The Sun.
London, England, 1857-07-13 00:00:00

INIOND V EVENING.

a Liberal committee had to choose between two
Liberals—Mr. WOOD the sitting member, and

the late member Mr. OLIVEIRA, who had paid
the small consideration of 6,250/. for the seat
in 1.852, and who therefore fairly presumed that
Pontefract could net have been carried against
him in 1857 without a very liberal expenditure.
lie was. promised, too, it seems, that " next time"
he should' be returned cheap—it would appear,
however, that his well-paid friends deserted him,
and that Mr. Noon's carpet factory had more
influence on the present election than 6,000/. paid
five years' ago. Of course, that was all gone and
spent. The amusing part of the story was the
coolness with which Mr. OLIVEIRA, and M►s.
OLIVEIRA, who was chief actor, gave evidence of
their own gross bribery at the former election.
Nothing material was proved against Mr. WOOD,
but it was certainly proved on the Et ron gest of
all evidence, that Mr. and Mrs. OLIVEIRA. would
stick at nothing.
It is obvious that in this Parliament the fashion
is to keep the sitting Member in his seat. Bribery
and intimidation are conspicuous enough ; they
must, of course, have abounded in constituencies,
where there is no petition ; and landlord influence
must have been the silent and irresistible law of the
counties. The remedy is apparent enough ; but
he new House has no wish for it,

Her Majesty and the Prince Consort leave Own on.
Thursday for Aldershot, where they intend to remain—
sleeping at the Royal Pavilion—until Saturday, when
her Majesty will go to Osborne.-
Her Majesty the Queen (Mother) of Hol'and till
arrive in London to-morrow with several members of
her family. We understand her Majesty's sojourn in
this country will be limited to five days. During her
sojourn here the Queen will stay at Claridges's (Mivart's)
Hotel.

Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, attended
by Lady Anna Maria Dawson, Lady Augusta Bruce,
and Colona Stephens, honoured the performance at her
Majesty's Theatre with her presence on Saturday
evening.

Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Orleans, accom.
panied by the Count de Paris, honoured the establish
went of Mr, F. West, in St. James's-street, with a visit
on Saturday.

The Earl and Conntess of Scarborough have lift
Claridge's Hotel for
.Southampton, on a yachting ex.
cursion.

The Hon. Rev. Archer Clive and Mrs. Clive have
arrived at the Brunswick Hotel, Jerinyn-street, from
the Continent. The Rev. Sir H. Thompson has arrived
at the same establishment, from Tunbridge Welly.
ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA (LYOEUM).—The Queen and
the Prince Consort honoured the performance of the
opera of "Fra Diavolo " at this theatre with their pre-
sence on Saturday evening. Her Majesty and his Royal
Highness were 'accompanied by his Majesty the King of
tie Belgians and the Princess Charlotte of Belgium, his
Royal Highness Prince Frederick William of Prussia,
and the Princess Royal, and his Royal Highness the
Count of Flanders.

HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.—Donizetti's pretty little

