The Sun.
London, England, 1857-06-15 00:00:00

TBE VICTORIA 0.17,045.

Her Majesty has ben pleased to signify to L'iri Pan-
mure, the Secret :ry of Sta-e far IVar, that it is her gra-
cious intention to personally distribute th Victoria Cries
(the Order of Vaiour) on Friday, the 26,,0 inMt. It is
now determined that the ceremony of the di4tribucion
shall take place iu Hyde-park, and not on the parade
as origi 'ally c int,t.tiplated,
facing the a rse,Guar.i4,
that a far greater numb r of the pei)flo ally have the
opportunity of witn-t,,s.ng tt:e interestiog procr:adings
Prince Albert and a!1 the elder rnetubers of toe royal
family, the Prince Wiliam Frederica of Prussia, the
Archduke Ferdinaud Maximilian of Au tria, and a bril
liant court will be present on the occasion.

The Qaeen and Prince Albert, acc repanied by the
Pr nceas Royal and Prince Fredericic William of
Prussia, honoured the Princesa's Theatre with their
presence on Saturday evening. In attenda.ice were
the Duche's of A hol, the Hon. Caroline C ,vendish,
Lorl Catuoy-t, Mai Bouverie, Colonel F. H.
Seymour, and Baron de MAtke.
The Prince of Wales and Prince Alfred, attended
by M:ij.ir-General Barkeley Drummond, Mr. Gibb.,
and Lieutenant Cowell, honoured her Majesry'a
Theatre with their presence on Saturday etrering.
Lady Carane Town!ey's ball is unavoidably post-
poned from Wednesday, the 17th, to Tuesday the 30th
Instant.

We regret to learn the Hon. Mrs. Dawson Darner,
-widow of Capt. the lion. Henry Dawson Darner, R.N.,
and mother of the Earl of Portariington, died on Friday
la-t, after a short illness.
We regret to learn Viscountess Gage WM suddenly
seized on Saturday afternoon with apoplexy, and expired
at 20 minutes after 10 o'clock the same night.
On the occasion of the benefit of Mr. arid Mrs. Chas.
Kean, at the Princess's TiltlatTel, on ,he 221,we are to
be treated with another Suakspear.aa revival—`• Tee
Tempest."
It is sail that Mr. Rob Ann, the popular O'yrnpic fa-
vourite, and Mr. Emdm, will become the future director 4
of the 0 yawn Theatre, and that the same Court patron.
age will be r x ended to them.
SHREWSBURY SCHOOL.—Tee following honours have
lately been gained try Shrew bury men in the Univer-
sity of Catunridg, •J. R Lee, of Magdalen Oil
lege, filth in the first ti .K of the Classical Tripes ; Mr.
R. Whiting. of Trinity College, the seco .d Bell Scholar-
; Mr. J. R. L 'e, a Fellowship in Magdalen
C ii-
lege; Mr. A. ffilines, of St. J Ain's Col.e4e, Sir W.
Br.,wria's g ,Id medal for Greek ode ; Mr. It Whiting,
of Trinity Coli,,ge, Sir %V. Brown'- gold medal for
Greek and Latin epigram ; Mr. A. Holmes, the R.rson
prize.
THE CHEAP PRESS.—Toe Yarmouth Standard, a
°bet!) .verkly conservitive paper, which crept into cXIB-
- a few weeks since, ha-4 olive to a pretnatore end,
SA the proprietors have found it to " not -ufficiently
remunerative." Tue Noraielz. Weekly Express one of
the same class ofjouri:ab, wet with a afunlar tate after a
few months exisberice.
ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL, GRAY'S INN-ROAD.—The
nut-liner of patients redeye,' in this hospita, during the
week ending June 13, 1857, is 2,223, of which 704 were

