The Sun.
London, England, 1855-01-09 00:00:00

THE OZAb'S MANIFESTO..

A letter from St. Petersburg of the 29th ult., in
the Constitutionnel, says
" The manifesto, which you must now be acquainted
with, was published almost simultaneously in all parts
of the Empire. The Government had taken measures to
have a great number pulled off at the Imperial printing-
office, and the Czar having affixed his signature to it on
the 26th at Gatschina, the document was on its way the
next day to be distributed in the most distant provinces.
It was published in the capital immediately after the ar-
rival of General Panin from Gatschina. You can easily
imagine with what lively anxiety that manifesto was
received. Since the beginning of the present crisis the
Czar has always affected in his public manifestoes to
speak somewhat as a prophet, taking care to wind up
his addresses with some passage from the Bible. This
time it is an expression of the Emperor Alexander's
which has been selected. In the prevision of events
analogous to those at the beginning of the present cen-
tury, the Czar says to his people :---4 Europe cannot
reach me ; I will accept only such conditions as suit me.
If Europe refuses to do as I want, the fate of arms will
decide.' This language is so much the more remarkable
that the Czar has used it at the very moment when the
accession of Austria to the Western alliance seemed
calculated to produce a certain effect on his resolutions.
Can the Cabinet of Gatschina till ri.ttoe itself wibh 51,0
belief that the last act of its old ally has the character
of a purely defensive alliance ? The Menschikoffs, the
Dolgoroukis, and others continue to affirm that Russia
cannot in any case have lost the fruit of four extraordi-
nary levies and of so many sacrifices in men and money ;
they maintain that conditions dangerous to the grandeur
and power of the empire cannot be accepted, when the
armies raised for its defence have not even been sub-
jected to a check. All the efforts made have, on the con-
trary, in view the continuation of the war in the most en-
ergetic manner. From the little poor boxes before the
images of the saints on the bridges of the capital, where the
passers-by are invited to place their offerings for the war, to
the products of industry, such as the Schtschclogeff cigars,
called after the young cornet of Odessa, all is done to
keep up the public enthusiasm in' favour of the war.
But it must be declared that many persons have very
different ideas when once they have returned to their
own homes. The health of the Empress is a little im-
proved. The court nevertheless does not seem likely to
be transferred to the winter palace. The Grand Duke
Constantine has just shown to his two brothers, who
arrived from the Crimea, all the changes winch he has
lately introduced. The dukes have visited together
the dockyards, arsenals, and new fortifications on the
shore of the Gulf of Finland. The two grand dukes, in
their turn, have given him sketches' of the battle of In-
kerman, of the siege works, and of the battered houses
in Sebastopol. That town now only contains the gar-
rison and the poorest portion of the inhabitants. About
1,200 families have left it. M. Brok, the Minister of
Finance, has just obtained the Imperial signature to an
ordonnance augmenting the price of salt in Siberia and
the Caucasus. This day, the official tariffs of salt in the
southern and south-western provinces are published."

PRACTICAL APPLICATION OF THE
ELECTRIC LIGHT.

