The Sun.
London, England, 1860-04-28 00:00:00

THE WEATHER...-SUN OFFICE, APRIL 28, 1860.

land. We bethink ourselves at once of our own
national share in the guarantee solemnly entered
into by the eight leading Powers of Europe, in the
92d article of the Treaty of Vienna. Remarking
which—no wonder the member for Horsham,
addressed those urgent inquiries of his to the
noble lord her Majesty's Foreign Secretary.
As we have intimated, Lord J. RugsELL's reply
to these inquiries yesterday in the House of Com-
mons will be found, upon examination, to have
resolved itself into a Ministerial statement of the
very last importance. " It is proposed," said the
noble lord, " that there should be a Conference of
the Powers of Europe who signed the Treaty of
Vienna on a particular subject, and that subject
is, as it is stated by the French Government, to
reconcile the 92d article of the Treaty of Vienna,
to which all the Powers of Europe who signed
that treaty are parties, with the second article
of the Treaty of Turin, which has lately been
concluded between the Emperor of the FRENCH
and the King of SARDINIA." The noble lord
observes further on in his statement, that " From
communications I have received, and from the de-
clarations which the Emperor of the FRENCH has
made from time to time, I conceive that to any
measures that may be properly called the dismem-
berment of Savoy we should find in the Conference
that the present Government would be decidedly
opposed ; but it is obvious that there may be other
measures which would not amount to dismember-
ment, but which would yet give a military fron-

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THE SUN.
LONDON, SA'IURDAY, APRIL 28, 1880.

tier to Switzerland, which might be pro
posed by Switzerland." That is the glim
mering of a possible compromise in the
hereafter. Bat, meanwhile are these not
ominous portents of a difference already spring-
ing up between France and England ? Let Lord
JOHN RUSSELL'S own remarks yet further be our
answer—" We have stated," he says, "more than
once at Paris, and Lord Cow LEY has stated it even
since his return to Paris, that, in our opinion, it is
most desirable that no civil or military occupation
by France should take place until the Conference
has considered this question of the neutralised
parts of Savoy, and under what restrictions those
neutralised portions shall be hereafter held, and in
what manner they shall be disposed of. The
French Government, however, I must say, on the
other side, state that they see great difficulty in as-
senting to such a proposition, because it would
seem to assume that the Treaty of Turin did not
perfectly do what it purported to do—namely,
transfer the whole sovereignty of Savoy from the
King of SARDINIA, its late or present Sove-
reign, to the Emperor of the FRENCH." So
that already—before the proposed Conference
is decided upon being held—the two Governments
are avowedly at cross purposes. Bearing which
significant fact in our remembrance, we cannot but
apply to this question of Savoy those solemn and
impressive words with which Sir E. B. LYT-
TON closed his masterly speech upon Re-
form upon the preceding evening, when the
right hon. gentleman referred to the visible and
awful necessity fast coming upon us, namely, that
threatening to render, very speedily, imperative
" the cautious consideration of dangers which
would alarm the boldest statesman and menace the
strongest thrones ! " Happily, we can all bear in
mind in these emergencies the epitomized encou-
ragement which the wisdom of ages has condensed
into a proverb that familiar proverb, which
avers that those are " Forearmed who are Fore-
warned !"

in the district of Yorkshire whence the sandstone
flags of our•pavements are largely brought a pecu-
liar mode of building even large houses prevails.
Each wall is composed of two comparatively thin
facings of stone, an outside and inside one, perfectly
independent of each other ; the intervening space is
filled with small loose stone or rubble. The two
walls, which thus should form but one, would of
course bulge out with the weight and pressure of
the rubble, and soon totter and fall ; but they are
connected at proper intervals by longer stones
called " throughs," which, passing from the front
casing-wall to the back one, connect the two firmly
together, and make the whole fabric very strong.
Germany is just now much like one of these
walls, with the sad difference that it wants the
" throughs." There arc the two principal States,
Austria and Prussia, and the abundant rubble of
smaller States between them. The Diet should
answer to the " throughs ;" but, failing in its object,
it rather aids than otherwise the lateral action of
the rubble states, and instead of serving to bind all
together into one strong fabric—one which might
resist the shock which threatens the western front
of the "Fatherland"—it rather serves to invite the
Emperor of the FRENCH to try whether the experi•
ment of the ram's horns might not be again suc-
cessful. Austria and Prussia combined, and
strengthened by the states otherwise insignificant,
might bid defiance to the legions on the other side
of the Rhine. In their present relation to each
other they almost call upon an ambitious military
power to give them the ruinous push.
The debate in the Prussian Chamber, an account
of which appeared in The Sun of Thursday, shows
that Prussia still aspires to the lead of Germany.
The Diet, under Austrian influence, does not
favour Prussian ambition. Prussians, therefore, are
prepared to treat the Diet as a dead and buried
thing. While it confines itself to words she will
take no active steps, but if the Diet seeks to con
strain Hesse again by violence, it may be necessary
for Prussia too to draw the sword. Such is the
language of speakers who support the present
Government of Prussia. They acknowledge that
he whom we may now call the late King did de-
grade his country by a crouching submission to
Austria, and to despotic counsels, at the instigation
of the puppy aristocracy which then controlled his
vacillating mind. They have now a firmer hand at
the helm of affairs, and the REGENT, if very far
from a liberal in the English notion of the word, is
liberal for a German Prince, and seems to feel with
his Chambers the necessity of having the German
nations, and not their rulers only, well affected to-
wards the Headship of Prussia. This cannot be
unless Prussia avow herself the friend of free in-
stitutions. To these the people, after almost half
a century of falsified promises, still look as to
their right. The resolution of confidence in
the Government was carried by an overwhelming
majority after what must be called, for Germany,
a thoroughly radical debate ; one in which—Prussia
at the head of the German peoples—was the domi-
nant idea. If we may recur to the illustration with
which we commenced, Prussia is trying to cement
to her the loose rubble of States between her and
Austria, by pouring in the cohesive strength of
liberal sympathies.
Meantime what is Austria doing ? Falling to
pieces. Her military strength is disorganised. Her
exchequer bankrupt. Her finance Minister, after
years of fraud on the State's behalf and on his own,
has dismissed himself from the world, after his
Sovereign had dismissed him from office. Venetia
paralyses alike her army and her Exchequer. Hun-
gary would do both, but that coercion has extorted,
there, ruinous loans from the people. But the co-
ercion itself probably costs almost if not quite as
much as it extorts. The states around the heredi-

