The Sun.
London, England, 1851-03-31 00:00:00

ESCAPE OP AN EMIGRANT SHIP.

The Cork Examiner of yesterday has the following
statement:—

"About the hour of 2 o'clock yesterday morning the
night watchman in charge of Mr. E. Burke Roche's de-
mesne, of Trabolgan, was attracted by loud cries and
latrentations, which appeared to come from
sone vessel a short distance off the coast. On
hurrying down to the shore he found that
the cries proceeded from the people on board
a hrge vessel, which was drifting in on the rocks. Lights
ani assistance were immediately procured, and after a
short time it was found that the vessel was the Favourite,
of St. John's, which left Liverpool on the 28th of
Fobruary, for New York, with a heavy cargo of iron
and salt, and 250 steerage passengers, mostly from the
no•th of Ireland. The vessel became leaky on the 17th
of March, which obliged the crew to throw a quantity of
the iron overboard, and then endeavoured to make for
Cork harbour. When off Rallycutton a pilot was taken
of board, but it appears this man fell asleep, or was
otherwise incapable, and in consequence the vessel
drifted in on the shore at Trabolgan, where attention
was attracted to her. A dispatch was sent off to Queens.
town, and in a short time after Messrs. Scott
were in attendance, and soon after several of the
Admiralty boats came alongside, when they commenced
taking off the terrified passengers, and conveying them
to shore. The passengers were all safely landed, and
their wants most hospitably attended to in the neigh-
bouring farm-houses. At 2 o'clock yesterday, the
period of high water, every effort that could be made
was employed to get the vessels off the rocks; but up
to the last accounts, we regret to say, those efforts were
totally unavailing. The crew are at present employed
in discharging the vessel, and are actively assisted by
the men of the Admiralty boats and the country people.
It is most fortunate for the lives cf all on board, and
the property at stake, that the weather was somewhat
moderate, or the most serious consequences would, in
all probability, have resulted from the critical position
in which the vessel was placed."
THE FUNDS.

Thrpo per Cont. Consols, 95i to 96; Three-and-a
Quarter per Cent. Stock (shut), 97i; National Bank
Shares, 221. 108. paid, l9i i; Dublin and Belfast Junc-
tion Railway, 45/. paid, 26; Great Southern and
Western, 504 paid, 43k; ditto for account, 43k; Irish
South-Eastern, 91. paid, 4.-}; Waterford and Limerick,
for account, 174.