Following out the hint recently given by our hebdo-
madal contemporary the Builder, and also published in
the columns of this journal, Dr. Watson, of the Electric
Power Light and Colour Company, has entered into ar-
rangements with the Government authorities for apply-
ing this novel agency in aid of the operations now in
progress for the erection of the new bridge ac West-
minster. The advancement of the works being contin-
gent on the state of the tide, they have consequently
often to be prosecuted after dark ; and hence the im-
portance of pressing any improved lighting appliance
afforded by scientific discovery into the service of such
an enterprise. The experiment had been tried at the
Surrey-side abutment of the bridge. The lighting appara-
tus used, which was computed to possess illuminating
power equal to that of 72 Argand burners, or of nearly
1,000 wax-candles, was stationed on the river's brink, so
am to throw its rays upon a working stap fixed some 200
feet or upwards out into the stream, and upon which, it
being low tide at the time, a body of workmen, 45 in
number, were engaged in pile-driving by means of
eight ponderous " monkey" hammers. Chappuis, s re-
flector was used on the occasion, and the electric bat-
tery for supplying the necessary power, and which was
fitted with six 4ozen cells, was posted on the Middlesex
shore, or at a distance of 2,000 feet. The experiment,
we are glad to state, proved eminently successful in ac-
complishing its object. The light diffused over the
working stage was of an intense and yet agreeable bril-
liancy, far exceeding the lustre of the brightest moon-
light, but resembling the moon's mild and cheerful
diance. The workmen seemed to be greatly facilitated
in their various occupations by its aid ; and we should
think that after once tasting the advantage of so superior
an illuminating agent, they would be very loth to have
to revert to the " darkness visible," as well as tte
noxious fumes of the ordinary duck lamps, filled with
naphtha, to which they have heretofore been accus-
tomed. It is but right to add that the new light was
subject to a. transcient and occasional flickering, but it
was so slight as to cause the least perceptible inconve-
nience to the men ; and, besides this defect, which is
traceable to the fluctuation of the electrical power, is
considered to be inseparable from the operation of so
subtle an agent. The light appeared to be fully as
manageable as gas, to extinguish it or turn it on being
but tbo work of a moment. We learn that it is intened
to place the electric light on both banks of the river,
and also on the crown of the central arch of Westmin-
ster-bridge as the works going on there proceed. The
patentee has contracted to light Chelsea-bridge by the
same means, commencing from next week ; and we un-
derstand that Mr. Whitniarsh, of Paris, has obtained
the permission of the Emperor of the French to fix one
of these brilliant illuminators at the Rond Pont, to light
up the grand avenue of the Champs Elysdes during the
forthcoming " Exposition Inclustrielle in that gay ca-
pital. ,Dr. Watson undertakes to furnish this improved
light at the lowest cost of gas, his great gain being
derived from his mode of utilising the residuary pro-
ducts of the battery in making colours.

SILVER.—The bar silver brought by the last West
India steamer has been sold at Cid. per ounce, being
a decline of id. Nothing has yet been done with the
Mexican dollars,

THE LIURBICANB AND INUND2I

AT BAMBURG.

,
DESTRUCTION OF SHIPPING AND
LOSS OF LIFE.
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HAMBURG, Jan. 4.—The most heart-rending 11°AI'
of the devastations caused- by the hurricane and fley:4
the Ist January are beginning to pour in from
_0;
quarter, and go to prove that their disastrous effect:oy
of nearly if not of equal magnitude to the ineLn
preset' )00
storm of 1825. As tar as I have learned at
hurricane appears to have swept with equal foreehm,t,
the wide district from the Dutch coast up to 1)117,4
How far it went up the Baltic remains to be ascertali
..fit•
In all the numerous islands of the Elbe the .e.
ments which surround them, and which are raised );0
kept in order at a great annual expense, were brs_de
through in many places and the land laid Iffao
water. The bathing island of Wangeroog, °
coast of Oldenburg, has suffered very considolo'd
The bathing establishment, the school-houeet s6/4
several private dwellings are completely w,,trrir
away. The church was preserved, but the e""0
yard was so furrowed up by the waves that the P.m?'
have been disinterred and are thrown about in ail"-
tions. The lighthouse escaped.
The following outward bound shins were caugav„ -to
gale at the mouth of the Elbe, and shave returned to,
port disinasted and otherwise damaged .—Mercato;l,
Smith, for Leith ; Sophie, \Vessels, for Panama
zone, Captain Hinrichsen, for Rio Janeiro ; Catet',lo
Captain Claussen, for Guayaquil ; Robert and ii`pl
Captain Hansen, for England ; and Ludomilla, C3rlV
Sohst, for Singapore, Whampoa; and Hong Kong-
co
Hamburg full ship, George Canning, Captain •13t50;
from New York to this port, was lost at them e°
the Elbe. She cleared out from New York on t',9
e,
December. Of the fate of the passengers and cre'l ,-.
1
thing is known yet, but there is no doubt of thel°bseio
the vessel from a number of the ship's paPersO aoi
picked up on the coast. This vessel belongs ro,
enterprising countryman, Mr. Sloman, the °wee o'
the unfortunate iron steamer, Helen Sloman, lost
,'9:4V
voyage to New York two years ago, and cornmae(l
~
the same Capt. Jacobs. However, as a set off '0,0;
heavy less, it will be a consolation to Mr. Sl° too
friends in England to know that he has just sold3c;
steamer, lately launched in Scotland, to the Britis'w
vernment, with a clear profit of 10,000/., and there,
of taking her back at the end of the year if she ;lira
longer wanted by Government for the transport se'
at half her cost price, making an estimated total
of 30,0001.
The English schooner Stately, Captain
' Whitieg,itY
Harwich to Bremen, was totally lost at the 11371
the Elbe, near Neuwerk • crew saved and nr',,,;,P;
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Cuxhaven. The English barque Maxim, of
the ships Johannes and Helene, Captain 13°°t •;041:
Nayade, Captain Deneke ; and Johannes, Capt. -Plc)
the Italian brig Ruggiero, and the Danish barcl.:64li)
Eduard, are stranded near Gluckstadt. The nail
barque Lady Raffles, Capt. Marienberg, is gone oti6oo
near Bremerhafen, in the Weser, and is expectedoi
come a wreck. The British steamers Rob 110,0,4
Leipzic put back, and were fortunate enough t°o9i
Cuxhaven before the gale reached its climax ; the
with everything swept clean off her decks, the
with loss of her paddle-boxes. is
Some remarkable cases which occurred will se
give your readers an idea of the fury of the storie'S'
the neighbouring village of Ham the congregation .cii
assembled in the church (on New Year's-day sier:lo,
performed in all the churches in Germany), and
the clergyman was in the middle of his sermon, 6
cd
of wind took off the whole roof, and swept it to alod
siderable distance, dashing the beams to fragment,lf
it reached the ground. Singularly enough the r°,:buto
taken off so clean that not a single person in the
was injured. job
When the embankment of the island of Wilnlelmi
gave way and the water rushed in with overriwas
force, three fishermen's cottages, with all their 'the ti
were floated away, and left high and dry, when „rigi°,y
receded, at a distance of two miles from their 00,
locality. Some of the inhabitants of Wrilhe',.; los'
were not so fortunate, and several lives have prr
whilst the destruction of houses, cattle, and far"
perty is very considerable.
ti
P.S. The crew and passengers of the note'',t of/
George Canning are all lost. The former consisto ori!
men, the latter of 135 , persons. The cargo 1813$1‘
insured here (250,000 marks banco) and partly 3w
York (100,000 dollars).

