The Sun.
London, England, 1856-11-26 00:00:00

THE DUCHESS OF ATKOL —The Duke of Athol, in
writing to a contemporary, seys :—You will oblige me
by contradicting th© report published in some of the
London papers), that "the Duchess of Athol has been
received into the Roman Catholic) Church within the last
few days by the Very Rev. Dr. Manning," as there is
not the slightest foundation for such a statement.
Mr. John Goes, organist of St. Paul's Cathedral, has
been appointed composer to her Majesty's Chapel
Royal, St. James's, in the room of Mr. W. Knyvett,
deceased.

A horse that was in the famous eavalrY charge at
Balaklava now runs in a Southampton omnibus. If it
hears the sound of a gun it starts off, and there is the
greatest difficulty in reigning it in.
No appointment of a vice-president of Education will
take place until Parliament is about to meet, neither will
any arrangement be finally made as regards maintaining
the Board of Health as a separate department, or trans-
ferring it to the Home-office.
Thackeray says, "We do not travel nowadays ; we
arrive at places ;" and Ruskin, in his late volume, says,
" Railway travelling is not travelling at all ; it is
merely being sent to a place, and very little different
from becoming a parcel."
ACCIDENT TO PROFESSOR ANDERSON.—lntelligence
was current amongst theatrical people last evening that
the Wizard of the North has had his right hand irreco-
verably shattered by the bursting of a pistol during the
performance of some of his tricks of legerdemain at
Liverpool.
Australian gold to the amount'of 150,000/. wag sold to
the Bank yesterday in addition to the 180,0101. delivered
on Monday. Out of the 1,300,0001. brought by the
James Baines and the Lightning the Bank have thus
received 460,0001., and the total may yet probably be
increased by a further moderate sum.
The weekly reviews of the Amsterdam and Rotterdam
produce-markets state that with a moderate business
prices continued to be well supported. In coffee and
sugar the operations had not been very extensive, and
there was little tendency to speculation. The letters
from Rouen mention that the market for manufactures
was quiet, the attendance of buyers being limited.

REPRESENTATION OF EAST SCIFFOLK.—We alluded in

our last Journal to a rumour that Lord Henniker (Con-
servative) would be called upon again to offer himself to
the electors as a candidate to represent Eat Suffolk in
Parliament. What was then uncertain has now become
an accomplished fact. His lordship is in the &W.—
/pit:4cl, Journal.
The amateurs who played for the Patriotic and Cri-
mean funds last season, and those who performed a
month since before her Majesty, are to give a dramatic
performance, on Friday, Dec. 5, the proceeds to be de-
voted to the relief of destitution in the metropolis during
the winter season. The box plan will be kept at Mr.

Sam's royal library, St. James's-greet.
HER MAJESTY'S SHIP DRIVER,—We ( Waterford
Wail) are glad to perceive, by the arrival of the aoove
war steamer in our river, that the frequent and earnest
requests made on the part of the corporation to the Ad-
miralty, to have our port c3esidered a naval station,
have been again attended with good effect. The Driver
mounts six large guns, and i 3 manned by about 200
men.

A SLIGHT DIFFERENCE —The telegraphic operator cf
Vera Cruz, on the arrival of the bark Pegasus, on the
Ist of October, telegraphed to the city of Mexico the
astounding intelligence of the failure of the Bank of Eng-
land. Ho fancied that the Royal British Bank could be
no other than the great national banking institution of
the British people.—American paper.
THE ERITH MURDER.—Yesterday afternoon, Mr.
Superintendent Mallalieu, in order still more closely to
connect Worrell with the murder of George Carter,
issued placards giving a description of Worrell, with
the view of discovering the cabman by whom he is sup-
posed to have been driven from the London-bridge
(North Kent) railway station to Kennington, between
four and five o'clock on Friday, the 7th inst.
DEATH OF MR. ARTHUR DILLON, THE ACTOR.—Mr.
Arthur Dillon, the father of Mr. Charles Dillon, the
talented lessee of the Lyceum, died last evening, after a
long illness, at his lodgings, Broad-court, Bow-street.
Mr. Charles Dillon was on the stage in the last act of
" Fabian," when the melancholy intelligence reached
the theatre, but it was not communicated to him until
the performances had come to a conclusion.
A benefit in aid of the funds of the Great Northern
Hospital, York-road, King's-cross, is announced to take
place at St. James's Theatre on Tuesday next, when
will be performed Massinger's play of " A Now Way to
Pay Old Debts," with other entertainments, supported
by the members of the Oxford Dramatic Club. We are
informed that this institution, which was established
June 30, 1856, by Mr. S. F. Statham, F.R.C.S., for-
merly of the University College Hospital; has been the
means of relieving no less than 9,000 patients during
the past five months.
THE RUMOURED RETIREMENT OF THE BISHOP OF
ROCHESTER.—We are happy in being able to state, on
the authority of the Lord Bishop himself, that he has at
present no intention of retiring from the diocese. At a
dejeunear given after the consecration of a church in this
county last week the subject was alluded to by one of
the speakers, when the venerable prelate said, though
he felt advancing age, and his health had been lately
impaired, causing the duties to press rather heavily upon
him, he had no intention of retiring so long as he was
able to discharge those duties in the manner which the
interests of the see demanded.—Essex Herald of yester-
day.
The ship Clara, a collier, left Southampton three weeks
ago for Sunderland. Another collier left Southampton
afterwards, and had reached Sunderland, loaded, and
was on her return voyage, and had not fallen in with the
Clara, and nothing had been heard of her. The re!atives
of the crew, seven in number, consequently became
alarmed. Yesterday, however, news reached Southamp-
ton that the Clara was at Brovershav en, on the coast of
Holland. She has no doubt been driven ()a that coast by
the recent prevailing high winds.
CITY COMMISSION OF SEWERS.—A t a court held by
the City Commissioners of Sewers yesterday, Mr. Turn-
bull, Mr. Smith, and several inhabitants of the Tower
Ward, called attention to the inconvenient narrowness
of Lower Thames-street, towards Tower-hill, and the
great amount of cart and waggon traffic there. They
observed that some premises in the street were now
aboat to be rebuilt, which offered a favourable opportu-
nity for abating the nuisance by widening the thorough-
fare. The matter was ordered to be considered at the
next court.

