The Sun.
London, England, 1862-01-29 00:00:00

FRE SUN LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JAN (JA R Y 29, 1862.

must remember the strange observation of Mr.
SEWARD, that " If the safety of this Union required
the detention of the captured persons it would be
the right and duty of this Government to detain
them," and his proceeding to remark " That the
waning proportions of the insurrection, and the com-
parative unimportance of the captured persons them-
selves, forbid him from resorting to that defence ;"
in other words, that the surrender was made, be-
cause, according to Mr. SEWARD'S belief, it would
do him no harm to let them go. On this Lord Rus-
SELL observes with his usual point, " Mr. SEWARD
does not here assert any right founded on interna-
tional law, however inconvenient or irritating to
neutral nations ; he entirely loses sight of the
vast difference which exists between the exercise of
an extreme right and the commission of an unques-
tionable wrong. His frankness compels me to be
equally open, and to inform him that Great Britain
could not have submitted to the perpetration of that
wrong, however flourishing might have been the in-
surrection in the South, and however important the
persons captured might have been." The style and
manner throughout Lord RUSSELL'S dispatch is as
courteous as his former one. It has, however, the

the same defect as Mr. SEWARD will doubtless
think it—it will leave him but one answer—" I
have been wrong."

CANTERBURY HALL.

VICTOR JULIEN, THE "FLYING MAN."

" We fly by night, 'midst hosts of "—applauding spirits.
Such might be a pardonable paraphrase of Locke's chorus,
to enable us to characterise the wonderful performances of
artists like Julien and Leotard. As the latter has been
much longer before the public, curiosity is naturally more
concentrated upon his rival. When Victor Julien first ap-
peared at the Canterbury Hall, we described him as a dan-
gerous competitor to the then undisputed hero of the
trapeze, and as really a more daring performer. In the
hazardous nature of his feats Julien still excels ,
although we doubt not that Leotard, if he chose, could ac-
complish all that his less circumspect rival goes through
nightly. In Julien's performances we observe a marked
improvement in the style in which he performs his danger-
ous feats. There was a little stiffness at first in his method
of "perching" upon the platform. Now, in aplomb ho is
equal to Leotard. As we have before said, his performance
is much more "thrilling" than that of the Leicester-square
Champion ; for whereas the latter contents himself with a
good deal of certainly very graceful but still rather mono-
tonous gyration, Victor Julien commences feats of a terrific
nature as soon as he leaves the platform, and goes on
rapidly culminating to his final grand summersault in mid-
air. His exploits at the Canterbury Hall are regarded
with mingled horror and admiration. As " sensation'
artist--and public taste seems to bo running still in that
direction—Victor Julien is not excelled by any—not even
by Leotard or Blondin.

The awful accident at the New Hartley Coal Pit
is not likely FOOll to fade out of public recollection.
The harrowing incidents that have attended its
more complete realisation from day to day down in
the immediate neighbourhood, the actual scene of
this appalling catastrophe, are of a kind so pro-
foundly touching, that it is impossible to read of
them, to speak of them, to think of them,
without a deep and tender emotion.
The affecting record pencilled in the memorandum-
book found in the pocket of the overman AMOUR,
dated " Friday afternoon, half-past two," mention-
ing So-and-so "took extremely ill," and telling of
" a prayer meeting" just holden, came out of that
pit of death literally like a Voice from the Grave;
it was for all the world like one of those tearful
fragments of the jetsom and flotsom of the Great
Deep—a scrap of paper enclosed in a bottle,
washed ashore among shells and seaweed, telling
the sad tidings of some dreadful shipwreck. And
since then other records of a kindred nature have
been found, other voices from that huge grave have
become as audible. Here, scratched on a tin can,
" Friday, my dear SARAH—I leave you"—on
another—(in what dire anguish !)—" Mercy, 0,
GOD." The mere mention, in the accounts last
coming to us from the Pit-mouth, of the tear-blinding
search made by the poor widows among the water
bottles, candle boxes, leathern hats, and other lit-
tered chattels of the dead celliers, now drawn to
the surface from that subterranean scene of destruc-
tion—the mere mention of the mournful search
going on there, for some last sad memorials of the
lost husbands, fathers, sons, and brothers now moul-
dering into dust together, in about two hundred
graves hard by, serve very vividly and painfully
to realise the poignancy of the affliction which
has so abruptly desolated that little ill-fated
village.

