The Sun.
London, England, 1863-05-28 00:00:00

SHIPPING—This Day.

LONDON, May 28.—Wind this day at noon—West;
light breaze and fine weather.
SLIGO, May 26.—Wind S.E.—Arrived—ldus, from
New York.
LIMERICK, May 26.—Wind N.W.—Arrived—Ampli-
tude, from Salina.
KINGROAD, May 27.—Arrived—Alice Emma, from Rio
Grande; Fanny, from Demerala ; M. Booker, from Trini•
dad de Cuba.
CARDIFF, May 27.—Wind S.—Sailed—Herman Hen-
rietta, for New York.
(BY MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH
GRAVESEND, Thursday Morning.
Arrived, May 27—Brothers German, from Alexandria;
Sarah and Cantina, from Stronstadt ; Gazelle, from Licata ;
Ocean Belle, from Trinidad ; Ameliai from Buenos Ayres ;
Appolina, from Stronstadt.
Arrived, May 28—Ellen Rose, from Bathurst ; Intelli-
gent, from Gravelines ; Mary Pring, from Dantzic.
Sailed, May 27—Alliance, for Rio Janeiro ; Mary Cathe-
rine, for Archangel; Prima Donna, for Antigua.
Sailed, May .).8--City of Hamburg, steamer, for Havre;
Star of England, for Melbourne.

DrAL, Thursday Morning.
Passed—Alnwick Castle, from London, for Calcu,ta ;
Affinity, of Goole, and Judy, of Exeter, from the West, for
North.

ST. JAMES'S THEATRE.—The successful comedy
of "The Merry Widow" has been revived at this
house, the career of which was interrupted by the produc-
tion of " Lady Audley's Secret," both of which pieces are
now being played nightly. The following distinguished
company have v itnessed the performance of "Lady Aud•.
ley's Secret :"—Duke of Newcastle, Captain Macdonald,
Lord Ernest Bruce, Lord and Lady Cremorne, Sir Francis
Sykes, Lord Charles Bruce, William Honywood, Esq.,
Maitland Das'hv.ood, Esq., the Earl of Wilton, Mr. and
Mrs. John Leslie, Hon. Mr. Wynne, Prince de Joinville,
Hon. F. Villiers, Lady ElizabethVilliers, Miss Cockburne,
George Lane Fox, Esq Lord Stanhope, Hon. Major An-
son, the Duke and Duchess of Richmond, Lady Hardwicke
(Countess), Major Goodenough, Lady Molesworth, Sir
Courtenay Hon, ywood, Mrs. Tier Seymour, Win. Kaye,
Esq., Lady Clay, Lady de Rothschild, Baroness Lionel de
Rothschild, the Marchioness of Ely,Yiscount Chelsea,Mrs.
Antrobus, Henry Wombwell, Esq., Viscount Castlecaffe,
Lord Ashley, Lord Methuen, &c.
ARMY.—Yesterday an account of the receipts
and expenditure for army and militia services for
the year ending 31st March, 1862, was published. The
amount granted for army services was £14,636,751, and for
the militia, £637,000. There were several supplementary
grants, which made a total of £16,194,206 Is. 10d. The
total expenditure had been £15,931,670 Bs. 7d., and the
balance unappropriated was £261,535 13s. 3d.

The CologneG izette announces that the duel be-
tween Count Wielopoiski and Count Braticki has
been postponed to June 1, by mutual arrangement. The
encounter is to i ake place on the Swiss territory. This
affair, which, having been so much advertised beforehand,
it is reasonable to hope may prove harmless, arises out of
Prince Napoleon's speech in the Senate on Polish affairs.
Count Branicki, an intimate friend of the prince, is ready to
avenge with sword or pistol an answer to that speech pub-
lished by the Polish governor Wielopolski. It is the son of
the latter who proposes to meet Count Branicki.
FATAL ACCIDENT.—Mr. H. F. C. Osts, the de-
puty city coroner, held an inquest, yesterday, on the
body of John Dorber, a porter, 44 years of age, lately living
in Pond-place, City -road. On the Bth inst. the deceased
was engaged, with two others, loading a lurry with cotton
from Mr. Oliver's, Dickinson•street. Three bales, weigh-
ing about 15cwt. were being elevated into the vehicle by
means of a teaglo and rope, when the rope broke, and the
bales fell on the deceased, and broke his leg. He was taken
to the Royal Infirmary, where he died yesterday morning.
James Brisbane, Mr. Oliver's foreman, said that about a week
before the accident happened one of the porters told him that
the teagle rope was wearing out, and that another would soon
be required. The rope had been in use about 18 months or two
years, and had been reversed once. The porters used their
own judgment as to the weight they should place upon the
rope at one time. Samuel Townrow said that he was a
goods loader, and lived in Maskell-street. He and another
man were assisting deceased at the time of the accident.
He had told Mr. Brisbane on two occasions that the rope
was dangerous. The first time he complained was about a
month ago. Mr. Brisbane simply replied, "It is getting
worse, rather." Witness did not refuse to work with it,
although he thought the rope dangerous. Witness was the
master of the deceased, and the other man who was helping
them, and he paid their wages. The Jury returned a ver-
dict of accidental death. Brisbane was reprimanded for not
providing a new rope after his attention had been called to
the condition of the old one, and Townrow was also repri•
mended for using a rope that he knew to be dangerous.—
Manchester Guardsan.

