The Sun.
London, England, 1861-10-17 00:00:00

THEi SON, LONDON, TITURSD A.Y E VENI NG, OCTOBER 1861.

The new organ set up in the parish church of
St. Paul, Southwark, near the London-road, will be used
at the next Sunday's services, when sermons will be
preached on behalf of the organ fund by Revds. Wm. Cur-
ling and McConnel Irnssey. The instrument, from the
factory of Hunter and 'Webb, organ builders, of Lambeth,
was " opened" on Sun day last. The neighbourhood is far
from a wealthy one, but a good deal of interest has been
shewn by the inhabitants, who must hope for assistance
from their richer neighbours to fully carry out the com-
pletion of this desirable assistance to divine service.
NOTICE FOR A GENERAL MOURNING.—Great
Chamberlain's-office.---In consequence of,,the demise of his
Imperial Majesty Hien Fung, Emperor of China, all persons
who have charge of the tea-pot are invited to show their
feelings by putting a decent black tea into the said pot, and
a decent quantity of it, until further notice from those who
have hitherto had to complain of an opposite line of conduct.
—(Signed) PUNCH VERESBY.
A WARLIKE CARGO.—The Greenock Advertiser
says :—The screw-steamer Fingal, which cleared at this
port last week for Madeira and the West Coast of Africa,
had on board 11,341 vifles, 60 pistols, 24,1001 b. gunpowder,
409,000 cartridges, 555,000 percussion-caps, 600 sabres, a
quantity of wrought leather belts, 4 cannon, 11 tons of lead
shot, 7 tons of shell, 220 swords, a quantity of wearing ap-
parel, and 9,982 yards of blankets. The cargo is valued at
£49,000.
SAILING OF THE CITY OF BALTIMORE.—The
Liverpool, New York, and Philadelphia Steamship Com-
pany's screw steamer City of Baltimore sailed yesterday
from Liverpool for New York. She took out about 50
cabin passengers, and had £56,200 in gold on freight ; she
had also on board 300 bales of wool and 800 bags of rice.
The Grand Jury have returned a true bill against
Mr. Tulin, the projector of the street tramways and 12
members of the vestry of Lambeth parish, for a nuisance
by obstructing the Bennington-road and the Westminster-
bridge-road, by placing the tramway upon these roads, and
thereby preventing the public from passing along them.

THE 'GOVERNORSHIP OF WHITE CROSS-STREET
PRISON.-At the Court of Aldermen, held yesterday, the
resignation of Lieutenant-Colonel Hicks was accepted. 11l
health and the duties of the gallant officer as Commandant
of the London Rifle Brigade are the causes of the resigna-
tion of tho office.

The rumours to which certain recent publications
have given rise have attracted the attention of the French
Government, who will take into consideration what mea-
sures to adopt against anonymous pamphlets.

It is stated that the French contingent to the land
forces to be employed in the expedition to Mexico is to con-
sist of four battalions, with a battery of artillery, which
agrees with the information of the Monde, which puts the
whole expeditionary force at 6,000, half French and half
Spaniards.

Persons who are curious in Scottish stories of wit
and humour, speak much of the sayings of a certain "Laird
of Logan," who was a well known character of the west of
Scotland. This same laird of Logan was at a meeting of
the heritors of Cumnock, where a proposal was made to
erect a new churchyard wall. He met the proposition with
the dry remark, "I never big dykes till the tenants com-
plain." The laird sold a horse to an Englishman, saying,
" You buy him as you see him ; but he's an honest beast."
The purchaser took him home. In a few days he stumbled
and fell, to the damage of his own knees and his rider's
head. On this the angry purchaser remonstrated with the
laird, whose reply was, " Well, sir, 1 told you he was an
honest beast ; many a time has he threatened to come down
with me, and I keened he would keep his word some day."
—.Reminiscences of Scottish _Life and ghal aeter.

MIDDLE TEMPLE LIBRARY.—The day for the
inauguration of this magnificent structure by the Prince of
Wales has now been fixed. On the last day of the month
his Royal Highness will proceed to the Temple and inau-
gurate its new library. The members who intend to be
present will do well to notify their intention to the Under-
Treasurer without loss of time.
AN AMERICAN CAPTAIN'S " CORRECTION" OF HIS
CREW.—At the Arbroath police-court oz Monday, Samuel
Colson, master of the American brig Amos M. Roberts, was
charged before Bailie Trail with committing an assault on
his second mate, John Smith, on board the vessel in har.
bour. The mate had been left in charge during the absence
of the captain, who, on his return, found the man drunk
reprimanded him in the American vein )f strong impreca-
tion, and ordered him below. Instead of going, the mate
threatened to " whip" the master, whenupon the latter
seized a barrel stave and knocked Smith down by a smart
blow on the head, repeating the stroke tvo or three times.
The mate appeared in court without bearing any mark of
blows. The master's defence was that le struck the man
in self-defence, and that he had a right to administer
" correction" to his men to maintain discipline. The case
was found proved, and the magistrate remarked that if any
man in this country had struck a horse severely with such
a weapon as he had used to his mate, he would have been
punished for cruelty to animals. Colson was tined five
guineas. The Amos M. Roberts is the first vessel under
the "stars and stripes" that ever entered this harbour, and
the system of discipline this case indicates has not favour-
ably prepossessed seamen in this quarter towards the Ame-
rican merchant service.—North British Daily Mail.
ALARMING OCCURRENCE AT THE BRIGHTON
RAILWAY STATION.—With the view of facilitating the
conduct of the enormous traffic and improving the public
accommodation at this place, the directors of the London,
Brighton, and South Coast Railway some time since de-
cided upon enlarging their station to a considerable extent
on the left hand, or London arrival side: The works have

