The Sun.
London, England, 1852-09-02 00:00:00

EVENING
SEPTEME E 2,

AMERICA.
[A summary of the following appeared in our
paper of yesterday.l
LIVERPOOL, WEDNESDIY. —By the United States
steam-ship Pacific, Nye, commander, we have
advices from New York to the 21st ult. She has
brought 600,000 dollars in specie on freight.
A telegraphic dispatch, dated Baltimore, August
20, communicates the particulars of a shocking steam-
boat catastrophe which occurred on Lake Erie, near
Buffalo, on the morning of that day. It appears that
at about two o'clock the steamer Atlantic, belonging
to Messrs. Ward, came into collision with the pro-
peller Ogdensburg. A dense fog prevailed at the
time, and, as the numerous passengers on board the
Atlantic, composed chiefly of Norwegian emigrants,
were unable to see the exact nature of their danger,
they were greatly alarmed, and several leaped over-
board. The captain endeavoured to restore confi-
dence, and the steamer kept on her course, the officers
hoping to be able to reach port, although the boat
was leaking badly : the
water, however, gained
rapidly on thorn, deeipite the efforts of the crew,
en.l by the time they had proceeded about two miles
from the spot where the collision took place, it
was found that the vessel WAS rapidly sink-
ing, the fires in the engine-room being extinguished
by the water. The emigrants, who could not under-
stand a word spoken to them, by their cries and ter-
ror added to the horror of the scene. The cabin pas-
sengers, and all who could be made to understand,
were exhorted by the captain and officers to remain
in the cabin, and provide themselves with chairs, Bet-
te is, beds, &c., all of which were patent life-preservers
and would buoy them up in the water. Numbers,
however, unheeding or not understanding the advice
given them, rushed overboard to certain death. At
about half-past two o'clock, atnidst the wild shrieks of
the passengers, the steamer settled and sank. The
propeller had kept in the wake of the Atlantic, and
those on board her did all in their power to preserve
the lives of the hundreds of human beings who were
now seen struggling in the water.
The fog was a sad hindrance to their efforts, but
about 150 were rescued. The last persons taken
from the boat were Mr. Given, clerk of e the boat,
and Mr. Buell, first engineer. The steamer had then
passengers, were clinging to a rope attached to a
sunkfl3at all
ing but
mastherans tae r nt,h ande
wreck,
being up to their
shoulders in water. As soon as the shrieks of the
drowning passengers were hushed the voice of a
papas was here he would hold me
little boy was heard,. and it was,,tiohehn,
Ifircsatnd,tishcoolvderoend
that a child, about eight years old, was also clinging
to a rope a short distance off. The little fellow,
Illinois, a fine
much
ul
A t o longermhainml sf If
re
powerful fellow,
immediately moved a long rope, and seized the boy
as he was about to sink. He held on for some time,
and called out to Given to come to his relief, as he
was nearly exhausted by the weight. Givan made an
attempt to reach him, but in vain. At that moment
the boat of the propeller, loaded to the water's edge
with rescued passengers, passed, and Given hailed
them, and entreated them to save the boy. Mr.
Blodgett, first mate of the Atlantic,
Who was on
board, jumped out, and swam to the rope,
took the
boy off; and returned to the boat. He was thus saved.
The little fellow was with his uncle, who was
drowned. The next boat from the propeller took off
the clerk:, first engineer, and the Illinois passenger.
The rescued passengers were conveyed to Erie,
where
on landing they assembled together for the purpose
of returning thanks to God for their deliverance. It
was stated that about 200 persons, composed chiefly
of poor emigrants, had perished. Among the list of
missing is the name of Mrs. Cornwell, sister of Elihu
Burritt.
The St. John's, New Brunswick, papers state that
the Bay of Fundy has been completely cleared of
American fishermen. A rumour was current at
Halifax that her Majesty's steamer Devastation had
taken four prizss in Charlottetown.
A letter from Boston says that Commodore Perry
would return to New York with the steam-frigate
Mississippi in time to leave for Japan on the Ist of
September.

