The Sun.
London, England, 1856-08-26 00:00:00

THE BISHOPRIC OF LONDON.

The public will learn with regret and alarm that
powerful efforts are now making to prevailon Lord
Palmerston to nominate Dr. Waddington, the Dean
of Durham, as successor to Dr. Blomfield, in the
diocese of London. We adjure Lord Palmerston,
both for the sake of vital religion, and for his own
sake, not to listen to the solicitations with which
he has for some time past been so earnestly and
incessantly plied to- induce him to make such an
appointment. It would cause the deepest pain and
grief in the minds of all those who rejoiced so greatly
in the Noble Lord's recent appointments to the
bishoprics of Carlisle -and Bristol, and would de-
prive him of all the prestige which these two ap-
pointments have given him. His Lordship, we
happen to know, bad fully made up his mind, five
or six weeks ago, to bestow the vacant diocese of
London on another and very different person. The
appointment of the latter would have been popular
with all parties, both in the Church and out of it ;
for the clergyman to whom we refer not only is,
of necessity, from his position and locale, intimately
acquainted with the ecclesiastical necessities of the
metropolitan diocese, but there is not within the
pale of the Church of England a single minister of
that Church more devotedly attached to her doc-
trines and ritual, nor one who surpasses him in his
zeal, or unremitting efforts, to promote what he
regards as her best interests. We repeat that
Lord Palmerston had quite decided, but a few
brief weeks ago, to make this exemplary clergyman
the successor of the present Bishop of London ;
and we do again express our earnest hope that he
will not only disregard the improper influences
which have been brought to bear upon him, in fa-
vour of the most disastrous appointment which he
could make, but that he will carry out his original
intention. —Morning Advertiser.

The Queen and Prince take great interest in the
grounds at Osborne, a-4.1 the progress of the plantations.
A considerable portion is the fruit of their own handi-
work, and the Prince himself wields the gardeners' irre•
p'ements with no little skill, showing himself as much at
home in this matter as in scientific and other intellectual
employments, or the state ceremonies of the Court. In
the lighter operations of the garden Mince Albert is ge-
nerally accompanied by the Queen, who will also often
give assistance, and it is this personal identification and
interest in the growth and progress of Osborne which
generated the idea of the annual rural fete that has just
b'en celebrated in honour of the Prince's birthday.—
Court Cite/day. •
Yesterday his Royal Highness the Duks of Cam-
bridge honoured Mr. Mayan's photographic establish-
ment with a visit. After going through the gallery of
portraits of eminent men, the gallant duke gave a sitting,
and the artist succeeded in obtaining a singularly suc-
cessful likeness. His Royal Highness wore the undress
uniform of General-in-Chief.

The Duke and Duchess of Roxburgh and family have
arrived at Fleury Castle from Byreoluch.
The Marquis of Normanby arrived at Parma on the
17th from Piacenza, where he had lia-1 an audience of
the Duchess Regent, and continued his journey on the
same day for Florence.

General Changarnier has arrived at Ostend, and is
expected to make a stay there of several weeks.
M. Niebuhr, the Prussian General of State, has just
recovered from an ophthalmic attack, and has mitered
upon his official duties.

The Viceroy of Poland, Prince Gortschakoff, left on
the 19th for Moscow in orier to be present at the coro-
nation.

We read in the Gazette des Pastes of Frankfort, " The
Spanish Infant Dan Juan, who, it has been said. was at
Bordeaux, is staying with his motherdn•law, the Princess
Beira, at Baden, near Vienna."

THE FORTHCOMING REGISTRA-TIONS. —The revi,ing
barristers are appointing the days for the revision of the
lists of voters. The revision must take place between
the 15th September and the 31st October. Mr. Mac•
queen has fixed the registration for the borough of Fins.
bury, at the Lord Justices' Court, Lincoln's-inn, for
Wednesday, the Bth October.

A letterirom Vicar za, in the Opinione of Turin, says,
" The hatred of Austrian rule is displayed here whenever
al opportunity occurs,. Llet week, General Schneider,
being at the baths of Recoaro, wanted to give a ball,
and sent invitations accordingly to all the ladies that
were there for the benefit of their health. None of them
accepted."

FATAL ACCIDENT IN THE MEDWAY.—On Friday after-
noon a boat belonging to H.M.S. Trafalgar, left the
Sheerness pier with seven persons in it, three men, three
women, and a boy, who were going on board the Trafal-
gar. The wind a: the time was blowing almost a hu.ri-
cane, and on approaching that vessel they missed the
gangway ladder', and the boat drifted astern. The sea at
that moment caught the boat under the ship's quarter,
and capsized her, the whole of tic persons in the boat
being thrown into the water. The boatswain of H.M.S.
Devonshire immediately put off in a boat, and succeeded
in rescuing five of the persons. A man named Griffiths
was floating on the surface of the water with his face
downwards, and appeared to be dead. He was imme-
diately taken on board the Formidable, where the usual
remedies were resorted to to restore suspended anima-
tion, but without effect. The body of a woman named
Maycock was not recovered.
MURDER AT LIVERPOOL.—One of those dreadful tra-
gedies, arising met of a vicious course of life, occurred
between twelve and one o'clock on Sunday morning, in
Bond-street, Liverpool. A man, named William Ray,
formerly one of the police-officers of the town, has, for
some time past, been lodging at a house in Bond-street,
Vauxhall-road, with an abandoned woman, Emily Mason
by name, both of them living upon the fruits of her
disgraceful traffic. Ott Saturday night they quarrelled ;
but towards midnight a reconciliation was effected, and a
jug of ale was fetched in by the woman. They again
quarrelled over the liquor, and Ray struck her. His
pen-knife, with which he had been cutting cavendish
tobacco, lay open upon the table, and she threatened
that if he struck her again she would "stick" him. He
dealt her another blow, when she immediately snatched
up the knife, and plunged the blade in his breast, pro-
ducing a wound about two inches deep under the left
nipple, in the region of the heart. He rose from the
table and went into an upper room, occupied by the
master of the house, a man named Duffy. " Duffy,"
ho said, " I'm done." " What's the matter ?" said
Duffy. "Oe, it's my toe," replied Ray. Duffy went to
him, and perceiving blood trickling from under his trou
sera, he examined him, and found the wound in the
breast. This was all the work of a few moments. The
woman came in at this juncture, and Ray shook her by
the hand, and said, " I forgive you." He then fell back
and expired. Subsequently the woman gave herself up
to police-officer 112 (kl'Donald), to whom she gave the
knife with which she had stabbed deceased. When re-
moved to the Main Bridewell, she made a full confes-
sion, we believe, to Scott, the book-clerk, the particu-
lars of which will transpire at the police-court to day.
Some time after this dreadful occurrence, Catherine
Burns, aged forty-one, a poor woman, living in Eldon-
street, was walking along Bond-street, when a man
named Dedd, or Hobbs, charged her with being the
woman who had committed the murder, and knocked
her down, causing her a severe scalp wound. She was
removed to the Northern Hospital, and he wag taken
into auet9dy,—Liverpool