The Sun.
London, England, 1863-10-09 00:00:00

ELECTION INTELLIGENCE.

COVENTRY.
The polling commenced at 8 o'clock yesterday morning,
and resulted, as will be seen below, in the return of Mr.
Treherne, the Conservative candidate, who has undoubtedly
been all along the favourite of the mob. From a very early
hour in the morning until the close of the poll the excite-
ment was intense, but although there was a great deal of
clamour and noise, and much of that peculiar kind of rause
which is characteristic of all places whore the suffrage is
vested in the "freemen," there was no serious mischief
done by either party. The first statement issued was by
Mr. Treherne's committee :
HALP.PAST NINE
NINE O'CLOCK.
Treherne
• • 610 I Peel • • •.414
O'CLOCK.
Treherne • • 884 I Peel .. .. 682
ELEVEN o'Cnocic•
Treherne .. 1,354 I Peel .. .. 1,004
At this period of the day many of the out-voters began to
arrive from Birmingham and other towns, and the next
statement, the first issued by
Mr. Peel's committee, was at
liALr 'PAST TEN o CLOCK.
Treherne .. 1,560 I Peel • • • . 1,281
ELEVEN
O'CLOCK.
Treherne .. 1,785 i Peel • • • . 1,567
'
TWELVE O'CLOCK.
At this hour Mr.Treherne's committee issued the follow-
ing :
Treherne .. 1,920 I peel ..
.. 1,664
ONE O'CLOCK.
Treherne .. 2,008 I Peel • • .. 1,795
At this time it seemed to bo taken for granted that the
Conservative candidate must svin. The following was the
statement at

T TIREr O'CLOCK.
Treherne .. 2,164 I Peel • • ' • 2,011
The official declaration was
xcade by the Mayor a few
minutes before five o'clock--
Treherne .. 2,263 I Peel .. .. 2,129
The announcement of the numbers was received with
much apparent satisfaction.
The number of voters on the register is about 5,000, but
it has been reduced by removals, Ike.
Mr. Treherne and Mr. Peel addressed their supporters
from the windows of their respective hotels.
Such is the result of this election, somewhat unexpected
by the Liberal party, who were fortunate in having as their
candidate a wan so closely allied to one of the greatest of
English statesmen of modern times ; but, strange as it may
appear, Free Trade lost Mr. Peel his election.

MR. SHIRLEY BROOKS has a novel on the stocks,
to be hunched with the Dew year'

THE BOMBAY MAIL.

(REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.)

SOUTHAMPTON, OCT. 9,

The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steam--
ship Ceylon, Captain Evans, with the heavy portion
of the above trails, has arrived. She brings 132
passengers, 5 packages of specie, value £990, and
1,374 packages of cargo, including 1,126 bales of
raw silk, value £lOO,OOO sterling.

The Ceylon experienced from Cape St. Vincent
to Finisterre strong northerly winds and heavy
head sea. Across the Bay of Biscay north-westerly
winds, unsettled weather, with heavy westerly
swell, and low barometer.

Her Majesty's ships Revenge, Meanee, Pyscbe,
Phoebe, and Foxhound were at Malta. At Gibral-
tar the Procris, also the Italian steam frigates Vic-
tor Emmanuel, Garibaldi, Regina, Carlo Alberto,
Maria Adelaide, Due de Geneva, and two others.
The Ceylon spoke on the 29th nit, H.M.S. Chanti-
cleer ; on the 30th, H.M.S. Orontes ; on the Ist
inst. the s.s. Poonah ; and on the sth the s.s. Pera,
and an English barque showing V.F.8.C., steering
northwest, desired to be reported all well.
The British brig Flying Cloud, from Odessa, ar-
rived at Gibraltar on the 25th. The master reports
that on the 24th August, whilst rounding Cape St.
Angelo, in the Mores, intending to take the service
passage between the mainland and the island of
Cergio, he saw and heard three volleys of musketry
fired at a distance of not more than half a mile from
his ship. The master believed that the firing was
from pirates attacking some vessel, and immediately
put his ship about and stood out to sea. He also
reports that the barque, Waterloo, the only vessel
in company with the Flying Cloud, that day en-
tered the Channel about an hour before him, and
he therefore entertained fears as to her safety.
The sailing of the war sloop Consuelo, with amu-
nition for Algeciras and Malaga, had been counter-
manded in consequence of the favourable answer to
the ultimatum demanded by the Spanish Govern-
ment from that of the Emperor of Morocco.
The British barque, Eliza Kinch, bound to
Santos, passed Gibraltar on the 2d; she picked up,
on Sept. 30, the boat of the schooner Ann (of Troop),
which vessel foundered in lat. 38 44 N., long. 4.22,
being then 10 days from Girgenti, with a cargo of
sulphur, bound to Cork or Falmouth. The Eliza
Ricoh cast off the boat at the entrance of the bay
of Gibraltar, and proceeded on her voyage.

