The Sun.
London, England, 1862-08-01 00:00:00

THE CIVIL WAR IN AMERICA.

The Bishop of Oxford has addressed the sub-
joined letter to his archdeacons :
Cuddesdon Palace, July 30.

" My Dear Mr. Archdeacon,—May I request you
to communicate to the clergy of your archdeaconry
the following injunction from me as ordinary ?
That, on the Sunday after the receipt of it, they
give notice to their congregations, at the conclusion
of the Nic6ne Creed, in these terms :

" You are earnestly desired to make your humble
supplications to Almighty God, who is the author
of peace and lover of concord, that He will promote
peace among our brethren in America, and inspire
their hearts with Christian unity and fellowship.
" To allow of which prayer a short pause will for
the present be made after the suffrage in the Litany,
' that it may please Thee to give to all nations
unity, peace, and concord; and also in the prayer
' for all sorts and conditions of men,' after the words
'we commend to thy fatherly goodness all those
who are in any ways afflicted or distressed in mind,
body, or estate.' "

I am, my dear Mr. Archdeacon,
Your faithful friend and brother,
S. OXON.

Baron de Beust, the Saxon Minister, is, it is
said, taking steps to overcome the opposition of the petty
States to the French treaty. He has had an interview for
that purpose with Baron de Dalgwigk, Minister of State of
the Grand Duke of Hesse.

The Tribunal of Sienna (Tuscany) on the 25th
condemned two Carmelite friars, Fathers Onorato and
Emiliano, to twenty months' and six months' imprisonment
respectively, for writing and circulating two pamphlets,
one entitled " The Temporal Power of the Pope," and the
other, " A Gross Untruth of the Revolution ;" in which
the King and Government of Italy, the army and the na •
tion were spoken of in the most insulting language. The
prior of the convent, Father Hilarion, was acquitted for
want of evidence.

Unfavourable advices respecting the young game
have been received from many districts in Belgium. The
extensive shooting grounds in the neighbourhoods of Ma-
lines, Louvain, and Namur, and between Cortemberg and
Brussels, have suffered considerably from the rain. From
Luxembourg and the Ardennes the information received is
more re-assuring, the partridges having suffered but little,
and for some days past have become much stronger.
The police of Lyons seem at last to have disco-
vered
a clue which may lead to the punishment of the
person who murdered the little girl found strangled near
the Vaise railway station, in December last. A man,
named X—, who, at the time of the murder, was a sergent
de vile, was arrested last week for a criminal assault on a
girl only four years old. It appears that he had previously
been apprehended for a similar crime, but had succeeded
in proving an alibi. The examining magistrate charged
with the investigation into this last charge, struck with
these repeated arrests for the same kind of offence, was led
to suspect that the person in custody might be the author
of the murder in December. It may be remembered that
the poor victim had been gagged with a cotton handker-
chief, which remained in possession of the police. After
X—'s arrest, the commissary of police of Vaise went to his
house, and while X—'s wife was engaged in answering the
questions of the agents, he contrived to slip the handker-
ehief above mentioned into a bag containing foul linen
ready for the wash. When the contents of this bag were
afterwards turned out before the woman, she recognised
the handkerchief as one belonging to her husband, and
which she had not seen for months. X— was immediately
charged with the murder, but he protested his innocence.
Owing to the light apparently thrown upon the affair by
this discovery, a fresh investigation has been instituted.
THE -VICEROY OF EGYPT.—The Faid Gehaad
left Woolwich yesterday, at 3 o'clock. Some carriages,
purchased in London, having been put on board, the ship •
wrights and others employed on the repairs and alterations
were hastily ordered ashore. Under the personal superin-
tendence of the Viceroy the machinery was put in motion,
and the Egyptian flag was then hoisted at the mainmast of
the Fisgard ; 21 guns then announced his Highness's de-
parture. The steam-tug Bustler and a number of riggers
from the dockyard attended the yacht at Greenhithe, to
adjust compasses and prepare her for sea, under the com-
mand of Master Commander Petley. She is expected to
sail for Gibraltar, and will call at Cherbourg on Saturday
next. His Highness was accompanied by the Hon. Chas.
A. Murray, Mr. Larking, and Mr. Hugh Thurburn. Mr.
Larking, who has directed the transactions of the Viceroy
during his sojourn in England, placed in the hands of Mr
Brine, chief inspector, a purse, containing £lO6, as a gra-
tuity to the police of the Arsenal. Mr. Larking at the
same time stated that he had been directed to purchase a
valuable gold watch, as a recognition of his (the inspec-
tor's) attention on various occasions. Seven carriage horses
were purchased by the Pasha last week, under the super-
vision of the veterinary surgeons of the Royal Artillery.
They cost on an average £4OO each, and are to belconveyed
overland to Constantinople, in charge of an English coach-
man and grooms engaged in the Pasha's service.
EMIGRATION TO THE CAPE OF GOOD HOPE.—
Of the six ships that sailed to the Cape of Good Hope from
this country during the season 1861-62 under the auspices
of the Emigration Commissioners, the Rajasthan, of 700
tons, with 264 emigrants, under charge of Surgeon-Super•
intendent Samuel Smith, took the longest time to reach her
port of destination, and the John Vanner, of 726 tons,
with 239 emigrants, under charge of Surgeon-Superin-
dent W. D. Stone, the shortest period, there being 29 days'
difference.

THE MOORS AND FORESTS.—FORT
The approaching 12th of August never was so near with so
discouraging sporting prospects. The weather has been
eminently unfavourable for all kinds of game, and we learn
that in most places there will be a scarcity of grouse even
on the famous moors in this quarter. In travelling over
some of the best heather ranges in this district, we found
the coveys more numerous that we expected ; but they were
small in size and number, and looked weakly. They can
be of no size worth at the opening of the season in many
pl ace s.-Idinburgh Courant.
ARMY PRIZE MONEY.—Forfeited and unclainwl
shares of prize money since the year 1809 have accumulated
to the amount of £421,549. This sum has been so largely
increased by interest, and by investments made when the
price of funds was low, that from this source there has been
paid over to Chelsea Hospital, at different times, n.o. leas
than £595,215, besides £40,000 to the Royal Military
Asylum, and £44,144 to the Exchequer.