The Sun.
London, England, 1862-07-02 00:00:00

FROM" 7HE GAZETTE OF LAST EVENING.

FOREIGN-OFFICE, JUNE 20.
The Queen has been graciously pleased to appoint
George Samuel Lennon Hunt, Esq., "now her 111 ajusty, s
Consul at Pernambuco. to be her Majesty's Consul for the
Provinces of Pernamblico Paraiba, Alaioas, Rio Grande
do Norte and Ceara.

-WHITEHALL, JUNE 30.
The Queen has been pleased to appoint Neil Colquhoun
Campbell, Esq., Advocate to be Sheriff of the Shire or
Sheriffdom of Ayr, in the room of John Christison, Esq.,
deceased.

The Gazette contains a number of promotions and alte-
rations of rank in her Majesty's Indian army, which are of
no interest to the general reader.

h BANKRUPTS.
The following are the only Bankruptcies ptcies of any commer-
cial importance which appear hievening's Gazette:—
William Goodsell, licensed victualler, Headeorn, Kent
William Spencer, brewer, Wallingford
John Richardson, merchant, King Willia
aatreletd aCi
ty
Thomas A. Jouanneau, fur dresser, Whitemch.p
John L. Watson, Great Queen-street
David Clayton, farmer, Cotherrott, Salop
Benjamin Watkins, farmer, Madliv, Hereford
William Gilbert, publican, Coventry
Samuel E. K. Nicklin, architect, Leamington Priors
George Bury, manufacturer, Blackbui n, Lancashire
Richard Jackson and John Jackson, cotton spinners,
Oldham, Lancashire
Thomas Partridge, saddler, Long-lane, City
Edward Tonge, attorney, Villiers-street, Strand
Ebenezer Curtis, wine merchant, Mile-end
David A. Jones, packing case manufacturer, Newgate-
street
Joseph and John Lancaster, timber merchants, Bradford
John Evan Roberts, hotel-keeper, Bangor
William Mercer, licensed victualler, Liverpool
Arthur Ritchie, commission merchant, Liverpool

SCOTCH BANKRUPTS.
Matthew Bishop, grocer, Brewsterford, Lanarkshire
William Cameron, baker, Springburn, Lanarkshire
Peter M'Lean, calico printer, Crossmill, Renfrewslme

COURSE OF EXCHANGE.-YESTERDAY.

Amsterdam
Ditto .. 3 Months. 11 18;
Rotterdam .. 11 18i
Antwerp • • 25 47}
Brussels — 25 47t
II amburgh ... 13 84
Paris .. Short. 25 25
Ditto
Marseilles
Frankfort on Maine —119 a
Vienna
Trieste

11 17
11 191
11 191
25 55
25 55
13 91
25 32}
25 55
25 55
119}
13 0
13 0

Petersburgh
Berlin

Madrid

Cadiz

49k
49k
25 50
25 57f
25 60

Leghorn
Milan
Genoa
Naples
Palermo

25 671
25 621
25 621
391
1194
1)4
a

39a
119
119
52a
521

Messina
Lisbon s2a
Oporto — 25/
Foreign Gold in Bars (Standard), per oz £3 17 9
Mexican Dollars
Silver in Bars (Standard)
South American Doubloons

The rich vicarage of Eting, in Hants, is vacant

by the sudden death on Saturday of the Rev. Francis R
-- ----

Phillips.

Every one who went to see the Dog Show at
Islington must have been struck with the number of muti-

lated dogs which were exhibited, the mutilation chiefly con-
sisting in the cropping of the ears. Sir Edwin Landseer,
one of the judges, tried to establish the principle that all
mutilated dogs should be excluded from the competition ;
and as he could not well press this without previous notice
to exhibitors, he has suggested that at no future show shall
dogs with cropped ears, or otherwise mutilated, be admitted.
A renewed attempt has been made to plant the
Cinchona, from which quinine is obtained, at Trinidad. It
has been planted at a height of 2,800 feet above the level of
the sea. The soil is of the richest description.
THE BALLOON COMMITTEE OF THE BRITISH
ASSOCIATION.—Yesterday an attempt was made to inflate
the balloon, and 58,000 cubic feet of gas had been turned
into it, when an accident happened owing to the boisterous
nature of the weather, which has suspended the operations
of the committee for certainly a week. Notwithstanding
that four sheets of canvas had been spread upon poles by
the gas company's engineer to form a wind fence, the
united force of ten men was insufficient to hold the neck of
the balloon stationary, and the supply of gas had to be shut
off. This had been scarcely done when the neck hoop of
the lower valve, with the string-ropes attached to it, burst
away from the balloon. Held down now only by the net-
ting, and the rending having commenced, the destruction
was speedy. First, the material became split to the top
diagonal seam, and then passed round at the widest part.
It is stated by a correspondent of tho Sydney
Morming Herald, that a valuable sheep-dog belonging to
Mr. Martyn, J.P., of Murrurindi, having accidentally eaten
strychnine, a dose of arsenic was administered to abbreviate
the animal's sufferings, but strange to say it had a contrary
effect, and the dog recovered. The same peculiarity was
observed on two4several occasions.

