The Sun.
London, England, 1856-07-19 00:00:00

THE POST OFFICE DIRECTORY.

FOR DEVONSHIRE AND CORNWALL.
A remarkable pendant to the world-renowned
" London Directory" has just been issued from
the press by the indefatigable proprietor; the
Messrs. Kelly and Company—in the substantial
form of this goodly volume of nearly 800 pages
" The Post-office Directory of Devonshire and Corn-
wall." Although the present is the inaugurative edi-
tion of this most remarkable work, it bears about it
the evidence of having been the resultof the labours
of men wondrously practised in the toil of compi-
lation, and skilled to a nicety in the adroitness of
at once minute and comprehensive classifica-
tion. As illustrative of the method in which the
production before us has been prepared for publi-
cation, it is only necessary to ;note the simple
but significant circumstance that the Maps—en-
graved expressly for the work have been
corrected to the very time of the book's appear-
ance. And so too the multifarious details com-
prised alphabetically under the heads the
various prospectuses. Conspicuous among
these divisions of the Directory beim-, the
Banking, Assurance, and Miscellaneous Depart-
ments. Devonshire, of course, monopolises
the lion's share of the undertaking, extending over
upwards of 500 pages, leaving between 200 and
300 for Cornwall, and divers supplementary ones
for the vast mass of appended advertisements.

IRELAND.

DUBLIN, FRIDAY.

It is stated by the friends of Mr. Smith O'Brien
that it is his positive determination to resist all
attempts to induce him to take part in the politi-
cal affairs of this country, as he has made up his
mind to attend henceforward solely to the duties
of a resident country gentleman.

ATTACK ON A ROMAN CATHOLIC CLERGYMAN.
—The Belfast Mercury states that the Rev. Mr.
M'Kay, parish priest of Maralin, county of Down,
while returninc, on Monday from a confirmation
by the Right Rev. Dr. Blake, was beaten very
badly by a body of men, said to be Orangemen,
within a short distance of his house, near Lurgan.
The injuries sustained by the rev. gentleman are
said to be very dangerous.

THE SADLEIR CONSPIRACY.—The commission of
the South Riding of Tipperary was opened this
day at Clonmel by Mr. Justice Moore. After his
lordship had delivered his charge the grand jury
retired, and shortly after brought in a bill against
James Sadleir, for conspiracy to defraud the de-
positors and English shareholders in the Tipperary
Joint-Stock Bank.

The Thomas and Ann Cole has arrived from Mel-
bourne with 2,000 ounces of gold, valued at 8,000/. The
Kent had reached Port Philip on the 27th of April,
making the passage from Plymouth in 71 days.
The fortnightly remittances of specie to India and
China, to be made to-day will on this occasion be
smaller than for some time past. The amount, it is
said, will not exceed 350,000/.
The suspension was announced yesterday of Messrs.
Marzetti and Sons, merchants and ship insurance agents.
The amount of liabilities is not ascertained. The house
has always borne an excellent character, :and it is hoped
that the assets will prove considerable.
The half-yearly meeting of the proprietors of the East
and West India Docks was held yesterday, when a dividend,
at the rate of three per cent., free of income tax, and pay-
able on Monday next, was declared for the half-year end-
ing the 30th ult.
THE ASTLEY COOPER PRIZE FOR 185 G.—This prize of
3001. has been awarded by the physicians and surgeons
of Guy's Hospital to Dr. W. B. Richardson, 12, Hind°.
street Manchester-square, for his essay "On the Cause
of thCoagulation of the Blood."
NEW ROAD INTO ITALY.—A plan of a road from
Grenoble into Piedmont by the valley of the Drac and
the department of the Hautes-Alpes, crossing the frontier
by a tunnel through Mont Genevre, has received the
approbation of the Ponts et Chauss6es.
Yesterday morning Col. R. Jervis, Commandant of
the Provisional Battalion, Chatham, inspected the troop
belonging to the Indian depots at Chatham barracks,
under orders to embark at Gravesend for Kurrachee to
j oin their respective regiments.
A deputation from the Tower Hamlets, consisting of
the Rev. T. 0. Goodchild, rector of Hackney, G. Offer,
Esq., J. P., Mr. Churchwarden Bennett, J. Ware, Esq.,
Of the Metropolitan Board of Works, introduced by Mr.
C. S. Butler, M.P., yesterday bad an interview with the
Hon. C. Gore, her Majesty's Chief Commissionerof Land
Revenues, on the subject of the proposed erection of
buildings in the Victoria Park. The interview lasted a
e onsiderable time.

