The Sun.
London, England, 1863-09-10 00:00:00

BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

SOUTHAMPTON Thursday Morning.
The Bavaria, steamer, Capt. Meier, sailed at 11 a.m. for
New York, with mails, 351 passengers, jewellery from
France value 15,6001., and 1,000 tons of cargo.
Arrived—Alliance steamer, from Havre.
Sailed—Courier and Atalanta, steamers, for Jersey.
BY MAGNETIC TELEGRAFEL.
GRAyEsEND, Thursday Morning.
Arrived, Sept. 9—George Brown, from Seville ; s
Laura.
wena, from Emden ; Far ge Zusters, f Rander Ben-
jainin Scott, from Guernsey; Fr.ederirom
ck, from Portsboio
Zephyr, from Gravelines ;
Phoenix, from Nedar Kalix.
Arrived, Sept 10—Atirstine, from Alma Rover,
from Petersburg,
. Bethesda, from Malmo •), from
Christiana.

DEAL, Thursday Morning.
Pafea
of Southampton and Lily of Teignmouth
, ths— virav
from no,th to west; Heyroendik, tor Lisbon; John
}„
Barfield, for Hong Kong; Costa Rica Packet, for Costa.
Kico— all from London,
Zealandie, Trebolga, Indus, Empress
of India, Dorothy, Marathon, Henry, Chevy Chase, Napier,
Britannia, Teigntnouth, and Hex, with all outward bound.

,TEAMER BUR T.--Few calamities have created
more sympathy and regret in Toronto than the de-
struction of the steamer Zimmerman, at Niagaro, at an early
hour yesterday morning (Aug. 21). The Zimmerman was
looked upon as one of the "institutions" of this neighbour.
hood,
and Captain Milloy as the moat popular commander
on the Lake. Captain Milloy visited the steamer on the
night of Thursday about 10 o'clock, found all safe, and went
ashore to go to his house, which is situated about a mile
from the Fiagara-wharf, leaving the watchman, Patrick
Lawless, in charge. The fire was first discovered by the
watchman, between the funnels, under the main deck, about
a quarter to 2 o'clock in the morning. He speedily gave
the alarm, arousing the second mate, Duncan Sinclair, and
the crew. The pumps were quickly rigged and water plenti-
fully dashed on the flames by the crew ; but their efforts to
subdue the fire were in vain. In a very few minutes
the entire deck was one mass of flames, and the upper works
in a blaze. The mate, Mr. M'Donnell, roused the ladies'
maid, Mrs. Smith, who was asleep in the cabin, and with
great difficulty got her ashore. He then returned to the
deck to endeavour to do what was in his power to put out
the fire, but he was driven back by the smoke and flames,
and got on shore by one of the lines. The second mate, Mr.,
Sinclair, had been working alongside of him a few minutes
before he escaped on shore, and Mr. M'Donnell is of opinion
that he had endeavoured to get to the fore cabin to procure
some of his clothing and perished in the attempt. The
watchman, Patrick Lawless, when last seen was working
at the pump, and while trying to reach the wharf he got
entangled in the flames and was burnt to death. The rest
of the crew escaped with slight bums, but lost all they
possessed. The town was, of course, alarmed, and the
brigade turned out with great alacrity. Capt. Milloy was
early on the spot, and gave orders to endeavour to scuttle
the steamer. The attempt proved futile, owing to the in-
tense heat, and, although the firemen continued their efforts
till a late hour in the morning, the vessel was burned to
the water's edge. She was allowed to drop down to the
end of the dock, where she now lies on the shoal, a charred
and shapeless wreck. The engines and boilers are rendered
completely useless, and not a,vestigeoffurniture was saved .
The Zimmerman was built at Niagara in 1856, to ply on
the route between Niagara and Toronto, in connection with
the Erie and Ontario Railway. In 1859 she was purchased
from the trustees of Mr. Zimmerman by her popular corn.
1 mander, Captain Duncan Milloy,—Zoreitie akbe.