GIBRALTAR, OCT. 4.

The following British vessels have arrived here
since the 25th. ult. :—The schooner Manx Minx, 25
days from Hull ; brigantine Conquest, 14 days from
Newport; schooner Braes o' Moray, 17 days from
Cardiff; brigantine Jessy, 21 days from Cardiff;
steamer Melbourne, 6 days from Cardiff; cutter
Pride, 20 days from Liverpool ; schooner Elizabeth,
17 days from Newport; schooner Messenger, 21
days from Liverpool ; brig Lightning, 22 days from
Newcastle ; steamer lonia, 17 days from Liverpool ;
steamer Amazon, 10 days from London; steamer
Poonah, 8 days from Southampton; steamer Bri-
tannia, 7 days from London; steamer British
Queen, 6 days from Liverpool ; steamer Tripoli, 6
days from Liverpool; and steamer Ellora, 5 days
from Southampton.
Exchanges are quoted, on London, 90 days' date,
491 to 13-16ths ; Paris, 5f 27f ; Marseilles, 5t 28c ;
Genoa, 5f 293 ; Madrid, 8 days' sight, par to
prem. ; Seville, par toe prem. ; Malaga, prem. ;
Barcelona, prem. ; and Cadiz, Almeira, Valencia,
and Alicant, par.

Presentation of the Coventry Address to
II R.H, the Princess of Wales.

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(THIS DAY )

The deputation from Coventry, headed by the Mayor
(Thomas Soden, Esq.) had the honour of an audience to.-
day, to present to her Royal Highness the congratulatory
address, executed in woven fabric, as a means of repre-
senting the capabilities of the Coventry loom, the skill of
its workmen, and also to show that although the city had
passed through an ordeal of unparalleled severity, yet that
the misfortune had not had the effect of damping either
the energy or the loyalty of its citizens.

As a specimen of English manufacture, the address is
probably the most elaborate and wonderful piece of work
ever produced by the looms of Coventry. The text, which
is written in the Gothic hand of this period, is enclosed on
all sides by a border of interlaced golden branches, which
form a series of clasped medallions, in which are introduced
alternately, the badge and monogramof the Prince of Wales.
Between the medallions the symmetry of the border is pre-
served by sprays of leaves and flowers, of various colours.
In the centre of the border, at the top, are the arms of the
City of Coventry--per pale,gules, and vert, an elephant, on
his back a castle triple-towered, or, surmounted by the
crest, a cat, or. On each side of the shield is an ortrich
feather with the motto " Icb Dien," as represented on early
seals. These plumes have been always associated with the
arms of the City, in remembrance of the intimate connexion
which it was its honour to enjoy with Edward the Black
Prince. The banners on each side represent the " Deane-
brog," the national standard of Denmark. At the foot of
the design are the Sword and Mace --the civic insig-
nia; on the dexter side of which are arms of
the Prince of Wales—England quartering Scotland
and Ireland, with an inescutcheon of Saxony ; and over
all a label of three points, the distinctive mark of the eldest
son. On the sinister side are the arms of the kingdom of
Denmark—or, semee of hearts, gules, three lions passant,
azure. In the execution of the work two 900 Jacquard
machines have been employed, carrying 2,158 cords, and
requiring 16,372 cards , and the shuttle has had to traverse,
in completing the whole design, from 10,000 to 11,000
times.

