The Sun.
London, England, 1859-04-12 00:00:00

Lord and Lady Cranworth will leave town early
next week for their seat, flolwood, Kent.

Lord and Lady Calthorpe and family will shortly
Leave town for Elbesham Park, Hants.

Lady Rolie has arrived at her residence in tipper
Grosvenor-street, from Bicton, Exeter, for the season.

Sir Alexander and Lady Malet have returned to
Frankfort from a visit eo Lord and Lady Brougham in
Grafton-street.

Sir Charles and Lidy Lamb have arrived at the
Clarendon from Beaupo-t, Little Sussex.

Accounts. from Marseilles state that wine has
advanced in price in that city, owing to the intelligence
from Languedoc that sone injury had been done in the vine-
yards by frost.

COLLIERY STRIKE AT HUNWICK, NEAR BISHOP
AUCKLAND.—The whsle of the pitmen, employed at the
Newfield and Binchester collieries, Hunwick, near Bishop
Auckland, the property of Mr. It. W. Jackson, of West
Hartlepool, to the number of about 300, struck work on
Wednesday last, in consequence of an alleged breach of
contract on the part of the owner. They state that the
measure tub by which their coals had previously been mea-
sured had been removed and a larger one substituted, there-
by entailing upon them a greater amount of labour than was
anticipated when they entered upon their engagement.
Summonses for desertion were immediately taken out against
three of tne number, John Hardy, Thomas Hardy, and
George Boothwright, and the charge was heard before the
Bishop Auckland magistrates on Thursday. The greatest
excitement prevailed in and around the court. The bench
committed them for seven days. An open air meeting was
subsequently held in the town, at which strong dissatisfac-
tion was manifested.—Manehester Examixer.

SOLICITORS' BENEVOLENT ASSOCIATION.—The
friends and supporters of this association for the relief of
poor and necessitous attorneys, solicitors,' and proctors in
England and Wales, and their wives, widows, and families,
last evening celebrated their first anniversary by a dinner
at the Albion Tavern, Aldersgate-street. The Lord Mayor
presided on the occasiDn, and was supported by upwards of
100 members of the legal profession. Although the society
had been but recently formed, many benefits had been
already conferred by it upon men who had become reduced
from a state of affluence to that of abject destitution. The
Lord Mayor, in the course of his address to the meeting,
expressed a hope that the society would be hereafter as pro-
minent for its benevolence as its members were acknow-
ledged to be useful by their services to the general well-
being of the community.- The subscriptions amounted to
upwards of £OOO. Messrs. Ransford and Young were pro-
fessionally engaged, and gave great enjoyment to an even-
ing well spent by the double. pleasure of a good dinner
and the consciousness of contributing to the aid of a good
cause.

DARING THEFT OF £175 FROM A BANK
COUNTER.—On Friday afternoon Mr. Forrester, baker,
Gordon-street, proceeded to the Royal Bank, shortly before
the time of closing, to lodge a sum of money. Having
counted out £175 in large notes he placed them in a bundle
on the telling-table, and was about to count out soma small
notes to make up the sum he wished to lodge, when a party
asked him if he could give him a £5 note for five £1 notes.
This he was about to do, when, on turning round, he
saw, or thought he saw, a hand hastily drawn from the
counter, and when he looked more particularly, found to
his surprise that his bundle of £175 had disappeared. He
then observed a smart little fellow hastily leave the bank,
whom he at once suspected of the theft, and
whom he immediately followed. On getting to the street,
however, the fellow had turned the corner before Mr. For-
rester could give the alarm, The daring thief consequently,
es_eiped, but we hope only to be captured. Informa-
tion was at once given to the police, but as yet we have not
heard of any traces of the rascal having been found.—
Glasgow Journal.
EXPLORATION OF THE AUSTRALIAN RIVERS.-
According to the last advices from Australia, Capt. Cadell
by whom the river Murray to Albury, and the river Mur-
rumbidgee to Gundagi (from 1,800 to 2,000 miles from the
mouth of the Murray) was opened up, had successfully
availed himself of a favourable opportunity for exploring
the Darling. On the 24th of January last, in his
steamer Albury, accompanied by Richard M‘Don-
nell, Governor of South Australia, and party, he
left Morundee, on the Murray, and a short dis•
tance above Lake Victoria the Darling was entered. With
but little difficulty the steamer reached a point above
Mount Murchison, that being the verge of the country that
is stocked. As the water in the river was falling rapidly,
it would not have been safe to ascend further ; but at a
future period Captain Cadell hopes to take his steamer up
to the junction with the river Barivan, above Fort Bourke.
When Captain Sturt and Sir Thomas Mitchell visited the
Darling near Mount Murchison, they found it almost a
chain of water-holes. The Albury got back to Moorundee
on the loth of February, all well. •

