The Sun.
London, England, 1862-02-12 00:00:00

SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY _EVENING, !FEBR VARY 12, '1862.

SHIPWRECKED MARINERS' SOClETY.—Although
the weather during the past month has not been of that
boisterous and stormy nature which usually characterises
the winter season, and causes so many wrecks and casual..
ties at sea, this society hashed heavy drains on its resources.
No less than 60 widows, 108 orphans, 26 parents, and 450
mariners and master mariners have been relieved, at a cost
of £1,040. A monthly expenditure like this is, perhaps,
the most convincing proof of the need which exists for cen-
tralising charitable contributions in a society, whose only
object is to relieve distress in its general and most compre.
hensive form. The mtriners themselves continue to take
a deep interest in the welfare of this society by contributing
to its support, but their contributions would be compara-
tively valueless without the co-operation and assistance of
the public at large. An interesting report was made at the
usual monthly meeting from Messrs. Ryan Brothers and
Co., honorary agents for Limerick, in allusion to the hu-
mane and noble conduct of Captain Fudge, of the Holyrood
steamer, in saving the lives of eight men whom he picked
up at sea in a gale of wind, and who must have perished
but for his assistance. He generously entertained them on
board, and landed them safely on the Skerries, from whence
they had been blown off in their little bark by the violence
of the storm and the waves.
THE DUKE OF BUCKINGHAM'S STRANGE DREAM.
—As for myself, I am ashamed to say that I am more low
than I should dare confess to anyone, by a dream which
haunted me in my sleep with a degree of precision which is
really frightful. I was at Stowe, my dear and regretted
home. All was desolate—not a soul appeared to receive
me. My good dog met me, and licked my hand. Accom-
panied by him, I traversed all the apartments—all desolate
and solitary; every room as I had left it. On my return
from the state bedroom I met my wife 1 She told me all
my family were gone, and she was left desolate—that even
her little favourite dog, which had been her sole remaining
companion, had died a few days ago. We went out at the
north hall door together, and all was solitude and desertion,
I awoke with the distress of the moment, and slept no
more that night. Ido not like to confess how much effect
this has had upon me. I have not the slightest faith in
dreams, but this has strongly accorded with the feelings
and tone of my mind, and I cannot shake it off. Tho'

who will ever see this journal is
will, I am sure, not laugh
at my feelings.—From the Duke of Buckingham's Private
Diary.
THE WINDHAM CASE.—A correspondent Writes:
" Mr. and Mrs. W. Windham are now staying at Felbrigg
Hall, the family seat in Norfolk. Mr. Windham has been
down for about 10 days, having come into the country on
the conclusion of the extraordinary trial before Master
Warren ; but Mrs. Windham did not rejoin her husband
till Saturday evening, when she arrived at Norwich by the
8.45 p.m. express, posting to Felbrigg the same evening. In
the course of last week Mr. Windham gave an audit dinner
to his tenantry. The entertainment was a handsome one,
and Mr. Windham himself presided at it. After dinner he
proposed a number of
toasts, showing an intelligent fami-
liarity with the leading public topics of the day. One of
his speeches extended over 20 minutes. As regards the
costs of the late inquiry,
it is positively stated that Major-
General 'Windham and the other parties who signed the
petition on which the commission de lunatics inquirendo
was granted do not intend to apply for their costs out of the
estate; and it is oven affirmed—although this move will
probably rot be successful that the costs which Mr.
Windham has incurred in what may be styled his defence,
and which amount to some 415,000, will be attempted io
be saddled on the petitioners. Every effort is being made
I<. Windham
to patronise an entertainment at a circus,
Windhamto live more quietly for the future.
at an
Theatre Royal, Norwich, but he was pre-
vailed upon not to attend." We can scarcely reconcile the
above statement with the notice that has during the last few
Jaya signed by Mr. Windham, to the effect that
he will piallrtried' n future be answerable for his wife's debts.
At Antwerp experiments have been lately tried
with the Wahrenderif cannon and shells. Several shells
were fired at a wall which it was intended to throw down;
they duly burst, but the wall remained standing. Others
were then exploded at the foot of the wall, but with no bet-
ter suecess—in a word, the experiments were a complete
failure.

excerpted from a brief but suggestive pamphlet'
upon the subject of emigration but just now
published by Mr. Ridgway. .The argument
advanced by the pamphleteer is certainly en-
titled to very serious consideration. That it is
so, the words above quoted from it cannot but have
already demonstrated. It is obvious indeed upon
the most cursory reflection that if our Government
has never cared before to regulate, guide, and
encourage emigration it should in reason
do so from this time forth. " Hitherto,"
says the anonymous writer already quoted,
" Hitherto England has not come forward to
bear any portion of the expense of emigration ; the
great mass of emigrants have been left to provide
the cost entirely from their own resources, and con-
sequently, as a matter of necessity, they have gone
to that country to which a passage was attainable
at the smallest cost." And when it is borne in
mind that, for £4 or £5, any intending emi-
grant can transport himself to the opposite
shores of the Atlantic to obtain a home and
employment in the American States, and that it re-
quires at the very least three times that sum to
reach our antipodes in the fertile regions of Aus-
tralia—it is surely manifest that there is need at
length that our rulers in this matter should bestir
themselves.

