The Sun.
London, England, 1865-07-27 00:00:00

and J. Derrick, firemen ; G. Godbold and C.

Bennett, waiters; J. Windebank, A. Corbis, and
Robert Miller, ship's boys.
" While this tragedy was enacting at Green
Point, scarcely less disastrous occurrences were tak-

ing place at the opposite extremity of the bay.
Shortly after nightfall the City of Peterborough
finally broke adrift, and about seven o'clock she
struck on the reef opposite the Military Hospital.
The cries of the crew for help could be distinctly
heard, but it was found to be impossible to render
assistance. Attempts to communicate with the
vessel by means of Manby's apparatus were made,

but without success ; and shortly after ten o'clock

she went to pieces, all hands perishing. The follow-
ing is a list of those on board :—Joseph Wright,
commander, aged, 39, of Lincoln ; Mrs. Wright and
child ; Joseph Keslake, mate, aged 26, native of
Devon ; Tidmarsh Coverdale, cook, aged 51, native
of Falmouth ; Daniel Williams, able seaman, aged
28, native of Swansea ; John Chamberlain, ordinary
seaman, aged 16, of Lowestoft ; William Jones,
aged 29, able seaman ; William Smith, aged 27
(Swede) ; Henry Rogers, aged 31, of Donegal ;
John Crew, aged 20, able seaman, of Dublin ;
William Crozier, aged 21, able seaman, of Sunder-

land ; Charles T. Pike, aged 23, able seaman, of
Liverpool ; John Whitehouse, aged 22, carpenter,

of Sunderland ; John Burroughs Edmund, William

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Fenn, William Jarvis, and George Martin, appren
tices, all of Wisbeach."

MADAME TUSSAUD'S.—The Chamber of Horrors,

in Baker-street, has just received an additional
effigy, lifo-size, of the notorious criminal, Doctor W. E.
Pritchard, who has been found guilty of poisoning his
wife, and sentenced to death. The culprit has since con-
fessed his guilt, and also that he poisoned his mother-in-

law. The likeness is considered to be most truthful.
DROUGHT IN YORKSHIRE.—The farmers in the
north and east of this county are very much in-
convenienced by what is now regarded as a repetition of
the drought of last year. Except a few and very partial

thunder showers in the early part of this month (the bene-
ficial effects of which have quite disappeared) there has
been no general rain since the 26th of May. Pastures and
seed fields in grazing have for some time been burnt
brown, and the " fog" of the meadows has hitherto totally
failed. In several places farmers have not only to lead
water for their stock, but they have also to give them now
hay and oilcake in the fields. This is tending to increase
the price of fat cattle, by limiting the number of head
taken up, and it depresses the price of lean stock by tho
necessity for curtailment of the usual complement per acre.
Wheat is coming in fast, and hero and there rye is ready.
Barley will be a very light crop,.and oats aro very short in
straw. Turnips on light lands aro bad, and have been
repeatedly sown. In the hills they are a fine crop, but
want rain. Harvest will be on early in August.

DESTRUCTIVE LIGHTNING.—Though the number
of persons killed by a single flash of lightning may
have been greater, there are probably not many instances
on record of it having covered so great an area as in a
family at Eastbourne. Tho coachman and butler were
outside the house. The former was struck dead, and the
latter was so much affected by the shock, that, without
being hardly conscious of what he was doing, he wont
into the house. Here he found his master insensible, and
as it turned out, very much hurt on the left side. In the
pantry he found the footman lying dead on the floor; and
a further examination of the house showed that the light-
ning had been through all parts of it. Everywhere the
windows were broken, looking-glasses shattered, articles of
furniture torn to splinters, cornices and ceilings cracked,
bell-wires melted, and so. forth. The owner's daughter
had a wonderful escape. The electric stream entered into
the room where she was dressing, and splintered the bed
she had just left, besides doing other damage. It is evi-
dent that this was not a case of a small stream passing
front ono object to another, inasmuch as the coachman was
struck dead outside the buidling. But, large as the area
was over which this extended, it was not equal to that at
Reichenbach, which town was fired in so many places that
the inhabitants had the greatest difficulty in escaping into
the country, without being able to save any part of their
goods ; even a regiment of cavalry quartered in the town
were unable to save any portion of their baggage.—All the
Year Round.

