The Sun.
London, England, 1857-03-23 00:00:00

THE NEW WRITE.

On Saturday afternoon, at three o'clock, the writ for
the election of four " discreet men" to serve in Parlia-
ment for the City of London during the ensuing session,
was received by Mr. Secondary Potter, at Guildhall.
This day at noon, Mr. Sheriff Mechi, Mr. Sheriff Keat4,
&c., attended at the Guildhall and Royal Exchange and
proclaimed the fact. The nomination will take place on
Friday morning next, and the polling on the ensuing
day. The declaration will be made on the Monday fol
lowing.

The nomination for Westminster w ill take place on
Thursday, the polling on Friday, and the declaration on
Saturday. In most of the other metropolitan boroughs
the nominations will take place on Friday, and the poll-
ing, where there is opposition, on Saturday.
The whole of the writs for the towns and counties of
the United Kingdom were sent through the Post-office
by the several mails on Saturday evening, so that the
elections will necessarily take place almost s multane-

LIVERPOOL EL gCTION.

(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPB.)
LIVERPOOL, MONDAY MORNING.

The writ for Liverpool, by some carelessness on the
part of the Government officials, has been sent to the
office of the County Palatine at Preston, and some doubt
is entertained whether it will find its proper destination
by four o'clock to-day, in which case the election will be
thrown over until next week. If it arrives at Liverpool
to•day, the nomination will take place on Friday.

The Queen held a Privy Council and Pitirt on Sttur•
day afternoon, at 'Buckingham Palace.
The Council was attended by Ilia, Royal Highness
Prince Albert, Earl Granville (Lord President), Lord
Cranworth (Lord Chancellor), the Marquis of Lans-
downe, the Earl' of Harrowby (Lord Privy Sew),
Viscount Palmerston (First Lerd of the Treasury), Sir
George Grey (Secretary of State for the Home Depart.
ment), Earl of Clarendon (Secretary of State for Foreign
Affairs), Lord Panmure (Secretary of State for War),
Sir G. CJrnewall Lewis (Chancellor of the Exohequet),
Sir Charles Wood (First Lord of the Admiralty), the
Right Hon. R. Vernon Smith (President of the Board
of Control), Lord Stanley of Alderley (President of the
Board of Trade), the Right Hon. M. T. Baines (Chan-
cellor of the Duchy of Lancaster), the Marquis of
Breadalbane (Lord Chamberlain), the Dike of Welling
ton (Master of the Horse), and the Marquis of Aber-
corn (Groom of the Stole to Prince Albert).
At the Council a proclamation was issued dissolving
the present Parliament, and summoning a new Pailia•
ment, the writs to be returnable on Thursday, the 30th
April next.
. The Right Hon. James, Earl of Elgin, by command
of the Queen, was sworn of her Majesty's Most Honour-
able Privy Council.
The Hon. William Bathurst was the Clerk of the
Council in Waiting.
At the Court, Sir John Crampton was presented to
the Queen at an audience by the Eat]. cf Clarendon,
Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, and kissed hands
on being appointed her Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary
and Minister Plenipotentiary to the King of Hanover.
Earl Granville, the Earl of Clarendon, Viscount Pal-
merston, and Lord Panueure, had audiences of her
Majesty on Saturday.
The Court was attended by Lord Ernest Bruce (Vice
Chambeil tin), Viscount Castlerosse (ComptrAler of Oat
Household), Lord Byron (Lord in Waiting), and Major-
' General Berkeley Drummond (Groom in Waiting).
The Prince of Wales, attended by Major-General
Wylde and Mr. Gibbs, visited the Royal Institution,
Albemarle•street, on Friday evening, to attend a lecture.
on the Submarine Telegraph, by Mr. J. W. Brett.
The Duke and Duchess de Nemours visited the Du-
chess of Kent, on Saturday, at Clarence House, St.
James's. The Princess of Hohenlohe-Langenburg visited
her Royal Highness yesterday.
His Excellency the Belgian Minister and Madame
Van de Weyer received at dinner, on Saturday evening,
at their mansion in Portland-place, bis Excellency the
Sardinian Minister, the Duke and Duchess of Bedford,
the Marquis of Lansdowne, the Earl and Countess Stan-
hope, the Countess de Flahault and Miss Elphinstone de
Flahault, Frances Countess Waldegrave, and Mr. Har

