The Sun.
London, England, 1861-10-29 00:00:00

ST. JAMES'S.

The admirable play "The Isle of St. Tropez," which
was so successful last season, was reproduced here last night
with very great success. Mr. Wigan's acting as Menri Desart
was the theme of general admiration and elicited the greatest
applause. Certainly we know of no actor of the present
day who can approach him :n the embodiment of parts
similar to that he enacted last night. It was marked by all
that reality for which he is so conspicuous, and the exhibi-
tion of the tortures produced by poison was the very height
of the actor's art. It is almost needless to say it evoked the
most rapturous applause. Mr. G. Vining's Antoine was in
some parts good, but in others it was hard and unnatural.
Miss llerbert was exceedingly effective as Amelia, so was
Miss Kate Terry as Estelle.
The house was very fashionably akended.

SCHOOLDAYS OF SIR JAMES GRAHAM.—At an
early age Sir James was sent to Westminster School, where
he was contemporary with his friend Earl Russell, and
several noblemen and gentlemen who have since become
eminent in all the walks of life. As a school-boy, the
young heir of Netherby was highly popular among his con-
temporaries, and was as remarkable for his quickness and
intelligence as for his proficiency in all manly exercises.
No youth of his day could feather an oar with more skill
and precision, or steer a " trim-built wherry" more adroitly.
From Westminster, in 1808, he proceeded to Cambridge.
At this period young Graham was remarkable for the manly
beauty of his person, and for a frankness and generosity of
of disposition which endeared him to all his associates.
Though foremost in all the manly sports and pastimes of
the undergraduates, and engaged at every social and fea-

tive party, he was nevertheless a diligent student, and even
thus early was marked for the variety and extent of his
attainments.

CRYSTAL PALACE.—At Blondin's performance
yesterday a momentary terror was caused by the sudden
snapping of the balance-pole, which fell in two parts into
the organ. The loss, however, seemed to have no effect
upon the performer, for he at once made his way to the end
of the rope, when a new pole was brought, and the remain-
der of the programme proceeded with. Blondin's engage-
ment terminates with his 33d ascent on Thursday next. By
special permission he will cn this occasion repeat his benefit
performances, and give two ascents—one on the interior,
the other on the exterior rope, at 3 and 6 o'clock. The latter
will afford the opportunity for repeating the extraordinary
display of fireworks by Blondin during his passage along
the rope, similar to those prepared for his benefit on the 7th
instant, the effect of which was marred by the severe fog
which then set in. 32d Ascent of AL Blondin.—One Shil-
ling Day, Monday. Oct. 28.—Admissions on payment, 3,454;
do. by season tickets, 1,006 ; total visitors, 4,460.
SUSPECTED MURDER IN THE REGENT'S CANAL.
—Yesterday morning, at an early hour, the body of a young
woman unknown, apparently about 20 years of age, de-
cently attired, was discovered by a labouring man floating
in the water of the Regent's Canal, Rosemary Branch-
bridge, near North-road, Hoxton. The body had been in
the water several days, and presented a sickening:spectacle,
the head being battered in and the eyes removed from their
sockets. The arms and legs were bruised, and the body in
various parts was contused, and the skin abraded from ex-
ternal violence. A messenger was despatched for Mr. E.
Walter, the coroner's officer, who proceeded to the spot, and
had the body removed in a shell to the workhouse of St.
Leonard's, Shoreditch, where Dr. Clark, the parochial
medical officer, made a minute examination of the body,
which was that of a fine young woman. The skull was ex-
tensively fractured, and the brain lacerated. The injuries
were no doubt the cause of death. A full description of the
deceased was at once forwarded to the whole of the metro-
politan police stations, and at noon yesterday Mr. Walter
received information which leads him to believe that the
name of the deceased is Emma Jones, and that her friends
reside in the neighbourhood of the Curtain-road, Shore-
ditch, from which place she has been missing for nearly a
fortnight. Search had been made for her by her father and
mother, but at present the cause of the deceased's death is
involved in great obscurity.

