The Sun.
London, England, 1860-01-16 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, JANUARY 16, 1860.

111 E EA V .
The screw steamer Rodney, 91, fitting for the
first division of the steam reserve, is having her ma-
chinery put on board by the contractors, who have
a number of men employed in the work. The Rod-
ney remains lashed to the sheer hulk to be in readi-
ness to receive her masts.
The screw steamship Royal Albert, 120, Captain
Lacon, continues in Plymouth Sound waiting orders.
The screw steamship Conqueror, 101, Captain
Sotheby, was hauled out of No. 3 dock in Kevham
Steamyard on Friday, and put in the lock. On
Saturday she was taken alongside the sheer hulk
Kent, and received her mainmast. She was then
placed at her moorings.
The screw steamship Nile, 93, Capt. R. R. Bar-
nard, will be docked to-day (Monday) at Keyham

Yard, Plymouth. Her topmasts are stripped.
The screw steamship Sanspareil, 72, Capt. "Wil-
mot, was hauled out of the basin in the Devonport
dockyard on Friday and placed alongside the hulk
Vigo in Ilamoaze to complete her fitment.
The topsail yards of the screw steamship Revenge,
90, at Plymouth, are crossed, and the lower yards
are athwart the settings ready for sending aloft.
The paddlewheel steam tender Avon, 3, second
Master G. Davey, from Pembroke, arrived at Ply-
mouth on Saturday. She touched at Penzance to
enter men for the Royal navy.
The paddle-wheel steam-sloop Basilisk, 6, Corn;
mender G. A. Phayre, lately from North America
and tho West Indies, is ordered to be paid off tat
Woolwich on Wednesday next.
The naval transport Diligence, J. Head, master,
from Woolwich, arrived at Plymouth on Friday,
with stores for the dockyard.
The revenue cutter Royal Charlotte, from Pem-
broke, arrived at Plymouth on Friday.
The Board of Admiralty has decided on taking
the examinations of candidates for apprenticeship
in'Chatham Dockyard entirely out of the hands of
the dockyard officers, and placing them under the
control of the Civil Service Commissioners, who are
directed to attend at Chatham docks and on the oc-
casion of the next examination. The Lords of the
Admiralty have fixed the examination of the candi-
dates for this year's entry to take place on the 23d
and 24th inst., on which days the candidates for'
apprenticeship in Sheerness dockyard will assemble
at Chatham, in order that the whole number may
be examined at the same time. The lads will all be
required to undergo a physical test, and must con-
form to the rules laid down by the Director-General
of the Medical Department of the Navy. This ar-
rangenent has given great satisfaction, as it will
put an end to that system of favouritism by the
local officers which has been complained of, not only
at Chatham, but at the other Royal dockyards.
The following appointments were made yesterday
at the Admiralty :—Lieut. W. C. S. Sulivan and
Lieut. J. j.-W. Jervis, additional, to the Hawke;
Dr. L. T. Cunningham, staff surgeon, to the For-
midable; J. S. Davidson, surgeon, to the Algiers;
S. Donnelly, surgeon, to the Cumberland ; C.
Smith, surgeon, to the Hawke ; Dr. W. H. Lloyd,
assistant-surgeon, to the Nile; Robert Murphy,
assistant-surgeon, additional, to the Formidable; A.
It. Moxham, acting 3d class assistant-engineer, to
the Asia, as supernumerary; G. 11. Doming, second
master, to the Nile; G. Harris, second master, to
the Impregnable; and G. W. Burnett, master's as-
sistant, to the Chesapeake.

71IE 1?OR

IL' ITALIANS.

The following art.
pears in the Presse
Where Jupiter .he world he had
only to frown. The Emperor of the French, when
he would move Europe, has only to open his mouth
or to sit doWn to his writing-desk. Since he can
make peace or war according to his -will, he is in
the eyes of all other goverements the mind
,and
arm of France ; he holds them all, so to speak, sus-
pended on his lips or hanging on the tip of his pen.
A year ago his speech to M. de Hubner gave an
entirely new direction to the course of affairs, and
overthrew all the combinations of diplomacs. Now,
his letter to Pius IX., showing that the most serious
complications have survived the war, has thrown
public opinion into new perplexities. The semi-offi-
cial press, in its intolerable optimism,- expresses the
opinion that this letter simplifies the situation. The
E nptror of the Freda ,with more modesty and frank •
ness, is far from pretending that all difficulties are at
an end. In his St. Cloud speech he confessed that he
had had the pain of leaving his programme incom-
plete. In his letter of Dee. 31 he says to the Pope,
" Your Holiness will understand -the difficulty of
my sitaation." The especially striking part of this
letter is the sentiment of the incompatibility which
exists in the mind of. the French Emperor between
hb feelings towards the Pope and his engagements
to the Italians. '' I cannot," he tells the Pope,
" escape a certain degree of solidarity with the
effects of that national.votvnent, which was pro,.
voted in Italy by thelTiliig4te with Austria." This
solidarity, born of the force of things—a solidarity
which explains the imperturbable eorfidence of the
Italians—is something more than relative ;it has
governed the situation for the last six months, and
will for a long time to come rule the foreign policy
of France. -On Jan. 1, 1859, the Italians had no
thought of war. They were surprised, in common
with the rest of Europe, by the. speech of M. de
ljubner. The Emperor of the French, in his mani-
festo of May 3, declared that Austria hail brought
things to such an extremity that she must either
dominate as far as the Alps, or Italy must be free
from the Alps to the Adriatic; they felt within
their bosoms a revival of those hopes which they
lost at Novara. Their joy redoubled, and they
looked upon their. independence as certain on the
day when there went forth from Milan this appeal
to their wisdom and courage. " Profit by the for-
tune offered to you. Be only soldiers to day, and
to-morrow you shall be citizens of a great nation'."
This appeal, issued on June 8, after the battle of