His Excellency the Ambassador of France and
the Countess de Flahault and Miss Elph:nstone do Flahault
have left Coventry House on a visit to Viscount and
Viscountess Palmerston at Broadlands.
The Duchess of St. Albans and Lady Diana
Beauclerk and Viscount Falkland have la Scutterskelfe on
a visit to the Earl and Countess of Zetland, at Aske Hall,
Yorkshire. The duchess and his lordship come to town
early next week.
The Marquis of Tweeddale and Ledy Jane Hay
have arrived at Thomas's Hotel, Berkeley-square, froze
Pester, N.B.
The Marchioness (Dowager) of Bath has returned
to Murtham Court from a tour of visits.
The Earl of Abingdon has arrived in town from
IVytham Abbey, Oxfordshire.
The Earl Grosvenor comes to town on Friday.
Her ladyship remains at Calverley Park, Cheshire.
The Countess of Sefton and Lady Cecilia
Molyneux are expected in town in a few days from Crox
teth Park.
Viscount Palmerston arrived in London yester-
day from Broadlands. The noble viscount visited the King
of the Belgians at Buckingham Palace, and later in the
day returned to Broadlands.
Lord and Lady Stanley of Alderley and family
come to town early next week froth Alderley Park,
Cheshire.
His Excellency Mons. and Madame Fontana
have arrived at the Brunswick Hotel, Jermyn-street, from
Paris.

It now appears that the remains of every
one of the men and boys who were involved
in this dread catastrophe have been recovered ;
and that there is now not one of the victims but
has had accorded to his dust the tribute of a solemn
interment. Altogether 199 dead bodies have been
raised from the middle or yard-seam—each of these
199 corpses being separately and slowly drawn to
light up the ruined shaft, a cord or strap having
been slung under the armpits : and thus awfully,
one by one, the poor fellows have been
brought within view of their weeping friends
and relatives for recognition. The mere
spectacle then, as the 199 dead bodies were
slowly brought to bank, most of them with
their dead faces calm and tranquil, as if in sleep,
read, as the news come before us here at a distance
like the record of some dreadful nightmare.
But the fearfullest thought of all in one sense
(though the most consolatory in another) was that of
the scenes enacted in the coalpit, so many fathoms
below the surface of the earth, from Thursday morn-
ing when the accident happened, up to Friday
evening when (it is a solace to know this much, now
almost fox certain) the last survivors must in all
human probability have breathed their last. The
first horror of the realisation by them of their
actual position down there, after the roaring fall of
those twenty tons of iron down the pit-shaft with
the shock as of some stupendous thunderbolt ! Yet
through the very darkness of that horror it is
an exquisite consolation to know that those
brave, honest, gentle-hearted fellows had
the holiest comfort of all to soothe their dreadful
anguish—and to sweeten the last moments of their
lives from what would have been only the blackest
and direst despair without it. They had the in-
effable aid of true and practical Religion. " Ser-
mons in stones," says SHAKSPERE, " and good in
everything." No sublimer sermon has ever been
preached by mortal lips than the Sermon that
comes up, in accents, how affecting in their elo-
quence, from that Pit-mouth—from the memo-
randum scrawled by the untrembling hand
of the brave Overman, from the prayers of Hope
and Love scratched on the tin cans of the dying col-
liers. What can be effected by "Faith" the world
was told nearly two thousand years ago by
Divine Lips in Palestine. And here among these
poor unlettered delvers of the soil, buried in a living
tomb some seventy or eighty fathoms below the
surface of the earth—here, indeed, was a Faith
Strong in Death—a Faith the simple remembrance
of which, merely to read of it, is a consolation and
an encouragement.