THE BUILDERS' STRIKE.--The masons are now
the only branch of the building operatives standing out
against the hour system, and about 240 men are on the
strike books of the society. Last week the whole of the
men remaining on the strike books of the bricklayers' society
were cleared off; having obtained employment, either under
the compromise, or on the old terms of the trade, at ss. 6d.
per day of ten hours, and the committee have ceased for
the present any further active opposition to the system, and
withdraw their pickets from all the yards and jobs where
they have been kept on for the last seven months, and are
now devoting themselves to the perfecting the new organi-
sation and amalgamation of their trade throughout the
country, with the purpose of uniting in combined action with
the other branches of the building trade, in opposition to
the system, at the commencement of the building season in
the spring. In the meantime, in common with the car-
penters, painters, and plasterers, who are working on the
hour system under protest, they have decided on throwing
their pecuniary support into the masons.

THE LATE SIR JAMES GRAHAM.—For the last
eighteen months the late Sir James Graham had been suf-
fering from attacks of acute pain in the heart on the least
mental or physical exertion. On Thursday week, having
dined with his family as usual on the previous day, ho was
seized with pain of more than usual severity in the heart.
Remedies were applied ; the attack yielded to their influ-
ence, and he gradually improved. Last Thursday he was
so much better told his medical attendant he thought he
should shortly be able to dispense with his services, and
after having bad dinner in his bedroom, ho retired about
six o'clock, saying he felt all the better for having sat up
longer than usual. Soon after that he had another attack
of acute pain, which did not yield to the remedies applied.
He expressed a strong conviction that it was useless to try
any more remedies, as he was quite sure, from the long con-
tinuance of spasms and from his general feeling, that his
end was at hand. He then gradually sank during the
night, and died at a quarter before 12 on Friday. Ills
faculties were bright and unimpaired to the last, and he
died expressing the utmost resignation.

The Friend of India says:—" The ex-King of
Belhi, Bahadur Shah, is dying in his comfortable wooden
house at Rangoon. He is not expected to survive this
cold season. He has received every comfort which 10
rupees a-month could purchase, and has been allowed, in
common with his family to wander at will, on his parole,
within the limits of cantonments, a privilege he has seldom
been able to avail himself of. His son, Jumma Bukht,
and the two brothers, are fast becoming accomplished
English scholars. We wonder Bahadur Shah has survived
the events of 1857 so long. Ilia wife is still hale n 4 yogl.' '
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THE SEASON TICKET-HOLDERS ON THE GREAT
NORTHERN RAILWAY.—The Great Northern Railway di-
rectors have, we are glad to say, returned a favourable re-
ply to the respectful but urgent request of the season ticket
holder, promising that on and after November 1, they will
discontinue the 10 p.m. train, and again run the trains at
9.20 p,m: and 11.35 p.m.—The News.
THE WHALING SEASON.—DUNDEE, Oct. 26.—
The steamer Narwhal, Captain Deuchars, from Davis
Straits, reports the following whalers :—Alexander, of Dun-
dee, six fish ; the steamer Tay, of ditto, 15 ditto ; the Active
of Peterhead, two ditto; the Sir Colin Campbell, of ditto,
15 ditto; the Chieftain, of Kirealdy, three ditto; the True-
love, of Hull, two ditto.

