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

THE SUN, LONDON,_ WEDNESDAY EVENING, NOVEMBEk 26, v R 56

ME DUCHESS OF ATHOL —The Duke of Athol, in
writing to a contemporary, says :—You will oblige me
by contradicting the 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.
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Mr. John Goss, organist of St. Paul's Cathedral, has
been appointed composer to her Majcaty's Chapel
R)yal, St. James's, in the room of Mr. W. Knyvett,
deceased.

A horse that was in the famous cavalry 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-
teiring 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
,nerely 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
.he Wizard of the North has bad his right band 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/. was sold to
the Bank yesterday in addition to the 180,0101. delivered
,n 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 manufactured
sas quiet, the attendance of buyers being limited.
REPRESENTATION OP EAST SUPFOLK.—We alluded in
'ur last Journal to a rumour that Lord Henniker (Con-
4ervative) would be called upon again to offer himself to
the eldctors as a candidate to represent Est Suffolk in
Parliament. What was then uncertain has now become
an accomplished fact. His lordship is in the field.—
Ipswich. 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
he winter season. The bux plan will be kept at Mr.
S'am's royal library, St. James's-street.
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-
airalty, to have our port considered a naval station,
have been again attended with good effect. The Driver
mounts six large guns, and is manned by about 200

men.
A. SLIGHT DIFFERENCE —The telegraphic operator of
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. He fancied that the Royal British Bank could be
QO 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
3onnect Worrell with the murder of George Carter,
issued placards giving a description of Worrell, with
the view of discovering the cabman by whom be 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. AP.TEUR 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.
qr. Charles Dillon was :,n 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, Fork-road, King's-cross, is announced to take
~dace at St. James's Theatre on Tuesday next, when
will I.le performed Massinger's play of " A New Way to
Pay Old Debts," with other entertainments, supported
ay the members of the Oxford Dramatic Club. We are
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the authority of the Lord Bishop himself, that he has at
present no intention of retiring from the diocese. At a
dejeuner 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 datic,s in the manner which the
interests of the see dematv:ted.—Essex Herald of yester-
daThe ship Clar,, li, oilier, left Southampton three weeks
ago for Sil-aderland, Another collier left Southampton
afterwards, and had reached Sunderland, loaded, and
wls on her return voyage, and had not fallen ili with the
Clara, and nothing had been heard of her. The relatives
of the crew, seven in number, consequently became
alarmed. Yesterday, however, news reached Southamp-
ton that the Clara was at Brovershaven, on the coast of
Holland. She has no doubt been driven on that coast by
the recent prevailing high winds.
CITY COMMISSION OF SEWERS.—At 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
about 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, Esq., High Sheriff of Suffolk, as a
oken 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.
GAIM. AT LIVERPOOL.—LrnorooL, Tuesday. —lt blew
a 0!..1e last night from north to north-north-west, during
which the John Haven, for Calcutta, and the Heidel-
Cerg, from New Orleans, at anchor in the river, drove
From their anchorage and got into collision. The John
Haven lost rnaintopgallant 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, Ac. The statement that the ship S. M. Fox, ashore
on the Burbn Bank, was breaking up from the effects of
the gale of Saturday night is incorrect ; a fiat was along-
side to-day endeavouring to save the remnants of her
cargo.
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MELANCHOLY DEATH OF A GENTLEMAN.—Mr. teeorge
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 home-
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afflicted cousins buried the young gentleman in the
cemetery of the town.
MONUMENT TO DECEASED MEDICAL OFFICERS OF THE
frnAiglhgtiersT, hpeutvienstsoelinawthpiclahcew, aasndthheins
kinlY.—At a special general meeting of military medical
:,fficers, held at the Army Medical Board, Whitehall, on
I 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 1
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 pubiic labours. The
sum of 3271. 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
morning, an
AaltuilinulluCtideventetpg THE GERMANS."—On
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 the spectators, occurred on the departure of the train
conveying 500 discharged German soldiers from Col-
chester to Harwich, for embarkation to Hamburg. A
tiMajorng i n Raines,
upright assistant
posture,
occasioning no small merriment
On Thursday
female having been suspected of being bribed or
smuggled into the train under cover of the soldiers,
Nibleu, Station liut::4;ti, ..-_-. .14
were ..i. Orem time in an:.”
folds of the martial cloak he ex along , the rows of
search "to discover the secreted fair one. At length the l
loon eyes of the Major, in Illaueiug.
ciaunaditermaster-general,
iand
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soldiers, rested en a oettaill eltspictons todkthg foitt, sit-
ahwahsuiodmewpdaleustuotcno, commanded attnhhdeeeyduaptoria
a country looking girl, of about Axial:4ll*h° was bidden
from bonnet to shoes behind it. An outburst of laughter
pt!)7dwtignvgif4awsidtebethfiegaumrepolef
from the Germans followed the discovery of the lady,
they did, and taking
When asked where abe was going, she said, "to Ham-.
burg with the Germans," and on being told die must be
she got there, she pertly replied that s; ie 'didn't care if
gcoe,melootetdbP amanazdinognly beeililnyg.
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