The Sun.
London, England, 1860-09-24 00:00:00

1859.

1g56.

1857.

Stock this day.... 7,534 16,630
Price of Y.C. 51s 6d to 59s Od to
—s Od —s Od
Delivery last week 3,289 2,323
Ditto from June 1 :17,927 27,710
Arrivals last week 2,058 2,283
Ditto from June 1 23,831 32,160
Price of Town .... his 3d 61s Od

1853.

12,691 20,955 44,981
4953 d to .58s 3J to}s2s 6d to
49s fid —s Od —a Od
2,183 1,919 2,2:36
28,605 21,813 30,669
3,836 ' 950 2,522
29,733 30,687 48,550
52s 9a Ns Gd 55s Od

STATEMENT' OF TALLOW SHIPPING AT ST. PETERSBURG'
Tallow despathed from Cronstadt 1850. 1859. 1858.
to Aug. 29, 0. S. (estimated at 25 Casks. Casks. Casks
poods to the cask) 80,879 36,936 35,160
In ships loading and lighters 9,509 15,287 11,356

Total loaded off from St. Petersburg,
auk•. 31, 0. S 90,333 52,223 16,515
Do. alter this date

Total at the close of the nayigation

85,022 112,012

London
Liverpool 3,;;33 313 1,484
Bristol
Other English ports
Ireland B7l 1,227 405
Scotland
Germany 3,037 1,431 2,675
France

Total 80,879 36,936 35,160

THE SINKING OF THE LADY ELGIN.

The Africa brings further details of the loss of
the Lake Superior steamer, Lady Elgin, which was
run down by the schooner Augusta, off Wankegan,
about two o'clock on the morning of the Bth inst.
The steamer left Chicago on the previous evening,
for Lake Superior, having on board about 380 per-
sons, including some 300 excursionists. The follow-
ing account of the catastrophe is given by the clerk
of the steamer :

" The Lady Elgin left the port of Chicago at half-
past eleven o'clock for Lake Superior. Among
the passengers were the Union Guard, of Milwau-
kee, composing a part of some 250 excursionists
from that city. At about half-past two o'clock
this morning the schooner Augusta, of Oswego,
came into collision with the Lady Elgin, when about
ten miles from shore. The vessel struck the steamer
at the midships gangway on the larboard side. The
two vessels separated instantly, and the Augusta
drifted by in the darkness. At the moment of the
collision there was music and dancing going on in
the forward cabin. In an instant after the crash all
was still, and in half an hour the steamer sunk.
I passed through the cabins. The ladies were pale
but silent. There was not a cry or a shriek—no
sound but the rush of the steam and the surge of
the heavy sea. Whether they were not fully aware
of the danger, or whether their appalling situation
made them speechless, I cannot tell. A boat was low-
ered at once, with the design of going round on the
larboard side to examine the leak. There were
two oars belonging to the boat, but just at that
moment some person possessed himself of one of
them, and we were powerless to manage the boat.
We succeeded once in reaching the wheel, but were
quickly drifted away and thrown upon the beach at
Winetka. Only two boats were left on the
steamer. One of them contained 13 persons, all of
whom were saved. The other bore eight persons,
but only four of them reached the shore alive,
the four others being drowned at the beach.
Before I left the steamer the engines had ceased
to work, the fires having been extinguished. The
force and direction of the wind were such that the
boats and fragments of the wreck were driven up
the lake, and would reach the shore in the vicinity
of Winetka. As I stood upon the beach hopelessly
looking back upon the route we had drifted, I
could see in the grey of the morning objects float-
ing upon the water, and sometimes I thought
human beings struggling with the waves.
Captain Malott, of the schooner Augusta, states,
that when he first discovered the steamer's lights,
both red and bright, he supposed her to be from a
quarter to half a mile distant, and steering N.E.
" It was raining very hard at the time ; we kept
our vessel on her course, east by south, until we
saw a collision was probable, when we put the
helm hard up, but struck the steamer two or three
minutes afterwards, just about the paddle box on
the port side. The steamer kept on her course, her
engine in full motion, and headed the Augusta
around north, alongside the steamer, but they got
separated in about a minute, when the Augusta
fell in the trough of the sea ; all the head gear, jib
boom, and staunches were carried away. We
took in sail and cleared away anchor, supposing
the vessel would fill. After clearing the wreck and
getting up the foresail, we succeeded in getting
before the wind, and stood for land. We lost
sight of the steamer in five minutes after the
collision. Mr. Beaman, second mate, states that at
half-past two a squall struck us; in five minutes
more saw the light of the vessel about one point
off the port bow. I sung out hard a port ; the
vessel seemed to pay no attention, and struck us
just forward of the paddle box, larboard side,
tearing off the wheel, and cutting through the
guards, into the cabin and hull. After striking
us the vessel hung for a moment and then got
clear. I went below to see what damage was done
and when I got back the vessel was golte."
' The steamer sunk in twenty minutes, in three
hundred feet of water. All perished with the
exception, it is estimated, of ninety-eight. Among
the lost is Mr. H. Ingram, M.P., proprietor of the
Illustrated London News. The honourable
gentleman's body is said to have been recovered.
Up to the morning of the 10th, twenty-seven
bodies had been recovered. All accounts repre-
sent the city of Milwaukee as shrouded in mourn-
ing, and business seems to be entirely sus-
pended. The owner of the Lady Elgin has
libelled the schooner Augusta, and the vessel has
been taken in charge by the United States Mar-
shal. This will cause a full investigation of the
affair. All the survivors unite in according to
Captain Jack Wilson, commander of the Lady El-
gin, praise for his great bravery and daring through-
out. He was foremost in confronting the danger,
and earnest for the safety of the passengers. He
was drowned within a hundred feet of shore.
Nearly one hundred persons arrived within fifty
yards of the beach, but were swept back by the
returning waves and lost.

