The Sun.
London, England, 1862-11-03 00:00:00

TEE SUN, ILONDOI, MONDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 3, 1862.

spending Whigs, would, as now, carry all before
them.

Our conclusion, therefore, is, that no reduc-
tion of war expenditure in time of peace can be
hoped for, unless the country bestirs itself. The
majority both of Whig and Tory members are in-
terested in a huge outlay of money by the nation.
It creates so many posts and so much patronage,
that it will never be voluntarily curtailed by an
aristocratic House. We admit that Lord PALMER-
STON has been a great offender. We have ourselves
not spared the " PALMERSTON follies," as they will
soon be called, at Spithead, Portsdown, and else-
where. We have shown how they were wanted
only as a pretext for a large future army to man
them ; we believe them to have been, the forts, the
loan to build them, and all connected with
them—an unmitigated job—but we blame the
the House of Commons and the people, as much as
Lord PALMERSTON. The cure for the extravagant
expenditure, and the perfectly needless income-tax
lies not in turning out spendthrift Whigs, and
installing spendthrift Tories, but in the people
letting their rulers know that they must and
shall make shift with a smaller income; and a good
shift too it would be. Mr. DISRAELI perhaps may
be put forward to catch Mr. COBDEN and the
Manchester men by lectures on economy—there is,
doubtless, no political dirt he would not wade
through to get to the other side of the House, but
his own party when he has got them there by duping
the Radicals, would compel him to do, what the
Whigs have done by the Willis's Rooms compact—
and they would justify breaking all pledges by the
flagrant Whig example.

Two remarkable items of news reach us by the
last American mail. A threatening complaint
from the New York Chamber of Commerce, and
an account of a fact in the New York Iribune of
which we in England have a right to do some-
thing more than complain. The burden of the
complaint of the. Chamber is that a vessel fitted
out by the Confederates in England has burnt
and destroyed American merchant ships. The
feet we refer to is that a British vessel, the
Blanche, laden with cotton, has been run ashore
and burnt on the Island of Cuba, with aggravated
insults to the Spanish authorities, who had hoisted
their flag on board as a sign of protection,—by
an American gunboat. It seems as if the outrage
committed by the gunboat had been intended to
show that while Confederates could burn and de-
stroy within the laws of war, Federals could even
grossly violate those laws. And that while Eng-
land carefully kept within the limits of neutrality,
the Federal ships of war as carefully violated the
neutrality.

The Chamber complains, falsely, of course, that
we "permit" ships to go forth for the detestable
work of plundering and destroying American
ships; but the American Government itself sends
forth ships which plunder and destroy British ships,
ashore, on Spanish ground, and with the double pro-
tection of the Spanish and British flags. The Cham-
ber complains of the burning and destroying on the
High Seas as an offence against humanity; which,
like so many practices of war it may well be thought;
but we have yet to learn that it is less an offence
against humanity for a gunboat to drive a merchant
vessel ashore on a neutral coast, then to drive over-
board the friendly neutral authorities who had
kindly taken charge of the wrecked vessel, and
lastly to burn the unfortunate vessel itself. The
commander of the American gunboat Montgomery
has certainly furnished a curious practical comment
on the eloquence of the oratorical Chamber of Com-
merce when it says that henceforth the light of
a burning ship at sea will become to the American
sailor a signal that lures to destruction, and will
not be, as in times past, the beacon to guide
the generous and intrepid mariner to the rescue
of the unfortunate." It will now be asked, in
return, what would have become of the Englisb
sailor who went to the rescue of the Montgomery.

