The Sun.
London, England, 1862-07-14 00:00:00

CIVIL LIST PENSIONS.

The following is a list of all pensions granted
betwen June 20, 1861, and June 20, 1862, and
charged upon the Civil List

Miss Elizabeth Baly and Miss Marie Josephine
Fanvet (a joint pension), £lOO (in consideration of
the late Dr. Baly's long career in the public ser-
vice, and of the merit of the scientific medical works
of which he was the author).

Mr. Richard Cort, £5O, in addition to his former
pension of £5O, (on account of the great value and
ut lity of his father's discoveries in the working of
iron, and of his failure to derive any pecuniary
benefit therefrom).
Mrs. Mary Cross, £lOO (in consideration of her
late husband's merits as a painter, and of her
straitened circumstances).

Mrs. Jane Fonblanque, £lOO (on account of her
husband having been 44 years in the consular ser-
vice, and of his death having been caused by an
attack made upon him while at his post at Bel-
grade, by a Turkish soldier, when his family Was
left entirely unprovided for).
Dr. John Hart, fellow of the Royal College 0f
Surgeons in Ireland, £75 (in consideration of his
contributions to the science of anatomy and phY-
siology, and of his being afflicted with blindness
and broken health).
Mr. Charles Mackay, £lOO (in consideration of
his contributions to poetry and to general lite-
rature).

Miss Emma Robinson, £75 (in consideration of
her many romances, historical plays, and other con-
tributions to periodical literature, of admitted ex-
cellence).

Mr. George Rainey, £lOO (in consideration of his
labours in the field of minute anatomy and physio-
logy, and of the many works on the subject which
he has given to the public in the transactions of
learned societies without receiving any pecuniary
remuneration).

Mr. Leitch Ritchie, £lOO (in acknowledgment of
his labours to enrich the literature of his country,
and to elevate the intellectual condition of the poor).
Mr. Thomas Roscoe, £5O (in consideration of his
literary labours).
Mr. John Selmer, £lOO (in consideration of bis
contributions to literature, and of his career of use'
fulness at home, and of educational labours among
the natives of India, in spite of his being blind fool
within two years of his birth).
Mr. Isaac Taylor, £lOO (in public acknowledg'
ment of his eminent services to literature, especially
in the departments of history and philosophy during
a period of, more than 40 years).
Mr. John Wade, £5O (in consideration of bis
contributions to political literature, more especially
during the time of the Reform Bill of 1832).
Mrs. Janet Wilson and Miss Jessie Wilson, £lOO
(a joint pension, in consideration of the eminent
services of the late Professor George Wilson, of
Edinburgh, as a public teacher, and a scientific
man).
Total, .£1,200.

HER MAJESTY'S JOURNEY NORTH.—Her Ma-
jesty and the royal suite will leave Windsor for Balmoral
onTuesday, the 22d inst. , and Mr. Dunbar, of the railwai
refreshment rooms here, has received instructions to pre-
pare breakfast for the royal party on the following morn-
ing. Her Majesty, it is said, will remain about an hour at
the general terminus, and then proceed northward.— _Perth-
shire Advertiser.

The Prince and Princess Royal of Hesse left
Brussels the day before yesterday for Germany, proceeding
to the railway station in court carriages, accompanied by
the Duke and Duchess of Brabant, the Count de Flandre,
Lord and Lady Howard de Walden, and other persons of
distinction, On the previous day their Royal Highnesses
visited Laeken, where they passed the greater part of the
day. In the evening a grand dinner was given there 10
their honour.

A Cabinet Council was held on Saturday at the
official residence of the First Lord of the Treasury
Downing-street; all the Ministers were present.
The marriage was celebrated, on the Bth, at the
British Legation, Brussels, of Sir Rutherford Alcock,K. C.D.,
H.B.M.'s Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotew
tiary in Japan, to Lucy, widow of the Rev. John Lowder,
M.A., late British Chaplain at Shanghae, China,
A relative of Mr. Ewart, M.P., says the BriSt°l
Mfreury, has been presented to the vicarage of BishoVo
Cannings, rendered vacant by the death of the Venerable
Archdeacon Macdonald. The rev, gentleman, who berg
the same name as the worthy M.P., was for upwards of
years curate of Pimperne, a small parish in Dorsetshire.
MONTGOMERY ELECTION.— WELSHPOOL, Sate-
day, Four o'Clock.—Tracy (Liberal), 755; Wynn (0011..
servative), 744.

