The Sun.
London, England, 1854-09-23 00:00:00

SPAIN.

Advices from Madrid of the 18th state that the
Government had published an order forbidding any
other than electors to take part in election meet-
ings, and limiting their discussions to electoral
matters.

On the 18th the Three per Cents. closed at 34.
ITALY.

The _ltalia e Poplo, a Radical Genoa paper, was
seized by the police on the 16th, for an article in-
sulting to the Piedmontese Government.

MISCELLANEO US.

It is related that Prince Woronzow, who has
been drinking the waters at Carlsbad, will return
to Tiflis at the end of this month.

The last ukase relative to the new conscription
has produced an indescribable sensation in Russia.
If 200,000 men are raised, and each serf is valued
but at 500 silver roubles, it will give an enormous
sum. There have been four such conscriptions in
two years. What has the war already cost the
nobles ?

The tribunal of Lorrach (Baden) has summoned
the notorious Hecker to appear before it within
four weeks, to answer to charges of high treason in
connection with the Baden revolution of 1848-9.
His property has meantime been sequestered. In
case of non-appearance, judgment will go by de-
fault. . _

Baron Thile, Prussian envoy at Athens, and now
on leave, will, says the Kreutz Zeitung, be appointed
to Rome.

Leipsic autumn fair has commenced, and it is
expected that considerable business will be trans-
acted, with the Danubian provinces, whose mer-
chants were prevented attending at the last two
fairs by the Russian occupants.
Field-Marshal-Lieutenant Mertens has been ap-
pointed Military and Civil Governor of Trieste.
The cholera is less violent at Rustchuk, but it
rages fearfully among the Egyptians at Giurgevo.
The Berlin Silesian Aid Committee has been
enabled to transmit 26,000 dollars to the sufferers
by the late inundation, including a magnificent
donation of 10,000 dollars from the Aix-la-Chapelle
Insurance-office.

English engineers are occupied in taking ad-
measurements between Kostendje and Rassova,
" the Porte having given its consent to the con-
struction of a canal which is to ba navigable for
merchantmen between the Danube and the Black
Sea."

A Prague journal estimates the present expenses
of tho Austrian army at 800,000 florins daily, or
2e millions (2i millions sterling) monthly. This is
evidently an enormous exaggeration.
The Prussian Minister for Foreign Affairs has
given a diplomatic dinner in honour of Kiamil
Effendi, the new Turkish envoy.
The last number of the Prussian Woehen Blatt,
the organ of the so-called Bethmann Holweg, or
Moderate Opposition and anti-Russian party, has,
it is said, been confiscated by the police.
A letter in the Tribune gives an account of a
terrible and extraordinary catastrophe that has oc-
curred at Daroca, a small town in Arragon, situate
in a rich and fertile valley, abounding
.in corn and
wine. The loss has been incalculable; in the vaults
water has replaced wine, the contents of the shops
are spoiled, and many houses are crumbling away.
From Moscow a- heavy failure has been an-
nounced, the firm being that of Lukin and Skura-

toff, cotton manufacturers, with liabilities for
100,0001.

A new telescopic comet was discovered on the
12th by M. Bruhns, at the observatory of Berlin.
The Spanish ex-Minister of War, General Blaser,
and Count Vista Hermoso, who have 1 een staying
some days in London as political refugees, 1)W
gone to Paris, where the Count de San Luis, ex
President of the Council, accompanied by his
nephew, the Chevalier D'Andrade, late secretary
of embassy at Turin, has arrived from Madrid.
In a letter from St. Petersburg, which appears
in the Allgemeine Zeitung, we read—" The loss of
the Aland Islands is of no consequence to Russia.
They were always looked upon as an exposed post,
which would have to be abandoned at the first at-
tack. They were only of importance in a war with
Sweden ; in a war with any other power their mi-
litary value is nil ; and these barren islands call
have no value except as a military position."
The two admirals of the combined fleets have
issued a proclamation to the inhabitants of the
Aland Isles, prohibiting them from holding any in-
tercourse with the Russians.

The Swedish Government has appointed Baron
Rothschild, the present Swedish Minister in Berlin,
to represent it in London, in the place of Rear-
Admiral Virgin, who has at his own request been
recalled.

