The Sun.
London, England, 1862-12-06 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

WINDSOR CASTLE, DEC. e.
The Queen and her Royal Highness the Princess Helena
walked and drove this morning.
The Right Hon. Sir George Grey arrived at the Castle
yesterday, and had an audience of the Queen.
His Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury was presented
to her Majesty, at an audience this morning, by the Right
Hon. Sir George Grey, Secretary cf State for the Home
Department, and did homage on his appointment.
The Rev. Lord Wrothesley Russell was the Deputy
Clerk of the Closet in Waiting.

The Duchess of Athol' has succeeded the Countess of
Caledon as Lady in Waiting,

The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council sat yester-
day. An appeal from Canada, " Irigge v. Lavallee (part
heard), was concluded. Judgment was deferred. An ap-
peal from Agra, " Muheshrarain Singh v. Kishnanuad
Misr," was commenced. The Lords present were—Lord
Kingsdown, Sir J. Coleridge, Sir E. Ryan, Sir L. Peel,
and Sir J, Colville.

Despatches were reeeived yesterday at the Colonial-office
from the Lord High Commissioner of the lonian Islands.
Despatches wero sent to the Government of the Cape of
Good Hope, Natal, and St. Helena,

AMERICAN RAILROAD ACCIDENTS.—Part of a
train was destroyed on the Algiers railroad on the 17th
ult. by the explosion of ammunition in a car behind the
tender. The accident is supposed to have been caused by a
spark from the cigar of some imprudent smoker. Eleven
persons were killed and 17 wounded. On the 21st, a dark
and foggy morning, when the passenger train to Boston
reached the Charlestown-bridge the draw was found to be
open. The engine and tender plunged into the river, and
were soon submerged out of sight. The smoking car, in
which were a number of passengers, was thrown forward
with all the passengers in a heap. The remaining cars were
uncoupled in time to avoid taking the plunge. Many of the
passengers in the smoking car succeeded in making their
escape by jumping from the windows and saving themselves
by swimming, while to others were thrown planks taken
from the bridge. Four persons were killed, and several
more or less injured. The train was going slowly nt the
time.
ATTEMPTED FRAUD BY A FEMALE—At the Man-
chester police court, yesterday, Adelaide Cecilia Monk, a
respectable looking woman, was brought up charged with
attempting to obtain money by false pretences from the
North-Eastern Railway Company. Mr. Cobbett, solicitor,
who appeared for the company, stated that the prisoner
made a claim on the company for some luggage which she
professsed to have lost at Thorpe Arch, in Yorkshire. The
amount of the claim was £l5O. Her statement was that
she travelled from Thorpe Arch to Manchester on the 15th
November last, and that her luggage, which had been put
into the hands of the railway servants, was lost on the way.
The company, however, were prepared to prove that not a
single ticket was issued to any person from Thorpe Arch
to Manchester on the 15th November, and they also
found on inquiry that no luggage had been left
at Thorpe Arch on that day. Their inquiries also
tended to show that the prisoner had not been out of Man-
chester at all on the 15th of November, Mr. Hawker, the
superintendent of police on the line, gave evidence that the
prisoner represented to him that she had come from London
to Thorpe Arch, and that she left the same place the next
day, having in her possession two tin trunks and ono largo
hair trunk containing clothes and money. She said that
on arriving in Manchester she found the trunks had been
taken in some other direction, and that in consequence she
had been unable to take her passage to America, whither
she intended going. Mr. Hawker also proved that no
ticket to Manchester was taken out at Thorpe Arch on the
15th November. A man named Birkbeck, living at Ard-
wick, said that the prisoner had lived in his house for seve-
ral weeks, and that she had never been out of Manchester
on either the 14th or 15th November. The magistrates
remanded the prisoner for some days to make inquiries into
her case. She is said to be an American.
ROBBERIES BY POST OFFICIALS,—NECESSITY
FOR REGISTERING MONEY LETTERS.—Henry Sorah, a
messenger, lately in the employment of the post. office at
Bolton, was indicted at the Liverpool Assizes yesterday for
stealing the half of a £5 note, which had been posted at one
of the pillars under the prisoner's care. The latter was ad-
dressed by Mr. James Ward, of Bolton, to Messrs, C. Tay-
lor, of Gomersak, near Leeds, but it never reached its des-
tination. On the 14th November a brother of the prisoner
offered the half of a £5 note (subsequently identified by Mr.
Ward as the note he had posted) to a Mr. Bradshaw, pawn-
broker, of Bolton, but Mr. Bradshaw, suspecting that a
robbery had taken place, had the boy taken into
custody. The lad said his brother had given him the note,
and when the prisoner was apprehended he said that he had
found the half note in the street. The jury found the pri-
soner guilty, with a recommendation to mercy.—David
Ross, another letter carrier, pleaded guilty to two indict-
ments for stealing letters. He was sentenced to penal
servitude for four years, and Sorah to 12 months' imprison-
ment with hard labour. Mr. Commissioner Gurney, in
passing sentence, said that after the recent Post-office
order as to the relTistrution of mnpor letters, parsons who
persisted in putting money in ordinary letters were highly
culpable for placing unnecessarily temptation in the car-
rier's way. He should refuse the expenses of witnesses in
such cases.

