The Sun.
London, England, 1862-03-10 00:00:00

rnE SUN, LONDON, MONO A. Y EVENING, IVIA.RCH 10, 1862.

The Marquis and Marchioness of Abercorn and
Lady Georgina Hamilton will leave Chesterfield House in
a few days for Brocket Hall, Herts.

The Marchioness of Downshire and Lady Alice
Hill come to town to-day from East Hampstead Park,
Berks.

The Earl of Verulam has left Thomas's Hotel,
Berkeley-square, for Bournemouth.
The Countess of Craven and the Ladies Craven
leave Ashdown Park, Berks, to-day on a visit to the Coun-
tess of Sefton at Crosteth Park, Liverpool. His lordship
returns to town.

The Countess Dowager of Cawdor has arrived at
her residence in Tilney-street from visiting the Earl and
Countess of Ellesmere at Burwood.

Lord and Lady Raglan have left town for the
Earl Beauchamp's seat.

Baron and Baroness Lionel de Rothschild and
Miss de Rothschild have left Kingston House, for Frank-
fort.

We can assert with confidence that the month of
June will witness the nuptials of the Princess Alice and
Prince Louis of llesse.—Court Journal.

Her Majesty has presented to Mr. Disraeli a
portrait of herself and one of the Princo Consort, in
tnentoriam. The one of his late Royal Highness is a re-
markably fine likeness. They were executed in Germany.
—Court Journal.

NORTH RIDING ELECTION.—The writ for the
election of a knight to represent the North Riding was re-
ceived at the sheriff's office, on Friday morning. The high
sheriff has fixed the nomination for Monday, the 17th inst.,
and the poll will be taken on the following Thursday, and
the declaration on Saturday.
We understand that it is intended to build for
the service of her Majesty a medium-sized paddlewheel
yacht. It can be readily understood that on many occa-
sions, when the use of the Victoria and Albert might be
dispensed with, it would be convenient to have at hand a
vessel somewhat larger than the Fairy. Captain Seymour,
C. 8., was in London in the early part of the week, and at-
tended at the Admiralty for the purpose of affording any
explanation that might have been required on this subject.
—Army and Navy Guzette.
HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.—We learn from the
most undoubted authority that the Earl of Dudley has at
length decided in favour of Mr. Mapleson becoming the
lessee of her Majesty's Theatre. The noble lord was in-
duced to come to this decision in consequence, it is said, of
the complete manner in which the operas were placed upon
the stage at the Lyceum last year, during the Italian opera
season, thereby giving a guarantee that this time-honoured
and magnificent theatre will be restored to its ancient
prestige. Mr. Mapleson has already succeeded in securing
the services of the most eminent artistes of the present day,
including Mdlle. Titiens, Mdlle.llog (of whom report
speaks as likely to revive the Lind and Piccolomini furor°,
Signor Giuglini, Signor Graziani (who has seceded from
the Royal Italian Opera), Signor Belletti, Signor Gassier,
and a host of public favourites, and, in addition, a great de-
sideratum, so long required—a perfect and complete or-
chestra, viz., that of the Philharmonic Society, reinforced
by several members of her Majesty's private band, under
the direction of Signor Arditi and Mr. Benedict.—Observer.
PRINCE CONSORT MEMORIAL.—On Saturday
evening the memorial fund now being raised at the Mansion
House amounted to £39,370. The Royal Agricultural
Society of England has given £loo the Marquis of Ailes-
bury, £loo—the Earl of Darnley, £so—the Earl of War-
wick, £so—the Lord Chancellor of Ireland, £so—the
Liederkranz German Glee Club, London, £37 ss. fid.—tho
Earl of Bessborough, £2s—the Countess of Caledon, £2s—
Marquis of Carmarthen, £2s the Archbishop of York,
£25 —the corporation of Boston, £2s—Lord Leigh, £2s—
Sudeley, £2s—Sir Jas. Scott, Bart., £2o—Lord Oran-
more and Browne, £2o—Sir William Miles, Bart., M.P.,
£2o—Major- General Sir Richard Airey, £2o—Major
Cowell, R.E., £ls—Dent, Allcroft, Lycett, and Co.; £2l—
Earl of Powis, £so—Earl Annesley, .4;2s—Countess of
Listowel, £2o—Sir IV. Hayter, £2o—Rev. J. Vane, £2o—
Earl of Sandwich, £2s—the Marquis of Northampton,
£so—Lord Bolton, £21—Lady Mary Vyner, £2o—the Eari
of Tankerville £2l—the Marchioness of Ely, £2s—the Earl
of Malmesbury, £25--the Earl of Beverley, £so—Lord
Lovaine, £2o—the Earl of Verulam, £3O.
MELANCHOLY OCCITRRENGE,—An inquest was
hale on Saturday by Mr. Brent, the coroner, at the White
Horse, Old Bridge-street, Hampton Wick, on the body of
Captain Cecil Rivers, aged 10, adjutant to the 3d Surrey
Militia, and previously holding a commission in the 19th
Regiment of Foot, whose lifeless body was found in the
Thames on Monday last. The deceased had been residing
for six weeks at the Griffin Hotel, Ringston-on-Thames,
but was about to proceed to Winchester. He waS last seen
alive by a friend by a friend on the evening of Feb. 3, when
ho afterwards accompanied a female over the water from
Hampton-court to the H ing's Arms and the Bell at Hamp-
ton, and subsequently to the Cardinal Wolsey, in the same
place. They then went along the towing-path, and crossed
the river to proceed to Long Ditton, on their return home.
That was between 11 and 12 at night, and deceased was
tipsy. He had remained from home that night on account
of a ball being at the hotel, in which he wished to take no
part. His absence caused no apprehension, as it was be-
lieved he had gone into the country. On Monday last,
however, his dead body was discovered in the river, close
to some railway works, and he was removed to the 'White
Horse at Hampton Wick. A sovereign with papers were
found upon him. The body was but little decomposed.
There were no marks of violence, and no other cause of
death than that of drowning was apparent. The jury re-
turhed a verdict of found drowned in the Thames, but how
or by what means he eame into the water there was no evi-
dence to prove.