Her MAJESTY'S Foreign Secretary made last
evening in the House of Commons some very im-
portant statements. They were elicited by the in-
quiries addressed to the noble lord by the hon.
gentleman the member for Horsham as to the
course which it was in any way likely might
be pursued by the English Ministry with a view
to the preservation of the liberties of those
provinces of Savoy immediately contiguous
to Switzerland ! Provinces, the neutralization, or
comparative independence of which, in certain con-
tingencies, was, so to speak, formally guaranteed
by the 92d article of the Treaty of Vienna, solemnly
entered into, in 1814-1815, by the eight chief'
powers of Christendom. The circumstance of this
arrangement to the carrying into effect of which
those Great Powers solemnly pledged themselves,
forty-five years ago, is now—as all Europe knows
—laughed to scorn by the imperial French
Government ! That Government conspicuous
among the rest of the leading States of the
world, as the one which alone goes
to war for an idea—only, however, ex-
plaining the nature of the idea really
battled for, at the close of a campaign by means
of a new treaty expanding the frontiers of the
magnanimous champion of nationalities at the ex-
pense of the ally deluded into a belief in his Im-
perial Majesty's unselfish magnanimity ! Such are
the superb " ideas" for which France now makes
war whenever it suits her pleasure and convenience.
These are, we presume, the veritable—ldees 11 a-
poleonnes ! The latest elucidation of the
mystery to which we have been reverting
has been
.that wonderful Macchiavellian " do"
perpetrated upon the King of SARDlNlA—
whereby his august and imperial ally has
adroitly filched from his
Majesty :VICTOR
EMMANUEL the pride and glory of his ancestral
dominions. England, that has had no hand what-
ever in the warlike conflict of last year upon the
plains of Lombardy, has, in her character of spec
tator, awakened at last only when too late to ob-
serve how cleverly the magnanimous Liberator of
Italy (not yet, by the way, quite liberated?} has—in
the instance of his conduct towards Savoy_e stolen
a precious diadem and put it in his pocket !" The
consummate cleverness with which this transfer
has been managed by the French EMPEROR, in
spite of the wily CAVOUR and the chi-
valrous VICTOR EMMANUEL—might almost ex-
tort our applause, in spite of our indignation
en beholding it—but that there comes in instantly
as a painful afterthought, the situation of those
provinces of Savoy that ought to be neutralised—
the provinces immediately contiguous to Switzer-

tary archduchy which the Germans have attempted
to assimilate are now more separated from her
in heart than they have been for half a century.
She has been labouring to amalgamate them all
into one Germanised Empire ; the result of all her
labour is that they are more Magyar, more &la-
vonic, more Italian, more of Croats, Czecs, Tran-
sylvanians, and so forth, than they have been for
the last quarter of a century.
Austria's treatment of Hungary is what all
eyes are now fixed on. It is here the battle of her
salvation or ruin is to be fought. It is in her power
to be strong, with Hungary cordial—it is her
determination, probably, to break up altogether
rather than make a frank concession of the rights of
which by perjury, fraud, and violence she has robbed
that noble nation: The truth is, grant Hungary
her old and free institutions, and the haughty
young man who represents the Hapsburgs must
confess that the detestable policy of a detestable
family has failed ; or, what would be as provoking
—give Hungary her rights, and that vigorous
kingdom, with the states which properly form part
of it—Transylvania, Croatia, and Sclavonia, would,
by their flourishing condition and strength, soon
surpass in political and commercial importance the
smaller and less energetic German portion of the

