The Sun.
London, England, 1861-02-13 00:00:00

CALEDONIAN.

It is stated that the directors of this company
intend to declare a dividend for the past half-year
on the ordinary stock of this company, at the rate
of 51 per cent. per annum, carrying over a balance
of £lO,OOO.

Letters from Barcelona to-day mention the failure
of the mercantile house of M. Rosendo Noviega, in the
Havannah trade, with liabilities for £140,000, and very
unfavourable prospects of liquidation. Another house had
also stopped—Messrs. Lopez and Lemonier—but with small
engagements.

" The negotiations for the Franco-Belgian treaty
of commerce," says the Independance, " have reached the
article of wines. The French Government, it appears,
wishes to obtain a reduction of the excise duty, which has
recently replaced the dues in towns. The Belgian Govern-
ment, howeVer declares that it cannot dispense with the
produce of that tax for some time to come. There can be
no doubt that this obstacle will soon be removed.

A letter from Virton of the 9th, in the Mode of
Brussels, says :—" Jud—the notorious Jud—was arrested
this morning at seven o'clock by two gendarmes, named
Mathieu and Alexis. The Procureur du Roi was sent for
from Arlon to prove the idontity of the personage before
making the arrest known to the superior authorities."—
[This arrest will probably prove a mistake, like so many
instances of the same kind with respect to Jud.]
RETIREMENT OP PROFESSOR WILSON FROM
OxronD.—The President and Fellows of Corpus Christi
College, Oxford, have presented the valuable rectory of
Great Hollend, Essex (worth nearly £1,200 a year) to the
Rev. John Matthias Wilson, third fellow of the society, a
member of the Hebdomadal Council, and Professsor of
Moral Philosophy in the University. Mr. Wilson graduated
in Easter term, 1836, as second classman in the classical
school of honours, and was for many years tutor and vice-
principal of Corpus. He was public examiner in the classical
school in 1844, 1845, and 1846, in Mi&aaelmas term, 1850,
and from Easter term, 1853, to Easter :erm, 1854. He was
elected Professor of Moral Philosophy for the term of four
years (according to the statute) ; in 1846 and in 1851 was
re-elected for a like term. The office was vacant for two
years (between 1856 and 1858) in consequence of two can-
didates having an equal number of votes, and in 1858 Mr.
Wilson was elected professor for life under the new statute.

The Bank of Belgium has reduced its rate of
discount from 5 to 4 per cent.

THE BANK.—In the report just laid before Par-
liament on the relations between the Government and the
Bank of England, it is stated that the bank-note paper costs
above £ll,OOO a-year. Upwards of ten millions of notes
were paid in the year 1859, which would be an average of
above 32,000 a-day ; the increase between 1841 and 1859
was 88 per cent. In another department of the Bank—the
management of the public debt—it is very satisfactory to
find that owing to improved measures adopted for prevent-
ing and detecting fraud, the annual loss under this head
during the last 10 years has been under X 2,000. An average
carried many years back would show a much greater loss;
the net loss in the single year which included Fauntlero),'s
frauds, was 214,000. With regard to still another depart-
ment—the management of the public accounts—in which
the Bank discharges simply the functions of banker of the
Government, it is remarked that the item of " public de-
posits," the weekly balances whereof averaged £6,646,000 in
1860, does not include several accounts of magnitude which
might be supposed to be covered by it since they substan-
tially consist of public moneys, though treated as private
deposits in the Bank return—moneys held in trust by public
functionaries under regulations laid down by Parliament,
such as the Chancery and Bankruptcy accounts. The rent
or annual value of the Bank is estimated by the Blnk archi-
tect at £60,000 a-year, and £lO,OOO more for the branches ;
In 1832 the valuation was £35,000 a-year, with £5,000 a-
year for the use cf fixtures.
MORE LIFEBOAT SERVICES.—During the heav3
gale which visited the coast on Saturday the brig Roman
Empress, from Sunderland to Naples, was driven on shore
on Marsk Sand. No sooner was her perilous position seen
than the Redcar lifeboat, belonging to the National Life-
boat Institution, was immediately manned and launched.
After reaching the wreck the lifeboat took off the crew of 10
men, and afterwards brought them safely ashore. During
the height of the fearful storm which visited the east coast
of Ireland on Friday the brig Now Draper, of Whitehaven,
drove on shorn near Wicklow. The lifeboat of the National
Lifeboat Institution immediately put off to the rescue of
her crew, and, after some difficulty. succeeded in bringing
the whole of the poor follows, eight in number, safely
ashore.

