The Sun.
London, England, 1856-03-29 00:00:00

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THE SUN, LO DON. SATURDAY EV_ENING' MARCH 29, 1856.

DARING BURGLARY AND CAPTURE OF THE BURGLARS.
—Yesterday morning, shortly before three o'clock, a
daring burglary was committed at the Effingham. Saloon,
Whitechapel-road, and three of the burglars were. cap-
tured on the premises by the police.
THE LATE FATAL ACCIDENT IN THE LONDON DOCKS.
—On Thursday evening Mr. W. Baker, the coroner,
held an inquest at the George and Vulture Tavern,
St. George's-street, Ratcliffe highway, re'pecting the
death of Marian Shand, aged 26, who was killed in
the London Docks, whilst witnessing the process of
working the hydraulic machine, used in raising pon-
derous weights. The jury returned a verdict of " Ac-
cidental death."
We are informed that Government have accorded a
charter to the Ottoman Bank. This step is adopted
after communication with the Ottoman Government,
which grant] to the bank the firman requisite for the
establishment of public under takings of this nature.

THE FARRINGDONSTREET EXTENSION.—The City Im-
provement Committee have informed a deputation from
the Board of Works for the Holborn district, that it is
intended to raise the level of the new street, at the jtinc-
Lion of New Charles-street, about four feet above its
present level, which will render the descent from Charles-
street less steep, and the ascent from Vine-street mole
gradual and easy.
THE AUDIT OFFICE AND THE WAR DEPARTMENT.—
Thirty-six persons have been transferred from the esta-
blishment of the Commissioners of Audit to the War
Department, therely reducing the Audit-office to the
extent of two inspectors, three senior examinera of the
first class, five senior examiners of the second class, nine
junior examiners, eight assistant examiners, seven tem-
porary clerks, and tvo mestengers.—Civil Service Gazette,

ANOTHER CHILD 70UND MURDERED.—Yesterday morn-
ing, at an early hoar, a police-constable of the H division
discovered the body of a newly-born male child in a court
situate in Heneage-street, Spitalfields. The body was
tied up in a piece of black cloth, and there were two
bruises on the heaC, and neck, which leaves very little
doubt but that the deceased had been inhumanly mur-
dered. The officer conveyed the body to the churchyard
of Spitalfields, where Mr. Thomas Meeres, surgeon, of
Brick-lane, examined the body, which had' only been
born a few hours. Mr. W. Baker, the coroner, will
hold an inquesteipon the deceased this afternoon.
LOWERING Sinle's BOATS.—The Hooghly, bound for
Adelaide—Messrs. Marshall and Eldredge, owners,
chartered by her Majesty's Emigration Commissioners
—left Gravesend on Thursday. Captain Westbrook,
R.N., an old an 4 able officer of the establishment, has
been expressly sent by the commissioners in her to test
at sea, between this and Plymouth, Clifford's new
method for instantly and safely lowering ships' boats
when laden with their entire crews. The serious losses
of life that have resulted from the want of an efficient
remedy, the adoption of which the Passenger Act of
October last renders imperative, have led to these ex-
perimee tr.
DINNER TO ADAM BLACK, ESQ., M.P.—The:, book-
sellers of Edinburgh entertained Mr. Black in Berry's
Hotel on Tuesday last, at six o'clock. Mr. R. Chambers
occupied the chair, and Mr. P. S. Fraser, Preses of the
Bookseller's Society, officiated as croupier. About 50
of the leading publishers and booksellers of this city,
along with other members of the profession from Lon-
don, Glasgow, Dundee, &c., joined in this well-merited
demonstration of respect to Mr. Black. Among those
present were—Mr. John Murray, Albemarle street; Mr.
W. Allan, Paternoster-row ; Mr. Dyer, of Messrs. Long-
man and Co. ; Mr. W. Chambers' Messrs. Constable,
Beyds, Nelsons, Oliphants, W. H. Lizars, Walker,
Menzies, Johnstone, Edmonston, Douglas, Paton, Clark,.
Maclachlan, W. Moffatt, NV, F. Watson, and Maclaren ;
Mr. Thomas Murray, Glasgow ; Messrs. Shaw and'
Middleton, Dundee ; Dr. Murray, Mr. Jas. Ballantine,
Mr. John Duncan, papermaker, &c. The good feeling
for which " the trade " has ever been proverbial was
fully sustained.—Seotsetan.
MINING INTELLIGENCE.—The Easter holidays would
naturally make business dull, if there were no other
causes of depression, and we cannot report extensive
transactions this week in any description of mining stock,
although there has certainly been a Letter demand for
dividend mines, no;withstentling the prts,ure for money
and the fall in the standard for copper. Basset and
South Frarces have both been more in request, and are
with difficulty obtained at quoted prices. Devon Con-
sols, 390 to 400 ; an improvement has taken place at one
of the mines belonging to this company, the 63 fm. level
at Wheal Emma being worth 1001. per fm, ; the reserves
in this part of the sett are increasing considerably.—
M :n'ng Journal of this daN.

