The Sun.
London, England, 1853-10-13 00:00:00

WRECK OF THE SANTIPORE.

The port of Folkestone has been the scene of much
excitement during the last few days in consequence of
the wreck of the Santipore, a fine ship of 650 tons, the
property of Messrs. Gilmore and Co., of George-yard,
bound for Hobart Town, which, after losing her rudder
on the reef known as the Church Rocks, near this place,
came broadside on to the beach, and is now lying " high
and dry," at ebb tide, within 150 yards of the Pavilion
Hotel, and close to the harbour terminus of the South-
Eastern Railway. The Santipore left the London Docks
on the 26th ult., with nine first class passengers, and a
cargo valued at 50,0001., and after encountering the full
force of the prevalent south-westerly gales, against which
she drove some distance below Dungeness, her comman-
der, Capt. Jewell, ran back into the Downs. On Mon-
day, the 3d inst., the weather having moderated, another
attempt was made to run down channel, and on Tues-
day evening the ship was within six miles of Dungeness,
in mid-channel. As night drew on the weather hez.ame
very thick and hazy, with occasional heavy rain, dur-
ing which it was impossible to verify, with any degree
of certainty, the ship's position. A strong south-wes-
terly gale sprang up at the same time, rendering it im-
possible to carry more than the storm sails. About
midnight the tide set on to the English coast, and the
current and wind together baffled all the attempts of the
captain to keep headway on the ship. There was no
apprehension, however, of the vessel's dangerous prox-
imity to the coast until within five minutes before she
struck. The thick weather and the darkness of the night
prevented the land being sighted until half-past five
o'clock, when the ship was within a cable's length of the
dangerous reef before mentioned. An attempt to wear
her off was made, but proved ineffectual. She struck
heavily, and remained fixed on the rocks, rolling fear-
fully with every sea. The captain had not had his
clothes off for four days and nights, and the crew were
in a state of great exhaustion, but there was no lack of
energy even at this dreadful moment. An order to
furl the sails, given by the captain, was gallantly re-
sponded to by half a dozen of the crew, although the
masts were swinging to and fro with the elasticity of
horsewhips. The catastrophe was observed by an
officer of the coast-guard, who immediately ran into Folke-
stone and gave an alarm. Several boats soon put off to
render assistance, and 40 or 50 boatmen were in the vici-
nity of the wreck in a very short time. The first care of
the captain was to save the lives of his passengers, and
they were sent ashore in charge of one of his officers.
Captain Jewell then called the boatmen together, and
informed them that he was fully aware of the dangerous
position in which his ship was placed ; but that he did
not intend to give up her command, nor should he leave
her while two planks held together. He added, that if
20 of those present chose to lend him assistance at the
pumps, he would accept their services and pay them, but
under no other circumstances would he allow them to act.
The required number of men responded to the captain's
invitation, and consented to work under his command.
Telegraph messages were at once dispatched to Dover
and Rarnsg ste for steam-tugs, and Captain Hathorn,
naval superintendent of Folkestone Harbour, who was
early on the spot, ordered the Princess Mary, one of
the South-Eastern and Continental Steam-packet Com-
pany's fleet, to proceed to the spot, and render what
assistance she could. Nothing could be done except
to keep the pumps going until the tide flowed.
During the morning the ship was an object of intense
interest to many thousands of spectators assembled on
the beach between Folkestone and Sandgate. The force
with which she struck on the rocks, and afterwards
rolled to and fro, would have broken up any vessel of
less substantial frame ; but the Santipore, being a teak
ship, of Calcutta build, and only five years old, main-
tained her first-letter character admirably, and held to-
gether long after old and experienced sailors imagined
she would have been dashed ,to pieces. At noon, a
Dover tug-boat bore down to the _spot, and, with the
Princess Mary, endeavoured to make fast a warp to the
vessel's bows. In consequence of the Ole and the dan-
gerous reef upon which the ship was lying, it was a long
time before this could be accomplished.: The Princess
Mary first succeeded in making fast, and at flood tide all
the men being kept hard at the pumps, the Santipore
floated, and came off the reef into deep water, with loss
of rudder and false keel, and ten feet water in her hold.
Captain Goodburn, of the Princess Mary, immediately
put on all steam, and made for the harbour, distant not
more than half a mile. Unfortunately, although the
warp was a new one, the service it was required
to perform was too severe, and at the first strain
it snapped. The ship was now again at the mercy of
the wind and waves, without rudder or a stitch of
sail set, and within a few hundred yards of the beach.
At this moment the Merry Andrew tug-boat, ar-
rived from Ramsgate, and her captain, having dexter-
ously backed astern under the bows of the Santipore,
succeeded in getting a warp on board. It was, however,
too late. Before he could get the full strain on to his
boat, the ship, drifting rapidly inwards, scraped the
ground, and directly afterwards stranded upon her broad-
sidegaaevya destructionorde rsto e
cut
tf
on the spot above indicated, heeling over to the sea-
boardt with a tremendous list, threatening the momen-
tary
succession,dshi•
athweayvetshseelm.
absCt.sa,petaaielhi Joefwwehllicinhstfaenlitilyn
Hathorn had been watchin comparativelytiret oit,i the beach. Capt.
being thus cleared of her
top weight, lay
spare
efrizoeuarrelrys minotrhne-
ing, and he now directed all thew:peac
company's service to assist the coast-guard in protecting
the ship. A great deal of anxiety now prevailed ng
as
what was best to be done, and it was only through tht:
presence of Mr. C. M. Soutter, representative of the
underwriters in London, who had been sent down on
telegraphic intelligence of the wreck being received, that
anything could safely he determined upon. Mr. Soutter
was on the spot when the ship came ashore, and after con-
sulting with Capt. Hathorn, and satisfying himself of the
impossibility of floating the ship in herpresent state, he at
oncedirected that the cargo should be removed. About 200
labourers, and all the carts in the port, have been since
engaged in this work. The goods are first hauled up
out of the hold, then lowered into carts, and conveyed
above high water mark, where they are deposited, pre-
viously to being transmitted to London. The labour is
vastly increased owing to the position of the ship, which,
resting on a very steep beach, has a great list towards
the sea, the deck being at an angle of about 75 degrees.
The cargo consists of a general assortment of goods for
the colonies, including a large quantity of silks and
cotton goods, ready-made clothing, boots, shoes, spirits,
beers, wines, some iron, a quantity of malt and oats,
and some sawn deals for building purposes. The ship
has 12 feet water in her hold at every flood tide, and
the work of unloading necessarily only proceeds at low
water. The ship is underwritten for 8,0001. ; and the
cargo, it is said, will involve a loss of about 30,0001.
to the Royal Exchange and London Assurance Corpo-
rations. Capt. Jewell is an old experienced officer.
The catastrophe is not attributed to any want of skill
on his part, but rather to the terrible weather which has
prevailed during the past fortnight. His crew consisted
of nearly 20, all of whom are said to have behaved with
great gallantry. Among the passengers was a Mr.
Webb, of Sydney, who was on his return to the colony.
He had property on board valued at 4,0001., not one
farthing of which is insured.

