The Sun.
London, England, 1865-10-14 00:00:00

NEWPORT.

Beef, from 2s 10d to 4s 6d ; mutton, 4s 4d to 5s 8d ;
veal, 4s 01 to 5s Od; and pork, 4s Od to 6s Od per Blbs by
the carcase.

WIIITECHAPEL.

Beef, from 2s 10d to 4s 6d ; mutton, 48 4d to 5s 8d ;
veal, 4s Od to 5s 01; and pork, 4s Od to Gs Od per Blbs,
by the carcase.

BREAD.

The prices of wheaten bread in the metropolis aro from
7d. to Bd. ; of household ditto, 51-d. to 6id. per 41bs. loaf.

HIDES AND SKINS.
Market hides 56 to 61 ibs, 3d to 31d. ; 64 to 72 lbs,
to aid ; 72 to 80Ibs, 3kd to 3f,d ; 80 to 881bs., 31d to 4d ; 88
to 961b5., 4d. to 41d. ; 96 to 1041b5., 4id. to 4jd. Horse
hides, Os to 10s Od ; calf skins (light), 2s to 48;
ull, 68 6d ;
polled sheep, 7s Od to 8s 6d ; half-bred; 6s Od to 6s 9d ;
downs, 4s 6d to 5s 3d ; lambs, Os Od to Os Od.

Death of Mr. Rae of the Zambesi Expe
dition.

We regret to announce to-day the death of Mr.
Rae, C.E., one of the members of Dr. Livingstone's
exploring party in Africa, who expired under very
melancholy circumstances in Glasgow on Wednes-
day. The deceased gentleman, who had been for
some time at Zanzibar, arrived in this country on
Monday week, and arrangements had been made that
during his present visit he should be married to a
daughter of the late Mr. Walter Dalgleish, Holyleo,
Selkirkshire. Up till Tuesday, which had been fixed
for the marriage, the deceased was in apparently
perfectly good health, but about noon of that day he
complained of pain in the stomach. The symptoms,
however, were not such as to cause any alarm, and
the marriage ceremony took place at 3 o'clock. Mr.
Rae, shortly after the marriage, seemed to be getting
worse, and was put to bed. His illness was accom-
panied with insensibility in the evening ; in the
morning consciousness returned, but unfortunately
there was no recovery from his illness, as he died
about noon on Wednesday. Mr. Rae worked in
early youth with a millwright in Perth. He subse-
quently completed his appretticeship as an engineer
with Mr. Caird, the eminent shipbuilder on the
Cljde. He afterwards entered the employment of
Messrs. Todd and Macgregcr, Glasgow. He was
engaged in the French service in one of the trans-
ports employed during the Russian war, and he was
at one time, we believe, wrecked off Cadiz. In 1858
he joined the expedition to the Zambesi, under the
command of Dr. Livingstone. In 1860 he returned
to this country to superintend the construction of
the Lady Nyassa, which it may be remembered was
built in sections, and was intended to be put on the
Lake of Nyassa. He gave an interesting account
of a shipwreck which occurred on his passage home.
He sailed from Zanzibar on the 30th of August,
1860, in the Guide, sailing from Salem. The
ship's company consisted of 20 Americans; and
three Spanish ladies and himself were passengers on
board. On the 4th of September, about midnight,
the vessel struck, and went ashore at Rass Haffoon,
near the Gulf of Aden. On the following morning
they were able to reach the shore, but they were
plundered of nearly everything they possessed by
the natives. For several days they went about in
search of water. Five of the crew who left their
companions for that purpose never returned, and
were afterwards found to have been murdered.
Their sufferings at this time were indescribable,
their tongues perfectly parched, and their voices so
much altered that they could scarcely understand
what each other said. They ultimately resolved to
kill the captain's dog, which accompanied them from
the ship, and Mr. Rae states that he put a small
piece of the flesh over his lips to keep them moist,
they being severely cracked and very painful. The
party on the fifth day returned to the ship. They
were visited by the chief's “head man" from the
interior, who on learning that there was an Eng-
lishman in the party, said he had his orders from
his Sultan, if there was any English, to protect
them until the arrival of the chief. The chief ar-
rived in five or six days, and through his kindness
Mr. Rae was despatched with the ladies in an open
boat to Makullah. Here, by the liberality of the
Sultan, he was provided with another boat, which
reached Aden on the 25th October, 1860, and from
thence he secured passages enabling him to arrive
at Southampton the 17th November following. Mr.
Rae was a gentleman of amiable and kindly dispo-
sition, and was much beloved and respected by all
who knew him. He died at the early age of 32.
Edinburgh Evening Courant.