court, M.P., Count Van de Burob, the Right Hon. Sir

C. Wood, M.P., and Lady Mary Wood, Sir Anthony
and Lady de Rothschild, Col. Franeia Seymour Seymour,
and Mr. Bates.

The Earl de Grey, who has been much indisposed al

Wrest Park, for some time past, is improving in health.
The Countess Dowager of Ellesmere and Lady Blanche
Egerton are at present sojourning at Hatchford Park,
near Cobham, Surrey. The Earl and Countess of Eiles
mere are at Bridgewater House.
Lady Molssworth entertained at dinner, on Saturday
evening, the Lord Chancellor and Lady Cran worth, the
Earl and Countess of Perth, Laura Countess of Antrim,
Viscount and Viscountess Falkland, Viscount and Vis-
countess Duncan, Baron and Baroness Meyer de Roths-
child, Mr. and the Hon. Mrs. G. Harcourt Vernon,
Lady Johnstone, Mr. Osborne, M.P,, and Mr. Phinn.
Sir Charles Wood, M.P., and Laly Mary Wood leave
town to-day for Halifax.
Lady .Peel is expected in town to-day from the seat of
Captain William Peel, iu Bedfordshire.
DEATH OF SIR GEORGE ANDERSON, K.C.B.—Sir G.
W. ALderson governor of the Mauritius in 1849, and
1850, and dovernor of Ceylon in the latter year, wbo
died on Tuesday in Westbourne-terrace, was born in Lon-
don in 1791, his father being a London merchant. He
was educated at Haileybury College, and entered the
civil service of the East India Company on the Bombay
establishment in 1806. He filled the posts of assistant
to the Accountant-General (1809), registrar of the Court
of Adawlut, assistant judge (1815), and criminal judge
(1821) of Surat, judge at Poonah and Sholapore (1825),
judge of the Sudder Dewany, and commissioner of jus-
tice in the Deccan (1827), for his services in which offices
he repeatedly received the thanks of the local and home
Governments. He was appointed collector and political
agent in South Mahratta country in 1831, senior judge
.eSudder Dewany in 1833, Indian law commissioner
in 1835, member of Council and chief judge of the Sudder
Adawlut in the same year, and, finally, served as gover-
nor of Bombay from April, 1841, to June, 1842, and his
high merits led to his two nominations to a colonial
governorship. He married first, in 1813, the daughter
of Mr. J. P. Kensington ; and, secondly, in 1833, the
dmighter of Mr. Wight. 1'

Ode of the most murderous attacks which have
occurred in tlis ueighbourhcol for some time, and
which, it is to be feared, will be at r:,iided with fatal
result-i, was perpetrated on Friday night, under
the fdlowing c'reuinstances :—About half-past 11
o'clock, as police-con s. able Reber t War ker (a newly-
appointed officer under Colonel Cobbe), stationed
at Wombwell, was going his round at Smithley,
about a mile from the Landhill Colliery, he heard
some men in a field in which were a utun'ler of
sheep belonging to Mr. Brelforth, farmer, of Al-
dam-house. Having no doubt as to the intentions
of the men, he got behind a hedge in an adjoining
field, where he coald partly tee what was going on.
He had only been there a short time when he saw
three men drive the flock of sheep into the corner
of the field clese to where ho was concealed, a short
hedge only dividing them. Having caught two
of the sheep, one of the party asked, " Where
shall we stick them ?" Another replied, " Let
us take them down to the low end of the
field," which they proceeded to do. The constable
having heard the answer made at once prepared to
attack the men and endeavour to capture some of
them. For this purpose he took off his coat-bolt
and lantern, and followed them at the other side of
the hedge. On arriving at the bottom of the field
he could only see two men, who had the sheep on
the ground, and who was stooping over them. He
struck one of them a blow with a heavy walking-
stick, and the other ho succeeded in handcuffing.
Another man, who was no doubt of the three he
first saw, came up and gave a whistle. The signal
was responded to, and five more men rushed to the
spot, when a desperate struggle ensued, the men be-
ing armed with life-preservers and butchers' knives.
Walker's stick having broken, he seized a life-pre-
server from one of the villain, which he used with
good effect. For a shoat tme the constable with-
stood the attack, during which the parties in the
scuffle rolled over the low hedge into an ad-
joining field. The knives and life-preservers
were then used most unmercifully, till Walker
was completely overpowered and rendered in-
senslle. The men, including the one with the
handcuffs on, then made oft'. On the policeman
recovering he, with great difficulty, .managed to
crawl to the farm of Mr. Walton, about 80 yards dis-
tant. He was immediately conveyed to his residence
at Wombwell, and medical aid called in, when it
was found that two of his fingers were 'entirely cut
off, and a third was hanging by the skin, which was
afterwards amputated. The two fingers were found
in the field where the attack occurred, having been
severed by a knife. He was bruised and cut nearly
• all over his body, having seven severe woun Is on
the head, all inflicted with knives, his face cut in a
shocking manner, and one of his shoulders dislo-
cated. Ho now lies in a very precarious state, very
little hope of his recovery being entertained. On
visiting the scene of the affray, a heavy life-pre-
server and a hat were found in the part of the field
where the struggle took place, the ground being
covered with blood and trodden down, showing
that the affray must have been of a most deadly
character. Mr. Superintendent Green, of Barns-
ley, was quickly on the spot, and took immediate
steps for pursuing the villains, who, there is every
reason to suspect, belong to an extensive gang
who have long infested Barnsley and the
ne ighbourbood. From what can be gleaned
from the constable in his dangerous state, it appears
that there is little doubt that some of the men will
be easily recognisable from the injuries inflicted
open them. Messrs. Alderson, Burman, and Wain-
wright, surgeons, have been in constant attendance
upon the unfortunate man. Great fears are enter-
tained that lockjaw will supervene.