CRYSTAL PALACE.— ONE SIIIILLING DAY, Wed-
nesday, July 26.—Aluission payment, 5,905 ditto by
seam tickets, 2,l6B—total visitors, 8,073.

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HER MAJESTY.

OSBORNE, July 26.
Tier Majesty the Queen, accompanied by their
Royal Highnesses Princess llelena, Princess Louise,
Princess Beatrice, and Prince Leopold, went on
Board the Racoon, screw-corvette, Captain Count
Gleichen, off Osborne, yesterday afternoon.
Her Majesty embarked at 6 o'clock in the barge
of the royal yacht Victoria And Albert, and was
rowed to the Racoon.

The officers on board had the honour of being
presented to her Majesty, after which her Majesty
went over the ship.
On leaving a royal salute of 21 guns was fired.
The suite in attendance consisted of the Countess
of Gainsborough, the Hon. Emma Lascelles, Major
General the Hon. A. Hood, and Major-General Sir
T. M. Biddulph.

The Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone arrired at
Osborne, and had the honour of dining with the
Queen and royal family.

The Prince and Princess of Wales

PENZANCE, July 25.
Shortly before 10 o'clock yesterday morning Mr.
Boase, the Mayor of Penzance, at the head of the
Corporation, went on board the Osborne, and pre-
sented the following address to their Royal High-
nesses the Prince and Princess of Wales :
"May it please your Royal Highnesses,.—We, the Mayor,
Aldermen, and Burgesses of the borough of Penzance, and
the Magistrates, Clergy, and inhabitants of the adjacent
district, desire to approach your Royal Highnesses with
the sincerest devotion and respect, and to offer you a
hearty welcome to our town and neighbourhood.
" It is, indeed, with feelings of pride and pleasure that
we, one and all, hail the presence among us of our own
Duke and Ducheßc, the Royal pair in Whom, under Divine
Providence, the nation's hopes are centred ; and we ven-
ture to express a hope that the visit of your Royal High-
nesses to Mount's Bay will have so far contributed to your
gratification as to induce you on many future occasions to
come and receive the affectionate homage of this part of
your Royal Highnesses' duchy.
We rejoice to recognise in your Reyal Highnesses those
exalted virtues which in our beloved Queen and in her late
lamented Consort have added so much additional lustre to
the throne of those realms, and pray the Almighty to
shower on yourselves and your royal children His choicest
blessings."
This address the Prince graciously received, and the
Mayor, accompanied by the other civic functionaries,
returned to Penzance to be in readiness to meet the
royal party on their arrival on shore. It was not
until after 11 o'clock that the Prince and Princess
left the Osborne, and it was nearly half-past 11
before they reached the pier at which they landed.
Long before that hour the pier, which is about half
a mile long, and all the approaches to it were
thronged with people. Long before that hour, too,
every ship in the bay, and for that matter every
sort of craft that could aspire to float on its service,
had their full complement of bunting flying. On
the arrival of the Prince and Princess at the
pier they were received by the Mayor and Cor-
poration in their civic robes, by Lord Vivian,
the Lord-Lieutenant of Cornwall, and the High
Sheriff (Mr. Williams). Both sides of the pier
were lined by the local Volunteer Corps from Pen-
zance, Falmouth, and Camborne, amounting to
about 800 strong, and under the command of
General Tremenheere. The right-hand side of the
pier, leading to Penzance, is bounded by a wall ; the
left, which is open, was yesterday bounded by ships
drawn close up to it, some of which had every yard
manned, all floating as large an amount of colours
as they well could carry. At the end of the pier
five or six carriages, the majority with outriders in
scarlet liveries, were provided by Mr. St. Aubyn,
and in the first of these the Prince and Princess,
with Mr. and Lady E. St. Aubyn, took their places.
The Royal suite, together with the Duke and
Duchess of Sutherland, the Duke of St. Albans,
Lord and Lady Vivian, Lady Audrey Townshend,
and Mr. E. St. Aubyn occupied seats in the remain-
ing carriages. The Prince and Princess were
loudly—very loudly—cheered when they landed,
nor did the cheering for a single moment cease
while, headed by the carriages of the Mayor and
Corporation, the procession proceeded through the
town of Penzance. The reception given to their
Royal Highnesses was not less tasteful than it was
enthusiastic. Triumphal arches, not tarnished and
meagre, but green and fresh as the finest July ver-
dure could make them, and with baskets of flowers
ensconced in evergreens pendant from their centres,
were erected at intervals, not few, but frequent.
In the principal street along the route a crown
of various colours, suspended midway by means of
cords attached to the roofs of the houses on each
side, and having folds of muslin picked out with
crimson rosettes flowing from it so as to form an
archway, was conspicuous for the prettiness of its
design. But, independent of the arches, the streets
of Penzance were one blaze of colour. There was
scarcely a house along the route by which the
Prince and Princess passed which did not display a
flag, or which was not more tastefully ornamented
with wreaths of evergreens and festoons of flowers.
The whole line, too, was flanked by people, all in
holiday garb, who made every manifestation of being
as heartily glad to see the Prince and Princess as
they appeared to be gratified by their reception.
At the south-western end of the town the Mayor
and Corporation of Penzance ceased to head the
procession, but not until the Princess had graciously
condescended to name a new street, which has just
been opened at that point, the " Alexandra-road."
The route of the royal party then lay for some three
or four miles through a most charming country.
Skirting the pretty fishing town of Mewlym, whose
inhabitants had also prepared their triumphal arch
with the words " Ich dien" wrought in flowers