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Fatal Boa'

Demerara.

LOSS OF ENGLISH OFFICERS AND OTHER

GENTLEMEN.

The West Indian mail brings the news of a de-
plorable accident in Demerara. The following
account of the disaster appears in the Creole of
Georgetown (Sept 20) :—" The amusements and
gaieties which have prevailed in town since the com-
mencement of last week in connection with the visit
of the Barbadoes cricketers have been brought to a
sudden and calamitous termination. It will be remem-
bered that an announcement had been made of a trip
in the steamer to the penal settlement, in order to
afford thegentlemen from Barbadoes an opportunity
of viewing the fine scenery of the Essequibo river dis-
trict. The steamer Berbice left this 'river on Mon-
day morning, with a party of 39, composed of the
Barbadoes Eleven, several gentlemen of this city,
and some 17 officers of the Aurora and Steady, on
board, reaching the settlement on the afternoon
of the same day. Yesterday the party, after
visiting Mr. Fausett's wood-cutting establishment,
prepared to shoot the rapid (Castabuk). The
arrangements were made under the directions of
Mr. Comptroller Bagot. But it appears that his
prudent instructions were not obeyed, and one of
the most lamentable accidents that it has ever been
our sad task to record has followed. There were
two boats used for the purpose of shooting the rapid.
One of them was the Lady Wodehouse, belonging
to the penal settlement, and capable, as Mr. Bagot
knew, of carrying with safety only 14 persons ; but,
we understand, while attention was turned away
parties crowded into her to the number of 19. The
first boat succeeded in shooting the rapid without
any accident, but the Lady Wodehouse, which fol-
lowed, was observed in. her descent to broach to, it
is supposed from the paddle of the steersman catch-
ing into a crevice of the rock, and in an instant shs
was capsized and the 21 persons were strug-
gling for their lives. In a stream like that, the
water dashing over a precipice at the rate of some
ten miles an hour, it may well be supposed that
even an expert and powerful swimmer has but a
poor chance for life, especially as when the accident
occurred they were under the tent of the boat.
Nevertheless, some of the parties struck out man-
fully, while their friends in the other boat were com-
pelled to witness their struggles .without being able
to rescue them. Five of the gentlemen and two of
the boatmen were drowned. The names of the
gentlemen are—Captain Beresford, the son-in-law
of his excellency the governor ; Mr. R. D. Stewart,
partner in the firm of Messrs. S. A. Harvey and
Co. ; Mr. Rowley, second engineer of her Majesty's
ship Steady; Mr. Lionel Parks, of the Post-office,
Barbadoes Eleven; and Mr. Christie, of the George-
town Post-office. The others were saved either by
swimming or by being dashed on the rock. Mr.
Frederick Smith, the captain of the Barbadoes
Eleven, swam boldly for some time, and was after-
wards picked up, apparently dead, but has since
been revived. Mr. Stewart, also, who was a good
swimmer, struck out manfully for some time, but
unfortunately exhausted himself swimming against
the current.

