The Sun.
London, England, 1861-11-06 00:00:00

N OVE 11131?, R 6, 1861.

PRINCE ALFRED.—It may be remembered that
his Royal Highness Prince Alfred went out as one of the
passengers on board the British and North American Royal
Mail steamship Niagara. On arriving at Halifax the Prince
expressed the high satisfaction he felt at tho accommoda-
tion, and also the courteous attention he had met with on
the voyage; and, in token of the appreciation in which he
held them, he presented Captain Moodie, commander of
the Niagara, with a valuable diamond ring and his portrait,
together with his autograph.
GALLANT !LIFEBOAT SERVICE.—GREAT YAR
MOUTH, Tucsday.—During a terrific gale of wind yester-
day, the smack Adventure, of Harwich, with ten hands on
board, parted her cable, and came on the North Sand. Her
perilous position having been observed, the Yarmouth life-
boat, belonging to the National Lifeboat Institution, imme-
diately proceeded to her resue, and, amidst the greatest
danger, succeeded in snatching the ten poor fellows from
an inevitable death. It is stated by the officer of Coast-
guard and others, that this was one of the most gallant
services ever performed by this lifetoat, which has, ere
now, been instrumental in rescuing scores of shipwrecked
persons.

A GAMEKEEPER SHOT BY A POACHER, NEAR
BRADFORD.—About seven o'clock yesterday morning Wm.
Smith, alias Davies, a gamekeeper in the service of Timothy
Horafall, -of Hawksworth, was shot by a poacher named
James Waller, in Hawksworth Springwood, between Brad-
ford and Otley. Davies encountered Waller in the wood ;
Waller ran and Davies followed him towards his own house,
and when he had reached about 100 yards of it, Waller
turned round and discharged the contents of a double-bar-
relled gun into the chest and abdomen of Davies, who lived
till about half-past eleven and then expired. As soon as
he had shot the man Waller ran to his own house, deposited
his gun there, and then returned to where he had left
Davies. Several persons had got up to him. Waller went
up and said, " Who had done it ?" Davies said, "It is
thee, Jem." Waller then ran off, and has not been seen
since. The police are in pursuit of him. The dying man
made a statement to Mr. Horsfall, the magistrate, substan-
tially like the above.

LANDSLIP ON A RAILWAY CUTTlNG.—Yesterday
Mr. Sergeant Payne, the coroner, held an inquest in the
Board-room of St. Thomas's Hospital respecting the death
of John Smith, aged 27, a railway labourer. It appeared
that the deceased and several other labourers were at work
on the branch line of railway in course of construction be-
tween Streatham and Croydon. About half-past 3 o'clock
on Monday week they were engaged in a cutting the
banks of which had been incautiously undermined, With-
out the slightest warning, however, an immense body of
earth suddenly detached itself and rolled down the bank.
The other men managed to escape, but before the deceased
could get out of the way he was buried under more than
five tons of earth. With the utmost difficulty the poor
fellow was extricated and conveyed to the hospital, whore
he expired on Friday last from the frightful injuries he had
received. The jury returned a verdict of accidental death.

DEATHS ON RAILWAYS.—A very painful feeling
has been caused in commercial circles in Newcastle and
this town to-day by a melancholy and fatal accident which
occurred to Mr. John Arundale, cashier to Messrs. Lamb-
ton and Co.'s Bank, last night. Mr. Arundale, whose wife
was staying at Tynemouth, in precarious health, was wait-
ing at the Manors station, Newcastle, last evening, for the
six 'o'clock train down to that place. As the train ap-
proached the station and was about to come to a stand the
unfortunate gentleman was observed to raise his hands
above his body, as if seized with a fit. Almost immediately
afterwards he staggered forward, and fell from the plat-
form between two carriages. The result was that the head
of the poor gentleman was all but severed from his body,
and in this condition he was removed to the goods station,
life being extinct. The deceased gentleman was only 33
years of age. On Saturday evening a man named Henry
Wild, belonging to Sunderland, was picked up on the
North-Eastern Railway, at the Gateshead Fall Station,
having staggered on the line while drunk. He had been
ran over by a train, and was dreadfully mutilated. He
died yesterday morning.

THE MAILS, &C.—SOUTHAMPTON, Nov. 4.—The
outward Mediterranean, East India, and China mails were
despatched hence to-day by the Peninsular and Oriental
Company's steamship Indus, Capt. J. Weeks, which takes
out 79 first and 45 second-class passengers, a full cargo, and
112 boxes of specie, jewelry, &c., value £31,664 14s.—viz. :
—For Alexandria—sovereigns, £lOO. For Madras—gold
coin, £628 ; gold thread, watches, &c., £2,382 10s. For
Calcutta—bar silver, £2,040; watches, medals, and jewelry,
£6,661 4s. For Singapore—gold thread and jewelry, £3lO.
For Hongkong—bar silver and dollars, £5,106; watches,
£219. For Foochowfoo— dollars, £1,300. For Shanghai
dollars, £12,915. Among the passengers are the Duke and
Duchess of Beaufort, two children, and five servants, for
Malta; Rev. R. Elmhirst, for Alexandria; Rev. W. Row-
lands, for Ceylon ; Rev. T. Foulkes, for Madras ; Capt. and
Mrs. Nicolls, Lieut. C. G. and Mn'. Rowcroft, Lieut. E.
Sadler, Dr. White, and Lieut. Owen, for Calcutta ; Capt.
A. F. M'Nair and Dr. Treacher, for Singapore ; Capt.
Brine and Lieut. Maud, for Hongkong. The corresponding
Marseilles steamer has 75 passengers, among whom are the
Hon. E. and Mrs. Drummond and daughter, Lady Mont-
gomery and child, Captain J. Crofton, Captain W. N. Lees,
I Dr. and Mrs. Macrae, Captain F. Bishop, and Colonel de
Sausmarez, for Calcutta. The Union Company's new screw
steamer Briton, Captain Clark, also sailed this afternoon
for Ascension, St. Helena, and the Cape of Good Hope,
taking a full general cargo, jewelry value £2,000, and 68
passengers, among whom are Captain Corrie, R.N., Assis-
tant-Surgeon Tucker, Dr. and Mrs. Ebden, Ensigns Hand-
ley and Townsend. She will embark the mails at Plymouth.
The screw steamer Jenny Jones, Captain David Howe, ar-
rived here this morning from St. Brieux, with a cargo of
cattle, pigs, poultry, and eggs, being the pioneer of a new
trading connection about to be opened up between this port
and St. Brieux.

THE DUBLIN HEROINE.—If Lucretia had been an
able-bodied Irish lady Tarquin would not have had his vil-
la.nous name in history. Miss Jolly does not in the least
resemble the heroines of whom we read in romances. When
she found herself out of her way in a strange and lonesome
road she was not alarmed, not overwhelmed with vague ap-
prehensions of impending danger. When dragged out of
the cab by the hair of her head she did not spend her breath
in screams nor lose her courage, and when thrown on her
back by her ruffianly assailant she turned her very position
to the advantage of giving him a vigorous kick, which
repulsed the miscreant, and enabled her to make her
first escape. Her next step was of strategic science.
Being the weaker belligerent in the open field she availed
herself of earthworks for her defence, and forthwith en-
trenched herself, taking up her position in a ditch up to her
waist in water. No heroine of romance would have done
this for any consideration in the world ; she would rather
have rent the air with her cries and appeals to Heaven. But
Miss Jolly took to water as naturally as a duck, or a deer
at bay. She was thus mistress of the situation, unpleasant
as that situation in the ditch unquestionably was. The
miscreant Curran had decided objections to the ditch, and
commenced a treacherous parley, offering a safe-conduct if
the lady would leave her place in the ditch and return to
the cab; she temporised, and while the issue was in doubt
the cab horse happily moved, and the scoundrel left his in-
tended prey to secure 'the animal. And here we have to
observe a fortunate and saving instinct of horse preserva-
tion. The time when the eons of Erin loved honour and
virtue more than woman and gold is gone, but to make up
for that, the very worst of Erin's sons values his horse more
than any other possession. The miscreant Curran had his
choice of the lady in the ditch or his cab horse on the road.
Each was for an escape. If he stuck to the lady the horse
would bolt. If he secured the horse the lady would escape
from him. In this dilemma the man did not hesitate an
instant. " The world well lost, or all for woman I" might
be the sentiment of an Antony, but in modern days what
would bo a Cleopatra without her barge, in a wet ditch,
compared with a cab and horse ? The choice was made at
once, the cab not lost, and Miss Jolly saved. Curran's
horse was a friend to virtue, and had by a single motion
made up for the deficiencies of Erin's degenerate sons.
What the maiden smile of Moore's lady did for her in safely
lighting her through the green isle, the cab horse did for
Miss Jolly in carrying her safely through the Bloody-fields.
The cab horse was the saving machine of the epic, dignus
vindice nodus.—Examiner.

