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

ADMIRALTY, Nov. 7.

Corps of Royal Marines—Second Lieutenant William
Henry Speer to be First Lieutenant, vice Stokes, deceased.
COMMISSIONS SIGNED BY THE QUEEN.

Royal Sherwood Foresters or Nottinghamshire Regi-
ment of Militia—John F. Girardot, Esq., late Captain in
her Majesty's 43d Light Infantry, to be Adjutant.
4th Regiment of Royal Lancashire Militia—Thomas
Bestland Knott, Gent., to be Quartermaster, from the 17th
September, 1856.
COMMISSIONS SIGNED BY LORD-LIEUTENANTS.

County of Bute—Duncan Hoyle, Esq., to be Deputy-
Lieutenant.

County of Banff—Alexander Morison, Esq., to be Vice-
Lieutenant.

NOTICES TO MARINERS.
THE KATTEGAT-JUTLAND.
Partial Eclipse of the Skagen or Skew Light.
The Royal Navy Department at Copenhagen has given
notice that the new lighthouse building on the Skagen
or Skaw Point will attain such an elevation during the
present year as will partially prevent the actual light on
that point from being seen in the direction of the Skagen
Spit, which extends from the Skagen Point to the eastward.
Mariners are hereby cautioned thereof.—By command
of their Lordships,
JOHN WASHINGTON, Hydrographer.
Hydrographic Office. Admiralty, London,
October 8. 1856.
This notice affects the following Admiralty charts :
North Sea, General, No. 2,339 ; North Sea, Sheet 3, No.
2,248 ; Baltic, General, No. 2,262 ; Skagerrak, No. 2,289;
The Kattegat, No. 2,114; Danish Lighthouse List, No.
SO.

THE KATTEGAT —COAST OF JUTLAND.
Intermittent Light on •Ilielm Isle.
The Royal Navy Department at Copenhagen has given
notice that on the 15th day of November, 18Z6, a new
light will be established on the Isle of Hielm, in the Kat-
tegat,
off the coast of Jutland, in Denmark.
The light will be intermittent, with a flash every fourth
minute. It will show a steady light of the natural calour
for the space of 2 minutes 53 seconds, he suddenly, eclipsed
for 25' seconds, then exhibit a bright flash for about 15
seconds, and be again eclipsed for 23 seconds, when the
steady light will reappear.
The illuminating apparatus will be a eatadioptric lens
of the second order. 'The light will be placed at a height
of If 4 feet above the mean level of the sea, and will be
visible all round the horizon ; the steadyFght at a distance
of 16 miles, and the flash at about 19 miles in clear wea-
ther. The eclipses will be scarcely observable when a ves-
sel is within a distance of eight miles from the light.
The light tower is a round brick tower, 37 feet high.
It stands in let. 56 deg. 8 min. N., long. 10 deg. 48 min.
30 sec. E. of Greenwich.
By coaamand of their Lordships,
JOHN WASHINGTON, Hydrographer.
Hydronaphic Office, Admiralty, London, Oct. 14, 1856.
this*notice affects the following Admiralty Charts :
North Sea, General. 2,330 ; Baltic, General, No. 2,339:
The Kattegat. No. 2,114 ; also Danish Pilot, p. 56 ; and
Danish Lighthouse List, No. 92 a.

SAN FRANCISCO BAY, CALIFORNIA.
Fog Bell at Point Bonita.
The United States Lighthouse Board has given notice
that a fog bell of 1,r:00 pounds has been placed on the
bluff jn.t in front of the lighthouse tower at Point Bonita,
North Head, San Francisco Bay, California.
The bell, with the machinery, ie in a frAme
open in front on a level with the ground, and will be struck
durinz foggy and thick weather, six blows at intervals of
11; FL-cowls each, followed by a pause of 44 seconds. The
bell is elevated 270 feet above the sea.
The firing of the fog gun will be continued, as usual,
until further notice.
By command of their Lordships,
JOHN WAAIIINGTON, Hydro,rapher.
Hydrogiaphic Office, Admiralty, London,
11th Oct., 1856.
This Notice affects the following Admiralty Chart :
San Francisco, No. 591.

UNITED STATES—MA_ccg
Bell Buoy on Deep Hole "SETTS.
11Rock.
The United States Lighthouse Board has given notice
that the Spar Buoy placed on
on the Deep Hole Rock off
Cotnit, in Vineyard Sound, coast of Massachusetts,
has been removed, and in its stead a Can Buoy of the
second class (red and black horizontal
weighing 150 pounds, secured on tao stripes), with a bell
P me iron f
surmounted by a hoop iron day.mark h name,
neer this rock. as been placed
The bell is elevated 44 feet above the aceof
water ; it is tolled by the action of the w Stir--;
"e
tide, and can be heard in ordinary weatheray"' wind, and
of about half a mile, at the distance
The day-rorirk is 16 inches in diameter, and is elevated
7 feet above the surface of the water.
By command of their Lordskii
TOHN WASHINGTON, .biydrogranh
Hydroffraphic-office, Admiralty, London, er,
14th October, 1856.
This notice affects the following Admiralty Charts
•
North America, East Coast, Sheet 5, No. 268 - , '—
al of
Fundy to Long Island, No. 2,492.
UNITED STATES—MAINE.
Fixed Light in Edgemoggin Reach.
The United States Lighthouse Board has given notice
that a light i
will be established on a tower now in course of
erection on Fly or Green Island, near. the eastern end of
Edgemoggin Reach, on the coast of Manse.
The light will be a fixed light of the natural colour.
The illuminating apparatus will be a Fresnel lens of the
fifth order. The light will be placed at a height of 25
feet above the mean level of the sea, and will be visible in
clear weather from the deck of a ship at a distance of about
seven miles.
The light is intended as a ;aide to vessels running to
and from Ellsworth, Blue Hill, and Mount Desert.
The light tower will be of brick, painted white, and
will be attached to the keeper's house, which will be of
wood, and painted brown. The lantern' will be painted
black.

The light will be lighted for the first time on the even-
ing of Monday the 2d day of February, 1857, and will be
kept burning every night thereafter.
By command of their Lordships,
JOHN WASHINGTON, Hydrographer.
nydrographic ()facie, Admiralty, London,
14th October, 1856.
This notice affects the following Admiralty Charts :
North America, East Coast, Sheet 5, No. 26S ; Bay of
Fundy to Long Island, No. 2192; also United States
Lighthouse List, No. 12e.
EAST COAST OF BRAZIL.
Intermittent Light at Maceio.
The Brazilian Government has given notice that on the
Ist day of July last a new light was established in the poi t
cf Maceio, capital of the province of Alagoas, on the east
coast of Brazil.
The light is intermittent, with a flash every second mi-
,l6seseds, then a bright
'auto,. It shows a steady light of the natural colour for 70
seconds, it is then eclipsed for
lash for 12 seconds, th
any _er ecup fur 22 seconds, and
then again the steady light ; thus completing its phases in
an interval of 2 minutes.
The illuminating apparatus is a catad'o tr p ic lens of the

THE ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION OF EARL Soseens
*V HIS VALET.—The followin,-, appears in the Worcester
Ifuceld :—" It was currently reported on Tuesday
as irning last, in Ledbury and the neighbourhood of
Eastnor, that an attempt had been made on the life of
Earl Somers by his valet and butler, Valentine do Mat-
trie, on the previous evening. De Matrie is a native of
Switzerland, and has been fifteen or sixteen years in the
service of the noble earl. Nothing has transpired that
con be depended upon as to the cause of the outrage,
but it is said that Earl Somers arrived at Eastnor
Castle last Monday evening, and, from some cause
or other, refused to see De Matrie after his. arrival.
The man, however, managed to get access to the
Earl's room almost directly, and shut the door, when
an altercation was overheard which induced the servants,
who were cerryinc up the luggage, to enter the room.
De Matrie was ejected from the room, and a game-
keerer was ordered to see him off the premises. When
leaving, he was violent in his language, and raid he
would be revenged before he left the neighbourhood.
Superintendent Shead, of Ledbury, was sent for, and
remained at the Castle till the following morning, when
having occasion to go a journey, another constable took
his place and remains there. De Matrie is still in the
neighbourhood. A medical gentleman was sent for to
the castle on the night when this affair occurred, but for
what purpose has not transpired. The ex-valet and
butter, de Matrie, has been married some years to the
daughter of a late gamekeeper nn the Somers' domain."
REBECCA. IN LONDON.—Lust night, about 8 o'clock, a
disturbance took place at Newington, which at first, it
was feared, would lead to serieus results. It appears that
some week,, since a ;.,-entiernan named Foritz, the ground
landlord of extensive property in Newington-road and
Doddington-trove, erected two walls, one at the end of
Neaostrert, Newington-road, near one of the entrances 1
t ) the Royal Surrey Gardens, which prevented access to
it through New-street, and another running across a field
from South-street, Royal-road, and Doddington-grove,
the effect of which was to deprive the occupiers of the
large and populous district of St. Paul of their easy
access to Newington-road. Last week Capt. Foritz had
erected a substantial bar, posts, and rails, at the end of the
Royal-road, near Kennington-park, the effect of which
was that the inhabitants, to get to Newington, Ken-
nington, or any place in that direction, had to go a con-
siderable distance round by the Wal worth-read and the
Elephant and Castle, or round by the new Camberwell-
road to Kennington-gate. As might be expected, the
inhabitants felt much agerieved at being deprived of their
accustomed easy access to their residences from the New-
ington-road, by the conduct of the ground landlord, who
defends his flora on the ground that the roadways in
question are private property. The consequence has been
that :or several nights past large numbers of persons have
congregated in the Royal-road and asserted their assumed
rights by forcing a passage and obtaining a thorough-
fare over what, it was stated, had been used as a
public thoeoughfare for upwards of 70 years, and the
damage done at night to the fence has been repaired with
alacrity the following morning. evincing a spirit of de-
termination on both sides. Last night a numerous
assemblage of persons again congregated in the Royal-
road, and completely demolished the bar, posts, and rail-
ings, with which they made a bonfire,and after that tdey
proceeded to New-street and Doddiogton-grove, and
leveller: the walls with the ground. After completing
their work of demolition the crowd quietly dispersed.
MYSTERIOUS CASE OP DROWNING.—GLASGOW, Sun-
day.—A case of drowning occurred in the harbour this
morning of a very distressing character. Between twelve
and one o'clock, while it was moonlight, two harbour
police-constables, named George Cunningham and John
Rose, accompanied by David Cunningham, an engineer,
the brother of the former, pushed off in a ferry-boat from
the steps near the middle of the harbour, for the put.-
Pose of ascertaining the names of three or four vessels
which were lying in the stream, and which had contra-
vaen'ciedb the harbour regulations, by not exhibiting a light,
y and officer at the Liverpool-shed
heard a
shriek and a voice exclaiming—" Three of us in
the water t" and
whence the voicetsahthen all was still. The two officers
immediately to
driftingb
ut n o s pastin
otfhteh e fwouedndinththeefedrirryec-btiooant
of the schooner Ballot, of Belfast,
soc2blrp,
!a men who had so recently been
in her. Drags were .
bodies of the three mPptaocured, and in a short period the
to the vessel and so little apart
above were found close
exatfinart as almost to touch each
etashraiduraclolmbeo.at aTnhdeyro
other. Life was quite
men, perfectly
out
teeof vigorous
men,
boat insliceed to carry erecto.uldnfoawli
Patrick Blaney, the master of tnhso isquite mysterious.
schooner Ballot, was
called up, and he stated that soraet•
bed, he felt something striking againstple before, while in
vessel, which was light or unloaded,
d the bow of his
upon Which he came
upon deck with his mate, and, looking over the side,
they saw two or three men struggling in the
They threw over two ropes, but the men did water.
not catch
them, and sunk, upon which, as they themselves state
they went to bed again without giving the alarm '
thinking any more of the matter. Such are all the par-
ticularsor which have been learned regarding this distress-
ing and extraordinary case. Whether the men had been
repulsed in trying to board the vessel (which, by y the
way, they bad no occasion to do), and fallen into the
water, or whether one of them hztd fallen in in fending
off from the schooner, and the other two had perished in
the attempt to save him, is mere matter of conjecture.
The Procurator-Fiscal has instituted a searching inquiry
into the case.