The Sun.
London, England, 1857-01-15 00:00:00

PUNCH'S POT-POURRI POUR EIRE.

No woman is a beauty to her femme-de-chambre.
A lawyer's carriage is only a legal conveyance—and it is
the client, as often as it stops at his door, that pays for the
drawing up of it.
Most Golden Calves, when thrown into the crucible of
Time, turn out to be no better than Pigs of Lead !
Life is a Romance, of which a Coquette never tires of
turning over a new leaf.
Mock no man for his snub nose, for you never can tell
what may turn up.
A character, like a kettle, once mended, always wants
mending.
Be kind even in your reproofs, and reserve them till tho
morning. No one can sleep well who goes to bed with a
flea in his ear.

The man who is fond of staking his reputation upon the
smallest trifle, generally retires from the contest before he
is called upon to deposit his stake.
Life is full of contradictions—but Woman takes very
good care that we shall never hear the last of it.

It is wrong to judge men by trifles. The man, yester-
day, who kept the, dinner waiting half-an-hour, keeps his
mother•in•law !—Punelt.

A beautiful window of stained glass has been placed
in the chancel of Hawsted Cnurcb, to the memory of
the late Sir Thomas Cullum, Bart.
The Customs' dues paid at Boulogne amounted to
110,3721 in 1854, 187,012/. in 1855, and 195,8901, in
1856. The figures for most of the other French Cnannel
ports present proportionate results.
THE JUDICIAL ESTABLISHMENT IN SCOTLAND.—The
coat to the country on account of the judicial establish•
went in Scotland in the year ended March was
111,135/.

It is stated that Lord Brougham's motive for declin-
ing the Chancellorship of the London University was,
that his lordship, holding the office of President of Uni-
versity College, considered that the duties of Chancellor
would be incompatible with his present position.
ETHNOLOGICAL SOCIETY.—A. meeting of this society
was geld yesterday evening at their rooms in Cavendish-
square; the president—Alderman Kennedy—in the
chair. Dr. Hodgkin read a paper on the character of
the Chinese, with a view to remove the notion so com-
monly entertained of the debased condition of that
people.
A return of the sherry wines exported during the
past year shows the quantify to have been 54,611 butts,
against 43,637 butts in 1855, and 52,746 butts in 1854.
Of these 41,087 were sent to the United Kingdom,
4,537 to Russia, 2,669 to the United States, 1,810 to
Atiatralia, and the remaining' 4,408 to various other
markets.

THE LORD ADVOCATE OF SCOTLAND.—On Tuesdasy
last the Town Cmincil of Edinbureh met at 11 o'clock,
pursuant to a previous resolution, for the purpose
of offering to the Lord Advocate the high honour
conveyed in the freedom of the city. The Lord Provost
in a brief but appropriate address presented the freedom,
to which the Lord Advocate replied, assuring the town
council that he sincerely felt the honour they bad con•
ferred upon him, in placing him on the roil of ifreemen
of.the burgh.
THE EXILE OF COUNT DANDOLO.—A letter from Milan
of the Bth inst. contains some further particulars rela-
tive to the temporary exile of the young Count Emile
Dandolo from that city. The director of police read to
the young man a written speech, in which it was said
that Count Dandoio had not reformed, but that
he was the chief of a society of young men who
endeavour to prevent the nobility from attending the
Court, and that consequently he was exiled to the coun-
try. He was given his choice of several districts, and
he selected Adro, in the district of Iseo. On his
arrival there he was compelled to present himself
to the chief magistrate, and be is not to quit Adro.
The Director of Police added—" When the time,becomer
more tranquil you may ask to return to Milan. In
the meantime you have but 24 hours to prepare to
depart for the residence assigned to you." This con
versation took place on the 3d instant. The result o
this measure is that public opinion is more decided to
abstain from all demonstration and to maintain a ca'm
and freezing attitude. Such is the programme, which is
to be observed in the letter.

THE NEW WATER SUPPLY FOR LIVERPOOL.—The long
expected supply of water from the Rivington-hills, 26
miles from Liverpool, has within the past few days
reached the town, and has done more to lay the opposi-i
tion to its introduction than all the speeches which have
been delivered in its favour. At the meeting of the
council yesterday it was stated that the total cost of the
old waterworks was 801,000/., producing a weekly
supply of water of 44,000,000 gallons ; while the total
cost of the• Rivington works would be 694,7721., in
addition to 35,2781. paid for the purchase of the Chorley
Waterworks, and the supply of water would be
19,000,000 gallons per day. _

Lieutenant-General Sir F. Cockburn writes to Captain
Smethett relative to the widows and orphan's left desti-
tute by the loss of the Violet and her crew :—" These
unf rtuoates, it does appear to me, are as fully entitled
to public relief as those of the army and navy who were
killed in action or died in hospitals in the Crimea. The
wreck of the Violet is quite distinct from the general
class of wrecks, inasmuch as it was entirely caused by
a zealous and gallant determination to fulfil a public
duty, and I do think, if so stated in the London papers,
a large subscription would be made there. It was the
desire duty to fulfil the contract made with the country
that led to the sad result."

MARSEILLES, Jan. 13.—The steamers which have been
expected from Algeria for some days have at length
arrived. The Zouave brought the mails of the lst and
31 inst., the Louqsor brought the mails of the 6th. The
captain of the Louqsor reports that he experienced a
terrific hurricane on his passage out of Marseilles to
Algiers. He sailed from Marseilles on the 30th of Deo.,
and shipped some heavy seas in the gulf of Rosas on the
31st, which stove in the bows of the ship. The captain,
who was on deck, was thrown with violence against a
bench, and was seriously hurt. The Louqsor was com-
pelled to atop at Rusas, whence she sailed for Algiers.
The Egyptus, which is an excellent sailor, was likewise
detained six days beyond her time. The large steamer
Bresil, from Bahia, was forced to take shelter in the
CONVICTION FOR MURDER.
Justiciary, Edinburgh, on Monday, Pet
—At the Heigrhi‘Citretan
were
of
Christina Peters or M'Lean,a
s alsoand Wm.
charged with "murder,assault Mansfield, ,
committed by
stabbing and cutting,
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head bridge, they attacked and assaulted the now de-
ceased Thomas Maxwell, a miner, re,gding at Durham.
town,
near Bathgate, and did knack or throw
himdown on the ground, kicked him, and struck
with a knife or other instrument stabbed or cut him on
the chest and neck and other parts of his person, by ail
of which he was mortally jured, and immediately, or
soon thereafter died ; and also, time and place above
libelled, they did assault John Maxwell, miner, striking
him with a stone on the head or face, and throwing him
down and stabbing him with a knife on the leg,
and otherwise maltreating and abusing him by all
of which he was cut and wounded, to the effusion of
blood and the serious injury of his person." The pri-
soners pleaded "Not Guilty ;" but the jury, after a
lengthened absence, returned a verdict, by a majority,
of guilty of murder and assault against Peter M'Lean,
but recommended him to the merciful consideration of
the Crown ; not guilty against Christina M'Lean; and
guilty of assault against Mansfield. The Lord Justice
Clerk then sentenced Peter M'Lean to be executed on
Monday, the 2d of February next, at Linlithgow, and
adjured him to banish from hie mind any hope that his
life would be prolonged. The prisoner M'Lean exhibited
violent emotion on receiving sentence. Mansfield was
sentenced by the Court to two years' imprisonment, and
Christina M'Lean was dismissed from the bar.