The Sun.
London, England, 1856-09-25 00:00:00

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

Slll,—Finding that my name has been advertised in
your paper as chairman of "The General Industry Life
and Fire Assurance and Sick Fund Friendly Society,"
I have to beg the favour of being allowed to inform the
public through the medium of your journal that I am
not the chairman of the said society, nor indeed con-
nected with it in any way whatever.—l am, sir, your
obedient servants

GEORGE CRUIKSHANK.
48, Mornington-plaee, Sept. 24th, 1856.

His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge has left
town for Sir George Wombwell's seat in Yorkshire, on
a visit to the gallant baronet.
The Duchess of Wellington bas left Tester House,
Haddingtonshire, where her grace has been visiting the
Marquis and Marchioness of Tweeddale, for Balmoral,
to relieve the Marchioness of Ely in her duties as Lady
in Waiting on her Majesty. The Duke of Wellington
has left Apaley House to make a series of visits.
The Marquis and Marchioness of Salisbury and Lord
Eustace Cecil, on leaving the North of Scotland, pro-
ceeded on a visit to the Earl of Eglinton, at Eglinton
Castle, Ayrshire, and have since arrived at the family
seat, Hatfield House, Herta, for the winter.
Lord Stanley, M: P., we learn, has undertaken to
deliver a lecture early in the next month at the Manches-
ter A thenteum, on education and criminal reformatories.
The Treasury have sanctioned a loan of 5,0001. sought
for by the Drogheda Corporation, for building bridges
over the river Boyne.
Yesterday, at the Hampton Sessions, Thomas Dunball
was fined 51.. for wilfully crossing the South-Western
Railway while a train was advancing at the rate of 30
miles an hour. The guard shut off the steam, and thus
preserved the man from instant death.
• Yesterday, John Frost delivered a lecture on trans-
portation at Greenwich.
THE ROBBERY AT MR. WY/MS.—Two men were yes-
terday committed for trial by Mr. Jardine for being
concerned in the robbery which took place on 22d of
August, last.
BELFAST AND BALLYMENA RAILWAY.—It is now said
that the extension line of the Belfast and Ballymena
Rail',vay to Cookstown will be opened by the Lord Lieu-
tena at, accompanied by the contractor, W. Dargan,
Esq., the directors, engineers, &c., on the 16th October.
The Limerick Observer states that some of the leading
bankers and merchants of London openly express their
conviction that John Sadleir is still alive, although it is
now added that his body was recognised by a ci devant
clerk of the London and County Bank, whom John
Sadleir had formerly caused to be dismissed.
UNION OF MOLDAVIA AND WALLACHIA —A public
meeting is to be held at the Town Hall, Brighton, on
the evening of Monday next, relative to the union of
Moldavia and Wallachia, as a barrier against Russian
and Austrian aggression. Several members of the
House of Commons have accepted invitations to be pre-
sent.

JARROW DOCKS ON THE TYNE.—On Tuesday afternoon
Mr. T. E. Harrison' C.E., laid the foundation stone of
one of the principal entrances to the Jarrow Docks on
the Tyne. These important marine works, which are in
the course of construction for the North. Eastern Rail-
way Company, are of considerable interest to persons
concerned in the coal trade.
PRESENTATION INKSTAND to M. BENEDETTI.—A very
elegant obje d'art, forming an inkstand, has been pre-
sented by the British Government, through the Earl of
Clarendon, to M. Benedetti, formerly French Minister
at Constantinople, and who, from his knowledge of the
Eastern question, was selected as secretary to the Pleni-
potentiaries at the recent Conference at Paris, in token
of respe t for his services.
FALL A CHAPEL.—A fine new building in Bury
New-rcad, Manchester, in the Gothic style of architec-
ture, with a spire, erected as a chapel for the Indepen-
dents, fell on Wednesday morning at five o'clock, owing
to some defects of construction. Fortunately no one
was near at the time, and, as it was isolated from the
surrounding dwellings, no loss of life was consequent
upon the disaster.
MR. CLARKSON, THE BARRISTER.--We regret to say
that this learned gentleman still continues in a very pre-
serialist state of health at his Brighton residence on the
King's-road, and that no favourable change can be re-
port'ed. His severe illness arose in the first place some
ten -weeks since from a large carbuncle on the back of the
neck, and for which he underwent an operation; which,
sahough skilfully performed, had the effect of producing
great prostration. After several changes the learned
gentleman, we are sorry to say, is in a state to excite
considerable apprehension and fear.
By the courtesy of the Secretary of the Euphrates
Valley Railway Company, we are informed that Mr.
Andrew (the chairman) has received a telegraphic de-
spatch from General Chesney from Constantinople, to
the effect that the Grand Vizier had received General
Chesney rind Sir John Macneill very warmly, and that
his highness expected to give them a grand conference
in a few days with his colleagues. General Chesney and
Sir Jolrn Macneill had also had an interview with Reis
Effendi,

