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

Loss of the Barbadian,

On Saturday the Board of Trade received the
sworn deposition of William Edward Thomas, one
totally
Channel.lsaeydsn:e _sdl
of the surviving officers of the Barbadian mail
steamer,morug last in
the is
lost
on
lie Wednesday
was third officer of the Barbadian steamer. She
belonged to the West Indian and Pacific Steamship
Company, and was 724 tons register. She was three
masted, schooner rigged, built of iron in 1851, and
classed in Lloyd's. We left Liverpool on the sth of
December fully equipped, with a crew of 35 hands,
with mails for Barbadoes, Trinidad, &c., and carried
a general cargo and three cabin passengers. The
pilot who took the vessel to sea left us at the Bell -
Buoy, when Capt. R. Graham, the master, took
charge, and put the steamer on her course, and set
the fore and main trysail. About 5.30 a.m. the next
morning the steamer struck on the Blackwater Bank.
I was below at the time, and upon coming on deck
found the weather rather thick. The master imme-
diately ordered the engines to be reversed at once,
but they were of no avail. The ship bumped very
heavily on the shoal, and was every moment ex-
pected to break up. I was ordered by the captain
to take charge of the starboard-quarter boat. I
got it out and placed in it the ship's chronometer,
mails, and a box of jewellery wiliPh I knew was in
the captain's room. I cast off the boat with 13 of
the crew, myself, and one passenger, and made for
the Blackwater lightship ; but not being able to
reach it I put the boat before the wind and sea, and
ran her upon the beach at Courtown, where all
were landed in safety. One life was lost in trying
to reach the boat while it was swinging on the
davits. It was a passenger named Volner. Another
boat was lowered about the same time. A number
of the crew were in it ; but what became of them
I cannot say. The seconi officer (T. P. Shellock),
with six of the crew, left in the port waist boat and
got ashore. One of them was killed by the boat on
the beach." The steamer remained entire till about
11 o'clock on Wednesday forenoon, although the
sea kept sweeping over her, but then she broke in
two amidships and quickly became a total wreck.
Twenty-five of the crew in all got away in the boats,
leaving Captain Graham, the chief officer, and ten
other persons on board. On the ship breaking up
Captain Graham, mate, and four hands took refuge
in the foretop of the wreck, but from their not being
seen after it is believed that they were washed over-
board and drowned. The remainder, six in num-
ber, took to the mizzen rigging, where_they remained
all that night and part of the following day, when
four poor fellows were rescued by the crew of the
Rosslare lifeboat, assisted by the Ruby tugboat,
but were in a most shocking state of exhaustion.
The other two perished in the rigging before the
lifeboat came up. The wreck has sunk in the sand,
and only her funnel was to be seen above water.
It was Captain Graham's first voyage as master.
The company to which the Barbadian belonged
have been very unfortunate, this vessel being the
third mail steamer which they have lost during the
last 12 months.

The Republic of Mexico Endorsed by the

United States

The appointment of General John A. Logan, of Illinois,
(says the New York Herald), as United States Mi-
nister to the Republic of Mexico, is ono of the most
important diplomatic movements that wo have ever
been called upon to chronicle. Although this Govern-
ment has not yet interfered in the Mexican imbroglio,
and has not yet given any material aid to the Mexican
Republicans, who aro so gallantly struggling against
foreign invaders, still the most explicit declarations of the
unanimous sentiment of our people upon the subject hare
been placed upon record from time to time. Add to the
openly expressed opinions of our great generals and our
best statesmen, and to the reiterated warnings of the inde-
pendent press the resolution of Congiess against the re-
cognition of any other than a Republican form of Govern-
ment in Mexico, and the emphatic assertion of President
Johnson that ho knew of no such person as the Mexican
Emperor, and we have a perfect chain of evidence in regard
to the views hold by the United States concerning Mexican
affairs. Neither Napoleon nor Maximilian can possibly
mistake the meaning of these repeated popular and official
manifestations, and the appointment of General Logan as
our Minister to Mexico is still more unequivocal.

There are several circumstances which make the selec-
tion of General Logan peculiarly appropriate and pecu-
liarly ominous. In the first place, he is one of our bravest
generals, and all our generals are known t) be in favor
of assisting Juarez, by force if necessary, in resuming the
authority which has been usurped by Maximilian. In the
second place, General Logan is a personal friend of Presi-
dent Johnson, and as such is presumed to fully understand
and represent his views. In the next place, General Logan's
own opinions about Maximilian have already been very
plainly announced in his public speeches, and especially in
that Cooper Institute speech which attracted such marked
attention throughout the country; and therefore his
appointment is in some sort an endorsement of all that he
has said. Besides all this, General Logan, being a soldier,
is admirably adapted to share the warlike fortunes of the
Mexican President, and it is probably the intention of the
Government that he shall proceed at once to the head-
quarters of Juarez, wherever they may be subsequently
located, until the war in Mexico is ended by the re-estab-
lishment of the republic. The very fact that a man of
General Logan's temper, training, sentiments, and experi-
ence has been chosen as our Minister proves that ho is not
expected to sit down quietly in the glare and glitter of
Maximilian's capital, sharing the luxuries of those whose
usurped authority he cannot recognise, and that he is to be
called upon to take part in the rougher but more honest
fare of the Mexican President, who is compelled to change
his capital as the necessities of the war dictate, but who
has never for a moment relinquished the legitimate autho-
rityGeneralagainst
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the empire that France has set up upon this continent.
Our Government does not recognise Maximilian in this
matter, but deals directly with Napoleon ; and there is no
other
.Power upon the face of the earth with which the
United States would be less willing to engage in war than
with France. The two countries are bound to each other
by the most cordial ties. We cannot forget, and have no
desire to-forget, the assistance rendered us by the French
in our struggle for independence, and our gratitude for
that assistance has since been strengthened by many years
of amicable intercourse and by a thousand acts of mutual
friendship. For the Emperor Napoleon personally the
American people have the highest respect and esteem.
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diplomatic victories over those Powers of Europe which
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allies, have
unbounded and undisguised. But in the Mexican imbroglio
we believe that he has made a mistake, and wo aro giving
e and opportunity to extricate himself from this
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lisliment of a foreign empire upon this continent, no matter
with what intentions, was not a friendly act towards this
feeling towards Wance. W e hold, however, that the estab-
Government, and was beyond the legitimate province of
Napoleon's policy. For this reason we array ourselves
against it ; and since Franco, England, Austria, and other
European Powers, have recognised Maximilian and his
re republic empire, we seize upon this occasion to emphatically renew
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that Napoleon will biAdly and frankly solve the whole
question by abandoning his Mexican project and making
his interests identical with those of this country for the
next generation.

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