The Sun.
London, England, 1861-01-05 00:00:00

VACANCIES. APPOINTMENTS, §•c.

India Office.—Mr. Ashley Francis Brereton and
Mr. Henry Lawrence Ventries have been appointed
temporary clerks in the India Office, London, and
passed their examinations. Customs.—The fol-
lowing officers have been placed on the compen-
sation list :—Mr. C. Watson, controller, Grange-
mouth; Mr. S. Christopherson, controller,
Preston. Inland Revenue Department. —Mr.
William Llewellyn, collector, Sarum collection,
has been appointed collector, Sussex collection ;
Mr. George Thorne, collector, Wales middle
collection, has been appointed collector, Stourbridge
collection ; Mr. Richard Dance, collector, Sligo
collection, has been appointed collector, Isle of
Wight collection•; Mr. Alfred Sherriff, supervisor
of Hull first district, Hull collection, has been
appointed supervisor of Lynn district, Lynn col-
lection. Mr. Henry P. Prescott, supervisor of
Thurles district, Birr collection, has been appointed
supervisor of Hull first district, Hull collection.
Mr. Edward S. White, supervisor of Bally-
shannon district, Sligo collection, has been
appointed supervisor of Diss district, Lynn col=
lection. Mr. James Aikenhead, supervisor of
Shaftesbury district, Dorset collection, has been
appointed supervisor of Poole district, Dorset
collection. Mr. Nathaniel Robinson, supervisor of
Bunerana district, Londonderry collection, has been
appointed supervisor of Shaftesbury district, Dorset
collection. Mr. Henry G. Chubb, supervisor of
Crediton district, Exeter collection, has been ap-
pointed supervisor of Ironbridge district, and Salop
collection. Mr. Win. S. Colegate, examiner, has
been appointed supervisor of Ballyshannon district,
Sligo collection. Mr. Thos. Stott, examiner, has
been appointed supervisor of Bunerana district,
Londonderry collection. Mr. Wm. Watson, exa-
miner, has been appointed supervisor of Brentwood
district, Middlesex collection. Mr. Wm. B. Wood-
ward, examiner, has been appointed supervisor of
Thurles district, Birr collection. Ireland.--A
vacancy has occurred in the Registry of Deeds
Office, Dublin, caused by the death :of Mr. John
Young, second class clerk.—Civil &rvice Gazette.

The Canada Club entertained the Governor-
General of Canada, on Wednesday last, at the Albion
Tavern. A numerous and distinguished party assembled
to meet his excellency.
THE DEFENCE OF SCARBOROUGH.—Detachments
of the Royal Artillery from Carlisle and Tynemouth have
been engaged during the week at the Castle in dismounting
the long-silent and useless old guns, clearing away the old
metal, and making other preparations for the construction
of new batteries for the defence of the town, which Go-
vernment are about to erect. The old guns were conveyed
on sledges over the ice and snow to the pier, where they
were shipped in a vessel specially selit for them,

