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

own military and militia organisation. And then
say, is there not a lesson of thrift to be learnt from
the American democracy ?

TITHE COMMUTATION.

TO THE EDITOR. OF THE SUN.

SIR,—As many of your readers may feel anxious
to know the result of the corn averages for the
seven years to Christmas, 1858, published by autho-
rity in the London Gazette of this evening, viz. :_...

Wheat
Barley
Oats
I beg to state for their information that each £lOO
of tithe rent-charge will for the year 1859 amount
to £lOB 19s. 6d., which is a little more than 3 per
cent. above the last year's value.
The following statement from my " Annual Tithe
Commutation Tables" will show the worth of £lOO
of tithe rent-charge for each year since the passing
of the Tithe Commutation Act, viz.:--
For the year £ s. d. ' For the year £ a. d,
1837 9B 13 9/ 1849.
1838
1839
1840 9B 15 si 1852.
1841
1842
1843 lO5 12 21 1855 B9 15 8/
1844 lO4 3 51 1856.
1845
1846... lO2 17 n 1858 lO5 16 3i
1847
1848 lO2 0 1

23)2,287 2 O

General average f0r.23 years.... £99 8 9i
I am, sir, your most obedient servant,

CHARLES M. WILLICH,
Actuary, University Life Assurance Society,
25, Suffolk-street, Pall-mall, S.W., Jan. 7.

COURT CIRCULAR.

WINDSOR, JAN. 7.
Iler Majesty's dinner party yesterday included the
Prince of Wales, the Hon. Frederick Bruce, the Hon.
Colonel R. Bruce, Lieutenant-General Sir William and
Lady Codrington, Sir Charles Eastlake, and Captain
Grey. Also the Hon. Charles Gore and Mr. W. Fitz-
gerald who arrived at the Castle in the afternoon.
Lady Emily Cavendish and Col. the Hon. Sir C. and
Lady Phipps had the honour to be invited.

The Duke and Duchess of Aumale visited her Majesty.
31. Barth, of Florence, had the honour of submitting to
the Prince Consort a copy of a work published by him, and
of which his Royal Highness has accepted the dedication.
The work consists of photographic fac-similes of original
pictures by Raffaelle in the galleries of Vienna and Venice.
Lieutenant-General Sir William and Lady Codrington,
the Hon. Frederick Bruce, and Sir Chas. Eastlake, have
left the Castle.

The Master of the Mint had an interview with the Chan-
cellor of the Exchequer yesterday, Mr. Thomas Baring,
M.P., had also an interview with the right hon. gentleman,
at his official residence, in Downing-street.
Despatches were sent to the Lord High Commissioner of
the lonian Islands, yesterday, from the Colonial-office, and
to the Governor of Canada. Despatches were received
from the Governor of Falkland's Island.

