The Sun.
London, England, 1856-08-08 00:00:00

AMERICA.

SOUTHAMPTON, FRIDAY MORNING,
The United States mail steam-ship Fulton is just
telegraphed off Hurst Castle, with the mails, and
dates from New York to the 26th ult. Her mails
ara expected to reach &luthauipton about noon.

General Falcon, who has already arrived in France,
has coosen Tours for his place of re-idence.
We hear by telegraph, from St. Petersburg, of the
sth inst:—"Gen. Mom avieff, at Lis own request, is about
to resign the superior command of the circle of the Cau-
casus, and to become a member of the Senate of the
empire. He is to b rephced in his commrnd by Lieut.-
Gen,ral Prins, Bar atinsky.

SOUTH-WESTERN STEAM PACKET COMPANY.—The or-

dinaly half-yearly meeting of the proprietors of this com-
pany took place yesterday, immediately alter the South-
Western Railway meeting at Waterloo station; when
the usual dividend at the rate of 5 per cent, per annum
was declared.

THE CHINESE TEA CROPS. —The present season is
admitted on all sides as most favourable to the crops
Of native produce. Wp have seen that silk is in full
average supply, and we learn from all those who
are best informed on the suhjoct that the crop of tm
is not likely to be less than an average-one, although
the usual rumours are in circulation among a certain
class of interested natives that the supply will be short.
In "short crops" of tea, however, we think that
none of our readers are likely to place much confi-
dence ; and while we continue to pay such prices as have
ruled everywhere in Chinadurieg the season which is now
drawing to a close (and which season will show in its
usual statistics an exp,rt to all parts of the West con-
siderably in excess of the demand) we need not fear a
dearth of the article; even should the crops be deficient.
From Fuhchau we learn that, the opening prices for the
new cm, of oonaoll ore-2 to tatds_ higher than those of
last season, and from Ho Khow and other black tea dis-
tricts the opening rates are quoted higher, while from
the Woo Yuen ployune) and Tai Ping green tea dis-
tricts we are informed that 15 to- 20 per" cent. more is
being paid than last season; and several natives who
have left this city for the purpose of buying green teas
have, in oonsequence of the high rates, abandoned the
idea. In the Ping Suey districts also the advance is
about 15 per Pent , but the entire pro;luction of the lat-
ter is small compared with other districts, and will not
perhaps exceed-60,000 or 70,000 packages this year, so
far as we are able to learn. With these reports, which
come direct to the tea men, it is not surprising (if they
themselves believe them) that they should hold the
old stock (which is now estimated at about 40,000
packages
of black and 45,000 of green) for higher
prices than are offered. Yet we find at the end of
almost every Season a large quantity of tea held
over for rates which are never obtained, and which
is eventually sold at disastrous prices, and reaches
its destination out of condition. Such will undoubt-
oily be the case this year also ; but it is much to be re-
gretted that shipments of such refuse crop, which is
chiefly of the most trashy kind, are sent forward, as they
too frequentlyare, on Chinese account, to markets where
they come into competition with good qualitic, are sold
at anything they will realise, and ever afterwards s
be-
come
a drug in the market, welling the statistics of
stocks ; while it is notorious, both in England and Ame-
rica, that no inconsiderable portion of the stock consists
of trash called tea, and which is wholly unfit for use.
In our last issue we alluded to the movement of the in-
surgents in Kiang-Si.(Which information has since been
confirmed), and it may hence, be argued that they will
seriously interfere with the preparation of tea ; but,
while we are willing to admit that iu that particular pro
vince such may possibly be the case, we would warn our
readers at a distance to place no reliance on the old cry
of "Short crop of tea." and, when such an event should
occur, to bear in mind that any deficiency needed to' be
supplied for foreign export would not be long in forth-,
coming from ,he quantity prepared fur the home cOn-
sumption of 350,000,000 of people, who, on the lociest
estimate, consume 41h. of tea per annum, or equal to
1,460:0000001b:, 5 per cent. of which would at any time
increase our total foreign exports snore than 50 per cent.
—North China He, ald, May 31.
GREAT NORTHERN RAlLWAY.—Traffic' return for the
week ending July t 7, 1856
Corresponding week last year 21,610 10 4

LANCASHIRE AND YORKSHIRE RAILWAY. -Traffic rt -
turn for the week ending Aug. 3, 1856 £25,903 1) 6
Corresponding' week last year 22,597 0 2

IRELAND.

DUBLIN, THURSDAY MORNING.
FATAL RAILWAY COLLISION.

A collision took place yesterday morning on the
Belfast Junction lice of railway, between the down
goods train, which started from Dundalk at 5 a.m.,
and the ballast . engine and waggon which were
working on the line at Wellington Inn, about five
miles from Newry. The accident—fortunately of
rare occurrence in the managemen t of Irish railways
—was attended with the loss of one life and serious
injury to three men in the employment of the com-
pany. The following are the only particulars which
have yet come to hand, but a later account adds
that a coroner's jury has found a verdict of man-
slaughter against James Tipping, the engine-driver
of the ballast train :

" Yesterday morcing, at a very .early hour, a fatal
accident occurred. upon the Dublin and Belfast junc-
tion Railwey, by which one lad was killed almost in-
stantaneously and three men were severely injured.
The down goods train left Dundalk, as usual, at 5 a.m.,
and pr, needed without interruption to a point 11 miles
distat.t from its place of departure, and about four miles
on the Dublin aide of Newry, where it encountered a
locomotive and ballast waggon, which were collecting
workmen along the line. The goods train was going
down bill with considerable velocity, and the ballast en.
gine was corning in the direction, likewise at great speed,
being then running for a siding, to get out of the way of
this very train—there being but a single line of rails at
this point. The ballast truck, or lorry, upon which for-
tunately but four men had then assembled, was in front
of its own engine, and was consequently crushed between
the two advancing locomotives, although these, with
their respective drivers and stokers, sustained but little
injury. The poor workmen, however, were thrown off
in every direction, and the lad that was killed, who was .
about 17 years of age, was almost cut in pieces ; anotht r
of the party s ustained concussion of the brain, and the
medical men deemed it prudent not to allow (ibis being
removed to any distance ; he was therefore taken to an
adjacent farm house, and with his surviving fellow-suf-
ferers received every attention which their state re-
quired. The latter were, by their own request, re-
moved in a special train to their homes at Poyntz Pass.
Mr. Bowen, the secretary, was promptly in attend.
ance, having been acquainted with the facts by tele-
graphic message, and, with the local officials, took all the
steps rendered necessary in the situation. The line was
cleared as soon as possible, and the mail train, after
some delay, - was enabled to proceed on its journey.
From the accounts wkieli have yet reached, it would
appear that the goods train reached the scene of the
accident in proper time, and that the ballast train ought
then to have been clear of the train fully 15 minutes ;
as, however, a judicial inquiry is pending, which must
attach blame to somebody, any reflections at present
would be premature.

"Mr. J..s-Jua, Michael Magee, coroner for the district,
held an inquest upon the body of the deceased at the
Wellington Inn, which had not cqnclnded at half-past 6
o'clock, r.rn., when the train left."