The Sun.
London, England, 1854-01-02 00:00:00

away money and securities belonging to his aunt, to the
amount of 35,0001.
17. The Marquis of Huntly, K. T., died, aged 92 years.
18. Maurice O'Connell, M.P., died suddenly.
20. Queell Victoria's accession, 1837.
Submarine and European Telegraph Company, open-
ing of communication between London and Brussels; at
the Houses of Parliament.
21. Queen Victoria proclaimed, 1837.
Visit of her Majesty, Prince Albert, Scc., to Camp at
Chobham.
28. Coronation of Queen Victoria.
Royal christening of the infant Prince "Leopold
George Duncan Albert.

JULY.
1. Manchester without police this night, from a mis-
understanding.
2. Voluntary Starvation in Marylebone. Extraordinary
case of the Misses Sharpley brought before the board of
guardians.
8. Marchioness of Anglesey died.
11. Advertising vans prohibited from and after this day,
16th and 17th Vict., cap. 33, sec. 16
13. Arrival of the Russian Royal family at Torquay.
14. Suspension of a clergyman from taking priest's
orders, for 12 mouths, for Romish practices, by the Bishop
of Durham.
14. Annual meeting of Royal Agricultural Society of
England, at Gloucester.
17. The Earl of Portsmouth died.
22. Strike of 5000 miners and colliers at Dowlais.
Countess of Mint() died at Nervi, in Piedmont.
23. Strike of the Hull police.
27. Strike of the cabs ; not one to be seen in London for
hire. Great meeting of cab proprietors.
28. Meeting of City police to petition for increase of pay.
30. Cab strike terminated.
Earl of Seafield died.
AUGUST.
1. Police meetings interdicted by the chief commissioner.
Railway accidents, South-Western Railway. Trial
of the Hon. F. Scott, chairman, and Joseph Beattie, super-
intendent of the locomotive department, for manslaughter;
both found not guilty.
Strike of the market gardeners' labourers at Fulham.
Railway communication from Fenchurch-street to
Kew opened. _ _ _

2. Strike of dock labourers.
3. Execution of Hans Macfarlane and Helen Blackwood,
at Glasgow, for the murder of Alexander Boyd, ship-
carpenter.
4. Advertisement duty ceased this day.
5. Strike of workmen in her Majesty's Dockyard, Devon-
port.
6. The first sod of Portsmouth Railway cut.
8. Smyth v. Smyth; this celebrated case of imposture
tried at Gloucester, before Justice Coleridge.
11. George Richard Smyth, the plaintiff in " Smyth v.
Smyth," committed for trial for forgery aed uttering
documents, &c.
15. Dreadful accident at the Crystal Palace, Sydenham
—l2 men killed, and many others dangerously wounded.
17. General Sir F. Adam, G.C.8., died.
18. Mr. Bransby Cooper, F.R.S., died.
Major-General Lord Saltoun died.
20. Presentation of medals to Viscount Palmerston by
the Polish Historical Society of Paris.
Prorogation of Parliament. Speech from the Throne.
The break-up of Chobham Camp.
22. Public dinner in honour of R. Steplensoh, Esq.,
M.P., at Montreal.
The Hon. Sir George Cockburn, G.C.8.,F.R.5., &c.,
died, aged 82.
Strike of coalheavers.
Singular charge against Mr. Wilkinson, it the Man-
sion-house, of unlawfully bargaining for an East India
appointment.
23. Maynooth commission nominated.
Account of another ascent of Mont Bla?u, by Lieut.
A. C. Murray, R.N.
Report of select committee published as to picture
cleaning at the National Gallery ; precautions for the
future ; reforms and improvements.
New act to prevent the defacinc; and bending of coin.
Death from cholera in Millbank Prison.
Marriage of Vie Duke and Duchess of Brabant, at
Brussels.
24. Murder of his wife by Nathaniel Mobbs, and at-
tempted suicide by the murderer.
Death from cholera in Bethnal-green.
Loss of the Meridian, off Amsterdam blind.
26 Prince Albert's birthday.
Great destruction of shipping along the coast during
a gale.
27. Loss of the British ship Sea, off Por Philip Heads,
May 31; 17 lives lost. Loss of emigrant ship Charles
Clarke, on 27th July last ; 95 lives lost.
Royal visit to Ireland, departure of her Majesty from
Portsmouth for Holyhead, and embarkation therefrom.
29. Royal visit to Ireland ; arrival of her Majesty with
the fleet at Kingstown, and entry into Dublin.
Lieut. General Sir Charles Napier died.
Strike of factory operatives at Hull.
30. Strikes of the navvies engac'ed on the sewer works,
and of lightermen of the port of London.
Royal visit to Ireland. Visit of her Majesty and
Prince Albert to the Dublin Industrial Exhibition.
31. Railway accidents. Great Northern Railway (Horn-
sey). Many persons injured, amongst whom were the
Bishop of Lincoln, Lord Enfield, the Lord Mayor, Sir
James Duke, &c. Mrs. Harrison had a compound frac-
are of the leg.

SEPTEMBER.
1. Royal visit of Ireland grand review in Phoenix Park,
Dublin, in presence of her Majesty, kc.
Death of a Scotch descendant of Prince Rupert, (Miss
Onchterlony), aged 91.
Abolition of transportation under 11 years; the act
came into operation this day.
4. The Royal visit to Ireland. Return of her Majesty
to Holyhead.
7. Annual meeting of the British Association for the
Advancement of Science at Hull.
Fall of a house, at the corner of Arundel-street,
Strand, and loss of three lives.
10. Ghost at Chelsea.

