The Sun.
London, England, 1865-12-29 00:00:00

t FEE SU.N, LONDON, FRIDAY MEINING, DECEMBER 29, lEEE.

and probably eventful,- session of Pa: rliamenc,
LA TEST INTELLIGENCE.
We can imagine what indignation this pla is speak-
ing will excite among those to whom t. he world (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.)
especially points, but we defy the memb en of the
Government to face the Parliament and t'tte country
and declare that they have acted fairlyn and we
assure those members of the House who have made
themselves so officious in blackening ths characters
of absent men, who have not had an opportunity of
speaking in their own defence, that they have done
themselves no harm, and will have to answer
to their constituents for their adoption
of this un-English proceeding. The igno-
rance displayed by the " faction " is only
equalled by its unwarrantable assumption. They
deny that there was any outbreak, they declare that
the Volunteers must have fired first, in the face of
fact that for months past Governor EYRE has been
signifying to the Home Government that great
disaffection prevailed, and although it is
known that, previous to the confusion referred to,
the mutinous party had broken in and rescued the
prisoner then upon his trial.
Well may Lord W ILToN ask why the agitators at
home do not censure the Government for their delay
and supineness, instead of selecting for censure the
man who was placed in most difficult circumstances,
and had to bear the brunt of the blow which " of-
ficial incapacity" would have prevented him from
averting by timely measures of precaution. The
truth is that the faction cares little for consistency,
and only seeks to carry its point. Neither
truth nor justice is suffered to obtain influ-
ence over them, and " every act done under
circumstances of fearful difficulty has been noted
down, falsified, and then denounced with all the
vindictiveness of revenge." We find here mentioned
some of the most glaring misrepresentations made
by the infatuated party in their vehement denuncia-
tions. Mr. JACOB BRIGHT said at Manchester that
the lives of many of their fellow-subjects had been
sacrificed in an " alleged insurrection," thus throw-
ing doubt upon the assertion that there had been
an insurrection at all. Again, the Peace Society
deliberately stated that " no doubt the outbreak
was immediately provoked by the volunteer force
firing on the crowd." Can anything be more ab-
surd in argument and more unfair in insinuation
than this. Had the matter ended here, however,
we could content ourselves by deploring the infatu-
ation of a large class of our fellow-citizens, bit the
worst of all is that the Prime Minister,
before this faction, has shrunk and given way."
This it is that lends force and significance
to the plots and criticisms of the Peace Society,
and makes it incumbent on all who value fair play
to denounce the course of the Ministry. As it is
stated here, the faction " has so far succeeded in
its object," and " Governor EYRE, before any offi-
cial reports have reached this country of all the
facts, has been suspended, the act of suspension, as
I have said, under all the circumstances, being vir-
tually one of condemnation." The English public
must have changed very much from their well-
known character, and lost their most distinguishing
traits, if they approve and sanction such a policy in
those who are in the high places of their own
community.

COLOGNE, DEC. 29.

The Cologne Gazette of to-day publishes a tele-
gram from Vienna, according to which the Minister
of Finance has forbidden the payment of the Janu-
ary dividend of the Austrian Creditanstalt.

The Council of Administration of the Creditan.
stalt have, therefore, tendered their resignation.

THE BRAZILS.
(By Telegraph from Lisbon.)
BUENOS AYRES, Nov. 27.

Rumours are current that peace is about to be concluded
between Paraguay and the Allies through European
mediation.

Lopez, President of Paraguay, has sent a despatch to
President Mitre, the contents of which are not known.
There is much political agitation on the subject of a
new capital for the Argentine Confederation, where the
representatives of the different States should assemble.

RIO DE JANEIRO, Dec. 9.
The allied army continues to advance without interrup-
tion.

COMMERCIAL.

Exchange on London, 251- 25k. Coffee—Good first, 6,800
to 7,000 reis. Shipments since the departure of the last
mail, 93,838 bags, of which 31,590 were for the Channel.
Sales, 160,000 bags; stock, 130,000. Freights for the
Channel, 47k 50.

Beim, Dec. 13.
Exchange on London, 26-1 27. Cotton, 17,000 to 17,200
reis. Sugar, browns, 2,000 to 2,300 reis.

PERNAMBUCO, Dec. 16.

