The Sun.
London, England, 1853-09-17 00:00:00

THE CAPE :MAILS.

SOUTHAMPTON, Friday, Sept. 16.—The Lords Com-
missioners of the Admiralty have now under considera-
tion a new series of arrangements with reference to the
dates on which the ships of the General Screw Steam
Shipping Company are to leave Calcutta, the terminus
of their voyages. When these alterations take effect,
the several ports touched at by these ships will have
increased postal communication provided for them, and
the new system will be especially beneficial to the
Cape and South African trade, inasmuch as it is,
we believe, proposed that the outward mails shall
reach Cape Town in sufficient time—viz., about the
20th or 22d of each month—to enable the merchants
to send their replies to England by the homeward
packets, which will be made due at the Cape within
two or three days after the arrival there of the outward
ships. The course of post from Southampton to the
Cape will thus be reduced from 05 to 75 days, and if we
may judge from the remarkable punctuality already se-
cured by these fine ships, as exhibited in their recent voy-
ages, there will be little, if any, danger of failure. The
dates to which these vessels have respectively reached
the Cape on their return from India during the past
months will show how closely their time has been hitherto
adhered to. The date at which the steamers should,
under existing regulations, reach the Cape is the 19th of
each month. In November last the ship of that
month arrived on the 18th, in December on the 16th, in
January on the 20th ; in February, March, April, June,
and July on the 10th. In May there was no mail, the
Mauritius having met with an accident to her ma-
chinery. One of the conditions of the new arrange-
ments will he, that in future the mails conveyed by the
Screw Company's steamships are to be landed at, and
embarked from Southampton instead of at Plymouth,
as heretofore. This alteration, so long desired by
the company, which has fixed its head-quarters
at this port, will be of great advantage, and will save
considerable expense, delay, and inconvenience to the
company, while the public service will not in any way
be deranged or prejudiced by the change. By advices
received from St. Vincent's we learn that the Queen of
the South made an excellent passage to that island of
12 days from Plymouth. This ship had been under sail
only six days out of the twelve, and in her steaming
had reduced the expenditure of fuel to the low average
of only 17 tons per day. This result, in a remarkable
degree, proves the great superiority for long sea voyages
of full-rigged ships, fitted with the screw as an auxiliary,
and constructed with sailing lines favourable for rapid
propulsion.

ROYAL CHARITY.—A communication addressed by
Earl St. Germans to the Lord Mayor notifies that the
Queen has been graciously pleased to cause the sum of
5001. to be placed in his Excellency's hands for distri-
bution among the public charities of Dublin.
MUNIFICENT LEGACY.—The treasurer of the Royal
Orthopaedic Hospital for the Cure of Deformities has
just received the handsome bequest of 2,0001. from the
executors of the late Mr. J. R. Durrant, of Newgate-
street. The hospital in Bloomsbury-square is entirely
supported by voluntary contributions, and such bequests
are of course most acceptable.
EXAMINERS OF THE COURT OF CHANCERY. By an
act of the late session the salaries of the Examiners of
the Court of Chancery are fixed at 1,5001. a-year, and
their retiring pensions are not to exceed three-fourths.
In consequence of the oral examination of witnesses, a
new form of oath to be taken by examiners has been
framed in the act.
DEATH OF MR. GEORGE ERADSHAW.—This gentle-
man, whose death from an attack of cholera at Chris-
tiana we announced yesterday, was a member of the
Society of Friends, and was well known for his benevo-
lence. He was the proprietor of the well-known Rail-
way Guide, and had an extensive printing-office at Man-
chester, and had recently opened a branch office at
Newton-le-Willows, half way between Manchester and
Liverpool, engaging for his purpose the once-celebrated
Conservative Hall, erected there behind the Leigh Arms
Hotel. The Conservative Hall was erected about 1835,
in the first phrenzy of the reaction led by the Carlton
Club after the passing of the Reform Bill, and the utter-
ance of the remark by the late Sir Robert Peel, that the
battle of the constitution was to be faught in the regis-
tration courts. They succeeded in wresting South
Lancashire temporarily from the whigs ; but, having
since lost ground, the hall remained unused, and was
for many years untenanted and going to decay, but Mr.
Bradshaw rescued it and turned it to a better and more
useful purpose as a printing-office, in which are now
employed a large number of hands. Asiatic cholera
carried him off after an illness of less than nine hours,
and ho was interred very soon after death. He had
written to his wife to say that he should return to Eng-
land by the next boat, but the vessel by which he was
to have come brought the news of his death and burial.
He was in his 53d year.

THE LATE MR. STRICKLAND, F.R.S.—Mr. Strickland
was appointed Deputy-Reader in Geology at Oxford on
the occurrence of Dr. Buckland's sad illness. lie was a
well read and practical geologist, taking part in the pro-
foundest discussions at the Geological Society, and ever
ready to communicate knowledge with kindness and
precision to all who applied to him. His loss will be
much felt, both at the Geological Society and in Section
Cof the British Association. He was elected a Fellow
of the Royal Society last year, to the great honour of
the Council and satisfaction of his friends, who had long
deemed him worthy of that distinction.
THE YOUNG GARRICK.—This little aspirant to the
highest histrionic honours, who has so frequently been
tested by the severest critics, and earned the highest
encomiums from numerous and attentive audiences, play-
ed Romeo on Wednesday, with the accustomed success.
As some evidence of his dramatic power, we may men-

tion that this mere child has already repeatedly given
what is accounted by the best authorities a truthful per-
sonation of the characters of Shylock, Audrey, King
John, Prince Arthur, Hamlet, Nor7al, Jaques, &c.
A most opportune style of dress has just been invented
by our neighbours, the French, who are certainly singu-
larly happy in meeting requirements, the remedies for
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