The Sun.
London, England, 1856-10-13 00:00:00

MURDEROUS AFFRAY.

We (Derry Standard) are informed that in an affray
between two men at the Sion Mills, near Strabane, last
Tuesday evening, a person named Allen, was so much
injured as to tender his death almost certain. Accord-
ing to the information received it would appear that
Allen was land steward to :T. Herdman, Esq., of the
Sion Mills, and that for some time past an unfriendly
feeling had existed between him and the coachman,
,a
native of DuVia. The coachman was accused by Allen
of having ill-treated a valuable horse belonging to Mr.
Herdman, which charge the former denied. On the
evening of Tuesday the two men were drinking in a
public house, when an altercation arose between them.
Blows were given, but nothing very serious resulted up
til the parties reached the road. Allen was going home
when he was overtaken by the coachman and beaten in
a most inhuman manner. The unfortunate man wsis
removed to his own house, where he now lies in a very
dangerous state. The other is in custody, and we un-
derstand the matter will form the subject of a magisterial
investigation inamec:iately.
THE HARVEST.-THE MARKETS. ,

This has been a splendid week for the late har-
vest. It has saved thousands of pounds worth of
hay and grain that were on the ground during the
late heavy rains and storms. The Cork Examiner
says :

"The past few days have been exceeding fine—a fo{
tunate circumstance for the farmers in the remote moun-
tain districts, as it has enabled them to save their hay,
which a continuance of the weather we have had in the
early part of this month would have destroyed. Potatoes
are being extensively dug throughout the country, and
are on the whole turning out most satisfacto'rily."

EXPORT- OP BRITISH CATTLE TO TH.S'
UNITED STATES.

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national satisfaction to see how highly such are prized.
During the past week there were shipped from Liverpool
for New York, on board the Antarctic, Capt. Stouffer,
a most valuable cargo of horses, cattle, sheep, and pigs
Prominent among the cattle were a young cow called
Darlington Sixth, by a son of Grand Duke, bought at
Mr. Sainbury's sale in August for 300 guineas ; and a
very fine heifer, Marie Louise, by Mr. Booth's Hope-
well, purchased at a recent sale in Ireland. There were
also three first-class heifers from the unrivalled herd of
Col. Towneley, of Towneley-hall, in Lancashire—But:
tercup second, by Horatio, from Rosette; Missßutterfly,
by Master Butterfly, from Rosa ; and Pearlette, by Fal-
con, from Ringlet. The price given for these three heifers
was 1,000 guineas, although only just turned one year
old. Two of them are descended oa the dam's side from
the same family as the famous bull Master Butterfly,
which animal was sold for Australia, in July, at 1,209
guineas. Miss Butterfly was the first heifer-calf by him.
Pearlette is descended from Mr. Booth's Bracelet, one
of the most celebrated prize cows of her day ; and for
the dam of the heifer Mr. Douglas recently gave Mr.
Towneley 500. guineas. These animals have been pur
chased by Mr. Strafford, of London, for Mr. Thorne, of
New York, one of the most enterprising breeders of that
country. There were also .unsigned fa- this gentleman
some very fine Southdown sheep, purchased at the Hen-
grave sale, as well as some ofthe best Berkshire and Essex
pigs that we ever saw leave the port of Liverpool. The
Berkshires were from the famed stocks of Mr. Hewer and
Mr. Overman ; the Essex pigs were bred by Mr. Crisp,
and included the prize boar at Chelmsford, as well as
some young sows, also shown there. With the above
there were also shipped some splendid Southdown sheep
from Mr. Lugar's flock, as well as the shearling ram
bought at his sale for 80 guineas. These are for Mr. R.A.
Alexander, of Kentucky, a gentleman whose namestands
high as a great purchaser of our best animals, and who,
in a recent visit to this country, bought the celebrated
horse Scythian, by Orlando, winner of the Derby (by
Touchstone), one of the best stallions this country ever
produced, whose pedigree and performances are well
known in the sporting world. He was winner of the
following prizes :—Newmarket Stakes, 3501. ; Dee
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Some cattle and sheep were also sent by Mr. Wythes for
a house iu New York. The entire arrangements for the
shipment were made by Mr. Bell, of the Adelphi Stables,
and were of the most complete character, being such as
to reflect the greatest credit upon the care and attention
of this gentleman.

