The Sun.
London, England, 1870-04-21 00:00:00

SAFETY OF THE CITY OF BRUSSELS.

The -Inman Steamer City of Brussels, Captain
Kennedy, from New York, passed Crookhaven, at 8
a.m. to-day under sail.

The Prince and Princess of Wales leave Marl-
borough House to-day for Sandringham.
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The Prince of Wales, attended by Major Grey,
visited the Convict Establishment at Portland yesterday,
when his Royal Highness was conducted through the estab-
lishment by Mr. Clifton (the Governor) and the various
officers of the prison.

The Rifle Brigade, with which his Royal Highness
Princo Arthur is serving in Canada, will return to England
in August next.

A marriage is arranged between the Hon. Seton
Montgomerie, brother to the Earl of Eglinton, and Miss
Bronwynne Williams, youngest daughter of Colonel Peers
Williams.

Rear-Admiral Charles Farrel Hillyar, C. 8., it is
stated, will be appointed to the command of a sea-going
squadron.

The statement in a morning paper, concerning
an arranged marriage of Mrs. Ives, daughter of the United
States Minister, is entirely without foundation.

The death is announced this morning of Lady
Stuart, widow of the late General the Hon. Sir Patrick
Stuart.

The hearing of the petition against the return of
Mr. Bernal Osborne commences at Waterford to-day.
It is announced that Dr. King'ake and Mr. Fen-
nelly, the two defendants convicted in the recent Bridg-
water election trials, will receive sentence in the Court of
Queees Bench on Saturday.

A billiard match was played at Liverpool last
night, between Cook, the ex-champion, and Roberts, jun.,
the champion, the game being 1,000 up. Roberts won by 349
The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to
Animals, inspired by the success which attended their
efforts relative to the bull fighting at the Agricultural
Hall, have instituted proceedings against George Holman
for using his spurs on The Doctor's sides while endeavour-
ing to win the Liverpool Grand National Steeplechase
last month. The case will be heard at Liverpool on Mon-
day next.

The Wellington Monument 'Still lingers in the
Civil Service Estimates. The vote this session is to be
Z:94, leaving £l,lOO to he voted hereafter to complete the
£20,000, the amount of the original estimate.

At the graduation ceremonial of the Edinburgh
University yesterday the degree of LL.D. was conferred
upon Mr. Justice Blackburn, .Dr. William Wright (prin-
cipal assistant in the department of manuscripts in the
British Museum), and upon Dr. Charles Murchison, of
Loudon.

The annual election to junior exhibitions, tenable
at the Westminster school, has terminated in the election of
three candidates—viz., E. G. B. Phillimore and P. G. Webb
to exhibitions of £25, and W. 0. Ryde to an exhibition of
£2O. _No other election was made.

At the annual general meeting of the Jockey
Club, held yesterday at Newmarket, the proposal of Sir
Joseph Hawley for the appointment of a committee to con-
sider certain resolutions inquiring into the present state of
the turf was negatived by a rnajr)rity of sixteen to nine.
George Ellis, Deputy Controller of the Dublin
Post-office, was committed yesterday by the police magis-
trates for trial on a charge of stealing rernittat ces amounting
to £1,500. He was seen leaving with a parcel. He was
followed, and the money found in his possession. He was
under the influence of drink at the time.

The police at Killarney have arrested, near Head-
ford, County Kerry, a person named IdAllahon, who has
been identified by several persons as one of the party who
visited them at night and threatened them, telling then he
was "Rory of the Hills." The coryespondent of tue Daily
Express states that the police attach much importance to the
capture.

The cricket season at Lord's Ground will be inau-
gurated by the annual dinner in the pavilion on Wednes-
day, May 4th, and the first match be played on thVollowing
Monday. . _

The two year old colt by Skirmisher, out of Fia-
tiana, who ran a dead heat for the Newmarket Triennial, has
been named The Champion.

The evictions by the owners of Monkwearmouth
Colliery, Sunderland, of their workmen on strike, from the
colliery cottages, commenced early this morning. A con-
siderable body of police was in reserve, but no resistance
was offered.

The report that the health of ihe Prince of Asturias
was proposed by Lord Derby, at a banquet in Rome the
other day, is altogether untrue.
The Central Committee of the Dish National
Teachers' Association repudiate the charges brought
in the ' House of Commons against some members of
their body of being engaged in fabricating thrcatening
letters.

Early yesterday morning the residence of Mr. H.
G. Bohn, North End mouse, Twickenham, was entered by
thieves, and property amounting to £l,OOO in value was
stolen.

The ball in Paris for the benest of the British
Charitable Fund took place last evening at the Grand Hotel.
Tne Emperor, iu testimony of his interest in the institution,
sent a snb:criptio❑ of I,oofr. in favour of the charity.
The fouith annum ath ezie spuris of the Richmond.
Cricket Club will be held in the Old Deer Park, Richmond,
on Saturdays, the 23d and 3Uth inst.

Hour Ines ‘‘erc io,r a ,ut accident off Jersey
on Monday. Mr. Tourgis, of St. John's parish, with two
sons, while out for a pleasure cruise, were drowned,
together with the boatman, near La Hocque. How is not
known for there is no survivor.
rail ace i• en t has occuriel at the Preston Station
to an excursion train from Blackpool to East Lancashire,
caused, it is stated, by the points not having been
attended to. The train ran on to the London and North-
Western line, and cut in two a goods train. No one was
seriously hurt.

A cotton mill at Luddenden Foot, near Halifax,
on the bank of the Rochdale Canal, was burnt down on
J,londay, the fire being discovered in a spinning room
shortly after the workpeople had gone to dinner. The
wall on the side of the canal fell into the water, thus
stopping the navigation.