Arrangements for the reception of the Prince of
Wales have been made at the Hotel des Isles Britanniques,
on the Piazza del Popolo, Rome.
Prince Alfred left Malta harbour on the 30th
ult. under a royal salute, in her Majesty's steam frigate
Euryalus, whose next destination is said to be Tunis. The
Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer Sultan con-
veys to her Majesty the Queen the three magnificent arti-
ficial bouquets of chenille work, made by the sisters or nuns
of St. Catherine, and presented to his Royal Highness by the
governor, the Bishop of Malta, and the mercantile com-
munity, according to the 'ancient usage of the Maltese.
His Royal Highness has also sent home a kanool, or Birehir-
cara stove, and an imreuyhhah, or fan-bellows, as Maltese
curiosities.
The Earl and Countess Howe have been receiv-
ing a select family party during the holidays at Gopsall
Hall. Among the guests may be mentioned Lord and
Lady Burghersh, Viscount and Viscountess Curzon, Mr.
and Lady Charlotte Sturt and Miss Sturt, Colonel and
Lady Emily Kingscote, Lady Arthur Hay, Hon. Julian
Fane, Colonel Baring, &c.
The Count and Countess Pontiloff and family
have arrived at the Brunswick Hotel, Jermyn-street.
Baron de Theiry has left the same establishment for Paris.
Sir Harry and Lady Jones have left Farrance's
Hotel for Sandhurst College.
Capt. H. Walker and Mrs. Walker have arrived
at the Queen's Hotel, Upper Norwood.
MARRIAGE IN HIGH LIFE.—The marriage of
Miss de Salis, a daughter of the late Count de Salis, with
Col. Challoner, of Portnall Park, took place on Thursday
by special license, at Harlingen, in Middlesex. The cere-
mony was performed by the Rev. Henry de. Salis, in the
presence of Lord and Lady de Tabley and a small party of
the nearest relations of the bride, who was given away by
her brother, Mr. de Salle. The small church of Harlington
was on this occasion crowded with the tenantry of the
De Salis family and other inhabitants of the village, who
evinced their deep feelings at the prospect of their separa-
tion from a lady whose numerous acts of charity and kind-
ness have endeared her to the whole of the surrounding
population. On the conclusion of the ceremony the party
returned to Dawley Court, the residence of Mr. de Salis,
where a collation was served, after which the newly-wedded
pair took leave of their friends, and left for Portnall-park,
the seat of the bridegroom.
Mr. Ralph Earle, who has acted for months as
private secretary to Mr. Disraeli, is appointed, it is said,
paid attache at Constantinople. Ho was unpaid attache at
Paris when Mr. Disraeli accepted his services on coming
into office. Mr. Lytton has also obtained promotion, and
joins the embassy at Vienna. Mr. Bonham, many years
consul at Calais, is made consul at Naples in place of the
late Captain Gallwey.
THE MAILS, &C.—SOUTHAMPTON, Jal4. 7.—The
Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamship Tagus, Capt.
W. B. Hall, sailed hence to-day with the Peninsular mails.
She has 16 passengers, including the Hon. B. Denison,
and Major Inglis, a general cargo, and £2,000 in bar gold
for Cadiz. The Sultan, Captain Cook, with the heavy por-
tion of the Bombay mails, and the Teviot, Captain Wool-
ward, with the Australian mails, are both expected here on
Sunday. The Tamar, Captain Jellicoe, leaves with the
outward Brazil mails on Monday next.
APOTHECARIES'-HALL. —The following are the
names of the gentlemen who passed their examination in
the science and practice of medicine and received certificates
to practise on Thursday, January 6 :—Wm. Smith Thomas,
Dew-street, Haverford west; Charles Wyatt Smith, High -
street, Poplar.
A dreadful accident took place the day before
yesterday at Saumur. Captain Jauchere, one of the officers
of the School of Cavalry of that place, was out riding,
when his horse took fright and, dashing off at a tremen-
dous pace, jumped into the Loire. The unfortunate officer
was drowned, and his body was not found for some hours
after. The horse regained the bank in safety.
The Var publishes the following particulars of
the duel which lately took place near St. Laurent du Var,
near Nice, already briefly mentioned :—" The hostile meet-
ing took place with pistols in a wood belonging to General
Count Partouneaut, the parties being Count de Luzy, bro-
ther of the general commanding a brigade of the army of
Lyons, a man of 60, and Count de Saissy, of Nice, a young
man of 24. Count de Saissy took offence at some expres-
sion used by M. de Luzy, who at once apologised, but M.
de Saissy would hear nothing, but exclaimed, 'Though you
are the brother of a general, you must fight me, otherwise
you shall be stigmatised as a coward I' and at the same
time he tote the decoration of Isbella the Catholic, which
M. de Lazy was then wearing. In these painful circum-
stances M. de Luzy had the good sense not to give way to
passion. He retired, and wrote to M. de Saissy that he was
no coward, but that, well knowing his (M.de Saissy's) hasty
temper, he would overlook the insult if he consented to make
an apology. M. de Saissy refused, and the meeting took'
place. M. de Saissy was wounded in the right arm, the
ball passing through the fleshy part. The wound, though
serious, is not dangerous.. After receiving his antagonist's
fire, M. de Saissy held out his hand to M. de Luzy, and said,
You are a brave man, and I ask your pardon.'
At Angouleme, on Monday morning, a man named
Gaudichaud, condemned to death by the Court of Assizes
for murder, was executed. At five o'clock the chaplain en-
tered his cell and told him that his last hour had arrived.
" Ah, my poor daughter," cried the man, "I must then die
without seeing you!" The chaplain then proceeded to
hear his confession and administer religious consolation ;
but all at once the turnkeys who remained outside heard
the reverend gentleman call "Help, help !" Entering at
once, they found, to their astonishment, the chaplain
struggling with the condemned—the latter had tied a hand-
kerchief tightly round his own throat, and was trying to
strangle himself, whilst the chaplain was endeavouring to
prevent him. The turnkeys overpowered the man, and as
they did so he cried, "Let mo alone 1 You have deceived
me in not telling me of the day of execution 1 If you had
told me you would not have found me alive l" The man
having become somewhat more calm, the chaplain, again
remained alone with him ; but presently new cries of the
chaplain drew them into the cell, and it appeared that the
man had made a new attempt at suicide by striking himself
violently in the forehead with one of his wooden shoes.
Shortly after he was pinioned, and when his hair was cut
off he begged that it might be given to him, but it was re-
marked that it could be of no use to him. He wept. At
his own request he was allowed to walk to the scaffold, and
be displayed great firmness. , Arrived at the scaffold he
calmly ascended the steps, kissed the crucifix, and gave
himself up to the executioner. A vast crowd, composed
chiefly of women, witnessed the execution.
A fire broke out in the night of 17th May last in
a house occupied by a married couple, named Louvancourt,
at Lafosse des Sautes, in the Euro et-Loir, and completely
destroyed it. Suspicion fell on a young man of the vil-
lage, of the name of Brusle, cousin of Louvancourt.
who had entertained great animosity to him on account
of his having rebuked him for ill-treating his mother,
and he was arrested. He was ordered for trial before the
Court of Assizes of the department in August last, but the
trial had to be postponed in consequence of Louvancourt
having, in despair at being ruined by the destruction
of his house, committed suicide. Three days ago the
trial took place. It was proved that not only had the pri-
soner borne rancour to Louvancourt, and threatened him
with vengeance, but that, when the fire was bunting,
he was th only person of the village who did not rep,
der assistance in extinguishing it, and that afterwards he
had made a sort of admission that it was he who occa-
sioned it. But the evidence was not sufficiently clear to
satisfy the jury, and he was acquitted,

