The Sun.
London, England, 1865-04-08 00:00:00

DEFAULT OP A RATE COLLECTOR.

A report was brought up from the finance committee
stating that the defalcations of Mr. Boult, late collector of
rates in the parish of Marylebone, had been ascertained to
amount to the sum of £352, and that after a careful inves-
tigation of all the circumstances, and communicating
with his sureties, the committee were of opinion that an
offer made by the latter (who are not in very good circum-
stances) to pay £2OO in full discharge of their liability
should be accepted.
The recommendation of the committee was, after some
discussion, adopted.

RESIGNATION OF A MEMBER.
A letter was received from Mr. Crellin, an old member of
the Board, stating in substance that as the Board had
negatived his motion, made at a former meeting, that two
dissenting ministers should bo invited to the opening of
the Main Drainage Works, he felt it his duty to resign.
He thought it unfair that Churchmen should have been
invited and Dissenters excluded.

The other business disposed of to-day was of a routine
character, and the Board adjourned at an early hour.

SITIPPING INTELLIGENCE—This day•

LONDON, April B.—Wind this day at noon—South-
Westerly; moderate breeze and fine weather.
CLYDE, April 7.—Wind W.N.W.—Arrived—Sydney,
from Demerara.

PILL, April 6.—Wind N.W.—Sailed—Elizabeth Emily,
for the West of Africa.

PonTsmouTtr, April 7.—Wind S.W.—Sailed—Her Ma-
jesty's ship Fury, for London.

OFF MOUNT'S BAY, April 6.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—
Urania, from St. Domingo, and sailed for Hamburg; had
experienced heavy weather.

SOUTHAMPTON, April 7.—Wind S.W.—Sailed—Gilmore,
for Quebec.

TORBAY, April 6.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Mary Blake,
rom London for Bermuda.

OFF DARTMOUTH, April 7.—Wind N.W.—Arrived—
Emily, from Ghent.

HOLYHEAD, April 7.—Wind S.—Arrived—Coral Queen,
from Liverpool for Matanzas.

SUNDERLAND, April 6.—Wind N.W.—Sailed—Mina,
for Quebec.

CARDIFF, April 7.—Wind S.—Arrived—Therese Asis-
tide, and Louise, from Bilboa,. Sailed—Old Dominion, for
New York.

OFF DOVER, April 6.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Patrician
!rom Calcutta.

MUMBLES, April 7.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Georgiana
Gronfell, from Caldeira.

LAMLASH, April 7.—Wind S.W.—Arrived.--Washing-
on, from the Clyde for Quebec; Prince of Wales, from
the Clyde for Bombay.

SHIELDS, April 7.—Wind S.W.—Sailed—Hotspur, for
Shanghai ; Wenershaum, for Quebec.

(BY MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH.)

GRAVESEND, Saturday Morning.
Arrived, April 7—Maria Stewart, from St. Michael's;
Gogstad, from Moss ; Industry, from Arendal ; Henry
Parr, from Drobag ; Maria Beerta, from Groningen;
0. P. Q., from Pouterson.
DEAL, Saturday Morning.
Anchored—Southern Cross, for San Francisco; Star of
Peace, for Port Phillip—both from London.
Passed in tow—Lincelles, from Demerara, for London.
Passed—Urania, for Prince Edward's Island ; Meridian,
for New York—both from London; Diligent, from China;
Montrose, from St. Vincent; Mary Ellen, from St. Michael's
—all for London.

LITERARY INTELLIGENCE.— Messrs. Hurst and
Blackett announce the following among their new
works inpreparation :—"TheMemoirs and Correspondence
of Feld-Marshal Viscount Combermere, G.C.8., from his
Family Papers." " The Life of his Eminence Cardinal
Wiseman." " Historic Pictures," by A. Baillie Cochrane,
M.P. "Religious Life on the Continent," by Mrs. Oliphant.
"Yachting Round the West of England," by the Rev. A. G.
L'Estrange. "Life of Josiah Wedgwood, from his Private
Correspondence and Family Papers," by Eliza Meteyard.
" Violet Osborne," by the Lady E roily Ponsonby. "Bri-
gand Life in Italy," by Count Maffei. " Adventures
among the Dyaks of Borneo," by Frederick Boyle, Esq.
" Impressions of Life at Home and Abroad," by Lord
Eustace Cecil. "Alice Forbes of Howglen," by George
MacDonald, M.A. "My Life and Recollections," by the
Hon. Grantley F. Berkeley—vols. 3 and 4 completing the
work. "Social Life in Florence," by Count C. Arrivabene.
" Sport and Sportsmen—a Book of Recollections, by Chas.
Stretton, Esq. "Agnes," by Mrs. Oliphant.
THE PRITCHARD CASE.—The strictest secrecy is
still preserved regarding the progress of the chemical an-
alysis in the case of the late Mrs. Taylor; but we believe
we are in a position to state that the process, as it advances,
leads to an increase of the suspicions as to the causes of
that lady's death.—bcotsman.