Respecting the claim against us, it is simply
absurd. During the Russian war the American
Government in explicit terms refused to prevent its
citizens aiding and abetting at their own risk. We
have never practically thus encouraged our traders,
but we have warned them in the strongest lan-
guage. The fact of course is, that our shipbuilders
and manufacturers of warlike implements, " ask no
questions for conscience sake"—if the money is
forthcoming they sell to any customer, leaving the
customer to get away his purchases in his own way.
Belgium manufacturers, and perhaps those of other
countries, have done the same. We are sorry for
the New York merchants; we do not like burning
ships at sea ; the laws of political economy tell us
that we are all losers by the destruction of any
kind of property through the consequently enhanced
price, that is if we are purchasers ; and we are espe-
cially sorry that the Federal gunboat should
punish us by burning an English cargo of cotton
when that article is so valuable and costly—but we
cannot blame the Confederates and their Alabama.
While the Federals will not allow the prizes
to be brought into an American port, while
they expect all neutral ports to prevent their sale
there, and while it is the law of nations that we
ought to damage our enemy's commerce at sea as
much as possible, we do not see what the Confe-
derates can do to damage the property of the New
York merchants but burn it. Sad waste, no
doubt; and the Confederates would gladly enough
forego the waste and turn ship and cargo into
money, but this the Federals will not permit. They
complain that the ships are destroyed without being
brought into a prize court. If it would mend the
matter, the Confederates would be but too thank-
ful to take them to a prize court at Charleston or
at Mobile; but no—war is at best, as Sir HARRY
SMITH termed it, " the devil's work," and as the
Federals seem willing to work zealously for that
distinguished personage, they must not wonder
that the Confederates are equally zealous in his
service.

What the proud Spanish people will say to their
QUEEN'S Representative having his faca slapped
on board the British ship he had taken under his
care, by a Yankee subordinate, we may well ima-
gine. A Spanish frigate set forth immediately in
search of the offender, who had, however, by that
time got himself well out of harm's way ; but the
Spanish Government will doubtless remonstrate
effectually with the impudent Yankees for the
shameless violation of their neutral waters, for de-
stroying a ship under the protection of their flag,
as well as that of a neutral and friendly nation, and
for the personal insult to a national authority. Mr.
LINCOLN will have to apologise not only in words,
but in that metal so precious in the North that he
premium of thirty or forty per cent.
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The Gazette du Midi states that the announce-
ment of the ex-Queen of Naples having arrived at Mar-
seilles was a mistake. It was her sister, the Countess de
Trani, who embarked with her husband for Civita Vecchia.
The last letters from Rome say that the Queen is " ex-
pected" there ; but it may still be true, as reported the
other day, that Mgr. Grasselini only extracted a promise
from her to go back to her husband "in the spring," and
that may possibly mean the Ist of April.
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COURT CIRCULAR.

OSBORNE, Nov. 1.

Her Majesty, with their Royal Highnesses Princess
Louis and Princess Beatrice, drove out yesterday. Lady
A. Bruce and Colonel the Hon. A. Hardinge were in at-
tendance.

His Royal Highness Prince Alfred has returned to
Osborne from Her Majesty's ship St. George.
Viscount Palmerston arrived yesterday from Broadlands,
and had an audience of her Majesty.
The Queen held a Council to-day, at 1 o'clock, at which
were present Earl Granville, Viscount Palmerston, and
Lord Stanley of Alderley. Mr. Helps, the Clerk of the
Council, attended.

NOVEMBER 2.

The Queen yesterday received her Majesty's near con-
nexion, the Grand Duke of Bade; who arrived from Lon-
don on a visit to her Majesty.

His Royal Highness was attended by Lieutenant• General
the Hon. C. Grey, the Baron de Loggenbach, and Baron de
Gemmingen. .

His Royal Highness Prince Alfred went to Sonthampon,
and accompanied the Grand Duke to Osborne in the Royal
yacht Fairy.

Earl Granville had an audience of the Queen yesterday.
Viscount Palmerston left Osborne for Broadlands.

This morning Divine service was performed by the Rev.
G. Prothero before her Majesty, their Royal Highnesses
Prince Alfred, Princess Helena, Princes Louir, Prince
Leopold, and the Grand Duke.
The Ladies and Gentlemen in Waiting and the household
were also present. _

His Royal Highness Prince Alfred, attended by Major
Cowell, has left Osborne, and embarked on board the St.
George, which sails immediately for Lisbon.
The Hon. Victoria Stuart Wortley has succeeded the
Hon. Beatrice Byng as Maid of Honour, and Lord Charles
Fitz Roy has succeeded Lieutenant-General the Hon. C.
Grey as Equerry in Waiting to her Majesty.

