The Sun.
London, England, 1863-05-30 00:00:00

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No. 22,128,

THE SUN, LONDON SATITEDAY EVENING, MAY 30, 1863.

THIRD EDITION, Now ready, in 3 vols.,
LOST AND S A VED.
By the Hon. MRS. NORTON.
" Lost and Saved' will be read with eager interest by
these who love a touching story. It is a vigorous novel.
—Times.

THE LOSS OF THE ANGLO-SAXON,

military rule may be punished as in the case of
other inhabitants. Such punishment furnishes no
reasonable ground for international complaint.

LETTER FROM THE HON. JOHN YOUNG.
The following are extracts from a letter from the

A arge quantity of cotton is said to have arrived
at New Orleans from Western Louisiana, and more
was expected.
The
and Australasianl4spassengers. takes out 143,745 doll. in
specie,

Hon. John Young, who was a passenger on board

Hurst and Blackett, 33, Great Marlborough-street.

the ill-fated Anglo-Saxon, received this week by a

gentleman in the neiohbourhood of Edinburgh :

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" After leaving Londonderry, we had rather heavy
weather and high seas; but nothing remarkable occurred

on the voyage until Saturday, the 25th April, when we poet
ice about 9 o'clock p.m. The ship was slowed, and during
the night, in consequence of the heaviness of the ice, the

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engines were stopped. In the morning the fog partially
elcared away, and we slowly tried to push our way through
it. Fortunately, there was little wind, and us the day ad••

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siderable disposition to sell.

vanced the weathor became clear, and from the masthead

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tinued to push through it, and succeeced in clearing it at
two p.m., when the weather was clear and fine. The ship
was then put under full steam and sail, and we started on

our couree at the rate of 11i miles an hour. An observa-
tion of the sun was taken at 12 a.m., when in the ice, show-

ing our position at that time to be 46 54 N. lat., and 47 24
W. long. On getting clear of the ice other observations

were taken to confirm that of 12. The captain had instruc-

tions from the agents of the ship at Liverpool to call at Cape
Race, Newfoundland, for a telegram, which would inform
him if the Gulph and River St. Lawrence were clear of ice;

and, in conversation with me that afternoon, he congratu-
lated himself on the weather being clear, and that he would

