The Sun.
London, England, 1856-07-19 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENINO, JULY 19, 1866,

From the first this has been our opinion respect-

ing it, and the protests it has called forth have

had no other effect than to confirm us in our

opinion. Despite every assurance to the contrary,

we have remained unconvinced that the discharge

of the turbid excrescence torrents at the points

proposed would advance one iota the sanitary
purpose for which it was designed. Engineers
might assure us with as much confidence as they

His Royal Highness the General Commanding-in
Chief has appointed Lieutenant-Colonel the Hon. James
Macdonald, C. 8., to be his private secretary.
The Marquis and Marchioness of Cholmondeley have
gone to Houghton Hall, Norfolk, to make a short resi-
dence at that beautiful seat, previous to going to Chol-
mondeley Castle, Cheshire.
The Earl and Countess of Munster have left town for
Malvern, for the season. Next month the noble Earl
and Countess will proceed to Scotland.
The Earl and Countess of Wilton and Lady Kathe-
rine Grey Egerton leave town next week for Cowes,
Isle of Wight, for the yachting season, after which the
noble Earl and Countess, accompanied by their family,

will visit Scarborough.
The Earl and Countess of Yarborough, who came to
town a few days since from Dover, accompanied by
Lord Worsley, have gone to their seat in Lincolnshire.
The health of the noble Earl is improved.
Lord John Russell arrived by the South Devon
Railway at Plymouth on Saturday en route for Endsleigh
Cottage. His lordship will be present with the Duke
and Duchess of Bedford at Tavistock on Saturday, when
the public schools erected by his Grace are to be opened.
The specie brought yesierday by the West India steamer
Tyne is 209,000/., of which nearly 130,0001. consists of

