The Sun.
London, England, 1865-01-16 00:00:00

The Wreck of the Lelia.

LIVERPOOL, Monday morning.

The survivors from the Lelia, 12 in number, have
been landed from the lightship. It appears that
the vessel became unmanageable, and was struck by
a sea, which broke her up forward. The crew and
passengers took to the boats, and reached the
lightship, where the one with the passengers cap-
sized, and all were drowned. Only 12 of the crew In
the other boat succeeded in getting on board.
Among the lost are Captain Skinner, Captain St.
Clair, Mr. Robson, Mr. Cropper, Mr. Miller, &c.
There were 30 on board the vessel when she was lost.

Collision on the Great Western Railway.

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A collision occurred on Saturday morning on the Great
Western Railway, but fortunately unaccompanied with
loss of life, although attended with serious damage to the
company's stock, and causing a delay to the passenger and
goods traffic on the line. As far as can be ascertained, it
seems that two trucks, one of which was laden, and the
other empty, were left on Friday night on the siding of the
up line at Wallingford-road Station, and all was safe until
between four and five o'clock on Saturday morning, when
the gale blew with such terrific force that it set the trucks
in motion, and they continued running as far as the village
of Stoke, about a mile and a half distant, midway between
Wallingford-road and Goring stations, when they were
I overtaken by an up narrow-gauge coal train from Wolver-
hampton, and a collision was the result. It was of course
dark at the time, and as the driver could not see the trucks
the train ran into them at full speed, forcing the truck,
which was laden with corn, completely off its wheels, and
considerably damaging the tender and engine. A pair of
wheels belonging to the corn truck became so embedded
in the earth that no less than 11 trucks heavily laden
with coals were, with the engine and tender, thrown
off the line, and all more or less damaged. The permanent
way was torn up for some distance, and a large quantity
of coal thrown out of the trucks, and thus both lines were
blocked up. Every precaution was taken to prevent the
occurrence of an additional casualty, but most unfortu-
nately the strong wind blew a signal post across the tele-
graph wires and stopped all communication between Gor-
ing, Reading, Paddington, and the intermediate stations•
Under these circumstances, a message was conveyed to Did-
cot, from whence a telegram was forwarded to Oxford. A
posse of workmen were thereupon sent from Oxford to the
scene of the collision, and assistance being also procured
from Swindon and Reading, the down line was cleared. The
luggage trains, which were stopped in their progress, and
presented a scene almost equalling that lately witnessed at
Pangbourne, then proceeded ontheir journey, and the single
line was made available for the whole of the traffic. A mes-
sage was sent to Paddington as quickly as possible, and about
100 men were despatched to the spot, and not a moment
lost in getting the engine and trucks on the line, the work
being directed by Mr. Tyrell, the superintendent of the
line ; Mr. Kelley, the superintendent of the division ; Mr.
Craig, Mr. Bailey, of Reading, and Mr. Relton, of Oxford.
The telegraphic communication was not resumed until the
afternoon, and the line could not be cleared until late in
the day. The trains in the morning were delayed, and the
railway officials experienced much inconvenience in conse-
quence of being unable to use the telegraph. It is quite a
miracle that the engine-driver and stoker, who were only
bruised, were not killed.

TESTIMONIAL TO CARDINAL WISEMAN.—A num-
ber of gentlemen, including Lord Petre, Lord Fitzalan
Howard, Lord Arundel of Wardour, Lord Stafford, the
Hon. Charles Langdale, Sir Robert Gerard, Sir George
Bowyer, Bart., M.P., Mr. Sergeant Belasis, and others,
have combined for the purpose of presenting a testimonial
to Cardinal Wiseman on the Bth of June next, being the
25th anniversary of his episcopal consecration.
CRYSTAL PALACE.—The performance of the
Wizard of the North on Saturday was so successful that
it will be repeated daily during the week. The concert-
room was crowded with visitors. After the performance
the great transept and naves were lighted up, and prome-
nading continued to a late hour, a strange contrast to the
boisterous storm which howled round the building. The
pantomimic ballet, with other amusements, will also be
continued, and the palace will continue to be lighted up at
dusk,

Lord and Lady Colchester have arrived at their
residence in Berkeley-square for the season.

