The Sun.
London, England, 1841-07-27 00:00:00

Colonel Acton*

C. Cavendish, Esq..
YOUGHAL

F. J. Howard, Esq

T0ta1......

DREADFUL CALAMIT Y OFF

DOVER-EIGHT LIVES LOST.

Doyen, SUNDAY AFTERNOON.—A considerable degree of
painful excitement was created here yesterday, by a report that
no less than 30 persont had perished by a fearful collis►on be-
tween two vessels off Southsand Head. The remarkably fine
Russian barque John, of Riga, laden with timber and long
spars for the use of the Spanish navy, bound for Bilboa, was
about four miles off Southsand Head, about one o'clock yester-
day morning, when she ran foul of the Prussian barque Pros.
perata (Captain D. W. Albrecht), bound to Ssettin from New-
port, with a cargo of iron rails, carried away her bow, and
caused her to go down in about 30 fathom water, with eight
souls on board, all of whom perished. The mate of the Pros-
perata, the boatswain, M. Hehendorff, and Eugau, a seaman,
saved themselves by jumping on board the Russian vessel. The
latter, however, sustained a severe injury on the knee, by being
struck by the mainyard, and he now lies in the alms-houses,
in Last-lane, Dover. The John has had four or five of her sta.n-
rheons on her larboard side carried away, besides her jib. boom,
foretupmasts, and yards. A fishing-smack, belonging to a ship-
wright named Johnson, of Dover, brought the John into the
hay, and in the course of yesterday afternoon she was towed in
the wet dock, alongside the harbour, where she will remain to
undergo repairs.
The fatal occurrence appears to have originated from the
fluke of the John's anchor coming athwart the bow of the
Prosperata, and the vessels steering a contrary course, the
timbers of the Prussian barque were perforated, and, for some
minutes, it was doubted by the seamen on board either vessel,
if both would not go down. The John, however, was extri-
cated by cutting away her anchor, and she thereby avoiding
the dreadful fate of the Prosperata.
The agent of Lloyd's has the calamity thus entered in his
book :

- " Arrived the Russian barque, John, of Riga, Captain Edward
Gerard, from Rira for Harm, having been in contact last night
off the Southland Head with the Prussian barque Prosperata,
of Dantzic, Captain D. W. Albrecht, from Newport for Stettin,
with iron, when the latter sank, the master, six men, and a
boy were drowned, and three men saved themselves by getting
on board the John, and were landed here this day. One man
received a severe hurt on his knee—sent to the alms-house this
24th of July. The mate and the other seamen at the Crusader
public-house."
The Prosperata with the valuable cargo was not insured. She
was of 200 tons burden.

STATEMENT OF ONE OF THE SURVIVORS.
The mato of the Prosperata, Charles Rathka, who, with
Hehendorff, is staying at the Fresh Endeavour public-house, in
Broad-street, and not at the Crusader, as stated in Lloyd's
memoranda, an intelligent man, makes the following statement,
setting forth the origin of the collision, and the names of those
who met with a wa'ery grave
About 11 o'clock we were south-south-east quarter east
and five miles distant from the Goodwin easterly light, keep-
ing our course north-east half north. Our vessel was making
about four knots three-quarters an hour, and about twelve
o'clock we were south-east half east, and about four miles
from the light, and one of the men on watch said there
was a vessel a head. The night was dark, and there were
two men forward keeping a look out, and there were also en
deck myself and a man at the helm. The Captain had gone
to, like down, and the other seven hands were in their berths
asleep. Our lull number was 12, but we lost one hand in
the, Bristol Channel. When I was told there was a vessel
ahead, I sung out to the man at the helm to keep off and
put the helm up larboard. I also sung out to them on board
the John, but instead of her keeping to windward as she
should have done, she ran foul of us, and her larboard anchor
got fixed in our bow. I believe there was no look-out on
board the John, and the captain told me that he was below at
the time making up the log, and all the crew were aft hauling
in the braces. The anchor of the John made a hole in our bow
of several feet, and we were both fast with eur stern up-
wards, and did not know which vessel would go down. I
called to our captoin, who came upon deck to see what was
the matter ; and upon seeing us foul he asked the others if
they were English ? No answer was returned, and we after-
wards heard by their conversation that they were Rus-
sians. The captain of the John ioquited why our captain
came so close to him, and the latter answered • My name is
Albrecht.' Our captain then called on us to try to get
clear of the other vessel, and half of us on deck set about
ng in the main yards, and the others were engaged in
haw-
cutting a.. vay with an axe the bulwarks of the Prosperata
for the purpo._
of disengaging her
_ from the anchor of- the
John. The carpe. 'Tr, named Westing. was called, but did
' not come. I pereeiveci at this time that there was a large
ie an
vess d told the captain so.
hole in the bow of ow liars,7 ' el s, and the captain or-
The sea now came up between the,
im: e Joie
te I so,
ran to do
dered us to get the boats ready.
and was cutting away the lashings, when
immediatel
and struck us again, and our vessel went y.
cloys:
The captain, when he ordered us to get the boat r..:ld3', went
into the cabin to fetch his papers, and he had not time ts.‘ reach
the deck again. I saved myself on jumping on board the )(D.',
and Hehendorff, the boatswain, and Eugau, a seaman, did the
same. Those that have perished are D. W. Albrecht, cap-
tain ; Wesling, the carpentes ; Scultz. Ladke, Worm, and
Abraham. seamen ; and the coxswain's boy and the cabin boy.
They were all in bed except the captain. My opinion is that
it was very wrong of the crew of the John to be hauling in the
braces and all be aft at that time of night, where we were, and
for the captain to be below. He told me himself this was so,
and I never heard of such a thing before. Myself and Hehen-
dorff and Eugau have lost everything that we possessed."
The survivors, who are Prussians, appear to be deeply af-
fected at the untimely end which their shipmates have met with.

