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

IMPORTANT LIFEBOAT SERVICE.

FOWEY, CORNWALL, June 11.— I have great pleapure in
stating that the Fowey lifeboat, 1 elonging to the National
Lift boat Institution, has this day proved herself eminently
successful in saving the Danish schooner Sylphiden, of
Nakskov, and her crew of seven hands, from total destruc-
tion. The vessei was from Dartmouth for Charlestown, in
our bay, and in ballast. As the wind was too strong from
S.S.E. to enter Charlestown, she took shelter under the
high land, last evening, east of Polkerris, and signalled for'
a pilot. This morning she was still riding at her anchors,
and the gale increasing apprehensions were entertained for
her safety. The surf was so high that no ordinary boat
could face it. During the afternoon, the gale increasiag,
the captain attempted to weigh anchor, and run for PO,
but no sooner were the anchor; tripped than she began to
drift, and was fast making for the lee shore. The anchora.
again held fast, but so great was the strain on the cable, the
vessel being now in broken water, with only one and a half
fathoms, that the captain and crew saw nothing but de-
struction before their eyes, unless speedy assistance were
obtained, and up went the "jack" in the rigging.
The gallant crew of the lifeboat, with their ex-
perienced coxswain, were all ready for the work,
and in a few minutes on board, accompanied by
} Mr. Stubbs, the ch'eff officer of the coast guard. In another
minute or two the lifeboat was off from her transporting'
carriage, and flying through the foaming surf and over the
crested waves in gallant style, pulling to windward in the
very teeth of the now furious gale. The apparently doomed
ship was reached by veering the boat from windward, and.
Mr. Stubbs, and Heath, tL•e coxswain, with some of then
crew, got on board, Mr. Stubbs took the command at
once. To hesitate what to do would have been destruction.
To run for Par was now impracticable. He at once
resolved to take the ship into Polkerris, ordered sail to bo
set and the anchor slipped. For some minutes the good
ship staggered in the gale, and as it were hesitated to be
guided by her helm. At last she wore round, and, I am
happy to say, was brought safely inside the pier, close to
the lifeboat house, and in a manner which reflects thaw
greatest credit on that officer and the coxswain and crew of
the lifeboat under his command. The crew proved them-
selves equal to any emergency, one of whom, an agricul-
tural labourer, volunteered his services to fill a vacancy in
the lifeboat's crew.
Thursday Morning.—l have to add to my letter of last
evening that the weather has become still worse during the
night, the barometer being down to 29.38, and the captain
feels quite convinced that, under Providence, the lifeboat
and her crew have been the means of saving both the ship
j and the lives of the crew. W. E. GEdVi.

COURT CIRCULAR.

WINDSOR CASTLE, JVNE 12.
The Queen, accompanied by Princess Louise, walked and
drove in the grounds yesterday afternoon.
___....

The Earl of Caithness and Sir William Hoste havo suc-
ceeded Lori Harris and Lieutenant-Colonel Kingscote as
Lord and. Groom in Waiting.

His Royal Highness the Prince of Hesse will, it
is expected, arrive in England about the 16th inst.

_ .
Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess
Augustus of Saxe•Coburg, and Prince Philip of Wurtera-•
burg, with th •ir suite, have 'arrived at the Clarendon, 50
route for Tunbridge wells.
SIIERIFFSHIP OF MID-LOTHIAN.—It is under•
stood that Mr. Gordon has, owing to bad health, tendered
his resignation of this office ; and it is considered probable
that his successor will be Mr. Archibald Davidson, Sheriff
of Aberdeenshire.—Scotsman.

The Italian frigate La Regina, which has been
lengthened and converted into a screw in the dockyard of
La Seyne, has been towed to Toulon, and placed under the
sheers to take on board her boilers and the other heavT pad
of her machinery. _

The iron-eased frigate La Gloire, whi✓h has
been making experiments at the Iles d'Hyeref, has re-
timed to Toulon to prepare for further operations of tho
same kind.

A letter from Erivan says :—" The Russian
fortresses on the Ottoman frontier, esNcially those of
Alexandropol (Gumer) Akhaltchik, am receiving large
supplies of munitions,"—Levant Herald.

The New York lawyers complain of very dull
times at the bar, and say that not fifty out of the three
thousand residing there are making a living.
ALARMING ACCIDENT TO A CORONER'S JIIRY.
About twebee o'cloek yesterday morning, as a Coroner's.
Jury were viewing the body of a child, in a house in No.
1 Court, in Warwick-street, Oldham-street, the floor gave
way, and eleven of the Jurymen were precipitated into the
cellar beneath. Fortunately, however, they all escaped
without any injury more serious than that resulting frera
fright and shaken nerves.

COTTON FROM INDIA—PLYMOUTH, Thursday --
The barque Agricola, 658 tons, Captain John W. Aiken•
head, belonging to Mr. Adamson, London, which left Bom-
bay February 25, with 1,200 bales of cottcn and a cargo of
general merchandise, has arrived in the Channel, as re-
ported in The Sun, and was 20 miles south of St. Cathe-
rine's Point at 10 o'clock yesterday morning.