Exchange on London, 28 281. Sugar, whites, 4,600 to
4,700 reis; browns, 2,000 to 2,400 reis. Cotton, 16,200
to 16,300.
The Estramadura arrived at Pernambuco on the 13th.
LISBON, Dec. 28.
The Royal Mai! Company's steamer Duro, from the
Brazils, arrived here to-day.

LISBON, Dec. 28.

The Royal Mail Steam Packet Company's ship Douro
has arrived from the Brazils, and will sail at noon to-day
for Southampton, with 66 passengers, 285 bags of coffee,
1,981 bales of cotton, 230 rolls of tobacco, and 251 packages
of sundries. Specie, £39,950. The Oneida, with the out-
ward mails of tho 9th December, sailed from St. Vincent
on the evening of the 21st inst.

INDIA.
(BY DIRECT OVERLAND TELEGRAPH.)

BOMBAY, Dec. 22, 4 p.m.

Manchester goods firm and advancing. Cotton ad-
vancing—dhollerah 440 r. Shipments of cotton during
the week, 35,000 bales,
Exchange on London, 2s. lid.
Government Securities - Four per Cents., 881 ; Five per
Cents., 103 ; Five-and-a-Half per Cents., 1081.
Freights, 355.
The latest London date is the 7th of December.
CALCUTTA, Dec. 21.
Seven pound shirtings, 7r. 14a. Exchange on London,
2s. lid. Freights, 455.
The rate of discount has been raised 1 per cent.

" cowering

Spanish affairs have during the last few months
attracted an unusual degree of notice. The states-
men and politicians of more active and energetic
nations have been accustomed to look on the changes
of Castilian Cabinets and the progress of Castilian
policy with something akin to indifference. There
was not much reason to apprehend that Spain would
ever set Europe on fire ; and what with the un-
scrupulous aggression of the great German Powers,
the clamour of the minor states, with the inscrut-
able policy of France, and the doubtful position of
Russia and Poland, with the dismemberment of
Denmark, and the convulsions in America, the
affairs of the Peninsula have been left very much to
take care of themselves. The news of a ministerial
crisis at Madrid excites about the same degree of
surprise and interest as the intelligence of a fresh
development of the chronic rebellion of China ; and
the general impression of that once powerful king-
dom was that it was neither likely to do much harm
nor good in the world. Of late, however, Spanish
politics have been increasing in interest. First, we
had the accession of the O'Donnell party to power,
the abandonment of the struggle with San Domingo,
and various indications of a more enlightened and
liberal policy. We had just begun to hope that
Spanish politicians were awakening to the necessi-
ties of the time, and were about to inaugu-
rate a more hopeful state of things, when the
affair in the Pacific discouraged all these cheerful
prospects. The conduct of the Spanish Admiral,
so arbitrary and unwarrantable as to excite univer-
sal indignation throughout diplomatic circles, has
received the approval of his Government, who have
shown no intention of abating the extravagant
pretensions put forward by their representatives.
Remonstrances and arguments fall entirely power-
less before such predetermined obstinacy, and the
only logic which will convince the stately Spaniard
that he is in the wrong must come from ships of
war. The relations of the Spanish QUEEN with
her people have not of late been very cordial, and
considerable doubts were entertained as to whether
she would really present herself to the Cortes.
However, the long-delayed entry into the capital
having been safely accomplished, the opening of
the Cortes by her MAJESTY in person was only
natural. In the speech which the QUEEN delivered
on Wednesday she gave little hope of a reconcilia-
tion with Chili—of course in accordance with the
popular Spanish theory of the injuries inflicted by
the little South American Republic on the dignity
of the Castilian. " The desire for peace," said the
QUEEN, "has notbeen able to preventthe commence-
ment of hostilities between this country and Chili,
which had obstinately refused to make amends for
Iwrongs done to the Spanish nation during the Peru-
vian difficulty." The Peruvian difficulty being one
entirely of Spanish manufacture for the sake of the
pecuniary compensation to be extorted from the
reluctant Peruvians ! " The Government," con-
tinued the QUEEN, 4, will
give an account to the
Cortes of the progress of the war, and of any nego-
tiations that may take place in connection there-
with." Such information will be eagerly looked for
by the commercial circles in Spain, :
knee we learn
that great, and not unreasonable, apprehension
exists at Cadiz respecting the Chilian privateers,
and considerable anxiety is felt to know how many
vessels of what class will be sent out by the Govern-
ment to protect Spanish commerce. The Cadiz
authorities have notified to the shippers and ship-
owners of that port that the Government will adopt
all necessary measures for their protection. But very
possibly those interested in the matter do not feel
much confidence in these promises, when they re-
member that American vessels and American crews
are most likely lying in wait, and that in spite of
the dignified pretensions of the royal naval autho-
rities of Spain.