gold.
ITALY.—Th• Official Milan Gazette states that on the
12th the Mantua and Milan mall was attacked, at two
miles from Cremona, by 12 or 14 brigands, and robbed
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of all the money it contained.
The Mexican Ma South American Company have
received by the Tyne advices from their smelting estab-
lishments in Chili to the 2d of June. The Acacia had
just arrived at Herradura, and the William Marsland
was expected to sail in a few days with a cargo of 430
tons of copper regulue for Swansea.
The prospectus has been issued of the London and
West of Ireland Fishing and Fish Manure Company,
with a capital of 50,0001. in 101. shares. The objects
are to introduce the advantage of employing steam-
vessels as carriers from the fishing-grounds to the rail-
ways and to manufacture fish manure from the refuse
supplies. The fleet is to consist of two screw steam
carriers of 150 tons each, and 12 welled vessels of from
50 to 90 tons.
The siivices from Guatemala by the West Ind'a
steamer state that President Carrera was to march on
the 15th June with 2,000 men to attack Walker in Nica-
ragua ; but it was doubted if he would persevere. An
arrangement of the debt is mentioned as having been
concluded with the Commissioner of the London Bond-
holders, fixing its amount at 100,0001., on which 5 per
cent., secured by Customs duties, is to be paid, 2,5001.
for the first six months' dividend being remitted by the
present packet.
ART TREASURES EXHIBITION.--We are gratified to
learn that the executive committee are in the constant
receipt of encouraging promises of support, in regard to
both the contribution of objects to the institution and
subscriptions to the guarantee fund. Among recent ad-
ditions to the list of subscribers is that of the name of
Mr. W. Brown, M.P. for South Lancashire, for 1,0001.
The directors of several railway companies have liberally
granted free passes to the executive committee and their
servants, in order to facilitate their travelling upon the
business of the exhibition.
COLLECTORS OF TAXES.—From a return relating to
income tax collectors in London, printed yesterday, it
appears that for the year ending April 5, 1856, Mr. N.
Till received poundage to the amount of 7,2301., out of
which he paid to three assistants sums equal to 9001. in
the whole. The only other high income mentioned in
the return, is that of Mr. William Ogilvie, collector and
assessor, whose net income is 1,5601. In the City the
total income fax is 889,947/. ; the land tax, 51,820/, ;
send the assessed taxes, 46,321/. ; making a total of
90,589/.
_DEATH OF A HARLEQUIN.—Yesterday morning, the
death of Signor Charlton, a professional harlequin, was
notified to the coroner. The deceased was last engaged
at Drury-lane Theatre, at Christmas, in the pantomime,
and since that time ho and his family have been reduced
to a starving condition. On Thursday morning, the de-
ceased was removed from his miserable lodging in Char-
lotte-street, to the workhouse of St. Mary, Whitechapel,
Buffering from weakness and general debility, and at are
early hour yesterday morning he expired in the infir-
mary, leaving a young wife and several young children
totally unprovided for.
CAPITAL PCNISHMENT.—The report of the committee
appointed by the Lords to take into consideration the
present mode of carrying into effect capital punishments,
anti to report thereon to the house, has been published.
On reviewing the whole of the evidence the com-
mittee are of opinion—" 1. That executions should
in future be carried into effect within the precincts
of the prison, or in some place securing similar compara-
tive privacy. 2. That a certain number of official wit-
nesses be present at the execution, and sign a depo-
sition to having witnessed it. 3. That such other
spectators as the local authorities see fit to admit
be also allowed to be present. 4. That the exact time
of the execution be made known to those without,
as, for instance, by the tolling of a bell, which shall
cease at the moment of execution, and the hoisting at
the same time of a black flag."
DINNER TO THE COLDSTREAM GUARDS.—Yesterday
afternoon a dinner was given, at the Tower, to the fir .t
battalion of the Coldstream Guards, consisting of up-
wards of 1,000 men. The entertainment originated
from a desire of the Duchess of Cambridge to welcome
the men back from the East, the late Duke of Cambridge
having been more than 45 years colonel of the regiment.
The Duchess, Princess Mary, Colonel Upton, Colonel
Drummond, and many friends and relatives of the officers
were present. Her Royal Highness passed along the
room between the tables, and frequently conversed with
the men. Colonel Upton, in appropriate terms, proposed
" The Health of the Duchess of Cambridge," and the
men responded to the toast with enthusiastic cheers.
The entertainment took place in the huge room of the
new storehouse of the Ordnance Department, which was
tastefully fitted up for the occasion. There were flags,
armour, &c., and Russian trophies from Alma, Inker-
% man, and the Redan.
THE SPONDON MURDER.—Pending the inquiries re-
leeting to this matter, a man has been in custody under
circumstances of suspicion, not the least of which were
stains on his trousers bearing a close resemblance to spots
of blood, and pronounced to be so by every one who in-
spected :Item, while the man affirmed they were simply
red soil. Tie determination requiring medical skill and
adroitness, the trousers were placed for examination in
the hands of Dr. Goode, of Derby, a gentleman versed
in chemical and microscopical research, who succeeded in
demonstrating that the stains were what the man stated
them to be. He found that the colouration was due
to minute particles adhering to the fibres of the cloth, and
consisting of ferruginous clay and particles of hematite,
which even under the microscope is not always distin•
guishable from particles of hematosine from dried blood ;
but a red heat reduces the blood to a white ash, while
the hematite remains unchanged. The point is a nice
one in medico-legal examination.—Derby Mercury.
THE AUSTRALIAN POSTAL SERVlCE.—Yesterday was
published a copy of all tenders and all correspondence
relative thereto, for the Australian postal service, as pro-
posed to be performed. Four tenders were sent in to the
Treasury from Mr. Laming, Mr. McQueen, the Peninsular
and Oriental Company, and the European and Colombian
, Steam Navigation Company. The first two tenders
-were unhesitatingly rejected by the Lords of the
Treasury, on the 24th of June, ou the ground that the
whole or part of the vessels were to be built lor
the service. The tender of the Peninsular and Orien-
tal Company was also declined for various reasons,
including the undue length of the voyage (45 days from
Suez to Melbourne outward, and 43 days homeward),
and the attempt of the company to impose on the Go-
vernment new terms of their own, the acceptance of
which was Gut of the question. The tender of the
European and Colombian Steam Company is the only
one of the four which the Lords of the Treasury, with
the Secretary of State's concurrence, felt justified in
accepting. 1. Because they adopt all the conditions in
the proposals contained. 2. Because the time which
they propose from LS/16z to Melbourne, and vice versa,
is much shorter than the tardy passage proposed by the
Peninsular and Oriental Company, being only 39 days
out and 35 home. 3. Because they are prepared to
commence the service at a date early and defined ; and
lastly, because they propose, for the same sum, to con-
tract to convey mails and passengers direct from South-
ampton to Alexandria by separate boats, running in
communication with the boats plying between Melbourne
and Suez. The tender of this company was accordingly
accepted, with a slight modification respecting the con-
tinuous and uninterrupted character of the service
throughout the year, and the other three were rejected.
On the following day an attempt was made by the
Peninsular and Oriental Company to influence the deci-
sion of the Treasury (then apparently unknown) by sundry
fresh proposals, but to these no answer was vouchsafed.
AN AMERICAN SUBMARINE DIVER'S STORT.—The
(Alit Advertiser says :—" A submarine diver from Buf-
falo. has at last succeeded in raising the safe of the Arne
ricant Express Company, which was lost when the
steamer .A.tlantio was sunk off Long Point in 1852.
It will be recollected that this steamer was instantly
sunk by collision with a propeller, and that a large
number of passengers were lost. The diver was pro-
tected by copper armour, and was under water 40
minutes, during whiella time he had some strange adven.•
turee. The upper deck of the steamer lies 160 feet
under water, and far below where there is any current
or motion. Everything, therefore, is exactly as it first
went down. When the diver alighted upon the deck,
he was saluted by a beautiful lady, whose clothing was
well arranged, and her hair elegantly dressed. As he
approached her, the motion of the water caused an os-
cillation of the head, as if gracefully bowing to him.
She was standing erect, with one hand grasping the
rigging. Around lay the bodies .of several others, as if
sleeping. Children holding their fr.'ends by their bands,
and mothers with their babes in then:r arms were there.
In the cabin the furniture was still untouched by decay,
and to all appearance had just been a.sranged by some
careful and tasteful hand. 111 the office be found the sat.,'
and was enabled to move it with ease, and tock itupon deck,
where the grappling irons were fastened on, and the prize
brought safely to the light. Upon opening ate safe it dis-
played its contents in a perfect state of preservation. There
was in the safe $5,000 in gold, $3,500 in bills of the
Government Stock Bank, and a large amount of hills on
other banks, amounting in all to about $36,000. The
papers were uninjured, except that they smelt ves'Y
strongly of decayed human bodies, as if they had lairs
for so many years in a coffin with their owner. Of
course, all this money goes to the persons interested is'
this wonderful adventure." The Detroit Free Press
says Toe new bills, we are told, are comparatively
uninjured by their long imprisonment and exposure to
dampness, but the old ones are quite injured and de-
faced, whether so muck so as to prevent their islentifica
tion and redemption we have not learned. There are
several thousand dollars on the exploded Government
Stock Bank of Ann Arbor included in the amount
recovered."

