The Sun.
London, England, 1852-12-31 00:00:00

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FRANCE.

THIRTY-TWO LIVES.

COURSE OF EXC}
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.. 11 18
.. 11 18
.. 25 30
.. 24 30
.. 13 6

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25 5
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Bourdeaux •
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1'1'1031e:4 •• 11 5
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Madrid ................ 50%
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SUN OFFICE, Seven o'clock.

I have just heard that Count Walewski, the
French Ambassador in London, arrived on Wed-
nesday in Paris. •
Several journals of the departments publish a
telegraphic despatch from the Minister declaring
that the rumours of attempts having been made on
the Emperor's life while at Compiegne, and of the
numbers of killed and wounded on the same occa-
sion, were all completely false. Notwithstanding
the presence of Louis Napoleon at the Opera on
Wednesday night, it was again confidantly stated
that he was yesterday suffering from illness. How-
ever that may be, he was seen yesterday, at half-
past 3 o'clock, or thereabouts, walking in the gar-
dens of the Tuileries, immediately under the win-
dows of his apartments, in the direction of the
river. He was leaning on the arm of Colonel
Fleury, and remained in the gardens at least three-
quarters of an hour.

It is expected that a decree will appear in the
Moniteur on the Ist of January, making promo-
tions in the army, no doubt by way of Etrennes,
or New Year's presents, to the parties concerned.
Twelve Colonels of regiments are to be named to
the rank of Generals of Brigade, 12 Generals of
Brigade to that of Generals of Division. Again it
is said that 12 new Senators will be named, 10 of
whom are to be general officers of the army.
General Pelissier, whose successful proceedings
at Laghouat, in Algeria, have already been re-
corded, will, it is said, be named Commander-in-
Chief of the Army of Africa, under the orders of
Prince Jerome Napoleon ; and General Randon,
the Governor-General of that Colony, returns to
France, and will be appointed to a high post.
The ags taken at Laghouat by General Pelissier
were deposited this day at the Invalides. They
were received by General Sauboul, in the absence
of Prince Jerome, Governor-General of the Hotel.
who continues confined to his bed from illness,
The staff officer charged with transmitting these
flags made a short address to the General when
doing so, who remarked that it had been said on
the occasion of the fire which destroyed several of
the old flags, that France would win others, and
that the army of Algiers had just realized the pre-
diction. The flags were then taken to the chapel
of the building, and the chaplain chanted the
Domine salvum fac Imperatorem.

FRIGHTFUL DISASTER, AND LOSS OF

A LIVERPOOL VESSEL BLOWN UP BY GUN-
POWDER OFF THE ISLE OF MAN.
The Mona's Herald, of Wednesday last, gives the
particulars of the stranding and subsequent explosion,
by gunpowder, of the brig Lily, •of 180 tons. The
vessel in question is owned by Messrs. Hatton and
Cookson, of Mersey-street, in this town, and left the
Mersey yesterday week, under the command of Captain
John Owens, for the south-west coast of Africa. The
cargo consisted of about fifty tons of gunpowder, twenty
puncheons of rum, a quantity of arms, and some bale
goods, containing articles for barter on the coast. The
vessel was beating about the channel till Mondaymorn-
ing last, when she was driven by the violence of the
storm to the Sound of the Calf of Man. The sea was
running mounins high at the time, and, despite
all the efforts of the crew, about eleven o'clock the Lily
Was stove on Kitterland island, which lies between the
island of the Calf of Man and the mainland of the Isle of
Man. With a desperate effort most of the crew (13 in
number) reached the rocks by the aid of boats. The waves
beat furiously upon the wreck and the rocks. Captain
Owens and three of the crew got on the ledge of a rock,
from which two of the seamen sprang to the land ; but
the captain, in attempting to do the same, was drowned.
The cook and two lads also met with a watery grave. The
carpenter was killed by the mast falling upon him. Thus
five of the crew were lost.
Early on Tuesday morning, Mr. Enos Lace, grocer
and shipbroker of Port St. Mary, being sub-agent for
Lloyd, repaired to the wreck with 31 men, to see what
could be saved. At a quarter before eight a violent
shock was felt throughout the southern district of the
island ; and a sheet of fire and pillar of smoke were seen
to be hurled into the air, hundreds of feet high, from the
.'wreck. It seems that a large portion of the powder was
placed so high in the vessel that it did not get wet by
the waves breaking on it. The explosion dashed the
vessel to atoms, and blew to broken fragments some 30
human beings ! But one individual near the fatal scene
escaped to tell the story, James Kelly, who is still alive,
although one cheek and ear are taken off, and he is other-
wise much contused. Hopes, however, are entertained
of his recovery.
Among those who perished were Enos Lace, William
Lawson, William Taubman, Edward Qualtrough, John
Collister, John Collister, 2nd, Samuel Collister, William
Watterson, George Costane, Hugh Couen, Thos. Turn-
bull, Thomas Collister, John Watterson, William Ker-
mode, Edward Gale, Edward Watterson, Henry Gale,
John Gell, Charles Clugston, Robert Collister, Thomas
Witted, Thomas Nelson, John Fell, Daniel Lace, Thos.
Hugeon, William Cowley, and Thomas Cubbon, all of
Port St. Mary. John Creggs, chief constable of Castle-
town, John Wright, constable of the same place, and
another, name unknown. Many of the deceased were
the active and energetic men of business of Port St.
Mary, and were engaged in the fishing and other nauti-
cal pursuits. Thirty-two men (besides the five of crew
that were lost on Monday) were killed, leaving twenty-
three widows and seventy-three fatherless children.
The explosion was heard in Douglas, and was sup
posed, by many persons, to have been an earthquake.
Fragments of the wreck were thrown as far as the Red
Gap, near Castletown, being a distance of six miles.
Portions of the vessel and cargo, consisting of chain-
links, portions of gun barrels, swords, caps, fragments
of wreck, shirts, &c., have also been picked up in va-
rious parts of the parish of Rushen. Some pieces of
burning cotton were actually found at Poolvash, near
Balladaole, at least six miles off.
Mr. Boardman, agent for Lloyd's, of Douglas, and
brother of Mr. Boardman, of the Sailors' Home at this
port, was engaged in rendering assistance to a vessel off
Langness, or he would no doubt have been amongst the
sufferers.