A GIRL SCALDED TO DEATH.—A shocking acci-
dent occurred yesterday morning at the residence of Mr.
Appleby, Upper Smith-street, Clerkenwell. Miss Mary
Ann Appleby, aged 12 years, was passing the fireplace,
when her foot slipped. In falling she caught hold of a
kettle of boiling water standing on the fire and upset the
contents, which went completely over her. She was so
frightfully scalded that, though taken to St. Bartholomew's
Hospital and treated with every care, she died shortly after
her admission.

FATAL RAILWAY ACCIDENT.—Last Saturday
night, when the last train for London reached Bishopstoke,
on the South-Western line, from Dorchester, a man's cap
was found on the engine. The next morning the man to
whom the cap belonged was found about three miles below
Bishopstoke, lying dead by the side of the rail, with his
skull fractured, his left arm and ribs broken, and one foot
cut off. The poor fellow was a pauper named Johnson.
He must have been struck while crossing the rail, and his
cap shaken off his head by the blow, and thrown upon the
engine. It is curious that neither the engine-driver nor
stoker noticed that any accident had happened.
THE EXTRAORDINARY ATTEMPT TO MURDER IN
DUBLIN.—The case of Joseph Dwyer, who stood charged
with the extraordinary attempt to murder a porter, for the
sake of stealing the goods which he carried, by inveigling
him into a stable and shooting at him with a pistol over a
yawning grave, again came before the Court of Oyer and
Terminer in Dublin on Saturday. The prisoner pleaded
guilty, and affidavits were put in with a view to show that
he was at the time of the atrocious act, and had been for
some time past, labouring under insanity. On Monday the
prisoner was again brought up, and Mr. Justice Christian,
after dwelling at some length on the extraordinary nature
and atrocity of the crime with which the prisoner was
charged, sentenced him to 20 years' penal servitude. The
prisoner was quite unmoved during the delivery of the sen-
tence, and walked firmly out of the dock.

SAD ACCIDENT TO A LADY.—About half-past
three o'clock of the afternoon of yesterday, as a young lady
(Miss Hardinge), the daughter of a medical practitioner,
who resides in Welbeek-street, Cavendish-square, was pass•.
ing from Upper Charles-street, Westminster, into Parlia-
ment-street, the skirt of her dress became entangled in the
wheel of a brougham which was being driven from Charing
Cross in the direction of Palace-yard, and she was dragged
forward with so much impetus, that, unable to keep her
feet, she fell in the roadway, when the wheel of the vehicle
passed over one of her legs, fracturing it just above the
ankle. The driver immediately pulled up, when Dr. Rad-
cliffe, one of the physicians of Westminster Hospital, his
master, immediately sprang from the brougham, and as-
sisted the police in raising the unfortunate lady from the
ground, and conveying her to Dr. M‘Cann's surgery, where
in company with that gentleman and Mr. J. M'Cann, sur-
geon, he examined the injured limb, and had it properly
treated.

CHARGE OE EMBEZZLEMENT.—It has been dis-
covered that a confidential clerk recently in the service of
an eminent mercantile firm in the city, who absconded in
September last, after embezzling about £12,000, the money
of his employers, sailed on the 10th of December for Port
Natal by the vessel The Lady of the Lake. A warrant for
his apprehension has been issued and placed in the hands
of Sergeant Spittle, a detective other, who took a pas-
sage in the screw steamer Celt, which sailed about a ueek
ago for the Cape. A reward of £lOO has boon offered for
the cipreileasion of the delinquent,

NEWS.

(REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.)

ARRANGEMENTS FOR THE
SURRENDER OF GAETA.

MOLA DI GAETA, FEB. 12.

General Cialdini and the Commandant of Gaeta
have appointed a mixed commission, for the
discussion of and drawing up the capitulation
of the fortresses of Gaeta. The firing has not,
however, been suspended, but has only slackened,
until the conditions of surrender shall have been
arranged.

PARIS, WEDNESDAY MORNING.

The Moniteur says :—M. de Quelen, orderly
officer of the Emperor, went to Rome solely on
account of his private affairs, and has not brought
back any autograph letter for the Emperor.

PESTH, FEB. 13.

The Assembly of the Comitat at Pesth has
unanimously voted an address to the King, which

says :--

" The Royal Rescript has destroyed the confidence
which had been created by the Imperial Diploma
of October last.

" The law prohibits the payment of taxes until
they have been voted by the Diet. Force alone
could remove the citizens from the lawful ground
they have taken up. An unreserved return to
constitutional life tone can save the king and the
country."

VIENNA, FEB. 13.
It is stated that the subscriptions to the new
loan amount altogether to 30,091,400 florins.

CALCUTTA, JAN. 16.

Government paper, 51 per cent., 1011, 1011
Money easy. Exchange on London, 218. Freights
have improved two shillings and sixpence, closing
firm. Shirtings, very dull market, with few buyers
and drooping prices. Yarn inactive, small sales.
Metal market very quiet; the little business done
has been at late prices. Indigo is more quiet, but
prices are steady. In sugar there is nothing doing,
but prices are maintained ; shipments considerable.
Saltpetre, about 500 tons, have been sold for ship-
ment and speculation, at late prices. Linseed is
unaltered; shipments comparatively small. Silk,
a little doing in native. Jute maintained. Export
usual to the season. Hides, more doing and prices
firm. Shellac lower.

BERNE, FEB. 13.

It was through the medium of the Swiss Consul
at Algiers that Mr. Richard Cobden proposed that
the Federal Council should mediate between the
contending States of America. The Federal
Council dgclined the proposition on the ground
that it was not qualified for such an office, but at
the same time expressed its thanks to Mr.
Cobden.

MARSEILLES, FEB. 12.

Letters from Naples to the 9th inst. state that
there were 100 dead in Gaeta. The Sardinian
fleet bombarded the place with good effect on the
night of the Bth inst. The frigate Monarco, how-
ever, suffered some damage.
The mail from Calabria has not arrived. Troops
had been sent to suppress a reactionary movement
which had broken out at Reggio. The Minister
Liborio Romano had ordered the drawing of lots
for the mobilisation of the National Guard and for
the office of captains.

Letters from Rome to the 9th inst. state that the
insurgents had withdrawn from Ascoli into the
kingdom of Naples.

TURIN, FEB. 12.

The garrison of Gaeta has demanded an armis-
tice of 15 days, in order to negotiate for the
surrender of the place. The demand has been
rejected by General Cialdini, who has, however,
declared himself ready to enter into negotiations.
During the last few days the Sardinian batteries
have caused great devastation.

COPENHAGEN, FEB. 12.

Thirty-nine students from Schleswig have pre-
sented an address to the Minister of War stating
that they place themselves at his disposal in the
event of war breaking out.

The Minister, in expressing his thanks, said :
"It is possible that an occupation of Holstein by
the Federal troops would cause war with Germany,
and might perhaps involve all Europe in war."

VIENNA, FEB. 12.

The Oesterreichische Zeitung announces that the
statutes concerning the organisation of the empire
and the Imperial Diet were adopted by the Council
of Ministers on Sunday last, and have since been
submitted for his sanction.

BERNE, FEB. 12.

Mr. Richard Cobden has proposed that Switzer-
land should act as a mediator in the differences
between the States of America. The Federal
Council has declined the proposal, declaring it to
be impracticable.