TIIE COST OF A I(iss.—The case of Dawson v.
Cooper, which was tried at the Liverpool Court of Passage,
on Saturday, excited considerable interest. It was an action
to recover damages for a kiss, given under the following cir-
cumstances appeared that some lawsuits were pending
at the time, and that the defendant, who is an attorney, was
engaged against the plaintiff. On the 24th December last
he called at the public -house then kept by the plaintiff, and
whilst there kissed the daughter, a nice-looking girl about
hi years old. She immediately told her mother what had
°enured, who rebuked the defendant for what ho had done
upon which he asked where the mistletoe was, and kissed
her, too, remarking that it was the sweetest kiss he ever had,
to which she answered that it might be the dearest. The
daughter was called, and stated that she told her mother
" a dirty old Jew had kissed her." She slapped his face
several times for taking the liberty. Mr. Brett made a
humourous speech for the defence, in extenuation of his
client's conduct. Mrs. Cooper's curls, he said, tickled the
defendant's cheeks, and, poor man, the temptation was too
strong for him, especially as it was Christmas-eve. The
learned Assessor summed up, and the jury returned a ver-
dict
for the plaintiff, damages :O.—Liverpool Albion.
DEATH FROM HYDROPHOBIA.—An inquest was
held at Wolverhampton on Friday afternoon last, before Mr.
Coroner Phillips, on the body of Thomas Price, a labourer
at the Swan Garden Works in that town, who had died a
few days previously in terrible agonies. During the
paroxysms he repeatedly charged his wife with having ad •
ministered poison to him, and this, notwithstanding the
marked character of the symptoms exhibited by the unfor-
tunate man, was considered to render an inquest necessity.
Tho post mortein examination, however, fullly cleared the
poor woman of participation in her husband's death. Price
was a great dog fancier, and had doubtless been inoculated
wifh the fatal virus by some one of his canine pets, but
neither he nor any of his friends seemed to have any recol-
lection of his having been bitten, or of any of his dogs hav-
ing become rabid. The jury found that the deceased had
died of hydrophobia.—..lTancliester Examiaer.
MADAGASCAR SNAKES.—There are also serpents
in the island of various kinds; but the largest are not
poisonous, though they will bite severely if assailed or
irritated. M. Provint told Km that on one occasion, when
he was travelling in the country, having risen from the
mat on which he had slept during the night, he went a
short distance, and having directed his servant to prepare
the mats for resuming the journey, was called back by the
man, who on rolling up the mats, discovered an immense
serpent, seven or eight feet long and as thick in the body
as an ordinary wine-bottle. It was coiled up in a circle
exactly in the spot where he had been lying, to which it
had pi obably been attracted by the warmth. He said he
was startled at the sight of such a monster, and called to
the natives to destroy it, but, instead of this, the people
took a piece of stick, and just guided its head towards the
long grass and bushes, saying, "Go you away, go." They
seemed to regard with a sort of superstition, almost
amounting to dread, all serpents, crocodiles, and other
dangerous reptiles,which they scrupulously avoid injuring,
under an apprehension of experiencing retaliation, either
from that identical reptile or from some other of its species,
at a future time. The only serpent which I saw was a
small one, between three and four feet long, of a light yel-
low or straw-colour, and beautifully marked with trans-
verse stripes of brown ; but I was told the reptile was not
venomous. The gentleman under whose mats the
immense serpent had coiled itself while he was sleeping
also told me that, when passing through the dense unfre-
quented parts of the forest in the interior, he met with large
serpents which, when he has come suddenly upon them,
had appeared irritated, and had raised themselves up
several feet as if to resist his progress, till he attacked
them with a spear.— Ellis's _Madagascar.
THE AMENDED OATHS ACT.—One of the acts
which received the Royal assent on Friday was to settle the
form 44. ailirmt.tion to be made in certain cases by Quakers
and other persons by law permitted to make an affirmation
instead of taking an oath. Instead of taking the oath pre-
scribed in the Act of last session (21st and 22d of Victoria,
cap. 4s), the persons alluded to are to make a solemn
affirmation in the following words :—" I, A B, do solemnly,
sincerely, and truly declare and affirm that I will bear true
allegiance to Queen Victoria and to her will be faithful
against all conspiracies and attempts whatever which shall
be made against her person, crown, or dignity, and I will
do my utmost endeavour to disclose and make known to
Queen Victoria, her heirs, and successors all treasons and
traitorous conspiracies which I shall kriow to be formed
against her or them, and I will be true and faithful to the
succession of the Crown, which succession, by an Act en-
titled, ' An Act for the further limitation of the Crown and
better securing the rights and liberties of the subject,' is
and stands limited to the Princess Sophia, Electress of
Hanover, and the heirs of her body, being Protestants,
hereby utterly renouncing and refusing any obedience or
allegiance unto any other person claiming or protendinx a
right to the Crown of this realm ; and I do declare that no
foreign prince, person, prelate, state, or potentate bath, or
ought to have, any jurisdiction, power, superiority, pre-
eminence, or authority, ecclesiastical or spiritual, within
this realm."

