The Sun.
London, England, 1871-01-12 00:00:00

NORWICH ELECTION PETITION.

Mr. Tillett has been declared not d'ily elected, on the
ground that he was in coalition with Sir W. Russell ;
that Mr. Ray was an agent of Sir W. Russell, and, con-
sequently, an agent of Mr. Tillett ; and that Ray caused
a Mr. Lacey to bribe Yaxley, a voter for Russell and
Tillett. Each party to pay their own costs.

BANKRUPTCY OF THE DUKE OF
NEWCASTLE.

Yesterday was appointed for the surrender and last ex-
amination and discharge of Henry Pelham, Alexander
Pelham Clinton, Duke of Newcastle, at the Bankruptcy
Court, Basinghall-street. His Grace was described as of
18, Carlton House Terrace, and Cumber Park, Notts.
An application was now made for a further adjournment
in the matter to the Ist of February. This was
granted. It was stated, but not publicly, that the bank-
rupt had personally surrendered.

THE SINKING OF COLLIERS IN THE SEINE.
Air. Alderman Candlish, M.P., and Mr. R. M. Hud-
son, borough magistrates, have held a sitting in Sunder-
land, and have taken the depositions of the masters of the
collier vessels belonging to that town, which were sunk by
the Prussians in the Seine upon the 21st of December last.
The statements already published were those of a portion
of the crews of the vessels which were sunk. The present
inquiry was instituted to enable the masters of the
vessels to get their case fully before the Government,
through Mr. Candlish, M.P., with a view to compensa-
tion for the losses sustained, and the precise facts of the
seizure of the vessels as deposed to by the masters put a
stop to all the sensational stories about the Prussians
trampling on the British flag, firing on the vessels, &c.,
which were set afloat at the time. The vessels sunk by
the Prussians were the Jane Tindell, commanded by
Mr. Thomas Adamson, the M‘Laren, commanded by Spoor
Hodgson, both belonging to Mr. John Tindell, and the
Alice, commanded by Thomas Embleton, the property of
Thomas Minnikin. At the conclusion of the inquiry,
Mr. Candlish promised that he would render them every
assistance in bringing their claims before Government.

TIIE CHARO-E OF ROBBERY AGAINST A

BARRISTER.

The charge against Mr. Arthur Woodham Lamb,
barrister-at-law, of stealing books from the library at
Lincoln's-inn, which has occupied the Central Criminal
Court the better part of two days, was brought to a close
yesterday. The jury, after being in deliberation
a considerable time, returned into court, and found the
prisoner guilty of feloniously receiving the books, but at
the same time strongly recommended him to mercy on
account of the good character he had received. The
prisoner said that he was innocent, and said that
lie believed the day would come when he
should be able to ,prove it. The Recorder said
he entirely concurred in the verdict, and although it was
a fearful thing for him to pass sentence upon a member
of the profession to which he himself had the honour and
pride to belong, still he could not shrink from the per-
formance of a duty. He then sentenced the prisoner to
nine months' hard labour.

Holland House, one of the most celebrated man-
sions in the metropolis, narrowly escaped destruction by
fire on Tuesday.
A new composite twi❑ screw gun-vessel, of the
Beacon class is to be taken in hand at Chatham Yard, as
soon as possible after the departure of the Sultan.
We regret to hear that the Dean of Arches (Sir
R. Phillimore) was too unwell yesterday to preside in his
court, the business of which had in consequence to be
postponed.
The Bishop of Chichester has collated the Rev.
Arthur Machreth Deane, M.A., late Curate of Heywood,
Manchester, to the rectory of East :Harden, near .Peters-
field.

The Primate of Ireland has received a bank note
of £lOO from an English layman, "E. X.," for "the
Sustentation Fund of the Church of England in Ireland
and at Armagh."

At his rent-day at Wallingford, Mr. C. Morrison
remitted 20 per cent. to his tenants in consequence of the
late droughts. Colonel Cracroft-Amcott, M.P. for
North Lincoln, has also remitted 5 per cent. for the
same reason.

Dr. Nell Arnot, who has already founded a scholar-
ship in physical science in the University of Edinburgh,
has announced his intention of giving £l,OOO to each of
the four Scotch Universities in the course of the present
year.

At a meeting in Dublin, on Monday evening, of
the Amnesty Association, it was stated that the Fenian
convicts at Woking (invalids) would be the next to be
released, and that they might be expected to leave prison
by the end of the week,

The rectory of Little Bentley, Essex, has become
vacant by the death of the Rev. R. Somers Smith, M.A.
The benefice, which is worth £7OO a year, is in the gift
of the Master and Fellows of Emmanuel College, Cam-
bridge.

Snow began to fall in London very heavily yester-
day afternoon between one and two o'clock, but the tem-
perature was not low enough for it to remain long on the
ground in the metropolis. Just outside London the snow
remained on the roads to the depth of three inches.
The Smithfield Martyrs Memorial Church, the
foundation-stone of which was laid by the Earl of
Shaftesbnry some twelve months since, in St. John's-
street, Clerkenwell, is now finished, and is one of the
handsomest structures of the kind in the metropolis, and
in many particulars unique.
It is confidently affirmed by those in their confi-
dence that several English bishops have intimated their
intention to the Rev. H. Venn of renouncing their con-
nection with the Church Missionary Society after its deli-
berate and complete repudiation of the principle of
Episcopacy in the Madagascar Bishopric Case.—Church
Herald,

A large concourse of the working classes assembled
in the Cork Cathedral on New Year's Day, at the invita-
tion of the Bishop, to renew the temperance pledge admi-
nistered by him last New Year's Day. His lordship
delivered a powerful address on the evils of intemperance,
and deplored that the reformation effected at the early
part of last year had not been permanent.
Dr. Bickmore, the Vicar of Christ Church, Lea-
mington, was on Tuesday presented with a handsome
testimonial in recognition of the success with which he
has ministered during the last fourteen years. The gift,
which consisted of an excellent portrait and a purse
containing £lBO, was presented by General Richmond
Jones. Mr. John Hardy, Esq., M.P., took part in the
proceedings.

The Medical Press gives the following receipt for
chilblains :—Liniment of belladonna (two drachms), lini-
ment of aconite (one drachm), carbolic acid (ten drops),
to collodion flexile (one ounce), painted with a camel's
hair pencil over their surface. When the chilblains
slough, omit the aconite. The collodion flexile forms a
protecting film, which excludes the air, whilst the seda-
tive liniments allay the irritation.