The Sun.
London, England, 1857-06-15 00:00:00

THE VICTORIA CROSS.

Her Majesty has been pleased to signify to Lord Pan-
mare, the Secretary of State for War, that it is her gra-
cious intention to personally distribute ths Victoria Cross
(the Order of Valour) on Friday, the 26th inst. It is
now determined that the ceremony of the distribution
shall take place in Hyde-park, and not on the parade
facing the H Tie Guards, as originally contemplated, so
that a far greater number of the public may have the
opportunity of witnessing the interesting proceedings.
Prince Albert and all the elder members of the royal
family, the Prince William Frederick of Prussia, the
Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian of Austria, and a bril
liant court will be present on the occasion,

The Queen and Prince Albert, acc impaniecl by the
Pr ncess Royal and Prince Frederick William of
Prussia, honoured the Princess's Theatre with their
presence on Saturday evening. In attendance were
the Duchess of ALhol, the Hon. Caroline Cavendish,
Lord Camoys, Major-General Bouverie, Colonel F. H.
Seymour, and Baron de Moltke.
The Prince of Wales and Prince Alfred, attended
by Major-General Berkeley Drummond, Mr. Gibbs,
and Lieutenant Cowell, honoured her Majesty's
Theatre with their presence on Saturday evening.
Lady Canaille Towniey's ball is unavoidably post-
poned from Wednesday, the 17th, to Tuesday the 30th
instant.

We regret to learn the Ron. Mrs. Dawson Darner,
widow of Capt. the Ron. Hatay Dawson Darner, R.N ,
and mother of the Earl of Portarltogton, died on Friday
last, after a short illness.
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We regret to learn Viscountess Gage was suddenly
seized on Saturday afternoon with apoplexy, and expired
st.2o minutes after 10 o'clock the same night,
On the occasion of the benefit of Mr, and Mrs. Chas.
Kean, at the Princess's Toeatre, on the 221, we are to
be treated with another Snakspearian revival—'• Toe
Tempest."
It is said that Mr. Robson, the popular Olympic fa-
vourite, and Mr. Emden, will become the future directors
of the Olympic Theatre, and that the same Court patron.
age will be extended to them.
SHREWSBURY SCHOOL—The fallowing honours have
lately been gained by Shrewsbury men in the Univer-
sity of Catunridge :—Nlr. J. R. Lee, of Magdalen Col
lege, fifth in the first class of the Classical Tripes ; Mr.
It. Whiting, of Trinity College, the second Bell Schuler-
ship ; Mr. J. R. L-e, a Fellowship in Magdalen Col-
lege ; Mr. A. Holmes, of St. John's College, Sir W.
Browne's gold medal for Greek ode ; Mr. R. Whiting,
of Trinity Collage, Sir W. Browne% gold medal for
Greek and Latin epigram ; Mr. A. Holmes, the Parson
prize.
THE CHEAP PRESS.—The Yarmouth Standard, a
cheap weekly conservative paper, wnich crept into exis-
ttice a few weeks since, has come to a premature end,
as the proprietors have found it to be "not sufficiently
remunerative." The Norttich Weekly Express one of
the same class of journals, well with a similar tate after a
few months existence.
ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL, GRAY'S INN-ROAD.—The
number of patients relieved in this hospice, during the
week ending June 13, 1857, is 2,223, of which 7U4 were
new eases.
•THe CoMET.—Some of the wise ones of a continental
city no ice that the Man in the Moon has already flat-
tened and 'marched his nose considerably by corning in
c intact with the cornet, while swinging round our earth,
which circumstance rrefragably proves tnat the fiery
masa must a'rearly be near es.
R .YAL LUNACY CAIMISSIoN PoE SO.)TLAND.—The
comrnissi iners, in discharging the arduous i utiee of their
office, during the last two years have held no less than
forty-nine mood meetings, and this is irrespective of
their visitations of aeyorrus and lunatics teroughout the
country. Tne English couatnissionere could not, of
tioarse, be present at all of these meetings, but they
attended a majority of them. The chairman was absent
from but one meeti g, and that through necessity.