new case..
THE CoMET.—S sine of the wise ones of a zontinental
city no ice tout the Man in the Moen has already flat-
tened and scorched his nceie considerably by cowing in
contact with the c nmet, while swinging round our earth,
which circumstance irrefraeably proves that the fiery
mass must a'ready be freer Ps.
R .YAL LUNACY FOR SC •TLAND.—The
onint.si ,ners, in diecitargieg the areueus nice of their
office, during the last two years nave 11,1,1 ne less than
tarty-nine inuerd tneetiev, and this is irreepective of
their visitations of any urns and lueatics t .roughout the
country. The Engli‘h c eumiAnenere c null not, of
i.oup-e, be present at all of these meetings, but they
attended a majority of them. Toe chairman was absent
from but one rneeti g, and that thump hec-issity.
METEOR L GY.—The rep.,rt of the meteorol igical de-
partment of the 13 nerd of Trade was itedied on Friday.
PARLIAIIENTAY PAPERS —.Nerd were issued on Fri•
day a return of the .ums paid to the r(letivee of officers
in lieu of peasi ins, is s. ; Gener 1 Orden; it the Court of
Chancery (Irelan.r) ; S ivines' Ba ks Accounts ; Report
on the Cennmen bodeieg Houses Ac-s.
MR. BERTOLACOI'S CASE.—rhe petition of Mr. Fran-
cis R. Bern lice, (Duchy el Lancaster) bee been referred
to a select coinin!t,ee of five members of the House of
Commons, appointed by toe GeeeralCeintnittee of Elec-
tions. Their mines are Mr. T. H. S Eetcourt, Lord
Goderich, Mr. Brainston, Lord H. Vane, and Mr. J.
Haim Hamilton
Letters from Turin monition that the new law allowing
National Bank of Piedmont nei inner-ale their rate of
interest was promulgated on Monday lest, and that the
bank immediately adopted an advance to 7 per cent.
The bank at Genoa hr h with took a simiiar step, and it
seems to be oontemaste,l tnat a further rise may be
necessary to. stop the efflux of bullion.
OPENING OF THE SLEAFORD AND GRANTHAM RAIL.
new line of railway, which is about 14 miles
in ex•ent, and forms part of the intended line from
Graetham to the port of B iston, was formally opened
on Sa!urniey lost, It his been censtrueted at a cost of
about 8 0001. ,per m le, riy the eminent contractors
Messrs. Smith and Knight, and is to he opened to the
by rise authority of the Board of Trade, on this
day ( Weida:).
Fox CLUB.—The fourth meeting of the Fox Club this
eag n t •nik piece on Sa,.urday evening, at Br oes'e,
There were present—tee Marquis Tewre7hend, Hon. C.
C. Cavendish, M.P., Mr. John Cotes, the Earl of Staf-
f ed, H in. Geerge Byne, M P., Hon. Wenman Coke,
Mr. Augu tut Keppal Stephenson, lion. E.l eard Coke,
Lord Moetyn, Right Hon. Lord Marcus HIP, Mr Row-
lend Als,on, Mr. Henry Frederick Stephenson, Lord
Paninure, Hon. Hsii. Charlesnrlton
, H
B.Dczcuaernets,C d ilig.t
J. V Robert
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neFonif,ll. Pie uii
k, Mr. R. A. Shefto Adair, Mr. Fred.
Dundas, M.P., Lord Seee and Sele, Lord Charles Jas
Fox Ru-sell, Mr. J. H.*Langsrein, M.P., Sir M. J.
Omni neley, Bert., 14. P., and Led
MURDER NEAR RADCLIFFE IN LANCASHIRE.—On
Friday afternoon, Mr. Price, one of the, ie:.,11,y
coroners
te. Lancashire, he! i an invest on the bech of an (I.i
women who, . body had been found in the river Irwell,
near Radcliffe. Toe deceased, who appeared about 60
years of i, had been last seen at a lodgiog hou-e in Burr,
where ehe called about 7 o'clock diet morning. At this
place she stated that she had left her lodeinge at Rame-
bott -tri early in the meruzee, for Ra Icoffe or MancheN-
t.,r, having left the people at her lodgings queireline
and fighting with pokers. Her dead body was discovered
in the river the same riEernoen. There were several
wounds about the head and face of the deceased, the
scalp being aboost stripped from the skull iu one piece,
and the base of the skull bring fractured. A surgeon
who had exim nett the body eel I death must have been
caused by these injuries, and not by drown iug. The
jury found a verdict of " Wilful murder again-t some
person or pereens einlenhoawdni.:ft
altt
EziAinisuss)pLcttoernd. that th,-
unfortunate women had been foliowed and murdered by
this after
atifltreere
some of the re-op e she
ell
rg:elledThhereenewe
Almogavar, Capt.tonCsa:il;c3r:
SOUTHAMPTON Joe 13.—The Spanish screw steamer
.mm/1 for Havre arid the Spanish ports with 46 passer'.
gets abent 70
steamships fray- here fir New York next week—namely,
masts), etiert,hneanNnor(twhitsh,
atrh e(inGw.rme,ainne,s,lay,
French,ntid the Cenetitu-
and English
tion (with the Belgian mails) inn Thursday. Tee Royal
mad Girup,nye, „,,a,reeep Parana, with the mails for
,
she West ledies, tzu., and the Peninsular and Oriental
on Wednesday, Company's sntesdae:y
e theSultan,7
1 with the Peninsular mails
sail t h
Ph, Peru, ith the India
and Ciiina mail, leaves on the 20th, and the Coloenbo,
from Alex andrle, may be looked for about Wednesday,