FATAL SHIPWRECKS.

By the arrival of the General Steam Navigation
riverNaviga ytioo.,:te6r
pany's mail steamer Jehn Bull in
from Hamburg, we are apprised of a lainentanl
fatal shipwreck—that of the George Canning, 6°.f
of 700 tons burden, one of the Hamburg and NOW
packets, with every one on board. It took place
,70 ,
mouth of the Elbe, durin an awful storm which kg of
that coast on New Year'sg Day. The storm -br°oloo,
on the evening previous, from the N.W., with vi
cori,
and such destruction as it occasioned along then 0; JO
has not been witnessed for the last 20 years; b
accompanied with a remarkably high tide, villl°.,o part
the banks of the Elbe, and the whole of the ,
of the towns of Hamburg, Cuxhaven, and al. °„ Alsra!2,:a
situate near the river were under water to desert; g
'
degree, and the extent of property destroyed 1-,5 11011 -cis'
to be enormous. The unfortunate shin oi."'--ebel
lost on the south side of the entrance to the ' gill,.
what is called the Scearhorn (a sand similar to the bf
hn at the mouth of the river Thames). She sPgel/,bilri
Lloyd's list to have sailed from New York for .I°l--,bor
on the 3d of December, with a cargo of sundry le bbl
dice, and, it is reported, above 50 passengers. SI nu
,/
favourable run across, and arrived off Heligoland
,f's (0;
evening of the 81st of December,
Hurst of the gale compelled her captain
all well,
heave to, and await a more favourable opportunity dip/
ning into the Elbe. It was then about 9 p.m., all PI
next that vias.seen of her was by the crew of the op.
Bullsteamer, on her outward passageto Hamburg,' !boo
after midnight, when she appeared to be lying °DA'' toy
five miles SSW. of Hello-eland, under close reefe-t,cP
(m.wl..hejVouopfroL
sail, foretopsails, and main spencer, on her P°l.,. aor,
intending, as the crew of the John Bull steaniejoriti
posed, to keep off till daylight, and then to make
river. The gale was raging frightfully at the til°l9:i
it was doubtful whether the John Bull would IA 'why
take the harbour, for owing to the cloud of spoil oils
was lashed up by the tremendous sea, it was alre°o
possible to discern the light-vessel at the entranee.r
river. Neither could the pilots get off from thelf
tion to come .on board. She, however, fortunate:i!
into the right track, and steamed on safely I) 00.:
Cuxhaven.- For hours, up to nine o'clock that eye,
the storm continued with great fury ; several
were lying in the river were driven ashore and Vire,- e
One- vessel, a brig, belonging to London, in ballas"l
blown at the top of the higb tide over/the banks °,ol'
river into a field. Another English vessel,
the Stately, Captain Whiting, from London for ',vet
with a cargo of tar oil, was totally lost near
and upwards of 60 vessels lost their anchors. -I' 41 )1,
was seen of the George Canning after spoken
the John Bull steamer, and her melancholy fa't- bia
first brought to light on Tuesday morning l3s-
quantity of wreck being washed up near Cuxhaveiiiel"
the name of the vessel on the fragments ; and 'a
the day a tin box, with the whole of the George sli
fling's papers therein, was found on the beach, 3506br
portions of her cabins, sundry merchandise, india,crti,
shoes, shoe-nails, passengers baggage, &c., and
is little doubt that the vessel must have quicklY.
to pieces, and that all belonging to her, about gb
sons in number, perished. Pilots have since gaillecil"
to discover the wreck, but have been unable soto Iv
consequence of the heavy sea still running. 6`3f
bodies have been washed ashore.

