The Sun.
London, England, 1856-08-26 00:00:00

IRISH TOURIST TICKETS,

Available for ONE MONTH, will be issued at the following prices :
let Class. 2d Class.
From London .... ••••.. • • • .
Oxford ...... ••.. • •
Birmingham, Leamington, and
Coventry.. • •
And from the other principal stations at proportionate fares.
These tickets (which in no case are transferable) will be available
'or One Month from the date of issue. They will enable the Holdbrs
to proceed to Chesty, thence to Bangor, Holyhead, and Dublin,
from Dublin to Cork. situate on the picturesque River Leo, and
within ten miles of the celebrated Harbour, Dockyard, and Naval
station of Queenstown (Cove) ; from Cork back to Mallow, and
thence by the Killarney Junction Railway to the far-famed
LAKES OF KILLARNEY.

The Tourist can rerartina4long as convenient to himself at Chester,
Bangor (for the inspectio t of the Britannia Tubular Bridge), Holy-
head, Dublin, Cork, and Killarney ; the only condition being, that his
return to the Station at which he took his ticket must be not later
than Ono Menth from the date of his departure therefrom.
Supplemental Tickets for CONNEMARA, GLENGARIFFE, the
GIANT'A CAUSEWAY, and other places of interer, are issued at
Reduced Fares to Visitors holdin; "Irish Tourist Tickets."
General Manager's Office, Euston Station, June, 1856.

THROWING A STONE AT THE GOVERNOR OF A GAOL.—
On the 16th init. a man named Thomas Smith, an artil-
leryman, sentenced to nine months' hard labour for a
burglary at Sheerness, was brought before Mr. J. Bone,
the governor of Maidstone Gaol, for a breach of prison
discipline. After investigating the matter, Mr. Bone
ordered the man to undergo some punishment, when he
suddenly threw a large pointed stone, uhich- he bad
secreted about him, at the governor. Mr. Bone at the
moment bent down his I.eal, and the stone passed the
back of his neck, and dashed to pieces a portion of a
piece of furniture attached to the wall of the mom.
From this it was evident that had not the stone missed
its mark, most sericus consequences must have en-
sued. Smith was taken before a magistrate at the
gaol, who ordered him to receive " three dozen." The
punishment was afterwards administered. At Smith's
trial his serjeant major said he was one of the most un-
tameable and violent men he had ever known.—Maid-
stone Journal.

THE NEW GOVERNMENT OFFlOES.—Yesterday, at 2
o'clock, the Right Hon. Sir Benjamin Hall, Bart., M.P.,
her Majesty's Chief Commissioner of Woods and Forests,
attended at the office, in Whitehall, for the purpose of
meet ng several eminent architects invited for the purpose
of offering opinions on the proposed new buildings to be
erected for Government offices at Westminster. The right
hon. baronet, addressing the gentlemen, said her Ma-
jesty's Government had determined to erect two new pub-
lic offices on the vacant site near Downing-street, and
also to lay out the new route to these offices from the
Palace at Westminster. One of the offices proposed to be
erected was for the use of the Secretary of State for War,
and the other for the Secretary of State for Foreign Af-
faits. The Government proposed that these buildings
should be erected between Charles-street and Downing-
street, and that the site between Whitehall on the north,
Great George-street and Now Palace-yard on the south,
the river Thames on the east, and St. James's-park on
the west should bo laid out as artistically as possible, at
the same time giving as much amount of public conveni-
ence as was necessary with a view of making a direct
communication between the offices and the Houses of
Parliament. It was the intention of the Government,
after having beard the opinions of the gentlemen he was
then addressing, to invite architects of all c >untries to
prepare designs and to compete for the erection of the
buildings. Several gentlemen then offered various sug-
gestions, which the right hon, baronet promised should
be carefully considered, in order that the works might
be proceeded with ; and the interview terminated.
The inhabitants of the Haymarket and Coventry-street
are threatened with a visitation which is looked upon by
them as one which will remove from that vicinity its last
claim to respectability. It is proposed to build in this
thoroughfare—which, after the theatres, is scarcely wide
enough for the traffic of furious cabdrivers and half-
sobered aristocratic coachmen—one of those offensive
and unsightly erections, which, if placed under police
regulations and proper surveillance in some more appro-
pi late locality, would remove the serious complaints
which are raised against them. The peculiarity of the
vicinity, and the fad that the inhabitants of the Haymar-
ket nearly all sleep upon their own premises, and have
not the luxury of country mansions, is urged as an addi-
tional reason that such a place should not be obtruded,
immediately beneath the observation of their
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