The Princess Mathilde visited the Imperial Mann-
actory of the Gobelins on Saturday, and was present at a
Lecture on chemistry given in the establishment.

The Poor-Law inquiry at the Holborn Union
into the case of Timothy Daly was concluded on Saturday.
Mr. Farnall will now report on the evidence to the Poor-
Law Board.

TIIE PORTSMOUTH MURDER.—James Piper, who
murdered his wife at Fratton; near Portsmouth, last Mon-
day, was taken before the magistrates on Saturday, and
remanded until Tuesday. No evidence was taken.
THE SHIRLEY MURDER.—The condition• of
Bromfield, the Shirley murderer, has improved since his
examination before the Hampshire magistrates on Monday,
and it is expected that ho will be so far recovered in a few
days as to permit his removal to Winchester Gaol.
Bromfield will be tried at the Lent Assizes for the county-
of Hants.

A murder was committed a few days ago at
Marianello, near Naples, under singular-circumstances. A
man named Mugnano had just entered a guard-house to
light his pipe at the fire, when one Chiarolanza, without
saying a word, snatched up a musket from the rack, and
shot the new comer dead on the spot. The assassin was
instantly arrested, but as yet no clue has been found to the
motive whichi nduced him to commit the crime.

THE LIVERPOOL LIFEBOAT that unfortunately
capsized on Saturday last did not belong to the National
Lifeboat Institution, but was the property of the Dock
Trustees of that town. The boat was not a self-righting
one, and was, we repeat, in no way connected with the
National Lifeboat Institution.

THE DANTE ANNIVERSARY in May next is to be
celebrated with great pomp in Florence.
A GRAND CONSERVATIVE BANQUET is to be given
on the 24th inst. at Reading.
MR. SANTLEY, THE GREAT ENGLISH BASSO.—
More than one foreign paper reports the enthusiastic re-
ception which Mr. Santley has had at the opera-house of
Barcelona.

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COPPER ORE SALES.—At the Cornish ticketing
on Thursday 2,308 tons of copper ore fetched
11,4401. Os. Id. The averages were :—Standard, 1281. 10s.
price per ton, 41. 10s. ; produce, 6. Compared with the
previous sale the standard is nearly stationary, and with
the corresponding monthly sale it is quito stationary.