Her Majesty the Queen, with thejunior members
of the Royal family, will remain in comparative seclusion
at Osborne until Friday, the 14th inst., on which day it is
the Queen's intention to proceed to 'Windsor Castle,
where active preparations are being made for her recep-
tion. The Court will remain at Windsor Castle for a fort-
night, when the Queen will return to Osborne ; but it is
not yet decided that her Majesty will spend her Christmas
at Windsor.—Court Journal.

Their Imperial Highnesses Prince Napoleon and
Princess Clotilde, attended by the Countess de Clermont
Tonnerre, Colonel Ferri-Pisani, Baron de Pussin Amory-,
Monsieur Habaine, and suite, left the Clarendon Hotel on
Saturday last for Southampton, en route for Paris. Their
imperial highnesses embarked on board the Imperial screw-
yacht Jet ome Napoleon, yesterday, for Havre.

The Duke Cariglano and the Count and Countess
Pisani have left the Brunswick Hotel, Jermyn-street.

The Marquis and Marchioness of Ailesbury left
town on Saturday evening, and proceeded by Great Western
Railway to Hungerford, for his lordship's seat, Tottenham
Park, Wilts.

The Marquis and Marchioness of Exeter and
family have arrived in town, from Burghley House, near
Stamford.

Earl Granville, Lord Stanley of Alderley, and
Mr. Helps lett London at nine o'clock on Saturday morn-
ing by a special train on the London and South-Western
Railway, for the purpose of attending the Queen's privy
council at Osborne.

The Earl and Countess of Chesterfield arrived in
town on Saturday, from Grafton Lodge, Newmarket.
The Earl of Wilton has arrived in town from
Newmarket, and shortly leaves for Egerton Lodge, Melton
Mowbray, for the hunting season.

The Earl of Annesley is labouring under serious
illness at his residence in Norfolk-street. His lordship was
somewhat better last evening.
The Earl and Countess of Aylesford, Lord
Guernsey, and the Hon. Colonel Finch have arrived at
Claridge's Hotel, from Packington Hall.
Viscount Palmerston left his seat, Broadlands,
Hants, on Friday, for Osborne, Isle of Wight. His lord-
ship returned to Broadlands yesterday.
Viscount and Lady Mary Sandon have arrived
in Grosvenor-square from Sandon Hall, Staffordshire.

Lord and Lady Chelmsford are expected in town
in a few days from the continent.
The Count and Countess Stockan and the Count
and Countess Seilern have left Claridge's Hotel for Paris.

Mr. and Lady Mary Craven have arrived at the
Earl of Hardwicke's residence in Portman-square from
Newmarket for a few days.

The Lady Charlotte Wolfe and Lady Katherine
Hely Hutchinson have arrived at Claridge's Hotel from
Forenaghts, Ireland.

The Right Hon. Spencer Walpole has returned
to town from Hughenden Manor, Bucks, where he has
been on a visit to the Right Hon. B. Disraeli.
The Hon. Mark and Lady Gertrude Rolle have
arrived at Claridge's Rotel from Scotland.

Mr. and Lady Edith Abney Hastings have left
Claridge's Hotel for Aahby de la Zouche.

The Right Hon. W. F. Cower, M.P., and Mrs.
Cowper leave town to-day, on a visit to the Countess
Cowper, at Wrest Park.

The Hon. Lady Inglis has arrived in Eaton-
square, accompanied by the Hon. Miss Thesiger and Major
the Hon. Charles Thesiger.

The Hon. Mrs. Bruce has arrived at Farrance's
Hotel from Scotland.