FATAL ACCIDENT.—On Sunday, as the Eagle
Gravesend steam-boat was on her way homeward towards Hun-
gerford-market, and when off Blackwall Point, a gentleman
about twenty-two years of age, who was smoking his cigar near
the paddle-box, fell overboard. The boat of the steamer was
instantly lowered, previous to which a gentleman on board had
put off his coat and waistcoat and plunged into the water, but
unfortunately the deceased soon disappeared. The Thames-
police have been actively engaged with the drags, but, not-
withstanding every exertion on their part, the unfortunate man
(whose name and address have been since obtained) had not
been found up to last night.
At Marseilles, on the 17th inst., a wind, unu-
sually hot, as it came from an African desert, blew all day
without remission, raising whirlwinds of sand ani dust, yvhicf,
added to the misery of a suffocating atmosphere. Four or five
violent and irregular risings of the sea took place, creating a
good deal of confusion among the vessels in the harbour

B[AD(V)EINRTTISI‘EiIkEINENTT.]
Cuckhold's Point, in
HOLLOWAY'
Guy's Hospitaia to undergo the ampu-
tation .2. Little, a blacksmith, residing t AND
P;II.S.—
iwnghitcoh
hadGu been bad fu
taltaiyo ni ofas t 'his waseg:
was upwards of twenty ulcers on it, and r seven years. There
com-
menced juit under the knee. mortification had In this
recommended to send fer Mr. Hollo alarming state he was
as-
tonishment of all, cured it in less than ,vay, who, to the great
alone of his wonderful ointment. three weeks by the use
gether, the most daagerous ' and pills. If they are used to-
means. To be had at the ulcers or wounds are cured by their
Strand, where advice Proprietor's Establishment, 244,
Chemist's
throughout may be had
the k' d gratis ;or at any respectable
2s. 9d., 4s. Gd., nskingdom, in pots andbozes at is. lld
•, 225., and 3.35. each.
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PERSONAL 0 RTISEMENT j
ing work might be LINA
NI ENT.—A highly-interest-
modes of personal com
osed on the various and dissimilar
na-
tions, and the chapter d embellishment practised among different nova-e
one of the most devoted to the teeth could not but pr
attraeiv •a in the volume. Among many savage
nations the practice '
black, is well known to prevail of dying the teeth
h is esteemed a high degree of ornament ; while, on
tr the contrary, our British fair, relying on nature for their at-
actions, seek only to preserve the charms which she has so
richly bestowed on them, and endeavour simply to preserve the
white and pearly character of the teeth. Among the various
means suggested for this object, we ivouldrelect the celebrated
. Odonto," prepared by Messrs. Rowland, of Hatton-garden,
as the most admirable and perfect dentifrice yet submitted to
the public.
Patronized by their Majesties the
the King
Princesses and
Queen of Hanover, and their Royal Highnesses
Augusta and Sophia, her Serener Highness the Princess Esterhazy,
the Princesses Mary and Rosa, hr Grace the Dowager Duchess ot
Bedford, and their Graces the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Dukes
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and
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light,
us
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teal perceptible noi more uncomfortable, than having a pielce
Ah.c lie; • • '
Of wool in its place, and the fa.intest whisper at a public assembly
.ii h-eltd With exattdistinetncii.-9, 4,,loaMarle-street, opposite
the ,York . Hotel, and 76. Xing Williant.stutt, Etak.v.l4o eon.
Winn with petvmsvithe am amt.— •- ; • • . •
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The Ampthill estate came into possession of the
late Lord Holland in the year 1818. His Lordship
—Clan whom a more venerable Peer sat not in.
our Parliaments, or shone among the literati
of the realm—received it by right of descent,
upon decease of the Earl of Ossory, who died in
the February of that year, and whose mother,
the Lady Mary Fitzpatrick was the late Earl's
sister. Possessing a mind, which by the fruits
it has produced, betokens an intellect well-
watered and high-cultured, Lord Holland sur-
rounded himself in the shades of Ampthill with
the chief Nutemporaneous
.spirits of the day,
many of whom, like " burning and shining
lights," have beZn the
promulgators of great
doctrines, and ori
ginai,:ws of prominent enlighten-
ments in science.
—the apostle of a
Among the former of tinge-
new and noble creed—was 141: arlyle.
~
him his Lordship was as a Wtth
cz fasnit;ar friend,"
and they two took counsel together. CO°, n have
the bowers of Ampthill listened to these- ,` great,
good men," when, like Milton's Angel conc'ersing
with Adam, they have engaged themselves' In
colloquialisms upon the creeds of old philosophies,'
and the sublimities of a new, which the world has
already had published to them in the works
of the latter author. True, that as yet, in Mr.
Carlyle's works, this ennobling philosophy ap-
pears but in fragments, yet are taeY, neverthe-
less, the fragments of a high an immortal
Orphic hymn, -which we hope he will so ne day
consolidate into a system. Happy, no du.'lbt,
does he consider himself; that he, the Plato
this Ampthill Academy, was specially blessed in
having so philosophic a friend and sage as Lord
Holland, who loved his views, and was a prose-
lyte to his opinions, and drank deep of that new
wisdom, before he was removed from the stage
and stage-lamps of the present, to live before the
spiritual eye, and in the light of that philosophy,
among the starry depths of Heaven.
Of Mr. Carlyle, ourselves know nothing,
except that we love him as a fair-haired Absa-
lom for the virtue of his precepts, and die
august beauty of his philosophy. Stating this,
party-questions we touch not; our admi-
ration is solely directed to those broad, lumi-
nous, and unmistakeable principles which
give honour to their advocate, whether Whig or
Tory. We love him, because his devotion is as
true to the truth, as flaming is his hatred of the
false ; because he urges to be wise in order to be
worthy ; because he gives proof of a wide, and
above all, of a deep soul, which is filled with de-
voutest awe and faithfullest love; and because
he looks upon man as a great and venerable
being, who, amid all his nakedness. ignorances,
and errors, is divine, affecting, and highly to be
reverenced.

