The Sun.
London, England, 1861-08-07 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON;

CARDEN, Mr. WINGROVE COOKE, and Mr. TWELVE-
TREES. At South Shields, Mr. HUGH TAYLOR
resigning, was succeeded by Mr. HODGSON. At
Banffshire Major GORDON DUFF gave place to Mr.
R. W. DUFF ABERCROMBY. At Longford, Colonel
HENRY WHITE, by tendering his resignation, made
way for (the merest change of a Christian name !)
Colonel LUKE WHITE. At Richmond Mr. HENRY
Rim, the old time-honoured Whig member for the
borough—(a terrible bore in the house, by the way,
as a long-winded dull speaker, but very much re-
spected nevertheless in spite of his long-winddd-
ness)—at Richmond Mr. RICH generously giving
way at last to the exigencies of party, and to his
own yearning for repose after long service, made
way for the return into the House of Commons,
through that vacated seat, of the new Solicitor-
General, Mr., or as we must now call him after his
knighthood on Monday by the hand of his Sove-
reign, Sir ROUNDELL PALMER, M.P. for Richmond.
At Andover—rather an unpleasant recollection this
for many parties—at Andover Mr. War. CUBITT,
now the respected Lord Mayor of London, with-
I drawing from the representation of that snug little
borough for the purpose of being put in nomina-
, tion as the Tory candidate for the City of London,
simply yielded up a seat to Mr. H. B. COLES, the now
member for the Lord Mayor's forsaken constituency.
Finally, to complete the catalogueof the nine resig-
nations, there was the resignation of Mr. ALLAN
LOCKHART, as M.P. for Selkirkshire, a resignation
that has resulted in the acquisition of another vote
by the Tories thiough the successful candidature
down there of Lord HENRY SCOTT, son of the Duke
of BUCCLEUCH.

The four deaths during the session may be yet I
more readily enumerated than the foregoing list of
resignations. Dr. JOSEPH NOBLE, M.P. for the
borough of Leicester, was succeeded there by Mr.
HEYGATE. While at Pembroke, family influence
was so powerful that, as the merest matter of
course, by a sort of right divine, Sir JOHN OWEN
was succeeded in the representation by Sir HUGH
OWEN, the new baronet. Mr. DAVID PUGH,
late M.P. for the Montgomery Burghs, has
scarcely breathed his last when he is replaced
there as member by his son-in-law, Captain
WILLIS JOHNSON. The most regretable de-
mise of all, because the most premature, being
that, in the thirtieth year of his age, of the Hon.
THOMAS EDWARD MOSTYN LLOYD MOSTYN, late
M.P. for Flintshire, the lamented deceased being
the eldest son of Lord MOSTYN, and therefore heir
to the title and estates. The Hon. THOS. ED.
MOSTYN being succeeded in the representation of
Flintshire, not, however, as was at one time ex-
pected would be the case, by a Tory, but, on the
contrary, by Lord RICHARD GROSVENOR, son of
the Marquis of WESTMINSTER.
There remain now only to be notified
the five elevations to the Peerage—three by
new creations—two by right of inheritance. The
five vacancies thereby left at intervals among the
ranks of the popular representatives being filled
up by the return of Lieutenant-Colonel BATHURST
for South Wiltshire—of Mr. LESLIE for Aberdeen-
shire—of Sir DAVID DTJNDAS, for Staffordshire—
of Mr. WESTERN WOOD for the City of London—
of Mr. WEGUELIN for Wolverhampton. The
vacancy in the instance of Aberdeenshire being
caused by the advance of Lord HADDO to the
House. of Lords, upon the death of his father,
the late Earl of ABERDEEN—the vacancy
in the instance of Staffordshire by the
advance of the Marquis of STAFFORD to the
Lords, upon the demise of his father, the
late Duke of SUTHERLAND. Everyone may
count off the three new peerages of the session,
necessitating the election—respectively at London,
at South Wilts, and at Wolverhampton—of three
new representatives. There was the elevation
to the House of Peers of the Right Hon.
SIDNEY HERBERT as Lord HERBERT of Lea—
prior, alas ! only to his disappearance altogether
from the midst of his admiring contempo-
raries. There was the elevation of Sir RICHARD
BETHELL to the peerage as Baron WESTBURY,
simultaneously with his yet higher elevation to the
Woolsack as Lord High Chancellor. And, to com-
plete all these, there was the elevation of Lord JOHN
from the House of Commons to the House of Lords
as Earl RUSSELL—a removal, of itself, sufficient
to render for ever memorable, in the annals
of the legislature, the recent session of Imperial
Parliament.

