The Sun.
London, England, 1855-03-22 00:00:00

FATAL BOAT ACCID.ENT.

This morning at 10 oP'clLor
I‘olrU.TFllie,ldnEidDeNEseuDrAvery.or
of her Majesty's Customs, left Milbay Pier in his gig,
manned by Thomas Brockington and William Coglan,
commission boatmen. The wind was blowing hard from
west-south-west, and the tide on the turn, it haying
ebbed an hour.
They were in pursuit of a, French brig going up
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sudden squall, which appeared to alarm Coglan so much
that he omitted to let go the halyards when ordered.
The beat in consequence broached to, and, meeting the
ebb, filled to leeward immediately. The men were
and one (Weblyn) hung on until relieved.
washed over, but some regained the boat three times,
Mr. Field providentially secured a cushion stuffed
with cerk, and Bentley floated on Lis back on two oars.
Phipps, the skipper of the Medina yacht, belonging to
the Turkish conFul, lying at Millhay, went boldly away
single-banded in his boat, rescued Weblyn, and conveyed
Coglan to the beach and Longroom Barracks, where
some artillerymen received him On their shoulders, and
took him to a neighbouring house, but he was so much
exhausted that he expired.
A boat from the revenue cutter Eagle saved Mr. Field
and Bentley.
The body of Brockington has not yet been found.

INSTALLATION OF LORD RECTOR OF MARISCHAL COL.
LEGE, ABERDEEN. —Mr. Layard has fixed Thursday, sth
April, as the day of his installation. The Rectorial ban•
quet is expected to take place next day.—Edin'otirah
Idvertica.

- With that perfect command of the subject, which
characterises his treatment of every topic he deals
with, Lord Lyndhurst last night reviewed the
policy of Prussia in reference to the great con-
tinental crisis which we are rapidly approach-
ing, and pointed out the weakness and danger
of admitting to the Vienna Conference a repre-
sentative of a state whose Government is radi-
cally opposed to the policy and purposes of the
Western powers. Prussia can have no business at
the Vienna Conference except to embarrass the
negotiations, or, if the opportunity offered, to be-
tray those interests we are concerned to protect to
-the death. The adhesion of Prussia to the West-
ern alliance would be a more treacherous gain even
than that of Austria, for the Emperor is bound by
no ties of consanguinity to the House of Roliaanoif,
nor has the Russian influence ever been so com-
pletely dominant in Vienna as at Berlin. The ia)-
lation, therefore, of Prussia is, under existing cir-
cumstances, every way desirable—it is the result
.of her own timid and insincere councils. The real
intentions of the Government of Frederick William
have been slowly and painfully developed, but they
are no longer a mystery now. The Government
has been labouring all along in the interest of the
Czar, and has used its influence to bring over the
majority of the states in the Germanic Confedera-
tion. If it has not succeeded, the fault is nct with
the Cabinet of Berlin. Let that Cabinet take a
lesson from the events of 1833 and 1806. " His-
tory is the philosophy that teacheth by ex- !
ample." The confusion which attended a faith-
less and presumptuous policy once may over-
take such a policy again. The conference is
not likely to be mere successful, in our
judgment, than the last assemby of " repre-
sentatives" at the same place ; but at all events
they are saved the trouble of answering the objec-
tions of a power in the interest of Russia, and tilt)
danger of reckoning upon a dispaxsionate udgment
when they would, in fact, be conferring with an ad-
lerent of the enemy. For all these reasons, we
are persuaded the absence of Prussia from the
Conference, and the open declaration of her Govern-
ment for the Czar, will save endless complications,
and narrow the issue to be tried before all Europe;
but let the councillors and Court of Berlin know
that for all these things there is a fierce popular
power iu Prussia that will bring them and the
Royal vassal to a dread account.

(From the Daily News of yesterday.)

Lord Lyndhurst is a great artist in his way. It
_is the old punctilious way of deliberative discus-
sion ; classical in its apparent simplicity and direct
-rness of ostensible purpose ; in clearness reaching
-almost to perfection ; but sometimes cold, and often
• narrow in the scope o its eloquent logic. According
to the termsof the notice given by the ex-Chancellor
in the House of Lords, nothing more was intended
by him than to direct attention to the past and
present position of Prussia with reference to the
`Eastern question. Everybody knows, however, that
-,these are the conventional terms in which Par-
Iliamentary warning is clothed, whenever the spirit
. of admonition moves some independent member of
;either house to give the Ministers of the Crown the
• benefit of his thoughts, in the shape of a public lec-
ture. Conventionalities apart, it may perhaps be
said with truth that it is the attention of the public
out of doors rather than that of the faltering and
finessing politicians who assemble to listen on the
'occasion, that the Legislative Tribune seeks to
direct and fasten upon the subject he has in hand.
No man understands the tribunitian arts better
than Lord Lyndhurst, In the course of his long
and varied career there are few of the great springs
of national emotion which he has not touched with
power, and with effect. Sectarian feelings, preju-
dices of race, personal antipathies, party passions—
there are none of the deep impulses that govern
political men that he has not by turns appealed to;
sometimes in the tone of lofty yet persuasive depre-
cation; sometimes in order that he might fan them
all o
15 Ramie. But it is curious to observe how, upon
ec,4o„
are, the texture and hue of his singular
style
simplicity t6,l3t:re. It is singular for its seeming
for its real auhtieye of the auperficial7--singular
subtlety to theudgment of the dis-
cerning. -Every
speech of Lord Lyndhurst's
that we, can recall" mteigontsebe described as a mere
11 arra tive _of facts, a
*ails, a careful enunciation consecutive statement of d -
particulars seldome
recondite, and for the most part undisputed- and
isputable. Yet uereal lies the tester-power of
the man, which may be defined akhcianingthe
craft
;of concatenation. Every item in the
count is pladed in the position where its value ie
'enhanced extrinsically by that which Preceded it
an,
that which is to follow it. In dramatising the fa:,
lie has to deal with, Lord Lyndhurst seldom allow,
himself that which is the advocate's as well as the
poet's licence with reference to time and place.
t•
Vith a great eye to the political picturesque, ho
can at will foreshorten the chronology. of circum-
stances and the intervening space that lies between
'altered sentiments and motives ; and in the ample
chiar'oscuro of omission keep out of view all that
could tend to qualify or impair the impression he
'desires to produce.
• The speech delivered last night in the House of
'Lords by this wonderful old man—for assuredly ho
'is without arival or an equal in thopower of address-
ing a great assembly at the aye of eighty years—
will be naturally read with no little interest abroad 1
as well as at home. Age has not furrowed with a
wrinkle that gifted mind. For upwards of an hour,
without a pause, a hesitation, or an inaccuracy of
phrase, Lord Lyndhurst held enchained the atten-
tion of the Peers while ho recited the diplomatic
history of Prussia during the last year and a, half.