THE FRENCH ARMY IN ALGERIA'

The French Minister of War has received re,o
General Pelissier, Governor-General of Algell-
interim, the following letter :
" Monsieur le Marecbal,—ln the evening of thejl
December I received from Blidathe following tele
desptcb

a ' Captain Camatte announces to me, that Boop ,
was killed yesterday evening by the Caid Lak.l!ifir
Tamzalt, in consequence'of a coup-de-main whioriptli
tempted on his district, and which failed. Botic.noie.e
was beheaded on the spot. I shall write to you by
this " evening.'
A 011
This despatch came from Aurnale, and the ba--I,oel
of the road has greatly retarded the arrival of the '
mentioned in it. f'°°
" I have received today, however, some details
death of Bou-Bar'la, which are very clear. 6'4A
" This agitator formed a plan to attack the fertol er?
house of Caid Lakbdar, and, followed by two borOdei
only and sixty foot soldiers, well armed, he deseeecO,
into the Valley of l'Oued Sahel. In order to Pri, r"'
his movement from being Observed, his party tood tb
vantage of the irregularities of the ground ite
thickness of the brushwood.
104 Of

• The Caid Lakhdar, constantly on his guard, it
on horseback with his troops at the first dischoe•te eff
musketry on the keepers of his flocks, crossed the fp,/
and in spite of the rapidity of the movements of tb°
Balla in retreat, he overtook him at the foot doll'
first advanced forts of the mountain of Beni Blelffl'e odic
Having lost all confidence in his horse, which wee
fatigued, Bou-Barla dismounted, with the interiti°4o,l3t9
making his way on foot over the rough and rocky hn7prt"
which lay before him. He was not sufficiently Prr-ottl
however, in dismounting, for scarcely had he put '°"oo'
the ground when he was surrounded by Lakhdarif,
his horsemen, and he was struck by the caid birDee,'",
"The death of Bou-Bar'la is a happy circurnebe 0'
which I hope wi:l lead to the submission of the trl
Beni Mellikench.
-310

"Besides the steps which he took some mon, t•
to gain the protection of the superior commandgivelf
Dra el Mizan, Bou-Bar'la addressed himself succeslifig
to Aunialo, to Setiff, and to Si-ben-Ali-Cherif, PrIO
them at the same time not to give any account '2O to
03 proceedings. This manner of acting induced
think that the sole object of thia fanatic was to
letters, by means of which he could still continue be e,
pose upon the people. He was foiled in this oeu
employed by the greater number of the impostor:sv r
had preceded him, as I had forbidden any replie°
given to his letters. ,;,
"Reduced to resort to expedients to support 1.1-0
ratter of cherif (or prophet), and even to preseriotP;
existence, he resolved to make attacks on Caid L°llll
and the Beni Abbes; that of the 26th December Ifr"
last.

"Accept, Monsieur le Marechal, &c.,
(Signed) "PELissrtgodde
'Governor•Cioneral of Alieria ad o,

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