The Sun.
London, England, 1858-06-05 00:00:00

S U 01V, ATIIR DAY - E V-E NI N I_BsB.

MACRE, Mr. WILLIAM Atraysras is brother-in-law 1
of the Right Hon. WrLmait FRANCIS COWPER,
M.P. for Hertford, and late President of the
Board of Health—and beyond this, as every one
knows, the son of Lady PALMERSTON by her first
lord, the fifth Earl COWPER. It is, therefore, dis-
tinctly as brother-in-law of the step-son of Lord
PALMERSTON that Mr. WILLIAM AUGUSTUS TOLLE-
MACHE has rapidly advanced through two or three
distinct professions. The brother-in-law of the
step-son of the late Premier began his remarkable
public career with a commission in the Life
Guards. Very soon blase with this he enters
diplomacy. He is at Paris and at Rio, as paid
attaché, successively. Tired of the G uards, tired
of Diplomacy, he becomes agent to one of the
Foreign Legion Regiments. And, at last, settles
down comfortably, we hope, as Treasurer to the
Kent County Courts.

Such, rapidly sketched, is the public career of
Mr. WILLIAM AUGUSTUS TOLLEMACHE, brother-in-
law of the step-son of Lord PALMERSTON.
Contrast that career, happily not yet ended,
with the career (alas ! long ago irreparably closed)
of poor ROBERTS, Master, R.N., dead at 38,
after services really and truly in their way mag-
nificent.

No measure of recent days has been received
with more general approbation than that of the
Attorney-General for Ireland, for the sale and

,ransfer of land. Not a word was uttered against

he salutary principles enunciated, and even the

. . _
Right Hon. Gentleman who last night suggested
that it should be referred to a select committee,

declared that if, by so doing, its passing during
the present session could be at all endangered, he

would withdraw the motion.

The operation of the Encumbered Estates Act
has proved the importance to the community of
creating Parliamentary titles, which should be
wholly unimpeachable. Property to the value of
some twenty-two millions sterling has been trans-
ferred under its operation, and there are nearly

7,000 landed proprietors in the sister kingdom,

who can sell or mortgage their estates without being
required to go back beyond the date of their pur-
chase. This was an inestimable advantage, which
at once raised the marketable value of their pro-

perties fully 10 per cent. Tuere was but one
drawback. It was unfair to the more prudent

parties, who had not embarrassed their estates,
and who were consequently subjected to great
disadvantages if they desired to bring their lands
to the hammer, or to offer them as security for
temporary advances. Indeed many ingenious de-
vices were resorted to in order to bring property
within the jurisdiction of the court.
The object of the present bill is to render per-
manent, and materially extend the principles
which have already worked so beneficially. A
new tribunal is to be established, to be termed the
Landed Estates Court, which shall have jurisdic-
tion over all real estates, whether encumbered or
unencumbered, and to order the specific perform-
ance of contracts for the sale of lands, and to con-
vey the same, with an unimpeachable title, to the
purchaser. _ _ .

So far, it may be remarked, the effect was only
to place all real estates on the same footing, and
to confer on the solvent proprietor the advantages
enjoyed by the insolvent, or, at all events, em-
barrassed persons. But the present act goes fur-
ther, enabling persons to bring their titles under
the Court without selling the property. This
is one of its most valuable provisions. Why
should a gentleman who desires to bequeath
a clear and untuestionable title to his children
be compelled either to encumber or sell his here-
ditary domains, getting them back by a circuitous
and expensive process ? Why should he not, if
he deemed it expedient, be enabled to submit his
deeds to the jurisdiction of the Court, and obtain
a judicial declaration respecting the validity of
his title, that would prevent the possibility of
future litigation? There should be an easy mode
of doing anything directly which might be done
indirectly ; and that will be accomplished by the
admirable measure of legal reform introduced by
the Irish Attorney-General, and which we hope
and believe will ere long be (*ended to this

country also.
We do not at present enter into the details,
but there are ample materials for enabling the
House to dispose of them judiciously and properly
without risking the fate of the bill by the delay
that must inevitably have attended the appoint-
ment of a Select Committee.

At a Privy Council held at Buckingham Palace
at 12.30 this day, Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton
was duly sworn in a member, and the Right
Honourable Gentleman and Lord Stanley were
respectively confirmed in the offices to which they
have recently been appointed as one of her
Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State and Presi-
dent of the India Board. Lord Stanley previously
resigned his soils of office as Secretary of State
for the Colonies, which were then delivered to
Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton.