TILE LATE FATAL COLLISION OFF THE NOTE.

As yet none of the bodies of the unfortunate crew
who perished with the brig Harewood, of Londoi, which
foundered near the Mouse Light, after being in collision
with the General Steam Navigation Company's steam-
ship Trident, Captain Morris, have been recovered.
The subjoined are the statements of the two survivors—
Mr. Graham, the master of the brig, and John Mason,
one of the seamen, who were on the look-out forward,
which furnish more accurate details of the loss than
have yet been given :
John Mason says—l was an able seamen on board
the Harewood, of London, Graham master, while on
her last voyage from Cardiff to London, with a cargo of
coals. On Tuesday evening last, about half-past eight
o'clock, we weighed anchor from the Oaze-buoy, to the
southward of the Mouse. The wind was S.W., strong,
on flood tide. Our vessel was close by the wind on the
larboard tack. In about three quarters of an hour,
when in nearly mid-channel, I descried a bright light,
and then immediately a red (paddle-box) one, on our
weather.bow. I knew at once that they were those
of a steamer, and I reported them instantly to the cap-
tain, who took the signal lantern to the weather gang-
way, and waved it for the space of three minutes, and
until such time as it was thought to have been observed.
On the lantern being removed I missed the red light.
It had closed in, and almost immediately afterwards
the green (the other paddle) light appeared. Being
accustomed to the navigation of steamers, I knew
she had changed her course. I shouted to the
steamer, as did the other hands, but she came
on and struck us. As she came in contact
with the brig I jumped on the rail and rushed
up the riggirg, and as the steamer passed, she took our
foremast on the poop rail and broke it in two. I caught
hold of the netting of her poop well aft and got on board,
and then found her to be the Tiidet,t, Capt. Morris, be-
longing to the General Steam Navigation Company.
The steamer then passed away clear of the wreck. In a
minute or so the brig with her crew disappeared under
water. My first impulse after recovering myself was to save
the crew if any were clinging to the rigging. I jumped

into the quarter-boat of the Trident, and called for
assistance. The mate of her joined me in a few minutes.
We were lowered down and pulled to the wreck, and
found the mainmast and maintopmast standing and the
captain in the maintopmast rigging. With some diffi-
culty we succeeded in getting him off, and we then
pulled back to the steamer, which returned to the
Thames and landed us. Did not see anything of the
men who perished when I went off in the boat. They
were all on deck, forward, when the collision took place.
The brig went down in two or three minutes after the
collision.

SHARE MARKETS-(THIS DAY.)

BRITISH RAILWAYS.

RArLw_vi:s.

St. 1
20

1100
1 8

lAberdeen.

Closing Prices
this day.

20 -- 21

Ambg. Nottng. Bost.
& Eastu.
Blrmng. Wolverh dt
Stour Valley

Captain Graham says—When Mason called my atten-
tion to the lights of the steamer I said, "It's all right, I
see her." On observing the red light, I took the lan-
tern and held it over the weather gangway for two or
three minutes, and after I thought the steamer had seen
the light I took it again, and I was just in the act of
hanging it in the companion, when the men forward
called out that the steamer was against our bows,
and immediately the two vessels came in contact,
the Trident's weather bow striking our weather
bow, the cap of the brig's bowsprit being left sticking
in the steamer's weather side of topgallant forecastle.
I ran from the companion towards the fore-end,
and turned about, intending to go down to my
cabin to save my papers ; but when I got to the
companion, I saw that she began to turn her stern
up. I then turned round to run forward again, and
got as far as the long boat, and caught her by the stern
just as the lashings broke, the hull then being under
water. After I had caught hold of the boat, she rose
and jammed me under the mainyard. With some
difficulty I contrived to extricate myself from that
position, and succeeded in getting into the top-
mast rigging, and from there on to the topsailyard,
aad I kept shouting to the steamer to come and take
me off. In the course of ten minutes Mason came
to my aid in a boat, and rescued me. I did not see any-
thing of the remainder of the crew, who went down with
the vessel, not a scream or a cry escaping from them.
Not more than two minutes elapsed from the time of our
being struck to the brig sinking. The wind was blowing
strong, with showers of rain ; it was dark, but not so
dark as to prevent vessels being seen any distance from
each other.

