The Sun.
London, England, 1849-07-28 00:00:00

The Stromboli, 6, steam. sloop, Commander Lord A.
W. Beauelerk, is at Spithead, ready for service.
The Sphinx, 6, steam-sloop, Commander Hewlett, is
in Portsmouth harbour, coaling, and getting ready kr
sea. The marines and marine artillery landed from her
on Thursday evening, and retired to theiranArlT::..c.q,
Tha _ .y.vnu-'Loa-ortimouth, on Thor.—
day evening, and had gone into harboo,-
The Growler, 6, stern.-Aoop, Commander P. Stoddart,
was mustered, inspected, and paid advance at Devonport,
on Wednesday, and sailed the following morning, fur
Tangier.

The Jackal!, steam-vessel, is in dock at Devonport,
waiting directions from the Admiralty as to what her
bottom shall be paid with.
The Vesta, schooner yacht, iron built, with an
auxiliary screw steam power of 20 horse, ft most beauti-
ful, and we understand a very fast vessel under canvas,
belonging to Lord Newbury, was taken on the gridiron,
in the dockyard, Portsmouth, on Thursday, to have her
bottom examined. On account of tho neap-tides she
will have to remain on the gridiron slip for the next five
days.
PORTSMOUTH, FRIDAY, FIVE P.M.—The wini has
somewhat moderated to-day, and has drawn to the N.W.,
with finer weather. Some of the wind-bound ships have
proceeded to the westward.

THE ROYAL BANK OP LIVERPOOL.—The annual
meeting of the shareholders of this bank took place yes-
terday, at two o'clock, Francis Shand, Esq., in the
chair. The attendance was very numerous, many gen-
tlemen having come from a considerable distance. The
report of the directors stated that the net profits of the
bank (after the payment of all expenses and the inte-
rest on the preference shares) amounted to the sum
of 20,8911. 145. 2d. ; and that since the resumption of
business no bad debts had been incurred. The sum it
is proposed to carry to a reserved fund, and the direc-
tors had full confidence that the shareholders would
confirm the propositioe, affording, as it did, the best
means of providing for any possible contingency, as well
as laying the foundation for greater uniformity in the
payment of dividends in future. Inrealising the assets
of the bank, the directors might not have made as much
progress as they anticipated, but the shareholders were
reminded that, from the character of the property in
which the bank is interested, both in this country and
in the West Indies, it would have been most injudicious,
especially with so many increasing symptoms of im-
provement, to have forced such property prematurely
upon the market. The Chairman said that it would be
unnecessary for him to do more than to move the adop-
tion of the report. Mr. Alderman Cooper said that he
cordially seconded its adoption, and had pleasure in
congratulating the meeting on the position in which they
then stood---so different from that in which they were
placed eighteen months ago. The report was then
unanimously adopted, amidst considerable applause,
Several questions were asked by Mr. Dimmock, Mr.nt
Jones, and other gentlemen, which were clearly and
satisfactorily replied to by the chairman ; and after
vote of thanks had been passed to the directors, to Mr.
Chaffers (the manager), to Mr. Myers,. and the Chair:
Chair-
man, the meeting separated, all expressing their gratifi-
cation at the successful operations of the bank, and at
its re-established position.
ATTEMPT AT MURDER.—The village of Isleham,
seven miles from Newmarket, was on Monday last (the
23d) thrown into consternation by a most deliberate
attempt to murder. The perpetrator is Robert Norman,
a turfman and carter, in comfortable circumstances, and
his victim a girl of 17 years of age, named Sarah Ann
Petch, the daughter of his wife before his marriage with
her. The attempt was made about eight o'clock in the
morning, with a large clasp kaife, which penetrated the
windpipe, and made a wound of four inches in length.
The girl was at the time standing with her back to Nor-
man in the kitchen, and his wife and son (about 10 years
of age) standing by. He afterwards made a slight
wound in his own throat. The prisoner had frequently
taken improper liberties with the girl, and is of a violent
character. Three weeks since, in a quarrel, he threat-
ened to play " Rush" with his wife, and said he " would
not be hung for one, nor yet for two." The immediate
cause of the act seems to have arisen from the girl's
having absented herself from the house on Sunday last
without the prisoner's consent. The girl being in a very
precarious state, the attendance of a magistrate from the
Newmarket bench, then sitting, was requested, and the
Rev. W. Acton, accompanied by Mr. Oke, the assistant '
clerk to the magistrates, attended at Isleham to take her
declaration, but she having hope of recovery, theorin
preli-
minary inquiry was gone into in the usualom ry.aooere
w
the presence of the prisoner, in the_
afterro thehexamly.,
a
attempt to murder had been made; and
nation of the girl, the son, Mr. Addison, the surgeon,
and the constable, Ellington, he wag
girl is still (Wed-
as fully committed to
the next Cambridge Assizes. T
nesday) in a precarious state.
7 The Jupiter Penin-
SOUTHAMPTON, jh
steam-ship
usual
m ails eftfor
Spain and the Docks
sular and Oriental 'oinuip:irty2h'so
at two P.M., this day, w
Portugal, in charge o f Lieutenant P. Rainier, R.N.,
twelve passenn
pprs full cargo, and 10,383/. in specie.
The Erin, Captain Olive, will leave on the Ist August
for the Italian Ports, with a full cargo of goods and
pas,eogers. The Sultan, Captain Brooks, will leave on
the 30th instant for Malta, Constantinople, &e,, with
goods and passengers. The Ripon, Captain Moresby,
duo to-morrow from Alexandria, with the heavy portionis
of the overland mail, a large number of passengers, and
a full cargo. The Montrose, Captain Meehan, is the
next ship from the Peninsula, and is expected about the
4th proximo, with mails and passengers. The Euxine,
Captain Evans, will bo due about the 6th, with goods
and passengers from Constantinople.
On Wednesday last the pupils of King's College
S2hool presented the Rev. Richard Hodgson, M.A., with
a silver salver, as a testimonial of regard and affection,
on his leaving the fourth mastership of the school, which
I he has held for seventeen years.

