The Sun.
London, England, 1871-01-14 00:00:00

THE S.S. CITY OF BROOKLYN.

The purser of the Inman Royal Mail screw-steamer
City of Brooklyn (which is coming to Liverpool under
canvass, having dropped her propeller when 500 miles out
from New York), landed at Grimsby from the Bremen
screw-steamer Hansa on Thursday morning, along with
four cabin passengers from the City of Brooklyn ; 16
cabin and 70 steerage passengers remained with the City
of Brooklyn. The purser says nothing of the Mails,
which are believed to have been left on board. The
Hansa had westerly winds throughout her voyage, so that
the City of Brooklyn may be expected in a few days.

THE LEDBURY AFFILIATION CASE.—At the
Herefordshire Quarter Sessions the appeal by the Rev.
J. Jackson, vicar of Ledbury, against an order of
affiliation which had been made upon him by the justices
of Ledbury, came on for decision, after having been twice
postponed to await the decision of the case in the Arches'
Court recently brought to a close. Counsel having been
heard on both sides, the order of affiliation was quashed,
with meta against the defendant Parry.
MINISTERIAL CHANGES.--it is a matter of regret
that Mr. Shaw-Lefevre has resigned the Secretaryship of
the Board of Trade in favour of the Home Department.
The ability and energy of this gentleman have been
prominently displayed in the conduct of the Marine
Department, and his assistance would have been emi-
nently useful to the new President, who cannot be
supposed to know very much of matters nautical. It is
feared that under present circumstances there can be no
hope of a Merchant Shipping Bill next session, and that
the sanitary reform still required in our mercantile marine
will loom in the distant future for some time to come.--
Lancet.

THE LATE ADEXANDER MUNRo.—Among our
younger sculptors the death of Mr. Alexander Munro,
already recorded, will leave a sensible blank. He had no
rival in the graceful and fanciful treatment of childrei?
His portrait busts of women were distinguished for their
refined and delicate sentiment. Above all, he was pre-
eminently successful in his portraits in high and low
rehef—perhaps the most difficult style in the
range of sculpture. But though his special power
lay in the range of the delicate and graceful,
and found the most palpable and readiest expression
in the portraiture or idealisation of children and
women, it would be very unfair to forget Mr. Munro 5
many contributions to sculpture of a graver and manh
kind. His statues of Hippocrates, Galileo, Davy, an)
James Watt in the Oxford Museum are remarkable for
picturesqueness, concentration, and character, thougb
the scale of the figures rendered necessary by the con-
ditions of the building is unfavourable to effect. 1115
finest work of a monumental kind—and a very grave'
dignified, and impressive work it is—is his colossal
standing statue of James Watt, at Birmiughaia,
a work of art in every way worthy of the
subject, and deserving to rank with Chantrey's farneas
monumental figure. After the James Watt, Mr. Munro's tW°
most important public statues are the Queen Mary, ii°v,
in Westminster Hall, in which the difficulties of a and,
tume singularly ill adapted to sculpture are boldly aa':
we think, successfully encountered, and a graceful frallf
tain nymph in marble, erected by the late Marquis °,
Lansdowne, in Berkeley-square. In his personal I
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tions Mr. Munro was one of the most gentle, affto
donate, and unselfish beings that ever lived. Few art? .
ever numbered a larger, more various, or more deepil,
attached circle of friends, by whom his memory will alwaYZ
be cherished as among the purest, sweetest, and 110'
loveable of men.—Times.
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BIRTHS. lBl.
On the 9th inst., at Wimbledon, the wife of Hovar—
Elphinstone, Esq., of a son. of
On the 12th inst., at The Waldrons, Croydon, the wi'e
Mr. Henry C. Roberts, of a daughter.
• MARRIAGES.
On the 10th inst., at St. Barnabas', Pimlico, Sir Nott'llel
Pringle, Bart., of Newhall, to Louisa Clementine, of
youngest daughter of the late Robert Steuart, BO'
Alderston, M.P. for Haddington, &c.
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On the 10th inst., at Leyburn Catholic Church, 0,
Thomas Meynell, Esq., of The Friarage, near N.:ics.t
and Kilvington Hall, near Thirsk, to Matilda, the e'oot•
daughter of the late C. W. C. Chaytor, Esq., of SPe
thorne Hall, Yorkshire.
DEATHS.
On the 11th inst., at 10, Tavistock-square, suddenly, Ifi'4l
Bowyek, Esq., aged 73.
On the 11th inst., at Essex Villas, Campden-hill,°PO
J. Furlonger, Esq., aged 83. t
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