The Sun.
London, England, 1861-10-02 00:00:00

truth at this epoch might not inaptly be that verse
of the American Poet LONGFELLOIV

" Learn to labour—and to wait,"

Particularly remembering the impressive reversal
of the Count DE MONTALEMBERT of the old monkish
I saying, Laborari est Orare, its reversal thus
Orare est Laborari ! Accepting the truth of which
Latin dictum—as every Christian heart surely may
do, in the presence of the Eternities—it may most
certainly be:said now of Poland that she has already
—" Learnt to labour—and to wait." And her pa-
tience in this is now securely earning its recom-
pence. She will not have to wait much longer thus.
Italy, alone, within the last two years has furnished
her with a magnificent augury of success. Hun-
gary has every reasonable prospect of doing the
same. It is the Age of reviving Nationalities. And
—the fact being thus, visibly and undeniably—

Poland is secure of extorting from Europe the ex-
piation of her wrongs and the restoration of her
Rights among the great races of Christendom.

The Irish are retrieving in America their Euro-
pean Bull's Run of the Italian campaign. They are
serving Mr. LINCOLN far better than they served
his Holiness the PoPE. They seem to think, indeed,
that there are two sides to the question ; for " down
South," they enlist for the Southerns ; while in
the North they form some of the best Federal regi-
ments. We felt a kind of pride in our Irishmen,
when we read in the telegram, in the accounts from
Missouri, that " the Confederates were scattered by
a bayonet charge of the Irish, Brigade." The num-
bers, too, opposed to them were far greater in pro-
portion than those to whom the Irishmen at Spoleto
offered, not the points of their bayonets, but
their whole skins, on the single and honourable con-
dition that their skins remained whole, and were
sent whole to the Green Isle again. Are the men
better, or do they like their cause and their pay
better? Both, we believe, have much to do with
the explanation. We have certainly never found
our own Irish soldiers, well fed, well led, and well
cared for, inferior to any of our soldiers. Dr.
CULLEN'S heroes, saints, and unscathed martyrs
were, doubtless, men out of condition, morally and
physically, as much as they were out-at-elbows.
But an Irishman on United States fare, and fighting
as he considers it, for—dearr libberrty—not to keep
down his fellow Catholics, is again worthy the
name of an Irish soldier.

The Semaphore of Marseilles announces the
arrival in that city on Saturday of Sir Henry Bulwer,
English Ambassador at Constantinople.
The Siamese Ambassadors arrived on the 28th
ult. at Marseilles, to take their departure from France.
They embarked on Saturday on board the steam frigate
Asmodee, on their return home, via Alexandria and Suez.
THE PUNJAUB RAILWAY.—Mr. W. P. Andrews,
the Chairman, says, "that the Punjaub Railway will be com-
pleted and stocked for £B,OOO per mile, which will be about
£250 per mile less than the average cost of American lines."
Three seamen belonging to the schooner Francis,
of Belfast, at present lying at Kigstown, retired on Sun-
day night to the forecastle, which they closed down. On
turning into bed, they neglected to put out the fire. The
place soon became filled with smoke, which had no means
of egress, on on the hatch being opened on Monday morn-
ing one of the men was found dead, while the two others,
who remain in a precarious state, were taken out in a state
of insensibility.
THE LATE COLLISION ON THE NORTH LONDON
RATLWAY.—Yesterday morning Mr. Humphreys opened
an inquiry at the Wellington public-house, University-
street, St. Pancras, touching the death of Sarah Essex,
aged 37, one of the unfortunate sufferers by the late acci-
dent at the Kentish-town Junction of the North London
Railway. The jury, after half an hour's consultation, re-
turned a verdict of "Manslaughter against the signalman,
Rayner."
FIRES AT SHOREDITCH AND CAMBERWELL.—
Yesterday morning two alarming and destructives fires
happened—one in Shoreditch and the other at Camberwell.
The first fire occurred in the premises belonging to Mr. T.
Smith, a coffee-house keeper, High-street, Shoreditch; and
the other fire took place in the premises of Mr. A. L. New-
man, rag merchant, termed the Grand Surrey Canal Works,
Albany-road, Camberwell. Unfortunately neither the
building nor contents were insured.
The liabilities of Mr. Nicholson, the broker who
failed on Monday in the Stock Exchange, are etated to be
about £lO,OOO, to meet which there appear to be no assets
whatever. It is stated also that he is under equally large
liabilities to persons unconnected with the Stock Exchange.
The South-Eastern Railway Company's new
boat, the Victoria, has been placed on the Folkestone and
Boulogne line, and is now performing her part of the day
tidal service. She accomplished the voyage on Monday
last from Boulogne to Folkestone in an hour and 27 minutes.
PILCHARD FISHERY.—On Saturday last 2,800
hogsheads were caught at St. Ives, and 220 hogsheads off
Gurnard's Head. The whole are valued at not less than
4000—that is, at £3 per hogshead. The Gurnard's Head
boats at once sold £BO worth to the country buyers, which
is considered a great boon just now.
CHILD MURDER AT TOTTENHAM.—Yesterday
morning Mr. H. Raffles Walihew, the deputy corner for
East Middlesex, held an inquiry at the Eagle, Chestnut-
road, Tottenham, on view of the body of a male child,
unknown. It appeared that a man named Wm. Day was
in company with another on their way to Mr. King's, the
agent of Northumberland Park, on Friday morning last,
when the former observed a bundle lying in the hedge. He
drew it out, and the cloth came off, when to his astonish-
ment he found it was the body of an infant. His companion
suggested that they should take it to the station, which
they did accordingly. John Turner, 82 N, took possession
of the body, which was wrapped in a blue and white printed
shawl. Dr. William Hall was sent for immediately. He
found the umbilical cord tied. It had been cut. He be-
lieved the child was born alive, and that it was a full-timed
child. There was evidence of its being forcibly compressed
at the nose. From a mark on its lip and the corresponding
jaw, he believed it died by the hand, and that two persons
had been concerned in it. The deputy coroner suggested
that the parish author:ties should offer a reward for the
discovery of the guilty parties, as this was clearly a case of
ilful murder ; and the crime of infanticide, from some
cause or other, was largely on the increase. The jury re-
turned a verdict of wilful murder against some person or
persons unknown.

