The Sun.
London, England, 1862-04-29 00:00:00

SPAIN AND MOROCCO.

The last instalment of the war indemnity due to
Spain from the Emperor of Morocco has been paid,
and the steam frigate Isabella 11. has brought the
amount to Alicante. The obligations of Morocco
having thus been fulfilled, orders have been sent
from Madrid to Rear-Admiral Piozon to proceed
with his squadron to Tetuan to take on board the
Spanish garrison, and convey it to Algesiras. The
evacuation of Tetuan will be effected during the
month of May.

FIRE AT THE STANDARD THEATRE.—On Saturday
night, about half-past eight o'clock, when the third act of
Shakespeare's "Tempest" was b ing played at the Standard
Theatre, a cry was suddenly raised that the building was
on fire. Such an announcement among a crowded audience
of course caused great excitement, and every person in the
theatre immediately rose from their seats and rushed to the
doors. The majority of them had managed to get out when
the fire, which was confined to the back part of the pit, and
had been caused by a lamp, was fortunately extinguished.
The majority of the audience ftt umed their seats, and
shortly after the performance was resumed.

A MOTHER CURSING HER DAUGHTER. —A
mother and daughter, residing in Selkirk, had for some
time been living on terms far from agreeable, and, in order
to save herself from future annoyance, the girl left the
house, and betook herself to lodgings. The old woman, a
rigid Catholic, was highly indignant at this exercise of free-
will on the part of h, :r daughter, and, after several ineffec
tual efforts to bring leer back to the parental home, she de-
termined on renouncing her child for ever. A few days
ago she accordingly presented herself in front of the house
in which the girl had taken up her abode, uncovered her
head, kneeled upon her bare knees, and thus assuming an
"orthodox" attitude, uttered no fewer than seven curses of
the Holy Catholic Church upon her wayward and irre-
claimable child,—,Southern Reporter.

ART UNOIN-THIS DAY.

DRAWING FOR PRIZES.

The annual general meeting of the mertib,rs of the Art
Union was held to-cldy, at the New Adelphi Theatre, for
the purpose of receiving the report of the council, and for
the distribution of the amount subscribed for the purchase
of works of art for the year 1862 :

There was a very full attendance, and the greatest inte-
rest was manifested during the proceedings.
The report, as usual, was read by Mr, Godwin, F.R.S.,
the hon. secretary. It stated that the original marble by
Mr. Calder Marshall, R.A., "The Dancing Girl Reposing,"
which was the result of a competition proposed lay the asso-
ciation some years ago, and now valued at the sum of £7OO,
will be the chief prize, and a noble one, in the distribution
of 1863. The statue is at present part of the International
Exhibition, together with a stand displaying the various
bronzses, parian statuettes, medals, and works in iron, that
have been issued by the association.

The following is a statement of receipts and disbursements:
Total amount received .. £9,864 15
Expended for printing, advertising, salaries, &c.,
inc'uding reserve of 21 por cent
Engraving, printing, and paper of the plate,
" Raising the Maypole,"
For the purchase of prizes of all descriptions 3,266 10

£9,864 15
The reserve fund has reached the sum of £10,91.
The sum of £3,266 10s. has been set apart for prizes
under the following arrangements, viz., for works to be
selected by the prizeholders themselves :-
30 works at
22 „
17 ~
12 „
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4 „
2 „
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and 4 Bronzes, " Caractacus."
30 Silver Medals of Sir C. Barry.
15 Pairs of bas-reliefs in fictile ivory.
60 Commemorative Tazzas.
300 Sets of Etchings after David Cox.
200 Porcelain Busts of " Apollo."
making in all 709 prizes.

The report having been received and adopted, the• draw-
ing for priz s commenced.
The following is a list of the successful members for the
first hundred principal prizes as they were taken from the
wheel :-
9.,9 C. Webber, Exmouth ..
8419 H. Fraser, Glasgow .. .. 20
7209 J. Smith, Bank of England .. 50

Rev. Persall
F. Corbett, Walworth
A. J. Berens ..
T. Questall, Dalston • • • •
E. Anderson, Mortlake., ..
C. Milward, Liverpool ..
H. M'Cartney
J. R. Fletcher
L. Chipman, Northampton ..
B. Picena, La Guyra
R. Charlwood, Paddington ..
W. Robertson, Australia ..

