The Sun.
London, England, 1869-01-05 00:00:00

AUSTRIA.

ference.
The Tagblatt states that Daoud Pascha, whose
journey to Europe was said merely to refer to some
financial arrangement connected with the Roumelia
Railway, is going to Paris with a view to open
negotiations for a new Turkish loan of 125 millions
of francs.

The Press of to-day states that the Bank Com-
mittee have fixed the dividend for 1868 at 45 florins
80 kreugers per share, consequently the National
Bank would require 669,409 florins from the State
in order to raise the amount per share to the
guaranteed sum of seven per cent.

TILE CAPE MAILS.
PLY3IOUFII, Jan. 5, 11 a.m.
The Union Company's steamer Saxon, with the
homeward Cape mails, has just arrived off here.

WRECK ON 7HE GOODWIN.

report from Ramsgate states that a violent
gale sprang up there on Saturday, and resulted in
several shipping disasters. During the night sig-
nals were fired from the North Sands Head. The
lifeboat Bradford put out to sea, and, on arriving
in the neighbourhood of the lightship, the crew per-
ceived a large ship lying off the North Sands, out of
danger, but the supposition is that she had struck
on the Goodwin and got clear off again. In re-
sponse to signals from one of the lightships the
lifeboat again put to sea yesterday morning, and
on arriving at the Goodwin they perceived a
French schooner lying on the sands. The sea
was very rough, violent gale blowing at the time,
and, to get at the schooner, the lifeboat was run on
to the sands. They found the vessel to be the
Gaspard (Rousel master), of and from St. Malo,
for London, with a cargo of oats. There was only
the master on board, whom they rescued. He was
understood t 3 say that the crew (five in number
had taken to their own boat, and while he went
below to get something the painter was either
broken or cut, and the boat drifted away, and he
was ]eft to his fate. The lifeboat crew laboured
for two hours before they could get their own
boat off the sands ; and when they succeeded,
they returned to the harbour in tow of the
steam-tug Aid, with the master of the schooner.
Nothing has been heard of the fate of the crew, but
it is reported from Broadstairs that a ship lying off
the North Foreland perceived a boat out at sea,
with five men in her, but with only one oar. The
boat continued to drift to sea, but the ship could
not render any as_iistance ; she, however, signalled
for assistance from shore, and the Broadstairs boat,
the Petrel, put out, but when she arrived at the
ship the boat was nowhere visible ; and it is feared,
as nothing further has been heard of it, that the
crew were drowned. There have been several more
collisions in the Downs, some of a serious charac-
ter, and the recent gales have caused some fifty
vessels to put into the harbour in a damaged state.
CAISTER, near Great Yarmouth, Jan. 4.
The large lifeboat of the National Lifeboat Insti-
tution on this station was again instrumental yes-
terday, in as heavy a gale almost as any we have
recently had (says the Rev. W. Steward), in afford-
ing succour to a shipwrecked crew, who must un-
doubtedly have perished had not the lifeboat been
close at hand. It appears that a vessel, apparently
a foreigner, was seen in the morning iu a dangerous
position, and the lifeboat was launched to her assist-
ance. Having the security of the presence of the
lifeboat she eventually cleared herself and got
away. As the boat was returning the crew ob-
served a vessel on the south part of the Cross Sand,
with a signal of distress flying. Approaching
her they saw the ship's boat in the midst of the
breakers on the sand, and, making all speed, they
found the crew of the vessel in her, and they rescued
them (eight in number) from their imminent peril.
Some of them were only half clothed, and the boat

was almost swamped, for it had nearly filled three
times, and must soon have been sunk. The vessel
to which the" poor fellows belonged was the brig
Elizabeth, of Blyth, bound thence to Boulogne with
coal. She is a total wreck.
BROADSTAIRS, KENT, Jan. 3.
Late last night signals of distress were shown up
from the Goodwin and Gull Stream light vessels
during a gale from the S.S.N. (reports Captain
Illyard). The Samuel Morrison Collins' life-
boat belonging to the National Lifeboat Institu-
tion, promptly proceeded out in that direction in tow '
of the steamer Renown, of London, and found a
foreign barque in a dangerous position, near the
Goo twin Knoll buoy. On speaking her the life-
boatmen found that she had beau boa.r.lel by a
fishing smack. They, however, remained near her
an hour, until she was seen to be safely at anchor,
when the lifeboat returned to Broadstairs.

A magnificent piece of plate was received in
Paris by Mdlle. Nilsson on New Year's Day, sent
by the members of the Philharmonic Society of
London, bearing the following inscription : —" As
modest homage to her great talent, and in remem-
brance of her performance at the grand concert of
1868." It would appear also that Mr. Mapleson,
the manager of her Majesty's Theatre, came over
to Paris for the express purpose of requesting Mdlle.
Nilsson to appear as Ophelia before the English
public. Our Swedish Nightingale, having accepted
the proposal, is now going to study her part in the
Italian language.

VIENNA, Jan. 5.
The Press announces that yesterday Prince
Metternich bad received his instructions to act as
Austrian Plenipotentiary at the forthcoming Con-