On the 16th Vesuvius was powdered over with
snow, and the mountains all round the bay are still
thickly covered—a remarkable phenomenon, and promis-
ing a severe winter.

It is stated il;t the Royal Academicians have in-
timated to Lady Eastlake their desire that their late Pre-
sident should be buried in ono of our public mausolea,
with all the honours due to his distina-aished position.

is a sluggish gas, producing asphyxia if inhaled in
a state of purity, and yet peculiarly necessary to
animal life, since it is an important ingredient of
atmospheric air, which is but a mixture of that
gas with oxygen, with which it mill only combine
when in a nascent state. Dr. Demarquay having
after many experiments on animals, as well as on
the human subject, arrived at the conclusion
that nitrogen was in a manner a dissolvent of

oxygen, and had no exciting property of its own,
while on the other hand the irritating action of
atmospheric air was due to oxygen, was led to
inqaire whether the spontaneous reunion of wounds
and sores might not be determined by the applica-
tion of nitrogen. Iu the case of an amputation,
the stump may be introducod into an India rubber
bag provided with two tubes, one for letting out
the common air, and the other for introducing
nitrogen (or, by the way, any otter gas). Such is
the apparatus employed by our aathor. In one of
the cases he describes, a little finger was disjointed
without choloroformising the patient. '1 here was
no great loss of blood, and no ligature was neces-
sary. After the operation, an apparatus similar
to the above was applied to the stumps, and
fixed above the elbow with szips of diachylon
plaster. As soon as nitrcgen was intro-
duced the patient, who was complaining of
acute pain, found himself considerably relieved,
being only conscious of numbness in the part. In
another similar case the same relief was obtained,
and when the apparatus was renoved the patient
at once felt violent pain, owing io contact with the
atmosphere. In the case of a bal sore, it was found
that nitrogen retarded the reproductive action of
nature. After applying it for a week, oxygen was
used instead, and on the followilg day the sore was
found to be redder on the borders, and the surface
had become somewhat unequad. After a second
application of oxygen the surface of the sore was
covered with proud flesh, rose-coloured, and secret-
ing pus. The pain was greater; oxygen continued
to be applied, but only for two hours, and discon-
tinued after the third day ; from Nthich time the
sore, regularly dressed with glycerine, ultimately
healed.

Earl Russell and Governor Eyre.

Lord Wilton, in a letter to a contemporary, says
the Jamaica outbreak has been a most unfor-
tunate circumstance in more than one sense. No

one can read the accounts as they were received
without feeling that acts have been committed
revolting to humanity, whatever may be the point
from which the subject is viewed. It is shocking
to think that, after so many years of emancipation
from slavery, with every inducement held out to
industry and frugality, the negroes, instead of
raising themselves in the scale of civilisation,
should have ruthlessly swept aside our hopeful
anticipations, and rushed back at one fell swoop
into the darkest excesses of barbarism, not one jot
advanced from the primitive position of their race.
It is shocking to think of Europeans being
butchered in cold blood—put to death under condi-
tions of cruelty not surpassed in the annals of
savagery, the negro women even assisting in the
horrid orgies. It is equally shocking that Europeans
should have shot down, flogged, or hanged a large
number of negroes who had banded together for
their destruction. Every circumstance connected
with the insurrection is shocking. But who were
the instigators? It needs not now to dwell on any
remote cause ; that may be a subject fit for inves-
tigation. The facts, however, still remain. Who
first threw the war hatchet? On them, and on
them only, lies the whole burden of blame.
The subsequent acts follow as a necessary
consequence, a simple corollary ; but it suits
a faction—l can call it by no other name—
in this country, to make assumptions, and
then demand action upon them. It suits this fac-
tion to make statements not borne out by facts in
order to bring discredit upon those who, placed in
power, have been obliged to wield the sword with
a strong arm. It suits this faction to state, con-
trary to fact, that the mob fired upon from the
Court-house was unarmed, inoffensive, and incap-
able of wrong. The governor of the island was
placed by the home Government in a responsible
position ; under conditions of great urgency he has
acted to the best of his judgment, and a virtual ac-
knowledgment of the value of his services thus
rendered has been given by those on the spot, and
therefore best capable of entering into and
appreciating the difficulties of the situation.
That the governor, under very trying cir-
cumstances, should have acted with rigorous
severity may be allowed ; he acted up only
, to the measure of the deeds around him, and might
have been urged by alarm, certainly not groundless,
to make summary examples. But that the Prime
Minister of this country, in his cool and guarded
moments, should have lent himself to the ravings of
this faction seems scarcely credible. It would have
been more in accordance with the dignity of his
position to have supported an absent man thus
arraigned, but not convicted. It would have been
more in accordance with strict impartiality to have
suspended judgment ; but, as it is, Governor Eyre
has been given up as a victim—for suspension is
virtually condemnation—in order that the Ministry
may gain support from this faction during the
coming and possibly eventful session of the new
Parliament.