•
The Washington correspondent of the New York
Herald, writing from Washington on the 20th, states
that the Committee on Foreign Relations did not
consider that they were called upon to take any step
towards a settlement of the fisheries question, believ-
ing it to be the duty of the President to take the
initiative, and, after the example of General Wash-
ington, lay his views before Congress, and ask for
advice. "In such event," says the Herald's cor-
respondent—
., It is highly probable the British Government would
early become acquainted with our ultimatum. In any
event, unless the British Government disavows an inten-
tion of forcing her construction of the treaty by an
armed force, retaliatory duties will be imposed. The
official advices received by the last steamer by Mr.
Crampton, it is stated upon what I deem good autho-
HI, confirm the opinion that the British Government
are determined to press the offensive construction of the
treaty, as interpreted by the Crown officers, and upheld
upon all occasions by the Ettri of Derby, while Lord
Stanley. The English Government will not listen to
any negotiation for opening the fisheries, unless such
negotiations also embrace the whole subject of reciprocal
trade with all the provinces. That Congress in its pre-
sent condition, excited by a British fleet on our northern
bDrders, and called upon to make concessions almost
under duress, will consent to such negotiations, is out
of the question. The fish difficulty must be settled by
itself before any reciprocity measures for Canada will
b listened to. It is the opinion of many leading and
distinguished men hero that if England persists in car-
rying out the offensive attitude which it is on good
authority believed she has determined upon, by forcing
the headland construction of the treaty, serious difficul-
ties must arise. When tho subject comes up again in
the Senate it will be seen that recent information has
greatly embittered the feelings of that body.
must back out. England

THE I'URKISff
LOAN.
With regard to the Turkish loan, the subjoined
statement of the revenue and expenditure of the
country is understood to comprise the information
furnished to the contractors when it was arranged to
issue the present proposals on the stock-markets of
Paris and London. Looking at the position which
Turkey occupies among the Governments of Europe,
together with the fact that she has no public debt,
that her political and financial honour will certainly
bear a comparison with that of other Powers, and
that, as respects the, absence
of a constitutional
system, she is only in the same position as her neigh-
bours, there seems no reason to regard the new stock
otherwise than as entitled to rank favourably with the
general run of foreign loans. The smallness of the
amount is of course an important element in this
consideration, and another circumstance calculated to
impart confidence consists in the subscription taking
place at Paris as well as in London, and its being
thus divided between the people of the two States
upon whom Turkey is most entitled to rely. At the
same time it is necessary to remark, in connexion
with the following document, that an exact transla-
tion of the firman of the 10th of June authorizing tne
loan should also be furnished to the public :
" The budget of the Turkish Empire shows a revenge
of 750,000,000 Turkish piastres—say 7,000,0001: and
about an equal expenditure.
The revenue is derived thus:—
piastres.
Tax on produce of land ... ... 220,000,000
Personal tax on subj.eets n—o't Mu.s.s.tilma—
"'
920 000,000
Income-tax
. __ I nA
1:18
Customs
85,000,000
Tribute frora 'Egypt
p.i • 7.: ... • .... 30,000,000
Tribute from the rincipalities of—the 113,:5.-
Ano 00
nube (Wallachia', Moldavia, and Servia) 5,---'°
Diffe - rent Indirect taxes, patents, stamps,
000
excise, tolls, post-office, mines, &a. ... 150,000,
______
•G• 750 000,000
,
40,000,01 n,

The SuAltaPPn Icii:i7lteistainotin•t• ..*: .....
75'400,000
,rso
" The expenditure consitts of--
000 000
Civil list of the Dowager Sultana and of
. 8'
0 000
• •
the Sultana's married sisters ..• •
300,00 ,
Army
000
Navy
War stock, ammuntion, artillery, engi.•
neering fortifications
••• ••• ..*
30,000,000
Maintenance of the different offices of ad' 000000
ministration
***
80 195 '
,
••• • •••
Foreign affairs, •• ambassadors, consulates,
10,000,000
•
notation of the ••
Treasury for works of
public service, roads and ways, ecooll" 10,000,000
ragernent of agriculture, Bzo. ••• ''.
ExPenscs of different kinds, such as a
grant to the Administration of the
Mosques for the maintenance of the es-
tablihtimenta dependent thereon, ennui-
ties, and pensions