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20 12 Australsn .Pcific. Mail
10 8 Australn. Royal Mail
50 38 Brit. American Land 55 60
100 32. Canada —
5 5 Crystal Palace — p 6
4 2 Crystal Pal. of France
20 3 Eastern Steam — ~,
1 1 Electric Teleg. of Ir —
15 14 Gen. Steam Navigat
20 16 General Screw Steam
20 5 Irish Beetroot Sugar
1 all Nat. Pat. Sawn Fuel
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20 10 Nrth. of Europe Steam
50 all Peninsular & Oriental
50 25 Do.
1.00 60 Royal Mail Steam
25 25 South Austral. Land 32 34
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5 2 Univeral Emigration
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100 281. Van Diemen's Land 15 16

MARKET NEWS-(THIS DAY.)

GENERAL AVERAGE PRICES OF BRITISH CORN
For the Week ended Oct. 13, 1853, made up from the Returns of the
Inspectors in the different Cities and Towns in England and Wale',
per Imperial Quarter.
WHEAT. Imutr,Er.l I
I OATS. RTE. BEANS. I PEAS.
64s 04 385 74 f 224 91 394 Id 44s 3.1 j 44s 44
THE SIX WEEKS' AVERAGE.
WHEAT. I BARLEY. I OATS. I RTE. I BEANS. I PEAS.
565 1;d 345 7d 215 94 355 8d 425
DUTIES ON FOREIGN CORN. 4d 40s Gd
WHEAT. BALLET. I OATS. I RTE. I BEANS. I PEAS.
15 Od jls Od Is Od Is Od 18 Od 18 Od
QUANTITIES OF GRAIN SOLD LAST WEEK
Wheat, 103,932 ; Barley, 44,197; Oats, 15,432 ; Rye, 801 Beans,
3,492; Peas, 1,016 quarters.

HAY MARKETS.
SMITHFIELD.— Meadow hay, 31 15s to 5/ 8s ; clover
ditto, 4/ 5s to 6/ 6s ; and straw, 1/ 15s to 2/ 2s per load.
Trade rather dull.
CIIMBERLAND.—Meadow hay, 31 18s to 5/ 88 ; clover
ditto, 415 s to 61 Os ; and straw, 1/ 16s to 2/ 2s per load.
A fair average supply, and a sluggish demand.
WHITECHAPEL.—Meadow hay, 3112 s to 5/ ss; clove
ditto, 418 s to 61 Gs ; and straw, 1/ 15s to 2/ Os per load.
Supply good, and trade rather dull.

MEAT MARKETS
NEWGATE AND LEADENHALL.—A very moderate busi-
ness was transacted at this market to-day, as follows :
Beef, from 2s 8d to 3s 10d ; Mutton, 3s 4d to 4s 10d ;
veal, 3s 6d to 4s 6d ; Pork, 3s 6d to 5s Ckl per 81bs, by
the carcase.

SOUTHALL, OCT. 12.—The general demand was heavy,
at drooping prices. The supplies were on the increase
to-day. Beef, from 3s 4(1 to 4s 4d ; Mutton, 3s 10(1 to
58 (kl ; Veal, 38 6d to 4s 4(1; Pork, 3s 4(1 to 4s 8d per
81bs, to sink the offal.
ROMFORD, OCT. 12.—The demand ruled dull for each
kind of stock at this market to-day, at the following
quotations : —Beef, from 3s 2d. to 4s 4(1; Mutton,
3s 8(1 to 5s Od ; Veal, 3s 4(1 to 4.s 4d ; Pork, 3s 4d to
4s 8d per 81bs.

LLOYD'S SHIPPING.-(THIS DAY.)

LONDON, Oct. 13. Wind this day at Noon, E. ; light
breeze, and dull, hazy weather.
PLYMOUTH, Oct. 12.—Wind, S.E. Arrived—Omega,
London, for Melbourne. Sailed—Emerald Isle, Ade-
laide, S.A.

OFF LYMINGTON, Oct. 12.—Soberaun, Bahia, for Cowes.
SOUTHAMPTON, Oct. 12.—Sailed—Hermann (s), for
New York.

RAMSGATE, Oct. 12.—Wind, E.S.E. Sailed—James,
Melbourne.

FALMOUTH, Oct. 12.—Wind, E. Arrived—lrene, Rio
Janeiro, for Antwerp. Off Port—Mazeppa, Dominica.
CARDIFF, Oct. 11.—Sailed—Meridian, Monte Video.
REVAL, Oct. 3.—The brig seen ashore on Stoneskar,
Sept. 25, was the Robert and Isabella, which has gone to
pieces. The master arrived here to-day. The Luise, St.
Petersburgh to Leith, has put in leaky, having been
aground.
THISTED, Oct. 6.—The Adonis, of and for Dram, from
London, and the Herbert, London to Memel, have been
wrecked ; crew saved.
ELSINORE, Oct. 6.—The Calcutta, of and from Apen-
rade for Loudon, is aground near the Copper Grounds;
assista,nces has been sent to her.

(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)
LIVERPOOL, Thursday, 10 3011. M.
Wind, E., moderate, and foggy.
Arrived—William Mony, from Bombay.
Off Port—Universe, from New York ; John Davias,
from Callao.
(BY SUBMARINE AND EUROPEAN TELEGRAPH.)
DEAL, Thursday, 9.40 a.m.
Landon ; Zarah, from
pWaisns.edd_S.itEn.lbeiyghS,.,frolimghtodaendlu
ssa:foordly,,.
Valparaiso, for London; Arvun, from Matanzas, for Lon-
don ; Odessa, from Batavia, for London ; H.M. steamer
Cyclops, for the River.
Remains—Delfino.
aSerittt,
passed off Dungeness—Trithiof, from Omuisat
Hollaevrr,eL; ymnreolordiourxe? Charlotte,ffoorr
fLroo
fFreoemain DPean;tzji.c,Rf.olla•
CherboUrg•

AMERICA.

LIVERPOOL, WEDNESDAY.