( ESCAPE AND SUICIDE OF A LUNATIC.—On Tues-
day evening a young lady named Hodgson, who had been
three months in the asylum at Mount Head, near Otley,
belonging to Dr. Smith, of Leeds, made her escape between
5 and 6 o'clock in the evening; the woman who keeps the
lodge, hearing the gate close, supposing it was her daughter,
who was expected home, not going out to see what was the
matter. A short time afterwards a mason, named Moon,
and his companions, on their way from Ilkley to Burley,
came up, and found a crinoline and a head-net on the bank
of the river. A struggle was heard in the water, and upon
looking closely they saw something floating on the surface,
but, the river there being very deep, and none of the party
able to swim, they did not venture in. They, however,
threwined f out
whata a
l leathernturned t a
which appeared to touch the
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unwillingsr to take hold of it. The poor
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creature then gave a loud scream, and having turned on
her back and uttered two or three shrieks, sho sank. The

body was not recovered till Wednesday afternoon.
FAROE AND ICELAND.—" In his Pen and Pencil
Sketches' published by Longmans, Mr. Symington has
given to the public a rich mine of information regard-
ing a corner of the world which as yet may be said
to be almost a terra incognita to tourists -and book-
makers. The illustrations are numerous and well
executed, and with the graphic descriptions of
the letterpress the reader cannot fail to realise
vividly the scene through which the author's pleasant pen
and ready pencil have chosen to conduct him. An appen-
dix is added giving a number of Icelandic stories, poems,
and other specimens of their literature. Hints for tourists
are not forgotten. The book is valuable for the large
amount of general information which it contains on the
physical features and phenomena of Iceland."—John
o' Groat Journal.