pastoral opera, entitled " d'Arnore," was per
formed at the above theatre On Satnalay evening, with
Madile. Piccolomini for the first time in the character
of Adina. We need scarcely say that the heroine of so
many dramatic triumphs succeeded in doing ample jus-
tice to a part which, compared with those she has
already performed with the most brilliant success, is
small and easy.
6T. JAMES'S THEATRE.--,-The season of the Boufies
Parisiennes terminates tomorrow evening on which oc-
casion four o f the most attractive pieces are to be per-
foeremn esdo brief,
.t
sh emucht itwas impossible
tbe regretted
othat
procurethe
season has
barn
a Unger conye, Their next season we trust will be one
of longer duration, for, thanks t the talent and enter-
prise of Mr. Mitchell, "the French Plays" have become
an actual necessity to "-the London season."
Mr. Locke, M.P. for Southwark, has resigned the
office of Common Pleader. for the city of London.
The European and American Csmpany's steamer
Indiana, now on her way to England from New York,
has 1,000 tons of sugar on board.
MR. J. B. GOUGH.—Mr. Gougb, the teetotal orator,
will leave America on the 15th of this mouth, by the
Niagara, for England.
The two French architects, Crepinet and Hazeville,
who carried away prize'., in the " plans for public
offices," are both very young men, and are at present
einoloyed as inspectors of. he buildings in the Louvre,:
ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL, G RAY'S- IN'N-ROAD —The
number of patients relieved at this hospital during the
week ending July 11, 1857, was 2,935, of which 805
were new cases.
GENERAL ANSON.--The colonelcy of the 55th Regi-
ment of Foot, to which the late General Anson suc-
ceeded on the death of Lieut.-General the Hon. Henry
E. Butler only in December last, becomes vacant
by
his demise.
The unfavourable season of the Paris theatres has
commenced, and tells its own tale in the following
figures :—ln May the receipts amounted to 45,249/ , and
is the last month to only 34,3411. Tile falling off is con
sequentiy 10,9081.
EXPENSES OF THE CHINESE Ware—The sum re-
paired to he voted by Parliament this session towards
defraying the expense of the naval and military
opera-
tions
in China beyond the ordinary grants for navy and
army is estimated at 500,000/.
SUICIDE FROM BLACKFRIARS BRlDGE.—Yesterday
morning, a man of respectable appear la co precipitated
hiiwelf int r the river from this bridge, On the tide re-
ceding the body was found, and taken to Christ Church
dead-house. It is that of a man about 60, clad in black
cloth( s.
LOSS OF LIFE BY FIRE.—On Saturday morning a
fine little boy, named George Burrell, aged four years,
residing at Liuleheuse, while standing on the fender
ignited his pinafore., and before assistance reached him
he was most shockingly burned over the face, arms, and
body. He shortly after wards expire 1.
lb has been arranged that instead of the punishment
of seven years' traesportation, as originally proposed in
the Fraudulent Trustees Bill now before Parliament, the
term of three years shall bs adopted, and that this may
be modified to fine or imprisonment for not more than
two years, with or without hard labour.
IRISH WASTE LAND IMPROVEMENT COMPANY. —The
Mister of the Rolls in Ireland has refused to make an
order to wind up this c mmany'e affairs on the ground
that the petition flr that purpose was presented by a
person under no ohlgation to pay his aeat,,, and also on
the ground that the Orly substantial debt was one in
which ;here was only an interlocutory judgment.
A meeting of the members of the Army and Navy
Club has been ceded for the 27th instant, to take into
consideration a communication from his Royal Highness
the Duke of Cambridge, the patron of the institu ion,
It appears, says the United Service Gazette, that his Royal
Highness has oecorte aware that gambling has been for
so ne time carried on the Club to a fearful extent.
THE COMING HARVEST.—It is stated that in the more
forward districts in the south of Eneland wheat cutting
is Expected to ceintnence about mil Monday week,
should the weather continue propitious. It is noticed as
a favourable sign that little has been heard of the potato
blight, which was recently reported to have wade its ap-
pearance in the south of Ireland.
The bill promoted by the directors of the Great
Northern Railway to throw the cost of Retipath's frauds
on the preference shareholders, passed the committee of
the House of Lords on Friday afternoon, to the astonish-
ment of its oppcments. It will, therefore, be forthwith
brought up for its third reading.
RETIRED OFFICERS IN THE HOUSE OF COMHONS.—
, There are 14 persons in receipt of retired al owarces
and coaspowa'ions for loss of office, formerly connected
with the House of Commons, viz.—A clerk a sistant
the table, 1,9581. ; a IA cipal of the Publi Bill sffice
and clerk of tee fees, 1,900/. ; three conaroittce clerks,
one, 1,1001.; another 338/., and a third 1001 ; a clerk of
elections, 800/.; chief clerk of the Engrossing-office (an
abolished office), 609/. ; a principal doorkeeper, 5001.; a
deputy-housekeeper, 360/. ; a vete office clerk, 300/. ; a
mr s.:enger, 332/. • and some others of smaller amounts.
The total sum paid for retired allowances arid compen-
sstions to officers of the House of Coremonslis 8,524/.—
Civil Service Gazette.
DESTRUCTIVE FIRES.— On Satur lay morning a fire
broke out on the premises of Mr. Hsle, pic'ure-frame
maker, Naylor'e-court, Eftgh-streete Whitechapel,
whereby two persons were injured, and property to
a considerable extent was destroy,ed. Another fire
occurred on Saturday morning at the cheep of Mr.
Sanger, a German fancy stationer and jeweller, of 198,
Whitechapel-road. A young man, named Smith, tai
save biteself from being eutrocated, leaped out of one i f
the upper windewe, by which he sustained such serious
it+irit=s that ho was removed to the hospital.
IN Elf BR AN C E OF THE LATE AIR, DOUGLAS
i';r•RoLD--The amateur performance by Mr. Charles
Dickens and his friends, and Wilkie Collins's "Fr, zee
D. in aid of the fund now being raised "in re-
membrance of Douglas Jerrold," took place at the
Gallery of Illustration on Saturday evening. Not-
withstanding the utmost economy of space was ob-
served by the committee in placing the audience, and
not a single place was unappropriated, so numerous bad
been the applications for tickets that a secand perform-
ance for Saturday next had been resolved upon
for tho gratification of the runny who must other-
wise have been disappointed ; but the second perform-
ance was no sooner announced than all the places fur
that also were taken up, and applications continued to
come in ; so another repetition, the final one, for Satur-
day, the 25th inst., is to take place. The second per-
formance gave the utmost delight, and the audienc', al-
though many of them were suffering from inevitable die-
corufurt from the crowded state of the room, listened
with breathless attention. Mr. Buckstone's capitril farce
of " Uncle John" foilowed, and the inimitable acting of
Mr. Charles Dickens and Air. Mark Lemon, who sus-
, tamed the perts of Uncle John and Friend Thomas, kept
the audience in a genial state of merriment to the close.