The Sun.
London, England, 1858-11-29 00:00:00

THE LIBERTY OF THE PRESS IN
PARIS.

The Sun, Globe, Daily News, Express, and
Morning and Evening Herald, were seized in Paris
on Saturday. The subscribers to Galignani's
rooms had nothing to read bnt the Times, _Post,
and Chronicle, in neither of which was there any
report of the Montalembert trial, which was the
very thing that everybody was anxious to see.
The Times was detained with the other papers in
the morning, but as usual was released later in the
day by special orders from the Ministry of the
Interior.

The Nord was first stopped on account of a
very short report, which was all the correspondent
of that paper could give ; but the Nord is as much
the organ of the French Government as that of St.
Petersburg, and accordingly the seizure of the
Nord was not maintained.

FIRST SUNDAY EITENING SERVICE

AT ST. PAUL'S

Yesterday, being Advent Sunday, was appro-
priately made the occasion of the inaugural evening
service at St. Paul's Cathedral.
The event was attended with some drawbacks, or
rather with one involving some incidental disad-
vantages. There were too many persons anxious
to be present on the occasion, and hence the vicinity
of the main western entrance to the cathedral—by
which the public were to be admitted—was thronged
in a manner not in unison with the solemn cha-
racter of a religious service. In fact, Ludgate-hill
for a considerable distance down presented a
spectacle which carried one's mind back to the
fuueral of the Duke of Wellington. Two thousand
five hundred was, as previously arranged, the num-
ber to be comfortably accommodated, but probably
with the choir and the persons between the dome
and the organ there were in all not less than three
thousand persons assembled. The choir itself com-
prised 500 singers. With regard to the congrega-
tion, the most noticeable feature was the extremely
small proportion of ladies—a fact which can sur-
prise no one who remembers how terribly females
suffered on the first night of the opening of West-
minster Abbey.
Shortly before 7 o'clock the Lord Mayor arrived
in the civic equipage. The Bishop of London, who
'was the preacher on the occasion, the Dean of St.
Paul's, and the members of the chapter present, sat
lose to the pulpit stairs.
The. Bishop commenced his sermon about five
minutes after eight. His text was taken from the
Ist chapter of the Ist Epistle of St. Paul to the
Corinthians, and the 7th verse.

The Bishop's discourse occupied fifty-five minutes,
making the entire service of more than two hours'
duration.

The result as regards the audibility of the
prayers, the lessons, and the sermon was by no
means so satisfactory as could be desired.
Outside the cathedral the scene was still rather
indecorous for Sunday evening. A large number
of those who had been unable to obtain admission
to the service were lingering about the south door,
and as the carriages of the Lord Mayor and the
other civic dignitaries were leaving with their
occupants the assembled crowd gave vent to their
feelings by unmistakeable groans of displeasure, as
if they considered themselves to have been unfairly
excluded. The unreasonableness of this feeling,
however, is manifest, as the entire cathedral would
scarcely have contained all who wanted to obtain
access to it.

CABINET COUNClL.—Summonses have been issued
for a meeting of the Cahinet Ministorsto-morrow afternoon,
at the official residence of the Chancellor of the Exchequer,
in Downing-street. _ _

The Earl of Derby left town on Saturday evening
for Osterley-park. The Marquis of Salisbury left London
on Friday for Hatfield-house. The Right Hon. J. W
Henley returned on Friday afternoon to Brighton. Lord
John Manners, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Lord
Chancellor, Lord Stanley, Sir E. Bulwer Lytton, and Mr.
Spencer Walpole remain in the metropolis. The Cabinet
Councils are expected to be resumed this week.

Mr. Ralph Osborne, M.P., is now convalescent.
The Lord Chancellor has conferred the rectory of
St. Stephen's, rendered vacant by the lamented death of
the Rev. C. Buck, on the Rev. Richard Williams, vicar
of Dacre, Cumberland, and brother to the Dean of Llandiff.

The appointment to the Chaplaincy of York
Castle is likely to be warmly contested. We (Yorkshire
Gazette) have already heard of the following candidates :
The Rev. C. Watson, of York; the Rev. T. Irvin, .of
Ormesby ; the Rev. J. Wainwright, of York ; the Rev. J.
C. Thompson, of Beverley, &c.

The Rev. Alfred Poole has, it is said, abandoned
the action for libel which he had commenced against th
Hon. and Rev. Mr. Baring.

