The Sun.
London, England, 1866-04-17 00:00:00

MR. GEORGE PEABODY.

Mr. Mayall, the eminent photographer, of Regent-street,
has just completed a life-size portrait of this eminent gen-
tleman, which has been taken and coloured expressly for
the purpose of presentation by Mr. Peabody to the Institute
bearing his name in Danvers, Massachusetts. The positive
is a most extraordinary one, it having been printed
life-size from a negative no larger than half-a-crown.
This operation is performed precisely as we enlarge
subjects in the magic lanthorn, the large sheet of prepared
paper being just as sympathic as the smaller ones, the
only difficulty being in surmounting the supply of light,
because as the picture enlarges the rays ;of light become
less powerful. However, all the difficulties have been
surmounted, and within one fortnight Mr. Mayall has pro-
duced a painting, and at the same time, a likeness which
all who have the good fortune to look upon must be ac-
knowle to be a perfect triumph of art. Such is the plea-
sure of the eminent gentleman, whose directions have thus
been carried out, that he has ordered a duplicate copy for
presentation to another institution, in which he takes a
lively interest, in America.

DISCOVERY OF THE BODY OF A CHILD AT WATER-
Loo Sunday afternoon one of the female
assistants at the refreshment rooms on tho Windsor plat-
form of the Waterloo railway station found a small paper
parcel in one of the water-closets adjoining the ladies'
waiting room, and upon an examination the parcel was
found to contain the dead body of a fine newly-born male
infant. There was a dark-coloured mark under one of the
eyes of the child, as if it had suffered from violence. The
body was transferred to the charge of a constable to await
an inquiry.

TERRIBLE CRIME AT GATESHEAD.—On Saturday
great excitement prevailed in Gateshead owing to the dis-
covery of a shocking murder of a little girl named Sarah
Melvin, five years of age, on the previous night. The
body was discovered lying by the roadside at Caw's-hill,
the hands being tied together and a rope fastened tightly
round the neck. A subsequent examination showed that
a most diabolical outrage had been committed on the child,
which was last seen alive some five hours before the dis-
covery of the body on Friday night. From a variety of
circumstances it is concluded that the outrage and murder
were perpetrated elsewhere than at the place where the
body was found. The police have of course taken the
matter in hand, but as yet no discovery has been made.
THE DEVONPORT ELECTION PETITION. The
Western Morning News believes that it has been
decided to abandon the petition which has been presented
against the return of Messrs. Ferrand and Fleming. This
result is stated to be due to the evident indifference of the
gentlemen on whose behalf the petition was, nominally at
all events, presented. Mr. Phinn, Q.C., had lately found
it was not to his interest to accept a seat in a Parliament
in connection with which he was more profitably engaged
in other ways ; and Mr. Brassey having now given the cold
shoulder to his Devonport friends, for putting upfor Sand-
wich, it is seen to be useless to proceed, although Mr.
Brassey would have been seated if only 19 votes bad been
proved to have been illegally given to Mr. Fleming, an
easy task indeed, according to the Liberal assertions on
the subject. If the disfranchising clause in the Reform
Bill is passed, however, the same result will be effected by
a more economical and satisfactory process.

THE NEW BISHOP OF LIMERICK.—The Very Rev.
Dr. Chas. Graves, who has been nominated to the bishopric
of Limerick in the room of Dr. Henry Griffin, deceased,
was educated at Trinity Coll., Dublin, where he took high
academical honours at the time of proceeding to his degree.
In due course he became a fellow, and at the present time
holds one of the senior fellowships of the college. He has
also, been for some years dean of the Chapel Royal in Ire-
land, first chaplain to the Lord Lieutenant, and chaplain
to the household. The diocese of Limerick, over which
he will have episcopal jurisdiction, is worth (net) £3,961
a year. The area is 506,222 acres ; population, 172,622 ;
benefices, 56 ; perpetual cures, 5.
The director of the Italian Opera at Paris has
engaged Mdlle. Eugenia Mole, the young Italian artiste
with a perfect tenor voice. She will make her debut in
the " L'ltalians in Algori" of Rossini, and will take the
first tenor's part.
The Corsican Brothers," with new scenery,
proper lea, and effects, is about to be produced the
Lyceum, and the tragedy of "Hamlet" is to be performed
on the 21st of this month, and repeated some two or three
evenings after.