The Sun.
London, England, 1858-06-15 00:00:00

BARi3ADOES.

There has been a very agreeable change in the
weather during the last fortnight, and one or two
parishes have finished crop, and the others are
pushing ou rapidly to a close. It would be pre-
mature to state even a probable aggregate of the
crop through the island, but it is generally ex-
pected to be in excess of last year's. Notwithstand•
ing the adverse weather which the greater portion
of it will have been reaped, the produce expected
to date amounts to 29,679 hhds., 2,529 trs., 8,182
brls., sugar; 4,321 puns., 113 hhds., 239 bras., mo-
lasses ; 355 puns., 100 hhds., rum. The public
health continues good.
JAMAICA.

The business of the last fortnight has been
marked with a little more activity than usual.
Coffee in very small supply, and there is no pimento
offering. The health of the island continues good,
and the -weather-very-dry ; and should this weather-
continue it will have a very serious influence on
the growing crops.
ANTIQUA.

The commission appointed by the governor for
the trial of the persons concerned in the late riots,
was opened on the 10th instant—the chief-justice
presiding—and up to the latest date 35 true bills
had been found by the grand jury against some 70
persons.
DEMERARA.

The papers report the arrival, on 10th May, of
Governor and Mrs. Wodehouse from Martinique.
The crops were locking well.
TRINIDAD.

No news of any importance. The weather had
been very dry, and the want of rain was much felt.

ST. THOMAS.

The weather had been very fine, and not a
single case of fever had been reported amongst
the shipping.

THE PACIFIC.

By the arrival a'. SAlthampton of the West India
mAil steamer Atrato wo have received files of the
Panama Star and Herald to the 24th ult.

The st ‘anaship Lena, Captain Bloomfield, from
Callao, Hay 12, arrived in the harbour of Panama
on the afternoon of the 21st.
In Peru President Castilla had issued orders
for a general election for President, Vice-Presi-
vent, a.id Congressmen. Th. 3 Presidential and
Vice-Presidential candidates in the field were Cas-
tilla and La Ma-, Elias and YillArte, San Roman
and Castillo. The contest would be between the
two former.

From Valparaiso -we have files of papers to the
30th April. The election excitement had died
away, and the fear of an outbreak was for the pre-
sent removed. The
.6overnment party had a ma-
jority over the Opposition. Dun Jeronimo Urme-
neta, Minister of the Interior, had resigned. Dr.
Phillipi had made an examination of the province
of Valdivia, by order of the G ,wernment ; his re-
port was iooked for with muchinterest. A number
of emigrants from the Tyrol were shortly expected

to arrive in Chili. Coal of good quality has been
discovered in Chiloe.

The latest, date from La Paz are to the 28th.
The Pi esident, Dr. Linareg, still continued to
adopt rigo•ous measures to check the various re-
volutionary movements. The press had been
silenced, and no person, eithar publicly or in
private, was allowed to express an opinion on the
acts of the Government. The arrival of General
Belzu was anxiously looked for by the party op-
posed to the present government.

Considerable attention had been recently at-
tracted to the geld washings of Tipuani, and two
companies had been formed in La Paz for the pur-
pose of exploring the mines.
A very severe shock of earthquake was experi-
enced at Lima on the 11th, which lasted 50 seconds,
and the alarm and confusion were frightful. Busi-
ness had been very dull for the last few months,
owing to the few vessels that had been chartered
by the guano contractors. A large fleet of Ameri-
can vessels was in Callao Bay, waiting for charters.
The ship Gladiator reported having, in the latitude
of Coquimbo, experienced the shock of an earth-
quake, and the bi ig Globe also reported having
felt the same at sea. Exchange on London, GO
days, 44)2(1. Freights to England, 2/. per ton.

ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH IN AUSTRALIA.

The completion of the international telegraph
will be the first step towards the federal union of
' the group of Southern and Eastern Australian
colonies ; and a system of railways which will
connect New South Wales, Victoria, and Adelaide
with each other will hasten an event which cannot,
judging from all appearances, be very long delayed.
The disadvantages which, in regard to the commu•
nication with this country, are felt by some of the
colonies will be almost entirely removed when
the electric telegraph will be able to flash the
heads of the commercial and political intelligence
almost instantaneously to each of the provinces.
Of the four colonies which it is sought to bring into
communication with each other by means of the
electric telegraph Victoria has made the most rapid
progress. We learn from the report of Mr.
M‘Gowan, the Government Superintendent of Te-
legraphs, that in Ddcember last the Victorian por-
tions of the two lines for connecting Melbourne
with Sydney and Adelaide were completed to the
boundaries of New South Wales and South Aus-
tralia respectively to the Murray on the north-east
and to the Glenelg on the west. During
the past year the new lines completed
within the colony of Victoria itself rare—
an extension from Fiery Creek to Ararat ; a cross
lino from Castlemaine to Ballarat through
Maryborough, Dunolly, and Creswick ; an exten-
sion from Sandhurst to the Murray, at Echuca;
and a new-line from Geelong to Cape Otway, to
meet the submarine cable from Tasmania. In
, South Australia the progress which has been made
is not so groat as in the neighbouring colony, but
it is expected that early in next March the line
will be completed from Adelaide to the boundary of
Victoria. The contractors for cornple•ing the work
have met with considerable obstacles, owing to the
absence of timber suitable for posts for the wires
for a distance of nearly 200 miles along the route
which had been selected. The difficulty of con-
veying these posts for such distances has been a
very formidable one; but it is expected that the
through communbation will be established be-
tween Adelaide ard Victoria by the time we have
stated. New Soath Wales is more backward
with the work thin Adelaide, but it is antici-
pated that the lire from Sydney to the boun-
dary of Victoria wll be finished by July, 1859.
The principal cause of the delay in New South
Wales has been the failure of the contractor when
but a small portion of the line had been constructed.
A. fresh contract vas, however, entered into with
another person last December, who is bound to
execute the work vith as much despatch as possible.
Some portions of :he country to be passed over
present physical difficulties to the construction of
the line, but these are not of such a nature as may
not be surmountel with ordinary energy and per-
serverance. Tasmania, cut off from the continent
of Australia, like our own country from Europe,
must be connected to the general system, of
course, by means of a submarine telegraph. Tho
contract for manufacturing the necessary oable has
been undertaken in this country, and in a few
weeks will be reaiy for shipment. The line will
be laid from a spa near the mouth of the Parker
River at Cape Otway, whence it will cross the
straits to King's Island, a distance of about 55 miles.
and thence to the small Hunter's Island, and then
to a suitable landing-place near Cape Grim, but
bearing the more agreeable name of " Victoria
Cove." . The actual distance traversed between
the northern part of Tasmania and the southern
point of Victoria is 127 miles, of which about 100
will be submarine ; the soundings which have been
taken show Oral the bed of the straits has a gently
undulating surface, and composed for the most
part of coarse sand and broken shells, and being
in every re.Tect well adapted for she deposition
of the cable. The best time for laying the cab!e
will be, it is said, the month of December, so
that by the end of the present year we may hope
to be able to congratulate the colonies on their
nnion with Tasmania by an additional link beyond
that of common brotherhood and origin. The
works on the island required to connect Hobart
Town with the northern coast are progressing
favourably.—Australian, and New Zealand Ga-
zette.