be able to sight the Cape early next morning. During the
night, the weather became foggy. I got up at 7, and went
on deck; saw the captain, and expressed my regret at the
change in the weather, and asked him if, under present cir-
cumstances, he still intended to make cape Race. He re-
, I have changed, the coursvf the shill, and will not
now fe,66..vd inY satisfactiOn, made
some remarks on the great responsibility resting on him, with
so many people on board, to which he replied that he deeply
felt that responsibility. I could not avid being anxious,
With my knowledge of our proximity to Newfoundland in
such foggy weather, and at 10 a.m. I again availed myself
of my intimacy with Captain Burgess to ask him where he
thought we then were. His reply was, We are now about
16 miles south of Newfoundland, and at 12 o'clock we shall
be 20 miles south of Cape Race.' We were then going half
speed, or six miles an hour. This reply of the captain made
me feel satisfied.
" About an hour afterwards I was down in Miss Young's
state room; and Florence, looking out of the dead-light
shoreward, cried Oh, papa, look st the iceberg,' I glanced
out, and to my horror saw, at about 20 feet distant, what I
supposed to be an iceberg; but what I thought an iceberg
was merely the white spray of the broken sea running
down the precipitous sides of a cliff. The ship had not
then struck. I ran on deck, but before I got there she had
struck with her bow heavily. Engines were stopped ; she
swung alongside the cliff, and struck with terrible force on
the side of the ship. Engines were reversed with the view
of turning out the stern seaward, but the wind and a very
heavy sea prevented this ; and instead of the stern swing-
ing out, it struck on a rather projecting part of the rock,
rendering useless the screw and rudder. As she came down
with each receding wave on the side and stern on the rocks,
the terrible noise of the crashing thus created, joined with
the noise of the surf beating on the rocks, was perfectly
awful. The fog was very dense, the cliff on which we had
struck was very precipitous, nor could we see the tap of it
from the ship. lat once saw that the ship would become
a wreck, and would soon break up, and believed it impos-
sible that many could be saved. I went at once to Mrs.
Young and told her plainly our situation, said I would do
all I could, explained to her that as there was no rock under
the centre of the ship that the saloon was as safe a place
then as any other, and that I wished her to have all
the children, Miss Inglis, and Charlotte together in one
corner of , the, saloon, not to move from there without my
personal request, to get some warm clothing, and to put
some bread in the pockets of their dresses, Nothing could
exceed the quiet resignation of all my party. Charlotte
Was.quite calm, and busied herself in helping to dress the
children, and showed great forethought about everything,
and no signs of fear. I have frequently seen evidence of
the nerve and, resolution of Mrs. Young, but her conduct,
and that of Miss Inglis, on this occasion was beyond all
praise. I went from them on deck ; saw the captain on the
bridge, who, remarking that this was a terrible affair, gave
an order to let' both bow anchors go,' I saw that his order
was not heard in the tumult of voices, and asked if he would
allow me to give the order. I went forward and did Eo.
Orders were then given to lower boats, and the captain
.snperintended-the rigging out of spars to the rocks, getting
a rope ashore, and rigging on it a kind of basket, in which
the women steerage passengers were being put on the rocks,
about 40 feet distant. The captain and second officer per-
sonally attended to this. Few of the sailors were there, for,
I regret to say, they made early for the boats, and kept
outside of the ship, without making those efforts to save life
which, I believe, should and could have been done, I came
back to the stern, feeling convinced that there was no
chance for my people forward, among so many, struggling
for their turn ; but nothing was being done for the cabin
passengers. I cried to five sailors in the long boat, about
100 yards distant, to come alongside, but they paid no at-
tention to my request.
"I ran forward again to the bow, spoke to the captain,
and asked him what was to be done for the women and
children in the cabin. He said, " See Mr. Hoare, first
officer, and tell him from me to get a boat alongside at
once.' The only boat left was the starboard. quarter
boat, which was small. She was coming alongside,
when the captain came aft, and joined with myself and
first officer in entreating the five sailors in the long-boat
to come in with their boat. At this juncture, the
captain requested Mr. Green, the mail officer, to go out,
and, if necessary, compel the men in the longboat to come
in. This Mr. Green accomplished. The ship was now fast
sinking, but most of us thought she would hold on to the
rocks for some time. A derrick to lower the women was
ready to lower them into the boats. Mrs. Young went first.
My party, by my orders, were all round the spot from whence
they were to be lowered. The children were mostly dropped
into the boats by hand as the boats rose on the wave. One
sick lady was lowered down, then the stewardess, and only
Miss Inglis, Anne, and Charlotte remained, and their turn
had come. The captain here spoke to me. I told him all
will be on board at once. I said I could be prepared to
assist him in any way I could. His reply was—.' The ship
won't last many minutes; save yourself if you can.' Char-
lotte then having come, and the captain promising to see
them over, I sprang from the ship, and fortunately reached
the boat, with some bruises, and had the satisfaction of
seeing them all on board, when we bad to push out from
the ship. All the ladies in the saloon wore eased except
three. The boats had barely time to get away from the
ship when she fell over, and in a very few minutes was
submerged, The shrieks of the dying and of those on the
upper deck when the ship fell over will never be forgotten
by those who heard them. Mrs. Young, I, and the seven
children were in the small boat, besides two other children,
a boy and a girl, from the steerage, whose mother threw
them into the boat as we were leaving, bat could not reach
it herself. Besides these children, we had 17 full-grown
persons in the boat, having picked up Captain Cassiday, of
the 30th Regiment, and the Rev. Mr. Eaton, of England,
swimming in life preservers. The long-boat had 43 persons
on board, and there was another boat with 23 on board. The
long-boat was under command of Mr. Hoare, first officer.
Our boat was under command of Mr. Green, mail officer.
and the third boat under Mr. Scott, fourth officer. We
met and agreed to keep together. To lighten our boat our
water casks had been thrown overboard ; we had no bread
and no food of any kind; there was no time to take any
of the warm clothing made ready. The fog was very dense,
we could only see a short distance ahead. We pulled some
distance, as we supposed, alongshore, for the noise of the
surf breaking on the rocks enabled us to distinguish the land
side. Late in the afternoon we determined to try land, but
we soon got into broken water, showing us the danger and
impossibility of landing. The sea ran very high, and the
pitching of the boat made the children and some of the
elders very sea- sick. As night came on, I packed the chil-
dren in the bottom of the boat as close as I could. They
were all very wet, and Freddy had no shoes on ; and being
all thinly clad, we suffered from cold and shivering. It
rained heavily during the night, and we got thoroughly
drenched. This, however, we rejoiced in, because we knew
that the fog is generally thereby cleared off. We had the
three boats tied together with their painters most of the
night, and managed thus to keep together; still, in such a
sea it was difficult to prevent collisions. About midnight