"A. Peyrat," a.

Magenta, and when the Lombards were already
emancipated, was plainly addressed to all Italy. And
accordingly the Italians, blonding all their aspira-
tions, had thenceforth only the one thought of found-
ing a great country inhabited by free citizens. All
on a sudden, in the midst of their enthusiasm, they
learned that the two empei ors had met at Villafransa,
and that alone in a little chamber, tAte-4-tke with
a nosegay before them, in the space of a singlehour
they had settled the fate of Lombardy and Venetia,
and reserved the rights of the fugitive princes—in
other words, had called is question the rights of
those populations which had been invited to choose
an independent existence. Surprised by the peace
as they had been by the war, the Italians, never-
thcless, did not give way to discouragement. They
had been told, " Profit by the fortune that offers
itself to you. Providence sometimes favours nations
as it does indivi luals, by giving them an opportu-
nity to grow great all at once, but this is on the
condition that they show themselves equal to the
occasion." The Italians at Bologna and Florence
did profit by the opportunity, and thinking that
the only way to grow great all at once was to form
a state of ten or twelve millions of souls, they de-
manded to be annexed to Piedmont, already aug-
mented by the addition of Lombardy. 'Whatever
may be thought of this their determination—whe-
ther it may or may not be thought blameable, it is
abundantly evident that it was the effect of the
" national movement provoked by the struggle with
Austria," from a solidarity with which the French
Emperor admits that he cannot escape. It might,
however, have been thought that he intended to
limit this solidarity to the movement in Romagna ;
but this is shown in the pamphlet to be altogether
a mistake, and on this point the pamphlet, naturally
more explicit, explains and completes the letter of
Dec. 31. The right of self-emancipation from Pon-
tifical domination is not a privilege confined to the
Romagnas. The Marches and Umbria have the like

rights, and for the like reason ; and, consequently,
if to morrow Ancona and Ravenna were to separate
themselves from the Holy See, their insurrection,
just like that at Bologna, would be " an effect of the
national movement provokei by the st niggle against
Austria," and would carry with it the same soli-
darity. The pamphlet admits this ; and pur-
suant to this reasoning, the pamphlet would leave
to the Pope, of all the. 21 provinces which he
now possesses, nothing but "a little corner of earth
sequestered from the passions and interests which
agitate other peoples, and devoted exclusively to
the glory of God." I'his project, although far more
radical than the letter, is yet incomplete.
But why do you inflict, for the sake of religion,
on the souls and. rights of two or three hundred
thousand men the mutilation formerly practised on
other creatures for the sake of music ? And if these
creatures of the Papacy-, according to the pamphlet,
fatigued with the ."sweet and calm vistas of the
spiritual world," Should imitate their brethren at
Bologna and Ancona, would you renew the expe-
dition of 1819 for the purpose of teaching them to
remain content with contemplation, the arts, the
study of great historical traditions, and prayer ?
As right and justice do not happen to bo a geogra-
phical question, you cannot censure at Rome what
yoa.approve at Bologna, and as the Emperor of the
French says very truly in ! his letter to Pio Nono,
" Facts have an inexorable logic," against which
you contend in vain.
What is to be done, then ? For in short, as the
letter of December 31 al zo says " this uncertainty
cannot last for ever." The Emperor of the French
thought that what was " most in conformity with
the interests of the Holy See" would be to make a
sacrifice of the revolted provinces, and ask the
powers to guarantee the rest. At once England
replies that she will guarantee nothing, and then
the Pope declares he will not give up one tittle of
what he regards as his right and duty. He does
not exactly adopt Hildebrand's method, he launches
no ecclesiastical thunderbolts, he does not thunder
out excommunication as yet ; but, in the meantime,
the vivacity of his language announces an im-
movable will. So, bet wren the court of Rome ani-
mated with the spirit that inspired the Pope's
answer to General de Goyon, and the French Go-
vernment faithful to the spirit that inspired the
pamphlet, no arrangement is possible.
There is still the Congress. Supposing it does
meet, it will not choose, wo mae be sure, to regis-
ter purely and simply the stipulations of Villa-
franca and the arrangements of Zurich. A solemn
and controversial debate will comm.mce on the state
of Italy. If this debate be merely consultative, the
result, be it what it may, will not at all change the
situation. If, on the contrary, the Congress in-
tends giving to its decision the sanction of force,
and if that decision be contrary to the state of
things now existing in the Duchies and Romagna,
what will France and England do, engaged as they
are, the one to admit no discussion about the abso-
lute right of the Italians, the other to refrain from
interference herself and to prevent all other inter-
vention ? It is not to be supposed that they will
yield, and the Times thinks that their sincere Ind
perfectly authentic accord will discourage all oppo.
sition. Possibly ; but, for all that, should the
Congress remain firm, should it yield no more than
France and England will, we do not see how
Europe can escape a general conflict.
Such is the situation which the semi-official jour-
nals represent as being " very much simplified."