The Prince di Carriccialo, with the Count and
Countess Castellac, and Chevalier Miniati, have left the
Brunswick Hotel, Jermyn-street, for Paris, on their way
to Rome,
The Hon. Frederick and Lady Elizabeth Villiers
have left Thomas's Hotel, Berkeley-square, for Sulby Hall.
Miss Nightingale has returned to her residence
at the Burlington Hotel.
THE LATE COUNTESS OF EGLINTON.—The death
of this lamented lady took place in Edinburgh, and not at
Eglinton Castle. Her ladyship's illness was scarcely of a
sudden nature, having supervened on her confinement,
which took place on the 7th ult., when she gave birth to a
daughter, which, with another infant born in August,
1859, survives its parent's premature decease.
Major David Mortimer Murray, eldest son of the
Rev. David Murray, rector of Brampton-Bryan, county
Hereford, was married, on Thursday last, to Ida, youngest
daughter of the late Capt. Fenton, M.P., of Spring-grove,
county York. The bride was attended to the altar by six
bridesmaids, and given away by the Hon. R. Chetwynd.
The ceremony was performed by the Rev. R. Margesson,
assisted by the Hon. and Rev. R. Liddell, at St. Paul's
Church, Knightsbridge. The happy couple afterwards,
accompanied by a small circle of friends and relatives, pro-
ceeded to Ford's Hotel, Dover-street, where a dcjeuner was
provided. In the aftrnoon Major and Mrs. Murray left
for Southampton, en route for the Isle of Wight.
THE NEW PEER.—The Right Hon. Sidney Her-
bert, about to be called to the House of Peers, by one of the
subsidiary titles of the earldom of Pembroke, to which he
is heir presumptive, was born on the 16th of September,
1810. He married,:on the 12th of August, 1846, Eliza-
beth, daughter of Major-General Charles Ashe a'Court,
and niece of Lord Heytesbury. He was educated at Har-
row, and afterwards entered Oriel College, Oxford, in
which university he graduated. in 1831, taking a fourth
class in classics. At the same time Mr. W. B. Gladstone,
Christ Church, the present Chancellor of the Excheo:aer,
took a " double first"—Mr. F. D. Maurice, of 'Exeter
College (whose name has of late been so mwah before
the public), and Dr. Robert Phillimore taking respec,
tively a second class in classics. His first connection with
otllcial life was under Sir Robert Peel's Government in 1841,
when he was appointed Secretary to the Admiralty, the
duties of which office he discharged until Feb., 1845, when
he became Secretary at War. He has represented the
southern division of Wiltshire uninterruptedly since 1832.
PROROGATION OF CONVOCATION.—Yesterday
the Convocation of the Prelates and Clergy of the Province
of Canterbury was prorogued in the Jerusalem Chamber,
Westminster, by Dr. Travers Twiss, the Vicar General of
the province, under a commission from his Grace the Lord
Archbishop of Canterbury, pursuant to the Royal writ,
until Wednesday, the 6th of February. Mr. F. H. Dyke,
her Majesty's proctor, having read the schedule of proro-
gation, the proceedings were brought to a close.
DR. MARK AND HIS LITTLE MEN.—This distin-
guished impressario took his annual benefit at the Man-
chester Free Trade Hall on Wednesday and Thursday last,
giving on the first day a morning and evening concert,
with his Little Men as the instrumentalists, and Mr. Frank
Reid and Master Tendall as the vocalists; and on the
second his annual juvenile ball. On the second occasion
the hall was splendidly decorated by Mr. Tyrer, of Man-
chester, and every effort was made to secure the comfort
and enhance the delight of all present. Two immense
Christmas trees were erected at the end of the hall, and
the " Doctor" distributed their fruits to the juvenile dancers.
There were about 300 dancers present, and upwards of
1,800 spectators. Dr. Mark will appear with his "Little
Men" at the St. James's Hall, London, for the first time,
on January 14th.—Era.
NARROW ESCAPE NEAR WiTnAlie--As the Rev.
G. P. Bennett and his lady, accompanied by a friend, were
returning to Kelvedon from Rivenhall Rectory, on Tues-
day evening, owing to the darkness of the night and the
flooding of the road near Rivenhall Fox, the carriage was
driven into deep water, and their lives were placed in great
danger. Happily their cries of distress wore heard by
some men, who promptly came to their rescue, and con-
veyed them on their backs to land. Had the carriage
progressed a yard further, the party, in all probability,
would have met with a watery grave.—Chelmsford Chro-
nicle.

A CHAPEL BURNT DOWN AT BURTON-ON-
TRENT.--On Monday last, an alarming fire broke out in
Salem Chapel, Station-street, which has completely de-
stroyed the interior wood work and both vestries, some
portion of the roof excepted ; and the injury the roof has
sustained, in order to get at the fire within, will, it is
thought, render its entire removal necessary. The chapel
is insured for .-C3OO, but this amount will not nearly cover
the injury sustained. As to the origin of the fire nothing
certain is known.—Derby Reporter.
SINGULAR CASE OF CONCEALMENT OP SEX.—
Last week died in Rigby's-yard, Scholes, Wigan, aged 97,
a woman, whose name is believed to have been Betty
Lavin. For about 60 years Betty has resided in Wigan,
and during the whole of that period she has been known as
John Murphy, having appropriated the garb and assumed
the habits of a man, and this so successfully, that none die-
covered the deception. During her residence in Wigan
she has followed the occupation of a hawker, and as such
has become known to a large circle of customers ; she has
also been on the relieving officers' books for the last 12
months, and having been ill, she has been visited by
Mr. Heaton, union surgeon. To all these she has been

