The Sun.
London, England, 1857-12-23 00:00:00

I,IIE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDA Y EVENING, DECE\II3ER 23, 1857.

His Excellency Ferukh Khan, Persian Envoy Extra-
ordinary, returned to Claridge's Hotel yesterday from
visiting her Majesty at Windsor Castle. His Excellency,
accompanied by his suite, honoured the performances at
Astley's Amphitheatre with his presence last evening.
The Duchess (Dowager) of Beaufort and the Ladies
Somerset have left town to join the family circle at
Badminton Park. _ _

The Marchioness of Bath and Lady Louisa Thynne
are expected in town neat week, to be present at the nup-
tia:s of Miss St. John Mildmay, niece to Sir H. St. John
Mildmay and Viscount Bolingbroke, and grand-niece to
the Earl of Radnor.

The Marquis of Anglesey has entertained a select
party, including Sir John V. Shelley, Capt. Little, Mr.
G. Payne, &c., during the past week at Beaudesert, near
Lichfield. The circle separated on Saturday. The noble
marquis will receive company during the holidays.
The Marquis and Marchioness of Salisbury are passing
the season at Hatfield House, where they will entertain
company during the Christmas recess.
The Earl and Countess Granville have left town on a
visit to the Right Hon. Sidney and Mrs. Herbert at
Wilton House, near Salisbury.
The Countess of Lichfield gave birth to a son yester-
day at the family residence in Grosvenor-square. The
countess and infant are both progressing favourably.
The Earl and Countess of Westinorelond have returned
from Brighton to Apthorpe, where they intend to enter-
tain company during the holidays.
The Earl of Shelburne left Lansdowne House yester-
day to join the circle assembled at Bowood.
Viscount and Viscountess Combermere are entertain-
ing a succession of visitors at Combermere Abbey. The
following distinguished guests have recently left the
Abbey—Lord and Lady Delarnere, the Marchioness of
Downshire and Lady Alice Hilll, the Earl of Hills-
borough, the Earl Talbot, Lord Robert Clinton, the
Marquis and Marchioness of Cholmondeley, and Sir
Willoughby Cotton.
Viscount Althorp arrived at Althorp Park, a few days
since, from America, where his lordship has been making
a tour for some months past.
The Dowager Lady Foley and the Hon. Miss Foley
have returned to town from Bath.