By the steam-ships Golden Age, Captain Porter,
and Y Arctic, Captain Luce, we have advices from
New York to the 2d inst. The Arctic has brought
231,813 dols. in specie on freight.
The Golden Age sailed from New York at 1 a.m.
on the 30th ult., and arrived in the Mersey at 7
o'clock this morning ; the Arctic sailed from New
York at 10 a.m. on the 2d inst., and arrived in the
Mersey at 9 o'clock this morning, after a fine run
of 9.days and 18 hours mean time.

The following steam-ships had arrived out :
The United States' steamer Washington, from Bre-
men, at New York on the 29th ult. ; the steamer
America, from Liverpool, at Halifax on the 29th ;
and the screw steamer City of Glasgow, from Liver-
pool at Philadelphia on the Ist inst.
The Arotic passed the steam-ship Baltic at 5 p.m.
on the 2d, and the steamer Arabia at 5 a.m. on
the 4th, both bound from Liverpool for New York.
Secretary Marcy's reply to the Austrian Am-
bassador on the Kossta case has been published.
It occupies eight columns of the Washington
Mirror. The following synopsis of the reply we
extract from the New York Mirror

" Secretary Marcy takes the ground that the citizen
or subject of any sovereign Power, having faithfully per-
formed past and present duties resulting from his rela-
tion to that Power, may at any time release himself
from the obligation of allegiance, freely quit the land of
his birth, and seek citizenship under any other sove-
reignty. Also, that when a sovereignty becomes oppres-
sive to individuals, the right to withdraw rests on as
firm a basis. That, in such a case of withdrawal,
neither party—the Sovereignty abandoned nor the So-
vereignty adopted—has a right to appeal to its own
municipal laws to settle the matter in dispute. There-
fore :

" `Neither Austrian decrees nor American laws can
be properly invoked for aid or direction in this case, but
international law furnishes the rules fora correct decis-
sion ; and by the light from this source shed upon the
transaction at Smyrna are its true features to be dis-
cerned. Kossta being beyond the jurisdiction of Aus-
tria, her laws were entirely inoperative in his case, un-
less the Sultan of Turkey has consented to give them
vigour within his dominions by treaty stipulations.'
" The Secretary says the law of nations has rules of
its own on the subject of allegiance, and disregards the
restrictions of municipal codes. This is evident from the
proceedings of independent States in relation to extra-
dition, special treaties being required for that purpose.
International law allows no such claim. The case of
Polish refugees claimed by Russia from Turkey in 1849,
and Hungarians similarly claimed by Austria, are cited
in point. The Sultan rejected the claims, and was sup-
' ported by the opinion of the civilised world. Austria
appears to have been aware that her right to sieze
Kossta could not be sustained by international law, and
she has attempted to derive it from certain treaties or
ancient capitulations by treaty and usage.
" Secretary Marcy denies the power of such treaties
and usages as set forth by Mr. Hulsemann, for the rear
son that those treaties and usages were relied on by
Russia and Austria in 1849 and failed, and no treaties
have been since enacted on the subject. The Secretary
is brought, by a fair application of sound principles of
law, and by a careful consideration of the fact, to this
important conclusion,—that those who acted in behalf
of Austria had no right whatever to sieze and imprison
Martin Kossta. Kossta was seized without any right-
ful authority ; he was suffering grievous wrong ; any
one that could might relieve him ; to do so was a duty
imposed under the peculiar circumstances of the case,
by the laws of humanity. Captain Ingraham, in doing
what lie did for Kossta, would, in this view of the case,
be fully justified. As a further justification of the act
of Captain Ingraham, the Secretary proceeds to show
that Kossta, when he was seized and imprisoned at
Smyrna, had the national character of an American, and
the Government of the United States had the right to
extend its protection over him.
" To prove this national character of Kossta, the
Secretary cities his genuine certificate of declaration of
intention to become a citizen of the United States, made
in the city of New York, as the records of Court show.
Foreigners, nay, and often do, acquire a domicile in a
country, even though they have entered it with the
avowed intention not to become naturalised citizens,
but to return to their native land at some remote and
uncertain period ; and whenever they acquire a domicile
international, law at once impresses upon them the
national character of the country of that domicile.
It is a maxim of international law that a domicile con-
fers a national character. It does not allow any one
who has a domicile to decline the national character
thus conferred ; it forces it upon him, often very much
against his will, and to his great detriment. Interna-
tional law looks only to the national character in deter-
mining what country has the right to protect. If a
person goes from this country abroad with the na-
tionality of the United States, this law enjoins upon
other nations to respect him in regard to protection as
an American citizen.

" Secretary Marcy proceeds further to show that
Kossta was a citizen to all intents ; that Lis absence
from his United States domicile was only temporary ;
that he had, therefore, a right to claim the protection of
the American flag ; and that the agents under that flag
had the right to protect him. If there was an improper
use of a national ship it was an Austrian agent who
first made it, and thereby compelled the act of Captain
Ingraham. Therefore the President does not see cause
for disavowing the acts of the American agents com-
plained of by Austria. Her claims are respectfully
declined.

