The Sun.
London, England, 1859-12-21 00:00:00

BREAD-STREET.

The usual annual wardmote meeting of this ward was
held in the Cordwainers'-hall, Cannon-street; Mr. William
Lawrence, Alderman, presided.

The following gentlemen were unanimously re-elected
Common Councilmen for the ensuing year :—Deputy Haw-
ray, Mr. Maughan, Mr. Maynard, Mr. Smith, Mr. McCal-
cheon, Mr. IV. McGregor, and Mr. Alcock.

Mr. Pill and Mr. Beard wore the candidates for the hon•
our of succeeding Mr. Millard.

On the names being put by the Alderman, the show of
hands was declared in favour of Mr. Pill. A poll was de-
manded for Mr. Beard.

FARRINGDON WITHIN.

The annual wardmote was hold at Christ's Hospital,
Alderman Phillips presiding.
Two new candidates opposed the return of ;the old mem-
bers, and a poll was ordered to be taken at the King's Arms
Tavorn.

FARRINGDON WITHOUT.
The annual wardmote of the ward of Farringdon With-
out was held in the New Court of the Old Bailey, Alderman
Sir J. Duke, Bart., M.P., presiding.
Most of the old members were re-elected. A poll was de-
manded on behalf of Messrs. Standborough and Spiller.
In tho other wards no serious opposition is expected, but
we are precluded from publishing the results owing to the
late hour fixed for the commencement of the proceedings.

SACRED HARMONIC SOCIETY, Exeter Hall.—The
last performance of" The Messiah" takes places =Friday
next, Dec. 23. The principal singers are Madame Ruders-
Miss Dolby, Mr. Sims Reeves, and Signor Belletti.
The traffic return of the Grand Trunk Railway,
for the week ending November 26, shows a receipt of
£12,982155. 4d., rgainst £9,685 lls. 10d. in the correspond-
ing week of last year, being an increase of £3,296 3s. 6d.
The return of traffic on the Great 'Western Rail-
way of Canada, for the week ending December 2, shows
the receipts to'ha% e been £7,916 13s. 7d., being an increase
en the corresponding week of the previous year of £124
10,1. The decrease on, the 18 weeks cf this half-year, as
compared with the corresponding period of 1858, is £5,720
2s. id.

