The Sun.
London, England, 1859-06-21 00:00:00

THE LAW APPOINTMENTS.

Saunders' Newsletter states that Mr. Henry
George Hughes has refused the judgeship in the
Bankruptcy Court, vacant by the death of Mr.
Macan. It is scarcely credible that the offer was
ever made. Mr. Hughes's professional income must
be nearly double the salary of the judgeship, and
he can well afford to bide his time until something
turns up more worthy of his position at the Irish
equity bar.

A Cabinet Council Was held yesterday at the
official residence of the First Lord of the Treasury, in
Dewning-street. The Ministers present were—Viscount
Palmerston, the Lord Chancellor, Earl Granville, the Duke
of Argyll, Sir G. C. Lewis, Lord John Russell, the Duke
of Newcastle, the Right Hon. Sidney Herbert, Sir Charles
Wood, the Right Hon. AV. E. Gladstone, the Duke of
Somerset, the Earl of Elgin, Sir George Grey, the Right
Hon. E. Cardwell, and the Right Hon. T. Milner Gibson.
Lord John Russell has appointed the Hon. Georgo
Elliot and Mr. George Russell to be his private secretaries.
Mr. Villiers Lister has been appointee Precis Writer,
TRINITY HOUSE, TOWER-HILL.—Yesterday being
Trinity Monday, the elder brethren of Trinity House pro-
ceeded to the parish of St. Olave's, Hart-street, Crutched-
friars, where Divine service was performed according to
annual custom. The oTand banquet to his Royal Highness
the Prince Consort and her Majesty's Ministers takes place
on Saturday evening, the 2d of July.
On Friday next the royal mail screw steam-ship
Ethiope sails from Liverpool for the West Coast of Africa,
with the mails, &c. The letter hoX at the Liverpool Post-
office is open for letters till 12.45 p.m.; 'with a late fee, at
1.15 p.m., and on the landing stage at 2 p.m.
THE OUTWARD INDIA MAIL.—The Peninsular
and Oriental Company's steamship the Pera, Captain
Jamieson, arrived at Malta with her usual punctuality on
the evening of the 12th of June, in eight days from South-
ampton, including stoppage at Gibraltar, nothwithstanding
having had head winds as far as Cape St. Vincent. On the
9th, when 60 miles to the eastward of Gibraltar, she ex-
changed signals with the barque Egyptian, standing to the
westward. The Pera left for Alexandria on the morning of
the 14th. The Ellora, with the overland London mail, ar-
rived at Malta early on the morning of the 15th, and pro-
ceeded onwards to Alexandria immediately after coaling.
The Behar, with the heavy homeward mail, left Malta for
Southampton on the afternoon of the 13th, and the Nepaul
on the forenoon of the 15th for Marseilles with the home-
ward Indian mail.

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TEN OCEAN MAIL SERVICE.—SOUTMAMPTON,
Monday.—The Peninslar and Oriental Company's screw
steamship Colombo, Captain J. S. Field, sailed hence to-
day, with the heavy portion of the mails for the East Indies
and China, a full cargo, and specie and Half,
to the
value of £285,017. The Tagus, Captain Half is due on
the 21st, with mails from Lisbon, Oporto, and Vigo ; the
New York, Captain Von Saute; on the 22d, with mails
from New York of the 11th inst., for England and Bremen;
the Behar,
. Captain Hicks, with he Bombay mails, and the
Hammoma, Captain Schwensen, with New York mails of
the 15th inst., on the 27th ; the Ariel, Captain Jones, on
the 30th, with English and French mails of the 18th, from
New York ; the Atrato, Captain Woolley, with the West
India, Pacific, and Mexican mails, and the Alhambra,
Captain Steward, with the nails from Lisbon, Oporto, and
Vigo, on the Ist proximo; the Pere, Captain Jamieson,
with the India and China mails, en the 4th ; and the Tyne,
Captain Sawyer, with the Brazil and River Plate mails, on
the sth. The Vanderbilt, Captain Lefevre, leaves this port
on the 22d inst. for New York; the Orissa, Captain Joy,
and the Sultan, Captain N. Cook, on the 27th, the former
taking out the Bombay mails, and the latter the mails for
Vigo, Oporto, and Lisbon; the Weser, Captain Gatjen, for
Now York, on the 28th, and the Arago, Captain Lines, for
Now York, on the 29th.
The Red Sea cable has announced the arrival at
Aden of the Calcutta mail of the 17th of May, but the news
by that opportunity has been anticipated by the Bombay
mail of the 23d. It is satisfactory, however, to reeeive a
confirmation that the line is in working order. The mes-
sage was despatched from Aden to Suez on the 10th inst.,
and would have reached London two days sooner had it been
telegraphed from Marseilles instead of forwarded by post.
The land line of the company between Snez and Alexan-
dria was completed, with the exception of 15 miles, when the
last advices left on the 11th inst.
-The arrival of £500,000 in bullion was announced
yesterday, the Asia, from New York, having brought
£289,000 ; the Monarch, from Melboiirne, £171,400 ;" the
Moscow, from St. Petersburg, £27,000 ; and the Ripon,
from Alexandria, £13,600. Including the £56,000 in Aus-
tralian gold, by the Essex, and the £530,000 in gold and
silver, by the West India steamer La Plata, there is an
aggregate of no less than £1,087,000 in specie, chiefly gold,
awaiting disposal.. There is consequently a prospect of
some amount being taken to the Bank during the present
week. The bullion operations at that establishment yes
terday were too small to deserve notice. i
DETERMINED SUlClDE.—Yesterday evening, a n
inquest was held at the University Hotel, Grafton-street
East, Fitzroy-square, before Mr. Wakley, on the body of
Mr. Charles Hall, aged 47, a coachbuilder, who committed
suicide by cutting his throat with a razor. The deceased
had for a length of time been in a desponding state of mind,
for which there was no assignable cause. On Wednesday
evening last, he, in conversation with his wife, said he did
not think it worth while living longer. She went out after-
wards, during which the unfortunate man took the oppor-
tunity of cutting his throat with a razor, and he died on
the following day, There were several witnesses examined,
all of whom spoke to the deceased's low, dejected state of
mind for some time past. The jury returned a verdict that
the deceased committed the act while in a state of insanity.
The amount of revenue of New South Wales for
the quarter ending March 31 was over £58,000 greater thaU
that of the corresponding quarter of 1858. A large portion
of it is traceable to the increase in land sales, and to the
newly
imposed assessment; but £22) 000 is from the Gas-
tome receipts alone.