The Sun.
London, England, 1859-08-31 00:00:00

AN ADVENTURE ON GOATFELL.

A party of gentlemen left Invercloy Hotel on
Monday forenoon, to ascend the lofty peak of Goat-
fell. The day was hot, and the sky was clear, but
over the distant landscape there was a haze which
invariably accompanies heat, and which gives dis-
t-int coasts and headlands a shadowy, indefinite, and
to scme, with creative fancies to fill up the outline,
a poetical aspect, but to the matter-of-fact traveller
a disagreeable barrier to vision. The party
numbered seven or eight gentlemen, some of them
youthful, nimble, and active, but more than one had
seen the snows of half-a-century. Having attained
the height of their ambition, the summit of Goat-
fell, and enjoyed the refreshing breeze which on
the hottest day is felt there, and having partaken
of such refreshments for the inward man as are
ever welcome to the natives of merry England, they
commenced the descent by a different path from
that by which they ascended. Some of the party
had climbed the mountains of Switzerland, and
looked upon anything got up in this country
as mere molehills in comparison. One stout,
spectacled gentleman of 19 stone (Dr. Smith),
rubicund, noisy, and short-sighted, started off
down the southwest side among the loose debris
which had fallen from the rocks above. This steep
incline terminates on the top of a fearful precipice,
over which a traveller fell two years ago and was
killed. Down, down went our friend in a
made by a mountain torrent, till his eye caught gutlhl ye
fearful gulf below, and in desperation he clung to
a jutting rock, by which his progress downwards
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much about their friend, whom they row ob-
served resting from his labours, as they thought,
on his lofty chair. They shouted to him to come
along, but their shouts were lost in the noise of a
falling torrent. They now wended their way
homeward to Invercloy, consoling themselves with
the remark that their friend would not fail to be
at the inn in time for dinner But dinner passed,
nightfall came, and still no word of the lost
gentlemen, and jokes were not so frequent, and
long faces and anxious looks were being put
on. The landlord of the Douglas Hotel
was now appealed to, and he is ever reach--
and ever active to aid his friends. All the available
hands about the inn were called out, waiters and
coachmen were collected, and off they set, pro-
vided with ropes, &c. The whole night long the
search was continued, but not until nine o'clock on
Tuesday morning was any trace of the lost travel-
ler discovered. But there, at the identical spot;
where he first caught the jutting rock, still hu.ng
the adventurous traveller, and there for eighteen
hours had he held on without being able to effect an
advance or retreat. By the aid of ropes he was.
got out of his perilous position, and, by the help of:
a little mountain dew his speech was restored.-
Greenock Advertiser.

THE AURORA BOREALIS.—A correspondent
writing from Bridgend, Glamorgan, says, "I beg to inforr a
you that I witnessed the beautiful aurora borealis, on Mon -
day morning about a quarter past one o'clock. The )-
pearance was similar to that described in your edition of
yesterday."

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE.

LEWES AND UCKFIELD.

The fifth ordinary general meeting of the share-
holders in this compalitwas—held -yesterday after-
noonad their offices, in High-street, Lewes, Mr. R.
W. Bjencowe, chairman of the board of directors,
presicring.
The, .report, which was adopted unanimously,
stated& that the directors have duly received the
stipulated rent for their line from the London,
Brighton, and South Coast Company, and recom-
mendos dividend of 2 per cent. (less income tax) for
the half-year ending the 30th June last. Attached
to the report was the regular statement of accounts
duly audited..
A motion that a dividend for the half-year end-
ing the; 34th June last be declared at the rate of 4
per cent. per annum (less income. tax) was 'unani-
mond*. adopted. -

HEREFORD, ROSS, AND GLOUCESTER.
The sixteenth half-yearly meeting of this com-
pany was held yesterday, at the Barrs Court sta-
tion, Hereford ; Mr. John Omerod in the chair:

The report was adopted, as were also the follow-
ing resolutions :—" That a dividend at the rate of
£5 per cent: per annum upon the preference shares
of the company be, and the same hereby de-
clared,; tlutt-a dividend at the rate of 4s. per share
on thconlinary shares of the company be, and the
KM is, hefeby declared."
A vpte. of thanks to the chairman (who officiated
in the: absence of Colonel Vaughan) closed the meet-
ing.