The Sun.
London, England, 1856-11-06 00:00:00

THE NEW LORD CHIEF JUSTICE.

As yet we believe no successor has actually been
appointed to the late Lord Chief Justice of the
Court of Common Pleas. A number of rumours
are in circulation, as is generally the case,
and, amongst others, the names of Sir Frederic
Thesiger, Sir Fitzroy Kelly, and Mr. Jus-
tice Erle are mentioned. We believe we can
state, without fear of contradiction, that
the learned Attorney-General has positively de-
clined to accept the Chief J usticeship, and that it
will be filled by Mr. Justice Erle, one of the Judges
of the Court of Queen's Bench. The vacancy so
occasioned will be filled up by the translation of
Mr. Justice Cresswell from the Common Pleas to
the Queen's Bench, and that in all probability Mr.
Hugh Hill, Q.C., or Mr. Warren, Q.C., M.P.,
will be elevated to the Bench to fill the vacancy
occasioned by the translation of Mr. Justice Cress-
well.

It was, however, very generally reported late
this afternoon in Westminster Hall that the At-
torney-General had reconsidered the matter, and
had decided on accepting the appointment. Of
course no official publication of the appointment
will take place till after the funeral of the late
Lord Chief Justice.

THE NEW BARON CF THE EXCHEQUER.

This morning Mr. Watson, the new Baron of
the Exchequer, was sworn in before the Lord
Chancellor. To-morrow the learned gentleman
will also be sworn in before Lord Campbell, the
Lord Chief Justice, and afterwards take his seat in
the Court of Exchequer.

The Admiralty have accepted the ship Candahar for
the conveyance of stores to Honduras.
The Bishop of Hereford has presented, free of all cost,
eight acres of land to the city of Hereford for a cemetery.
:Her Majesty's servant who was injured by the late col•
lision on the North-Western Railway is going on
favourably.
Mr. Bruges Fry, coroner for North Somerset, has
been appointed Registrar of the Axbridge County
Court, which appointment has been approved by the
Lord Chancellor.

The Huddersfield Examiner says Mr. Cobden will
not come forward again as a candidate for the seat of
the West Riding. The hon. centlemau will look to a
smaller constituency to give him a seat.
Warner the police-constable, and Moore, the two per-
sons stabbed by the German soldier in Spitalfields ona
Sunday night, are progresing favourably.
Glasgow University was publicly opened on Monday
last by the Rev. Principal Macfarlan.
The winter session of the University of Edinburgh
was on Monday evening opened by an address from
Dr. Robertson. The large hall was crowded, chiefly by
students come to attend the university.
The partial stoppage of Fox, Henderson, and Co.,
Birmingham, and, consequent upon it, a foundry near
Wordsley, has created considerable anxiety in the dis-
tricts of South Staffordshire and East Worcestershire.
Lord Talbot de Malabide has written to the Times to
correct an error in its report of the Dublin Crimean
Banquet. The toast that the noble lord proposed was
"The memory of the fallen who lie like warriors
taking their rest, with their martial cloaks around
them,' " and not "The health of those who lie in death
with their martial cloaks around them."

Yesterday her Majesty's Colonial Land and Emigra-
tion :Commis,ioners gave notice, in the underwriters'.
room at Lloyd's, that a vessel was required to carry 350
male: emigrants and a large pasty of women to Halifax,
in Nova Scotia.

The Maitland, from Sydney, has arrived in the Chan-
nel, but her dates have been anticipated. She brings no
gold, but there are about 1,100 casks of tallow on board,
and it is stated that the Australian shipments have re-
commenced vigorously.
The gross pecuniary loss by the wreck of the Tay
i-t,anier in the "✓Mexican Gulf, including the Vslue of the
ship, and the plata and furniture belonging to her, of
the cargo, and the property of the officers, crew, and
passengers, which were sunk in the. Gulf, is estimated at
100,0001.

Admiral 'Virgin, late Swalish and Norive2ian MiLis•
ter at this Court, who c aninanded the Swedish frigate
in her three years' scientific voyage round the world
(13514853), and who was lately charged with a special
mission to the Emperor of the French, is appointed
Swedish Envoy to the Court of Denmark, vice .Baron
Lagerheim, the new Minister for the Foreign Depart.
merit at Stockholm.