The Duke of Newcastle and the Right Hon. W.
E. Gladstone, M.P., have postponed their departure for the
country until after the interment of Lord Herbert, at which
his grace and Mr. Gladstone purpose to be present, out of
respect to the memory of their late personal and political
friend.

TIIE BISHOP OF DURHAM.--We regret to an-
nounce that information reached London yesterday which
gives but very faint hopes of the Bishop of Durham's re-
covery. His lordship appeared some days ago to be getting
gradually better, but ho suffered a relapse, which has given
the greatest alarm to his family and friends. The Right
Hon. C. P. Villiers, M.P., the Bishop's brother, and Lady
Teresa Lewis, his sister, have both left London for Auck-
land Castle. The Archbishop of York has kindly under-
taken to discharge the duties of the diocese of Durham
during the illness of Dr. Villiers.
THE ROYAL WESTERN YACHT CLUB.—Her Ma-
jesty has been graciously pleased to present to this distin-
guished club a splendid prize cup, to be sailed for at the
forthcoming regatta. This cup, nominally valued at 100
guineas, is from the manufactory of Mr. Hancock, the emi-
nent- jsweller and silversmith, of Bruton-street, and is in
the highest degree worthy of the European reputation of
the firm. It is, indeed, a remarkable work of art, designed
and executed with all his wonted fertility of invention and
felicity of taste, by the celebrated sculptor Signor Raphael
Monti. The comwsition of the figured subjects is free and
bold, and all the accessories and details are exquisitely
finished.

MERITORIOUS CONDUCT.—On Saturday one of
those pleasing international recognitions of humanity and
bravery, which are of no very unusual occurrence, took
place in the Liverpool Sailors' Home. The occasion was
that of presenting a silver medal from the Emperor of the
French to Wm. Morgan, captain of the steamship Marger-
ton, in acknowledgment of his services in saving the crew,
five in number, of the French sloop Euphrosyne. The pre-
sentation was made by Mr. Smith, a member of the Local
Marine Board, who, in presenting the medal, intimated to
Capt. Morgan that he had been invited to receive at his
(Mr. Smith's) hands the gift of the French Emperor. The
gift, a very handsome silver medal, was a recognition of
Capt. Morgan's having done a highly meritorious act in
saving the lives of the crew of a vessel at great personal
risk to himself. The present was the first occasion in which
such a service had been acknowledged by a medal of honour
presented to a British shipmaster, and it must, conse-
quently, be looked on as one of the highest honours which
the French Emperor could confer. The medal bore the
subjoined inscription :—" Au Capitaine "Maim Morgan,
Commandant le Navire Anglais Mangerton. Service ala
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circumstances. Ho found the vessel and her crew in dis-
tress, anti he endeavoured to relieve them ; his success in
having done so being his best reward. The Mangerton, it
should be stated, is a steamship belonging to the Liverpool
and Londonderry Steamship Company, and it would appear
that in the spring of the present year Capt. Morgan fell in
with the Euphrosyne in a disabled condition, about six`v
miles off Baltimore, on the west coast of Ireland. Ile took
the vessel in tow, but she sank about eight miles off the
land, and by dint of great exertions, it blowing a gale at
the time, he succeeded in getting all her crew on board of
his own ship.
RUMOURED CONSPIRACY
pendance Beige, which IN RUSSIA.—The Lule-
yesterday mentioned as a rumour
that a serious political conspiracy was discovered at St.
Petersburg, says that the object of the conspirators was to
put aside the present Emperor and his family, and to give
a constitution to Russia. A senator, who was at the head
of the affair was arrested, and two noble ladies who were
compromised were banished.
—A Berlin letter states that a new order of knight-
hood will be created to commemorate the coronation at
Koenigsberg.