84 000 100
... , ,

tribute 750,000,000
" The t •
late arrangement has
'3l Egypt been increased by the
with Abbas
puha ngement made by the Sultan
per anntlal.
from 30,000,000 to 40,000,000 Turkish piastres
‘ Tork.,, 1-,
and p '''
sscase "85 a population of more than 30,000,000,
time.ols a ri(!h and fertile territory more than three
in extent than France.
" Fra'ger o
oa this state of its budget,
garded which may be re.
fs bai as balanced correct, the revenue of Turkey
with
the
by ha
e exception of its
expenditur©. It has no public debt,
170 000 000 T paper circulation, amounting to
; ': ' Turkish piastres (about 1,600,0001.), bear-
.rig niterst; and
bear-
that this a few months since
lotion bN7PaPer-tniTheY exist only till this
should be withdrawn from circa-
' means of a special tax, to
object is attai d
lected. ne , and which is uow being regularly col-
" As has been announced in the public journalr, a first
step hs.3
a„,, - been already made in the withdrawal of tha
w' money, calling in about 4,000,0001. worth, which
s publicly
this, Turkey has a floating burnt in the presence of the Sultan. Besides
buyo,ool which i
I`, 00 • debt of about 10,000,0001. or
its f t owes tothe contractor.. from whom
or delivery the European products necessary for
i a army and na,,y, &c.
_ " The precedingdata &redrawn from the best sources;
but it is, as taa.y be easily understood, impossible to gua-
rantee their being rigorously correct.
" Iu a political poiot of view, Turkey, by the treaties

of 1841, forms part of the European Alliance. Its pre-
servaqun, its independence, and its entirety are indis-
pensable to the maintenance of the equilibrium of Eu-
rope, and every event that has ccourred during tho last
twenty ycers incontestably establishes that Europe in
every re.pect regerds it in that 1i ht."

Ships in Harbaur—The Waterloo, 120, with the?
broad pendant at the main of Commodore the Hon.
Montagu Stopford ; Monarch, 84, Captain C. Hope,
Superintendent of aia Dockyard ; London, 90, ad-
' vFinced ship, Captain G. R. Mundy ; Meander, 44,
Co.tramodore Charles Talbot; Megwea, 6, steam troop-
ship, Commander J. Johnson ; Horatio, 22, screw
steam guard-ship, Captain the Hon. S. T. Carnegie;
Amphion, 34, screw steam-frigate, and Cyclops, 6,
stearn.sloop, advanced steamers of the first division of
reserve squadron sandil and Lizard, steam tenders
to the Waterloo Monarch ; Thames and Hart
yachts.

-In the Fitting Basin—The Achille, 76; Hawke,
72 ; Bittern, 12, Commander Vansittart, fitting for
foreign service.
In Dock—The Howe, 120 ; Ganges, 84 ; Ttihune,
:30, screw steam-frigate, on the north slip, ready for
launching.

WooCwlcu, SEPT, numb2r of first-class
bays, 17 years of ege, who hive served fit se;;; or in
now b.-3 entered on bourd the Fisgard
ship at ‘Vool for service in the It!-,val
The Trident steatn-vesstl, Lieutenant R. B. Har-
vey, built of was payed übout three or four
mond-imago on the outsido of her bottom with iqr.liav's
composition on one side, and Mr. Bochin's composi-
tion on the other. On being t4ici, into dock here to
have her bottom examined, Mr. Hay's composition
was fund in such good condition compared with the
other, that the Admiralty have ordereqi both sides of
the bottom of the vessel to be payed with his composi-
tion previous to her departure for service on the Bra-
zilian station.