It is generally anticipat3d that Lord Stanley
will, on Monday next, make a general statement
of the intentions of the Government with respeet
to Indian Legislation. It must be borne in mind
that this distinguished Nobleman, whose aid has
been courted by every Administration of late years,
is, although young in years, one of the oldest
Indian Reformers. In 1853 he proposed the
abolition of the East India Company's charter, at
the time when Sir Charles Wood succeeded in ob-
taining a renewal of the charter.

DEP.A.II;TU.RE OF THE COVRT FROM THE
ISLE OF iflciHT.

The royal family embarked from the Trinity
Wharf on board the Fairy at three o'clock this
afternoon. A royal salute was fired fram the
Royal Yacht Squadron Battery ; and as the royal
yachts Fairy and El6n steamed through the Road-
stead, the Danish corvettes Thor and Heimdahl
saluted her Maj:'sty with 27 guns each, dippin
o.
their flags in compliment to the Queen of Ens
The Prince Consort is expected from Germany
on Monday next.

ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA.—HER MAJESTY'S FIRST
VISIT.—The new theatre is this evening to be honoured
with the presence cf her Majesty and the Royal Family,
The opera to be performed is " II Barbiere di Sivigliai
in which Bosio, Ranconi, and Mario, will sustain the
leading Characters,.
HAYMARKET THEATRE. —Her Majesty, accompanied
by his Serene Ilighnees Prince Victor of floheialohe and
suite, visited this theatre last night, to see the comedy
"An Unequal Match," now being played nightly.
A letter from Marseilles of Wednesday last informs
us that severe 1 pieces of artillery ha I been forwa ded net
day from the ars-n:4l there ler the defence ef the Gulf of
Clots. aed the small part of C.vssi-. Pdxban guns of
30 eel' In3trei and huwitz re of 22 centimetres are to
be
Be rl3:ualere43l, eotn thethe haCthateau of C 8
teryof M aletassgL the Croat
aLecgue fo
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and
ohertat eve,:
teeno unarmedthecoa since the
ieyear thesebattenriB s i 5
which h,
are now being vpiired. Two battnies are likewise
about to le erected on the pier of the new
Napoleon
Dock at Marseilles. Taese batteries are intended to
produce a cross fire with the guts of Pinede do Croix,
as to pr )t( et the entrance of the several ports on the
coast. Captain Auzet, of the Engineers, had prepared a
plan to be presented to the Emperor, for the comple'e
defence cf the peal of Mar,,eilles, which, it may be re-
collected, was entered by Captain Usher, commending
the frigate trodaunted, en February, 1814, in spite of
the cl I forts.
STEAM TO YORK.—The uteamship Saxonia, from
Hamburg to New York, left Southampton, 3esterdar,
with 420 passengers and a full cargo, for her destina-
Con.