Empire.
We are accordingly by no means surprised to
learn that the Hungarians perceive in the letter to
General BENEDEK, and in his appointment to the
office of Governor of Hungary, merely an illusory
concession to fear. BENEDEK has, it seems, been
absent from his youth from Hungary, and is com-
pletely Austrianised, while the letter has no legal
force—may be carried out or not—will serve to ad-
vance upon if the Court must really yield, and
equally serve to be dropped, if the EMPEROR finds
himself strong enough to rule by terror ! Such a
rule deserves to fall. The aspiration of every
Englishman is—may Hungary rise on the ruins of
Austrian despotism, not Austrian despotism on the
ruins of Hungarian liberties.

many as six-and-thirty officials at Rochforte, there
proved to have been guilty of serving out to the
seamen of the Royal Navy of France grain and
other provisions, 38 per cent. composed of adulte-
rations—consisting, if not of deleterious, of wholly
innutritious ingriedients ! Did not these despicable
disclosures elicit at last from M. DE LAMARTINE
towards the close of 1847—what we can almost
imagine to be now in 18E0 prophetically applicable
to the Cabinet of Vienna those scornful words in
which the Poet-Statesman exclaimed—" Yes, a re-
volution is approaching, and it is the revolution of
contempt !"

The suicide of Baron BRUCK cannot but be re-
garded as a very sinister occurrence, and as one
darkly ominous for the Austrian Government. Fol-
lowing, as it has done, upon so many disasters, and
upon such miserable disclosures of peculation in
high places at Vienna, it not unnaturally recalls to
mind the numerous and dismal portents of evil
which preceded the downfall of King LOUIS
PHILIPPE and his entourage. The accomplished
author of the History of the Dix Ans has but very
recently been recalling to recollection the fantastic
prophets of disaster whose advent heralded
unconsciously to themselves the awful coming
of the great French Revolution. M. Louis
BLANC had free choice of his epoch of course, and
has chosen that immediately anterior to the sub-
versioe of the old Bourbon dynasty in the decapita-
tion of King Louis XVI. and of his unhappy Queen,
MARIE ANTOINETTE. He need not have gone so
far back for his illustration, had he simply required
an illustration of the kind to which we are now
alluding. He has selected the particular period
specified, however, simply because it suited his
whim that that time and no other, earlier or later,
should be the theme of his eloquent disquisitions.
And it certainly must be allowed to possess beyond
all other eras in human history, ancient or modern,
supreme attractions. Otherwise if contented (to
point the moral and adorn the tale he would tell)
with a lesser degree of fatuity on the part
of the rulers thus blindly rushing on to their own
destruction, thus frivolously dancing away their
last hours of pride and power over the flower-strewn
crater of the hidden volcano, thus marching in
solemn procession (as to a crowning ovation) over
the edge of the unseen Tarpeian—M. Louis
BLANC need not have gone further back than to a
period so absolutely contemporary, that he, though
but now in the 47th year of his age, 12 years since,
personally and conspicuously, participated in the
events which grew out of the catastrophe alluded
to! The catastrophe of the abrupt and ignomini-
ous downfall of the Orleans dynasty in the
revolution of 1848—an occurrence portented by
a series of dark and evil doings, not unlike
in some particulars those which have now been
brought to a hideous climax at Vienna by the sui-
cide of the distinguished Minister of Finance in
the Emperor FRANCIS JOSEPH'S ominously ill-fated
Government.

We quote in another column an article from the
Manchester Examiner and Times, on the report of
the National Lifeboat Institution, We have lately
called attention to this interesting report, and have
frequently brought the claims of the institution
before the public. We are glad to see its value
and importance becoming more generally recog-
nised, and a grateful sense of the benefits it confers
more widely diffused. As our contemporary justly
observes, there is a general indifference, or rather
ignorance, among the residents in inland places of
the great need that exists for such an association.
The perils of a sea-going life are only vividly
brought before them by some great catastrophe,
like the loss of the Royal Charter, or, it may be,
one of the many unfortunate emigrant vessels which
occasionally strike public humanity, as it too often
occurs. But, as we gather from the report, or may
learn from personal inquiry, the loss of life in-
stirred by one of such terrible disasters is far out-
weighed by the vast aggregate of deaths incurred
by two and three during the year. In the course
of last year the losses by shipwreck on our coasts
amounted to 1,646. Surely if anything can be
done to diminish so great a loss of life and mitigate
the suffering inflicted by it, such an attempt should
be aided and encouraged to the very utmost. The
members of the committee are untiring in their
exertions to keep the lifeboats in full efficiency
and readiness for service, and have many excellent
rules to secure this desirable end. Each lifeboat
must be taken afloat for exercise every quarter
fully manned and equipped, so that the crew may
be familiar with her properties and management.
Other precautions are taken in order that the boat
may be kept in good working order, and be ready
fir service on the shortest notice. The local com-
mittee are bound to make quarterly inspection,
that every defect may be remedied, and the stores
may be repaired or replaced if in the least degree
doubtful. We hoartily commend the benevolent
and able manner in which the association endea-
vour to carry out the objects of the institution;
and we trust that their claim on the assistance and
sympathy of the public will be recognised in a
manner that will speedily enable them to diminish
the liabilities they have incurred, and increase
their sphere of action and utility.

The Marquis and Marchioness of Exeter and
Lady Mary Cecil arrived in Grosvenor-square yesterday
from Burghley House, near Stamford.

