The Sun.
London, England, 1870-08-06 00:00:00

THE WESLEYAN CONFERENCE.

The death of the Rev. Jas. Tibyman was announced yes-
terday morning. An address to the French Conference was
read, and the name of the Rev. Gervase Smith was set
apart for the office of Secretary to the Metropolitan
Chapel Building Fund. The Rev. William Arthur moved
the thanks of the Conference to Sir Francis Lycett, for
his great liberality in giving fifty thousand
pounds to this fund. A petition signed by the President
on behalf of the Conference to the House of Lords in
favour of a census of religious accommodation and attend-
ance, but asking nothing with respect to re-
ligious profession or creed, to be forwarded
to Lord Shaftesbury immediately, was adopted.
The following are the principal changes of stations.
The Rev. Germinus Burgess, to Islington; Rev. Walford
Green, to Hackney ; Rev. R. S. Ellis, to Chelmsford ;
Dr. Kessan, to Uxbridge ; Rev. Charles Crawshaw, to
Brixton. Hill ; Rev. Charles Kelly, to Wandsworth ; Rev.
John M`Kenny, to Brighton ; Rev. James Fisher, to
Tow;ester ; Rev. William Mearns, to Rochester : Rev.
Thomas Rayner, to Tipton ; Rev. R Kent, to Ely ; Rev.
G. Meadows, to Ulsworthy ; Rev. J. Pratt, to Kingsbridge ;
Rev. Joseph Mole, to Collington ; Rev. David Griffiths,
to Malvern ; Rev. Francis Landfast, to Redruth ; Rev.
William J. Dawson, to Bodmin ; Rev. F. Balls, to
Barnstaple ; Rev. S. Ripsdale, to Weston-Super-Mare ;
Rev. John E. Coulson, to Cheltenham ; Rev. Samuel
Naish, to Rosh ; Rev. John Broadbent, to Wednesbury ;
Rev. Joseph C. Woodcock, to Bradford; Rev. Joseph
Binns, to Wellington, Salop; Rev. John Lambert, to
Alderley Edge; Rev. Ebenezer Jenkins, to Southport.

The German Patriotic Fund in Liverpool has now
reached £4,000, about half of which sum has been sent
to Germany, for the relief of the sick and wounded.

At the annual meeting of the Royal Insurance Com-
pany, held in Liverpool on Thursday, a dividend of 10s. per
share, free of income tax, was declared. The directors'
report, which was unanimously adopted, stated that the
results of the past year were highly satisfactory in both
branches of the business.
At York assizes, yesterday, Sir Henry. Edwards was
put upon his trial for bribery at the Beverley election.
After an elaborate opening by the Attorney General, and
the examination of several of the principal witnesses, Mr.
Justice Brett stopped the case, expressing the opinion
that the evidence adduced did not trace bribery to Sir
Henry. The jury, therefore, returned a verdict of not
guilty. Another case, " the Queen v. Burrell," arising
out of the same election, was withdrawn.
A telegram received by a steam ship-owner, at Hull,
dated Konigsburg, August sth, 1.45 p.m., states that
the order against the exportaticn of wheat, has been with-
drawn.

NAVAL AND MILITARY INTELLIGENCE.
Mr. J. B. Crossland, one of the assistant constructors of
the navy, has been on an official visit to Chatham dock-
yard for the purpose of ascertaining the progress made in
the construction and fitting of the ironclad ships Sultan,
Glatton, Cerberus, and Rupert, which are in various
stages of progress at that port and dockyard. The official
visit of Mr. Crossland to this dockyard revives the
rumour, current for some time, thatit is not the intention
of the Admiralty to fill up the vacancy in the office of
Chief Constructor of the Navy, by the retirement of Mr.
E. J. Reed, C. 8., the duties of which are, it is under-
stood, in future to be carried out by a commission con-
sisting of Messrs. Barnaby, Barnes, and Crossland, the
former assistant constructors, with Mr. Wright to repre-
sent the engineering department. Mr. N. Barnaby being
the president of the board.
The entry of additional workmen at this dockyard still
continues-32 additional workmen having been taken into
the yard yesterday. Recruiting for the whole of the corps
at this garrison is now proceeding briskly, and the novel
spectacle is to be witnessed of the troops, with their
drums and fifes, marching through the streets beating up
for recruits, the standard for whom is reduced to 5 feet 5}
inches, and for growing lads to 5 feet 5 inches. The Royal
Marines are likewise briskly recruiting, and every effort is
being made to get the men recently discharged to rejoin.
The Monarch, 7, iron screw turret-ship, armour-plated,
Captain John E. Commerell, C. 8., V.C., went out of
Portsmouth harbour yesterday morning, and will, after
shipping her ammunition to-day, sail to join the other
ships of the Channel Squadron.

MR. BRISCOE, 14I.P.—There has been a slight im-
3rovement in the above gentleman's health during the last
'ew days ; bu, he is still in a very weak condition.

CAPTURE OF A GERMAN SHIP BY A FRENCH FHl-
GATE.—Yesterday afternoon intelligence was received in
Liverpool of the capture of the Prussian ship Lannia by a
French frigate, which afterwards towed her prize into
Havre. The Lannia arrived at Queenstown a week or
two ago from Wilmington with a cargo of turpentin
resin, and other stores of a naval character, and which are
contraband of war. During the vessel's detention at
Queenstown waiting for orders, we understand that the
French consular agent at that port had kept a close watch
upon the ship. As soon as it was ascertained that the
captain of the Lannia had received orders, and that his
ultimate destination was a German port in the Baltic or
North Sea, the departure of the Lannia was at once tele-
graphed to the French Admiralty. This is, we believe,
the first capture yet made by the French crnisers of a
German merchantment.

THE LATE SIR R. HARVEY.—A curious letter ob-
tained publicity yesterday. It was addressed by the late
'Sir R. Harwy to Mr. T. L. Taylor, in August, 1864, and
described the considerable wealth of which the writer then
supposed himself to be possessed. Sir Robert observed—
" Besides £250,000, my private fortune, I have bought
of my brother his life interest in the personal
property of my father, which property was valued at
£350,000, and for which I gave my brother, in bad health,
£60,000. This property has, from improvements in invest-
ments of my father, become worth £14,000 a year to me.
My father left me, besides all his landed property,
the income for five years to accumulate, and the
accumulations to be for my benefit, so that in
" another year I have all this increased income--say
£4,000 a year at least net. Besides which, at my mother's
death—an event hourly expected—l come into £3,000 a
year more, Then I have my marriage settlement and
other matters connected with the bank, so that I am
below the mark in saying my income is £40,000 a year."
These statements were, probably, in the main correct,
although Si,r Robert had a tendency to -somewhat exag-
seraote hits resources.