The Sun.
London, England, 1865-01-20 00:00:00

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

(REUTER'S TELEGRAM.)

AMERICA.

(Arrival of the City of Dublin, via Crookhaven.)
NEW YORK, JAN. 8 (Morning).

The Montreal Court has reconsidered its decision
in the case of the St. Albans raiders, and has de-
cided that it has jurisdiction in the matter.
Gold closed last night at 1271 premium.

AUSTRIA.

VIENNA, JAN. 20

An imperial rescript, addressed to the Ban of
Dalmatia, Croatia, and Slavonia, has been published
to-day, ordering the assembly of a conference of the
highest functionaries, for the purpose of discussing
the manner in which the elections to the Diet of
those provinces are to be conducted next spring.

TURKEY,

THE PROPOSED CONSOLIDATION OF THE

TURKISH HOME DEBT.

CONSTANTINOPLE, JAN. 11.

According to the Levant Herald of to-day, the
Imperial Ottoman Bank has protested against the
scheme of the General Credit and Finance Company
for the consolidation of the internal debt, and the
conversion of the existing Consolides into a foreign
stock. It pleads its charter-right to be the sole
financial agent of the Government abroad—a right
which would, it considers, be infringed •if the con-
duct of such an operation as the London Company
proposes were intrusted to the latter's hands.

The scheme is, therefore, said to be for the mo-
ment, at least, shelved, and the ground so far left
open for the new foreign loan, the project for
which is in course of incubation for the coming
spring.

FRANCE.

MARSEILLES, JAN. 19.

The Messageries Imperiales mail steamer Peluse
left this day with 84 passengers, 637 packages,
£116,023 in specie for India and China ; and 59
passengers, 1,155 packages, and £52,080 in specie
for Alexandria.

BOURSE, Jan. 19.—The market is rather heavy,
but with little variation in prices. Threes, for the
Account, are now at 67f. Tic. Mobilier have been

done at 956 f.

Railwa:

Market firm, and well

maintained.

The marker

left off as follows :

41 per Cents 95 50
Do. end month —
3 per Cents. 66 85
Do. end month 67
Credit MobiHer
Do. end month
Bank Shares 3505
Credit Foncier 1280
Roman 73 25

Italian Loan 65 25
Do. end month 65 30
Ditto Threes 46 75
New Mexican
Russian 9O
Austrian
Spanish Threes
Home Debt
Deferred

RAILWAYS.

Cash. Acct.
Orleans
Northern lOOO ... 1000
Lyons and Mediterranean 930 ... 931 25
Southern 578 75 ... 577 50
Western 536 25 ...
Eastern
Sardinian 3OB 75 ... 307 50
Austrian
Lombard 540 ... 541 55
North of Spain 352 50 ... 352 50
Saragossa 426 25 ... 418 75
Ditto to Barcelona lB7 50 ... 190

Destruction of her Majesty's Ship Bombay.

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We have received the following from the Admi-
ralty, with a request to publish it :
" H.M.S. Stromboli, Montevideo,
Dec. 15, 1864, 8
" Sir, —I much regret that I have to report the
total loss by fire of her Majesty's ship Bombay.

" She left this anchorage under sail at 7 a.m.
yesterday, when I transferred my flag to the Triton.
About 5 p.m. of the same day I received intelligence
that the Bombay was on fire near the English Bank,
on Flores Island, about 13 miles from this place. I
immediately despatched the Stromboli to her assist-
ance, and proceeded myself in the Triton, blit so
rapidly had the fire extended that the ship had been
deserted long before assistance could reach her.
" The ship's company had been at general quar-
ters in the afternodn till a little after 3 p.m., the
foremost lower deck guns were then told off for
divisional exercise, but firing had not commenced
from them, when about 10 minutes after the retreat
had been beat fire was reported to have broken out
in the after part. of the ship about the after hold ;
the fire bell was immediately rung, and with the
greatest order and promptness an abundant supply
of water was obtained, but the fire appears at once
to have spread with uncontrollable rapidity, which
gives me the impression that it originated very close
to the spirit room, and that the spirit casks must
"almost immediately have burst and ignited.
"At 3.35 p.m. the fire was reported. At 3.52,
finding the fire was quickly gaining, the boats were
hoisted out. At 4 p.m. the boats were out with the
exception of the second launch, when the flames
coming up the hatchways, the awnings and sails
having been burnt, rendered it impossible for men to
work. The sick had already been passed into the
boats, and the rest of the ship's company followed.
At a quarter-past 4 the mainmast went over the
side, the boats then being scarcely clear of the ship,
and many officers and men were still holding on to
ropes alongside and to the fore part of the ship, and
others floating on the spars, &c. Soon after the
mainmast fell, the stoppers of the anchors being bunt
through, the anchors fell, and it seems many men
who were upon or near them must have lost their
lives.

" The ship was under sail, hove to, when the fire
occurred, steam not having been up.
"At 8.25 the after magazines blew up, and the
ship sunk in about 8 fathoms.
" Among the officers Mr. John K. Smallborn,
Assistant-Surgeon, is the only one missing, and who
was drowned alongside.
" The French mail packet being at this moment
on the point of departure I am not able to give a
more detailed report ; but I am endeavouring to
ascertain the number and names of men missing,
which, I am sorry to say, amounts to about 93 ;
but, the boats having been picked up by vessels
proceeding to different places, we cannot as yet get
a correct return.—l have the honour to be, &c.,

(Signed) " CHAS. G. J. B. ELLIOT,
Rear-Admiral and Commander-in-Chief.
" To the Secretary of the Admiralty."

No list of names has been received at the Admi-
ralty, and that whenever any further information is
received it will be made public.

CRYSTAL PALACE.—Professor Anderson and his
daughters will repeat their entertainment entitled " The
World of Magic," including several new feats, at the palace
this day, when the pantomimic ballet and the performances
of Le Petit Blondin will be repeated for the last time. The
palace will be well warmed and lighted up.
At the meeting of the Middlesex magistrates
yesterday Mr. Swift brought forward a motion condemning
the chairman, Mr. Pownall, for having printed and circu-
lated a pamphlet against Roman Catholicism at the expense
of the county. Mr. Pownall stated that so soon as he found
the cost of the .pamphlet had been borne by the county he
repaid the money. The motion of censure was pressed to
a division, when only 2 voted for it and 52 against it.
PRESENTATION TO A YOUNG LADY.—On Satur-
day evening last upwards of 200 ladies and gentle-
men assembled at the offices of the London District Tele-
graph Company, Cannon-street, City, to witness the pre-
sentation of a testimonial to a young lady, Miss S. Oppen-
heim, on her leaving the service of the above company,
where she had been for a number of years. The testimo-
nial consisted of a fine gold brooch, chain of elaborate
workmanship, with a brequet chain to match ; both enclosed
in an elegant casket, having a gold shield of the Saxon
order upon the outside, on which is engraved the following
inscription :—" Presented to Miss S. Oppenheim, by the
staff of the London'District Telegraph Company, for her
unremitting kindness since its formation."
PROPOSED RAILWAY UNDER THE MERSEY.—The
Mersey Dock Board have expressed an unanimous opinion
in favour of the project for uniting the Liverpool and
Cheshire aisles of the Mersey by means of a subfluvial
railway.