The Sun.
London, England, 1856-12-08 00:00:00

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

Sin,—l yesterday informed you that after three days'
deliberation the Prussian Government had, at my re-
quest, accorded me a renewal of my permission to remain
here, and that this concession reached me at least 48
hours subsequent to the arrival in Berlin of the English
journals containing my correspondence with Lord Bloom-
field. My agreement with my landlord at 33, Tauben-
strasse, and my former permission to reside here, expired
on the same day. As I was uncertain, at the time. of
engaging my apartments at that address, whether I
should require them beyond the 30th of November, a
tenant had been found to succeed me on the Ist of this
month. For two days out of the three during which
the Prussian Government sat pondering as to whether
it was safe to grant my request I was without any set-
tled domicile. Every one anticipated my immediate
expulsion from Berlin in consequence of the reflections
in my correspondence upon this Government and
its officials. Consequently, I did not venture to en-
gage new apartments. Yesterday morning, however,
upon receiving a paper from the presidency of police
permitting me to remain in Berlin from the 2d to the
24th of December, as mentioned in my letter to you
of yesterday, I immediately installed myself here,
within ten doors of my former habitation. At ten
o'clock this morning, while I was engaged in writing, a
functionary of the police presented himself, and an-
nounced that he was the bearer of a peremptory order
from the Government that I must quit Berlin within 24
hours from that time. This, I presume., is the first mark
of respect to Lord Clarendon's telegraphic despatch.
The police functionary then tendered a papertforthmeyGineff.:
nature. I am altogether unacquaintedo h
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ing that this act amounted simply to
the order of the
I had been made acquainted with
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functionary took his departur
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passport.
Prussian Government, in its defiance of its
Thus, the
permission of residence granted to me after three days
deliberation, and with a thorough knowledge of my
residence. At 1 o'clock a policeman brought
statement respecting the indignities offered to me by its
familiars on the 21st and 22d of November, which is
equivalent to an endorsement of that statement ; and
after having, moreover, explicitly admitted that there
existed no ground whatever for my arrest—the Prus-
sian Government, I say, in the teeth of all this, now
expels me from the Prussian territory.
In the interests of civilisation I protest against this
violence. I am, Sir, yours obediently,
MORRIS MOORE.
43, Tauben-strasse, Berlin, Deo. 4.

FATAL DISASTER AT SEA.—A lamentable disaster
occurred at sea on Saturday morning, at about 4 o'clock,
which, besides consigning six poor fellows to a watery
grave, has involved the entire destruction of a valuable
ship. It appears that as the iron screw-steamer James
Hartley, belonging to the West Hartlepool Steam Navi-
gation Company, was
prosecuting her voyage from Cron-
stadt to Hartlepool, having a valuable cargo on board,
and when abreast of Sunderland, at a distance of three or
four mile's, the night being pitch dark, the look-out disco-
veredaandstirn aangpepvaellsing proximity to the steamer. Imme
vessel bearing down upon them under can-
vassdiately an alarm was given and the captain of the James
' if possible, to avert a collision which
abe imminent. Unhappily, however, the
Hartley (Baldwin) ordered the engines to be reversed,
:en too late, for before the reversal of the
time to exercise any perceptible influence
engines
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given
en the course of the team
the two vessels came into
violent collision, d when, a few minutes afterwards,
the James Hartley was brought up and search made for
the carrying with
It was at first thought
with her her unfortunate
the brig, not a vestige of her was discovered ; she had
that the whole of her crew had been lost, but fortu-
nately two of them (including the mate) had succeeded
in reaching the deck of the James Hartley, and were
thus almost miraculously preserved. From these
men it was ascertained that the ill-fated vessel was
mgoanseter down
and five of
the brig Messenger, of Shields, bound to that port
from London, in ballast. She f.a" been wind-bound
for some days past, with hundreds of other vessels,
in Burlington Bay, whence, we believe, she called on her
destitution only the day previously. The James Hart-
ley, with .the rescued mariners on board, arrived in West
Hartlepool during the course of the day, having in the
collision lost her bowsprit and jibboom, besides sustain-
ing other damage. It is satisfactory to know that the
male of the Messenger exonerated Captain Baldwin from
any blame as to the cause of the collision ; but, doubt-
lessly, the Board of Trade will deem it necessary to
cause an investigation into the circumstances to be at
once set on foot. The James Hartley is a new vessel of
the burden of 1,000 tons, and was returning from her
first voyage, which had been in all respects a most fortu-
nate one. She was built by the firm of Lockwood and
Pearse, of Stockton, who, we understand, hold an inte-
rest in her as part owners.