THE AMERICAN BLOCKADE.—The screw steam-
ship Bermuda, from Hartlepool, which recently_ran the
blockade at Charleston, is now due at this port with a re-
turn cargo of cotton. We are expecting to hear of the
arrival out at Southernports of three other steamers, which
sailed from British ports.—Liverpool Albion,

THE CHARING• CROSS RAILWAY COMPANY AND
THE TRUSTEES OF ST. THOMAS'S HOSPITAL.—
On Saturday the arbitrators and umpire selected for the
purpose of settling the amount of purchase money to be
paid by the Charing-cross Railway Company to the trus-
tees of St, Thomas's Hospital held an adjourned sitting, at
the Westminster Palace Hotel, Victoria-street, Westmin-
ster. After the close of the session of 1869, when the rail-
way company obtained their act, they called on the trus-
tees to send in their claim for compensation, which they
did, naming as the amount which they would require for giv-
ing up the hospital the large sum of £750,000. The railway
company thereupon offered £lO,OOO for a portion of the site,
over which they intended to construct the railway upon
arches. Mr. Frederick Marrable thought the trustees of
the hospital were entitled to receive in the aggregate from
the directors of the railway company £467,639, plus the
value of the fixtures. No decision has yet been arrived at.

THE PECKHAM HOMlClDE.—Yesterday evening
an adjourned inquest was held upon the body of Mr. George
Allen, the timekeeper of the Camberwell Omnibus Associa-
tion, who died on the 22d inst. from injuries inflicted on
him by Henry Budd, a well-known pugilist. It appeared
from the evidence that Allen was sitting quietly on a chair
reading a newspaper, when Budd came up drunk and
attempted to pluck it out of his hands. A struggle ensued.
Budd seized the deceased by the whiskers and hair, and
threw him on the pavement with great violence. The de-
ceased was taken up insensible, and died next day. As the
resu't of a post mortem examination, Dr. Charles Nind
stated that the skull had received a fracture over the right
ear, and that there were three ounces of blood extravasated
on the surface of the brain, These injuries were the cause
of death, and must, he stated, have been produced by a fall
or heavy blow. The jury, after twenty minutes' consulta-
tion, returned a verdict of "manslaughter." Great sym-
pathy is manifested for the family of the deceased, who was
much respected. A subscription opened for them already
amounts to £lOO. Budd is now in the gaol infirmary suffer-
ing from delirium tremens.

FATAL ACCIDENT AT THE ADELPHI THEATRE.-
Last night it was rumoured that a female, waiting to ob-
tain ingress to that place of amusement to see the " Colleen.
Bawn," had been crushed to death, and which on inquiry
was found to be true. It appears that the deceased, whose
name is Anne Burrowes, and whe lived at No. 7, Warren-
street, Pimlico, went with her sister to the above theatre,
intending to go in by the entrance in Bullin-court, Strand.
On the door being opened a general move took place of those
assembled, and so violent was the pushing that deceased
was observed to fall to the ground from exhaustion, when
notwithstanding the alarm immedtately given by those near
her, before she was extricated several persons had passed
over her. Police-constable F 163, with assistance, conveyed
the poor creature to the Charing-cross Hospital, where Mr.
Travers, house surgeon, pronounced her to be dead. The
body awaits an inquest.

SALE OF THE FOREIGN-OFFCE.—Yesterday there
was a sale by auction on an extensive scale of the materials
composing the dingy building in Downing-street which
has hitherto been used as the Foreign-office; and which is
nowto be forthwith removed for the proposed public offices'
extension. On the south of Downing-street whole streets
have vanished within the last few weeks, and more are to
be forthwith sacrificed, in order that there may be as little
delay as possible in commencing the new works. Yester-
day's sale was conducted on the premises by Mr. Glasier,
the materials disposed of consisting of 2,000,000 stock
bricks, a large quantity of slates, plain tiles, timber in
roofs, floors, &c., gilt moulded and other doors, mahogany
plate-glass and other sashes and frames, upwards of 20
tons of lead in flats, paving, staircases, stoves, and fixtures
and fittings of all kinds. Some of the materials fetched good
prices.

FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE ON CRINOLINE.-It is,
I think, alarming, peculiarly at this time, when the female
ink-bottles are perpetually impressing upon us "woman's
particular worth, and general missionariness," to see that
the dress of women is daily more and more unfitting them
for any " mission" or usefulness at all. It is equally un-
fitted for all poetic and all domestic purposes. A man is
now a more handy and far less objectionable being in a sick
room than a woman. Compelled by her dress, every
woman now either shuffles or waddles; only a man can
cross the floor of a sick room without shaking it. What is
become of woman's light step, the firm, light, quick step we
have been asking for ? A nurse who rustles (1 am speak-
ing of nurses professional and unprofessional) is the horror
of a patient, though perhaps he does not know why. The
fidget of silk and crinoline, the rattling of keys, the creak-
ing of stays and shoes, will do a patient more harm than all
the medicines in the world will do him good. The noise-
less step of woman, the noiseless drapery of woman, are
mere figures of speech in this day. Her skirts (and well if
they do not throw down some piece of furniture) will at
least brush agaiiist every article in the room as she moves. i
Fortunate it is if her skirts do not catch fire, and if the
nurse does not give herself up a sacrifice, together, with
her patient, to be burnt in her owe petticoats. I wish the
Registrar-General would tell us the exact number of deaths
by burning occasioned by this absurd and hideous custom.
I wish, too, that people who wear crinoline could see the
indecency of their own dress as other people see it. A re-
speotable elderly woman, stooping forward, invested in
crinoline, exposes quite as much of her own person to the
patient lying in the room as any opera dancer does on the
stage. But no one will ever tell her this unpleasant truth.
Notes on _Nursing.

UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH.—The half-yearly
meeting of the General Council (graduates) of the Univer-
sity of Edinburgh was held yesterday, Sir David Brewster,
Principal and Vice-Chancellor presiding. Two " deliver-
ances" of the University Court were read, the first relating
to the proposed extension of the system of open teaching, on
which the Court reserved their opinion, the matter being be-
fore the Parliamentary Commissioners, and the second re-
ferring to the opening of the University library to graduates,
of which the Court expressed its apprOval and its desire to
grant the privilege when empowered to do so. On inquiry it
was found that the first subject had not been sent up by repre-
sentation to the Court, and had been taken up inadvertently,
the last meeting having simply passed a resolution, not made
a representation on the matter. Several members having
expressed dissatisfaction with the deliverance on the library
question, it was explained that during the existence of the
commissioners, whose statutory functions would expire next
year, the Court had no power of dealing with these matters.
Mr. A. Nicolson, advocate, asked what had been the recep-
tion of the petition in favour of Parliamentary representa-
tion of the Scotch Universities adopted at last half-yearly
meeting, against the advice of the Solicitor • General and
others, who held that the Council, not being a corporation,
and being only a part of the University, could not petition.
The Principal said the petition which had been signed by
him as chairman had been presented and received as the
petition of the council, and no doubt had the full weight of
a petition emanating from them. Mr. T. Smith remarked
that, though the petition had in this case been received, its
reception could form no precedent, for, the council being no
corporation, the petition must have been rejected had any
objection to its reception been made. In reply to Mr. Bell,
the Principal stated that the petition had not been sent to
to the Rector, Mr. Gladstone, it being thought that Mr,
Stirling was the proper person to present it.

