The Sun.
London, England, 1870-08-16 00:00:00

ARREST OF MAZZINI.

The Opinione of yesterday publishes a despatch from
Palermo announcing that Mazzini had been placed under
arrest on the previous day, and sent to Gaeta. lie had
come from Genoa. •

The following modifications of the Cabinet have taken
place at Constantinople :—Mustapha Fazyl Pasha has
been appointed Minister of Finance ; Sadik Efcaf Edheim
Pasha, Minister of Justice ; and Haidar Pasha, prefect of
the capital ; whilst Hall Pasha and Rustein Pasha have
been nominated respectively ambassadors of the Courts of
Vienna and St. Petersburg.

THE BLOCKADE OF NORTH GERMAN PORTS.—A
supplement to the London Gazette of Friday, published on
Monday, gives the following official notification of the block -
ade : —lt is hereby notified that the Right Hon. Earl
Granville, K. G., her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State
for Foreign Affairs, 'has received a communication from
her Majesty's ambassador at Berlin, that the admiral
of the French fleet off Heligoland has requested the
Governor of Heligoland tto notify through her Majesty's
consular agents in Hamburg, Cuxhaven, and Bremers-
haven, the blockade of the rivers Eider, Elbe, Weser, and
Jande, to take effect in ten days from the 15th instant,
and that up to such time neutral vessels may enter or de-
part.—Foreign Office, August 15. "
RETURN OF HER MAJESTY TO WINDSOR.—This
afternoon her Majesty the Queen, accompanied by their
Royal Highnesses Princess Louise and Beatrice and
Prince Leopold, attended by the suite, will leave Os-
borne after luncheon en route for Windsor. Her Majesty
will cross to the Rbyal Clarence Victualling-yard at Gos-
port, bysteamer, and will quit the south coast in a special
South-Western train, under the charge of Mr. W. M.
Williams, forßasingstoke, which will be reached at 5.45
p.m. At 5.50 the Queen will leave the junction and
travel yid Reading, Taplow, and Slough to Windsor,
where the Royal train will arrive at 6.50 p.m. Her
Majesty will sleep at the Castle for the night, and is ex-
pected to leave Windsor for. Balmoral on Wednesday.
ACCIDENT ON THE RIVER.—At five o'clock yes-
terday afternoon an exciting scene was witnessed by a
crowd of people from the new Blackfriars-bridge. Three
two-oared boats competing in a race were seen coming up
the river opposite St. Paul's landing stage. Somewhat
closer to the London, Chatham, and Dover railway bridge
two or three barges were moored, and as the boats ap-
proached in order to round them and finish the race down
the river, one of the penny steamboats passed. The two
foremost boats reached the shore side of the barges before
the wash of the steamer could affect them, but it caught
the last boat, which, like the others, was of the lightest
construction. The boat filled rapidly, and in a few
seconds its three occupants, who wore boating costume,
were immersed in the water. Two of them swam to the
nearest barge, on board of which they were taken, and the
other clung to the boat, and was picked up by the crew
of another craft, which was rowed to the scene of the
accident.

The death is announced 'of Rear-Admiral George
Guy Burton. He entered the navy in 1797, joining the
Eagle, 74, but was shortly afterwards transferred to the
Venerable, 74, in which, under Captains Sir W. G. Fair-
fax and Sir Samuel Hood, he was present at an action in
Aix Roads between the British and Spanish squadrons,
July 2, 1799 ; and in the battles of July 6 and 12, 1801;
under Sir James Saumarez, for which he afterwards re-
ceived the medal and three clasps. After serving in
various vessels, he obtained post rank in 1846, and became
rear-admiral June 15, 1854. Admiral Burton received at
the session of the Royal Society, 1823-24, the large silver
medal of the society for his improved method of fitting
anchor-stoppers, for which he had previously received the
thanks of the Board of Admiralty*