Mr. and Mrs. I. C. Bancroft Davis have arrived
at the Clarendon Hotel from New York.
Yesterday was solemnised at St. George's, Hano-
ver-square, the marriage of Lieutenant .Colonel 1,.e Hon.
Somerset G. Calthorpo with Mrs. Frederick Crowe.
Hard weather still prevails outside Dqblin Bar.
Many of the craft lying in Kingstown b,irbour ,through
stress of weather sailed for their destinaticsn,
c but
esterday
the wind, having, increased from the
y
some to hear up again for refuge. About 'fhe Tuskar it is
said the waves aro frightful to behold, 'literally rolling
mountains hth. The steamship Arbutus, from Glasgow
for Bordeaux, put into harbour yesterday with loss of star-
board bulwarks, which were carried away in a hard gale
beyond the Tuskar. The general character of the weather
is most unpropitious. The storm signal, a cone point
downwards, was hoisted yesterday at Kingstown for strong
southerly gales. The weather very slightly calmed towards
nightfall.
The steamship Rokeby, of Dublin, Captain Car
negie, which arrived at Waterford on Sunday morning
from Cadiz, fell in with the barque Mermaid, of Liverpool,
on Saturday, the 25th inst., about 70 miles west by south
of Milford, in a sinking and disabled state, took her in tow,
and brought her to Milford, where she left her in safety on
Sunday evening. Previous to the Rokeby coming up with
the Mermaid the captain and crest of the latter vessel had
been taken en board an American ship, together with all
the stores, but on seeing the Rokeby bearing down for the
barque they went on board again. The American, how-
ever, refused to give up the stores which had been put on
board.
SALE OF SADLER'S WELLS THEATRE.—Yester-
day this place of public amusement was put up to public
competition at the Mart, by Mr. Beadel. The sale attracted
a numerous attendance of speculators and theatrical cele-
brities. From the statement made by Mr. Beadel, it ap-
peared that the theatre is held for a period of 50 years from
Midsummer next, at a ground-rent of £277 per annum, the
use of the property being granted to Mr. Samuel Phelps,
for a term of seven years from Lady-day, 1860, at a rental
of £l,OOO per annum, the proprietor of the lease paying all
outgoings, and reserving the right to two private boxes
and other free-list privileges. The first offer was £2,000,
the biddings gradually rising to £2,970, at which price the
hammer fell.
AN " INFANT "IN CRINOLINE.—A somewhat
singular case came before the Southwark County Court on
Friday last. The plaintiff, Mr. Hopkins, a tradesman in
Kent-street, sued the defendant, Miss Wilson, a showily-
dressed young woman,.to recover compensation for damages
to his shop front in Kent-street. It appeared that plaintiff
was having his shop front cleaned, and a ladder was placed
outside for that purpose, the upper end resting against the
window frame, when the defendant came past, wearing a
capacious crinoline, one of the hoops of which caught the
ladder, knocked it down, and smashed windows to the value
of £1 9s. The defendant said she was only an infant, and
Ithat her pa should have been summoned, not her. In
answer to questions put by his Honour, she admitted she
was 19 years of age. His Honour decided that she was
liable, and ordered her to pay the amount claimed. The
complainant applied for costs. His Honour—No, not in
this case; I think the crinoline will entail quite enough
punishment on its wearer. On hearing this defendant
flounced out of court, declaring she would never pay—her
pa must.
MEMORIAL TO THE LATE PRINCE CONSORT.—The
total amount received in aid of the Memorial Fund up to
last night was between £20,000 and £21,000. Among the
principal subscriptions received during the day was £lOO
from the Marquis of Norrnanby. £lOO from Messrs. Pres-
cott, Grote, and Co., £lO5 from the Sun Life Assurance-
office, £lOO from Colonel Pennant, £lOO from the Dowager
Londonderry. and £lOO from the Marchioness of
Duchess of Sutherland,
HARTLEY COLLIERY RELIEF FUND.—During
yesterday a large number of donations were received at the
Mansion-house for the alleviation of the distress caused by
the accident at the Hartley Colliery. The total amount re-
ceivedday was £1,124, making together with
received on the previous day a total of
thnearlyatwhich
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two
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days.
DEATH OF THE PROVOST OF ETON.—We regret
to announce the death of the Rev. Edward Craven Haw-
trey, Provost of Eton, Which occurred on Wednesday night
last, at the Provost's Lodge, Eton College, in the 72d year
of his ago. This eminent man, was appointed assistant-
master of Eton in 1814, to the head mastership on the sth
of August, 1831, upon the resignation of Dr. Keate, and
- - Charleston is not to lose its harbour for ever. elected provost on the demise of Provost Hodgson. Dr.
The United States liawtrey was an Eton boy with Mr. Justine Patteson, Sir
recognises the duty of removing John Coleridge, N. Simon, Esq., the Bishop of Winches-
the obstacles at the close of the war. Even now
ter, and other eminent men. The cause of death was pa-
it has only stopped some of the small inlets, and I
ralysis, from which Dr. Hawtrey had been suffering since
the 6th of De left the others to the blockading squadrons. The Founder's-daycember last, having been attacked on the
.
removal of the sunken ships is a mere question COURT OF EXCHEQUER.--HILARY TERM, STII
VICTORIA, MONDAY, JAN. 27.—This court will hold sit-
of expense, and will certainly be effected. Such tings on Tuesday the 4th, Wednesday the sth, Monday the
are the assurances Lord LYONS has received, and 10th, Tuesday the 11th, Wednesday
we believe them, 10th,
having been day the 13th days of February next, and will at such sit-
enteredthe 12th, and Thurs-
'ngs proceed in disposing of the business then pending in
into with two such countries as France theti-paper of new trials and in the special paper ; and will
and England. We do not believe, however, that also hold a sitting
on Thursday, the 27th day of February
anything but the immediate remonstrance of February next pro-
ceed in giving judgment in matters then standing for
Pollock, Samuel Martin, F. chtl32"
next, and will on the 8414 27th day
judgment.—Fred•
of the two Countries saved the other
entrances to Charleston harbour, and also nen, James Wilde?