EXTRAORDINARY CHARGE OF POISONING.—On
Saturday morning, at •the Liverpool police-court, behre
Mr. Mansfield, two youths, named Thomas Hayei, 15, and
Henry Peel, 15, were brought up by detective-officer Car- ,
lyle, on a charge of having put a large quantity of chromate
of potash, a deadly poison, into the holy water font at the"l
Catholic church in Blackstock-street. The case excited a
great deal of interest, and the court was crowded by persons
from the locality, as it had caused an unusual amount of ex-
citement in the neighbourhood. Both prisoners were inthe
employment of Mr. Tyson, an extensive soap manufacturer,
in Blackstock-street, and it would seem that chromate of
potash was used in the manufacture of soap, and that the
prisoners had taken a quantity of that poison and put it
into the holy-water font. When they were arrested on the
charge, Hayes confessed that he had done it. Mr. Mans-
field said he understood that holy-water was merely used
for making the sign of the cross on the forehead, in reference
to the baptismal vows. Mr. Russell said it was used for that
purpose, but many also put it to their lips. He would show
that by mixing the poison with the water it would burn the
forehead and lips, as it was a corrosive poison of a deadly
nature. The charge having been proved by the evidence of
several witnesses, Mr. Russell said ho understood that the
boys were respectable in their sphere of life, and bore a Good '
character. Neither he nor those who instructed him had
any wish to have them punished severely, but only desired
that others might be warned against doing similar acts.
Mr. Mansfeld said it appeared to him to be a confederacy
for the purpose of annoying and insulting the congregation
who went to the chapel. Peel said Hayes told him to do
it. Hayes said ho only did it to daub the hands and fore-
heads of the people, not knowing that it was poisonous.
Mr. Mansfield said the prisoners had done a very improper
and wicked act. Their conduct, had been, very gross in-
deed. In order that it might be caution to others, as he
hoped it might be, to abstain from insulting and annoying
congregations, he ordered both the prisoners &find bail, in
two sureties each of 419 reFpectively, to keep the peace and
be of good behaviour, or else to bs imprisoned each for six
months.
A DANDY.—Touching dandies, let us consider,
with some scientific strictness, what a dandy specially is.
A dandy is a clothes-wearing man—a man whose trade,
office, and • existence consist in wearing clothes. Every
faculty of -his soul, spirit, purse, and person is heroically
consecrated to this ono pbject—the weatlng of clothes
wisely and well; so that, as others dress to live, he lives
to dress.—Carliik.