The Sun.
London, England, 1863-10-13 00:00:00

COLON lAL

TEA —A firmer tone has prevailed, and good and fine
qualili,s of Coagou have fully sustainEd previous prices.
STIOAR.—A rather active Luciness has been done in West
India, and late pries are well supported. In the refined
mai bet there are afe inquiries at previous quotations.
COFFEE.—The demand for colonial descriptions has been
steady, and, in some instances, a slight, advance has been
maintained. The stocks on hand, compared with those of
last year, still show an increase.

ETCE —A limited amount of business has been done,
without any material change in prices.
TALLow.- - The market has continued without material
change as regards prices. P.Y.C., on the spot and for
December delivery, is quoted 46s per cwt.

The French Chambers are to meet on the 9th of
November. The real business will not commence till a
month later.

WRECK OF A STEAMBOAT ON TEES BAR.—It was
reported yesterday in '1 he Sun that the steamer
Energy, of Middlesboro', had been totally wrecked on Tees
Bar on Saturday last. We also added, on the authority of
the Rev. John Lawson, hon. secretary of the Seaton Carew
branch (.f the National L;feboat Institution, who wrote late
on Saturday evening, that although apprehension had been
entertained in the morning that the crew of three men of
the steamer had been lost, yet that it was subsequently dis-
covered that the poor men had been picked up by a Prus-
sian vessel far out at sea, and that they had afterwards
been safely brought into the Tees. Some of our morning
contemporaries of to-day report that the crew had perished,
but, happily, such is f.:rtunately not the case.