The Countess of Clonmel and family have arrived
at Thomas's Hotel, Berkeley-square.
The Earl and Countess Fitzwilliam have arrived
in Grosvenor-square—the noble earl from Newmarket and
the countess from Milton-park.
Viscount and Viscountess Doneraile have arrived
at No. 12, Hereford-street, for the season.

The Marquis and Marchioness Townsend, Vis-
count Itaynham, M.P., Mr. St. Aubyn, M.P., and Lady
Elizabeth St. Aubyn, have arrived in Lower Grosvenor-
street.

Sir John Dick-Lauder, Bart., and Captain A.
Mitchell Inns have left Fenton's Hotel for Omenford
Castle.

Sir Edward and Lady Caroline Kerrison have
left the Queen's Hotel, Upper Norwood, for Suffolk.
Mr. snd Mrs. Petro have arrived at their house
in. Berkeley-square, from Paris, for the season.

Mr. and Mrs. Fletcher Norton, have arrived in
Mansfield-street, from Elton Manor, Notts, for the season.

Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Disney and the Misses
Disney have arrived at tha Brunswick, Jennyn-street,
from the Hyde, near Ingatestone.
Mr. and Mrs. James Pletcher have arrived at
Fenton's Hotel from Wootton-hill, Lancashire.

LATEST

Reuter's office :

DOVER, April 27.—His Excellency the Earl of
Elgin, with the countess and their youthful son, arrived at
the Lord Warden hotel last evening. His lordship sailed
by mail packet last night for Calais. Her ladyship slept at
the hotel, and will return to London to-day.

What were some of the more conspicuous of these
lamentable auguries at Paris in the winter of
'47-'4B, justifying again in a literal sense the wis-
dom of the poet's dictum that—
" Coming events cast their shadows before ?"

Count Cavour has been presented with the
citizenship of Florence by the municipality of that city.
A Vicuna letter says :—" It is considered certain
here that as soon as the reorganisation of Hungary is com-
pleted, the Archduke Maximilian will be placed at the head
of the administration of that kingdom. It is stated that
this office was proposed to him during his recent stay nt
Vienna, but that he declined to accept it at the moment."

The German Journal of Frankfort states that the
Austrian clergy, comprisin 13 archbishops, 52 bishops, 700
convents of men and 276 of women, amounting in all to
28,000 persons, and possessing property to the amount of
500 millions of florins, only subscribed 300,000 forins to the
new loan.

Let the historian of Modern Europe answer in one
sentence. Sir ARCHIBALD writes in his " Con-
tinuation" (ch. xlvii. p. 682)—" The corruption
among the public functionaries at this period
had become such that it could scarcely be
credited if not attested by the incontrovertible
evidence of judicial proceedings and judg-
ments." And he immediately goes on to
remark yet further that " Every day revealed
fresh instances of it either in the public function-
aries or in some persons connected with them ;
and so common that they reached not only the in-
ferior persons, but some of the highest in office and
rank, and even some of the Cabinet Ministers were
not altogether free from suspicion !" Bold words of
imputation—bold words of accusation. But were
they not notoriously justified in their utterance?
Answer this—M. TESTE, Minister of Public
Works in the last Cabinet of King Louis PHILIPPE!
Are they not, moreover, strictly applicable now,
these sinister accusations; to another Government,
apparently yet more seriously threatened with
disaster—the Government of the Austrian KAISIR ?
Ans wer this—even in death—unhappy Minister of
Finance in (shall we say?) the last Cabinet of the Em-
peror FRANCIS JOSEPH—the unfortunate Baron VON
BRUCK, who, having received an autograph letter
from his sovereign on the 22d, in which his MA-
JESTY wrote " I tempora-ily remove you from office
according to your request, &c."—was found bleeding
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bezzlement, this suicide of one of the Cabinet
Ministers of the Austrian EMPEROR recalls irre-
sistibly to mind the kindred incidents which
were the forerunners at Paris, in 1847-1848
of the February Revolution. It reminds us of how
M. TESTE, Lous PHILIPPE'S Minister of Public
Works, resigned his situation as Peer of France
and President of the Court of Cassation, upon the
evening of his trial before the Chamber of Peers,
" in order," as he said himself, " that he might be
defended only by his innocence !" It revives the
remembrance of how previously to this the Comp-
troller of Subsistences committed suicide rather
than face his accusers, and ga through the frightful
ordeal of a judicial investigation. It reminds us of
all those other wretched circumstances preliminary
to the downfall of the last French Monarchy—the
exposure and condemation not only of M. TESTE,
but with him also of M. PELLAPRA, of M. PARMAN-
TIER, of General CUBIERES —the condemnation also
of M.Dnoun LARD in gaining his seat by bribery as
Deputy for Quitnperle—together with the trial and
sentence to various degrees of imprisonment of as