KIN G'S COLLEGE.
- uktsetleil to this institution took
in the great hall of the College, in the
Place
e,‘,senee of a very crowded auditory. The Lord Bishop
of London (in the absence of Sir Robert Inglis, M.P.)
presided, and was supported by Lord Rads tuck, and
several other patrons of the institution.
The RIGHT REV. PRELATE, in opening the proceedings,
remarked upon the satisfactory progress of the College
in all its departments, and especially that one wiih which
the business of the day was more immediately connected.
He took credit for having been one of those among the
founders of the College who had thought it desirable to
connect with the higher departments of the institution a
junior educational vstabl'shtnent, and he rejoiced at the
eminent success which had attended the school under the
excellent superiatendenco of the head-master, Dr. Major.
In proof of the degree of success, ho might mention that
already pupils in the lower department, who had not
completed their education at King's College, had obtained
distinguished honours at Oxford and Cambridge.
Dr. MAJOR having explained to the Bishop the prin-
ciples on which the prizes had been awarded, his Lord-
ship proceeded with the distribution. From the immense
quantity of books of which the prizes were composed,
this was a task of no ordinary labour.
The following were among the successful competitors
in their respective classes :
Upper Sixth—Frederick Harrison, Fred. Good Fleay,
George Winter Price, Henry Beaumont Wslmisley,
Martin Hine Irving, James W. Sheppard.
Greek lambic—Martin Hine Irving.
Latin Verse—Frederick Harrison.
English Essay—Frederick Harrison (1), Frederick
Good Fleay (2).
Middle sixth—Francis Edward Thompson, Thomas
Roscm, R. Stebbing, Gilbert Lyon, Daniel Jones, John
Cuming, William M. Ord.
Lower Sixth—Charles William Relt, Francis Philip
Whitaker, Henry Cuming, Edward Easton, Walter
David Davies, Astley Henry Baldwin.
Fifth—Walter William Hopwood, George Winslow,
John Wilson Moore, Clarke Armstrong Duckett, Ed-
ward J. Standen, Frederick A. Eaton.

Upper Fourth—Harry Cardale, Walter Shelley, John
Chadwick, Edgar Summers, John Walter Sugg, Samuel
Tomkins.

Lower Fourth—Edgar Summers, Edward Eaton
Evans, John Drake, Robert Grant, William henry
Barnes, Robert Lewis.
Upper Third—William Graham Dow, Thomas Neamo
Oliver, John Brunskill, Frederick John Cornwell, Au-
gustus Edward Dixey, Charles Wright.
Lower Third—Robert Benjamin Lewis, Stanton Mey-
rick, Richard Wallis A4iby.
Second—Richard Fitzgerald Glaisher, Preston Wil-
liam Goodall, Richard Fulkard.
_

Upper First—Ahred Davies, William Carvell Boyle,
Bennett William Hooper.
Lower First—Bennett William Hooper, Richard
Spencer Conuebee, Charl,s Robert Dent Dallas.
Prim s were also awarded in mathematics, Hebrew,
French, German, geometrical [lad landscape drawing,
and in arithmetic. Prizes were also awarded to the
most proficient scholars in the following schools in union
with King's College :—Camberwell, Forest Bill, Bramp-
ton, Hackney, Kensington, Philological, All Souls, Nor-
wich, St. Peter's, Woodbridge, Stockwell, Stepney, and
Islington.

The distribution baying been completed, a variety of
classical and English compositions were recited with
great effect by the prizemen, after which the audience
separated.

SIR JOHN FRANKLIN'S EXPE-

DITION.
The letter of which the following is a copy, from Lady
Franklin to Mr. Grattan, dated June 8, 1849, was re-
ceived in Boston, by his son, by the last steamer:—
" Dear Mr. Grattan,—l know your son feels that kind
interest in all that concerns the expedition that he will
be glad to bear of an additional means of search which I
have been able to accomplish by my private means. A.
whaling
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Capt.',
he is an enterprising man, embued himselfywpiuthrpaossep,ifroirt
of
` I muchiseovery'regret the motion in the House of Commons
people to know how 11144'
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did not come on last .
Presideut for their highlygenerous sse honour
conduct.them and their

" Ev©r yours,
" JANE FRANKLIN."

COMMUTATION OF SENTENCE OF DEATII.—The
sentence of the general court-martial held at Cork, on
the 21st of May last, for the trial of private James
Wal,h, of the
.47th Regiment, for baying, when on the
line of march from Churleville to Buttevant, offered
violence against Lieutenant William F. A. Rooks, dis-
charged a musket loaded with powder and ball at
Lieutenant Rooke, and thereby severely wounded him
in his left arm, was to be shot to death with musketry;
but her Majesty has been pleased so tar to extend her
royal mercy to the prisoner, as to commute the sentence
of death to transportation as a felon for the term of his
natural life.
Dispatches were sent off yesterday evening from the
Colonial-othee for the Governor of Canada, and also for
the Governors of the other North Americo rroyineee.