The Sun.
London, England, 1856-12-10 00:00:00

LLOYD'S SICEPPING.—(This Day.)

LONDON, ind this day at noon, S. to S.W. ;
light
The letters from the coast, dated yesterday,
report a continuance of the gale.
The Wolverton,
from Bonny, was wrecked off Calabi.r
breeze.l) Dec.ec
T. °
Point on the 17th Oct.
PORTSMOUTH, Dec. 9.—Wind B.s •w •, blowing hard—
Arrived—President Furrer, from Bombay, for Ilamburg
FALMOUTH, Dec. 2.-- Since four this morning the gale
has increased to a hurricane. The Columbus has 11 fret
of water in her hold at high water.
COWES, Dec. 2.—Wind S. to S. W..--A.rrived—Secret,
from Batavia.
DARTMOUTH, Dec. 9.—iVind stormy.—Arrived
—Argus, from Havana, leaky, &e,
LIVERPOOL, Dec. 10.-- The Louisiana, from hence to
Genoa, went on shore on the Bth inst., 131ack Rock, near
Troon ; crew saved. Communication with the south of
Ireland to-day has been suspended, the wires of the Mag-
netic Company being out of order on the other side of
Dublin, the electric cable between Holyhoad and Dublin
having been cut, supposed maliciously.
PENZANCE Dec.
9.—Arrived—Mars, from St. Jago de
Cuba, with damage and leaky.
HOLYHEAD, Dec. 9. —Wind S.W.—Arrived—Prospe-
rity, from Calcutta, for the Clyde.
FLEETWOOD, Dec. 10.—Arrived.—Sarah Jane, from
Liverpool, for Swansea, towed in with loss of foretop-
mast ;
one man killed and another lost overboard.
London,
Dhaesc.b3e.e—n Tgohte
got off shore, and will repair at Copenhagen.
ELSINORE, Dec. s.—The Schiedam, of London, has been
from Stockholm to
Point very leak
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(PER ELICITBIO TELEG
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LwEnrooL,odneaday Morning.

Wind S.
Arrived—Northern Bride, fromgCusizlcEnsttsaT.owN, Dec. 8.

Wind S.S.W.
rgaret, from Alexandria;
Arrived—Marian and Ma
Margaret Deane, Mauritius ; Argo, Odessa.
KING sTowN, Dec. 9.

Irish coast we have
Wind S.
learnederaaßr dr
thatatogetth't the wrecks
eroshi as ntotaffanuctihiheoerr, off Tacunshin Lough
fillirtVtthirleiretirJhv. L. Warner, Captain Thomas, from New Orleans
to Liverpool. She parted her anche'a and came on shore
near Wexford on the evening of the 7th inst. ; crew saved.
Should the weather moderate the cargo will be saved.
The Adriatic, from Liverpool for New York, encountered .
bad weather on the 6th inst., and made so much water that
both pumps could not keep her free. In running for Dan.
garvan, in charge of a pilot, she struck on the Black Rock,
beat over, and went en shore on Dungarvan Sands.
The ship Importer, Captain Macmillan, from Newport,
for Jamaica, coal laden, was abandoned on the Bth inst.
about 12 miles S. S.E. of Poorhead, having been previously
dismasted, tiller gone, and leaky. Captain and crew taken
off by the Alma, arrived at Queenstown.
(BY SUBMARINE AND BRITISH TELEGRAPH.)
GRAVESEND, Wednesday, 10 a.m.
Wind, S.S.W. ; tide 4i hours' flood; weather fresh and
fine.

AA a.O
Arrived, Dec. 9.—8e11, from Savanilla.
Arrived, 10th.—Eclipse, from St. Michael's.
DEAL, Tuesday, 9.56 a.m.
Wind S.S.W., strong with rain.
A barque arrived during the night, and anchored, with
main-yard gone in the slings, but sbe does not appear to
notice signals for her name &c. Weather unfit for boats.

CRYSTAL PALACE.—One Day.—Y esterday,
Admissions on payment, 706,; do. by season ticket. 258 ;
total visitors, 961.

DR. LIVINGSTONE.