THE LORD CHANCELLOR'S BENEFICES.—The
Augmentation of Benefices Bill has come down to
the House of Commons. The schedule now includes 327
livings to be sold on such terms as the Lord Chancellor for
the time being shall think fit; he is not to be bound to ac-
cept the highest offer. The hundred richer benefices of be-
tween £2OO and £5OO a year are not fixed on by name, and
the sale of them is guarded by certain conditions. They are
not to be sold at less than ten years' purchase of the clear
annual value, nor without the Ecclesiastical Commissioners
approving the price. There is also this remarkable differ
ence made between the 326 scheduled livings and the hun-
dred richer livings—that the former may be sold to any one,
but in the sale of the hundred richer livings, though they
are sold for the purpose of raising a fund for augmenting
the Lord Chancellor's poorer benefices, he is limited to one
market, and may sell to no one but en owner, in possession
or reversion, of freehold or copyhold lands in that very
parish. The bill has, perhaps, suffered a little, as most bills
do, from alterations made in its progress; the 22d section,
new section, contemplates that some of the hundred richera
benefices are, or may be, among the scheduledlitvhinegbsirlheinich
the Lord Chancellor is in the beginning of
powered to sell to any one at such price as he thinks fit, and
then the 22d section proceeds to empower him to sell the
hundred richer livings to tenants in tail or in fee within the
parish, but only on certain conditions as to price.
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BERLIN, MAY 27.
At to-day's sitting of the Chamber of Deputies,
the reply of the King to the Address of the Cham-
ber was read by the President. The reply was not
countersigned by the Ministers.
The answer tif the King states that his Majesty
upholds the views of the last Royal message and
continues :
" The position of the country is ktown to the
King.

The Chamber, by its Address, has cut away all
hope of community of action. The attitude of the
House i❑ foreign questions has grieved the King
deeply. Prussia is not more isolated owing to her
foreign policy than other powers. Some members
of the house have threatened to refuse the supplies
in the contingency of a war, but the King will
seriously oppose such unjustifiable endeavours to
enlarge the constitutional rights of the Chamber.
The King will maintain the power of the Crown
undimicished, and will not allow the foundation
upon which it rests to be removed.
The message concludes as follows :—" The Minis-
ters possess my confidence, and their actions have
my assent."

The reply of the King was read by the Minister
of the Interior, Count Eulenburg, who also gave
notice that the Parliamentary session would be
closed iu the afternoon.

. The closing of the Prussian Chambers took place
at two o'clock to-day, in the White Saloon of the
Royal Castle, by Herr von Bismark reading a
Speech from the Throne, of which the following
is a summary :
"By its address to the King upon the 29th of
January the Chamber of Deputies has placed itself
in direct opposition to the Government, and, not-
withstanding the answer of the King, has remained
in a position adverse to an understanding. By its
debates upon foreign politics the Chamber has
endeavoured to paralyse the influence of the
Government, and has thereby increased the excite-
ment prevalent in the provinces bordering upon
Poland. It has accepted misrepresentations of the
opponents of Prussia, and aroused apprehensions
of external dangers and entanglement in war, for
which the existing relations to foreign powers give
no well-founded cause. In the recent address the
Chamber, moreover, has altogether refused its co-
operation with the Government. This renders the
close of its deliberations unavoidably necessary.
The Government reserves to itself the power of
determining the manner in which the unsettled

financial measures shall be brought to a conclusion,

and hopes to come to a future understanding with
the representatives of the country."

Liverpool Cotton Market—This Day.

(REUTER'S TELEGRAM.)
Steady. Qiiet. Sales, about 6,000 bales. No
mport. Previously, 13,510.

RACING FIXT'

JRES FOR 1863.
rNE.

Ascot 2
Newton
Hampton
Odiham 16
Bibury Club l7

IBeverley l7
1 Stockbridge lB
IChelmsford 23
Newcastle-on-Tyne ... —23
Carlisle
LY.

Ju
Worcester Summer 2
Newmarket July 7
Liverpool
.. 13
Abingdon 14
Hungerford l6
Pontefract , 16

Stamford
Winchester 2l
Nottingham 21
Cambridge
Southampton. 22
Gocdwood 22
GUST.

Au,
Brightcn
Brighton Club 6
Lewes
Wolverhampton
Reading l2
York August lB

Plymouth 20
Eghaut 25
Stockton
Oxford 27
Lichfield

SEPT,
Devon and Exeter
Derby summer
Warwick
Leicester
Doncaster

Coventry
Newmarket S Of ..... ..12

Worcester..
3

perty in Cornv6all, that I may have the opportunity
of takiti; your chair and sympathising with you in
the Highway and Parochial Assessment Acts.
(Hear, hear.) I have gone through my list of com-
plaints. I hope I hme not hurt the feelings o► the
umpires, bulls, sheep, or any other animal here.
(Great lain;hter•) The hon. member concluded his
speech by proposing the health of Mr. John Nicolls,
who had taken five prizes, and also the healths of
the other successful candidates.

REPLY OP TILE KING TO THE ADDRESS
OF THE PRUSSIAN CHAMBER.

CALCUTTA AND CHINA
MAILS.

13y the arrival of the Calcutta and China mai
we have advices from Calcutta to April 22 ; Mad.
ras, April 28 ; Ceylon (Colombo), April 30; Singa-
pore, April 23; Hong Kong, April 15; and Shang-
hae, April 4.