The Sun.
London, England, 1861-09-27 00:00:00

The Vienna Gazette publishes the rescript of the
Emperor, accepting the resignation of Baron Kemeny,
Chancellor of Transylvania.
The Echo A gricole says :—" For reasons which
we cannot explain, the Government has ceased, for some
months past, to publish the importations and exportations
of wheat and flour ; and yet this is the very moment at
which commerce has the greatest need of such information."
THE EXPORT OF WHEAT TO FRANCE.—It is re-
ported that the speculative purchases made on the eastern
side of the country, which have resulted in such large ex-
ports of wheat for France, have sustained a check for the
present, and it is even stated that some of the cargoes which
have arrived in French ports have not found a ready mar-
ket. Prices have now reached a point which will render
further purchases more hazardous, hence prudence has
suggested a pause for the present, although there can be no
doubt that large deliveries will have to be made on French
account before the next harvest is gathered in. The sud-
den demand which has sprung up has had one beneficial
effect. Usually prices are depressed in September, in con-
sequence of the small farmers forcing sales, but this year
all the supplies brought forward have been eagerly taken
up at enhanced rates. •

THE MOTHERWELL MYSTERY CLEARED UP.—
Mr. Dundas Simpson writes from Monkland Cottage,-Air-
drie, on the 24th instant, to the editor of the North British
Mail, in the following terms :—" Sir,—l consider it a duty
incumbent on me at the earliest moment, to acquaint you,
and through you, the public, that Ihave received information
from an authentic and reliable source of my son William,
whose disappearance recently created so much excitement,
being still alive: For his own foolish and heartless conduct
he is alone responsible, and I beg to express the hope
that the publication of this note may now set the matter at
rest, and render any additional comments in your columns
unnecessary ; and that what has been already so publicly
expressed in regard to him and his affairs may now be con-
signed to oblivion."
Brewers and beer drinkers will be interested to
learn, on the authority of the Bavarian Hop Gazette, that
the crop of that valuable vegetable is this year somewhat
wonderful in Germany. The editor writes in perfect
ecstasy. " Hops I" ho exclaims, " hops here, there, and
everywhere I There are not hands enough to be found for
the picking, and wages are rising fast. The harvest is
superior to anything that could have been imagined. Hops
of inferior quality were sold at 82 florins the cwt. In
Nuremberg, Altdorfer have been sold at 70 florins, and
Holledauer at 90 florins; at Schwetsingen, from one day
to the next, there was a fall from 100 down to 75 florins ;
at Herbruck, on the 4:h instant, the price was 80 to 85
florins, and a few days after sales were made at 70 to 75
florins, but in small quantities, buyers holding back in the
apparently well-grounded hope of a further fall. The re-
duction upon last year's prices is something enormous.
FIRE-PROOF DOORS.—The frequent occurrence of
fires in the metropolis has not failed to call forth some new
inventions, if not for their entire prevention for their limita-
tion to the premises in which they occur. Mr.'W. S. Hogg,
of 19, Rotherhithe-wall, has taken out a patent for a new
fire door, and yesterday it was tested in the presence of Capt,
Shaw, the chief superintendent of the Fire Brigade in Lon-
don, and a very large body of wharfingers. The door is con-
structed partly of iron and partly of fire bricks. The first
that has been made was fitted into a recess at the works of
Mem irs. Glover, Spa-road, Bermondsey. An immense fire
was built up on one side of it, which burnt for about five
hour:; without heating the door, though a blast was applied,
and although the cast iron blocks by the side of the door
melt( ,cl. Capt. Shaw having suggested that water be thrown
on the door, it was at once done, but did not alter the state of
affair s, and the door after all the tests was as perfect es when
it wt is first fixed. It has the advantage of being lighter than
the iron fire-proof doors at present in use, and if anything
collie i buckle it, the heat to which it was exposed yesterday
must t have done it. The patentee, however, has determined
to in Trove his present invention by exposing no iron in the
doeril, and those made upon improved principles will be
subjected by him to more severe tests (if possible) hereafter.
The whole of the parties present on this occasion expressed
then iselves highly satisfied with the results of the experi-
ments, and should this door be generally used, there is fair
p;rou nd for believing that fires will not spread with such
I apiclity as they have done lately.
A strange crime was committed a few nights
b acit in the neighbourhood of Frankfort. A person named
N Vil vonseder, steward of the Prince of Senftenberg, arrived
in a gig, accompanied by two other persons, at the octroi
olio a of the village of Rehberg, and found the gate closed.
It -was some time before the octroi man, whose name is
lint itschek, presented himself, and Willvonseder reproached
him for his delay. "Ah 1" cried the man, "you are tired
of 'w aiting, are you ? Well, then, you shall wait longer ?"
and he closed the gate which he had opened, and retired to
the 'office. Willvonseder called to him several times, but
he n :turned no answer, and at length the former, getting
out .of his gig, went to the office and summoned him to
open( the gate. "You insist on its being opened, do you?
T eke that I" said the octroi man, and he plunged a large
knife, into Willvonseder's breast. The latter staggered a
fe w steps and fell dead. The murderer was immediately
of ter arrested.
A DESOLATE CITY OF THE SOUTH.—Wo have had
co ncurrent accounts from various quarters going to show
the desolation which this mad Southern rebellion has
0 bri)u,3ht upon her greatest mart of commerce—the city of
l'sT.)w Orleans. Trade and commerce are at a standstill ; no
in-am; dor outward bound vessels pass the mouth of the
M issi ssippi, unless it be a sneaking privateer or an insigni-
fia ant coaster that may escape in fog or storm; cotton bales
and a agar hogsheads are not, as in former times, piled upon
the broad levee, but are kept on the plantations, lest they
should fall into the hands of the national forces ; the streets
are so deserted that the Picayune perpetrates the dismal
joke of recommending them to the attention of some indus-
trious sithemen; the payment of rents is regarded as an
antigt iated absurdity, and the citizens generally are quaking
in tensor over the idea of a visitation from the national fleet.
New Orleans once enjoyed the reputation of being a loyal
city, and it is even still believed that the adoption of the
Ordin ante of Secession by Louisiana was attained through
fraud at the ballot-boxes, and against the will of her citi-
zens. That may be or may not be so. If New Orleans had
proved equal to the high commercial position which she
held as the second Port of the United States, 110 frauds or
violence perpetrated by traitors could have made her lend
herself to their objects, or adopt their thieving principles.
By doing so she brought upon herself her present desolation,
and richly deserves to suffer as she has done and is doing.
Nevertheless, we shall rejoice when the army antd navy of
the United States shall have banished terror and dismay
from the minds of her citizens, when her levee :shall once
more be the deposit of the products of the 'Mississippi valley,
and when the white-winged messengers of conanierce shall
revisit her wharfs under the protection and. flag of the
United States. We trust we shall not have long to wait
for that day.—.2Vetv York Herald.
THE TRIBES OF GALWAY.—If their Connaught
or Munster neighbours regarded them with no loving eyes,
it must, on the other hand, be allowed that th ()Tribes were
particularly careful in keeping t) themselves, and scarcely
amusing anecdotes are still ( et.tant, show-
ever permitted the natives to enter their str Dngly-walled
" Hisl;ory of Gal-
anred's, in 1518, "that
ipiargoptelaretyd'ete3rie7inyed opinions that they held oil this point,
of the Bur lees, WWll-
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awdliamsa i rot drai
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Hams, Kellys, or any other of their Sept: into their
houses, and that neither 0' nor 'Mac sho tilde strutte
ne swagger through the streetes of Gallwaze." It is a
fact that the following singular inscription was, formerly to
be seen over the west gate
"From the ferocious O'Flaherties,
Good Lord, deliver us."
And in one of their bye-laws, of the date of 15'Z8, wo find it
enacted that, "If any man should bring any Irishman to
brage or boote upon the towne, to forfeit 12d." From this
exclusive system it naturally followed that the( Galwegians
formed a tolerably happy and contented commcm ity, neither
marrying nor giving in marriage save wit b. their own
people, and keeping up a constant succession eat their own
name, to inherit their riches and honours fivra father to
son.—Once a Week.

