The Sun.
London, England, 1858-11-17 00:00:00

THE lONIAN ISLANDS.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

H. DRUMIVIOND WOLFF.
Colonial-office, 16th Nov., 1858.

IMPERIAL P.RBSENT TO.. HER

MAJESTY.

Her Majesty afterwards conversed with the Duke
of Malakoff and the French and English officers
present for some time, and then entered the Castle.
The gun was afterwards conveyed to the Cavalry
Barracks, Spittal, and will be taken to Woolwich
t o.morrow.

This beautiful piece of ordnance was sent to the
Queen in return for her Majesty's present to
the Emperor, a few months since, of one of our
English field pieces and an ammunition waggon.
It is a 12-pounder, highly polished brass ho-
witzer, and mounted on a carriage of beautifully
polished oak. Complete sets of harness for 12
horses, such as are used in France, accom-
panying the gun, as well as several rounds of am-
munition. The piece bears the appropriate name of
" l'Alliance," and on it are engraved near the
muzzle the words " A la Reine Victoria, l'Empereur
Napoleon, 1858," with the cipher, surmounted by
the Imperial Crown, and on the breach are the
arms of England beautifully chased.
During the stay of the French officer and officers
of the Royal Artillery they were handsomely enter-
twined at the Cavalry and Infantry Barracks by the
officers of the 2d Life Guards and Ist battalion of
Grenadier Guards.

We are sorry to announce a serious accident
which took place at the royal mews last evening
to the French sergeant-major, who having over-
balanced the ammunition-box, it fell from the wag-
gon on to his leg and broke it. He was immedi-
ately conveyed in one of the royal carriages to the
White Hart Hotel, where he received surgical aid
from Mr. Brown, her Majesty's surgeon at Windsor,
:and on the unfortunate occurrence being made
known to the Queen, her Majesty and the Prince
Consort sent the Lord in Waiting to inquire after
the man, and gave orders for every necessary atten-
tion to be paid to him.

WRECK OFF FILEY.

FILEY, MoNbAY.
Yesterday afternoon the brig Felicity of Lynn,
from Hartlepool, with coals, came on shore on Filey
Sands, opposite the town, during the heavy gale of
wind which has been blowing on this coast from
the eastward. The life boat of the Royal National
Life-boat Institution stationed at this place was
immediately manned by 14 men, and launched
before the vessel took the ground; the boat then
succeeded in taking off her crew, consisting of seven
men, who were in half an hour afterwards safely
landed on the beach. The gallant crew of the life
boat will be paid £l4 by the Life-boat Institu-
tion for their prompt and valuable services. This
life boat station is one of the tmost complete on
the coast, The life boat's coxswain and his crew
are thoroughly conversant with the qualities of their
life boat, which has repeatedly been instrumental
in saving the lives of poor shipwrecked sailors.
The life boat of the institution, stationed a few
miles south of this place, at Bridlington Quay, was
also signalled out this morning at half-past four, to
the assistance of the crew of the brig Amfilles,
from Rotterdam for Shields, which likewise
stranded, during a heavy gale of wind, near Barm-
ston. The life boat was drawn as soon as possible
by a number of horses to the spot, whits is a about
five miles from Bridlington. It was found, how-
ever, on her arrival that the ship's crew had landed
in their own boats, with the assistance of the coast-
guard and others on the beach. This life boat has
also often been successfully used in saving life from
wrecks.

A Cabinet Council was held at the official residence o
the Chancellor of the Exchequer in Downing-street yester-
day. The Ministers present were the. Earl of Derby, the
Right Hon. B. Disraeli, the Lord Chancellor, the Marquis
Of Salisbury, the Earl of Hardwicke, Mr 4 Secretarj, Wal-
pole, the Earl of Mahnesbury, Sir E. Bulwer Lytton,
General Peel, Lord Stanley, Sir J. Pakington, the Right
Hon. J. W. Henley, and Lord J. Manners.

MARRIAGE IN HIGH LIFE.—The marriage of
the Hon Harriet Sarah, only child of Lord and Lady
Overstone, and Major Robert James Lindsay, Scots Fulfi-
ller Guards, youngest son of the late Major-General James
Lindsay, was solemnised this forenoon at the church of St.
Martin's-in-the-Fields.