" In conclusion, the Secretary says,—
" Being convinced that the seizure and imprisonment
of Kossta were illegal and unjustifiable, the President
also declines to give his consent to his delivery to the
Consul-General of Austria at Smyrna. But, after a full
examination of the case, as therein presented, he has in-
structed the undersigned to communicate to Mr. Hulse-
mann his confident expectation that the Emperor of
Austria will take the proper measures to cause Martin
Kossta to be restored to the same condition he was in
before he was seized in the streets of Smyrna on the
21st of June last.' "

The Washington Union, in the course of a leader
on the subject, presents the following facts :

" It will be remembered that the Austrian Govern-
ment several weeks ago, and immediately after the
occurrence of the Kossta affair, permitted itself to give
to that transaction, and to all the negotiations
to
conse-
quent upon it, a very unusual aspect, byaddressing
the principal European Cabinets, in advance of
any com-
munication to the Government of the United States, a
circular letter of complaint and protest against the course
adopted by the American authorities. The speedy pub-
,apparently not unintentional, of this circular,
iicanthel eading European journals, from which, of course,
it was widely copied in this country, was manifestly
calculated, if not designed, to invoke from other go-
vernments
and nations not immediately interested in
the transaction of a premature judgment in regard to it,
which, as resting upon a mere ex parte statement, could
not be considered as fair or free from undue bias.
It is to be regretted that this departure by the Go-
vernment of Austria from the established usages and
proprieties of diplomatic intercourse should have been so
far countenanced by the Cabinets of St. Petersburg and
Berlin as to induce those Governments to assume the
position of voluntary parties to the controversy, by in-
structing their representatives in Washington to inti-
mate to the President their general concurrence in the
view taken by Austria of the proceedings in the case of
Kossta. It is gratifying to state, however, that the Go-
vernments of France and Great Britain, to which the
Austrian circular was equally addressed, have deemed
it proper to proceed in the premises with a far more
praiseworthy circumspection. It is understood, indeed,
that the Cabinet of Paris has not failed to make known
to that of Vienna its disapprobation of the proceedings
of the Austrian functionaries in regard to Kossta at
Smyrna, even upon the Austrian statement of those
proceedings ; and that the view it takes of the transac-
tion looks rather to the maintenance of the right and ter-
ritorial sovereignty of Turkey than to the interests or
pretensions of Austria. The Government of Great Britain,
though it has made known to that of the United States
the fact that its attention has been drawn to the subject,
has yet given no intimation that it regards the course of
the American functionaries in the transaction as open to
censure. Under these circumstances, it is evident that
Austria, in advance of any claim upon us for satisfaction,
and in a manner wholly unwarrantable, has arraigned the
Government oftheUnited States before the tribunal of the
other great Powers of the world for the conduct of its
agents in the affair of Kossta. This extraordinary pro-
ceedinga has left to the President no other course than
he
at once to give to the world the reasons upon which
an
rests the vindication of the American functionane
the views applicable to this case upon which hisps'olicd
y
is based."
The yellow fever at New Orleans had
nearly died
out. The deaths from that cause on the Ist inst.
did not exceed 15.
The amount of custom-house duties collected at
the United States ports for the last fiscal year was
$58,731,865 52c. General James Tallmidge, r
daopen
Pre-
sident of the American Institute, has expired sud-
denly in New York.
The comet had
created a sensation among the
negro population of New Orleans.
assembleOdnoan
Saturday
night niiht about 500 of them
stretching forth their arms, commenced
space, and/
singin,, it turned out that a fanatical negro
preacher had told his congregation that at 11 o'clock
on that night the comet would come in collision with
the earth and demolish it, but those who were found
with their arms stretched to heaven, watching the
coming of the catastrophe, and singing a hymn of
welcome, were to be translated bodily into Para-
dise. In consequence the mob assembled, and the
police made a descent on them, arrested 60, and
the rest fled. The prisoners were fined 5 dols. each,
or, in default, sentenced to 15 lashes each ! Presi-
dent Pierce was labouring under an attack of fever,
which it was hoped would be a very mild one.
During a ratification meeting of the " Hard Shell"
democracy at New York, a platform on which the
principal speakers were assembled gave way with a
tremendous crash, precipitating all upon it pell mell
among the ruins. Several persons were seriously
injured, but none were killed.
Accounts from Bermuda to the 24th ult. state
that a malignant fever had broken out on board the
convict hulk Thames, and communicated to the
troops in barracks. Out of 200 convicts only 30
escaped the fever, and 78 died. The detachment

of the 56th e
Reaimnt , co.•

lost 4 officers, 103 in en

children. The Sappers an,
lost 9 men. Among the

acting Lieutenant-Govern,
Colonel Robe, RoyalArti/

adjutant, andwifj. Them
officers sick, lying in the

converted fOr the purpose into an hospital. Among
the sick was Major Oakley.
Letters from Newfoundland report the total
failure of the potato crop. This, in connexion with
the unprosperous fishing season, caused fears of a
famine to be entertained. A very severe gale had
occurred on the northern coast, and a number of
fishing vessels, with their crews are reported to
have been lost.

The advices from Europe per the America, had
a depressing effect upon the New York stock-mar-
liet. Erie Railroad shares opened at 79, and fell to
78 : Nicaragua shares fell 1 to 1i ; Parker Vein,
; and Hudson River Railroad, Ito 1. The de-
mand for money continued active, and the rates of
interest were high. Loans on call were quoted 7
per cent. ; three and four months' paper 8 to 10
per cent. ; and four to six months' paper 10 to 12
per cent. The imports of dry goods continued
greatly in excess of last year, and a large amount of
money was required for the payment of duties.
The amount of surplus revenue in the United
States Treasury on the 23d ult. was 27,503,090
dols., which has subsequently been increased to
30,000,000 dols. Foreign exchange in good
demand, and sites firm ; bills on London, 1081
to 1091 :.Paris 5,121 to 5,15 ; Amsterdam,
401 to 41 ; Hamburg, 361 to 361 ; Bremen,
791 to 791 ; and Frankfort, 41 to 41k.
100,000 dols. of the stocks to run to 1867 to
1868, 50,000 dols. of each were received a t
the Treasury Department from one house in
' Liverpool and cancelled. The cotton market had
been dull, with little or no change to notice in
prices. The sales for the three days were 2,100
bales. The total export of cotton from the United
States since the Ist of September, 1852, amounted
to 2,529,119 bales, and for the same time previous
year to 2,440,509 bales. The domestic dry goods
trade continued active, both with the commission-
houses and jobbers, nearly all the leading cotton
staples having retained their firmness, and in some
instances better prices had been obtained. Woollen
manufactures, on the contrary, had, with few ex-
ceptions, been sold at a slight concession in
.prices.
Holders of cloths, cassimeres, and satin ettes,
evinced a disposition to close up their stocks,in view
of the downward tendency of the raw material.
Brown sheetings and shillings continued in fair re-
quest at 71c. to 81c. for the leading heavy goods.
Previous to the arrival of the Franklin the flour
market was dull and prices tended downward ; but
subsequently, under the influence of favourable
advices from England, the market rallied and prices
advanced 61 to 181 cents., the greatest advance
being on good State and Western. Prime Western
wheat continued scarce, with a continued active
demand for export. The market closed very firmly
at an advance of 3 to 5 cents per bushel. The
market for Indian corn closed firmly at a slight ad-
vance in price. Provisions without change. The
iron-market generally was firm, and full prices were
realised ; 1,000 tons of Scotch pig had been sold in
lots at $37 to $37 50c. six months, and $35 cash ;
60 tons of common English bars at $65, and 300 to
400 tons of refined at $7O to $7l. Freights to
London without change.

