The Sun.
London, England, 1861-01-19 00:00:00

Lord and Lady John Russell End family will
arrive in Chesham-place on Thursday nett, from rembrolL
Lodge, Richmond-park, for the season.

Lord and Lady Norreya will have Nuneham
Park on Monday, from Towneley Hall, Lancashire.

Lord and Lady Eustace Cecil lave arrived in
town from Hatfield House. His lordship has taken a
residence in Belgrave-square for the season.

The marriage of the Lady Milfoid, widow of the
late Lord Milford, and daughter of the 3arl of Wicklow,
with the Hon. Mr. Eyre, will take place after Easter.
The Chancellor of the Exchecuer arrived in
town yesterday, from Hawarden Castle, Chester.

The Right Hon. Frederick Piel has taken a
mansion in Chesham-place for a term )f years. Mr. and
Mrs. Peel are at present occupying the Countess of Cale-
don's residence on Carlton-house-terra(e.

His Excellency Lord Napier is expected to
arrive at 31, Dover-street, next week, tom the Hague.

The Marquis and Marchio sof Salisbury have
been entertaining their Royal IWesses the Duke and
Duchess d'Aumale, and a select circb, at Hatfield during
the week.

Viscount Palmerston will pass through town to-
day, from 13roadlands, on a visit to her !ilajesty, at 'WinclF,or
Castle.

Mr. G. V. Brooke will leave Nelbourne in Feb-
ruary, and upon his arrival in England appear at the
Theatre Royal, Drury-lane, where he is engaged by the
enterprising lessee, Mr. E. T. Smith.—Era.

The steamer with the outgoing India and. China
mail will take £214,606, of which £340 is for Alexandria,
£25,000 on aecount of Government for the Mauritius,
£08,003 for-Calcutta and Madras, ant £91,303 for China
and the Straits. £15,822 is in gold ani £168,784 in silver.
The Government of Victor Enmanuel has de-
termined to issue a new bronze cointgo, which is to be
struck in Milan. The number of coins required is far
greatr than the amount of our own cdnage of bronze now
executing. Messrs. Ralph Heaton ant Sons, of the Mint,
Birmingham, have obtained the contract, and had to pro,
duce 732,000 pieces per day, commencing on the Ist of
April, 1861.
The report of the National Discount Company,
preparatory to their meeting on the 23d inst., states the
profits for the half-year at £13,134, which, with,a previous
balance of £5,014, gives an available total of £18,148. A
dividend is recommended at the rate of 5 par cent. per an-
num, which will absorb £9,633, and leave £8,514, to be
carried to the reserve fund, This fund will then amount
to £34,503, but it has yet to be debited wits £26,336, to
meet the losses from the failures in the loathe:. trade.
The report mentioned on Thursday that the, 13ank
of France had effected some new arrangement to meet its
present requirements has been confirmed by announce-.
ment yesterday afternoon that an agreement bas been en-
tered into with the Imperial Bank of St. Petersburg analo-
gous to that recently effected with the Bank of 2ngland for
the exchange of a certain sum of silver for gold, The
amount is 30,000,000 f., or £1,200,000.

M. Troplong, we hope, will deliver a mcst pacific
discourse at the opening of th 3 Senate, of which he is the
President. He will be sure to talk of shutting and opening
the Temple of Janus, and the address of the Legislative
Corps in reply to the speech from the Throne is expected
to be all that the Peace Congress itself could ask for. Of
the sincerity of the desire of both Chambers for a quiet life,
and as little of fresh military glory as possible, there is no
doubt whatever.

DEATH OF THE MASTER OF THE CROWN-OFFICE.

—We regret to have to annouxce that it transpired in the
Court of Queen's Bench yesterday that Master Corner,
whose promotion to the office of Master of the Crown-office
has been so recent, expired on Wednesday evening. The
lamented gentleman had been somewhat indisposed of late,
but his death was far from being expected. Mr. Corner,
who was a most able and conscientious public servant,
was the author of that well•known work, " Corner's Crown
Practice."

It is rumoured that an article of a semi-official
character will soon appear in one of the French papers
(probably the Constitutionnel), from the pen usually em-
ployed on similar occasions, and guided by the same supe-
rior will ; in fact, "inspired" or dictated by the Emperor,
written by M. Laguerroniere, and probably signed by the
" Secretaire de la Redaction," declaring, in substance, that
should Piedmont commit "an act of folly or madness" by
attacking Venetia, she must do so at her own risk and peril,
and not count upon material or moral support from France.
M. Cavour will perhaps be called upon for some declaration
equivalent to renouncing all hostile designs on the Austrian
possessions.
THE SHOOTING CASE AT MALVERN.—At the
inquest held on the body of the unfortunate man Collins,
who was shot at a pigeon shooting match at Malvern, on
Wednesday, as reported in The Sun of yesterday, a verdict
of " Accidental Death" was returned by the coroner's jury.
No blame was attributed to the person in whose hands the
gun was at the time. It appeared that it was a borrowed
gun, and very light in the trigger.
A man named Bosse, who was awaiting his trial

