The Sun.
London, England, 1856-09-11 00:00:00

WILLIAM PALMER OF RUGELEY.

The following is the fee simile of a placard which was
extensively circulated at the recent races at Wilmslow :
Wilmslow Races, September 2d and 3d, 185 G.
John Fletcher,
King's Head Inn, f als great pleasure in announcing to
Lis numerous friends acid visitora to Wilmslow Races,
that he has secured the services of
John Smith,
of Dudley, the executioner of the late
William Palmer,
at Stafford ; and also been fortunate, through a flier.d,
of procuring from Liverpool, a
cast of his face and features,
forming an exact model of the culprit, dressed in corres-
ponding clothes, as he appelred on the morning of exe-
cution. There will be the
scaffold and beam,
with a company of trained officials, who will perform
and go through the ceremony of
Hanging !

Twi,:e each morning of the races. Perfortuarce com-
mencing at ten and twelve o'clock.
Admission ls. each, Gd. to be returned iA refresh-
ments.
The "casts" were obtained from Liverpool, aid were,
of course, taken at Stafford, on the pretence of being
used for scientific purposes ! It is high time to put a
,:top to this species of phrenological humbug.—.Van-
chest°. Examiner.

ELECTRIC COMUUNICATION BETWEEN EUROPE AND
AMERICA.—It is expected that by July next the whole
cable will be laid down. Mr. Bright, the secretary of
the Magnetic Telegraph Company, and Mr. Cutteress,
their managing clerk, have just returned from an in•
spection of Valentia and its neighbourhood, with the
view of ascertaining the best site for the terminus of
the submarine cable. At present it is believed the
course the telegraph will take inland will be from Va-
lentia by subterranean wire to Tralee, and thence along
the proposed line of railway, on poles, to Killarney,
thence to the junction, and so along the rest of the line
to London.—Tralce Chronide.

An official notification from the Adjutant-General's
office in Dublin has been received by Major-General Sir
James Charles Chatterton, K.H., to the effect that
Lieutenant• General Sir Colin Campbell, G.C.8., the
gallant and distinguished officer who commanded the
Highland Brigade durinc, the late war in the Crimea, and
who now holds the rank of Inspector-General of Infantry,
is about to proceed on a general inspection of the con-
solidated depots in Ireland, and may be expected in
Limerick in the course of a few days. Sir Cohn has
arrived in Dublin, and dined at the Viceregal-lodge on
Monday.
Yesterday the steam-transport City of London (No.
9), arrived at Liverpool with the headquarters of the
British Italian L?gion, including 26 officers, 57 non-
commissioned officers, and 251 rank and file, direct from
Malta. The sailing transport Tudor is (-tally expected to
arrive at the same port with the remainder of the corps,
amounting to 700. The troops on board the City of
London will disembark this morning and will proceed to
York. The names of the officers are :—Major Berring-
ton, Staff Paymaster Benson, Paymasters R. Deranges,
G. Lambeit, and R. J. Simpson, Quartermaster S. Cur-
ran, Surgeons C. Deparez and G. Gallessie, Intendent
L. Rowlback, Captains Filaret, Silvagne, Pacett, De-
♦astoforis, and Pesca, and Adjutant Cavanna.
Her Mjesty's steam mortar ship Eruotas, 12, Capt.
W. Moorsum, C. 8., arrived at Spithead yesterday from
the Crimea.
Her Majesty's sloop Express, Commander Boys, left
Spit head yesterday for Plymouth to be paid off.
The Amaranth transport, No. 212, arrived at Spithead
on Tuesday evening► from the Crimea with stores.
The Firefly. steam-transport, No. 153, arrived at Spit-
head yesterday morning from the Crimea with stores and
ammunition.

The Prussian corvette Amazone, Capt. Kuhn, whose ar-
rival at Spithead on Sunday last we have noticed, will
leave for Dantzic this day. Her captain and officers,
among whom is Pi ince von Schwartzburg Sonderhaven,
visited Portsmouth dockyard yesterday, accompanied by
their Consul, Chev. Van Den Bagh, who, in the absence
of the Port-Admiral and Lieutenant-Governor, enter-
tained them at the Ginsulate in the evening.
Yesterday morning a draught of 75 non-commissioned
officers and men belonging to the 6th Dragoon Guards,
2d Royals, 4th King's Own, 7th Fusiliers, 9th, 19th,
23d Welsh Fusiliers, 30th, 41st Welsh Regiment, 49th,
50th Queen's Own, 51st Light Infantry, 55th, 67th, 72d
Highlanders, 77th, 90th Light Infantry, and a detach-
ment of the Land Transport Corps, left St. Mary's Bar-
racks, Chatham, to join the depots of their respective
regiments, the whole having recovered from sickness and
wounds incurred in the Crimea. A draught of 28 non-
commissioned officers and men proceeded y esterday morn-
ing to join their depots stationed i❑ Ireland, under the
command of Ensign D. Jackson, 40th Regiment.
The draughts of the 43d Light Infantry, and the 84th
Regiment, 96 men of all ranks, left Chatham Barracks
yesterday, under the command of Capt. W. Milnes, 434
Regiment, and proceeded to Gravesend, where they em-
barked on board the Agincourt—the 434 for Madras,
and the 84th for Rangoon—for the purpose of joining
the service compat ies of their respective corps.
Capt. Chas. Barker (29th Sept., 1850) has taken up
his commission, and joined the Retribution, 28 guns,
paddlewheel steam frigate, refitting at Sheerness.
The Insolent gun-boat, Pritchard, commander, has
been lent by the Admiralty to the Board of Trade for
the purpose of assisting at the erection of a lighthouse
on the Basses Rocks, off Ceylon, and left Sheerness yes-
terday morning direct for that island.
Great additions and. alterations are being made at Pem-
broke Dockyard. The present dry dock is being widened
and lengthened, so as to meet the requirements of our
new class men-of-war. Two new slips fur ship building
are in course of erection ; these are being made of huge
blocks of limestone, with copings of granite. Other slips
are being lengthened to meet the increased size of the
ships, and the consequence is a great increase seaward
of the establishment. An extension of the sea wall is
going on. All accumulation of mud is to be washed
away by means of reservoirs between the slips, and
these can be run out by the sluices when required. The
lengthening and widening of the dock will this year cost
10,0001., and the new slips and boat basin will cost
14,0001. The entrance of the dock is to be widened, at
the expense of 5,0001.
Lieut.-Col. Irving, who commanded the artillery of
the Kilkenny Military District, now, upon the breaking
up of tho district, is to take command of the Pigeon-
house Fort, Dublin.

The head-quarters of the 13th Light Dragoons will
arrive at Cahir on Friday, where five troops are to be
stationed, the head-quarters of the 17th Lancers having
left that garrison for Dublin, where they arrived on
Wednesday.
The following appointments were made yesterday at
the Admiralty :
Lieut. the Hon. J. B. Vivian, additional to the Cal-
cutta ; the Hon. F. G. Crofton, midshipman to the Ra-
leigh ; S. Gassiut, naval cadet to the Retribution ;
A. Stabb, additional master of the Blenheim, for service
in the Resolute; Duncan J. Loutted, additional master
of the Blenheim, for service in the Assistance ; Valen-
tine F. Johnson, second-master to the Starling ; Archi-
bald Stevenson, assistant-surgeon to the Hogue ; John
B. Swarm, assistant-paymaster (Ist clasF) to the Excel-
lent.