THE GOLDEN AGE AMERICAN STEAM-SHIP.

In outward appearance the Golden Age is very muck
like the Collins' steam-ships. Her dimensions are as
follow :—Length, 285 feet ; breadth, 43 feet 6 inches ;
depth of hold, 32 feet; and 2,864 tons register. She
has a beam engine of somewhat peculiar construction,
with a diameter of cylinder of 85 inches, and 12 feet
stroke. The boilers constitute the chief peculiarity.
They are each 40 feet in length, and are fitted up with
furnaces at each end, the smoke-funnel ascending from
the centre. By this arrangement it is claimed that
economy in both space and fuel is gained, and the truth
of the proposition is very evident, as far as regards space.
There are eight furnace doors at each end of the boilers.
The hull of the ship was built by Mr. W. H. Brown, of
New York. The lower frames are of live oak, and the
top frames of locust and cedar. The entire hull is double
diagonally braced with iron bars five inches wide by
three quarters of an inch thick, and four feet apart.
She is celled with eight-inch plank, the bilge kelsons are
14 inches square, and planked outside with six-inch
plank ; 13 kelsons run the whole length of the ship.
The Golden Age has accommodation for 1,200 passengers
of all classes, the steerage alone being fitted up for the
accommodation of 600. Two of the saloons, of which
there are three, one above the other, are panelled in
rose, satin, and zebra woods ; with crimson and gold
plush and rich hangings, and adorned with mirrors. In
the upper saloon the same general arrangements prevail,
although in place of the satinwood panelling the sides
are finished in white and gold. In this saloon are two
"family rooms," one finished in gold, the other in blue,
with lace curtains, mirrors, drawers, closets, &c. The
Golden Age is the property of the New York and Aus-
tralian Steam Navigation Company, who propose con-
structing four or five more vessels of the same class as
soon as their arrangements are completed. For the
present she is intended to ply between Australia and
Panama, and eventually between Australia and San
Francisco. She will sail from Liverpool for Australia
in a few days.

STAMPS ON PROMISSORY NOTES.—In reply to a letter
requesting to know whether a promissory note payable
on demand, but not to bearer, drawn on a penny stamp,
with the impression " On demand," be a legal security,
Mr. Keogh of the Stamp-office has written as follows:
" I am directed by the board to inform you, that the
promissory note referred to is wholly worthless, and can-
not be properly stamped even on payment of a penalty.
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orders
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money
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whatever dhtuao tt
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bearerl 10.
with promissory notes, the duties on which are unaltered
by that act."
A WIFE KILLED BY HER HUSBAND IN GLASGOW.—
nay supposedbe
en full
On Friday an investigation was held in Calton, in refer-
enceot tos a e
tmurder,yeasase-certined.So f
but the
as
wfaeetasrehaivne.
formed, it appears that Alexander Anderson, a spirit-
dealer in Great City-road (east), quarrelled with his
wife, who had but recently been delivered of a child.
The occasion of the quarrel was the casting of reflections
upon the conduct of the husband, when he, in a state of
excitement, kicked her with his foot on the abdomen,
which produced internal hemorrhage. Seeing that his
passion had led him to commit something serious, he
immediately ran for medical aid, but it was unavailing,
for the woman had little more than time to declare that
her husband had given her a kick before she expired.
In the course of the evening Anderson was taken into
custody, and the case is to undergoe investigation.—
Glasgow Herald.
MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH BETWEEN LONDON AND MAN-
CHESTER.—The English and Irish Magnetic Telegraph
Company has very nearly completed the laying down of
wires between London and Manchester ; indeed, yester-
day, the contractor's workmen had very nearly reached
Ardwick Green ; and by Saturday next, it is expected
that a communication will have been effected between
the company's central office, New Broad-street, London,
and the Manchester station, in the Exchange-arcade.
We believe that, in the whole, ten or twelve copper
wires, coated with gutta percha, are being laid down,
enclosed in iron piping or wood troughs, the trenches
for which are generally dug to a depth of 2 feet below
the surface of the ground. The high road has generally
been followed ; and among other towns, the wires pass
through Birmingham. The laying down has been
effected very rapidly, compared with what could have
resulted if the old mode of laying wires through towns
had been followed ; the advantage resulting chiefly from
the manner in which the iron pipes have been cast, and
which enabled the wires to be laid in them, instead of
requiring that they should be drawn through. We be.
lieve that it is not yet decided when the lino is to be
&
opene
er d for the transmission of public M
messages.— an-
test Guardian.
FALKIRK TRYST, Oct. 10.—The last for the season of
these annual markets was held to-day, commencing with
the sale of sheep. The high roads, in consequence of
the rain that fell the night preceding, operated much
against the appearance of the sheep. The stock was
very considerably above an average, and the extra num-
ber was made up by the heavy show of black and white-
faced ewes. The large prices asked in the morning had
the effect of making business very dull, and no sales
were effected before ten o'clock. At three o'clock in
the afternoon never were there such a quantity of sheep
of all kinds seen unsold at Falkirk Tryst. Never were
prices so difficult to be obtained. .In consequence of
the fall, Cheviot ewes and wethers, upon an average,
suffered a reduction at the close of the market of from
3s. to 4s. a-head ; and the blackfaced of from 2s. 6d. to
3s. At the close of the market fully 6,000 sheep were
unsold. Cheviot wethers brought from 28s. to 305.,
and, in one or two instances, so high R. 9 335. 3d. ; Che-
viot ewes, from 18s. to 265. 6d. ; blackfaced ewes, from
I ls. 6d. to 18s. 6d. ; blackfaced wethers, from 20s. to
305., and up to 31s.
MURDER AT SANTA CRUZ.— A fisherman, named An-
drew Cracovitch, a native of Hungary, was waylaid and
shot by a Scotchman, named John Clare, on the evening
of the 16th, on the beach at Santa Cruz. Some dispute
had occurred between them relating to some fishing
lines, or some such trifling matter, after which Clare re-
turned to the mission and purchased a pistol. Some
three hours afterwards, as the fisherman was crossing
the beach, Clare rose from behind a pile of lumber where
he had concealed himself, advanced a few steps and fired,
killing Cracovitch instantaneously. He was arrested
soon after, and on his examinationacknowledged.
crime. On Wednesday evening, the 17th ult., the
citi-
zens proceeded to the gaol in which he was confined,
took him out, and hung him on the spot where he com-
mitted the murder. He died without evincing any com-
punction for the deed, or apparently without the slightest
fear.
PRINTING FOR THE Houses OF PARLIAMENT.—The
expense to the public for printing for the Houses of Par.
liament last year was 64,0304

