The Sun.
London, England, 1865-01-09 00:00:00

FRANCE.

As a goods train on the railway round Paris was,
the night before last, approaching the station of
Menilmontant, the driver saw a man lying across
the rails only a few steps in advance of the loco-
motive. He immediately shut off the steam, but in
spite of all his efforts the train passed over the man,
cutting his body in two and dragging along the
upper part of it for about two hundred yards. The
unfortunate man appeared to be a peasant between
30 and 40 years of age. The only paper found on
his person was a letter addressed to a M. Roux, a
Athis-Mons.

A slight improvement has taken place in the state
of Count Bacciochi. The Emperor has called.seve-
ral times to see him.

The Bulletin des Lois publishes an Imperial de-
cree granting a pension of 12,000 fr. to the widow of
Admiral Romain-Desfoss6s.

A Paris letter, in the Inde'pendance of Brussels,
says :—" A general reorganisation, which would
render public instruction gratuitous and obligatory,
begins to be seriously talked of. The ideas of M.
Duruy and M. C. Robert, Secretary-General of the
Ministry, are very decided in that sense."
"We think," says the Patrie, "we can affirm
that some days ago the Bank of France addressed
through the Minister of Finance a petition to the
Emperor, praying for a general inquiry into the
numerous causes of commercial, industrial, and
monetary crises. The petition solicits that the in-
quiry may be widely and impartially directed, in
order to remove the doubts and prejudices which
disturb the progress of business, and that by being
extended to all institutions of credit and of specu-
lation it may disclose the true state of things."
The bulletin of the Paris Observatory gives the
following as the atmospheric state of Europe yester-
day :—" From Thursday until to-day the tempest
which prevailed on the coasts of Norway and on the
Baltic has rapidly descended towards the North of
France. On -the Channel, the wind, after having
lulled during !Thursday, has this morning again
freshened ; at Dunkirk, Boulogne, and Havre it is
strong from the N.W. The barometer has fallen
11 millimetres on the mouth of the Elbe, and 4 at
Vienna, whilst it remains nearly stationary on the
West of France. The probability therefore is, that
the rough weather is about to cross Central Europe,
and that it will reach the Black Sea and the
Adriatic." In Paris the weather continues to be
exceedingly mild, with light showers occasionally.
Prince Napoleon and the Princess Clotilda yester-
day received M. Mon, the Spanish Ambassador, and
M. Frederic de Meyer, the Minister Plenipotentiary
of the Elector of Hesse.

44 As the delay," says the Patrie, " for the rami-
fication of the Treaty concluded by M. Aubaret in
Cochin China expires on the 15th inst., that Con-
vention will, from the very fact, become null and
void; without any notice being necessary to the
Court of Hue. The French establishment in Lower
Cochin China not having been yet classified in the
number of the colonies, like Guadaloupe, Martinique,
Senegal, and Reunion, does not stand in the Al-
manack of the Marine. This state of things is, it is
said, about to cease, and the arrival of Rear-Admiral
de La Grandiere, who is shortly expected in Paris
on leave of absence, is waited for to decide on the
plan of organising the colony of Cochin China, and
prepare the Senatus Consultum, to classify it in a
definitive manner among the number of French

possessions.
BOURSE, Jan. 7.—The market has been firm, and
a fair amount of business done at an advance.
Threes, for the Account, are now at 66f. 95c. Mo-
biller have improved to 961 f. 25c. Railway Shares
in good demand, with a rise on some of the lines.
The following other Securities are quoted ex. div.—
Credit Foncier, 12f. 50c. ; Sardinian Railway, 15f. ;
Orleans (New), 6f. 25c. The market closed as
follows :

41 per Cents 95
Do. end month —
3 per Cents. 66 90
Do. end month 67
Credit Mobilier
Do. end month
Bank Shares 3460
Credit Foncier 1270
Roman —

Italian Loan 64 85
Do. end month 64 90
Ditto Threes —
New Mexican

Russian —
Austrian
Spanish Threes
Home Debt
Deferred

RAIL'

PAYS.

Cash. Acct.
Orleans
Northern 985 ... 990
Lyons and Mediterranean 912 50 915
Southern 5BO ... 581 25
Western 530 530

Eastern ...,
Sardinian .

