The Sun.
London, England, 1864-09-22 00:00:00

SHIPPING-THIS DAY,

LONDON, Sept. 22.—Wind this day at noon—South-
Westerly; moderate breeze and fiat) weather, with rain
during the night.

BRISTOL, Sept. 20,—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Eliza
Jenkins, from Jamaica.

CLTDE, Sept. 21.—Wind N,W.—Arrived—Fortunate,
from Pernambuco—Maple Valley, from Trinidad— Glen-
cairn, from Iquique.
CARDIFF, Sept. 21.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Justitia,
from New York. Sailed—Arab, for Singapore—Avarille,
for Boston.

PLYMOUTH, Sept. 20.—Wind N.W.—Arrived—Gipsy,
reitio Quebec—Cicerone, from London for Nassau. Sailed
—Mina Clarke, for Quebec.

INEIWORT, Sept. 19.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Albion,
from Gloucester for Mauritius. _ _

HOLYHEAD, Sept. 20.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Hema-
tite, from Mazagan.

TURIN, Sept. 21.—Yesterday evening a number
of young men, of whom several were workmen,
paraded the streets, shouting "Dawn with the
Ministry." The bystanders witnessed this demon-
stration with indifference, and the assemblage Eub •
sequently dispersed of its own accord.

A communication from Berne says :—" The Fe-
deral Council has received fresh adhesions to the

reaty for medical aid to the wounded decided on

by the International Congress which recently met
at Geneva. The Hellenic Government has mani-
fested its regrets at not having been able to have

itself represented at that assembly. In expressing
ardent wishes for the full success of so civilising
and:eminently humane a work, it reserves to itself
to give its adhesions to the conclusions of the Con•
grebe. 'turkey also announces her approlor ttion ;
the delegate who left Constantinople arrived too

,ate to be present at the Geneva Conferene3. The

Emperor of Mexico has expressed to the Federal
authority the lively interest which he takes in the
work, by declaring that he readily joins in the
object proposed. Persia herself, although she had,
not been invited, his given marks of satisfaction ;

and the Persian Ambassador in Paris has expretscd

hii regret that the great distance of his conntry had
not ,permitted it to be represented at the Confe•

rence."
BENARES PLOT.—The Maharajah of Benares
lately sent word to the local authorities that a
Mahomedan stranger in the city had made urgent applica-
tions for an interview with him, on the plea that he bore
confidential despatches which must be delivered into the
Maharajah's own hands. For some reason the man was
suspected to have come from the neighbourhood of Sittana.
It was therefore decided that the interview be granted, and
at the special rtquest of the Maharajah an agent of Govern-
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went be concealed in the room of audience to hear what
passed. The scoundrel, who gives the name of (loon Khan
of Rawah, duly kept his tryete, and presented what pur-
ported to be letters bearing the signature and seals of the
Akhoond of Swat and Itejeh of Jummo, introducing the
bearer as their confidential agent, who would receive any-
thing the Maharajah would send them, and who bore mes-
sages of importance from them to the Maharajah. The man
then went on to state that it was arranged by the Akhoond
and the Rajah of Jummo that they should make a joint
attack on the British immediately after the rains, and the
Rajahs, Nawabs, and other men of influence in ilindostan
be invited to co-operate by simultaneously rising and by
sending recruits and money to Sittana. When he had ex-
hausted his budget the agent of Government stepped from
behind the purdah and arrested him. Other Punjabets
have since been taken in the city who have been consorting
with this man, and from whom further revelations may be
expected. Meanwhile Government is vigorously prosecu-
ting inquiries in other quarters. It is suspected that these
men are mere imposters, and in no way connected with or
commissioned by the Akhoond or Cajah, but merely traffic-
ing on the discontent of the people for their own peculiar
benefit.—bellri Gazette.
The first stone of a new Congregational Chapel
was laid at Scarborough on Tuesday, by Mrs Titus Salt,
on a site near the South Cliffe. The chapel is being built'
in the Gothic style. It will cost nearly £3,000, and accom-
modate ten or twelve hundred persons.
The Gazette del Popolo of Frorence states that
the police of that city has just eff-,cted an impor-
tant capture of two men strongly suspected of having mur-
dered three women that kept furnished lodgings. This
capture required a good deal of dexterity. The police
having learnt that a woman of the neighbourhood had ex-
pressed her surprise at the disappearance of ono of the
lodger& in the house where the murder had been committed,
asked whether she could identify him, and upon her reply-
ing in the affirmative, made her walk about in Florence for
six days in company with a police-agent. On the sixth
day she saw the man, and pointed him out to the
agent, who from that moment followed him liko
his shadow, ma!e his acquaintance, and ultimately wen:, to
Leghorn with him. Hero the suspected man found an
acquaintance, who joined the party, and the agent then pro-
posed that they should all three take a cicerone to show
them tbo town. Another police-agent having offered him-
self in that capacity, he was accepted, and by degrees be-
came quite familiar with them, and ultimately told them
that a deal of money might be got with very little trouble—
just by murdering an old woman who lived in such a house
where they might take up their lodgings. The bait was
eagerly swallowed, and no sooner had the two men repaired
to the house in question, than they wens arrested, and the
evidenoe of their guilt was found about their persons.
The local journals state that the Beaujolias, the
district north of Lyons, is now in full vintage, and
in a general point of view the yield appears likely to satisfy
the vine-growers, The crop, they state, both as regards
quantity and quality, will not be inlet-Lir to that of last
year. On the occasion of the vintage an old custom pre-
vails in the ins-growing communes of that part of France.
The men carry to the church some of their finest grapes to
have them blessed ; at the moment when that ceremony
takes place, each person holds up above his head a branch
having on it fruit and foliage, and the nave of the church
resents the appearance of a vineyard. After
then almost presents
the service each person religiously dep,Ats the grapes eo
blessed in the vat in which the crop is afterwards thrown.
The Senate of Frankfort has sent to the Legis-
lative Body a bill for the abolition of all religious disabili-
ties. The measure has been referred by the last-named
assembly to its committee on constitutienal I,ff ,irs.
The vill9gu of I) zin (Ale) has just been almost
entirely destroyed by fire, one isolated house only having
escaped. Twenty-seven houses or learns were consumed
with the furniture of crops contained hi them, Several
heads of cattle also fella prey to the flames.