the fog cleared away—we commenced rowing and steered
north, and anxiously wished for the morning. We did not
know where we were, and all of us thought our chance of
life a poor one. Had the fog continued, or had the wind
came from the shore, we would have been driven to sea and
probably perished miserably—but God had willed it other-
wise. As day broke we thought we saw a light ; we made
test, then we saw three coloured lights,which we knew was
a steamer,and we gave her a round of cheering which could
them a distance of
only be given in such a style by persons similarly situated.
Some of those who landed from the Anglo-Se" on, on get-
ting to the top of the cliff, discovered the telegraph poles
John's, and the people eilmectin o
g —aPe Race with St. John's, and they followed
wisdom, despatched the The operator at C four
miles from. the ecene of the wreck.
Race telegraphed the disaster to St.
there, with great promptitude and
e
to seek for the boats and small steamer which picked us up
17 hours in the boats, and, renderfr aid. We had been about
we at once experienced the feoemli a state of extreme anxiety,
nothing whatever, except what 74:f intense joy. We have
"Nothing could exceed the kindnessOn andu;
the people of St. John's, Newfoundland,
hospitality of
Ban-
nerman, Lady Bannerman, the Govern Sir Alex.
()
habitant a, were unceasing in their kindness to
and in.
as to the cabin and
steerage passengers,''

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Money abundant. G01d,491 prem. Exchange on
London—Bankers' bills, 164. Stocks—Large spe-
culative sales. New York Centrals, 129; Illinois,
114 ; Erie, 104 ; Six per Cent. Western States
Bonds, 107. Cotton dull. Middling Uplands, 551.
Flour quiet, and sc. lower. Wheat, good inquiry.
Corn, lc. higher and advancing. Provisions, good
inquiry. Coffee quiet. Sugar steady. Molasses
very firm.

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his sub-prefects, his mayors, his magistrates, and
his rural police aro busy tearing down unpatronised
addresses, threatening printers with the loss of
their license, and setting a strict watch upon
every step and word of independent candidates
In the cities and large towns the means of cor-
ruption and of pressure are more unsparingly, if
not more dexterously, used in proportion to the
greater resources of the Opposition. Yet M. de
Persigny points complacently to the columns of the
journals in which addresses impugning or denying
every article of the Imperial faith are impudently
displayed, and at-lc whether this is not public
liberty ? In some instances it appears that Go-
vernment candidates have been authorised to hold

meetings, to explain their sentiments, and to form
committees; as for their placards, they have had