Austrian .
Lombard ,
North of Spain
Saragossa
Ditto to Barcelona

508 75 .• . 510 -
303 75 .• . 305 -

432 56 436 25
521 25 ... 525 -
365 - ... 362 50
420 - ... 430 -

ITALY A►ND AUSTRIA.

The General Correspondence, a semi-official paper,
published at Vienna, contains the following corre-
spondence, dated Turin, Ist January :
" I am enabled to give you, from undoubted authority,

the following information respecting the intentions and the
plans of the Government at Turin against Austria. A
meeting was held the other day at Genoa of all the leaders
of the party who are anxious to come to an uadarstanding
with the Government to attack Austria and sti up a revo-
lution in Venetia.

" This meeting was attended by many eminent men of
the Hungarian and Polish emigration, as also by Alberto
Cavaletto, one of the former leaders of the Venetian emi-
gration. The general attitude to be observed towards
Austria was first discussed, and then what steps should
be taken as regards the party of action, who vehemently
demand that Venetia shall be attacked at all price.
"I am informed that the resolutions adopted are in sub-
stance as follows :

" That it was desirable to prevent, by every possible
means, any good understanding between the Austrian
Government and Hungary, and that emissaries for that
purpose should be sent into Hungary and Galicia. It was
also resolved that, as soon as possible, a revolutionary en-
terprise should be undertaken against Austria, and, to give
it a better chance of success, it was proposed to operate simul-
taneously on the opposite coast of the Adriatic. The party
of action was to be allowed to carry out its views, especially
as regards the introduction of arms into Voietia. M.
Alberto Cavaletto has already left, and it appears that his
mission is to prepare a sort of agreement with the so-called
men of action.
" We do not believe that either the Government or the
plotters imagine that they will gain Venetia by these
means ; for the present their intention is not to provoke
serious complications and warlike eventualities against
Austria, but only to occupy the Austrian Government by
continual embarrassments to enable them to carry out their
operations at some later period."

Ihe Great Eastern Steamer and the Atlantic

Telegraph Cable.

The work which has been for several months past
in progress on board the Great Eastern, which still
occupies her moorings in the Medway, a short dis-
tance below Chatham harbour, where she has been
stationed since last summer, has so far progressed
that preparations are now making for the shipment
of the first portion of the Atlantic telegraph cable,
from the factory of Messrs. Glass, Elliott and Co.,
of East Greenwich, the firm to whom has been con-
fided its manufacture. The entire length of the
cable is about 2,500 miles, for the reception of
which three enormous tanks are in course of
erection on board the Great Eastern, each
capable of holding about 800 miles of cable. In
order to provide the necessary space for the stowage
tanks, one of the principal saloons has been removed
and two of the decks taken away, besides other al-
terations, the grand saloon not being interfered with
for the present. One of the tanks is completed and
ready for the reception of the first portion of the
cable, and a second tank is expected to be finished
in about a fortnight. The tanks have a diameter
of 58ft., and are 20ft. in height. They are con-
structed of iron, the contract for their erection
having been taken by Messrs. Westwood, Baillie,
and Co. For some time after the arrival of the Great
Eastern in the river at Chatham she was thrown open
for the inspection of visitors, but these are now ex-
cluded in order to permit of the work connected with
the fitting up of the vessel being proceeded with with-
out interruption. The new cable will be more than
double the strength of the original Atlantic telegraph
cable—the latter breaking at a strain of 3 tons
15 cwt., while the breaking strain of the new
cable will be 7 tons 15 cwt. The weight of the new
cable will be 35 cwt. 3 qrs. per nautical mile, while
the old cable was only 20 cwt. per mile, and 13.4
cwt. per nautical mile in water. The cable now in
course of manufacture will weigh 14 cwt. per nau-
tical mile in water, and will bear its own weight in
11 miies' depth of water. The entire weight of the
insulation of the new -cable is 4001 b. per mile againsf
2611 b. per mile in the old cable. About 800 miles
of the cable have already been completed at the
works at Greenwich, and the first supply is now
ready for the shipment on board, her Majesty's fri-
gate Isis having been despatched from Chatham to
assist in the operation of conveying the cable
from the Thames to the Great Eastern. In
consequence of the large amount of space required
for the stowage of the cable two of the boilers have
been cutoff, but in other respects the ship's machinery
has not been interfered with. Several hundred men
are daily employed on board the Great Eastern in
the work of preparing her for the service on which
she will be engaged, but according to existing ar-
rangements she will not leave the Medway until
June next, so as to obtain the finest weather during
the operation of submerging the sable. An ingeni-
ously contrived machine has been constructed at the
company's works for paying out the cable so as to
prevent any accident from breakage while the
steamer is under weigh. During the time the Great
Eastern has been at her anchorage in the Medway
she has not suffered in the least from the heavy
gales which have from time to time visited the coast,
and no apprehension has even once been felt for her
safety.

noon.

