The Sun.
London, England, 1862-09-15 00:00:00

The Countess (Dowager) of Jersey passed through
town on Saturday to Brighton from Osterley Park, near
Brentford.

Viscount and Viscountess Campden bare been
receiving a succession of visitors at Campden House,
Gloucestershire. Prince Doria Pamphili and his youthful
family have been among the guests of the noble viscount
and viscountess.

Lord and Lady Herries and the Hon. Misses
Maxwell have arrived at Thomas's Hotel, Berkeley-square,
from Everingham Park, Yorkshire.
Prince Wasa, the Earl of Winchilsea, and Sir
Robert Peel have arrived at the Hotel Bristol, Paris.
General de Sonnaz, Envoy Extraordinary from Rely to the
Court of Russia, has left the same hotel for Turin.
THE LATE EARL OF HARRINGTON —The mortal
remains of the Earl of Harrington were deposited in the
ancestral vault in Elvaston Church, almost adjoining the
aisle, near Derby, on Saturday. The funeral was very
solemnly conducted. It has not been publicly stated that
the death of the Earl was rather sudden.
GEORGE STEPHENSON, TIIE ENGINEER. The
Xewcastle monument to George Stephenson, the great en-
gineer, was completed last week, and will ;be shortly in-
augurated by Lord Ravensworth. It has been erected in
Neville-street, closely adjoining the Central Railway Sta-
tion, and consists of a massive stone pedestal bearing a
colossal statue of George Stephenson by Lough, together
with certain emblematical figures, viz., that of a blacksmith
naked to the waist, sitting and leaning against an anvil,
while his right hand grasps a hammer; a pitman, carrying
a "Geordie" lamp ; a platelayer, holding a model of Mr.
Stephenson's old fish-bellied rail ; and an engine-driver
leaning against a locomotive. The monument promises to
be very effective, and a great ornament to the town. The
monument to the late Mr. Robert Stephenson will be placed
nearer to the railway station.

LORD PALMERSTON.--During the stay of Lord
Palmerston in Nottingham, last week, a number of ladies
presented his lordship with a smoking cap from a bazaar
that was being held at the Exchange Hall to liquidate the
debt on one of the local churches. The cap was made of
scarlet and blue silk velvet, richly embroidered with gold
lace. It was forwarded to the George Hotel, where his
lordship was staying, accompanied with a complimentary
note. The noble Premier has sent the following reply :
" 94, Piccadilly, September, 1862.—Lord Palmerston pre-
sents his compliments to the ladies conducting the Not-
tingham bazaar, and while returning them his thanks for
the beautiful cap which they were so good as to send him,
encloses a draft for his contribution to their bazaar," The
enclosed was a cheque for £5.

The following are the principal conditions of tho
contract of marriage between the King of Portugal and the
Princess Maria-Pia :—" Ist. The sum allowed by the
King of Portugal to his consort is to be 60 contos of refs
(350,000 f.) per annum ; 2d. The guarantee for the payment
is his Majesty's civil list; 3d. If the Princess of Italy be-
comes a widow she shall be allowed a handsomely-fur-
nished palace in addition to the allowance, but if she goes
to a foreign country to live, she shall receive tho allowance
only ; and, 4th, If the King becomes a widower without
children, all the personal property of the Princess shall
revert to her own family."
REPRESENTATION OF STOKE-UPON-TRENT.
Mr. Hope has retired. In his address to the electors he
says :—" I withdraw from this contest. I make this an-
nouncement with deep regret after the unexampled kind-
ness I have received from you, but upon a careful examina-
tion of the register I have come to the conclusion that the
defeat of the Liberal cause is certain if I now press my ad-
mitted claims to the poll."

" A great sensation is being produced at Copen-
hagen (says a journal of that city) by a singer of the name
of Nyerup, formerly a fisherman himself, in the character
of Masaniello. A musician having accidentally discovered
that the young man possessed a wonderful voice, prevailed
on him to study singing. Nyerup studied for two years.
He has now appeared, and is described as a perfect pheno-
menon." If the above paragraph be true, we know a
theatre where he should be received with open arms—not a
hundred miles from the Rue Pelletier.

The Cologne Gazette states that the corvette
Danzig, of the Prussian navy, has just been put up for sale
by auction, and the highest bidding was only 25,000 thalers
(93,750 fr.), although the vessel cost the Prussian Govern-
ment 200,000 thalers (750,000 fr.)