known as the man John Mirphy, and, what is still more

singular, she did not previous to her decease inform any
person of the disguise sho had so long assumed. As John
Murphy she lived and died, as John Murphy her death
was registered by the surgeon, and it was only when the
final offices previous to interment were being performed
that her sex. was discovered.
STREET SLIDES.—Every one knows how the
perils of pedestrians are increased by such frosts as we have
recently had, but few are aware of the number of persons
who are thus injured. The records of the Accidental Death
Insurance Company show no less than 22 serious accidents
from this cause alone in the space of the last fortnight, in-
cluding throe broken legs and two spinal concussions. We
believe the whole number of persons insured in this corn-
pony does not exceed 50,000, and, consequently, if out of
that number 22 have been injured, the whole number of
persons in this country who have been injured by falls
from the frost during the past fortnight cannot be much
under 10,000.
DEATH OF SIR PETER FAIRBAIRN.—Sir Peter
Fairbairn, Knight, of Woodsley-house, Leeds, who has
beeu extremely ill for the last two months, expired at his
residence at, an early hour yesterday morning, in the 62d
year of his age. Sir Peter Fairbairn, youngest son of the
late Mr. Andrew Fairbairn, was born on the 11th Sept.,
1799, at Kelso, in Roxburghshire. Mr. Andrew Fairbairn
had a large family, of whom only three now survive—Mr.
William Fairbairn of Manchester, and two daughters. As
an inventor and improver of machinery applied to the useful

arts, Sir Peter stands high in the estimation of his country,
which opinion is endorsed by the whole mechanical world,
for his machines are known and appreciated in eTery part of
the globe where such implements are required. He was one
of the improvers of the roving-frame, and assisted Mr.
Henry Houldsworth in the application of tho differential

motion so admirably adapted and so uzefully employed in
that machine. Although not the original inventor, he it was
at any rate, who worked out and rendered really valuable
the motion known by the name of " screw gill," by making
it of easy practical application. He moreover introduced
the rotary gill, which has been most extensively applied in
tow machinery. Theta improvements effected almost a
revolution in flax and hemp-preparing machinery, and
enabled spinners to produce a very superior article at less
cost than formerly, although from the same quality of ma-
terial. In addition to the above, Sir Peter had of late
years entered largely into the construction of engineering
tools of all descriptions. At the beginning of the Crimean
war the firm of which he was the head was invited by the
English Government to commence making special tools,
and has since constructed a large number of machines for
the manufacture of firearms and other warlike implements
both at Woolwich and Enfield. Sir Peter for many years
took an active part in the local affairs of Leeds, and his
fellow-townsmen showed their appreciation of his charac-
ter and conduct by electing him a member of the corpora-
tion, or "local Parliament"—first, as a councillor for one
of the largest wards of the borough, and subsequently as
an alderman. He was also appointed one of liar Majesty's
justices of the peace for the West Riding of Yorkshire and
for the borough of Leeds. Sir Peter was married in 1827
to Margaret, daughter of the late Mr. Robert Kennedy,
of Glasgow, by whom he had his present family, one son
and two daughters. His first wife havieg died in 1843,
he was married, in 1855, to Rachel Anne, fourth daughter
of the late Mr. Robert William Brandling, of Low Gos-
forth, Northumberland, who survives her respected hus-
band.

FLOODS IN THE EAST.—The thaw in the early
part of the week produced a great accumulation of water in
Suffolk and many parts of the adjoining counties, the low-
lands in the neighbourhood of the rivers being covered in
some pltces to a considerable depth. Much damage has
been done to property in many cases ; but there appears to
have been no loss of life, although one or two narrow escapes
are reported. Mrs. Brown, of Brant Eleigh Hall, while
returning in her carriage from Tostock, was placed in a
perilous position in crossing the river Brent at a ford near
Brettenham Mill. The vehicle and horses became im-
mersed, and Mrs. Brown and the coachman were only
rescued by means of ladders and ropes. A youth in the
employ of Mr. Davis, butcher, of Great Baddow, while
Ericing from Danebury to Sandon, was also capsized in a
stream running by the side of the road. The stream was
much swollen, and the youth only managed to save him-
self by climbing up a tree. The pony which ha was driving
was drowned, and the whole contents of the cart, which
consisted of household goods belonging to a young woman
about to be married, were sacrificed with the almost ludi-
crous exception of a pair of bellows. The driver of the
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Haverhill mail cart also met with a serious accident on his
return to Halstead. At Hepworth-bridge the road was
flooded to the depth of three or four feet, and the torrent
carried the horse off his legs. While the animal was strug-
gling the shafts brolt,, and both man and horse saved their
lives with difficulty. The mail bags were lost. Up to
yesterday great sheets of water—now frozeu over—met the
eye ou every side,

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(REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.)

ROME, JAN. 1.
This being New Year's Day the Pope received
the French officers.

General Goyon, following orders from his Govern-
ment, made no political allusions in his speech on

the occasion.

His Holiness expressed his approval of the expe.
ditions to Syria and China.

His Holiness also said that in defending Gaeta
the French fleet serves a just and holy cause. The
Pope avoided making any other political allusions,
and said nothing concerning the Emperor Napoleon.

TURIN, SATURDAY.

The Opinione says :—Prince Carignan and M.
Nigra will probably leave for Naples on Tuesday
next.

The same paper publishes a telegram from
Palermo, stating that the Lieutenancy Council had
tendered its resignation.

BERNE, SATURDAY.

The reply of the Federal Council to Count
Cavour's note of the 20th Nov. last will be
despatched to Turin to-day. The Federal Council
maintains the sequestration of the property in the
Canton Ticino, the revenues of which belong to
the bishopric of Como, and expresses the hope
that the supervision of that property by the
Federal Council may be considered as offering
sufficient guarantee until the final settlement of
the affair.

MADRID, JAN. 4.

The Correspondeneia Autografa gives a denial
to the report that the Moors refuse to pay the
remaining portion of the War indemnity.

It also denies the rumour that the Minister
Fomento had tendered his resignation.

BERLIN, lAN. 4.

A deputation from the municipality presented
to-day, in the name of the City of Berlin, an address
of condolence to the King.

His Majesty, in reply, expressed his deep grief
at the heavy loss which had been sustained by the
Royal family; and recalled how the late King,
in addition to his high intellectual attainments,
always took the most heartfelt interest in the wel-
fare of his people, and how the Princes of Hohen-
zollern had always entertained feelings of affection
for their subjects, whose interest they considered
identical with their own.

The King continued as follows:—" Perhaps you
have already discovered that in this respect I hold
the same opinions. Formerly, perhaps, I was mis-
understood, but I can assure you that I have always
had the same love for my people. I should not be
misunderstood. I stated the principles of my
government when I assumed the regency on the
Bth November, 1858. I shall invariably and in-
violably maintain those principles during my future
government. I gladly accept the expression of your
loyalty. A time may come when I shall remind you
of those expressions, for I reckon on the fidelity of
my citizens, as the loyalty of my people has extri-
cated us in situations of difficulty, Many changes
have taken place in the course of the past year, and
all that has been done has not always been done
rightly. No one shall induce me to abandon the
principles which I have pronounced, and I give
you the assurance that I shall, with true affection
for my people, abide by these principles.' I autho-
rise you to communicate to the citizens of Berlin
the sentiments which I have expressed to you, and
I thank you for what you have expressed in the
name of the municipality.

MILAN, JAN. 4.

The Perseveranza publishes a despatch, dated
Rome, Jan. 2, stating that a manifestation was
attempted by the Sanfedisto party on the 31st of
December, but failed. Pontifical and French patrols
were traversing the streets of the city. " Order
and tranquillity prevailed at Rome."

The same journal also states that Count Trapani
was organizing the reactionary movement in the
Abruzzi, and had published proclamations. Two
hundred Bourbonian volunteers had arrived at
Frosinone, and had been despatched to the Abruzzi
by permission of the Papal authorities.
General Goyon had ordered the inhabitants of
Frosinone to be disarmed.

The French authorities had seized several chests
filled with arms.

PARIS, JAN. 4.

The Patrie says :

Two vessels hoisting the Sardinian flag have
bean stopped at Galatz. Their cargoes have been
seized, and deposited in the Custom-house.

It is assorted that 12 rifled cannon and 15,000
muskets, ammunition, and gunpowder, formed
part of the cargo.

Russian, Turkish, and Austrian guard Tessels are
keeping a strict watch at the mouths of the Danube.
The same journal states that the retirement of
Mgr. Merode from the Papal. Cabinet is looked
upon as decided, and adds :—" It is said that M.
Bella will succeed him in the office of Minister
for War.

The Patrie also asserts that the Neapolitan
royalists have succeeded in supplying the small
fortress of Civitella with provisions.

BERLIN, FRIDAY.

A telegram has been received here from Naples,
dated Jan. 3, according to which negotiations had
been opened between the Sardinian Government
and King Francis 11. for the conclusion of an
armistice of longer duration.

INDIA.

BOMBAY, DEC. 12.

Campbell's force has been repulsed from Sikirs
with the lois of between 30 and 40 men, and one

gun.
Darjeeling is in a state of alarm.
Income tax riots have taken place at Surat and
Bassein; the tax collector was beaten.
Capt. Cox and Lieutenants Alexander, Brown,
and Patten have been brought to trial for the
outrages committed at Cairo, in Egypt.
The import trade is wholly suspended.