SOUTHKENSINGTON MUsEum.--During the week
ending the 17th of December the visitors have been as fol-
lows :—On Monday, Tuesday, and Saturday, free days,
2,544 ; on Monday aild Tuesday, free evenings, 4,120 ; on
the three students' days (admission to the public 6d.),
1,102 ; one students' evening, Wednesday, 593; total, 8,359;
from the opening of tb.e museum, 1,166,322.
• THE CHRISTILIS HOLIDAY. The Executive
Committee of the Conservative Land Society have directed
the offices to be closed on Monday next, the 26th inst.
THE CONSERVATIVE LAND SOCIETY. This
society, in the extension of business operations, have just
purchased a fine propel V of freehold houses at Camberwell.
They are nine in nuniber, well built semi-detached cot-
tages and houses, in a terrace in the Denmark-road. This
is a novel feature in the operations of a land society, inas-
much as freehold houses, completed and in the occupation
of respectable tenants, will be offered for allotment to the
members of the society...
THE GREAT INIESCROPOLITAN SEWER AT STRAT-
ronn.—The works of 'hhis sewer, which it was anticipated
would have been comp t'enced in this district several months
ago have been delayed 1, partly from the strike in the build-
ing!trade, and partly t s enable the commissioners to apply
to Parliament for additional powers not embodied in their
present act. A great 7 number of houses on the site of which
the proposed sewer wtauld pass were purchased, and the oc-
cupants long since ga ye up possession, but within the last
few weeks they have again been occupied, and will continue
to be so during the tf)mporary delay of the works. The ex-
tensive premises of Messrs. Geer() and Son, timber mer-
chants, on the north side of the high road, have been pur-
chased of them by - the commissioners, and the occupiers
and owners of all pro perty in that neighbourhood taken for
the purposes of the 8( saver have received the amount of their
compensation. We ( Essex Herald) may add that the com-
pensation awarded ir L almost every instance has been ex-
tremely, liberal on. th. 3 part of the commissioners—weekly
tenants receiving fror a £lO to £lB ; small shopkeepers from
£5O to £lOO, and so oi a in proportion to the amount of busi-
ness and length of to nancy.
DESTRUCTIVE FIRE IN A LUGGAGE TRAIN.-
About 3 o'clock in th a afternoon of Sunday last, one of the
waggons of a luggage train from the south for Preston,
Lancashire, laden witch builds for weaving, and a quantity
of costly china in crat;es, was discovered by the engine-
driver to be on fire, w hen the train was a quarter of a mils
from Preston. This • waggon. was next to the tender, and it
is supposed that a spa rk from the engine ignited either the
healds or the straw in the crates. The engine driver
promptly detached thi L remainder of the train from the
burning waggon, and 'teamed quickly into the Preston sta-
tion, and as the engin e with its flaming freight passed over
the bridge which spans the Ribble, just below the town,
the unwonted specta. cle excited the astonishment of the
hundreds of persons w ho were walking on the banks of the
river. When the ste Mon was gained the flanks were
quickly extinguished a ,t the water column, and it was then
found that the damages dime was very considerable. The
healds were almost avb olly destroyed, and the burning of
the crates had cracked 1 and broken a very large proportion
of the costly goods the y contained.
REWARD FOR GA .LLANT CONDUCT.-It will pro-
bably be remembered by many of our readers that during
the terrific storm of f he 26th October last, which proved
fatal to the Royal Ch; irter, some fearful shipwrecks took
place also on the Corn ish coast. On some of the occasions,
most gallant exertions were made to save life and property.
Amongst others, Mr. I )aniel Shea, coxswain of the National
Lifeboat Institution's boat stationed at P4dstow, very lau-
dably exerted himself to save life and property. But con-
spicuous'amongst all others on this coast was Charles
Mitchell, a fisherman, of Port Isaac. In the height of the
storm of that night, th a sloop Busy, of New-quay, was ob-
served to be in immix) eat danger. Mitchell immediately
mustered a crew of fou r men, who, with himself, proceeded
off through the tremen ions surf to the wreck. Having suc-
ceeded in rescuing two of the sloop's men, their boat unfor-
tunately broke adrift before the remaining men could be
saved. Again and agt un, Mitchell, with fresh hands, en-
deavoured with undau rated courage to save the other two
poor men, who were now lashed to the rigging. At last,
his humane efforts in three different boats were, after five
hours of unusual flew: r toil and risk, crowned with success,'
and he bad the happb less to bring the four shipwrecked
men, more dead than alive, safely ashore about 3 o'clock
the next Morning.' To testify its approbation of such noble
and persevering exertio Es in saving life from an inevitable
death, the Royal Nat' ional Lifeboat Institution has pre-
sented to Mitchell its C.l lake silver medal; a beautiful scroll
on parchment and £3. The wen. who had assisted the gal-
lant fellow on the occ Lsion have also received from the
society £l5 for their sec

DISTRESS* OF TIIF : BLACK MALIBRAN.—An ap-
plication- was made on . Saturday to the President of the
Civil Tribunal, on the part of Mlle. Martinez, a woman of
colour, known by the n ame of the " Malibran Noire," from
her possessing a good N Tice and 'a certain talent as a musi-
cian She had, it appea rs,. when she first came to Paris from.
the Spanish settlinnents in South America, given concerts and
obtained som e success, al ;tended with very satisfactory money
results. But, having p me to Madrid to sing,' she found on
her return that the win d of popularity had shifted to some
other direction, and that when she ..ave a concert as before,
the receipts did not equal the expenditure.' She tried again
and again to attract an nudience, but all in vain. At
last
she fell into distress, an d Mine: Bevan, the owner of a fur-
nished room which she occupied, not only turned her out of
doors for not Paying the • rent, but seized on her clothes and effects, incluilhug suit :ar. The poor artiste thus found
herself not only destitul ic, but deprived of one of the means
of earning a little 'no a soy in tho instrument with which
she accompanied herseb !. Her counsel maintained that the
seizure of the instrnme tr t was illegal, inasmuch as it must
be assimilated to instr n tnents of labour or the tools of a
workman, which could aof be taken away. The president,
coinciding in that view e f the question, ordered the imme-
diate restitution of the Al titar. But will the humane deci-
sion of the learned juds-pa
,be sufficient to enable the poor
singer to provide for the; wants of the day ?—Galignant.