DEATH OP GENERAL SIR S. DotiGtAs, G.C.8.-
This distinguished officer died on Friday, the 7th instant,
at his residence at Clifton, in his 77th year. He enteked the
army in 1799; he accompanied Gen. Craufurd's expedition
to South America on the Quartermaster-General's Staff, and
was engaged in the attack on Buenos Ayres. He subse-
quently accompanied the expedition to Portugal under Sir
Arthur Wellesley, still serving on the Quartermaster-
General's Staff, and was present at the battles of Roleia,
Vimiera, and Corunna. In 1809 he joined the Peninsular
army in command of a Portuguese Regiment, and was pre-
sent at the passage of the Douro, and in the battles of
Busaco, Fuentes d' Onor, Salamanca, and the Pyrenees where
he was wounded. Promoted to the command on the 7th
Portuguese brigade; he served with it in the b4ttles of
Nivelie, Nive, Orthes, and Toulouse, in which last battle
he was twice wounded and lost a leg, For these services
he received the gold cross with three clasps, and was made
a Knight Commander of the Bath. After the termination
of the war Sir James Douglas was employed on the Staff of
the army at home—first at the head of the Quartermaster-
General's Department in Scotland, and afterwards in the
same post in Ireland, where he subsequently commanded
the south-west district. At the expiration of this command
he was appointed Governor of Guernsey, and received the
honour of the Grand Cross of the Bath and the colonelcy
of the 42d Regiment. The latter years of Sir James Doug-
las's life were passed at Clifton. He married Marianne,
daughter of Mr. William Bullock. Lady Douglas died in
June, 1861; they had a family of 11 children, of whom
five sons and four daughters survive. Sir James Douglas
was brother to the Dowager Marchioness of Queensberry,
and great uncle to the present marquis.
YEAR AFTER YEAR.—The year's trade and navi-
gation accounts are always an astonishing record of our
doings. Some persons are fond of settling what is the
" mission" of this country. Considering that we have just
sent abroad in a year of declining business £60,000,000
worth of our cotton, woollen, silk, and linen manufactures,
and apparel of various sorts, it might be thought that our
mission is to clothe mankind. Half of all that we send
them is something to wear. Our own demands upon others
have been neither few nor small, We have many
mouths to feed. Not to speak of such great articles as
corn and sugar, what can all our hens have been about
that we must needs buy in 1861 200,000,000 eggs more than
they could lay ? Our weakness for drinking of course
manifest itself in the year's account. Nearly 25,000,000
gallons of spirits paid duty last year either at the Custom-
house or to the Excise on being taken for home consump-
tion. 25,000,000 gallons for 29,000,000 people, in addition
to above 10,000,000 gallons of foreign wine and as much
beer as 43,000,000 bushels of malt might make I Some of
the landmarks of the history of eur times are in these re-
gisters of trade. Observe, for instance, three several dates
1841, when Sir R. Peel came into power to introduce the
great commercial reforms; 1851, when they had had time
to do some of their work, and we were just about to have
the further influence of the Great Exhibition and the gold
discoveries ; and 1861, or the present time. A little tabular
statement will show at a glance, at each of these periods,
the value of our exports of British and Irish produce and
manufactures, and the tonnage of the ships that entered
and cleared at our ports with cargoes in the foreign and
colonial trade :

1841 . .. £51,635,116 .... 7,525,585 tons
1851 74,448,722 .... 13,471,377 2,
1861 .... 125,115,133 21,922,662 2,
It is curious to remark, fn respect both to the exports and
the shipping, how near the numbers of 1861 are to the sum
of the two former years added together. The dates are
not selected for the purpose ; they are every 10 years.
THE MURDER OF A COMMERCIAL TRAVELLER
By GARROTE.-011 Saturday Mr. Humphreys, one of the
Middlesex coroners, resumed an inquiry at the Sutton
Arms, Carthusian-street, Charter House-square, touching
the death of Mr. Richard Pearce, a commercial traveller,
who was robbed and garroted on the 2d January, and who
expired on the 10th of the same month from the injuries re-
ceived. From the evidence adduced on previous occasions,
it appeared the deceased was accosted in a public-house in
Shoreditch, where he was exhibiting a quantity of valuable
jewellery to the landlady, by two well-dressed women,
whom he treated ; and that on the pretence of showing him
a shcrt cut to his residence, they induced him to go down
a narrow passage, where he was set on and garroted by two
or three men, who rifled him of all he possessed. All efforts
to trace the persons concerned had failed up to the previous
evening, when the police succeeded in arresting one woman
on suspicion of being one of those who had decoyed the
deceased. No important evidence was at present forth-
coming; and the inquiry was again adjourned.