WESTAIINST.ER FREEHOLD LAND
SOCIETY.
The third annual meeting was held on Tuesday
evening, et St. Martin's llall, Long-acre, P. E.
.rnea, Esq., in the chair.
on account of his having
Dar s
• G. Huggett, the secretary, read a letter from
Mr. c. Lus •
lungton, resigning the office of President,
Shelley, minster.
Cox, Sir J. ceased to represent West-
On the motion of
sh Mr. Colvill, seconded by Mr.
President. Bart., M.P., was elected
The third annual report
of the committee, as read
by the Secretary, statsd "
The lapse of another
twelvemonth since the last
Society, imposes upon your annual meeting of the
committee
presenting to the members theco the duty of
nTelei:7,neembers will
upon the affairs of the Societ third yearly report
pecuniary advantages of the sociest
be gratified to know filet the
ar beyond the
promoters,.
and
dd
nnt.l of Free-
are steadily being realized to an extyent havef mboereanl,
Tmhoestgseannegrualinme
oexpectations
hoef
multiplicationits original
holders has been, from the beginning
en-
tirely progressive; and your committel
gratification of being enabled to state thate havew th
the
Pn
West-
minster Society continues to hold a foremost'
among the numerous associations engaged in thisons
at
it
so
en
The history of the society during the past year is
most satisfactory, as is evidenced by the fact of their
being 1,411 shares now in existence, exclusive of
those taken up on the Kent Town Estate, Moulsey,
the Holmsdale Estate, Reigate, and the Long Ditton
Estate. The members will also find another satis-
factory proof of the continued popularity and effi-
cient working of the society in the large sum sub-
scribed, the receipts for the past year amounting to
6,685/. 15s. 3d., making the total receipts from the
establishment of the society 15,6101. 4s. Bd. The
estates which have now been acquired in addition to
the East Moulsey and Reigate properties (already
reported) are purchasers in Long Ditton, Kilburn,
and Reading. The Reigate and Long Ditton Estates
have been allotted since the committee's last report.
With regard to the Kilburn Park Estate, un-
doubtedly one of the most desirable building sites in
the vicinity of London, the committee beg to state
that the contract for the sewers has been entered into,
and they are now in course of construction, upon the
completion of which the roads will be immediately
proceeded with. The allotting of this eitate will
take place as soon as the contract for the roads has
been accepted. The arrangements for the distribu-
tion of the Reading purchase are also being proceeded
with, and will be completed next after the allotment
of the Kilburn Park property. The committee were
influenced in the Reading purchase by their desire to
consult the wishes and interests of the provincial
members; and the ready attention which your com-
mittee have always felt it to be their duty to pay to
the reasonable suggestions of the distant subscribers,
as well as of those residing in the metropolis, has
been, they are glad to say, one of the causes of the
society's present popularity. With the view of en.
suring a permanent value to the allotments the com-
mittee have always adhered strictly to the principle of
securing to the members land suited to building pur-
poses ; and have the satisfaction to know that every
one of the purchases (being eligible building sites)
are daily increasing in value. Your committee de-
sire to express their continued confidence in the sys-
tem of rotation and non-payment of interest, as
adopted by this society, and have much gratification
in referring the members, as the result of that system,
to the following rates of premium obtained on shares
Atanding next in order of allotment, showing an ave-
rage profit of nearly one hundred per cent. on the
capital invested—viz., Kent Town Estate from 31. to
5/, Holmsdale Estate from 3/. to 71, Long Ditton
Estate from 31. to 51., and Kilburn Estate from 71. to
121. 10i. The plots themselves, after allotment, have
obtained the following premiums :—Kent Town
Estate from 71. to 211., Holmsdale Estate from Si. to
101, and Long Ditton Estate from 31/. to 64/ The
number of voters, in respect of property obtained
through this society, is increasing ; and must con-
tinue annually to increase. In addition to the fifty-
two members who have had the opportunity of voting
at the late West Surrey election, there are this year
placed on the list of voters, and unobjected to, four-
teen of our members for the
Kent Town property,
and eleven for the Holmsdale Estate.
The committee
feel that the fullest information should be rendered to
the society, and have therefore, is addition to the
balance-sheet, now in the hands of the members
thought it desirable to present them an abstract of
accounts between the vendors and the allottees on the
estates. The committee think it unnecessary to say
much on the political results obtained by the sociefy ;
the recent elections have made patent to the whole
d
world the important part Freehold Land Societies are
to play in the future parliamentary history
of the kingdom. At this time, when it is the general
impression that a large extension of the constitutional
right of participating in the return of Members to
the House of Commons will not be long delayed, it
would seem to be deservedly a subject of honest pride
that while others may obtain the privilege of the
franchise by the tardy concession of an unwilling
Legislature, the members of the Land Societies have
achieved unaided, save by their own united efforts,
that position to which their intelligence, their unre-
mitting industry, their forethought and self-denial,
show their incontrovertible title ; and all men, of
whatever shade of political opinion, cannot but yield
to the conviction, that the best interest of the country
are concerned in developing the freehold land move-
ment.