PASSENGERS FROM BOMBAY.—The following is a
list of the passengers by the Peninsular and Oriental Com-
pany's steamship Euxine, Captain Woodgates, which left
%lalta at 9 a.m. on the 17th inst., with the heavy Bombay
mails, and was due at Southampton yesterday :—From
Bombay—Sir H. and Lady Somerset, two Misses Somerset,
and two servants ; Capt. and Mrs. Hutchinson, three chil-
dren and servant ; Capt. Hcwitt, two children and servant;
Mr. Yardley, Capt. Swanson, Dr. Baxter, Col. Vandeleur,
Lieut. Waterfall, Capt. Strutt, Capt. Cameron, Mr. Barnes,
Mr. Rooprain and servant, Mr. Inman, Mr. C. Davis (late
chief officer Norna), Mr. J. Chevalier (second officer Sin-
gapore), Mr. Clive (late chief engineer Cadiz). From
Alexandria—Lieut. Lewis, Mr., Mrs. and Miss Clark, Mrs.
Rowley, child, and servant. From Malta—Capt. Brock,
R.N., 13 non-commissioned officers Royal Artillery.
LIEUTENANT-COLONEL NATHANIEL CAMERON.—
This gallant officer, whose death took place on the 20th inst.
at St. Leonard s-on- Sea, was the third and last surviving son
of the late General Sir Alan Cameron, K.C.8., by his wife, a
daughter of Nathaniel Philips, of Sleibach Hall, in Wales.
Deceased served actively with his father's regiment, the
79th Cameron Highlanders (or " Reisemaid Alain an
Errachd," as it was popularly designated by the colonel's
countrymen), a battalion of which he commanded for some
years. His commission was dated 1805, which he continued
to hold until after the peace of 1815, when, like
others, he accepted half-pay on the reduction of the
army in 1816. Colonel Cameron was descended from
the old family of Camerons of Errachtlin Lochaber,
Inverness-shire, a branch of the family of the chief of that
clan, Loehiel. Thoy also gave numerous hostages for their
country's honour, many of whom fell figkting gallantly for
its cause ; and prominently among them was Philip Came
ion, brother of the subject of this paragraph, who was killed
in 1811 at Fuentes D'Onor while defending that village in
command of a brigade (71st, 79th, and 88th regiments).
The Duke of Wellington, with whom he was an espec'al
favourite, regretted his loss sincerely, and wrote a letter of
condolence to his father on the occasion, which is among the
" Gurwood Selections," and is remarkable for the dignified
feeling of grief in which it is couched. Colonel Cameron
was twice married, and by his first wife left. a large family.
THE LATE FIRE IN REDCROSS-STREET.--An in-
quiry was inQtituted yesterday by Mr. Payne, coroner at
the Fountain Tavern, Redeross- street, regarding the origin
of this fire, which on Sunday last resulted in the entire de-
struction of four tenements and the injury of two others, 1
forming the wGstern termination of the above street, adjoin-
ing Barbican. The inquest was adjourned for a fortnight.
TIIE COAST-GUARD SERVICE.—The value of
wrecked property saved by this useful and gallant body of
men amounts, for the year 1859, to a sum of upwards of
£BOO,OOO ; and the number of persons:rescued by them from
a watery grave during the same period to no less than 1,250.
The total charge for the coast-guard force provided for in
the estimates for the past year was £724,958.—Civil Service
Gazette,

The Madrid journals of the 23d contain no news.
The remains of Ortega had been interred in the cemetery of
Tortosa. Count de Montemolin and his brother continued
to be detained in close custody in that town.
General de Lamoriciere arrived at Perugia on
the 19th. After a short stay at the hotel he had stepped
into his carriage ar,c,ain, in order to go and present his
respects to the Cardinal Delegate, when one of the wheels
of his carriage came suddenly off, by which the vehicle was
nearly upset. Fortunately the General was not hurt, and
the mischief was soon repaired.
SUICIDE OF A VOLUNTEER.—An inquest was
held on Thursday, at Huddersfield, on the body of Mr.
Joseph Brook, a sergeant in the second company of the
rifle volunteer corps, who died that morning from the effect s
of a gunshot wound inflicted under most mysterious cir-
cuntstanus The decea,:cd was a young man generally
respected, and in good circumstances. His father is one of
the proprietors of the Apsley Silk Mills, and the deceased
was employed there as overlooker. On Tuesday week the
enginetnan found tEadeceased lying in the engine room in
a helpless state, his shirt saturated with blood, and he was
suffering from a wound about three inches below the heart,
from which blood flowed freely. The vicinity of the wound
was blackened with gunpowder, causing the belief that by
whatever means the wound was inflicted, the weapon must
have been applied close to the body. A bullet had pene-
trated entirely through the body. The jury ratunael a ver-
dict to the effect that the deceased died from the effects of a
gunshot wound, inflicted by his own hand, but there was
no evidence as to the state of his mind at the time,

THE (SUN, toWIiON, SATURDAY - EVENING, APRIL 28, - 1860,

FRANCE.

NEWS•

AUSTRALIA.
The following telegrams were received at Mr.

QUEENSTOWN, SATURDAY.

The Lightning has arrived off this port in 79
days from Melbourne, having sailed from thence on
the Sth February. She brings 15 first class, 170
second class and steerage passengers, and 13,479
ounces of gold.

MADRID, APRIL 27.

