The Sun.
London, England, 1856-03-11 00:00:00

MR ELECTRIC TELECIR_APH.I

SOUTHAMPTON, Tuesday Morning.
Arrived.—Wonder, steamer, from Jersey; LA Rule,
Cherbourg; Elizabath, Cardiff.
Sailed.—Despatch, steamer, for Jersey ; Express,
steamer, Havre.

LIVERPOOL, Tuesday Morning.
Wind S.
Arrived.—Stetson, from New Orleans ; Perseverance,
Charleston.
Sailed.—Conquest, for Halifax.
QUEENSTOWN, March 9.
Arrived.—Normas Morrison, from Manilla; Bella Par-
tena, Mazagan ; Maria, Christiansand.

BY HuItiIARINE 4.Nlts AttITESH I'ELEGRAPTI.I

GRAVESEND, Tuesday, 10.5 a.m.
Wind E. ; tide, six hours' Lbb, cloudy.
Arrived, March 11.—Geo. Sverden, from Bergen ; Os-
prey and Waterwiteh, St. Michael's ; Pear and Urania,
Antwerp ; Jantiva, Groningen ; Ileleue, Greetsiel.
DEAL, Tuesday, 10 a.m.
Wind E.S.E., moderate.
Anchored.—Archer, from Calcutta, f,r London-107
day passage,_

i'L;sed.-----Merse, from China, for London ; Mclancthen,
from Newcastle, for A leo ; Vic3-Admiral Lucas, from
London, for Constantinople.

DEATH BY A CrICKET BILL.—Oa Saturday Henry
Simpson, aged nine years, ,on of Mr. Joseph Sampson,
inf=pector of ways, was on Parker'sliieue, looking on at
a game at cricket, when he was struck on the right ear
by a ball from the tat of Mr. Hernington, of Pembroke
College, with such force as to produce insensibility. He
was conveyed home, and every care bestowed upon him,
but he diet on Tuesday !nor-ling. A jury has since re-
turned a verdict of accidental death.—Cambridge Inde•
pendent.

- SOUTH AUSTRALIS.—Our papers by this mail are to
the 20th of Nov. The Council was still in session. The
chief topic of interest in their proceedings was an at-
tempt to raise the salary of the Governor from 2,0001.
per annum to 4,0001., with 1,500/. for contingencies, but
the house refused to go into committee thereon. A com-
mittee has been appointed, at a public meeting, to watch
over the progress of the New Constitution Bill. The
electric telegraph, between the port and the city of
Adelaide, was in course of erection, and a prospectus of
a railway from Adelaide to Glenelg has been published.
The new arrangement for the collection of the cu,toms
duties on the Murray came into operation on the let of
Nov., and had given general satisfaction. A Select
Committee of the Council has been appointed to inquire
into the expediency of appointing an agent in England
in place of Mr. Barnard, the Ageet-General—some
members of the Council being of opinion that such sup-
plies as the Government might, from time to time, re-
quire, could be best procured by tenders in the c)lony.
The prospects of the forthcoming harvest were abun-
dant, bat breadstuffs ruled high.—o-Australian. and New
Zealand Gazette.
THE BURNOPFIELD MURDER.—SINGULAR DREAM.—
In reference to this case, we have to place on record_ a
circumstance 'of a very remarkable and even affecting
nature, which, however it may be accounted for or dis-
believed, is nevertheless perfectly true. Mr. Stirling's
parents, who, it will be remembered, reside near Dum-
barton, on the Clyde, having been in Durham. during
the assizes, attending the court for the purpose of hearing
the trial of the alleged murderers of their son, and the
statement which we subjoin is from Mr. Stirling himself.
On the night of the let of November, the day on which
the murder was committed, Mrs. Stirling hart a remark-
able, and what she termed a fearful dream. She dreamt
that some persons were about the house intending to
break into it. In a short time a man, with a dark ccm-
plexion and dark dress looked in upon her at the win-
dow, presented a gun, and discharged it at her. At this
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juncture, she awoke in great alarm and trepidation; and
since then, the dream—most strongly impreeseil upon
her mind, by the fact of her son's murder, intelligence of
which would not reach her until 6 or 7 days later than
the dream—has ever been vivid in her recollection. Mrs.
Stirling accompanied her husband to Durham, for the
purpose, as we have said, of being present at the trial.
She expressed a great desire to see the two men accused
of the murder ; and, for that purpose, visited the prison
en Wednesday. Several men were walking in the yard
at the time, including Cein Rayne, a turnkey, and three
or four others. Immediately on perceiving Rayne, with-
out being told the names of any of the men, she recog-
nised in hire the features of the roan whom she saw in
her dream fire throueli the window at her, pointed him
out, and burst into tears. Mrs. Stirling still expresses
her positive conviction with respect to Rayne. The cir-
cumstances we have mentioned may appear strange,
but, we may repeat, they are perfectly correct. They
brine vividly to mind the Red Barn murder, in which
Corder, the murderer, was brought to justice through a
remarkable dream of the mother of the murdered young
woman. In the present case the dream is no lets re-
reerkable, though it cannot 113,70 a similar effect • •