The Sun.
London, England, 1865-07-26 00:00:00

THE ATLANTIC CABLE.

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The following telegram has lust been received at
the Company's offices in London :
" TUESDAY, 11 P.M.
" One hundred and fifty miles of cable laid.
" 12 MIDNIGHT.

" One hundred and fifty miles run.
" WEDNESDA+, A. 31.
" Two hundred miles cable laid.
" Signals good. All going on well."

THE QUEEN'S COLLEGE, BIRMING II AM . —At a
meeting of the council and the committee of council
of the Arts and Theological departments, held on Monday
last, the Earl of Lichfield, the Principal, in the chair ; the
Mayor, the Venerable the Archdeacon of Coventry, the
Hon. and Rev. the Rector of St. Philip's, the Dean of the
Faculty, the senior physician of the Queen's Hospital,
Messrs. John Suckling and Isaac Trow, and Professors
Clay, Chamberlain, Johnson, and Suckling being present ;
the Rev. T. E. Epin, formerly Fellow and tutor of Lincoln
College, Oxon, and vicar of Hadley, was unanimously
elected resident warden. It was resolved unanimously
to remove the theological department from the Crescent to
within the college walls, and to give increased facilities to
junior resident medical students, to enable them to prepare
themselves under the direction of the resident medical
tutor for the arts examination now required by all the ex-
amining medical boards. At the same meeting the Pkn-
cipal submitted a financial scheme under which the college
may be made self-supporting. His lordship's plan was
cordially approved. Tho appointment of Professor of
Medicine has been declared vacant.

JEALOUSY AND ATTEMPTED MURDER AT PRESTON.
—At the Preston Police-court yesterday a labourer,
named John Snape, was charged with attempting to murder
a widow woman named Rachel Taberner, living at No. 14,
Stanley-street, Preston. Snape is about 45 years of age,
and has been in prison 22 times since November, 1843, for
various offences. He has a wife and four children in Black-
burn, but ho has not lived with them for several years. Lat-
terly he has been cohabiting in Preston with the woman
abovenamed, and his passion for her appears to have run to
a mad and ridiculous extreme, At the inquiry yesterday
at the Police-court Mrs. Taberner said that on Sunday
afternoon she went into the Stanley Vaults in Stanley-
street, and had a glass of ale with a man named Simpson.
The prisoner afterwards went into the same place, and she
refused, when he asked her to go and sit beside him. When
she was about having a second glass of ale the prisoner got
behind her, threw his left arm round her, and then drew a
table knife across her throat. He cut her, and she screamed
" Murder !" The man Simpson then seized the prisoner,
and she afterwards fainted and fell upon tho floor. For a
few months she had " kept company" with the prisoner,
but she had told him many a time to leave her. On being
cross-examined by the prisoner she said that he had often
abused her, and that on Saturday she gave him 2d. to
get something to drink, to " cheer up his spirits." John
Simpson, a millwright, deposed that he saw the prisoner
draw the knife across Mrs. Taborner's throat, that he
knocked the prisoner down, and that he believed if he
had not done so the prisoner would have killed her. Wm.
Ireland, landlord of the vaults named, said he saw the pri-
soner cutting across the woman's throat with a knife, and
heard her shout " Murder," and that he kept the prisoner
until a policeman came. Police-constable Wiggins appre-
hended the prisoner, who, when charged with attempting to
kill Mrs. Taberner, replied "It was all through jealousy. I
might as well do it and hang myself." He was in drink and
excited at the time. Dr. Moor deposed that he found a cut
six inches in length on the front of Mrs. Taberner's throat.
William Forrest, of Back Stanley-street, said that on Sun-
day, about noon, the prisoner asked him for a knife to cut
some tobacco with. He gave him a table knife; the pri-
soner afterwards sharpened it twice, and then went away
with it. In his defence the prisoner said, I have never been
my own self since I commenced with her (Mrs. Taberner)
in May lascwhen I came up to join the militia. We talked
together for a fortnight, and then we stayed together at her
house. 1 have never had any pleasure since then. I took
up so much with her that I had no pleasure—l could neither
work nor play, nor rest night nor day. People said I was
out of my reason in thinking so much about her, and she
was the cause of it. Sho would go among other men. He
was then committed to take his trial at Lancaster Assizes.
When the prisoner left the court-room he had to pass the
woman whose throat he had attempted to cut. In passing
her ho held out his hand and she slightly smiled and then
shook it, to the astonishment of all present.

PLYMOUTH, Tuesday.—The ship Mornington, 948
tons, Captain J. Jones, belonging to Mr. J. Owen, of Car-
narvon, passed up Channel yesterday with a full cargo of
guano from Callao, April 11. She rounded Cape Horn May
8, crossed the Line June 16, and spoke on the 18th, in lat.
7 10 N., long. 29 W., the Danish bark Doris Broderson, 40
days from Sunderland, for Rio Janeiro; July 20, lat. 48
15 N., long. 9 0 W., the English ship Dunrobin Castle, five
days from Swansea, for Valparaiso; and July 23, 130
a.m., off Berry Head, the ship St. Lawrence, from London
for Calcutta. Very heavy weather was experienced when
rounding the Cape, from May 3d to the 9th ; wind, from
W.N.W. to S.S.W.; barometer on the 7th and Bth at 28.38.
The British Empire was clearing out of Callao for Cork when
the Mornington left.
NIGHT RAILWAY TRAVELLING.—INGENIOUS IN -
vErrriorL—The Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway
Company have adopted, for experiment, a simple but happy
invention of a working man, named Grant, the object of
which is to indicate clearly the names of railway stations
at night. The plan is to hang signs of coloured glass, with
the names of the stations printed on them, over the lamps
at the stations. These signs have been tried at the Bootle
station, and are found to answer well. _ _

CURIOUS NESTS OF MICE.—A number of empty
bottles had been stowed away upon a shelf, and
among them was found one which was tenanted byamouse.
The little creature had considered that the bottle would
afford a suitable home for her young, and had therefore
conveyed into it a quantity of bedding,which she made into
a nest. The bottle was filled with the nest, and the eccen-
tric architect had taken the precaution to leave a round
hole corresponding to the neck of the bottle. In this re-
markable domicile the young wore placed ; and it is a fact
worthy of notice that no attempt had been made to shut
out the light. The rapidity with which a mouse can make
a nest is somewhat surprising. One of the Cambridge
journals mentioned some few years ago that in a farmer's
house a loaf of newly baked bread was placed upon a shelf
according to custom. Next day a hole was observed in the
loaf ; and when it was cut open a mouse and her nest was
discovered within, the latter having been made of. paper.
On examination, the material of the habitation was found
to have been obtained from a copybook, which had been
torn into shreds and arranged in the form of a nest.
Within this curious home were nine young mice, pink,
transparent, and newly born. Thus, in the space of 38
hours at the most, the loaf must have cooled, the interior
been excavated, the copybook found and cut into suitable
pieces, the nest made, and the young brought into the
world. Surely it is no wonder that mice are so plentiful,
or that their many enemies fail to exterminate them.--
Homes without Hands.