IRON PAPER.—We had last week (says the Liurpool
Albion) an opportunity of inspecting a sample of thin
sheet-iron prepared by Bessemer's process. It was re-
markable for its great tenacity and beau
beautiful finish, but
more especially for the thinness to which it had been
wroneht. Indeed it bad more the appearance of glazed
paper than sheet iron, and suggested the possibility of
our some day seeing an iron newspaper. We commend
the idea to Herapath, as a material aptly suited fur his
railway journal. The chief difficulty would be the dark
appearance of the sheets, an inconvenience which might
be pleasantly overcome by the use of Coloured inks. The
sample was shown on 'Change on Thursday, to those in-
terested in the iron trade, and excited great admiration.
Several gentlemen who remember seeing the thin sheet-
iron exhibited by Prince Demidoff, at the Crystal Pa-
lace, 1851, wore of opinion that it was not only consi-
derably thicker, but that it was far inferior in quality to
this specimen prepared by Bessemer's process.
FRENCH FISHERIcH IN TOELAND.—For several years
past the French have been extending their fisheries more
and more northwards, and of late found a more favour-
able fishing ground on the coast of Iceland. Their pre-
sence has given rise to a number of unpleasant conflicts
between the French fishermen and the natives of that
island, and been the subject of repeated complaints on
the part of the latter to the Danish Government, as
they maintain that it interferes with their priucipal
means of existence and almoet sole article of export,
and threatens seriously to annihilate their little com-
merce. On the other Land, the French, wishing to re-
move for the future all cause of collisions with the
Icc:landenz, proposed to regulate the question by a treat:
on the subject with Denmark. The late visit of Prince
Napoloon—first to Iceland and then to Copenhagen—
has tended much to accelerate the negotiations, and a
treaty between France and Denmark has been already
signed, and will be published as soon as the ratifica-
tions are exchanged. Denmark, however, has net the
d
the sovereignty of any part of Iceland to France;
treaty simply grants to the French fishermen certain
privileges, and secures to them the right of curler;
their fish on shore, which had hitherto been denied
them by the local authorities in Iceland.