THE ATLANTIC TELEGRAPH.—By an error of the tele-
graph the day on which' the Atlantic Telegraph Expe-
dition will finally start, it was stated yesterday as the
19th inst. It should have been the 9th.
FIRE AT THE TRIUMPHAL MlCH.—Last evening the
triumphal arch at Hyde-park was illuminated in a some-
what singular manner. The furnace chimney of the
erection, which has an elevation of about 100 feet, took
fire about ten o'clock, and continued to pear forth flames
for nearly two hours, casting a lurid and fitful light
about the statue of the noble duke and his martial steed.
The curious scene attracted the attention of several
hundred passers-by. It is probable, owing to the sub•
stantial nature of the Materials, no irjary will accrue to
this natiocal memorial.
ATTEMPTED MURDER.—Yesterday the screams of a
married woman named Hannah Hawkins, who resides
in Marshall place, Borough-road, alarmed the neighbour-
hood. It appears her sister, Mary Sarah, had a quarrel
with her, when she seized a knife and stabbed the unfor-
tunate woman on the arms and face, and effected her
escape. The violence and brutality of the woman Smith
are so well-known in the neighbourhood that persons
were deterred from interfering. She was conveyed to
the hospital, where her wounds were dressed, but would
not remain in the institution or give her sister in charge.
FATAL DIVE FOR A WAGER.—Yeet?rday morning a
dreadful occurrence took place at Bankside at an early
hour. Thomas Shaw, who resided at 209, Kent-road,
Borough, agreed with a man named Watkins, in the
same street to dive for a wager. They started off while
in a state of intexicatien and commenced diving, when
Thomas Shaw, jumping from a height, struck his head
against a log of timber and fractured his skull and then
fell in the water He was taken out and conveyed in an
insensible state to St. Thomas's Hospital, and now re-
remains wi'hont the slightest hope of recovery.
RAT-KILLING EXTRAORDINARY.—A gentleman living
in Wales, aided by his two juvenile brothers, killed no
less than 170 rats in less than half-an-hour, by the use of
lime. The three brothers poured some water into some
quicklime, and, atter stirring it, poured it into the rat-
holes, when out dashed the rats, heels over head, one
over the other, and were as quickly killed by sticks,
which the youths held in their hands. No dogs what-
ever were used upon the occasion • and the dead rats
filled a bushel basket.—Rats; theirjlistory, uith. name.
roux Anecdotes, by " Uncle James."
FRENCH VESSELS OFF THE SCOTCH COAST.—On Sun-
day the inhabitants of Kilmun and vicinity were sur-
prised by the crews of several French vessels at present
anchored iu the Holy Loch, amusing themselves by
shooting in boats, and also on shore, and in the evening
the captain of one of them spread out a large trawl nt 4
across the month of the river. He was accordingly ap-
prehended by the Kilmun police-constable, and brought
before William Bankier, Eice , J.P., who, by means of
an interpreter, admonished and dismissed him. This had
the effect of putting an end to the disgraceful conduct of
the crews of the other vessels for the evening.—Glasgow
Daily Mail.
THE FENS.—In ancient times, when the fans were
under water one-half the year, the ague was common
every winter, and scarcely a house escaped this tertian
visitor. The introduction of steam power enabled us to
effectually drain our fens, and the ague, it was thought,
had disappeared with the water ; inundated fields and
uncontrollable shivering were no longer to be our winter
companions. The past has bean one of the driest win-
ters on record ; for five months scarcely any rain fell,
yet ague bar been very prevalent—indeed, more general
than it has been for a number of years. The chemists
have had a strong demand for quinine, the ne plus ultra
of tonic remedies, and many of them have done a brisk
trade in ague mixtures, ague pills, and ague wine.—
,9 amforci Mercury.
ATTEMPTED SUICIDE.—Yesterday a determined at-
tempt at suicide was committed by Mr. Holloway,
tailor, 56, Dudley-street, Bloomsbury. It seems that
shortly before twelve o'clock some of the residents had
occasion to g ) into the yard, when they discovered Mr.
Holloway in the closet with his throat cut from ear to
ear ; the unfortunate man was in a kneeling position,
with his head hanging over the pan, into which the
blood was pouring, and he held an open razor in his
hand. Surgical assistance wag obtained, and the
haemorrhage having been stopped, he was taken to
Charing-cross Hospital, where little hopes of his re-
covery are entertained. Pecuniary embarrassments are
ieposed to have been the cause.
VACCINATION IN IRELAND.—A Bill of the Irish de-
partment of the Government empowers the committees
of all dispensary districts in Ireland to divide the dis-
tricts into so many "vaccination districts" as they may
deem necessary and advisable, and to require the medical
officers of the districts to attend at convenient times for
the purpose of vaccinating all persons applying for the
purpose. Boards of guardians are required to pay the
sum of 6d. for every case of successful vaccination. The
Sanitary Commissioners of Ireland in a recent report
urged the immediate necessity of promoting vaccination
in that country, as a general outbreak of the loathsome
and disgusting disease to which it is an antidote—more
than possible .t any moment—would decimate the popu-
lation and be productive of the most frightful evils.
A GALLANT RESCUE,—An accident occurred on
Thursday last whisk, but for a most providential escape,
must have terminated fatally. Several of the pupils
of Capt. Lend y were bathing in the Thames, at Sunbury,
when one of them having wandered to a distance from
his companions, was suddenly seized with an attack of
cramp. He had scarcely time to cry out for help, ere he
disappeared beneath the water. His companions were
too far to succour him in time. Happily the Hon. J.
Wynn (the son ot Lord Newborough), happened to be
rowing in a boat not far from the spot. Without a
