The Sun.
London, England, 1862-01-07 00:00:00

for them distinctly. Experience has again and
again before now shown that the Tory
leaders, 'at these crisis of national solicitude,
are ever ready to sink the more selfish in-
terests of Party in the wider and more general
interests of the whole Patriotic Community. While
1862 therefore has dawned gloomily enough upqn
us, and while we have reasons enough and to spare
for looking in this direction and in that with eager
solicitude, the Cabinet itself has apparent cause for
looking forward with calm reliance to those ides
of March which will so soon follow hard upon the
heels of Thursday, the 6th of February.

COURT CIRCULAR.

OSBORNE, JAN. 6.

The Queen held a Council to- day, at which were present
Earl Granville, the Duke of Newcastle, and Sir George
Grey.

At the Council Parliament was ordered to be further pro-
rogued from Tuesday, the 7th of January, to Thursday,
the 6th of February, and a proclamation was issued for the
meeting of Parliament for the despatch of public business
on the said Thursday, the 6th of February.
Mr, Helps, Clerk of the Council, attended.

Earl Granville, the Duke of Newcastle, and Secretary
Sir George Grey left the Waterloo terminus of the South-
Western Railway, at 20 minutes past nine o'clock, yester-
day morning, by a special train for Gosport, crossed in the
Fire Queen to Osborne Pier, and arrived at Osborne at one
o'clock.

After attending the Privy Council, the Duke of New-
castle, the Right Hon. Sir George Grey, and Mr. Helps
left Osborne, at a quarter-past three o'clock, re-embarked
on the Fire Queen, went on board and inspected the War-
rior, landed at Gosport soon after five o'clock, and returned
to London by a special railway train.
Despatches were received yesterday:at the Colonial-office
from the Lord High Commissioner of the lonian Islands
and from the Governors of Malta and the Mauritius.
Despatches were sent to the Governors of the Cape of Good
Hope, Natal, and St. Helena.

Her Majesty the Queen, having been informed
that it was absclutely necessary for the carrying on of im-
portant public business to hold a Privy Council, with diffi-
culty consented to this most painful exertion, and Earl
Granville, K.G., President of the Council, his Grace the
Duke of Newcastle, Secretary of State for the Colonies, and
the Right Hon. Sir G. Grey, Secretary of State for the
Home Department, attended at Osborne yesterday, when a
Privy Council was held in her Majesty's private apart•
ments. Mr. Helps, Clerk of the Council, was also present.
THE VICARAGE OF TOTTENHAM.—We are re-
quested to state that there is no ground for the statement
which has appeared in some of our contemporaries, that the
vicarage of Tottenham had been presented to the Rev. W.
H. Milman.

The vicarage of Ramsgate has been conferred by
the Archbishop of Canterbury upon the Rev. John Mar-
joribanks Nisbet, M.A,, of Balliol College, Oxford, rector
of Deal.

Lord Castlereagh has denied that he signed the
so-called protest of the Roman Catholic gentry against the
Queen's Colleges, although his name appeared to the
document, with his style and title of Vice-Chamberlain of
her Majesty's Household. "I do not know," he says,
" by what authority my name was affixed to this protest,
for I have neither signed it myself nor authorised any one
to do it for me."

LOSS OF FIVE LlVES.—Abzut 5 o'clock on Wed-
nesday night last a keel, the Alice and Jane, Captain John
Gray (belcnging to Mr. Ford, of "Mesborough), bound from
Grimsby for Gainsborough, with a cargo of deals, caught
the ground on Whitton Sands and capsized. All on board
perished—viz., the captain and wife, mate, and two chil-
dren. It is uncertain to whom the children belonged, the
captain not having, as we are informed, any children of his
own on board. The boat attached to the keel seems either
to have gone down also, or to have broken loose, so that
there was no chance of the captain or mate either saving
themselves or those with them in the vessel. After the
catastrophe the keel floated up the river, as far as the Trent
Sands, and was there seen some time afterwards bottom
upwards. There was a very strong tido on Wednesday
night, and a rather thick fog, and it may have been owing
to these circumstances that the sad accident occurred. The
captain was coming up to Gainsborough without any assist-
ance. The owner was telegraphed for on Thursday by
Captain D. Gleadell, of the Gainsborough United Steam-
packet Company, who had ascertained the particulars of
the melancholy occurrence on his way from Hull to Gains-
borough on Thursday morning. Portions of the cargo
were observed floating in all directions on Thursday. At
Amcoates a 1 arge portion of the property was being reco-
vered. It is just about 12 months since a similar accident
occurred at the same place, when six lives were sacrificed.

