The Sun.
London, England, 1856-11-18 00:00:00

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

SIR,—In your impression of they 7th inst. you state
that the London General Omnibus Company have
"60,000 horses, 3,000 men, " * run about 20,000
miles daily, and convey the almost incredible aggregate
of a million of passengers."
Surely there is some misstatement here (not designed
of course), seeing that the weekly traffic returns of the
company:amount, in round numbers, to about 11,0001.,
and averaging the million passengers at threepence each,
gives a daily receipt of 12,500/.
There is plainly a blunder somewhere, perhaps mine
owing to the word " aggregate," which having been
differently explained by a Solicitor and an Attorney-
General, and bothered a Committee of the House on the
Friendly Societies Bill, I may perhaps be pardoned for
being unable to credit that upwards of one-third of the
whole population of the metropolis enter the company's
'wises in one day, for which very likely you think me
A THICKHEAD.

[The article was copied from a morning paper ;
but there is evidently a mistake. About a million
passengers for the week would •be nearer the num-
ber. Allowing a fifth to be deducted would be
nearer the mark, and about 11,0001. the returns.—
ED. SUN.]

Prince Alfred, sec and son of her Majesty, arrived a,
Heidelberg on the 10th instant, with his tutor and at-
tendants, and remained there two days, after which he
continued his journey by way of Constance to Geneva.
CABINET COUNCIL.—A C abinet Council was held yes-
terday afternoon at the official residence of the First
Lord of the Treasury, in Downing-street. It was
attended by Viscount Palmerston, the Lord Chancellor,
the Marquis of Lansdowne, Earl Granville, the Earl of
Harrowby, Sir George Grey, the Earl of Clarendon,
Lord Panmure, Mr. Secretary Labouchere, the Chan-
cellor of the Exchequer, Sir Charles Wood, the Right
Hon. R. Vernon, Lord Stanley of Alderley, and the
Right Hon. M. T. Baines.
Prince Karl of Leiningen, half-brother of our Queen,
whose death has just placed the Court and royal family
in mourning, is succeeded by his eon Ernest, who is now
serving as a midshipman in the British navy.
Lord and Lady Lyndhurst and the Hon. Miss Copley
have recently arrived in town from Paris. We are glad
to learn the noble and learned lord is in excellent health.
The Earl and Countess of Bective and family have
arrived at the Lodge, Virginia, county Cavan, from
Underley Hall, near Kirkby Lansdale, Westmoreland.
Viscount Palmerston returned to town yesterday
from Brocket Hall, Herts.
Viscount Campden has arrived lat Claridge's Hotel
from Campcltn House, Gloucestershire.
The Dowager Lady Blantyre and Miss Stewart and
Mrs. Ferrand have left Claridge's Hotel for St. Ives,
near Birgley, Yorkshire.
Quern Christina has quitted Marseilles for Rome.
The price of grain is rising at Adrianople.
The silk crop has failed at Aleppo.
The medical advisers of the Czar have recommended
him not to quit Russia this season.
The King of Naples has issued a decree authorising
i the construction of a railway from Naples to Toronto.
The new entrance to St. James's Park was opened
yesterday.
Mr. E. Chadwick is a candidate for the vacant seat
at Southampton.
Nicolaieff is now garrisoned by a force of 8,000 men,
and Kiew by 6,000.
A new organisation of the agens de change is in con-
templation by the French Government.
Sir Charles Young has left Constantinople, in the
Caradoc, for Trieste.
A Berlin letter states, with much confidence, that
friendly relations exists between Roesia and Persia.
The Emperor and Empress of Austria has set out foil.
their visit to the Italian states. They reached Laibach
on Monday evening.
The Princess Charlotte of Belgium, whose marriage is
announced with the second brother of the Emperor
Joseph is only 16 years old.
The weather, a week ago, in the Baltic, was very col'',
and frost set in very saverely, but a few days sgo it
moderated and the ice broke up.
The weather has become warmer at St. Petersburg.
The ice was breaking up, and the vessels detained by
the frost were putting to sea.
The confirmation of the Bishop elect of London will
take place at Bow Church on Thursday, the 20th inst.,
at 11 o'clock.
General Narvaez 'is reported to have said to Lord
Ho o. den, on the occasion of a visit from that nobleman,
that ail communications from the British Government
must be addressed to him in writing.
The daughter of Admiral Parseval Deschenee, while
confessing herself last Saturday at a chapel in the de-
partmen'; of the Aine, fell down in an apoplectic fit and
expired the same evening.
ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL, GRAY'S-INN-ROAD. The
number of patients relieved at this hospital during the
week ending Nov. 15, was 2,043, of which 763 were new
cases, the others having been previously under treatment.
FOUNDLING HOSPITAL.—A. statue to the memory of
the founder of this hospital, Capt. Coram, was placed
on Monday last on the stone structure in the centre of
the entrance gates. The work is by Mr. Wm. C. Mar-
shall, R.A., and the expense of it has been defrayed by
private subscription. The figure, which admirably re-