THIS DAYS SHIPPING.

LONDON, Sept. 24.—Wind this day at noon—North
moderate breeze, and cloudy.
PonTsmouTH, Sept. 23.—Wind W.N.W. to S.W.—
. .

Arrived—Faustine, from Trinidad.
FALMOUTH, Sept. 23.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Windsor,
from Moulmein ; Eva, from Havana ; Reliance, Sulina.
DARTMOUTH, Sept. 23.—Arrived—Bella Donne, from
Marseilles.

(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)
SOUTHAMPTON, Monday Morning,

Wind E.: hazy.
Arrived, Sept. 23.—E1lora, steamer, from Alexandria;
Charlotte, from Guernsey.
Sailed, Sept. 23.—Anna Digna, for Cardiff; Monarch,
steamer, for Alderney.
Arrived, Sept. 24.—Argyll, steamer, from Carentan.

(BY SUBMARINE AND MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH.)
GRAVESEND, Monday Morning.
Wind W., light ; weather, fine.
Arrived, Sept. 24—Sandifiord, from Sandifionl ; Refuge,
from Mazagan ; Planter and Ellen, from Guernsey.
Sailed—Teviot, for Colombo.

DEAL; Monday Morning.

Wind N.N.W., light.
Passed—Costariea, from London, for Guatemala.
Sailed—All the outward bound.

RESTORATION OF ST. MARTIN'S HALL, LONG-
ACRE.—The interior of St. Martin's Hall, recently de-
stroyed by fire, is about to be restored, the walls having
been found, on a careful survey, not to have sustained such
a fearful amount of damage as was at first represented, and
only a small portion will have to be rebuilt. A large
quantity of debris, being the remains of the roofs of houses,
and galleries, which fell inside the building, has been re-
moved; and on Saturday a body of workmen were en-
gaged in making preparations for carrying out the work.
A great portion of the stone stairs are left entire, never-
theless they will require some i epairs in order to sustain in
safety the immense weight imposed upon them.
A man was found in the antechamber of the,
sleeping-room of the Sultan, and was arrested by the " lady''
attending without. It is said he meditated an attempt on
the life of the Sultan.--Court Journal. „„
TIIE NEW VICAR OF DONCASTER—ine Rev. Dr.
casterV a u ghi ann theintends
ensuingto take
monthu p dab;idoendatayD, Don-
Vaughan
15th, will probably be the day on which he will take pos-
session of the parish church as the vicar.
ohfisOpcerobaenr,enant
PRICE OF GOLD.—The quotation of gold at Paris
is about at par, and the short exchange on London
is 25.15 per £1 sterling. On comparing these rates with the
English Mint price of £3 17$. 100. per ounce for standard
gold, it appears that gold is about 1-10th per
cent. dearer in Paris than in London. By advices from
Hamburg the price of gold is 4241 per mark, and the shot t
exchange on London is 13.4 h per £1 sterling. Standard gold
at the English Mint price is therefore about 3-10ths per
cent. dearer in Hamburg than in London. The course of ex-
change at New York on London for bills at 60 days' sight
is about 109 k per cent., which, when compared with the Mint
liar between the two countries, shows that the exchang•
is slightly in favour of England ; and, after making allow-
ance for charges of interest and difference of interest, the
importAtiat of gold
01; Ag UPI 4 Ate
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