The Sun.
London, England, 1857-04-18 00:00:00

The Prince of Oude was expected at Manchester yes-
terday, Aura it was expected he would remain to visit
its chef manufactories and other objects of interest.
Despatches from the Governors of the West India
Colonies were received yesterday at the Colonial-office.
Despatches were sent to the Governor of Canada.
There was a vague rumour in circulation in Vienna
on the 15th, to the effect that Count Valentin Esterhazy
had been insulted at St. Petersburg, but no confirmation
of the report has been obtained.
The Queen and Prince Albert are now the parents of
nine children, and have had to mourn the loss of none.
The eldest of the royal children, the Princess Royal, is
17 years of age, the Prince of Wales is 16, the Princess
Alice 14, Prince Alfred 13, Princess Helena 11, Prin-
cess Louise 9, Prince Arthur 7, and Prince Leopold 4.
In all, four sons and five daughters.
THE APPROACHING VISIT OF PRINCE ALBERT To
MANCHESTER.—During the visit of Prince Albert to
Manchester, to open the Art Treasures Palace, his
Royal Highness is expected to be present at a concert to
be given at the Free Trade Hall on the evening of the
sth of May, and on the following day to take part in the
inauguration of a statue to the Queen in Peel-park, Sal-
ford. The statue has been erected in commemoration of
her Majesty's visit in 1851, when 70,000 Sunday school
children were present, the money being chiefly contri-
buted by the schools themselves. His Royal Highness
is also to visit the Peel-park Library and Museum, and
the Exhibition of Works by local artists, in Peel-park,
which is to be opened before the close of the present
month.
DEATH OF LIEUT.•GENERAL SIR R. GODDARD HARE
CLARGES, K.C.8., COLONEL OP 12TH FOOT.—We have
to record the demise of the above gallant General, who
expired on Monday last, at his country seat, Bitchfield,
near Grantham, death resulting from an attack of bron-
chitis. The gallant officer was son of the Rev. James
Hare, but on inheriting, a few years back, in right of
his mother, the daughter of Mr. Christopher Clarges,
younger son of Sir Wm. Clarges, Bart., he took that
name in addition to his patronymic. Sir Richard was
educated at Rugby, and shortly after leaving that school
he entered the army in 1796. By the demise of the
gallant officer another colonelcy falls to the gift of the
Duke of Cambridge.
The St. James's Theatre will shortly be opened by
the French company under the able auspices of Mr.
Mitchell, it having at all times been the favourite resort
of Royalty and the date. This freehold property will be
sold by auction oil Tuesday next, by Mr. Robins, in
Covent-garden. The theatre is elegantly decorated, and
its scenery and wardrobe so complete as to be available
for the ensuing season.
MlNES.—There has been a larger amount of business
transacted this week, though prices generally have not
been firm, and in some instances have given way consi-
derably. This is not so much to be wondered at when
we consider the high rates of interest obtained for money
in non-speculative transactions, and the uneasy feeling
still existing in regard to monetary affairs. I'he Easter
holidays, also, have had their effect upon business, just
as the dulness caused by the elections was beginning to
be got over. To give a little more excitement to the
market, one or two good discoveries are required, but,
unfortunately, just now, accidents are more common.—
Mining Journal of this day.
THE CIVIL SERVICE.—The Foreign Department :
The Vice-Consulate at Caen, Normandy, has become
vacant by the promotion of Mr. Peter Barrow to the
Con,ulship at Rabat, Morocco. General Post-office :
A. vacancy has occurred in the account branch of the
General Post-office, E linburgh, by the death of Mr.
Robert Bowie. Coast-guard : Commander Thomas
Goss, R.N., has been appointed Inspecting Commander
of a Division ; Mr. James Hill Ashton, chief officer,
has been removed from Bangor to Reddens ; and Mr.
Frederick C. Fitzgerald, chief officer, has been removed
from Fort Moncriel to Fort Twist', vice Mr. Braith-
waite, deceased.—Civil Service Gazette.
