The Sun.
London, England, 1858-06-18 00:00:00

LONDON GAZETTE.—(This Evening•)

BIRMINGHAM, JUNE 11
The Queen 'was this day pleased to confer the honour of
Knighthood upon John Ratcliff, Esq., of Viryddrington, in
the county of Warwick, Mayor of Birmingham.
FOREIGN-OFFICE, JUNE 16.
The Queen has been graciously pleased to appoint the
Hon. Richard Bickerton Pemell Ly one, now Secretary to
her Majesty's Legation at Florence, to be her Majesty's
Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the
Grand Duke of Tuscany.
DOWNING-STREET, JUNE 17.
The Queen has been pleased to appoint Charles Arthur
Red), Esq., to be Rector of the Royal College of Mauritius,
and John Sealy, Esq., and Nathan Lewis Young, Er.q.,
M.D., to be Members of the Council of Barbados.
WHITEHALL, Jura 18.
The Queen has been pleased to appoint Robert Baker,

The petition presented by Lord Brougham last night
wee one, we find, of considerable importance, and in-
volving a point of ecclesiastical law. It was the petition
of J. Wright Wrl,on, E-q., ba,rri,ter-at-law, complain-
ing that he had been, as a candidate for the beroi;h
near which he results, attacked fir electioneering
purpotre, by proceedings in Chancery, in which various
charges were made, au of which he had the means of re-
futing, but he had entered into articles of separation fro.n
his w:fe, and there was a decree for sp-cific performarice
folio wed by an injunction to restrain bins from
suing for re-titution of conjugal rights, He appeakd to
the Howe, of Lords, and when his c tinsel (ir F. Kelly
and Lord Justice Turner) began to open the- e matters
of his cast' Lord Cottentram raid he was with them, as
there could be no such irijurction, therefore the coureel
left the case in that respect untouched, and fifteen
months after Lord Cotterrham gave his judr-
inept, in which, having forgotten what tonic
place at the hearing, he decided against Mr. W.
\T lion, and in favor ref the iejeriction, and also
rejecting the evidence which his Lordship had sail
ought to be admitted. The grievance is almost equal
to that in the Sheddon case, on which Lords Grey,
Lyndhurst, and Brougham endeavoured to obtain jus-
tice for tl e party, but beirg outvoted, Sir F. Kelly
has no .v brought in a bill to amend the law in that Far-
Ocular. And it was the object of Mr. W. W&on's
peition, among other things, to obtain a correction of
the law so erronecu,ly laid down by Lord Cuttenharn,
without hearing the argument.
The Lord Chancellor, we understand, hap issnel an
order, declaring that, haying regard to thooprescefntßastuaktc:
of the business in the Liverpool Distfriect cdemorh,.
of
Cons
ruptcy, the vacancy occasioned fi y the
missioner Stevenson ought not, in Is opinion, to be
filled up, and directing that it eball not be filled up
until further order.
TRH AFFAIRS OF MESSRS CALVERT.—Yesterday wits
the day appointed in the Court of Bankruptcy for
bearing the petition of Messrs. Felix Calvert & Co.,
the brewers, praying for a certificate, but by common
consent the matter was adjourned until Thursday Lex%
THUNDER STORM.—Yesterday Liverpool was visited
by another thunder storm, which in intensity far ex-
ceeded that of Saturday last. The rain fell in torrents,
and many of the streets were completely flooded.
DEATH or Du. BIINTING.—The Rev. Jabez Bunting,
D D , died on Wednesday at his residence in Mythil,-
ton-Equaie, Pentonville, having attained the 80'1 year
of his age, and the 59th of his ministry.
THE GALWAT MAIL STEAMER.—LIVERPOOL, June 17.
—The following is posted in the Under writers' Room :
Galway, June 16 —lndian Empire, from South-
ampton, got on St. Margaret's Rocks, while in c :arge
of pilots, but came off without damage, and will proceed
at her appointed time for Halifax. The pilots have been
c(immittel to gaol for wilfully running the ship on a
hidden buoyed rick."

THE FARES TO MANCHESTER.—The London and
North-WestPrn C.mpany announce that, "from and
after the 21st of June," their iaree between London,
Liverpool, and Manchester, will be assimilated to the
Great Northern.

DESTRUCTION OF THE BARQUE HENRY JONES BY
FlRE.—Yesterday a report was received at Lloyd's,
from the receiver of wrecks at Southampton, of the loco
of the barque Henry JOllO9, cf Caernarvon, by fire,
while on her voyage from Liverpool to Coquimbo, with a
cargo of 530 tons of patent fuel. The cause appears
clearly to have been spontaneous combustion.
BURNING PAPER MONEY.—Toe amount of the Russ.
Sian paper currency just publicly burnt at St. Peters-
burg is twelve millions of silver roubles.
Mr. Hodge, of [Glastonbury. Somersetsbire, Orsini's
teotatnentary executor, has left Genoa for England, by
the long sea route, on board the British steamer Tene•
ti.r
ors
NEW SUBMARINE TELEGRAPH.—The Jersey pap
announce bat the arrangements for laying t4own te
submarine t-legraph cable between Portland and tie
Channel Islands are comp eted, and that a telegraphic
nnnication between England and those islands will
o "nbeeetablished in the course of a month.
THE MURDER AND SUICIDE IN ISLINGTON.—The
body of the young man bas been identified. He was a
solicitor's clerk. His name is Henry Robort Hodge,
and he resiled with his parents in the New North-road,
Islington. He bad been absent from home two day's
prior to the identification of the body. The inquest is to
be held to-morrow,
THE FLEET OF LORD LIONS,—This magnificent fleet
is cruising off the island and going through many evolu-
tion.. At about 11.30 p.m. last night a heavy cannonade
was heard, wh ch at first alarmed many of the natives,
but it proved to be a sham battle fought by the fleet,
qui
ck,
and N.N.E. tf the island. The firing was
and lasted till a little after midnight. Some ot the
broadsides were so heavy that houses were actually
shaken from the effects, and several people fancied it
was a shock of earthquake,—Malta Daily News,
June 11,