His Royal Highness the daieral G imraanding-in
Chief has aypOlictd Lieutenant-Colonel the Hon. James
Macdonald, C.D., to be his private secretary.
The Marquis and Marchioness of Cholmondeley have
gone to Houghton Hail, Norfolk, to make a short resi-
dence at that beautiful seat, previous to going to Choi-
mondeley Castle, Cheshire.
The Earl and Countess of Munster have left town for
Malvern, for the season. Next month the noble Earl
and Countess will proceed to Scotland.
The Earl and Countess of Wilton and Lady tcs.the-
rine Grey Egerton leave town next week for Cowes,
Isle of Wight, for the ys.chtiog station, Better which the
noble Earl and eotintiss, accompanied by their family,
will visit carborough.
The Earl and Countess of Yarborough I who came to
town a few days since from Dover, accompanied by
Lord Worsley, have gong to their seat in Lincolnshire.
The health of the noble Earl is improved.
Lord John Russell arrived by tie South tevon
Railway at Plymouth on Saturday en route for Endsleigh
Cottage. His lordship will be present with the Duke
and Duchess of Bedford at Tavistock on Saturday, when
the public schools erected by his Grace are to be opened.
Tee specie brought yesterday by the West India steamer
Tyne is 209,0001., of which nearly 130,000/. consists of
gold.
ITALY.—The Officia; Mitatt Gazette states that on the
12th the Mantua and Milan mail was attacked, at two
miles front Cremona, by 12 or 14 brigands, and robbed
of all the money it contained.
The Mexican and south American Company have
received by the Tyne advices from their smelting estab=
lishments in Chili to the 2d of June, The Acacia had
just arrived at Herradura, and the William Marsland
was expected to sail in a few days with n, cargo of 430
tons of copper regains for Swansea.
The prospectus has been issued of the London and
West of Ireland Fishing and Fish Manure Company,
with a capital of 50,0001. in 101. shares. The objects
are to introduce the advantage of employing steam-
vessels as carriers from the fishing-grounds to rail-
ways, and to manufacture fish manure from the refuse
supplies. The fleet is to consist of two screw steam
carriers of 150 tons each, and 12 welled vessels of from
50 to 90 tons.

The sly ices from Guatemala by the Wee, India
steamer state that President Carrera was to march on
the 151 June with 2,000 men to attack Walker in Nica-
ragua ; but it was doubted if he would persevere. An
arrangement of the debt is mentioned as having been
concluded with the Commissioner of the London Bond-
holders, fixing its amount at 100,0001., on which 5 per
cent., secured by Customs duties, is to be paid, 2,5001.
for the first six months' dividend baiug remitted by the
present packet,

ART TaRASURES EXHIBITION.—We are gratified to
learn that the executive committee are in the constant
receipt of encouraging promises of support, in regard to
both the contribution of objects to the institution and
subscriptions to the guarantee fund. Among recent ad.
ditionsi to the list of subscribers is that of the name of
Mr. W. Brown, M.P. for South Lancashire, for 1,0001.
The directors of several railway companies have liberally
granted free passes to the executive committee and their
servants, in order to facilitate their travelling upon the
business of the exhibition.
COLLECTORS OF TAXES.—From a return relating to
income tax collectors in London, printed yesterday, it
appears that for the year ending April 5, 1856, Mr. N.
Till received poundage to the amount of 7,2301., out of
which he paid to three assistants sums equal to 9001. in
the whole. The only other high income mentioned in
the return, is that of Mr. William Ogilvie, collector and
assessor, whose net income is 1,5601. In the City the
total income tax is 889,9471. ; the land tax, 51,820/. ;
and the assessed taxes, 46,821/. ; making a total of
988,5891.

DEATH or A HARLEQUlN.—Yesterday morning, the
death of Signor Charlton, a professional harlequin, was
notified to the coroner. The deceased was last engaged
at Drury-lane Theatre, at Christmas, in the pantomime,
and since that time he and his family have been reduced
to a starving condition. On Thursday morning, the de-
ceased was removed from his miserable lodging in Char-
lotte•street, to the workhouse of St. Mary, Whitechapel,
suffering from weakness and general debility, and at an
early hour yesterday morning he expired in the infir-
mary, leaving a young wife and several young children
totally nnprovided for.
CAPITAL PIINISHMENT.—The report of the committee
appointed by the Lords to take into consideration the
present mode of carrying into effect capital punishments,
and to report thereon to the house, has been published.
On reviewing the whole of the evidence the com-
mittee are of opinion—" 1. That executions should
in future be carried into effect within the precincts
of the prison, or in some place securing similar compara-
tive privacy. 2. That a certain number of official wit-
nesses be present at the execution, and sign a depo-
sition to having witnessed it. 3. That such other
spectators as the local authorities see fit to admit
be also allowed to be present. 4. That the exact time
of the execution be made known to those without,
as, for instance, by the tolling of a bell, which shall
cease at the moment of execution, and the hoisting at
the same time of a black flag."
DINNER TO THE COLDSTREAM GUARDS.—Yesterday
afternoon a dinner was given, at the Tower, to the first
battalion of the Coldstream Guards, consisting of up-
wards of 1,000 men. The entertainment originated
from a desire of the Duchess of Cambridge t, welcome
the men back from the East, the late Duke of Cambridge
having been more than 45 years colonel of the regiment.
The Duchess, Princess Mary, Colonel Upton, Colonel
Drummond, and many friends and relatives of the officers
were present. Her Royal Highness passed along the
room between the tables, and frequently conversed with
the men. Colonel Upton, in appropriate terms, proposed
"The Health of the Duchess of Cambridge," and the
men responded to the toast with enthusiastic cheers.
The entertainment took place in the large room of the
new storehouse of the Ordnance Department, which was
tastefully fitted up for the occasion. There were flags,
armour, &c., and Russian trophies from Alma, Inker-
man, and the Redan.