MR. EDWARD MIALL AT BANBURY

Yesterday evening Mr—. Edward Wall addressed
a crowded meeting of the electors and non-electors
of Banbury in the Town-hall. When he came upon
the platform he was attended by a number of his
leading supporters. Mr. Alderman Goffe was
called upon to preside. Mr. Miall addressed the
meeting at great length. On the subject of re-
form he said, what he should prefer was manhood
suffrage, vote by ballot, and a re-distribution of
seats, which would give such an approximation to
equality of constituencies as would secure for the
majority of electors a majority of members; but it
was of more importance to consider what, if
the offer was made, it was worth while to
accept. He should prefer a moderate measure,
thoroughly sincere and sound, to a large mea-
sure that was defective and rotten. (Hear, hear.)
He did not, however, believe that a small measure
of reform, however sound, would answer the pur-
pose. To be acceptable it ought to be large enough
to render utterly unnecessary any further organic
change for at least a generation to come. No con-
siderable class, intelligent enough at least to take
any interest in politics ought to be left by it in a
state of justifiable dissatisfaction. The new repre-
sentative institutions should be such as should easily
and effectually give expression to the political con-
viction and sentiments of the people of the United
Kingdom, for, say, 30 years to come. It was requi-
site to take the future into the account, as well as
the present—to strike an average between what is
required at the present moment and what will be
required when those Who are now children will
have grown up to be the active spirits of the age.
He thought that any bill for reform that would
demand and deserve the support of Parliament
should be sufficiently well considered in its scope
and its provisions, and sufficiently in harmony with
national feeling, to ensure the approbation of the
great bulk of the community. It would be false
policy to insist upon carrying a bill which would
require, in order to its success, several years of out
door vigorous agitation. He considered it would
be the dictate of political wisdom to limit their
demand for the present to what there was reason-
able ground for supposing that the constituencies
of the country, taken as a whole, would approve.
The hon. gentleman then said that the grand prin-
ciples that had been announced as constituting the
basis of the bill to be brought forward by Mr. Bright
—with the provisions of which he was acquainted,
but was not at liberty to make public—would
answer all the requirements that he had laid down.
Mr. Miall, in conclusion, said that as there were
three Liberal candidates, all of whom supposed
that they possessed a majority of electors supporting
their pretences, he thought they should adopt some
proper method for finding out who had the 'majo-
rity. His committee, therefore, in the course of
to-morrow, would make a proposition to the com-
mittees of the other two Liberal candidates that a
ballot should be taken of the whole Liberal portion
of the constituency, and that those members who
were below the highest point should retire. At
the conclusion of his address Mr. Miall was loudly
cheered.

