The Sun.
London, England, 1860-04-24 00:00:00

"STRAND.

A very lively farce, entitled " A Race for a
Widow," was produced here last evening, and met
with triumphant success. The fun consists in the
stratagems of two Cockney fortune hunters—a Mr.
Cornelius Popjoy and Mr. Alfred de Cremorne, to
secure the hand and heart of a charming widow
with £3OO a-year. The anxiety of each to
secure the prize lead them into all sorts of
difficulties, from which they were only
relieved by the lady herself informing them
she already possesses a husband, who is anxiously
waiting her return to London. The parts of Popjoy
and Cremorhe were excellently well played by Mr.
Rogers and Mr. Turner, and Miss Bufton made a
most fascinating young widow. The piece has been
put upon the stage with all that care and attention
for which the fair manageress has so distinguished
herself, and will prove for a long time highly attrac-
tive. The house was very fully and fashionably
attended.

Mrs. Gore, the novelist, who for some time past
has been afflicted with blindness, has just undergone an
operation which, it is hoped, will eventually restore her to
sight.

Professor Owen had the honour of delivering the
first of a series of lectures on Natural History, at Bucking-
ham Palace, before his Royal Highness the Prince Consort,
their Royal Highnesses Prince Alfred, Princess Alice,
Princess Helena, Princess Louisa, Prince Arthur, Prince
Leopold, and the Ladies and Gentlemen in attendance.

MARRIAGE IN HIFII LlFE.—Yesterday forenoon
Lord Adolphus Vane Tempe-t, M.P., led to the hymeneal
altar Lady Susan Pelham Clinton, eldest daughter of the
Duke of Newcastle. The solemnity took place at St. Mary's
Church, Bryanston-square, and was Conducted, as far as the
attendance of the relatives of both families, with the greatest
privacy. After the religious solemnity the newly-married
couple repaired to llolderness House, Park-lane, the resi-
dence of Frances Anne, Marchioness of Londonderry, where
a dejeunei• was !provided for a select circle, including the
Duchess of Marlborough, the Earl and Countess Vane, &c.
The noble bridegroom and lady left town in the afternoon
for the south coast to pass the honeymoon.

SOUTH MIDDLESEX RIFLE CORPS.—The 2d or
South Middlesex Rifle Volunteer Corps will be inspected by
Earl de Grey on Wednesday next, the 25th inst., at G p.m.,
in Hyde-park, on the site of the old Crystal Palace, the
Civil Service Volunteers kindly keeping the ground.

An extraordinary meeting of the Westminster
Palace Ciimpany (Limited) is called for the Ist of May, in
accordance with a requisition signed by a number of the
shareholders, who object to the proposed arrangement with
the Secretary of State for India, and talk of appointing a
committee to investigate the position of the undertaking,

THE FIRE IN LAMBETH.—Yesterday Mr. Wm.
Carter, coroner for East Surrey, held an inquest on the
body of Thomas Balfour, aged one year, who lost his life at
the fire which occurred on Friday last, on the premises of
Mrs. Wise, in James-street, Lower-marsh, Lambeth. The
case having been gone into, and evidence taken, the jury
returned a verdict of accidental death.
THE PUBLIC INCOME AND EXPENDITURE.—The
gross public income of the United Kingdom of Great Bri-
tain and Ireland in the year ended the 31st of March last
was £71,089,668 17s. 4d.; the total expenditure,
£69,502,289 4s. 2d., leaving an excess of income over ex-
penditure in the year of £1,587,379 13s. 2d. The balances
in the Exchequer on the 31st of March were £6,369,520 6s.
9d. at the Bank of England; and £1,603,313 lls. 2d. at the
Bank of Ireland. _ _

LAUNCH OF THE CAPE MAIL STEAMER CAMBRIAN.
—Yesterday afternoon, the launch of the screw steamer
Cambrian, belonging to the Union Steam Navigation Com-
pany, of Southampton, and intended as a mail ship between
that port and the Cape of Good Hope, took place from the
shipbuilding-yard of Mr. C. Lungley, of Deptford, and in
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by her builder, Mr. C. Lungley. The following are her
exact dimensions:—Length between perpendiculars, 230 ft.;
ditto over all, 252 ft. ; breadth extreme, 30ft. lin. ; depth
of hold, 191 t. Gin. ; burden in tons, old measurement, 1,019
18-94ths.