for murder in the prison cf Bonne-Nouvelle,—at Rouen,
succeeded in making his escape two evenings back about
five o'clock, by climbing the wall of an exorcise yard to
which he had access. How he managed to get over the
outer wall is a mystery. Bosse seemed greatly to dread his
approaching trial, and several times attempted to commit
suicide. As soon as his absence was discovered active
measures were taken to recapture him, but without success.
THE SLAVE TAADE.— Intelligence has been
received from Nassau, Bahamas, to the effect that ono of
the smaller and remoter islands of that colony was in
December last visited by the captain and crew of a slaver,
who had been wrecked on a neighbouring reef, and who,
after forcing the keepers of the English lighthouse to assist
them in disembarking 500 African slaves, obtained posses-
sion of a colonial schooner, in which they sailed to the
opposite coast of Cuba, where they procured a large vessel,
which returned with them and carried off the living cargo
before the force which the Governor, on hearing the intel-
ligence, had despatched to their rescue, could arrive. It
is worthy of note that 400 slaves were wrecked off another
of these islands in August last ; and that, on a third, an
exploring party, sent by the Governor in May last, dis-
covered a barracoon, in which there was every appearance
of slaves having been recently kept, while waiting for an
opportunity of deportation to Cuba.
SHIPWRECK.—A French brig, coal laden, struck
the rock near Skiningrove, about 16 miles to the north of
Whitby, on Tuesday afternoon, and went down. The crew
launched their jollyboat immediately the vessel struck, and
got into it, taking with them their clothes. They had not
proceeded far before the boat swamped, and eight out of the
nine were drowned. The survivor was the master of the
unfortunate vessel, and was saved by means of his life-belt.
CHALGE OF MISCONDUCT AGAINST A SHIP-
MASTER.-At a recent meeting of the Local Marine Board
of the Port of London, an inquiry was instituted into
charges preferred against Capt. William King, late master
of the Lord Byron (s.), by Mr. Stefanos Xenos, of the Greek
and Oriental Steam Navigation Company. Mr. H. Green
presided, and Mr. Ingham was the magistrate in attend-
ance. The investigation last some time, and many wit-
nessses were examined. The board, having consulted,
resolved that Capt. King was habitually under the influ-
ence of liquor from Constantinople to Taganrog, and during
part of the time at Taganrog, and also from Taganrog
back again to Malta, but the board are of opinion that he
was not so far drunk as to be incompetent to discharge his
duty. The board recommend that he be severely repri-
mended. The Board of Trade have intimated to the Local
Marine Board that as they had reprimanded Capt. King so
severely, they would return him his certificate.—Shipping
Gazette.

ACCIDENT.—iI ANDBOROUGH, Friday.—An acci-
dent happened on the BUckinghamshire Railway not far
from this place last night, which was, in these times of
railway accidents, very alarming in its character, though

providentially it was unattended with any serious conse-
quences. It appears that the last passenger train of the
West Midland Company to London, which passes this
station at 7.10 p.m., had :gone on safely from the West
Midland line to tho Buckinghamshire line, and was pro-
ceeding on its journey towards the Bletchley junction of the
London and North-Western Railway, when without any
warning one of the wheels of a first-class carriage of the
London and North-Western Company flew off and buried
itself in the bank. Fortunately the mishap was olaservecl,
and the driver at once shut off steam and stopped the train,
the carriage having been kept by the other wheels in its
upright position. Had it run off the rail the consequences
must have bean most serious, as the train ran at a rapid
pace along this part of the line. Tho only inconvenience
experienced was a delay of about an hour.
TILE CIRENCESTER GAME-LAW CASE.-011 Mon-

day, Mr. William Boodle received a communication from

the Home Secretary, requesting his immediate attendance
in London on the subject of his memorial for the liberation
of Hall, whose case was reported in the Examiner of this
day fortnight. Mr. Boodle was to have had an interview
with Sir Cornewall Lewis yesterday morning at 11 o'clock.
It is not expected that Hall will be immediately liberated,

as he, in fact, admitted the offence of which he was con-
victed. But there is good reason to hope that his term of
imprisonment may be shortened, and, what is of more pub-
lic importance, that the Home Secretary will express a
pretty strong opinion on the un-English means made use
of to secure his convictiou.—Cheltolham Examiner.

THE CASE OF MISS AYLWARD.—A meeting of
Roman Catholics was held at the Cathedral, Marlborough-
strect, Dublin, on Wednesday, in connexion with the Ladies;
Association of the Charity of St. Vincent De Paul and of
St. Bridget's Orphanage. Speeches were delivered by the
" Archbishop of Dublin," the " Bishops of Kerry and
Dromore," and others, in the course of which strong sym-
pathy was expressed for Miss Aylward, now undergoing a
term of imprisonment for contempt of court in reference to
the proselytism of the girl Matthews. The followingreso-
lution was adopted :—" That this meeting, feeling for the
long persecution which Miss Aylward has undergone, calls
on Ireland to defray the expellees of her many trials, to aid
by an effective organisation the clergymen and gentlemen
who are now acting for this purpose on the St. Bridget
defence committee."