The Sun.
London, England, 1856-12-22 00:00:00

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He can sacruice animal gra,tification to external
respectability—but under an Income Tax like ours
he cannot evade the merciless infliction. In a
word, au Income Tax is almost the only tax
whioh compels the man who is relatively poorer
than the agricultural labourer to pay it. If it be
continued in any shape, the first 1501. of auy
man's income ought to be exempt.

The Duchess of Atholl has arrived at the St. George's
Hotel from Windsor Castle.
The Earl and Countess of Lichfield have left the St.
George's Hotel for their seat in Staffordshire.

Lady Macdonald has left the St. George's Hotel to
take her turn as Lady in Waiting to the Queen at
Windsor Castle.

Lord Vernon has left the St. George's Hotel.
Lady Margaret Beaumont gave birth to a daughter,
on Friday last, at the' family mansioc in Piccadilly.
Her ladyship and the infant are going on favourably.
Sir Charles Wood left London on Friday for his seat,
Hickleton Hall, near Doncaster.

Lord Granville succeeds the Earl of Burlington as
Chancellor of the University of London.
The Daily News, Sun, Morning Advertiser, and Atlas
were seized at the Paris Post-office yesterday.
Durham Cathedral is shortly to be lighted with gas.
The Indian mail, which arrived on Saturday from
Alexandria, Malta, and Gibraltar, has brought 20,8861.
The demand for gold in payment for silver continues
on a moderate scale, and on Saturday about 20,0001.
was taken from the Bank for exportation.
Lord Palmerston lately granted to Mrs. Laurie—the
widow of the author of the well-known work on Foreign
Exchangss and other subjects connected with commerce
—lOO/. from the Royal Bounty Fund,

The specie arrivals of the week, including the gold by
the Persia on Saturiay, have amounted to about 500,000/.
The exports, exclusive of 480,0001. of silver to India, are
estimated at about 100,0001.
The Commissioners for inquiring into the changes for
superannuation, and the deductions from the salaries of
the civil servants of the Crown, have appointed Mr.
Maitland secretary to the examiners of civil service, to
act as secretary to their commission.
ME LATE GALES.—Last summer the Elder Brethren
of the Tri❑ity House erected on the Rundle Stone, at
considerable expense, an iron beacon and mast, sur-
mounted by a ball fixed about 30 feet from the base.
During the recent severe gales the whole fabric disap-

geared.
THE EXPENSE OF THE PUBLIC DEBT.—Last year the
expense of the public debt was 28,112,825/. The inte-
rest alone was 23,138,0611.

