The Sun.
London, England, 1858-09-07 00:00:00

the successful termination of the great enterprise of
laying the Atlantic cable, have resolved, among
other festivities, to welcome the return of those
engaged in the undertaking by a civil and military
procession, and by a presentation of appropriate tes-
timonials. The common council, therefore, respect-
fully beg the honour of the attendance of yourself
and officers at the celebration which is intended
shall take place very shortly after the 23d, in order
that they may have an opportunity not only of
personally testifying to yourself and officers the
grateful sense which the citizens of New York
entertain of your zealous and skilful labours in
that grand project, but at the same time of giving
expression, through you, to all the subjects of her
Majesty, of those feelings of friendship which must
be strengthened by the magic link between the two
nations, in the establishment of which yourself and
your officers have rendered such important assist
ante.

CHARLES T. M'CLENECHAN, Soeretary.
(Reply.)

TO CHARLES T. M'CLENECHAN, SECRETARY TO JOINT
COMMITTEE OF COMMON COUNCIL OF NEW YORK.
Sir, I beg that you will convey to the Common
Council of the city of New York the best thanks of
myself and of the officers of this ship for the honour
they have conferred upon us by their kind invita-
tion of this day, which it will give us most sincere
pleasure to accept if the permission solicited from
the Admiralty should arrive in time.
If not, we shall carry back with us to England
their kind message, as the first-fruits of the united
labours of American and English naval officers.
JOSEPH DAYMAN,
Commander, H.M.S. Gorgon.
St. John's, August 13, 1858.

MYSTERIOUS SUICIDE at EDINBURGH

The additional partieulars which have transpired.
in connexion with this painful case since yesterday
(Friday) morning, do something, though not much,
so far as they can be relied upon, to dispel the
mystery in which it is enshrouded. The old
gentleman who accompanied Miss :Moffat from
London was brought up again yesterday and
further examined in the Procurator Fiscal's
office. He describes himself as Thomas Gray, a
retired merchant, in easy circumstances, residing
at Monastery-house, Poplar-road, London, near
the West India Docks, and from his statement
it appears that the young lady who has met
such a frightful end was the daughter of his sister
(not of his niece, as formerly stated) who married
Mr. Moffat, a tailor in Camden-town, London. Mr..
Gray has been a widower for the last two years,
during which period his niece lived with him, and
acted as his housekeeper. He was much attached
to her, and left her £loo.a year for life in his will,
which he would readily prove by sending for that
document from London, and producing it. They
came down to Scotland merely on a pleasure excur-
sion, and during the passage down in the steamer
she was much fatigued. He could not understand
her motive for committing suicide, but she had been
nervous and in very low spirits for some time back.
They had drunk toddy together on several occasions
since coming to Edinburgh, and he thought the
Scotch whisky had increased her disorder. It is
said that on taking up their lodgings in Mr. Rus-
sell's, on Monday evening, they brought part of a
bottle of brandy with them, that they subsequently
got in a bottle of whisky, and that nearly all this
liquor had been used by them principally in the
shape of punch or toddy. We mentioned formerly
that the deceased had expressed some uncomfort-
ableness at Mr. Gray's conduct towards her, and
her suspicions that he had drugged.her toddy. The
medical man viewed these suspicions as nervous
excitement ; but we understand that these and other
circumstances had rendered Mr. Russell dissatisfied
with his lodgers, and determined him to get rid of
them as soon as practicable. However this may be,
all the circumstances of this melancholy case, so far
as they have hitherto been elucidated, point unmis-
takeably to the conclusion that, whatever the dis-
posing cause, the deceased met her death by her
own hand. Mrs. Dunlop, who was seated in a room
immediately below that occupied by Miss Moffat,
and who heard the fall of a heavy body on the floor
at 12 o'clock on Wednesday night, listened to hear
if any person came to lift it up, but no footstep was
heard, and, from the position of the rooms,
it appears indisputable that any struggle or
even footsteps coining or retiring at that
hour would have been heard by a person
below. Mr. Gray, we may mention, has
never been, properly speaking, in custody, but
has from the first voluntarily placed himself under
the surveillance of the police. Further and pro-
bably concluding examinations will take place
to-day before the authorities.—Edildorryh Courant.