THE BRIGHTON DIVIDEND.---The Brighton Rail-
way meeting is announced for the 30th inst., but we
must wait some days before the dividend is officially stated.
There is every reason to believe that the result of the half-
year's working will afford additional confirmation of the
soundness of the opinions of Mr. Schuster that the com-
pany will recover the losses sustained by the reduction of
the rate of fares in 1863. The directors will probably have,
including the balance brought in from the last half-year, a
sum of about 45,0001. to deal with in excups of the receipts
of the corresponding half-year, though it will not be quite
equal to the revenue of 1862. If, however, allowance be
made for the loss of 11,0001., which was paid in that year
as tolls by the London, Chatham, and Dover Railway, the
receipts for the last year will be found equal to those of
1862, the year of high rates and of the Exhibition traffic.
This cannot be considered other than a satisfactory result.
As it requires only a sum of 34,0001. to gfve an additional
dividend at the rate of 1 per cent., and as there is a surplus
of 45,0001. it is not improbable that a dividend at the rate
of 6 per cent. may be announced, as against 5 per cent. in
the corresponding half of 1863.—Railway News.
TRIAL OF COTTON MANUFACTURERS FOR ROB-
BERY.—At the Preston Quarter Sessions, on Friday,
day, John Newton, formerly a cotton manufacturer, Pres-
ton, and Wm. Halliwell and James Halliwell, cotton manu-
facturers, Blackburn, were tried for stealing a large quan-
tity of beams, yarn, cloth, oil, tallow, &c., belonging to the
assignees of the first named prisoner. The prisoner New-
ton pleaded guilty, and the other prisoners not guilty.
The case depended in a great measure upon the evidence
of Newton's son, who was at first charged along with the
rest, and who was admitted approver. He swore positively
that the Halliwells had a knowledge of the assignment.
The prisoner Newton was also put upon oath, and said that
the other prisoners pressed him to sell them the property
at a low price ; and that the bailiff in possession, who had
since committed suicide, had often put the key into his
hands to enable him to take away the goods. The jury
returned a verdict of not guilty against both Halliwells.
Newton was sentenced to six months' imprisonment with
hard labour.

THE MURDER AT ST PETERSBURG.--The Ayr
Advertiser states that a letter has been received at
the Isle of Whithorn from Captain John Wyatt, master and
owner of the brig Acadian, now at St. Petersburg, where
she remains locked up by the ice, giving the particulars of
the murder at St. Petersburg of his wife, Frances Logan,
belonging to the Isle of Whithorn. A reward of 300 rubles
was at once offered, while the authorities at the British
Embassy and Consulate exercised the utmost vigilance in
watching the matter. The greatest consternation existed
among the English residents of St. Petersburg, while the
deepest sympathy and commiseration were exhibited to-
wards Capt. Wyatt. Within a few days from the time the
crime was committed the police succeeded in apprehending
one of the ruffians, who has since made a full confession of
everything. When captured the miscreant was wearing a
pair of trousers and vest belonging to Captain Wyatt, and
his statement was as follows :—For several days he and an
accomplice, who is still at large, had been watching for an
opportunity of plundering the vessel, and on the morning
of the 13th, observing Captain Wyatt to go on shore, they
at once proceeded to carry their diabolical project into exe-
cution. While the deed appears to have been co .. tted
in the utmost barbarous manner—the ruffians having pro-
vided themselves with a hammer and clo.ck weight for the
purpose—the utmost expedition must have been employed
in accomplishing their bloody work, The two girls must
have had a narrow escape, for there can be no doubt, had
they arrived during the time the murderers were on board
they, too, would have been despatched. It may be men-
tioned, as a somewhat curious coincidence, that Mrs. Wyatt,
on the morning which was destined to be her last, concluded
a letter which she had been writing to her now disconsolate
mother, and which was posted by her husband when at St.
Petersburg, with the remark that the neighbourhood was
swarming with dangerous characters, and that several rob-
beries had been committed, though fortunately they them-
selves had hitherto escaped. Her remains were interred in
the English burying-ground at St. Petersburg, most of the
British residents accompanying the body to the grave. The
mournful occurrence has plunged a highly respectable
family into the deepest affliction, and much sympathy is
felt for Captain Wyatt.