Without waiting for Governor Seymour's reply to
this threatening;missive—and Governor Seymour
most certainly did not hurry himself to answer it
General Dix put himself in communication with Se-
cretary Stanton; and the result was that New York
was invaded and is now occupied by an army almost
as numerous as that with which General Meade con-
fronts General Lee in Virginia and defends the
Federal capital from the perils of a new invasion.:
Three years ago, before the election of Mr. Lin-
coln, and when Mr. Seward had a hope that he
himself might be the chosen of the American people
for the high office of President, he uttered the fol-
lowing words at a meeting at La Crosse, in Wis-
consin :—" What kind of a Government would it
be if we (the American people) elected a man we
did not like, instead of a man we did like ? My
impression is that we should have a Government
not differing very far from the empire of Austria,
where they always manage to elect a man whom
the people do not like, and where they have an
admirable way of serving the union by organising
an army of 500,000 men, armed to the teeth,
to maintain in power the man who is not
liked." Passing over the error that the Emperor of
Austria sits on the throne by the election of the
people—which was perhaps a slip of the orator's
tongue, or the reporter's pencil—there is sufficient
truth in the description to justify the resuscitation
of this dead and buried prophecy, and to examine
how it fits with the state of affairs in America which
Mr. Seward has done so much to produce, and which
Gen. Dix is so willing to maintain. In the Federal
States, as in Austria, there is an army of half a
million of men, " armed to the teeth," to maintain a
Union that might otherwise resolve itself into three
or four separate parts. Austria proper, Bohemia,
Hungary, and Italy, would represent the disinte-
gration on the one side of the Atlantic ; New Eng-
land, New York, and the Southern and Western
Confederacies on the other. There is this additional
resemblance between the two cases—that such
armies are incompatible with constitutional liberty,
and that they are used to prop up a tyranny that
would otherwise fall to the ground. The city of
New York is called upon to provide B,oooer 10,000
conscripts for the prosecution of a war which more
than one-half of the people condemn, and lest these
8,000 or 10,000, or any portion of them, should
break into revolt, 50,000 men, " armed to the teeth,"
aided by a considerable naval force, are found
necessary to keep the peace, and force the unwilling
civilians into battle. The Auetrianisation of
America is almost complete, and Mr. Seward is the
Metternich, Gem Dix the Windischgratz, and Gen.
Butler the Haynaa of the process.
The first attempt of the military to interfere in
New York with the right of free discussion during
the progress of the draught has just been made.
The victims are a physician of the name of Child's,
said to be an Englishman ; a printer named
Dickson, and a bill-poster named Johnson, who
were arrested on Wednesday—the first for writing,
and the second and third for printing and distri-
buting a placard, which the police declared to be
treasonable. The police authorities, having some '
misgivings whether they had not committed an out-
rage, for which they might be held to account, con-
sulted Gen. Canby, second in command to Gen. Dix,
and-by that officer ;they were handed over to the
Provost Marshal and committed to a military pri-
son. The placard impugned was an address to the
" Sons of Libc'rty,"calling upon them, " in the name
of God, and that of the signers of the Declaration
of American Independence, to arouse from their
lethargy," and call a public meeting to raise 50,000
dots. by subscription, in order to employ properly
qualified counsel to test the legality of the conscrip-
tion before the tribunals, in the case of every
draughted poor man who objected to become a sol-
dier. The concluding paragraph will show alike
the style and temper of the writer e--" The Decla-
ration of Independence positively aseeerts that all
men are born free and equal ! I will ask unpreju-
diced, reflecting men, immaterial what their politi-
cal feelings may be, whether a man is free or' can
only enjoy liberty when he is impressed into the
army, dragged from his home, forced to take up
weapons to invade a country, ravage it, kill and
maim its population, jeopardise his limbs,healtb, life,
and become subservient to a Dictator or Dictators,
when these things are repugnant to his honour and
manhood ? If this constitutes freedom God have
mercy and protect those whe are oppressed by
teaching them truth, so that they can spurn and
defy their oppressors with the weapons of
righteousness." The newspapers every day con-
tain articles far more " treasonable " than this can
by any stretch of meaning be fairly considered, and
no notice is taken of them. Perhaps the treatment
of Dr. Childs is a warning to them of what they
must expect if they continue to persuade the labour-
ing people that the draught is unconstitutional.
Immediately that Dr. Childs was taken from his
home his wife applied by counsel to Judge Laniard
for a writ of habeas corpus, issued to Police Com-
missioner Acton, who was supposed to hold him in
custody. The writ was made returnable on the
following day. Tlee Commissioner yielded due obe-
dience to the summons, and replied that he could
not deliver up the prisoner, for the reason that be
I'M nut then, and never had, custody of the body.
h". Childs and another woman testified that they
ad
a gone together to the police head-quarters, that
within' and
admitted that Dr Childs was in custody
what could he said moreover that he wondered
a bill ; ittle,l4 have induced Mrs. Childs to issue such
Acton aarnaitst""ggh to hang a man." Comtnissioner
been arresteab4l upon examination, that Childs had
over to the cutYodot der of General Canby and handed
Court, under of Provost Marshal Nugent. Tne
they
to the Provost :si.reemstances, issued a new writ
the body. The caase
en.aal, directing him to produce
afternoon- The Provosl.:efore Judge Leonard this
it, atid testified that ershal appeared to answer
beeetrisoner was not in his
keeping—that he had
sent to Fort Lafayette
by order of General c anbye...
he could a and that, under the
rcurtistances,
° nothing- The judge
rected to General
the reap issued a third writ, di
Lafayette, wnatever )4'
cariby, and to the commandant, gaoler Janitor, or
be. And hergrhoeproeratte
warden of Fort L
de-
signation or fa n_ction may
ry authorities will be
military
rests. The Prepared
to any summons, and Dr.
with their answer Childs
be suffered to rot •
will, in all probability,
,ne prison
Mr. Lincoln, Mr. Seward, Mr,
Stanton, it shall please M .
' to release him. And this.
Stanton, or General Dix
administration of
OD Arne_
affords another proof of the adrntu
dreamt of in 1860, and
rica, which Mr. Seward
' best to convert
which he has in the interval done hie
into a reality. have
A been die-
The pointer and the billposter
ce on the
charged after a reprimand by the p
enormity of the " treason" which they severally
aided in disaieminutf.ng, with a caution to sin no
more,—a caution which the printer has takengreatly
to heart. Lest his business should suffer, and loyal
men come no more to his shop, he has publicly ex-
pressed his regret at his imprudence, and plainly
stated that had he read either the manuscript or the

proof of the placard he would have had nothing to
OD with "such a thing." He could have said
nothing more to the purpose had he been in War-
saw or in Venice.
Although Mr. Opdyke's elaborate veto of the
ordinance of the Court of Common Council is a