The Sun.
London, England, 1856-11-13 00:00:00

VISIT OF H.R.H. THE PEINeE OF WALES TO ETON
COLLEGE.—On Tuesday evening last the masters and
scholars of this ancient foundation were gratified by a
visit from the Prince of Wales, attended by Mr. Gibbs
and Dr. Becker. The object of the attendance of his
Royal Highness was to hear one of a series of lecture.;

on chemistry, now in course of delivery by Mr. J. H.
Pepper, the Professor of Science at the Royal Poly-
technic.

PRINCE ALFRED AT COBLENTZ. —His Royal Highness,
attended by Lieut.-General Sir Frederick Siovin, ar-
rived at Coblentz on Saturday evening at 6 o'clock. The
Prince dined at the Giant Hotel, and afterwards pro-
ceeded to the Palace to tea, where the Prince and Prin-
cess of Prussia had arrived to receive hire. On Sun-

day morning his Royal Highness acc)mpanied the Prin-
cess of Prussia to the English union service, which is
held in the elegant little chapel which has been fitted up
in the Palace by her Royal Highness for the exclusive
use of the English residents. The Rev. S. Tucker, the
recently-appointed chaplain, officiated. The Royal party
afterwards drove out two carriages and four to Stol-
ienfeln.

A Cabinet Council was held yesterday afternoon, at the
official residence of the First Lord of the Treasury, in
Do wninc,.street. The Ministers present were :—Vis-
count Palmerston,° the,Lord Chancellor, Earl Granville,
the Marquis of Lansdowne, the Earl of Harrowby, Sir
George Grey, the Earl of Clarendon, Mr. Secretary
Labouchere, Lord Panmure, the Chancellor of the Ex-

chequer, Sir Charles Wood, the Right Hon. R. Vernon
Smith, Lord Stanley of Alderley, the Right Hon. M.
T. Baines, and the Duke of Argyll.
Deputations from the Newry Navigation Company,
and from the Newry and Warrenpoint and Newry
and Enniskillen Railway Companies, had an inter-
view with Lord Stanley of Alderley and the Right
Hon. R. Lowe yesterday, at the Board of Trade, rela-
tive to a line crossing the Newry Navigation. The de-
putations consisted of—From the Newry arid Warren-
point Company, Messrs. Holland, Cochran, and Fitzaclano
Mr. Water, Parliamentary agent ; and Mr. Hemans,

engineer ; and from the Newry and Enniskillen Corn'
pany, Messrs. Latimer, Anderton, and Heaton.
Sir Arthur Rumbold had an interview with Mr.
Secretary Labouchere, yesterday at the Colonial-office.

A deputation from Southwark, consisting of Messrs.
Mansell and Wood, had an interview with the Right Hon.
Sir B. Hall, yesterday, at the Office of Public Works,
Whitehall-place.
There is still an absence of gold withdrawals from the
Bank.

The advices from Paris yesterday state that the rate
of exchange continues with an unfavourable tendency
for this country. Money was in undiminished demand.
LIVERPOOL., Nov. 12.—The United States mail steam-
ship Ericsson sailed to-day for New York, with 11 pas-
sengers, besides the mails and a fair cargo.
WARD OF LANGIOURNE.—YesterdAy a wardmote was
held for the purpose of electing a common councilman
in the room of Mr. Richard Bell, who recently resigned
office. Mr. A. Crosley, the under-sheriff, was elected.