THE OFFICE OF COMMON SERGEANT —Another meet-
ing of the friends of Mr. Bodkin was held on Friday at
the Guildhall Coffee-room, for promoting the learned
gentleman's election. Resolutions, in conformity with
the objects of the meeting, were passed unanimously.
M. JULLIEN'S MUSICAL TOUR.—During M. 'Yullien's
provincial tear, which commences at Liverpool on Fri-
day next, under the direction of Messrs. Cramer, Beale,
and Co., Madame Gassier will, for the first time, intro-
duce Paganini's celebrated variations on the " Carnaval
of Venice," which have been arranged expressly for her
by Mr. Benedict. The remarkable vocal powers of
Madame Gassier will enable her, in this very interesting
novelty, to produce an effect which perhaps no other
singer of the present day could accomplish.
CRYSTAL PALACE.—The sixth of the Crystal Palace
Winter Conoerts took place on Saturday, Madame
Rudersdorff singing for the fourth time the very pleasing
ballad, " Weel may the Boatie row," as also the scena
and aria from "Faust," " Die Stillenacht entweicht,"
and "Ben Z) ridicolo" of Raudegger. Madame Ruders-
dorff sang the various passages with considerable effect,
and was highly applauded. Signor Andreoli again dis-
' played his great powers arid musical abilities in the
performance of Mendelssohn's concerto for the piano
in G Minor, and M. Viotti Collins elicited deserved
applause for Paganini's " La Clochette."
SOUTH-WESTERN RAILWAY.—The directors of this
company, on the announcement of Redpath's frauds,
though they go into a rigid scrutiny of their books and
accounts at the end of every half-year, and had no reason
to suspect anything wrong, closed the books at the end
of November, and instituted a rigid examination into
every department, including the transfers and registra-
tion, ordinary and preference shares, with the debentures,
the whole comprehending some 5,600 accounts. The
labour, of course, was exceedingly great, but the result
repaid them with a confirmation, to a penny, that all was
right.—lTerapatls.
CENTRAL GAS CONSUMERS' COMPANY.—An extraor-
dinary general meeting of the shareholders of this cora•
pany was held at the London Tavern, to consider the
propriety of the company proceeding to Parliament, in
conjunction with the City Gas Light and Coke Com-
pany, at the next session, to solicit a bill for the amalga-
mation of the two companies. A resolution was unani-
mously passed to the effect that the amalgamation ought
to be adopted on the terms proposed by the City Com-
pany if the proprietors of the Central Company were to
come in as preference shareholders at 10 per cent.
LEGIMENTAL DOG OF THE 42D ROYAL HIGHLANDERS.
—The noble Newfoundland dog, which for a number of
years has been attached to and followed the 42d Royal
Highlanders, died in Stirling Castle, on Wednesday
morning. "Captain," as he was called, was a great
favourite of all the officers and men of the regiment, and
he is in reality " much regretted." He belonged origi-
nally to Dr. Laird, of the Naval Hospital in Bermuda,
and when the 42d was stationed there in 1847 he
attached himself to the regiment, and no persuasions,
threats, or even blows, would induce him to leave them
and rejoin his master. The worthy doctor seeing the
attachment the animal had conceived for the tartan,
generously made a preseat of him to the regiment, and
he has with the most, unflinching fidelity remained by
them ever since.—North British Mail.
THE REPRESENTATION OF GREENWICH.—About 500
signatures have now been attached to the requisition in
course of signature at Greenwich to Lieutenaut-General
Sir William Codrington to offer himself as a candidate
for the seat vacated by Mr. Rolt, and they include the
names of all classes of the electors. It was stated in
our impression of Friday that a majority of 30 published
names appended to the requisition of Mr. Sleigh, the
only candidate now in the field, though it purported in
specific terms to emanate from electors of the borough,
were not upon the electoral register now in force. That
statement was made upon the best evidence—that of the
register itself. Mr. Sleigh has been pleased to deny this
in the most positive terms; but, notwithstanding his
denial, it remains an actual, patent, and incontrovertible
fact, of which auy man may be satisfied who will take the
trouble, as the writer has done, to examine the register
for himself. It was added that some of the voters who did
sign had since the announcement that Sir W. Codring-
tun was about to declare himself a candidate requested
to withdraw their names from Mr. Sleigh's requisition.
That also was literally true. Mr. Sleigh, however, in
his letter, dated on Friday last, which appeared in this
journal on the following morning, said, "It is perfectly
incorrect, up to the present hour, that a single elector
whose name is attached to my requisition has either di-
rectly or indirectly, by word of mouth or by letter, sig-
nified to me, or any member of my committee, a desire
to withdraw his name from the requisition." Now, early
on Thursday morning, the day before Mr. Sleigh made
that declaration, Mr. James Seaward, a voter, and one
of the requisitionists, wrote to him, stating that he had
signed under a mistaken impression, and requesting his
name to be taken off any future copies of the requisition
that might be printed, adding that he had adopted that
straightforward course in order that it might not be
said he was sailing under false colours.
EXPLOSION AT THE M.ONICERIDGE IRONWORKS.—On
Saturday morning an explosion took place at the works
of the Monkbridge Iron Company, Whitehall-road,
Leeds. About five minutes before 8 o'clock two terrific
explosions were heard in rapid succession, and in a
moment the brick chimney, the burning cinders, and
boiling metal from the refinery were hurled into the air
to a great height. A man named Edward Dickenson,
who was at the moment engaged in stirring the fire,
was thrown some distance by a quantity of molten
metal striking him upon the face and breast. He fell,
almost instantly,rose, but was knocked down again by
the descending bricks and rubbish. Another man work-
ing at the refinery was scalded by the molten metal
about the hands and thigh, but his injuries were not
very serious, and he walked home. Dickenson, how-
ever, was found to be dreadfully injured. The molten
metal had burnt into the flesh, and it was necessary to
cut away his apparel. He was conveyed as speedily as
possible to the infirmary, where he lies in a precarious
state. At the time of the explosion, there were from 25
to 30 cwt, of metal in the refinery, all of which
was
blown out, Tue sides of the troughs were knocked over
and broken, and one of the iron pillars was fractured,
while one plate of iron fell through the roof of the forge,
and another was blown across the river Aire,
which
ft )ws by the side of the works. The cause of the acci-
dent is not known positively, but it is thought to have
arisen from the water in the troughs having- by some
e
• means found its way amongst or beneath the molten
metal.—Leeds Mercury.
THE COURT MARTIAL ON LIEUTENANT DEANE.
result of the late court-martial at Gosport TieTuhte
.
Deane, of the 22d Foot, was promulgated on Saturday.
It will be remembered by our readers that Lieut. H.
A. Murray Deane was brought to trialieh about three
months or more ago on three charges
effect that be had wilfully failed to fulfil whfil the terms
to the
written guarantee given by him
voluntarily to er mt
he s oofffia.
cers of her Majesty's 22d Regiment while in India to pay
them, six months after the landing of the regiment in
England, all sums of money due from Paymaster Bar-
low, for having•abueed the trust imposed in him as trea-
surer of the private funds belongingma to the officers ; and
for having, while acting per, torn or destroyed a
the officers' paymaster,
leaf or leaves fromrs, t
ledger containing the
accounts of Paymaster Barlow,
byth a view to conceal
the amount drawn and receive with
dthastineoeffitcoer.The
Court had been ordered about a
month reconsi-
der their finding, but though they acquitted Lieut. Deane
of any fraudulent intent, and admitted that he had ap-
propriated all the lost funds to some, though not the
right, regimental uses, yet they nevertheless sentenced
him to be cashiered, His Royal Highness the Comman-
der-in-Chief thereupon advised her Majesty not to con
firm the sentence, because, however reprehensible
Lieutenant Deane may have been for giving a guarantee
which he could not perform, there was no moral turpi-
tudo in his conduct. The Queen was graciously pleased
not to confirm the sentence, and Lieutenant Deane was
therefore "'acquitted." We are informed that a court of
inquiry, consisting of Major-General Breton, Lieut.-
Governor of Portsmouth and commanding the South-
West district ; Lieut.-Colonel Evelegb, commanding the
20th Regiment ; and Lieut.-Colonel Ingram, command-
ing the 97th Regiment, is ordered to report, on the con-
duct of the other officers of the 22d Regiment respeot-
ing the proceedings in reference to this case.