The Sun.
London, England, 1863-01-14 00:00:00

BOROUGH HOP.

A steady business is doing in all kinds of hops, and the
quotations are well supported.

WHTTECHAPEL.

Fair supplies of meat are on sale, and the trade rules
steady as follows :

Beef from 2s 8d to 3s 10d ; mutton, 3s Od to 4s 2d ; veal,
3s 4d to 4s 4d ; and pork, 3s 4d to 4s 6d per 81b.

Le Pays, we regret to observe, announces that
the news received in regard to the health of M.
Horace Vernet, are again of the most alarming character.
He has had a relapse. Inflammation has made fresh pro-
gress, and his medical attendants appear to despair of his
recovery.

DR. COLENSO.—Tte London Stereoscopic and'
Photographic Company have just added to their
interesting list of cartes a'e visite a portrait of Dr. Colenso
the Bishop of Natal, whose recent work on the Pentateuch
has occasioned so much discussion. It is a striking and
effective likeness, and got up with the company's usual
care and skill.

THE RE-OPENING OF THE THEATRE ROYAL,
PLYMOUTH.—Owing to the unbroken spirit and
energy of Mr. Newcombe, the reopening of the Theatre
Royal, Plymouth, as early as Monday last, has been accom-
plished. At seven o'clock, with a crowded gallery, a good
upper circle, a brilliant dress, and a full pit, the curtain
rose, disclosing Mr. Newcombe and the whole of his com-
pany in dress. Then an enthusiastic cheer, rising from
the pit, spreading to boxes, circle, and and gallery,
filled the building, and, loud and long continued, made the
walls ring again. Not since the reopening of the
theatre in August, 1861, have the walls re-echoed with
such applause. For a time there seemed to be no
boundary to the enthusiasm of the assembly. Mr'
Newcombe came forward again and again in acknow-
ledgment, and at length the band commenced playing
the National Anthem, everyone in the house rising at
once. The first verse was well sung by Miss Everard, and
the chorus heartily taken up by the assembly. The second
verse was excellently given by Miss Rosina Ranee, and
once more the audience joined in the chorus. The curtain
then dropped, and instantly deafening calls were made for
the lessee, which resounded from gallery to pit, and in a few
seconds Mr. Newcombe appeared before the curtain, where
he was again received with the loudest applause. He re-
peatedly acknowledged his hearty reception, and, when
silence had been restored, in a voice broken with emotion,
he merely said he was so overcome that he could not
speak, and retired from the stage. Captain Holloway then
made his appearance, and made an appropriate address.
The interesting and most appropriate drama of " Sunshine
through the Clouds" was then put upon the boards, It
will be sufficient to say that it was well put upon the stage,
and that actors and actresses, all animated by the applause
of a crowded house, gave satisfaction in the performance of
their respective parts. The unmistakeable safety of the
theatre was clomon.A...L.a UJ tliu cayc.icucc of Monday
night. Every day will add to the improvements and the
completion of what was so hastily thrown up in the main
entrance. The strictest precautions were taken to guard
against alarms. All admirers of enterprise and industry
cannot but wish that a deserving man like Mr. Newcombe
may be supported. He has refused to receive a public sub-
scription, and has returned the cheques sent to him, rely-
ing with confidence on the patronage of the inhabitants of
the two counties, whom year after year he has made such
efforts to please.— Western Morning News.
THE ARSENICAL POISONINGS IN LINCOLN-
SHIRE.—On Monday John Garner and Elizabeth,
his wife, were brought up, on remand, before the magis-
trate at Horncastle,on a charge of having poisoned Hannah
Garner, a former wife of the male prisoner. Several wit-
nesses were examined, and testified to the unhappy manner
in which the prisoner and his first wife lived, and his in-
difference at the time of her death; but the only evidence
in relation to the poisoning consisted in hints and insinua-
tions, related at second- hand,which the female prisoner had
dropped before she was married. At the close the prisoners
were again remanded.
THE RUINS OF BABYLON.—A letter from Bagdad
in the Moniteur, says :—" The excavations carried
on among the ruins of Babylon, under the direction of the
French Consul at Bagdad, have resulted in some interest-
ing diseoveries. In the Nimroud Mound, which was
visited by Mr. Layard in 1840, were found four bas-reliefs
of colossal dimensions, each sculptured on a large slab of
stone, and representing allegorical figures. The greater part
of these bas-reliefs bear long inscriptions in cuneiform cha-
racters, and are remarkable for their state of preservation.
A certain number of other sculptures of smaller dimensions,
representing scenes of Assyrian life or warlike episodes,
have also been discovered. Those artistic treasures are on
their way to Fiance."

SECESSION FROM DISSENT.—On Sunday evening,
the Rev. G. Crowther Smith, Congregational minister of
Folkestone, announced from his pulpit his retirement from
the Congregational body, and his return to communion wirh
the Church of England. It is understood that Mr. Smith
has received promise of episcopal ordination, and that
meanwhile he will be engaged in subordinate clerical
work in a metropolitan parish,
MURDEROUS ASSAULT.—On Sunday last (as re-
ported in the Sussex Advertiser) the governor of the
gaol at Lewes was assaulted by a Frenchman named Frau-
yois a prisoner convicted on the 14th Oct. last,
at Hailsham, of robbery, and sentenced to nine months'
imprisonment, and who was at the time of the assault un •
dergoing punishment in one of the refractory cells. The
Governor, Mr. Sanders, was going the round of the cells
on Sunday morning, asking each prisoner if he had any-
thing to ray, but had no sooner done so to the prisoner than
the latter sprang forward instantaneously, and gave
Mr. Sanders what he first thought a slight blow on
the face, but proved to be a wound in the jaw,
with a kind of rude knife, which caused a great loss of
blood. The weapon consisted of a piece of tin, shaped
and sharpened like the blade of a knife, and fastened into a
wooden handle, and tied round with a piece of twine. Pri-
soner, ever since his imprisonment, had been a continual
pest, causing more trouble than 50 prisoners, and had fro.
quently threatened to take the life of some one. Three
months ago be made an inf ffectual attempt to escape from
prison. He was examined before the magistrates at the
prison yesterday, and alleged that Mr. Sanders had kept
back money and clothing that had been sent him ; that the
food with which he had been supplied was deficient in
quantity and of bad quality; that he had been treated with
great cruelty by the governor and the prison officials; and
that he had been repeatedly charged falsely with improper
conduct and punished for it. He was fully committed for
trial.

REMARKABLE CASE OF DROWNING AT ROCH-
DALE.—Miss Sarah Ann Hoyland, milliner, met
with her death on Sunday evening under very painful cir-
cumstances. It seems that she and her sweetheart, a young
man named Levi Crossley, a clerk in one of the newspaper
offices, were walking arm in arm along the banks of the
Roach, at a point near Hamer-lane, she being next the
river. The evening being densely foggy, they erperienced
some difficulty in finding the turnstile through which it is
necessary to pass, when Crossley, thinking they were too
much to the right, diverged a little to the other side, on
which the ) oung woman slipped into the river, drawing
him in after her. After struggling for some time they
both succeeded in getting out, but seriously fatigued.
Crossley sat down on a stone close to the edge, taking her
~n his knee. This stone (such is his statement) toppled
over, precipitating them both into the river again, and this
time the young woman was taken down by the stream.
Crossley managed again to get out, and, unable to render
any as:istance himself, made the best of his way for help.
It was a long time, however, before the body could be
found, and when at last discovered, it was fifty yards from
where the accident occurred, and life, of course, was
quite extinct.
We believe an inquest will be held to-
day. The path, we may add, where the accident took
place, is notorio4sly dangerous, even in daylight,—Leeds
gerol4q.