The Sun.
London, England, 1856-09-25 00:00:00

TO THE EDITOR OF TIE SUN.

SlR,—Finding that my name has been advertised in
your paper as chairman of " The General Industry Life
and Fire Assurance and Sick Fund Friendly Society,"
I have to beg the favour of being &Moved to inform the
public through the medium of your jturnal that I am
not the chairman of the said society, nor indeed con-
nected with it in any way whatever,--I am, sir, your
obedient servant,

GEORGE CRUIKSHANK.
48, Mornington-place, Sept. 24th, 1856.

His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge has left
town for Sir George Wombwell's seat in Yorkshire, on
a visit to the gallant baronet.
The Duchess of Wellington has left Yester House,
Haddingtonshire, where her grace has been visiting the
Marquis and Marchioness of Tweeddale, for Balmoral,
to relieve the Marchioness of Dy in her duties as Lady
in Waiting on her Majesty. The Duke of Wellington
has left Apsley House to make a series of visits.
The Marquis and Marchioness of Salisbury and Lord
Eustace Cecil, on leaving the North of Scotland, pro-
ceeded on a visit to the Earl of Eglinton, at Eglinton
Castle, Ayrshire, and have since arrived at the family
seat, Hatfield House, Herts, for the winter.
Lord Stanley, M. P., we learn, has undertaken to
deliver a lecture early in the next month at the Manches-
ter A thenzum, on education and criminal reformatories.
The Treasury have sanctioned a loan of 5,0001. sought
for by the Drogheda Corporation, for building bridges
over the river Boyne.
Yesterday, at the Hampton Sessions, Thomas Dunball
was fined 51. for wilfully crossing the South-Western
Railway while a train was advancing at the rate of 30
miles an hour. The guard shut off the steam, and thus
preserved the man from instant death.
Yesterday, John Frost delivered a lecture on trans-
portation at Greenwich.
THE ROBBERY AT MR. WYLDS.—Two men were yes-
terday committed for trial by Mr. Jardine for being
concerned in the robbery which took place on 22d of
August last.
BELFAST AND BALLYMENA RAILWAY.—It is now said
that the extension line of the Belfast and Ballymena
Railway to Cookstown will be opened by the Lord Lieu-
tenant, accompanied by the contractor, W. Dargan,
Esq., the directors, engineers, &c., on the 16th October.
The Limerick Observer states that some of the leading
bankers and merchants of London openly express their
conviction that John Sadleir is still alive, although it is
now added that his body was recognised by a ei (levant
clerk of the London and County Bank, whom John
Sadleir had fcrmerly caused to be dismissed.
UNION OF MOLDAVIA AND WALLACHIA —A public
meeting is to be held at the Town Hall, Brighton, on
the evening of Monday next, relative to tha union of
Moldavia and Wallachia, as a barrier against Russian
and Austrian aggression. Several members of the
House of Commons have accepted invitatiors to be pre-
sent.
JARROW DOCKS ON THE TYNE.—On Tuesday afternoon
Mr. T. E. Harrison' C.E., laid the founda.ion stone of
one of the principal entrances to the Jarrow Docks on
the Tyne. These important marine works which are in
the course of construction for the Nortb-Eastern Rail-
way Company, are of considerable interest to persons
concerned in the coal trade.
PRESENTATION INKSTAND tO M. BENEDETTI.--A very
elegant objet d'art, forming an inkstand, has been pre-
sented by the British Government, thrcugh the Earl of
Clarendon, to M. Benedetti, formerly French Minister
at Constantinople, and who, from his Inowledge of the
Eastern question, was selected as secretary to the Pleni-
potentiaries at the recent Conference at Paris, in token
of respe t for his services.
FALLIOF A CHAPEL.—A. fine new building in Bury
New-read, Manchester, in the Gothic style of architec-
ture, with a spire, erected as a chapel for the Indepen-
dents, fell on Wednesday morning at five o'clock, owing
to some defects of construction. Fortunately no one
was near at the time, and, as it was isolated from the
surrounding dwellings, no loss of life was consequent
upon the disaster.
MR. CLARKSON, THE BARRISTER.—We regret to say
that this learned gentleman still continues in a very pre-
carious state of health at his Brighton residence on the
King's-road, and that no favourable change can be re-
ported. His severe illness arose in the first place some
ten weeks since from a large carbuncle on the back of the
neck, and for which he underwent an operation, which,
although skilfully performed, had the effect of producing
great prostration. After several changes the learned
gentleman, we are sorry to say, is in a state to excite
considerable apprehension and fear.
. By the courtesy of the Secretary of the Euphrates
Valley Railway Company, we are informed that Mr.
Andrew (the chairman) has received a telegraphic de-
spatch from General Chesney from Constantinople, to
the effect that the Grand Vizier had received General

Chesney and Sir John Macneill very warmly, and that
his highness, expected to give them a grand conference
in a few days with his colleagues. General Chesney and
Sir John Macneill had also had an interview with Reis
Effendi.

