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THESD.A T
THE CHANNEL FLEET.
The arrivta of the Channel Feet, consisting of 11
sail-of-doe-line, in Bantry Bay, on
,Saturtlay, has
Created' a
.considerable stir in the locabty, and 1!1,
demand for freblo provi6o/14_1/4s. give:a ;im-
petus to the beef trade. One dealer slaughters
daily 20 head of cattle for the supply of the-flt>et.-
TELE GALWAY SIIIIBEIPt 'DRAMA.

Plum 411. STAMPED,

which was taken up to deceased, but he could not
touch it. The daughter then ate some of it, and
also gave. some to her little boy. The prisoner tried
to persuade them not to eat it, and proposed that it
should be kept hot for the deceased for another
time. They both fell ill with vomiting and burn-
ing pains in the mouth and throat, but ultimately
recovered. Samuel Wells continued ill, and died
in a week after taking the gruel. Some hens and
chickens had pecked the vomit and died. The medi-
cal evidence proved that deceased htzd died ft:om the
effects of arsenic. Letters were put in, written by
prisoner, expressing sorrow for what she had done,
and stating that she did not mean to kill her
master.

The Galway deputation arriveci'in Dublin yester-
day, and held a second' indignation meeting at the
office of the Irish committee on Eden-quay. 4.
resolution, among others, was adopted, protesting
against the right of the Loudon directors to trans-
fer or sell the subsidy without the consent of the
shareholders.
SERIOUS STRIKE OF MINERS.

It ig btated that the workmen in the employment
of the Mining Company at the copper mines of Bon,
mahon, amounting to several hundred persons, have
struck for higher wages Fearing injury might
result to the property of the company, who have very
expensive machinery :•ntl much valuable materiel
in the neighbourhood, a party of the rekrve con-
stabulary force in the Phce nix- park were despatched
last night to Bonmahon, to reinforce the local police.

For the defence Mr. O'Brien urged that the pri-
soner was young and did not know the consequences
of her act. There was not sufficient motive proven
for the commission of murder, and he submitted
that it could only he considered a case of man-
slaughter.

THE PARTY RIOTS IN THE NORTH. -
According to all the local papers the excitement in
Lurgan is still at white heat, and grave apprehen-
sions appears to be entertained of another outbreak
between the rival factions. The battle of Derry-
macash on Thursday last shows pretty plainly
what might follow from anything like a general
arming of the people, whill it fully justifies the
course taken by the Government in regard to the
Irish volunteer movement, It is clear that the
time has not come when it would 'be prudent to
recommend a change in the Act of Parliament,
which denies to Irishmen the right enjoyed by the
people of Great Britain.
THE POTATO DISEASE.
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The broken weather which, with the exception
of a few make-believe summer days, has marked
the month as far, as it has gone, has revived the
annual alarm of failure in the potato crop. Already
spine,4lj4greeablci -reports ba.v9 Inn. pikidu-,34e42„,,,,,
lation, which, on closer investigation, have proved
to be almost utterly without foundation. . -

The learned Judge having summed up,
The Jury retired for about half an hour. On their
return into court they found a verdict of Guilty,
with a strong recommendation to mercy.
The Judge then put on the black cap and pro-
nounced the sentence of death in the usual form.

The prisoner was conveyed from the dock in a
Mating fit.

NORFOLK CIRCUIT.—BEDFORD, JULY 17.
(Before the Lord Chief Justice of the Common
Pleas.)
_ _ HARTWELL Y. YEAST AND WIFE.