and who were at their posts to give the Prince and
Princess a cheer, the procession dashed along at a

rapid pace over a well-wooded hill and dale, closely
followed by a cavalcade of stout and loyal Cornish-
men mounted on sturdy steeds. It was a pretty
sight to see all along the route, standing on the
roadside, but more frequently on the fences, topped

with wildflowers and brier, groups of little children

holding out their flags and making as good an
attempt at a cheer as their unformed voices

would allow. At Taraiffe, the property of Mr.
Legrice, ex-Sheriff of Cornwall, the effect produced
was especially pleasing. Here for the space of a
quarter of a mile a complete archway is formed of
ancient elms, which barely permitted the sun to
dapple, through their foliage, the roadway with the
light. Between the trees were several groups of
girls, and women too with infants in their arms, all
come—the statement would probably be incorrect
in the case of the infants—to give welcome to the
Prince and Princess of Wales. At no point of the
route was the roadside untenanted for more than a
few hundred yards, while every small hamlet had its
flags flying, and many their triumphal arches be-
sides. When the royal cortege had reached some four
or five miles from Penzance the scenery began to
undergo a complete change, but not so the warmth
of the welcome which the Prince and Princess received.
That continued to be as hearty as ever, although
there was no longer any foliage to set off the efforts
of those by whom it was rendered. The mining

population in the vicinity of St. Just have no trees

mingling their branches across their roadways, or

approaching so close to one another that a series of
wreaths and flags could be suspended between them,
as was several times the case nearer Penzance. But

they have good lungs and loyal hearts, and they did
not yesterday fail to make a good display of both.
In the village of St. Just itself, which is situated
about seven miles west of Penzance, and which com-

wands a fine view of the Bristol Channel, neither
flags nor triumphal arches were wanting, nor chil-
dren, nor cheers. All about it the land is barren,
and it naturally grows wilder and more barren to-
wards the cliffs of Botallick, which are about two

miles further on. These cliffs, which are lofty and
irregular, jut boldly into the sea. At the base of
one of them, or nearly so, is the entrance into
the celebrated Botallick Mine, to see which was

one of the main objects of the excursion of the
Prince and Princess from Penzance. Some way
in from the cliffs is the " accompt-house," a tole-
rably spacious building, in which the financial