The Sun.
London, England, 1869-09-13 00:00:00

PRINCE ARTRUR IN BRITISH AMERICA

The New York papers contain full accounts of the pro-
ceedings of Prince Arthur during his progress through the
British North American territories. His Royal Highness
arrived at Charlotte Town, Prince Edward's Island,
about eight o'clock on the evening of the 28t1:
ult. It was quite dark, notwithstanding which
a large crowd awaited the arrival of the gunboat
Dart. The Prince, with the Corporation, proceeded in
carriages through Queen street under triumphal arches
and flags, and followed by a crowd to the Government
House amid general enthusiasm. Mayor Desbrisay intro-
duced Recorder Lawson, who read an address, to which
the Prince replied as follows :—" Gentlemen, I am deeply
touched by the address just read. Your loyalty
and attachment to her Majesty's throne and person are
well-known to the Queen, and it will afford me the
greatest satisfaction to report to her the fresh proofs of
your devotion, so unmistakably evinced by your reception
of her son and by the eloquent words of your address.
The deep interest her Majesty takes in the wel.
fare of her people in this portion of her domi
nions cannot be more clearly shewn to you than
by informing you that although my stay in this part of
the world is of very short duration, it was her wish that I
sWould not omit a visit to the island of Prince Edward.
I pray you to accept my hearty thanks for the kind
wishes for my welfare and the cordial welcome you have
given me." On the 30th, a general holiday was observed
at Charlotte Town in honour of the Prince's visit. He
held a reception at noon, at which 500 persons were
present. He then drove round the city with his suite
and was enthusiastically cheered by the crowds in
the streets. He was afterwards photographed in his
carriage under a triumphal arch. In the evening ho
attended a dinner at the Government House, and from
there was escorted by a fireman's torchlight procession tl.
the Colonial Building, where he opened the ball with Mrs.
Mayor Desbrisay. An immense crowd was present in
the building, which was elegantly decorated, and a fine
supper was served. He also attended the firemen's ball.
The whole party were much pleased with the warmth and
cordiality of the reception. The town was brilliant with
bonfires and illuminations.

The Liverpool Mercury says that of the 41,196
names included in the new burgess roll of persons entitled to
vote at municipal elections in Liverpool, at least 3,500 will
be the names of women.
The will of Mr. George Goldsmith Kirby, late
manager of the Albert Life Assurance Company, who died
in April last year, was proved, in the principal registry, on
May 6, 1868, under £40,000 personalty. The bulk of the
property is left to his widow.

Forged nuke of the Sheffield and Rotherham

Banking Company are in circulation. They resemble th•
genuine notes in every particular, and bear the forged Big,.
nature of "W. Brown," the late manager. One of th•
forged notes has been presented and detected.
Mrs. Harriet Bucher Stowe, according to the

Cowl Journal, gets fivo Lundred pounds from Macmillan for

her article on Byron, besides the sum she is said to have re-
ceived from the Atlantic Monthly, for an article on the same
subject, which appeared at the same time.

Mr. 11. A. Merewethcr, QC., was recently an-
nounced to read a paper on "Tito Head-gear-of the An-
cients." That geutltthun, however, particularly tickled
the risible faculties of the audience by 'producims7--
not the heavy armour worn by our forefathers, but a collec-
tion of bonnets from 1805 down to the present time, and
concluded by proposing that they should all war to the
knife against chignons.

A meeting was held on Friday at the Temperance
Dail, under the rresideney cf the Msyor of Sheffield, in fur-
therance of the principles cf the National Education League.
The object of the League is to establish a s ystem which shall
secure the education of every child throughout the country,
The programme of the society sets forth that the local autho-
rities shall be compelled by law to see that sufficient school
accommodation is provided for every child in their distrioo,
that the cost of founding and maintaining such schools
as may be required (hall be provided out of local
rates, supplemented by Government grants; that all
schools aided by local rates shall bo unsectarian, and that

the admission shall be free. The meeting was addressed by
Mr. George Dixon, one of the members for Birmingham,
and other gentlemen, and resolutions were adopted favour-
able to the objects of the League.

THE LATE GENERAL THOMPSON AND THE TEM.
PERANCE SYSTEM.—The late General T. Perronet Thonip
son, who survived to the venerable age of 86, wrote the
following letter three weeks before his death to the Rev.
D. Burns, ALA.:—" Elliot-vale, Blackheath, London;
S.E., 13th August, 1869.—Dear Sir,—There may bo
danger of drawing too sweeping conclusions from limited
facts, but my personal experience has always been that
my health was always better for avoiding strong drinks,
and, particularly, that abstaining both from drinks and
animal food had a great effect in preseiv:ng health in
tropical climates under circumstances of more than ordi-
nary exposure to work or sun.—Yours very sincerely, T,
PERRONET THOMPSON."

DEATH OY SIR W. C. ANSTRUTHER.—The
death is announced of Sir Wyndham Carmichael Anstru•
ther, a Nova Scotia baronet, whose creation dates from
1694. The family descended from William De Candela,
who Was lord of the lands and barony of Anstruther,
county of Fife, in the time of Malcolm, fourth King of
Scotland. His grandson Henry appears to have first
assumed the surname of Anstruther from the said lands,
and is so named in a deed of 1221. Sir James Anstruther,
the twelfth in descent from William de Candela, was
appointed Heritable Carver to James VI., 1585, and was
constituted one of the Masters to the Household of his
Majesty, 1592, with all the profits and privileges belonging
to this office which are hereditary in the family. The
baronet just deceased was born in 1793, was educated at
Eton, and is succeeded by his son, Wyndham George
Conway, who was born in 1845.

