The Sun.
London, England, 1858-09-16 00:00:00

THIS DAI'S SHIPPING.

LONDON, Sept. 16.—Wind this day at noon, E. ;
light breeze, and fine.
OFF THE START, Sept. 14.—Arriyed—General Wind-
ham, from Sydney.
FALMOUTH, Sept. 15.—Wind S.E.—Arrived--Leopold,
from Ibrail.
PLYMOUTH' Sept. 16.—Wind S.E.—Arrived—Russia,
from Onega ; her Majesty's ship La wring, from Cuba ;
Dora, from Newfoundland ; Sybelle, from Middlesborough;
Emma, from Seville. •
WEYMOUTH, Sept.
Dantzic.

15.—Arrived—Seaforth, from

QuEEssTowir, Sept. 15.—Wind S.W.—Arrived--
Temps, from Taganrog ; Favourite from Liverpool for
Buenos Ayres, making water in her'bow ports ; Pindera,
from Liverpool, short of coals.

(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)
LIVERPOOL, Thursday Morning.
Wind S.
Arrived, Sept. 15—South Carolina, from. Bombay;
Jessie Munn from Bassein • Paragon, from Rio Bento ;
Dalomain, from Callao • Minho, screw steamer, from Paras.
Arrived, Sept. 16—Aurora, from New York ; Ariel, from
St. Übe's.
Sailed, Sept. 15—Atalanta, for New Orleans ; Colombo,
for Constantinople.
Sailed, Sept. 16—Jasper, for Cardenas.

(BY SUBMARINE AND- BRITISH TELEGRAPH.)
GRAVESEND, Thursday Morning.
Wind E. ; two-and-a-half-hours' ebb ; weather fine.
Arrived, Sept. 16—Alma, from Stettin; Egeritia, from
Smyrna ; Shanghai, from Quebec ; Caroline, from Patras.
Sailed, Sept. 15—Hertha, for Dantzic ; Johanna; for
Hamburg; Huntingdon, for Rio Janeiro.
DEAL, Thursday Morning.
Wind S.E. light.
Passed—Lidskiffe, from Canada for London ; Advance,
for Mobile ; Lady Jocelyn, and Calcutta; for Calcutta ;
Silistria, for Simons Bay; H. M. Mitchell, for Glasgow;
Samuel, for Denierara ; Lymo Regis,. for the Cape of Good
Hope—all from London.
Sailed—Richard, for Grimsby.

ACCIDENT AT A BREWERY..—Yesterday morn-
ing a dreadful accident happened to William Bluer, aged
48 years, who resides at Milton-place, Old Kent-road. The
unfortunate sufferer was engaged at a brew-house at Hors-
leydown, and was going to empty the hops out of the cop-
per. Supposing the liquor to be all drawn off he jumped
m, and sunk in the scalding liquor. His screams brought
assistance, when he was extricated and at once conveyed to
St. Thomas's Hospital, but very much scalded.
THE STANFIELD-HALL MURDERS.--In reference
to a statement which has appeared to the effect that a person
at Gibraltar has been apprehended on his own confession
that he alone fired the fatal shots which resulted in the
death of the Messrs. Jermy, at Stanfield-Hall, in Nov.,
1848, it is right to state that nothing whatever appears to
be known in Norfolk on the subject. This is important, as
it is only fair to suppoie that if a person had really been
apprehended as stated, some comnnuticatiott on the subject
would have been made to the local authorities. The state-
ment has naturally excited some interest in Norfolk, but
among those conversant with the circumstances of the
murders little attention is paid to the narrative, *as the uni-
versal testimony of every one about Stanfield-Hall was that
the murderer was a man of exactly the figure of James
Blomfield Rush, who was found guilty and executed in
April, 1849. ,The evidence upon this point was most em-
phatic, and was supported by many collateral circumstances.

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DEATH FROM STRYCHNIA.—On Tuesday after-
noon Mr. William Baker, the coroner, and a jury, assem-
bled for the third time at the Duke of York Tavern, York-
street, Ratcliff, respecting the death of Miss Lavinia Ann
Francis, aged 16 years, the daughter of a medical practi-
tioner, and surgeon to the hamlet of Ratcliff, who died
under very sudden and mysterious circumstances from
strychnine. It appeared from the evidence adduced on the
two previous occasions that the deceased was the daughter
of Mr. William Lyndon Frantia, ono of the medical officers
of the Stepney Union. The death was quite sudden, and
with all the usual symptoms of strychnia. The stomach
and contents were placed in a bottle and sealed up, and sent
to Dr. Letheby for analysis: Dr. Letheby, the lecturer on
chemistry at the London Hospital, was called, and said that
he received the stomach of a human person and its contents
in a bottle, carefully sealed up. Witness examined the
stomach, which was perfectly healthy in its appearance,
and contained two ounces of liquid like tea, which witness
analysed, and found to contain strychnia. lie had no
doubt that the deceased died from the effects of strychnia.
The quantity found in the stomach was very small. Mr.
Robinson, the assistant-surgeon to the Stepney Union, said
strychnia was kept in the surgery The deceased had access
to the room, and could get to the cupboard where the strych-
nia was kept by elevating herself. Henry Russell Davis
said that the deceased occasionally came into the surgery to
speak to her father. She could get through the waiting-
room at any time in the morning unobserved. She always
seemed to live happily with her parents. Laura E. Francis
said the deceased was her sister, and that she was with her
on the morning when she was taken ill. She did not find
in the drawing-room or the kitchen any cup or phial which
the deceased could have used. Other witnesses were exa-
mined at length, when the coroner remarked on the extra-
ordinary and mysterious nature of the case, after which the
jury consulted for a Aloft time, when the foreman raid his
mother jurors were not satisfied with the evidence adduced,
and wished for another adjournment for additional testi-
mony, as the case was involved in such mystery. At a
late hour the inquiry was adjourned.
THE SEPOIM—A letter from Calcutta, received
yesterday, says :—" The rebellion seems to be gradually
dying out. The inactivity of the rebels is in part, perhaps,
owing to the rains, which impede their movements even
more than ours, but its principal cause is obviously want of
heart. The last hope of success died away with the second
capture of Lucknow, and now even the hope of escape
seems to be vanishing away. The sepoys, relieved from
immediate pursuit, hope to find guns and allies in Oodey-
pore, where the household tiaaops of the Rana six months
ago showed symptoms of discontent. Theymight succeed but
for their plunder. Every sepoy is loaded with gold mohurs.
His waist-cloth, his knapsack, and his hair are all alike
weighed..down with these coins, an irresistible temptation,
'not only from their value, but from the ease with which
they can be concealed. Every man's hand, therefore, is
against these moving treasuries. The peasants watch for
stragglers as patiently as dogs. The local troops watch
eagerly for the chance of a skirmish, in which every man
killed is a fortune to the victors. The budmashes, among
whom they hoped to find allies, find it more profitable to
cut their throats, and the wretched Sepoys, hunted by the
Europeans, hunter the Rajahs, and hunted by the pea-
santry, dare n
.!t, nor stop, nor disperse. The spies
report their .ae, 4rightful. )3o9Adee they had food
op ce
• •ly on CYO, that was torn from the
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