THE PENINSULAR MAILS —Tile Peninsular and Orien-
tal C oupaey's stisainship TA/us, Csp ain E. Ciirisi.ian,
arrived at Soutnanipt.el yesterday a 3 p.m. with the
Peninsular mails, in charlie of Lieut Bridges, R N , and
dates from Gibraltar to June 6 ; Ca liz 7 ; Lisbon, 9 ;
Oporto, 10; and Vigo, 11. Oa the outdeard voyage the
fagus experienced fine weather ; homewards, nordierly
winds aler.g the coast of Spain, and thick weather through
the bay. This steamer brings 43 first and 21 second-class
passengers, and on freight nine packages of specie, value
4,6361. sterling. H M. steamship Vulture, Capt Camp-
bell, seven days from Malts, arrived at Gibraltar on the
2.1 i et. The Tagus left a M S Princess Royal anchored
cfrhonngSeouretihma:utpi„twen,egartrhiavedaatla!gaemst.pp
i
at Lisbon on the gar iust. The screw sieainer Hydaspes,
Tiyhe Lisbon ex
of bil.s ha i
appeered on L .n on, and although a te.v were done at
531 for three months business d esed at 536, with hills
over. On other places little was done, paper continuing
scarce at 534 on Paris : Arnsterilaiti, 416 ; Hamburg,
47 ; and a-qlO3, 532. Tort' per Cent. Stqck,,, were dull,
at 454 ti 49, register,' i, ex die. ; C sup ns' 45 to 451 ex
div ; and Deferred, 28 to 28} Lisboii Bark shares were
at 10 to 12 par cent. pen. ; and Oporto Bank shares, 224
tl 25 tier cent. Pm.
THE EXETER-HALL SERMONS.—Lest night the Hail
was crowded to excess. There wire, it is true, many
persons in the audience who ceuld not fairly be reckoned
amongst the " working classes ;" but there were, at the
same time, very many who were uudnuhtecily genuine
working 'lien, in thed. "Sunday cl ithes." Tie hymns
and the Litany were joined in with an unanimity and an
eff,,ct which must he witnessed to he fairly conceived
The sermon was delivered by toe Rev. John Cole Miller,
D.D., rector of St. Martin's., Birmingham, and honorary
canon of Worcester, who selected for his text the in-
quiry which Nico teams put to our beloved Savour,
" How can these things he I" On this passage the rev.
gentleman fouuded the best discourse of the series—
decidedly the most earnest, evangelical, eloquent, and
awakening sermon to which we have listened for many a
day. It combined the fervour tted eloquence of our
most popular orators with tnat dignity of manner which
might be expected frern a gen 1-man of his status in the
Church of Eoglaiid. Tnere wa the greatest amount of
earnestness,
and yet n," intemPera,c, either in tone or
language. The Hell was c tnplately toll, and amongst
the noblemen and ueutlernen upon the platform we ob-
served the Right floe the Earl of Soaf,esbury, the
Right Hon. the Earl of Harrowbv, Mr H Danbury,
.ciß;wßiaxbratehlnEsrq..;l H. e
erfl
t:
yr:
Eig B -th on the platfo en and mingling with the audi.

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ence unc,trved a number of clagymen and ministers
of varivud denowinatione.