The Sun.
London, England, 1863-03-04 00:00:00

RAILWAYS.

Cash. Account.
Orleans lllB 75 1118 75
Northern 1035 1035
New. ditto
Lyons and Mediterranean 1190 .. 1185
GPneva .. 405 .. 406 25
Southern
Western
Eastern ....
Sardinian 00000 ••• 368 75 ..
Austrian 5lO .. 510
Lowbard
North of Spain
Saragossa 697 50 .. 700
Ditto to Barcelona 350 .. 350

Amongst the anticipatory tributes of welcome to
H.R.H. the Princess—a spirit-stirring Epithalamium by
James Orton, author of the "Enthusiast," has made its
appearance. It is being set to music as an anthem by
Captain Horton Rhys (otherwise Captain Morton Price),
the lessee and manager of Sadler's Wells Theatre, where
it will be sung by the composer himself and his company on
the evening of the Marriage Day.
STEAM HAMMER MAKING AT PATRICROFT.—
Messrs. Nasmyth and Co. of the Bridgewater
Foundry, Patricroft, are now engaged in the manufacture
of a huge steam hammer for the Woolwich Arsenal. The
standards or supports of the hammer are to be 26ft. 6in.
high, and will each weigh 20 tons, though hollow through-
out. The hammer will weigh 17 tons, with a fall of 9ft.;
this great weight and fall being necessary for its work of
preparing the plates for our iron-clad ships. The weight
of one cylinder and its fittings will be 10 tons, the founda-
tion for the anvi 40 tons, and the anvil 120 tons; total,
227 tons. In a recent experiment at the foundry, it was
found that three of the fnrnaces could melt the quantity of
metal required for the first standard casting in little more
than three hours, whilst the filling of the mould will not
occupy more than three minutes. The weight required to
cover the mould to counteract the expansion of the air will
be over 200 tons.

LIBERTY (P) OF THE PRESS IN SPAIN.—The
Contemporaneo of Madrid, in the last number
which has come to hand, has replaced its first article by the
following lines :—" First, at nine o'clock this morning a
Government agent came and suppressed three paragraphs
of our leading article. Secondly, at half. past nine another
agent came and prohibited six other pargraphs. Thirdly,
at a quart€r to 10 a third agent called and suppressed the
remainder of the article. This incident is entirely new in
the annals of the press. Yet, it is said, Spain possesses a
constitutional Government 1"

EXTRAORDINARY DISCOVERY OF GOLD IN
SUSSEX.--A few weeks ago a labourer in the service
of Mr. Adams, a farmer, at Robertsbridge, turned up about
eleven pounds' weisht of solid gold in a field. From its
appearanee ho took it for old brass, and sold it as such, for
6d. per pound. It subsequently found its way into the hands
of a fly-driver in Hastings, who had been a gold digger in
California, and he recognised its true value. The matter,
however, reached the ears of the lord of the manor, and the
fly-driver, whose name is Stephen Willett, was taken into
custody for refusing to give up the gold or account for its
disposal. The charge was investigated at Battle on Satur-
day last before B. N. Combo, :Esq., the prisoner being de-
fended by Mr. Lewis, of London, who contended that the
justices had no jurisdiction. This appearing to be the case,'
the charge was dismissed.

TnE SHIELDS POISONING CASE.—NEWCASTLE-
UPON-TYNE, Monday.—By consent. this case came
before the Under-Sheriff of Northumberland and a special
jury this morning. Mr. Maule, Q.C., and Mr. Kemplay
appeared for the plaintiff (Mr. Gillespie), and Mr. Manisty,
Q.C., and Mr. Jones for the defendants (Fenwick and
Peart). The plaintiff is a seaman, residing at North Shie:ds,
and the defendants are partners practising as surgeons in
that town. They were engaged in attending upon the wife
of the plaintiff, and on the 11th October, 1862, a draught was
sent from their surgery for her to take. About an hour and
a half after taking the draught she died in convulsions. She
was interred, but from circumstances which afterwards
transpired, the body was exhumed again. It was then as-
certained that she had died from the effects of poison con-
tained in the draught, a quantity of strychnine having by
some inadvertence been compounded with her medicine by
some of the defendants' assistants. The plaintiff brought
an action against the defendants to recover damages for the
loss of the services of his wife, laying the damages at £1,200.
The case was settled to-day, without going into evidence,
by the defendants agreeing to pay the plaintiff £5OO and all
costs in the case.

BIRTH IN A CAB.—On Wednesday evening a lady,
belonging to Dundee, gave birth to a child in a cab whils
being driven lame.

AMERICA.

(REUTER'S TELEGRAMS,)
QUEENSTOWN, TUESDAY,
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The Royal Mail steamship Europa, from Boston
on the 18th and Halifax on the 22d ult., arrived
here at 4.30 p.m. to-day. She brings 54 passengers
and 277,400 in specie. She landed all mails and
five passengers, and proceeded at 4.45 p.m. ; all
well. The Europa was detained one day off Hali-
fax by fog.