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, wit!
rain.

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

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

(113: 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.
DEAL, Friday Morning.
Anchored—Astrea (steamer), from London, for St.
Michael's • Sazah of Weymouth, from Liverpool, for Rot.,
terdam • Louisa, from the north, for west.
Passed—Fanny (schooner), from the west, for north
American Congress, from New York, for London.

MONEY OuDEns.—ln future when delay of

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. The
order must then be handed to the issuing officer, so that
the necessary instructions may be given to the paying._
By command of the Postmaster-General, ROWLANI) HILL,
Secretary.

' MR. LAYARD's DISENTOMBMENT OF NINEVEH.
—Can it be denied that Mr. Layard has made us
better acquainted with the public and private life of the
Assyrians, than all the historians who have written about
them ? How many eyes have gazed upon the sand
mounds that covered ancient Nineveh, in ignorance that
beneath them history itself lay buried I If the historians
who wrote in their hazy way about the nations of anti-
quity, in the last century, had been told that Assyria lived
beneath these misshapen mounds, or rather slept like the
enchanted princess in the fairy tale, and that one day she
would coma forth and speak—tell us her tale, graven on
enduring marble, and would show us through her royal
hails, and take us to the steps of the throne of Sennacherib
himself—would they not have smiled incredulously ? What
Rollin of the pen could tell us a hundredth part of what
Layard has written for us with the spade ? The stranger
tired with his desultory wanderings in the British Museum
at last loiters into the long low gallery in which the spoils
of Assyria are ranged. If he happen to be of an imagina-
tive turn, he finds fools enough around him to fire his
flagging spirits. These sculptured skbs discover to him
_ea
picture history of one of the great eastern empires.
anid,
may see the very throne upon which Sardanapalus sat,
thatc,
the sceptre he used, and—we say it in eider to showwen
we need not despair of having presented to no° the
minutest details of the past—we find the studs,veryh
_ baro bly
buttons, and pins, that that mighty monalrhcallai:
Need
wore; for they were discovered in these royaan
ds of secrets
we despair that the earth will yield up thousands
silently in
equally carious with those she has sro, lei"?
the sand beside the swiftly flowing Tigris guarded the
those human-headed winged bulls,
dfonirvo: love passed,
of the
chr -
portals through which monarchs
storian has
whose deeds and sufferTinhgesotth;:.::jodyiiling
aided in the Great Book.—Ones a hack.
orteBl"n
A WONDERFUL DOG.—A
°day I Was privileged
the customary
Scotsman says :—"
to behold a phenomenon. d lit u 0
A diiy along the Kinross line.
Juaction, I was at length
bheailnf-ghcoounrvoefywedaistlionwglaytaLll,:rn.A'at:g barking in a reproach.
black shepherd's dog', and
It was a
ful manner at the train.
alongside.
I then lost sight of it for a few
it cantered gently
_, astonishment, on looking out
My attention was attracted by
minutes, but what was i". 7
dog, cantering at the same easy pace
' to see these
.1, It arrived at the next station
again, line of ral •
along the other
.1 after running from one station the whole wa
along with 11- considerably fresher than the engine.
. Irking
to the If" this must be a most wonderful dog, or (pardon
the pace of the
the horrible suspicion)
rNaeowfo'raie'ibl'urweteatrythsi:agnnot be prodigious, and the dog knew the
oFiolfwenre—ss of the line too well to put his master to the expense
of a ticket when, ha could so easily run the distance on foot."
COLLISION ON THE PEEBLES RAILWAY.—
EDINBURGH, Thursday, 5.30 Evening.—A collision
has occurred on the Peebles Railway. Three ballast
waggon got detached from the train on the Leadburn and
Linton branch, now making ; they rolled on to the main
line, and met the 4.20 train from Edinburgh. A terrible
shock took place. One buy of seven, son of Mr. Tennant,
of the Glen, Was killed, and seven or eight passengers were
injured ; two or more seriously. Great damage was done to
the plant. '1 he line, which is single, is blocked. The en-
gine-Wien and stoker were injured.
STRIKE OF COLLIERS IN THE NORTH,—Of the
unfortunate "strike" at the Auckland Collieries there is
yet, no ',rasped, of a termination. In one case, at least, the
door to compromise seems to be effectually closed, 370 f
fami-
lies, whose heads declined to resume work on the
termsf
Nlcssrs. Strakere and Love, having yesterday been
ejected from their dwellings at Suunbrow
village presented.
truly sad
forcibly
o presented.
i
and suggestive was the scene which the v
the egonduct of the
Under this harsh and trying treatment,
y_vetveast:e
men was most exemplary and praisew art. n
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