The Sun.
London, England, 1856-05-01 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, MAY 1, 1856,

maxim that discretion is the better part of valour,
has not committed himself like his brother Earl,
but his success in impugning the Report of the
Commissioners has not been much, if any,
greater. For the life of us we cannot discover
anything he did towards the sheltering of the
cavalry, while the testimony of Mr. CRUICKSHANK
convicts all three of an incapacity to conceive of
an ordinarily obvious expedient—we mean, meet-
ing the Commissariat half way in the carriage of
forage to the camp when the Commissariat was
unable to transmit it the whole. One item of
intelligenoe, however, the public are indebted to
him for. That is, poor Lord RAGLAN was vic-
timised by the French Commander—a fact sug-
gestive of the expediency of joining such an ally
for the future on more equal terms, aid the
adoption of a more decided tone in dealing with
him ; but, above all, of sending out more able—
physically as well as morally and intellectually—
generals. To Lord LIMAN the public owe
a similar obligation, his item being, that his
subordiaate officer was relieved from his command
by Lord RAGLAN, because of their disagreement—
thus showing that two first-class, arrogant inca-
pables should never be required to run in couples.
In conclusion, the public have had to bear the
loss of their cavalry. They had the Noble Lords
before, and so cannot take them in exchange,
were even their Lordships' estimate of their own
merits the true one. What shall be done unto
the men who lost that cavalry, and with it the
lives of so many of our gallant countrymen, must
therefore be the question. The public may have,
if they choose, some voice in shaping the answer.

AUSTRALIAN GOLD.—The Fantome, with 8,000 ounces
of gold, sailed for England on the sth of February ; the
Indemnity, with 7,367 ounces, on the 7th ; the Sultana,
with 13,026 ounces, on the 12th ; and the Stebonheatb,
with 61,957 ounces, on the 16th ; making a total value
of 361,400/,

ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON.—Yesterday the
anniversary meeting of this society took place at the
offices, Hanover-square, Sir G. Clerk, Bart., in the
chair. The report, together with that of the auditors,
was unanimously adopted, and, after the usual routine
business had been transacted, the meeting separated.
TESTIMONIAL TO JOHN DITNN, ESQ., OF AUSTRALIA.
—Messrs. Hunt and Roskell have just completed a
handsome and costly silver dinner service, commissioned
by the proprietors of Commercial Bank Stock in Hobart
Town, Van Diemen's Land, which is intended to be
presented to Mr. J. Dunn, the late manager of that
bank.

THE PROCLAMATION OF PEACE.—The Lord Mayor
has appointed to hold a Court of Common Coun-
cil on Monday, for taking into consideration an
address to her Majesty on the establishment of peace.
His lordship has summoned the members of the corpo-
ration to assemble at the Mansion-house on Sunday, for
the purpose of proceeding to St. Paul's to return thanks
for the restoration of peace.
PROCLAMATION OF PEACE.—SOUTHAMPTON, Wednes-
day.—This day, at half-past 12, the sheriff, Mr. J.
White, with the town clerk and a very small attendance
of the council, assembled at the Audit House, and the
town clerk read from the balcony the proclamation of
peace, and that of the thanksgiving-day on Sunday
next. The assembly outside was very trifling, probably
owing to no notice having been given of such a procla-
mation. The mayor, Sampson Payne, Elq., was not
able to attend on account of serious indisposition.
PROPOSED WIDENING OF GREAT TURNSTILE.- -The
Board of Works for the Holborn District have adopted
a memorial to the Metropolitan Board of Works, urging,
among other improvements in this district, that the
houses on one side of Great Turnstile be take down, and
a carriage road made from Holborn into Lincoln's-inn-
fields. Mr. R. B. Seeley, the member for the district,
has given notice of his intention to bring the subject
before the notice of the Metropolitan Board of Works
at their next meeting.

THE AMERICAN ,HAILS.—LIVERrooL, Wednesday.—
United States mail steamship Atlantic, Captain James
West, sailed frov the Mersey this afternoon for New
York, with' the usual bi-weekly mails for the United
States and Canada, thirty passengers, and a full cargo of
merchandise on freight. Prior to her sailing Messrs.
Willmer and Smitb, of Liverpool, placed on board the
Atlantic copies of the various London journals
of this date, for the press and public institutions of the
western continent. The royal mail steam-ship Asia,
Captain E. G. Loft, will sail on Saturday forenoon for
New York, with the United States mails and passen-
gers. . _

- SINGULAR ACCIDENT.---A singular accident happened
to the Simla steamer, which went to the naval review
last week. As sbe passed the station of the middle buoy
in the Solent the buoy was found to be missing. The
Simla arrived off Southampton without anything appa-
rently the matter with her; but while at anchor she did
not swing with the tide. Soundings were made, and it
was foul there was plenty of water to enable her to
swing. A diver was sent down to examine her, when
he found the chain of the middle buoy coiled round her
ecraw. She is unable to proceed to the Crimea until she
is docked in consequence of this accident.

