The Sun.
London, England, 1866-09-07 00:00:00

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BALMORAL, Wednesday.
The Queen, accompanied by Princess Christian,
drove out yesterday morning.
Princess Louise, attended by Lady Churchill,
went out riding.
In the afternoon her Majesty, with Princes
Louise, and attended by Lady Churchill, drove on
the road to Alt-na-Guithasack, returning by Birk
Hall.

The Duke of Edinburgh, attended by Lieutenant
Haig, honoured the Earl and Countess of Fife with
his company at a ball given at New Mar Lodge yes-
terday evening.
Major-General the Hon. A. N. Hood has suc-
ceeded Lord Chas. Fitzroy as Equerry in waiting.

His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge has
arrived at Invermark Lodge, on a visit to the Earl of
Dalhousie. On the arrival of the royal duke at Brechin
he was greeted with cheers from a large number of people
who had congregated to await the arrival of the train.
The Earl of Dalhousie left Invermark shooting
lodge on Monday morning, and rode across the glen in
order to pay a visit to the Queen at Balmoral.

Sir George and Lady Grey have left Invermark
Lodge for the south, on the conclusion of their visit to the
Earl of Dalhousie.

Sir Archibald Islay Campbell has been suffering
from serious illness during the past few days.
The Dean of Carlisle and Mrs. Close have arrived
at Brown's Hotel.

HASTY REMOVAL.—The Count de Chambord, the
Duchess do Berri, and the Duke de Modena aro removing
from their palaces at Venice all the moveable objects--
mirrors, panels of marble, and gilt or carved woodwork.
Those precautions," says a letter from that city, were
quite unnecessary, for those residences are placed under the
special protection of the law, and no one would certainly
have touched them. There is nothing to prevent the Count
de Chambord and his mother from continuing to pass the
winter at Venice, particularly as that city will be gayer in
the approaching season than it has been for the last 80
years."

THE LATE PRINCIPAL GRAVES.—The premature
decease of this polished gentleman and ripe scholar, so
long the head of the Training College at Battersea, has
most unfortunately left five orphan children in need of im-
mediate assistance. Two of the elder children are, by the
kindness of friends, to be entered as candidates for admis-
sion to the Clergy Orphan School, and in order to provide
for the other three it is proposed to raise a fund for their
future care and education. The following gentlemen have
kindly consented to act as trustees of the fund, viz.:—
W. Evill, jun., Esq., Lyncombe Homo, Battersea Rise;
P. Cazenove, Esq., Clapham-common ; W. G. Baker,
9, Cedars-road, Clapham ; and H. S. Thornton, Esq.,
Clapham-common, as treasurer. The afflicting circum-
stance of five young children, hitherto tended with the
greatest care, being suddenly bereft of both parents, lei
alone in the world and totally unprovided for, will, We
feel assured, be quite sufficient to commend their case to
the consideration of that benevolent and charitable portion
of the community who aro ever ready to extend their as-
sistance to worthy and deserving objects. That these poor
children are, in all respects, proper recipients for that open-
handed charity which so distinguishes so many of the
good and generous in the land, the names of the above
gentlemen, who have undertaken to receive subscriptions
on their behalf, will be at once a sufficient guarantee.
CHOLERA IN THE HOSPITALS.—Last night Harriet
Hubbard, aged 28 years, one of the night nurses in
Guy's Hospital, in the Petersham or cholera ward, died of
cholera. During the whole of the progress of the disease
she had attended to the patients with unremitting zeal,
and has now at the termination of the epidemic, and when
there are only a few rapidly recoving cases, fallen a victim
to her great exertions. It may be mentioned that all the
males brought to the hospital attacked by cholera have
recovered with the exception of Daniels, while all the
women and children have succumbed to the disease. One
affecting episode is related with regard to one of the suf-
ferers. It appears that a German, his wife, and two chil-
dren were admitted. The wife and children died, and
while in a state of delirium the husband and father was
beseeching his wife to come to him their bodies were
being borno to the door of the ward. He got better and
left the hospital cured. It is only due to the hospital
authorities and all employed in attendance upon the extra
number :of patients the cholera had thrown upon their
hands to state that they took the most prompt and active
steps to meet the emergency, and that the best medical
skill, the largest amount of comfort, and the utmost atten-
tion was being bestowed upon all requiring it.

