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

SHIPPING-THIS DAY,

LONDON, Sept. 22.—Wind this day at noon—South-
Westerly; moderate breLz3 and fine weather, vial rain
during the night.
BRISTOL, Sept. 20.—Wind
Jenkins, from Jamaica.

CLYDB, Sept. 21.—Wind N.W.—Arrived—Fortunate,
from Pernambuco—Maplo Valley, from Trinidad—Glen-

cairn, from Iquique.
CARDIFF, Sept. 21.—Wind S.W.--Arrived—Justitia,

From New York. Sailed—Arab, for Singaporc—Avaiille,
For Boston.

PLYMOUTH, Sept. 20.—Wind N.W.—Arrived—Gipsy,
from Quebec—Cicerone; from London for Nassau. Sailed
—Mina Clarke, for Quebec.
,NEWPORT, Sept. 10.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Albion,
From Gloucester for Mauritius.
IloLYnnen, Sept. 20.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Herma-
,ile, from hlazagan.

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. TIM Hellenic Government has mani-
fested its regrets at not having been able to have

itself represented at that assembly. In capres.ting
ardent wishes for the full success of so civilising
11nd:eminently humane a work, it reserves to itself
to give its adhesions to the concltv.ions of the Cone
gress. 'turkey also announces her apprcbrition ;
the delegate who left Constantinople arrived too
late fo be present at the Geneva Conferer ca. 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 expressed
his regret that the great distance of his conntry h d
not permitted it to be represented at the Coale.

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
te granted,
Sittana.
and
dMaharajah's own hands. For some reason the roan was
slut swpaesc ttehdert oefhave
decidedcom efrom
that tthbe.ew b
inery neighbourhoodinterview
of
at the special request of the Maharajah au agent of Govern-
ment be concealed in the room of audience to hear what
passed. The scoundrel, who gives the name of Goon Khan
of Rewah, duly kept his tryste, and presented what pur-
ported to be letters bearing the signature and seals of the
Akhoond of Swat and Itajah 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
Rojahs, Nam abs, and other men of influence in liindostan
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 purdeh and arrested him. Other Punjebees
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.—Dahl 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 Cliffs. 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 Florence states that
tha police of that city has just effected 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 one of the
lodgers 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
edi,x,ydsehyea insacwouttphaeny with a police-agent, On the sixth
man,
and pointed him out to the
agent, who from that moment fdlowed him like
his shadow, ma 'e his acquaintance, and ultimately went to
Leghorn with him. litre 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 showthem the 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 theta
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
eagetly swallowed, and no sooner had the two men repaired
to the house in question, than they avers arrested, and the
evidence of their guilt was found about their persons.
The Senate of Frankfort has sent to the Legis-
lative Body a bill for the abolition of all religious dipabili-
ties. The measure has been referred by the last-named
assembly to its committee on coutAitu'Enal
The villege of D.ziu (Ain) has just been almost
entirely destroyed by fire, one isolated house only having
unped. Twenty-seven honves or barns were consumed
with the furniture of crops contained iu them, Several
heads of cattle also tell a prey to the, fi Atu,..s.