DREADFUL MURDER IN STAFFORDSHIRE .

The county of Stafford has again been the scene
of a brutal murder. The particular spot at which
the tragedy occurred is called Brockmcor. It is
at. ou. lying district in the parish of Kintswinford,
oa t' e confines of Worcestershire, a few yards
rithin the Staffordshire boundary, aril about
three miles from Dudley. It is a populous locality,
within the South Stafford mining district. The cir-
cumstances attendant upon the commission of the
murder, and the motive of its perpetration,
are involved in much mystery. The facts, so far
as they are known, may be briefly stated. On
Thursday afternoon the murdered man was drink-
ing • with a friend at a beerhouse at Brockmoor.
His name was Wm. Collier. He is suppmed to
have been a native of Manchester, where he ;elided
until within a comparatively recent period. Ile was
by trade an engineer, and worked as a fitter for
Messrs, Brown and Freer of Brockmoor. He is
said to have been about 42 years of age, and a
widower. His friend, Jabez Onions, was a native
of Bilston, in Staffordshire, and also a fitter by
trade. Ho is said to be of roving, unsettled habits,
and to have been in the navy. He was out of em-
ploy, and, calling at Brown and Freer's on Thurs-
day to ask for employment, was invited by his
friend Collier to have some drink at a neighbour
ing b erhou.ie, to which they adjourned, and re-
mained clinking from noon until ten o'clock at
night. The quantity of ale they consumed during
that time came to 12s. 9d., and was put down to a
fellow-workman of Collier's who had lodged at the
beerhous', Collier hating no money and being
almost a stranger. In the course of the evening
Onions remarked that he should have to stay out
all night, whereupon a man who was drinking
with thew offered him share of his bed ; but Collier
objected, insisting
that Onions should accompany
him to >Lis lodgings at Dudley, and spend the
night there. Timis was agreed to, and shortly after
ten o'clock they started for Dudley, Collier More
leaving
theThaa•liouie -getting his breakfast can
filled with ale, which he took away with him.
Nothing further was seen of them until five o'clock
on the following morning, when a man named
Sheldon, in going from Brockmoor to work near
Dudley, found the body of Collier brutally mur-
d..elds, ered,
fields, a
near a footpath leading across some
a few hundred yards only from the beer-
ho. use where ho had been drinking on the preceding
night. Ho was frightfully beaten about the head,
and the skull was completely smashed. Near the
body was a large stake, with which it is suppose I
the murder was committed. The stake had
blood upon it, and its having been found near
the body favoured the supposition that the un-
fortunate zna,u had been killed by it ; but other
circumstances appeared adverse to that supposition.
The stake had been drawn out of the fence at an
opening between two fields, a short distance from
the place where the body was found, and its dimen-
sions are such as to render it extremely 1000UVC-
nient as a weapon of offence. It is of oak, at least
five feet long, two inches by four in thickness, and
nearly 401 h. in weight. Thera were no appearances
of any struggle having t tken place near the spot,
nor had an.
vthing transpired up to Saturday
"veiling caleuhted to throw light on the matter.
Tile (.:(3.lres of the inur& red man had evid,nally not
been diAturbe:l, consequently robbery could nit
hare bleu Cm motive fur the crime. In his
pockets w( re found a knife, a rule, and a squ (re
used in his trade, the can he had filled with ale on
leaving the beer-house, which had not been inter-
f. with, Rile, his cap was on his head. Suspicion
natu, ally p,,int s to Onions as the murderer, and the
fact of his not having been seen in the neighbour-
hood since favours the supposition. But, on the
other hand, what motive could lead him to commit
such a crime it is difficult to conjecture. He and
deceased had long been on the most ft iendly terms,
and it is not known there was any ground of
between them. The police have a clue to the where-
abouts of Onions, and it is believed he will soon be
iu custody ; then possibly so me light may be
thrown on the affair. Meantime the police are
vigorously prosecuting inquiries, which it. is hoped
will nut be fruitless. An inquest was opened before

Mr. T. M. Phillips, coroner, on Saturday evening,
and adjourned until Tuesday, the 22d inst. , in order
that a post-mortem examination of the body may
be made, and all possible information obtained by
the police.