M. Leon Renard, librarian of the Depot of Maps
and Charts of the Navy Office, gives a highly inte-
resting description of the French Naval School for
Orphans, in his work entitled Merveilles de l'Art
Naval. The Etablisseinent des Pupilles de la Marine
at Drest, recently founded by an Imperial decree,
is large enough to receive 800 orphans of seamen
and workmen of the arsenals. On the 15th of
August last it contained 361 pupils. Orphans
having lost both their parents are admitted from
the age of seven ; those that have lost only one,
at the age of nine. The establishment is under
the command of a navy lieutenant, who has
under his orders several adjutants, second mates,
quartermasters, and sailors who have obtained
the diploma of instructor. The service of the
laundry and sickroom is performed by Sisters of
Charity ; a navy physician attends patients. The
pupils learn reading, writing, and accounts.
Tey are organised as on board ship, and in the
court of the establishment there is a small cor-
vette with all its rigging complete, where the boys get
practical instruction. They get up at five and go
to bed at eight ; they have four meals a day, and go
twice a day to the schoolroom and twice to the cor-
vette, where they learn all the duties connected with
the working of a ship, besides the manual exercise,
singing, &c. There is a swimming school attached
to the establishment. At the age of 13 the pupil
quits the school and goes on board the Inflexible,
containing the Ecole des Mousses, or cabin-boys'
school. If not thought fit to be received in this
school, he is restored to his family, which, by the
way, has always a right to take him away. But if
he is to learn the business of a steersman or gun-
nery, he is sent on board the Bretagne, another
special school-ship. From either of these establish-
ments the young sailor is drafted into the navy,
where he always has a good chance of promotion.
The municipal council of Havre has just voted
the budget of that town—the receipts being
3,488,499 f., and the expenses 3,488,282 f., leaving
a surplus of 217 f.
A slight collision took place the night before last
on the Eastern Railway, near Chalon-sur-Marne,
between a goods' train and the postal one going
towards Strasburg. The only person injured was
a breaksman, who sustained a contusion in the leg.
The damage was insignificant.

The Cardinal Archbishop of Besancon, having
caused excavations to be made in the cathedral of
his diocese, which led to the discovery of the re-
mains of eight sovereign Counts of Burgundy, who
reigned in the 11th and 12th centuries, the bones
were put into new coffins and deposited last week
with due solemnity, in a vault constructed to receive
them under the flags of one of the chapels in the
cathedral.

I may express myself warmly, for I feel so; for
what are the outlines of the case ? On the 11th of
October a meeting was held at the Court-house at
Morant Bay. A crowd of negroes were hanging
about the place. They make a sudden attack, but,
finding the place securely guarded, they set the
building on fire, and all in the house at the time
were cruelly burnt to death. That the negroes
were armed is clear from the report. After plun-
dering the town they went in crowds to the estates
around, murdering the proprietors or their repre-
sentatives, and then spread themselves over the
country, committing havoc and devastation, having
first gone through the hideous hypocrisy of return-
ing thanks to God and singing hymns.
For months previously Governor Eyre had signi-
fied to the Government at home that a strong spirit
of disaffection pervaded the whole island. Surely
then was the proper time for inquiry, and, if needed,
for action. But nothing was done. He was left to
act for himself. Now, when the outbreak has taken
place, when the barbarous annihilation intended
for the whole white population was only frustrated
by a premature demonstration, which enabled the