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OPENING P TIlTs PR US.SI. i.S

CHAMBERS.

The following is the speech of the Pt ince Re;ent
of Prussia on opening the Chambers—an analysis of
which has been transmitted by telegraph :
Illustrious Nobles and Honoured Gentlemen of
ths two Chambers of the Diet,—ln dismissing you
last year on the eve of your return to your hon.es,
we implored God to grant the restoration to health
of our beloved King and lord. But to my great
s -crow and that of the country, it was not in the
dce-ees of the Almighty to lessen the su&rings of
his Majesty.

Geave events have been accomplished in Europe.
The war which broke out in Italy appro..tched in
its rapid course the German frontiers. To 'the
gravity of that situatioa the firmness of our at-
, titude had to respond. I accordingly ordered
the mobilisation of six corps dames. Already had
those corps began to take up positions, in concert
with the troops of the German Confederates not en-
gaged in the conflict, when the vat. suddenly
ended.
Tho preliminaries signed at Villafranea were fol-
lowed by the conclusion of peace. On the common
invitation of Austria and France my government
declared itself ready to take part in a European
Congress to deliberate on the best means of pacify:-
ing Italy, and of consolidating in a durable manner
the political situation of that peninsula. •
Quite recently the wish for a reform of the feder
ral constitution haps'been anew manifested. Prussia
will. always .consider herself as the natural repre-
sentative of the tendencies which have for object to
restore and unite the national forces, and to pro-
woteEfficaciously, by really practical measures, the
general interests of Germany,.
My government is guided by the desire to see the
action of the Germanic Diet in its relations with
the constitutionaof the different states to the nar-
rowest limits consistent with appropriate interven-
tion. In consequence, it has regarded as its duty,
in the constitutional question of Electoral Hesse,
yr hich has been for years before the Federal Diet,
to indicate in conformity with that principle, the
return of the constitution of 1831, with, however,
the removal from that constitution of the enact-
ments contrary to the federal laws which it con-
tains.

In concert with my German Confederates, I am
making incessant efforts to obtain a constitution in
harmony with existing treaties, and with the recog-
nised rights of those countries, for the Ger,nan ter-
ritories placed under the Danish sceptre. My efforts
in the Germanic Diet shall likewisLe tend to cause
to be regulated in a satisfactory manner the tran-
sitory situation which must necessarily exist wail
a definitive arrangement can be come to.
The events of last year could not occur without
troubling commercial relations. My government,
has, however,, endeavoured to repair as much as
pol,sible the consequences which were produced.
Public works have been continued almost without
exception, and the wastruction of railways confided
to priv::to enterprise, has been preserved us far as
possible from interruption. Commerce and manu-
factures are now beginning to recover from the
serious consequences of that perturbation.
The mission- which leaves for Eastern Asia, and
which is destined to establish regular relations with
the countries in that part of the world recently par-
Cully opened to commerce, will contribute, I hope,
to give new activity to our manufactures and navi-
gation. This mission is accompanied by a squadron
of our navy. This navy will receive a notable in-
crease in consequence of the extraordinary credits
which you have voted for the purpose.
An additional convention to.the treaty of com-
merce and navigation of the 22d June, 1815, with
Sardinia was concluded on the 28th October last.
This convention will be submitted to your consti-
tutional approbation.
In spite of the unfavourable influence of the war-
like events of last year, we may regard with satis-
faction the financial situation of the country. We
way expect with confilence that the budget of last
year will be balanced by means of the ordinary
revenues and without having recourse to extra-
ordinary resources. The Goverment has besides,
for the present year, established the.: preliminary
budget of expenses and receipts in such a manner
as, whilst satisfying the wants of the public ser-
vices, may enable us to continue the ameliorations
commenced, and provide for new and urgent wants.
We have been able to realise without difficulty
the loan which you voted for military purposes,
and which was left to public subscription. The
satisfactory result of that vast operation proves
alike the patriotism of the people and the confi-
dence placed in our finances. An account will
shoitly be given to you of the employment of the
credits voted. A notable portion of them is still
in the coffers of the Government. A bill on the
employment of these funds shall be presented to
you,h and
asbe provisionally
eni
paidttheo a u
,r
rsea: o
'Treasury.
i.yf :12,000,000 thalers
The general interests of the state require more
than ever a prompt solution of the question of the
land tax. The bills which were not passed in the
last session will be again submitted to your deli-
beration.