SERIOUS ILLNESS OF MRS. SIMS REEVES.—We
much regret to hear that this accomplished artist, wife of
the celebrated tenor, has been for some weeks very seriously
ill, so much so, indeed, as to cause her family and friends
great anxiety and alarm. Under such distressing circum-
stances the frequent inability of her husband to fulfil his
professional engagements, which has recently been com-
mented on in many quarters in no very charitable spirit,
may be easily accounted for.
Mrs. Garratt (formerly Miss Smithyes), a
favourite Columbine at Sadler's Wells and the Surrey
Theatres, died at Islington on Friday morning, of con-
sumption, leaving two young children totally =provided
for.—Era.
Miss Annie Fowler, the favourite and talented
Columbine at the Grecian Theatre, died yesterday (Friday)
morning. We are not yet in full possession of the sad par-
ticulars, but we hear her melancholy and sudden decease
was caused through her clothes accidentally catching fire.
—Era.
A story is told which is so good that everybody
who hears it will say it ought to be true. On the first
" cap" night of iixe Westminster play, Lord Chancellor
Chelmsford told his coachman to drive thither; and his
lordship's astonishment may be at least as readily imagined
as described when he found that his carriage had suddenly
stopped with the door opposite that of Astley's. The
coachman, never having heard of any other " Westminster
play," naturally concluded that his master wanted to see
the horse-riding.—Era.
ACCIDENT TO MISS CHARLOTTE COOKE.—A very
serious accident occurred last week to Miss Charlotte Cooke,
who, during the last season took all the leading parts at the
Theatre-royal, Preston. Miss Cooke had accepted an en-
gagement at Stafford, and was waiting on the platform of
the railway station, Preston, for the South train, when, in
turning round to speak to a friend, she caught her foot and
fell, breaking her arm in the fall. Medical aid was at once
procured, but it was some days before the fracture could be
reduced. The accident excited strong feelings of regret
and sympathy, as Miss Cooke, during her stay in Preston,
had gained many . admiring friends by the ladylike and
effective manner in which she supported many leading le-
gitimate characters in the course of the last season.—Era.
GOVERNMENT EMIGRATION.—The Government
emigrant ship Alfred, 1,278 tons, Captain . George Cossey,
which sailed from Liverpool on the 17th of June, in charge
of Surgeon-Superintendent John Hayden Brownfield, with
76 married couples, 126 single men, 60 single women, 38
boys between the ages of 1 and 12, 41 girls between the
same ages, nine male infants and 11 female, making a total
of 437 souls, equal to 3771 statute adults, arrived at Moreton
Bay, New South Wales, on the 19th of September. Two
deaths (infants) and five births occurred during the voyage.
Mr. Brownfield, the surgeon, was taken ill, and died shortly
before the arrival of the ship in the colony.
EXPORTS FROM HULL.—The following are the
Custom-house returns of the exports from Hull from Dec.,
1857, to November, 1858, both inclusive :—Plain calicoes,
47,757,361 yards ; printed calicoes, 35,340,176 yards • cam-
brics and muslins, 48,690 yards; lace, gauze, net, andcrape,
30,961,571 ys.rds ; cords, jeans, fustians, velvets, and velve-
teens, 150,408; cotton thread, 466,9001 b., ; cottons unenu-
merated, declared value, £11,012; cotton yarn, 79,273,062;
cotton and linen mixed, 13,643 yards ; linens, partly de-
clared in value and partly in length, £15,202, and 6,287,249
yards ; linen thread and yarn, 12,002,4951 b.; woollen goods,
£35,303; woollen and worsted goods, £1,203,568; woollen
and cotton goods, 213,331; woollen and worsted yarn,
14,952,1291 b.; woollen and cotton yarn, £2,937, and 20,4601 b.
FATAL ACCIDENT.—On Thursday evening, the
6th inst., as Mr. Grumich, manager of the lace-ware-
house of Mr. Moritz Marx, Nottingham, was returning
from hunting, and had proceeded so far homeward as the
London-road (about a mile from the town), his horse
came in contract with a milk-cart, which was going in the
opposite direction. Mr. Grumich's horse plunged violently,
and threw its rider, whose leg was frightfully crushed. The
unfortunate sufferer was conveyed home as speedily as pos-
sible, and surgical assistance procured. Upon examination
it was found necessary to amputate the leg. Mr. Grumich,
however, never rallied, and expired a few hours afterwards.
THE REV. MR. PUGH AND THE ST. PANCRAS
GUARDIANS.—The Rev. Thomas Pugh, who was lately
dismissed from his office of chaplain to the St. Pancras
Workhouse for having refused to divulge the address of the
late assistant-surgeon, the same having been communicated
to him in his capacity as a minister of religion as a profes-
sional and privileged communication, has appealed to the
Poor-law Commissioners to institute an official inquiry into
his conduct and to reinstate him in his office. The Beard
of Guardians, however, deny the right of the Commission-
ers to interfere in the matter, as they are appointed under
special Act of Parliament. The Board also denied, upon a
recent occasion, the right of the Commissioners to send an
auditor, but, as the Commissioners insisted, the Guardians
gave way.
NllNEs.—During the week the demand for a
few particular mines has been very great, and numbers of
orders could not be executed. The effect of this has been
in some measure to turn public attention to sound progres-
sive mines, such as are likely to have a rise in price. Those
chiefly in demand have been Grambler and St. Aubyn,
West Seton, East Basset, Condurrow, Besset, United Mines,
Providence Mines, Great South Tolgus, Tamar Consols,
Trelawny, Mary Ann, East Russell, Margaret, North Dol-
coath, South Caradon Wheal Hooper, North Minerva, and a
few others. East Basset advanced to 190, buyers, but after-.
wards became flatter, and left off at 175 to 180; the ore
sold on Thursday realised upwards of £2,000., but it is un-
derstood a dividend will not be paid till March. Grambler
and St. Aubyn have been in great demand, and have ad-
vanced to 190, 195 ; or, as the shares have been subdivided
into 486ths, the quotation is 92J to 971 ; at the meeting, a
dividend of £3 per share was -declared, and at the next
two-monthly meeting it will be at least £5 per share ; at the
present price of shares the mine is only selling at
half the price of East Basset, and from the report pre-
sented to the meeting, it would scent to be about the
cheapest in the market. South Frances, 230 to 235 ;at the
meeting the accounts showed a profit of £2,551 4s. 7d. on
the two months' working, and a dividend of £2,480 (£5
per share) declared. Copper Hill, 95 to 100 ; the mine has
much improved in the winze below the 6 fm, which:is yield-
ing 3 tons of rich ore per fm. Rosewarne shares have still
been in demand at 30 to 35, and though it is generally be-
lieved in Cornwall the mine has improved.—Mining Jour-
nal of this day.
VACANCIES, APPOINTMENTS, AND PROMOTIONS
IN TILE CIVIL SERVICE.—East India Department.--A
vacancy in the Council of India has been caused by the
resignation of Captain Shepherd. Messrs. Edward Henry
Whinfield, Wm. Christopher Eades, John Ward, Joseph
Samuel Armstrong, Alexander Mair M‘Greger, and
Frederick Jones, having passed their examinations, are
recommended by the Civil Service Commissioners for ap-
pointments in her Majesty's Civil Service in India on the
Bengal establishment. Army Medical Department. —The
office of principal medical officer at Fort Pitt, Chatham, has
become vacant by the promotion of Dr. J. R. Taylor, C. 8.,
to be Inspector-General of Hospitals in India. Law De-
partment.—A clerkship has become vacant in the office of
the Accountant-General of the Court of Chancery, by the
death of Mr. B. Lewis. General Post-office.—Mr. Wm. P