been carried on with great vigour, and they began to

assume an appearance approaching completion. Large iron
girders had been laid for the foundation of the new lines,
and the roof, forming a space of 58 feet, had been partially
raised. This was constructed of a large number of iron bars
fastened into new brickwork of a massive character on one
side, and joined to the existing top of the station on the
other. Yesterday morning, about half-past five o'clock,
the inhabitants residing in the vicinity of the station were

alarmed by hearing a loud crash, and many persons as soon
as possible dressed themselves and made their way to the
terminus, when they found that about 50 yards of the iron
roof had fallen from its elevated position on to the road be-
neath. The force with which the roof descended must
have been very great, inasmuch as some of the iron bars
were broken, twisted, and bent in a variety of shapes, while
a railing formed of ordinary scaffold poles, erected to pro-
tect the workmen, was in many places shattered into splin-
ters. The scene of the accident being some distance re-
moved from the rails the business of the line is in no
way whatever impeded.
CHAPLAINCY OF READING GAOL.—The appoint-
bunt of a chaplain to Reading gaol took place on Monday
at the Michaelmas Sessions for Berkshire, held at the Bride-
well-hall, Abingdon, the post having been vacated some
time since by the Rev. R. Mant, formerly chaplain at Taun -
ton gaol. Among the magistrates present were Lord Over-
stone, the Right Hon. J. R. Mowbray, M.P., the Hon. P.
Bouverie, M.P., Mr. R. Benyon, M.P., Sir R. Throckmor-
ton, Bart., Sir P. Hunter, Bart., &c. There were 24 cot-
didate,, three of whom withdrew. After several divisions
the contest remained between the Rev. J. B. Colvill (chap-
lain, Royal Berks Hospital), and the Rev. H. 0. Crawley
(chaplain, Abingdon gaol), and, on the votes being taken,
Mr. Colvill was elected by a majority of five.
LOVE AT FIRST Swim—Not many weeks since
as two young ladies were taking their evening's airing on
the platform at the St. Austell station, the last down train
arrived, a gentleman stepped out and espied the fair ones by
the "light of the moon." One of them particularly struck
his fancy; to use the words of a novelist, "a strange sen-
sation suddenly took possession of him. Love entered his
soul." After some civilities, he asked her if she would have
him, but she laughingly told him she was already married ;
being incredulous, he pressed here to tell where she lived,
but she di•l not gratify him ; he however persevered, and
followed her to her father's house. Within doors, his im-
pertinence did not dese7t him ; preliminaries were arranged,
and last Sunday they were married in St. Austell Church.
She is one of several daughters of a worthy baker at Ply..
mouth, and the bridegroom is said to be a Prussian, who
was for 12 years a steward on board one of her Majesty's
ships, but retired from service on his father's dying and
leaving him a large fortune. He now resides in Wales,
where he has bought a large hotel.—Stafordshire Adver-
tiser.

SUSPECTED CHILD MURDER AT DROYLSDEN.—
It will be recollected that in consequence of the exhuma-
tion of a male child at Droylsden, near Manchester, on
Thursday morning, the 3d instant, and a subsequent post
mortem examination by Dr. Lees, of Ashton-under-Lyne,
a warrant was granted for the apprehension of Nancy
Armsfield, the mother, on a charge of wilful murder. Since
then, Mr. Ludlam, of the Lancashire county constabulary,
stationed near Ashton, in whose hands the warrant was
placed, has been making active and anxious inquiries to
ascertain the whereabouts of the suspected murderess, and
he has received many communications from various parts of
the country. On Monday the search proved successful,
Armsfield having been brought from Scotland, and delivered
up at the Wilshaw Station, Oldham-road, near Ashton.
Mr. Superintendent Everett, in whose custody the woman
was, stated she was apprehended about one o'clock in the
afternoon of Saturday, at the cutting of a railway tuhnal at
Hawick, Roxburgh, Scotland ; it is supposed she was co-
habiting with one of the navvies there. As Mr. Ludlam,
the superintendent of police, was away on business, the
woman was taken to Droylsden, yesterday morning, for
identification, where she was brought up before one of the
county magistrates and remanded till this morning, when
she will be brought before the magistrates at Ashton, and
the serious charge of murdering her child preferred against
her. Armsfield criminates the putative father of the child,
charging him with having thrown it into the canal; and
she makes other statements with reference to its death
which it is not at present advisable to publish.
John Clerk's translation of the motto of the
Celtic viz.:—" Olim marte nunc arts;'
“FormCerlulybris capital,
rubbers
snon
thieves.,,
(N.B.—He had a strong
hatred of the race.) Very dry and pithy too was his legal
opinion given to a claimant of the Annandale peerage, who,
when pressing the employment of some obvious forgeries,
was warned, that if he persevered, nae Boot he might be a
peer, but it would be a peer o' anther tree I—Reminiscences)
of doltish Zile and character.