It is understood that the Firman for the contem-
plated Bank of Turkey has reached London, and is now in
the hands of the Ambassador.

TRADE IN MANCHESTER.—The market was very
firm yesterday, with an advance of about id. per lb. in
yarns, and a corresponding increase in the prices of most
kinds of cloth. The amount of business done has not been
large perhaps this may be accounted for by the non-arrival
of the usual mails.

FURTHER FORGERIES AND EMBEZZLEMENT BY
JOHN POLLARD, AT WIGAN.—On Monday, at the Public
Hall, Wigan, John Pollard, late proprietor of the Wigan
Examiner and the Colliery Guardian, was again brought
before the magistrates, to answer charges of embezzlement,
as well as additional forgeries. The defalcations up to this
time are stated to reach more than £2,000. The majority
of shareholders in the Wigan Bu:aling Society, upon whom
the forgeries have been committed, belong to the working
classes. Mr. Hilton went into the case of a forgery upon
Miss Emily Dickinson, purporting to be a transfer of her
shares, amounting to £126. Miss Emily Dickinson stated
that she- now resided at Lismore Castle, in Ireland. In
A-rid, 1856, she purchased two shares in the Wigan Benefit
BUilding Society. She produced her scrip cards, which
she received at the taking up of the shares in question.
She has never withdrawn those shares, nor ordered anyone
to withdraw them, as she had not the least intention of
doing so. Mr. Pollard did mention to her, in September
last, that it would be better for some parties to withdraw
their shares, but she told him it was not her intention todo
so. Since that time she had no conversation with him.
The receipt for £126 was not signed by her. She had re-
ceived no money from Mr. Pollard, or ony one else. The
prisoner was committed on this chayge, and remanded on
other charges until Monday next,—Manchester Examiner.

—the loss, indeed, of that which alone elevates him
above the beasts of the field. The appointment of
Lunacy Commissioners is at best but a slender

guarantee even for common fair play. The duties
of their office are so multifarious, their visits so
rapid, that they can bestow but slight investiga •
tion on each separate me. But even that is some-
thing. Their attention may possibly be directed to the
sufferer and inquiry made; but if the party making
that inquiry;is concerned with the pecuniary affairs
of the party that may be complained against, if there
be a community of s. d., it must be obvious that
every security is withdrawn. Few will impeach
their own partners, or occasion losses to others,
when every pound withdrawn from their pockets
must be followed by a similar draught from their
own. It is also just and proper that there should
have been no such confidential relations for a speci-
fied period. In this respect, Mr. WITHAM'S very
proper suggestion will be concurred in by every
disinterested and unprejudiced person throughout
the length and breadth of the land.

Sir,—l am directed to inform you that the
recent publication of two despatches from the Lord
High Commissioner of the lonian Islands took
place without the knowledge or sanction, direct or
indirect, of her Majesty's Government.; and that
from the time of their appearance strict inquiry has
been in progress :into the manner in which they
became public.—l remain, Sir, your obedient ser-
vant,

WINDSOR, Nov. 16.
This afternoon the beautiful brass gun sent to
this country by the Emperor of the French, under
charge of Major Melchior, of the Artillery of the
French Imperial Guard, was presented to her
Majesty by Field-Marshal the Duke a Malakoff.

The gun was brought to Windsor on Tuesday
last and placed in the royal mews ; and on the same
day a detachment of the C Troop of Horse Artil-
lery, under the command of Capt. King, arrived
here, and have since been quartered at the cavalry
barracks, Spittal, for the purpose of exercising with
the gun. Shortly before three :o'clock this after-
noon ehe piece was brought into the quadrangle of
the Castle, when it was unlimbered, and, placed
immediately before the grand entrance.
At three o'clock the Queen and the Prince Con-
sort, accompanied by the Prince of Wales, the
Prince of Leiningen, and the royal suite, entered
the quadrangle, when the Duke of Malakoff (who
had previously arrived), in an appropriate address
and in the name of his imperial master, presented
the gun to her Majesty; after which the Queen
and the Prince Consort made a minute inspection of
the pieee, and also the ammunition waggon. It
was then limbered up, and taken round the quad-
rangle at a walk and trot.