The Sun.
London, England, 1862-10-10 00:00:00

(BY MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH.)

GRAVESEND, Friday Morning,
Arrived, Oct. 10.—Johanna Henri* fiom Archangel ;
Panther, from Boulogne.
DEAL, Friday Morning.
Sailed—Willie Ridley and Danube, with all the wind•
bound, for the North.

DROWNED IN WlNE.—Yesterday morning the
body of George Elliott, late carman in the employment of
Messrs. Bannister and Co., British wine distillers. Fins•
bury, was found by his fellow-workmen floating in the
wine contained in one of the steep vats on the premises.
From the elevated position of the vat, it is supposed that
the deceased could not have fallen in by accident. Infor-
mation of the circumstance was forwarded to the coroner's
office.

THE SOUTHERN CONFEDERACY.—We under-
stand that the " Southern Association" in Liverpool, at a
meeting yesterday, agreed to a proposition which had for
its object the memorialising of Government for the recog-
nition of the Confederate States of America, This move-
ment on the part of the Southern Association has been
chiefly caused by the opinions enunciated at Newcastle on
Tuesday last by Mr. Gladstone, It is said that the mem-
bers of the Liverpool Chamber of Commerce have or are
about to petition Government as to the necessity of recog-
nising the South at, a separate nation.
Hagerstown, in Maryland, where a battle was
fought recently between the Federals and Confederates, is
a village with 4,000 inhabitants, and is the capital of Wash.
ington county. It is 26 miles from Frederick. Washing-
ton is a strong Union county ; it has sent 1,400 men to the
war, and subscribed £12,000 sterling towards bounties.
The corporation of Dublin, at its meeting on Mon-
day, appointed a public analyst. There were four candi-
dates. The voting was by ballot, and Professor Cameron
had a large majority. His business will be to analyse all
articles of food or drink purchased within the city which
may be submitted to him for the purpose, under the provi-
sions of the 23d and 24th Vict., c. 84.

LORD BELPER AND THE NEW POACHING ACT.—
At the Shire Hall, Nottingham, on Wednesday, Lord Bel-
per, in delivering judgment in a case which came under the
new Poaching Act, said the defendant had been proved to
be on a footpathwith nets for taking game in his possession.
The magistrates had considered the wording of the act, and
they found that it was impossible to make any conviction
unless it could be proved that the nets had been used for
the taking of game. This had not been done, and the bench
had no alternative but to discharge the accused and restore
the nets to him. Mr. Robert Snellie, surgeon, of Budding-
ton, Notts, was also charged before Lord Belper the sitting
magistrate, with poaching on land over which General Sir
Arthur Clifton has the right of shooting. It appeared that
on the 3d inst., the defendant was driving through the
above.named preserves in his gig, and occasionally the
vehicle was stopped, and he shot several birds and a hare.
He was observed to get out of the gig to go and fetch the
game, and afterwards return. The bench convicted him and
ordered him to pay a fine of 40s,
" SAINT CUTHBERT'S HOLY ISLE."—Lindesfarn,
or, as it is more generally called, Holy Island, is situated
upon the east coast of Northumberland, about midway be-
tween Berwick and North Sunderland, and though com-
paratively unknown to the tourist, possesses many historical
and antiquarian interest deserving of a better acquaintance.
Hallowed as the spot where Aidan, the apostle of the North,
3 and where St. Cuthbert
founded the first monastic retreat
" Marmion,"—nowhere
performed most of his miracles, it has been poetically im-
mortalised by Sir Walter Scott in
is his influence over the imagination more powerfully ex-
emplified than by the involuntary homage rendered by the
primitive race of islanders, to whom the tragedy of Con-
stance's trials and entombment has become a matter of tra-
dition ; for even at this day the little fisher lads drop their
shrill voices, and point, with half-averted eye, to Con-
stance's tomb, and tell how her death-shriek still startles
the echoes of the ruined abbciYl riAlgling with the
war
of
the tempest, and that not a min in the island will put to
pa if the white men have appeared,—Once 4 jrcer