•• •• •• •• ••
W. Bone, New North-road ..
Barlow, Rochdale .. „
J. Risley, Seymour-place • • ..
W. Jeffrey, Bloomsbury •.
Z., United States
W. R. Swarreston
S. Powell, Harrogate ..
Miss Hill, Salop
J. Jones, Preston .. ••

21
Mrs. Tennant
F. Crossley, Halifax
Rev. W. Harness .. 21
Humphries, Shrewsbury .. .. ..
Sanderson, Canonbury
J. Green, Presteign 1,
E. Edwards .. 1,
J. Martin, Sheerness Dockyard .. 51
G. Ramage .. 2,
W. Lacon, Oswestry 1,
A. Wyld, Port Elizabeth ..
W. Thompson, Hull .. 1,

1138
6217
3379
5998
2074
2733
5205
9644
2984
19 0
8231
1637
4144
7009
6282
8509
2359
9301
3676
3088
4247
6829
8553
4625 -
2601 T. Hayes
6076 J. Simpson
1344 Dr. Murray ..
5353 J. Rees, Tottenham•court-road
8392 J. Thomas, Linlithgow , .
5515 J. Clark, Camberwell ..
583 C. Busby, Chesterfield , .
676 E. Howard, Clithero
632 R. H. G... ..
9619 J. Owdey, Belfast
1103 G. Gowland .. .. ••
6163 H. 8., Moorgate-street • .
7995 D. L. Atwell
1150 T. Owes
7606 F. Rees ..

21
J. Woodham, Old Kent Road.. 101
C. Parrott ..
E. Weymouth, Borough 1(
W. J. Ford .. • • . , .. 1(
3. Summers, Ross-street, Liverpool .. 20(
E. Joner, Troubridge .. 4(

• • • • 1.
C. Longstock .. .. .. 21
J. Younghusband 2.
M. Murray, Jersey .. .. 61
J. Thomas, Birmingham .. 11

14717 Dr. Collier, Fitzroy-square ..
736 J. Jackson, Derby
9121 General Bomer
5329 E. H. C. • •
6648 A. Welsh, Derby ..
6751 Y. C. C., St. John's, N.B. ..
3979 H. D. Farmer, Yarmouth ..
2208 -
7957 E. Wright, Clapham-road ..
1984 A. Talbot, Hong Kong
8889 B. Steadman .. • . • •
4279 J. W. W. .. .. ..
1254 C. F. B. ..
553 W. C. 5...
8091 J. Marriott, Coventry ..
7789 Lady Chantry
2287 A. Barnes, Litchfield
3089 -
5044 Major Wright, Junior United Service Club..
4,015 W. rennings, White's Club ..
7426 W. Hitchcock
7145 W. Higginbottom
7247 J. Murck
7772 The Hon. Miss Hope Vere
1270 R. Clerk ..
5743
6048
9547 E. P. Guest ..
2722 S. H. Taylor, Market Drayton
6858 A. Hall, Leghorn .
5085 J. M.
6929 P. F. 8., Smyrna .. .
2062 Mrs. Saunders, Kidderminster .. • -
2491 It. Hamilton .. .. 10
A vote of thanks was passed to Messrs. Godwin and
Pocock; and, on the motion of Mr. HERSEE, a sum of £3OO
was proposed to be set aside in order that a testimonial to
the amount of £l5O be presented to each of those gentle-
men.

.. .. •• ..

• • .. • • .. 21

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Mr. POCOCK trusted the proposition would not- be se-
conded. The vote of thanks which was annually given to
himself and colleague was always considered ample reward
foi their services.

Atter a short discussion, the subject of the proposed tes.
timonial was referred for consideration to a committee o:
subscribers.

A vote of thanks was also awarded to Mr. BENJAMIN
WELsTER for the use of the theatre, and also a similar vote
to Mr. WILLIAM SMITH, for the arrangements he had
made for the accommodation of the members.

MARKETS-THIS DAY.

HAY MARKETS.

SMITHPIELD.—Neadow hay, £2 Os to £5 Os ; clover, £3
lOs to £6 Os; and straw, £1 18s to £2 2s 2d per load.
Trade slow.

CUMBERLAND.•—Meadow hay, £2 Os to £5 Os; clove:
do., £3 lOs to 16 Os; and straw, £1 18s to £2 2s per load.
A slow demand.

WHITECHAPEL.-Meadow hay, 4'2 Os to £5 Os; clove]
f 3 lOs to £6 Os ; and straw, to 18s £2 2s per load,
Trade dull,

COLONIAL.

TEA--There has been a very limited business transacted,
the dealers being occupied with the samples of the forth-
coming public sales.
SUGAR.—The market has been dull, and prices have re-
mained without material variation. Refined descriptions,
however, are a shade flatter.
COFFEE.—Business has continued moderately active, and
full prices have been realised for good and superior descrip-
tions.
RICE.—The operations have been to a fair extent, and late
qu
tations have, in most instances, been well supported.
S A.LTPETRE. —The demand has continued brisk, and for
British refined a further advance has been demanded b)
holders.
TALLow.—The market has continued moderately active,
and prices have shown an upward tendency. P.Y.C. on
the spot is quoted 463 3d to 46s 6d, and last three months
delivery 48s 9d to 49s per cwt.

