The Sun.
London, England, 1865-02-11 00:00:00

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE—This day.

LONDON, Feb.- 11.—Wind this day at noon—North-
Westerly; moderate breeze and cloudy weather, with
snow.

PORTSMOUTH, Feb. 10.—Wind S.W.—Sailed—Her Ma-
jesty's ship Dee, for the eastward.
HOLYHEAD, Feb. 9.—Wind N.W.—Sailed—Henry Hol-
man, for Bremen.

OFF FORTSMOUTH, Jan.
London for Moreton Bay.

10.—Arrived—Simda, from

PLYMOUTH, Feb. 10.—Wind N.E.—Arrived—David
Cameron, from Baltimore. Sailed—Saxon, screw steamer,
for the Cape of Good Hope.

BRISTOL, Feb. 10.—Wind S.E.—Arrived—Sir Georgo
Seymour, from Mauritius.

(BY MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH.)

GRAVESEND, Saturday Morning.
Arrived, Feb. 10—Aberystwith, screw steamer, from
Brussels ; Normandie, from Dunkirk ; Elizabeth Sophia,
from Holsingborg.
Arrived, Feb. 11.—Belgium, from Ostend.
Arrive DEAL, Saturday Morning.
d, Feb. 10—Electra, for Grenada; Brabo, for Mon-
tevideo ; Ruckers, for Trinidad—all from London.
Auchord—Randolph, bark, from Aigoa, Bay, for London.

THE NEW JUDGE,—" The Lord Chancellor,"
says the Law Times of to-day, "is entitled to the
very highest commendation for his choice of the new
Judge. It needs some courage to set partisan influences at
defiance and distribute patronage according to professional
instead of political merit. Mr. M. Smith was an active
opponent in Parliament of the Ministry to which Lord
Westbury belongs. Only in May last he voted for their
expulsion from office. But, regardless of this, Lord West-
bury selected him for the vacant seat upon the Bench, be-
cause he knew that there was no man at the Bar having
higher professional claims to the office, or whose ermine
would bo more heartily welcomed by the entire profession.
These are the acts which will be recorded and remembered
to the honour of the present Lord Chancellor when hasty
words that have provoked hostility are forgotten. The
appointment of the Conservative Mr. M. Smith by the
Liberal Lord Chancellor Westbury to the highest office in
his gift is an act memorable and laudable in itself, and of
great value as an example to future Chancellors. It would
indeed be well if henceforth politics were to be wholly
excluded from the choice of Judges, and if it were to be
made a rule that competency alone should be considered in
the selection.

AMERICAN INCOME-TAX RETURNS.—We believe
Mr. A. T. Stewart, the great dry goodsman, returns
the largest income for 1863 of any man in America.. It is
not $5,000,000, as has been reported, but $1,843,637,
whereon his extra income-tax is $92,181. We consider it
hard fortune for any man to have to take care of so much
property for nothing but his victuals and clothes. Messrs
Cornelius Vanderbilt and William B. Astor are doubtless
our two next heaviest taxpayers,both together paying about
as much as A. T. Stewart. Their names do not appear in
the partial list published. Moses Tayloris probably fourth,
his income being $573,494, tax, $28,674. We wish the
gentlemen named in these lists, who live in four-story
brown stone houses or board at the Fifth-avenue or Claren-
don Hotels on incomes of $5OO to $l,OOO each, would tell
us how they contrive to do it. There are evidently secrets
in their style of housekeeping which we have never mas-
tered.—New York Tribune.

ALLEGED MURDER IN PADDINGTON.—Last night
Dr. Lankester held an inquiry at the Hall Arms,
Paddington-green, respecting the death of a woman aged
about 35 years. Sergeant Smith, 19 G, said that he was
called to see the body of the deceased on Thursday morn-
ing. He found it covered with wounds, and with the ex-
ception of a pair of stockings and a boot on the right foot
it was quite naked. It lay on the banks of the Grand Junc-

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tion Canal, near Woodroffe's Nursery:
caused the canal to be dragged and thoebdl.ac
Fredk. Haws,
shawl and a piece of calico were discovered. nsal_green. He
green, heard on who lived at Boundary-house,
One said to the
a detective, said he received informeanssi-
t the
boatmennigh toonf
the Saturday,canal,
"reach."alterca titolinatbelitwr.eSenligthwt:
There was a dead pause
other, "She is foul of the .
d, "You have made a fine
of the men said, and then one
Slight at the time did not know what the
mess of it."
Krs
the word " she." Dr. J. S. Beale said. lie
men alluded to by
deceased covered with wounds. There was a se-
found the
tion of the scalp, and the skull was fractured.
yore lacer& njeaanr.
iFee.,,
There was a large and deep incision in the breast, through
which the liver protrude& In his opinion, death had how •
ever arisen from suffocation by drowning, and the injuries
to the body were post mortem. The deceased had been the
mother of several children. John Ward, a lighterman,
proved that he saw the body floating on the canal on Thurs-
day morning. The screw of a steamtug could have inflicted
wounds such as those found on deceased. The coroner said
the case was fraught with suspicion. A murder might have
been committed even though the wounds had been inflicted
after death. The publication of the facts in the newspapers
might, as in the recent case of the child found murdered at
the railway station, lead to the discovery of the person who
had committed the crime. The court was accordingly
adjourned.

THE VALENTINES OF M. EUGENE RIM lEL are
carried, one might almost say, to a pitch of high art .
They captivate the eye, and smell sweetly in the nostrils.
Two charming specimens have but just now been wafted
past us on their way (prematurely) to their destinations. The
one, a cluster of blooming roses on fillagre note paper
superscribed " Portrait of ono I love"—the delicacy of the
compliment, latent in which superscription becomes ap-
parent to the recipient upon her discovering—secreted under
the bunch of roses—a miniature mirror, in which her own
features, of course, are reflected! The other is a sprig of
jessamine (tyed with a true-love's knot), the floral emblem
of amiability! These two exquisite little refinements in
the way of Valentines, breathing each appropriate fragrance
—the one of roses, the other of jessamine.