A CORSICAN SOLDIER CONDEMNED FOR MURDER.
—The military tribunal of Chalons has just tried a young
soldier of the 52d Regimant, named Pietri, a native of
Corsica, on a charge of having murdered, on the 3d Nov.,
a young man named Raussin, the son of a farmer, residing
at Saint Memmie, near Chalons. It appeared from the
evidence, which agreed with the accounts given at the
time the murder took place, that M. Raussin and his son
were returning home from one of their fields, with a load
of green fodder, on the top of which they were seated,
when they came up with two young men, one of whom
was a grocer at Chalons, in shooting attire, with a fowling
piece, who lay on the ground dead drunk, and the other
the prisoner, who was somewhat less intoxicated. The
latter asked M. Raussin to allow his companion to ride to
Chalons on the fodder. The farmer refused on the ground
that it would be dangerous to place a man in such a
condition on the top of a load among the scythes and
forks lying there. This refusal so incensed the prisoner
that
,he seized his companion's doublo -barrelled gun,
ran after the cart, and, aiming at young Raussin,
killed him dead on the spot. Ho then discharged the other
barrel at the father, but missed him ; the shot, however,
struck a rake hanging at the back of the load, All these
facts were proved by tho evidence of M. Raussin, and many
other witnesses deposed as to the drunken state of the sol-
dier and his companion, especially tho servants of a farm-
house whero they had drunk four bottles of wine. The pri •
Boner, when asked what ho had to say in his defence, stated
that he had gone out with Reg,naul for a day's shooting
Towards evening they went to a farm-house to obtain re-
freshment, where they got intoxicated, and he had not the
slightest recollection of anything that occurred from the
time they left the house till after his arrest. He conc:uded
with expressing the remorse ho felt for the dreadful results
of his drunkenness. The prisoner's counsel declared that
his client was in reality a madman when ho committed the
crime, and implored for him the benefit of extenuating cir-
cumstances; but the tribunal, deeming intoxication no ex-
cuse, unanimously declared the charge of murder fully
proved, and condemned the prisoner to death.
EXTRAORDINARY MEASURES OF THE POLICE
FOR THE SUPPRESSION OF GAROTTINIS AND OTHER ROB-
REMISS 'WITH •VioLENcE.—The metropolitan and City
Police authorities aro making extraordinary efforts to sup-
press the monstrous crimes of garotting and ether street
robberies, effected with *7iolence,
occurrence. in the metropolitan and suburban districts, At
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employed as patroles, the whole being under the superin-
tendence of an inspector of each division, assisted by ser-
geants and acting sergeants, selected from the most active
and intelligent constables. The haunts of thieves are
watched vigilantly, and their movements reported, the raf-
lam, however, in
some instances manage to elude the vigi-
lance and activity of the police, despite whose exertions
several robberies have been committed. These are supposed
by tho police to have been effected through the means of
scouts (principally
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LATEST NEWS

PARIS, DEC. 6.

The Moniteur of to-day says :
"The Emperor will inaugurate the Boulevard
Prince Eugene on Sunday next.
" His Majesty will receive the congratulations of
the municipal authorities in the pavilion which has
been erected before the Arc de Triomphe."

THE NEW ITALIAN MINISTRY.
TURIN, DEC. 6.
The following is the probable list of the new

Ministry :

President of the Council of Ministry and Minister
of Foreign Affairs—Signor Pasalini.
Minister of Finance—Signor Minghetti.
Minister of Commerce—Signor Manna.
Minister of Public Works—Signor Menabrea.
Minister of War—Signor Petitti or Larovere.
Minister of Marine—Signor Ricci.
Minister of Public Instruction—Signor Amari.
Minister of Justice—Signor Cassinis.
Minister of the Interior—Signor Perruzzi.

BERLIN, DEC. 5.
The Neue F'reussische (Kreuz) Zeitt4ng of this

evening says:—

"The statement of some Berlin papers that all
Generals commanding divisions and all Chief Pre-
sidents of the Provincial Governments have been
summoned to Berlin, is without foundation so far as
concerns the former.

"The Presidents of the Provincial Governments
only aro expected here, as usual, to report to the
Government on the proceedings of the Provincial

Diets."

BUCHAREST, DEC. 4.

Reliable information having been received that a
supply of arms, the destination of which was un-
known, was to be conveyed across the Principalities,
the Government gave orders for their seizure.
The Servian Government, however, having offi-
cially claimed the ownership of the weapons, and
requested for them free passage across the Rouman
territory, the arms were immediately ordered to be
restored."

ATHENS, DEC. 1, 5 45 p.m.

Public opinion, being irritated by an unfavour-
able telegram, has obtained from Government a
lebiscite for the election of. Prince Alfred.

ATHENS, DEC. 1.

The Provisional Government has prevented de-
monstrations in favour of the Duke de Leuchten-
berg, which were in course of preparation.
The people have compelled the editor of the Aeon
newspaper, notorious for Russian sympathies, to
quit the country.
Disturbances have
.taken place at Patras, occa-
sioned by demonstrations in favour of the election
of Prince Alfred.

Several riots which had broken out among the
peasantry have been appeased.

TURIN, DEC. 5, (Evening).
No change has taken place in the politica

situation.

Signori Cassinis and Pasolini are charged with
the formation of a Ministry.
They have not yet accomplished the task, but
still hope to succeed.