THE SPONDON MURDER.—Pending the inquiries re-
lating to this matter, a man has been in custody under
circumstances of suspicion, not the least of which were
stains on his trousers bearing a close resemblance to spots
of blood, and pronounced to be so by every one who in-
spected them, while the man affirmed they were simply
red soil. The determination requiring medical skill and
adroitness, the trousers were placed for examination in
the hands of Dr. Goode, of Derby, a gentleman versed
in chemical and microscopical research, who succeeded in
demonstrating that the stains were what the man stated
them to be. He found that the colouration was due
to minute particles adhering to the fibres of the cloth, and
consisting of ferruginous clay and particles of hematite,
which even under the microscope is not always distin-
gukhable from particles of hematosine from dried blood ;
but a red heat reduces the blood to a white ash, while
the hematite remains unchanged. The point is a nice
one in medico-legal examination.—Derby Mercury.
THE AUSTRALIAN POSTAL SERVlOR.—Yesterday was
published a copy of all tenders and all correspondence
relative thereto, for the Australian postal service, as pro-
posed to be performed. Four tenders were sent in to the
Treasury from Mr. Laming, Mr. M‘Queen, the Peninsular
and Cries tal Company, and the European and Colombian
Steam Naviga ion Company. The first two tenders
were unhesitatine,ly rejected by the Lords of tne
Treasury, on the 24th of June, on the ground that the
whole or part of the vessels were to be built for
the service. The tender of the Peninsular and Orien
tal Company was also declined for various reasons,
including the undue length of the voyage (45 days from
Suez to Melbourne outward, and 43 days homeward),
and the attempt of the company to impose on the Go-
vernment new terms of their own, the acceptance of
which was out of the question. The tender of the
European and Colombian Steam Company is the only
one of the four which the Lords of the Treasury, with
the Secretary of State's concurrence, felt justified in
accepting. 1. Because they adopt all the conditions in
the proposals contained. 2. Because the time which
they propose from ,Suez to Melbourne, and vice versa,
is much shorter than the tardy passage proposed by the
Peninsular and Oriental Company, being only 39 days
out and 35 home. 3. Because they are prepared to
commence the service at a date early and defined ; and
lastly, because they propose, for the same sum, to con-
tract to convey mails and passengers direct from South-
ampton to Alexandria by separate boats, running in
communication with the boats plying between Melbourne,
and Suez. The tender of this company was accordingly
accepted, with a slight modification respecting the con-
tinuous and uninterrupted character of the service
throughout the year, and the other three were rejected.
On the following day an attempt was math: by the
Peninsular and Oriental Company to influence the deci-
sion of the Treasury (then apparently unknown) by sundry
fresh proposals, but to these no answer was vouchsafed.

AN AMERICAN SUBMARINE DIVER'S STORY.—The De•
troit Advertiser says :—" A. submarine diver from Buf-
fall has at last succeeded in raising the safe of the Ame•
rican Express Company, which was lest when the
steamer Atlantio was sunk off Long Point in 1852.
It will be recollected that this steamer was instantly
sunk by collision with a propeller, and that a large
number of passengers were lost. The diver was pro-
tected by copper armour, and was under water 40
minutes, during which time be had some strange adven-
tures. The upper deck of the steamer lies 160 feet
under water, and far below where there is any current
or motion. Everything, therefore, is exactly as it first
went down. When the diver alighted upon the deck,
he was saluted by a beautiful lady, whose clothing was
well arranged, and her hair elegantly dressed. As he
approached her, the motion of the water caused an os-
cillation of the head, as if gracefully bowing to him.
She was standing erect, with one hand grasping the
rigging. Around lay the bodies of several others, as if
sleeping. Children holding theiririends by their hands,
and mothers with their babes in their arms were there.
In the cabin the furniture was still untouched by decay,
and to all appearance had just been arranged by some
careful and tasteful hand. In the office he found the safe,
and was enabled to move it with ease, and took it up on deck,
where the grappling irons were fastened on, and the prize
brought safely to the light. Upon opening the safe it dis-
played its contentsin a, perfect state of preservation. There
was in the safe $5,000 in gold, $3,500 in bills of the
Government Stock Bank, and a large amount of hills on
other banks, amounting in all to about $36,000. The
papers were uninjured, except that they smelt very
strongly of decayed human bodies, as if they had lain
for so many years in a coffin with their owner. Of
course, all this money goes to the persons interested in
this wonderful adventure." The Detroit Free Press
says The new bills, we arc told, are comparatively
uninjured by their long imprisonment and exposure to
dampness, but the old ones are quite injured and de-
faced, whether so ninth so as to prevent their identifica
tion and redemption we have not learned. There are
several thousand dollars on the exploded Government
Stock Bank of Ann Arbor included in the amount
recovered.';

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SUN OFFICE, Six o'Clock.