WORCESTER HOP MARKET, Sept. 13.—The
weather of the past week has been favourable for the
growth of the hop, and where planters are fortunate enough
to have escaped the general blight there will be a good
sample gathered. Picking, however, has not yet com-
menced, although our great hop fair takes place on Friday
next, when we have in a good season thousands of pockets
brought to Worcester. We do not expect a single pocket
of new Worcester hops, however, next week. There is
little doing in the market, the trade being limited to a
slow sale of old hops at about the currencies last quoted.
ANOTHER DESTRUCTIVE FIRE. MONDAY
MORNING.—About half-past three o'clock a fire of a very
alarming character took place in the premises belonging
to Messrs. Kellard and Sons, known as the City Saw
Mills, situate in Wentworth•street, Whitechapel. The
premises in question were of considerable extent, and corn-
pitied sundry erections; the one in which the misfortune
commenced was the boiler-house, a building about 40 feet
long. From that part of the premises the flames seized
upon the veneer-house, which contained a valuable stock
of cut veneers. In less than five minutes both buildings
presented two great sheets of flame. Information of the
disaster was sent off to the Royal Society's fire-escape
stations, and also to the parish and London Brigade
stations. In the course of a few minutes the escapes and
engines arrived, including two steam fire-engines by Shand
and Mason. The mains of the East London Company
' having been drawn, the firemen, under the command of
Captain Shaw, went to work, and with the aid of 28 hired
auxiliaries they managed to prevent the fire from reaching
other buildings belonging to the firm, but the boiler house
and the veneer house were both burned out and the roofs
destroyed. The origin of the fire is enveloped in obscurity.
The loss is considerable, but the sufferers were fortunately
insure-I in the Royal Fire-office. Mr. Langham and Mr. H.
White of that office were early in attendance to ascertain if
possible the cause of the fire, but they could learn nothing
of a satisfactory character.—Another fire broke out between
8 and 9 o'clock in the tar works at RAherhithe. The bri-
gade again quickly attended, and the fire was extinguished
before any considerable damage was done,
THE BRITISH ASSOCIATION.—The British Asso-
ciation for the Advancement of Science will hold its 32d
annual meeting at Cambridge on Wednesday, Oct. 1. The
president of the year is the Rev. Professor Willis, and the
vice-presidents are the Very Rev. the Dean of Ely, Profes-
sor Whewell, Professor Sedgwick, the Astronomer Royal
(Mr. G. B. Airy), Professor Stokes, and Professor Adams.
The general secretaries are Professor Phillips and Mr.
Hopkins; and the local secretaries are Professor Babing_
ton, Professor Liveing, and Mrs. Ferrers. The first meeting
of the general committee will be held early in the afternoon
of the day of meeting ; and in the evening the first general
gathering of the members will be held in the Town-hall,
when Mr. Fairbairn will resign the chair to Professor 'Willis,
upon whom devolves the task of delivering the customary
inaugural address. The sectional meetings will commence
in rooms at the Town-hall on Thursday, the 2d of October,
and will be continued de die in them until Tuesday, the 7th
of October (Sunday, of course, excepted). The mathema-
tical and physical science section will be presided over by
Professor Stokes ; the chemical science section by Professor
Miller ; the geological section by Mr. J. B. Jukes, director
of the geological survey of Ireland ; the zoological and bo •
tanical section by Mr. T. Huxley; the economical science
and statistical section by Mr. E. Chadwick; and the me-
chanical science section by Mr. Fairbairn. The geogra-
phical and ethnological section seems to be at present with-
out an appointed chairman. On the Thursday evening of
the week over which the congress will extend, a soiree will
take place at the Town-hall ; Friday evening will be devoted
to a discourse by Professor Willis, and Monday evening to
a discourse by Dr. Odling. A second soiree on Tuesday
evening will conclude the doings of the week, which will be
a memorable one in the anna's of Cambridge.

DEATH OF MADAME AURIOL.-" It is a melan-
choly fact," says the Entr'acte, "that those persons whose
profession it is to amuse the public often have to support
an unuually large share of the trials of life. Auriol, the
popular clown of the Cirque de l' Imperatrice, has recently
been plunged into the deepest affliction. After losing his
son, a fine young man, who was to have succeeded him as
clown, he has now lost his only remaining child, a daugh-
ter, Mme. Auriol, married to a cousin of the same name,
and who died a tow days since in childbed. The funeral
took place in the chapel of the Avenue de St. Cloud, and
presented a heartrending spectacle. At the cemetery the
bereaved husband could not stand without support, and
the unhappy father, on taking the last look at his daugh-
ter's coffin, fell back insensible in the arms of his friends.
Poor Auriol, who is now 65, will hardly recover this ter-
rible shock, and yet perhaps he may be obliged still to
amuse the public with his jests and antics."
THE POOR IN ST. PANCRAS.-At the wcekly
meeting of the directors of the poor of St. Pancras, a commu-
nication was read from the Poor-law Board on the subject
of a recent inquest held by Dr. Lankester on the body of a
poor woman who, it was alleged, had been cruelly thrust
out of her lodgings, and had died of want. The letter was
as follows :—"Poor-law Board, Whitehall, Sept. 4.—Sir,—l
ear directed by the Poor-law Board to enclose, for the informa-
tion of the directors of the poor of the parish of St. Pancras,
a copy of a paragraph relative to the inquest recently held in
the case of Matilda Martin, late of 23, Tottenham-place,
Tottenham Court .road. The board direct me to request that
they may be furnished with any observations which the
directors may wish to offer on the statement contained in
the paragraph referred to. The board also direct me to re-
quest that the directors will be good enough to obtain and
forward to the board the explanation of Mr. Saddler, reliev-
ing officer, of the allegations affecting his conduct in the
case.—l am, sir, your obedient servant, C. GILPIN, Secre-
tary." After some discussion, it was determined to appoint
a committee to investigate the ease; and a reply was written
that the directors had the
to the Poor-law Board, eating
matter under their consideration, and that so soon as they
,had completed it, their report should be forwarded,