The Sun.
London, England, 1857-02-26 00:00:00

1857.

place on pretext of the dearness of food. In virtue
of state of siege all the inhabitants 11,2 d
ordered t 3 give up their arms, under pain of being
brought to trial before a military tritninal. It is
stated in a ministerial organ that -t:e number of
vessels about to be sent by the government against
.Mexico is, including transports for 10,000 men, to
be between 20 and 30. " The country," says this
journal, " may be assured that the national honour
shall receive complete satisfaction."

The Opinione of Turin of the 23d states that the
Austrian Government has given orders to refine
passports for Turin during the Carnival.

The Ri;3orgimento of Turin of the 221 mentions a
rumour current at Florence to the effect that ti:e
Grand Duke is about to grant an amnesty, from the
operation of Which MM. Guerazz;, Montanelli,
Pigli, and Montazio alone are to be excluded.

The Count de Chambord arrived at Parma on the
20th, on a visit to his august sister and royal
nephews.

SINGULAR DELUSION.—Mr. Spooner has got into his
head the curious notion, and nothing apparently will
ever get it out again, that he is an Apostle Spooner.—
Punch..
The session of the Danish Chamfers closed on the 23d
inst. The Grand Council of the kingdom (Rigs Raad)
wit be convokel in March.
THE LATE GAROTTE ROBBERY NEAR BIRKENHEAD.—
Thomas Begley, an oyster seller having a stall near St.
John's-market, Liverpool, has been committed for trial
at the next Chester assizes, charged with being concerned
in the garotte robbery and attempt at murder committed
on Mr. Henry Saxby, a young medical student at Rock
Ferry, near Liverpool, on the 14th ofJanuary last.
THE SUPPOSED POISONING BY LOCUST NUTS.—YeF-
terday Mr. NN akley concluded the adjourned inquest on
the boy whose death was attributed to eating some
"locust nuts," a fruit recently imported from Egypt.
It appeared on analysis that the fruit is not poi-
sonous, and the jury returned a verdict of death from
natural causes.
BANKERS' RETURNS.—A second supplement to the
London Gazette of Tuesday, published yesterday evening,
contains a copy of bankers' returns, made in pursuance
of the Act 7th and Bth Victoria, giving the names of all
the partners and shareholders in the various banking
firms in London. The list occupies 150 pages of the
Gazette.
EMIGRATION tO THE WESTERN CONTINENT.—LIVER-
POOL, Wednesday.—The screw steam ships N eel)
American, Capt. Grange, for Portland, and the Kan-
garoo, Capt. Jeffrey, for New York, sailed to-Jay, the
former at noon, with the Canadia r mails, 84 passengers,
and a full cargo of merchandise ; and the latter with a
small mail, 246 passengers, and a moderate, but valuable
cargo.
At the Southampton Dock Company's meeting yes-
terday a dividend at the rate of 4 per cent. per annum
was declared. It was mentioned that the gross earnings
last year exceeded those of 1855 by 1,7371.
TRADE ACCOUNTS.—The return for January, 1857,
was issued yesterday. The exports show an increase
of 1,000,0001. over the corresponding month of 1856.
Some additional particulars have been/ introduced into
the return, such as distinguishing the countries whence
the principal articles are imported, and to which British
productions are exported.
DENSE FOG.—Yesterday morning a fog of density
unusual at this advanced period of the season came over
the metropolis, suspending for the time all occupations
for which artificial light was not available. Shortly
after noon the fog suddenly cleared off, and the remainder
of the day was light and clear.
Advices received at Lloyd's yesterday from Constan-
tinople, dated the 11th inst., state that boisterous weather
had been experienced, which had interrupted navigation.
The French steamer from. Marseilles was over due two
days, and other trading vessels were also out of time.
THE REV. W. SINOLAIIL—The Rev. W. Sinclair
closed his labours in connection with St. George's
Church, Leeds, on Sunday morning last, after discharg-
ing the duties of the incumbency for upwards of 19 years.
On the following morning the rev. gentleman was enter-
tained in the Wellington Hall by a large number of his
friends, and was presented with a cheque for 500 guineas,
and an elegant silver tea and coffee service.
THE SILENT SHELL.—A puff in the corner of a news-
paper, pretending to be a critical paragraph, commences
with the statement following :—" The narrative of Ad-
miral Napier's Baltic campaign has burst ttoon the poli-
tical and naval world like a bombshell." Yes ; very
much like one of those bombshells which the gallant Ad-
miral poured into CrOnstadt. The explosion has made
a wonderfully small noise.—Punch.
THE RECTORY OF ST. GILES'S.—On Tuesday the Rev.
A. W. Thorold, late Curate of Trinity Church, Maryle-
:bone, who has been appointed by the Lord Chancellor
to the Rectory of St. Giles's-in-the-Fiells, in succession
to Dr. Bickersteth, Bishop of Ripon, formally read
himself in, having been inducted by authority of the
Bishop of London, on the previous day.
REPRESENTATION OF THE CITY OF GLASGOW.—The
writ for the election of another Member for the city of
Glasgow, in room of Mr. John Macgregor, was received
by the Sheriff of Lanarkshire yesterday, and the nomi-
nation will probably take place early next week. Two
candidates have been already proposed—viz., Mr.
Walter Buchanan of Shandon, and Mr. Humphrey E.
Cram Ewing. Both are Liberals. The Lord Provost
is chairman of Mr. Buchanan's committee. It is thought