It is to be expected that the Government will be
able to submit to you a bill relative to the organist-
tion of the various circles of the country.
My Government has taken into serious considera-
tion the situation of the municipal organisation of
towns and villages, the state of the administration
of the rural police, and the devektpment, promised
by the legislature of 18.3, of the organisation of
districts and provinces. The investigation of these
subjects has been carried as far as the agitations of
last year permitted.
A bill relative to the execution of Art. 69 of the
constitution concerning the circumscription of elec-
toral districts for the Chamber of Deputies, which
will be presented to you, is destined to remove
numerous objections. The bill on marriage will be
submitted to you anew. I strongly desire that at
last you may succeed in realising the important
and urgent reform for which it provides. Other
measures which will be presented to you are destined
to supply wants which have long prevailed i❑ dif-
ferent parts of the kingdom. •
My incessant solicitude is devoted to the moral
intere►t.s of the nation, The Government will care-
fully endeavour, as heretofore, to increase public
instruction, and to complete within the measures of
the I.: sources of which it disposes the scientific esta-
blishments in the universities. By the side of the
gymnases, the manufacturing schools have obtained
the position which is due to them by the new regu-
lations, which assure to them a scientific character,
and make them of practical utility. As regards
elementary instruction, the salaries of schoolnias-
ters have been again increased. Preparations are
besides being made for the creation of new training
schools, in order to supply the want of good school-
masters, which is still felt.
Gentlemen, a question of high importance re-
quires all the solicitude of my government and all
your ,olicitude also. When, last year, I found
myself obliged to order the calling out of our
mili-
tary force, the soldiers zealously responded to the
appeal by ranging, themselves under the national
flag. lam proud to pay the tribute of my grati-
tude to this patriotism, which has never been
wanting. Nevertheless, our military organisation
requires a reform—not one, however, rendered
necessary by the absence of devotedness or of bra-
very. The organisation of the army was proceeded
to in the midst of circumstances of the gravest
kind. Beity, in proportion to the population and
the financial resources of the epoch, the organisa-
tion was afterwards preserved, in conjunction with
the remembrance of its glorious successes. But the
experience of the last few years, during which the
armed fora() of the nation has been several times
called out, has proved the existence more and more
evident of inconveniences of various kinds, but all
serious. To remove those inconveniences is my
duty and my right, and I request your constitu-
tional cooperation in the adoption of measures
calculated to increase our defensive forces iu u pro-
portion which shall correspond to the augmenta-
tion of the population, without encroaching on the
interests of manufactures and agriculture.
For this purpose a bill on the universal obliga-
tion of military service will be presented to you ;
amid it will be aceompanied by financial propoai •
lions. It is not our intention to break off with the
inheritance of a great epoch. The Prussian army
will be in future, as now, the Prussian people in
arms. What has to be done is to animate with a
new force, by regenerating forms, and in• the limits
fixed by the financial resources of the country. the
military organisation which the past bequeathed
us. I Invite your impartial examination or, and
your consent to; this bill, which has been drawn up
after a profound examination, and which affects
both the civil and military interests of Prussia.
This approbation will be in the eyes of all a proof
of the confidence which the country places in me
and in my loyal intentions.
Gentlemen, never have the representatives of the
country had to appreciate a measure of greater
portance foe the defence, the grandeur, and the,
destinies of the country against the vicissitudes of

413. STAMPI

SD.

Amr....7lm,ccmmawirsava••,rs
power in the eouutry. They have to assure the
future.
Mq3-,God grant that they may sue,ieed. May
God bless the king, who has prepartd this mea-
sure; and may His hand protect the life of our king
and lore. Long live the king.

APPALLING SHIPWRECK

EionT HUNDRED AND FIFTY LIVES
LOST.

