The Sun.
London, England, 1865-07-21 00:00:00

Members.
• Vandeleur
Sir C. O'Loghlen
... Mr Bagwell ...
• Sir H. Bruce ...
... Mr Maguiro
Mr Murphy ...
▪ Lord A. H. Trevor
Col Forde •••
... Mr Ker ~.
... Mr Whitworth ...
... Mr Guinness ...
Mr Pim ...
... Mr Whiteside ...
Mr Lefroy
Dundalk ... ... Sir G. Bowyer ...
Dungannon ... ... Major S. Knox
Dungarvon Mr Barry ..•
Ennis Capt Stacpoole
Enniskillen ... ... Hon J. L. Colo
Fermanagh county Capt Archdall .„
Col Cole •••
Galway city ... Sir R. Blennerhasset
Mr Morris ~.

Places.
Clare county ...

L. C.
... 0 1
... 1 0
... 1 0
... 0 1
... 1 0
... 1 0
... 0 1
... 0 1
... 0 1

Clonmel ...
Coleraine 11.
Cork ... ...

Down County

Downpatrick ...
Drogheda ...
Dublin city ...

Dablin University

... Lord Dunkellin 1
Mr Gregory 1
Kerry county ... Hon H. Herbert ... 1
Viscount Castlerosse 1
Kildare county Mr Cogan
Lord O. Fitzgerald ... 1
Kilkenny ... Sir J. Gray . 1
Limerick city ... Mr F. W. Russell
... 1
Major Gavin 1
Limerick county Mr Mousell 1
Mr Synan
Lisburn ... Mr E. W. Verner ... 0
Londonderry city ... Lord C. J. Hamilton 0
Londonderry county ... Mr R. P. Dawson 0
Sir F. W. Heygate 0
Col Greville ... 1
Mr O'Reilly 1
... Mr Sergeant Sullivan 1
... Lord J. Browne 1
Lord Bingham ... 0
New Ross ... ... Col Tottenham 0
Newry ... Mr Innes ... 0
Portarlington Mr Lawson ... , 0
Queen's county Mr Fitzpatrick 1
Col Dunne 0
Roscommon county The O'Conor Don ... 1
Col French 1
Sligo
...
Sr
Sergeant Armstrong... 1
Sligo county Sir R. G,l Booth 0
Mr Cooper
... The O'Donoghue ... 1
▪ Lord Claude Hamilton 0
Mr Corry
• Mr J. A. Blake ... 1
Sir H. W. Barron ... 1
Waterford county .„ Mr Esmondo 1

Galway county

Longford county
Mallow
Mayo county

Tralee •„
Tyrone county
Waterford city

Lord Tyrono 0
Westmeath county Mr Pollard-Urquhart 1
Mr Greville 1
... Mr Devoreux
... Mr W. F. Dick
Lord Proby
Mr Mlienua

Wexford city ...
Wicklow county

Youghal

Aberdeen *Oil
Aberdeenshire
Argyllshire ...
Ayr Burghs ...
Ayrshire ...

Banffshire
Berwickshire ..
Buteshire
Caithnesshire
Clackmannan
Dumbartonshire

Dumfries Burghs
Dumfriesshire
Dundee 11441
Edinburgh ...

Edinburgh county
Elgin Burghs
Elgin and Nairn
Falkirk Burghs
Fifeshiro
Forfarshire :::
Glasgow ...

SCOTLAND.

... o
... 1
... 1

... Col Sykes •••
~. Mr Leslie
... Mr Finlay •..
• Mr Craufurd
... Sir J. Fergusson
3Sr R. W. Duff ...
... Mr D. Robertson
• Mr Lamont ...
... Mr Traill •••
... Mr W. P. Adam ...
Mr Smollett*
Mr J. Stirling* ...
... Mr W. Ewart
... Major Walker
▪ Sir J. Ogilvy ...
... Mr Moncrieff
Mr D. M'Laren
... Earl of Dalkeith
... Mr G. Duff ...
... Mr C. Bruce
... Mr J. Merry ...
... Sir R.Anstruther
... Hon C. Carnegie
• Mr W. Graham

Mr Dalglish
;reenock Mr Dunlop ...
laddington Burghs ... Sir IL P. Davie ...
ladding,tonshire Lord Elcho
:nverness Burghs ... Mr Matheson ...
Kilmarnock Burghs ... Mr E. P. Bouvorie
Kincardineshire ... Mr Nicol ...