Mr. O'Malley and Mr. Couch were for the plain-
tiff, and Mr. 'Keane and Mr. Browne for the de-
fendants,
This was an action for slander, the declaration
alleging that Mrs. Veasey falsely and maliciously
spoke and published of the plaintiff the words fol-
lowing; that is to say,- " He kissed and embraced
Anna. Mafia-Brewer." The defendaint .pleaded
Eind•not:ggilty: The plaintiff. was
at, the time in questiOn, in the employ of, the Duke
of Bedtord; riatren oP frho p'ati;la church of. Woburn,
his 'cluileslieieng to clean' the attend,. tO .the
:A.as in .the,charch,;schools, yards, &c,.,.at ,a Marc ,
0t,125.-10d. per week. The.git.l the plAiritiff,
:Was Cliaided.' liaiidg-"liisS6tl arid '6115 bi•aCed".
vas„ servant of the schoolatUttess., aP4 ;helped; to
teach in thL infantsehool. Th,e,Oajn,tiffis.67 years
of 'age, was for eleven yeararmy ,'having
the
hnving
longtht. at-Waterloo 7 ,;I• L; • -

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THE SOUTH WESTERN AVD. _EXETER
-RAILWAY.

The Exeter and Yeovil Railway-=the first idea-of
):otwof :lir:eh was originated as bug 'hick as; :1844, emu-
.pleti,ng the' communication between Eieter and
• 1-oodon by the same route as the old coach road,—
Tinw finished, under the London and South-
Aire's(eirf "COrnpany'S auspices; and is to be opened
9- m orr o
gauge—through Ti uh. whatwha what
opnatneistt:
dl.laLl;ldic narrowt
—through what:abstirdittes of legislation this rail-
wiy has been carried in the long interval between
1844 and 185,:5, .wheit the bill finally passed, it
would be tedious, and unnecessary to relate. Suffice.
-it to say that the people of Exeter have been
throughout porsistent in'their endeavour" to,stand
upon their old ways," while the London an,:l South-
Western Company have been no less co•astant in
supporting them.

jgry 'retur4e4 a yerdict; for the-p.aintiff—
flamages, . r •

TIE GREct-P SOLAR ..POLIPSE. OF
• : ' 2'07,1)4Y; Ju.Li..lB, ~• • • -

BY J. GLAISHER, ESC;t,' F.R.S. •
This eclipse will rank among the most remark-
able, as the time of absolute total eclipse is very
nearly the longest :possible. The breadth of the
greatest shadow-iine•possible is about 180 miles,
audio this eclipse it is about 130 tnile3, and its
passage over the earth about 7,000 miles, and the
interval of time from the shadow first touching the
earth in California, and finally leaving it in Egypt,
is about three hours, and within this space the
eclipse will be total.
The shadow will first touch the earth, or the
eclipse become visible, in the North Pacific Ocean,
near the cost of Upper California ; from thence the
shadow will pass over North America, crossing
Hudson's Bay, Labrador, and the Atlantic. It will
first touch Spain at the bottom of the Bay of Bis-
cay ; passing across in a line from north-west to
south-east, over and nearly parallel to the river
Ebro. Leaving Spain between Valencia and Tor-
tosa, it crosses the Mediterranean and the southern-
most of the Balearic Islands, and enters Africa be-
tween Algiers' and Constantine, and finally leaves
the earth near the shores of the Red Sea.

The public have been long familiar with the rail-
road from London to Salisbury, which city was or
a long period represented in Parlia:roent by a former
chairman of the South-Western Company, the late
Mr. Chaplin, M.P. The extension to Yeovil, a dis-
tance of 41 miles ,was completed last month. The
remaining 46 miles, giving a second railway route
between London and Exeter, by the important t owns
of Axminster and Honiton is now finished, and its
opening for traffic will be inaugurated to-day by a
grand dinner to be giveU to the directors of the
South Western Company by the mayor and corpo-
ral ion of the western, city.
The new line, which has been constructed by Mr.
Errington, of the firm of Locke and Errington,
presents few engineering difficulties, except one of
a tunnel through green sand near Honiton. The
railway crosses three rivers—the Otter, the-Colley,
and the Axe, all well known to fishermen—by iron
and stone bridges ; and the country which it tra-
verses is eminently picturesque, abounding in
scenery of the most beautiful character, thickly
dotted with the residences of many distinguished
families.