As regards political divisions, though Mr.
Carlyle's heart is too large to permit of a cramp-
ing- by these, yet upon one chord of the cithara
we would harp. Mr. Carlyle has distate towards
Radicalism, because it is, in his judgment, want-
ing in reverence. But wanting in reverence to
what? Why, to the ordinary objects of Con-
servative worship—conservation of the institu-
tions,'laws, and customs, which a petty portion
of earth called England—a speck on the convex
of the two grand hemispheres of our planet—has
by the frail judgments of successive generations
of its island-men, gradually made for its social
governance :—laws and institutions, which were
created to suit the peculiar exigence of a past
and thread-bare age, and which to give as a co-
verities- now-a-days, is worse than a worn-out
blanket towards keeping the great limbs of our
grown up modern society in a state of fitting
warmth and protection. No, indeed, Radicalism
has but little reverence for these; her reverence
is reserved for a higher objects, her veneration
has no such bleared and contracted eyesight; the
scales have dropped from her eyes; opening a
more heavenward orb, she sees that the islands,
and nations, and people, are governed by free,
vast, and general laws, which, like those of the
Medes and Persians, " alter not, neither are
changed," and that these alone can in the end be
promotive of man's welfare, and ultimately be of
benefit to his race. contrary theories arc
cramp, and devoid of the true grandeur.
But to return to Ampthill. Philosophy, which
had so Attic a scat in its recesses and groves,
quitted it, perchance not to return, upon the de-
mise of his Lordship. A few clays after his
death, and when the funeral had been concluded,
we visited, in conjunction with a friend, this late
retreat of the Muses, which now owns a new pos-
sessor, the Duke of Bedford ; and the charms of
the place, we must confess, pleased us wonder-
fully. We made entrance to it at the' park
quarter, which admits from the town. The
lodge at this entrance attracted our attention
much. It was represented to us by the keeper
as that in which Sir Philip Sydney—peerless and
chivalric knight—is reported to have composed
part of his delicious "Arcadia." Pomfret, also,
who was horn at Luton, is said to have written
many of his poems on this revered spot. At Syd-
ney's name we kissed the ground as holy.
The whole estate is situated in Redbourne,
Stoke Hundred, and is about a quarter of a mile
from the east end of the market town, occupying
a beautiful valley. The Earl of Ossory, whet:.
he came into possession many years back, in-
vested it with alterations of a classical taste. In
his time the house did not appear as it now does,
cased with a composition resembling stone, hav-
ing treillage on the basement story, but was a
uniform plain red brick.
On entering you make your ascent by a flight
of two steps, and over the door a bust meets
your A. large figure of the celebrated
dog of Alchl:iades stands on a pedestal in front of
the house. _ _

As you pass th:oug,l). the variousapartmcntsi
lle \b
you cannot fail being, .struck with then. splendour
1
ecsoildfteas-Lal many tine pictures and
ancient finisii .
marbles,
Library and Cabinet of
Natural History.
Leavin these, you issue out on the pedimenti