Kirkcaldy Burghs ... Mr Aytoun ...
Kirkcudbrightshire ... Mr J. Mackie
Lanarkshire ... Sir E. Colebrooko
Loith Burghs Mr W. Miller
Linlithgowshire ... Mr M'Lagan
Montrose ... Mr Baxter ~.
Orkney and Shetland... Mr P. Dundas
Paisley ... Mr Crum Ewing ...
Peeblesshire ... Sir G. Montgomery
Perth Mr A. Kinnaird

... 1 0
... 0 1
... 1 0
.- 1 0
... 0 1
... 1 0
... 1 0
... 1 0
... 1 0
... 1 0
... 0 1
- 1 0
~. 1 0
... 0 1
... 1 0
... 1 0
.., 1 0
... 0 1
... 1 0
..,0 1
-. 1 0
... 1 0
-. 1 0
... 1 0

... 1 0
... 1 0
.- 1 0
... 1 0
... 1 0
... 1 0
... 1 0

... 1 0
... 1 0
... 1 0
... 1 0
... 1 0
... 1 0

... 1 0
... 1 0
.- C 1
... 1 0

- -
Perthshire Mr W. Stirling , ... 0 1
Renfrewshire Mr Spiers
Ross and Cromarty Sir J. Matheson ... 1 0
Roxburghshire ... Sir W. Scott ... 1 0
Selkirkahiro Lord H. Scott ... 0 1
St. Andrews Mr Ellice
Stirling Burghs ... Mr L. Oliphant 1 0
Stirlingshire ... Admiral Erskine 1 0
Sutherlandshire ... Sir D. Dundas 1 0
Wick Burghs Mr Laing
Wigton Burghs ... Mr Young
Wigtonshire .. Sir Andrew Agnew 1 0
* For Dumbartonshire there is a double return. The
numberi for Mr B mullet t awl Mr Stirling bolus equal.

The result of the elections already completed are

the return of—
Liberals

Conservatives..

The Liberal gains and
follow :--

347
2G2

[oases at present stand as

LIBERA

Abingdon ...
Berkshire ...
Blackburn ...
Bridgwater ...
Canterbury
Carlisle
~,
Cheltenham
Chippenhani
Cirencester
Cricklade
Derby...
Devonport ~,
Grantham
~,
Hastings
~,
Hereford
Kidderminster ~,

LOSSES.
Lichfield •.. ••• 1
Liverpool
Lyme Regis 1
!11. aldon
Norfolk, East ... 1
Northsllorton 1
Oxford University ... 1
Preston ••• ••• 1
Thetford 1
Tiverton 1
Whitby
Woodstock 1
Sunderland 1
Tewkesbury ... ... 1

LIBERA
Ashburton ... 1
Aylesbury 1
Berwick 1
Bridgnorth 1
Brighton 1
Buteshire
Cardiganshire ... 1
Carnarvon 1
Cavan county ... 1
Chatham
Chester
Chitheroe ~, ~, 1
Colchester 1
Dublin city ... 1
Exeter 1
Fromo 1
Galway city 1
Grimsby 1
Helstono 1
Horsham 1
Hull ... 1
Knaresborough 1
Kincardineshire 11
Lincoln
Leicester

Total ..• ••• 31
L GAINS.
Limerick county •110 1
Mallow 1
Newport
Poole
Portsmouth ... 1
Poriarlington ... 1
Ronfrewshiro 1
Shropshire, South 1
Staffordshire, North 1
Stirlingshiro ..• ... 1
Sussex, East 1
Sligo •.. 1
Taunton
Tvnemouth 1
Wareham
Warwick
Wallingford ... 1
Wakefield ••• •.• 1
Waterford city 1
Weymouth ... •.• 1
Wilts, South ... 1
Windsor •.• 2
Yorkshire, North Riding 1