The casket containing the address is another triumph of
Coventry skill, and founded, like the enrichment of the
address itself, on historical examples; the period chosen is
' Saxon,
the era comprising British Scandinavian art, when
Danish history became so closely woven with Bri-
tish, and Danish kings reigned in England. The
details of silver filagree, the lobed crystals, amethysts,
carbuncles, and ivory, with which it is enriched, are inkeeping with many beautiful remains exhibited in the Loan
Museum of 1862; and the national museums and private
cabinets of England and Denmark contain many choice
examples of this character. " Tennyson's Idylls of the
King," based upon British periods of history, is chosen for
the illustration ; the design, by Tenniel, represents the
crowning portion of Enid's devotion to her wounded hus-
band, the Prince gerant.
Her Royal Highness and suite having entered the re-
ception-room, and the formal introduction made, tho mayor
then presented the address, which was as follows :
" To HER ROYAL HIGHNESS THE PRINCESS OF WALES.
" May it please your Royal Highness,—
" We, the mayor, aldermen, and citizens of the city of
Coventry in Council assembled, beg to express to your
Royal Highness our warmest congratulations upon your
Royal Highness's marriage with his Royal Highness the
Prince of Wales.
" We join with all our hearts in the general welcome
of your Royal Highness to this country—a welcome which
will have been to your Royal Highness the most grateful
proof of the satisfaction with which the august alliance is
everywhere regarded.
" We rejoice that while it renews an intimate connection
between the Ittyal Families of Denmark and England, it
is also hailed with enthusiasm by the peopleof both nations
—a unison of feeling which cannot fail to promote the good-
will and friendly intercourse so long subsisting between
them.

" Our ardent prayer is that the event may be blesded
with happiness to your Royal Highness and the Prince,
imparting joy to our beloved Queen and wide-spread
bent fits to this kingdom,
" Given under our Common Seal the 24th day of March,
in the year of our Lord 1863.
"Taos. SODEN, Mayor (Common Seal)."
Tho address was received in the most gracious manner,
and then a splendid watch, of Coventry manufacture, was
presented by Miss Soden (daughter of the Mayor) on the
part of the ladies of the City.
This present, like the address, was another Rplenaid spe-
cimen of Coventry taste. On the back of the case was en-
graved a monogram surmounted by the Princess's crown,
the former composed of brilliants and rose diamonds, the
latter of brilliants, rose diamonds, rubies, and emeralds ;
on the case there are in all 60 brilliants and 64 rose dia-
monds. The dial is of chased gold, with black painted
hours.

THE £2,500 ROBBERY IN LIVERPOOL.—SamueI
Hey Parker, the young man who robbed his employers,
Messrs. Chambers, Holder, and Co., of Liverpool, of £2,500
(but afterwards returned £1,500), has escaped punishment
by Ais mftstere declining to prosecute.

LITERATURE.

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Evenings at Home. ByDr. Aikin and Mrs. Bar-
bauld. One vol., pp. 212. Longman and Co.
Another delightful nursery classic has here bten
added to that series of charming story-books now
being published, in quarterly volumettes, by the
Messrs. Longman, under the title, coffictively, of
J. S. Laurie's Shilling Entertaining Library. Half
a dozen good reasons we have now had for praising
this most welcome collection of narratives—

