience.
They are as clay in the hands of the potter, and take any
shape than he desires. The transition from the roars of
laughter at Micawber and Mrs. Crupp, to the solemn
silence with which the pathetic story of Peggotty and Emily
was listened to, struck me as a marvellous homage to a
master-mind. I am told there were about 300 people in the
room, and as the price of admission was 20f., Mr. Dickens
must have the gratifying reflection that, besides affording
immense pleasure to countrymen abroad, many of whom he
knew in former days, and were rejoiced, after long absence,
to see him looking young and well, he has been the means
of putting a handsome sum into the treasury of an excel-
lent charity.
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Mrs. Cap' aM Paton was confined of a son on the 15th inst.
On Friday afternoon the cabin passengers presented to Cap-
tain Paton a testimonial, in which they desire to thank him,
and to extend their thanks even to the most subordinate'
officers of the ship, for the uniform kindness and con-
sideration which they experienced on the voyage—kindness
and attention which made the voyage partake more of the
nature of a pleasure trip than a winter excursion across the
Atlantic. They also express their high satisfaction with
the ship and her performances in every respect. The second
and third class passengers also joined in a similar testi-
monial ; and all classes speak in highly favourable terms of
the ship as affording an immunity from sea-sickness, and
express themselves as hopeful—indeed, certain, that the
great ship will prove herself in every way successful, both
as a passenger and as a cargo ship.
SOUTHAMPTON DOCK COMPANY.—The directors
have unanimously elected Admiral Sir Provo William Parry
Willis, K.C.8., to the vacant seat at the Board, caused by
the decease of the late Mr. B. M. 'Willcox, M.P.
A MEET ON THE ICE.—The Victoria skating rink
was opened at Montreal on Christmas eve by the
Mayor, in the presence of a couple of thousand of the best
society of the city. This rink, which is without an equal in
Canada, contains a skating space 202 ft. 'mg by 80ft. wide,
surrounded by a broad promenade, the entire surface being
spanned by a semicircle, forming at once both sides and roof.
The immense building was well lit by six pendant rings or
stars of gas, while all around the space blazed a row of
single burners, 480 in all, making the rink almost as bright
as day, and lighting up the ice and the many colours which
slid over it. Since the evening of the Prince's ball Mon-
treal has not so seen so brilliant an effect produced at any
social gathering. The band of the 47th Regiment played
appropriate airs, while hundreds of skaters, ladies and
gentlemen, girls and boys, flitted about on the ice in one
ever moving scene, There is something almost fairy-like
in the way in which a good skatress glides over the ice.
It has such a graceful effect that we shall take the
liberty of citing a hint from a York contemporary.
Ladies should wear dresses without hoops. The English
ladies' dress, worn so much at present, is well adapted for
skating. It is a rather below
the ankles, which are tight dress, not reaching
hat hidden by laced-up boots--tight cloak,
and the porkpie
skating in a "sky scraper„
its jaunty feather. A woman
bonnet is a shocking inconsis-
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out of place with such an ar-
joie on her head as would a
tell well in skating. They
streamiy on horseback. Ribands
out from a skating cap
with a very pretty effect. From New York and
bouring States, as far west as Chicago, Wegot
wordthe n
that
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, skating is becoming this winter a fashionable, if not the
fashionable amusement ; and we are happy to hear it, for
, it
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for some fashionable
5 P allallßelllelltS.-111ontreal Gazette.