The village of Charleval (Bouches-du-Rhone) has
just been thrown into consternation by a shocking
tragedy. M. Moucan, the proprietor of the Cafe
du Brceuf-d'Or at the place above mentioned, after
living some time very unhappily with his wife, had
agreed with her to obtain a judicial separation, and
meanwhile Mine. Moucan, with her son, three years
old, went to reside with her father, M. Noyer, at
Cadenet, a town in the neighbourhood. Three
days since Mine. Moucan and her son, accompa-
nied by her father, went to Charleval on business
connected with the proposed separation. As they
were returning to Cadenet in the evening in a cabrio-
let along with a Mine. Castor, they were met about
half a mile from Charleval by M. Moucan, who fired
two shots at his wife with a revolver, inflicting a
slight wound. M. Noyer then alighted to seize the
murderer, and also received a shot and several stabs
with a knife. Though wounded, Mine. Moucan,
who apparently was apprehensive of an attack, had
provided arms, and, drawing a pistol, attempted to
discharge it at her husband, but it missed fire. He
then fired at her again, but missed, and then stab-
bing her with a knife, took to flight. One of the
shots killed Mine. Castor on the spot. The horse, ter-
rified by the reports of the pistols, ran away with only
Mme. Castor's body and the child in the cabriolet,
but was stopped at the first village, and the child
escaped unhurt. M. Noyer and his daughter were
soon after found by a carrier and taken home.
Mme. Moucan, who was enciente, was prematurely
confined a few hours after of a son, who is alive,
and she herself is expected to recover. Her father's
wounds, though severe, are not dangerous. The
next morning the gendarmery went to arrest the
murderer, but when he saw them approaching he
discharged two shots at his own head, and expired
soon afterwards.
"We are happy to announce," says the Belgian
Moniteur, "that, in consequence of the accession of
the Duke de Brabant to the Crown, Count de
Flandre has accepted the presidentship of the Bel-
gian Commission for the Universal Exhibition of
Paris."

BOURSE, Dec. 28.—Two o'clock.—English Con-
sols are telegraphed with a further fall of per cent.,
which is generally attributed to the Bank of Eng-
land having put up its rate of discount 1 per cent.
The market here also manifests increased weakness,
Three per Cents. being now done at a decline of
121 e., viz., 68f. 7f c. Italian Fives have receded
sc.—to 65f. 40c. Credit Mobilier still continue ex-
ceedingly heavy at 821 f. 25c., showing a fall of llf.
25c. In the Railway Department Saragossa are
buoyant at 220 f., with a further advance of 7f. 50c.,
the quotations of the other lines being without ma-
terial change. Three o'clock.—The last quotations
show a slight improvement, and are as follows :

4 per Cents 9B
Do. end month —
3 per Cents. 6B 05
Do. end month 6B 10
Credit Mobilier
Do. end month
Bank Shares 3715
Credit Foncier 1320

Roman —
Ottoman Fives 42 40
Mexican Loan 47 50
Do. Bonds —
Russian
Austrian
Spanish Threes
Home Debt

authorities to copo with and crush tho imminent

Italian Loan 65 35
Do. end month 65 45
RAIL"

Deferred

'AYS.
Cash.

Orleans
Northern
Lyons and Mediterranean
Southern
Western ..