THE FRENCH OFFICERS AND THE NAVAL REVIEW.—
r Majesty's ship Porcupine, Lieutenant Commander
G. M. Balfour, was placed by the Government at the
disposal of the French Admiral during his stay at Ports-
mouth. After taking the Admiral from the French
corvette to the royal yacht, she carried during the whole
of the review the officers whom the Emperor of the
French had deputed to represent him. The Porcupine
kept close to the Victoria and Albert. Our gallant
allies expressed themselves highly gratified with the
grandeur pf the spectacle and the excellent arrangements
on board, which enabled them so well to appreciate it.
RAILWAY ACCIDENT.—An accident, which teaches
the necessity of extreme caution with regard to having
the doors of railway carriages properly secured, occurre I
this morning on the London and North-Western Rail-
way, at the Broadgreen Station, near Liverpool. The
wife of a working man was on her way from Liverpool
t) Warrington, where her husband was working. She
had three children with her, one a little boy about three
years of age. As the train was passing Broadgreen
station, this little fellow puAlied against the door, and
as it had not been securely fastened, he fell out of the
carriage, and between the step of the latter and the
platform. The train was stopped as seon as the acci-
dent was known, but both the child's legs were so
severely injured that amputation will be necessary. The
little sufferer lies in a very precarious state at the in-
firmary.
APPALLING DEATll—Considerable excitement was

caused in the town of Lewes on Thursday. morning by a
rumour that a young man named Matthew Gladman

had met with his death by falling into the soil of a water-
closet, the evening before, on the premises of Dr. Smythe,
High-street. It turned out to be too true. It appears
that the poor young fellow incautiously went to the
watercloset in the dark. He found that the door was
fastened with a rope, the boards having been taken up
preparatory to the cesspit in connection with the closet
being cleaned out. That rope he appears to have un-
tied, and to have tumbled at once into the soil below.
The body, on being extricated, was wiped dry, and gal-
vanism applied, but in vain. It is the opinion of the
medical attendant that asphyxia by the sulphuretted
hydrogen gas caused instantaneous death.—Sussex Ad-
vertiser.
THE LIVERPOOL SHIPOWNERS AND THE BOARD OF
TRADE._----Yesterday (Wednesday) the Liverpool Ship-

_ .
owners' Association held a meeting to discuss the merits
of the dispute between the Board of Trade and the
Local Marine Board, which led to the resignation of
eight out of ten members of the latter body. After a
protracted discussion, the meeting (the most numerou,ly
attended of the kind ever known) resolved, with one
dissentient, that the conduct of the Board of Trade was

highly blameable, that the Local Marine Board had
acted very properly in resigning, and that they should
be recommended to the Liverpool shipowners for re-
election on the Bth inst. A petition requesting the
members who resigned to allow themselves to be put in
nomination, was also placed in the Exchange News-
room.

SHIPPING DISASTER, AND Loss OF FOUR LIVES.
WHITBY, Sunday Evening.—We regret to record the
loss of the schooner Eugenie, of Calais (150 tons). This
vessel left Blyth for Bordeaux, coal laden, at six o'clock
yesterday (Saturday) morning. At noon she sprung a
leak. At 7.30 p.m. the water had gained so much upon
the pumps that the crew, five in number, abandoned the
vessel, about ten minutes after which she was seen to
founder. The crew rowel until five this (Sunday) morn-
ing, and about a mile to the northward of Whitby the
surge of Upgang Rock dashed against the boat and
caused all the poor fellows to be thrown into the sea.
All were drowned except Kerignard, the master, who
clung to the boat, and ultimately swam through the
breakers to the shore. He was taken to the Castle Inn
at Upgang, where he now remains, and has received
prompt attention from Captain Bickford, of the Coast
Guard, and his men.
STRANGE DISCOVERY AT LANCASTER.—Messrs. Willan
and Cleminson, of Market-street, are about converting
the house immediately behind their shop into a ware-
house. On Friday afternoon, as a joiner was removing
a portion of wooden flooring on the ground storey, be
struck against something immediately under the boards,
which he at first supposed to be a box. On taking it
up, however, he discovered that it was the portion of a
skull, which be had broken in pieces. On examining
the spot more particularly a second lower jaw was found,
with some skull bones. A broken knife, the blade of
which was thickly coated with what appeared to be
blood, and a cloth upon which there were evident blood
stains, was also picked up, and ever all it seemed there
had been placed a layer of lime. It is evident that these
remains are the telltale of some deed of violence which
is now beyond all reach of investigation. The premises
in question, we understand, formed part of a public-
house known, 200 years ago, as the White Lion.—Lan-
caster Guardian.

