The Sun.
London, England, 1861-06-01 00:00:00

RUSSIA.

A St. Petersburg letter of the 25th of May, says
—" The funeral of Prince Orloff took place yester-
day, at ten o'clock. The Emperor, the Grand
Dukes, the Grand Duchess Maria-Nicolaevna, the
Prince of Oldenburg, and Duke George of Meck-
lenburg, arrived at the residence of the deceased,
on the Moika Quay. The regiment of Horse
Guards, which Prince Orloff formerly commanded,
and a brigade of artillery, lined the streets to
the church of the Annunciation, where the de-
ceased. was to be interred. The Emperor, in the
uniform of the Guards, followed the hearse on
horseback, accompanied by the Grand Dukes
and all his military household. Next came the
diplomatic corps and the great dignitaries of State,
in carriages. Archbishop Isidore, the metropolitan,
with several archbishops and a numerous body of
clergy, preceded the hearse. According to estab-
lished usage, all the decorations of the deceased,
Russian and foreign, were borne on crimson velvet
cushions, by officers of the Guard, and placed round
the catafalque in the church. The coffin was
lowered into the vault immediately after the ser-
vice, Prince Nicholas Orloff, the deceased's son,
arrived two days before the funeral. By an order
of the day, dated yesterday, he was appointed aide-
de-camp-general to his Majesty, but will still retain
his functions as Minister at Brussels."

ACCIDENT ON THE CORNWALL RAILROAD.—
PL'vMOUTIH, Friday.—This morning at half-past 4 o'clock
an accident, unattended with loss of life, occurred on the
Cornwall Railroad, about one mile west of Saltash. A goods
train, special, co,:sisting of 30 trucks, containing almost
exclusively implements of husbandry for the Exhibition of
the Bath and West of England Society at Truro, was pro-
ceeding down the line drawn by two engines, when the
draw-bar of ono of the trucks lroke, and the draw-spring
fell on the rails. The hinder trucks ran on the spring, and
seven went off the line, and were, with their contents,
more or less injured. The tail of the train consisted of a
n off
break-carriage with one goods truck behind. These re-
mained on the line, but four of the carriage wheels were off
the rails. Several winnowing machines and one hay tur-
ner are damaged. None of the machinery in the trucks
which
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o'clock this afternoon.

A lucKy INSPECTOR.--Lord Palmerston has no-
minated the Rev. Alex. Ronald Grant, M.A., of Trinity
College, Cambridge, one of her Majesty's Inspectors of
Schools, to the rectory of Mitcham, Suffolk, rendered vacan
by the death of the Rev. Professor Henslow, M,A, Tha
beneAco is worth £l,lBO a year.

THE CAPE OF GOOD HOPE.

PLYMOUTH, FRIDAY NIGHT.

The steamer Celt, with the mail from the Cape of
Good Hope, arrived here this evening. She has
been detained by contrary winds. She left Table
Bay on the 25th ult., St. Helena on the 30th ult.,
and Ascension on the 4th inst. She brings 52 pas-
sengers.

Trade at the Cape was not brisk, being depressed
by the unfavourable intelligence of the prices of
wool and wine in England. The prospects for the
winter season were dull.

At Natal affairs were improving, and much spe-
culation was going on.

The mail steamer Cambrian arrived out on the 14th
ult. In working her way into port she went on the
rocks off Mouille Light, but got off the next morn-
ing without damage.
The works of the railway were progressing
rapidly. The line will be finished as far as Stellen-
bosch by the end of June.
The building of the Sanatorium bad been stopped.

was to be removed to Vancouver's Island.

Dr. Livingstone, Bishop Mackenzie, and the Rev.
Mr. Rowley had met, and gone up the Rowooma
River in the Pioneer.

The Parliament was to open on the 26th ultimo.
Government measures would be introduced for pro-
moting irrigation in the colony, and for the publica-
tion of colonial bankers' accounts. It was thought
likely that the separation question would be dis-
cussed more reasonably by the more thoughtful
among its advocates, but that a statement was not
probable this session.
Kreli's threatenings, with his large muster of
natives, were likely to end in smoke. As a counter
demonstration the governor was concentrating a
large force in the direction of Bashee.
In the free state there had been plenty of rain.
The pasturage was most luxuriant. Transvaal was
disturbed by some of its unruly citizens.

In Basutoland two of Moshesh's sons had had a
quarrel about the wife of one of them. The husband
was deliberately shot by the other.
The volunteer movement was progressing. A
grand review was about to be held.
The labour market was dull.