The Sun.
London, England, 1857-04-04 00:00:00

NOMINATION.

LANARKSIIIRE.—Mr. Baillie Cochrane and Sir E.
Colebrook were yesterday nominated. A poll was de-
manded.

It is stated that Mr. Horsley Palmer is about to re-
sign his post as director of the Bank of England, which
he has occupied for 46 years. No one connected with
that Court or with British commerce has ever occupied
a more honourable position in the estimation of the
public.
THE KIDDERMINSTER ELECTION RlOTS.—Yesterday
morning Mayes and Cook, and several other persons,
were placed before the magistrates for examination. A
remand was granted, in order that a more serious charge
might be brought against them. It is expected that the
ringleaders of the attack on Mr. Lowe will be shortly in
custody.

DEATH OF THE REV. DR. ALERANDER FROU POISON-
ING.—PARSONETOWN, Thursday Evening.—lt has just
been officially reported to the authorities here that the
Rev. James Alexander, LL. D., expired about 12 o'clock,
at his residence, Killygulley, near Ferbane, from the
consequences of his having partaken of arsenic in arrow-
root, which was ordered for him when convalescent from
a recent slight indisposition.—Saunders's News Letter.
ANOTHEF. MILITARY JOB.—Col. Mundy—who never
commanded a regiment, and whose service has been al-
most entirely on the staff—was removed the other day
on a pension of 1,0001. a year, for his services at the
War-office, and is now promoted over the heads of nearly
200 colonels to Major General, with the command of
Jersey. For the General's claims and merits in the
service, read—Nephew to the Duke of Newcastle. Can
this last I—Letter in Morning A dvertiser.
A FREAK OF FORTUNE.—The Greenock Telegraph
states that the distant relatives of a Calcutta merchant,
recently deceased, who was a native of Rothesay, have
just come to the knowledge that their ancestor, of whom
they scarcely ever heard, had left the enormous fortune
of 1,500,000/. sterling, bequeathed to those of his rela-
tions who can be discovered. Those already known
number about 30, and several of them are now resident
in Greenock, Dumbarton, and Glasgow.
HORRIBLE CASE OF MURDER AND MUTILATION OF THE
BODY.—Last night (Friday) information was received at
the chief office of the metropolitan police that the greatest
possible excitement prevails throughout the town of
Guisborougb, Yorkshire, in consequence of its having
been discovered that a child, apparently not more than
three years of age, had been brutally murdered, and the
body dreadfully mutilated.
PICKING UP OF AN ABANDONED VESSEL.—A tele-
graphic despatch from Queenstown reports the arrival
at that poet, yesterday morning; of the screw steamship
Dom Pedro, which has been cruising about in search
of the abandoned ship Arthur, timber-laden, for this
port, and which has been repeatedly passed since the
crew left her. The Dem Pedro was successful in her
object, and towed the Arthur in safety to port. As
her cargo is valuable, the salvors are likely to be
handsomely rewarded.
ROWLAND HILL'S LAST CAUTION.—Notice has been
given that the following rule is applicable to every per-
son in the service of the Poet-office :—Every officer who
applies for an increase of sslary, or an increase of the
force at his command, or who has any other communica-
tion to make which may appear to him to be called for
by the good of the service or in justice to himself, must
address himself in writing to his immediate official supe-
rior, and if he should afterwards have good ground for
believing that his communication has not been duly con-
sidered, he may write to the Postmaster-General en the
subject, enclosing his letter in one to his immediate su•
perior, with a request that it may be forwarded ; but he
is strictly forbidden to make any application except
through the channel prescribed, and should an irregular
application on behalf of any officer be received, and such
officer cannot show to the satisfaction of the Postmaster-
General that the application did not emanate either di-
rectly or indirectly from himself, he will be held respon-
sible for having infringed this rule.—Cirii Service Gazette.