The Sun.
London, England, 1854-11-16 00:00:00

journal and an English Government encouraged
Russia to destroy Hungarian liberties ; this time it
would brook no more of Tory complaisance to the uni-
versal oppressor, and it compelled our governors
to give effect to its righteous convictions. And
if the war itself be righteous, a character of sane-

tity itself is impressed on the claims of those whom
it has bereaved of their most beloved and most
needful to their support and comfort ; and such
has evidently been the general feeling of the na-
tion in performing the duty cast upon it of raising
a Patriotic Fund.
We must, however, protest against this sacred
fund being administered in any red-tape or mar-
tinet spirit. Not a subscriber, except perhaps an
old buckram member or two of " the service,"
had any idea that his free-hearted gifts were to
be distributed by heartless military rulers. We
allude of course to the administrative limitation,
by which only widows and orphans of those who,
married according to military rule, are to share in
the bounty. Gracious Heavens I surely these
men have learned a lesson from NICHOLAS
himself. Nothing can more revolt all the
feeling which has made these offerings than
unhappy bereaved ones, and to give a weeping
widow a workhouse to shed her tears in. As men
our hearts are too tender to stand this. We drop
our tears as freely with the poor widow and or-
phans who are such beyond Horse-guards' rule as
with those who are within it. Their husbands
were equally brave, and have equally died for
their country, and. their lawfully married wives
are equally the widows of our lost patriots. Tell
those sixty Paddington cabmen who sent in their
subscription the other day that the poor innocent
girl and youth whose love was too strong to live
apart, and whose honesty too great to live in
shame—tell them that the surviving widow is to
have no fraction of their subscription ; that she
is to be dealt with practically as a harlot !—the
honest fellows would wipe their eyes with their
sleeves, and vow that all their future contributions
should be for the wronged ones. • Yes, and
the rich Merchant and the Peer aro English-
men of the same stuff too. We, one and
all, feel that if the national taxes must be
administered by rule, the free-will offerings of the
people must be administered according to the
heart's desire of the people. Nowhere could
heartless military etiquette be more out of place
than in victimising those whose cruel sorrows have
called for a whole nation's generosity. To our
ears it is solemn pedantic mockery to talk of " in-
convenience" to the service in such a case. Were
the funds drawn from the military chest, of course
military rules must be enforced ; but when they
were freely raised by a charity which, like the
mercy of HEAVEN, knows of nothing but the sor-
rows and wants of the sufferer, we hold it to be
little short of impiety to divert the streams of such
benevolence into artificial channels constructed at
the Horse Guards. Inconvenience to the service !
—what's that ? Every honestly-married soldier
who dies in the Crimea should know that his
widow
.was safe in his country's care. Every
meeting, and every individual, ought to accom-
pany his donation with a request that every real
widow and her offspring should share their bene-
volence.