PLYMOUTH, Monday.—The ship La Hogue, Cap-
tain John Williams, belonging to Messrs. Dunbar, of Lon-
don, from Sydney January 19, was off the port yesterday.
She spoke, February 20, lat. 57 S., long. 70, the Ancient
Mariner, of Sunderland, bound westward ; March 5, lat. 30
S., long. 29 W., the bark Johannes and Helena, 45 days
from Iquique, for Falmouth ; March 7, lat 281 S., long. 281
W., the Russian bark Torqu, 74 days from Honolulu, for
Bremen, and the French ship Bun Pere, 61 days from
Mazatlan, for Bordeaux ; March 16, lat. 7 S., long. 301 W.,
the Dutch bark Ulysses, from Grimsby for Macassar ; 28th,
lat. 15 N., long. 25 W., the ship Blue Jacket, from Sydney,
December 24, with troops fer London; April 14, lat. 46.10
N., long. 18 W., the Danish bark Malvina, 20 days frem St.
Thomas, for Copenhagen; 16th, lat. 46 N., long. 13 W., the
bark Bellina, bound West.
TIIE MOORS.—After a winter of great length and
severity sportsmen are naturally anxious to know how it
fared with grouse among the snow-clad hills, and what may
be the prospects of sport for the coming season. Some of
the oracles, we observe, have already spoken : grouse, they
say, have perished from scarcity of food and bad weather.
But those who have had opportunities of studying tho habits
of the hardy Tetrad Scoticus, at all times of the year, vouch
for the well-known fact that the most rigorous winter
neither thins their numbers nor impairs their health. The
result of careful inquiries in this district, from persons
thoroughly competent to know, is that grouse aro looking
as healthy as ever, and if there is a good breeding season
sportsmen will have no cause to complain of their sport in
1860.—Inverness Courier.

DISAPPOINTED LOVE.—On- Friday afternoon,
when the roll of emigrants on board the Tsaac Webb was
being called over, a female was found on board without a
ticket, and was placed in a small boat, to be conveyed to
the shore. She pleaded earnestly to be allowed to go in the
ship to New York, whither, she said, her "lad" had gone
in the Dreadnought, but her entreaties were vain, and the
boat proceeded towards the shore. Suddenly the unwilling
passenger sprang from the seat and jumped into the river,
where she struggled for sonic time, but was at length res-
cued, and removed to the receiving-house at the Prince's
Dock.—Liverpool

We wish we could see a system of quicker pay-
ments introduced into the navy. The disadvantages of the
present mode are many, but the most prominent is the dis-
satisfaction felt by the seamen, who always prefer receiving
their pay and allotments at short intervals. The Manning
Commission of 1859, amongst other suggestions, recom-
mended strenuously a better regulation for the payment of
wages, and we believe that the Admiralty arc at present con-
sidering this point. It would be very desirable to have the
recommendations of the commission promptly carried out.
As a general rule, seamen are incapable of manaOnc, their
pecuniary affairs in a satisfactory manner, and the larger
the amount they have to receive, the greater is the excess
they are apt to indulge in. Quicker payments would ne-
cessarily involve payments in small sums, which would
have a tendency to familiarise the men to the possession of
money, and might be presumed to act beneficially in check-
ing that thoughtless extravagance so characteristic of our
seamen. At all events, the means of gratifying their ex-
cesses would be diminished in proportion to the sums they
had to expend. Few things act more injuriously upon
certain temperaments (and the sort of temperament we
mean is very common amongst sailors) than the sudden
possession of funds to an amount that seems
to them large. The desire to expend it is pro-
portionate to the amount, and the feeling is often aggra-
vated by previous restraint. The consequences are
excess, drunkenness, and insubordination. We do net
believe that quicker payments and in smaller sums would
be a cure for all the defects in our naval system, but that it
could not act otherwise than beneficial to the service is
acknowledge I by almost every one that has given the matter
a thought.--A my and Navy Gazelle
ACCIDENT TO A BOAT ON TIIE Lin.—A fatal ac-
cident happened on the River Lea on Saturday evening.
Two boats, each containing three youths, came in collision
in front of the waterworks close to Lea-bridge. The whole
of the six were instantly immersed. One only could swim,
and he reached the shore in safety. Another was got out
immediately afterwards, but the remaining four were
drowned. Their bodies were dragged out in about seven to
twelve minutes after the fatal occurrence, and though every
means that medical skill could suggest were resorted to,
their efforts were unavailing. Up to the present time but
one of the bodies only has been recognised.