The details of the dreadful loss of the clipper
ship Flora Temple, Capt. Johnson, mister, from
Macao for Havannah, to which we briefly alluded:
a few days since, have come to hand, from which it
wise be seen that the whole of the unhappy crea-
tures on board, Coolie labourers, numbering 8.50,
perished.
The Flora Temple was a first-class ship, and hay-
ing been chartered for the conveyance of Coolies,
sailed from Macao on the morning of the Bth of
last October. Her crew, including officers, were
about fifty men, and four days after leaving port
they encountered a heavy gale of wind from the
southwest, with a high sea. Sail was reduced, and
althouh on the morning of the 14th the gale had
abated; it continued southwest, and Capt. Johnson
declined making more sail, being apprehensive
that a current might cet the ship to the east-
ward, in the direction of reefs which were
marked upon the chart. The sights obtained at
noon were good, and the position of the ship ap-
peared to be so far (3(i miles) to the westward of the
most westerly reefs in the latitude in whieh they
then were, that the captain, having directed a good
lookout to be kept, apprehended. no danger from
standing- on until 8 p.m., at which hour he had
given instructions that the vessel should be put
about. At 7.20 p.m. he came on deck from the tea
table, and, in answer to inquiry, was informed by
the officer of the watch that a good lookout had
been-kept from the topsail-yard. The officer was
sent forward to see, however, and had barely
reached the forecastle, when the cry of " Hard up"
was heard from the look-out. The helm was imme-
diately put hard up; and the spanker layered, and
no sooner was this done than " Hard down" was
heard from the officer, who by this- time had
come • aft again to the gangway. It was then.
discovered that the ship was within a short dis-
tance of the breakers, which could now be dis-
tinctly seen and heard, and which extended in a
curved line from about four points on the starboard
bow to about three points on the port bolt'. It
seemed impossible a long ship like the Fl )ra Temple
could escape them, and although the yards were
braced round, and the ship hove aback, she strick
first slightly, and then very soon afterwards several
times with a tremendous crash, the breakers run•
ning very high alongside. Pieces of her timber and
planking floated up on her port side, and after some
more very heavy bumps she remained apparently
immoveable, with a heavy list to port, and the water
rapidly increased till it reached between the decks,
where the Coolies were. It was found impossible
to extricate her.

While this was going on (indeed, almost imme-
diately after the ship struck) a fear that the coolies
would rise and murder all on board 'seemed to
have possessed the minds of the crew, and to such
a height did this rise that the captain (having at
the time, however, no intention of abandoning the
ship). had the two quarter boats lowered, and placed
an officer and five men in each, with orders to re-
main close to the ship, so that refuge and assistance
might be at hand. The crew appeared to have been
thoroughly unmr.nned, their only anxiety- was to
get out of the ship, and but for the captain and his
brother, and a few others on board, the boats would
have left the ship absolutely unprovided with the
necessaries of life.

These boats were lowered at 10 o'clock. At 12
o'clock the other boats were got out, and there re•
tnained the long boat, which the panic-stricken
men had declared it was impossible to get out.
Only 15 of the crew remained on board, and the
labour and difficulty in getting the boat out was
immense. At length it was got over the side at 4
a.m., and with its crew passed safely through the
breakers. Before leaving the ship the lead was
hove; four fathoms were got under the bows and
stern, and three fathoms amidships. Immediately
through the breakers there was no bottom at 14
fathoms.