Acct.
838 75
... 1133 75
848 75
... 572 50

danger ; now, when much blood has been shed,
the Prime Minister, cowering before this faction,
shrinks back and gives way. Why do not those
who now declaim against Mr. Eyre denounce the
Government for supineness and incapacity, and lay
the blame where it ought to fall. But no, this does
not suit the faction. The Prime Minister is vir-
tually its subordinate, and so another must be the
victim, and every act, done under circumstances of
fearful difficulty, has been noted down, falsified,
and then denounced with all the vindictiveness of
revenge. I protest, sir, against Mr. Eyre being
made the scapegoat for official incapacity, and I am
confident that all impartial men will agree with me.
But, sir, it is astounding to see how facts have been
misrepresented. At a meeting at Manchester, on
Nov. 27, Mr. Jacob Bright said, in reference to the
massacre at Morant Bay, " whereby the lives of many
of their fellow subjects have been sacrificed in an
alleged insurrection," as if there had been any doubt
about the fact. The memorial of tl►e Peace Society,
with the accounts before it, deliberately makes a false
statement that " no doubt the outbreak was imme-
diately provoked by the volunteer force firing on
the crowd." Mr. Buxton, in his letter, insinuates
that Governor Eyre's treatment of Mr. Gordon
arose from his being a political opponent, and that
it was well known that Mr. Gordon was coming to
this country to lay before Parliament the griev-
ances of the inhabitants. How, may I ask, is this
consistent with the facts stated, that Mr. Gordon
had for three years been plotting this outbreak,
and had, moreover, a guilty knowledge of the
proposed massacre of the whites at Christmas ?
It has been urged against Governor Eyre that he
acted illegally in removing Mr. Gordon from
Kingston, then under civil law, to a locality under
military law, where Mr. Gordon was brought to a
court-martial, condemned, and executed. But
Captain Bedford Pim states distinctly " that the
removal of Mr. Gordon from Kingston to St.
Thomas in the East was strictly in accordance with
the laws of Jamaica." But so far the faction has
succeeded in its object, and Governor Eyre, before
any official reports have reached this country of all
the facts, has been suspended, the act of suspen-
sion, as I have said, under all the circumstances,
being virtually one of condemnation.
If this is to be the treatment of those who are
placed by their Sovereign in highly responsible
posts over Imperial dependencies, who hereafter
would covet the honour? Who -would seek to
serve his country in distant lauds and under
tropical suns, with the conviction that, should cir-
cumstances arise calling for firmness, decision, and,
it may be, severity, his acts would be denounced by
a fa'ction of his countrymen at home, and that the
Minister from whom he might reasonably expect
support would not only give way to the cry, but
sacrifice him without even the Englishman's privi-
lege of an impartial hearing. These are the feelings
which are gradually spreading throughout the
country. Lord Russell may rest assured that a re-
action will take place. At present but one side only
has been heard. The pars altera will also claim a
hearing, and, perhaps, a loud one, too, and justice
will then be done to an able and well-deserving
servant of his Sovereign.

Eastern —
... 525
Sardinian , — ... 218 75
Austrian
Lombard — ... 436 50
North of Spain — ... 170
Saragossa — ... 215
Ditto to Barcelona — ... 90
Row&
n 04....,, is, 157 50

SUDDEN DEPARTURE. OF TROOPS FOR IRELAND.—
About 3 o'clock yesterday morning an order was
received at the barracks at Manchester for an entire regi-
ment—the 64th—to start for Dublin via Liverpool, with
baggage, women, and children. The men and officers were
at once roused and paraded, and by 8 o'clock they were en
route by special train to Liverpool (1,200 strong) under the
command of Colonel Shute and Major Anderson. They
arrived at Liverpool about 10 a.m., and were marched to
the Clarence Dock, where they were to embark at 6 p.m.
on board the City of Dublin Steampacket Company's
steamers St. Columbia and Windsor, specially prepared to
sail with them at that hour for Dublin. Seven officers,
absent on leave, were ordered by telegraph to report them-
selves at the Clarence Dock, Liverpool, by 5 p.m. last
evening. We understand that a regiment at Chester were
ordered quite as suddenly to depart for Dublin, via Holy-
Lead..

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NEWBIGGIN, NORTHUMBERLAND, Thursday Ni ht.

Lifeboat Services.

—I have the pleasure of reporting another very gal-
lant service of our lifeboat (says the Rev. E. N.
Mangin). About 5 o'clock this morning a vessel
was discovered on the rocks at Spital Point, about
a mile to the south-west of Newbiggin; she proved
to be the brigantine Neptune, 325 tons, from New
York, bound to Grangemouth, N. 8., and laden with
petroleum. The morning was very dark, and the
master appears not to have seen the lights, owing
to the fog over the land. The ship struck the rocks
at about 2 o'clock in the morning, but the signals of
distress were not observed till 5 o'clock. The life-
boat of the National Lifeboat Institution was
launched with the utmost promptitude, and suc-
ceeded in rescuing the master and eight men form-
ing the crew, and bringing them safely to land.
There was a heavy sea on, and there was great
danger from the number of rocks surrounding the
ship, rendering approach rather hazardous. There
is no hope of saving the vessel, as she is full of
water.