moment's hesitation, and without even undressing, the
gallant young man plunged fearlessly into the stream,
and succeeded in bringing up his exhausted companion
and conveying ' him to a place of safety. This act of
heroism will long,be remembered by his fellow-students.
The Hon. J. Wynn is only 17 years old, and is reading
for the army.
THUNDER STORM.--A large violent storm of lightning
and thunder, accompanied by a heavy fall of rain, passed
over the West Riding of Yorkshire on Thursday even-
ing. About 20 minutes after 8 o'clock the electric fluid
struck the church of St. John the Evangelist, Leeds,
knocking off one of the pinnacles of tbe tower and doing
some other damage, but not of a very serious character.
For a short time just before the storm burst over the
town nearly total darkness prevailed, and lamps and
candles had to be lighted in the shops, dwelling-houses,
and other places. The rain literally poured down,
deluging the streets in many parts of the town. So great
was the flood, so much earth was washed up, and other
damage done at the Bramhope tunnel, on the North-
Eastern Railway, between Leeds aad Harrogate, that
traffic through the tunnels was suspended and had not
been resumed yesterday (Friday) afternoon. No loss
of life, happily, is reported. The storm was also severe
in Bradford, Halifax, Wakefield, and other parts of the
Riding.
PinßaArtliwildTicYfroAnanthis date, probably at the
lieLveavetbssaot INSOLVENCY.—We be-
lieve
of next week, a bill will be introduced
by the Lord Chancellor to consolidate and amend the
laws of bankruptcy and insolvency. The bill, we hear,
will resemble in many respects that prepared by the
National Association, a draft of which was presented
4 ) the Attorney-General, and which has probably formed
the foundation of the Government measure. But it is
said that in more than one important point the views of
the Chambers have been departed from, and, under
these circumstances, it is quite evident that the measure
prepared by these bodies, under the auspices of the asso-
ciation, will be persevered with. As, however, it is
admitted on all hands that a select committee will be
considered a preliminary to legislation on the subject of
bankruptcy, there is little prospect of any act being
passed during the present session. It is thought very
desirable that some discussion should take place in both
Houses cf Parliament ; and as the Government has
chosen the House of Lords as the arena for their bill,
the delegates cf the Chambers of Commerce will go with
their own case to the Commons. We believe that Lord
'Jelin R is- ell will in' roduce their bill immediately.—
Law Amendment Journal.
THE SWELL Mon OUTWITTED.--Much amusement
was created at the Windsor station of the Great Western
Railway on Thursday last—the cup day—at the manner
in which a large number of the London swell mob were
treated by the railway officials, on the arrival of the
morning express train froth Paddington. On the train
leaving London it was discovered by the detectives on
duty at tbe terminus that an unusually large number of
the light-firgered gentry bad proceeded to Ascot rFacr s
for the purpose of plying their trade. Immediate 'y on
being otieerved by the officials they were artfully put
altogether into the same carriage, and the telegraph im-
mediately set at work to inform the police authorities at
Windsor of the character of the importation to be ex-
pected, hinting that they would all be found together in
Western station were consequently on the .
on the tra.n
a certain part of the train The officials aatttnhhe
feGrrtebaet
arrival ef the important personages, "a
up
proceeded to th e
t o platformthe doors
otrhseo
fptohl
the
oarse ca e ri
as containing the swell mob, which they securely
keptaensdd ePs
co rritbe er (81
lecned until the rest of the passengers bad got clear out
of the station, notwithstanding the despairing aPpeali! of
instantly drawing
the individuals thus imprisoned. As soon as the station
was cleared the swell mob were released from their tem-
porary confinement, and were politely
informed by the
detectives that they were at liberty either to remnabina in
the town, where they were well knowh, or to
ck
e latter course,
to London, many of them preferring t
intensely disgusted at having been outwitted.
MEMOIRS OF PERCY B. SHELLICT.--Mr• ring says :
—As I felt but little interest in the subject of his con-
versation, 1 had leisure to examine, and I may add to
admire, tae appearance of my very extraordinary guest.
It was a rues of figure was
many contradictions. RIEI
stooped so much
la-ge and strong. He was tall, but he
light and fragile, and yet his bones and joints were
that he seemed of a low stature. His clothes were ex
pensive, and male according to the most approved
mode ot the day ; but they were tumbled, rumbled, on.
brished. His eestrires were abrupt and sometimes via.
loot, ocea:Sonelly even awkward, yet more frequently
g-ntle acid i•
reeeful, Hai complexian
almost fernieiee, of the
e purest white and red ; elicateyet he
xposure to the sun. . . .
was tanned arid freckled by
was and
His features, his whale face, and particularly his head,
wore in fact unusually emelt ; yet th© last appeared of a
remakable leek, for hi: hair was long and busby. .
passed
....
He of en rubbed it up tierce'', with his flambe or
his fingers through his locks unconsciously, so that it
was singularly wild and rough. • . . His features were
not symmetrical (the mouth perhape excepted) ; yet was
extremely powerful. They
an enthusiasm, a vivid
ternational intelligence, that I never met with
atblinreeiptffet
hreeedanofantit
ie,vmili,oloa
fire,
in any other ceuntenance. Nor was was the moral ex-
pression leas beau iful than the intellectual. . . . 1 ail_
mired his e ithusiasin cf my new acquaintance, his ardour
in the cam, ef ecience, and his thirst for knowledge.
But there was one phy ical blemish that threatened to
eeut,alize all l.is Excellence. This.blimish was his Voice.
--eraser's Magazine.