REPRESENTATION OF BRECON.—Mr. Godfrey
Morgan, son of Sir Charles Morgan, of Tredegar-park, will
offer himself as a candidate for the seat rendered vacant by
the death of the late Sir J. Bailey. In politics Mr. Morgan
is a Liberal Conservative.

The Sunday evening services at Westminster
Abbey will recommence the first Sunday of the new year.

We have to record the demise of Lady Cranstoun,
mother of the present peer. Her ladyship was eldest
daughter of the late Mr. John Macnamara, and married in
August, 1807, James Edmund, ninth Lord Cranstoun, wh
died in 1818, by whom the deceased lady had a family of
two sons and two daughters.

The Illustrated Times gives a rumour to the effect
that. Lord Stanley is about to be married to the eldest
daughter of Lord John Russell. If there be any truth in
the rumour the fact will exetciso undoubted influence on
the state of political parties.

SIR B. BRODIE.—We (Lancet) have reason to
believe that .Sir B. Brodie is to be raised to the! peerage
with the title of Baron Betchworth.

It is rumoured (says the United Service Gazette)
that Mr. W. Balfe, the celebrated composer, is .to succeed
the present superintendent of the musical instruction de-
partment at Kneller Hall.
The report of the attempt to poison Madame
Ristori, we have good authority for stating, was a mere
canard.—Court Journal.

HAYMARKET THEATRE.—The highly-successful
engagement of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Mathews at this
popular theatre was brought to a close on Saturday evening,
when the performances consisted of the comedy of " The
Belle's Stratagem," and the burlesque drama of " The
Critic." The house was brilliantly and numerously at-
tendel, and the performances passed off with the greatest
eclat.

The report of the directors-of the African Steam
Ship Company, issued on Saturday, recommend*
dividend of 10s. per share for the year; being mk
the rate of 5 per cent. per annum.
DEATH OF LADY CHARLOTTE BRIDGEMAN.—We
regret to have to state that death has terminated the suffer-
ings of Lady Charlotte Bridgeman, the daughter of Lord
Bradford, who was recently so dreadfully burned by the
accidental catching pre of her dress. She died at the noble
lord's seat, Weston, Shropshire, on Friday last. Her
sister, Lady Lacy, still lies in a very precarious state.

THE CHRISTMAS HOLIDAYSX—AS Christmas-day
will this year occur on Saturday, the tradesmen of Derby
intend closing on Monday as well, in order to allow their
assistants an opportunity to visit their friends. No doubt
tradesmen in other parts of the kingdom will do likewiee.—
StafordBhire Advertiser.
THE ROUGH WEATHER IN THE NORTH SEA.—
SHIELDS, Saturday Night.—Last night about 7 o'clock, the
schooner Minerva, Mann, of Colchester, in ballast, in at-
tempting the anchorage in Coquet-roads, with the wind at
S.E., blowing very hard, and thick rainy weather, could not
fetch the roadstead, and having let go the 'Anchors to lee.
ward drove on the Pan. Rocks ; crew saved. At the same
time the brig Protector, of Warkworth, which sailed from
that :place: for Bruges, coal laden, on the 23d instant,
having experienced very heavy weather, the vessel
became so leaky, and the crew so exhausted by con-
tinually pumping, that she was obliged to run for the beach,
a quarter of a mile south of Warkworth-harbour.
having five feet of water in her hold at the time. The
crew were all .saved, but the vessel is ;likely to become a
wreck. The Great Northern screw steamer, which came
ashore at Sunderland on Thursday evening, now lies just
within, high-water mark, midway between the pier and
Roker. She is a tight iron vessel, the property of Mr.
Young, of Wisbeach, and commanded by Mr. Cook. She
is but slightly damaged at the bows and has lost her bow-
sprit. She lies broadside on the sea at present, but it is
intended to get her head on, and let her lie till next spring
tides. The crew and the captain's wife, who happened to
be in her when the vessel struck, were all taken off with the
rocket lines. About 15 feet of wall at the pier head, formed
of huge blocks, of stone, two feet thick, and, weighing about
four tons each, cemented and tied with (iron, were thrown
over and broken to pieces by the force with which the
steamer struck the pier. The rains of Thursday have
brought heavy "freshets" down into Shields harbour and
the Wear. Yesterday afternoon a great quantity of loose
ice floated down with the ebb-tide from the upper reaches
of the Tyne, and caused a considerable amount of incon-
venience, more especially opposite the business parts of
North §lgeldts,