HANXLEY, NORTHUMBERLAND, Tuesday Night.—
I have to inform you (reports Mr. E. Whitfield)
that a schooner called the Tom Cringle, of Thurso,
94 tons register, John Calder, coal laden, from Sea-
ham, bound for Aberdeen, came on shore on Bardicar
Rocks, a dangerous locality, about half a mile S.E.
of the Hanxley Lifeboat House early this morning.
The wind on the shore was blowing strongly from
the south, the weather was foggy, and there was a
heavy sea running. Torch-lights were observed by
the Hanxley fishermen, and the lifeboat of the Na-
tional Lifeboat Institution was at once launched,
and soon reached the vessel. The crew of four men
were taken out immediately and brought on shore in
safety. The vessel is likely to become a total wreck.

During the last 12 mouths the lifeboats of the
National Lifeboat Institution have providentially
been the means of rescuing 479 lives from the fol-
lowing shipwrecks on the coasts of the United
Kingdom :—Brig Willie Ridley, of Plymouth, 8 ;
bark Amana, of Sunderland, 18 ; schooner Susan,
of Dublin, 4 ; fishing-boat, of Berwick-on-Tweed,
saved vessel and crew, 6 ; brig Elizabeth, of
Shields, saved vessel, and crew, 7 ; schooner Albion,
of Teignmouth, 6 ; lugger La Marie Frangaise ; le
Pere Samson, saved vessel, and crew, 4 ; smack
Leader, of Harwich, 1; schooner Anga, of Norway,
saved vessel, and crew, 4 ; schooner Emma, of
Barrow, 5 ; yawl Matchless, of Newhaven, saved
vessel, and crew, 3 ; brig llants, of Odessa, saved
vessel ; bark Lexington, of Nassau, assisted to save
vessel, and crew, 14 ; brig Border Chieftain, of
Hartlepool, 8 ; schooner Delila, of Nantes, 7 ;
brigantine Eclipse, of St. Ives, 2 ; schooner Pfeil,
of Blankanesse, 7 ; schooner Kate, of Lynn, 4 ;
schooner Teazer, of Goole, 1; ship's boat in Red-
wharf Bay, Anglesea, 1 ; brigantine Burton,
of Wivenhoe, 1 ; steamer Ocean Queen,
of Newcastle, 15 ; lugger Peep O'Day, of
Wexford, 6 ; bark Maria Soames, of London, 19 ;
schooner Speed, of Wexford, 6 ; smack Agnes and
Mary, of Glasgow, 1; sloop Catherine, of Liver-
pool, saved vessel, and crew, 4 ; schooner Johnson,
of Exeter, 4 ; brigantine Light of the Harem, of
Whitstable, saved vessel, and crew, 4 ; brig Stef-
fania, of Palermo, saved vessel, and crew, 12 ;
schooner Henry Holman of Plymouth, saved vessel,
and crew, 8 ; schooner Thomas, of Liverpool, 5 ;
brig Nautilus, of South Shields, saved vessel, and
crew, 9 ; brig Harlington, of Sunderland, saved
vessel, and crew, 9 ; brig Kathleen, of Hartlepool,
saved vessel, and crew, 6 ; schooner Patrios, of
Barth, 5 ; sloop Robert Hood, of Newcastle-on-
Tyne, 2 ; French brig Providence, of Granville, 4 ;
schooner Earl Zetland, of Almwch, saved vessel,
and crew, 5 ; schooner Emma, of Barrow, 6 ; brig
Reaper, of Scarborough, 9 ; schooner Franklin of
Belfast, 4; Longships lighthouse-keeper, 1 ; schooner
Clara Brown, of Barrow, 4 ; schooner Maria,of Hull,
saved vessel, and crew, 3 ; fishing coble, of New-
tiggin, 4 ; fishing smack Splendid, of Grimsby, 9 ;
Belgian brig Espoir, 11 ; smack Dahlia, of
Portmadoc, saved vessel, and crew, 3 ; lighter, in
Dublin Bay, 5 ; brig Argo, of Fayal, saved vessel ;
bark Drydens, of North Shields, 13 ; brig Wear-
mouth, of Sunderland, 9 ; brig Comunerzieweathin
Haupt, of Mecklenburg, 11 ; schooner Test, South-
ampton, 6 ; brigantine, Tabaco, of Hamburg, 5 ;
bark Atlas, of North Shields, 13 ; Norwegian bark
Sirius, saved vessel, 1 ; brig Anne and Mary, North
Shields, 9 ; ship Savoir Faire, of Liverpool, 23 ; brig
Raven, of London, saved vessel, and crew, 10 ;
schooner Token, of Jersey, 6 ; ship Orso, of North
Shields, 21 ; smack Mary, of Cardigan, 1 ; steamer
Barbadian, of Liverpool, 4 ; schooner Daniel O'Con-
nell, of Arklow, 5 ; brig Lucy, of Sunderland, 6 ;
brig Zeeploeg, of Hoogez, 7 ; schooner Williamson,
of Veesdam, 1 ; and ship Senasserim, of Liverpool,
34 ; making a total of 479 persons saved from ship-
wreck by the lifeboats. The institution has granted
rewards and several silver medals and other hono-
rary acknowledgments to the crews of fishing-boats
and others for rescuing 182 persons from various
wrecks on our coasts ; giving altogether a grand
total of 661 lives saved from death during the past
year—mainly through the instrumentality and en-
couragement of the N ational Lifeboat Institution.
For these joint services and exercising the lifeboats
every quarter, the society has paid £4,871. Who
that has seen some of these lifeboats put off in the
very fury of the storm—has watched their success-
ful fight with the elements, and has seen the same
boats return laden with human life, that has not felt
a deep emotion, such as one cannot but experience
when witnessing some heroic and self-denying act?
The institution has already paid this year £21,374
on various lifeboat stations. Since its formation it
has expended altogether £128,859 on its 153 lifeboat
establishments. The demands on the society con-
tinue to be very heavy for payments on lifebOat
establishments. It is therefore earnestly hoped that
the public at large will continue to strengthen the
hands of its committee in carrying out the great and
national objects of the lifeboat institution. We
may add that contributions are received by all the
bankers in the United Kingdom to the credit of the
society, and by its secretary, Mr. Richard Lewis, at
the office, John-street, Adelphi, London.