At break of day the ship appeared to be almost
without motion. Her masts were standing, she had
a strong list to port, her back was broken, and the
sea making a clear breach ever her starboard quar-
ter. The coolies, who had remained below all
night, were now up and clustered on the upper
decks. The captain, after passing round the
northern extremity of the lines of breakers, oined
the starboard-quarter boat, which had the smaller
boats in company, the port-quarter boat with the
second mate in charge having deserted during the
night, alarmed probably at the guns which werefired
front the ship, and which to them seemed to
denote the dreaded outbreak of the Coolies.' The
crews of the dingies were then transferred to the
longboat and gum terboat, and at 9 a.m. sail was
made to the westward. The wind then rose to a
severe gale from W.S.W., with a tremendous sea
and heavy rain, and the boats parted company.
From Saturday, the 15th, till the following Friday
the gale continued without abatement, and serious
apprehension was felt for the safety of the starboard
quarterboat, which contained Mr. Marshall, the
mate, nine men, and two boys, and the port quer-
terboat, which had in her the second mate, Mr. Wal-
ton, and five men. The longboat contained 31, in-
cluding Capt. Johnson, his brother, and Mr. A. P.
Childs, the surgeon. Throughout the seven days
while the gale lasted, this boat was hove to under
a close-reefed mainsail with a bucket veered out to
20 fathoms. Most of them had saved nothing but
what they stood in. The boat was an open one,
and they were drenched with the seas which broke
over them, and with the rain which fell night and
day. They were covered with salt water boils and
suffered mite pain. A biscuit and half a pint of
water a day was all they dared to venture on, and
sleep was almost impossible. On the Saturday
the wind and sea abated. Fortunately the cap-
tain had saved his sextant and a chart, and as they
found the boat drifted by the gale as far as 13
degrees N., it was determined to make for
Touron, the French settlement in Cochin China.
On the 'Wednesday, 12 days after leaving the
I wreck, land was made to the south of Touron.
The boat was made fast to a fishing stake all
night on account of the strong current which
had swept her to the south the day before, and on
the following evening they came in sight of the
French squadron. Finding it impossible to weather
the Cape that night they put into a small fishing
harbour, where they were most hospitably treated,
and on the next evening, the 28th, they reached
Touron. They were received on board his Imperial
Majesty's steamer Gironde, and Capt. Johnson at
once put himself in communication with the French
Admiral, M. Page, and begged him to send in search
of the missing boats as well as to rescue the Coolies.
With the greatest readiness the request was com-
plied with, and the Gironde was despatched to the
scene of the disaster, Capt. Johnson, his brother, and
Mr. Childs, the surgeon, accompanying her. They
came in sight of the reef on the afternoon of the 2d
of November. The sea still rolled and broke
as before; but no remnant could be seen of
the ship till on proceeding closer in a boat herport-
side from the main chain forward could be observed
floating. • Of the 850 coolies no traces remained.
Close to the reef, within a short distance of the
wreck on the S.E. side, the boat sounded, and found
no bottom at 27 fathoms, and within a mile to north-
west there was no bottom at 70 fathoms. The
breakers extended about half a mile in a curved line.
They wero very narrow not over 150 yards in width.
The position, according to the calculation on board
the Gironde, 10 19 N., 113 13 E., while Captain
Johnson made it in 10 16 N. and 113 20 E. Nothing
remained to be done. The unhappy Coolies had,
doubtless, perished and the Gironde at once shaped
a course for Manilla, where she arrived on the
evening of the Bth of November.
it is stated that it was impossible to make any
attempt to save the Coolies. Captain Johnson and
his brother are very humane and emu.t,rcous men,
but the crew were so terrified that it was almost by
exertions beyond belief on the part of the captain,
his brother, and a few others, that the safety or he
crew even was secured. It appears, however,tthat
they had some reason for distrusting the Coolies at
this crisis. Oa the Monday after they left Macao,
all scorned comfortable and cheerful ; their food
was plentiful and good, and their state was well
cared for, the necessary order and discipline among
them being enforced by their own head men
exclusively. Oa the Tuesday morning, at seven
o'clock, however, three days after leaving Afacao,
the watch on deck being scattered about the ship,
and the guard at the port gate of the barricade
which was erected between the Coolies and crew
(who slept aft), being away from his post, the
coolies, who had collected on deck in large numbers,
suddenly fell upon the guard at the starboard gate,
struck him on the head with an iron belaying-pin
as he was stooping down, drew out his sword and
having cut him frightfully, afterwards, with cruel

l'he Coolies were armod with the cook's axes, the
chain ho;ks, iron belaying-pins, Lairdspikes, And
every weapon they cot7ld lay their hr,nds upon, and
[ut for the sudden panic which the -uo-,:peelefl
shots from the revolvers produced,- it was-impossi-
14e to say what would have saved the crew. On
inquiry- it turned out that, a deep-laid scheme had
been.rilanned for killing them all and taking: pos-
session of the ship, and it was this design, and the
crew being constantly on their gun rd, t hat pi o:dueed
such apprehension and terror among them when
the ship struck.
It is reported that the boats were ro more thin
sufficient to save the crew, 49 in numbei. The
ship was 300 miles from land, and it is stated that
it was impossible to raft 850 men so great a dis-
tance, much less feed themlikven bad the crew bon
justified or encouraged in trusting their lives.tot he
Coolies' forbearance. It was felt that the only
chance of saving even one of the unfortunate
Coolies was their falling In with a ship which
might perhaps be induced to go to their assistance.
Althouglv. the long boat crossed thainost freciiientcd
part of the China Sea, not a sail of any kind was
seen. It is thought that in all probability the ship
went to pieces on the night of Saturday, when the
gale commenced.

ADoprieN 14" ACT
TEL LACE FACTO &LES'. -•

An important public meeting of the master ,and
operative laeetnakers was held on Sajurdtry evening,
`niel4ih iu t., in the Msembly-rootni, Nottingham.
Mr. T. B. Carlton (county magistrate) occupied
the chair, and on the platform were the Rev. J. M.
Valpy, incumbent of St. John Baptist, Nottingham;
Messu. Councillor Cox, Mallett, &c.
The CHAIRMAN, after a few prefatory ranarks,
asked who was there who would fail to sympathise,
with the men who were robbed of their domestic
comforts by the employment of their Ivivcs and chil-
dren in lace factories, and who could depict their
feelings when were seen the emaciated faces of tho*e
who were looked upon to carry down the names of
their parents and exercise their duties in t his busy
life. He grieved to say that there was tin amount
of privation and suffering, among that portion oft ho
population of this neighbourhood connected with the
lace trade which was utterly unknown in other
towns of this kingdom, or indeed in the civilised