GOVERNMENT PRINTING IN FRANCE.—The
Temps of Paris observes, as an extraordinary fact, that
the French Government, with all its resources, cannot pub-
lish early in the morning a debate which, after all, is not
noar so long as many of those which private enterprise in
England never fails to give to the public without any delay.
The Temps might have strengthened its argument by the
observation that whereas debates in England last till two,
three, and four in the morning, the discussion of Friday,
which the 111ontteur could not manage to print all at once,
was over at half-past six in the afternoon.
OPENING OF NEW WESTMINSTER BRIDGE FOR
PASSENGER TRAFFlC.—Yesterday morning shortly after
seven o'clock, the footway on the eastern side of the new
Westminster-bridge was thrown open to the public. In
order to do this in honour of the marriage of the Princess
Alice, a large body of men were at work throughout the
whole of the night, and about the time above .mentioned, at
a given signal, the unsightly boarding was removed, and
displayed to view a handsome footway 14 feet in width,
and laid down upon the most improved method. In a few
days the lamps will be in their places, and judging from
two or three now fixed, will have a brillian4.effect. The
footway on the opposite side is being rapidly proceeded with,
and before long the old and ugly temporary wooden bridge
will be removed.

EXTRAORDINARY SCHEME OF A CONVICTED
FORGER —Colonel J. Buchanan Cross, one of the most
accomplished forgers in America, was convicted of forgery
about the commencement of last June, in Philadelphia,
and was sent to the Eastern Penitentiary for five years.
About two days afterwards the United States' marshal,
Millward, of that district, received a letter purporting to
come from Mr. P. H. Watson, Assistant-Secretary of
War, enclosing a petition for the pardon of J. Buchanan
Cross. That letter set forth that Cross was wanted to be
used on special business by the War Department, that he
was to be sent South, and that his pardon was very desir-
able. The marshal was directed to obtain the signatures of
the District Attorney Coffee, Postmaster Walborn, and
Collector Thomas to the petition, and to take it tonorri-

sonburg for the consideration of Governor Curtin, of Penn-
sylvania. He was specially enjoined not to communicate
on the subject with any of the local authorities, nor to en-
trust the business to a subordinate, but to bring Cross to
Washington himself. The marshal had a knowledge of
h
the handwriting of the Assistant Secretary of War, which
the letter appeared to be in, and the envelopeandin thepaper
upon which it was written were the sane as used
War-office, and the letter itself had come frotsmnW.
Marshal
under the frank, as supposed, of Mr. ashington
Millward speedily obtained the signaturesbra
postmaster,
thooef the district
attorney and collector, but Mr. Wal
so
et out for Harrison-
had left the city. The same da
burg with the letter and petition
phuarpdorrteicnegivteodbae
,ywhheich ho
laid before the
Governor. He found that the Govehrinz
by order of Secretary
letter similar to the one he haestLit,h,
from Mr. Watson, and re,qu _
The Governor immediately
Stanton, the pardon of Cross
presented
with the tphaetadoeuptiotyr -clamors-
directed the pardon of Cross to be made out, The marshal
then returned to Philadealnpdhipar,
ehal, rode to the prisonhto his surprise. After providinglth:
ptoritshoneeNrvarwdietnh,
Ina
udeecent suit of clothes they set out for
Wasnnen said, Once un the road, Cross was anxious to get
as
for something to eat, but the marshal re-
fused.
out,
They arrived in Washington in the afternoon, and
went direct to the War-office. Mr. -Watson was out, and
3lr. Stanton was summoned, Mr. Stanton manifested sur-
pus°, asked for an explanation, and sent for Mr. Watson,
who, upon coming in and examining the letter, pronounced
it a forgery. After a short consultation, the Military Go-
vernor of Washington was sent for, and he had Cross taken
to the guardhouse for safe keeping by a file of soldiers.
Next day the prisoner was returned to his old quarters in
the Penitentiary. This is the third attempt of its kind made
by Col. Cross.
STATISTICS OF CITY TRAFFIC.—The citizens
themselves have, generally speaking, but a faint idea of the
moving mass of humanity out of which the trade of the
City is fed, and its pavements kept in ceaseless wear and
vibration. In May, 1860, it was ascertained that, during
ono day, 57,765 vehicles entered the City, the vehicles
contained 171,086 persons. There were, in addition,
535,535 foot passengers, making a total of passengers
amounting to 706,621. Three years ago, the Police Com-
missioner stated that the number of persons coming into
the City every day amounted to not less than half a mil-
lion. Two years ago it is evident that they had increased
to nearly three-quarters of a million. At the present time,
the number has probably reached far beyond a million, and
the greater part of these have to thread their way through ;
a few leading thoroughfares just wide enough--and
d
nothing to spare—to give safe passage to one of the old-
fashioned
d_
fashioned stage waggons. On the same day in May, mb
when the above-named totals were obtained, the passengers
that passed across the bridges, numbered at BlackfriaAld-
rs,
33,935 ; London-bridge, 84,927 ; Southwark,
3,34
,p d enough
gate had 55,122 ; Chancery-lane, With just 'r- lat ce, 38,084
aho ;
for the swing of a cat, had 20,650 ; Finsbury-P
Holborn-bars, 77,704; Minories, 21,779; Smithfield-bars,
28,842 ; 'tin-street, 13,760; TegePle_har, 00,674,—City
Pros.