presents the philanthropist, as handed down to us by
Hogarth, is 8 fe, t high ; and besides being a just, though
tardy compliment to so good a man, wilt relieve the
1 monotony of a line of low buildings hitherto offensive to
the architectural eye. The uncovering of the statue was
followed by Handers anthem of " He delivered the poor
that cried," and the National Anthem. accompanied by
the juvenile band of the hospital. The children were
the vocalists.
MIDDLE TEMPLE.—MICRIELMAS TERM, 1856.—The
under-mentioned gentlemen were this day called to the
degree of the outer bar :—John Philip Green, Esq., of
4, Harcourt-buildings (holder of the studentship awarded
by the Council of Legal Education), LL.B., London
University, the only son of the Rev. Henry Green, of
Heathfield, near Knutsford, Cheshire ; Henry Fuleher
Brunet, Esq., of Mauritius (certificate of honour of first-
class, awarded by the Council of Legal Education), the
eldest ;son of Francis Leo Brunet. late of Mauritius,
Esq., deceased ; James C. M'Cowan, Esq., of 4, Essex-
court and London University, the only son of Clement
M'Cowan, late of Charlemont, county of Armagh, Ire-
land, E,q., deceased ; Frederic Seebohm, Esq., of Brad-
ford, the second son of Benjamin Seebohin, Esq., of
Bradford, in the county of York ; G. Trafford, Eiq., of
4, Essex-court, the eldest son of Leigh Trafford, Esq.,
of Rugby, Judge of the County Courts of Atherstone,
Birmingham, and Tainworth ; and John Patrick Mur-
phy, Esq., of 1, Hare-court, and of Trinity College Dub-
lin, 8.A., the eldest son of Patrick Matthias Murphy,
of 9, Lower Pembroke-street, in the county of Dublin,
one of her Majesty's counsel in Ireland, and chair-
man of the Quarter Sessions. Chas. C. Hockley, Esq.,
of Doctors'-commons, the third son of Edward Hockley,
of the Middle Temple, and:of Doctors'-commons, special
pleader, has permission of the Hon. Society of the
close Middle o
f t
the
dinner
Tempi©itio practise as a conveyancer. [At the
ntr last evening in the Hall of the
Middle Temple, a dinner rendered rather remarkable by
the presence at the Benchers' table of two Attorney -
Generals, the " late" Attorney-General, Sir Alexander
Cockburn, and the " new" Attorney-General, Sir
Richard Bothell, the former was greeted with load and
prolonged acclamations as ho passed down the Hall for
the last time—no longer Mr. Attorney-General, but
virtually the Lord Chief Justice of the Court of Common
Pleas I Very nearly twenty-seven years ago he
was called to the bar in that same old Hall of the
Middle Temple, namely, in the February of 1829. And
now, in the November of 1856, he has passed out of it
in the fullness of his powers to assume permanently a
conspicuous position among the :ledges of the land—
regretted by the House of Commons, and leaving
the
a
splendid name behind him at the Bar. Among
incidents marking this change in his position, not the
least interesting, or the least welcome to the new Lord
Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, joust have been the
earnest farewell accorded to him last evening by his
young admirers and his old associates, the students and
barristers of that ancient Inn of Court, in which he first
won for himself his high forensic reputation.]
INNER TEMPLE, Nov. 17.—The undermentioned gen-
tleinen have this day boon called to the bar by the llon.
Society of the Inner Temple :—Wm. F. Robinson, jun.,
Rice
Esq., B.A. (Certificate of Honour), Wm. James Carver,
Es., 8.A.,,
Hen, B. Sheridan, E es , Arthur
Thomas B. Baines, Esq., 8.A., Charles L.
Kenney,
ley, Esq., Francois IL E. Bazire, Esq., Henry Gover,
Esq., LLB., Richard M. King, jun., Esq., 8.A., Wm.
. Scratch.
0. Brigstoeke, Esq., 8.A., and Dan. Collimore, Esq.
LINCOLN'S INN, Nov. 17.—The undermentioned gen-
tlemen were this day called to the degree of Barrister-
at-Law by the Hon. Society of Lincoln'ainn :—Thomas
Dunbar Ingram, Eel., Theodore Henry Dickens, eq.,
John Onslow Watts, Esq., Robert Willan, Esq., Wm.
Bayne Ranken, Esq., John Jackson Stnale, Req.,
John
Robert Collier, Esq., Sidney Biddle, Esq., Henry Pace,
Esq., Brownlow Emitter, DA., Joseph Howard, Esq.,
and George Murray, Eaq.
GRAY'S-INN, Nov. 17.—At a pension of the Hon.
Society of Gray's-inn, holden this day, Philip James
Wingfield, Esq., Thomas Dudley Ryder, Esq., M.A.,
and Tames Ridley, Esq., were called to the degree of
Barrister-at-law.
DONCASTER.—Between 12 and 1 o'clock on Sunday
EXTENSIVE INCENDIARY FIRE AT HATFIELD, NEAR
morning, a fire was discovered among some corn stacks in
the farm premises of Dr. Mathews, a magistrate for the
West Riding, in the village of Hatfield, nearDoncaster.
The flames spread with the utmost rapidity, and in a short
time extended to 14 steaks, the whole of which were
completely destroyed. The 'fire-engines from Doncaster
were sent for, and they arrived at 1 o'clock, within an
hour after the' conflagration had commenced, but too
late to be of any service, the whole of the stacks having
by that time been burnt. A powder-flask was subse-
quently found near one of the stacks, and there is not
the least doubt that the fire was the work of an incen-
diary. The value of this property deelrqed is estimated
at I,49o4—Mccitchesto. Guardian.