world. That suffering had been caused by various
circumstances, probably of sloW growth—circum-
stances that arose from that when the trade was in
.a very different condition it was in at the, present
time. At this period the importance of thelaco
trade was greatly appreciated by the nation at large;
but it would be wicked and monstrous to shut our
eyes to the great evils which now existed in the
trade. The chairman then read a number of extracts
from a blue book, showing that many child, en, 9 or
10 years old, were engaged from perhaps 2,3, or 4
o'clock in the Morning until 10,11, or 12 o'clock at
night, and, indeed, sometimes later.
Mr. MALLErT (a manufacturer) said that these
extracts applied to the lace trade 20 years ago ; tut
nianufacturers were not in the habit of ill-using the
boys as had been represented in that book.
An OPERATIVE—Things are worse now. _
The CHAIRMAN said he mktst beg to correct Mr.
Mallett as he (the chairman) was only reading sta-
tistical facts.

The Rev. J. M. VALPY suggested that if Mr.
Mallett had any remarks to make he should do so
when the chairman .had concluded.

'.l'ne CHAIRMAN then read a. number of other
extracts, and concluded by advising the working
men never to cease agitating until they had obtained
the act, and then they would be in possession of
the same privileges as were enjoyed by the large
towns in Yorkshire and Lancashire. If the present
state of things were allowed to continue it would
be a stigma upon the country, and would have a
very injurious effect upon women and children,
and would materially deteriorate the health of the
working classes,, who were the bone and sinews of
the country.
Mr. CHAS. ATKIN (master lacemaker) proposed
the first resolution :—" That this meeting sees with
regret the great moral evils arising from women
and children working untimely hours in lace fac-
tories, and pledges itself if possible to put them
under the Factory Act."
The Rev. J. MONTAGU VALPY seconded the reso-
lution, and said that it caused him deep concern to
witness the excessive hours which women and child-
ren worked in the lace trade. He had been resident
in Nottingham about six years, and the greatest
thing that had been impressed upon his mind dining
that period was the English slavery he had witnessed.
He was persuaded that, both physically, socially,
morally, and spiritually, the system that was em-
ployed by some of the manufacturers at the present
time was most degrading, and unworthy of our coun-
try. (Loud cheers.) Although many of the manu-
facturers saw the bad effects of the system,and had
been unable to reduce these sinl trials among their
work-people, many others were unwilling to make
any effort whatever to ameliorate the condition of
those in their employ. Many manufacturers ad-
mitted that the interests of the trade would not ho

materially injured were the hours of labour cur-
tailed. Let.them try with a strong arm to put
down this bad system, and he believed that with
their united exertions and the blessing of God their
object would be obtained.

Mr. Councillor Cox supported the resolution,
stating that the Nottingham trade had for some
time past been suffering from the effects of the pre-
vailing fashions, comparatively little lace being
now worn. He thought that if this fact werejuado
known to her Majesty she would (as in the case of
Coventry, when the iiband trade was so depressed,
and other places) bring lace again into fashion.
The resolution was then carried,
Mr. SIMPSON (master lacetnaker) proposed the
next resolution :—" That a petition be presented to
both Houses of Parliament, praying them to take
in to consideration the shortening the hours of labour
of women and children who 'are engaged in the
Making or manufacture of lace ; and that the Earl
of Shaftesbury be requested to present it in the
House of Lords, and Mr. Mellor (the borough mem-
ber) in the House of Commons ; and that Mr. Paget
be requested to support it.
Mr. JAMES (operative) seconded the resolution,
which was also unanimously carried.
Mr. COULT (operative) proposed the next resolu-
tion :—"'That it is the opinion of this meeting that
an agremient should he come to among the em-
ployers and employed, to diminish the hours of
labour of men to 18 hours per diem (these hours
bo=ng divided by taco b 4s) believing that it would
be beneficial to both employer and employed."
Mr. LONGMIRE (operative) seconded the motion,
which was carried, and the meeting separated after
a vote of thanks to the chairman.

