The Sun.
London, England, 1856-01-14 00:00:00

MINMTBRIAL MOVE VENTS.

The Earl of Clarendon was prevented from attending
the Cabinet Council on Friday, by the serious illness of
a near relative. The noble earl remains at the Grove,
near Watford.

The Chancellor of the Exchequer was also precluded
from attending the Cabinet Council by illness in the

The Right lion. Labouchere has left town, for
Stoke park, near Windsor. The right hoo. gentleman
and Lady Mary come to town for the season the week
after next.

The Right ifcn. Robt. Vernon Smitb, M.P., left town
after the Cabinet Council on Friday, for his seat, Farm-
ing Woods, Northamptonshire.
Viscount Palmerston has returned to Broadlands. The
noble Premier and Lady Palmerston will come to town
next week.

Sir George Grey is rapidly recovering from his recen
accident.

Viscount Villiers comes to town to-day, from the Earl
Craven's seat, Ashdown Park. The viscountess will be
in town on Wednesday, to attend Sir Robert Peel's
marriage with the Lady Emily Hay on the following
day.

Lord Panmure, Secretary of State for War, has been
suffering for some days past from au attack of goat.
The attack is a very severe one, which has affected the
right hand. A conference would have been held at the
War Department on Friday in tilt middle of the day, of
a committee of the Cabinet Ministers, to meet ROlllO of
the principal naval and miliary authorities, but the ill-
ness of the Secretary of State for War caused the meet-
ing to be postponed. The attack also prevented his
lordship from attending the Cabinet Council of Friday.
Despatches for the Governor of the Cape of Good
Hope were sent on Saturday from the Colonial-office.
Mr. Gladstone will lead the peace party in the House
of Commons next session.

Mr. Webster intends rebuilding the Adelphi Theatre
on an enlarged scale during the summer recess.
Dr. Bruno Bauer, formerly of the University of Ber-
lin, has. left Prussia, and taken up his abode in London.
The Duke of Cambridge visited the Italian Theatre,
Paris, on Thursday evening. His Royal Highness was
in the Emperor's box.
General Cannon (Behram Paella) has arrived in town
from Circassia.

The E nigration Commissioners have advertised for a
vessel to proceed to Melbourne, to be ready for pas-
sengers between the 25th of February and the 31 of
March next.

The Conned of the Royal Society have appointed
the Bishop of Oxford as Fairchild Lecturer for the
present year.

SACRED HARMONIC SOCIETY, EXETER-HALL.-Mr.
Sims Reeves sings in " Judas Maccabeuß,". which is to
be Oven by the above society on Friday, the 25th inst.
THE COMMAND OF THE BALTIC FLEET.—It was yester-
day rumoured at the West-end club-houses that Admi-
ral Lushington, late commander of the Naval Brigade
in the Crimea, is to command the Baltic fleet next
spring.

THE LAND CAMPAIGN IN THE NORTH.—It is stated
to be the intention of the Allies to employ 90,000 men,
viz. :-50,000 French and 40;000 English, in a land
campaign. The latter is to be withdrawn from the
Crimea, under the command of Sir Colin Campbell.
DEATH OF THE HON. MRS. G. VILLIERS.—We regret
to announce the death of the Hon. Mrs. Geo. Villiers,
who expired on Saturday night, at the Grove, the seat
of her sln, the Earl of Clarendon, near Watford, after a
few days' illness.
SAILING OF THE BALTIC.—The United States mail
steam-ship Baltic, Captain Comstock, sailed from Liver-
pool for New York on Saturday, at half•past one o'clock
p.m., with the usual mails, a large cargo, and 72 pas-
sengers.

fEiTINIONIAL TO LORD CARDIGAN. —A very handsome
silver•gilt sword, richly chased, of the value of about
250 guineas, has been purchased by public subscription
in Yorkshire, as a testimonial of admiration to Lord CAI -
digan for the gallantry with which he led on the cavalry
in the celebrated charge at Balaklava in October, 1854.
THE WEATHER IN THE BALTIC.--11AIIBURG. JAN. 10.
—Mild weather and a heavy fall of snow. The ice has
been blown up as far down as below Nieustadt ; if no
frost sets in again, the river will be free, with the ex-
ception of the floating ice. Temperature last night 1
degree frost, scab the wind at N.

The War, it appears, has eaten up all the spare
bronze, Au application to Lord Palmerston for a con-
tribution of metal for the proposed statue of Newton
has been unsuccessful. The matter was referred to
Lord Panrnure and the Ordr,ance Department, and
an answer has been received, to the effect that all
the bronze in the possession of Government is required
for the casting of cannon.
THE SHIPPINC. AT QUEENSTOWN.—For 30 years there
have not been so many British ships lying wind-bound
and for orders in Queenstown harbour as at present and
for nearly a month back. They appear to be jammed up
one against the other, from Passage dowis to Camden
Fort. They number over 800, with about 2.5 foreign
ships and 5 men-of-war, manned by over 4,000 seamen,
of whom 2,700 are British merchant sailors, 300
foreigners, and 1,600 men-of-war's-men. The N.E.
wind, now set in, is slowly clearing them out.—Cork
Reporter.
COMMUNICATION BETWEEN GI4tRD AND DRIVER.—
This desideratum in railway trains is secured by a new
invention about to be applied on the Seuth-Western
Railway. Every train will have a gotta percha tube ex-
ten dine its whole length. This tube will be formed of
parts which are attached to each other by a spring clip,
so that the length of the tube can be made to correspond
with the length of any train. This tube is connected with
an air pump in the guard's van in front, and the guard's
van at the end of the train. By a stroke of this pump
the air is forced throu4h the tube to the opposite end of
the train, and produces a very loud and shrill whistle at
a mouth-piece attached to the tube in each guard's van,
and to a mouthpiece which extends also close to the
engine-driver. One whistle means " Look out," two
whistles signify "Caution," and three whistles denote
danger.

TIM LATE CHARGE OF MURDER AT PADDINGTON.—
About four months ago a man named Henry Watts, the
keeper of a beershop in Praed-street, Paddington, was
committed by the sitting magistrate, Mr. Long, from
the police-court, Marylebone, on the charge of having
murdered Lis wife. He wa3 tried, and, being found guilty
of manslaughter, was sentenced to transportation for 14
yearA. ilubsequently to the trial the principal witness
against the accused—Sarah Browning—was tried for
perjury in a case which had been preferred by her against
the father of Henry Watts for an alleged violent and
unprovoked assault upon her. Mr. Handley, managing
clerk to Mr. Foley, solicitor, Welbeck-street, and who
had conducted the defence, used his utmost exertions to
obtain a commutation of the sentence passed by memo-
rialising the Secretary of State for the Home Depart.
ment, setting forth in as strong and as powerful a man-
ner as possible that Watts' conviction took place en-
tirely upon the strength of the statement of the woman
Browning, who bad been proved by ulterior proceedings
to be almost, -if not entirely, unworthy of belief. On
Saturday Mr. Foley received an official notification from
the Horne-office to the effect that Sir George Grey bad
taken all the circumstances of the case into considera-
tion, and that Watts' sentence was commuted from 14
years' transportation to 2 years' imprisonment, the said
term'of incarceration to commence from the period of
Lis trial and conviction in September last.