The Sun.
London, England, 1863-06-13 00:00:00

THE SON, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, JUNE is, 1863.

IN RE THEODORE BLAIRE.

This bankrupt was a bootmaker, in Burlington-gardens,
and now owed £1,400 to creditors, and the assets were only
£6O He had made an assignment to trustees for the
benefit of creditors, and the trustees had received £2OO and
disbursed £l7O.
His Honour said that these assignments ought to be
watched, for the trustees appeared to think they had a
carte blanche, and must be looked after by the official

assignee.
Mr, Peck said it was to be regretted the bankrupt had not
come before the Court in the first instance.
His Honour said that without imputing anything against
the bankrupt an adjournment must take place.

Electric and International Telegraph Co,

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

TELEGRAPH-STAEET, E.C. , June 13.

SlR,—The following messages one o 4 which left
San Francisco, June 2, at 9.20 p.m., wc-re brought
by the China, which sailed from New York on the
morning of the 3d, and arrived at Queenstown last
night. The substance of these messages was de-
spatches to St. Petersburg this morning (13th).
These massages have been sent from San Francisca,
on the Pacific, to St. Petersburg, on the Neva, in
101 days, 91 of which were consumed in traversing
the Atlantic by steamer.

These messages demonstrate that when an At-
lantic cable is successfully laid, St. Petersburg and
the great telegraphic system of Russia, reaching
almost to the frontier of China, will be able to com-
municate with San Francisco and the British pos-
sessions on the Pacific within 24 hours.

C. F. PARLEY.

Fred. McCrellish, Director of the Columbia Telegraph,
San Francisco, to Cyrus W. Field, on board the China.

"June 2, 9.20 p.m.

"I congratulate you on the prospect of your final effort
to lay the Atlantic cable. We have successfully built and
put into operation telegraph lines connecting San Francisco
on the Pacific with the Atlantic States. We have also
built a line to Yreka, on the extreme northern boundary of
Columbia, and a line will be built this season from the
latter place to Portland or Egon, which is 260 miles from
Victoria, Vancouver's Island. This gap we shall build
next year; and when done Vietolia will be as near to New
York by telegraph as San Francisco. Then lay the Atlan-
tic cable, and the North Pacific, by the magic telegraph,
will speak to the Mediterranean,"
"H. W. Carpenter, President of the Overland Telegraph
Company, San Francisco, to Cyrus W. Field.
" June 2, 12.15 p.m.

" We congratulate you on the prospect of the early suc-
cess of your great enterprise. In the meanwhile we on the
shores of the Pacific are not idle. Already we talk to you
across an entire continent as if face to face. Next year, I
hope, will find you in telegraphic communication with
Oregon, Victoria, and British Columbia, another year with
Mexico, and three years with London and Paris by way of
she Amoor and St. Petersburg.
"The Overland Telegraph has demonstrated the prat-

ticability of transmitting messages through long circuits.
Despatches have repeatedly been sent direct from New York
to San Francisco, a distance of about 4,000 miles, b, wire,
with as much ease, accuracy, and despatch as if the iistance
were but fifty miles.

'• May you meet with no new disappointment in your
great efforts to put a girdle round the earth."

SHIPPING—This Day.

LONDON, June 13 —Wind at noon, N.W. Fresh breeze
and showery.
PILL, June 12—Wind W.—Sailed, Belle Adventure, for
St. John's, Newfoundland.

SOUHAMPTON, June 12. Arrived—Atrato (steamer),
from the West Indies, Sailed Ceylon (steamer) for
Alexandria.

LissoN, June 12 —The Amiral Hamelin, from Cardiff to
Buen ,s Ares, put in here yesterday, leaky, and may dis-
charge.

(BY MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH
GRAVESEND, Saturday Morning.
Arrived. Jute 12—Bonny Lass, hem Retgefure ; Malta;
from Port Louis.

Sailed—Simoda, for Shanghai; Montrose, for St. Vin.
cent; Crescendo, for Tampico; Naval Brigade, for Born.
bay; Belisama, for Cape of Good Hope; Salvador, for St
Michael.

DEAL, Saturday Morning.
Passed—lsabella Blyth, for the Mauritius; Montrose,
for St. Vincent ; Chebucto, for Sierra Leone ; Quiver, for
Nassau ; Bridgetown, for Barbadoes ; Crown, for the Cape
of Good Hope; Aurelian, for Swansea —all from London;
Ocean; of Colchester, from the West, for the North.

THE STARS (FADING) AND THE STRIPES (FALLING).
_We have news that nine more American ships
and cargoes have bean captured. The value is supposed to
be two millions dollars I Burning London, tarring every
English merchant, and having Lords Palmerston and Rus•
sell pulled to pieces by wild horses, are only the mild modes
of punishment suggested by the talkers of the town. The
merchants, if they could do it, would vote a war to-day
against England as the cause of this loss of prvorty.
Every time news reaches this city to the effect that the Ala.
bama has captured more American vessels, reminds me of
my boyhood days, when I used to throw a stone at a hor-
net's nest just to see the row, while I kept off at a respect-
ful distance. Really the Alabama and the Florida captures
are enough to make any commercial community swear and
tear around I It is now settled that the American flag at sea
cannot protect a chicken-coop, much less a ship or cargo.—
Manhattan.
ILLNESS OF LADY TREVELYAN.—We are sorry to
hear that Lady Trevelyan, the clever and accom-
plished wife of our Indian Chancellor of the Exchequer, and
the favourite sister of the world-renowned Loid Macaulay,
has suffered so severely in health from an accident in the
bath (perhaps a fall on the wet and slippery floor) that her
medical advisers have recommended her to proceed imme-
diately for change of climate to the I•kilgherry
Allen's Indian