A marriage is arranged to take place between the
Viscount Hereford and the Hon. Mary Morgan, youngest
daughter of Lord and Lady Tredegar,
The marriage of Mdlle. Barbara Marchisio with
General Cialdini is announced in the Paris journals.
MARRIAGE IN HIGH LIFE.—The marriage of
the Hon. Charles Augustus Murray, brother of the late
and uncle of the present, Earl of Dunmore, and late envoy
to Persia, with Miss Edith Fitzpatrick, daughter of the
Right Hen. John Wilson Fitzpatrick, took place on Satur-
day, at St. George's Church, Hanover-square. The Bishop
of London officiated at the nuptial rite. After the ceremony
the wedding party repaired to the residence of the Right
Hon. J. W. Fitzpatrick, in Portman-square, where a hand-
some dejeuner was served to a distinguished circle of about
60 friends, including the Duke of Hamilton, the Marquis
of Lansdowne, the Earl of Shelburne, Lord and Lady Ash-
burton. Later in the day the hon. gentleman and bride
departed fin. the Grange, Lord and Lady Ashburton's seat,
in Hampshire, for the honeymoon.
We are enabled to announce that there is no
foundation for the rumour of the serious illness of the Duke
of Newcastle, which appeared in the columns of a contem-
porary on Saturday morning.
SERIOUS ILLNESS OF THE MARQUIS OF BREADAL-
BA.NE.—The Marquis of Breadalbane left London about a
month back for the Continent, after a partial recovery from
a severe attack of illness. Only a few days ago accounts
were received which justified the impression that his lord-
ship had derived benefit from his journey on the Continent.
It is with regret that we learn the marquis's malady has
assumed a serious aspect. A telegram was received yester-
day morning from Lucerne, from Lady Elizabeth Pringle
and Miss Pringle, who are with the marquis, by which we
learn that the most serious symptoms have set in, and but
slight hopes are now held out of his recovery. The Duke
of Buckingham left yesterday (Sunday) for the purpose of
joining his uncle.
HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.—The five perform-
ances which took place last week have been so successful,
and so crowded have been the houses, night after night,
that Mr. Mapleson announces four additional representa-
tions, "positively the last," for Monday, Tuesday, Wed-
nesday, and Saturday in the current week, the operas
selected being "Il Trovatore," " the inevitable" " Don
Giovanni," "I Puritani," and "Lucia de Lammermoor."

ROYAL ENGLISH OPERA.—Mr. Wallace's new
opera, entitled " Love's Triumph" (libretto by Mr.
Planche), is announced for this evening, with Miss Louisa
Pyne, Madame Laura Baxter, Messrs. Harrison, Perren,
Corfi, and Weiss in the principal parts.
THE FENS. —ln connection with the recent
disaster on the Marshland Smeeth and Fen drain, it may be
stated that the commissioners have agreed to have a dam
made across the breach, and a new sluice built. Mr. Page,
civil engineer, who has been consulted by the commission-
ers, promises that the dam shall be completed in a fortnight,
and that the new sluice shall also be finished in 10 weeks
from this time, and if these predictions are realised the
Smeeth and Fen will be restored to its former position. As
regards the Middle Level drainage, it may be added that
the nine syphons erected have worked satisfactorily. When
they were put in operation last week for two days the water
was reduced at March-bridge, a distance of 16 miles from
the laboriously-constructed dam, from 7ft 9in to 4ft 7in.
When the other seven syphons proposed to be erected are
completed, of course the discharging power organised will
be proportionately increased, and all doubt as to the effi-
ciency of the arrangements which Mr. Hawkshaw and his
assistants have ably devised and carried out may now be
considered at an end. Under the powers of an important
Act of Parliament passed last session, a new board of com-
missioners is to be formed this week for the purpose of se-
curing the drainage of the Middle Level ; and one of the
first acts of the new board will be to borrow on mortgage
the sum of £52,000. This amount represents the injury
thus far sustained by the commission from the disasters
against which it has had to struggle.
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Importing Tea without colour on the leaf pre-
vents the Chinese passing of inferior leaves as in the
usual kinds. Horniman's Tea is uncoloured, therefore,
aitCays good alike, Sold in packets by 2,280 Agents.