THE SPEAKER'S FAREWELL DINNER.—The Right Hon.
the Speaker gave his farewell dinner to the principal offi-
lers of the House of Commons on Saturday evening, the
21st inst., at 89, Eaton-square. The following had the
nonour of receiving invitations :—Sir Denis Le Mar-
chant, Lord C. Russell, Rev. T. Gamier, the Hon. Geo.
\Valdegrave, Mr. Erskine May, Mr. Henry Ley, Capt.
Gossett, Mr. Vardon, Mr. Rickards, Mr. Lefroy, Mr.
Samuel Smith, Mr. Frere, Mr. Arthur Jones, Mr.
Gudge, Mr. Dyson, Mr. Gibbons, Colonel Forester, Mr.
Rowland, Mr. Gunnell, Mr. Postlethwaite, Mr. Rose,
Nir. Pole, and Mr. Gray.
Captain the Hon. Francis Egerton has left town to
join his ship in the Mediterranean.
The Pays says that Lord Elgin will come to Paris
lefore his departure for China. The fact probably is
that he will pass through Paris on his way out, and will
gave an audience of the Emperor.
It is untrue that the Porte has addressed a circular
lespatch to foreign Governments in answer to the Mord-
teur's note on the union of the Danubian Principalities.
A few days ago his Grace the Duke of Newcastle sent
to all his Labourers and cottagers on his estate six pounds
A beef, one bottle of old ale (twenty-three years old),
and one quart of real Clumber ale.
The A igsburg Gazette learns from Turin that the
Roman Catholc Bisbors in Savoy were already beginning
to take advantage of the misunderstanding between
Austria and Sardinia.
The Lloyd steamer Austria has brought the following
news of the 13te of March from CoPstantinople. In
o meequence of a quarrel with Lord Redcliffe, M. Pisani,
the First Dragoman of the British Embassy, has ten-
dered his resignation.
Sir Joseph Bliley, Bart., of Glainusk Park, Brock-
nook, has presented the sum of 3,000/. to the Wsfington
College, and 5001. to the Cambridge Asylum. He has
also become a patron of the Cavalry College at Rlch-
,nond, and taken nominations to the extent of 4501.
HOUSE OF LORDS.—Their lordships. sat on S ,turclay
at twelve o'clock, for privileges. Mr. Walferd appeared
at the bar and tendered evidence. The claim of the
present Earl of Bandon to vote at the election of repre-
sentative peers for Ireland was allowed. A ;similar claim
on the part of Viscount Hawarden was also allowed.
ETON COLLEGE.—The vacant fellowship occasioned
by the death of the Rev. G. Bethel!, the vice-provost,
on the 10th inst., it is expected will be filled up by the
Rev. W. Laurence Elliott, M.A., the much.respected
senior assistant master in the lower school.
Sonie subterranean grottoes have just been discovered
at Darcey (Cote d'o+), at a short distance from the Lyons
railway. They are about 300 metres long an 120 metres
high, and terminate at a lake of a certain extent. They
contain some fine stalactites and crystaliisations.
VIENNA, March 20.—During the last three weeks seve-
ral letters, in which mention was made of M. Bianchi,
of Mantua, have been received here, but the state-
ments of the writers were so contradictory that it
was impossible to make any use of them. Yester-
day, however, some information was obtained which is
probably correct, although it came from a military source.
Bianchi has recovered from the wounds inflicted on
him by the officers, and the latter have been acquitted.
CRYSTAL PALACE.—The oratorios to be performed at
the forthcoming Handel Festival have now been posi-
tively determined on. They aro as follows :—" Messiah,"
on Monday, June 15 ; " Judas Maccaleees;" June 17 ;
and " Israel in Egypt," June 19. Mr. Costa has con-
seated to conduct the performances, and the whole musi-
cal arrangements are entirely under his control. The
prices of reserved seats or stalls have been fixed at one
guinea for each oratorio, or two guineas and a-half fcr
one stall for the series of three.
ADVERTISING FOR CANDIDATES.—The following cu-
rious advertisement appears in the Berwick Advertiser of
Saturday :—" Wanted, a candidate for the representa-
tion of the county of Berwick in the Howe of Com-