METEOR ,L GY.—The report of the meteorol .gical de-
partment of the Beard of Trade was issued on Friday.
PARLIAMENTAY PAPERS —There were issued on Fri-
day a return of the muscle paid to the relatives of officers
in lieu of penal. me &a. ; Gener .1 Orders of the Court of
Chancery (Ireland) ; Savings' Be, ks Accounts ; Report
on the Common bodging Houses Acts.
MR. BERTOLACCI'S CASE.— ['he petition of Mr. Fran-
cis R. Berta icci (Duchy of Lancaster) has been referred
to a select committee of five members of the House of
Commons, appointed by the General Committae of Elec-
tions. Their names are Mr. T. H. S. Estcoutt, Lord
Goderich, Mr. Brameton, Lord H. Vane, and Mr. J.
Hans Hamilton
Letters from Turin mention that the new law allowing
the National Bank of Piedmont to increase their rate of
interest was proinutgated on Monday last, and that the
bank immediately adopted an advance to 7 per cent.
The bank at Genoa forthwith took a similar .tep, and it
seems to be contemplated toat a further-rise may be
necessary to stop the efflux of bullion.
OPENING OF THE SLEAFORD AND GRANTHAM RAIL-
WAY.—This new line of railway, which is about 14 miles
iu ex cot, and fortes part of the intended line from
Grantham to the port of Boston, was formally opened
on Saturday last. It has been constructed at a cost of
about 8 0001. per mile, by. the eminent contractors
Messrs. Smith and Knight, and is to be opened to the
public, by the authority of the Board of Trade, on this
day ( Wendaa).
Fox CLUB„—The fourth meeting of the Fox Club this
season toils place on Saturday evening, at Br-okies.
There were present—the !Marquis Townshend, Hon. C.
C. Cavendish, M.P,, Mr. John Cotes, the Earl of Stat.
f -rd, lion. George Byng, M P., Hon. Wenman Coke,
Mr. Augu-tue Keppel Stephenson, Hon. Edward Coke,
Lord Mostyn, Right Hon. Lord Marcus Hill, Mr Row-
land Alston, Mr. Henry Frederick Stephenson, Lord
Penn:sure, Hon. Hamilton, H Duncan, Col. Robert
Ferguson, M.P., lion. Charles S. Clements, Right Hoe.
J. W. Fitzpatrick, Mr. R. A. Shaf to Adair, Mr. Fred.
Dundee, M.P., Lord Stye and Sele, Lord Charles Jas.
Fox Ruotell, Mr. J. EL Langston, M.P., Sir M. J.
Cholmeley, Bert., M.P., and Lord Carew.
MURDER NEAR RADCLIFFE, IN LANCASHIRE.— On
Friday afternoon, Mr. Price, one of the depuv coroners
for Lancashire, hell an inquest on the body of an I lit
women whoa- body had been found in the river Irwell,
near Radcliff,. Tee deceased, •who appeared about 60
years of i, bad been last seen at a lodging house in Bury,
where she called about .7 o'clock that morning. At this
place she stated that she had left her lodgings at Rams-
butt •m early in the morning, for Ra Icliffe or Manches-
ter, having left the people at her lodgings quarreling
and fighting with pokers. Her dead body was discovered
in the river the same afternoon. There were several
wounds about the head and face of the deceased, the
scalp being almost stripped from the skull in one place,
and the base of the skull being fractured. A surgeon
who had extol ned the body said death must have been
caused by these injuries, ant not by drowaiog. Tue
jury found a verdict of " Wilful murder against some
person or persons unite° It is suspected that the
unfortunate woman had been followed and murdered by
some of the peop e she had left at Rarnstiottorn.