The naval officers attached to the port of Wax'
holm have lately given a brilliant banquet to the
officers of the French man-of-war Austerlitz, lying
there ; and this has been returned by the latter 111
a no less enthusiastic manner.

AMERICA.

(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPII.)

SOUTHAMPTON, SATURDAY MORNING.

The United States' mail steamship Washington,
Captain Lines, with dates from New York to the
9th instant, arrived off Cowes at half-past 9 this
morning, on her way to Bremen.

LORD DUNDONALD AND THE BALTIC

FLEET.

With characteristic and sailor-like frankness, Lord
Dundonald has hastened to contradict the groundless as'
sertion that he had been offered the command of the
Baltic fleet, and bad declined it on account of the condi.
tions with which it was coupled. " I have never," sari
Lord Dundonald, "been honoured with any converse'
tion or communication with Lord Aberdeen relative t°
the command in the Baltic, or in regard to operations t°
be conducted in that or any other quarter." On this flat
contradiction our brother of the press who first let loose
the canard in question coolly remarks, " The only real
discrepancy between our statement and this explanation
(what a nice soft name for a contradiction !) lies in the
offer of command to Lord Dundonald." The only differ;
ence here admitted would by most people be considers 9.
quite enough: but it is not the only one. Lord Dundonald
has also explained that he had no communication from
Lord Aberdeen respecting the proposed operations in the
Baltic ; in other words, there was no proposal to hamper
his free agency as commander, which was part of the
story that has elicited his denial. Our conternporari
consoles himself for having been detected in disseminat'
ing an unfounded story by saying that had the offer
been made to Lord Dundonald, "it would certainu
have reflected honour on Lord Aberdeen." Was it, then?
to do honour to Lord Aberdeen that our conternporl
gave currency to the story ? The same journalist, On
a morning contemporary who echoes him as usual, fa
back upon Lord Dundonald's secret and mysteriouS
one means " of putting ships and stone batten
on an equal footing. One of these writers ComPla,ll,
that Government has " neglected " Lord Dun donalu
communication, and the other that Government has 11°,;
" adopted" his plan. Did the Government " neglect
the communication ! Is it not, indeed, the fact, Oa
the Admiralty took Lord Dundonald's crotchet int?,
serious consideration ? Nay more, did they not refer
to a select committee of naval officers ? Did not tblo
committee declai e it impracticable I Would our con'
temporaries have Government adopt an impracticable
scheme ? It is true naval officers are not infallible ; _
is true they are sometimes prejudiced against what rs
new ; bat all who know Lord Dundonald -and 131 A
career will be prepared to believe the Admiralty 0;,
the committee have justly appreciated his " one means!
Lord Dundonald is not better known for his indornitable
valour than for his visionary turn of mind and sad lack
of judgment. He started in life by allowing himself to
be led, by sheer love of frolic and excitement we honestll
believe, into a graye collision with the laws of his coup',
try. At the time of the Burdett riots he had almosb
persuaded the popularity-hunting baronet to pursue
course that would infallibly have led to a great 3U('
aimless loss of life. For years he went about boring
everybody with an impossible rotatory steam-egine. The
presumption is, that having now passed his fourscore years
his plan for putting a speedy end to the war has a strong
family likeness to all his earlier plans. By the bye, be
himself describes it as the means of placing the belli'
gerents "on an equal footing." Now, as on the whole '
the allies have rather had the better of Russia in the
present calipaln, we suspect the public would have owed
Government small thanks for adopting a plan that was
to place Russia " on au equal footing with the
Daily Sews.

ACCIDENT AT THE HOLYHEAD BREAK"

WATER.

