The Sun.
London, England, 1864-07-08 00:00:00

Arrival of the Kearsarge at Dover,

The American war steamer Kearsarge arrived in
Dover roads at six o'clock on Wednesday evening.
It had been stated in some of the French papers
that a successor to the Alabama would probably be
in waiting off Cherbourg when the Federal vessel
left that port, and that another naval engagement
might take place, in which the South would :lave
an opportunity of retrieving its late defeat. No
new Alabama, however, seems to have yet appeared,
but it is asserted that a steamer, the Jeddo, which
left Bordeaux on the 22d June, is to take the place
of the notorious privateer. On this subject the
Gironde of the 4th says :—" It will be recollected
that a mystery surrounded the departure of the
Jeddo. This mystery seems likely to be maintained.
In fact it was Wednesday, the 22d June, that the
Jeddo quitted our port for Amsterdam ; the voyage
between the two cities being ordinarily four days,
we ought five days ago at least to have heard of the
arrival in the Dutch port of the steamer built end
armed by M. Arman. But no commercial journal
that we know of has said a word upon the subject.
The voyage of the Jeddo has certainly something
strange and unusual about it, and the future will
soon show that the anticipations respecting her
were only too well founded."

The Opinion Nationale asserts that the vessel
here referred to will soon reappear, fully armed and
manned, and with the Confederate flag flying.
Captain Semmes, it is said, is to ill to take the com-
mand of her. Tnis duty will consequently devolve
upon the first lieutenant of the late Alabama, whose
appointment is expected to arrive about the middle
of the present month. If the statements of the
French papers are to be relied on there will soon be
no lack in the Channel of war vessels belonging to
the opposing Powers. According to those state•
ments, the Florida is already there ; the Jeddo, as
we have seen, is being got ready ; and " the South
is probably preparing a display of fresh forces;"
while, on the other hand, we learn that the Federal
steamer Niagara left Antwerp on the 2d inst. to
cruise in the Channel, and that a new Federal
steamer, the Macedonia, built upon the same model
as the Kearsarge, and armed with heavy guns, is
expected. The Presse thinks that a far more dra-
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SOMNAMBULISM —Oa Tuesday night a dig trus•
ing accident happened at the house of Mr Rushton,
builder, Stratford New Town. About ten o'clock the ser-
.aged 15, went to bed, and shortly
fi son was awakened by hearing
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moans and the loud barking of a dog which was chained in
the yard. He dressed himsele,, went downstairs, and was
shocked to find the poor girl lying on the pavement in the
yard, where she had fallen from an attic door a height of
18 feeA surgeon was immediately in attendance, who
foundttlet she had received alarming injuries, which will
probably have a fatal result. The girl had no recollection
how the accident occurred, and the probability is that in her
sleep she mast have walked from her bedroom through the
attio door, which was left open.