CRYSTAL PALACE, Nov. 15 (SHILLING DAY).—Ad-
mission at the doors, 729 ; admission by season tickets,
186. Total, 915.
THE GALE IN THE CmoTNEL.—It blew so hard at
Dover on Monday night that the English and Belgian
Royal mail steamer could not. leave the harbour until
two o'clock on Tuesday morning. It was thought she
might have got away to the Downs and have embarked
her mails, but by these experienced in the work it was
deemed impossible for the mails to have been get off
from Deal with the wind in the quarter whence it was
blowing.
CAPTAIN ATCHERLEY, of the 30th Regieent, whose
bravery is spoken of by Lord Raglan in his despatches,
was f.rrnerly quartered in this town when a lieutenant.
He is a son of the late Mr. Serjeant Atcherley, who, it
may be recollected, officiated as one of the judges at
the Oxford Circuit a few years since, and on that occa-
sion tried Beard for the murder of the housekeeper of
Mr. Lowther, of Wednesbury.—Wolverhampton Chro-
nicle.
LEAD SHIPPED FROM HULL FOR RUSSIA.—Last week
fifty tons of lead were shipped from Landon to Memel,
via Hull, which it was known would be taken from
thence to St. Petersburg. The Custom-house authorities
at Hull refused to pass it, but a telegraphic message was
received from London authorising them to forward it,
and that was accordingly done.—Staffordshire Advertiser
of Nov. 11.
THE GATE-KEEPER, named Charles Street, at the Eling
gates on the Southampton and Dorchester line, was
killed on Tuesday night by the 5.30 p.m. down train.
He was not quick enough in opening the gate to let the
train pass and the latter caught him, threw him down,
and cut him to pieces. He had been warned several
times to be more careful in attending to the gate. The
poor man has left a widow and two children.
MESSRS. ALLEN AND ANDIRSONS' FAILURE.—A meet-
ing of the creditors of Messrs. Allen and Anderson,
engaged in the American trade, who failed on the 6th of
October, was held yesterday, Mr. D. B. Chapman pre-
siding. With regard to the general resalt of the accounts,
it was explained that the assets show a dividend of about
ss. 6d. in the pound, and that their is every expectation
of ss. at least being realised. The liabilities may, it is
stated, be increased by the sum of 26,000/., and diminished
to the extent of 40,000/.
SHIPWRECKS DURING OCTOBER.—It appears that 52
vessels were stranded on the coasts of the United King-
dom during the past month, 21 of which occurred in the
heavy gale of the 17th and 18th. Twenty-three became
total wrecks, the crews of five of which perished, be-
sides 10 persons variously drowned from the others.
THE CULTS MURDER.—We learn that the young man
Forbes, who was tried at Edinburgh last week for the
murder of the young woman at Cults, and acquitted,
returned to Aberdeen, where, on his arrival, he was
assailed by a mob, and narrowly escaped from the con-
sequences of their indignation.
LORD RECTOR OF GLASGOW UNIVERSITY.—A meeting
of the supporters of the Duke of Argyll as Lord Rector
of the Glasgow University was held in the Latin class-
room yesterday afternoon ; Mr. Williamson in the
chair. Addresses were delivered by Messrs. Fullar-
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ton, M'Aulay, Wishart, and Kerr. The audience was
very numerous, and, from the expressed feeling of the
meeting, the supporters of his grace are very sanguine
of his election.

ENGLISH, SCOTTISH, AND AUSTRALIAN CHARTERED
BANK.—Yesterday an extraordinary meeting of the
shareholders of this company was held at the London
Tavern, Bishopsgate-street. The •hair was taken by
Chas. Johnston, Esq., who, having pointed out the
necessity of completing the capital fixed by the charter,
moved a resolution for effecting such alterations in
clause 134 of the deed of settlement as would render the
shares forfeitable for non-payment of future calls at the
expiration of two months instead of six months, after
the days to be appointed for payment of such calls,
and after one month's notice, instead of three, as hereto-
fore. The resolution was passed, and the-meeting ad-

journed.
ROBBERY OP 130 SOVEREIGNS.--Yesterday, Mr.
Stowardson, high constable of Chester, forwarded further
information of the cash robbery, &c., from the person of
Mr. William Parkinson, butcher, while stopping at the
Red Lion, Bickersten, taking refreshment. The thief
is a well-known "duffer," and connected with the Lon-
don swell mob. The property stolen was a yellow
bag, marked "W. P.," containing 130 sovereigns, by
a man named Moore. He was last seen at a coffee-
house in Crewe, where and at other places he showed
the bag and gold. He has left the Crewe station for
Manchester, and is supposed to have come to London.
He is six feet high, quite bald on the top of his head,
and about 40 years of age.
CAPTAIN CRAIGIR, R.N.—Our readers will learn with
some regret that Captain Craigie, who was employed
last spring and summer in raising the Royal Naval
Coast Volunteers in Scotland—in which service he was
remarkably successful—has been appointed to be Captain
Superintendent of the Packet Service, Southampton, in
the room of Captain Horatio T. Austin, C. 8., appointed
Captain Superintendent of Deptford Victualling and
Dockyards. We say this intimation will be re-
ceived with regret, but the regret is only that
Captain Craigie will no longer be connected with the
North, where, during his labours last summer, as also
in his exertions in Shetland, in the time of the High-
land destitution, he had made himself many friends by
the uniform courtesy of his manner, his unbending in-
tegrity, and his warm zeal for the public service.—
Banffshire Journal.
SEAMUN'S LIBRARY AT SUNDERLAND.—The seamen of
Sunderland have made an appeal to the public for books
and subscriptions to open a library. In the address of
51r. Wm. Hodge, their secretary and librarian, they
state that the seamen of the port, anxious to aid the
march of improvement, good government, and tempe-
rance, are about to open a reading-room for sailors fre-
quenting or belonging to the Wear, in which both in-
truction for the mind and occupation for leisure hours
way be combined. The members for Suuderland have
been applied to, and R. Ingham, Esq , Q,C., the learned
member for Shields, had promised to lend his personal
aid in the carrying out of so laudable an undertaking.
We say—bravo, Jac% I