A .RUSSIAN VOICE ON THE NEAPOLITAN QUESTION.-
We ^read in the Nord of Tuesday :—" The Government
of Naples is prepared for any emergency, as is proved by
tY,te defensive works executed upon the coast, and by the
condition and stzength of the army assembled round
Naples, and reviewed by King Ferdinand on the 10th.
For our own part wewill remind our readers that the
King of Naples has not been unaware of the utility of
certain reforms, and we remain convinced that ha will
be capable of realising them. We do not place confidence
in an armed display, and we regret that France has con-
sidered it her duty to follow England in a demonstra-
tion which has, in substance, the mischievous effect of
constituting an interference with the policy of an inde-
penrient state."

CHARMING.—At the Wolverhampton Borough Police
Court, on Tuesday, John Clark was convicted of obtain,
ing several sums of money from a young man named
Richard Moore, under pretence of curing him of fits by
the administration of pills and drugs, and by palmistry.
There was also a charge against him of having "charmed"
Mr. Forster Gough, attorney, out of 4/. by fraudulent
representations. The magistrates committed him, as a
rogue and vagabond, to three months' bard labour for
the first offence.— Wolverhampton Chronicle.
CITY REGISTRATION.—The name of Sir J. Duke was yes-
terday omitted from the list of the Lorimer's Company, on
the ground that there was a custom in the city of London
that a person becoming a freeman and liverymen of one
company could not become a freeman and liveryman of
another company, and enjoy all the privileges of that
company weich he enjoyed in the first, without being
formally translated from one to the other.

HIGHWAYMEN ON OVR RAILWAYS.—" A Sportsman"
in a letter to the Times says, I am in the habit of sending
boxes of grouse from the north of Scotland to my friends
in various parts in England. I see that the boxes are
made strong and well nailed down, and yet I am sorry
to say scarcely a box reaches its destination which has
not been robbed on the road. If it contains 10 brace
these bold robbers generally take two ; if it contains 20
they take four. Surely, this sort of thing ought not to
go oa in a country which boasts of having such good
regulations.

CHARON OP MURDER AND ROBBERY.—On Friday
and Saturday Catherine Bethune was tried before the
Circuit Court, at Inverness, on a charge of murder and
robbery. In the end of June last a lone woman, named
Margaret Maclean, residing in a turf hut in the parish
of Lochmaddy, 'was missed for some days by the neigh-
bours. The door of her hut was at length broken open,
when the old woman was found dead, and with marks
of violence on her person. The prisoner had been seen
abont the hut some days before, and the few articles of
Property that had belonged to the deceased were found
in the prisoner's possession. The jury found the charge
of murder not proven, but convicted her of theft, and
Imving been several times previously convicted, she was
'Sentenced to six years' penal servitude.—Edinburgh
Courant.

CRYSTAL PALAOE COISPANY.—Some farther facts, says
the Daily News, relative:to the recent fraudulent reissue
of shares of this company, tending to show that either
the management of the transfer department must have
been very lax, or that the frauds of the company's
late clerk, William Robson, were conducted with
extraordinary skill. It is certain that they have
been of long standing, for during the last day or two
transfers have been returned as irregular to members of
the Stock Exchange in cases in which the shares had been
registered in the company's books, and certificates of
registration given as far back as nine months ago. For-
tunately in all these instances, as we are informed, the
amounts involved are individually small. It is evident
from thee• cases that Robson must have been almost
entirely exempt from official control in his own depart-
ment, and the laxity of the company's practice in
this respect furnishes an additional ground for the de-
mand of the sufferers that the company shall assume the
whole of the loss incurred through the malversations of
their recognised officers.
THE BURGLARIES AT NOTTING-HILL..---A correspon-
dent writing to the Times, after dwelling upon the let-
tors of "Pistol" and " Revolver," the use of each of
which he disapproves, goes on to say—Now, I revive
the long disused "man trap." I know the highways
and byways of my own house. I know where the plate-
chest is deposited. I know better than my swell in-
truder the vulnerable points of the place, and there I
plant my " trap." I sleep very securely until my man
is caught. And let not the sensitive or the sentimental
complain that I run no risk of encountering the philan-
thropy of the Cruelty to Animals Society. My trap has
a good grip. It holds its customer hard, but does not
hurt him unless he attempts to get off—then it squeezes
him more and more, and won't let him go anyhow. It
hooks him above the knee. True, he will give tongue a
little, and then I descend slowly and carelessly towards
him. I know my bird is bagged. As to his making off
with the trap, he may as well march off with the rock
of Sisyphus. He is a fixture for the time. Again,
when I find any of my neighbours' houses to " let,"
and I suspect a visit from the roof, I take my second
trap (for I keep two) and place it under the fall, when
I catch him, like the late fly-stickers, " all alive," and
transport him accordingly with his kit of instruments. I
nem let him out of the trap till at the station.

