The Sun.
London, England, 1857-08-08 00:00:00

that the 11w must take its course, but that they
could not understand a conscientious objection to
obeying the law of the land I We hope that
Dissenters will not forget the Paseyite plea of
conscience against law. They may well ibank
the Bishop of OXFORD and his followers for
teaching them that word. For ourselves we must
think the Dissenters have the best of it. We can
more easily conceive of conscientious objections to
a payment for propagating what we hold to be
error ; than to marrying persons whom the laws
of society allow to marry; and to whom marriage
is at least a preservative from temptation. Lord
PALMERSTON and the Commons ought not, in any
case, to give in t.) the clerical mutineers.

SOUTHAMPTON, Friday.—His Royal Highness the
Duke of Cambridge, Commander in-Chief, attended by
Colonel Tyr whitt, embarked from the docks this after-
noon, at hal'-past five o'clock, on board the Royal yacht
Elfin, Captain Crispin, for Oiborne, on a visit to her
Maj9sty, and to meet the Emperor and Empress of the
Frciach. Viscount Palmerston embarked at the same
time, and returns on Monday next, in company with
his Royal Highness.
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Viscount Palmerston left town yesterday afternoon,
for Osborne, on a visit to the Pen.
MARRIAGE IN HIGH LIFE —The marriage of Lady
Susan Harriet Inr•es Pier, eldest daughter of the Duke
of Roxburghe, and Janes Grant Suttie, el lest son
of Sir George Grant Sutt
iie, of Preston Grange, was so-
lemnised on Wednesday a,t, at St. Andrew's Epi.,conal
Chapel, Kelso, N.B. The Rev. Wm. Kell, RD.,
Rector of Corseuside, assisted by the Rev. F. M. Rob-
berth', M.A., the incumbent, performed the religious
ceremony, in the prosenco of a numerous circle of the
relatives of both fa:nilies.
REPRESENTATION OF BIRMINGHAII.—BIRMINGHAIf,
Friday Night.— Mr. Bright has declared in favour of a
suppression of the Indian revolt, and his success by his
friends is deemed certain.

MISS LECLERCQ'S BENEFIT.—This favourite actress of
the Princess's Theatre takes her benefit on Tuesday
next, and will doubtless receive on the occasion the
cordial support of her admirers and friends.
GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY.—The directors of this
company have determined to recommend to the pro-
Frietors the declaration of a dividend for the half-year
ending the 30 b June, 1857, at the rate of 1 per cent.
per annum, carrying forward a balance for the current
half-sear of about 10,0001
AUSTRALIAN MAILS —There i 3 no word yet of the
screw steamer Great Briraiu, belonging to Gibbs,
Bright, aid Co., from Melbourne, with the mails and a
'arge amount of gold. She was to leave Melbourne on
the 20th of May, and she is now in her 80th day, but is
expected in the Mersey every tide.
AMERICA.- SOUTHAMPTON, FRIDAY.—The Europe al
a I American Conipaey'e steam ship gaeen of tee
South, Caotain Beal, arrived off Cowes this moraine,
from New \refit., with 200 pasengers wed a full cargo of
sugar, &c. The advices are anticipated. She left Cowes
for the Victoria Decks, London, to discharge her cargo.
From thence she will proceed to Bremen.
THE NEWFOUNDLAND STEAMERS —The steam ship
Khersonese which was to have left Liverpool to-day
for Newfoundland, has been chartered by Government
for the conveyance of troops to India. The mails in-
tended for the Khersoneee are consequently detained.
We understand that the owners of the vessel intend
placing the steam ship Crimean on the Newfoundland
line in place of the Khersonese, and it is expected that
she will take her departure some time next week.
NOTTINGHAM WEEKLY TRADE REPORT, August 6.
Very few buyers have visited the lace warehouses during
the past week. The present 'time is what is termed
" between seasons;" and the quietness characteristic of
the period eoetinues to prevail. A leaden dullness reigns
throughout the hosiery manufacture, surpassing, per-
haps, an thing of the kind for a long„ time past. Not-
withstand tea there is " nothin ! to do, the prices of raw
material maintain the it lofty range.
LAW OF LANDLORD AND TENANT.—In the South-
wark County Court yesterd i ay, nan action to recover
possession of a house in .Nelsen-place, Old Kent-road,
his Honour said, if a tenant entered in the piddle of a
quarter, and paid rent for a fractional period, from the
end of which quarter he paid half pearly, his tenancy
commenced from the quartet-day to which he had paid
up, and,'not from the gum ter-day prior to the time when
he entered.
DESTROYING CHURCH DOOR REGISTRIES. —Yesterday
morning, in consequence of the partial destruction of the
liets ew rtling persons to he placed on the registry, notices
have been issued to the police for the attendance of
cons.a.bles next Sunday and following ones to prevent a
repo ition of such disgraceful conduct. In ono instance
alone, that of St. John's, Waterloo-road, Lambeth,
nearly one-eighth of the list has been cut away. A
reward is offered f o- the detection of the onilty party.
THE PERTHSHIRE MOORS.—The Pertlislcire Constitu-
tional says : —The accounts relative to the grouse
Linen the Perthshire hills are somewhat conffcting.
Aceor,l;eg to several of our correspondents, from di,ease
and over shooting last year, god sport by the 12th is
\tot to he expected. Others report, however, that up-n
the moors in the western district of the county, the birds
are nurser ui strong on the wing, and no de td ones Are
Iseen. Taey state that upon the whole the shooting will
I to at least equal to the season of 1850.
THE CoNVICP BACON.—The Li fiCol2lBltlie Chronicle is

