The Sun.
London, England, 1851-11-25 00:00:00

THE SUN,

time they came up to him, and prepared to give him
battle. The waste boat, commanded by the first mate,
was in advance. As soon as the whale perceived the
demonstration being made upon him, he turned his
course suddenly, and making a tremendous dash at
this boat, seized it with his widespread jaws, and
crushed it into atoms, allowing the men barely time
to escape his vengeance by throwing themselves into
the ocean.
Captain Deblois, again seeing the perilous condi-
tion of his men, at the risk of meeting the same fate,
directed his boat to hasten to their rescue, and in a
short time succeeded in saving them all from a death
' little less horrible than that from which they had
twice so narrowly escaped. He then ordered the
boat to put for the ship as speedily as possible, and no
sooner bad the order been given than they discovered
the monster of the deep making towards them with
his jaws widely extended. Fortunately tho monster
came up and passed them at a short distance. The
boat then made her way to the ship, and they all got
on board in safety.
After reaching the ship a boat was dispatched for
the oars of the demolished boats, and it was deter-
mined to pursue the whale with the ship. As soon as
the boat returned with the oars, sail was set, and the
ship proceeded after the whale. In a short time she
overtook him and a lance was thrown into his head.
The ship passed on by him, and immediately after
they discovered that the whale was making for the
ship. As he came up near her, they hauled to the
wind, and suffered the monster to pass her. After he
had fairly passed, they kept off to overtake and
attack him again. When the ship had reached within
about fifty rods of him, they discovered that the
whale had settled down deep below the surface of the
water, and as it was near sundown, they concluded to
give up the pursuit.
Captain Deblois was at this time standing in the
night-heads, on the larboard bow, with craft in hand,
ready to strike the monster a deadly blow should he
appear, the ship moving about five knots, when work-
ing on the side of the ship he discovered the whale
rushing towards her at the rate of fifteen knots ! In
an instant the monster struck the ship with tremen-
dous violence, shaking her from stem to stern ! She
quivered under the violence of the shock, as if she had
struck upon a rock ! Captain Deblois immediately
descended into the forecastle, and there, to his horror,
discovered that the monster had struck the ship about
two feet from the keel, abreast the foremast, knocking
a great hole entirely through her bottom, through
which the water rushed and roared impetuously !
Springing to the deck, he ordered the mate to cut
away the anchors and get the cables over-
board to keep the ship from sinking, as she
had a large quantity of pig-iron on board.
In doing this the mate succeeded in re-
leaving only one anchor and cable clear, the other
having been fastened around the foremast. The ship
was then sinking rapidly. The captain went to the
cabin, where he fuund three feet of water; he, how-
ever, succeeded in procuring a chronometer, sextant,
and chart. Reaching the decks he ordered the boats
to be cleared away, and to get water and provisions, as
the ship was keeling over. He again descended to the
cabin, but the water was rushing in so rapidly that he
could procure nothing. He came upon deck, ordered
all hands into the boats, and was the last himself to
leave the ship, which he did by throwing himself into
the sea and swimming to the nearest boat. The ship
was on her beam-end, her topgallant yards under
water. They then pushed off some distance from the
ship, expecting her to sink in a very short time.
Upon an examination of the stores they had been able
to save, he discovered than they laad only twelve quarts
of water, and not a mouthful of provisions of any
kind. The boats contained eleven men each; were
leaky, and night coming on, they were obliged to bail
them all night to keep them from sinking!
Next day, at daylight, they returned to the ship, no
one daring to venture on board but the captain, their
intention being to cut away the masts, and fearful
that the moment that the masts were cut away the
ship would go down. With a single hatchet the
captain went on board, cut away the masts, when
the ship righted. The boats then came up, and the
men, by the sole aid of spades, cut away the chain
cable from around the foremast, which got the ship
nearly on her keel. The men then tied ropes round
their bodies, got into the sea, and cut a hole through
the decks to get out provisions. They could procure
nothing but about five gallons of vinegar, and twenty
pounds of wet bread. The ship threatened to sink,
and they deemed it imprudent to remain by her
longer, so they set sail in their boats and left her.
On the 22d of August, at about five o'clock, P.M.,
they had the indescribable joy of discerning a ship in
the distance. They made signal, and were soon an-
swered, and in a short time they were reached by the
good ship Nantucket, of Nantucket, Massachusets,
Captain Gibbs, who took them all on board, clothed
and fed them, and extended to them in every way the
greatest possible hospitality.
On the succeeding day Captain Gibbs went to the
wreck of the ill-fated Ann Alexander, for the purpose
of trying to procure something from her; but as the
sea was rough, and the attempt considered dangerous,
he abandoned the project. The Nantucket then set
sail for Paita, where she arrived on the 15th of Sep-
tember, and where she landed Captain Deblois and
his men. Captain Deblois was kindly and hospitably
received and entertained at Paita, by Captain Ba-
thurst, an English gentleman, residing there, and
subsequently took passage on board the schooner
Providence, Captain Starbuck, for this port, arriving
here on Sunday last, the 12th inst.