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OSBORNE, Jan. 7.

The Queen, accompanied by Prince Arthur an d
Prince Leopold, walked and drove yesterday after-

Princess Louise took a drive.
The Queen held a Privy Council to-day at one

o'clock.
The Council was attended by Earl de Grey, the
Right Hon. T. Milner Gibson, and the Right Hon.
C. P. Villiers.
Mr. A. Helps was Clerk of the Council.
His Serene Highness Prince Leiningen arrived
yesterday on a visit.
Admiral Sir Michael Seymour, Commander-in-
Chief at Portsmouth, also arrived, and had the
honour of dining with her Majesty.

Jan. 8.
The Queen walked and drove yesterday morning
and afternoon.

Her Royal Highness Princess Helena rode on

horseback, attended by the Hon. Emma Lascelles ;
and her Royal Highness Princess Louise drove out,
attended by Lady Churchill.
His Royal Highness Prince Arthur left Osborne
for Greenwich Park, attended by Major Elphin-
stone.

Divine service was performed at Osborne this
morning by the Rev. G. Prothero before her Ma-
jesty, their Royal Highnesses Princess Helena,
Princess Louise, Prince Leopold, and the ladies and
gentlemen in waiting.

The Prince and Princess of Wales.
SANDRINGHAM, Jan. 7.
Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess
of Wales, attended by the Marchioness of Car-
marthen and Captain Grey, returned last evening
to Sandringham, from their visit to the Earl and
Countess of Leicester at Holkham.

Yesterday morning the Prince joined his noble

host for a few hours' duck shooting on the lake—a
beautiful piece of water 1,056 yards in length, co-
vering 20 acres, having in it three small islands—
and met with a capital day's sport. In the after-
noon,!at 3 o'clock, their Royal Highnesses the Prince
and Princess of Wales took leave of the earl and
countess and the members of the family, as well as
the noble visitors staying at Holkham, expressing
to their noble host and hostess their unalloyed satis-
faction with their visit. They then left, his Royal
Highness driving a phaeton and pair containing
himself and the Princess : the Marchioness of Car-
marthen, Captain Grey, and Viscount Hamilton
following in the second carriage and pair.
The carriages proceeded by the north front, and
passed along the fine avenue, a mile and a half long,
from the obelisk to the triumphal arch, a spacious
portal of the Doric order. Near the south lodges
and the triumphal arch were gathered a great num-
ber of persons, actuated by the desire to see the
heir apparent to the throne and the princess. The
remainder of the journey, about 25 miles, was with-
out interest, beyond the desire of visitors to catch a
glimpse of the royal travellers. The weather was
very cold, a strong nor'-easter blowing, which later
in the night freshened into a gale.
Their Royal Highnesses arrived at Sandringham
about 6 o'clock. During the visit which has just
terminated the Prince of Wales has experienced
great gratification, not only from the sport, which
has been of the highest order, upwards of 4,000
head having been bagged in a couple of days'
shooting in the woods which skirt the north and
south sides of the park, to say nothing of the wild
fowl shooting, but also with the truly princely re-
ception and entertainment. Their Royal High-
nesses have viewed with immense pleasure the
peerless works of art contained in the rooms at
Holkham. The present visit, with the exception of
the ball, has been quite private, but it is the gene-
ral and earnest wish of the.tenantry and the whole
neighbourhood that on the next occasion of their
being the guests of the Earl of Leicester, this rule
may be somewhat relaxed, and that they may con-
sent to a public reception, similar to that given in
1835 to the Duchess of Kent and her Majesty, then
the Princess Victoria.

Rear-Admiral Sir Henry Keppel arrived at Sand-
ringham to-day on a visit to the Prince and Princess
of Wales.

Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge
left Cambridge Cottage, Kew, this day, to pass the week/
with their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of ,
Wales at Sandringham. We understand that the Princess
Mary of Cambridge is expected to arrive at the royal resi-
dence in the Ambassador's Court, St. James's, next week,
from visiting her sister, the Grand Duchess of Mecklen•
burg-Strelitz, in Germany.

His Excellency the French Ambassador had a
dinner party on Saturday at the French embassy at Albert
Gate, when his Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge
honoured his excellency with his presence. The royal
duke, who was attended by Colonel Tyrwhitt, arrived at
8 o'clock. There were present to meet his Royal Highness
—His Excellency the Russian Ambassador and Baroness
Brunnow, his Excellency the Swedish Minister, the Mar-
quis and Marchioness d'Audigne, the Marquis Caumont do
la Force, Viscount de Courval, General Sir Richard Airey,
M. and Madame Merry del Val, Prince Gortschakoff, Col.
Nowitzky, Baron and Baroness Bande, the Marquis do
Tamisier, &c.
The Duke of Somerset arrived at his official resi-
dence at the Admiralty on Saturday evening from Stover
Park, his grace's seat in Devon. The duchess and Lady
Gwendoline St. Maur are expected to arrive from Devon-
shire in a few days.

The Duke and Duchess of Manchester have ar-
rived at Kimbolton Castle, where they will entertain a.
large party of visitors during the present week.
The Duke and Duchess of Argyll and family
will leave Roseneath, N. 8., early in the ensuing week, for
their residence at Campden Hill, Kensington.
_ _

The Earl and Lady Constance Grosvenor intend
to leave town early in tho week till the meeting of Parlia-
ment.

Viscount and Viscountess Stratford de Redcliffo
and Hon. Misses Canning have returned to town from
visiting Frances Countess Waldegrave and the Right Hon.
Chichester Fortescue, M.P.

Lord and Lady Stanley of Alderley, who aro
surrounded by a select family circle at Alderley Park,
Cheshire, come to town early in the ensuing week for the

season.

The Right Hon. Sir George Grey, M.P., and
Lady Grey are expected to return to town to-morrow,,
from visiting Viscount Eversley at his lordship's seat in
Hants.

PROFESSOR ANDERSON.--An entertainment will
be given by Professor Anderson this evening for his benefit,
when he will retire from St. James's Hall, after a most
successful season of 18 consecutive weeks, and will appear
at the Crystal Palace for the first time on Saturday after-
noon next. During the season, by the kindness of Mr:
Anderson, the children of most of the large charity school s.
of the metropolis have been present free, as well as a strong
muster of veterans from Chelsea College.

Mr. Edward Watkin, M.P., president ofthe Grand
Trunk Railway of Canada, had an interview on Saturday
with Mr. Cardwell, at the Colonial Office, with reference
to the recent raids from Canada, and to the consequent
threatened proceedings on the part of the American Go-
vernment to adopt a stringent passport system for passen.
gers, and a rigid examination of all goods passing between.
the States and the British North American Provinces.
THE SAFFRON-HILL MURDER.—The funeral of
Michael Harrington, who died from the effects of a
wound inflicted by an Italian in the Golden Anchor public-
house, Saffron-hill, took place yesterday. The murdered
man being a costermonger, there was an unusual turn-out
of that useful class of street-tradesmen on the occasion•
First came the hearse, a double-bodied one, containing the
coffin in the front compartment and the chief mourners in
the second; two mourning coaches followed; and after
them a long line of cabs, gigs, donkey-carts, pony-barrows,
and a large goods-van, all crammed with male and female
occupants, the great majority of the men smoking short
pipes. This extraordinary funeral procession, which took
from ten minutes to a quarter of an hour to pass any given
point, came slowly down Saffron-hill about three o'clock
in the afternoon. The windows in that locality were filled
with spectators, and a large crowd of persons in the hum-
blest ranks of life followed the remains to the cemeterY-
Although there was no display of feeling, still the whole
affair partook more of a demonstration in the Italian quarter
of London expressive of disgust at the foul manner in which
Harrington had met his death'at the hands of a foreigner
than a desire on the part of those who followed to be Pre'
I sent at Booleran ceremony.