A correspondent, writing from Bangor on the 19th
inst., says :—About half-past ten a.m., a fearful occur;
rence, though fortunately not attended with the loss °,f
.
life, took place at the new pier or breakwater at
Holyhead. The pier in its present form extends full,'
a mile into the sea, and at its extreme point has five
lines of rails on 18-inch timber all braced with
crossed timbers double and treble under the piled
which are placed under each line of rails, and are
feet apart. I was standing at the extreme end of the pjer
on the centre line (having obtained an order to view t'"
works), waiting to see a train deposit its load in the SI,
and observing the carpenters extending the pier, ,rang
working with a life-buoy upon him. Whilst admiring
this precaution, as they have only the width of the till/,
ber used to put the rails upon, three waggons and all
engine came down the centre line on which I was statione
Three other waggons with two breaksmen were ruunle
on the next parallel line of rails, and had reached t h
third pile from the end when an immense eras„
took place, shaking the whole fabric in a terrible n3Ol.
ner. Almost immediately I saw the enormous timhex,
from the inner line of rails rising up from the ee ';
treme end, and following the train loaded with stall
which with two carpenters and a breaksman had bee4''':'
precipitated far below into the sea. Fortunately it tyl
high tide, and the men, who fell into a great delll
of water, not rise to the surface till nearly se.
the timbers had fallen. Many workmen soon nongr a
gated on the spot, and by the aid of a life beat and
buoys, and the daring gallantry of a man who lowereen
him: elf by a rope to the fallen timbers, the three a
were rescued from the water and laced on the 4.B—na
work, some distance off, and ultimately conveyed ter
shore uninjured. It seems that the supp rters of the inat
line of rails had broken down under the°immense we'rtg;
of the locomotive and the three waggons. I 3—,10
wards observed blocks of stone on some of the wagg",,l3o
(besides a full load of smaller stones) of several tf-et
weight, and I was informed by the men that it is 80 fee
from the top of the rails to the foundation in the ee;
and that although the piles are 18-inch balks, thel,
of very indifferent white pine, and that more fearful ac'
cidents may be anticipated. A pile supporting er°°,l
beams under each line of rails in the centre of the 1„!
10 yards apart, with a depth of 80 feet to the fours
nd
tion, cannot be sufficient to bear the oscillations a.th
weight of locomotive trains loaded to the utmost wibt
stone. The Government and also the contractor 04
to have their immediate attention drawn to it.

IMPUDENT ROBBERY AT SPONDON.—On Sunday in°rc.
ing last a most impudent robbery was committed at the
residence of Henry Morley, Esq., Spondon. It aPPeer3
that between twelve :and one o'clock that day, the ser
vent laid the cloth for dinner, in the front
Morley
dining.roolui
and placed the plate on the table. Mr. returuin
ci"
from church shortly afterwards, and went
about ten minutes afterwards it was discovered that the
following silver goods had been stolen :—.Two lar
table-spoons, one dessert-spoon, one gravy-spoon,
salt-spoon ; •there was a crest upon them, with a tigers
head and cap upon if. Afterwards they disc°verea
that a number of silver tea-spoons had been yalits,,
away ; they were marked with the letter Po;
There is reason to believe that the robbery wag cc
a;
witted by a woman tramping about the country'
about the time of the robbery the neighbours say/ a
woman coming out of Mr. Morley's house in a confur
state, and as if she was carrying something. IC°
has yet been obtained as to her whereabouts, but t
police are on the alert —Derby Advertiser.
MONUMENT TO SIR ISAAC NEWTON IN LIVEBPOOD.;
After.the learned and eloquent address delivered 01)%
Wednesday evening by the noble president of the Britt%
Association, in the course of which he more than cric,,t
alluded to the debt which the best interests of this gre:o
commercial city owe to the researches of the illustric"r,
Newton, we bail with satisfaction and delight the °Prix.
tuna),
reat afforded our fellow-townsmen of recording tue,,.
names in the list of those who are about to do huli,
to themselves by erecting a monument to the g P
losnpher at the place of his early education, and close
the spot which gave him birth. We venture to Prel„cr
that our merchants and our shipowners, as well as c-0
men of science, will not be found wanting in this (ial-
be it said) the first public tribute of respect to the too,
mory of the world's greatest philosopher.
Mercury.
GRIMSBT.—On opening Clee church on Sunday hints'
big last for Divine service, it was found impossible 11°,
remain there in consequence of a very offensive Foe t
which pervaded the whole church. The clergyman
once proceeded to Cleethorpes, and held the service _
the school-room. It has &ince been discovered that in
digging a large grave, which contains 16 corpses brougaT;
from Cleethorpes during the late severe visitation. 0(1
cholera, a small underground drain which commuttici!ren
with a family vault inside the church had been broane,
into, and that the offensive gases given out had foil ;
vent through the drain into the church. Several rot
sons were at the time much affected by—iiverpo
the 'smell, u.t
nothing of a more serious nature lass resulted frora
t.—,Stamford Mercuryii •

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