The Sun.
London, England, 1864-09-21 00:00:00

Wm. Robert Crabtree and James Crabtree, machine
makers, Rochdale
Frederick Bassi], shipowner, Fenchurch-streot, City
Thomas Smith, cooper, Dockhead, Surrey
Miles Buck, builder, Skeyton, Norfolk

BANKRUPTCY 'ANNULLED.
Richard Williams, warehouseman, Carmarthat
SCOTCH BANKRUPTS.

John Sinclair, fanner, Auchenreoch Mains, Lanarkshire
Robert Stevenson, tanner, Bankhead, Alloa

MEXICO.

(REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.)

NEW YORK, SEPT. 9, Evening.

Despatches from Mt t.imoras to the 24th ultimo,
published in the New Ynk papers, state thot
Cortinas had defeated the French with heavy hiss
at Victoria City. Cortinis was marching to de.
fend Matamoros.

The French had landed at the mouth of the Rio
Grande to operate against Matamoras.

SHIPPING-THIS DAY,

LONDON, Sept. 21.—Wind this day at noon—South-
Westerly; moderate breezy and fine weather, but a little
cloudy.
PORTSMOUTH, Sept. 20.—Wind
tine, for Montreal.
SWANSEA, Sept. 19.—Wind SM.—Sailed—John Hol-
man, for Coquimbo. . .

, .
PLTmounr, Sept. 20.—Wind N.W.—Arrived—Gipgy,
From Quebec—Cicorone, from London for Nassau. Sailed
—Mina Clarke, for Quebec.
___

CARDIFF, Sept. 20.—Wind S.—Sailed—George Henry,
for Buenos Ayres.

FALMOUTH, Sept. 19.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Tamisa,
from Havannah.

BRISTOL, Sept. 20.—Wind
Jenkins, from Jamaica.

CLYDE, Sept. 20.--Wind N,W.—Arrived.—Elizi, from
Havanmth.

(BY MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH.)
GRATESEND, Wednesday Morning.
Arrived, Sept. 20.—Christian tiophia, from Lokken.
Arrive, Sept. 21 —Lauriell, from Riga—B3thesda, frora
Malmo—Eizibeth Wright and Glen Droon, both flora
Riga—Jannetto, from Dantzic—Mary Gillespie, Charles
Stewart, Annie, Louisa, and Lizzie Lee—all from Cronstadt
—Maria, from Oporto—Ann Warren, from Pomaron—
Charlotte Ellen, from Leghorn—Active, from Nykjobing—
Rio Grande and Wilton, fro■n Jamaica—Venus and
Whubys—both from St. Petersburg—Earnest, from Stettin,
Sailed, Sept. 21.—Sir It. Peel, steamer, for Dunkirk—
Hanover, steamer, for I Calair—Rbine, steamer, for Bou-
logue—Leipsio, steamer, for Antwerp.
DEAL, Wednesday Morning.
Anchored—The Morning Star, from London, for Lint-
dad.

Course of Exchanges—Yesterday.

Amsterdam
Ditto
Rotterdam — 12 2
Antwerp . • • 12 75
Brussels — 25 77f
Hamburg — 13 9 k
Paris .. Short. 25 30
Ditto
Marseilles — 25 75
Frankfort on Maine — 121

12 10}
12 2i
12 2,1
25 821
25 82} .
13 91
25 37i
25 80
25 80
121 k
12 5
12 5
30a

Vienna

12
12 0
30i

Trieste
Petersbargh
Berlin
Madrid
Cadiz — 47! 48
Leghorn — 25 85 25 90
Milan — 25 85 25 90
Genoa
Naples
Palermo — 25 871 25 921
Messina — 25 871 '25 921
Lisbon
Oporto
Foreign Gold in Bars (Standard)......per oz., £3 17 9
Silver in Bars (Standard)

