The Sun.
London, England, 1863-08-22 00:00:00

SHIPPING—This Day.

LONDON, Aug. 22.—Wind this day at noon—North.
Westerly; light breeze, and fine weather, but rather
cloudy.

PORTSMOUTH, Aug. 21.--Wind N.W.—Arrived—Ex.
press, from Sunderland for Calcutta.
MARYPORT, Aug. 20.—Sailed—Ilistorics, and Fawcett,
for Quebec.
TORBAY, July 21.—Wind N.W.—Arrived—Chester,
screw steamer, from Bilboa.

WHITEHAVEN, Aug. 20.—Wind W.--Sailed—Transit,
and Thomas Lee, for Quebec.

Orr TORBAY, Aug. 21.—Arrived--Neville, from London
for Sydney.

DARTAfOUTH, Aug. 20.—Wind N.W.—Sailed—lnga,
for Quebec.

CLYDE, Aug. 21.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Lotus, from
Quebec.

FALMOUTH, Aug. 20,—Wind
Augusta, for Colombo.

LAMLASII, Aug, 20.—Wind S.W.—Sailed—Envoy, for
Quebec.

(BY MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH.)
GRAVESEND, Saturday Morning.
Arrived, Aug. 21.—Frederic Russell, from Colombo.
Arrived, Aug. 22.—Radiant, from Cronstadt; Lizzie,
from Drobach ; Glendower, Elizabeth Thomas, and Ellen,
from Dan zic ; Alma, from Stettin; Lynher, from Drobach;
Venice, from Cronstadt; Mavrocordates, from Suliaa.
DEAL, Saturday Morning.
Passed.—Alexander Maria, from London, for Brest;
Corsair Brothers, from London, for Colombo ; Octavia, from
Calman, for Port Natal; Abyssinian, from Sunderland, for
Genoa.

THE HARVEST IN SUSSEX.—Harvest operations
throughout this county are now fast drawing to a close, and
it is expected that few days more will see the whole of the
grain crops safely housed. The harvest in all parts of the
county has been a most plentiful one. A more abundant
crop of wheat, or one of finer quality, has not been grown
for many years. This is confirmed by the result of the
threshing in those places where it has been effected, the
yield being in some cases 12, 13, and in some instances as
many as 14 sacks per acre. Oats have likewise turned out
a good crop, and the yield is higher than the average, as
a larger breadth was sown with this grain than usual.
Barley has turned out well also, but as it has not been so
extensively cultivated in Sussex of late years, the supply of
it will most likely prove rather short. The rains during the
past few days have had no appreciable effect in retarding
the ingathering of the harvest, but have rather stimulated
the farmers to increased exertions so as to have the whole
of their crops securely garnered as soon as possible. The
rain has exercised a most beneficial influence upon the hop
plantations, so that a very perceptible change for the better
has taken place upon them within the last ten days. The
plant, now considerably cleared of vermin, has grown sur-
prisingly ; and although the crop cannot be an abundant
one, the prospects of the hop planters have become consi-
derably brighter of late.
SUICIDE BY A SERGEANT OF THE 52D FOOT AT
CHATHAM,—At an early hour yesterday morning,
Malcolm Montgomery, a sergeant in the 52d Light Infan-
try, committed self-destruction by shooting himself with
his rifle. The deceased was placed under arrest the pro.
yious day for being drunk. He went to bed at the usual
hour, and the lights in the barrack room were put out.
Shortly after 3 o'clock, the men in the room were aroused
from their sleep by the report of a rife. Corporal Lordun,
who had charge of the room, immediately procured a light
and found the deceased lying on his back on his bed, with
a rifle between his legs, the muzzle near his chin, and a
piece of string attached to the trigger. Blood was flowing
from the back of the neck, through which the ball had
passed. Life was not extinct, but deceased very soon died.
Montgomery had been to nythe for rifle instruction and
returned to Chatham on Saturday. Since his return to the
depot he took to drinking, and when under the influence of
liquor he was perfectly wild in his manner. Deceased had
been ten years and four months in the regiment. An in-
quest Was held en the body yesterday, and after the evi-
dence of several witnesses, the jury returned a verdict of
temporary insanity.

MURDER BY A SAILOR IN LIVERPOOL.—At the
Liverpool assizes yesterday, before Mr. Justice
Blackburn, James O'Brien, a tall young sailor, of 26, was
indicted for the wilful murder of Elizabeth Callaghan on
the 20th Juno last. The facts of the case were short and
simple. Callaghan was a woman of ill-repute, and O'Brien
had visited her house. While he was asleep Mather (the
girl with whom he was consorting) rose, took some money
from his pockets, and treated the other inmates of the house
to drink. She took about six shillings, and on coming up-
stairs again she found that during her absence four sove-
reigns had been taken out of the sailor's pocket. She then
awoke O'Brien, who accused the landlady of robbing him.
She denied that she knew anything of it, and O'Brien then
took Mather with him to the police-office, but the police
declined to interfere. O'Brien then swore he would have
satisfaction of his own, and he subsequently purchased a
sheath knife, went to the house of Callaghan, and plunged
the knife into her stomach. The woman died almost im-
mediately, and shortly afterwards the prisoner was himself
arrested. The jury found the prisoner " Guilty of wilful
murder," and he was sentenced to death. The prisoner
bore the sentence with groat calmness.
A PRISON OFFICER STABBED AT WAKEFIELD.—..
At the West Riding (prison) sessions yesterday, at Wake•
field House of Correction, it was reported that a convict,
named John Johnson, had made an attempt upon the life
of Mr. Clifton Shepherd, one of the officers. The convict,
without provocation, stabbed Mr. Shepherd in the abdo-
men with a pair of scissors, and Mr. Shepherd's life is in
danger. The convict, who appears to have had no motive
except that he considers himself in prison for "nothing,
will be brought before the Wakefield magistrates.
A letter from Gastein in the Oct-Deutsche Post
says :—" The opinion of Caunt do Bismark, tending
to decline the invitation to the Congress of Princes,
is said to have been warmly supported by the
Prince Royal. The Prince argued, basing him-
self upon the opinion of the Queen and of his
own friends, that the object of the Congress was
to subalternise Prussia, and that it was neces-
sary to resist that provocation' energetically.
M. de Bismuth found himself greatly streagthuitd
by that unhoped-for assistance."