The Sun.
London, England, 1857-10-23 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING,' 'OCTOBER 23, 185

The ordinary meeting of the Globe Insurance Coin
pang also took place yesterday, when a dividend at
the rate of 5 per cent. per annum took place.
THE TEA FRAUDS AT BELFAST.-It is now ascertained
that the frauds perpetrated at Belfast by Moore and his
associates amount to 5,000/. on the customs, and on
private parties to 10,0001.
General Sir J. Burgoyne, Inspector-General of Forti-
fications, baying approved of the newly-invented gabion
by Sergeant-major J. Jones, R.E., 5,000 of them have
been sent out to India for the use of the troops of the
Royal Engineers. In addition to the other advantages,
these gabions can be used for constructing temporary
suspension bridges for the passage of troops.
A letter from Rome states that two officers of the
Swiss regiment in the service of the Pope, named
Csapey and Bonalini, had been condemned for fightinw
a duel—the first to five peva' imprisonment and 1,000
crowns fine, thesecond to 4 Aars' imprisonment and 800
crowns fine. Their seconds had been condemned each
to two years' impris )nment and'4oo crowns fine. _

Numerous suspensions continue to be announced on
the continent, especially among manufacturing firms in
Germany. At Vienna, the Credit Bank, to alley the
alarm caused by the stopnage of Messrs. Boskovita
and Co., of Peetb, for 207,0001., have agreed to mak-
a temporary advance to the creditors equal to about
50 per cent. on their claims.
At the meeting of the Union Steamship Company,
held yesterday, a report was presented, statin,-; that
the directors had entered into a contract wish her
Majesty's Government fur the conveyance of the Cape
mails for five years, at a sum of 30,0001. per annum,
which they deemed a profitable empioyesent of the
vessels of the company.
LIVERPOOL, Thursday.—The magnificent clipper ship
Chancellor, belonging to the White Star line of psckets,
sailed to-day for Melbourne, with 330 passengers, a ship
mail, and a large and valuable cargo. The next vessel
to be despatched by Messrs. H. T. Wilson and Chambers
will be the Anglo-Saxon, which is to sail on tte 27th
ilia. The clipper Montmorency has just been token up
for the conveyance of troops for India, malting the
fourth ship of the Black Ball line selected for the pur-
pose by the Government.
FIRES IN THE ClTY.—Yestorday morning between
three and four o'clock, a fire broke out in tte newly-
, erected premises known as the Mincing-lane Chanberd, in
Little Tower-street. The building was of very large
dimensions, and occupied by many pereone. The origin
of the fire is unknown, but the damage it effected was
e,nAlderable, the upper d ,or, nearly 100 feet long, and
40 feet wide, being burned out, and the roof de &eyed.
Much injury was also done to the other floors by the
water which was thrown upon the burning mass.
DEATH PROSE FRIGHT. —A few days ago, a fine little
girl, about six years of age, named Rebecca Barras
Fisher, the daughter of a collier in Puppy-lane, Dudley
Port, being near her parents' howe, suddenly fell down
in a fit and expired instantly. It appears that, about
four years ago, a person putting on a frightful mask and
jumping suddenly before this little girl, so affrighted her
that, falling down in a fit, she has been subject to that
sad malady ever since, and her early and sudden death
has been the result.—Caledonian Mercury.

At a meeting yesterday afternoon the London, Man.
cheater, and Foreign Warehouse Company, Mr. Co teker
in the chair, the resolution passed at the meeting of the
21st of September to wind up the undertaking volun-
tarily was confirmed, with one dissentient. In the dis-
cussion that took place on the errors of management
several shareholders expressed their full reliance in the
present board, and, various questiqns of finance having
been gone into, a vote of confidence in the integrity of
the directors was passed. They were accordingly ap-
pointed official liquidators to wind up ;be estate. It is
believed that 2/. per share will be returned to the pro.
prietors.