THE ASSEMBLAGES IN HYDE• PARlC.—There was
again a very large assemblage of people in Hyde-park yes-
terday, fully equalling in number that of the previous
Sunday, and a strong body of police were again on duty.
There was, however, not the slightest attempt at disturb-
ance. All fear of future disturbances have now passed
away.

ALARMING FIRES.—This (Monday) morning a
fire, which at one time threatened serious consequences,
broke out on the premises belonging to Mr. Halliswell, a
tobacconist, situated at No. 6, Hungerford-arcade, Strand.
The disaster was caused by making a fire on the hearth,
which set the flooring on fire. Fortunately the engines of
the London brigade quickly attended from Chandos-street
station, and the flames were confined to that part of the
building in which they began. The occupier of the pre-
mises was insured. A fire also took place during the night
on the premises of Mr. S. Gold, a tailor, No. 23, White
Horse-street, Stepney. The flames commenced from some
unknown cause in a cupboard on the lower floor, and be-
fore discovered had obtained possession of the whole of the
stairs. The Royal Society's escapes and the engines of the
parish, with three of the London brigade and the powerful
land steam engine, by Shand and Mason, from Wellclose-
square, were remarkably early in arriving, when the fire-
men went to work, but they were unable to get the fire ex-
tinguished until it had entered every portion of the build-
ing and done a great amount of mischief. Fortunately the
sufferer was insured in the Leeds and Yorkshire Fire-
office.

THE LATE EXTRAORDINARY CASE OF CHILD
DESERTION AT BRISTOL.—This singular case has been ami-
cably settled. The friends of the young lady who said the
child was given to her by a strange woman in one of the
Great W estern Railway carriages, and who, on the other
hand, was alleged to have herself been the mother of the
child, have settled the matter by removing the infant from
the hospital. There will consequently be no magisterial
inquiry, and everybody who is familiar with the remarkable
circumstances in which the interesting little stranger was
introduced to the public is left to form his or her own
opinion as to its parentage.— Western Daily Press.

THE VACANT SCOTCH JUDGESHIP.—The state-
ment to the effect that the Lord Advocate is about to go to
the bench is entirely without foundation. The probability
is, that the vacant gown will be taken by the Solicitor-
General.—Scotsman.

An assertion of the Gazette de France that the
Greek legation in Paris has been confirmed by the Provi-
sional Government, with the title of the " National Lega-
tion." is said by the Temps to be premature,
The Manchester Guardian states, on what it con-
siders to be most respectable authority,, that a wonderful
discovery has recently been made in electricity as applicable
to the purposes of the electric telegraph :—" Incredible as
it may seem, it is said that experiments have established
the fact that intelligible signals can be exchanged between
distant stations without the intervention of any artificial
conductor whatsoever, and with equal success whether the
intervening space be wholly or partially land or water."

Mr. Lancaster has at present a gun undergoing
at Woolwich an " endurance" trial. It has already stood
more than 2,000 charges of powder, each of-dub., and, from
all we can hear, is as far off from being burst as it was on
the first day. Cui bono, may we ask, to pursue the experi-
ments to a further extent ? The gun is now admitted to
be a good and strong piece of artillery; and, as the cost of
testing it up to its present condition has already stood the
country in about £l,OOO, it appears to us that any more
expenditure of cash upon it would be useless, and therefore
scarcely justifiable. If it be positively determined to de-
stroy the gun, we would suggest that it should be removed
from the slings which it now occupies, and where the effects
of recoil cannot be ascertained, to a carriage of the precise
character on which it would be m.unted supposing that it
were required tor service, and where it would receive all
the jarring incidental to a working piece, and that it should
be loaded with gradually increasing charges until all con-
nected with the trials declare themselves satisfied, or the
gun itself put hors de combat. This plan would soon settle
the matter, and would have the great merit of being more
economical than the one now in question.—Army and Navy
Gazette.