Reed, of the second class in the secretary's office, General
Post-office, Dublin, has been appointed to the first class, in
the room of Mr. Urquhart j. Thompson, appointed chief
clerk. Public Record-office.—An assistant-keepership in
the Public Record-office has become vacant by the death of
Mr. F. Devon. Customs.—The surveyor-generalship has
become vacant by the retirement on superannuation of Mr.
Thos. How. The office of assistant receiver-general will
shortly become vacant by the retirement of Mr. T. Leo on
superannuation. /A clerkship in the Receiver-General's
office is vacant, ,vice M'Dermott. Several clerks are to be
appointed in the Long Room, owing to increase of business.
The establishfnent at the portof Grangemouth has been in-
creased, and the following promotions have consequently
taken place :—Mr. Wm. Miller, clerk, has been prolnoted to
be first clerk ; Mr. David Stevenson, landing-waiter, has
been promoted to be first landing-waiter; Mr. Jas. Cobb,
second' landing-waiter at Yarmouth, has been promoted to
be first landing-waiter. Inland Revenue Department,
Excise Branch.—Mr. John Walsh, second-class clerk,
Athlone collection, has been appointed to Middleton divi-
sion, Cork collection, at his own request. Mr. John
Thornton, officer of Colyton ride, Exeter collection, has
been promded to Alloa second division, Stirling collec-
tions—ON &mice Gazette.