In the conference of Wednesday between Marshal
O'Donnell and Mule', Abbas all difficulties to the
re-establishment of peace were removed. Morocco
is to pay the indemnity for the expenses of the war
during the course of the year. Being desirous of
regaining possession of Tetuan she has decided to
advance the time of payment:

TURIN, APRIL 27.
The Government has received the following des..
patch, dated—
" Roads of Palermo, Wednesday Evening
April 25.

" The insurrection at Palermo has been suppressed.
The state of siege is rigorously maintained, and
great numbers of Royal troops are quartered in the
city. Messina is tranquil. The armed bands in the
interior of the island are insignificant, and appear
to be dispersed in all directions. The coasts are
watched. Great agitation prevails throughout the
island, including the province of Trapani. It is only
in the province of Marsala that the royal authority
has not been re-established."

NAPLES, THURSDAY.

The insurgent bands are being pursued continu-
ally, and are retiring before the royal forces. They
had entrenched themselves in the small town of Car-
lini, which was surrounded by the royal troops, by
whom they have been completely destroyed. The
remnants have made their submission. Throughout
Sicily and in the kingdom of Naples the most per-
fect order and tranquillity prevail.
The head-quarters of the royal troops have been
removed to Aqiila. It is rumoured that they are
destined to co-operate with General Lamoriciere.

PARIS, FRIDAY.

There is every probabilieflhat the Conference
on the Swiss question will be held in Paris about
the end of May. All the Powers are agreed, but
France demands that it shall not take place till
after the discussion in the Turin Parliament on the
annexation of Savoy. The Turin Parliament will
doubtless be as independent as the Legislative Corps.
The Pays announces that the Grand Duke
Nicholas of Russia will shortly arrive in Paris.
Lord Elgin, the English Commissioner to China,
arrived in Paris yesterday from London. He is to
leave to-day for Marseilles, and will embark with
Baron Gros for Hong Kong.
A dreadful storm of thunder, hail, and rain
burst over Marseilles on the 24th. All the lower
streets were instantaneously converted into tor-
rents, and the Canibiere assumed the appearance
of a formidable river. This deluge of rain has done
much damage in the country around, especially to
fruit trees in bloom.

BOURSE, April 27.—The market improved at the
opening, but the amount of business has been li-
mited. Threes, after having been done at 70f. 70c.,
declined to 70f. 55c., and again rallied to 70f. Gsc. ;
Austria, 531 f. 25c. to 532 f. 50c. ; Lombard, 542 f.
50c. to 543 f. 75c. ; Northern, 980 f. to 982 f. 50c. ;
Lyons, 941 f. 25c. to 943 f. 75c. ; Southern, 521 f.
25c. to 522 f. 50c. The following are the last quo-
tations :

41,1 per Cents. .... 96 10 i Credit Fonder 795 —lio, end moutk .. 96 20 ! Be%Tian 41 93
3 per Cent 5....... 70 40 : Piedmontestt (5)
Do. end month.... 70 35' Roman „ .. <
Bank Shares. 2825 Austrian
Credit Msbilier .. 740 Spanish Threes
Do. Account ..... 740 , Home Debt 46

Consular body at Messina to General Russo, Com•
mander-in-Chief of the province :

" MESSINA, APRIL 13.
" General, grave excesses were again perpetrated last
night in this town, contrary to the hopes which your assur-
ances had caused us to entertain, with the view of re-esta-
blishing peace and confidence, and of bringing back to the
town the population, almost all of whom have left. Inoffen-
sive persons, even an old man, have fallen victims of an
unjustifiable agression. Foreigners, English and others,
have been so grossly ill-treated as to tremble for their
lives. The entire population of Messina having remained
inoffensive, and not having c ommitted any act of real
rebellion, have a right to demand that their repose,
their wives and children shall be respected. And yet terror
is greater than ever, and we feel under the necessity, in
order to reassure the subjects of the State which we repre-
sent, to set forth here the promises you have made. You
have been kind enough to declare, on your word of honour,
which we have never doubted, that the citadel and the forts
shall not fire on the town ; that in no case shall soldiers
enter houses by force ; that the town shall not be troubled
in the night by the interminable discharges of musketry and
cannon, which for several days past have not allowed the
population an instant of repose, and, lastly that if aggres-
sions should take place at the town gates (they are impos-
sible in the interior of the town) they shall not be resounded
to by platoon firing and cannonading, but that an attempt
shall be made to seize the assailants by means which from
the large force you possess, you can easily employ. Such,
General, are the promises you have made to us, and you
must permit us to state the fact to you, in order to give
them an authentic character. These promises permit us to
reassure our own people, and at the same time all the popu-
lation of the town. We beg you to be kind enough to
acknowledge to one of us the receipt of this document.
Accept, &c." (Signatures.)

THE WEST INDIA MAILS.

SOUTHAMPTON, APRIL, 28.

The Royal Mail Company's steamer, La Plata,
Captain Waller with the West' India and Pacific
Mails has arri'red. She brings 238 passengers,
137,860 dollars in specie, and a large cargo. The
La Plata left St. Thomas on the 13th inst.