QUEEN'S MESSENGERS,—.Tbe Queen's foreign
service messengers are 15 in number. The first three for
service are obliged to be in attendance at the Foreign-office.
Formerly there was no distinction between them and the
home service messengers ; they were all under the Lord
Chamberlain, and their connection with his office is said to
be the origin of the silver grayhound pendant from their
badge. At a later period they were transferred to the Secre-
taries of State, and took journeys abroad indifferently in
their turn, but in 1824 there was a separation into home and
foreign service. Lord Malmesbury reduced the number of
foreign-service messengers from 18 to 15, and these are
found quite sufficient, owing to the greater speed with
which journeys are now performed, and the introduction of
the electric telegraph rendering many journeys unneces-
sary. Lord Malmesbury also reduced the number of journeys
very considerably, effecting a saving of about £ll,OOO a
year. The Queen's messengers formerly had very small
salaries, only £6O a year, but large profits by mileage and
other allowances when employed. The situation was
worth £BOO or £9OO a year, Col. Townley has stated
that his profits were nearly £l,lOO in one year. Lord
Malmesbury altered the remuneraticn to a salary of £525,
and the travelling expenses. This was considered by the
messengers too great a reduction of their income, and the
arrangement was open to the objection that it gave them
an inducement to shirk work which was expensive to them.
Very recently Earl Russell has made a new plan, giving
them salaries of .£4OO a year and £1 a day for their personal
expenses while employed abroad, besides their travelling
expenses. There is a pension or superannuation. Their
social position has been very much improved of late years,
and the life is one that would be exceedingly agreeable to
many persons. To gentlemen who have left the army the
appointment is very acceptable. Queen's messengers are
treated 'with great kindness and consideration abroad ; they
are usually invited to the Minister's table. They are exa-
mined on appointment by the Civil Service Commissioners ;
the qualifications required are an age between 25 and 35,
some knowledge QI French, German, or Italian, and ability
to ride or. horseback. The home-service weesepeprs occupy
very inferior position.

LATEST NEW 6.

PARIS, OCT. 29.
The Moniteur of to-day publishes the follow-

ing ;

" At the ceremony of delivering the Cardinal's
hat to the Archbishop of Chambery the Apostolical
Delegate addressed a speech to the Emperor, in
which he said :

" ' The S overeign Pontiff, notwithstanding the
grief by which he is overwhelmed on account of
vicissitudes too well known, was happy to respond
with eagerness to the wish of the Emperor that the
Archbishop of Chambery should be raised to the
rank of Cardinal:

" The Apostolic Delegate concluded his speech by
expressing a wish that, by more and more protect-
ing religion and the Sovereign Pontiff, the Emperor
may obtain the Divine aid.

" The Emperor said, in reply, that he should
always congratulate himself on the good under-
standing which must exist between the Holy See
and the French Government. ' This good under-
standing,' continued the Emperor, ' which is so
necessary, could not be better manifested than by
the kind adoption of the propositions of the French
Government.'

" His Majesty concluded by recalling the sincerity
of his wishes and sentiments for the venerated
chief of the Church.

" The newly-appointed Cardinal enumerated and
thanked the Emperor for the services he had ren-
dered to religion, and especially for preserving to
the Holy See the city of Rome, and that portion of
its States which yet remains to it, whereby the
Emperor had, he said, strongly excited the grati.
tude of all Catholics.
" The Emperor replied—

"'I was anxious to testify my esteem and sym-
pathy to the clergy of Savoy, who have proved their
devotion to France and their attachment to myself.
I have heard with emotion your simple and touch-
ing words. You appreciate my efforts for the good
of religion and the prosperity of the new
provinces."

VIENNA, OCT. 29.

The Cardinal Primate has been summoned to
Vienna by order of the Emperor, in order to justify
himself with respect to his reply to the circular of
the Aulic Chancellery in reference to military
levies in the Comitats.

THORN, OCT. 29.

It is expected that serious measures will be
taken by the Government at Warsaw.
General Luders will, it is said, replace General
Lambert as Governor-General of Poland.

MADRID, OCT. 29.

The bases of a treaty with Morocco for the final
settlement of the war indemnity were arranged

yesterday.

Morocco will shortly pay 60,000,000 of reals,
which, together with the Customs' duties, will make
up the amount due by Morocco to Spain, namely,
200,000,000 of reals. Tetuan will be restored to
Morocco.

The majority of the members of the Cortes have
agreed to oppose the Coalition Opposition under
Sartorius and Rios Rosas.

The Spanish expedition against Mexico will leave
shortly.

THE WEST INDIA MAILS.

SOUTHAMPTON, QM/ 29.
The 'loyal Mail steamship Shannon, with the
West India and Pacific mails, arrived off the
Needles at 10.40 a.m.