The Gazette du Danube states that lately bill°
were found stuck up at the corners of the streets of Prague
with the following words in gigantic letters Help se-
cording to your means 1" and below an invitation to the
inhabitants to join in a festival to be held at the Venetian
Island, as it is called, for the relief of the Montenegrins.
The police however, prohibited the festival, and caused the
bills to be torn down.

A letter from Copenhagen mentions that the —all
Ministry has decided on convoking the States of Holstein
in the early part of September, and that the session Will be
opened about the 11th.
It may be remembered that while in Paris the
Japanese Ambassadors received an invitation from the Swiss
Government to visit Swifterland, which they declined ac-
cepting, for the reason that their instructions were to visit
only the countries which had already concluded treaties of
commerce with Japan. Their letter in reply commenced
thus :—" We acknowledge the reception of the communica-
tion that his Majesty the President and the members of
the Council would receive us with welcome in their eta'
pire." It appears that the Japanese cannot comprehend
the existence of a Republi3an Government.

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GLASGOW MURDER,, Sunday--
Afternoon.—A
woman hitherto known as Mary M'Donald has been ap-
prehended in the Broomielaw, Glasgow. Her real name i°
Mrs. Maclachlan. She acknowledges that she pledged, on
Saturday week, silver plate which, she says, she got from
the old man Fleming. Her husband is also in custody
She formerly was a servant in Fleming's house.
The Leicester Chronicle states that no intelligence
has been received concerning Mr. Winstanley, the missing
High Sheriff of the county. It is said that two £lO notes,
which Mr. Winstanley obtained in London before leaving
for Folkstone, have been presented at the Bank of England
and cashed since the date of his disappearance. The person
who presented them is reported to have been a German.

MELANCHOLY ACCIDENT AT TWICKENHAM.---
THREE LIVES Lesz.—On Sunday (yesterday) afternoon a
lamentable accident occurred on the river Thames, which
resulted in the death of three persons, two ladies and a
gentleman, one only of the party of four having been saved.
They had hired a boat, and while rowing up the river came
in contact with another boat. The violence of the concus-
sion alarmed the ladies, who lost their presence of mind,
and started up from their seats, when the boat toppled over,
and they were all precipitated into the river. Notwith-
standing the many efforts made to rescue them they were
not recovered till life had fled, with the exception of the one
gentleman, who, being able to swim, contrived to reach the
shore in safety. The bodies of the two ladies and of the
gentleman were borne away in a cart to await the corouer'C
inquest.

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wing for the last three weeks, and have improved much
by the warm birds as last year. The young yoe
genial weather of the last ten days. Blackeoch
are rife, and plovers and snipe are uncommonly plentiful,
and have on all the hills withstood the cold and unsettlEd
weather well. On the low grounds, partridges, wild duck sr
and other game are in plenty, and, with a continuance of
the present fine weather, sportsmen may calculate on good
sport during the season. The accounts from the moors
extending from Aberfeldy to Crieff, and the range of hills
west to Lochearnhead, are equally encouraging in regard to
grouse and other game. Several gentlemen have arrived
already from the south at their shooting lodges.—Scots-
man.
COCHIN CHINA.— The Emperor of Cochin
China has at length decided on demanding peace of
Admiral Bonard. He abandons all rights over the pro-
vinces occupied by the French, accepting all the conditions
offered, and at the same time engages to pay an idemnity•
THE EAST.—The rresse, on the authority of e'
despatch from Constantinople, announces that the repairs
of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre at Jerusalem have
been commenced. The works are to be executed at the
joint expense of France, Russia, and Turkey, under the
direction of an American architect.
URICKEL—HARROW T. ETON.—This interesting
match was brought to a conclusion at Lord's on Saturday
evening in favour of Eton by 54 runs. There was im-
mense excitement at the conclusion, Mr. Maitland as well
as Mr. Teape being carried across the ground in honour of
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what they had accomplished. The score stood as follow,s:.
—Eton, Ist innings, 97 ; second innings, 155 ; total, 2
Harrow, first innings, 56; second innings, 1V; total, 19q
16,