LONDON COFFEE AND EATING-HOUSE KEEPER As-

SOCIATION.—The nineteenth anniversary festival of the
association was celebrated on Monday, at the Free-
masons' Tavern, Great Queen-street, Lincoln's•inn fields,
Mr. Alderman and Sheriff Kennedy presiding, supported
by Mr. Alderman and Sheriff Rose, and many other in-
fluential friends of the institution. In proposing "Pros-
perity to the Association," the chairman drew particular
attention to the satisfactory progress it had made and the

large amount of which had accrued from the ad-
ministration of its funds. An institution having
such undoubted claims to support wad deserving of
increased encouragement, and his opinion was that every
member of the troths for whose advantage it was de
signed ought to enrol himself amongst its subscribers.
The worthy alderraan made a most urgent appeal to the
company for additional contributions, and the result was
that upwards of 1001. was collected, the chairman him
self giving 10/. 10d., and Mr. Alderman and Sheriff
Rose 51. sa. It appeared that 10 pensioners were now
receiving the bounty of the society, and the amount of
its funded property was upwards of 3,0001., whilst the
receipts for the past year had been 4931. 24. 7d. The
musical arrangements were entrusted to Mr. Edney,
and Mr. Higgs was the toastmaster.

THE TRIAL OF W. PALMEE.—The Central Criminal
Court will undergo some considerable alterations pre-
paratory to the trial of the Rugeley poisoning case.
The Old Court, where the trial will be held, is not capa-
ble of giving accommodation to more than 600 persons,
a capacity totally inadequate to the requirements of this
Occasion. In onler to give more accommodation to the
bar, the circular table round which the barristers
usually sit has been removed, and in its stead cross-
benches and desks will he erected, and these will afford
accommodation to about thirty additional barristers. It
is also intended to erect seats by the side of the dock
similar to those that were put up on the occasion of the
trial of Oxford for shooting at the Queen, and that of the
Mannings. It is the opinion of the officals connected
with the court that if the original arrangement be per-
severed in, it will he found impossible to proceed with
the ordinary business of the session, and the remaining
cases will have to be postponed until the conclusion of
the trial of Palmer. What has been suggested is, that
the whole of the ordinary business of the session, and
the remaining cases will have to ba postponed until the
conclusion of the trial of Palmer. What has been sug-
gested is, that the whole of the ordinary business of the
sessions should be disposed of, and as this would proba-
bly be brought to a close on Friday afternoo-, the
court might be adjourned to the Monday following, for
the purpose of trying Palmer's case. Messrs. Stone
and Rose, the under-sheriffs, have, it is understood,
been in communication with the Lord Chief Justice
upon the subject, but no final arrangement has yet been
come to in reference to it.

LATEST NEWS.

VIENNA, APRIL 30.
Advices from Constantinople of the 24th of
April have been received here.
A deputation had arrived there from Circassia,
to request the recognition and the guarantee of
the independence of that country by the Porte,
England, and France.

Dervish Pasha will represent Turkey in the
Bessarabian Commission.

FRANCE.

PARIS, WEDNESDAY EVENING.

The Emperor yesterday gave a public audience
to Count Orloff, who presented to his Majesty a
letter of congratulation from that sovereign on the
birth of the Prince Imperial.
The Moniteur says :—" The Constitutionncl, in
its number of the 25th, we know not in what
interest, stated that at the review of the Ist April,
Marshal Narvaez had not received any direct invi-
tation from the Emperor, and that he did not ride
a horse belonging to the Emperor's stables. The
Constitutionnel has been on every point ill-in-
formed. The Emperor, without interfering in the
internal affairs of Spain, honours all the eminent
men who have had friendly relations with France,
and when these men have fallen from power, he is
happy to meet with opportunities of showing them
by acts of courtesy marks of esteem which ought
not to offend any one. We once more repeat that
the Moniteur is the only official organ of the Go-
vernment."

BOURSE, April 30.—The following were the
closing prices :

Cash. 17. e. End of Month.
4i per Cents 93 50 —f. —c.
3 per Cents 73 .93 73 75
New Loan 74 20
Bank Shares — Roman
Credit Mobilier 1,730 Austrian
Belgian Fives 931 Spanish Throes —
Pieclmontese (5). 93 Some Debt ......