INSURRECTION in SWITZERLAND
The friends and the instruments of Austria and
Rome have made again in Switzerland another desperate
attempt to overthrow the Liberal institutions, both
federal and cantonal, of that Confaderation ; and, so
far at least as the canton of Fribourg is concerned, to
re-establish the sway of the Jesuits, who, not long ago,
ruled supreme therein. A band of fanatic and
armed peasants, urged on and led by an
avowed retainer of the expelled Bishop of Fri-
bourg suddenly made their appearance, a few days
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ammunition,he and, taking up their position—
appropriately enough—near the Jesuits' College (or
rather what was iately their college), commencad firing
on the National Guards, who, at the first intelligence of
the affair, had armed themselves in defence of their
political and religious liberties. Before the in-
surgents, however, could be joined by numerous
other bodies of peasantry, who were making their way
to the city, the National Guards and the gendarmerie
had gained the upper hand. On the 25th, those de-
luded men, who were prevented, by the turn of events,
from taking any part in the attempt on Fribourg, mus-
tered in considerable numbers in the vicinity of the city,
and resolved to renew the attack, in order to free their
imprisoned friends, and also to subvert the constitution
of the canton. The respective Governments of Vaud
and Neufchatel (both liberal Governments) have deter-
mined to send troops to the aid of the Fribourg authori-
ties and townsmen, and the Central Federal Government
in Berne have also taken steps for repressing the insur-
rection. Thus matters stood up to the latest dates.
That this attempt to subvert the liberties of the canton
of Fribourg was not a hastily conceived one, is proved by
the well-digested plan of the insurrection, seized on the
person of one of the ringleaders. The most minute in-
structions are given in it, even with reference to the dis-
missal of schoolmasters obnoxious to the Jesuits. A re-
gular Government was planned out, the names of the
members of that new Government were fully given—
all " good and approved men"—and other arrange-
ments were made, which showed that the scheme bad
been long talked over and apparently well digested.
However, l'homme propose et Dieu dispose. The in-
surrection was commenced about an hour too early,
and hence its speedy failure. That the plan, more-
over, although kept a profound secret to the Liberals,
was not unknown to the friends and advocates
of the Jesuits, may be gathered front the cir-
cumstance of numbers of the former suddenly arriving
in Berno a day or two before the outbreak, and
from their extraordinary anxiety to learn the con-
tents of the Fribourg mail, at a time when not the
slightest intelligence of importance was expected
from that quarter. Their presence in Berne would
have enabled them to turn the insurrection to
account, if it had proved successful. The present
Cantonal Government of Berne, (a Government which
must not be confounded with the Federal one, also sitting
in that city) is a reactionary one, and it would not be
sorry to give its, at least, indirect support to the friends
of a reactionary government in Fribourg.
This attempt—happily an unsuccessful one—to revive
the Sonderbund war, was not a little influenced by the
presence of large bodies of Austrian troops on the Swiss
fruitier. The reactionists felt convinced that if the coup-
de-main proved a felicitous one, they would be sure of
obtaining, not only the indirect aid of the Austrians,
but; as in the case of the Sonderbund war, active sup-
port in the ever-welcome shape of money, arms, and am-
munition.

It is to be hoped that the Federal Government of
Switzerland, undeterred by any secret or open opposi-
tim on the part of the local administration of Berne,
will display necessary firmness and tact, and take ener-
getic steps to foil the insidious and Jesuitical schemes
of Austria and Rome. It may be remarked hero, that
some agents of the latter were, not long ago, traversing
in all directions the Roman Catholic cantons of the con-
federation, under the pretence of enlisting soldiers for the
Papal service.—Advertiser.

BOROUGH HOP IVIARKET.
There is less desire to operate in this market. Really
fee Hops of last year's growth are held at full prices;
tut tho amount of business doing in them is small. In
all other kinds we have very few sales to report; bags
a.most nominal. The following are factors' prices:—
Aid and East Kent pockets, 80s to 130 s; Weald of
Keat ditto, 75s to 84s; Sussex ditto, 64s to 80s per cwt

TIN CHILDREN AT A BIRTII.—Under the foregoing
somevhat startling title, we perceive, in a recent number of
the Anes and Queries, a communication, the writer of which
says—" I have just seen widow Platts, a poor but decent
woman, who keeps a small greengrocer's shop in Westbar,
Sheffeld. She says she was born in Spring-street, in that
town, on the 29th of September, 1781, and well remembers
her su-prise, when told by her mother that she was one of
ten clf,dren born at the same time." The periodical above
named contains a number of particulars, the object of which
is to verify what the writer may well term " one of the
msst remarkable instances of abnormal fecundity in an in-
dividual of the human species recorded in modern times,"-
6he geld Tinto.,

THE LONDON GAZETTE, March 28.

DIVIDENDS.
At the Court, Basinghall,street.
T. J. Edwards, King-street, aoomsbury, dressing-
case maker, April 25, at eleven—W. Willis, Trow-
bridge, Wiltshire, wool broker, April 24, at eleven—T.
Dunn, Hastings, builder and brickmaker, April 24, at
balf-past eleven. _

In the Country.

J. Keevill, jun., Bristol, draper, April 30, at eleven,
at the Court, Bristol—F. Shute and S. Shute, Crediton,
Devonshire, woollen manufacturers, April 25, at one, at
the Court, Exeter.