The Sun.
London, England, 1858-10-18 00:00:00

ST. LOUIS.

Letters from St. Louis, in Senegal of the 19th
ult., give an account of a visit made by the governor
to the gold mines at Bambouk. As the place is
250 leagues distant, and as the rivers by which it
is reached were low, the expedition was one of great
difficulty, and not unattended even with danger,
but it was safely accomplished. The governor,
having inspected the mines, entered into arrange-
ments for getting them worked. He also concluded
a treaty with a native chief, named Bougoul, of
Farabana, who possesses a sort of suzerainty over
the gold mine district ; and by this treaty the
chief concedes to the French, to the exclusion of
any other European nation, the right of working
the mines in conjunction with the natives, and that
of cultivating lands and building houses. The
Governor also induced the chiefs of the Bambouk
and the Almamy of the Bondou, to sign a treaty
between themselves putting an end to their dis-
putes about frontiers, and he entered into another
treaty with Boubakar-Soule, the Tonko of Guoy,
by which that potentate cedes to France the
territory between the Bakel and the Faleme, and
is in return recognised by her as King of the rest
of the Guoy, and is placed under her protection.

Accounts from Athens of the ith state that the
journals of that city are loud in their praise of the
Queen for opposing a project of the municipality
for retaining a public market on the ground which
is thought to have beneath it some relics of anti-
quity. The Esperance, which had strongly attacked
the mayor of Athens and his colleagues on this
subject, stigmatising them as Vandals, announces
that excavations arc about to be made near the
market.

Lord Loftus, English Minister at Vienna, has
returned to that city, after an absence on leave.

A Berlin letter states that the French Minister
in that city, M. de Moustier, had, in the name of
the Emperor Napoleon, congratulated the Prince
of Prussia on his appointment to the Regency, and
that H.R.H. was much pleased at the attention.

Advices from Dresden state that a new census
of the inhabitants of the States of the Zollverein
will take place during the present year. It is fixed
for Saxony on the 3d Dec.

ATTEMPT TO MURDER IN LEATHER-LANE.—
Yesterday (Sunday) morning between 12 and 1 o'clock, loud
cries of " Murder !" were heard in Leather-lane, Holborn,
and several men were observed to be in the act of assaulting
a man, whose name was subsequently ascertained to be
Nicholas Barnes, a basket-maker, who was soon after
knocked down. Police-constable Daimond, G 175, upon
hearing the disturbance; ded to the spot, where he
found a quantity of blood from an incision on the
man's cheek, and near him were two men, whose names
were ascertained to be John Sullivan and Wm. Sullivan.
The officer asked the wounded man how he received the in-
jury, and he stated that he had been stabbed by John Sul-
livan with a knife. Daimond on that information took him
into custody, and upon further hearing that Wm. Sullivan
and also Dennis Sullivan, another brother, had assisted in
the attack upon Barnes, got the assistance of other con-
stables for the purpose of taking the other men into custody.
They were apprehended, but a mob collected, and a most
determined attack on the constables took place, and Dennis
was rescued. With much difficulty John and William Sul-
livan were taken to the station-house, where the charge
against the prisoners was taken by Mr. Inspector Spiller.
In the meanwhile Barnes, who was in a most exhausted
state from loss of blood, was placed in a cab and conveyed
to St. Bartholomew's Hospital. He was there promptly
seen by one of the house surgeons, who found a portion of
the blade of a knife firmly fixed in he cheek bone, of which
(singular to say) the unfortunate man was not aware. It
was so inlay lodged in the bone that a pair of forceps was
obliged to be used to extract it. Barnes resides in Port-
pool-lane, and is described to be a very inoffensive man.
There appears to have been some ground of animosity
sgainst Barnes on the part of the Sullivans, as in the course
of the Saturday one of them had threatened to serve him
out. John Sullivan was lately a private in the Royal Ar-
tillery, Woolwich, from which he was discharged for some
misconduct, having previously received a whipping for the
offence he committed. Win. Sullivan is a costermonger.
THE CHRYSANTHEMUMS IN THE INNER AND
MIDDLE TEMPLE.—These autumnal flowers, so much in
favour in these city gardens, and grown with such success
by Mr. Broome, are now looked upon by the public as One
of the annual sights of London. Among the working classes
the interest created is very great. The gardens are daily
visited by hundreds, inquiring when the "show" will com-
mence. Mr. Broome informs us that about the first week in
November the chrysanthemums will be in full perfection, and
this season they bid fair to eclipse all others. The beds of pom-
pones in both gardens are splendid, and Mr. Broome has
specimen plants, grown in 8-inch pots, measuring four
feet across, from one stem only, on which thousands of
bloom already appear. The large varieties, in a bed 150
feet long and six wide, are also very promising for a display
of monster blooms, such, perhaps, as have never been wit-
nessed. Last year the Temple-gardens were visited by
thousands of people, and doubtless it will be the same this
time, and those desirous of cultivating the chrysanthemum
will be repaid by a visit, especially since Mr. Broonie, as
the gardener, most courteously gives every information,