The Sun.
London, England, 1859-01-21 00:00:00

MR. BARNUM'S LECTURES.

We are requested to publish the following cor.
respondence :

(Copy.)

" Farringdon-street, January 15, 1859.
" SIR,—We cannot agree to the terms named by you;
nor can we increase our offer.

"We will give you our cheque for Twelve Hundred
Pounds, for the exclusive right to publish your Lectures in
this country, leaving it with you to make such additions as
your judgment may suggest.

" Awaiting your prompt reply, we are, your obedient

servants,

" ROUTLEDGE, WARNES, and ROUTLEDGE,
"P. T. Barnum, Esq., 126, Jermyn-street."

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- " 126, Jermyn-street, St. James's,
17th January, 1859.
" GENTLMMEN,—I have to thank you for your repeated
offer to publish the Lectures I am at present delivering.
" I hope you will not consider it egotistic on my part,
but as I am presumptuous enough to think that my sug-
gestions on the ' Art of Money Making' are calculated to
have a much larger sale than your offer, liberal as it la,
seems based upon, I have no other alternative than to re-
spectfully decline it with thanks.—Your obedient servant,
"P. T. BARNUM.
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"Messrs. Routledge, Warnes, and Routledge."

THE CONVICT WILHELm.---The sentence of
death passed on this anhappy man has been commuted
into penal servitude for life—a commutation which seems
to have struck him with dismay and apprehension ; and
in a letter to his sorrowing wife tells her that he thinks
even death would have been sweeter than his living an
everlasting separation from her and their children. M.
Wilhelm win, we believe, pay her last visit to her hus-
band this day. She is still residing at the house of the
generous Mr. Southern, the Black Bull Inn, Kirkdale ;
and had it not been for the very great kindness of this
individual and a few casual contributions from charitable
persons, she must inevitably have had pinching want added
to her great sorrow. As it is her prospects are dismal
indeed. Apparently, but we hope not definitively, aban-
doned by her relatives, and on the eve of confinement, it is
hardly likely that a stranger like Mr. Southern can con-
tinue to find her a home ; and under these circumstance we
have been requested to make an appeal to the generosity of
the public on behalf of this deeply, unfortunate woman.—
_Liverpool Mercury
THE KING OF AVA.—Mr. Flower, the anatomi-
cal articulator to the Royal College of Surgeons, has just
executed an elaborate model of the human skeleton of the
natural size in sycamore wood for the above enlightened
potentate, who, being desirous of obtaining a knowledge of
the human frame without losing caste by handling the ori-
ginal bones, requested the late East India Company to aid
him in his difficulty. On the recommendation of Mr. Owen,
of the British Museum, Mr. Flower was consulted, and at
an expense of about £ll5 this artist produced a most faith-
ful representation of the human skeleton in wood, and
exhibited the same a few days since at the College of Sur-
geons, when it elicited the highest commendation from the
Court of Examiners.

THE DEPTFORD THEATRE.—Yesterday a special
session was held at Greenwich for the purpose of consider-
ing the propriety of granting a license for the Deptford
Theatre, which was an old •established place of entertain-
ment, but the license of which had been lost through the
alleged misconduct of a former occupier. The application
was made by Mr. Edmund Timothy, supported by Mr.
Mansfield, who stated to the bench that this was the fifth
application for a license, and that on three previous occa-
sions he had reason to believe that three out of the four
magistrates who attended were favourable to the granting
of the license, but inasmuch as the Act of Parliament
required that the license should be signed by four of the
magistrates acting for the division of the county of Kent,
the same was refused. Mr. Mansfield produced testimonials
of character of the applicant, signed by several barristers
and other; who had known him for years. Mr. Timothy,
sen., also addressed the bench, calling their attention to the
fact that the applicant had kept the house closed since Sep-
tember last rather than infringe the law, while the Lecture
Hall and another place kept open, and if the license was
granted the place would be properly conducted. The chair-
man (Sir T. -Wilson) consulted the other magistrates on
the bench, and then announced that the application was
refused.

HILARY TERM, 1859.—Public examination of
the students of the Inns of Court, held at Lincoln's-inn
Hall, on the 7th, Bth, and 10th days of January, 1859.
The Council of Legal Education have awarded to Mon-
tague Hughes Cookson, Esq., student of Lincoln's-inn, a
studentship of fifty guineas per annum, to continue for a
period of three years ; James Anstie, Esq., student of
Lincoln's-inn, and William Ambrose, Esq., student of
Lincoln's-inn, certificates of honour of the first class ;
Gateward Coleridge Davis, Esq., student of the Inner
Temple, J. W. Hume Williams, Esq., student of the Middle
Temple, Frederick Clifford, Esq., student of the Middle
Temple, Joseph Fenwick, Esq., student of the Inner
Temple, and Eyre Lloyd, Esq., student of ' the Inner
Temple, certificates that they have satisfactorily passed a
public examination.

MERSEY DOCKS AND HARBOUR BOARD.—At the
meeting of the Mersey Dock Board yesterday, a committee,
consisting of the docks and quays committee, with the addi-
tion of Mr. Bushell, Mr. Hubback, and Mr. Arnold, was
appointed to take into considerationthe question of an exten-
sion of the Custom-hours hours, and an increase of the gene-
ral facilities for the discharge of business on the docks and
quays. A motion by Mr. J. Laird, with reference to the
prevention of steamers anchoring in the track of the ferry
steamers, was referred to one of the sub-committees.

SERIOUS CHARGE.—FALMOUTH.-011. Monday
last, at the instance of tho underwriters in London arid
elsewhere, Captain George Lang, of the barque Mary
Worrell, of and from Liverpool, with a general cargo, bound
for Belize, was charged by the crew, before the local
magistrates, with an attempt to induce them to scuttle the
vessel during a heavy gale of wind on the 23d of Decem-
ber last, in which she sustained damage, and was obliged
to bear up and put into Falmouth on the 29th following.
It appeared by the evidence of the mate and seamen
that the master was in a state of intoxication for several
days, and, while so intoxicated, had offered one of the
seaman two gold watches and a handful of sovereigns to
scuttle the barque with the cook's axe, which was of course
rejected, and the master was placed inirons by the men for
two days. The evidence was deemed by the bench sufficient
to commit for trial at the next county assizes, with leave to
bail—the prisoner in his personal security for £2OO, and
two others in £7O each. The master had no evidence to re-
but the statement of the crew, who subscribed in the regular
way to the protect after arriving at Falmouth, saying no-
thing of the circumstances which have since come out until
they were discharged from the vessel, and no entry what-
ever WP Made br the mate in the logbook of the circum-
stances above described. On recovering from his intoxica-
tion the master was permitted to resume the command of
the vessel,

ATEST NEWS.

DEATH OF THE KING OF
NAPLES.

PARIS, THURSDAY.

A telegraphic despatch has just arrived from
Vienna, announcing the death of the King of
Naples, which took place this morning.