THE FORTHCOMING CHRISTMAS
NOVELTIES.

(Front tl& Era.)

For some time past the metropolitan managers
have been busily preparing for the holidaye, and at
this moment the various theatres exhibit a scene of
activity in every department which would astound
those who are not aware of the amount of artistic
skill and mechanical labour called into requisition
for the pleasures of the people. Reserving till a
more seasonable period the details of the novelties
in preparation at each house, we here append the
titles of the several pantomimes and burlesques
that will be produced on Boxing-night at the prin-
cipal establishments.
The ROYAL ENGLISH OPERA, COVENT-GARDEN,
will have a grand pantomime, with a burlesque
opening, by Mr. S. H. Byron, founded on Madame
de Villeneuve's charming story of "La Belle et la
Bête," and under the familiar title of "Beauty and
the Beast," presenting the old fairy tale in a novel
point of view. Mr. W. H. Payne and his clever
sons will have, with Mr. Charles Fenton, the prin-
cipal characters in the opening; and the scenery
will be from the fanciful pencil of that able artist,
Mr. William Callcott.

DRURY-LANE, always a great house for this kind
of entertainment, will open, brilliantly re-decorated,
under the management of Mr. Falconer, and with
a new burlesque grotesque pantomime, entitled
" Little Goody Two Shoes ; or, Harlequin Cock
Robin." It has been written, as usual, by Mr. E.
L. Blanchard, and the incidents of Oliver Gold •
smith's simple story, from which the first portion
of the title is derived, will be illustrated by Miss
Lydia Thompson as the heroine. The new scenery
by Mr. Grieve, the masks and character-appliances
by the ingenious Dykwynkyn, the dances by Mr.
Oscar Byrne, and the introduction of some remark-
able mechanical changes, will render the opening
unusually attractive. The Harlequinade will be
supported by Mr. Boleno and Mr. C. Lauri as
Clowns, Mr. Cormack and St. Maine as Harlequins,
and Madame Boleno and the Misses Gunniss as
Columbines.

The HAYMARKET adds to the continued attraction
of Mr. Sothern's impersonation of Lord Dundreary
a new burlesque, by Mr. William Brough, founded
on Dr. Johnson's well-known tale of " Rasselas,"
in which the adventures of the famous Prince of
Abyssinia will be depicted after the usual fashion
of extravaganza.
The PRINCESS'S will have the advantage of Mr.
William Beverley's valuable pictorial aid in a new
pantomime, furnished by Mr. E. L. Blanchard, and
entitled " Riquet with the Tuft; or, Harlequin and
Mother Shipton." Mr. Belmont and Mr. C. Seyton
will have the chief parts in the opening, and the
pantomime company will comprise Mr. Milano as
Harlequin, and Mr. R. Power as Clown.
The LYCEUM will not open under Mr. Fechter's
direction until the first week of the new year,
when a new drama and a fairy extravaganza will
be produced.
The OLYMPIC produces a burlesque on the sub-
ject of " Robin Hood," written by Mr. F. C. Bur-
nand, and enriched with some picturesque sylvan
scenery. The music will be composed and arranged
by the experienced Mr. James Tully.
The STRAND has its usual contribution of a bur-
lesque, by Mr. Byron, who has this year turned
Sir Walter Scott's novel of "Ivanhoe" to the ac-
count of extravaganza.
The ADELPHI is supplied by Mr. Byron with
a burlesque on the subject of "George Barnwell,"
Mr. J. L. Toole, Mr. Paul Bedford, and Mrs. Alfred
Mellon filling the chief parts.
The SURREY pantomime is entitled "Harlequin
and Mother Goose ; or, The Queen of Hearts who
made some Tarts, and the Knave of Hearts who
Stole them," Miss Julia St. George and Miss E.
Webster playing prominent characters in the open-
ing. _ .

The BRITANNIA has a pantomime on the "Ara.
bian Nights" story of " The Sleeper Awakened."

The GRECIAN has selected the capital German
legend of " Number Nip" for the development of
Mr. George Conquest's remarkable talent as the
hero. -...