The Sun.
London, England, 1862-07-21 00:00:00

PRINCE NAPOLEON'S HEIR.

The Princess Clotilde was, es the telegram has already
announced) safely delivered of a prince on Friday morning
at the Palais-Royal. Her Imperial Highness felt the first
pains about half-past five, and was safely delivered a
twenty-five minutes after six. The ceremony of christen-
ing was performed at half-past eleven by the chaplain of
the Palais Royal, assisted by a vicar of Saint•. Roch. At
half-past two the proces-verbal of the birth of the young
prince was drawn up on the register of the Imperial family
by the Minister of State, assisted by the Minister President
of the Council of State, and in presence of the Empress,
the Prince Imperial, Prince Napoloon, the Minister of
Justice, Marshals Valliant and d'Ornano (appointed as
witnesses by the Emperor), the Grand Master of the
Ceremonies, the Minister of the King of Italy, and the
ladiss and officers of the house-holds of their Majesties and
of their Imperial Highnesses.
The young prince has received the names of Napoleon
Victor Jerome Fr43eric. The Empress and the Prince
Imperial signed the register of birth. The Prince
Imperial returned to the Tuileries on foot, about three
o'clock, accompanied by M. Bachon, his equerry, amidst
the acclamations of the crowd. The Empress remained at
the palace until twenty minutes to four.
The Emperor addressed a telegraphic despatch from
Vichy to Prince Napoleon, to congratulate him on the
birth of his son. During the day the Ministers and
foreign ambassadors left their names at the Palais Royal,
in front of which numerous groups of persons were collected
during the whole day. It is said that the Princess
Mathilde and King Victor Emmanuel will be the young
Prince's sponsors at his baptism. The accounts given on
Saturday morning of the health of the Princess and of the
newly-born infant were most favourable.

DEPARTURE OF THE ZOUAVES AND GENDARME-
RIE DE LA GARDE.—These celebrated bands, which have
excited so much attention at the Exhibition and elsewhere,
left London for Paris on Thursday morning. A great crowd
collected round the Crown Hotel, in Rupert-street, where
they have been staying. The soldiers seemed much pleased
with the fraternal greetings they received. In compli-
ment to the proprietor of the hotel, M. Cartal, they per-
formed in front of the house a selection of music, terminat-
ing with " God save the Queen" and " Rule Britannia,"
which elicited tremendous cheering from the crowd, and
was returned with equal fervour by the French. The offi-
cer in command expressed the high sense the gallant men
entertained of the courteous treatment they had received at
the hands of M. Cartal, and the delight they had experi-
enced at the kind manner in which they have been every-
where met with.

THE LUDGATE-HILL TRAGEDY.—Mrs, Vyse is
still an inmate of Newgate. The unfortunate lady continues
to give way to the deepest melancholy. Nothing relative
to her ultimate destination is yet known.
SHIPWRECK ON THE HORSE BANK.—SGUTHPORT,
July 20.—Yesterday afternoon a brig was observed drifting
towards the Horse Bank, near Liverpool, with a flag of dis-
tress flying. The lifeboat of the National Lifeboat Institu-
tion was launched us soon as possible to her help. The
vessel proved to be the brig Commodore, of South Shields,
from Trieste to Fleetwood, with a cargo of grain. The life-
boat found that the ship's crew had previously abandoned
her in their own boat and eventually had succeeded in
reaching Lytham. The master had been put on board a
fishing boat, whence he signalled for the lifeboat, which
took him out and brought him to Southport. The Commo-
dore appears likely to become a total loss. It is supposed
that the cause of the wreck arose from the master being
ignorant of his situation, and at the time the vessel struck
was trying to make out the land.
SERIOUS FIRE IN SALFORD.—On Saturday morn-
ing, about five o'clock, the Patent Piston Works of Messrs.
Mather and Platt, Brown-street, Salford, were discovered
to be on fire ; and although a body of firemen were soon in
attendance, and were able to direct six jets of water from
the street mains and a fire-engine upon the flames, nearly
two hours had elapsed before the fire could be extinguished.
Nearly the whole of the building, including a finishing
room for Irish linen, a mechanics' shop, a corn mill, and
the piston works, was destroyed, and the damage done to
the building alone is estimated at over £l,OOO.
SOUTH STAFFORDSHIRE RAILWAY.—The ordi-
nary half-yearly meeting of this company was held on
Saturday at the Euston-square station; Mr. 8.. Moon in
the chair. The minutes of the last meeting having been read
and confirmed, the Chairman said it had been thought ad-
visable to hold their meeting at an earlier period than usual
for the purpose of declaring a dividend, but it was intended
that the usual half-yearly business should stand over until
the 7th of August next. He would now move that a di-
videhd of 4± per cent., less income-tax of 9d. in the pound,
be declared, with interest at 5 per cant. on all sums in anti-
cipation of calls upon the B shares, The motion having
been seconded, was agreed to. The chairman then moved
that the meeting should stand adjourned until the 7th of
August, then to meet for the transaction of the usual half-
yearly business. This having been agreed to, the meeting
adjourned accordingly.
A HORSE KILLED BY A WINDMILL—On Thurs-
day last week, a valuable young horse, belonging to Mr.
Smith, miller, of Ashley, got from the meadow and ran into
the mill-yard, while the mill was turning at a rapid pace,
there being a fair wind at the time, and notwithstanding
the praiseworthy endeavours of the parties present to stop
the mill and drive the horse away, the poor animal ran
within reach of the sails, one of which struck it upon the
head and dashed out its brains, killing it upon the spot. A
portion of the sail was broken off by the force of the blow,
—Cambridge Indepe)zdent,

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ST. THOMAS'S HOSPITAL.—The accounts of this
great house of charity show that its annual income from
rents and funded property is about £32,000. Among the
expenditure for 1861 is £5,942 for provisions, £2,034 for
drugs, £932 for wine and spirits, £353 for porter, £771 for
washing, £3,156 for salaries to medical 4ficers, £2,257 for
wages to sisters and nurses, £l5l for hospital dinners, and
£747 fur insurance against fire. The in-patients of the
year were 3,943 in number, the out-patients 41-814. The
hospital has been sold to the Charing-cross Railway Com-
pany for £996,000, a transaction that has not been accom-
plished without "costs." The governors of the hospital
incurred costs to the amount ef more than £3,C00 in oppos-
ing the railway bid in Parliament ; the costs in proceedings
in Chancery against the company amounted to nearly an-
other £l,OOO, and above £B,OOO costs were incurred in the
arbitratim for asceitaining the purchase money to be paid,
but these are to be paid by the company. There are further
costs not yet ascertained ; and the clerk to the governors
has gravely to add at last that npne of these large sums in-
clude the cost of the sale and conveyance of the hospital,
hooAL thing to be done,