SUDDEN DEATH OF A LADY.—About six o'clock
on Saturday evening, the wife of Mr Robert Sharpe,
of Courtlands, near East Grins' ead, had just left her dress-
ing-room in full health, but scarcely had she taken her seat
at the dinner table when she raised her hands and exclaimed,
" 0 Lord." That instant she was a corpse ; some thought
she had been suffocated, but Dr. Rogers, who was promrly
on the spot, stated that death had been the result of apo-
plexy. This melancholy occurrence has just cast a gloom
over the whole neighbourhood, and Mr Sharpe being a large
landowner, receives great sympathy, not only from friends
but from the numbers he employs.--Surrey audard.
MELANCHOLY AFFAIR AT HOLLINGWOOD,-00.
Sunday evening, a child, about three years of age.
named James William Taylor, son of Joseph Taylor, Cotten-
street, Copsterhill, Hollinwood, near Oldham, was acci-
tally shot by his cousin, Joshua Cartwright, son of James
Cartwright, of the same place. It appears that James
Cartwright bought a gun a short time ago, and he has
been in the habit of amusing his little nephew by allowing
him to fire off percussion caps. A man, named Butter-
gorth, came to borrow Cartwright's gun on Sunday fore-
noon, fur the purpose, as he said, of shooting at a flock of
starlings. Ile returned the gun shortly afterwards, still
loaded, saying the birds had disappeared, and taking off the
cap hung the weapon on the ceiling, not omitting to tell
Cartwright that it was charged. About halt-past 4in the
afternoon the child Taylor came in and, casting his eyes
towards the gun, said " Let me shoot ;" whereupon Cart-
wright took down the gun, forgetting that it was loaded,
and put on a cap. lie then took the little fellow between
his knees, but the child would not draw the trigger. Joshua
Cartwright, a boy of 13, then took the gun and pulled the
trigger. The contents of the gun lodged in the left breast
of the child Taylor, who after sobbing twice died.
FATAL ACCIDENT TO A LADY.—On Friday the
North Riding coroner held an inquest at Kirby Moorside,
upon the body of Mrs John Waines, the wife of Mr Waines,
solicitor, of that place, who met her death as follows :—A
few days ago Mr Waines, surgeon, with his wife, and Mr
and Mrs John Waines, were the occupants of a tog-cart,
in which the horse ran away in a steep street in Kirby.
Mr W. Waines finding be could not hold the animal, pulled
it short into a side street, but in crossing an iron drainage
grate the horse lost foot hold and fell, and both horse and
dog cart rolled over down the hill several times. Mr W.
Waines and his wife both received dislocations, but Mrs J.
Waines, the deceased, was greatly injured about the head,
and was rendered speechless, death ensuing on Thursday.
The sad event was purely accidental, and a verdict was re-
turned accorciingly.—Eastern Itforniny Ne s.
THE INTERIOR OF A JAVANESE CRATER.—Se-
parated by a shelving ridge, we found on the oppo-
site side another crater, called the Kawa Ratu, which is seen
to better advantage by descending into the interior. The
way, which at first glance seems easy enough, we found
before going many steps to be quite the reverse. The
descent is almost perpendicular; and, there being no
regular path, you are obliged to pick your way amongst
loose stones and hard cakes of clay, which in some places
were very slippery. When we htd descended about half
way, we came to en escarpment, from which we looked
down on the active portion of the volcano, whence
issued sounds like the moaning of the wind on a stormy
night. These sounds the superstitious natives believe
to be the groaning cf certain giants chained under
ground by a wicked gnome. Venturing to descend
still lower, we had a more distinct view of the chimneys or
apertures in the Kawa Ratu, some of which only present
the appearance of extinct craters in miniature, while from
others the smoke forces itself in dense volumes, preceded
by hoarse noises, as though the vents were too small for the
great rush of vapour proceeding from them. Tao sounds
we heard were very distinct and loud, inconsequence of our
proximity. The orifices are encrusted Kith thick deposits
of a red and yellow substance, the ground on all sides being
of a yellowish brown hue, in consequence of the quantity of
sulphur with which the air is impregnated. A few of the
holes were filled with water, blue as the sky above u-t, and
apparently boiling hot. We lingered to gaze on this won.
roux scene as long as we could stay, but the smoke, st hick
sometimes rose in clouds before our faces, obliging us to close
our eyes, compelled us at last to retreat, glad of having
had the opportunity of seeing thus much. This crater, if
not more, is at least 400 ft long, and I should say about 300
wide.--Life in Java, by TV. B. d'Abizeitia. I
A dreadful murder was committed in the begins
ning of last week by a bookbinder named Gauthier,
residing in the Rue Montagne-Ste..Genßvieve, on
the person of his wife. It appears that Gauthier, a
man of violent character and much given to drink,
had for some time been in the habit of ill-treating
his wife. One night he went home intoxicated,
and beat his wife because she reproached him with
his dissolute conduct. They went to bed, however,
as usual, but in the morning about six the husband
revived the quarrel, and at last strangled his wife
by entwining a cord six times round her neck.
He then left the house, passed the day in drinks
ing, and returned at night, and slept in the bed
with his wife's corpse. lie did the same the
two following nights, after which he returned home
no more, but sent a letter by post to M. Vigneron,
his father-in•law, stating what he had done, and
advising him to get the body buried. Vigneron
accompanied by a commissary of police and a doctor ,
went to Gauthier's lodgings and forced open the
door, but it was found impossible to enter the room
till the air had been purified by dtsinfectants. On
removing the body it was discovered that the
unhappy woman, in the agonies of death, had given
birth prematurely to a still-born child, Search was
made for the murderer, and ho was arrested on
Friday night \elide playieg billi%rds, at a caft he
frevonted,