The Sun.
London, England, 1861-02-02 00:00:00

A Cabinet Council was held yesterday at the
official residence of the First Lord of the Treasury, in

Downing street. All the members were present.

Her Majesty and his Royal Highness the Prince
Consort, and the youthful members of the Royal Family,
will arrive at Buckingham Palace on Monday from Wind-

sor Castle. The Queen will hold a Privy Council the same

afternoon, when the Royal Speech to be delivered at the
opening of Parliament the succeeding day will be settled.
Owing to the very dangerous illness of a member
of the family of his Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury,
the meeting of the Convocation of the Province of Canter-

bury on Wednesday next will only be pro forma, and due
notice will be given of the further meeting of the body for

business.

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SIR BENJAMIN BRODIE.—The scientific public
will be glad to know that the learned President of the Royal
Society is recovering from the operation for cataract, which

was performed upon the right eye, and which promises to

be successful.

DEATH OF THE DAUGHTER OF ROBERT OWEN.
—Mrs. Jane Dale Fauntleroy, only sister of Hon. Robert
Dale Owen, died at New Harmony on the 10th inst. She
was the widow of a United States officer. This celebrated
family is now reduced to two brothers—Robert Dale and
Richard.—New York, Herald.

DEATH OF MR. BURFORD, THE ARTIST.—Mr.
Robert Burford, the well-known artist and respected pro-
prietor of the Panorama, Leicester-square, died on Wed-
nesday last, at his residence, 35, Camden-road Villas,
having attained the age of 70.—Era.
THE RoYAL ACADEMY OF ARTS.—Mr. Paul
Falconer Poole, A.R.A., has been elected a Royal Acade-
mician, and Baron Marochetti and Mr. R. Ansdell, asso-

ciates.
The Submarine Telegraph cable between Port-
land and the Channel Islands is again out of order.
The letters from Berlin mention the failure of a
money dealer in that city, who had absconded after commit-
ing forgeries. His liabilities are not supposed to be exten-
sive.

The appeal of Mr. Poole is fixed for hearing

before the Judicial Committee on Tuesday next. Mr.
Poole will be represented by Dr. Phillimore and Mr.
Coleridge ; and the Bishop of London by the Queen's Ad-
vocate (Dr. Harding), Dr. Swabey, and Mr. Montagu

