The Sun.
London, England, 1856-03-21 00:00:00

MR. LA YARD AT ABERDEEN.

Yesterday Mr. Layard, M.P., was reinstated as Lord
Rector of Marischal College and University, Aberdeen.
In the morning he was entertained at a public break-
fa=t, and had a most flattering reception. On the sub-
ject of the war he said, " There is every probability that
by the end of the month we shall hive a treaty of peace
signed. Very few public men desiXe war, and peace in
the abstract is certainly more to be wished for, but I
have no confidence that the present peace will be upon
the whole a satisfactory one, and there is scarcely a
man to be found from the Land's-eta' to John.o-Groat's
but would like another year of war—(great cheering)--
and for these reasons ; first, the political aspect of the
question ekes not warrant us to expect a lasting
peace, and, second, now we are fully prepared for it,
another year's war would show thie world that there is
that in Englishmen which would conquer every difficulty.
(Cheers.) If we have peace now matters will be left in
pretty much the same state as that in which we found
them. (Hear.) Tree, we have protected Turkey against
Russian aggression in the Black Sea ; but, so far as the
great questions of civil and religious liberty are con.
cerned, they remain pretty much the same as they were
before the war began, and therefore, I think, the peace
will be premature. _ _

The installation took place at two o'clock in the great
Bali of the University, and was a most successful affair.

AWFUL DEATH OF AN ATTENDANT
UPON NAPOLEON THE FIRST.

Yesterday Mr, William Carter, the coroner :or Sur-
rey, held an inquest, in the Board-room of Lambeth
Workhouse, on the body of Ann Coleman, aged 75 years,
who was burned to death under the following circum-
stances :

The deceased was a regular attendant upon the great
Napoleon, and travelled with him over many parts of
the globe, going even as far as St. Helena, when he
was sent to that place. Having returned to this country,
she (the deceased) during the last three or four years
had been lodging in the house of Air. Fawkes, a stone-
mason, 7G, Union-street, Lambeth-walk, where she dis-
played great eccentricity of character, and, until two
days before her death, would never all-)w any one to
enter her apartment. Being, however, taken suddenly
ill, she sent for a little girl to attend upon her. On Tues-
day night last, Mr. Fawkes, her landlord, came home,
and whilst in his room he heard the deceased groan,
and, on proceeding to her room, he found the door
l locked. After knocking some time at the door, and
getting no answer, the door was forced, when a fright-
ful scene presented itself, for the unfortunate female was
found on the floor with her clothes on fire. The fire
having been extinguished by Mr. Fawkes and others, a
1 medical gentleman was sent for, and the poor creature
i WRB covered with flour, and afterwards removed to the
' infirmary of the workhouse, where everything was done
for her that humanity or surgical skill could devise,
which
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EIGHTS OF WAY AT KENSlNGTON.—Considerable ex
citement has recently been manifested in the town of
Kensington in consequence of the stopping up of a foot-
path opening a way between a large and populous dis-
trict of the parish of Kensington Gardens. A very large
and most respectable public meeting assembled last
Tuesday at the Vestry-hall upon the subject, and on
'Wednesday the vestry elected under the new act took
up the matter with equal warmth and feeling. For years
the inhabitants had been urging on the Government to
concede to them this great public convenience, and laFt
year the Office of Woods, as soon as they got possession
of the grounds, with great consideration for the comfort
of the inhabitants, made a footpath across it, and threw
it open for general benefit. The Board of Ordnance, it
is now understood, have again acquired possession, and
their first act has been to close the footpath and to put
the Kensington public to great inconvenience. In these
days, when it ought to be the object of a Government
to throw open all convenient thoroughfares for the ac-
commodation of the inhabitants of this unwieldy metro-
polis, it is a novelty of no very pleasing description when
the Government steps in and withdraws from a large
population a convenience which has been 90 recently
granted.