BREACH OF PROMISE OF MARRIAGE.—On Mon-
day a jury was sworn at York Castle, before the' Under-
Sheriff for the county, to assess the damages in a breach of
promise of marriage, the damages being laid at £5OO. Mr.
Smith was counsel for the plaintiff, Mrs. Margaret Lidney,
and Mr. Shaw for the defendant, Mr. Robert Tait. The
latter had carried on the business of a clogger at Skipton,
and having been placed in the position of a widower, he was
smitten with the charms of the plaintiff, who had been
deprived of her husband, and left to the charge of an
only son. She was a kind of everlooker, or tutoress,
in a cotton factory, and the attachment being re-
ciprocal, the defendant had promised that they should
be married. In February last, however, he ceased keeping
company with the plaintiff, who in August presented him
with a living pledge, which it appeared had entailed upon
him a weekly payment of 2s. He had since married a Mrs.
Phillips. Au action was brought at the last assizes, but the
defendant withdrew his plea, and the question now was,
what was the amount to which the plaintiff was entitled.
It was shown that the defendant had made an assignment,
and it was stated that ho was now working as a jo•trneyrnan
at Coble. It was submitted by his counsel that the plaintiff
had suffered no loss, that she ought to have been satisfied
with the order of affiliation, and that the defendant was not
in a condition to pay one farthing. The Under-Sheriff
summed up, and the jury awarded £BO to the plaintiff.
SALE OF TELE AMERICAN CIRCUS STUD.._. The
whole of the horses and equestrian properties belonging to
Messrs. Howes and Cushing, the proprietors of the well-
known American Circus, were yesterday brought to the
hammer, at their repository in Barbican. The firet lots
that were put up consisted of horses that had principally
been used in the baggage-waggons, and they fetched very
good prices. A very good-looking black mare, Fanny,
fetched twenty-four guineas, and a cream-coloured mare
Little Siss, was knocked down at twenty-six guineas,
Among the baggage horses, Colonel fetched thirty guineas,
Jack thirty-eight guineas, and Wallace, a very good-look-
ing cream gelding, wcs bought by Jern Myers for forty-
four guineas. The ring stock was next brought forward,
and they also fetched very good prices. A cream gelding,
Eagle, was bought by Toni Sayers for twenty-five guineas,
and a dam gelding, Prince, a good bare-back horse, fetched
thirty-seven guineas. A skewbald mare, Lily, a single-act
horse, fetched forty guineas, and a very handsome and
clever cream mare, Big Siss, was bought by Jem Myers
for sixty guineas. A cream mare, Eliza, a single-act horse,
fetched 50 guineas. Among the following lots were the
two " extraordinary performing mutes," as they were de-
scribed in the catalogue, Pete and Barney, and they were
bought by Tom Sayer, , after a spirited competition between
him and Mr. E. T. Smith and Mr. Batty, for 180 guineas.
After the horses had been disposed of,
the carriages were
put up for auction.
The Riga and Dunaberg Railway
was opened
throughout for traffic on Tuesday last,