THE LONDON AND SOUTH-WESTERN RAILWAY.—
The directors of the London and South-Western
Company have given instructions for a train of six car-
riages and two guards'-vans to be fitted with the apparatus
for providing telegraphic communication between passen-
gers and guards, upon the same principle as that which
was 'tested on Saturday last, by Captain Tyler, of the Board
of Trade. The train is intended to be worked for the
ordinary traffic of the line.—Railway News.
HALIFAX WOOL, WORSTED, AND WOOLEN MARKET,
SATURDAY.—Business of all sorts has been quiet to-day.
With the exception of matchings no sort of wool has been
asked for. Rates, however, have ruled firm. The yarn
trade continues quiet, little or business having been trans-
acted. Old orders are sufficient to keep only a portion of
the machinery in operation. The woollen market has been
well attended, but there also business has been fiat.
IRONMASTERS' QUARTERLY MEETING.—DUDLEY,
Saturday Evening.—The conducing meeting of the
ironmasters of this district for the current quarter was held
here this evening ; the attendance was small, and the trans-
actions were nominal ; indeed, after the feeling exhibited
at the meeting at Birmingham on Thursday, and the gene-
ral indisposition to do business there, it was not to be ex-
pected that any improvement would be experienced at this
meeting, and scarcely any of the principal firms were
represented. A few small transactions in pig-iron were
reported, but of finished iron little, if any, was sold ;
and the prevailing opinion appeared to b 3 that it is
many years since the business was on so limited a
scale as at the series of meetings which closed this even-
ing. At all the works in this locality they are very mo-
derately supplied with orders, and unless some reaction
takes place speedily, it is as much as the makers of
favourite brands will be able to do to obtain the list prices.
The notices given to the puddlers and millmen expire this
evening ; if they decide not to accept the reductions and
turn out, it will have a very bad effect upon the trade in this
locality, which has already suffered much from the strikes,
a portion of the ordinary trade having been forced into
other districts. On the other hand, if the men go on
steadily—and it is believed that one section Of them (the
millmen) are favourable to that course—it is thought thattwo
the trade will speedily rally. If the men stand out
of
or three days only, it will virtually be a week's. stoppager"were
the works. The reports as to the demand forrepset
gnt price is
most unsatisfactory at this meeting ;
and
t of merchants'
lating. This quarter-day settlemen
om
t.
too low to be remunerative, and stocks arethe slightly accumu-
factors' accounts has been generally pr p
the
sentenced to death for murder underwentpunishment
severe weather at Bonetillo
The Spanish journals state that two young men
of the garotte during the
The Queen had
the life of one of them, but the quantity of snow
de la Sierra, in the provincaeteof Madrid. Th
spared having interrupted the commuuicati
which had fallen ons,
• ' tele To 11- the order
by electric.* g p , for suspending
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execution did not arrive until two hours after the man was

dead.
According to the Vigie de Cherbourg, there is
some question of forming at that port a new naval division,
to be placed under the command of Vice-Admiral Le Ron-
ciere le Noury, and to consist of the ironclad ship of the
line Magenta, now in the roadstead, carrying the flag of the
vice-admiral, and of the ironclad frigates Flandre, Heroine,
and Valeureuse, preparing for spa at Cherbourg, Lorient,
and Rochfort,

Newmarket July
4
Carlisle
Worcester
Pontefract
Abingdon
Stamford 3l
OCTO]

IHereford l3
Nottingham
Winchester lB
iSouthampton l9
Chesterfield
Goodwood
IBER.

Northallerton
Newmarket 2d Oct 9

I Newmarket II 23
Worcester Autumn 3l

The Powder-ship at Fort Fisher.

A writer in the Morning Post says—lt is strange
that amongst the many Germans who now hold
high rank in the armies of the Northern States of
America none should have thought of a passage in
Schiller's " Revolt of the Netherlands,v in which a
remarkable instance is given of the awful effects of
gunpowder when closely confined, by which, as
every one knows, the explosive force is highly in-
creased. Had the idea which occurred to the engi-
neer of the 16th century been again acted upon, an
astounding waste of powder might probably have
been prevented, and the Northerners would not
have been subjected to the mortification of finding
their great scheme turn out to be an utter failure.

The-occurrence alluded to took place during the
long siege to which Antwerp was subjected by the
Duke of Parma, who, by building a bridge across
the Scheldt, had prevented the besieged from re-
ceiving supplies, and had thus reduced the garrison
and city to the peril of starvation. Giambelli, an
Italian engineer, came forward at this crisis and
undertook to destroy this bridge by means of two
small vessels. His plan of operations I find described