Total 5

THE Loss OF ENGLISH TOURISTS ON THE MAT-
TERHORN.—The Journal de Gel:4e of Tuesday last
publishes the following letter from Randa (Vallais), dated
the 15th :—" In informing you yesterday by despatch of
the ascent of Mount Cervin, or Matterhorn, I did not expect
it would be my duty to describe to you a terrible accident.
The information which I have received respecting this
catastrophe is as follows :—Messrs. Edward Whimper and
Charles Hudson, members of the London Alpine Club, and
Mr. Haddo and Lord Francis Douglas, members of the
same club, met at Zermatt, each desirous of conquering the
Cervin colossus, hitherto inaccessible. Mr. Hudson had
brought from London cables of iron wire to facilitate the
ascent, but finding Mr. Whimper ready to leave, he loft
them at the hotel, and set off with his unexpected com-
rades, with no other object than to find out the best way.
They took with them as guides Michel Croz, of Chamouni,
and Zum Taugwald, of Zermatt, with his sons. It was the
13th. No member of the party expected to succeed that
day ; it was only proposed to find out the route which
would lead to the desired object. They had, in fact, left
their instruments at Zermatt, and wore only supplied with
seven bottles of wine. One of the sons of Taugwald loft
them and returned to the village. The tourists passed the
night of .the 13th on the snow at the foot of the Cervin.
Lord Francis Douglas, who was but nineteen years of age,
alone slept, overcome by fatigue ; the others remained
awake. At daybreak they pursued their journey, and find-
ing the ascent much easier than they expected, pushed on
and reached the summit towards 2 o'clock in the afternoon.
At that time they were distinctly seen from Zermat!, with
the aid of a telescope. They remained on tho summit until
3 o'clock, when they began to descend. Michel Croz went
first ; after him came the four tourists, Lord Douglas and
Messrs. Haddo, Hudson, and Whimper, in succession. The
son of Taugwald and the father closed the line. They were
all tied with the same cord, and descending, rejoicing in
their success, when Lord Douglas suddenly slipped, and
giving a violent shock to the cord, threw down in their
turn Messrs. Haddo, Hudson, and all the band, who were
hurried with frightful rapidity to the brink of a precipice.
Taugwauld, senior, the last of the chain, preserved his
presence of mind. He was happily able to pass his cord
over the ridge of a rock, and for a moment he thought he
had stopped a frightful fall ; but the cord broke between
Messrs. Whimper and Hudson, and the four unfortunate
men, Michel Croz, Lord Francis bouglas, and Messrs.
Haddo and Hudson, bounded from rock to rock down a
height of nearly 4,000 feet. The three survivors returned
to Zermatt this morning at ten o'clock—l leave you to
imagine in what condition. Twenty men immediately left
to discover the bodies, which they thought they could see
through a glass lying two by two, the cord having, it ap-
peared, broken again. The whole village and the numer-
ous tourists there are in a state of consternation." The
Journal de Geneve remarks :—" This sad catastrophe, which
will excite in every part of our country the profoundest
sympathy, will ever be associated with the first assent of
Mont Cervin. It was the only summit of the Montoppas
group which had resisted the efforts of man, the last virgin
summit of the environs of Zermatt, the Gablehorn, having
been climbed on the 7th of this month."

