The Sun.
London, England, 1861-02-16 00:00:00

THE WAR IN NEW'ZEALAND.

In the Gazette of last evening three despatches, received
by the Secretary at War from the officers in command of
the forces in New Zealand, appeared. The despatches
contained a description of the engagement with the natives
on the sth of November, which has already appeared in
the columns of The Sun. The names of the officers re-
turned as having distinguished themselves on the occasion
are :—Liutenant-Colonel Sillery, Deputy Quartermaster-
General, who was slightly wounded in the pah; James
Monet, Esq., Deputy Inspector-General of Hospitals;
Lieutenant-Colonel Cary, Deputy Adjutant-General, as
usual most conspicuous ; Henry Bartlett, Esq., Assistant
Commissary-General; Lieut. Forster, R.A, and A.D.C.;
and Lieutenant King, acting as Militia A.D.C., and the
following officers commanding corps :—Captain Strover,
Royal Artillery; Captain Mould, Royal Engineers; Major
Hutchins, 12th Regiment; Lieutenant-Colonel A. Leslie,
40th Regiment; Captain Turner, 65th Regiment; Major
Herbert, Taranaki Militia ; Lieutenant Urquhart, 65th
Regiment; and Colonel Mould, Royal Engineers.

The Emperor has decided that a statue shall be
erected at rau to Marshal Bosquet, and as the Marshal's
mother has no fortune, his Majesty has granted her a pen-
son of 6,000 f.
THEATRES AND MUSIC SALOONS.—Last Thurs-
day a meeting of lessees of our Loudon Theatres, took
place on the stage of the Adelphi Theatre, when most of
our metropolitan managers were present. Resolutions were
passed to employ counsel to ascertain and report the actual
state of the law as regards their theatrical position, as wel
as to the extent of power the Music Saloon Licenses can be
properly used.
8 I The diplomatists who remained with Francis
11. at Gaeta were M. Gianelli, apostolic nuncio, M. Ber-
mundez de Castro, Count Szecheni, Baron de Verger, and
Count de Kleist-Loss, the Spanish, Austrian, Bavarian,
and Saxon Ministers. The Russian ambassador, Prince
Wolkonski, remained at Rome, and the Prussian, Count
Pert oncher, was at Berlin.
STRANGE IF TRUE.—It is rumoured that Mr.
Bright is so disgusted with the conduct of the Government,
that he has tendered his support to Lord Derby and his
party, if they will take office, and introduce a measure of
Reform similar to the one they produced the year before
last, it is also said that Lord Derby can overthrow the
Government at any moment he pleases.--Era.
ROYAL COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS OF LONDON.—
At the comitia majora extraordinaria, held on Tjiursday,
the following gentlemen, having undergone the necessary
examination, and satisfied the college of their proficiency
in the science and practise of medicine and midwifery,
were duly admitted to practise physics as licentiates of the
college :—William Williams, Penryn, near Holyhead ;
Charles Radford Suffield, Harborne, Birmingham ; John
Bowes, Herne Bay; Frederiok James Prior, Tewkesbury;
Arthur Roberts, Montpelier-square, Brompton ; Henry
Wheeler, Clifton; and Harry May, Longton, Staffordshire.
THE BALLOT SOCIETY.--The usual weekly meet-
ing of the committee was held on Tuesday, at the offices, 5,
Guildhall-chambers, Mr. Sydenham Nodes in the chair.
Mr. Whitehurst, Mr. Dale, Mr. Bontems, Mr. Elt, Mr. M.
E Marsden, Mr. Lemaitre, Mr. Man, &c., were present.
Messrs. J. W. Bishop, J. Fairburn, T. Gowing, Richard
Jaques. J. W. Smith, all of Ripon, members of the com-
mittee of the recently formed Ballot Society in that city,
and Mr. William Hickes, secretary of the Leeds Working
Men's Parliamentary Reform Association, were elected
members of the council of the parent society. It was re-
ported that 2,000 tracts had been distributed in the course
of last week in various parts of the country. An applica-
tion for 1,000 tracts for the Pembrokeshire boroughs was
granted, and it was resolved that a conference between the
executive committee and some of the Parliamentary friends
of the ballot should be convened to consider the best mode
of promoting the ballot in the present session.
GREENWICH HOSPITAL AND PAUPERISM.—Last
night a fully-attended meeting of the vestry of Greenwich
was held at the parish church, to take into consideration
the burthcn inflicted upon the ratepayers by the large
annual amount paid in the shape of parochial relief to
Greenwich pensioners and their families, and to adopt
measures for obtaining from the Government payment of
rates in respect to the property of Greenwich Hospital.
The chair was occupied by Churchwarden Huntley, and a
return was read to the effect that at present 53 pensioners
and their wives, with 87 children, were receiving out-door
relief ; 39 pensioners' widows and 28 children were inmates
of the workhouse; the total cost per annum being £1,835.
A letter was read from Mr. Angerstein, M P., stating he
had communicated with the Home Secretary on the subject,
and entertained hopes that Greenwich would be included
amongst the parishes to which the Government had con-
sented to pay an annual sum in lieu of races. Several
members urged that Greenwich had a more just claim upon
the Treasury than dockyard parishes, inasmuch that thou-
sands of men were employed in the latter, and their wages
expended in the locality. A petition to Parliament in
favour of the objects of the meeting was then adopted.
SUPPOSED SUICIDE IN DUCKETT'S CANAL.—This
morning, about half-past seven o'clock, a police-constable,
named Robert I himbleby, 119 K, had his attention drawn
to a coat and hat on the banks of Sir George Duckett's
canal near the Grove-road bridge, Old Ford, Bow. The
sleeves of the coat were turned inside out, and the lining
was marked " Sal." The constable, suspecting that the
body of a man was in the canal, immediately sent to the
Regent's-canal lock-house for the drags. The canal was
then dragged by Thimbleby and Russell, the lock-keeper,
and, after an hour's exertions, the body of a man was
found, hauled on shore, and laid on the banks.
The deceased, who appeared to have been a very
short time in the water, was without a coat. He
appears to be about forty years of age, 5 feet 8 inches high,
large features, dark complexion, sandy whiskers, dark hair,
and was attired in two black cloth waistcoats with spots of
red paint upon them, white shirt, white cotton stockings,
blucher bouts, girdle belt, pair of cotton braces with brass
holes, and black silk necktie. The garment found on the
bank of the canal, and which no doabt belonged to the
deceased, is a frock coat with velvet cuffs, black buttons,
and pockets behind. Thimbleby found in the pockets of
the deceased 16s. in silver and Is. 3d. in copper monies.
The body was conveyed by the constable to the Cricketers'
publichouse, Old Ford-road.