The Sun.
London, England, 1859-10-26 00:00:00

THE CAPE OF GOOD HOPE

PLYMOUTH, WEDNESDAY MORNING.
The Union Steam Navigation Company's mail
packet Norman, Commander J. Boxer, from Table
Bay September 20th, St. Helena 30th, and Ascen-
sion October 4th, arrived in the Sound this

morning.
She brings one package of specie, 253 casks of
wine, 2,000 horns, six cases of ostrich feathers, 100
cases of arrowroot, 13 bales of wool, 180 bales of
skins, 1,000 wet hides, 44 tons of copper ore, and
10 packages sundries.
Parliament is prorogued till the 16th of Novem-
ber.

The Parent Agricultural Society's annual exhib
tion was held at Cape Town on the day the raai
left.

The imported cattle and sheep, valued at £l,OOO,
were exhibited, and implements worth £4,000, and
42 varieties of ploughs—all American. The judges
expressed their surorise that the English manufac-
tures were so badly represented.
The cash balances in the Cape banks are very
low ; in the frontier discount is 8 per cent.
The Government called for £BO,OOO debentures
by the 30th of September.

The Customs duties for August were nearly
£24,000.
Trade is quiet.
Forage is high. Potatoes, 375. per 1001 b. ; ox
hides, 20s. ; wheat, per muid, 335.
The severe drought has ceased.
Various corps of volunteers are forming with
great alacrity.
The first locomotive engine was landed on the
14th of September.

The Spectacle Mining Company intend to con•
tinue operations.

Groat depredations are committed by discharged
Cafil.e servants.

The smallpox prevails among the coloured popu-
lation at Port Elizabeth, and the chief of the
Dutch Refotmed. Church at Hope Town does not
administer the Sacrament, fearing that the infec-
tion may be disseminated as the cup passes from
mouth to mouth.

Her Majesty's ship Boscawen and the Seringa-
patam are in Simon's Bay.
The Hermes was to leave in a few days for the
frontier to bring down Acting-Governor Wynyard.
The steamer Brisk sailed September 16 for the
Mozambique.
Dr. Everies, R.N., died on board the Eglintoun
while on his passage from Bombay to the Cape,
where she arrived on the 9th of September.
His Netherlands Majesty's sloop Amsterdam,

from Batavia, put into Simons Bay on the 10th of
September.
Colonel Apperley has been instructed to discon-
tinue the despatch of horses to India for the present.
The mail steamer Phcobe, from England, arrived
September 10. The Waldensian, from Natal ar-
rived on the 13th. The Zulu left Table Bay on the
15th for Mossil and Algoa Bays.
A large portion of the Norman's letters for Cape
Town were delayed through being put in a Natal
bag.

The merchant ship Angela Burdett Coutts called
at St. Helena September 22; the Julia on the 25th.

THE DUEL BETWEEN SENATOR BRO-
DERICK AND JUDGE TERRY.

The following particulars of the duel between
Senator Broderick and Judge Terry are taken from
the New York _Herald :

" Cincinnati, Oct. 10, 1859.
" The San Francisco Times of the 14th ult. says
that in accordance with our anticipations the ex-
pected duel between Senator Broderick and Judge
Terry took place yesterday morning in a small
valley ten miles from Mercer Lake. The parties
went out of town the night previous, passing the
night in separate localities. At a quarter past six
Broderick and Terry arrived on the ground, at-
tended by their seconds and physicians, Hon. J. C.
M‘Kibben and Mr. Coulter for Broderick, and Cal-
houn, Benham, and Thomas Hays for Ter.y.
On descending from their carriages the parties
seemed to be in the best spirits ' • neither appeared
anxious or nervous as to the result. About half an
hour was occupied in the arrangements. Ten paces
were marked, and the principals took their posi-
tions. The seconds divested them of their outside
coats, white collars, and other articles which might
present prominent targets ; also of their watches
and the coin in their pockets. One of the seconds
then read aloud the code duello, which occupied a
short time. Mr. Coulter then addressed the two
gentlemen, saying he wished it to be understood
that he should count one—two' after the word

Tfire,' after which he would say stop ; ' no shot
must be fired after that.

"During this time the principals maintained
their positions, and listened with composure to
these details. Judge Terry stood with his head
thrown slightly back, looking towards his an-
tagonist. Each held a pistol in his hand pointed
to the ground. Each was dressed in black clothes
and wore a slouched hat. Mr. Broderick stood
erect, but with head rather down. The positions
of the two were somewhat different. Judge Terry
maintained that of a practised duellist, presenting
only the edge of his person, keeping his left hand
and shoulder well behind him. Mr. Broderick, on
the contrary, though at first assuming a position
somewhat similar to that of Terry, seemed to prefer
a careless and less constrained one, and gradually
presented more of his body to the fire of his oppo-
nent. He.held his pistol rather awkwardly, and
seeming to feel this himself, he once or twice turned
the wrist of his pistol-arm to the right with his left
hand, as though endeavouring to comply with some
prescribed directions previously given him. From
that time he did not not raise his eyes until the word
was given to fire. Once his right foot got a fraction
beyond the line, when Mr. M'Kibben replaced it.
The bearing of Terry, though he assumed a more
practised and motionless attitude, was not one jot
more that of an iron-nerved man than was that of
Broderick.
"At a quarter before seven Mr. Coulter pro-
nounced the words, Are you ready ?" Ready,'
responded Terry, and ' ready' was uttered by
Broderick. Immediately after, Fire—one—two"

was pronounced in moderately quick time. Brode-
rick raised his pistol, and had scarcely brought it
to an angle of 45 deg. from its downward position,
when, owing to the delicacy of the hair trigger,
it was discharged, the ball entering the ground
four paces in advance of him. Terry fired a fewin-
stants later,taking deliberate aim. There was a per-
ceptible interval in the two reports. At that instant
Broderick was observed to clasp his left hand to his
right breast, when it was seen that he was wounded.
He reeled slowly to tae tent, and before the seconds
could reach him fell to the ground, his right leg
doubled under him, still grasping his weapon:
"Terry, upon discharging his pistol, folded his
arms, holding the pistol still smoking in his hand,
but did not move from his position. Broderick's
seconds ran to his aid, and Dr. Loehr commenced
to staunch the wound. The bullet entered just for-
ward of the nipple, and lodged, as was supposed,
under the left arm. He was soon afterwards borne
into town in his carriage.
" Previous to this Terry and his friends left the
field, driving rapidly into town, and started at once
from the north beach, where a boat was waiting, and
proceeded to Oakland, where they took a private
conveyance to Benicia ; on their arrival at Benicia
they took an overland conveyance to Sacramento.
"Mr. Broderick was taken to the house of Leon.
Haskell, at Black Point, where he was visited
during the day by hundreds of his friends. He
was able to speak during the afternoon, but owing
to his wounded lungs his articulation was gener-
ally indistinct and unintelligible.
" The correspondent of the Cincinnati Times says,
that at 15 minutes past nine this morning (16th
ult.) Mr. Broderick breathed his last. Gloom and
sorrow pervade the whole community. Flags are
at half-mast, union down. The stores are all closing,
and all the public buildings, and even private
houses, arc hung and dressed in mourning."