The Sun.
London, England, 1870-01-11 00:00:00

G. F. TRAIN IN A NEW CHARACTER.

The day after Christmas Day Mr. G. F. Train appeared
at Tammany Hall,New York, as a preacher. The fact had
been advertised in the following manner :—" TO-night the
Rev. George Francis Train preaches on Old Fogies of the
Bible compared to the beautiful character of the Saviour.'The
same discourse suppressed last Sunday evening by the bigoted
Puritanical Cooper Institute Trustees. One man against
30,000 preachers." At the appointed hour Mr. Train,
"resplendent in brass buttons and white kid gloves," pre-
sented himself before a crowded audience and delivered a
discourse thus described by the Nero York Times:—
"He opened the vials of his wrath upon the American
people, and conveyed to them the agreeable
information that they were a set of toadies,
flunkeys, and cowards.' Several institutions of modern
society which have at least the respectability of
age and good standing in the community were soundly
abused, among them the Church, the medical faculty, and
the press. He also took upon himself to set history right
in several important particulars, and informed his
audience that a certain cargo of choice teas was dumped
into Boston Harbour some years ago by the Fenians. He
detailed the experiences of particularly extensive travels
over all the continents of the earth, and inter,
larded his discourse withnumerous snatches of " epigram,"
composed on the top of the Rocky Mountains, and in
various other out-of-the-way places. The result of all his
various observations appeared to be that all the world was
sunk in degradation and ignorance, and only one man can
save it, and he was George Francis Train,' the only man in the
country who is not owned.' The subject on which he was
specially announced to speak, The Old Fogies of the
Bible,' was the only topic not touched upon. He pro-
mises to favour the country with successive repetitons
of ,his moral and entertaining exhibition until he is pre-
vented by the arduous duties of President of the United
States, which he expects a grateful people to thrust upon
him in 1872, if not sooner. Grant is to be impeached for
his particular benefit."

DISASTERS IN THE GALE.
COLLISION IN THE CHANNEL.

Yesterday morning the Norwegian ship Melbery and
Engstian, from Aquilas to London, was run down when
about three miles south-west of Dover. In less
than a quarter of an hour the vessel foundered. The
crew of fourteen and the pilot were saved in their own
boat. The vessel by which they were struck is unknown
and, notwith standing the loud entreaties of the captain
and crew to save them, refused to render any assistance.
The pilot and the crew are safely housed in the National
Sailors' Home at Dover, where they arrived at four o'clock
yesterday morning, wet and miserable. The vessel that
Tim down the Norwegian, the crew suppose, must be much
injured. Two tugs have been sent to look after her.
Five of the crew of the brig Henry and Harriet, of Shields,
were landed yesterday at Great Yarmouth. The master
and one man were drowned, the vessel having founds,
The passengers and crew of the screw steamer Gambia,
which foundered on Friday morning, have arrived at
Aberdeen from Newcastle. The Gambia was not in col-
lision with any vessel, the accident having been caused by
the sudden bunting of a leak. The majority of the passengers
on board Nitre sailors, and as they readily seconded the efforts
of the crew, Captain Turriff was able to keep his ship afloat
till every one was placed safely in the boats. The boats
were about six hours at sea when picked up by the
Russian vessel that took passengers and crew into Hartle-
pool.

A collision occurred off Flamborcugh Head between two
vessels in the height of the storm, and one of the ships—
the St. Bede, of Newcastle—went down, and the entire
crew on board, save one man, perished.
The crew from the barque Duke, 387 tons, wrecked in
the Atlantic, have been landed at Plymouth. On Decem-
ber 20th, 300 miles off Cape Finisterre, the barque was
struck by a heavy sea, thrown on -her beam ends, and
foundered. The crew, twelve in number, had barely time
to escape in their boat with only the clothes they were
wearing, and after an exposure of fifty-one hours, were
Kicked up by an Oldenburg schooner. They were
forwarded to their homes by the Shipwrecked Mariners'

Society.
The Meteorological report of Sunday said that the wind
had gradually veered and moderated since Saturday, and
light north to north-west breezes were general in the
British islands, and strong south-west winds in the Bay of
Biscay. It blew hard from the northward in the Irish Sea.
Rain had fallen everywhere ; hail at Penzance. ' Thun.ler
is reported from Biarritz. The sky has since cleared very
mush on our coasts, but is overcast with rain 'in France.
The sea is high in the Bay of Bticay.

The objection to the surplice in the pulp-557-1 the
part of the parishioners of St. George's, Wolverhampton, is
very marked indeed. The Rev. A. S. Prior, who has
recently been brought before the Bishop charged with
wearing it, kept it on on Sunday morning last. He bad
received a letter from the Bishop especially authorising
him to wear it "at all times" in his public ministrations
in the church. When on Sunday his surplice appeared
in the pulpit about one-half, and that half, acording to the
Birmingham Gazette, comprising the principal pow holders,
left the church, but so quietly as not to call for interference
on the pact of a policeman who Lad been stationed at the
door. There was no interruption of the service. The ser-
mon was very short, did not in the slightest degree refer to
the divisous in the parish ; but its delivery was naturally
affected by the very palpable and plain protest against the
preacher by his congregation.

The very extensive Distillery now being erected
at Belfast, with all recent improvements for the manufacture of
Irish whisky, by Messis. DUNVILLE ez Co., who have gained
a world-wide celebrity for their fine old Irish whisky, is to be
called "The Royal Irish Distillery."