No vestige of the vessel remains ; but fragments of
wood, iron, copper, guns, and parts of human bodies are
strewed around the country for miles.
A man of Craig Neish (name unknown) got terribly
hurt by falling from the rocks in an effort to lend aid to
the sufferers.
A sailor of the name of Fanning got • a compound
fracture of the leg in the wreck, on Monday, and lies
disabled at the hotel in Port St. Mary.
It is not probable that the cause of the explosion will
ever be correctly ascertained, but it is supposed that the
powder was fired by a light from the pipe of some of the
men who were smoking on board the vessel.
A correspondent in Douglas writes as follows :
" We have had our share of disasters; and one portion
of our island, especially, has been plunged into the
depths of mourning, and lamentation, and woe.' I
allude to the disaster at Ketterland, between the Calf of
Man and the mainland, where thirty of our fellow-crea-
tures have been hurled into eternity in a moment, and
without a moment's warning, by the explosion of no less
than fifty tons of gunpowder, in the wreck of a ship from
your port to the coast of Africa ; by which calamity no
fewer than twenty-three women are reduced to widow-
hood, deprived of their means of support, and, alas, bur-
dened with the support of 72 fatherless children, who are
left without a father or, I may say, a friend. Alas for
these bereaved ones : who can refuse to shed a tear over
their helpless condition, or sympathise with them in their
bereavement ? This dAy my mind has been engaged in
devising means to help them.
"The island, with its authorities, its humane and be-
nevolent sons and daughters—and who will say that
they are not so ?—and' ye moneyed men of Liverpool,
who roll in affluence, and whose dignity at this hour is
supported by the exertion of such men as these bereaved
ones' fathers, must come forward and lend a helping
hand in this distressing emergency.
" I propose that a subscription be opened at once in
the island ; that the governor, the bishop. and all leading
officials be of the committee • and that her Majesty be
implored to extend to her suffering sisters of Mona and
their helpless ones a share of her gracious compassion, if
only to aid their cause in other quarters ; and that trust-
oorthy and efficient agents be found to canvass the ship-
Ners and merchants of all the leading seaports of the
Icingdom in aid of these unfortunate children of deep
distr64 and commiseration.
"'46 should be done instanter, before human
tailsatl, is dried up, and while the harrowing de-
before aret,efor
e the eyes of a British people, and when
I use that word I mean a generous and sympathising
people, wh0,,,,
arle. ever open, and whose hearts
feel for distreaa ena rs
give c ime anu ot any colour.. .
After offerings to 5/. towards the subscription, the
service proceeds,.
will be happy to give a month's
in canvassit g subscriptions if none more suitable
can be found, free of =
a 1 cost, travelling expenses alone
excepted."
We sincerely trust that the excellent suggestion of our
correspondent may be at once adopted. people of
the Isle of Man who have t 0 work for their living are,
generally, in very humble cumstances, and Port St.
Mary is one of the poorest fishing villages in the island.
The widows and children must indeed be in the most
distressed condition, and we feel persuaded an appeal to
the benevolent will not be made in vain. We shall be
glad to receive subscriptions in aid of the families of the
sufferers.—From, the Liverpool Mercury of this day.

IANGE—THIS DAY
Gibraltar . • .
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'Milan .... • •
Venice
Naples .. • • •
Palermo ....
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'Lisbon
Oporto
Rio Janeiro ..
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New York, 60 days' sight
Philadelphia
PRICES OP ouwoN, PER oz.
Foreign Gold in Bars £3 17 9
'Portugal Gold Coin .. 0 0 0
Mexisan Dollars .... 0 4 11.4
New Dollars ...... 0 0 0
Silver in bare ...... 0 5 1%

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THE LONDON GAZETTE.

(THIS EVENING.)

ST. JAMES'S-PALACE, DEC. 30.
The Queen has been pleased to appoint the Right Hon.
Lord Ernest Augustus Charles Brudenell Brace, to be
Vice-Chamberlain of her Majesty's Household, in the room
of the Right Hon. Orlando George Charles Bridgeman,
Viscount Newport, resigned.
ST. JAMES'S-PALACE, DEC. 30.
___

The Queen has been pleased to a". 'int Thomas Henry
Lord Foley to be Captain of her ajesty's Honourable
Corps of Gentlemen at Arms, in the room of John William,
Earl of Sandwich, resigned.