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THE ELRCTRIC
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(Prom. the Times.)
There is au old Arabian tale in which th •
princes are represented as baying obtained
eion of three implements, the works of the gellisi,%
which were esteemed the most Wonderful of which
man had yet heard. There was a small telescope.
whioh could assist the sight of the observer;to
penetrate thousands of miles from the spot on which
he stood. There was a carpet which transported
any one who took his station upon it swift as a
wish to any place he desired to go. There was-nn
apple which healed all diseases if the patient but
inhaled the fragrance of its sunny rind. Such were
the subjects of the tales with which the Arabs
soothed the monotony of their midnight encamp-
ments, and which the Indian storyteller related to
his swarthy audience under the arch of the city
gate in the short twilights of the East. The imagi-
nations of the most imaginative races had been
taxed to their utmost stretch to conceive what
miracles could be performed if the supernatural
powers might he made favaurable to man, and
such were the results. Science in these modern
times and human reason, acting, as we believe,
under the immediate guidance of Providence, have
outstripped these fanciful legends of the Eastern
world. There is no Oriental poet who ventured
to imagine that a dweller in Damascus or Bagdad
could communicate his thoughts to the utmost
limits of the habitable world instantaneously as
they were conceived in his own brain. Their
notions of physical geography were so limited that
the Easterns had no conception of the true form of
the planet which we inhabit. Had they, how-
ever, been told that the world was a sphere,
and that the thought of man could be made to
encompass it like a girdle, rapidly as the flash which_
rent the clouds asunder and passed away ere one
could say that it had lightened, how poor in com-
parison with such a result would all tho wonders
have appeared, which, as they supposed, lay hid-
den from human eye and sealed for ages to come
under the maned signet of Solomon 1 The electrio
telegraph in the miracle of modern times. As yefs
this invention is but in its infancy, but already all
Europe is traversed by its wires, and the continent,
too, of North America. In the course of the next
two or three years we trust to see results far more
extensive. The wire is already coiled up which is
to leo cast into the- depths of the Atlantic. The
monnhinrsMtrvalleys of that great aea...have been,
fathomed to ascertain the most convenient coarse
for its deposit. In a brief space the electric spark
which is generated in London will pass as swiftly
as the exigencies of its own nature require to the
great cotton city on the delta of the Mississippi,
and to that rude town, whichever it may be, which
may then lie furthest westward in the domains of
the buffalo and the red mau. Contemporaneously
with this gigantic result we have other labourera
in the same field at work, who are busily engaged
in fixing the tramroad for the electric spark be-
tween the European continent and the northern
shores of Africa. This limit once obtained, the
lightning-thought can flash freely on its course
across the old land of the Egyptian, whether by
the Red Sea or across the plains of Mesopotamia,
to the cities of our Indian empire, and in due
time, no doubt, to the great centres of Chinese
commerce. Nor is this all. The wire which bad
been laid down from London in one direction will
soon be carried to the city of the Californian gold-
digger. The corresponding wire, on which we
have just marked a few stations, will then be
borne across the Chinese Seas and the Northern
Pacific—touching, it may be, on its way at the
mysterious empire of Japan, and will be linked
on at San Francisco to the western chain. Then
it will happen that a man may generate a spark at
London, which, with one fiery leap will return
back under his hand and disappear, but in that
moment of time it will have encompassed the
planet on which we are whirling through space
into eternity. That spark will be a human
thought !
The dinner which was given a day or two ago to
Professor Morse was highly creditable to all con-
cerned in it, and we are pleased to see that in the
speech which the Professor delivered on the occa-
sion lie significantly took the more ennobling view
of the subject with which his name has been con-
nected. It is one thing to grub on from wheel to
cog, and cog to wheel, inserting a screw here and
adding an escapement there, but unless we raise
our eyes every new and then from the tedium of
detail to reflect on how much has been gained, and
to take a long earnest gaze into futurity, we shall
miss the greatest incentives to future exertion.
Now, man cannot afford to lose a whisper front
the unseen world. It is the spirit in which we
work that signifies, and that spirit should swell
the promptings of the Divine Being who thus
Oyes us the earnest of our immortal destiny.
Professor Morse was speaking of that most certain
point in the history of inventions, that when the
time has arrived when the discovery is to be made
which is to exercise a great influence on the.desti-
hies man there occurs a remarkable coincidence
of discovery and harmony of invention in many
minds far separated from each other, and with no
obvious knowledge of each other's thoughts. The
recollection of every man who is familiar with the
history of great scientific discoveries, and of the
heart-burnings and rivalries in the midst of which
they have been cradled, will coufim this view.
Professor Morse is reported to have spoken thus
I am sure I may venture before a Christian British
audience to suggest as its proper solution that the Great
Author of all Good, the Giver of every great gift to the
world, intends when such a boon is bestowed that He
first and prominently shall be recognised as the author ;
arid so, in His wisdom, He first prepares the way-r
He eliminates from hundreds of minds in various
parts of His creation the minor inventions and
lesser discoveries necessary to be made before the
greater and more striking invention is brought forth,
and then it is that the same thought, struck out at the
same time, or at least so near the same time that all
perceive the impossibility of any fntercominunication,
leads one to exclaim as by an irresistible impulse, 'What
bath God wrought r And this impulse of the heart is
true. So, too, when the historian has made his search,
and brought together the facts, if any one connected
with a great invention or discovery has attracted to
himself the more concentrated regard or honour of man-
kind, or of a particular nation, bow significant is that
time and more research bring out other minds and other
names to divide and share with him the hitherto exclu-
sive honours !"
He went on to quote the instances of Cabot,
Columbus, and of the northern adventurers in
connexion with the discovery of the American con-
tinent ; of Guttenberg, and Faust, and Caxton
in connexion with the art of printing ; of Watt
and Fulton in connexion with steam navigation ;
of Adams and Leverrier as discoverers of the
p'anet Neptune. The name of our own illustrious
countryman Wheatstone stands prominently for-
ward as one of the three or four which have been
chiefly mixed up with this wonderful discovery. So
has that of Oersted, the Daue. It is not for us to
say to whom the palm should b 9 assigned. It may
be that one has been more concerned in evolving
the theory, the other iu applying it in practice. To
do Professor Morse but simple justice, he spoke
with the utmost modesty of his own share in the
invention, which ho described as the application of
the discovery to the practical purposes of life. We
Alight, p*qtaps, have desired a few warmer words
pit praise for the original discoverers than the f
lowing :—" Man is but au instrument of good, if
he will fulfil his mission ; He that uses the instru-
ment ought to have the chief honour, and He thus
indicates His purpose to have it. It is surely
sufficient honour for any man to be a ccelabeerer
in any secondary capacity to which lie may be ap-
pointed by 4ucli a head in a great benefaction to the
world." But, though we miss the nettles of Wheat-
,
stone and Oersted, we are quite aware of the merits
of Professor Morse. The guest at the Albion on SP:-
turday last has deserved well of the world, and in his
eeneratiou has done much to advance the cause of
human progress. We rejoice to see England and
America united in a project so honourable to both
nations, and we applaud this generous
which expends its energies for
the lt rivalry,
orests of
peace in the attempt, which we can
not u
doubt will
be successful, to link together two 000 tinents. We
agree with Professor Morse when ho observes th at
the effects of this marvellous discoverb and of its
application both in a political and commercial
with
sense, are incalculable. We
awaitnclian of impatience
lines the completion of our own
with the mother
tele-
graph, and of their connexion
'o of the Can d with
country. The electric union
of aas
affair a few months,
the British isles is but the
nor need we despair of ultimately seeing
the ex-
tension of the system
to our Australian colonies.
Then indeed the British d 011111110118 will sbe concen-
trefed into one vast whole. The guiding thought
which has been conceived at the seat of empire will
pervade them all more swiftly than the red reflec-
tion of the beacons which bore across the .rEgean
the tardy intelligence of a captured Troy to the
Iweary watcher at Agamemnon's house.

