The Sun.
London, England, 1863-09-25 00:00:00

BY MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH._

GRIVINEND, Friday Morning.
Arrived, Sept. 24.—Jonadah, from Leghorn ; Physe and
Petrel, from Denai ; Calder, from Tinidad; Premier, from
Demerara.
Arrived, Sept. 25—Waterloo, from Rotterdam ; City of
Norwich, from Tonning; Lady Hilda, from Barbadoes
Gustaf Wa: a, from Gattenbarg.
Sailed, Sept. 25-43areelona, steamer, for Barcelona.

THE VIRTUES OF BORAL—The washerwomen of
Holland and Belgium, so proverbially clean, and
who get up their linen so beautifully white, use refined borax
as a walthing-powder instead of soda, in the proportion of a
large handful of borax-powder, to about 10 gallons of boil•.
ing water ; they save in soap nearly half. All the large
washing establishments adopt the same mode. For laces,
cambrics, Sce., an extra quantity of the powder is used, and
fur crinolines (required to be made very stiff) a strong solu-
tion is necessary. Borax, being a neutral salt, does not in
the slightest degree injure the texture of the linen; its effect
is to soften the hardest water, and therefore it should be
kept on every toilette table. To the taste it is rather sweet;

it is used for cleaning the hair, is an excellent dentifrice, and
in hot countries is used, in combination with tartaric acid and
bicarbonate of soda, as a cooling beverage. Good tea cannot
be made with hard water ; all water may be made soft by
adding a teaspoonful of borax-powder to an ordinary-sized
kettle of water, in which it should boil. The saving in the
quantity of tea used will be at least one-fifth.
FATAL BOAT ACCIDENT AT NOTrINGHAM.—Two
PERSONS DROWNED.—A distressing accident oc-
cutred yesterday, in the River Trent, near Nottingham,
whereby two persons lost their lives. It appears that two
young gentlemen, named Hurst, had been at the wedding
of a friend named Manlove. The party, after the wedding,
went to Clifton Grove to spend the remainder of the day.
Mr. John and Mr. Edward Hurst left the party and en-
gaged a small boat at the Union Inn, near the Trent, and
took with them a boy named Bromley to act as coxswain,
when striving to row through an arch of the Trent-bridge,
owing to a flush of water the boat was nearly upset and the
boy thrown out, but it being shallow water where he was,
the Hursts told him to keep stationary and they would soon
rescue him. Bromley, however, unfortunately took hold of
the side of the boat, and it immediately capsized, both the
young men, as well as the boy, being pitched into a very
rapid stream. Mr. John Hurst, who is a good swimmer,
tried hard to save his brother ; but all his efforts were of no
avail, and both Mr. Edward Hurst and the boy Bromley
went to the bottom, and when got out both were dead.
FIRE AT THE ADELPHI THEATRE, LIVERPOOL.--
On Wednesday evening, about a quarter to 9 o'clock,
great alarm was created amongst the audience at the Adelphi
Theatre, in Christian-street, by a cry that the place was on
fire. It appears that several boys who were indulging
themselves with a pipe in the gallery, let a spark drop
amongst some shavings and rubbish beneath the seats.
These materials at once burst into a flame, and the fire
communicated itself to the benches. A great deal of Eureka
made the thing appear more serious than it really was.
The alarm having been given at the Dosehill fire station, a
reel was speedily on the spot, and a for buckets of water
quicskly eatinuished the Are.