AMERICAN CROPS.—The St. Paul Press says thai
Mr. Pusey, the State statistician, having made an exten-
sive tour of observation throughout Minnesota, estimates
the average yield of the present wheat crop in that State at
18i bushels per acre, which will yield a product of over 20
million bushels, or nearly 50 bushels to every inhabitant,
leaving a surplus of 15 million bushels for export from a
State which eleven years ago imported its flour and
pork. On the other hand, the Norfolk Journal says of
Virginia :—" The drought in the interior of this State has
been excessive. In the great rich region watered by the
Dan the corn on the lowlands will probably yield half a
crop, but on the hills it is almost destroyed. The same
report reaches us of the tobacco crop, which has been
burnt up to such an extent that the Roanake Valley,
published at Clarksville, says that not one-sixth of a crop
will be made in the counties of Mecklenburg, Halifax,
Charlotte, Lunenburg, and Prince Edward. The papers
of the Valley also give a very gloomy account of the corn
crop in that region. They say that in Augusta the yield
will not be beyond a third of a crop, and that in
Shenandoah it will not reach a half."

A curious discussion relative to the interpretation
of the new Act of Parliament which enables the wife or
husband who are parties to a suit in the Divorce Court, oc-
curred on Friday morning before the Cambridge borough
magistrates. A man named Flaunt) was charged with run—
ning away from the town leaving Lis wife chargeable to the
union. His d_fence was that ho left her some money,
and was about to send more when he discovered that she
was unfaithful to him. This, if true, was a good defence to
the charge; but Mr. Poland Adcock, who appeared for the
man, was unable to prove the infidelity directly, and pro-
posed, in consequence, to call the wife as a hostile witness
in order to elicit certain facts from her. Mr. Fetch, the
clerk of the poor-law guardians, objected to her being called
and then Mr. Adcock informed the magistrates that he
relied upon the 32d and 33d Victoria, cap. GB, sec. 3, re-
cently come into oporatiun, for his point. Thereupon the
magistrates' clerk informed Mr. Adcock that his opinion
was against him; the woman could not bo called, as the
Act expressly stated that such a witness as was admissible
by the Act must be a party to proceedings iolitit4444l,
aclglt9ry.

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DEAN CLOSE ON THE EAGLISH CHURCH
UNION.

On Friday night the Dean of Carlisle (Dr. Close) pre-
sided at a meeting of the Carlisle branch of the Church
Association and made an elaborate attack upon the pro-
cealings of the English Church Union. Alluding inciden-
tally to the disestablishment and disendowment of the
Irish Church, he said he regarded it as a great calamity;
and he believed before God a great national sin had been
committed in casting aside and tearing from the British
Crown one of the must glorious emblems of harmony and
love—the Irish Church. He described the English
Church Union as the head-centre and fountain of the
Ritualist evils of the country. Their professed object
was to introduce Catholic, or, as he called them, RomiBh
principles into the Church of England, their conduct
was litigious, and they were rebellious subjects of the
Church,

SHOCKING CIIARGES OF CRUELTY AT
SEA.

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The Cowes magistrates have during three days been In-
vestigating charges of cruelty against David Rich Cook
and John Lammell, the captain and mate of the ship
Annie Boylston, while oa her voyage from Callao to
Cowes. The vessel was anchored off Cowes on Tuesday,
when one of the crew threw himself overboard and made
towards the shore. He was picked up by a yacht's boat
before the evening. Others of the crew also got ashore.
They were preceded in an application to the police by a
passenger, who, having landed, tock some papers to the
authorities, which had been drawn up by the crew. The
captain coming ashore, was followed by a large number
of sailors and others, and took refug; in a shop, whence
the police rescued him and eonveyed him before the
magistrates. There some four or five of the crew detailed
various kinds of ill-treatment to which they had
been subjected. Thomas Mansfield deposed that
when ill with dysentery the mate dragged him
out of the forecastle, beat him with brass knuckles
on his hand, and forced him to work a capstan bar, and
every time he came round he struck him with a bludgeou.
Another witness proved that the carpenter, who was left
at Callao, and was since believed to be dead, was
also beaten with brass knuckles by the mate,
and received five wounds on his head, whilst
another of the crew, named Ryan, was beaten
with a club by the mate, and had his nose broken. It was
at night, and Ryan, having cried loudly, the captain
same out of his cabin with a naked sword and (*.lark
lantern, and having asked what was the matter, the mate
replied, " It's the man that insulted you the other
day." The captain said, " Ah, then, you have got him
at last," and called for irons to put him in, but one of the
crew, seeing Ryan in a pool of blood, suggested, " Had
you not better look at the man, for perhaps he will die
before morning?" The captain then said he should be
put in his cabin, where it was found his nose was broken
—"it seemed to turn on a pivot." Ryan called out for
mercy, when the mate again struck him and threatened to
shoot with his revolver the first man that stirred. Alength-
ened inquiry resulted on Friday in the committal for trial
of the captain and mate on some of the chares, and their
remand to the divisional petty sessions at Newport to-day
(Saturday) on others, and the fining of one of the crew
(John 'Attlee) in 30s. and costs for assaulting the captain
in the street at Cowes. As the passenger had no money
the public present in the room made a subscription and
saved him from being committed to gaol.