Recent accounts from the Bahama Islands hold
out the prospect of an early and successful resumption of
cotton cultivation, especially in Nassau, The cotton pro-
duced in the Bahamas had a high reputation from 1780 to
1820, The plant in those islands yields a crop once in
every six months, being fit to pick about December and
again in June.

ERRATA.—Three paragraphs which appeared in
The Sun yesterday were accidentally quoted Court Circular
instead of Court Journal.

An " opposition building," to hold some of the
goods rejected from the International Exhibition, was
talked of some time ago, without the smallest idea of such a
thing being feasible. There is, however, said to be a scheme
of this kind afoot. Disappointed exhibitors are said to have
raised a sum of £50,000, and to be organising an indepen-
dent display.

• The telegraphic quotation of exchange from
Shanghai yesterday is 6s. 21d., showing a movement ad-
verse to this country of about 2 per cent. A change.of Ad-
ministration had been reported from Pekin, and it there
was consequ3ntly believed to be a good prospect of China
being really opened.

GREAT YARMOUTH, Jan. s.—This morning the
brig Scotia, of and from Sunderland for Lowestoft, coal
laden, Patteson master, was totally lost en the Barber
Sands, off this coast. The Scotia left Sunderland on Fri-
day, and experienced a fair voyage until close to the Barber,
at 5 a.m. to-day, when the rudder striking a wreck she be-
came unmanageable and was carried cn the sands. She
beat heavily and began to make water so fast that the crew
of five hands were compelled to take to the boat, which they
had considerable difficulty in doing, in consequence of the
vessel rolling ♦iolently in the heavy surf. A California
yawl put off to their assistance, and the boatman succeeded
in boarding the brig, but as the water had then risen to the
cabin deck they were obliged to leave her to her fate. The
crew lay by her until she went down, and were landed here
this morning, when they were received into the Sailors'
Home, having lost nearly everything. The Scotia had
170 tons of coal on board, and was insured to the amount
of £4OO.

ILLNESS OF VISCOUNT PEVENSEY.—We (Sussex
EspressJ regret to inform our readers that Lord Pevensey
is exceedingly ill at Paris, where he has been joined by the
Countess and Earl of Sheffield, and other members of his
family. He is suffering from a low fever, with exceeding
weakness.

WARMING RAILWAY CARRIAGES.—The directors
of the Easter a Counties Railway Company have determined
on adopting the system of warming railway carriages by
means of the waste steam from the engines, which has been
recently successfully carried into effect on the London and
North-Western line.

THE EASTERN COUNTIES RAILWAY AND MR.
WINDHAM.—The directors of the Eastern Counties Rail-
way Company, with a view of ascertaining the truth of the
statements as set forth in the evidence given by the late
guard (Ford) and others, in Mr. Windham's case, on Wed-
nesday last, summoned up to the board-room at Bishops.•
gate station, a large number of the stationmasters and offi-
cials from vat ions parts of the line, and made a most minute
and searching investigation into the case as alleged by the
evidence given, and we have been given to understand that,
from the evidence given by these officials to the directors,
the statement of Ford and others is very much exaggerated.
Suffolk Chronicle.

PRESERVATION OF SALMON.—The magistrates of
Northumlerland seem determined to enforce rigidly the
recent act of Parliament for the preservation of salmon.
This tribe has suffered severely in past times from the de-
predations of the inhabitants of pit villages adjacent to the
rivers in that county, in spawning time; and on Friday,
Matthew Carr, pitman, Bedlington, and Henry Wilson, of
the same place, shoemaker, were charged at petty sessions
held at that place, Carr with having two unclean and un-
seasonable salmon in his possession, and Wilson with having
four. They were each fined £2 a fish, with 10s. costs, or in
default to be sent to gaol two months each, but the fines
were paid. The magistrates stated that these having been
the first cases under the Salmon Fisheries Act brought
before them they would only inflict the penalty of £2 for
each fish, but in future, if any similar cases came before
them, they would inflict a fine of £5 each fish.
DEATH OF JOHN BOYD, ESQ., M.P. FOR COLE-
RAINE,—John Boyd, Esq., D.C.L., who for a period of 14
years has represented the Irish borough of Coleraine in
' Parliament, ex ired on Thursday night. In politics Mr.
Boyd was a Conservative, and invariably voted with the
party of which Lord Derby is the leader. The deceased
gentleman was a magistrate and deputy lieutenant for the
county of Londonderry, and magistrate for the county of
Antrim and borough of Coleraine. Mr. Boyd was torn in
1789, and at his death was consequently in his 73d year.
On Saturday placards were posted in Coleraine announcing
the intention of Sir 11. Bruce, Bart., to offer himself as a
candidate for the borough. It is rumoured that the Soli-
citor-General for Ireland, Mr, Lawson, will offer himself as I
a candidate.
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