The Sun.
London, England, 1854-12-28 00:00:00

(PEE ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)

LIVERPOOL, Thursday Morning.
Wind, N. ; fine breeze.
Sailed—lstria, for Constantinople.

WATERFORD, Dec. 26.

Wind, W.N.W.
Arrived-- Jennett, from Now York.

(Br SUBMARINE AND BRITISH TELEGRAPH.)
GRAVESEND, Thursday, 10.37 a.m.
Wind, W.N.W. ; tide, two hours' ebb ; weather, fresh
and fine.

Arrived, Dec. 27—San Francisco, from Cavalla ; Dora,
Messina ; Spirit, Terceira ; Pilot (s), Hamburg; City of
Norwich (s), do. ; Holland (s), Ostend.

Arrived, Dec. 28 —Baron Osp (s), from Antwerp ; Rain.
bow (s), Rotterdam ; Teaser, St. Malo ; Kossuth, Cal-
cutta ; Union, Cadiz ; Stratford, Mauritius.
Sailed—Queen of Sheba, for Bermuda.

DEAL, Thur.3day, 9.57 a.m.
Wind, N.W. ; moderate and fine.
Anchored—Pekin, from Calcutta, for London.
Passed—Benjamin Greene, from London, for Mauritius ;
Samuel Conard, fro:n Shields, for Martinique.

THE CRIMEAN ARMY Pl:MD.—Among the many
seasonable and appropriate gifts to this excellent fund
is one from the most noble the Marquis of Breadalbane,
who has given directions to Mr. Crate, of Nut Ford-place,
wine and spirit merchant, to forward from his cellars
four puncheons of line Scotch whisky, for the use of
the Highland Brigade in the Crimea. It is understood
that this generous contribution is to be consigned to Sir
Colin Campbell, the brave and esteemed chief of this
gallant corps.
DINNER TO THE PooL—Besides the provision of old
English fare on Christmas-day for the poor in the work-
houses, the poor who struggle to keep out of theworkhonse
were supplied, to some extent, with the means of keep-
ing the feast, as between the hours of 8 and 11 on
Christmas morning there were given away, at the Soup-
kitcken, Ham-yard, Et. James's, no less thanl,2oo lbs.
of beef and mutton, and 600 lbs. of plum-pudding, so
that 300 families received each 41bs. of the former, and
2 lbs. of the latter, accompanied in each case by a half-
quartern loaf, a quart of beer, and a packet of tea or
coffee. To make the treat more liberal, Messrs. Huntley
and Palmer had seat a supply of biscuits, which were
dealt out to each. The materials were given by various
tradesmen of the metropolis, assisted by money from
others ; and we doubt not these generous contributors
enjoyed their own Christmas dinners none the less from
the circumstance of their having sent a portion to those
who had nothing prepared.
ROGER AND THE BRITISH TROOPS IN THE CRIMEA.—
The celebrated French tenor Roger, late of the Grand
Opera at Paris who is making a professional tour in
Germany, in which he visited Hamburg last week, seeing
in the Paris paper l'hlustration the appeal of the well-
known Coatesse do G-- to the public, to send a
supply of cigars and tobacco as a Christmas present to
the British and French troops in the Crimea, imme-
diately wrote to offer his contribution of one evening's
profit at the theatre, and fixed on the opera of La Dame
Blanche, in which he would have to sing the aria "Oh
quel plaisir d'etre soldat." As the circumstances were
well known at Hamburg the house was crowded, and
Roger sent to Paris a bill for 1,500 francs.
BAYONETS AND RAMRODS FROSt MANCHESTER.—It is
understood theta spindle and flyer manufactUrer of this
city has received from the Government an order for the
manufacture of 80,000 bayonets and 130,000 ramrods ;
and that those articles are to be finished and delivered
with the utmost possible despatch. In Birmingham
and elsewhere, we are told, bayonets have always been
made by hand ; but the gentleman in question satisfied
himself some time since that his machinery was capable
of turning•out weapons equal, if not superior to those
made by hand ; and the Government seems to have
gladly availed itself of the facilities offered for the speedy
manufacture of any required number, whether of
bayonets or ramrods.—Mauchester Guardian.
MEDICAL PRACTICE IN FRANCE.—A man named Ber-
thier was lately tried before the Court of Assizes of the
Ain for illegally acting as a medical man, and for exciting
one class of citizens against the other. It appeared that
when the cholera vies raging at Rillieux, this man pre-
sented himself and declared that he had an infallible
remedy for the disease. The people, in the end, would
only listen to what be said, and refused positively to
accept any aid from two medical men sent to the com-
mune by the prefect of the Rhone. and whom Berthier
represented as ig.noramuses. Unfortunately every
patient that the prisoner treated died under his bane's
so that there was not a single extenuating circumstance
in his attempt to cure. The jury having found him
guilty, the court condemned him to:a year's imprison-
, meat and 000 fr, Ane.