Considering the phases of the eclipse beyond the
limiting parallels of totality, near to them the
eclipse will be almost total, and is more and meta
removed from totality as the distance increases. In
England the magnitude of the..e'clime may lee
judged from the following considerations:. If we
consider the diameter of the sun .to be represented
by 100, then, at all those places situated on or near
a line joining London and Liverpool 83 parts of the
diameter of the sun will be obscured; at places
situated.,near .parallel to .the,aboye.
through Dublin• anc Edinburgh rispectively, 87
such parts will be obscured on the former, and 79 on
the latter; and at intermediate places, the magni-
tude will be interiiu•.diate. The greatest eclipse in
the British Isles will therefore be in Ireland, and
the smallest in Norfolk.

The value of this extension as an important link
of the narrow gauge system cannot be overrated,
whether regarded in a military or commercial point
of view.. When the bill was before Parliament some
attention was directed to it as affording a connecting
link in the national defences, the idea being that it
must ultimately lead to a connection between the
great naval arsenals of Portsmouth and Plymouth ;
while, in. a commercial point of the view, it restores
to Exeter a great amount of trade once carried on
through the. -diStrict- travi-n:sed
shortens the existing railv,ruy distance to the metro-
polis Ivo less than 27 milr.s.

Although formally opened for traffic to-morrow,
the service of expref,A trains will not commenec
until the Ist of •Augb.st.

. . .
The point of the sun's border on which the moon
will first impinge is situated on the right hand and'
a little below a horizontal line drawn through his
centre, and the last contact will be at a point on the
left band, or eastern border a:love the horizontal
line passing through his centre.
The following are the time; of the beginning,
middle, and ending of the eclipse, in local time, at
each place:

VICTOR BUG°.

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The Progres of Hayti, just received, publishes the
following letter from Victor Hugo, in reply to one
from the editor, M. E. Hourteloup, thanking him
for his eloquent defence of John Brown :
" Hauteville House, Jersey, March 31.
"Your letter has deeply moved me. You, sir,
are a noble specimen of that black humanity which
has been so long despised and misunderstood. From
one end of the earth to the other there is but one
spirit in man, and this is shown by blacks such as
you. Were there several Adams ? That is a ques-
tion which naturalists may discuss—this much is
certain, that there is hut one God. And since there
is but one father, we must be all brothers.. This is
the truth for which John Brown died. This is the
truth for which I struggle. You thank me forany
efforts, and I cannot tell you how much I am gra-
tified by your thanks. Upon this earth there are
neither whites nor blacks, but only spirits ; of these
you are one. Before God all souls are white. I
love your country, your race, your liberty, your
revolution, your republic. Your magnificent and
gentle island is now dear to the eyes of all free
souls ; you have set a good example •, you have
crushed despotism. This example will aid us to
shake off our slavery, for servitude in all its forms
must disappear. What the States of the South have
killed is not John Brown, but, slavery. Henceforth
the American Union, in spite of all that is said in
President Buchanan's disgraceful message, must be
considered as broken. I regret it much, but there
is now no help for it. Between the South and the
North there stands as a great gulf the gibbet of
John Brown. Solidarity is impossible. Such a
crime cannot be split in two. Continue to stigma-
tise this crime and to consolidate your generous
revolution. Go on with your work—you and your
worthy fellow-citizens. ✓Hayti is now a burning
and a shining light. It is well that among the
torches which illuminate the path of progress one
should be held by a negro hand.—Your brother,
" VICTOR HITGO."

The Eclipse
begins.

Middle of
the Eclipse.

The Eclipse
ends.

h. m.

h. In.

h. m.

At London
At Oxford
At Cambridge
At Dublin
At Edinburgh . •

1 39 p.m.
1 32 p.m.
1 39 p.m.
1 3 p.m.
1 17 p.m.

2 49 p.m.
2 Ai2 p.m.
2 48 p.m.
2 15 p.m.
2 26 p.m.

3 51 p.m.
3 48 p.m.
3 53 p.m.
3 22 p.m.
3 31 p.m.

Although the phendnifsna of this eclipse in Eng-
land will fall far short of those in the line of totality
yet it is the largest of any solar eclipse that will
happen here till the 22d day of December, in the
year 1570; and the next, and only one in this
century, will be in the year 1887, on August 19,
and which will be nearly total.