RIGHTS OF WAY AT KENSlNGTON.—Considerable ex-
citement has recently been manifested in the town of
Kreington, in consequence of the stopping up of a foot-
path opening a way between a large and populous dis-
trict of the parish and Kensington Gardens. For years
the inhabitants had been urging on the Government to
concede to them this great public convenience ; and, last
year, the Office of Woods, so soon as they got pesses-
sion of the grounds, with great consideration for the
comfort of ttle inhabitants, made a footpath across it,
and threw it open for the general benefit. The Beard
of Ordnance, it is now understood, have again acquired
possession, and their first act has been to close the foot-
path, and to put the Kensington public to great incon-
venience.— The Balkier.
ACCOUCHESIENT OF THE EMPRESS OP THE FRENCH.
—No authentic account of the parturition of the Ein-
press of the French has yet been published. We
gather generally that the labour was somewhat pro-
tracted, the infant much above the average size, and
that the forceps had to be used. It is stated in the pub-
lic prints that the Empress did not take chloroform, but
we have reason to know that: this is not c Treet. After
suffering for a considerable period, she begged to have
ch:oroferm administereclstei her ; but M. Dubois, having a
strong objection to its employment,ouly consented to the
inhalation of a small quantity, The result, however, was
anything but benefieial,great exeltemen tend some delirium
ensuing. The chloroform wae immediately discontinued,'
but it was some time before its injurious effects bad en-
tirely subsided. As the labour did not progress satis-
factorily, and as the expulsive pains were evidently in-
sufficier t to effect delivery, it was determined, alter a
consultation, to apply the long forceps,. These were
used with great dex; erity by M. Dubois, with the happy
result of completing the labour with safety t the mother
and chill The application of the forceps was attended
with the production of a bruise on the face of the infant,
but the injury is not at all serious, and is gradually but
sensibly diminishing. The "milk fever' supervening
has been of the ordinary character of this affection in
mothers not nursing their children, and has been pro-
duc'ive of no alarm. Happily, all is now well with both
the Imperil patients.—Lancet.
DEMOLITION OF THE L iST GIBBET.—A. day or two ago
the last gibbet erected in Esgland was demolished by
the workmen employed by the contractors making the
extensive d.‘cks for the North-Eastern Railway Company
upon Jarrow Stake, on the Tyne. The person who was
gibbetted at that place was Wra. Jobbing, a pitman, aged
30 years, convicted at the Durham Midsummer Aserizee,
of 1832, of being concerned with another pitman, James
Armstrong (who absconded and was never apprehended),
with murdering Mr. Nicholas Fairles, a magistrate,
upon the road to Jarrow, on the let of June in thatyear,
and was hung that month at Durham. In the summer of
1832 there was a lengthened strike of the pitmen of
Northumberland and Durham. Bitter feelings arose be-
tween masters and men. Many hundreds of the families of
the men were turned out of their cottages and lived in the
lanes and roads in camps for months. The colleries had t,o
be protected by military and an immense number ot special
constables, and notwithstanding three murders and many
outrages were committed upon non-union men, and Mr.
Fairies fell a victim to his zeal in endeavouring to main-
tain the law. At the time of Jobbing's trial an old law