"Beloved as fable and believed as truth :"
to wit, "Robinson Crusoe," " Gulliver's Travels,"
" Christmas Stories," " Saedford and Merton,"
" The History of the Plague of London," and now,
completing the half dozen, this welcome rc-issue of
that celebrated " Juvenile Budget of Miscellanies,"
better known by its old familiar name of " Evenings
at Home." What Mr. and Mrs. Howitt were, not
so very many years back to ourselves when we
were children, what they still are to our own
children, while yet these are children, Dr. Aikin
and Mrs. Barbauld were to the children of an
earlier generation. The clever, simple-hearted,
fiction-weaving husband and wife of to-day,
in other words, have been but the re-
petition, in an entirely new way, of the clever,
simple-hearted, fiction-weaving brother and sister
of yesterday. As Mr. Thackeray says of Swift,
that he strode into the nursery with the step of an
Ogre, our fathers might have said, on the contrary,
of Dr. Aikin and Mrs. Barbauld, we ourselves
might say again, now-a-days, of William and
Mary Hewitt, that they come hand in hand
among the little people like dear old friends—
friends, as they are, welcomed there, whenever they
cross the threshold, with childish prattle, and—
better than smiles—with peals of gleeful laughter.
They come there, this man and wife, this brother
and sister, like a sort of Gaffer and Gammer
Grethel—a couple to be made much of in the cosiest
of arm chairs, confronting each other in the snug-
gest of corners, upon the opposite sides of the nur-
sery hearth on a winter's night; to be clustered about
alternately, and listened to with breathless interest
by the bright-eyed boys and girls for whom they
ring out their merry rhymes, or tell in
clear and comprehensible prose the funniest tales
about Tom, Dick, or Harry, Kitty, Polly,
or Susan. As pretty a gathering together of these
same charming stories in prose and verse as any of
them ever yet jotted down upon paper, for the de-
light of the youngsters, is this very j uvenile Budget
of Miscellanies yclepped the "Evenings at Home."
Such evenings! One while, for example, we are
laughing at " Tit for Tat," where the sagacious ele-
phant, having had a cocoa-nut cracked upon his skull
by his driver, another day, in his turn, cracks a cocoa-
nut upon the driver's (cracking skull and nut together,
as it happens) by way of retaliation ! Another
while, again, we are laughing at "Phatheon
junior" wildly careering with his gig and
tandem, helter - skelter, through the village
fair, among pigs, poultry, and apple-women,
until spilt, at the close of his disastrous escapade,
plump into the muddiest of ditches! Linnet
and goldfinch, swallow and tortoise, lapdog
and monkey, dove and pbcenix, eyes and no eyes,
flying and swimming, adventures of a cat, and story
of a little dog—these are among the subjects here
commented upon for our entertainment. And
even, we may say, many " children of a
larger growth" than such as are usually to
be found trotting about in knickerbockers,
or trundled along the streets in perambu-
lators, might listen with advantage to Dr. Aikin
and Mrs, Barbauld as they here, alternately, prattle
in prose and verse ! Certain of this—both young
and old—that from these storied pages of " Evenings
at Home" innocent sources of mirth and delightful
morsels of information are attainable by all who
list—literally—at pleasure! We doubt whether
any prettier edition of this dear old book was ever
printed than the one now procurable from the
Great House in the Row, at the " ridiculously small
amount" of one shilling. A companion volume it is,
of course, in every way to its five predecessors
already enumerated, and already noticed by us, as
they deserved to be noticed, at the time of their pub-
lication, in the columns of our journal. Bat, in one
particular, there is observable, in regard to this
addition of a sixth volume, to Mr. Laurie's series of
illustrated story-books, a merit beyond that dis-
coverable, at any rate in so marked a way, in the
majority of its predecessors. The embellishments
here introduced by " S." into this fresher instal-
ment of the Entertaining Library possessing the
distinctive merit of peculiar animation. The
frontispiece affords a remarkable instance of this
with its pencilled memorial of Jehu's destructive
slapdash, with his high-mettled, runaway ponies, in
among the jumbled herd of squealing pigs and
piglings. Capital, too, in its way, is the humorous
delineation of the upset of the carrier's cart, and
the indoor glimpse of that rascally tame Raven,
who coolly walked off, for the purpose of after-
wards as coolly walking into, the bag of meal be.
longing to Robinet, the peasant of Lorraine.

THE TIME-GUN.