• A SCENE IN THE ITALIAN CHAMBER.—To-day
was the great fight in the Chamber, which satisfied
its ardent longing to assail Ministers and put them on
their mettle. Pretext was taken of an interpollation by
Nisco, directed against the Royal decree granting the ser-
vice of the Treasury to the Bank—a grave question in-
deed, and which assumed frightful proportions. Boggio,
Crispi, Valerie, all against Ministers ; even Devinceuzi,
the upholder of Government, breaking out against the
official bench. In defence of the poor Cabinet, Broglie
alone stood up, proposing a certain suspensive question—
an anchor of Salvation cast out to the dying. The Chamber
laughed. Mancini pressed upon the Ministry, and alluded
to certain intentions of dissolving the Chamber. La Mar-
mora got furious and cried out that, if necessary, he had
courage enough to decree the dissolution. Furious in its
turn, the Chamber stormed horribly. The President was
obliged to quit his chair and put on his hat. Crispi
shouted, "Go to school, Signor La Marmora !" "Go
there yourself !" retorted the General. The two sides of
the Chamber shook their fists at each other, and the left
exclaimed, "Bismark ! Bismark !" and treated La Mar-
mora as a corporal, andoinquired if Florence was in Prussia.
General La Marmora tried to explain and extenuate his
words, and said that if the Chamber were to be dissolved it
would be done in a constitutional manner. This seemed
rather to add fuel to flame, by confirming the idea that a
dissolution really was intended. Amid great agitation
Broglio's suspensive motion was rejected, and Valerie's,
which forbade the carrying out of the decree relating to
the Treasury, was voted by an immense majority. Gem
La Marmora, left the Palazzo Vecchio in company with
Baron Malaret. It is well known that with the present
Chamber no Ministry is possible. For this state of things
thanks are due to the sagacity of Baron Natoli. The affair
of the Treasury was a more pretext. Henceforward we
know how things stand, and parties have no longer any
motive for hesitation and uncertainty.—ltalian parer.
To PRESERVE SALMON.—Let us suppose that,
instead of neglecting the fry in our river for the
whole two years of their childhood, we had from the time
they were a few weeks old, commenced netting the river
with a small meshed net : a net not more than an inch
square in the mesh ; suppose wo had dragged it wherever
a fish was likely to be, and killed everything which could
not pass through this inch mesh ; we could not possibly do
any harm to the salmon fry, for they could at all times easily
pass through : and everything that could not pass through
would, most certainly, not be a young salmon, and if not a
salmon, would, as certainly, be a fish which preyed upon
salmon fry, and ought to be kept out of every salmon river.
This dragging of the river should never cease in season, or
out of season, while there is a herd of vermin to be caught.
—Dickens's "All the Year Round."