had been revived by the Whigs which condemned a
murderer to the gibbet. Jobbing was the only person,
we believe, gibbetted under that act ; but so great were
the horror and disgust of all parties with the sight of
the body of the poor wretch dangling in chains by the
side of a public road, that great gratitude was expressed
when the pitmen took it dawn one dark night, and
either sank it in Shields Bar or buried it under the
walls of Jarrow Monastery. It is, however, a gratify-
ing fact, showing the progress of civilisation among the
mining population of those two counties, that though
there have been several strikes among them since 1832,
none of those strikes have been marked by a repeti-
tion of the fearful acts of violence of that year. At one
of the great meetings of the pitmen held in the spring
of 1832 the late Marquis of Londonderry attended on
horseback to remonstrate with them. But he bad a
company of soldiers with him, which were, in hiding
in the valley. This was known. to the pit-
men, and the pitman that held his horse's bead
as he spoke had a loaded pistol up his sleeve, in case the
Marquis should wave the soldiers to come up, to blow
the Marquis's brains out. Fortunately, the good feel
ing and kind heart of the late nobleman prevailed, and
that emergency did not arise.
VACANCIES, APPOINTMENTS, AND PROMOTIONS_ IN
THE CIVIL SERVICE.—War Departiat Lt.—Assistant
Commissary General Leonce Routh, has been appointed
deputy commissary general ; Mr. David Murray has
been appointed engineer inspector of buildings for the
Royal Arsenal, Woolwich, in the room of Colonel Beats
son, retired salary 4001. The Dockyards.—Mr. William
Penfold, first class clerk in Portsmouth Yard, has been
appointed accountant in Woolwich Yard ; Mr. Richard
Walker, pay clerk and book-keeper of the steam factcry
in Portsmouth Yard, has been appointed first class clerk,
and to be chief clerk to Care accountant at Woolwich ;
ityr, R. Chapelen, of Accountant-General's office, So-
meirset House, has been appointed aceountant at Ports-
irrieuth. Customs—Mr. William Barton has been ap-
pointed a clerk in the Comptrollers General's Office in
London ; Mr. Charles Fry has been appointed a clerk in
the London Docks ; Mr. William Tothill has been ap-
pointed a clerk in the long room, London. The East
Indies. —Mr. Charles Horne has been appointed to offi-
ciate as magistrate and collector of Bareillye Mr. Cud-
bert Bensley Thornhill has been appointed :to officiate
as director of public instruction, north western pro-
vinces ; Mr. Charles Chester has been appointed commis-
sioner in London ; Mr. John Creech has been appointed
a tidewaiter of the Allahabad division ; Mr, William
Smoult Paterson has been appointed magistrate and
collector of Goruckpore ; Mr. Edward Michael
Wylly has been appointed to officiate as civil and ses-
sions judge of Agra. The Cape of Good Hope.—The
Hon. William Hope, auditor general, has been appointed
a special commissioner for the purpose of inquir-
ing into the due execution of the instructions of
Government in the distribution of land within
the divisions of Queenstown and Victoria. Mr.
Charles John Boyle has been appointed private secre-
tary to the governor, vice Mr. W. F. Liddle, appointed
resident magistrate of Alexandria (Oliphant's Hoek).
Canada.—Mr. John Fennings Taylor, jun., has be +n
appointed a master in Chancery, to attend the Legisla-
tive Council. Mr. Hugh D. Wilson, of East Gwi Lim,
bury, and Mr. John O'Brien Scully, of Woodstock,
have been appointed landing-waiters and searchers in
her Majesty's Customs.—Oivil Service anctec.