The Sun.
London, England, 1854-08-10 00:00:00

" CATCHING THE TARTAR."

(From the Standard of Tuesday night.)
On Saturday last we. copied, in extenso, into the
Standard a very long, very florid, and sufficiently solemn
leading article of the Times, describing the narrow escape
of the Emperor of Russia and his family from capture by
an English steamer. The story was that the Emperor,
in a fit of heroism—such as he is the last man in
Europe to be vied with-Lpushed out in a small steamer
with his family, ladies included, to make prize of a
yacht belonging to Lords Lichfield and Euston,
a❑d having Lord C. Paget on board. We thought it
right to copy the article, but were compelled to in-
timate that we did not believe one word of it, assigning
the reasons for our disbelief. That our incredulity was
well founded will be seen by the following letter pub-
lished in the Times of this day :-

q.TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIMES.
"SIR,—My attention has been drawn to an article in
your paper of yesterday, in which the following passages
Occur :
" An English yacht, belonging to Lords Lichfield and
Euston, having Lord C. Paget on board, ventured some-
what too near the guns of the place.' . .
She is stated to have been in the most imminent danger
of capture.
" As the owner of the yacht in question, I hope I may
be permitted to say that we kept at a safe distance from
the guns of the forts, and were never in any danger of cap-
ture.
" I have felt it due to Lord C. Paget and the officers who
accompanied me, as well as to myself, thus to correct the
unintentional error into which you appear to have been
led, as, had we placed ourselves in such a position, in an
unarmed vessel, we should have been guilty of an act of
folly.—l am, Sir, obedient servant,
" Albany, Aug. 6. " LICHFIELD."
Our readers will have seen an hiatus in the foregoing
letter supplied by three colons. Whether the prudent
omission was made by Lord Lichfield or the Times we
know not, but as the colons are the substitute for
the most interesting part of the fabrication—the danger
of capture to the Emperor, &c.—we suspect the Times.
We may add, that journal offers no word of explanation
or apology for its audacious romance of Saturday ; and
yet there are people who pin, or affect to pin, their
faith on it. We say, or " affect to pin their faith,"
becaw e we believe that the majority of those who pre-
tend 4-1 make the Times their oracle are altogether
insincere. A lie believed may, for certain purposes,
be as good as truth, or even better than truth ;
and thus the Times finds many patrons who vouch for
its veracity, while the rests of the public merely laugh
at the " chartered libertine." The position occupied by
the journal of which we speak is rather opposed to the
spirit of the dogma of profligate Col. Charteris, that a
good character would be worth ten thousand pounds to
him, because he would make twenty thousand pounds
of it. A good character would be ruin to the Times ;
for, besides depriving it of the sympathy of one class of
the community, more numerous than respectable, a good
character would be a serious check upon its lively ex-
travagances. Had any journal of decent character pub-
lished such an audacious falsehood as this story of the
Emperor of Russia's narrow escape, it would be almost
ruin to it, but a detected falsehood costs nothing to the
Times. For our part, we question the veracity of any
man who says he believes anything upon Times au-
thority.

PROGRESS or CHOLERA IN BELFAST.—The Banner ----------- 1
ofUlster of yesterday contains the following statement
with respect to the spread of cholera in that town : ARRIVALS AT ABERDEEN.—Amongst the recentarrival
Homo and
We have reason to expect that the weekly returns of at Aberdeen are—the Duke and Duchmesisssoefs
Richmond
cholera in Belfast, to be made on Wednesday next, will and suite, on their way to Gordon Castle ; the Princess
LadyLadY C
present a serious increase on the returns of, last week. of Saxe Weimer, Lady Besborough, Lady Cecilia
Effic7!ent arrangements have been made in the proper don Lennox, and Lord George G. Lennox ; Lady
LordJ or-
awdor, on
quarters with the view of meeting the sad emergencies and Sir Robert Abercrombie and the
of the times, and public notifications are to be seen at all bie, ononthtebireirwwayaytnoorFtbog;leLn
corners of the streets, conveying precise information on Party cjird"el.nsed;°nu) and
the subject. In consequence of the prevalence of cho- their,route to Cawdor Castle ; the
lera in town, the troops in garrison are prohibited from a 9 rs.
of
mer,nhon their way north ; the ustice-Clerk
quitting their barracks until further orders. Private Countess and family Earl and
Gordon Castle; Sir and suite
William Fraser, of the 92nd depot, was attacked with
__.his
James Elphinston on their way to
Asiatic cholera about noon on Friday last, and died at Logie, on way to Westhall * the e Dalrymple of
of Errol, en route to Skene, Dowager Countess
six o'clock the following morning." House •
man of ; Sir Alex. T 1
QUARANTINE REGULATION AT MALTA.—The Secre- _, , Crimonmogate, on his ,‘, x. —anner-
tary of the Governor of Malta has notified to the -V-4,(1.1 'NIT, and Lady Agnes way south ; James Duff,
Chamber of Commerce of that island, that orders have Bart.—A berdeen Herald. Duff ; Sir A. Dunbar,
been given to subject all vessels coming from infected UNCLAIMED DIVIDENDS.—A
ports in France and Italy to a quarantine of observation says :—lf the English law correspondent, "A. B,'
of five days, including the time consumed in the voyage, Bank of England or
of
thepermits the directors of the
when there is no sickness on board. When sickness pocket the annual interest East India Company to
exists, the voyage is not to be counted, and precautions monies, Parliament ought
or dividends due on unclaimed
proportionate to the particular case are to be adopted. the amount which to call upon them to state
DEPARTURE OF GRIST AND MARIO FROM LIVERPOOL• this source. I
t_
nihas come into their hands from
Grisi and Signor.hi c it should,
-LIVERPOOL, Wednesday--Madame. be handed over in trust uld, as soon as possible,
Mario this morning left Liverpool in the Baltic, Capt. remain with then to the Lords of the Treasury, t
Comstock, for New York. They are accompanied by I kin. These unclaimedi till applied for by the heirs or next ofe
Mr. Hackett, the American comedian, under whose 1 and the custod monies belong to our forefathers,
direction they go out to commence an engagement in trade with it, iers cannot, as men of honour or honest ~
the United States on the 4th September. They so- poses. lii ior apply the same to their private puyr-
journed at the Adelphi Hotel since their arrival, where, the lapse of ranee, they order unclaimed monies, after
this morning, previous to their departure, they were FA
presented, Grisi with a splendid epergne, and Ma • 1 FATAL ACCIDENT.—On Monday, as Mr. Chas. Lupton
with a beautiful gold ring set with a very large blood-rio 1 (of the firm of Luccock, Lupton, and an eminent
stone, both the gifts of an Indian lady, who witn
the farewell appearance of these renowned vocal' witnessed from Leeds to Bradford he was thrown by the animal,
the Italian Opera on Monday night. The
vocalists at and a foot being:entangled in one of the stirrups he was
through Mr• Chappell, of Bond-street, andpresents came dragged for some distance along the road before his horse
were. ad- was stopped.
dressed to the care of Mr. Radley, of the Ad 1 The injuries he sustained were so severe
e phi Hotel, that next morning he expired.