ATTEMPTED CHILD MURDER.—At Hereford, be-
tween 3 and 4 o'clock on Saturday afternoon, a tramp, who
gives the name of Caroline Eddy, and represents herself as
belonging to Bath, made a very determined attempt to take
the life of her youngest child, a boy about 15 months old.
She had three other children with her, the eldest a youth
of about 15, and having sent these away she turned out of
Widemarsh-street, a main thoroughfare, into Blackfriars-
street, which consists of very few houses. There she at-
tempted to strangle the child by means of a strong piece of
string tied twice round its neck. A lady residing in the
neighbourhood observed the woman doing something to
the, child, and heard a stifled moan. Having called the
attention of a carpenter who was at work to the circum-
stance, he instantly went into the street to the woman. It
was found that the child was black in the face, and that its
tongue was protruding from the mouth. The head of the
child was thrown back, and then it was perceived that there
was a cord round the neck, drawn so tightly as to be almost
concealed by the folds of the flesh. The cord was severed
immediately, but this could not be accomplished without
the knife that was used being almost buried in the flesh.
The child revived, and was afterwards, with the other
children, removed to the workhouse. The woman was
taken into custody. She stated that her husband is an in-
mate of a lunatic asylum at Bath, and that, having nothing
to give the child, she had resolved to destroy it. The ap-
pearance of the woman, who is of middle age, noes not de •
note very great distress, and she seems perfectly sane. She
was taken before Mr. T. T. Davies, a city magistrate, on
Saturday evening, and remanded until Monday (this day).
A PORT OF REFUGE AND SHELTER OFF THE CAFE.
—Extract of a letter from Captain Dunn, of the barque
Elizabeth, of Stockton, dated Port Elizabeth, July 15, 1862,
to Prince, Shepherd, and Co. :—" I put into Mossell Bay
as a port of refuge, having lost sails, store boats, water-
casks, &c., and was astonished at the facility afforded in
shelter from the westerly gales, and in obtaining good pro-
visions, firewood, and particularly good fresh water (very
important in a long voyage with salt provisions). Ships
can use their own boats in lancing. There is now a good
jetty, and another building, on which water will be laid on
in pipes. A new lighthouse on the bluff, to be directly
erected, will be a day and night mark. With winds from
S by E, round westerly, to ENE, Mossell Bay is all the
mariner can desire ; and were its facility better known, no
master would contend with the heavy westerly gales that
prevail so long during the winter. There is a communica-
tion with Cape Town thrice a week, which adds greatly to
its other advantages. I hope to hear that the improvement
you are making will be the saving of many ships now lost
through the bad weather found in rounding the Cape. Had
I known that Mossell Bay was the place it is I should have
saved my sails and much time in buffeting these strong
seas."