of the Garden front, where within amoral is tr
figure of Agrippina, weeping. The Gardens
sa.
ofe
beautifully diversified, and command
many of the loveliest scenes in the
fence.
which they are separated by a "ha! ha •
'n the grotuads
The fine bowery standard treeasefseene.
around, form a highly picturesque
_very
thing, con-
' The present mansion,_in
name,vil i c
attracts peculiar-
nected with the HollandE.
, ivolcs's time, and
attention, was builthiara ,
cteristics of that ma.:.-.*-
has all the stately c
y part is lofty and imposin,(7,..
grounds,ie fronr
ficent period;
It consists of
wings which greatly enhance
roof, and has
its Taanktii(lng:i!piA
its architectural
t'l
beauty.
twe.oovesrlories, surmounted by a higlr
thiiiltlya,s a whole, rcgartdhi,o,rgetox together
and histories,
country r ns'irtrat can compete with D. 1/,‘-ell-
nes, b
"11';‘rouo-li its woods, its waters, and iu.: lawfv.
her dwelling in its scenes,
herselft,
only' deficient in the presence 9f the
c'. munthill has been purchased by his Grace tit?.
ffl- it ftSCsCls'plirit that has lately gone to rest.
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Duke of Bedfordfor the sum 0f150,0001.

NORTH CHESHIRE ELECTION.—It appears
that the cases of persons voting at the North Cheshire election,
who bad lost their qualification from various causes, hive beers
so numerous that the Liberal Committees have thought it
proper that some of the offenders ought to be brought to a
Court of Justice to answer for their misconduct. It had
come to the knowledge of the Hyde Committee that several
persons from their own neighbourhood had voted at Mot-
tram, after having lost their qualification ; and they deter-
mined that one of the most glaring cases should be.brought
before the Hyde Bench of Magistrates on Thursday; conse-
quently a warrant was obtained against a man named
Charles Oldham, who some time ago was the owner and occu-
pier of a public house on the side of the Sheffield Railway, at
Newton. He was taken into custody, and brought up before
John Turner, Esq., charged with having on the 9th instant, at
Mottram, falsely answered the third question put to him by the
sheriff's deputy, by saying that he was still in possession of the
property for which he was originally placed on the register of
voters for the Northern Division of the county of Chester. The
prisoner was ordered to find two sureties in 401. each, to
answer the charge at the Knuisford sessions. Not choosing
to put in bail, he was committed for trial.—Manchester
Guardian.
THE HAGUE, JULY 23.—The Leewarden
Courant contains a long account of the entry of their Majes-
ties into that town, where they ware received with the greatest i
demonstrations of loyalty and joy by the nhabitants, who had
made the most extensive preparations. The general illumina-
tion. which was to have taken place on the 20th, was put off on
account of the unfavourable weather.
BRUSSELS, JULY 24.—His Majesty returned
yesterday evening from the cimp at Beverloo. The number of
thanof
troops reviewed during his Majesty's vi-it to the camp was
10,000 men. On comparing the amount of the produce of the
indirect taxes in the first six months of 1841, with that of the
firssst months.7six
As7francs.
T
of
ns m
1840,i aitaopupnetaris appears thats4,3tllse9 francs
rias an nexcesss
less
the estimate.