WRECK OF A DUTCH VESSEL ON THE GOODWIN
SANDS.—WALAIER, KENT, Monday Night.—Yes-
terday, while it was blowing hard from the S.S.W., and a
heavy sea was running, signals of distress were observed to
be dying from a vessel on the Goodwin Sands The Widmer
lifeboat, of the National Lifeboat Institution, was at once
manned, and put off to the help of the crew. On arriving
at the Sands, it was found that the vessel was the Ketch
a snips," of Amsterdam, and that she wss leaking fast,
both her pumps being choked. The captain, fearing his
vessel would break up, requested the lifeboat to remain by
him till his vessel was in safety. The lifeboat assisted in
getting the Ketch off the Sands, and the Ramsgate steam
tug soon after wards, the captain employed her to
tow Ketch into that harbour, where she arrived about
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with loss of anchor and chain.
NE,Ny WORK ON MEXICO—Among the new pub-
lications promised by Messrs. Maxwell and Co., is
one that will be anxiously looked for by both the general
reader and the politician, from the nature of its topic and
the interest created for it by events actually in progress and
gradually approaching a climax. This is no less than a
on Mexico
workby M. Michel Chevalier, who holds the
highest rank in France as a political economist, and is be-
sides known to Europe as an acute thinker and an elegant
writer. To his other qualifications for this particular task,
M. Chevalier adds that of a personal acquaintance with the
country; therefore it—" Mexico, Ancient and Modern,"
the title of the volume now in the printer's hands—will
forra a delightful text-book of information when that part
of the world becomes the great topic of discussion, both in
and at the clubs, as must be the case more and
themo r presse
bofore the Archduke Maximilian is definitively seated
on the throne of Montezuma. The past, the present, and
the future are handled in an easy and lucid style, by one
whose claim to the three-fold title of historian, politician,
0
and philosopher will not be disputed,
assimilated
y- It enters largely into the
composition of
the present day, slang is
entable
it helps to point the
style and enforce the arguments of writers in the press.
People now are not
.courageous—they are " plucky," No-
thing facility,
i of Parliamentary wit;
" lengthy." We form resolutions
not immediately, but " right away ;" we enter into engage-
ments,s,
oevneorulranogw—a long—it
The desire to write in a popu-
lar style is
the cause of this, and the public encourage
it. Slanginess is considered smart, and indicative of a
knowledge
of affairs and society, It is amusing to observe
the complacency
and quiet self esteem with which most men
will utter a cant phrase of the day, as if they had themselves
invented it on the spot, and it were something superla-
tively brilliant and felicitous. "Neither you, nor I, nor
any other roan," has induced many a foolish fellow to think
himself a born wit. " How's your poor feet 1"' a year ago
cheated half the natives of Cockaigne into the belief that
they wore gifted wi;h a special genius for repartee. The
heaviest face kindled with unwonted delight, the dullest
voice chuckled with conscious fun, as the words came forth.
And every one laughed, and was fully persuaded that he
had heard the sarcasm for the first time, and was delight-
fullyha tof the uneducated, and has not yet
surprised at its readiness, paint,
and applicability,
higher classes of our periodical literature,
though it is unpleasantly,.
fTnhfeise,tehdowtheveer, is a
conspicuous in the cheap comic
_Dickens's the Year Round," just pub-
lished.W. BEECHER'S REFINED TASTE is
Irna 1
8
thuTsiicEoniltire-ntried. upon by the Spectator :—He stated
the other day, at Glasgow, that wine was early regarded as
hfiessif and his brothers, that he had never
his father's house, that a man who is a
seen
e ne
nu i sraunmc e bny
Christian is in blossom, that he himself is in blossom, that
ho has said offensive things because he has said things
"folk needed and didn't want," that Abraham didn't put
Isaac on the altar "half to) quick" as he will put his sons
ont
hhe:is twiceilatof ahis country, and, therefore, we conclude, '
that s much the friend of God as Abraham.
We
to undervalue a father's sacrifices in
nd
son after another to this war, and, no doubt,
sending
r,
hgve n n
o Beechere swsh o
thinks it holy ; but he certainly takes a very
offensive way to persuade Englishmen that it is so. It is
not easy for us to swallow conceit and rhodomontade as '
bad as ever Dickens mimicked. " When it became evident
that the Great Dragon (slavery)
must be destroyed, with
hands outstretched and swords of fire in their hands, they
rose like one man, and with a voice which reverberated
throughout the whole world, cried,
'Let it, with all its
attendant horrors, go to hell!' " Now is that one of " the
offensive things which people needed but didn't want
We at least do not feel guilty of needing any denunciation
of slavery, but this tumid and exasperating nonsense strikes
us as an offensive thing which we don't want and don't
need, and which, if given without either need or want, gives
us the most painful of all sensations—fruitless intellectual
retching.
LABLACHE.—Of all the great artistes of our day,
in every sense of the word, either as regards rotun-
dity of body, ditto and power of voice, intellect, talent and
genius as an actor, grandeur, and conception of characters
—either grave or gay—downright, earnest, and good vo-
calisation, with genuine and unaffected fun, combined with
much sterling. sense and depth of vocal organ—give us
Lablacho l He was an artiste that any country might be
proud of, and the " Lazzaront" may very well smile at us
more northern " chanters" for Naples having given birth
to so excellent, so grand, an " en-chanter." To add to
which, Lablache's mind was pure, enlightened, and noble
his feelings hospitable, his hand generous, and his heart
good ; by this tribute we mean nothing to the disparage-
ment of other artistes, such as Dreher°, Rubini, Donzelli,
Mario, Ivanhoff, Tamberlik, Dupres, Sims Reeves, Santley,
Ronconi, Staudigl, Pischek, Tamburini, &c., most of whom
we knew, many intimately—to whom be all honour due—
and who, as sterling artistes themselves, we are sure, will
agree with us in saying, that with Lablache died the greatest
basso singer that ever lived.—hie Orchestra,
SINGULAR SUICIDE OF A HIGHLANDER.—On
Sunday evening about a quarter past seven o'clock,
a nrivate, named William Nicol, belonging to the 92d
Highlanders, stationed in the Castle, at Edinburgh, com-
mitted suicide in St-, Margaret's Loch, Queen's-Par:.
Whilst taking a walk with three of his companions—to
men and a boy—deceased proposed to bathe in the loch.
The night being dark, his companions—namedrespeetively
Strathdee, Dove, and Nicol—laughed at the foolish
wish,
and
pro-
posal, but Nicol insisted on carrying
N oat
feathered hat,
pulling off his tunic and throwing downicol who, although a
walked into the water. Tae boy
namesake, is no relation, called to
him, asking if the water
was cold, and he replied, " Ycs.,' Stratfoleo then called
out received,
answer
out if he intended returning, but no an
he stripped and waded in to try and rescue Nicol fie went
up to the waist, keeping shouting, bat was obliged to re-
turn to the embankment on account of the coldness of the
water.
r
On his return Nicol went into the water, while
Dove ran to the gamekeeper's lodge at the eastern entrance
to the park for the purpose of getting a lamp and boathook,
but nothing of the kind was in the house. The old man
gave Dove a piece of candle and a few matches, with which
he returned to the search for Nicol. A message was sent
to Holyrood Palace, and the guard was turned out. A mes-
sage was next despatched to the police-office, and a boat-
hook and ropes were immediately sent down, In the mean
time a raft was got and search made for the missing man,
After a search of two hours the body was found. Deceased
was 37 years of age, had been nearly 20 years in the army,
and wore four medals—Crimean, French, Turkish, and
Indian—also two good 'conduct badges. Having returned
to this country from India only three or four months ago,
it is supposed the deceased conaruitt3d the rash act from the
effects of sunstroke,