THE HEIGHT OF LIBERALITY,—Professor Hollo-
way takes a box of Morrison's Pills, and believing that he
has been cured by them, sends a testimonial to the pro-
prietors,—Punch.
SALMON FISHINGS IN SCOTLAND.—The salmon.
fishings in the Forth and on Loch Tay, as compared with
former seasons, continue to be very unproductive. The
almost continuous showers of rain and hail, accompanied
with cold stormy winds, have prevented fishing operations
from being prosecuted. On Thursday and Monday a few
well-conditioned salmon were landed from the Tay. The
late heavy rains have kept the river swollen, and brought
up a large number of sea-trout and a few grilse. The
variable weather is the only drawback to a succeszful fish-
ing season, for in all directions the loch is well stocked hoax
with salmon and trout.

SNOW IN JUNE.--The weather since Thursday
last in the central and north-western districts of Perthshire
has more resembled January than June. On Monday,
Tuesday, and yesterday, heavy showers of snow, hail, and
sleet continued to drift along the hills at intervals. In the
low country a large quantity of rain fell, accompanied at
times with hailstones of large size. A pretty severe thun-
derstorm passed over the district on Tuesday afternoon,
and, owing to the prevalence of bitter cold east winds, and
the excess of moisture, the whole vegetable kingdom has
assumed a drooping and sickly appearance.
'IHREE MEN OVER NIAGARA FALLS.— Three Inert
were swept over Niagara Falls on the 24th of May. The
men were seen putting out from the Canada side, near
Chippewa, with the evident intention of landing near the
south end of Goat Island. After getting out a short dis-
tance the current was found too strong for them, the recent
high wind up the lakes was still forcing more than a usual
quantity of water through the river; and, although they
made every exertion to stem the rushing tide, yet their
efforts were entirely unavailing. '1 hey were seen, after
battling for a time desperately against the current, to draw'
their oars from the water and sit motionless in the boat,
resigned t their fate. In this condition they were swept
over the falls.—ltlontreal Commercial Advertiser.
WONDERS OF PHOTO-ZINCOGRAPHY.—In the
Topographical Department of the War Office there are
copies of ancient documents taken by this process which are
so perfect that examination even with a magnifying glass
fails to discover any fault. Fac-similes of the most raw
and valuable documents and records contained in our public
offices can be obtained by the process with great rapidity
and at small cost ; its use in the Public Record Office

alone, it is estimated, will save the country 410,000 a
year, and the saving in the map department will also
be considerable. But the pecuniary is not the most im-
portant point of view from which to regard the invention.
With the sanction of the Secretary of State for War, Sir
H. James is publishing the fac-simile of the first folio edi-
tion (1623) of Shakespeare's plays, as well as Domesday
Book, of which everybody has heard and so very few have
seen, which will, when finished, be purchased for a,
few pounds, and parts of it referring to each county sepa-
rately for sums varying from eight to 21s. Already five
counties have been
completed, and it is expected that the
whole will be issued by next September,and this without
costing the Government a farthing. This
publication is, of
type in l 7
course,
afBa3 is saidc-6imii t e of
fo hthaeve cost riginal, the printing of which in
Government £38,000, and
a edition isarnareel y seen. As photographic)
negatives d in a dry, dark place, for
any length of time, they will always be available in the pre-
paration of plates at any future period, and at the selling
price of each part fixed by Sir H. James a subscription for
cPfwill that
remain
250 copies will cover the cost of renewing the plate. The pro-
cess is, or is about to be employed in most of our large estab-
ishments connected with the military department, both in
this country and abroad, and at the present moment it is
under consideration whether or not competent persons shall be
sent to Simancas in Spain for the purpose of taking copies
by the process of certain papers in cypher in the Royal Ar-
chives there, which are supposed to contain important infor-
mation relative to events about the time of Queen Elizabeth's
reign. Such an applicati, •n of the invention only on an ex-
tensive scale, needs only time in ordez to produce results of
the highest interest and importance.—Once a Week.
"Darn me, if I don't believe the world's a wheel-
barrow," said a jolly inebriate, as he rolled along the pave-
ment, "and I'm the wheel revolving on the haxis, Now
I'm in the mud," said he, as ho fell headlong into a gutter,
" and now I'm on dry land," as he fetched up on the curb-
stone. His concluding remark, as his boots followed his
head down an open cellar-way, was, "now the wheel is
broken, and the wehicle is out of repair."
THE WREATII FOR WRINKLES.—" if," says our
elegant contemporary, Le Follet, " flowers are worn as
ornaments for the dress, those in the hair should, of course,
be of the same kind; for elderly ladies they can be inter-,
mixed with lace or feathers." Very well. If elderly ladies
must wear flowers in their hair, and would choose appro-
priate flowers, they would decorate it with elder-flowers.
The lace with which those flowers are intermixed should be
antique, and the only feathers to match are those of a goose,

MONEY MARKET.

CITY NEWS, YESTERDAY.

The Royal West India Mail steamer Atrato has
brought £215,000. and the City of Baltimore, from
New York, £85.000. A further sum is expected
from America by the Borussia. The next Cunard
vessel from New York is the new steamer Scotia,
which was to leave on the 4th.

Four hundred and thirty-eight bonds of £2O each,
amounting to £8,760 of the Mires Turkish Loan
were drawn at Paris on Saturday for cancellation.
The mail from Guayaquil has brought a remit-
tance of £1,237 on account of the dividends on the
debt of Ecuador.

Notice has been given that tenders will be re-
ceived at Messrs. Prescott, Grote. and Co.'s, on or
before the 26th inst., for the remaining X 8,500
British Guiana 6 per cent. 'ponds, having four and
a half years to ruu.