The Sun.
London, England, 1860-04-13 00:00:00

Eleven ran.

MISS RODEN'S MUSICAL ENTERTAIN AIENT.— 0 n
Wednesday last Miss Roden, under very distinguished
local patronage, including that of Lieutenant-Colonel
Baker and the officers of the 10th Royal Hussars, gave her
musical entert,tinraent at the Town-hall, Hounslow, con-
sisting of a lecture on the beauties of the poet Gay, illus.
trated by the musical gems of the Beggar's Opera, to a
numerous and fashionable audience.
THE SMALL-PDX IN CHELSEA the weekly
meeting of the directors. and guardians of the poor of St.
Luke's, Ch6lsea, onWednesday, the reports of the parochial
medical officers were read, from which it appeared that the
small-pox, that has of late been alarmingly on the increase
in that parish, is on the decline, there being but three fresh
cases rep,rted since last week.
MURDER AT KILRUSH.—The dead bady of a
boatman named Mahony was found in a shallow stagnant
pool near Kilrush, on Monday. From the marks of vio-
lence, an i the fact of a sum of £lO having been taken from
his pockets, there are strong grounds for apprehending that
he has been murdered. A man named Ilithtnore has been
arrested on suspicion of being concerned in Mahony's
death.

SINGULAR OCCURRENCE.—On Wednesday a
blackbird, chased by a hawk, dashed violently against the
window of an upstairs sitting-room. shattered the pane of
glass against which it struck, and fell dead on the floor
from the concussion. It was momentarily followed by its
relentless pursuer (a fine young sparrow-hawk), which,
passing unharmed through the aperture, was captured
alive.—Ross Intelligencrr.

THE SMUGGLING TRANSACTION AT HULL.—On
Monday, at the Hull Police-court, the four foreign sailors
charged with smuggling a large quantity of tobacco from
the Austrian ship Margaret Rosa, were again bought up,
and, after some further evidence, they were each fined £lOO
and costs. The three prostitutes charged with receiving the
cigars and as:isting in the smuggling were discharged, as
th Board of Customs did not press the case against them.

A singular suicide was committed the day be-
fore yesterday at the Louversey (Eure). A boy eleven years
of age, son of a dressmaker, having suddenly disappeared,
his mother sought for him, and to her horror she found him
hanging by the neck by a cord to the upper part of the gate
of her garden. A neighbour, attracted by her cries, cut
him down at once, but he was quite dead. The suicide is
ascribed to the child having been plunged into despair at
learning that his mother, whom he tenderly loved, was
afflicted with an incurable malady. He had frequently de-
clared with tears that he would die before her.
CLIFTON SUSPENSION-BRlDGE.—Another project
has been broached' for completing this structure across the
Avon, which will unite the counties of Somerset and Glo-
cester. The matter has been taken up with spirit, and, if the
difficulties which have prevented former schemes from being
successfully carried out are overcome, this great work which
was commenced by the late Mr. Brunel more than 20 years
ago, and upon which upwards of £40,000 were expended up
to 1843, may yet be accomplished. The road way of the
roposed bridge is 850 feet in length, and 220 feet above
high-water mark.
ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS.—At a meeting
of the council on the 12th inst., the Jacksonian Prize for
1859 was awarded to Mr. John Whitaker, Hulke, of Old
Burlington street, a Fellow of the College, and Assistant-
Surgeon to the King's College and Royal Opthalmic Hos-
pitals, for his dissertation on the morbid changes in the re-
tina, as seen in the eye of the living person and after re-
moval from the body, together with the symptoms associated
with the several morbid conditions. At the same time an
honorarium was awarded to Mr. Charles Bader, of the
Royal Opthalmic Hospital, a member of the College, fur his
essay on the same subject.
THE STONEIIOUSE RIFLE CORPS.—There appears
to be a screw loose in this corps, and it arises on the ques-
tion of the appointment of officers. When the first com-
pany was-formed, we understand that it was the wish of
B. Marsh Dunn, Esq., to be its captain, but Lord Valle-
tort, being a captain of some militia company or other, de-
clined to serve as lieutenant in the Stonehouse Rifle Corps.
His lorlship was subsequently elected captain, and it was
understood that Mr. Dunn would be elected to the captaincy
of the next company. There are now sufficient members
to form a second company, but Lord Valletort hesitates to
form it. Mr. Dunn is thus kept out of his captaincy. He
has therefore resigned.—Tlyinoteth Journal,