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MISS CUNNLNGHAME AT LARGE.

(From the Times.)

We bare to announce the abrupt conclusion of a
very pretty romance, in the liberation of Miss
Cunninghame. The very urgent remonstrance ad-
dressed
by Lord Clarendon to the Grand Duke has
had its effect, and the heroine, at all events, is no
longer 'in gaol. Whether she is only let out on
bail, or is now marching between two files of sol-
diers to the nearest point of the frontier, or is
wholly at large, the telegraph saith not ; but the
lady has been liberated from gaol, and, we should
hope, will soon be found exercising her gratuitous
ministry in some more congenial clime. To the
lady herself we beg to offer our condolence on so
tame and unprofitable a, result. As Rosa Madiai
has, with much good sense, declined to be lionized,
it was a very natural idea to occupy her place,
gand, after a little mild tribulation in the common
gaols of Tuscany, to be the prima donna of
Exeter-hall, and the principal star of the pro-
vinces, for the next two or three seasons. This
ingenious scheme has been nipped in the bud.
Miss Cunninghame has not been buried three
floors deep in the cells of the inquisition, examined
before secret Consistories, stretched seven feet long,
fed on black bread and water, or reduced to write
her story with a nail on the walls of her dungeon.
Somehow or other, it is not so easy to be a martyr
as one might imagine. Besides the will there must
be the opportunity. There is no Royal road to the
stake, no short cut to immortality. People ascend
to these honours in a toilsome and regular way,
as they do to a Post-captaincy, a berth of 8001.
a-year in the Excise, or a good way of business in
the haberdashery line. Just as adventurers, who
try to be rich all at once, generally come to a
sudden smash, your furious aspirants for martyr-
dom only succeed in making themselves rather
conspicuous. The Grand Duke, by judiciously
getting rid of Miss Cunninghame, has gazetted
her as a spiritual bankrupt. That darling ob-
ject of feminine ambition, a little interesting noto-
riety, is denied her, not only for the present, but,
we should think, for a long time, till, in fact, she
bas changed her name. Should anybody be told
that a lady had been sent to prison for distri-
buting tracts anywhere in the world, all interest in
the fair Quixote would be extinguished at once on
the news that it was only " Miss Cunninghame got
into another scrape."
It must be admitted that the lady rushed into
difficulty rather too fiercely. Had she only con-
tented herself with distributing Italian Bibles, that
would have been at least a plausible act, and the
man that had put her in prison for it would cer-
tainly have put himself into a false position. But
the Pilgrim's ProgrPss in Italian was going a little
too far. That book, if we remember right, con-
tains some rather sharp denunciations of Rome
and everything appertaining to it ; and, though
any Roman Catholic lady may, if she pleases, hawk
about tracts and romances in this metropolis, de-
scribing the Church of England, its clergy, and
even its supreme governor, in her ecclesiastical
capacity, as an emanation from the abyss, that is
not the custom of Tuscany. The faith of that
region is too tender to stand such rough usage.
Popery is a hothouse plant, and must be protectd
from the hard touch and chill breath of the outer
world. Argument is as much out of place in that
sphere as at a London dinner table, true de-
votion being as much injured by the exercise of the
reasoning faculties as the process of digestion itself.
Now honest old Bunyan simply amuses and edifies
the old woman of this country, but in Tuscany he
becomes an infernal machine, scattering destruction
in all orders of society. Who can answer for its
effect on the Grand Duke himself if he had chanced
taken it up ? The book was written on the com-
mon model of the allegories that abounded in the
Roman Catholic Church lone. before the Reforma-
tion, and we have little doubt' a good Catholic
would find himself very much at home in it, only
the tables rather turned. Miss Cunninghame must
either have had a much more flattering opinion of
Papal toleration than we have, or must have been
over-anxious to put her head in the lion's mouth,
when she circulated in Tuscany the writings of a
man whose opinions procured him imprisonment in
his own country. We doubt if John Bunyan him-
self would have ventured on Italian soil, even with
Cromwell to back up his quarrel, or would have
commended the act in anybody else. His pilgrim
does not go quite so far out of the way in quest of
trouble ; indeed, if he had, the story would have
terminated much too soon for either amusement or ,
edification.

