The Sun.
London, England, 1865-05-04 00:00:00

Liverpool Cotton Market—This Day,

Market opens steady. Sales probably 8,000
to 10,000 bales.

The Late Mr. Prescott.

Mr. W. G. Prescott, whose melancholy death has
already been recorded, possessed hereditary as well
as personal claims to the respect with which he was
regarded in the city. He was the eldest son of Mr.
W. Willoughby Prescott, the leading partner in the
banking firm with which the family has been con-
nected for four generations. His brother, Mr.
Henry James Prescott, was well known as Director
and Governor of the Bank of England, and Mr.
Prescott himself took an active part in the political
as well as the commercial business of the city. He
was, however, best known in private and social iife
as one of the most kindly and hospitable of men.
Singularly generous and unselfish in his disposition,
he grudged no trouble when he could do a service
to any person who had a claim on his regard, or
when he could give pleasure to a friend. His sim-
plicity and benevolence of disposition exercised a
strong attraction over an unusually large circle of
acquaintance, and his demeanour was habitually
characterised by a quiet and natural cheerfulness.
The disease of the brain which was the cause of his
death was caused by fatigue and exposure, and it
was apparently unconnected with any morbid pro-
pensity of mind.

TIIE WESTBURY SCANDAL.--The inquiry into the
conduct of the Lord Chancellor has terminated, as
everybody expected it would terminate, in the white-
washing of the real delinquent. Who believed that six
Whigs, four of whom wore Cabinet Ministers, would con-
demn a Whig Lord Chancellor ? The result proves that
the Government were right in packing the committee. A
majority of one vote only saved the noble lord from a
formal vote of censure, for allowing Mr. Edmunds to re-
tire, instead of visiting his offences with dismissal. A
majority of one vote only released him from censure for
withholding the case from the knowledge of the committee
that granted the pension, and modified the charge of im-
proper conduct into one of amiable weakness ! Heaven
save the mark ! Lord Brougham, all parties will be glad
to learn, is honourably acquitted, Mr. William Brougham
censured, and Mr. Edmunds condemned. It remains to be
seen whether the House of Commons will rest content with
a decision so calculated to discredit the very fountain of
justice.—Herald.

THE NORWEGIAN SALMON AND LOBSTER FISH-
ERIES.—A limited liability company has just been
formed at Hull for the purpose of rendering more useful to
the inhabitants of this country the extensive salmon and
lobster fisheries in the creeks and among the islands on the
coast of Norway. A contract has been entered into be-
tween the new company and those who have the control
of the fisheries for an unlimited supply of salmon and
lobsters, it is said, at such prices that, after selling them
in the English market at greatly reduced rates, they will
leave such a profit that at the end of the season a handsome
dividend will be declared. The company has purchased two
fast steamers, one of which will be employed solely to col-
lect the fish from the rivers; the other will bring it home
packed in boxes with ice, and on arriving at Hull it will be
despatched per train to all parts of the country. Should
the hopes of the company be realised during the present
season, it is contemplated to fit out more vessels with wells
so that the fish can be brought to England alive.
SINGULAR MATRIMONIAL TRANSACTION.—A man
named Thomas Laws, a general dealer, in the Low-
street, Sunderland, for the last 12 months has been living
with a woman, who has a family to him. A few weeks ago,
an old acquaintance of theirs, a native of the same town
(Yarmouth), came over from Newcastle, where ho has been
living for some time and working as a shoemaker, for the
Purpose of renewing his acquaintance. After a conversa7
tion with them on matrimonial affairs, the shoemaker and
the woman became enamoured of each other, and the shoe-
maker made a proposal to marry her. Laws was consulted,
and at once fell in with the proposal. The shoemaker
went back to:Newcastle, put in the banns,:and as a manifes-
tation of his approval of the affair, Laws purchased her
some wedding things, went over to Newcastle one day last
week,eel, took her to the altar, and gave her away to the
h
oemaker. The marriage was duly solemnised, and the
parties are now spending the h in Newcastle.