probable that Mr. Ewing will decline the honour in the
circurustences.
CRUELTY TO CHILDREN.—We stated in The Stan of
Friday that an inquest had been held at Dawlish, Devon-
shire, on the body of a girl, aged 14, who was alleged to
have died through the it -treatment which she received
from her father, a shoemaker named Newberry. The
coroner's jury did not consider the evidence sufficient to
justify them in returning a verdict of manslaughter, but
requested the coroner, Mr. W. A. Cockes, to censure
Newberry for his brutal conduct to the poor child. Since
tben the magistrates for the division have caused him to
be apprehended, and on Saturday after hearing evidence,
they committed him for trial at the ensuing assizes on
the charge of manslaughter.
ETON COLLEGE AQUATICS. —The boating season usu-
ally commences on St. David's day, but in consequence
of the Ist of March falling on Sunday, and the trial,
taking place at the college on Monday, in which many
of the aquatics are corn petitors, Tuesday, the 3d prox.
has been fixed for the several craft to take the water, on
which day it is expected eight long boats will be
launched. The rafts laid up in ordinary during the win-
ter months have already been placed in their respective
positions, off Goodman's, Searle's, and Tolladay's. Cep
lain Baring's eight have been out daily during the week,
in the Victory.
THE GUARDS.—On Monday and Tuesday next the
following changes- of quit ten of the Foot Guards will
take place :—The 2d Battalion of Coldstream Guards,
which have been doing duty at Windsor Castle since July
list, will march from the Sheet.street Barrack's, under
command of Colonel sacks, for Wellington Barracks,
London. The 31 Battalion of Grenadier Guards, under
the command of Captain Q. Alrocander, will march from
the Wellington Barracks to relieve the Collstreams at
Windsor ; and the let Battalion of Coldstream will
leave the Tower for the camp at Aldershot-, under the
command of Colonel Lord -F. Peulet. Dr. Skelton,
battalion surgeon of the Coldstream Guards is lying
dangerously ill at the Sheet-street Barracks, Windsor.
THE CromEatr COMHISPIONERS.—At the meeting of
the E linbergh Town Council on Tuesday the Lord
Provost moved, "That the Council resolve to present a
petition to the House of Commons, praying them to
take measures for marking the sense which the public
entertain of the important services rendered to the
country by Sir John M'Neill and Colonel Tulloch, in
their inquiry into the causes-of the disasters that befel
our troops in the Crimea, and in the valuable report
submitted by them to Government." His lord-
ship remarked that the zeal, intelligence, ability, and
intrepidity displayed by the commissioners in the Cri-
mea had been universally acknowledged and appreciated
throughout the country, while their services bad been
most beneficial to the army, and what they had to re-
quest of their representatives in Parliament was that
they should take some steps whereby the names of the
commissioners should go down to posterity as benefac-
tors of their country, and that they should show that
such lribours and services as theirs would always com-
mand the gratitude of their fellow-countrymen. The
motion:was unanimously and cordially approved.
Tl#>, CRIMEAN ARMY.—Some returns just published
give the following defails respecting the army in the
Crimea. It appears that "the total number of cavalry
who joined the army in the East amounted to 4.819,
of whom 386 were killed or wounded ; the Royal
Artillery to 7,032, of whom 794 were killed or
wounded ; the Sappers and Miners to 403, of whom
140 were killed and wounded ; and the total infantry to
43,276, of owhom 13,297 were killed or wounded. Thus,
separate e of
retard'thes
the general total of all arms was 55,530;)
14,63 r 'were killed or wounded, A se
shows That up to the Ist of June, 1856, 2,755 officers
and men (including 157 officers) were killed in the
Crimea, and that 515 officers, 579 non-commissioned
officers, and 10,782 mnennn.nwnerare,wsionunnoddendffi.
officers
af
and
wounded 86 officers, 85 mi
1,848 men died ; while 147 officers, 574 non-commissioned
officers, and 15,320 men died from sickness, and 1,137
non-commissioned officers and 13,581 men were invalided
at the end of the war. 2,627 horses were lost, of which
401 were killed.
THE MAILS. SOUTHABIPTON, Wednesday. The
United States mail steamship Hermann, Captain Hig-
gins, sailed hence to-lay with the German Frenc3, and
English mails for New York, 60 passengers, $lO,OOO in
specie, and about 400 tons of cargo. A very handsome
silver snuffbox has been presented to captain Higgins by
the six captains of the new European and American
Company's steamships who went across to Bremen in
the Hermann a fortnight since "in remembrance," as the
inscription states, "of a happy cruise in his ship, and
admiration of his qualities as a sal )r and a gentleman.h
The Hamburg and Brazilian Cempany's steamship,
Petropolis, Captain Gcele, sailed this afternooni for Lis-
bogie, Pernambuco, Bahia, and Rio Janeiro,,inzbtiehnaabroruot,
70 passengers, 80,000/, in specie, and a
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Mercy, of whom 10 are des rued for
and six fer Pernambuco), and two priests. Pon board, and will
polis has about 1,800 tons of
tion, to Rio. The Belgic!'
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sengers from this port, a
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celona, Captain Brunette Seidel for Hamburg on Tuesday..