mons of Parliament, the present hon. member not having,
As yet, signified his intention of again coming forward.
Parties of moderately Liberal princip!es, and having the
other requisite qualifications, are entreated to make im-
mediate application."

THE UNITED STATES AND NORTH AMERICAN MAILS,

I —Liverpool, March 21.—The royal mail steam ship Asia
for New York, took her departure to-day with a large
cargo of dry goods and 63 passengers ; and the 'team-
sbip Dane sailed for Pernambuco and Bahia, being the
first of Messrs. Laird and Co.'s new line from this port.
She takes out a mail, a fair cargo, hut no passengers.
The Canadian mail screw-steamer Canadian sails on
Wednesday lor Portl nd, United States.
ARCHITECTURAL DESIGNS FOR THE NEW GOVERNMENT
OriricEs to 12 o'clock on Saturday night, West-
minster Hall might have been seen besieged by porters,'
carrying huge packing cases. These contained archi-
tects aesigns for the new Governulint offices, submitted
in competition in answer to Sir 13. Hall's invitation, ad-
dressed to architects of all nations. The Government
has already received something under 200 designs, and
more are on their way from abroad, se that there will
be no reason to reproach the profession for backward-
ness in entering the lists. The prize sought for by each
competitor is the commission to carry out his plans.
DIABOLICAL ATTEMPT TO DESTROY A RAILWAY TRAIN.
--On Saturday last Bonne fiend in human form m:de a
deliberate and diabolical attempt to overturn a railway
train on the Llinelly and LliEdilo railway. The villain,
knowing the time for the approach of one of the down
trains, managed, unobserved, to alter the switches,
whereby the train, had the alteration escaped notice,
would have been run off the line, and in all probability
overturned and smashed. Fortunately, the engine•driver,
Wm. Flury, to whose carefulne,s and discretion the ut-
most praise should be awarded, was keeping an anxious
look-out ahead, and observing that the switch was not
right he shut off his steam and puton his drags and breaks.
In consequence of these precautions the speed was
greatly slackened, and the impetus of the train broken
before it reached the switches, so that beyond running
off the line no injury was done. It is to be hoped that
the perpetrator of the diabolical act will be brought to
justice.

THE MIDLAND GREAT WESTERN OF IRELAND.—The
report states that during the past half-year there has
been an increase of 15,7011, in the receipts. The total
income for the half-year, derivable from all sources, has
amounted to 92,1821. 13s. 9d. ; while the total disburse-
ments have been 49,7521. 11s. 9d. ; leaving a balance
of 42,4301. 38., to which is to be added surplus from
II last half-year 3,9691.35. 10d. ; making 46,399/. ss. 10d. ;
from which the directors propose to take a sum of
6,0981. 2s. Bd., thereby increasing the reserved fund to
30,0001. ; and to add 8,7081. is. 6d. in aid of the de-
preciationfund (being 5 per cent, on the cost of the roll-
ing stock at the end of last year), making this fund
19,5701. 18s. 6d. ; leaving disposable a sum of 31,5931.
ls. Bi. From this amount the directors propose that a
dividend at the rate of 5 per cent. per annum, free of
income tam., amounting to 28,915/., shall be paid on the
capital of the company ; and the balance, 2,6784 ls, Bd,, !
be carried to the next half-year's accounts

The reports of a contemplated treaty of com-
merce and navigation between Russia and France
gain rapidly in consistency ; it is now confidently
affirmed that the draft of the treaty is already
entirely elaborated, and that it 3 final execution
and publication is only delayed until the very
thorough revision of the Russian tariff, which is
now being most assiduously laboured at, is com-
pleted.