The Sun.
London, England, 1863-09-25 00:00:00

CALCUTTA AND CHINA MAILS.

SEPT. 25.
The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation
Company have received a telegram, stating that
their steam .ship Poonah, which left Southampton
with the Calcutta, China, and Australian mails on
the 20th instant, put into Lisbon yesterday to re-
pair damage sustained by her machinery, and that
it is not probable she will leave there before the
29th inst.

We are authorised to state that, notwithstanding
this accident, the outward mail via Marseilles will
be despatched on the 26th inst., as usual, in order
that no dztention may be caused to the correspond-
ing homeward mails from Australia, &c., due in
London on October 13.

MEETING OF THE iiTIONAL VEREIN.
DRESDEN, SEPT. 24.

The first meeting of the National Verein has taken
place under the Presidency of M. Wigard, formerly
a representative at the Frankfort Diet, and coin-
prcmised in the revolution of 1849.

M, Schultze Delistchez severely criticised the pro-
ceedings of the Frankfort Congress. He said that
on that occasion Austria had acted solely in her
own dynastic interests, and added that the meet-
ing of the Sovereigns had in reality been brought
about by the National Verein. He declared that
the German people would net give their adhesion
to the project which their rulers had approved, and,
in conclusion, warmly advocated a return to the
Constitution which had been voted by the Parlia-
ment of Frankfort in 1849.

M. Rewiszer, who spoke to the same effect, con-
cluded his speech with the words, "We are the
State." Both speeches produced a great sensation.
The National Verein will shortly hold a meeting at

Leipzig,
:1/'i XL Clam Gallas representative for Austria, von
Feder for Bavaria, and Kleing licstrer for the Grand
Duchy of Hesse, have just arrived here for the pnr-
pose of inspecting-the Saxon Federal Contingent.

FRANCE.

PARIS, SEPT. 25.

BOURSE, Sept. 24.—The market has been rather
more buoyant, and business has been animated.
Threes, for the Account, are now at 67f 90c. Rail-
way Shares pretty firm. The market closed as
follows :

it per Cents. O5 85
Do. end month
3 per Cents
Do. end month..., 67 80
Credit Mobilier 1180
On, end month 1180
Bank Shares —
Credit k oneier 1340

Italian Loan 73 95
Do. end month 73 75
New ditto —
Do. end month —
Russian
Austrian
Spanish Threes 52
Home Debt

RA IL

'AYEI.

Cash. Account.
Orleans 1027 50 .. 1028 75
Northern lOOO ..

New ditto
Lyons and Mediterranean 1030 .. 1027 50
Geneva 497 50 .. ......
Southern .. 73) • . 735
Western
Eastern
Sardinian
Austrian
Lombard

North of Spain
Saragossa 655 .. 660
Ditto to Barcelona 360 .. 367 50

The Great Eastern in a Storm.

AUDI ALTERAM PARTEM.

We would particularly direct attention to the
words which we have italicised in the following
communication. Those words clearly indicating
that our contemporary, the Scotsman, must be held
reeponsible for the statement referred to by the
Captain of the Great Eastern, a statement quoted by
us at the time with acknowledgment.—ED. SUN :
The Great Ship Company (Limited),
28, Albany, Old Hall-street, Liverpool,
September 22, 1863.
Sir,—Having observed an article in the London Sun of
yesterday, quoted from your paper, relating to the steam-
ship Great Eastern, purporting to be an extract from a pri-
vate letter of one of the passengers, and containing state-
ments entirely erroneous, and highly detrimental to the
ship and her proprietary, I beg to inform you that almost
all the statements contained therein are totally untrue, and
that dui ing the severe hurricane referred to there were none
of the passengers (to my knowledge) injured or hurt, none
of my officers or crew had a bone broken, no accident
occurred to any of the boilers, no men were lashed to the
wheel all night—a few men were stationed at tho relieving
tackles merely as a precautionary measure.
The steerage cabosso did certainly work loose, but was
secured in less than ten minutes, and no ire took place in
consequence; and I can also assure you that the ship was
not beyond my control for six hours.

In conclusion, I must express my regret that your valua-
ble and widely circulating paper should have been the
medium of circulating statements calculated not only to
deceive the public but create very serious loss to the share•
holders. Feeling assured you would not intentionally do
so, and that you will bring the truth of the matter promi-
nently before your numerous readers,—l am, &c.,

WALTER PATON.
Commander of the steamship Great Eastern.
To the above letter, the Scotsman appends the
following remark :
" The letter of a passenger which we published was from
a trustworthy person, whose statements we had no reason
to suppose untrue or exaggerated,"