The Sun.
London, England, 1859-12-21 00:00:00

FARRINGDON WITHIN.

The annual wardmote was held at Christ's Hospital,
Alderman Phillips presiding. _ _

Two new candidates opposed the return of Jthe old mem-
bers, and a poll was ordered to be taken at the King's Arms
Tavern.

FARRINGDON WITHOUT.

The annual wardmote of the ward of Farringdon With-
out was held in the New Court of the Old Bailey, Alderman
Sir J. Duke, Bart., M.P., presiding.

Most of the old members were re-elected. A poll was de-
manded on behalf of Messrs. Standborough and Spiller.
In the other wards no serious opposition is expected, but
we are precluded from publishing the results owing to the
late hour fixed for the commencement of the proceedings.

SACRED HARMONIC SOCIETY, Exeter Hall.—The
last performance of " The Messiah" takes places onFriday
next, Dec. 23. The principal singers are Madame Ruders-
dorff, Mias Dolby, Mr. Sims Reeves, and Signor lielletti.
The traffic return of the Grand Trunk Railway,
for the week ending November 26, shows a receipt of
£12,9821361 4d., rgainst £9,685 11s. 10d. in the correspond-
ing week of last year, being an increase of £3,296 as. 6d.
The return of traffic on the Great Western Rail-
way of Canada; for the week ending December 2, shows
the receipts to ha%e been £7,916 13s. 7d., being an increase
en the corresponding week of the previous year of £124105.
10d. The decrease on the 18 weeks of this half-year, as
compared with the corresponding period of 18.58, is 5.0,720
2s. 7d. _ _

(3UTI.IKENSINGTON MUSEUM. —D uritip., the week
ending the 17th of December the visitors have been as fol-
lows :—On Monday, Tuesday, and Saturday, free days,
2,544; on Monday and Tuesday, free evenings, 4,120; on
the three students' days (admission to the public 6d.),
1,102; one students' evening, Wednesday, 593; total, 8,339;
from the opening. of the museum, 1,166,322.
TIIE CHRISTMAS HOLIDAY. The Executive
Committee of the Conservative Land Society have directed
`the offices to be closed on Monday next, the 26th inst.
THE CONSERVATIVE LAND SOCIETY. This
society, in the extension of business operations, have just
purchased a fine property crf freehold houses at Camberwell.
They are nine in number, well built semi-detached cot-
tages and houses, in a terrace in the Denmark-road. This
is a novel feature in the operations of a land society, inas-
much as freehold houses, completed and in the occupation
of respectable tenants, will be offered for allotment to the
members of the society.

THE GREAT METROPOLITAN SEWER AT STRAT-
FORM—The works of this sewer, which it was anticipated
would have been commenced in his district several months
ago, have been delayed, partly from the strike in the build-
ing trade, and partly to enable the commissioners to apply
to Parliament for additional powers not embodied in their
present act. A great number of houses on the site of which
the proposed sewer would pass were purchased, and the oc-
cupants long since gave up possession, but within the last
few weeks they have again been occupied, and will continue
to be so during the temporary delay of the works. The ex-
tensive premises of Messrs. Geero and Son, timber mer-
chants, on the north side of the high road, have been pur-
chased of them by the commissioners, and the occupiers
and owners of all property in that neighbourhood taken for
the purposes of the sewer have received the amount of their
compensation. We (Essex Herald) may add that the com-
pensation awarded in almost every instance has been ex-
tremely liberal on the part Of the commissioners—weekly
tenants receiving from £lO to £lB ; small shopkeepers from
£5O to £lOO, and so on in proportion to the amount of busi-
ness and length of tenancy.

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DESTRUCTIVE FIRE IN A LUGGAGE TRAIN.—
About 3 o'clock in the afternoon of Sunday last, one of the
waggons of a luggage train from the south for Preston,
Lancashire, laden with healds for weaving, and a quantity
of costly china in crates, was discovered by the engine-
driver to be on fire, when the train was a quarter of a mile
from Preston. This waggon was next to the tender, and it
is supposed that a spark from the engine ignited either the
healds or the straw in the crates. The engine driver
promptly detached-the remainder of the train from the
burning waggon and steamed quickly into the Preston sta-
tion, and as the engine with its flaming freight passed over
the bridge which spans the Ribble, just below the town,
the unwonted spectacle excited the astonishment of the
hundreds of persons who were walking on the banks of the
river. When the station was gained the flames were
quickly extinguished at the water column, and it was then
found that the damage done was very considerable. The
healds were almost wholly destroyed, and the burning of
the crates had cracked and broken a very large proportion
of the costly goods they contained.
REWARD FOR GALLANT CONDUCT.—It will pro-
bably bo remembered by many of our readers that during
the terrific storm of the 26th October last, which proved
fatal to the Royal Charter, some fearful shipwrecks took
place also on the Cornish coast. On some of the occasions,
most gallant exertions were made to save life and property.
Amongst others, Mr. Daniel Shea, coxswain of the National
Lifeboat Institution's boat stationed at Padstow, very lau-
dably exerted himself to save life and property. But con-
spicuous amongst all others on this coast was Charles
Mitchell, a fisherman, of Port Isaac. In the height of the
storm of that night, the sloop Busy, of New-quay, was ob-
served to be in imminent danger. Mitchell immediately
mustered a crew of four men, who, with himself, proceeded
off through the tremendous surf to the wreck. Having suc-
ceeded in rescuing two of the sloop's men, their boat unfor-
tunately broke adrift before the remaining men could be
saved. Again and again, Mitchell, with fresh hands, en-
deavoured with undiuted courage to save the other two
poor men, who were now lashed to the rigging. At last,
his humane efforts in three different boats were, after five
hours of unusual iheavy toil and risk, crowned with success,
and he had the happiness to bring the four shipwrecked
men, more dead than alive, safely ashore about 3 o'clock
the next morning. To testify its approbation of such noble
and persevering exertions in saving life from an inevitable
death, the Royal National. Lifeboat Institution had pre-
sented to Mitchell its chaste silver medal, a beautiful scroll
on parchment and V. The n-en who had assisted the gal-
lant fellow on the occasion have also received from the
society £l5 for their services.
DISTRESS OF THE BLACK NIALIBRAN.—An ap-
plication was made. on Saturday to the President of the
Civil Tribunal, on the part of Mlle. Martinez, a woman of
colour, known by the name of the " Malibran Noire," from
her possessing a good voice and a certain talent as a musi-
cian. She had, it appears, when she first came to Paris from
the Spanish settlements in South America, given concerts and
obtained some success, attended with very satisfactory money
results. But, having gone to Madrid to sing, she found on
her return that the wind of popularity had shifted to some
other direction, and that, when she gave a concert as before,
the receipts did not equal the expenditure. She tried again
and again to attract an audience, but all in vain. At last
she fell into distress, and Mme. Harm, the owner of a fur-
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be assimilated to instruments of labour or the tools of a
workman, which could not be taken away. The president,
coinciding in that view of the question, ordered the imme-
diate restitution of tha guitar, Bet will the humane deci-
sion of the learned judge be sufficient to enable the poor
, sinner to provide for the wants of the day ?-oa/ignaili.