!LATEST NH WS.

TRIESTE, JUNE 4.

The Greek papers are full of exaggerations
about insurrections in all parts of Turkey, and
the most extravagant accounts of the state of
affairs in Candia.

News from Constantinople of the 29th of May,
announces that the insurgents of Malaga increase
hourly, and that five other districts have risen.
A despatch from Athens says that King 0 Eho is
going to Kissingen to meet the Emperor Napoleon.
The railway of tho Piraeus has been tested and
approved of.

FRANCE.
PARIS, FRIDAY.
The weather which was intensely hot yesterday
(at 2 o'clock the thermometer marked 33 degrees
centigrade), has become more mild to-day. Last
evening there was every appearance of a thunder
storm, and during the night there was a heavy
gale of wind, but no rain. This morning the air
was much cooler, and during the day the heat of
the sun was tempered by an agreeble breeze. Ac-
counts received from all parts of France represent
the appearance of the growing crops as magnificent,
and the prospect of a rich vintage is everything
that could be desired.
Some difficulty is experienced in finding func-
tionaries of high standing who will accept office in
Algeria under the new system of organisation and
the lieutenancy of Prince Napoleon. Whether it
be from the unwillingness to emigrate which is cha-
racteristic of the French geneially, or from politi-
cal motives, it appears that, with the exception of
a few of the inferior employes, the offers of the
Government have been respectfully declined. It is
said that a former representative of the people in
the Constituent assembly, once eminent among his
party, but who seems to have renounced political
pursuits, has refused the tempting proposals made
to him, in spite of his intimacy with Prince Na-
poleon.
BOURSE, June 4.—The close of the Bourse has
been very gloomy, except as regards the Rente,
which kept its ground comparatively well. The
other Securities gave way in consequence of im-
portant sales. Some defaulters were spoken of,
and this circumstance probably assisted the down-
ward movement. The following were the last
quotations :

per Cents 93 401
Do. end month —

3 per Cent. ..... 69 45
Do. end month 69 50
Bank Shares
Credit Mobilier
Do. Account 590
RAILWAYS.-
Orleans
Northern
New Ditto 720
Lyon and Mediteran 732
New Ditto

Geneva

PRU
A telegram from Bet

Credit Fonder
Belgian 42
Piedmontese (5) 9l
Roman BB
Austrian
Spanish Threes ....... 44?
home Debt 3Bi
--FOR CASH.
Midi
Western 560
Strasburg
Grand Central
Sardinian
Austrian

3SIA.
in, dated the 4th ins

says :
His Royal Highness Prince Albert was received
:IA the Grossbeeren station of the Anhalt Railway
by his son-in-law Prince Frederick William. Their
Royal Highnesses left in a postchaise foe the Castle
of Babelsberg, near Potsdam, where they arrived
at 8 o'clock in the morning. The Prince of Prussia
was there to receive his august guest. The de-
parture of Prince Albert will probably take place
on Monday next.

the Interior had drawn up new regulations for the
Royal CounciL The Gazette announces that on the
30th September next the Government will put up
to public competition 15,000 quintules (the Spanish
quintal is 1001bs.) from the mines of Almaden, now
in the depot at Seville, as also all that may have
arrived in London for the Spanish Government by
that day.

Mr. lodge, the Genoa journals state, embarked
at that port on the evening of the 26th ult., on
board the British steamer Teneriffe, bound for
Enc./WIC!.

The Austrian Correspondence says :—" Private
letters received from Ragusa state that the two
French line-of-battle ships left the pnrt of Gravosa
on the 29th ult., and steered to the southward."

A Koenigsberg letter, in the Nuremberg Corre-
spondent, says :—" It is now certain that the dele-
gation of the Prince of Prussia will be prolonged
to the month of October, and at the expiration of
that time the King cannot assume the reins of
government, a regency will be established."