FEARFUL Loss OF LIFE OFF THE LAND'S END,—
In the Western Morning News of Wednesday was published
the affecting statement made by Captain Goldsmith, of the
steam-ship William Corry, of his having shortly before
reaching Falmouth heard the cries of drowning people whom
the darkness of the night prevented his seeing and saving,
although he stopped his vessel for three hours, put out blue
lights, and made every possible effort. Captain Goldsmith
failed to learn the cause of the cries. They turn out to
have arisen from the crew of the St. Louis, of 400 tons, of
Marseilles. On Wednesday M. Paul Augustin Fabre,
nephew of the master and chief officer of the St. Louis, ap-
peared in distress before Mr. William Luscombe, of Ply-
mouth, Vice-Consul for France. M. Fabre states that the
St. Louis was owned in shares by himself, his relations at
Marseilles, and the master, M. Augustin Fabre, and that
they possess altogether a fleet of 12 merchant vessels. Their
ship took in 380 tons of grain at a small roadstead near
Beyrout, where there are only four or five houses, and left
for England, chartered, probably, to call at Cork, Fal-
mouth, or Plymouth for orders. On Saturday, Oct. 18th,
they received from a large cutter a Channel pilot, who im-
mediately took charge. Very heavy weather was then
experienced, and continued throughout the following week,
when she commenced leaking. On Saturday morning, the
2ath inst., during a terrific hurricane`from the south-west,
all three of her masts went by the board. The pilot was
injured by the fall, the pumps were disabled, and the ship
became unmanageable. No assistance came near during
the day, but at nightfall a steam 'ship approached, and
the crew cried for help. Their appeal was heard on board
the stranger, which stopped immediately and exhibited
lights on both sides. Unhappily, the fearful weather
which prevailed prevented those on board the steamer
from ascertaining the exact position of the wreck, The
difficulty of observation was much increased by the loss
of the masts of the St. Louis. The master of the steam-
ship, with much humanity, steered three times round
the wreck, and, after expending several hours, ultimately
resumed his original course. This occurred in long, 840
W., or mid way between the Land End and Cape Clear.
The wretched master and crew, 28 in all, were now left in
a hopeless condition 150 miles from the shore. The leak-
age, not being kept down by the pumps, had in the mean-
time swollen the grain. The same night the ship opened
brdily fore and aft, and went down, and most of those on
board took to the spars and rigging. The mate and the
son. of the master, Louis Fabre, only three years of age,
clung to the foremast. After this period the mate can
give no exact account of time. He had much dif-
ficulty in retaining the child, who received one fearful cut
on his forehead and face, while his preserver was chafed
and bruised all over. In this condition they were knocked
about the remainder of Saturday night, all Sunday, and all
Sunda` night, up to four o'clock on Monday morning, when
the spar touched the Cornish shore, and they escaped. The
mato does not speak English, but a kind-hearted fisherman
seeing their distress, supplied them with clothing. After
walking one day over a high hill they came to a railway
station, where a gentleman paid the mate's fare to Ply- I,
mouth. The boy was left behind. Among the crew were
four Greek sailors ; all the rest were Frenchmen. The nams
of the second officer is Renard Louis ; Augustin Rossi was
carpenter, Louis cabin boy, and seven of the sailors were
called Morel Au4uste, Fore, Francois Geo. Gas, Philippe,
Robert, and Charoi. The pilot was, called Vickelson or
Nicolson, a full-sized man, 40 years old, with chestnut hair,
which covered his face. He was taken out of a large cutter
with a crew of few men,

[LATEST NEWS.

CHINA.

SHANGHAI, SEPT. 19 (via .TuBAL.)

The Taepings have again returned from the
vicinity of this city, and the surrounding country
is now quiet.

The Mahomedans, who revolted at Shensi, have
succeeded in capturing the city and 25 towns in the
vicinity, killing all the Mandarins, and destroying
every vestige of the Imperial authority.
Nothing is known respecting the movements of
the army which had been sent to quell the
outbreak.

CANTON, SEPT. 26.
A serious conspiracy to burn this city and kill
the Mandarins has been discovered. The con-
spirators are in league with the Taepings. Numbers
of them have been arrested. The city authorities
are in a great state of alarm.

Rustonjee, one of the parties concerned in the
late opium frauds, has surrendered himself to the
authorities at Hong Kong.

AUSTRALIA.
ADELAIDE, SEPT. 20.
Mr. Mackinlay, the explorer, has returned to
Queensland.

PORTUGAL.

LISBON, OCT. 30.

Late accounts from the Island of Fayal state
that there had been a succession of earthquakes,
extending over a space of 19 days. Many people
had in consequence, emigrated to the other islands
in the Azorian Archipelago. Business was sus-
pended. Prayers were daily offered up in the
churches.

Prince Humbert has been well received at

Oporto.

The Minister of Finance has made some import-
ant changes in the Lisbon Custom-house. The
Director Santos Monteiro and several high officials
have been suspended. The reason alleged is, that
the revenue has suffered through maladministra-
tion, to which the Government is determined to put
a stop.

Exchange on London, 30 days, 531 ; 60 days,
53a ; 90 days, 53i ; Paris, 528; Hamburg, 481 ;
Amsterdam, 42.50; Genoa, 526; Rentes, 461 to
47 ; Deferred, 45,1 ; Bank of Lisbon shares, 550 to
552 milreis ; Commercial Bank of Oporto, 256 to
258 ; Mercantile Bank, 265 to 268.