In Perils by the Heathen,

The following narrative, abridged from the diaries
of Mr. S. Levy, who was in charge of the store at
Opotiki, New Zealand, and of Captain Levy, of the
schooner Eclipse, will be read with interest, sup-
plying, as it does, many details not contained in
the account given in The Sun of the 6th inst. of
the killing of the missionary Volkner. We begin
with Mr. S. Levy's account:—
"Feb. 24.—Opotiki and the whole coast are in the
greatest excitement, as Potare and his followers are
coming for the purpose of giving instruction in the new
religion. It is said to be his intention to put all white
men to death. Feb. 25.—Potare has arrived, and I have
been to see him. Ho told me he was very fond of
the Jews, as they were once a grand people, and are
now reduced through persecution, the Maories believing
themselves to be undergoing the same process. He told
Tiwai, the interpreter, that his people intend to take the
heads of all ministers, soldiers, and Englishmen, to carry as
trophies to their great prophet, Zerubbabel, at Taranaki. In
the evening Kereopa, the prophet, came in with the head of
a soldier, and placed it at the foot of the worship post ; the
cap had on it 70th Regiment.' He then gave a long lec-
ture, stating that the ministers had been robbing them
of their lands by lies, and advising them to take to
the new faith, which they proceeded to do. The natives
formed in single line, and passed under Potare's right
arm into the church, whore the 40 Taranakis who had
arrived with Potare kept continually running round them,
shouting and going through forms of incantation
until they were considered under the influence of Po-
tare, after which each was taken singly and swung round
until so insensible as to be unable to stand ; they were
then taken out on the green, where they remained on the
ground in a state of stupidity for some days, some of them
actually going for four or five days without touching meat
and drink. The natives remained in both churches all
night, going through their worship and ringing the bells,
I myself sleeping in the church with them. The most fear-
ful scenes of barbarism and savage-like propensities were
enacted during the night. Sunday, Feb. 26.—Everybody
in the village—men, women, and children— converted to
the new faith. Service in the church most lied of the day.
Mr. Volkner's house was ransacked, and the things sold
to the natives. Some remained in the church all night,
others were walking round the sacred post, but the greater
part, especially the women, after a feast at sunset, lay all
night in the open air in a state of stupidity and nudity.
Feb. 27.—Potare left for a place 25 miles off to obtain
more recruits. I found among the Taranakis John Brown,
a soldier of the 57th Regiment, who had been taken pri-
soner; he told me of the frightful scenes he had witnessed,
and made my blood run cold. He is gone with Peter°.
Kereopa remains here to carry on the ceremonies of the new
religion. Among his first converts wore Mr. Volkner's
teacher and housekeeper, men who had been with him,
and preaching in the church during his absence for ten or
twelve years. March I.—The schooner Eclipse is outside
the bar."
Captain Levy, of the schooner, now takes up the
tale:—
"March I.—My brother Samuel carne on board. He was
quite aghast when he saw the Rev. Messrs. Volkner and
Grace, passengers, and told them of their perilous position.
It was agreed for all of us to escape that night to a certain
point of the river on horses, but before night we were all
ordered to go on shore. Two or three natives rushed upon
Mr. Vollmer with ropes to bind him, but they were pushed
aside by us. They told me and thy brother that as they
were all of our religion (Jews) we had nothing to fear, but
the crew and rev. gentlemen were locked up under a guard
of 20 men. March 2.—1 was allowedan interview with Mr.
Volkner. Ho advised me to give up the vessel and every-
thing to save bloodshed, as he believed all the natives
wanted was plunder. I offered the vessel and everything in
the store to the chiefs for the lives of the two ministers,
and they agreed to it, and one of the chiefs took my coat
and vest and watch and chain and put them on his own
person, as earnest of the bargain. Two chiefs wont to
the rev. captives and told them of the arrangement,
and Mr. Volkner" began to have more hope. But I
heard whisperings among the natives, and found that
a party of them had gone for their guns. When
they arrived and heard of the goods and vessel
being given up and accepted, there was tremendous
yelling, and the excitement reached its utmost point. A
party of half-castes went towards the where, and I thought
it advisable to move out of the way. They asked for Mr.
Volkner, who came out without his hat, and then returned
for it, apparently pleased, as the natives had told him they
were going to take him to a meeting. As he was walking
with them, they told him their object. The rev. gentleman
. then asked to stay near the church and pray for five minutes,
which they acceded to. He sent one of the natives for his
Prayer-book, and while this was taking place the natives
sent on board the vessel for a block and strap, which they
made fast to the topmost branches of a large willow tree,
about 200 yards from the church. About 800 natives
had now assembled, and Mr. Volkner was in :ached
under the tree. The natives took off his coat, vest, and
shirt, which the principal chief, Kereopa, put on, being
quite pleased with the watch and chain. Poor Volkner
manifested the greatest calmness throughout, and shook
hands with many of the natives while they were tying his
handkerchief over his eyes and hauling him up to the fatal
branch. The natives marvelled greatly at the tears running
from Mr. Volkner's eyes. They did not pinion either arms
or legs, but left him to dangle for nearly an hour in the air,
while some of the natives were hauling at his legs to g
off his boots and trousers, sharing what was in the pockets
while he hung ovir them. One of the natives also put on
the trousers in the dying man's presence. When the body
was lowered it was taken to the church. [An account has
already been given of the disgusting orgies which followed.]
March 3.—We were all assured of our safety except Mr.
Grace, whose fate Potare was to decide. A meeting was
hold, which I attended by the advice of Mr. Grace, in order,

if to arrange a ransom for him. I offered £5OO,
and then but it was indignantly refused, and they
told me that no money would get Mr. Grace away, as they
intended to take him to Taranaki as their slave. March 4.