SOUTHAMPTON Jute 13.—The Spanish screw steamer
Almogavar, Capt. Candle, sailed hence this after
noon for Havre and the Spanish ports with 46 paeeeto
gers a..d about 70 tons of cargo. There wile be three
steamships leave here fir New York next week—namely,
the Hermann (with the German, French, and English
mails), the North Star on Wednesday, and the Constitu-
two (with tie Belgian mails) on Thursday. Tne Royal
Mail Company's steamship Parana, with the mails fur
boa West ledies, &c., and the Peninsular and Oriental
Company's steamer Sultan, with the Peninsular mails,
sail on Wednesday, the 17th. The Pera, with the ledia
and Ceine mail, leaves on the 20th, and the Colombo,
from Alex may be looked for about Wednesday.
THE PxtuNsuLat MAILS —The Peninsular and Orien-
tal C oupat y's steamship Taus, Cap ail E. Christian,
Arrived at Suuth-aniiston yesterday at 3 p.m. with the
Peninsular mails, in charge of Lieut. Bridges, R. N., and
dates from Gibraltar to June 6 ; Cadiz. 7 ; Lisbon, 9 ;
Oporto, 10; and Vigo, 11. On the outward voyage-the
Vague experienced floe weather • homewards, northerly
winds g the coast of Spain, and thick wratherthrou.; h
the bay, This steamer brings 43 first arid 21 second-class
passengers, and on freight nine packages of sperms value
4,6361. sterling. H. M. steamship Vulture, Capt Camp-
beii, seven days from Malta, arrived at Gibraltar on the
2d i at. The Tagus left H M S Princess Royal anchored
at Lisbon on the 9‘h inst. The screw steamer Hydaspes,
he'll Southampton, arrived at 9a m. The Lisbon ex-
change report sta es that a large supply of bilis ba
aPpe tred on Lin inn, and although a te.v were done at
531 fur three months business closed at 53i: with bill,'
°ver. On other planes little was done, paper continuing
scarce at 531 on Paris : Amsterdam, 414 ' • Hamburg,
.47 ; and Genoa, 532. Three per Cent. Stocks, were dull,
at 454 to 49, registered, eat div. ; Coup ins, 45 to 451 ex
div ; and Deferred, 28 to 28i Lisbon Bark shares were
at 10 to 12 per cent. pin. ; and Oporto Bank shares, 22i
to 25 per cent. pm.
THE EXETER-HALL SERMONS.—Last night the Hall
was crowded to excess. There were, it is true, many
persons in the audience who could not fairly be reckoned
amongst the " working classes ;" but there were, at the
same time, very many who were undoubtedly genuine
working men, in their "Sunday clothes." The hymns
and the Litany were joined in with an unanimity and an
effect which must be witnessed to be fairly conceived
The sermon was delivered by the Rev. John Cole Miller,
D:D., rector of St. Martin's, Birmingham, and honorary
canon of Worcester, who selected for his text the in-
quiry which Nicodetnus put to our beloved Savour,
" How.can these things be ?" On this passage the rev.
gentleman founded the best discourse of the series—
decidedly the most earnest, evangelical, eloquent, and
awakening sermon to which we have listened for many a
day. It combined the fervour and eloquence of our
most PopUlar orators with that dignity of manner which
might tie expected from a gentleman of his status in the
Ctiyecti of England. There wa- the greatest amount of
earnestnetes and yet no intemperance, either in tone or
language. The HO was c mpletely fiill, and amongst
the noblemen and ceutlemen upon the platform we ob-
served the Right Hon. the Earl of Seaftesbury, the
Right Hon. the Earl of Harrowbv, Mr R. Hanhury,
tVI-P.. H. R. Baxter, Egg., W. Long, E q., H. Her-
wood, E q., Wibrahatu Taal r, E q , sod ft. B Seeley,
E.q Beth on the platform and ,mingling with the audi-
ence we observed a number cif clergymen and ministers
of various denominations.