The report was unanimously adopted, and a vote of
',hanks to the chairman terminated the proceedings.

STREET ARCEUTECTURE.—At the corner of Regent
and Beak-streets a bold and successful attempttogivofe
the
va-
riety to oar external architecture by the aid of colour has
just been accomplished. The colours are black, gold, and
carmine, which, assisted by the all-pervading yellow
sun's rays or the azure grey of the atmosphere, areh brought
p
into agreeable and harmonious combination. T
Futvotyhee,ootoohwashotme
ethmeheesuthlmisehhmtsenttothe belongs,shh
have not con-
nedfa g aed e laelsosnr se
but have carried them to a great depth down Beak-street,
additional houses having been incorporated
The style of the architecture itselfz,isiamxture, but displays
considerable taste on the part of
and Co. The trade to be carried on is rasl.rao
st a Laughheerw, Do
hwey ei r,
*his *his country, and includes articles of jewellery, &c., from the
ralue of many hundreds down to a few francs, comprising,
indeed, the finest specimeanseof the art manufacture of all na-,
which
Commission.—Observer.
ommriessciehinv.e_d
othb the especial
Loa?
es
s,
tsye vaehrda lof
the
Royal
A fortnight back mention was made of the arrival
e rerspre o
. notice z
of the screw-steamer Tamaulipas at St. Thomas's from Livel:
"er
pool, in twenty days and a half, she having occupied '
three days more than the new West India
Magdalena in her run home, with favonrabfe7,4lthsertairanomd
that port. This vessel has just returned to Liverpool,ntire voyage
&xperience has, therefore, been furnished
of anpassage to St.
out and home. It appears that on
hernd that the run
Thomas's she encountered bad weather,
might have been accomplished in eighteen
days. She has now made the PasS
1 -ag
two days detention
Ifc achng
Tampico in twenty-six days,
receive cargo, thus making the
lon 8
Liverpoola d oof t twenty
from
at Havannah to coal and to fe
50th,ecoopasdsaogilearfsromin
brought
sailing from Tampico twenty
Havannah nineteen a._
day a this sum, it is said, would have
freight from Tampico,
that specie was subjected to a higher
had been circulated
by the Temaulipas than by the mail
rate of insurance
ss
of the experiment has caused the ship
She r as
been much increased buantforthe influence of reports which
steamers. The s_
that similar vessels are likely to be put upon
it is understood
f this competition on the part of a private
The fact o
to be advertised fourcaa second voyage on the 11. th instant, and
the line.
firm being even attempted, in the face of a company
subsidize .might by this time have
d for eleven years with 270,0001. per annum,
accomplishedfur-
nisheson thelndia
Nest
route if the
bounty
been nishes a striking suggestion of what
system had not been in operation.
TELEGRAPH BETWEEN DUBLIN AND CORK.—The
Cork Examiner says—" We have been informed, upon the 1
best authority, that a line of telegraph will be completed in
the course of the next three months between Dublin and
Cork, thus bringing the south of Ireland throughout the
length of the Great Southern and Western Railway, in com-
munication with Dublin, and, by sub-marine telegraph, wit),
London, also with Glasgow, through the submarine telegraph
between Portpatrick and Donaghadee.

CLOSING OF TUE NATIONAL AND VERNON GAL-
LERIES.—Notice was issued yesterday at the National Gal.
lery, Trafalgar•square, and the Vernon Gallery, Marl-
borough-house, St. James's, that both these fine collections
of:paintings will be closed to the public during the vaca-
tion, which commences on Saturday, the 11th inst., and will
be re-opened to visitors on Monday, the 25th of October
next, when they will be admitted, as usual, gratis, on Mea-
-1 days, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays.