The Sun.
London, England, 1861-10-21 00:00:00

METEOROLOGICAL REPORTS.

This Day,
between 8 and B. E. 31. D. F. C. I. S.
9 a.m.
---- —
Nairn 29.79 44 43 S.E. 2 1 b. 2
Aberdeen 29*84 53 52 E.S.E. 4 9 a 3
Berwick 29 Si 53 51 S.S.E. 4 9 f. 3
Shields
Galway 129 2959 56 54 S.S.E. 4 7 o. 2
Scarborough-129'89 54 51 S.S.E. 3 6 c. 4
Liverpool , 2917 56 54 S.E. 2 . 3 1
Valenta 1, 29'53 j 53 52 W.s.W. 3 9 r. 3
Queenstown i 29'61 58 57 S. 5 7 o. 3
Yarmouth 29'87 54 50 S.E. " 5 1 b. 5
London 29•0 52 50 E. 2 8 o.
Cover I 29'85 56 53 N.N.E. 3 1 b. 2
Portsmouth
Portland
Plymouth .... 2960 5B 57 E.N.E. 2 7 r. 2
Penzance ....129'6'9 i 571 55 S.E. 1 8 0. 2

EXPLANATION.—B. Barometer, corrected and reduced
to 32 deg at mean sea level; each 10 feet of vertical rise
causing about 1-100th of an inch diminution, and each 10
deg above 32 deg causing nearly 3-100ths increase. E.
Exposed thermometer in shade. M. Moistened bulb (for
evaporation and dew-point). D. Direction of wind (true—
not magnetic). F. Force (1 to 12—estimated). C. Cloud
(1 to 9). I. Initials :—b,, blue sky ; c., clouds (detached) ;
1., fog. ; h., hail ; 1., lightning ; m., misty (hazy) ; o.,
overcast (dull) ; r., rain; s., snow; t., thunder. A letter
repeated augments—thus, r.r., much rain. S. Sea disturb-
ance (1 to 9).

The Malta Observer, under the head of " Tele-

graphic Communication with India," says :—" Our readers
are always aware that the submarine cable manufactured
by Messrs. Glasse, Elliot, and Co., has been successfully
laid between Malta and Alexandria, a distance of nearly
1,400 miles. By the end of this month the line will be open
to the public, when communication with Melia will be ex-
pedited 30 days. The cable continues to work most satis-
factorily."
CHOLERA IN INDIA.—The Indian Government
has appointed a special commission to inquire into and re-
port on the recent severe outbreak of cholera among the
European troops at several stations in the north-west pro-
vinces, and at Meean Meer. The members are- Mr.
Strachey, of the civil service ; Dr. Linton, C. 8., and
Dr. M'Clelland, Inspectors-General of Hospitals ; Lieut.-
Col. Gawler, 73d Regiment; and Major P. Stewart, Ben-
gal Engineers.—Army and Nervy Gazette.
CATCHING A WOLF.—A few days since the
keeper on the Forest Hall estate, High Ongar, found a
young wolf in a rabbit-trap to catch vermin. The animal
had been seen several times by some boys who were keeping
sheep, and it had followed them about the fields. It was
about six months old, and weighed Mb., but nobody ap-
pears to know how it came on the estate.—Essex Telegraph.
_ _ _

Subscriptions have been invited by the Falmouth
Dock Company for £144,700 further capital in £lis shares.
These docks are being constructed under an act obtained in

1859, and the capital already-expended is £50,000. The
works thus far completed yielded a satisfactory revenue,
and aro considered to demonstrate that the entire undertak-
ing will be executed for less than the original estimate.
The tonnage of vessels calling at Falmouth has increased
from 319,242 tons in 1850 to 705,083 in 1860.