ATTEMPTED MURDER BY A CONVICT.—On Wed-
nesday a murderous outrage was committed in Chatham
Dockyard by a convict, who attempted to kill an as-
sistant warder, and inflicted such injuries as were likely
to prove fatal. John Fletcher and other convicts were era-
ployed at the extreme end of the dockyard, close to the
dockyard extension works, breaking stones, when Fletcher
suddenly attacked Mr. Boyle, assistant warder, with his
heavy hammer, inflicting fearful wounds on the right eye,
the nose, and the jaw. A civil guard, named L. Irwin, iru"
mediately rushed up to the aid of his fellow-officer ; the
convict threatened Irwin with his hammer, and the guard,
in self-defence, made thrusts at the convict with the bayo-
net, inflicting various wounds, and eventually knocked
him down with blows from his rifle. Assistance arriving.'
the wounded men wei e removed to the hospital at the Vl'
son at St. Mary's, and surgical aid was obtained. It vitlS
found that the injuries inflicted on Mr. Boyle, the assistant
warder, were of a most dangerous character, and it WO
feared that they would prove fatal. The wounds of the
convict were also found to be of a serious character, but
less apprehension is felt for the result in his case. F
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et-
cher is a desperate fellow, for it appears that he is now un-
dergoing a sentence for a crime attended by violence ;
he
has been condemned to seven years' penal servitude for
highway robbery, with violence. A good deal of insubor:
dination has been manifested of late by criminals confined
in St. Mary's Convict Prison, near the dockyard. Quite
recently a number of the prisoners were flogged for ill'
subordination in regard to the food supplied ; and naW an
assisiant warder has narrowly escaped being murdered oa
the spot by a dastardly assailant because he had to report
the prisoner for laziness, &c. The unfortunate warder
was still alive yesterday afternoon, but remained insert"
Bible, never having recovered consciousness, and his cage
is considered by all to be quite hopeless. The guard Irwin,
in rushing forward to endeavour to rescue Boyo, fell agaiust
a piece of granite, so grazing both his legs, from his knee°
downward, that to-day he has been obliged to go into /Joe'
pital.
Messrs. Roger Cunliffe, Sons, and Co., banker°
and money dealers, have notified their removal t°
6, Princes-street, Mansion-house.
Notice has been given by the Anglo-Italian Batt
that the tenders of shares for extinction Will b
opened on Monday, the 10th inst., at the offices °f
the Bank, at half-past 2 p.m.
The Foreign and Colonial Produce Markets alit'
ing the last few days have presented a more an'"
mated appearance, and yesterday a fair amount °
business was done, consequent upon the further re-
duction in the rate of discount at the Bank of Eno
land. Tea at public sale, however, has sold sloWlh
but in coffee and rice large dealings have been re
ported at full rates. Sugars have been in moderate
demand, at steady prices, but in tallow the opell'a
tions have been limited both for consumption an
on speculation, without material change in clll°-
tations.
A number of old coins was found some little tide
ago at Villeneuve au Roi (Haute Marne), and tee Prefect of that department, in visiting the cortanuty
recognised them as Gallic. The Municipal Council
being informed of their value, came to an unaninloo
vote that they should be offered to the EmperOrtis,
nobody had so much right to the relics as the Dso
torian of Caesar and of the Gauls. His MajestY vet,
pleased to accept with thanks, in an autograph 1 00
ter addressed to the Prefect, the offer which lulu
been made.
A desperate attack is reported from Nisnie'' sup

prisoner named Vumoer, a Bavarian, surreptitionb--
obtained in the Infirmary a kitchen knife, and gc4„,ng,
to the room of one of the warders named 11.1%1.0
he reproached him with having reported him
.prisoner), and made a cut at the man's neck, div'e,
ing the jugular vein and causing almost instant3lier
ous death. The murderer then attacked another
prisoner, named Cahn, and stabbed him in the
domen. He next attempted to commit swel 0•
wounding himself with the knife in several lOcer.
Neither Colin nor his assailant is expected to reoTrelt
A deplorable accident occurred two days I:ls',.jje
Rennes (Ille-et-Vilaine). A wooden house at es,
corner of the Place des Lices and the Rue des ra
te,
St. Michael, which had long been in a ruinous st,
and was in course of demolition, suddenly f.°oo
with. a loud crash, burying several workmen 01, to
ruins. The neighbouring inhabitants flocked to.
ita
spot,. and, being encouraged by the Prefect who rlhe
arrived, vied with each other in efforts to resole
victims. After much labou t/P
r the bodies were otee
cated, but in the case of five life was extinct ;
others were severely injured.