TESTIMONIAL TO ANDREW ARCEDECKNE, ESQ.—On
Tuesday last the committee appointed to carry out the
wishes of the subscribers met at the White Hart Inn,
Wickham Market, whence they proceeded to Glevering
Hall. Here the Rev. G. T. Turner, the chairman, in a
short but appropriate speech, had the honour of handing
to the High-Sheriff a pair of massive silver claret jugs,
bearing the following inscription :—" Presented to An-
drew Arcedeckne, E,q., High Sheriff of Suffolk, as a
token of the high esteem in which he is held by his
friends and neighbours." It is worthy of mention that
every subscription was entirely unsolicited. —Essex
Herald. _ _ _

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GALE AT LIVERPOOL.-LTVEBPOOL, Tuesday. —lt blew
a gale last night from north to north-north-west, during
which the John Haven, for Calcutta, and the Heidel-
berg, from Nev Orleans, at anchor in the river, drove
from their anchorage and got into collision. The John
Haven lost maintopgallant mast and had her starboard
quarter damaged, and subsequently drove on shore near
the Woodside pier, but was assisted off this morning's
tide. The Heidelberg's anchors got foul of the Woodside
moorings, and she had to ship them to enable her to go
into dock. The ferry steamer Wirral ran into a schooner
last night, and carried away the latter's bowsprit, figure
head, &e. The statement that the ship S. M. Fox, ashore
on the Burbo Bank, was breaking up from the effects of
the gale of Saturday night is incorrect ; a flat was along-
side to-day endeavouring to save the remnants of her
cargo.
MELANCHOLY DEATH OF A GENTLEMAN.-Mr. George
Grenville Fortescue, of Bonconnoc, Cornwall, met with
his death, under very distressing circumstances, a short
time ago. He had been cruising with his cousins, Lord
and Lady Drogheda, in their yacht the Fancy, during
the summer and autumn, in the Mediterranean, and
with them he had visited Greece, Constantinople, the
Crimea, and other places. They Were on their I;ome-
ward voyage, and on the afternoon of Sunday, the 2d
inst., after having taken part in the services of the day,
he went up into the rigging for cooler air or amusement,
as he had often done before, when suddenly, either from
some panic or giddiness, or some cause not known, be
fell en deck from a height of 30 feet. He was taken up
senseless, and he received such injuries by the fall that
he died the same night. The vessel, which was than
about 170 miles off Algiers, put into that place, and his
afflicted cousins buried the young gentleman in the
cemetery of the town.
MONUMENT TO DECEASED MEDICAL OFFICERS OF THE
AEMY.—At a special general meeting of military medical
officers, held at the Army Medical Board, Whitehall, on
Wednesday, the 15th ult., ,the Director-General in the
chair, it. was decided unanimously that a monument
should be erected as a lasting testimony of affectionate
regard and esteem for those medical officers, civil and
military, who lost their lives in their country's service
during the late campaign, and as an estimate which their
surviving brethren entertain of their public labours. The
sum of 327/. was announced to have been already sub-
scribed by the medical officers in Turkey and the Crimea;
but as the majority of officers of the department who
may wish also to support the undertaking have not yet
had an opportunity of subscribing their names, and as a
further sum is necessary to enable the committee to carry
out the design proposed, subscriptions will be received
by Messrs. M'Gregor, the army agents, and by the
principal medical officers at all stations, at home and
abroad.
" To HAMBURG WITH THE GERMANS."—On Thursday
morning, an incident, occasioning no small merriment
to the spectators, occurred on the departure of the train
conveying 500 discharged German soldiers from Col-
chester to Harwich, for embarkation to Hamburg. A
female having been suspected of being bribed or
smuggled into the train under cover of the soldiers,
Major Raines, assistant quartermaster-general, and Mr.
Nibloe, station master, were for some time in active
search to discover the secreted fair one. , At length the
keen eyes of the Major, in glancing along the rows of
soldiers, rested on a certain suspicious looking form, sit-
ting in upright posture, and, throwing aside the ample
folds of the martial cloak he exposed to view the figure of
a country looking girl, of about sixteen,who was hidden
from bonnet to shoes behind it. An outburst of laughter
from the Germans followed the discovery of the lady,
who was commanded to come forth, and on being
handed out of the carriage, looked amazingly silly.
When asked where she was going, she said, " to Ham-
burg with the Germans," and on being told she must be
a simpleton, as they would be sure to leave her when
she got there, she pertl replied that she didn't care if
they did, and taking a "last fond look" at the " Cousins
German" left the platforte.—Essex Herald.