THE KIDDERMINSTER RIOTERS.—Yesterday the final
examination of the prisoners charged with the riot at
the late election, and the savage attack upon the Right
Hon. R. Lowe, M.P., took p'ace at the Town-hall, Kid-
derminster. The magistrates said they were unanimously
of opinion that the charge against Mr. Alfred Talbot
and Mr. Pit; should be dismissed. Benjamin Wellings,
Robert Westwood, Henry Westwood, John Wood,
George Barker, Albert Perrins, John Cook, Samuel
Payne, nal B njamin Potter, for rioting at the polling
booth, were committed to the assizes. By an arrange-
ment between the prosecuting counsel and the counsel
for the defence, it was agreed that 18 other persons
whose cases had not been gone into, should enter into
recognisances to answer any charge that may be preferred
against them at the next Worcestershire assiaes.
ETON COLLEGE, Friday.--A college meeting of the
provost and fellows was held in the provost's library on
Wednesday last—pre-eat, the Rev. T. Carter, M.A.,
vice-provost ; the Revs. J. F. Plurntree, M.A. ; G. J.
Dupuis, M.A. ; C. Luxmore, M.A., and E. Coleridge,
M.A. The Rev. W. A. Carter, M.A., senior assistant-
master of the upper school, was unanimously elected
lower master, in the room of the Rev. E. Coleridge, M.A.,
who has recently been appointed a fellow of Eton College.
Mr. Carter is the son of the present Vice-Provost Carter,
who held the office of lower master from the year 1814
to 182 g. The living at Warplesden, in the gift of the
colleges vacant by the death of the Rev. G. Bethel], it
is understood, will be pre-anted to the Rev. Chas. Lax-
more, fellow of Eton College.
Doom Dues ON EMIGRANT SHIPS.—SOUTHAMPTON,
Friday.—At a meeting of the directors of the Southamp-
ton Docks held yesterday a series of resolutions was
adopted with the view of effecting, by a joint effort, a
reduction of the charges on emigrant ships leaving this
port, in order to remora the objection of shipowners to
tender for Southampton except at a much higher rate.
The Dock Company, having already unconditionally re-
duced their tonnage rate on emigration ships from 9d. to
6ci., agree to further reduce the rate to 4d., provided the
pier and harbour commissioners agree to remit the
whole of the 2d. per ton hitherto charged on emigrant
ships, and that the Tug Company and the pilots also
consent to remit one-half of the charges they have
hitherto made on those vessels.
THE NEW COMET.—The following appears in the
Glasgow Daily Mail :—" Sir,—The comet of Bruhns,
which was discovered recently at Berlin, was seen un-
commonly well here last night. It is comparatively
bright wbe,o viewed through Mr. Morton's large New-
tonian, The nucleus is well defined, with a large sur-
"...ending nebulosity. It is at present in the oenstella-
tion Perseus, near the star Epilog, and was last night
in right ascension 3 hours 50 min., mil North Polar
deolination 49 deg. 52 min. On Wednesday evening its
position will be right ascension 3 hours 56 min., and
declination 48 deg. 35 min. ; and on Thursday evening,
right ascension 4 hours 21 rain., and declination 47 deg.
17 rain. The motion of the comet is direct, and will
continue visible throughout the months of April and
May.—l am, Sec., THOMAS LEE. Morton-place Obser-
vatory, Kilmarnock, April 14, 1857."
THE MAILS.—SOUTHAMPTON, Friday.—The Peninsu-
lar and Oriental Company's steam-ship Sultan, Captain
Neil Cook, sailed to-day for Vigo, Oporto, Lisbon, Ca-
7012eott1 .in
for
Ca-
diz, and Gibraltar, with the mails, 14 first and 13 second-
class clehudrienigberthfeor CountessGibralta)
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specie, for Cadiz, and a full cargo. The Royal Mail
Lisbon,paassnedncgearpstai(ninS
Company's steam-ship Parana, Captain Bevis, sailed to-
day with the West India mans, 90 passengers, specie
value 53,000/., jewellery value 4,9001., and a large cargo.