THE MAILS, &C.—SOUTHAMPTON, April 12.
The
Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamship Messi-
na, Capt. T. Black, took her departure to-day for Gibral-
tar, Malta, and Alexandria, with the heavy Bombay and
Australian mails. Among her cargo she has 800 boxes of
specie and jewelry, value £250,034 Is., of which £26,000 is
in gold, £219,965 in silver, and£27B in jewelry for Bombay;
and jewelry value £1,341 ss. for Mobson's Bay, £7lO for
Melbourne, and £1,709 Hs. for Sydney. She takes out 61
first-class and 34 other passengers, among whom are Capt.
W. E. Nowell and Sergeant-Major Cunningham and wife,
for Gibraltar; Major Balfour, Surgeon Gardiner, Armoury
Sergeant Wennham, Surgeon-Major Mockler, Staff Assis-
tant-Surgeons E. Gribbon and Ligestwood, and Captain
Norris, for Malta ; Surgeon D. G. Penrith, for Sydney ;
Capt. A. T. Etheridge, Dr. R. Butler, Assistant-Surgeons
R. Alleyne and T. Ffolliott, Lieut. R. Jenkins, Sir George
Clerk, Capt. Clerk, Capt. Hodgson, Major-Andrews, Lieut.-
Col. Grimes, and Dr. Miller, &c.
Some paper manufacturers of Essones, Angou-
leme, and other places have published, in the form of a
pamphlet, a letter addressed by them to the Minister of
Commerce, against the exportation of rags. They maintain
that the export of rags, • even on the payment of a high
duty, would inevitably cause the ruin of the paper manu-
facture in France, inasmuch as it is only by the prohibition
to export that rags can be obtained at a price which enables
good paper to be made cheap. Moreover, if, say they, per-
mission to export were to be accorded, not only English,
but German, Austrian, and Dutch makers would come to
France for rags, and the consequence would be that the
price would rise so high that France would be unable to
compete with foreigners in the manufacture of paper. In
Belgium, for example, the export of rags is prohibited, and
therefore rags are cheaper than they would be in France if
export were allowed. But as the Belgium paper brought
into France pays only 25f. the 100 kilogs., it could mani-
festly be sold cheaper than the paper of France.
THE MONEY MARKET.—The stock market opened
yesterday morning with a very unsettled appearance, but
the measure of the Bank, instead of leading to a further de •
cline, caused a favourable reaction, and prices closed wills
an appearance of more steadiness than has been observable
for two or three days past. During the recent pressure in
the money market a curious idea has been current, that it
is in some way to be traced to the action of the Bank re-
fusing accommodation to the discount houses. The Bank
have advanced their rate of discount solely because the
public have drawn so largely upon them as to reduce their
unemployed reserve to a comparatively low figure, and it is
impossible to gonceive how the state of things could be
mended by their admitting the discount houses as custo-
mers when they find themselves obliged to contract their
accommodation to the customers already pressing upon
them. If they were now to mate advances to the discount
houses it must be by withd-awing some of the advances
already made to the commercial community, and although
the discount houses would, 'doubtless, lend the money again
to the merchants, and thus throw it back to the hands in
which it was previously held, such a proceeding would be
merely like digging a hole to fill it up again. The discount
houses can require it only in order to supply the public,
and the public have got it already. It is not an increased
supply of the brokers for the distribution of Bank notes
that appear to be wanted, but Bank notes themselves, and
unless, therefore, the discount houses can exercise some in-
fluence over the actual production of those articles, all
question with regard to their functions and the facilities
that should be granted them must appear, at the present
moment, not only unimportant, but incongruons,—Times'
. city Article.

1?AlLIV AY INTELLIGENOE.

METROPOLITAN.

A special meeting of this company was held yes-
terday at the London Tavern ; Mr. W. A. Wilkin •
son in the chair.

The CHAIRMAN said the meeting was held, in
compliance with the standing orders of the House
of Lords, for the consideration of certain bills now
before Parliament.

Mr. BURCHELL, the solicitor, read the heads of
the first bill, termed the " Metropolitan Railwa3
Act, 1860." It had passed the House of Commons,
and was in the HOuse of Loris. The object of the
bill was to authorise the company to extend the
works, to purchase certain lands for stations, and to
alter the level of certain streets, with power to use the
markets in Smithfield. Extension of time for mak-
ing the railway. There were also clauses enabling
the company to release the deposit on the first
capital of £300,000, and the second capital of
.C 700,000, authorised by former acts.
A motion approving the bill was adopted unani-
mously.
The next bill was the Great Northern and Metro-
politan Junction Aet,lB6o. It authorised a junction
with the Great Northern on the west side.

A resolution approving the bill was unanimously
adopted.
The CHAIRMAN called attention to the necessity
of assisting the proposed palace at Muswell-hill, on
the ground that if constructed it would greatly in-
crease the traffic on their line. . _ _

Mr. PEARSON thought that an effort should be
made to get up a demonstration in which all the
shareholders should join, and all persons on the
line whose property was affected by the railway
works. It was proposed that the Lord Mayor
should lay the first stone at the junction with the
Great Western Company, and that the ceremony
should be celebrated in every way worthy the oc-
casion.

Mr. PARSON would put down £5O, and thought
the expense of the ceremony and dinner might be
raised by subscription.
The meeting then adjourned.