every dead wall at their service, every printer at
ttleir orders and the public money to pay for their
distribution. The addresses of the Government
candidates in Paris have been printed on splendid
paper, and posted to every householder at the ex-
pense of the State. Such is M. de Persigny's bene-
ficent interpretation of " the public good." Cor-
ruption and intimidation of some sort or other are
not perhaps peculiar to France under the Empire.
Bat corruption and intimidation on so vast a scale
as this, practised by the Government at the cost of
the taxpayers, and by a Government professing to
be based on universal suffrage, with half-a-million
functionaries at its absolute disposal, and armed
with a whole arsenal of arbitrary decrees having
force of laws—surely modern Europe has never seen
till now. And yet, with all this machinery at his
command for conducting and controlling "the
national will," M. de Persigny is visibly discon-
certed at the appearance of five or six names of
leaders of " the old parties" among the independent
candidates. Never was there a, more flagrant in-
stance of official zeal ! With one "breath M. der
Persigny, through his joutpals, scoffs nt the insig-
nificance of these returning„,veterans, of obsolete par-
ties and representatives of rejected 'systems, and-
puffs them into importance and pop'ula'rity by vitu-
perative epithets, instead of accepting their. allegi-
ance, welcoming their conversion, absorbing and
annihilating their independence, and Clasping them
body and soul to the embrace of a liberal and con-
stitutional despotism. M.de Moray shneved a keener
discernment of men and things when he spoke of
these eminent independent candidates as so much
" ballast" to the Second Empire. •For in the oath of
allegiance (with whatever mental reservations, and
even if they have not the almost superstitious re-
verence for the sanctity of this oath which M. De
Persigny teaches), M. Thiers and 'his associates do
alccept the Second Empire,, and kiotas they accepted
the Republic of 1848 which they Succeeded in de-
stroying, as an accident, a' surprise, tt catastrophe,
but as an established governmeht amenable to
friendly criticism, and susceptiblaof legal reform.
In coming forward as independent candidates for
seats in the Legislative Chamber, the leaders of the
Old parties perform an act of " happy despatch"
upon their political selves. To impartial observers
it seems unaccountable that M. De Persigny should
look an Orleanist candidate in the month.
POST.—The first session of the first Parliament of
the kingdom of Italy closed only a fortnight ago,
and after an interval of ten days, the second session
has already commenced. If the first session, 28
months in duration, of the Italian Legislature,
might be regarded as furnishing the Pleasure in
time for the sessions that are to follow, the consti-
tutional annals of Italy will soon have the advan-
tage over those of England, and exhibit not one,
hut a series of " long parliamentsX The extreme
length of the session just terminated arose chiefly
from the fact that the amount of general legislation
With which the Chambers were occupied in 1861
land 18t2 left them no time to enter into a detailed
lexamination of the Budget until the commencement
of the present year; and although Credits were
granted provisionally from time to time, it was
neces3ary that the entire Budget should be regu-
larly discussed and voted before the session could be
brought to a legal close. The senators and deputies
who last Monday assembled round King Victor
Emmanuel might look back with a feeling of, ore
the whole, honest satisfaction at their 28 months'
work. It is true that the new State is still shorn of its
capital, that the iron hand of Austria presses down
more heavily perhaps than ever on the Venetian pro-
vinces, and that the establishment of order in the
southern portion of the peninsula is a difficult and
tedious task. Butt the-karal ripeninTof-tho Roman
question, from which alone Count Cavour hoped and
predicted its solution, is daily making greater pro-
gress in the judgment of the Catholic world. On
the Austrian Court itself there is beginning to strike
the first faint rays of a conviction that, both politi-
cally and financially, the retention of Venice is, if
not a positive loss, but a sorry gain ; whilst increas-
ing commerce, and roads, and bridges, and schools,
and the press, with impartial execution of civil and
criminal justice, and the mutual intercourse and con-
fidence which all these create, promise, in the Nea-
politan territory, gradually to remove the chronic
