The Sun.
London, England, 1860-05-12 00:00:00

BEI? 31.4JESTY'S JUVENILE BALL.

The Queen gave a child's bell last evening at Bucking-
ham Palace. The juveniles honoured with invitations
were between 6 and 14 years of age, and were accompanied
by their parents or relatives. About 260 were invited.

The company began to arrive at half-past eight o'clock,
and assembled in the Picture Gallery, Green Drawing
Room, and Promenade Gallery,

Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cambridge and
the Princess Mary arrived soon after nine o'clock, and were
conducted to the White Drawing Room, whereher Majesty
received her illustrious guests. Their Royal Highnesses
the Duke of Cambridge and the. Duke and Duchess
d'Aumale were also present.

The Queen and Prince Consort, accompanied by the
Pzincess Alice, Prince Arthur, Prince Leopold, the Prin-
cesses Helena, Louisa, and Beatrice, the Duchess of Cam-
bridge, the Princess Mary, the Duke of Cambridge, the
Duke de Nemours, the Princess Marguerite, the Duke and
Duchess d'Aumale, the Prince and Princess of Leiningen,
were conducted about nine o'clock to the Banquetting
Room, which was prepared for dancing.

The Queen wore a dress of black crape with flounces
trimmed with jet. Her Majesty wore a jet circlet and
black fl)wers as a headdress.

The Princess Alice wore a black dress of crape and tulle
over black silk, trimmed with bugles. Her royal highness's
headdress was formed of a wreath of lilies of the valley and
canielias ; ornaments, diamonds.

The Princesses Helena, Louisa, and Beatrice, wore dresses
of white tulle over glace silk, trimmed with lilies of the
valley.
Their royal highnesses wore wreaths of the same.
The Princess Mary of Cambridge wore a black tulle dress,
the upper skirt festooned with large bows of ribbon,
trimmed se ith jet ; the corsage to correspond ; diamond
necklace, earriNgs, and stomacher. Her royal highness's
headdress was composed of wreaths of cherries, with dia-
mond ornaments,

The Queen's private band was in attendance, and dancing
commenced immediately after the entrance of her Majesty
and the illustrious party.

His Excellency the Count Persigny arrived ;A
Albert-gate House on Thursday, from Paris.
His Excellency Chevalier Canofari and Madame
Canofati have arrived at the Brunswick Hotel, Jerreyn-
street, from Paris.
The Earl and Countess of Lisburne and Lady
Elizabeth Vaughan have arrived at Fenton's Hotel, from
Crosswood, South Wales.
The •Earl and Countess Vane have arrived in
town. His lordship has taken a residence at Prince's-gate
for the season.
Lord and Lady Hawke and family have arrived
at the West Cliff Hotel, Folkestone. Mr. and Mrs. Tolle-
macho have left the same establishment for the Continent.
The Bishop of Durham and the Misses Longley
have arrived in Arlington-street for the season.
THE NEW ARCHBISHOP OF YORK.—The Right
Rev. Charles Thomas Longley, Bishop of Durham, who
has been nominated to the Archbishopric of York, rendered
vacant by the death of the Most Rev. Dr. Musgrave, was
born at Rochester in 1794. He was educated at Westmin-
ster School, whence he proceeded to Christ Church, Oxford,
where he gained a studentship in 1812. In 1815 he took
his degree of Bachelor of Arts, being first class in classics,
and was public tutor of Christ Church from 1818 until
1828. Prior to his resignation of the tutorship--namely,
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in 1827—he was presented by Mr. C. B. Wall, the then

patron, to the rectory of West Tytherley, near Stockbridge,
Hampshire, which he held until 1829, when he was ap-
pointed to the head-mastership of Harrow School. This
appointment he held until 1836, in which year the act was
passed constituting the new Bishopric of Ripon. Dr.
Longley was appointed the first bishop, and held the
bishopric until 1856, when, upon the resignation of Bishop
Maltby, he was translated to the Bishopric of Durham.
The new archbishDp is the son of Mr. John Longley, late
Recorder of Rochester, and subsequently a magistrate of
the Thames Police-court. He married, in 1831, the Hon.
Caroline, eldest daughter of the first Lord Congleton.
THE VOCAL ASSOCIATION.—At the performance
of the Vocal Association, on Wednesday evening, the 16th
inst., at St. James's-hall, the principal artists from her
Majesty's Theatre will appear by the kind permission of
E. T. Smith, Esq.
The foreign journals state that a new monetary
unit has been t stablished for the province of Finland,
called a " marka," and worth one-fourth of a silver rouble.
A telegram from Madrid states that money is at
present abundant in that capital, and that the National
Bank are expected shortly to reduce their rate of discount
from 5 to 41 per cent.
It is stated that the amount thus far ascertained
to have been paid by Pullinger to the person o aside the
Stock Exchange who carried on some of his operations,
and who is since deceased, is £57,000.
THE LANDED ESTATES COURT OF IRELAND.--
Upwards of £40,000 worth of property was sold yesterday
before Judge Dobbs. It is reported that a groat number of
petitions for sales are under consideration, and that there
is every prospect of renewed activity in the land-market
before the close of the current year.

TUE IRIsH LAW ADVISER.—The Evening Post
states that Mr. Sergeant Lawsou—overwhelmed by the
extent of his professio.Bl practice—is about to resign the
post of Law Adviser to the Irish Government. It is re
ported that Mr. De Maleyns, Q.C., is to be the successor of
the learned sergeant. The appointment would be a good
one.

It will be seen by the Gazette of last evening that
Major-General the Hon. Charles Grey has been appointed
to the command of the 3d Buffs, and Major-General Sir J.
E. Wilmot Inglis to the command of the 32d Regiment.
Nothing can be more appropriate than the appointment of
General Inglis to the command of the 32d, the gallant regi-
ment whose last and greatest exploit was the defence of
Lucknow, under the command of its new colonel ; but the
appointment :of the Hon. Charles Grey to the' gallant
Buffs, though equally intelligible, does not seem equally
appropriate. Unless the Army List does the officer great
injustice, he has never had the advantage of any more dis-
tinguished service than is to be seen in Hyde Park or at
Windsor, as Equerry to the Queen.—Times.

Sir Henry George Ward has been appointed to
succeed Sir Charles Trevelyan as Governor of Madras. The
career of Sir Henry 'Ward will be familiar to many of our
readers. The son of the late Robert Plumer Ward, whose
Memoirs were published some years since, Sir H. Wald was
first employed in diplomacy under Mr. Canning, and was
appointed Minister Plenipotentiary to acknowledge the
Mexican Republic. He was then for many years in Par-
liament, always conspicuous on the Liberal side, and espe-
cially distinguished as the mover of the resolutions upon
the Irish Church, which is 1834 led to the secession of a
portion of the Whig Ministry. Sir H. Ward was Secretary
to the Admiralty in Lord John,Russell's Government from
1846 to 1849, in which latter year he was appointed Lord
High Commissioner of the lonian Islands. He held this
office until 1855, when he was appointed Governor of Cey-
lon. In the lonian Islands he had to suppress an insurrec--
tion provoked by sympathisers from Greece, and the seve-
rity with which he quelled a rebellion that seemed formid-
able at a time of successful revolt provoked much discus-
sion in Parliament, though it was not officia ly condemned.
In Ceylon, however, his administration has been most sue-
c•issful, and gives promise of an equally prosperous reign
in the nearest Presidency of the neighbouring continent.—
Times.

THE LATE MURDER IN LIVERPOOL.—On Thurs-
day the Liverpool borough coroner opened an inquiry into
the death of a lad named Patrick Mealey, who it was al-
leged had been murdered by two youths named William
M'Millan and James Halloran. It appeared that the de-
ceased was posing along Bispham-street, on Wednesday
night week, when he was set upon by M'Millan and Hal-
loran, both of whom repeatedly struck Mealey on the head
and face with a poker until he became senseless. He was
left lying in the street until some people passing along had
him taken up and conveyed to the residence of his mother,
a widow. The poor fellow lingered until Saturday night,
when he died. The above facts were corroborated by several
witnesses. Dr. Warburton, who had made a post mortem
examination of the body, stated that he found several
wounds on the head and face ; the skull was fractured near
the vertex, and there was extravasation of blood upon the
scalp. In his opinion death was caused by concussion of
the brain, the result of external violence. After a short
consultation the jury returned a verdict of " Wilful mur-
der" against William M'Millan and James Halloran, who
were then committed for trial at the next South Lanca-
shire assizes.

SUSPICIOUS OCCURRENCE AT PETERBOROUGII.
Considerable excitement has been caused in this city and
neighbourhood by the proceedings of a coroner's jury, which
has hold three sittings during the week. It was summoned
to inquire into the death of a fine young. woman, 18 years
of age, named Mary Jane Pope. She is the daughter of
respectable parents, and on Sunday attended the Baptist
Chapel. During the service she was taken ill, lost the use
of her legs, and was convulsed. Being removed home, a
surgeon was sent for, and afterwards a physician. Both
these gentlemen came to inde endent conclusions that the
girl had been poisoned. She, however, denied having taken
anything. Death ensued in a short time after the
seizure, and the symptoms of the attack and he
rigidity which set in directly after death confirming the
suspicions of poisoning, an inquest was held. The post
mortem examination strengthened the opinion of the medi-
cal gentlemen, and led them to conclude that she had died
from the effects of strychnine. It was ascertained that on
Saturday deceased purchased sixpennyworth of Buttlo's
vermin powder, but no motive for suicide seems to exist.
From the evidence given to the jury it appears that in 1854
an infant of the same family died suddenly of convulsions,
that in April last another child died after a short illness
showing similar symptoms, and that last week, a boy, eight
years of age, was seized with convulsions exactly corre-
sponding to those under which the deceased girl laboured;
but prompt medical assistance being obtained, he recovered.
It is also known that of a family of eleven children four
only are now living. Under these circumstances the co-
roner and jury have submitted the intestines and other por-
tions of the body of Mary Pope to Dr. Letheby for analysis,
and the inquest is adjourned for a week.

THE ABERDEEN FAILITRE.—At the meeting of
the creditors of the firm of John and Anthony Blaikio, ad-
vocates, held in the Royal Hotel, Aberdeen, on Wednesday,
Mr. Archibald l3orthwick, C.A., Edinburgh, was appointed
trustee upon the sequestrated estate. Messrs. Newall Bur-
net, advocate, Horn, of Pitinedden, and W. Adamson,
sharebroker, Aberdeen, were at the same time named as
the commissioners. Several claims were given in, but no
approximation Nta.-i made as to the actual state of affairs.—
Seotmtait.

THE ESCAFt FROM NEWCASTLE GAOL.— A meet-
ing- of magistrates was held at the Manors' Police Station,
at I o'clock on Tuesday afternoon, when the case of the
late escape from gaol again came under their consideration.
Mr. Wood, the deputy-gOvernor, was suspended from his
office for a period of one week after the expiration of the
time far which he was first suspended, and the turnkey,
Porter, was dismissed from his office. Mr. Robins, the
new governor, arrived at the gaol on Monday, and on the
following day ho relieved Mr. Sabbage of the onerous duties
which, since the escape of Douglas, that gentleman has
assiduously performed.—Newcastle Chronicle,