* Emigration frcm the British Islands, considered with
regard to its bearing and influence upon the interests and
prosperity of Great Britain.

ETON COLLEGE, Feb. 11.—This morning, shortly
before 10 o'clock, a messenger arrived at the residence of the
venerable the Vice-Provost, bearing the sanction of her
Majesty to the election to the Provostship, by the Vice-
Provost and Fellows of the College, of the Rev. Dr. Good.
ford, who has during the last nine years discharged the
duties of head-master, having succeeded the late Dr. Haw-
trey on his elevation to the Provostship.
THE ACCIDENT IN THE WATERLOO-ROAD.—Seve-
ral of the unfortunate people injured in the accident in the
Waterloo-road on Monday remain in a precarious state in
the hospitals. At St. Thomas's there are 14 men and boys
and five women and girls; at Guy's two boys; at Charing-
cross one young man, and atWestminster a boy, all more or
less suffering from the effects of their fall. Francis Cunning-
ham, the poor shoeblack, a boy of 14, is said to be deplor-
ably crushed, and the two boys Reader r.nd Townsend,
in Guy's Hospital, aged 11 and 12 respectively, lie in a
state of danger. So, too, does a boy in the Westminster
Hospital, named William Hutchinson, who had both his
arms broken, besides receiving other injuries. At St.
Thomas's the boy Clement Ridley and William Venus, the
police-constable, Sarah Harding, Mary and Elizabeth Gold-
smith, Rosa Mortlock, and Fanny Robinson are all in a
condition to excite apprehension. Two persons who had
been taken to Charing-cross Hospital were so comparatively
little hurt as to be able to leaf e on Monday night. During
the whole of yesterday crowds of people collected about the
scene of the accident. The gap in the street has been
securely railed round to prevent further disaster, and the
curiosity of people passing is also restrained by the police
on the spot.
SINGULAR AND FATAL ACCIDENT.—On Saturday
night, at about half-past 7 o'clock, a man, apparently about
30 years of age, took off his boots and socks, waded about
four yards into the Serpentine, and got on board a sailing
boat which was moored near the boat-houses, opposite the
Receiving-house of the Royal Humane Society. He then
cast the boat off, and the wind, which was blowing from
E.N.E, drifted her towards Kensington-gardens-bridge,
and over to the south shore of the lake. He removed the
sail-cover and cast off some of the stops of the mainsail,
no doubt with the view of making sail on the boat, but,
not understanding what he was about, did not succeed in
doing so. When about 25 yards from the south shore he
was observed by a man and woman who were passing
standing on the deck of the boat, apparently endeavouring
to push her towards the middle of the Serpentine, but sud-
denly fell overboard into six feet of water. The man who
witnessed the accident and another person ran to the bridge
for the drag which is placed there by the Royal Humane
Society for public use, but in this case it was of no service,
the unfortunate man having sunk so far from the shore. On
the alarm being given at the Receiving-house the superin-
tendent immediately started off two boats, and a messenger
for Dr. Christian, principal medical officer of the society, and
after preparing a warm bath and the other necessaries re-
quired in such cases, went himself in a third boat to assist
the boatmen. The person who saw the accident having gone
away, there was no one to point Gut the spot where the poor
man disappeared, and therefore the men were directed to drag
some little distance to windward of the boat, but two hours
elapsed before the body was found, it being half buried in
mud. When the clothes were taken off it was discovered
that one of the coat-tails was torn completely off and put
into the pocket, which still hung to the coat, and the other
tail was hanging on by a shred of cloth; the waistcoat was
split up the back to the collar. Dr. Christian examined the
body carefully, but there were no external marks of vio-
lence. Although the wind was very keen and the frost
sharp, he must have stood on the boat's deck, which was a
sheet of ice, on his bare feet, as his boots and socks were
found in the bottom of the boat. Half-a-sovereign and 3s.
were found in his pockets, but no marks or papers by which
he could be identified. He was 5 feet 7 inches high, had
long dark hair, dark eyes, moustache, and stubbly beard
about the chin, and wore a shirt with blue stripes, wide
apart, and a white Guernsey frock over it, a black silk hat
(maker's name J. Hall, Regent's-circus), black coat bound
with black riband, blaok waistcoat, dark mixed trousers,
new side-spring pegged boots, and dark necktie with red
spots.