ATTEMPT TO MURDER A .WIFE. —Aft the Glas-
gow Circuit Court on Wednesday, before the rc.,c.rd Justice-
Clerk, Lachlan 31‘Lean, a spirit-dealer, Gre enoek, was

tried for attempting to murder his wit's in June last. I

appeared from the evidence that the prisoner had been in-

diiiging in drink for some days, and that while in a state of

excitement he had fired a pistol at his wife, inflicting seri-

ous injuries on her face and head, APLean pleaded guilty
to assault at common law, without intent, but his plea was

not accepted, and a number of witnesses wore examined.

The prisoner's wife, in the course of her evidence, said :--
"My husband was usually a sober-living re an. I am
aware he received an injury in his head in Aixterica, by a

boiler-plate falling upon and I knew ach ango in his
temper when he got drink. This occurred some years ago.
II was always kind when in sobriety, and I do not wish
him to be punished more than he has got, as lasi well now.
I thought his mind was affected at the time ho was drink-
ing, as I know he would not hurt a hair of my _head. Now,
my lord, and gent'emen of the jury, I beg for mercy; I
hope you will be :as lenetive' as you can to him." Dr.
Auld and Dr. Wallace were of opinion that the woman was
in a dangerous state, and recommended her to be removed
to the infirmary. About a month afterwards sho was

out of danger, but her face would be considerably de-
formed from the effects of the wound. The prisoner's

declaration was then read. He stated that he had pur-

chased the pistol for the purpose of shooting rabbits while
in the Highlands, during Greenock fair ; that he had

fired it at his wife's head for the purpose iof frighten-
ing her, and thereby cause her to desist from ab using him,

but with no intention of injuring her person. 'Mr. Shand
addressed the jury for the prosecution, and, whiLe adhering
to the charge under the statute, he restricted the pains of

law, so that, in the event of their returning a verdict of
guilty, his lordship would be able to impose any punish-
ment he might deem fitting, instead of sentence of death,
which was provided for by the statute. Mr. Muir then
addressed the jury for the panel, after which the Lord Jus-
tice-Clerk summed up. The jury, without retiring, re-
turned a verdict finding the prisoner guilty as libelled. The
Lord Justice-Clerk then sentenced the prisoner to fifteen
years' penal servitude,—Scotsman,