The report of the Royal Mail Steam Company to
be presented on Wednesday next recommends the usual
dividend of £2 per share. The receipts for the half-year
have been £30,032 in excess of the corresponding half of
1860, while the expenditure shows a diminution of £4,662.
These results, in the face of a considerable falling off in the
Brazil line, owing to the competition of the French steamers
from Bordeaux, are to be attributed to the Avon having
been temporarily hired by the Government as a transport,
and the Parana by the Galway Company for a voyage to
the United States, coupled with a continued development
of the traffic to the Pacific via Panama. The repair and
renewal account, last year in debt to the extent of
£14,913, now presents a favourable balance of £1,882, and
the sum standing to the credit of the insurance account is
£181,454, being anlincrease of £24,922.
EDINBURGH NEW POST-OFFICE AND INDUSTRIAL
MUSEUM.—Four of the Queen's state carriages and 14
horses have been removed from London to Edinburgh to
form the Royal cortege on the occasion of the Prince Con-
sort laying the foundation stones of these new buildings on
Wednesday. It is thought probable that her Majesty will
be a spectator of the ceremony at the Post-office. The
Royal party are expected to arrive in Edinburgh from Bal-
moral on Tuesday evening, at half-past 6, and to leave for
London by night train on Wednesday, at half-past 8 ; and a
torchlight display is spoken of on the occasion of the de-
parture. For the afternoon ceremonies the Volunteers of
the city and county are to be called out, as well as the regi-
ments in garrison ; and the high-constables are to form a
guard of honour for the city magistrates. Among those
who are to take part in the proceedings of the day will be
the Lord Provost, the Hon. W. Cowper, First Commis-
missioner of Works ; Sir David Brewster, Principal of
Edinburgh University, &c. The magistrates are to recom-
mend a half-holiday.
CHARGE OF MURDER. —A few days ago Mr.
Whitmarsh, one of the coroners for Wilts, held an inquest
on the body of Frances Pearce, the wife of a laboure rat
Chippenham. It appeared that the deceased went to Chip-
penham oa Saturday last to meet her husband. They
there went to a public-house, and remained drinking for

some hours, and when they left, between 8 and 9 o'clock at
night, were both drunk, but the deceased was the worse of
the two. On their way to Langley Burrell, a witness
named Bristow met them in a lane called Greenaway. Ho
saw both deceased and her husband fall down, assisted to
help deceased up, and afterwards, on hearing her husband
telling her that he would cut her head off, he asked the
husband what he meant, to which he replied that he wou
and
fight any man in England. Next morning, between 4
'afield thhustbsan codw, s in
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5 o'clock,
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a arcowkeeper,fromth
on
as he appeared in drink,e o
thate he had lost his
thinking,
way,said nothing to him. He soon afterwards saw
a woman's bonnet, and further on, not far from the
e lgaonien,gmt t attend his
hedge, the body of the deceased. She was very much
bruised, had several marks on her face and body, and blood
on her clothes, and on the back of her head there was a
contused lacerated wound. Christopher Cole, who lodged
with deceased and her husband, gave evidence to the effect
that the husband came home early in the morning, and
said, " Get up; my old woman is down in the Ninepin
Field, but whether she has had a fit or not I can't tell.
She is tearing her bonnet, and knocking herself all to
pieces." He accordingly went to the field, and finding de.
ceased could not walk, wheeled her home in a barrow,
where she lived about ten minutes, but did not speak. Two
surgeons gave it as their opinion that the cause of death was
effusion of blood to the brain, probably the result of the
wound on the back of the head. The jury returned a
verdict " that the deceased came to her death by extreme
violence, but by whom that violence was administered there
was no evidence to show." Superintendent Wright imme-
diately took the prisoner into custody on the charge of
murdering his wife.
General Cialdini has addressed a letter to General
Tupputi, the Commandant of the National Gnard
of
Naples, in which he praises that body most highey,
declaring that he considers it as the best forc
the kind he has ever seen.
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A letter from Fiume, of the
Martini, yester-
- pro
head of the municipality,
day convoked the
sixteen
commissary had named
sentatives, whom the ronyag
trative business of the ealment of the adms-
for the provisional a
town.
He read to them
M.
municipal re
a rescript that the number of represen-
ttha request
from the commissary refusing to ac.
de to
presented themselves ; four others having
actives should be twenty-six only. Nine of them
phraedviously resigned, and declared to the royal comet
missary that they could only accept the mission
they had received as citizens anxious for the welfare
of the town, and by no means as municipal repred
sentatores.