WHALES IN CAPTIVITY.—I have received a copy
of the National Intelligencer, Washington, Sept. 26, in
which is an account of the Boston Zoological Gardens. It
appears from the following that our American brother
naturalists have a tame whale and a pet dolphin; for we
read :—" In the same tank with the white whale are two
sturgeons, seven fek t in length; likewise a fine specimen of
a shark. There are also 50 other tanks, filled with fresh
and salt water fish of the choicest specimens. Six hundred
gallons of pure sea water pass through the entire building
every minute. The pipes for conveying the water are laid
down through the streets of the city the same as ordinary
water pipes. Eight hundred and sixty-four thousand gal-
lons of this water passes through the central tank (which
has a circumference of 79 feet) a day." Subjoined to this
is a letter from Professor Agassiz, which determines the
species of the dolphin. This is, I believe, the first instance
of any of the whale tribe living in captivity.—.E. T. Buck-
land in Field.

MR. RAREY.—Mr. Rarey has taken the head
prize with Cruiser at the only fair at which he has been
shown, and forty to fifty foals by him aro expected next
season. Thet's, the mare which he purchased at Raweliffe,
won three first prizes at the Ohio States fair, and two
other more strictly local ones; but, unfortunately, her colt
foal by Newminster died at the end of forty-eight hours.
The numberless visitors who went to see Cruiser at Grove
Port, and offered him every encouragement to get into '6 a
tarnation rage," spread such reports of his fighting powers,
that people were all of a shake when Mr. Rarey announced
an exhibition at the Madison township fair; but the two
just tumbled over each other, and played, as usual, to the
great surprise of the cargoes of the waggons and buggies.
Mr. Rarey, who intends to be over again at our World's
Fair, has been having "a very quiet happy time of it" this
summer at Grove Port, and has purchased the old family
mansion and lands. He hopes to make it, both in point of
stock and agriculture, the model farm of Ohio, which is,
in the oyes of many, 'quite the heart and garden of the
States.—lllustrated London NW.

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FRANCE AND SWITZERLAND.

PARIS, Nov. 6.
The lifoniteur, in its bulletin of to-day, says :
" The foreign press having made numerous corn-
ments on the subject of the appearance of a few
French gendarmes and soldiers in the village of
Cressonnieres, belonging to the Valley of Dappes,
it is of importance to reduce the facts to their real
value.

"We have as yet no exact information with re-
gard to the incident, but we are able to affirm
that the Government of the Emperer has never
had the idea of determining, by force, by means
of a military occupation, the territorial question
pending between France and Switzerland.

" Since 1815 there has existed a kind of neu-
tralization of the contested territory, against
which the Canton of Vaud recently made an
attempt, by proceeding to arrest some persons.
" The Government of the Emperor protested
against this alteration of the status quo, intimating
that if the gendarmes of Vaud recommenced such
proceedings it should be compelled to oppose them.
The tribunal of Nyon having pronounced sentence
against a Frenchman residing in that territory, the
Government of the Emperor simply wished to pre-
vent his arrest.

" The affair, therefore, has not the importance
that sonic would attribute to it.

" We do not doubt that frank explanations with
the Federal Council will reduce the affair to its .real
proportions, and, perhaps, lead to the conclusion of
an arrangement destined to put an end to th e
conflicts which could not fail to arise from an ill-
defined state of things."

BERLIN, Nov. 6.

The National Zeitung of to-day says :
" We learn that the prospects of a favourable
conclusion of a treaty of commerce between France
and Prussia have diminished to such an extent
that the French Commissioner will return to Paris
in the course of this week.

" It is said, France does not appear inclined to
agree to the new programme submitted by Prussia.'

• THE MEXICAN QUESTION.
La Patrie publishes the following as the chief
dispositions of the Convention relative to the affairs
of Mexico :

"The three Powers have the right to send the
same naval strength.

" The importance of the troops that are to be
landed is to be in proportion to the number of sub-
jects which each of the Powers owns in Mexico, and
in this respect Spain claims precedence.
" The troops will occupy Vera Cruz and the other
cities on the coast -where custom-houses are esta-
blished. If, after a given delay, the Government
of General Juarez has not paid up the money it owes,
an advance will be made on the capital, and, should
such a step lead to complications or unforeseen
events, an agreement will be come to in common on
the line of conduct to be followed in presence of
those eventualities.

" The Convention will be notified to the Cabinet
at Washington, which will be invited to join the
intervening Powers.
" It will be left optional to the Government of
President Lincoln to send such number of ships
and troops as he may deem advisable under the
circumstances."