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

JULY.

1. Manchester without police this night, from a raja
understanding. _ .

2. Voluntary Starvation in Marylebone. Extraordinary
case of the Misses Sharpley brought before the board of
guardians.
S. Marchioness of Anglesey died.
11. Advertising vans prohibited from and after this day,
16th and 17th Viet., 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 months, for Romish practices, by the Bishop
of Durham.

]4. 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 Minto 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-atreet to
Sew 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 and 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., G.C.M.G., 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.
Th break-up of Chobham Camp.
22. Public dinner in honour of R. Stephenson, Esq.,
M.P., at Montreal.

The Hon. Sir George Cockburn, G.C.8., F.R.S.,
died, aged 82.
Strike of coalheavers.
Singular charge against Mr. Wilkinson, at the Man-
sion-house, of unlawfully bargaining for an East India
appointment.
23. Maynooth commission nominated.
Account of another ascent of Mont Blanc, 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 defacing; and bending of coin.

Death from cholera in Milibank Prison.
Marriage of V. le 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 Island.
26 Prince Albert's birthday.
Great destruction of shipping along the coast during
a gale.

F 27. Loss of the British ship Sea, off Poe 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 engaged 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-
ture of the leg.