Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1858-10-16 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

EPITOME OF NEWS.  RECENT accounts of the state of the Atlantic Cable give reason to cherish the belief that perfect communication between the old and new countries, may yet be re-established, and permanently maintained. The precise locus injurzir still remains a mystery ; but it is expected that, by under-running the cable for a few miles out at sea, the flaw will be detected, and the remedy applied. Accounts from Newfoundland state the gratifying fact that perfect signals, on 23rd September, had been received from this side, and the communication thus restored was attributed to the influence of powerful instruments attached by Mr. Henley to the cable at Valentia.  THE particulars of the cruel and atrocious murder of a young woman by her lover at Rotheram, we publish in another column in to-day's paper. The cool and deliberate manner in which the savage deed seems to have been committed, leaves little ground to doubt that it had been pre-conceived in the wind of the unnatural perpetrator ; and the painful facts divulged at the inquest held on the body of the unfortunate deceased seem fully to justify the conclusion at which the jury have arrived. The heartless delinquent, it appears, had visited the house in which. deceased was servant on the evening previous to the execution of the deed, and both were left together in the kitchen at a late hour on the night in question. Here, and during this period, nothing unusual appears to have occurred ; but the tale has yet to be told. The innocent and unsuspecting girl had, about one o'clock in the morning, left the house to accompany her sweetheart a short distance home. They had not proceeded far, when the miscreant, seizing a favorable place and opportunity, calmly perpetrated the inhuman act, by pulling from his pocket a knife, and cutting the throat of the unoffending girl. The unfeeling act seems to have been prompted by a spirit of jealousy, the good or ill foundation of which, however, does not appear. The jury have returned a verdict of ' Wilful Murder' against the prisoner, who has been committed to take his trial at York assizes.  DETAILS of the burning of the steamship "Austria," which we briefly recorded in our last, have now been received, and, sad to relate, add to rather than diminish the gloomy forebodings which the short account of last week seemed too clearly to indicate. The narrative of a survivor has been published, which gives a most heart-rending picture of the sad catastrophe; and now we have communicated to us the melancholy fact that out of the five or six hundred passengers on board the ill-fated vessel, only 67 souls have been rescued from a watery grave, and thus survivedto tell the sad and mournful tale. The fire, the origin of which we were last week unable to publish, is now ascertained to have • arisen from culpable negligence on the part of some of the crew. The captain and surgeon, it is said, deemed it expedient to fumigate the steerage with burning tar, the operation of which was to be performed by the boatswain, under the superintendence of the fourth officer. The boatswain, says the survivor to whom we refer, heated the end of a chain to dip in the tar to produce sn4e. The end became too hot to hold, and he let it drop upon the deck to which it almost instantaneously set fire. The tar upset, and immediately all was in flames. Every attempt was made to extinguish the increasing flames, but vain, alas! were such attempts ! and the melancholy and painful result was that which we have already indicated, and which will carry sorrow and sadness into many a home.  - -.0- A SOIIeRRER —A Negro, demi-doctor and demisorcerer, is making a furor in l'aris—a fine handsome negro, well-made, covered with diamonds and jewellery, and drawn by a pair of valuable horses ,in an elegant carriage, living in luxurious apartments, demanding fabulous prices for bis drugs, which lie administers himself. His room is constantly filled with the meltand the rich,--altediciti