A Japanese frigate had arrived at San Francisco
to announce the coming of the Japanese Commis-
sioners to the United States. The American
steamer Roanaki was at Aspinwall to receive them.
News from Chili was satisfactory. The country
was tranquil, and commerce improving. Mines
were flourishing. The grain crop was abundant.
In the upper frontiers the savages had committed
many outrages and murders on the inhabitants.
At Lima the trial about the murder of Captain
Lambert occupied attention. The judge had de-
cided that he had committed suicide, which the
court refused to admit.

At Barbadoes the cane crop was generally healthy,
and a fair quantity of sugar had been made. Seve-
ral vessels had sailed with cargoes.
Exchange on London-30 days, 485 dols.; 60
days, 4821 dols. ; 90 days, 480 dols. The Dora had
arrived at Demerara with 387 emigrants. The
weather was fine for growing crops. Trade dull.
Breadstuffs slightly improved. Stocks much re-
duced.

Business at Jamaica was exceedingly dull,
the supplies were excessive, and the demand was
limited for immediate consumption. Coffee limited.
Sugar market plentifully supplied, and prices had
declined. -Pimento very scarce. Coffee was sold at
425. to 435. for ordinary. Pimento was held for
3d. cash. Sugar prices ruled from 17s. t 6 18s.
Exchange on London, 90 days, ; 60 days, 1 ;
30 days, 1 per cent. premium. Merchants' bills
90 days, par.

PARLIAMENTARY DIVISION.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.-APRIL 27.
CHURCH RATES ABOLITION BILL.

Order read, for resuming adjourned debate on question,
"That the bill be now read the third time." Question
again proposed—Debate resumed—Amendment proposed,
to leave out the word "now," and at the end of the ques
tion to add the words " upon this day six months." Ques-
tion put, " That the word ' now' stand part of the ques-
tion." The House divided—Ayes, 235 ; Noes, 226.

AYES-23L
Adam, W. I'. Ferguson, R. North, I'.
_Akdeane, H. .T. Fitzwilliam, C. W. O'Brien, P.
Agar-Ellis, lion. L. Foley, J. H. O'Conoi Don, The
Agnew, Sir A. Foley, Hon. 11. W. O'Donoghue, D.
Alcock, T. Foljambe, F. J. S. Onsloiv, Guildford
Andover, Lord Forster, charleis Osborne, Bernal
Antrobus, E. Fortescue, C. S. Padmore, It.
Atherton, W. Freeland, H. IV. Paget, C.
Ar.on, A. S. Garnett, W. J. Paget, Lord C. E.
Bagwell, J. Gavin, Major Palmerston, Visct.
Bailey, C. Gibson, T. M. Paxton, Sir J.
Baines, E. Gifford, Earl of Pease, H.
Ball, E. .- Gilpin, C. Peto, Sir M.
Baring, Thos. Geo. Glyn, G. G. Pigott, Francis
Bass,- M. T. Goldsmid, Sir F. Pilkington, James
Baxter, W. E. Gower, F. L. Portman W. 11. B.
Bazley, Thomas Greene, Capt. J. I'ryse, Capt. E. L.
Beale, Samuel Greenwood, J. Pugh, D. (Carmar.)
Beamish, F. B. Gregory, W. H. Ramsden, Sir J. W,
Beaumont, W. B. Gregson, S. Redmond, J. E.
Berkeley, IL Grey, Rt. Hn. Sir G. Ricardo, .I.TL.
Berkeley, F. Itadfield, Geo. Ricardo, 0.
Black, Adam Hanbury, R., jun. Ridley, G.
Blake, J. A. Handley, John Robartes, T. J. A.
Blencowe, J. G. lianmer, Sir J. Robertson, D.
Bonham-Carter, J. Harcourt, G. G. V. Roebuck, J. A.
Bouverie, E. P. Hardcastle, Jos. A. Rotlischild,BaronL.
Bouverie, P. P. Itartington,Marquis Rothschild Baron M
Bowyer, W. Headlam, Thos. E. Roupell, W.
Brand, H. B. Henley, Lord Russell, Lord J.
Bright, J. Herbert, 11. A. Russell, Hastings
Briscoe, J. I. Hodgkinson, G. Russell, A. J. E.
Bristow, A. Hodgson, K. D. Russell, Sir Wm.
Brocklehurst, John Horst-flan, E. St. Aubyn, J.
Brown, James Howard, Hon. C. Salorrions,Alderman
Bruce, H. A. Hutt, W. Scholefie, d, W.
Buckley, Maj.-Gen. Ingham, R. Scott, Sir W.
Bulkeley, Sir R., Bt. Ingram, 11. Scrope, G. P.
Buller, J. W. Jackson, W. Seymour, Sir M.
Butler, C. S. James, Edwin Seymour, Dig,by
Buxton, C. Johnstone Sir J. Shafto, R. D.
Byng, H J
Zion. G. H. C. Kershaw, J. Sheridan, It. B.
Caird, James Icing, Hon. L. Smith, J. B.
Calthorpe, F. H. Kinglake, A. W. Smith, Augustus
Cardwell, Rt. Hn. E. Kinglake, Serj. J. Somerville, Sir W.
Castlerosse, Vist. Kingscote, Lt.-Col. Stacpoole, W.
Cavendish, Hon. W. Kinnaird, Hon. A. Stafford, Marquis of
Childers, H. C. E. Laing, S. Stanley, Lord
Clay, James Langston, J. H. Stanley, 0.
Clifford, C. C. Langton, 11. G. Stansteld. J.
Clive, George Lawson, W. Steel, John
Cobbett, J. I. Leatham, E. Sykes, Col. W. H.
Colebrooke, Sir T.E. Lee, W. Thompson, H. S.
Collier, It. P. Lindsay, W. S. Tite, Wm.
Coningham, Wm. Locke, Jos. Tollemache, Hon.F.
Cowper, Hon. W.F. Locke, John Tomline, G.
Craufurd, E. H. J Lowe, Rt. Hon. R. Turner, J. A.
Crawford, lt. W. Lysley, W. Verney, Sir Harry
Crook, Joseph M'Cann, J. Villiers, Rt. Hon. G.
Crossley, Frank Mackie, J. Walter, John
Dalglish, Robert Mackinnon, W. A. Warner, Edward
Davey, R. McMahon, P. Watkins, J. L. V.
Davie, Sir IL R. F. Maguire, J. F. Western, T. S.
Davie, Col. F. Marjorib anks, D. C. Westhead, 8.-
Deasy, Rickard Marsh, M. H. Whalley, G: H.
Denman, G. Marshall, W. Whitbread, S.
Dent, John Dent Martin, J. Willcox, B. M.
Divett, Edward Martin, P. W. Williams, W.
Dodson, John G. Massey, W. N. Winnington, Sir T.
Douglas, Sir C. Mellor, John Wood, Rt fn. Sir C.
Duff, M. E. Merry, James Woods, Henry
Duff, Major. Mildmay, H. Worsley, Lord
Duncombe, T. S. Miller, William WYld, James
Dundas, Frederick Mitchell, T. A. Wynne, C. G.
Egerton, E. C. Monsell, Rt. lln. W. Wyvill, M.
Euston, Earl of Monson, W. J.
Evans, T. W. Morris, D. TELLERS.
Ewart, J. C. Napier, Sir C.
Ewing, H. E. C. Noble, J. Trelawny, Sir J. S.
Fenwick, Henry Norris, J. T. Dillwyn, Lewis L.