The General Steam Navigation Company's mail
packet Giraffe arrived off the Custom-house on Sunday, with
the Dutch mail. Also the Neptune, Wilittingbam, from Ham-
burgh, arrived off the Custom-house at nine, A.M., yesterday,
with the Hainburgbh nual.

MORNING- SUN.

THE NEW TREATY OF LONDON.

The Augsburg Gazette favours it readers with the following
COor of the Convention of London. We give the treaty as we
fine it in that journal, not, however, without diubts as to its •
exact correctness:
" The Emperor of Austria, King of Hungary and Bohemia ;
the King of the French; the Queen of the United Kingdom
of Great Britain and Ireland ; the King of Prussia ; and the
Emperor of 01l the Russias, persuaded that their concord offers
to Europe the surest guarantee for the preservation of the
general peace, the constant object of their solicitude, and their
Majesties wishing by that concord to give to his Highness the
Sultan a public proof of their respect for the inviolability
of his rights /of sovereignty, as well as of their sincere
e to secure the tranquillity of his empire, have re-
solved to accede to the invitation of his :iighness the
Sultan, that it would please them to declare in common, by a
formal act, their resolution to conform to the ancient rule of
the Ottoman empire, by which the passage of the Straits of
the Bosphorus and the Dardanelles is to remain always closed
to foreign vessels of war, as iong as the Ottoman Porte enjoys
peace. Their Majesties and the Sultan having resolved to
conclude a treaty fur this object, have named their Plenipo-
tentiaries—the Emperor of Austria, Prince Esterhazy and Ba-
roe Neumann ; the King of the French, Baron de Bourqueecy ;
the Queen of Great Britain, Viscount Palmerston; the King
of Ptus4a, Baron Bulow ; the Emperor of all the Russias,
Baron Brunow ; the Sultan Abdul Mjid, Emperor of the
Ottomans, Shekib Effendi. After fie exchange of their
powers, which were found en regle, the Pleuipotentiaries de-
I reed and signed the following articles :
" Art. 1. His Highness the Sultan declares on his part that
he is firmly resolved to maintain for the future the principle
followed from time to time as an immutable rule of his empire,
in virtue of which the ships of war of all foreign nations are
forbidden to enter the straits of the Bosphorus and the Darda-
nelles, and which imports that his Highness shall not suffer
any foreign ships of war to enter the said straits so long as the
Ottoman Porte shall be in the enjoy...ent of peace. And their
Majesties the Emperor, of Austria, the King of the French, the
King of Prussia, and the Emperor of Russia, on their side,
engage to respect this resolution of the Sultan, and to act in
conformity with the principle which is above expressed.
•• Art. 3. It. is well understood that the inviolability of the
ancient rule of the Ottoman empire being established by the
preceding article, the Sultan reserves to himself, as in times
Fait, the right of granting firmans of passage to light ships car -
rying 'lags of war, which, according to usage, are employed in
the service of ambassadors of friendly Powers.
" Art. 3. The Sultan reserves to himself the right of com-
municating this present treaty to all the Powers with whom
the Sublime Pcrte holds relations of amity, and of inviting them
to accede to it.
‘• Art. 4. This present treaty shall be ratified at London, and
the ratifications shall be exchanged at the expiration of two
Looths, or sooner, if possible.
" In faith of which the Pler ipotentiaries have signed this
present treaty, anfl affixed thereto their seals with their arms.
Given at London this 13th July, in the year of grace, 1841."

SPAIN.
PROTEST OF QUEEN CHRISTINA.

The foll Owing protest as well as a letter which will be found
b kw, addressed to Espartero, were communicated on Friday
to M. Guizot, French Minister of Foreign Affairs, and to the
ut.nnbers of the Corps Diplomitique