Turning, however, from the remembrance of the
men themselves—now that (to adopt and to apply to
them a beautiful thought of Mr. TITACKERAVS)
"they are there [pointing down], they are there
[pointing up]"—turning from the remembrance of
the men themselves to a momentary considera-
tion of their survivors, their widows and their
orphan children, it is a melancholy happiness to
know that already they could hardly have been better
oared for. The subscriptions flowing in from all
directions to swell the funds for their relief give
promise of increasing rapidlyto an amount calculated
to secure them all a bumble competence for life. It
is a noble and humanizing spectacle this evidence
of an universal sympathy, from our beloved and
sorrow-stricken QUEEN downwards—this evidence
of the national and practical sympathy for the
sufferings of these poor afflicted widows and orphans
in the Northumberland village.

morrow.

other, ports, from being closed
,in a similar man_
ner. The engineer employed took pains to show
that he had done his work in a manner which
would render restoration of the channel hopeless ;
and the people generally received the account
of the exploit with as much applause as they did
that of hero WILKES. We have not tile shadow of
a doubt that nothing would better have pleased the
men of the North than to have ruined for ever the
commercial advantages of the South. The Foreign
Secretary, even after all remonstrances, is not pre-
pared to say that it is unjustifiable to destroy
permanently the harbours of an enemy. That is,
because two nations happen to quarrel, the weather
tossed ships of friendly nations, for all time to come,
must be exposed to shipwreck, where nature had
provided them shelter ! To say nothing of the future
destruction of the commerce of those who had been
no parties to the quarrel. As in the case of the surren-
der of the commissioners, we are not much concerned
with Mr. SEWARD'S views. He has renounced I
stone-fleet operations, and we shall leave him to
" justify" what he pleases, so long as he gives up
doing what we deny to be capable of justification.

LA T E-ST NEWS.

THE WEST INDIA MAILS.

ARRIVAL OF MESSRS. MASON
AND SLIDELL.
SOUTHAMPTON, WEDNESDAY MORNING.
The La Plata steamer arrived hero this morning
with the West India mails. Messrs. Mason and
Slidell are on board. All well.
The Rinaldo arrived at St. Thomas's with Mason
and Slidell just in time to meet the La Plata. They
are accompanied by their secretaries.
The Rinaldo left Bermuda on the 10th January,
having, in the first instance, attempted to enter the
port of Halifax, but was unable to do so from stress
of weather.
The English squadron, under Commodore Dun-
lop's command, on its way to Vera Cruz, consisted
of the Challenger, Mersey, St. George, Barracouta,
Sanspareil, Desperate, and one or two others. Ad-
miral Milne was at Bermuda with the remainder of
the fleet.
The Conqueror was stranded on the Rum Key,
Bahamas, and became a total wreck. It was hoped
her guns, machinery, and other valuable stores
would be saved. The Nile and Donegal, with some
small vessels, have gono to the assistance of the
Conqueror.
The Spaniards took possession of Vera Cruz on
the 17th of December, without opposition, the town
being totally abandoned by its inhabitants. The
Mexicans were about 15,000 strong at Saimaa. and
Cordova.

General Uraga, Commander-in-Chief, had an in-
terview with the English and French Ministers at
Vera Cruz, and gave them notice that he would
attack any force marching out of Vera Cruz.
La Plata brings nearly 900,000 dols. in specie.

THE TUSCARORA.
The Tusearora left her moorings again at eight
o'clock this morning, and has sailed down the river,
out of sight ; but whether gone to sea, or only out
for another cruise, is not known.

