The Sun.
London, England, 1862-10-03 00:00:00

SHIPPING---THIS DAY.

LONDON, Oct. 3.—Wind this day at noon—South-
Westerly; moderate breeze, and fine Weather.
from
PORTSMOUTHLondon for,
Yarmouth, U,S. OCt. 2.—Wind N.W.—Arrived—Eagle,
OFF HURST CASTLE, Oct. 2,—Arrived--Tyne, steamer,
from Brazils.
COWES, Oct, 2.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Benjoechea,
from London, and sailed for Havannah.

(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)
SOUTHAMPTON, Friday Morning.
Arrived—Francis, from Plymouth.
Sailed—Manche and Wonder, steamers, for liavre.

(BY MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH.)
GRAVESEND, Friday Morning.
Arrived, Oct. 2.--Windelina Jacobe, from Genoa; Nero,
from Oporto ; Maid of Perth, from Buenos Ayres ; Florida,
from St. Übe's ; Insular, from Havannah ; Celandine,
from Algoa Bay; Yamer, from Bassein; Johann Peter,
frwm Leghorn.
Arrived, Oct. 3.—Try, from Jersey; Lavinia, from
Guernsey; Hindscrelt. from Nines; Sydney, from Altyab ;
Estonia, from Alexandria.

DEAL, Friay Morning..
Passed—Electric, of Shields, from west; Maria, from
Rangoon; Glengariff, of Liverpcol, from Rangoon ; Clair-
mont, from Sydney
i Octavia, Swedish ship, from west ;
Margaret Evans, shp, from New York—all for London.
Anchored—Sparkling &a, from London, for Boston ;
London, from London, for New York.
The brig Spy, of Jersey, from Demerara, for London,
got on shore at Dungeness 3 esterday ; got off but was
obliged to be beached in St. Margaret's Bay to
save her ;
since got off, and proceeded to Dover.

THE STEPHENSON MoNmargr.—Yesterday was
set apart in Newcastle as a holy day for the inauguration of
a monument to the late George Stephenson, which has been
erected opposite to the Central Railway Station. It consists
of a colossal statute of the great engineer, who is represented
with a scroll in his left band and a Northumberland plaid
thrown over his shoulder. The height of the figure is 1 lit.
Subsidiary figures represent the story of Stephenson's life.
The procession from the Town-hall took half an hour to
pass any given point, and there were 10,000 persons in it, a
greater number of skilled artisans than was ever assembled
together in the town on any previous occasion. The in-
augural proceedings took place in the presence of 70,000
people, almost every person of eminence connected with
the trade of the north being present.
RECEPTION OF A NUN. —Yesterday morning the
ceremony of investing a young lady with the veil and holy
habit of the Sisters of Mercy, took place in the Chapel of
Our Lady of the Convent in Bermondsey, in the presence
of a large number of the English Roman Catholic clergy
and laity. Miss Stourton, the lady who took the veil, is
about 20 years of age, and a member of ahighly respectable
family in the west of England.
THE KENSINGTON PAROCHIAL AUTHORITIES
AND THE INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION.—Last night, at
the ordinary meeting of the Kensington Vestry, Mr.
Churchwarden Greenway in the chair, and at which there
were thirty other members present, the important question
of rating the contractors to the International Exhibi-
tion was again considered. Several additional assess-
ments to the vestry's rates were made, and by a resolution
proposed by Mr. Brown, in the absence of any liti-
gation, were definitively fixed. The following are the
names of the contractors and the respective sums at
which they have been assessed :—Mr, J. R. Jennings,
for premises called "the retiring rooms," £900; the London
Stereoscopic Company, £1,790; Messrs. Dancer, £225 ; the
Electric and International Company, £9O ; Messrs. J. and
R. Purches, £135 ; Messrs. Masonuet, £135 ; Messrs. Up-
thorn, £135; Messrs. Day and Son, £450; and Messrs. A.
Spielman and Co., £225. It may be stated that a question
was asked why all the exhibitors had not been assessed in
a simiiar way. Mr. Green, the vestry clerk, replied that
counsel's opinion upon that piont had been taken, but up
to the present time decisive measures had only been taken
with respect to those persons who had entered into a legiti-
mate contract. The vestry's rates were ordered to be
amended in accordance with the above.mentioned sums.
In addition to the mayor and corporation of
Southampton, the foresters, odd fellows, and numerous rifle
corps who will escort Lord Palmerston into that town on
the 15th inst., to inaugurate the opening of the Hartley
Institute there, the seaboys of her Majesty's ship Boscawen,
the seamen of her Majesty's ship Dauntless, the crews of
the Peninsular and Oriental, West India, and Union Mail
Companies, the Sappers and Miners of the Ordnance-office
will form a part in the procession, which will be of immense
length. The Premier will be escorted by this monster pro-
cession a distance of nearly three miles.

ELOPEMENT IN KINCARDINESHIRE.—On
Fri-
day afternoon a married woman, residing, near Johnshaven,
left her home, taking with her her youngest child, an infant
about three months old. As she did not return. that night
her husband made inquiry,
and found that a young lad, a
little above 20, had absQonded along with her. They were
seen on their way to Fordoun Station, and on inquiry being
made there, it was found that they had taken out tickets
for Dundee,
but as yet no further accounts of their where-
abouts have been got. The wife has left five or six chil.
dren behind her.—Brechin Advertiser.
ANOTHER CASE OF INFANTICIDE.—Yesterday,
one of the inmates in the house at No. 19, Middle-street,
Cloth-fair, on going into the cellar observed a parcel under
r
the water-butt, and on opening it discovered it to contain
the body of a fine male child, which, on being conveyed to
St. Bartholomew's Hospital, was found to bear marks of
death by violence.

SUICIDE AND ALLEGED CHILD-MURDER AT
BLACKPRIARS-BRIDGE.--Yesterday morning a report was
currently circulated in the city, that about nine o'clock the
previous night a young woman was seen to mount the
parapet of Blackfriars-bridge with an infant in her arms,
and jump into the river, and that both had been carried
away by the tide which was running strong at the time.
Yesterday afternoon a waterman belonging to Chelsea, in
passing along the river, discovered near the piers of Black-
friars-bridge the body of a female, apparently about 25
years of age, dressed in a light cotton gown, white petti-
coat, brown stockings, and side laced-up boots. Na infant
was however found, and whether the deceased was the
female who jumped into the river is unknown. If she was
the person there seems some doubt as to whether the passifs.:
cii
by might not have mistaken a bundle of clothes for a toa
The body of the unfortunate woman has been removed
the dead-house in 'lreland-yard, Blackfriars, to be
.identi-
fied, and to await a coroner's inquest,
information having
been sent to_Mr. Payne, the coroner for the City and
Southwark.'
It is stated that the wine harvest on the Rhine
and in the surrounding districts promises now to be exenl-
lent both
in quality and quantity. This circumstance
tends considerably to increase the confidence inspired
bout
throug Germany by the abundant character of the
wheat harvest,