LATEST NEWS.

The Paris correspondent of the Times (second
edition) says :
" The departure of the ultimatum is still de-
layed, but this is not to be attributed to doubt
or hesitation, but to a desire carefully to mature
it, and not to act with precipitation. There oan
be no doubt that it will go, and that within a
day or two, unless in the interval intelligence
should come that the King of Naples has given
way. It is not, however, in expectation of this,
or in any sanguine reliance on the success of
Baron Hubner's good offices, that the slight delay
occurs, which may rather be explained by a re-
gard to the deliberation and dignity proper to be
observed in such grave circumstances. Reports
have been current of an interview between Count
Walewski and the Marquis Antonini, in which
strong representations were said to have been made
by the latter ; but no importance is to be attached
to this, and indeed the affair as it now stands may
be considered as removed altogether beyond the
scope of the Neapolitan Minister at Paris."

The correspondent of the Morning Post (second
edition) says—

It is • probable that the present week will pass
over before the French and English Governments
take any decided steps regarding the departure of
the squadron for the Bay of Naples. lam igno-
rant of the reason why a delay has occurred unless
it be dictated by an impression that conciliatory
news may be expected from Naples.
General Martini, the Austrian Ambassador at the
Court of the Two Sicilies, left Vienna on the 22d
for Naples. We may therefore conclude that the
Cabinet of Vienna has definitely agreed as to what
position the King of Naples shall assume, and how
far he is to resist or comply with the demands of
England and France. The assurance of some answer
coming from the Cabinet of King Ferdinand by
telegraph is the cause, I am told, why the Allied
squadron is not already approaching the Bay of
Naples. Not to expect a shuffling answer when
such Governments as that of Naples and Vienna
unite would be a proof of forgetfulness of the
past. We have no reason to anticipate anything
but an attempt to evade the demands made
on his Sicilian Majesty by promises to amelio-
rate the political condition of the Two Sicilies at
some future period. The dignity of the Crown
will probably be put forth, dtc., (Sec., and Austria
will--having suggested the reply—approve of
the same ; urge France to withdraw her action,
and leave England isolated. Perhaps that is the
very test thing that could occur. At all events,
from all I hear, it is well that her Majesty's Go-
vernment should be prepared for a repetition of
that trickery which the Cabinets of Vienna prac-
tised throughout our late dispute with Russia.

A Berlin letter of the 19th, in the Nuremberg
Correspondent, says :—" Accounts from Vienna
represent that the object of the visit of Baron
Hubner to the King of Naples is to induce him
to accept, net all the demands of the Western
Powers, but the more important of them, and to
come to an understanding with him as to their
details. In the event of the King consenting to
this, Austria offers to act as mediatrix, so as to
cause the Western Powers to accept the conces-
sions he may offer. The appearance of an en-
croachment on the sovereignty and independence
of the crown of Naples is to be avoided, if the
King can be brought to an arrangement. A
period will, it is true, be fixed for the execution
of the engagements of the King, but it will not
be made too short, and the execution of the mea-
sures will be abandoned to the Neapolitan Go-
vernment itself. These details come from a very
good source."

A letter from Galatz of the 9th says :—" The
commission on the frontiers of Bessarabia has
traced the frontier from the sea to Bolgrad,
where it arrived last evening. This having been
done in the course of a week, it may be hoped
that the whole frontier can be traced by the end
of the month, or by the beginning of October.
The commissioners are to leave to-morrow with-
out stopping at Bo!grad. The frontier was traced
by means of an ordinary plough, which accom-
panied the commissioners. The dispute relative
to Balgrad has not yet been terminated, and the
commissioners are waiting for instructions about
it."

"A letter from Athens," says the Emancipa-
tion of Brussels, " states that the representatives
of England and France have handed to the Pre-
sident of the Council a list pf a Ministry drawn
up by them in common. The Queen Regent has
not accepted this list, alleging as a reason the
absence of the King."