The Dowager Lady Raglan and the Hon. Mies So-
merset left town yesterday on a visit to the Earl and
Countess of Westmoreland, at Apthorpe Park, North-
amptonshire.
The Count and Countess d'Alione have left the Bruns-
wick Hotel, St. James's, for Paris.
Lady and Miss Abercromby have left the Queen's
Hotel, Upper Norwood, for town. Captain and Mrs.
' Roebuck here arrived at the same establishment.
SACRED HARMONIC SOCIETY. - EXETER-HALL, To-
NItGHT.—The last performance of the " Messiah" takes
place this evening.
CORNHILL WARD. —Ai the close of the poll for Com-
mon Couacilmen for this ward yesterday the numbers
were—Fer Mr. E. Harrison (Deputy), 64 ; Mr. J.
Waterlow, 62 ; Mr. Hoppe, 59 ; Mr. D. Shrewsbury,
58 ; Mr. C. Gaimes, 57 ; Mr. A. J. Waterlow, 41 ; Mr.
J. Purssell, 30. Mr. Alderman Carter therefore de-
clared the first six gentlemen to be duly elected.
A letter from Luxembourg of the 13th says :—" Yes-
terday a student of the college here was assailed by
' so He Prussian sub-officers, one of whom, without any
p *vocation, felled him to the ground with the cut of a
satire, and injured him so severely that he died a few
hours after. The assailants then took to flight, pursued
by some persons who came up at the time ; but on
reaching the house of the military governor, the sentinels
on duty, instead of arresting the fugitives, let them pass,
and stopped those who were pursuing them."
SUlClDE.—Yesterday Mr. Payne held an inquest at
the Vestry-hall, Horselydowo, respecting the death of
Mr. Frederick Kilay, who,
as stated in the Mansion.
house police report yesterday, committed suicide by
cutting his throat. The particulars of the case have
appeared. The deceased had been charged with having
attetnpied to rob Mr. Stevens, stockbroker, of several
hendred pounds, but the Lord Mayor after hearing the
case told him that he left the court without the slightest
taint upon his character. The deceased, however, who
resided with his brother in Thornton-street, Horsely-
down, was very much depressed on his return home,
and on Sunday morning was found in bed with his
throat cut. The jury returned a verdict that the de-
ceased destroyed himself while in a fit of temporary in-
sanity brought on by the transaction with the broker.
ANOTHER QUARRY ACCIDENT IN NORTH WALES.—
FIVEI LIVES LOST.—A shocking catastrophe has occurred
in the Vale of Nantde, so lately the scene of a dreadful
accident of a similar character. On Monday six men
were at work at the Derethea slate-works, in a pit
known a 3 the Fire-hole, working a fresh opening, when
an immense mass of rock fed as suddenly as an avalanche.
About 30 or 40 tens rest.d on a gallery above, overhang-
ing the opening, and thus divided the rock in its descent
into two courses, which completely cut off all escape.
The sixth man was almost miraculously preserved. He
was working apart from the others on higher ground,
and the projecting rock partially sheltered him. A ma fil
of stone, about s•x tone weight, was seen to bound over
his head, and though seriously injured by being struck
by fragments, he ultimately succeeded in reaching the
area of the quarry. Blasting had frequently to be re-
sorted to to recover the bodies, for which relays of
workmen searched night and day, without intermission,
until Friday evening. The bodies presented a frightful
appearance. Some were terr.bly mutilated and nearly
cut through, and one was perfectly flattened, the skull
torn asund.r, and the brains lying close by. All, with
\
one exception, were married and leave families. The
entire tall is estimated at several thousand tens.
The Courrier de Pori., relates the following some-
what singular and not very probable anecdote :—"A
few days ago a gentleman walking through the
Charles Strause at Munich, and having on his arm a
large cloak, happened to stop opposite the office of the
Mont-de-Piste. He was Immediately accosted by a
female, one, it appears, of several who watch near those
establishments at Munich for the purpose of gaining
a trifling sum by pledging articles for persons who feel
asharnsd of entering those places themselves. ' Ala I
mein herr,' said the woman, ' you do not like to go in
there yourself, and yet you perhaps wish to pledge your
cloak I Give it to me, and I will get you a good sum on
it.' You will render me a service,' replied the gentle-
man, after a moment's hesitation, ' take the cloak, and
I will wait here until you return.' At the end of five
minutes, the woman returned, and handed to the gen-
tl mean 10 florins, the sum lent on the cloak. ' Thank
you, my good woman,' said the owner of the cloak, ' and
now, by way of commission, put these ten flerins in
your pocket, and take these,' giving her eleven more,
' and redeem the cloak and pay the interest.' The
woman was at a loss to understand all this, but she did
as she was told, and on her return, as she was handing
over the cloak to its owner, a company of sot tier:,
passed by, who presented arms to the gentleman, whom
the astonished woman then found waft no other than
King L- pis. Oa his return to the palace, his Majesty
sent for his tailor, and rated him soundly for charging
80 florins for a cloak on 'chicle he could oely borrow 10
florins."
INTERESTING SURGICAL OPERATION.—Dr. Lang-
worthy of this city extracted on Tuesday last an
arrow from the back of a soldier, lately in the United
States' service in New Mexico. This instrument we
have examined. It is of thin iron, about an inch and a
half long and three-fourths of an inch wide at the hoot,
with a tenon less than one-fourth of an inch wide. The
blade is tempered to a point, and the edges made
sharp. The tenon is driven into the head of the shaft
of the arrow, and bound with sieews. When this
instrument is propelled from a bow sprung by
powerful arra it is capable of doing great mischief.
This soldier is a young man named Dangerfield, who
was stationed at Fort Defiance. Early in September
act he was sent out from the fort with a small party
to bring in a train which was being harassed by the
Apache Indians. Willis on this duty the Indians mate
an attack, approaching the soldiers on horseback at
Either s iie in a c rcuitous way. As DangerfieH raised
his musket to fire at the Indians on one side an Indian
appeared on the other and hurled an arrow into tho
muscles of his shoulder-blade. His companions seized
the shaft of the arrow and drew it out, but left the iron
head to wbich we have referred above buried about four
inchts deep among the muscles. The wound was suffi-
cient to disable the man, and he was aeon after dis-
cherged. Haying sem, relations residing here he came
to this city to In opera`ed upon. Dr, Langworthy made
an incision, and by the aid of two " directors," with
which he guide l the shoulders of the iron, he speedily
drew out the arrow-head. The point of it was fast in
the spinout; process-of the shoulder-blade, The patient
rgtred to take chloroform, and submitted to the opera-
tion with much fortitude. He is now doing well, and
will soon recover the use of his arm, which had been
pertial.y parelysed.—Reeltester ( U.S.) Union.
THE CROWN JEWELS —We find the following in a
letter from Hanover, of Dec. 19 :..._., The hearts of the
King and Royal Family of this country have been much
rjoieed by intelligence which has just reached them
through the Hanoverian Minister at the Court of St.
James's, that the lot g dispute between the King of Han-
over and the Queen of England respecting the right to
certain jewels of enormous value, in the possession of the
Sovereign of England, and forming no inconsiderable
portion of what have been hitherto called the British
Crown jewels, has been decided in favour of Hanover.
Many of your readers are no doubt aware that when the
kingdom of Hanover was severed from the united king•
u Kning V
ocfto Hanover,ria
formerlytnae,
dom by the accession of Queen
the Duke of Cumberland) to nearly the whole of the
jewels usually worn on State occasions by the English
Sovereign, on the ground that part of them, which bad
been taken over t , England by Gcorgo 1., belonged
Victoria
a claim was made by the late
Malionably to the Crown of Hanover ; and that the
remainder had been purchased by George the Tbir'i
out of his privy puree, and had been loft by him
and his Queen Charlotte to the Royal Family
of Hanover. As the jewels thus claimed are sup-
posed to be worth considerably more than 1,000,0001.,
a single stone having cost nearly 20,0001., they were not
to be relinquished without a struggle ; and I urn mimed
that every possible expedient was, resorted to in EoglAnd
to half! -1 the claimant. Ultimately, in the lifetime of
the late 1: ilia, the importunity of the Ilsnocerian
Minister in Condon drove the, English Atinlstry of the
day to consent that the rights of the two
liovoreiges
Eshutil,l lit) submitted to a commiseion composed of three
English judges; but the proceedings of the counnission
were so rug' piously protracted that a!1 the cominissi ,nerB
died without arriving at any decision ; and until Lord
Clarendon received the seals of the British Foreign-
office all the efforts of the Court of Hanover to obtain a
fresh commission were vain. Lord Clarendon, however,
seems to have perceived that such attempts to stifle
inquiry were unworthy of his country, for he consented
that a fresh commission should be issued to three Eng-
lish judges of the highest eminence, who, after investi-
gation, found the Haeoverian claim to be indisputably
just, and reported in its favour. The Csurt here, con-
, e piently, is in high glee this Christmas at the prospect
of removing the Crown and regalia, so jealously guarded
in the Tower of Is)ndon, slimes buddy to Hanover." l