DETERMINED SUICIDE NEAR THE MlXoßlES,—Yester-
day morning, Mr. W. Payne, the coroner, received infor-
mationof a suicide of a determined charareer, which had
occurred on Wednesday morning. A. man, named
Edward Gardiner Packer, aged 47, lodged at the Golden
Lion, a public-house in Goodman's-yard, Minories, and
-on Tuesday night the went to bed in a state of intoxica-
tion. Nothing more was heard of him during the night,
and as he did not make his appearance up to an advanced
period in the day, Mrs. Abrahams, the landlady, went
up to the room and saw the deceased hanging from the
bed-post. Mr. Cooke, surgeon, of the Minories, was
sent for. He found the man hanging to the bed-post by
a black silk handkerchief. He cut him down, but he was
quite dead and had been so for some time.
SHOE, TIME.—At the meeting of the Brtdford Board
of guardians, on Wednesday evening, says the Man-
theater Guardian, it was stated that there had been nu-
merous applicatioas for relief, in consequence of
weavers and spinners being discharged from smployment
owing to looms being stopped. The chairman (Mr.
Alderman Ward) said that the firm with which he was
connected, at Britannia Mills, were about ';o act upon
the principle of employing the whole of their workpeople
for four days of the week instead of a portion of them
for six days, believing that such a course would tend to
give greater satisfaction to the hands, and also to keep
many pep ple from the rates. The board exiressed its
approval of the sugge,,tion, and a hope that ;he manu-
facturers generally would adopt the same noun°.
Tua PART. AND TUN Ftrrunn.—An engraiing in the
mixed style by F. Roll, atter a water-oolour picture by
Mies M. Chilies, the well-known miniature painter, re-
cently exhibited in the Manchester collection, 'nal; been
published by Messrs. Fores, of Piccadilly. It repry Sento
two sisters, the one " sighinv, o'er buried hopes," the
other in expectation of happiness and of a j twore.
The group is well drawn and the expression of the varied

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feelings characteristic and natural. The contrast be-
twe-n hope and sorrow in the countenances of the hi,-
ter!' is given with artistic effect, and is such as only an
experienced hand could delineate. The attitudes are
neither strained nor affected, nor is there any a' tempt
at exageeratien or theatrical display. The whole is stn.
dued and graceful.
SHOCKING ACCIDENT AT MESSRS. &SIM'S PRINTING
ESTABLISHMENT LONG-ACRE.—A very shocking and die
tressing accident happened yesterday morning to a youth
nacaed William Pettit, 14 years of age, in the employ of
Messrs. Smith and Co., wholesale stationers and
printers, near James-street, L.)ng-acre. It appears that
the lad was at work with others at the printing machine,
when, by some means, hiq right leg became entangled,and being drawn in, the foot was completely susa-ticd ;
so severe was the injury that the toes were separ,ted,
hangin only by the skin. The unfirtunate sufferer
was conveyed to Charing,•cross Hospital in a state of
great exhaustion, owing to the shock to the system and
loss of blood. Mr. Hancock, one of the principal sur-
geons, and Mr. Bennett, the house surgeon, imtnediately
attended to the case, supplying the poor lad with stimu-
lants while the toes of the foot were amputated ; he was
then placed in bed, in a" state of great suffering, but
hopes are entertained (if tetanus does not superrene) that
he will do well.