A RUSSIAN VOICE ON THE NEAPOLITAN QUESTION.-
We read in the Nord of Tuesday :—" The Government
of Naples is prepared for any emergency, as is proved by
the defensive works executed upo❑ the coast, and by the
condition and strength of the army assembled round
Naples, and reviewed by King Ferdinand on the 10th.
For our own part we will remind our readers that the
King of Naples has not been unaware of the utility of
certain reforms, and we remain convinced that he will
be capable of realising them. We do not place confidence
in an armed display, ar.d we regret that France has con-
sidered it her duty to follow England in a demonstra-
tion which has, in substance, the mischievous effect of
c mstituting an interference with the policy of an inde-
pendent state."

CHARMING.--It the Wolverhampton B)rough Police
Court, on Tuesday, John Clark was convicted of obtain
ing several sums of money from a young man named
Richard Moore, under pretence of curing him of fits by
the adminitration of pills and drugs, and by palmistry.
There was also a charge against him of having "charmed"
Mr. Fo:ster Gough, attorney, out of 4/. by fraudulent
representations. The magistrates committed him, as a
rogue and vagabond, to three months' hard labour for
the first offence.—Wolverhampton Chronicle.

CITY REGISTRATION.—The name of Sir J. Duke was yes-
terday omitted from the list of the Lorimer', Company, on
the ground that there was a custom in the city of London
that a person becoming a freeman and liverymen of one
company could not become a freeman and liveryman of
another company, and enjoy all the privileges of that
c .mpany weich be enjoyed in the first, without being
formally translated from one to the other.
HIGHWAYMEN ON OUR RAILWAYS.—" A Sportsman"
in a letter to the Times says, I am in the habit of sending
boxes of grouse from the north of Scotland to my friends
in various part 3 in Englaad. I see that the boxes are
made strong and well ❑ailed down, arid yet I am sorry
to say scarcely a box reaches its destination which has
not been robbed on the road. If it contains 10 brace
these bold robbers generally take two ; if it contains 20
they take four. Surely, this sort of thing ought not to
go on in a country which boasts of having such good
regulations.

CHARGE OF MURDER AND ROBBERY.—On Friday
and Saturday Catherine Bethune was tried before the
Circuit Court, at Inverness, on a charge of murder and
robbery. In the end of June last a lone woman, named
Margaret Maclean, residing in a turf hut in the parish
of Lochma.ddy, was missed for some days by the neigh-
bours. The door of her hut was at length broken open,
when the old woman was found dead, and with marks
of violenoe on her person. The prisoner bad been seen
about the hut some days before, and the few articles of
property that had belonged to the deceased were found
in the prisoner's possession. The jury found the charge
of murder not proven, but convicted her of theft, and
having been several times previously convicted; she was
sentenced to six years' penal servitude.—Edinburgh
Courant.

CRYSTAL PALACE COMPANY.—Some further facts, says
the Daily News, relative to therecent fraudulent re issue
of shares of this company, tending to show that either
the management of the transfer department must have
been very lax, or that the frauds of the company's
late clerk, William Robson, were conducted with
extraordinary skill. It is certain that they have
been of long standing, for during the last day or two
transfers have been returned as irregular to members of
the Stock Exchange in cases in which the shares had been
registered in the company's books, and certificates of
registration given as far back as nine months ago. For-
tunately in all these instances, as we are informed, the
amounts involved are individually small. It is evident
from these cases that Robson must have been almost
entirely exempt from official control in his own depart-
ment, and the laxity of the company's practice in
this respect furnishes an additional ground for the de-
mand of the sufferers that the company shall assume the
whole of the loss incurred through the malversations of
their recognised officers.
Tux BURGLARIES AT NOTTING-HILL.--A correspon-
dent writing to the Times, after dwelling upon the let-
ters of "Pistol" and " Revolver," the use of each of
which he disapproves, goes on to say—Now, I revive
the long disused "man trap." I know the highways
and byways of my own house. I know where the plate-
cheA is deposited. I know better than my swell in•
trader the vulnerable points of the place, and there I
plant my "trap." I sleep very securely until my man
is caught. And let not the sensitive or the sentimental
complain that I run no risk of encountering the philan-
thropy of the Cruelty to Animals Society. -My trap has
a good grip. It holds its customer hard, but does not
hurt him unless he attempts to get off—then it squerz3s
him more and more, and won't let him go anyhow. It
hooks him above the knee. True, he will give tongue a
little, and then I descend slowly and carelessly towards
him. I know my bird is bagged. As to his making off
with the trap, he may as well march off with the rock
of Sisyphus. He is a fixture for the time. Again,
when I find any of my neighbours' houses to " let,"
and I suspect a visit from the roof, .E take my second
trap (for I keep two) and place it under the fall, when
I catch him, like the late fly-stickers, " all alive," and
transport him accordingly with his kit of instruments. I
never let him out of the trap till at the station.