as follows :
" In the hold of each vessel he built a hollow chamber
of freestone, sft. broad, 3i feet high, and 40ft. long. This
magazine he filled_ with 60 cwt. of the finest powder, and
covered it with as heavy a weight of large slabs and mill-
stones as the vessel could carry. Over these ho also added
a roof of similar stones, which ran up to a point and pro-
jected six feet above the ship's side, besides which he loaded
the decks with all kinds of destructive missiles. Several
small apertures were left in the chambers for the matches
which were to set fire to the mine. For greater certainty
he had also contrived a piece of mechanism which, after
the lapse of a given time, would strike out sparks, and even
if the matches failed would set the ship on fire. When the
magazine of one of these vessels took fire on reaching the
bridge an explosion took place just as if the earth had burst
or the vault of heaven given way. The duke and his whole
army fell to the ground as dead, and several minutes
elapsed before they recovered consciousness. But then
what a sight presented itself! The waters of the Scheldt
had been divided to its lowest depth and driven with a
surge which rose like a wall above the dam that confined it
so that all the fortifications on the banks were several feet
under water. The earth • shook for three miles round.
Nearly the whole pier on which the fire-ship had been
driven, with a part of the bridge of boats, had been burst
and shattered to atoms with all that was upon it—spars,
cannon, and men, all blown into the air. Even the enor-
mous blocks of stone which had covered the mine had, by
the force of the explosion, been hurled into the neighbour-
ing fields, so that many of them were afterwards dug out
of the ground at the distance of 1,000 paces from the
I bridge. Six vessels were buried ; several had gone to

pieces."

But still more terrible was the carnage which the
murderous machine had dealt amongst the soldiers,
for it is stated that from 500 to 800 men were
killed on the spot, besides an immense number
maimed and mutilated. The bridge also was utterly
destroyed, all the shore batteries were placed under
water, and the besieging army suffered a loss
killed and wounded of over 1,200 fighting men.
This devastation was caused, be it observed, by the
firing of one vessel, containing only three tons of
gunpowder ; but this small quantity was used with
the greatest judgment, and was made to do its ter-
rible work to the uttermost ; while, so far as the ac-
counts I have read of the explosion at Fort Fisher
show, our Northern friends, prodigal of their re-
sources, seem to have simply stuffed their vessel with.
as many barrels and bags of the villanous compound
as they could get under the hatches, and thus, al-
though we are told that she contained 215
was exploded within 500 feet of the fort, the great
gunpowder plot of 1864 failed. tons, and

Foreign Mail Packet List•

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Australia and New Zealand, via Southampton •Jan. 18.
Ditto, via Marseilles Feb. 12.
ud Et. llelena
Brazil and Cape Verde, by British pao.et• ••• • • • •Ftb. 3.
Ditto, by British • Jan. 2:„
Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, Feb, lg.
China, Penang-, and Singapore, via Sou hamptOn, „Tan ~..
packet.........`
Ditto, via Marseilles Jan. n.
Falkland Islands ..................................Jan.
Gibraltar, via Southampton ..... --,
India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via .. • • • ..Jan
Southam t * 38*
Ditto, via Mar,eilles p on.... Jan. 18.
.........
India (Bombay), via Southampton. .. .. ••• ..... Jan.:2(3.
Ditto, via siarseilles . ............... Jan. 26.
Mauritius, via Southampton ............. • •*Jan• 20.
Feb. 11.
Ditto, via Marseil e t...
Newfoundland ....... . —Feb. 5.
Poring 1 ................................ Jan. 18.
Ditto, by private • . Feb. 3.
ship to L
united btates and Lisbon...
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tish packet..... British North America, by Bri-
Ditt.......
0, by United S
t.n .. tates packet, via Southamp-
..... • • ....... , • •
Ditto, via C Ak
Iv Ditto, by Canadian
packet, via Londonderry Jan. 20.
est Coast of Africa, Madeira, and Ttneriffe Feb. Iv,
West Indies and Pacific (except Bahaa,as, Cuba,
and Mexico Jan. 28.
Bahamas, via New fork. Feb. 9.
Bermuda, ditto
Cuba and Mexico . Jan. 28.

King Leopold of Belgium, the Duchess de Bra.
bant, and the Count do Flandre were present two night
back at the first Court Ball of the season given at the
Palace in Brussels. About 1,500 persons were invited, be-
longing to the diplomatic body, the administration, the
national guard, the army, &c. Dancing was kept up til
one o'clock in the morning, the balls in the Belgium capi-
tal always terminating early.
General Bosco, the last defender of Gaeta, is said
to have received a command in the Spanish army
Domingo.
of Santo