THE LATE MURDER IN KERRY. TRALEE,
MONDAY MORNING,--It was erroneously stated on Satur-
day that Foley, the alleged murder of his cousin at KiHoe-
glin, was captured. He is still at large, and in possession
of the double-barreled gun with which the murder was
committed.

LOSS OF 2IIE SHIP CONQUEROR.

The following Admiralty memorandum, dated
the 20th ult., revises the sentence of the court-mar-
ial, held at Bermuda, on the ciptain and cfficers of
her Majesty's late ship the Conqueror :
" My Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty
have had under their consideration the minutes of
the proceedings and the sentence of a court-martial
held on board her Majesty's ship Hero, at Bermuda,
on the Bth, and by successive adjournments to the
15th day of February, 1862, for the trial of Capt.
Edward Southwell Sotheby, C. 8,, the remaining
officers, and ship's company of her Majesty's late
ship Conqueror, for the loss of that ship on the reef
on the eastern side of Rum Cay, on the 29th of
December, 1861.

"My Lords have read with much surprise apse'
sage in Captain Sotheby's defence, where be 013'
serves :

" If, after the scrutinising test that the master's
work has undergone, it should be found incorrect;
proper allowance not made ; or the place of the shIP
not properly noted in the chart, I maintain, in which
opinion I have no doubt I shall have the full con'
currence of the members of this court, that a car
Lain is not supposed to doubt the accuracy of su3b
work, when he can conscientiously place most tho'
rough confidence in the master; and that it is rot his
duty, under those circumstances, to work the
reckoning himself, that officer being appointed for
that specific purpose.'

" My Lords cannot dissent in too strong tern3e
from the views expressed by Capt. Sotheby. TheY
consider that it is the duty of the captain to take
every precaution for the safety of the ship he cony
mands, and that he can only acquit himself of that
responsibility which attaches to him by showing
that he has neglected no means within his power of
ascertaining the position of the ship, the prevailing
currents, and the dangers to which she may be ex-
posed.

" My Lords further regret that Capt. Sotheby's
views appear to have been accepted by the members
of the euurt -without romorlr, and to hoyo "well fto
adopted by them, that while they reprimanded the
master, they fully acquitted the captain. My Lade
cannot concur in the finding of the court.
" One of her Majesty's ships, in fine weather and
under no unusual circumstance, while making a
passage through a channel in which the currents
are known to set to leeward with varying-strengtbf
has been totally lost in consequence, according to
the finding of the court, of an insufficient allowance
for leeway and currant. The captain is, neverthe-
less, fully acquitted, and the master only repri'
manded, though no reason is given why the shiP
should have continued all night on a course which
the master acknowledged might carry her within
six or seven miles of an island surrounded by daw
gereus coral reefs.

"It appears to their lordships that, bad the ordi-
nary and natural precaution been adopted of making
a tack to the south-east, before the ship could by
possibility have been swept upon the coral reefs of
Rum Cay, the country would not have had to
deplore the loss of one of the finest line-of-batt,e
ships in her Majesty's service; and my Lords cool'
der Captain Sotheby to have been highly culpable
in not having taken that precaution.
" To prevent all future misconception as to the
responsibility of captains in command of her Majes-
ty's ships, my Lords have caused the following
additions to be made in the Ist and 2d Articles of
Chapter XIX., page 160, of the Queen's Regulations
and Admiralty Instructions for the government of
her Majesty's Naval service. The first Article will
commence with the words—' The captain is respon-
sible for the safe conducting and steering of hie
ship;' and the last paragraph of the second Article
will in future stand as follows If it shall appear
that the ship has been run on shore, or brought into
danger of being run on shore, or wrecked, and thati
there has been any want of due care or precaution►
or that the foregoing orders have been disobeyed'
the captain will be held responsible for the same.'-'
By command of their Lordships, "C. PAGET."

