The Sun.
London, England, 1866-05-11 00:00:00

THE MURDER IN CANNON STREET,

MANSION-HOUSE.—THIS DAY.
COMMITAL OF THE ACCUSED.
William, Smith, who stands charged on suspicion of
murdering Sarah Millson on the night of the 11 of April
on the promises in the occupation .of Messrs. Bevingte,n,
No. 2, Cannon-street West, 'was this day again brov.ght
before the Lord Mayor.
Mr. Wontner, in addressing the Lord Mayor, said he,
had no additional evidence to that already given, and GA
that he should ask for the committal of the prisoner.
There was, however, one circumstance he should men-
tion to his lordship in justice to the prisoner, and_ that
related to the evidence given by the costero-monger,
William Smallman. It had been thought 'advisable
to make certain inquiries relative to this witness,
and without troubling his lordship with ...le details of
that inquiry he had come to the determination
of withdrawing the evidence given by the witness, and
therefore he should not ask for his being bound over to
apPear at the sessions.
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Mr. M.Williams said, in justice to tie prisoher, if Small-
ndeoutobeooufud over, the woman Roberts ought also
to be discharged.
tirely omitted, andSniaalilinitha
exception, were bound over
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iiverpool Cotton Market—This Day.

There is a panic in the Cotton-market to-,:tay,
and it is impossible to give any correct est:nuate
of the sales. Everything is depressed.

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.—This Day.
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LONDON, May 11.—Wind this day at noon—Nor#;h,
Westerly; moderate breeze, and fine weather, but rather
cloudy.
Pi:mount, May 9.—Wind S.W.-:—Arrived—Mariner,
from Demerara. May 10.—Sailed—Norseman, steamer,
for the Cape of Good Hope.
OFF PORTSMOUTH, May 10.—Wind S.E.—Arrived—
John Lidgett, from London for Shanghai; York, from
London for Madras.

CARDIFF, May 9.—Wind W.—Arrived—Village Maid,
'rom Bilboa.

LIVERPOOL, May 10.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Sardis,
from New Orleans; Oreflaune, from Bombay; Prince
Victor, from Galveston.

OFF LOUGH FOYLE, May 11.—Arrived—North America,
screw steamer, from New York.
SOUTHAMPTON May 10.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Gee-
long, steamer, from Alexandria ; left Gibraltar on the 4th
instant.

OFF LIVERPOOL, May 9.—wind N.E.—Arrived—lrene,
from Calabar.

HULL, May 10.—Wind S.E.—Sailed—lngleborough,
for Quebec.

CLYDE, May 10. —Wind S.W.—Arrived—Aronen,
from Trinidad.

LBlr ELECTILIC TELEGRAPH. I

GRAVESEND, Friday Morning.
Arrived, May 10.—Chariot of Fame, from Melbourne ;
Hudson, from New York; Ann Mitchell, from Porto Rico ;
Reward, and Two Friends, from Guernsey; Servannais,
from Mauritius; Clio, from Alexandria; Hamilton, from
Adelaide ; Thomas Mansell, from Terceira.

Arrived, May 11.—Wyven, from Burraene ; Julie, from
Nantes ; Clifton Hall, from Trieste ; Enthusiastic, from
Antigua; Memel, from Dantsic ; Endragt, from Worcum ;
James Russell, from Macao ; Ellen, from Guernsey.
DEAL, Friday Morning.
Passed.—Monsoon, from the Cape of Good Hope, for
London ; Ivy Green, from the north, for Carthagena ;
Press, from Madras, for \London ; Clarendon, from Bar-
badoes, from London ;_Fanny Fern, from London, for
Corfu.

Anchored. -Lizzie, from London, for Cardiff.

PERFORATING ANIMALS.—It may be remembered
that at the time of the Crimean war much curiosity
was excited about certain insects that had eaten their way
through sheets of lead. Since then the question of per-
foraiion has been actively pursued by entomologists, and
even the vegetable kingdom has been found to comprise cer-
tain protophytes capable of scooping out a place for them-
selves in stones and shells. A communication has, now been
sent in by M. P. Fischer to the Acibdemy of Sciences on this
curious subject. After enumerating various mollusc; an-
nelides, chinodermata, spongiaria, ezc„ possessed of that
faculty, he says that among the Bryozoaria, a sort of poly..
pifer of the family of the Terebriporides, the existence of
perforating cells is a fact which had been scarcely noticed
hitherto ; all that was known on the subject being confined
to the observation that certain Cellepara, effected a slight
erosion on the surface of the shells on which they hap-
pened to fix themselves ltke cellular crusts. M.
Fiecher thinks that as the perforating instrument of thi
family has not yet been discovered, the corrosion must
for the present be attributed to a chemical action. the
genus Terebripora was established by A. .d'Orbigny, in
order to classify two Bryozoaria found by him in South
America. D'Orbigny showed that this genus differs from
all others of its class by its cells sunk into the very sub-
stance of the shell on which it has expanded. M. Fischer
having had occasion to remark the frequency of Terebi-
pone in the strata of the secondary and tertiary periods,
while ho was studying another subject, viz., perforating
spongiaria in a fossil state, conceived the idea that the
genus Terebripora might after all not be extinct; and it so
happened that in September last ho did find, at Arcachon,
near Bordeaux, an oyster, the shell of which had been per-
forated by a colony of this very genus. M. Fischer also
announces that he has discovered an individual of the same
family, but differing from the others in so far that its cells
are situated on alternating axes. To this new species he
has given the name of Spothipora.
The bulletin of the Paris Observatory gives the
following as the atmospheric situation yesterday :
" The barometer continues to fall on the north of
England, and is at 746 mm. at Nairn (Scotland).
This decline has extended to the coasts of the Chan-
nel, reaching 9mm. at Dunkirk and on the North
Sea. The mercury continues stationary at Valentia,
and is rising slightly at Corunua and Lisbon. On
the west coast of Ireland the wind is shifting from
S.W. to N. W. Probably in the passage of the gale
towards the east the centre has already gone beyondl
England. The sky is overcast andainyoveTal
The
the North of France, Belgium, and Holland.
Mediterranean is calm ;
but, as was indicated by the
last despatch from Madrid a stormy movement
The wind is S. and
Sltpalyn.." A t Paris yesterday
and strong from the N.E.
the sea rough at Alica
ntwhere the sky '
Palma and Barcelona, is overcast.
(Gti-2.5 Fahr.)
is
scoraasitsny of Spain.
the weather was again exceedingly fine.
At three
A man of respectable appearance, about 30 years
Taetxhiestsweoanthtehre
the thermometer marked 19.2 Cent.
of age, having a portmanteau which seemed to
be well furnished, applied the evening before last at
the Hotel du Louvre for a 1 s eeping-room, to
which he was shown. In the morning about
four he rose, and, quietly
examining the vicinity,
found the key in the door of a bed-room close
by, which he entered and possessed himself of
portenaonnaie and jewellery to the amount of about
1,500 f., when, in withdrawing, he knocked against
a table on which were some glasses, which came
down with a crash and awoke the occupant of the
chamber. This latter calling out " Who's there ?"
and receiving no answer, jumped out of bed and gave
chase to the thief, who had tried to make his escape
along the passage ; the prisoner's
cries,
however,
e
front door
aroused some of the servants, and t
being closed the man
was
taken into custody and
handed over to the police.
71 false keys, very skilfully In his trunk were found
made and capable of
opening the most
complicated locks
• also boxes of
He has hitherto f used to
re
matches, candles, &C. _
of himself further than stating,
give any account
first, that he was an Englishman, and then a Ger-
man, neither of which languages however he can
speak.