The Sun.
London, England, 1850-09-18 00:00:00

WEST INDIA MAIL.

SOUTHAMPTON, WEDNESDAY MORNING.
The Great Western steam-ship, Captain Wolff,
arrived this morning from Mexico. Her intelligence
having been anticipated by way of New York, there
is nothing of importance to communicate.

This vessel brings 50,761 dollars on account of the
dividend, and 753,049 dollars on merchants' account.
Business was dull at Tampico.
There was very little cholera at Vera Cruz. In
Havannah it had nearly disappeared ; but at Jalapa
it was very severe. The Great Western left Vera
Cruz on the 14th of August, Havannah, the 26th,
and Bermuda the 3d of September.

LONDON AND SOUTH-WESTERN RAILWAY. -- In
pursuance of the promise given when the salaries of
the principal officers were reduced on this line, the
directors have, we understand, announced to the ex-
ecutive of the company that a certain sum will in
future be set apart, for distribution among the officers
holding the more responsible situations in the service,
on any increase arising on the future dividends, ti-e
ansount increasing up to a certain moderate sum, with
each progressive increase in the dividends. The
executive of this company have thus a direct
interest in the revenue, both in increasing the
receipts and diminishing the expenditure
an arrangement which it must be admitted has placed
the p-actioal management of this line on the soundest
footing. It appears that the revenue of this company
has increased by 11,000/, in the last ten weeks, and
the shares have risen in the sane period from 581. to
721. It is said that the new arrangements adopted
this summer, in the shape of increased accommodation
and low-fared excursions, are answering well, and
have been the means of greatly increasing the traffic
to the attractive places to be reached by this line,
which include not only Richmond, Kew, Windsor,
Hampton Court, and Guildford, but the Isle of Wight,
especially the west coast and back of the island, and
the bathing-places of Weymouth and Bournemouth
on the Dorsetshire coast.

Charlotte Cushman played in Liverpool on the
6th of this month, and sbe is to appear at Niblo's Garden
o morrow evening, the 30th—just a fortnight after her per-
ormance 3,000 miles away. Sim had 500 dollars for that
night. The house was crow& dto the ceiling. This is the
first instance in which this has been done, but it will not be
the last. It illustrates most strikingly the proximity into
which the old and the new worlds have been brought by the
wonderful power of steam.—New York Tribune.
CARLOTTA GRISI.—This eminent danseuse has
just arrived in the metropolis by the steamer Seine, from
Boulogne, en route to Russia. She leaves Loudon by the first
steamer for St. Petersburgh, to fulfil her professional en-
gagement in that capital.
.IVIDLLE. RACIIEL.—The career of this great actress
in Germany has been hitherto of unexampled brilliancy.
Nothing could exceed the enthusiasm created by her sublime
and unrivalled genius wherever she has appeared ; and so
general is the desire to witness her performances, that rail-
way speed and the most zealous goodwill on the part of the
lady scarely enable her to fulfil all the engagements which
she has been prevailed upon by the various theatrieal mana-
gers to accept. Some idea may be formed of the extent of
the demand upon her exertions when we state that she has
been forced to appear at Berlin on the off nights of her en-
gagement at Hamburgh, and that within a short period she
has given twenty-two representations, divided between Ham.
burgh, Berlin, Magdeburg, Dresden, and Leipsic. Amongst
her most ardent admirers are the King of Prussia, who at-
tendA at all her performances, and the King of Saxony,
who has bestowed upon her a substantial proof of his admi-
ration in the shape of a magnificent present. She appeared
in Hanover on the 10th, at Bremen on the 11th, and is an-
nounced at Vienna for the 18th of this month.
Two evenings ago (says one of the journals) M.
Borsari, a singer of some note at the Milan Theatre, was
walking in the Champs Elysees with two elegantly-attired
ladies, when he saw a poor old man, ill-dressed, but quite
clean, playing a violin to excite the charity of the passers-by.
At ter looking earnestly at him, Borsari went to him and cried,
"Itis I ! Do you not know me ?" The old man did not
recognise him, whereupon he cried, "I am Borsari, your
pupil, and it is from your instruction that I have obtained
success !" The old man now recognised him, and expressed
his gratification at the prosperity of his pupil. " But ray
poor master," said Borsari, " what could have reduced you
to such a position ?" The old man told him the history of
his life: how he had got up a troupe of singers to visit the
Grecian isles; how he had completely failed; been ship-
wrecked ; stricken with paralysis, and at last reduced step
by step to his present degree of misery. Borsari drew out
his purse, but not finding enough money in it to offer to the
old man, he told him to play a particular air, to which he
sang. The old man complied, and the beautiful voice and
fie execution of the singer caused a vast crowd to assemble.
All the cafe concerts, indeed, were deserted, and carriages
collected <a masse. Borsari then took his hat and made a
collection. The sum he obtained was very large ; and, in
giving it to his old master, he promised to see him again.—
Gulignuni.

THE EXPLOSION AT SEAFORD.—TIIO grand cliff
explosion is fixed to take place on Thursday next, the 12th
inst. at two o'cbck P.M., at low water, when 27,0001 b.
weight of powder will be simultaneously exploded by the
Royal Sappers and Miners, by means of the galvanic bat-
tery. A great number of officers and distinguished persons
are expected, and the London, Brighton, and South Coast
Railway Company will run trains on that day at single fares
to Newhaven station. The cliff' is 200 feet high, and the
galleryin which 16 tons of gunpowder have been deposited is
about twelve feet from the base; it runs 200 feet into the
cliff, and 400 feet along it, and it is expected that 600,000
tons of chalk will be separated from the cliff and tumbled
into the sea by the explosion. It is, in fact, the great object
of the experiment to throw an immense mass of rock into
the sea at that particular point, so as to intercept the sand
and shingle that is swept round the headland by the force
of the tides, and which shoals the water in the bay on the
other side.

LT NINGTON, SEPT. 17. BBIGHT PROSPECTS
FOR THE PROTECTIONISTS IN TILE NEXT PARLIA-
MENT. —For some time past in this agricultural town and
' neighbourhood, Colonel Pringle Taylor and a captain in the
navy have been busily engaged in canvassing for signatures
against our Member, Mr. Mackinnon, at the next election,
on account of his uniform support of the Government and
of Free Trade and liberal principles; after a sedulous can-
vass, and during the absence of Mr. Mackinnon, now in Ger-
many, they have been able to collect about 30 signatures in
a posilatipa of 500 11911Ae gad landowners 1