—Kereopa went to the bush, and at night the great chief
Potare returned. March 5.—A. meeting was held in the late
Mr. Volkner's church. Potare blamed the people for hang-
ing him without a trial, and appeared vexed that we had
been pinioned, They decided that an offer might be sent
to Auckland when the party returned from Turanga, 10
days hence, to exchange Mr. Grace for Hori Tupaea and
his party, who were in the hands of the Government, my
brother and I to remain meantime as bondsmen for Mr.
Grace, or else he would not be allowed to remain at Opotiki,
but be sent to Turanga. My brother assented. Potare
wished me to go and bring my -wife and family down, and
settle among them. They gave us up our schooner
March B.—We found Mr. Volkuer's remains still unburied,
and got leave to bury them upon some presents being
made to the natives. The body is laid close to the back
windows of the church, and we fenced the- grave in and
placed a headboard. March 15.—A1l the natives went
some five miles up the river to consecrate a large new
pole for worship. March 16—At 6 am., the natives who
cut Volkner's head off came to my bed and told me there
was a large steamer close in shore. I mounted a chimney
and saw that it was her Majesty's ship Eclipse. My brother
and myself paddled down to meet her, and told them what
had occurred. The Bishop of New Zealand asked me if
there was any hope of getting Mr. Grace. I gave them but
little hope. They asked me if I thought the steamer's boats
could cuthim out. I told them the natives would have Mr.
Grace miles up the bush long before the boats could land.
His lordship told me money was no object, but I assured
him it was no use offering it, and entertained but little hope
of recovering him. I told him Tiwai and William King

were on shore, and he asked me to go and bring them off,
as I thought it imprudent to send a ship's boat ashore. I
left my brother on board and went ashore with two of my
men. William. king and Tiwai were gone. I went in
search, but was told by Mr. Grace, who was taking his
usual walk, that the natives were gone to a meeting respect-
ing the arrival of the steamer. On seeing the rev. gentleman
so sad, and knowing the fate allotted to 'him, I made up my
mind to risk my life, as well as those that were with me, to
save if possible the rev. gentleman. I sent to tell him if he
would walk down to the point of the river I would take him
in, but after a thought I saw the danger of his walking in,
so told him to jump into the boat at once, which he did. I
had some serge shirts in the boat with which I covered him
over. As he was getting into the boat the woman, who
missed him from the yard, ran to the boat, and, divining
our intention, ran off to the meeting being held in a where
nearly at the side of the river. It was now pull for our lives,
and we did pull, the Rev. Mr. Grace being still at the bottom
of the boat. Some Maories appeared on the beach with their
rifles, but as we had the tide in our favour we managed to
escape, and rowed our captive to the steamer. The parties
on board, seeing no person in the boat but our own party,
could not understand what I meant by singing out ' He's all
right ! ' And you may guess they were all rather surprised
on seeing Mr. Grace stand up as we went alongside. I
now saw the difficulty I had got into by rescuing the rev.
gentleman, as my schooner was still inside the heads, so I
immediately applied to Capt. Fremantle for a boat and crew
to tow her ont, to which he kindly consented, giving me
two armed boats and crews. As I was going ashore in my
own boat I saw Tiwai standirg at the heads, and 1 at once
went and took him, and found he had been away to the
meeting with William King
at the time I was ashore look-
ing for him. lie was there when the news came of Mr.
Grace's escape, and told me that they immediately thought
he was implicated in the escape, and proposed to shoot
him, but he quietly slipped away from them into the bush,
and reached the spot from which I took him. I conveyed
him to the schooner while the steamer's boats were along-
side, and found that Ileremata and two others had been on
board searching for Mr. Grace, but not finding him had
taken away
the canoe, which was alongside, so that the
men on board should not escape. They had no idea of my
intention to take the schooner out, and went ashore to col-
lect more forces ; but, luckily, we doubled them, and got
over the bar with the schooner before there was any ap-
pearance of a great force. The men in the boats had a
heavy pull for it, and succeeded in towing the schooner
alongside the steamer, where they anchored."
The party arrived in Auckland on the 19th of
March.