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

LA TEST INTEL LICENCE.

(REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.)

PRUSSIA.
BERLIN, DEC. 12.

The English and French Ambassadors, with their
wives and the personnel of the embassies, left the

court fête immediately after the marriage of Princess

Alexandria of Prussia, daughter of Prince Albrecht
and niece of the King, with Frederick William
Duke of Mecklenburg Schwerin, because no places
had been provided for them at the table of the
King, notwithstanding that previous to the banquet
they had complained of this arrangement. The
Royal Chamberlain justified his conduct by pre-
cedents.

CHINA AND JAPAN.
(By Overland Telegraph from Galle.)
CANTON, Nov. 15.
The gunboats have successfully attacked the
pirates in the neighbourhood of Amoy.
Advices from Japan state that the foreign Minis-
ters had gone on an expedition to open Osseolivywn
(Ossaco ?)* to foreign trade.

The other murderers of Lieutenant Bird and Mr.
Album (?) have been arrested at Jeddo. They con-
fessed their crime, and were executed.
* According to treaty this port is to be opened in 1866.

AUSTRIA.

VIENNA, DEC 12.

The Emperor left to-day for Pesth.

It is stated that his Majesty on the presenta-
tion of the address of the Lower Austrian Diet as-
sured Prince Colloredo that he would make no
further concessions to Hungary that were not com-
patible with the interests of the whole Monarchy.

LAYBACII, DEC. 12.

In yesterday's sitting of the Diet the German
members spoke in favour of the address against the
September Patent.
The Sclavonian members opposed the address, and
their motion to pass to the order of the day was
agreed to.

CZERNOWITZ, DEC. 12.
The Diet agreed yesterday to an address to the
Emperor in favour of the September Patent.

FRANCE.

PARIS, DEC. 11.

BOURSE, Dec. 11.—The telegraphic announcement
of a further fall of i per cent. in English Consols
has had no effect on the operations here, and although
little business is transacted, the market remains firm,
with quotations well maintained. Three per Cents.
and Mobilier Shares show an improvement—the
former of 71c., at 68f. 90c.—and the latter 2f. 50c.,
at 885 f. Italian Fives also have a slight advance,
the current quotation being 65f. 20c. In the railway
share department Austrian have receded 3f. 75c. ;
Saragossa, 2f. 50e. ; Lyons, If. 25c. ; Northern and
Lombards remain without variation. The following
are the last quotations :-
41 per Cents 97 25
Do. end month
3 per Cents. 6B 95
Do. end month 6B 95
Credit Mobilier 886 25
Do. end month 888 75
Bank Shares 3800
Credit Foncier 1327 50
Italian Loan 65
Do. end month 65 25
RAILWAYS.
Cash.

Roman
Ottoman Fives 43 60
Mexican Loan 4B 50
Do. Bonds 333 75
Russian —
Austnan
Spanish Threes
Home Debt
Deferred

Acct.

Orleans
Northern
Lyons and Mediterranean
Southern
'Western

- - ... 835 -
- - ... 1125 -
- - ... 841 25
- - ... 570 -

''''''' '' •••

Eastern
Sardinian .
Austrian
Lombard
North of Spain
Saragossa
Ditto to Barcelona
Roman

- - ... 518 75
- - ... 211 25
- - ... 426 25
- - ... 420 -
- - ... 165 -
- - ... 195 -

- - ... 155 -

Gallant Rescue from a Wreck.

On the occasion of the wreck of the screw steamer
Barbadian, of Liverpool, bound from that port to
Barbadoes, which went ashore on the north end of
the Blackwater Bank, a most gallant and perse-
vering rescue of four of her crew was performed.
As soon as intelligence of the wreck reached W ex-
ford, the lifeboat of theNationalLifeboat Institution
was taken in tow along the inside of the Blackwater
Bank. The wind had freshened to a gale, and the
sea ran very high, boarding the tug frequently, and
threatening to put the fires out. The weather was
so very thick that nothing could be seen, and no
guns or other signals being heard, it was considered
the vessel must have got clear ; so, after a search of
fully four hours, under very trying circumstances,
the lifeboat returned to her station. The next day,
the weather being clearer, although the wind was
still blowing strong, the steamer Ruby took the
lifeboat again in tow and went out to the Bank.
On approaching the north end of it a mast was
observed out of the water with four men clinging
to it. The sea was breaking literally mountains
high, and the greatest danger existed in nearing
the wreck, as the vessel having gone to pieces,
the machinery and other portions of her were
strewed about in the vicinity of the mast on which
the people were. The lifeboat attempted five times
to get to the mast, and was sometimes as close as to
cheer up the poor fellows, and as many times failed
to accomplish her noble purpose. It was now evi-
dent that the crew of the lifeboat were becoming
exhausted, having been four hours at their fruitless
task ; but summoning all their remaining strength
they determined to make a last final effort, as the
mast to all appearances was about to fall. The
anchor was then let go, and the boat pulled close to
the mast, which was grappled this time, and the
lifeboat then rescued the four poor sailors who had
been in thir perilous position for upwards of 27
hours, with nothing to eat but a small portion of
uncooked meat. Although half dead, the rescued
men requested the lifeboat to proceed to the light
vessel to see if any of the crew of the wrecked
steamer wore on board, but they had heard nothing
of them. The lifeboat then brought the four men
on shore. Out lof the crew and passengers, 37 in
number, of the steamer, 12, including the captain
and:chief mate, it is feared have perished, only 25
persons have reached the shore.

ARCHBISHOP LAUD was born at Reading, Oct. 5,
1573. He was elected Fellow of St. John's College,
Oxford, in 1593. After holding different livings, he was
elected President of his college in 1611, and was made
chaplain to James I. In 1615 he became Archdeacon of
Huntingdon; in 1621 Bishop of St. David's. In 1622 he
had his famous controversy with the Jesuit Fisher; and
in 1624 he was put into the High Commission Court. In
1626 he was made Bishop of Bath and Wells, in 1628
Bishop of London. In 1630 he became Chancellor of the
University of Oxford, and in. August 1633 he became Arch-
bishop of Canterbury. From this time till the meeting
of the Long Parliament he was nearly in the position of a
Prime Minister, and was the chief agent in all the arbitrary
acts of the time, such as the High Commission prosecu-
tions, the introduction of the Liturgy into Scotland, the
licensing of books, and the like. One of the first acts of
the Long Parliament was to send him to the Tower in
March, 1641. His goods were plundered by various violent
proceedings. He was brought to trial in March, 1644,
for high treason. The proceedings lasted, under one
form or another, till January, 1645, when he was be-
headed, in the 72d year of his age. The groat events of
Laud's life are too notorious (says a Saturday Reviewer,
in giving this resume of the archbishop's career) to require,
or even to justify, more than this passing reference ; but it
is worth while to try to get some sort of notion of the man
from his writings. They consist of seven sermons ; a re-
port of the Conference with Fisher the Jesuit, held for the
instruction of the Duke of Buckingham's mother; the
Diary, of which Lord Macaulay spoke so contemptuously,
and a small yclume of private devotions; a variety of
official papers connected with his duties as Chancellor
of Oxford; reports of several of his speeches, especially
of speeches at the Council Board and at the Court of High
Commission: a history of his troubles and his trial; and a
great mass of correspondence with various persons of whom
Strafford is the most remarkable. The most characteristic
of them are his Conference with Fisher, his speeches, his
Diary and book of devotions, and part of his correspon-
dence,