The Sun.
London, England, 1865-07-31 00:00:00

THE ATLANTIC CABLE.

The following telegrams have been received by
Reuter's Telegram Company (Limited) from R.
A. Glass, Esq., managing director of the Telegraph
Construction and Maintenance Company :
ON BOARD THE GREAT EASTERN,
Saturday Morning, 10.45 a.m.
650 miles of cable were paid out at 6.50 a.m.
to-day.
The distance run at 8.50 a.m. was 600 miles.
The signals are perfect.

VALENTIA, Saturday.
Accident to cable. Cause unknown. Total loss
of insulation.
No information from or communication with
Great Eastern.
700 miles payed out at 1.50 p.m. to-day.
VALENTIA, Sunday.
All is going on well. The fault was removed at
1.50 a.m. The insulation is perfect.
ON BOARD THE GREAT EASTERN,
Sunday, 4.15 a.m.
750 miles payed out. 650 miles run by Great
Eastern.

Continuity perfect. Insulation perfect. All
going ou well.

GREAT NAVAL ENGAGEMENT.

The screw steamer Parana, from Monte Video,
arrived at Liverpool on Saturday, with news to the
24th.

The Paraguayans had invaded Brazils, with 700
men, and had taken Borja. On the 15th General
Pannero was 15 leagues beyond Esquina.
On the 11th the Paraguayans attacked the
Brazilian fleet near Corrientes, with a force of eight
steamers and six gun-boats, mounting 68 and 80
pounder guns, with the assistance of a battery of
rifled guns and 2,000 men. The engagement lasted
about nine hours, and resulted in the loss, on the
part of the Paraguayans, of the admiral, who was
killed, 1,700 officers and men killed, wounded, or
missing, four steamers, and six gun-boats ; and on
the part of the Brazilians, of 300 officers and men,
and one steamer. General Flores was to march on
the day after the steamer left.

Was Mr. Mowatt's Companion Lord Clyde /

Apropos of the companion referred to by Mr.
Mowatt as now dead, and who, a contemporary
stated, was buried in Westminster Abbey, the fol-
lowing communication, signed with the initials
" J. C.," and dated the 27th inst., has been ad-
dressed to The Times :

" I happen to be acquainted with some of the
particulars connected with the case which brought Mr.
FranCis Mowatt before a coroner's court, and it appears to
me that Mr. Mowatt has done himself injustice by with-
holding, from mistaken delicacy, a name which, in my
opinion, would have set the affair in its proper light. In
June, 1862, Mr. Mowatt, with a companion, visited Paris.
That companion was,the late Lord Clyde. Walking one
day along the streets, they saw the young lady described in
the evidence sobbing and shedding tears. The well-known
chivalry of Lord Clyde was forthwith excited, he insisted
on giving her the pecuniary assistance she wanted, and
Mr. Mowatt joined in it. This happened in June, 1862.
The young lady made another appeal to them, desiring
their assistance in order to enable her to go to Brazil where
she intended to set up as a dressmaker. They again as-
sisted her, Lord Clyde, as the wealthier man, always con-
tributing the larger share. When in Brazil she wrote
letters of thanks both to Lord Clyde and to Mr. Mowatt.
She returned from Brazil in March last, on her way to the
south of France, and returned thence, as stated in the evi-
dence, to this country. Mr. Mowatt saw her on both her
visits to this country, and assisted her in getting lodgings.
Neither Lord Clyde nor Mr. Mowatt saw the young lady at
any time in Paris except in the presence of each other, and
Mr. Mowatt for himself declares that he never saw her in
London except openly and in the presence of a third party.
There seems to have been just as little reason for with-
holding the name of the French Consul as that of Lord
Clyde, for among the papers of the deceased there existed
a bundle of his lettere with his proper signature. A na-
tural desire to concial her mishap from strangers produced
the concealment, or rather the removal of the foetus and of
the stained clothes. The, coronet.' seems to me to have
made a muddle of the whole affair by giving it an air of
mystery. Had Lord Clyde been living ho would have
made an open avowal, and, conformably to his well-known
character, prided himself on succouring a distressed
damsel.
"July 27."

Our contemporary the Observer hereupon very
judiciously remarks :—" It would be more satisfac-
tory to the public than it now is if the writer of this
letter had given his name, more especially as his
communication involves such a distinguished mau
as the late Lord Clyde."

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THE RISE IN THE PRICE OF MEAT, of which house-
keepers are beginning to complain so bitterly,
though exaggerated by popular annoyance, appears, says a
weekly contemporary, to be real, and promises to become
worse. So far as wo can ascertain, the general rise has
been about 50 per cent., an average leg of mutton which
ten years ago cost 7d. a pound, now costing loid., while
the special rise, that upon meat exclusively purchased by
the rich, is a little more severe. Lamb now costs in West
London from 17d. to 18d. a pound, and the best bits of beef
from 14d. to 16d., an advance of at least 70 per cent. upon
what experienced housekeepers regret as the old and
~ proper" rates.
ROBBERY ON GOODWOOD RACECOURSE. The
races at Goodwood this year were brought to a close
on Friday a little before 6 o'clock, immediately after which
the detachment of the A division of Metropolitan Police,
which had been on duty during the four days' sport, left
the course to return to town. The only police force then
on the Downs consisted of a small body of the West Sus-
sex constabulary. This was taken advantage of by the
swell mob. A row was got up in the betting enclosure at
the side of Careless's refreshment-booth, which led to some
interference by the West Sussex poi-rm., and eventually
quiet was restored, and the mob moved oft. Their object
then became apparent. Under cover of the disturbance the
side of the booth had been cut through so as to enable a
person from the outside to reach a place where it had been
previously ascertained r.t tho bar that a cashbox had been
placed to receive the "takings." The box had been re-
moved, and it was afterwards discovered in an adjoining
closet, emptied of its contents, which were roughly esti-
mated at about £5O.
A flock of butterflies, four miles long, passed over
one of the inland towns of California recently, for the
north.—American Paper.
The farmers in the south of England are already
crying out about the early swedes. The grub-worm is, it
appears, making sad havoc amongst them, nearly 30 grub-
worms were taken from one root at Bittern, inHarephshire.
The French Exhibition will remain open until the
end of Aupst,