Smith.
MR. JOHN COOPER.—This veteran actor, whom
most playgoers, whatever be their age, will recollect as one
of the well tested props of the "legitimate" drama, gene-
rally visible in those parts in which much declamation is
required, has at last retired from the stage, which had be-
come to him a second nature through a service of 40 years.
But from his other profession, that of a teacher of elocu-
tion, in which he has acquired equal celebrity, he does not
retire, and he has warned the public not to confound one
retirement with the other.
EFFECT OF INTOXICATION.—Yesterday morning
at half-past five o'clock a Marine named James Mugg was
found dead in the fore cockpit of the Hero, 91, under repair
in Keyham Steamyard, Plymouth. Ryan, another Marine,
was lying near almost exhausted, and Kilroe, dangerously
intoxicated, was discovered in the 'tween decks. All be-
longed to the night guard, and while on duty broke into the
wardroom stores and drank whisky to excess. Mr. Foster,
surgeon, applied the stomach pump to Ryan and sent him
and Kilroe on board the hulk Bellona. An inquest will be
held to-day respecting Mugg by Mr. Eastlake, Admiralty
Judge-Advocate.
AFRICAN AID SOCIETY.—At a meeting held in
Birmingham yesterday, the Mayor in the chair; present
also, Lord Calthorpe, Lord Alfred Churchill, Mr. Spooner,
M.P., it was resolved to form a Birmingham auxiliary to the
society above-named. The desirability of so doing was
urged by Lord Allred Churchill in a speech of great length,
who spoke of the usefulness of this object as a means of
obtaining a supply of cotton from that quarter. Labour
was, he said, to be obtained at an extremely low rate, and
there were from 40,000 to 50,000 coloured persons in Canada,
who had escaped from the United States, ready to emigrate
to Abbeokuta and form a great negro nationality.
SIX FIRES IN ONE NlGHT.—During the whole of
Thursday night and yesterday morning the firemen of the
London Brigade were attending fires, not only in the metro-
polis, but in the suburbs. One, nearly attended with a
lamentable loss of life, happened at No. 3, Brunswick-
place, Lower Tottenham. The premises belonged to Mr.
J. Bettington, shoemaker, who also occupied the next house,
No. 2, as a beer-shop. Another fire, in Pheonix-place,
Ratcliff cross, destroyed the cabinet-makers' workshops
belonging to Mr, C. Smith. A fire likewise happened in
the premises of Mr. J. Milsom, a hatter, 134, Drury-lane.
Another fire took place in the premises of Messrs. Cox and
Gould, manufacturing chymists, No. 8, Chicksand-street,
Brick-lane, Whitechapel. A fire likewise broke out in the
second floor of the premises belonging to Messrs. Bentley
and Co., 46, Gutter-lane, but the damage done was not
very considerable. The other fire happened in ,the pre-
mises of Mr. Pittman, tobacconist, in Cambridge-road,
Bethnal-green ; a portion of the stock was destroyed.
THE GUANO TRADE AT LIVERPOOL.—At the
' weekly meeting of the Mersey Dock Board, held yesterday,
a considerable amount of discussion arose on an application
on the part of Messrs. Anthony Gibbs and Co. to have a
reduction made on the charges for warehousing guano at
Birkenhead, which at present amount to 3d. per ton, and
it was proposed to reduce the charge to ld. In the course
of the discussion it transpired that Messrs. A. Gibbs and
Co., through their agents, Messrs. Gibbs, Bright, and Co.,
paid on guano the sum of £7,000 in warehouse and dock
dues, and it was intimated that if the reduction referred to
were not made they would order their ships to other ports.
After a protracted discussion, it was resolved to adhere to
the present rate of 3d. per ton for warehousing.
A CHILD SAVED FROM DROWNING AT FOLKE-
CTONE.—A very generous and noble act was witnessed
several days ago on one of the Williamsburgh ferry boats,
which is worthy of record. About 6 o'clock a little boy in
stepping from the bridge accidentally fell into the water.
The child was carried out by the current caused by the
motion of the paddles, the captain having reversed them,
and sank. No person seemed confident enough to undertake
the rescue. A gentleman, seeing what was the matter,
threw off his coat, and plunged into the water without a
moment's hesitation. The child had come up, and now
sank for the second time, and when the swimmer got out
far enough was cut of sight. He instantly dived, and after
a brief interval rose to the surface with the boy in his arms.
The child grasped the arm of the swimmer with a deadly
clutch. They were hauled out of the water together.
Measures were taken to resuscitate the child, which was
effected by the time the boat arrived at Williamsburgh, and
the rescuer quietly went his way hove, a gentleman lend-
ing him an overcoat without inquiring his name, saying he
was not afraid that the coat would not be returned. The
name of the brave rescuer was Richard Marsh, a merchant
in William-street, son of Mr. Richard Marsh, Victoria-
grove, Folkestone.—Kent Herald.
LORD DUDLEY ON DRUNKENNESS.—Lord Dudley
in the course of a speech at the Dudley Mechanics' Insti-
tution soiree, on Tuesday evening, remarked that such
institutions, among other influences they exerted, tended
to make home duties more regarded, and also struck at
the root of that greatest of all curses—the curse of drunken-
ness. (Cheers.) Twenty-five years ago, individuals of the
class to which he belonged were too often so inebriated as
to be unable to walk up to bed. The society of ladies was
given up immediately after the dinner was concluded, and
the men finished their evenings by themselves, often in a
most degrading way. But a great change had taken
place since then, and now if a man was pointed at in the
higher ranks as being addicted to intoxication, he
was at once a marked man, and lust caste and
rank completely. The class next to the rank he had
spoken of was perhaps not altogether so severe as the
higher class, but still from the moment such a feeling took
root it must grow, and it was impossible at the present day
for a man to take a high stand among- his fellows if he
gave way to such practices. With the middle class, how-
ever, unfortunately, the improved state of things stopped
—it went no further. He (the president) could confidently
appeal to those who lived in the town and district for sup-
port to his observation that drunkenness was the one great
vice of this place, and led more than anything else to the
production of that great calendar of crime which they saw
from time to time. (Hear.) There was nothing that he
knew of which could be put into the scale to counterbalance
its evils. The one great source of nearly all the evil
authority and power had to contend with was the drunken-
ness of the lower classes, and the temptations presented by
the flaring ginshop, and the society it offered was too often
more than enough to induce men to leave their miserable
dark houses to be taken care of by their wives and children
as best they could. If this were a true representation of
the state of things existing in the town, and those who
started the Mechanics' Institution knew it was so, and if
they were striking at the root of se huge an evil, then the
work they were engaged in was so important and onerous
that everybody would be justly held responsible for the
consequences of withholding his support and countenance
from it. (Loud applause.)
As regards the Savoyards whom we saw at Aix
and the neighbourhood, nothing could exceed their quiet,
mild, and amiable manners—civility without servility.
I With above six thousand visitors to a small town, con-
' verted for the season into one vast lodging-house or hotel,
nothing of the corruption of manners of such places seems
to have taken place. You are asked in a mild, gentle voice
if you want a carriage, or a beat, or a nice donkey. No
pressure, no crowding, nor abuse. The peasants have the
same mild manners. A family out of Aix were gathering
their grapes, much cut up by the mildew and the bad sea-
son; nothing could exceed the gentlemanlike manner
in which the father, assisted by wife and daughters'
selected the few ripest of the red grapes to give us; saying
of the white ones, " I should offer you some of those, but
but they_are not ripe." The very dogs are quiet and well-
behaved ; and there was one lame boy on crutches, just out
of Chambery, with a beautiful face and a pair of gold ear-
rings, who submitted himself as an object of charity by
reason of his lameness, with a delicacy of manner that merle
Stern's beggar not a caricature. This had nothing in it
of the Italian lady begging with fan and mantilla, or the
Spanish beggar who collected from the charitable on horse-
hack,—Once a Treat