COLLAPSE OF A COLLIERY SHAFT.—Thi ea men—
JA9eph Crosland, Jarneq Wrioht, and John Bolton—loot
tbeir lives on Mocday last in the Newton Colliery, ma
Ferry bridge, in the \Fest Riding of Yorkshire. TneY
were descending the shaft of the colliery, which: is 426
feet deep, when the sides of the shaft suddenly collapsed,
and a large quantity of earth and other material fell upon
them. The three unfortunate men were killed, and
their bodies were not recovered till 12 hours after,
though great exertions were made to reach them. The
primary cause of the accident is supposed to have been
th 3 late heavy rains. An inquest on the bodies of -the
deceased has been opened by
the coroner of he district(Mr. Jewison), and stands adjourned till next Thurs.
day, to enable Mr. Moreton, Government IntipentPr of
t
Mines, to attend.

A

THE BANKRUPTCY of the ROYAL
BRITISH BANK.
At a Meeting of the Committee of Depositors in the Reyal British
Bask, held this 13th October, 1856 ;
Jamas WILD, Esq., in the Chair;
It was moved by Mr. MITCHELL, seconded by Mr. GILLrNG, and
unanimously resolved, " That the name of James Tressam Burke,
Esq„ of Gresham-street, India' abber Manufacturer, the petitioning
creditor under the bankruptcy, be added to the list of the proposed
Aselgnees, and that advertisements to that effect be issued "
JAMES WILD, Chairman.

TURKISH BISCUITS.
NIESSRS. FULLER and HORSEY are in-
structed by Messrs. Coventry, Sheppard, and Co. to SELL
by AUCTION, at Garraway's, on Friday, Oct. 17, at 12 for 1, 500
lons of TURKISH BISCUIT, returned from the Crimea. The bis-
cuit is sound and, in good condition, and will be sold in lots to
nit the convenience of purchasers. Samples may be had at the
ale e of Mears. Coventry, Sheppard, and Co.; or of Fuller and
Macy. ,

TiIEA.TR ROYAL. DRURT-LA,NE.
Lessee, bar. E. T. Smith.
THIS EVENING
TUE ADVEN MEEK.