KOSSUTH.
(From the North Wales Chronicle.)

We have long taken it to be a mark of sound good
sense—of real honesty in the Herald, Standard, and
Post, that knowing the free-trade principles of Kossuth,
they should so long have taken his part, and should con-
tinue to take his part, against the liberal (?) Times, and
free-trade Chronicle. It has been asked—how can we con-
sistently take the part of a man so opposed to the Protec-
tion and Conservative principles which we have ever
maintained? The humiliation felt in answering this simple
question is heightened by the fact that we have again
and again explained the reasons which have made us
such sympaehizers with the Magyar cause, and this too,
though perfectly aware that Kossuth is quod a modo a
Free-trader. But why is he so? The simple truth is
that every Hungarian patriot must be, relatively speak-
ing, a Free-trader. Whit has been the commercial
relation in which Hungary has stood to Austria? Com-
mercially it has been crewed as a foreign country.
Heavy import and export duties were levied on goods
ceasing to Austria from Hungary. A long series of
vexatious imposts and taxes awaited the merchant and
traveller on the frontier ; exportation was prevented,
and everything was done to keep Hungary in a state of
seelusien from foreign intercourse. This is the evil
which Kossuth. has violently and consistently attacked,
and we maintain that this protection of Austria against
Hungary deserved attack. Commercially, Hungary aLd
Austria ought to have been considered as one country.
Dr. B.ch seems to have done his best to destroy the
commercial, but effect the political unity of the two. For
let it never be supposed that Austria and Hungary are
politically one country. They are no more one than
Britain and Hanover. What would have been said, if
on the death of William IV., Queen Victoria had gore
to war with Hanover, because her constitution excluded
females from her throne? If we had opposed such a
flagitious war, should we have deserved the name of
Radical; should we not rather have been Conservatives
in the highest degree. What difference is there between
the case put and the relation of Hungary to Austria?
None whatever. Hungary in its proper acceptation com-
prehends-1. Hungary proper, including civil Sclavonia,
Croatia, and the Heyduke districts. 2. Transylvania.
3. The Military Frontier. All these countries are,
legally, parts of the Kingdom of Hungary, and are sub-
ject to the King of Hungary, who, merely by chance,
happens to be Emperor of Austria. He is not neces-
sarily so—any more than a King of England is neces-
sarily King of Hanover. The following is a more ac-
curate description of the whole Kingdom of Hungary.
Hungary Proper comprehends:—
A. Eleven Comitats or Counties beyond or west of
the Danube, containing 2,000,000 of people
B. Thirteen counties on this side or east of the
Danube, with nearly 3,000,000 of people.
C. Eleven counties on this side the river Theiss anc.
Tibiscus, with 2,000,000.
D. Twelve counties beyond the Theis:, including the
Banat, with 2,500,000.
E. Sclavonia, with three counties, Syrmia, Verocz,
and Posega, and 500,000 people.
F. Croatia and Separate Districts. Thus making
Hungary Proper to consist of 10,000,000 of people, and
87,000 miles.
11. Transylvania, including the Magyar, the Zechler,
` ut' Saxona
rrThe Districts,
Frontier, t 5,2.000
intended to guard against
,000 of people, and twenty-
five counties, on May 30th, 1048, was incorporated with
ungthe Turk,
Varadin, Sclavonia,includy
regiments,
generalatz—of Carlstat, Ban,
Banat, and Transylvania, which are
divided into twenty
5 eogta itonts, and the same number of
communities, with 2,0 ooef
irople, and 15,000 miles.
Thus the whole kingdom
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mile
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Austria, comprehends 126,000 ssan 14,000,000 of
Austrianl
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Hungary really a
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history of i,,e middle ages is requisite
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really wish that those who talk so much of Kossuth
would study it. They would find that the first Prince
of the House of Hapsburgh (the celebrated castle near
Brugg, in Switz-irl ,nd) who reigned in Hungary was
Ferdinand I, And how did he gain possession of the
throne—by conquest or by succession? No, he was
elected by the Deet in 1526, and chosen by the suffrages
of a free and gallant people. The succession on certain
terms was fixed in the imperial family in 1687. and since
the termination of the civil wars in 1711 the House of
Austria has held possession of the country. We have
said that the union on the part of Hungary was volun-
tary. The worst of the Haprburgh Emperors never till
lately ventured to ignore this glaring fact. The two
countries had a common sovereign, but the power of the
King of Hungary has always been more circumscribed
than that of the Emperor of Austria. But further, the
y, e the"ruvngEmperor Francis Joseph refused to swear to °b-
right& of th, iia,igarian crown and people.
He thereby much lost the confidence of his subjects
as James 11. did when he broke his coronation oath.
Were those who brought in Willi IIL
rebels? Were I