The Sun.
London, England, 1870-12-14 00:00:00

THE LATE GALE.

The smack Arbitrator, of Wexford, while proceeding to
the Lucifer lightship, Wexford, with stores, on Satur-
day, was seen to hoist signals of distress. Accordingly
the Civil Service Lifeboat of the National Life
Boat Institution proceeded out to her, and found the
vessel stranded. She then took off the crew of five men
and the captain, and two of the crew of the light ship.
The master of the smack, however, remained on board,
and while the lifeboat was waiting for him his vessel began
to move. Thereupon some of the crew of the lifeboat
boarded her, hoisted sail, and remained with her until she
was in safety.
A vessel was seen with signals of distress flying close to the
breakers on the north-east Cockle Sand, near Great
Yarmouth,. on Sunday, during bad weather. The
Caister large lifeboat belonging to the Lifeboat Society
quickly went off to her, and with the aid of a steamer,
rescued her and her crow from imminent peril. In
boarding the vessel—which was the brig Wanderer, of
Whitby—one of the lifeboat men fell between the ship
and the lifeboat, and was with difficulty rescued, another
man was also badly bruised in a similar manner.
The Ramsgate lifeboat Bradford, and steam-tug Vulcan,
went out on Sunday night, during a strong S.S.E.
in reply to signals front the Gull Light Ship. On
speaking the vessel the lifeboatmen were informed
that a largo flare light had been seen from a ship on shore
on tho Goodwin Sands, and after proceeding round the
back of the Sands, the lifeboat found the schooner
Marinj, of Terno, bound from Hamburgh to Port Legro,
with a general cargo, stranded there. The sea was break-
ing heavily over her, but fortunately, as the tide flowed,
the steamer and lifeboatjwere enabled to extricate her,
and bring her safely into harbour.

Mr. Lupton, a member of the English bar,
Registrar to the Queen's College, Galway, has been ap-
pointed to the Professorship of Jurisprudence and
Political Economy in that College, vacant by the re-
tirement of Professor Cairnes. Mr. Moffat, Professor
of English Literature and Mental Science, becomes
registrar.
The will of the late General It. E. Lee has been
admitted to probate. It is in the handwritinc, of the de-
ceased, and was written in 184 G. G. W. C. Lee and Mrs.
Lee are the executors. Colonel Charles Marshall, of
Baltimore, has been selected to write the biography of the
Aato General Leo.
Under the title of " Found Drowned," a dramatised
version of Mr. Charles Dickens's " Our Mui ual Friend"
nnEniill2._. Night at the,Oira pomique.

The scenery will be paiiigirTita--zne
cast includes the names of Mr. G. F. Rowe (who has
dramatised the novel), Mr. John Nelson, and Mr. Sam
Emery. Mr. Rowe will sustain two charaters, one being

that of Mr. Wegg.
A. Norwegian seaman, named Thorstensen, is in
custody at Hartlepool, charged with murdering a sailor
named Brown, with whom he had quarrelled on Sunday
night, outside a public house in which they had been
drinking together. It appears that the men came to
blows, when Thorstensen suddenly drew his knife and in-
flicted a wound on Brown, which proved fatal in the course

of a few minutes.
The Freeman's Journal announces the death, at
Cork, of Archdeacon She. The Archdeacon was ac-
counted ono of the most eminent divines in the Irish
(Catholic) Church, a profound and brilliant scholar, as
well as an erudite theologian and eloquent preacher. He
was last survivor of the coterie of wits and scholars who
made Cork famous forty years ago, and at that time was
froc-uent contributor to E' nglish magazines.
TUR RRPRESENTATION OF MEATH.—It is ru-
moured that a repeal, or home government, candidate
will he started for Meath. The question so prominently
put forward in the late Irish elections, at Longford,
Waterford. and Dublin, is not alluded to in the address of
the only candidate now soliciting the votes of the Meath
electors, nor was it mentioned in the address of Mr.
Panes, Q.C., who has retired. The party, although every-
where in a minority, are energetic enough to push the

question.
SIIEBEEN PROSECUTIONS IN GLASGOW.—Three
very important and extensive captures of shebeeners were
made in Glasgow on Sunday; The shebeens are situated
in Trongate and London-streets, and no less than 120
persons were found in these dens and taken to the
Ceneral 'Police-office. For porno time this evil has been
gaining ground in the city, and the open manner in
which the law was violated has been the subject of com-
ment. The police authorities bestirred themselves in the
matter with creditable energy, and the present seizures
*ere offe,cted with great skill and success.—'North British
Mail.
SUPPOSED, FOUNDERING OF THE SHIP SWIFT-
SURE, AND Loss or ALL ON BOARD.—Great fears are
entertained for the safety of the new ship Swiftsure
which sailed from Leith for New York on the :3rd of
September. Up to the latest despatches from New
York, nothing had been heard of her, but it is supposed
that she must have encountered some of the fearful gales
which prevailed shortly after she left Inverkeithing
Roads. The Swiftsure was a new vessel of about 800 tons
burden, built by Messrs. Scott and Sons, of Inverkeithing,
and was a full-rigged ship. When she left Leith she had
on board a full cargo of gas coal, and was commanded by
Captain Robert Scott, and had a crow of twenty men
—all natives of Fife, and had only one gentleman passenger
on boardl
THE EDUCATION ACT.—A meeting wtts held in
Newport, Monmouthshire, on Monday night, convened
by the Mayor, to consider what steps should' be taken in
reference to the Education Act. The speakers included
Mr. Octavius Morgan, M.P. for the county, and the local
clergy and ministers of various denominations. The
Roman Catholics and a section of. the Churchmen were
opposed to the formation of a school board. A resolution
in favour of school boards was proposed and seconded by
Churchmen and supported by Nonconformists. A
spirited debate took place, which lasted from eight o'clock
until nearly midnight. Ultimately an amendment was
affirmed, to tho effect that, as the existing schools and
those intended to be provided and maintained by volun-
tary efforts would furnish sufficient elementary education
for the town, as required by the Act, it was unnecessary
and inexpedient to form a school board, or impose further
taxation on the ratepayers. In consequence of a strong
feeling prevailing, on the education question, it is believed
that further steps will be taken to secure the formation of
a school board for the town.
Trnt GROWTH OF NEW YORK,—In the year 1820
New York had a population of 123,706. A table has been
constructed which spews the numbers for every succeed-
ing fifth year, and from this it appears that the yearly
rate of increase is subject to wide fluctuation, and the
margin of the extremes is no less than twenty-three per
cent. in different lustrums. The year 1865 shows a de-
creaffe, from the effects of the war, while the increase of
1870 is at the rate of ten years instead 'of five. An in-
Crease of sixty-..five per cent. took :place .between.
'lB4O and 1850, while between 1860'" and 1870 it
was no more than fourteen. Should the increase in
future decades be equivalent to that of the last the esti-
mates of sanguine statisticians will be falsified. Taking
the last census at thousands, it has been estimated that
in 1900 the population of New York will be 1,371,909. As
it has been computed that the island can accommodate
two and a half millions, these figures will allow room
for expansion during the next fifty years. New York
shot up with surprising rapidity to the proportion of a;
great city, but after attaining a certain point all great
cities skew a tendency to increase slowly, and sometimes
even to decline. There are, it must be remembered,
political and social considerations which render it a matter
of doubt if benefits accrue to the citizens themselves or the
nation at large from the existence of overcrowded towns,
and advancing numbers do not always secure additional
prosperity.