ALL ENGLAND PLOUGHING MATCHES.—The rain
which has fallen has put the ground into a much more
suitable state for these contests. Three matches have
come off this reek—viz., at Evercreoch, Somerset; Long
Sutton, Lincolnshire; and Tenbury, Worcestershire. The
two former were attended by both the Howards and the
Ransomes, but the latter did not compete at Tenbury.
The three prizes were all carried off by the Bedford firm.
At Tenbury, for the first time this season, the dynamome-
ter was applied, when the draught of the competing
ploughs was found to vary as much as 70 per cent., the
prize implement of Messrs. Howard being the lightest in
draught by upwards of 20 per cent.
THE AMERICAN SPIRITUALISTS IN TROUBLE.—
The New York papers print the decision of Judge Hall,
of the United States District Court at Buffalo, in the
appeal in the Colchester case. Colchester, as previously
stated, was fined forty dollars and the costs of suit for
practising the profession of spiritualist, or juggler, with-
out having taken out a licence under the Internal
Revenue Laws, and this was now confirmed. The
Judge, in the course of his judgment, said :—" The per-
formances of the defendant were claimed by him to be
the exercise of the alleged powers and capacities of the
so.-called spiritual mediums—a numerous class of persons,
many of whom were within the reach of a subpcena, and
could bo easily found. If the defendant and those spiritual
mediums are not impostors who practise upon the credu-
lity of the's° who patronise them, the most obvious and
direct mode of proving the defence set up was to put these
so-called mediums upon the stand to attest under the
solemnity and responsibilities of an oath, the fact that they
do receive communications from some spiritual and other
supernatural or unknown source in answer to questions of
whose contents they are themselves ignorant ; that they do
what the defendant did without any sleight of hand per-
formance, and do not willingly deceive and delude those
who consult them. It might well be supposed that this
class of persons, who it was said by the de-
fendant's counsel were as conscientious and confi-
dent in their belief of the truth of their professions as
were those martyrs who have suffered at the stake, in at-
testation of the sincerity of their religious belief, would
gladly embrace an opportunity to prove, upon a judicial
trial, the sincerity and truth of the pretension; if such
proof could be made. That no ono of this class of persons
was called upon the stand, or volunteered his testimony
upon this trial, probably the first widely advertised oppor-
tunity of removing this vexed question of the truth of their
pretensions from the regions of dreamy speculation and
dogmatic assertion, and bringing it to a legal and public
trial in the mode and upon the evidence to which, after all,
the world's experience wo are still obliged to resort for the
determination of all questions of fact in which the liberties
and lives of our people depend—is a circ nnstance of much
significance and weight, upon the question of the guilt or
innocence of the defendant. Not only the pecuniary in-
terests, and perhaps the personal liberty of the defendant,
but the interest and reputation of all the so-called spiritual
mediums, were involved in this question ; and yet not one
of those persons who, upon their own knowledge, could
have given direct and important testimony, was placed
upon the stand, and the defendant's defence was suffered
to rest mainly upon the efforts of his able counsel and the
proof by those who had consulted him that he had re-
turned pertinent answers to their questions, and showing
their writing upon his arm without their being able to dis-
cover the manner in which he learned the nature of the
questions, or that there was any sleight of hand used in his
performances. To deceive the eye, to perform tricks with
such surprising skill and rapidity as to prevent his manner
of proceeding from being discovered, is the ordinary skill
of a juggler; and the proof given was not sufficient to
shake the confidence of the jury in the case made by the
prosecution. In short, the affirmation proof of the defend-
ant's guilt was very strong, if not absolutely conclusive ;
the defence set up required the jury to disregard the mason
and experience upon which we are accustomed to rely as
citizens and as jurors; and the unsatisfactory character of
the defendant's proof, and the failure to resort to the most
obvious and direct mode of disposing of the case made by
the prosecution, left the jury no alternative, for they could
not resist their conviction of the defendant's guilt. In
conclusion, the judgment of the court is that the indict-
ment in this case is sufficient ; that the defendant was
legally tried and properly convicted; and that sentence
must follow the conviction."

MOVING PHOTOGRAPHS. —Many years ago M.
Plateau invented a curious apparatus, called the
phenakistoscope, in which, on viewing throUgh a slit the
figures drawn in a circle on the revolving disk, we seethem
moving, playing at leap-frog, and performing all kinds of
antics: a phenomenon owing to that peculiar property of the
retina which consists in retaining for a short time the im-
pression or sensation of the image which has struck it. M.
Claudet, in endeavouring to combine the effects of the
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of pugilism, but if the eye perceives the first, and imme-
diately afterwards the second, the mind completes the
action and we see the pugilist actually hit the blow. To
attain this result M. Claudet has arranged a stereoscope
in such a manner that by means of a slide with ono
hole, he can, by moving it rapidly in a reciprocating hori-
zontal direction, shut ono lens while the other remains
open; and in continuing that notion, while one eye sees
one of the two pictures, the second eye cannot see the
other picture. Now, if before the sensation of one eye is
exhausted the slide shuts the lens and opens the other, a
new impression is produced on the retina, and we have
an interrupted sensation of vision, as if the object had
moved before us; and if a sufficient number of pic-
tures represent that object in the various consecutive

positions it has assumed during several stages of its
motion, we experience on the retina the same sensation we
have when we see the object itsself while moving. More-

over we see the object without difference or interruption,
whether by the right or the left eye ; and wo cannot even
distinguish which is the eye that has had the perception.
M. Claudet can employ eight different photographs repre-
senting as many different stages of the action, by arrang-
ing them en the four faces of two cubes revolving together

on a common axis parallel to those faces, and in that way
the illusion is complete.