Followed by
Burlesque of PIZA.RRO.

To conclude with
A BALLET DIVERTIMEMENT.

ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.
Odder the Management of Mr. CiLIItLES Bsw
EVENING,
MUSIC HATH CHARMS.

After whim,
PIZARRO.
:ReNa, by Mr. C. Kenn ; Elrtra. by bin. C. Keen.

To conclude with
A GAME OF ROMPS.

THEATRE ROYAL, HAYX&RICRT.
Under the mansgement of Mr. Buckst.oll4.

TSIS EVENING,
TEIE INCONSTANT.

Followed by
The Spanish Dancers.
After which,
PRESENTED AT COURT.
To eon:ludo with
THE GALICIAN FETE.

LYCEUM THEATRE ROYAL,
Lessee, Mr. Chaales
THIS EVENING,
Twasty-fifth Time,
BE LPHEGOR.
Belphogor, Mr. Chas. Dillon ; Madeline, Mrs. Chas. Dillon. •
After which, Mih time, the new Burlesque of the "Winter's Tale,"
Supported by. Mrs. A. Mellon (late Miss wooizar), Miss IL Gordon,
Map. B. White, Mist W. Wilton, Miss Rosins Wright, Messrs. Toolis,
Celheem, Barrett, and Brough.
Stalls, 51. ; Dress Circle. 4s. ; Upper Boxes, 31. ; Pit. 23.; Gallery.
le. Commence at 7. Half price to all parts at 9. Box Office open
dally tom 11 till 4.

ROYAL THEATRE ADELPHI
Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. lit'obstat.
Directress, Madame Celeste.
THIS EVENING,
IRELAND AS IT 13.
Followed by
DOMESTIC ECONOMY.
To conclude with
LUCIFER MATCHES; OR, THE YANKEE ---- 1

STRAMD THEATRE.
Manager, Mr. T. Payne.
'MIS EVENING,
THE MILLER OF DERWENT WATER.
After which,
A Ballet Divertissement.
Followed by an original Burlesque, entitled
BELPHEGOR.
3hodittnes ThArlwall, Woollidge, and Cuthbert; M. H. J.

Miner, Herbert, Clarke, &c.
To conclude with
THI MARRIED BACHELOR.
Commence at 7.
OWL% 11.—Bexes, ls.—Gallery. 6d.

ROYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE.
Lean and Manager, Mr. Alfred Wigan.
TH2S EVENING.
STILL WATERS RUN DEEP.
To conclude whit
THE ritisT FIGHT.

AirmErs ROYAL AMPHITIIEATRE.
Lessee and Manager. Mr. Win. Cooke.
THIS EVENING,
(61St Night !) Sbakspere's Tragedy of RICHARD THE THIRD.
Richard, Mr. I. Holloway. Mr. W. Cooke's Equestrian Illustrations.
A success unprecedented.

After which,

The attractite SCEI7E3 in the CIRCLE, combiling skill, daring
and elegance.

To conclude with a Mélange of Amusements.

Commence at Seven. Box-office open from Eleven till Four. Stage
Manager, Mr W . West. Equestrian Director, Mr. W. Cooke. inn.

RIGA WATER. AT LONDON BRIDGE.
TEIS DAT—Morn. 57 min. aft. 12 —Evening 11 min. aft. 1
TnafOinow—Morn. 37 min. aft. I—Evening ST min. aft. 1

THE WEATHER—Stu Ornm, OCTOBER 12.
THERMOMETER, IN TEE SHADE.
01—highest sines noon yesterday.
56 —lowest this morning and during the night.
62 —this day at noon.
BAROMETER, 30.17—rising again.
WIND, Morning, N.N.E.—Light, with rain. Noon—
W.S.W. to W.—Light, with fine weather.
01119011/ER 13.
&I— highest sines noon yesterday.
MI —lowest. ilia morning and during the night.
62 -this day at noon.
RAI:win:TER, 30.22. •
WIND, S.S.E.—Light, with dull weather. Thick fog
is the morning.

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