The Sun.
London, England, 1856-08-11 00:00:00

VICE-PRESIDENT OF THE COUNCIL o:if EDUCATION.

Her Majesty, by an act of Parliament passed on the
29th ult. (the 19th and 20th of Victoria, chap. 116), is
1. empowered to appoint any member of her Privy Council
to be Vice-President of the Committee of Council on
Education, at a salary not exceeding 2,0001. a year.
Yesterday morning the Right Rev. Dr. C. Baring,
who has been appointed Bishop of Gloucester and
Bristol, and the Right Rev: H. J. C. Harper, whe has
been appointed Bishop of Christ Church, Now Zealand,
were consecrated in the private chapel of Lambeth
Palace.
ABOLITION OF THE OFFICE OF CIIRSITOR
BA soN.—
The office of Cursitor Baron is abolished by an act of the
late session, and any duty of the office may be per-
formed by the Court of Exchequer, or any Baron of the
Coif, er any officer of the Court as the Court or the Lord
Chief Baron shall from time to time direct.
• FATALITIES FROM LIGHTNING.—During a thunder-
storm oo Friday night, at Poynton, near Stockport, a
young man named Bowden, aged 19. standing near one
of the coal pits of Lord Vernon, was struck dead by
lightning. Another man who was standing near him
was also struck by the lightning, and died soon after-

afterwards. A third man was knocked down, and the
soles of his shoes were separated from the upper leathers,
but he sustained no personal injury.
A BRAVE YOUTH.—The Lincolnshire Chronicle says :
—" On the afternoon of Tuesday, an infant accidentally
fell into the Witham through the railings of Waterside
South. Several persons witnessed the calamity, but a
lad of about 14, named John Bolder, livinu in Granthatn-
street, was the first to take prompt measures fur rescuing
the little unfortunate. Divesting himself in a moment

of some of his clothes, he leap-ed into the river, and
seizing the drowning child, manfully held it above the
water, going down himself several times in his successful
efforts to save it. At one time it was feared that both
would be drowned, but happily Bolder was a strong
swimmer. -This laudable and courageous act in a lad
deserves the highest praise, and one of the Royal Humane
Society's medals might here he properly disposed of."
THE BELL FOR THE NEW PALACE AT WESTMINSTER.,
—The casting of the great bell for the Clock Tower of
the New Palace at Westminst-r was accomplished on
the 26th ult., at Norton, near Strlckton-on-Tees' by
Messrs. Warner and Sine,, of th 3 Crescent Foundry,
Jewin-street. The mould had been in course of prepa-
ration for six weeks, and two reverberatory furnaces,
capable of melting ten tons of met:ll each, had been
built expressly for the purpose of casting this monster
bell. The whole of the previous night the workmen
were busily employed, and early in the morning, the
furnaces having attained the requisite heat, the doors
were opened, and the operation of charging or putting
in the metal commenced. The latter operation occupied
about an hour, and in less than two hours and a half the
whole of the metal required, 18 tons, was in a state of
perfect. fusion. At a given signal the f6rnaces mere
tapped, amd the metal flowed from them into a pool
prepared to hold it, before being admitted into the bell
mould; the shutter or gate was then lifted, and the
metal allowed to flow. In five minutes the casting of ;
the bell had beezieffeeted.