The Right Hon, W. Hutt has arrived in to vo
from Cibside.
John Fenton, engraver and grocer, of Jamestown'
Scotland, was recently tried at the Glasgow Old Court and
sentenced to two months' imprisonment for shooting Maria
Kennedy, his servant. The prisoner had attempted to
compromise the matter by giving the girl money, with'
which she got married, and was on the point of emigrating
when detained by the police.
I A remarkable case of impiety occurred the other
day in a village in the west of England, A man of lc re
fortune died, and directed in his will that his horse should
be caparisoned and led to his grave, and there shot, and
buried with him, that he might be ready to "mount at the
resurrection, and start to advantage." To the disgrace of
all concerned this was actually performed. The executors
and legatees probably thought themselves bound to obey
the will, but why the clergyman permitted such an exhibi'
tion at such a moment is unaccountable.
IRVING'S PERSONAL APPEARANCE.—Irvin
remarkable appearance seems to have impressed everybody''
A lady, who was then a member of Dr. Chalmers's church'
and who had access to the immediate circle surrounding
him, tells how she herself, on one occasion, being pillow
larly engaged in some domestic duties, had given orders t°
her servants not to admit any visitors. She was interruPte°
in her occupation, however, notwithstanding this order, by
the entrance of one of her maids, in a state of high exc'te•
ment and curiosity. " Mem 1" burst forth the girl,"there's
a wonderful grand gentlemen called; I couldna say Yt),
were engaged to him. I think he maun be a Highland
chief?"—" That Mr. Irving!" exclaimed another indi;
vidual of less elevated and poetical conceptions—" 711(1,;
Dr. Chalmers's helper 1 I took him for a cavalry officer I
"Do you know, doctor," said a third, addressing Choi'
mers himself, "what things people are saying about yotlr,
new assistant ? They say he's like a - brigand chief.
"Well, well," said Dr. Chalmers with a smile, "whatever
they say, they never think him like anything but a leader
of men." Such was the impression he produced upon the
little mercantile-ecclesiastical world of Glasgow.—.Frolo
Mrs. Oliphant's Life of Irving.
FOSSIL MAN IN THE COUNTY OF DURHAM.-'
Considerable interest has been excited in the highest vole"
gical circles in London by an important discovery which
his been made in our neighbourhood. A cave, locally
known as the " Heathery Burn Cave," near Stanhope, in
this county, exists in a deep ravine in the limestone strati',
which are being worked by the Weardale iron Compaq t°
obtain a flux used in smelting their ironstone. The pro-
gress of the quarrying operations has laid the entrance to
this cave bare ; and in a deposit of sand under 4 inches of
the stalagmitic stone which has been formed by the drip'
ping of water holding lime in solution from the roof, have
been discovered a human skull, as well as several hundred
bones of various animals, and some bronze ornaments, '
for example, armlets, pins, &c. These have been carefully
collected by an able local geologist, John Elliot, Esq., and
by him transmitt d to London, with a view to obtain the
highest scientific opinion on this most interesting discoverY•
It is said that Mr. S. J. Mackie, F.G.S., F.S.A., editor of
the Geologist, is engaged in researches, with the intention
of defining exactly the age of this cave deposit ; and the
bones have been submitted to eminent gentlemen in London.
for identification and description. Great credit is due
_to

Mr. Elliot for the care with which he has collected all tho
evidendes, and the lucid description which he has given of
the nature of the cave. As these remains, unless sots°
error of observation has been committed, would apparently
indicate the existence of man in the county of Durham at
a period of time long previous to the known historical ago/
the result of the investigation now going on will be
watched by us with the greatest interest.—Durham Chro"
nicle.

FOSSIL FEATHERED REPTILE.—The announce"
ment made to the geologists of Germany, about three
mo. nths ago, by Hermann Von Meyer, that he had ob.'
tamed from the lithographic slate cf. Solenhofen, in Bevil'
ria, a fossil impression of a feather on the upper and under
surfaces of a split slab, and that this feather was undistin-
guishable in its appearance from that of existing birds,
attracted but little attention beyond palaeontological circles.
We had already evidences of birds from the greensand ;
and the discovery of birds in the Solenhofen oolite would
merely lead us to connect the osseous remains still more
closely with the evidences of avian footprints discovered
by Hitchcock in the Triassic sandstones. Von Meyer's
feather, which he termed Archceopteryx, is, however,
completely eclipsed in interest by the intelligence made
public by the venerable A. Wagner, of Munich, that in the
collection of M. Haberlein, of Pappenheim, exists the skele-
ton of an animal undoubtedly of reptilian organisation, 68
indicated by the vertebral column and the form of ,he petviSt
and offering most analogy to the genius Itamphorhynchtis,
or long-tailed Tterodactylus. It approaches the class birds
by its trifid metatat sals, and by having developed from ilil3,t
bone near the alms and radius, and supposed to be a carps
a radiate tan of feathers, similar to those of birds. At the
apical extremity of the tail is another radiate fan, also of
feathers. The rest of the animal appears to have been des-
titute of plumage. Unfoitunately the head is wanting'
This anomalous form is referred by Wagner to the order
Pterosauria, and has been generically distinguished by th.e
term Griphosaurus,
from ypi9sos, an enigma.
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