The Sun.
London, England, 1862-06-13 00:00:00

A NEW SONG FOB THE NAVY.

(From Punch.)
Come, cheer up my lads I if to battle we steer
We 're proof 'gainst all shot, not a foe need we fear;
With armour well shielded, all danger we brave,
For who are so safe as the sons of the wave?
Chorus.
Iron hulls have our ships, true as steel are our men,
With guns ever ready,
We steam on so steady,
w m fight and 'll Gunquor again and again.
We've no masts now to lose, not a sail, not a spar,
No splinter cau fly, iron-cased as we are :
Safe and snug on we steam, ne'er turn tail, never shrink,
Unharmed, a whole fleet now with ease we could sink.
Chorus. Iron hulls have our ships, &c,
But four guns we mount, yet such big guns are they,
The four shots they throw a whole broadside out-weigh :
And when these we 'ye poured in, be the foe swimming then,
We clap on full steam, and we give him the stem. .
Chorus. Iron hulls have our ships, &c.

The civil marriage of Baron Charles de Talley-
rand Perigord, French Minister at the Court of Belgium,
with Mdlle. Vera Benardaki, daughter of M. Georgevitch
Benardaki, of St. Petersburg, was celebrated the day before
yesterday, at the Hotel de Ville at Brussels. The witnesses
for the bridegroom were M. Ch. Rogier, Belgian Minister
of Foreign Affairs, and Prince Henry de Ligne ; and for
the bride, her two brothers, Leonidas and Nicholas. The
nuptial benediction was afterwards given by the Patriarch
in the Greco-Russian chapel. The bridegroom was born
at Laon, in France, in 1821, and the bride in Russia, in
1842.

DEPARTURE OF THE JAPANESE AMBASSADORS.
—Tho Japanese ambassadors and suite, accompanied by
Mr. Macdonald, and by Mr. Eborall, general manager, and
other officials of the South Eastern Railway Company,
arrrived at Woolwich this afternoon, for embarkation on
board a Dutch man-of-war steam sloop en route for Hol-
land. The party proceeded in carriages from the Arsenal
station of the North Kent Railway to the Dockyard, where
they arrived about half-past two o'clock, and were received
by various officers of the establishment. Tho three ambas-
sadors immediately entered the royal barge, when the en-
sign was dipped, as a signal for a salute of 19 guns, which
was fired from the Fisgard flag ship. Their excellencies
were then rowed to the steam sloop, which is moored in the
middle of the stream, the suite being conveyed to the vessel
in open cutters. The ambassadors before embarking inti-
mated to the authorities that they were in every respect
delighted with their visit to this country.
PERMISSIVE BILL MEETING.—A public meeting
was held last evening f t Exeter-hall of the members and
friends of the Unted Kiegdom Alliance, at which a petition
to Parliament was adopted, praying for-the enactment of a
permissive law, allowing two-thirds of the ratepayers in
any parish to prevent the sale of intoxicating liquors within
their locality. The meeting was very numerously attended,
Mr. Lawson, M.P., presiding.
THE GREAT EASTERN IN CUSTODY.--Possession
was taken of the leviathen steamer on the 30th, by the
United States Marshal's Deputy, under an attachment for
a claim of 100,000 dols., preferred by Hamilton F. Towle,
engineer, for salvage. The plaintiff alleged that when the
Great Eastern was on a voyage to New York she was so
disabled as to be rendered incapable of proceeding to port,
until he, a passenger, invented a screw that saved the ves-
sel, her passengers, and cargo. On the same day an appli-
cation was made before the United States district judge for
a reduction of the amount of bail in the case. Mr. Everts,
on behalf of the defendants, contended that the amount of
bail was enormous, and that Mr. Towle had not rendered
any more service en the occasion than any man possessed
of the same ability and ingenuity would volunteer to save
the lives of fellow beings, particularly when his own life
was in equal jeopardy. Lord Stowell, a great English
judicial authorby, had laid down that a passenger under
such circumstances could nut recover any compensation.
If Mr. Towle had kept within his mind the idea of saving
the vessel until be had exacted a promise of payment—
until he had found a fortune in a great disaster—he would
be an unworthy passenger on any future voyage with his
fellow-men. No bill had been sent in for these services;
and if Mr. Towle had made a claim of 5,000 dols., and been
paid it, he would have had go-id reason to know that it was
a good night's work to save his own life and got so much
money. Judge Betts would net go into the merits, but
merely confine himself to the amount of bail, in order to
secure to the plaintiff whatever rights he might establish on
the trial of the cause. Ultimately his Honour decided to
bond the vessel in the sum of 10,000 dols. Howland and
Aspinwall became the sureties, and the vessel was dis-
charged from the custody of the United States Marshal.
TERRIFIC STORM IN AUCKLAND.—Last night
we were visited by a terrific storm from the E.N.E , which
destroyed shipping in our harbour to the extent of £lO,OOO.
The steamer Ph4Dnix has entirely disappeared,. Her Ma •
jesty's ship Harrier lost two boats, and had two men
drowned. The greatest damage has been done to our coast-
ing trade. The wharf has suffered considerable injury,and
the breach in Custom-house-street, made one month ago by
a similar storm, has been considerably widened. The fol-
lowing vessels have been more or less injured :—The barque
Kato; the ship City of Manchester; the schooners Vistula,
Fawn, Rose, and Sea Breeze; the brig Sporting Lass; the
cutters Berry and Wanderer ; the schooners Zillah and
Industry ; the Teazer cargo boat ; the schooners Canter-
bury and Eclipse; her Majesty's cutter Ellen, and a yacht
belonging to Bishop Patteson. The following are total
wrecks :—The steamer Placenix, the schooners Township
of Taurangi and Rose Ann, and the cutters Annie Laurie
and Clyde.—Southern Cross, April 8,