yesterday, James
requested te state that nothing official has as yet trail-
epired as to the carrsiog cut of the sentence passed on
Bac m at the late assizes, nor is it likely that any order
respecting him will he made until the meeting of the
jedges, when, as is usual when sentence of death is re-
cerded against any prisoner, his case will be duly cen-
Jpaeaumlasei,stywFbherieicnehmg
sidered by their lordships. We are informed that Bacon
is at present engaged in writing. to the Secretary of
State respectine the result of his trial.
PURCHASE OF CRIMEAN MEDALS,—At Woolwich
thean treble
pa r Ps theonnt ;II value
the Cstach and Horses Tavern, Win lwich, was fined 51
aitiesmstreaote, observed that he was de-
termineddf the Royal Marines. Mr.
aPnellte6s;e7o,u.r6t,dy.,
to inflict a heavy penalty for al such offence's.
ofTp
ur
ar scilhi
purchased
sehidel v esf
sitting
ern r
privates
In default of paying the fine the prisoner was committed
fi r three months.
MELANCHOLY SUICIDE —On Saturday last a sergeant
of the 11th Hussars committed suicide by cutting first
his throat, and af,erwarde the arteries of his arms, in
his room, at the barracks at Hounslow. It appears
that he bad lost some money, about 80/ , through the
defalcation of a person whom he had trusted in the
Crimea, and that the loss preyed upon his mind. He
had been upwards 20 years in the service, and was much
respected in the regiment. An.inquest was held on the
body by the coroner fs,tr the county, when a verdict of
"Temporary insanity ' was returned.
FRIGHTFUL ACClDENT.—Yesterday an inquest was
held on view of the body of Daniel Clarke, aged 5t5, a
drayman. The deceased was proceeding up the Cale-
s'onian-road, Holloway, and was sitting on the near shaft
of the dray, when an obstruction by several vehicles took
place in the road, by a coal wazgon, which was unload-
ing on the near side of the road. The dray in passing
came so close to it, that his leg and thigh was crushed.
The unfortunate man was conveyed to the University
C•illege Hospital, where he expired shortly afterwards.
Verdict, Accidental De.a,h. The deceased has left a
widow and family, and the firm have humanely subscribed
a sum for their becefit.
METROPOLITAN BOARD OF WORRS.—The ordinary
meeting of the Mstropolitan Board of Works was held
yestercley in the Council Chamber, Gui'dhall—Mr. J.
Tn waiter in the chair. The board sat with closed doors
till half-past three o'clock in investigating certain parti
culars in the return of fees made to this board by one of
the district surveyors of the metropolis, but which was
of no interest whatever. Several notices of motion
were given, among which was one by Colonel Kennedy,
to instruct Mr. Beza gette, the engineer, to furnish the
beard with an alternative plan, estimate, and report
upon that portion of the general report to which ho
refers under the head of the " Thames Embankment "
in his rep, rt of the 221 May, 1856 The rest of the
day was occupied in considering the reports of the su-
perintending architect and engineer, but they were all of
a routine character, and unworthy of a report, and the
board adjourn=ed soon after five o clock.
THE MORAL SENSE.—Truly, the moral sense as to
the nature of propetty, and the rights, may be, as it
has been found, wanting in the higher, or the middle, as
in the " lower classes.' Otte man will rob a hen-roost,
another will adulterate his goods, and train up his
children in the virtue of getting only rich, by any twang ;
a third makes away with securities entrusted to him, or
swindles under the cloak of a company ; a fourth steals
openly the property of your brain. Where is the dis-
tinction,—except that made by the obliquity of vision
which serves each of the appropriators when he chooses ?
Tnere can be no real nicety of difference between that
which is punishable as felony, and the appropriation of
intellectual property,—none in the conscience, except
where that by custom has teen blunted. If it must be
left to the causcieeee of an individual to settle in many
cases, where appropriation cannot rightly he made,—
the moral obligation to right is surely as etrong on him
as if all society were witnesses. The "vice and crime
amongst the poor" are punished
with a rekntless bard.
—Vac Builder.
REPRESENTATIVE GOVERNMENT IN VANCOUVER'S
ISLAND.—Ou the ere of a new Reform Bill some de-
spatches r meived by the C los:ill-office on the subject of
the establishment of a Representative Assembly in
Vancouvtr's Island will be read with interest-. Mr.
Labouchere in February, 1856, ordered that such an
assembly should be convoked without loss of time, and
inJune following the Council of the Island, preshied over
by the Governor, unanimously agreed that the owner-
ship of 3001. of freehold property or immovable estate
should constitute the qualification of a member of the
Assembly, that absentee proprietors should be permitted
to vote by proxy, and that the qualification of voters
should be the ownership of 20 acres of freehold land, or
upwards. The settlements were to be divided into
four electoral districts. The House of Assembly was
opened on the 12th of August last, and the affair passed
off very quietly. A Mr. Helinaker was el.cted
" Speaker," and several " election petitions" were forth-
with present-d, one or two of them, as in England, being
evidently of a very "frivolous and vexatious" character,
merely got up for party purposes. The House of As.
sembly consists of seven members only, and of these three
wire petitiened against, leavieg the Speaker and three
members at liberty to act. Oue of the members pet...
tioned against was unseated by a committee for want of
a legal qualification. A report is given of the business
(principally financial) hitherto transacted by the As-
t embly,