The Era observes of the dramatic performance at
Windsor Castle on Wednesday :—" It was tho first appear-
ance of Miss Amy Sedgwick at the court representations,
and we are informed that she acquitted herself with great
credit to her own powers and the legitimate company of
performers with whom she is connected. Miss Reynolds
was to have played the character of Helen, but not having
recovered from her long and serious illness, was unable to
appear. In this emergency Mr. Duckstone suggested Miss
Swanborough, who, when a member of the Haymarket
Theatre, had frequently sustained the character, and which
she did on this occasion with great suceess ; indeed, it has
been stated that the performance of this evening was one of
the most, if not the most satisfactory ever given under the
royal roof. After the supper that is always provided for
the performers at the conclusion of their duties, Mr. Donne,
the Examiner of Plays, rho is entrusted with the direction
of the royal dramatic representations, conveyed to the com-
against the
pany a most gracious message that he had received from Sir
Charles Philips."
THE KING OF DENMAIIIi AND lIIS WIFF..—A.
even close up t
vseorn;hoefrea,
scandalous up to
letter from Copenhagen says :—" The agitation
Countess Danner, the morganatic wife of the King, is gain-
impudent description against the Countess •
thein ggirtoteusnolf atthee(grnilaltrinb.urgE,
are sung
without the least ceremony, or even
Opposition. The
old air called the ' Hasinussitre,' has been
words, snatches of which are given by
applied to new
en
Streets'out and as the King drove latelyl the boys in the
with the Countess,
the mob took care to those let toe august personages know its
h
displeasure by hissing
and h
tire largest share of the winig, the lady coming in for
of
very formal ceremony
sort took place. Some 2,000
persons, many of whom belonged
to the better classes,
assembled about mi l •
out for the Kin :dn the
tifht on the -Castle-square, shouting.
a Countess to show themselves, and
crying with clamorousga
r
throats, ' Ned rued Grovinden I Ned
tried Trykk er en 1" (Down with the I Countess
. . Down with
the printer !) Berl' is Bening the. printer meant. Ofeourse the
Kin& and the .Countess
did not appear, but the military
were called out, and the mob ejected from the square tytlie
police." Another letter says:—"The King has appointed a.
committee for exciting the sympathy of the nation, and co).-
lecting contributions from the charitable towards the re-
building of his palace."
[:tDVE UNISEMENT.] —"Holloway's Ointment and Pills .
Paral3 sis, Stiff Joints, Neuralgia.—For all affections at:, ict-
ing nerves or muscles, so constantly recurring during ',win-
ter, no remedy can Lear comparison with Holloway's is edi-
t a ncnts.:_The ointment shn ld be rubbed on the 'parts
affected, after they have been well fomented wita -warm
water and dried. This friction should be steadily repeated.
two or three times a day, so as to ensure the coast ant pas-
sage of the ointment to the diseased joint, debilated muselsa,
or irritated nerves lying beneath. •It relieves pain. ,reslcErea
motion, and confers strength. The pills are an s l-A
A e•••-slable
auxiliary to the ointment ; they improve and invi
ov-a to the
whole system by purifying the bkoi, and rem
4T lug acrid
matter front all parts of the body.

• • I\ EI 113
• JrrktN
..17fgr4fi. -Vt.kk
.1 :1 ;e4F;c.:4„,
tp
(
ferocity, despaidhed him •Nvi
then made a rush through ,„,'
the cabin. While• -thi: was 41- -,,..rp i..
of the coolies wcre e Wing " 4 • .estl',-ytrfait "'"-
the 'watch, who wcre in t,!;e fore paw% of Tr sht
to go below. Fortunately the captained come on
the poop just in ti.,:, to Ni._ ::, Luba aft. lie ran
to his cubin, seized his revolver, and called the
surgeon up. The captain's brother armed himself
also, and half a dozen shots put them to the rout
—not before one of the crew was hacked to:pieces
and killtd, and others wounded. . x .._

11.) '•J
tide, signed
mid Lake ti

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R 0 Y A I,

ENGLISH OPERA
COVENT-GA It DEN.
Under the management of Miss L. Fyne and Mr.Vir. Harrison.
THIS EVENING, VCTORINE. Messrs. Santley, H.
Haizh, H. Ccrri,-G. Hon Iy, Walworth, &c. Misses Parepa,
Thirlwall.

Cond actor, Alfred Mellon.
To conclude with the new 9,-rand pantomime, called PUSS
IN BOOTS ; or, Harlequin and the Fairy of the Golden
Palms.
Doors open at half -past o—Commence at 10 minutes to 7.

THEA TICE-ROYAL, HAYMARKET.
Lessee, Tiff'. J. B. Buckstone.
THIS EVENING, the comedy of THE EVIL GENIUS.
miss Iteyno!ds.
VALENTINESch, the new Haymarket Comic Christmas Panto-
mime, DAY; or, llarlequin and the Fairy
of the True Lovers' Knot. The pantomimists the unrivalled
Leclereqs .

THEATRE-ROYAL LYCEUM.-
So!e Lessee and Directress, Madame Celeste.
Re-enErwement of the Spanish Dancers.
THIS EVENING, the popular Drama of ST. MARY'S
EVE. Madeline (heitoriginal character) Madame Celeste.
After which, will be produced a new Grand Christmas Ex-
travacranza and Pantomime, ICING THRUSEIBEA.RD, the
'Arm NI PET and the GREAT PASSION. Clown, Mr. H.
Marshall—Columbine, Miss Rosino.