The Sun.
London, England, 1861-07-04 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

Her Majesty's ships Oberon any Curacoa were at Monte-
video ; the Forth (flag of Sir H. Keppel), Pylades, and Spy
at Rio de Janeiro, the latter coasting. No English ships of
war at Bahia or Pernambuco.
Her Majesty's steam frigate Leopard, with the flag of Sir
Stephen Lushington, homeward bound, arrived at St. Vin-
cent's on the 20th ult., three hours before the Oneida left for
Lisbon. The Leopard reported having spoken the following
vessels :—June 16th, in lat. 5 39 N., long 28 41 W., the
English bark Spirit of the Day, S 2 days from Islay, and 35
from the Falkland Is'ands ; same day, in let. 6 N., lung.
28 10 W., an English ship, supposed to be the Norfolk ;
18th, in lat. 10 38 N., long. 26 52 W., a Hamburg bark,
showing first distinguishing pendant 289, EtTriug to the
northward ; 19 11, in let. 11 19 N., long. 2552 W., the Eng-
lish ship Sir John Lawrence, from Liverpool to Calcutta,
steering to the southward.
The following vessels were spoken by the Royal Mail
steamer Mersey, between Montevideo and Rio Janeiro :
June 1, lat. 3-1 50 S., long. 53 30 W., the English brigantine
Onward, tho English schooner Queen Esther, and the Sar-
dinian bark Cattaro, all standing to the southward.
During the passage home the Oneida spoke the following
vessels :—June 22, in lat. 21 28 N., long. 21 35 VT., the
English bark Lady Alice, from London to Cochin China,
all well; 25th, in lat. 29 1 N., long. 15 28 W., a three-
masted screw steamer, showing no colours, name unknown,
supposed to be English, steering to the southward ; July
1, in lat. 43 30 N., long. 9 W., the English brig Jessy
Greig, steering to the southward ; 25, off Ushant, the screw
steamer Cintra, steering to the southward.
The following Australian ships had called off Pernambuco
for supplies :—June 11, the British ship Calabar, from Syd-
ney, 73 days, with passengers and wool ; same day, the Tip-
tree, also from Sydney, 61 days, with some invalided troops
and passengers ; and on the 12th the Donald M'Kay, 47
days from Melbourne, with 450 passengers and £250,000
worth of gold.
The American ship Emily Farnum (of Portsmouth, New
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Hampshire), N. P. Simes master, 1,119 tons register, which
sailed from the Downs on the 29th of April with a cargo of
1,800 tons of railway iron, bound for Calcutta (in conse-
quence of the strong north-east current and soul herly winds
prevailing on the coast), ran aground on the reefs of
Catuama, about 30 miles to the north of Pernambuco, and
six miles from the shore, on the 6th of .Tune. The steam •
tng Camaragibe proceeded to her assistance, and took her
into Pernambuco on the 10thship had lost about 30
feet of her false keel, and was about to be surveyed.

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE.

BRISTOL AND EXETER.

A special meeting of this company was held yes-
terday at Bristol for the purpose of considering a
bill now before Parliament for making a railway
from Chard to Taunton.

Mr. J. W. BULLER, M.P., presided. He stated
that the line in question was to connect the town
of Chard with the South-Western and the Bristol
and Exeter Railways, and that the guarantee of
the Bristol and Exeter Company was 55 per cent.
of the gross receipts of the proposed line, or a mini-
mum rental of £4,750 per annum. They had
nothing to do with the construction of the Chard
line, but when completed undertook to, work the
railway for 45 per cent. of the gross receipts.
The solicitor having read the head! of the bill.
The CHAIRMAN, in reply to a trestio‘n, stated thaats
the per centage guaranteed to the Char me was
never to be less than £4,750 a. year.
The proceedings then terminated.

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COMPENSATION FOR ACCIDENTSreat
.
The heavy damages awarded against the G
ba Northern Company in the action brought by
the
the
representatives of the late Mr. Pyrn
effect of directing the attentionsf eve
importance oim-
proving the law on the subject. A conference
recently held on the subject was attended by Mr.
Moon, chairman of the London andiN4o:thch-Waiermstearnho;f
chairman of
the Earl of Shelburne, chairman of the Great
Western ; Mr. Schuster, chairman of the
London,
Brighton, and South Coast; Mr.
the Eastern Counties; Mr.. Denison,
Yorkshire ; Mr. Beale,
the Great Northern ;
Mr. Wickham,
man of the Lancashire and M.P., chair-
M.P., chairman of the
Midland ; Mr. Hodgson,
MY., chairman
of the North
Mangles, and of the London _ British; Captain
number of other directors South Western, and a
was resolved that a f of various companies. It
future conference should be held,
at which all the
Kingdom should railway companies of the United
' be ipvited to decide in what
manner thC question
consideration of ion should be brought under the
Parliament..

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The Court of Appeal gave judgment in the
Bonaparte case on Monday. It is perhaps unnecessary to
say that the appeal was dismissed, and the judgment given
against M. Bonaparte and his mother, and in favour of
Prince Napoleon. The Court below had decided the case
in the same way, but merely on the ground that, having
been once judged (by the conseil de famille): the chose jug ec
could not be interfered with ; but the Court of Appeal went
a step further, laying down that there was no marriage in
point of law, and that even if it had been valid the impe-
rial decrees of 1805 dissolving it were perfectly valid. There
is no doubt but that the case will come before tho Court of
Cessation, when it will be amusing to witness the tarningi
and twistings of M. Dupin, to confirm a ruling entirely op-
posed to the principles he has over and over again laid
down. lam bound to add that the case does not seem to
k have excited the slightest interest among the public.