causes of brigandage, and to convert the semi-bar-
barous Abruzzese or Calabrian peasant into an honest
and useful citizen. The doggrel lines recording the
social wonders worked in our own Scottish High-
lands by the roads of Wade may, a score of years
hence, find their illustration and counterpart in some
homely Neapolitan distich on the changes there
wrought by the iron rails and steam cars which have
already invaded Pescara, and which will beforelong
reach Brindisi. When an Englishman proceeds to
examine in detail the legislative work done in the
first session of the Italian Parliament it is impos-
sible for him, if he be unbiassed by peep or sec-
tarian prejudice, to resist the conviction that the
Italian senators and deputies have laboured steadily
and honestly to promote the welfare of their com-
mon country. The measures mobilising the entire
National Guard of Italy, for consolidating the sepa-
rate debts of the previous Governments, for regu-
lating the pensions of the civil functionaries, for
establishing loan and deposit panks, for regulating
the law of inortmain and taxing Church property,
for introducing a uniform postal system and a uni•
form rate of postage, for taking the general census
of the population, for transferring conventional pro-
perty to the Church fund, for regulating the civil
list, and, above all, for conferring on Italy a vast
and efficient system of railway communication—
these are but the more prominent achievements
of the session of the Italian Parliament that has
closed. For that which has just opened sufficient
work appears to be cut out. The land tax, the ge-
neral laws of customs and excise, the property tax,
the discussion of the commercial treaty with
France, and of the commercial treaties with other
States by which it is to be followed, the Parlia-
mentary Commission on the state of national edu-
cation ; but above all these questions, and modify-
ing them all, the proposed law for settling the
attributions of the provincial and communal coun-
cils—a measure of which the details will open up
the whole question of centralisation and local self-
government. In the right adjustment of these
questions the representatives of Italy will find
ample scope for the full employment of their
powers, and ample opportunities of largely earning
the gratitude of their countrymen. We do not, we
confess, envy the state of mind of the politicians
who in any country, but especially in our own,
view the prosecution of these legislative labours in
Italy with a malignant and jealous eye. We do
not envy the feelings of those who, to such a snee-
r tacle of well-regulated national aims and effo!tnis,
would prefer the sight of the Bourbon deep
again fastened upon Naples, or the Ilapsbau:g
raine imbecility triumphant in Mody.an
eachd Tus-
cany. Yet, strange to say, perns t
;and, stranger
ings are to be fonnd among pangs in both
erveasp
still, they have in the Consti.
able of believing
soTus-
houses of Parliament, dcurt:
titutional overnment
that the great causeeidfe ice o in Italy is destined to
give aet
nieeucontemptible influences,
y i
before l in
hoe e
regretH
to announce that the Bra-
-Wesbeen constrained by the conduct
ter
,hal‘linisters to demand his passports,
ze
fi I
en Er
RifiLaniDies.
sty s
preparations for depar-
this country. he persistent efforts
mtabeuessisel7awndmAalkri.ln'Lga-y ard persistent
tbi dis-
cussionhtnerdeEp tfaihraal on e
fthe
public Brazilian
made
convenience,t he latter e
an
any
n the
allegation that the question was settled—have been
so far successful that they have bucked the truth in
both houses of Parliament ; but they have failed in
browbeating an
independent. power out of the
honest assertion of its rights. Since the miserable
onslaught upon Greece in the suit of Don Pacifica
nothing has occurred. in our international policy so
unfortunate for England,
Ministry,o discreditable to the
COso opposed' to every Englishman's sense
of what is right, and generous, and decent, as this
quarrel with Brazil, forced upon us by an intemper-
ate and incompetent official. We have already gone
into the merits of the dispute at some length, and
there are no new facts to add. Months ago we
traced the difficulty from its origin in the bullying
temper of Mr. Christie and the strange delusions of
his subordinate, to its end in the act of war com-
mitted in Brazilian waters by Admiral Warren.
We published the instructions of the Brazilian Go-
vernment to it minister, and pointed out the pro-
bable results. Our predictions have been, we grieve

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