The Sun.
London, England, 1865-08-10 00:00:00

Liverpool Cotton Market—This Day.

Market very steady. Sales, probably 10,000
bales.

A MUNIFICENT GIFT.--Mr. William Ferguson,
of the Stock Exchange, has presented to the National Life-
boat Institution £3OO, to pay the cost of a new lifeboat,
which the institution is about to station at Kingsdown,
opposite the south end of Goodwin Sands. Mr. and Mrs.
Ferguson take considerable interest in the welfare of the
Lifeboat Institution, and have expressed a hope that they
may be enabled to collect among their friends and others the
cost of another lifeboat. Last year Mr. W. N. Rudge, of
the Stock Exchange, collected among the members of that
establishment the liberal donation of £6lO in aid of the
funds of the National Lifeboat Institution.

ROYSTON AND HITCHIN RAILWAY.--At the half-
yearly meeting, held yesterday-forenoon, at the offices, 61
Gracechurch-street, Mr. J. C. Cobbold in the chair, it was
resolved, " That a dividend at the rate of 6 per cent. per
annum, less income tax, and ld. per £6 ss. Stock, for ex-
penses of management, be declared upon the Royston,
Hitchin, and Shepreth Consolidated Stock for the half-year
ending August, 1865, and paid forthwith." Major Amsinck
and Mr. John Phillips, the retiring directors, were re-elected,
and a vote of thanks to the chairman closed the pro-
ceedings.

THE ROAD MURDER.—A meeting of the Trow-
bridge magistrates has been held, at which a resolution
was adopted, to the effect that it was desirable that some
expression of sympathy should be offered to Elizabeth
Gough, the nursemaid, who was at one time apprehended
on the charge of having murdered Francis Saville Kent,
and who has so long suffered under the injustice of being
suspected. For five years the unfortunate young woman,
though bearing the highest possible character, has been
subject to the cruellest wrong in consequence of the posi-
tion in which she has been placed. The magistrates for the
district of Trowbridge, near which place the murder was
committed, have accordingfy determined to make a sub-
scription and present any sum that may be collected, as an
assurance of their belief that she has been most unjustly
accused. _ _ _

A letter from Bergerac, of the 6th, says :—" The
inauguration of the Church of Notre Dame de
Bergerac attracted within our walls an additional popula-
tion of from 25,000 to 30,000 souls. Such an influx was
never seen here before. The Marquis de Lavalette, Mini-
ster of the Interior, was present, attended by the members
of the now municipal council. The ceremony of conse-
cration was performed by Cardinal Donnet, Archbishop of
Bordeaux, assisted by the Archbishops of Tours and Alby,
and five other prelates. At vespers the Bishop of Tulle
preached a sermon to an overflowing congregation. In
the evening a grand dinner was given by the town to tho
Minister, the Cardinal Archbishop of Bordeaux, and all the
high ecclesiastical dignitaries present at the consecration.
The town was splendidly illuminated at night. Two new
bells have since been consecrated for the new church ; the
largest weighs 2,255 kilos. (44 cwt.)"
FIRE AT COLE GREEN.—On Saturday night at 11
o'clock a fire was discovered in Mr. Allen's barn at
Cole Green Farm, near Panshanger. Five Irishmen were
sleeping in the barn ; four of whom escaped, without
any clothing, but one named Thomas Burke, from
County Galway, in trying to go out by an end door came
in contact with some threshing machinery, fell down
and lost his life. His body was found at four o'clock on
Sunday morning; but soon after a wall fell on it and
fifteen persons had a very narrow escape ; when again
recovered the skull was flattened, the ribs compressed,
the legs and arms entirely gone, and but a very faint out-
line of a human trunk remained. The machine-barn, saw-
mills, and threshing-machine were burnt. The stables
and dwelling-house escaped, owing to the exertions made
with the Hertford fire-engine. There were seven loads of
wheat straw in the barn where the fire first was seen, and
the poor Irishnien lost all their harvest money, about £lO,
which was in their clothes pockets. It is feared that the
fire was wilful, and a man is in custody on suspicion.—
Herts Guardian.

Accounts from Mecklenburg-Schwerin, the flog-
ging State, as it is called by the Liberal journals of
Germany, announce that this mode of punishment will be
probably suppressed, at least for simple offences committed
by the agricultural labourers on the seignorial estates.
Tho greater part of the tribunals and police authorities
decided in this sense,