The Sun.
London, England, 1865-09-30 00:00:00

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HER MAJESTY.

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BALMORAL, Sept. 28.
The Queen, accompanied by Princess Helena
and Princess Louise, and attended by Lady Ely,
drove to the Baynoch yesterday.
Prince and Princess Louise of Hesse, with Prin-
cess Beatrice, Baroness von Schenck, and Baron de
Rabenau, drove to the Lynn of Dee.
Lord Napier left the Castle in the morning.

Foreign Courts.
PARIS, Sept. 29.
The Princess Clotilda has arrived safely at
Prangins to rejoin Prince Napoleon. The report
of their royal highnesses intending to visit Italy is
confirmed.

The Countess de Montebello and-Madlle. Bouvet
have not yet completely recovered from the effects
of the accident at Neufchatel, and consequently
receive daily visits from Dr. Nelaton ever since
their return to Paris.

Prince de Metternich inhabits at this moment his
estate of Kcenigsworth, in Bohemia. He is expected
at Vienna at the beginning of next month, and will
not resume his functions in Paris till after the de-
parture of the Emperor for Compiegne.
The Empress of Austria and the little Archduchess
Gisela have returned to Vienna, but the Crown
Prince Rudolph is still at Ischl, where he is likely to
remain for some time, as the air of the place has a
most beneficial effect on his health.

" The Duchess de Berry," says the Gazette de
France, " is now at Frohsdorff, in order to pass the
29th there en famille, that day being the anuiversary
of the Count de Chambord's birth."

The New Sheriffs,

SILLS JOHN GIBBONS, ESQ., Alderman of the
ward of Castle Baynard, and senior sheriff, was
born in the year 1809, and is now, therefore, 56
years of age. He is a member of a family long
settled in Kent, where his relatives have filled offices
of importance. His education was entrusted to the
Rev. John Lough, vicar of Sittingbourne, and on
leaving school he came to London, and entered the
house of Todd, Crookes, and Gibbons. His father
having died some years previously Young Gibbons
had to push his way for himself, and this he did so
effectually that he ultimately became a member of
the firm to which he still belongs. He is
also connected somewhat largely with the hop
trade. Having taken considerable interest in
parochial affairs, for which he seems to
have evinced a very decided aptitude, Mr.
Gibbons was returned as common councilman for
Castle Baynard Ward in 1858, and in this position
acquitted himself so well that, on the retirement of
Sir Henry Muggeridge, he was chosen to succeed
him as Alderman, to which post he was elected
March 13, 1862. The year prior to this, he had
been appointed chairman of the City Lands Com-
mittee. He has lived in the ward which he repre-
sents between 30 and 40 years, and during that
time he won very great respect—a testimony to
this being furnished by the remarks of the gen-
tleman who proposed him as alderman, who
said of Mr. Gibbons, that " there were some
around him who knew him when he wore his
pinafore and frock ; and now they desired to
see him robed in the Aldermanic gown." Mr.
Gibbons is a member of the Salters' Company, in
connexion with which body he occupies a leading
position. James Figgins, Esq., is a genuine citizen,
having been born in West-street, in a house just
taken down for railway improvements. The
family to which he belongs is a very old one, and
amongst his ancestors were five gentlemen who
filled the office of Mayor in the town of Devizes,
on different occasions, viz., in 1676, 1690, 1701, 1782,
and 1792. On attaining the proper age he was sent to
Esher, where he was placed under the care of the Rev.
Dr. Brown. On the completion of his education,
in May, 1825, he was apprenticed at Stationers'
Hall. Eleven years after that he commenced busi-
ness upon his own account. Twenty-five years of
close application and hard work then followed, with-
out a break, except, perhaps, the performance of
duties attendant on his being Churchwarden. In
June, 1863, he was unanimously chosen a Common
Councilman, an office which his father had held for
twenty years. The incidents in a purely commer-
cial life are but few, but it is much to win and re-
tain, as Mr. Figgins has done, the respect of all who
know him. Mr. Figgins, as is generally known, is
a member of the type-founding firm of V. and J.
Figgins.--City Press.

NEW YORK SPECULATION.--Wall-Street is troubled
because the general public, who for a time, and in
the aggregate to a vast extent, dabbled in stocks and gold,
have lately withdrawn almost entirely from financial
speculation. This withdrawal is owing, in a measure, to
the great revival of legitimate trade and commerce, which
has called into the channels of business a large amount of
the capital which formerly went into the Street, and which
has given larger and surer and more satisfactory returns
than are found even by those who are lucky in speculation.
The frauds in the Street have frightened away many out-
siders. The abolition of the Evening Exchange has also
had a good effect in the same way. The small fluctuations
for some time past in gold (in which article many of the
outsiders dabbled) had also discouraged those who were
hungry for heavy and quick profits. We are glad that this
result has been reached. The speculative mania, which
has frequently raged so widely and fiercely during the last
three years, has had a most demoralising effect. It has
unsettled the minds of thousands, and has led them to look
away from the honest rewards of patient industry to the
prospects of sudden fortune by a stroke of luck. It has
" sharpened their wits" (a phrase which does not signify
the same as " enlarged their honour") more than it has
developed their conscience. It has produced a mental
feverishness most destructive to organic or spiritual health.
Let them keep out of the maeltstrom now that they have
got out of it. A good many have gained wisdom through
their losses. Let the few who have been fortunate show
that they are not fools.—New York Times.
A GAMEKEEPER CONVICTED OF POACHING.—On
Wednesday last, at the Grimshoe Divisional Petty
Sessions at Mundford, near Brandon, before Lord Ashbur-
ton and the Rev. A. Sutton, James Cook, late gamekeeper
ih the service of Lieut.-Gen. Angerstein, of Weeting, was
charged with poaching, by shooting and killing a hare. The
case excites considerable interest in the neighbourhood.
The following facts wore deposed to :—On the 12th of Sep-
tember Gen. Angerstein's head keeper heard the report of
guns fired at about 5 or 6 o'clock in the morning, and on
going in the direction of the sound saw the defendant, who
was then one of the General's keepers, come out of the
North-crescent plantation with a gun in his hand ; with
him was also a rat destroyer, who also had a gun. Cook
excused his conduct on the ground that the birds were
breaking loose, and he was firing blank shot to prevent them
going on to the neighbouring manor. On searching his
pockets a hare, fresh killed and warm, was discovered there,
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THE WEATHER IN THE NORTH.—One of the
most unprecedentedly hot and bright Septembers on
record is likely W be brought to au end upon the coast of
Northumberland with a change of weather, as on Wed-
nesday night a gale of wind from the northward, which
burst on the coast without any warning, caused a con-
siderable reduction of temperature, and on Thursday eight
the wind off the Tyne was well round to the eastvvard,
and the sea was making. But still there was no veil
marked indication that the weather was breaking. 111
consequence of the beautiful autumn weather the bathing-
places upon the coast have been crowded with visitors to
a much later period than is ordinarily experienced, and the
season at all the northern Watering-places has been vorl
successful. About one o'clock on Thursday morning,
while the wind was blowing a gale from the north-east,
the Elizabeth, of Aberdeen, laden with ironstone, fowl'
dered in the anchorage ground in Hartlepool Bay. The
crew escaped with their boat.