A letter from Rome states that the decennial census o
the population of the Papal Settee has just been com
pleted. The total number is 3,100,000 souls, being an
increase of 300,000 during the last ten years.
BRITISH MUSEUM. —Our literary friends will be glad
to learn that the new circular reading-room, which will bo
the largest in the world, is rapidly approaching comple-
tion. The public may hope to be admitted beneath the
magnificent dome in May or June next.
LOCOMOTIVE BOILER EXPLOSION.—TYNEMOUTH, Tues-
day Night.—The boiler of a locomotive has exploded
on the Seghill Colliery Railway this evening, and
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markable shot made while stalking black game on the
west coast. Observing four of these fine birds, he
stalked to within a reasonable distance of them, when
they took wing together, and coming in their flight
into a cluster he took immediate aim, and with one
barrel killed the whole four. The birds were struck
with such force that three of them fell deal with
scarcely a quiver ; the fourth made a wheel, got ap-
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parea ly well on the wing, but fell dead within 100
—T:E/acsgierwy./Leyraelsdte.rday
morning in-
f rmation was given by the City police of a burglary
having been committed in the premises of Messrs. Jones
and Gillards, outfitters and hosiers, No. 90, Cannon-
street West. From the manner in which it was accom-
plished there is little doubt that it must have been
committed by members of a practised gang. The
entrance of the thieves was effected by picking the lock
of the warehouse, where they at once commenced pack-
ing up the most valuable articles, and, helping themselves
to the cash, took their departure at seven o'clock in the
morning with their bundles. Information was also given
yesterday morning that the premises of Mr. Lawney,
boot said shoe maker, College-hill, Thames-street, a few
:reeds from Messrs. ones, had also been broken open,
and the entire stock carried away.
KNEELING AT PRATERS.—On Sunday afternoon the
minister of a west.end Established church in Glasgow
intimated from the pulpit that, in compliance with the
expressed wishes of a number of his congregation,
although not committing himself to it, he would intrc-
duce a new system of church service. It was thought
that kneeling was the natural and proper way of con-
ducting devotional exercise ; and, looking to the con-
etruetion of the pews, it was thought that in that church
kneeling was peculiarly required. He would therefore
allow all who felt so inclined to kneel at prayers ; and,
on the other hand, to stand during the psalmody.
During the singing, accordingly, the whole congregation
stood, and during the prayer they all knelt, with the
exception of 10 or 12. This may be a very simple and
innocent innovation in the accustomed mode of conduct-
ing public worship, but; we suspect the kneeling will not
generally go down." With rigid Presbyterians, as savouring
of Popery, Pu.seyism, or Black Prelacy.—Glasgow Herald.
AtTl3..ttiert Goen.--A. blue book has been issued,
cont;eening papers relative to the discovery of gold in
'eustralia. These show that in the quaker ended on
the 31st of December, 1855, the gold exported from New
South Wales amounted to 3,013 oz. (value 9,7921,), the
gold brought to Sydney to 28,219 02., the total number
of licenses issued to 12,613, and the amount received
therefor to 6,1221. The gold exported from this colony
in 1855 amounted to 64,384 oz., value 209,2501., and in
the five years from 1851 to 1855 the quantity exported
was 1,813,221 oz., value 5,892 9131. The _quantity
of gold exported from Victoria in the quarter
er.ded the 31st of December, 1855, amounted to
760,910 oz., value 3,038,6361., and the estimated net
quantity and value of gold exported from the colonies
of Victoria and New South Wales from the 29th
of May, 1851, to the 30th of September, 1855,
amounted respectively to 10,434,744 oz., and 37,947,222/.
Of the 760,910 oz. exported from Victoria in the last
quarter of 1855, 528,637 oz. were shipped for England.
The estimated population on the various goldfields of
Victoria, on the 25th of August, 1855, amounted to
150,905 souls, including 100,220 men, 22,843 women,
and 27,842 children. Of these 22,471 were Chinese.
The late governor of the colony, Sir C. Hotham, wrote
a despatch to the Celouial-office on the 21st of November,
1855, in which he gave a very favourable report of the
result of the measures by him recently adopted in con-
nection with the management of the goldfields, but inti-
mated that the great question of the right of gold on
purchased land was yet to be solved, and that the
solution must be left to the people themselves, now
invested, by the new constitution, with the right of
self-government.
The GOLD FIELDS OF NEW SOUTH WALES.—The
New South Wales Parliament was to reassemble on the
sth ; but even this event, which had been looked forward
to with some interest, was completely cast into the shade
by tho reported discovery of new gold fields of an unpre.
nedented richness. As may be supposed, this iutel•
ligence has occasioned the greatest joy throughout
the colony, for the success of its younger rival Vic-
toria, in this respect, has been the source of much
discomfort, and the inhabitants of New South Wales
are congratulating themselves upon being new enabled
to maintain their ancient prestige as the metropolis
of Australia. Already several thousands bad flocked to
the new diggings, and it has been confidently reported
' that many miners are leaving the gold fields of Victoria
for these districts, tempted, no doubt, by the extraor-
dinary success of several parties who are said to have
collected such quantities as 810 nz'. and 160 ozs. in a
single afternoon. There can hardly b a doubt of the
truth of these statements, although it is contended by
the Melbourne papers that they are greatly exageerated.
Several thousand persons have been for some time
located at the districts in question, and their accounts
are singularly unanimous, whilst the yield is evidently
such as to warrant the sanguine expectations entertained
that these gold fields are the richest which have as yet
been discovered in any part of the world. As our
advices are through Melbourne, we have as yet no com-
mercial reports from this colony, but this fact itself is a
proof that matters are proceeding most satisfactorily.—
Australian and New Zealand Gazette.
THE NEW YORK FORGERIES.—The Huntington for-
geries in New York are assuming a magnitude little
dreamed of ; the discoveries already reach 500,000 dole.,
with more to be disclosed. The latest are Waldo,
Barry and Co., 29,432 dole. ; Swords, Walton, and Co ,
19,736 dole. ; Claflin, Mellen and Co., 55,780 dole. ; Booth
and Tuttle, 15,443 dole. • Hope, Graydon and Co., 41,138
dole. ; Arnold, Constable and Co., 33,717 dole. ; Bliss,
Briggs and Douglass, 19,107 dole. ; Graydon, Swanwick
and Co., 15,000 dole. ; T. Beck and Co., 15,882 dole. ;
Ward, Bancock, and Briggs, 4,696 dole. ; in all, for one
day's disclosures, 249,570 dole. It is evident that these
forgeries are the climax of a system having had a email
beginning, and which has extended over some years.
The first were probably committed to obtain funds
for speculations, with the intention of meeting each
false obligation at maturity. Had the success of
these speculations been as great as the facilities for
raising money on this bogus pap 'r it would have been
tre-
tired, and, as in hundreds of previous instances, the world
would have been no wiser. But the forger was a bad fin-
ancier, and his enormous losses required a constant en-
largement of his frauds, nnttl they attained a magnitude e
which rendered discovery unavoidable.
• The length of
time which these forgeries continued, and the easeh
with which they were perpetrated show clearly enough
that there was something radically wrong in the system
of bill discounting, and that legislative means are re
quired to guard against their recurrence. The question
also arises, is New York the only city in which such
in
things are none, mad is Huntington the onlyspecui at or
false paper ? Our belief, founded on something strouger
than assumption is that such things have been done in our
midst, that they are yet done and may recur any day ;
and that dealers in unbankable
paper not only discount
notes which they know to be forgeries, but ean
in-
direct encouragement to frauds which enable them to
hold a sword over the head of the perpetrator, and to
fetter him to their service by the knowledge of his crime
and the terror of exposure.—Montreal Advertiser,