Strike of seamstresses.
Destructive fire at Millwall, Poplar; estimated da-
mage, 120,0001.
Cholera at Christiania ; death of Mr. Bradshaw
(" Railway Guides, &c.")
Outbreak of Cholera in Newcastle ; 57 new cases ;
recoveries, 10 ; deaths, 23.
Deathfrom cholera in Southwark ; inquiry into the
filthy state of the locality.
14. Arrest of Miss Margaret Cuninghame, at Florence,
on a charge of disseminating Protestant tracts.
Turning the first sod of the European and North
American Railway; 40,000 persons present at the cere-
mony.
15 Extraordinary swarms of flies, at Harrowgate, form-
ing a black clond, which obscured the light for several
hours.
16. Sir Charles Adam, K.C.8., Governor of Greenwich
Hospital, died.
17. Russian Royal family ; Grand Duchess Katherine of
Russia sailed from Dover for Ostend.
Colonel Colquhoun, R.A., F.R.S., died.
20. Leicester Gaol, inquiry into the management of, &c.
Cholera in East Smithfield ; inquest and disgusting
details of the filth of the locality.
Russia and Turkey; meeting at Sheffield on the pre-
sent state of the Eastern quest-.on.
Saltaire, near Bradford, opening of a colossal manu-
factory at, belonging to Mr. Titus Salt; entertainment
given to 3,750 persons.
23. Cholera in Lambeth.
26. Strand, the late fatal accident in the; verdict of
manslaughter against Mr. Abraham, surveyor to the Duke
of Norfolk.
Eastern question ;beat meeting at Stafford.
OCTOBER.

1. Intelligence of the escape of John Mitchell, the Irish
convict.
2. The manning clause. Riots of foreign sailors at
Sunderland.
3. Gaming house. The Cocoa Tree, capture of 24 per-
sona charged with having been found in ; case dianlissed.
Burglar ; the gallant capture of one, by Mrs. Elliott,
of Liverpool.
Turkey and Russia ; great meeting in favour of
Turkey at Hanley Potteries.
Preston, dreadful accident at; fall of 200 or 300
through the floor of a room ; one person killed.
4. Eastern question, great meeting at Leicester on the.
- - Railway Accidents. Ambergate Railway; collision
of two engines; one life lost, many dangerously wounded.
5, Declaration of war by Turkey against Russia ; intelli-
gence from Vienna.
Railway accidents (Ireland). Great Southern and
Western Railway ; collision caused from the breaking of
engine ; 14 persona killed, several dreadfully wounded.
7. Eastern question, great meeting in the City respect-
in the.
8. Intelligence received of the discovery of the North-
west passage by Commander M.'Clure.
Death from chloroform in the University College
Hospital.
10. Miss Cunninghame compelled to leave the prison at
Lucca, after having been unjustly imprisoned for a month.
New penny receipts first used.
11. Horrible disclosures of treatment of prisoners in
Winchester Gaol at an inquest held on a man who had
been removed hence to the Queen's Prison, Southwark.
12. Proposed monument to the late devoted French
officer, Lieut. Bellot.
Inauguration of Sir Robert Peel's statue at Man
cheater.

Great Western; the Reading

Railway accidents.
station knocked to pieces
15. Preston cotton mills closed ; 25,000 persons out of
employment.
17. Dcath from cholera in the Millbank Prison.
Mr. Bowlby's Arctic expedition ; intelligence of the
Wellington.
18. Great meeting in Finsbury respecting the Eastern
question.
19. Shipwrecks. Loss of the Dalhousie, with all on
board, with one exception, off Beachy Head, with cargo
valued at 100,0001., bound for Sydney.
20. Fatal termination of the use of chloroform at St.
Bartholomew's Hospital.
Medway River. Thirty-one lives lost by sinking of
Harslake Bridge, over which a waggon containing 40 per-
sons was passing.
21. Deputation to Earl Clarendon on the Eastern ques-
tion from Finsbury.
22. Gift of 5,044. to John Bright ; expended in books.
Russia and Turkey ; first encounter between the Rus-
sian steamers and gunboats and batteries off Isactcha.
23. Russian Royal family : Arrival of Grand Duchess
Mario of Russia at Dover, and embarkation for Ostend.
25. 120 gentlemen dined in a new gasometer at Paisley
Gasworks.
26. Great meeting in the Tower Hamlets respecting the
Eastern question.
Sir W. Knight Bethune, Ulster King at Arms, died.
Visit of Louis Napoleon with the Empress to the
fortress of Ham.
North•west passage ; testimonial to Lieut. Samuel
Gurney Cresswell, R.N., at Lynn.
Blackburn ; Great Eagle Factory blown up, many
lives lost.
27. Deputation to Lord Clarendon respecting religi nu.
persecution in Tuscany and Sweden.
Preston strike, meeting of power-loom weavers at the
Temperance-hall.
Bishop of Derry (Dr. Ponsonby) died.
28. Intelligence of the murder of General Count De
Neuilly by his aide-de-camp.
... Lord Cloncurry died.

Riots at Wigaii.
29. Turkey and Russia, armistice between the contend•
ing powers reported in Paris.
Opening of the Shrwsbury and Hereford Railway.
Preston wages movement, meeting of 0,000 unem-
ployed operatives.
31. Strikes general in Lancashire.
Great meeting at Nottingham respecting the Eastern
question.
Riots at Wigan, several persons shot.
The Earl of Keumare died.