Among the passengers are Chief Justice Sharp and fa-
mily, for St. Vincent ; Major Dewar, Capt. Lambert,
Lieuts. Murphy and Mackenzie, Ensign O'Callaghan,
Paymaster Wilson, &c. The screw-steamer Rhone,
Capt. Wilkins, arrived here this morning from Palermo
and Messina, with a cargo of liwejuice, leraonpeel, wine,
oranges, lemons, brimstone, and sundries. A telegra-
phic despatch from Bremen announces the arrival there
of the Queen of the South steamer, Captain Beal, which
left here on Tuesday afternoon, in 44 hours hence. The
Braz'l'an Company's steam-ship Petropolis, detained at
Lisbon by a broken screw, has been ordered back to
Southampton, and her cargo and passengers trans-
shipped to the Teutonia, which proceeded immediately
to the Brazils.
Tan FALL OF HOUSES IN RUSSELL-PLACE.—THE
VERDlCT.—Yesterday the inquest on the body of Mau-
rice Fitzgibbon, the labourer killed by the fall of a wall
in Russell-place, was concluded at King's College Hos-
pital. Since the last examination another man, who
had received frightful injuries on the same occasion, and
undergone amputation of the leg, bad died. The follow-
ing verdict was returned ;—" That the deceased persons
came to their respective deaths by the falling of a wall,
some portions of which not externally visible were in an
unsound state, yet they (the jurors) are of opinion, that
through an error of judgment sufficient precaution was
not taken to secure the same." A juror then intimated
to the coroner that a publio-tiouse close by was in an
equally dangerous state, and ought at once to be shored
up,-and Mr. Mitchell said that be would call the atten-
tion of Mr. Darkin, his superintendent, to the matter.
Mr. Marks, a juror, of Tavistock-street, said that it
was intended to raise a subscription for the widows and
children of the deceased, which would in the first instance
be handed over to the magistrate at Bow-street for dis-
tribution as the emergency of each case required it.
CRYSTAL PALACIL—The Canadian department of the
palace about to open is likely to prove extremely at-
tractive—the Canadian Legislature having voted the sum
of 2,0001. for rendering it as complete as possible, and
5001. a-year for its maintenance. It will comprise many
valuable articles of raw and mauttfactored produce,
several of which have beet already received, well calcu-
lated to add in the development of the commerce and
resources of that magnificent province. Amongst the
striking works of art will be found.a model of the Vic-
toria-bridge at Montreal, and another, exhibiting a por-
tion of one of those great canals which have been con-
structed by the Government to facilitate intercommuni-
cation between distant points of the province. There
will also he found a beautifully constructed double
sleigh, used in travelling over the snow, and which
adds so much to the enjoyments of a Canadian winter.
Specimens of the mineral products of the country will
also be exhibited, and the cloth, saddlery, and other
manufactured articles, evidence the great advance made
by the colonists towards rivalling the mother country
lii oDl'llice and skill. The triumph achieved by Canada
at the Paris Exhibition is likely to be surpassed by that
at Sydenbam.
The new literary season
promises to he rich in works
Blackett alone annou
nce
as fiction. Messrs. Hurst and
as forthcoming the following novels by distinguished
writers Dark and Fair," by the author of "Rock-
inghamb
;" "The Two Aristocracies, Mrs. Gore ;
"Nothing New," by the author of "John Halifax;"
"Cuthbert St.
Elme, M.P.; or, Passages in the Life of a Politician ;"
and a new story by the author
of "Margaret and her
"A. Woman's Story," by Mrs. S. C. Hall; "Life and
its Realities," by Lady Chatterton ;
l literature as just ready,
among their works in genera
;
Arundel," edited
"The Life of Philip Howard, Earl of
Bridesmaids." The same
"Chow,
by the Duke of Norfolkpublishers also. announce
Ida after the War," by Miss Banbury.
Indian Travel, by the Viscountess Falkland; and Ell-
e a narrative of