LEEDS ELECTION EXPENSES.—The return of the f.x-
-petr-e3 incurred at the election for Leeds on the 27th
and 28th of March last has just been published. There
were three candidates, viz.--The 'Right lion. M. T.
Baines and Mr. J. Remington Mills, Liberals, and Air.
Robert Hall, Conservative. The expenses of the al
candidate; amounted to 8221. 19,., of which Mr. Baines
paid 4151. 114. 61., and Mr. Mills 4071. 6d., and
included 521. 10.. f r Law agent, 1261. 13s. 9,1. for car-
riages and horses, 521. LOS. for hire of rooms, 1741. 16..
111. for prioting, stationery, and adve.-tismg, 1551. Is.
31. for canvassers, clerks,
and messengers, and 2251
12s. 21 for expenses of returning officer. Mr. llah's
expenses were 1,4901. 7e. 3d., it eluding 1571. 10s. for law
agent, 1911. 11s. 4 !. for carriages and horses, 451. 10a.
63. for rooms, 1501. 161. 11d, for printing, station,rv,
and advertising, 6271. 15.. 6d, for canva,sers, clerk-4,
d. fir expenses cmuersrseenntger expenses,an d
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1 11a1n"1°. 6u187. plens e 9eoxl3n3s.es4 oL f
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turning officer. _ _
AN IRISH ENGINEER AT THE DEFENCE OF ARRAH.—The
public have real with interest 'he accounts which have
already appeared of the extraordinary defence. Tney
are, however, but imperfectly acquainted with the dis-
tinguished part taken by Mr. Richard Vicars Boyle,
civil engineer—a native of Dublin, and a member of a
family highly and most deservedly respected—in the
success of that defence and the preservation of the Eu-
ropean residents. The Calcutta Englishman contains a
letter written at Arrah, two days after the relief of the
little garrison, from Yin Richard Vicars Boyle, in whose
fortified house the Europeans and the Sikh police at this
station found refuge, which give a brief but graphic
ac .oust of the noble stand made by the refugees for seven
days against Rajah Koer Singh, at the head of a force
of disciplined Sepoys and insurgents of ens hundred
times their number. It is a
singular feature in this
memorable defence that not one of the sixteen
Europeans in the little garrison was a military man I
This is the more remarkable when we consider that
the defence was characterised as much by military skill
as by heroic couraee. Barricades were raised, the walk '
strengthened to withs'and the cannon, awl the enemy's
mine was countee,nined in a manner worthy of a military
engineer. "It was to Mr. R. V. Boyle's engineering
skill and untiring exertions," to use the words of Mr.
Wake's report, "that the garrison in a great measure
owed their preservation." The Europeans, although few
in number, comprised the judge of the district and other
valuable lives. These all have, under Providence, been
preserved by the foresight and skill with which Mr.
Boyle fortified and provisioned his little fort. But it is
impossible to read the resent accounts without seeing the
important bearing this defence has had upon the whole
campaign. It had the effect of delaging for the space of
seven days the advance up the country of Rajah Koer
Singh at the head of 2,500 disciplined Sepoye, and about
the same number. of his own adherents, until the rebels
were defeated and the garri was relieved by the pliant
band from Buxar, under Major V. Eyre. The army bad
civil servants of the govern ment j uetly engressed much the
greater share of the public honoure, beeause they have re h
the great power and Opportunity of rendering I lite!,
service ; but when such pubic service has been effei b d
by a volunteer we cannot hut think, especially in such
a crisis as the present teat the Government of this
country will but do their fluty in advising tFeQua an t
bestow on Mr. Richard Vicars Boyle some signal
mark of distinction.—fecning Post.
The French merchant vessel La Reine, which left St
',T.azaire (Loire) for Bilboa on the 7th inst., was two days
later, when off Cape Macbicace, struck by a heavy sea
which carried away the wheel, the companion with ti e
binnacle, and washed the mate and one of the men over
board, Captain Chauvelon, who was standing near the
wheel at the time, was knocked down, and had
one of his legs broken just above the ankle. Not-
withstanding this severe injury he remained at
lira p
,st, ordered a tiler te 4,ipped, and steered
for Bordeanx. The Reine An as f Ttneately fallen iu viete
two days afterwerds try the Amiable-Guiiienaeite, wheel)
happened to be b Any: that pert, and by whose aaea-
tance she was got in safely. Captain Chauvelon was im-
mediately landed, and conveyed to the hospital, when
it was fund r summary to amputate the limb ; he is now
in a fair way of recovery.