But why in the world is it necessary that a zeal-
ous Protestant lady should go out, like Mr. Gordon
Cumming, to fight the wild beasts of the spiritual
desert a thousand miles from home ? There is
" ample verge and space enough" for pious cru-
saders in this huge metropolis. If Miss Cunning-
hame would go about reading the Bible and the
Pilgrim's Progress anywhere within the bills of
mortality—yes, even in the city of London, she
might wander for years without encountering either
Pope or parson, Grand Duke or Lord Mayor. No-
body would interrupt her ; and she would cheer
many a dwelling not often enlightened by know-
ledge or warmed by benevolence. The rudest coal-
heaver would respect her vocation, and, if she hap-
pened to come across a Roman Catholic priest, he
would denounce her to very little purpose within
the sound of Bow bells. It is true there is nothing
very picturesque in such a sphere, nor is there the
soft Italian sky ; but, on the other hand, we can
teach almost what we please without giving work
to Foreign Secretaries and setting admirals dream-
ing of promotion. Even with the most judicious
hand, it is very hard to touch a foreign system
without doing more harm than good. The Grand
Duke's apologists say that everybody who reads
the Bible becomes forthwith disaffected to his rule.
Nothing is more likely with such a Government.
Nevertheless, it is difficult to avoid the inference
that, so long as the system lasts, it is a matter of
self-preservation to keep out the Bible, like any
other antagonist principle ; and anybody, like Miss
Cunninghame, who tries to introduce it, assumes,
without wishing it, the character of a political
agitator. Then who is to answer for the lady's dis-
ciples ? For anything we know, they are still in
prison, or are now beyond the reach of foes or of
friends. Systems of this sort must work them-
selves out. They only answer for the present at
the cost of a future catastrophe, or of a more cer-
tain and more fatal decay. We predict the time, and
that not far off, when nobody will remain a single
year under a system his conscience does not ap-
prove ; when martyrs and patriots will find other
homes where truth is not a heresy or virtue a
crime ; when Popes and even Emperors will find
their power ebbing away and their empires laid
bare by the flight of myriads ; and when it will at
last become an imperious necessity to be liberal,
tolerant, and humane. Miss Cunninghame may
see that consummation in her own time, and she
will then see how little share individual enterprise
has in the development of the human race, and
its deliverance from religious and political des-
potism.

METEOROLOGICAL PHENOMENA IN CHOLERA.-Mr. J
Mather, of South Shields, has published a letter upon
the above subject, in which he shows, from his own ob-
servations, as well as from the experiments of various
scientific and professional gentlemen, that the prevalence
of cholera is invariably attended by marked electric
derangements in the, atmosphere, and that when
electricity is negative, vitality is depressed, and when
positive it is excited. This is proved by the fact
that when the cholera was so very prevalent at Paris
in 1849, the deaths rapidly increased till the Bth of
June, on which day they numbered 623. On that even-
ing a great thunder-storm shook the city nearly to its
foundation. Next day the cholera began to decrease ;
in ten days there were little more than 100 deaths a day,
and in twenty days little more than 30. "In the same
Year," says Mr. Mather, " when cholera of a very fatal
character was in this district, I made daily observations,
sometimes twice a day, with a magnet, which, in its
normal condition, carried about 21bs. 10 oz. When the
atmospheric indications were at the worst, and cholera
most fatal, this magnet could only sustain 11b. 10 oz.,
varying with the virulence of the disease. My hygro-
meter indicated at the same time an atmosphere nearly
saturated with moisture." Mr. Mather adds that in the
ntr..th, where the cholera has lately been so very preva-
knt, the old cholera atmosphere has been as marked as
it was in 1849 and 1832.

" RESPECTABLE" PICKPOCKET.—As an omnibus,
crowded
with passengers, was being driven down Bu-
chanan-street, on Friday, a respectably-looking young
man, dressed in a waterproof overcoat, made a hasty
retreat from the vehicle, and brushed quickly through
Princes-court towards Queen-street. A lady inside
cried " Stop that man ;" and a gentleman passenger,
without waiting to ask why, dashed after him, but find-
ing he was rather losing distance, he raised a hue-and-
cry, and a general pursuit took place, which ended in
the fugitive being captured in Turner's-court, off Argyle-
street. He had picked the pocket of a lady in the omni-
bus of a small purse, or po,.te-monnaie. containing a 51.
note and some silver In his rapid progress down
Queen-street, finding he was hotly pursued, he pitched
the purse and money from him into the shop of Mr.
Kennedy, stationer; but this v.-as so dexterously accom-
plished that the man inside the shop knew not who had
been so liberal. All that he knew was that a purse
came rattling into the shop just as a number of persons
were running rapidly past the door. Fortunately, how-
ever, the process of pitiching the purse was observed by
some of the pursuers. The fugitive was taken to the
police-office, where he gave his name and address as
Thomas Hutchinson, 112, Duke-street ; and we learn
that he carries on business there as a fruiterer, and he
is well known to the police. He sported a gold watch
and Albert chain ; and, from his appearance, was about
the last person likely to be suspected of picking pockets.
There are four convictions recorded in the police books
against Hutchinson, the last of these being in June,
1851, for the theft of a purse, containing a sovereign,
from the pocket of a lady ; and he is characterised in
the register as all old offender.—Glasgow paper.