COWES, ISLE (iF WIGHT.-July 18.

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)

ARRIVAL OF HER MAJESTY AND HER ROYAL VISITORS
AT COWES.—At a quarter past six this evening a Royal
salute from the Royal Yacht Squadron battery an-
nounced the arrival of her Majesty and the Royal family,
and at 27 minutes to seven they landed at the Trinity
Wharf.
Viscount Brackley has taken Lord de Grey's villa ;
Earl Vane, No. 6, Parade-terrace ; Sir John Bayley,
Bart., No. 3, Solent-terrace ; Spencer de Horsey, Rose-
lodge ; Earl Fitzhardinge, Townshend-house ; the Hon.
Captain Denman, the Large Pavilion.
The Earl of Wilton's yacht has been hauled out of
harbour and taken her position in the roadstead, as has
Mr. Gee's Gloriana, and the Urania, Sir Alex. Banner-
man, Bart. The Marquis of Conyngham's yacht Cecile
is nearly ready for sea. The fleet of yachts in the road-
stead is daily increasing in number.
The Swedish yacht Aurora Borealis, offered for sale
by public auction, was bought in at 3,5001.
ROYAL YACHT SQUADRON REGATTA.—This regatta
commences on the sth of August, on which day Prince
Albert's Cup will be sailed for by cutters and yawls under ,
75 tons, belonging to the squadron ; Queen's Cup course. I
On Wednesday, Aug. 6, the Royal Yacht Squadron
Annual Dinner. On Thursday, the 7th, her Majesty's
Cup will be contended for by schooners of the squadron
under 200 tons ; Queen's Cup course. In the evening
the annual display of fireworks ashore and afloat. On
Friday, the Bth, the Annual Ball. On Monday, the
11th, a Purse of 100 Sovereigns will be sailed for by
yachts belonging to a yacht club, and by foreign yachts
exceeding 35 tons ; Queen's Cup course.
THE NEW SQUADRON HOUSE.—The workmen com-
menced pulling down the western wing of Cowes Castle
on Tuesday, and the whole is already levelled with the
ground. It is on this part that the look-out tower is to
be erected. The alterations are calculated to cost 5,0001.,
and the contractors are bound to complete the whole,
ready for occupation, by the last day of December next.