PARIS, JAN. 29.
The Moniteur of to day publishes the bill for the
optional conversion of the Four-and-a-Half per
Cent. Rente.

The new bonds will bear interest from the 181
April next. The interest will be payable guar.
terly.

Applications for conversion must be made within
one month from the date of the promulgation of
tho present law.

An Imperial decree will fix the difference (soulte)
which the holders of the Four-and-a-Half per
Cent. Rente will have to pay.
The 21 onzteur publishes an explanation of the
motives of the conversion, of which the following
are the salient points :--

Holders of Four-and-a-Half per Cent. Rente
who might wish to convert their bonds into Three
per Cent. Rente, by buying the latter on the Bourse
would have to pay a difference of 81. They will,
therefore, willingly agree to pay to the State a sum
below this figure. The result of the operation will
be to reduce the rate of discount and toafford industry
and great enterprises facilities for providing them-
selves with all necessary capital. The operation is
not an expedient to meet the temporary wants of
the Treasury, but is conceived in the interest of,
public prosperity. The Obligations Trentenaires
can be exchanged for the New Three per Cent.
Rentes, at the rate of 20f. Rente for each Obli-
gation, without the payment of any difference.' A
delay of two months will be granted to holders
of Four-and-a-Half per Cent. or Obligation Tren-
tenaires who may be resident in Europe and
Algeria, but not in France; and of one year to
those who are not resident in Europe or Algeria.

TURIN, JAN. 28.
The Opinione of to-day says—Chiavono has de-
clared himself willing to surrender. His band,
which was supposed to have been dissolved, is
assembled at Terracina, where, it is asserted by
some, it will embark for Calabria, while others be-
lieve its destination is Sicily. A report is current
that General Bosco will join Chiavone.

ROME, JAN. 27,
The Pope has declared that he will not send a
Nuncio to St. Petersburg until the Czar has released
Canon Bialobrziski and the priests confined in the
citadel of Warsaw, and has recalled those who were
transported to Siberia. Tho Popo desires that
Russia should give guarantees to the Catholic
Church.

The first acts of the new Archbishop of Warsaw
are im patiently awaited.

A denial has been given to the report that Car-
dinals Patrici, Mattei, and Iteissach had made re-
presentations to his Holiness, with the object of
showing the demagogic character of the Polish
movement.

BERLIN, JAN. 28.

The intended journey of the Crown Princess to
England, on a visit to her Royal mother, is ex-
pected to take place shortly.

MADRID, JAN. 27, EVENING

In to-day's sitting of the Congress, Marshal
O'Donnell expressed his approval of the conduct of
General Sorrano, and declared that Vera Cruz was
occupied in the name of the three Powers.

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FRANCE.
PARIS, JAN, 28, EVENING.
In to day's sitting of the Corps Legislatif the Pre-
sident, Count Morny, in his opening speech, said :
" In the whole world there does not exist a single
Government nor a single people which is not dis-
tressed by a grave crisis. Old societies are dissolv-
ing, new ones are becoming modified. Amid this
work of transformation, and notwithstanding the
difficulties in commercial and agricultural affairs,
France alone has remained calm, confident, and
prosperous."
Count Morny then alluded to the late reforms,
and expressed his belief that the Corps Legislatif
would readily vote the Bill for the conversion of
the Four-and-a•Ilalf per Cent. Itentes.
Count Morny said that, before the discussion of
the Address came on, he should wish to prohibit
the delivery of written speeches.

The report on the general state of the Empire—
a collection of diplomatic documents—and the bill
for the conversion of the Four-and-a-Half per Cent.
Rentes were then laid on the table of the House.
Count Morny said that, considering the urgency
of the question, a committee should be appointed on
Thursday next to examine the bill for the conver-
sion of the Rente.

Some deputies having, however, objected to this
course, the Chamber deferred its decision until to-

Among the diplomatic correspondence laid to-day
on the table of the Corps Legislatif is a note from
M. Thouvenel to the Marquis do Lavalette, French
Ambassador at Rome, dated January 11, of which
the following is a summary :
"In recognising the Kingdom of Italy the Em-
peror's Government acted under the conviction that
the restoration of past dynasties was no longer pos-
sible.

" Among the Catholic monarchies, three only—
namely, Austria, Spain, and Bavaria—have refrained
from renewing official relations with Turin. No
Cabinet,however, thinks of reacting by force against