The Sun.
London, England, 1863-10-30 00:00:00

SHIPPING—This Day.

LONDON, Oct. 30.—Wind this day at noon—South-
South-East; strong breeze, and cloudy weather, with

rain.

CLYDE, Oct. 29.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—John Fergu-
son, from Quebec.

SUNDERLAND, Oct. 29.—. Wind S.W.—Sailed—Alarsa,
for Valparaiso.

(Br MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH.)
GRAVESEND, Friday Morning.
Arrived, Oct. 30—Linea, from Bahia.
Sailed, Oct. 30.—Chanticleer, steamer, for Stettin; Raby
Castle, for Calcutta; Wilhelm, for Cuba.
Anchored—Astrea DEAL, Friday Morning.
(steamer), from Landon, for St.
Michael's; Sarah of Weymouth, from Liverpool, for Rot-
terdam • Louisa, from tho north, for west.
Passed—Fanny (schooner), from the west, for north;
American Congress, from New York, for London.

MONEY ORDERS.—In future when delay a
payment of a money order for ten days is desired, the
.re-
mitter must, at the time of issue, affix a penny receipt
stamp on the order, and write his name across it. 1,
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order must then be handed to the issuing officer, so t 5: la
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By command of the Postmaster-General, ROWLA.IID II"' 2
Secretary.
NINEYEIT'
MR. LAYARD'S DISENTOMBMENT OF
life of the
—Can it be denied that Mr. Leyard
better acquainted with the public and
privatev written about
Assyrians, than all the historians who
upss the sand
has made us
them ? How many eyes have gazedin ignorance that.
mounds that covered ancient Nineveedia,
/ if the historians
beneath them history itself lay burl!,
, the nations of anti..
who wrote in their hazy
°or rather slept like the
quity, in the last century, hvi,,,daybee:-° told that Assyria lived
beneath these misshapen moon
enchanted princess in the fairy
tell
us her tale, graven on
would come forth and spotlit,
show us through her royal
enduring marble,
smiled incredulously ?
weeps of the throne of Seunacherib
What
himself—would they net
tell us a hundredth part of what
hails, and take us t
Rollin of the pen could - for us with the spade? The stranger
Layard has written rtdhoet
have
am
desultory wanderings in the British museum
at with his the long low gallery in Which the spoils
at last loiters into spoils
of Assyria are rang0
ranged. If he happen to be
an imagina-
tive turn, enough be finds fools t
These
lugging spirits. sculptured sL bs discover to him a
picture history of one of the great eastern empires. He
may see the very throne upon which Sardanapalus sat, and
the sceptre he used, and—we say it in order to show that
we need not despair of having presented to us even the
minutest details of the past—we find the very studs, and
buttons, and pins, that that mighty monarch probably
wore ; for they were discovered in these ravel halls. Need
we despair that the earth will yield un thousands of secrets
equally caricus with those she has so long kept silently in
the sand btside the swittly flawing Tigris? Let us salute
those human-headed winged bulls, for they guarded the
portals through. which monarchs and slaves have passed,
whose deeds and auffeiings the sacred historian has chro.
nicled in the Great Boot:.—Once a Week.
COLLISION ON TILE PEEBLES RAILWAY.—
EDINBURGH, TddrstlAvi 5.30 Evening.—A collision
has occurred on the Peebles Railway. Three ballast
waggons Waggons got detached from the train on the Le idbn and
to the
line, branch, now making ; they rolled on
i
line, and met the 4.20 train from Edinburgh. A terrible
shock took place. One boy of seven, son of xr. Tennant,
passengers were
or the Glen, was killed, and seven or eight
gewas
done to
injured ; two or more seriously. Grea.t_dulocked. The ea-
the plant. The line, which is single, is ii
gine-man and stoker were injured.