SAFETY OF SHIPPING. CHESTER, Welnesday.—
Some exceedingly interesting and valuabie proofs of iron
cables took place yesterday, at Messrs. Woods, Saltney
Ironworks, near this city, in the presence of the Liver-
pool town council and a large number of scientificgentle•
men and others connected with the shipping interest of
that town.
LAW AMENDMENT SOCIETY.—The first general meeting
of the fourteenth session of this society was held on
Monday evening last at the society's rooms, in Waterloc•
place, Pall-Mall. Mr. Collier, Q.C., M.P., occupied the
chair. A large number of new members were ballotted
for and elected.
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tertained a party of private friends at dinner. at
the Mansion House. Among the guests were Sir J.
Emerson Tennent, Mr. Alderman Cubitt, M.P., Mr.
Tite, M.P., Baron Marochetti, Mr. Edwin
James, Q.O , Mr. William Cunningham, Mr. Wood.
gate, Mr. Douglas Jerrold, Mr. Leary, Mr. Albert
Smith, Dr. Waller Lewis' Mr. Gooch, Mr. Panizzi, Rev.
Mr. Bennett, Rev. Dr. .Mortinier, chaplaiu to the Lord
Mayor, &c., &c. The Lord Mayor has also issued cards
of invitation for a farewell dinner party to several of his
private friends to-morrow.
The United States steamer Washington left South-
ampton yesterday with the American ms,ile. This is her
hundredth trip across the Atlantic. During the nine
years she has been built she has traversed 400,000 miles.
The Greek Government has resolved to work the
sulphur mines in the Isle of Milos. The mines, it has
been ascertained, cannot fail to prove exceedingly pro-
ductive.
General Sir John Burgoyne, inspector general of for-
tifications, has intimated to the commanding officer of the
Royal Engineers at this garrison that the hoop-iron
gabion invented by Serjeant-Major J. Jones, R.E., has
been approved of by a committee of officers, and is to be
in future used in the service.
Yesterday the anniversary of the Gunpowder Plot
was celebrated in London in the usual manner. In the
suburbs bonfires were lighted, and a small amount
of squibs and crackers were exploded, but the ancient
glories of Guy Fawkes' day are at an end.
The time now draws nigh when the students of the
University will require to elect a Lord Rector in the
room of the Duke of Argyll, who has held the office for
two years. The names of Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton,
I Sir John Herschel, and Mr. Layard have been mentioned
as likely candidates.—Glasgow Paper.
THE Lunt ,DEFENCES.—Lord Seaton, accompanied
by a numerous staff, has again left Dublin, with a view
of following up a close inspection of all the military and
naval positions in the kingdom. The first posts to be
visited on the tour are Limerick and all the forts on
the river Shannon. _ _

Yesterday, at 11 o'clock, his Royal Highness Prince
Albert, accompanied by her Imperial Highness the
Duchess of Brabant and his Royal Highness the Doke
of Brabant, left Windsor Castle and travelled by special
train on the South-Western Railway to the Wandsworth
station, when they proceeded in two of her Majesty's
carnages to the Crystal Palace.
THE LIVERPOOL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ON MARI-
TIME WAR.—At the monthly meeting of the council of
the Liverpool Chamber of Commerce held on Monday,
Mr. Heath gave notice of the following; motion, to be
brought forward at the next meeting :—" That this
chamber, having in view the interests of commerce, ac-
cords its hearty approval of the declaration of the Paris
Congress, April 10, 1856, concerning war, viz.:-1.
Privateering is and remains abolished., 2. The neutral
flag covers enemy's goods, except contraband of war.
3. Neutral good, except contraband of war, are not
liable to capture under an enemy's flag- 4. Blockade,.
in order to be binding, must be effective ; that is, main-
tained by a force sufficient really to prevent access to
the coast of the enemy. That it also approves the addi-
tional proposition which the Government of the United
Slates has made the condition of its adherence to the
declaration of the Paris Congress -&-viz., That the private
property of the subjects or citizens of a belligerent on
the high seas shall be exempted from seizure .by public
armed vessels of the other belligerent, except it be con•
traband,

JULLIEN'S CONCERTS.

AT HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.

The perennial Jullien—Jullien of the hyacin thine
curls and the ambrosial moustache—the Great
Monsieur Jullien, he of the immaculate kids and
the snowdrift neckerchief, wielder of the magical
musical baton, and, beyond all manner of doubt, as
such, to the million what M. Costa is to the fasti-
dious few, facile princeps among the Conductors of
the Modern Orchestra—began last evening, in her
Majesty's Theatre, his annual series of Promenade
Concerts, feasts of music procurable by any one
who lists for—a shilling ! Mr. Lumley's magnifi-
cent hall of melody—the finest musical arena per-
haps in the world—was selected this year as the
scene of M. Jullien's triumphs for two or three
very cogent and very obvious reasons. It
was selected—because opportunely vacant—be-
cause Old Drury happens to be the home
almost simultaneously of Italian Opera, Comedy,
Tragedy, Farce, and very soon, no doubt,
also of Pantomime—because Covent-garden still
stands a charred and blackened wreck of its
former splendour—because—but enough ! M.
Jullien holds his revels this year in her
Majesty's Theatre, and a better, grander, nobler
region for those revels could not possibly have been
selected. Under his auspices the interior of the
building has undergone a series of remarkable trans-
formations. The amber-coloured box-curtains are
replaced at last by bran-new draperies of a brilliant
crimson ! Above the pit boxes, and immediately
in front of the dress circle, there has been raised an
elegant and commodious balcony, capable of afford-
ing great additional accommodation. Around the
limits of the pit there is room for the circulation,
or, rather, in such a crush as that of last night, we
should rather say for the hustling, of the Promena-
ders. As for the immense Orchestra and Choruses
—they occupy a huge elevated and graduated plat-
form, erected partially on the place of the stage and
partially on that of the pit-stalls. The familiar
proscenium giving place to a gracefully arched
trellis-work, festooned and garlanded with artificial
flowers, like the entrance to another garden of
Baccaccio. As a matter of course the house was
crowded, as thephrase is, to suffocation, and equally
as a matter of course every successive performance
was greeted with enthusiasm. Here is the first
division of the programme :
Overture—"Ob4on" Weber.
Quadrille—" The Promenade" Engelke.
Symphony—The Adagio from the "Italian
Symphony," "Pilgrim's March" Mendelssohn.
Scena—" Ah, mon file" (Le Prophets)
Fantasia—" Viola d'Amore"... Schrours.
Polka—" The Flirtation Polka"
Aria—" Come per me" (La Sonnambula) Belliei.
Quadrille - -"The English" Jullien.
No.l. Convivial. No. 2. Gothigne. No. 3. Burlesque.
No. 4. Sentimental. No. 5. Naval and Military..