The Sun.
London, England, 1859-08-01 00:00:00

[LEFT SITTING.]

We are requested to state that the name of the Hon.
Captain Hugh Annesley was, by some mistake, omitted
from the Division List on Friday evening, in which h•
voted with the majority against Mr liorsman's motion
about the national defences.

We have reason to believe that Mr. Dallas has
recently placed in the hands of Lord John Russell a
despatch. from Washington in which it is stated that the
UMled states Government have resolved to abandon priva-
teering, and thus to accept the declaration respecting this
portion of maritime law agreed upon at the Congress at
Paris in 1856.

WAR SHIPS IN THE MERSEY—The Nile (91)
has now received her full compliment of men, and will leave
the Mersey on Wednesday to join the Channel fleet. The
Nile, we believe, will be succeeded by the screw line .of-
battle ship Duke of Wellington.

The " Pardon de Ploermel," just produced with
immense success at Covent-garden, in Italian, is to be the
first novelty at the English opera in Miss Pyne's company.
That lady is to take Dinorah, of course.
SALE OF THE STAR AND GARTER, RICHMOND.—
Saturday, at the Auction Mart, Messrs. Gadsden, Winter-
flood, and Ellis offered to public suction the fan-famed Star
and Garter Hotel and Tavern, Richmond-hill. Copyhold,
fines
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dtoeaqthuietr-realnietsnaotfien£,6thpeerfiannentuembe, apnadidtboycirhtoe marypur-
chaser is £975. Let on lease for an unexpired term of 21
years
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£1,600
Liberals have already brought out Mr. Childers, the late
IrOF annum.
WAKEFIELD.—The
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high sheriff. It is understood that Mr. James Stuart
Wortley, late Recorder of the City of London, is in the
field in the Conservative interest.
The Trieste Gazette announces that General Ur-
ban, commander of
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the Austrian invasion of Piedmont,
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has been placed on theg
retired list, and has been succeeded by General Baron
Wernhardt.
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A COURT OF LAW.—Surgeon—" I found plaintiff
had a severe contusion under the left eye, great extravasa-
"
tion of blood underneath it, with some abrasion of the
skin." Judge—" You mean that he had a black eye f"
Surgeon—
"Yes.Well, why didn't you say so?"
"Judge—
RESPITED.—A respite was for-
wArded MURDERERon Saturday night from the Secretary of State to
stay
.the execution of Henry Benjamin Haynes, who was
convicted at the late Winchester Assizes for the murder of
a woman at Aldershott.
MURDER IN THE COUNTY LIMERICK.—A tele-
gram receivedfrom Dublin announces that about 2 p.m. on
Thursday, a respectable farmer, named William Crow, of
Crogan, County Limerick, was murdered while going to a
funeral. The unfortunate man was first shot through the
body, and afterwards his brains were beaten out with stones.
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are upright when in stays, because they bring news from
abroad, and carry out news from home."
The arrangements in connection with the esta-
blishment of the Australian and New Zealand Roams, in
combination with that well-known place of mercantile re-
sort the Jerusalem Coffee-house, have now been brought
almost to completion. This establishment is now a place of
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daily meeting for persons interested in the Australian colo-
ias, nas is natural, considering that it is the most readily
available source of information upon all Australian matters.
FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE RIVER.—Yesterday
afternoon, about 5 o'clock, as a boat with four lads on board
was being rowed down the river, through some unskilful-
ness it capsized when off Nine-elms, and all on board were
thrown into the water. Two of the party were saved, but
the other two, named James Davis, aged 20, and Benjamin
Hickey, aged 15, both residing at 33, St. Albans-street,
Kennington-road, were drowned Davis was only married
last Christmas, and leaves his wife in an advanced stage of
.
pregnancy.
ACCIDENT TO M. ROGER.—M. Roger, the cele-
brated tenor of the Grand Opera, met with a terrible acci-
dent the other day while walking out with his gun in his
park at Villers-sur-Marne. While getting over a hedge
his piece went off and lodged the contents in his arm.
Amputation was found to be necessary. The operation
was successfully performed, and no danger to his life was
anticipated.
On Tuesday next Mr. Medfield is to move for
copies of all treaties and conventions now existing and still
obligatory, under which the Government of this country is
engaged ; expressly, or by construction and inference sepa-
rately, or in conjunction with any other Power or Powers
to interfere by force of arms, or by armed demonstration,
or by the contribution of any military contingent or pecu-
niary subsidy, to attack or defend any Government. or na-
tion, with reference to its internal arrangements or foreign
relational or on say other oontiagency whatever.