trouble to neither friends nor foes. But they ex-
pected more from Sir Charles. They thought he
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The Rev. Dr. Livingstone is expected in London : would strike a blow here and there ; that he would
this day. He arrived at Marseilles from Tunis on make the best use of his means, and then leave the
the 6th inst., and was then in good health. His responsibility of failure on the Government and
left arm is, however, broken and partly useless, it his country, that would not be content without
something or other. We had a right to expect ,
having been torn by a lion. When he was taken
on board her /11ajesty's ship the Frolic, on the Mo- that at all events he would make an effective
diversion in the Baltic, and keep the Rus-
zambique coast, he had great difficulty in speaking
suns in such a state of alarm as to detain
a sentence of English, having disused it so long
while travelling in Africa. He bad with him a on those coasts the regiments that were ulti-
mately sent to the Crimea. Sir Charles did
native from the interior of Africa. This man, when
he got to the Mauritius, was so excited with the nothing that a man of no enterprise or ability could
steamers and various wonders of civilisation that not have done with half his fleet. So he may now
he went mad, and jumped into the sea-and was write a letter a day and a pamphlet a week on this
drowned. Hr. Livingstone has been absent from
subject, and he will only stamp deeper the inapres-
England 1 years. He crossed the great African sion of disappointment which he has left on the
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British mind. Ile may not do much harm, for, to
continent almost in the centre, from west to east,
use his own words, " he is not the Sampson to pull
has been where no civilised being has ever been
before, and has made many notable discoveries of
down the pillars of the State, and crush the Admi-
great value. He travelled in the twofold character nistration beneath its ruins." But he will do no
good by his present course. If he really wishes to
of missionary and physician, having obtained a be of service to the State, let him give it the bene-
medical diploma. He is rather a short man, with fit of his experience by stating at length the wants
a pleasing and serious countenance, which betokens of the British navy. Supposing this unfortunate
the most determined resolution. le continued to 1 hitch in the execution of the treaty leaves us all
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wear the cap which he wore while performing our work still to do, and next summer sees another
wonderful travels. On board. the Candia, in which fleet, in the Baltic, what suggestions has he to of-
he voyaged from Alexandria to Tunis, he was re- fer . We do not want a pamphlet of mere abuse in
markable for his modesty and unassuming man- the plausible form of advice, but distinct and simple
ners. He never spoke of his travels except in an- propositions for the improvement of the British
ewer to questions. The injur
travelling with a friendly
tribe of Africans. A herd of lions broke into their work expected from it. We will assume his pro-
positions to be good ones ; in that case, if they are
camp at night and carried off some of their cattle. adopted, then his credit is redeemed. If, on the
The natives, in their alarm, believed that a neigh-
other hand, they are disregarded, and some disas-
bouring tribe had bewitched them. Livingstone
trous result shows the wickedness of that neglect,
taunted them with suffering their losses through
in that case, too, Sir Charles's wisdom will be
cowardice, and they then turned out to face and
hunt down the enemy. The doctor shot a lion, justified, and posterity will draw the conclusion
which dropped wounded. It afterwards sprang on that he did wisely himself to attempt nothing with
him and caught him by the arm, and, after wound-
such inadequate means.
ing two natives who drew it off him, it fell down -.
dead. The wounded arm was not set pro-
perly, and Dr. Livingstone suffered excruci-
ating agony in consequence. Great honours
await the doctor in this country. Lieut. Tickell,
the Admiralty agent of Candia, and the fellow-

passenger of Dr. Livingstone from Alexandria to
Marseilles, arrived at Southampton yesterday, and
immediately called on Mrs. Livingstone there, to
deliver messages from her husband, whom ehe has
not seen for four years and a half. Before that
period she shared with him some of his African
labours and dangers. She is staying at the resi-
dence of Edward Randall, Esq., one of the magis-
trates of the borough, and has ben suffering much
from anxiety on account of the delay in the arrival
of the Candia. Some time previously her husband
had been mourned as dead for months. She was
almost overwhelmed with emotion to hear of the

safety of her husband after so maiay perils, and
was deeply grateful to Lieutenant Tickell for his
kindness and attention. As she is unwell, it is
thought likely that Dr. Livingstone, after pre-
senting himself to the London Mission House, will
proceed to Southampton, where probably he will
narrate his interesting experiences.

SIR C. NAPIER AND HIS TRADUCERS.

(From the Al liming A dvert iser )
The generous and decided terms of approbation in
which Lord Palmerston speaks of Sir C. Napier,
in the correspondence which we published yester-
day, cannot fail not only to confound, for the pre-
sent, the calumniators of the gallant Admiral, but
to silence them for ever afterwards. Lord Palmer-
ston has, in the most handsome and manly manner,
calmly and deliberately declared, that the entire
conduct of Sir Charles during the protracted period
that he discharged the duties of naval officer, was
everything that could be wished—that it com-
manded his complete approval—and that with re-
gard to the circumstance of his not attacking,
Cronstadt, he displayed a sound discretion, inas-
much as it would have been impossible for
him to have taken that formidable fortress ; while,
had he unwisely made the attempt, the
British fleet would most probably have suffered
very great damage, and the Russian commander,
knowing the fact, would then have come out, and,
in the disabled state of our ships, might have
achieved a success alike disastrous to our naval in-
terests and discreditable to our naval name.

As the friends of Sir Charles Napier, we now beg
of that warm hearted, though not always—when on
shore—the most discreet of men, to repose hereafter
quietly on his laurels. He will never more be
called on to defend himself. Lord Palmerston has
triumphantly vindicated him, not only from the
charges which ignorant men, and, in some cases,
buffoons to boot, have thought proper to prefer
against him, but from all the charges which folly
and malevolence may hereafter bring forward. As
for Sir Robert Peel, if he had a spark of honour
or an atom of self-respect, he would at once resign
his situation at the Admiralty ; for it would not be
possible to imagine a more severe rebuke than that
which Lord Palmerston administered—by impli-
cation—to his ignorance, impertinence, and unfit-
ness for the office which he fills, when
declaring in the strongest and most explicit terms,
that the Gallant Admiral could not have taken
Cronz+adt, and that he acted most wisely in not
maki g the attempt.