NOES-226.

Adderley, C. B. Hanbury, Captain Newark, Lord
Annesley, H. Hardy, Gathorne Newdegate, C. N.
Archdall, Capt.M.E,Hartopp, E. B. Newport, Visct.
Baillie, H. J. Hassard, M. D. Nicol, William
Baring, A. H. Hayes, Sir E. S. Noel, G. J.
Barrow, W. H. Henley, J. North, Col.
*Bathurst, A. A. Hennessy, J. P. Northeote, Sir S. H.
Beach, W. W. B. Herbert, S. Pakenham, Col.
Beecroft, G. S. Herbert, Col. P. E. Pakington, Sir J. S.
Bentinck, G. W. P. Heygate, Sir F. Palk, L.
Bentinck, G.C. Hill, Hon. R. Papillon, P. 0.
Beresford, W. Hill, Lord E. Parker, Major W.
Bernard, Thos. T. Holford, R. S. - Patten, J. W.
Bond, J. W. Holmesdale, Lord Paull, H.
Booth, Sir R. G. Hood, Sir A. Peel, F.
Botiield, Beriah Hope, G. W. Pennant, Col.
Bovill, Wm., Hopwood, J. T. Philips, J. H.
Bramston, T. W. Horsfall, T. B. Powys, L. P.
Bridges, Sir 8., Bt. Hotham, Gen. Lord Puller, C. W.
Brooks, R. Howes, Edward Quinn, Peter
Bruce, C. L. C. Hubbard, J. G. Repton, G. W. J.
Bruen, Henry Humberstone, P. S. Richardson, J.
Burghley, Lord Hume, W. Ridley, Sir M. W.
Cairns, Sir H., Hunt, G. W. Rogers, John J.
Carnac, Sir J. R., Bt. Ingestre, Viscount ttolt, J.
Cartwright, Col. H. Jervis, Captain Rowley, Hon. R. T.
Cave, S. Johnstone, Hon. 11. Salt, Thomas
Cavenelsh, Lord G. Johnstone, J. J. H. Selater-Booth, G
Cayley, E. S. Jolliffe, Capt. H. Selwyn, C. J.
Cecil, Lord R. Jones, D. Seymer, H. K.
Churchill, Lord A. Kekewich, S. Shirley, E. P.
Close, M. C. Kelly, Sir F. Sibthorp, Major
Cobbold, John C. Kendall, N. Smith, Abel
Cochrane, A. D. Kennard, C. Smith, S. G.
Codrington, Sir W. King, J. K. Smyth, Col.
Cole, lion. H. A. Knatchbull, W Smollett, P.
Collins, T., jun. Knight, F. Somerset, Col. E.
Cross, R A. Knighlley, R. Somes, Joseph
Cubitt, Ald. Knox, Lt.-C01.8.W. Spooner, R.
Curzon, Viscount Lefroy, A. Steuart, A.
Dalkeith, Earl of Legh, W. Stewart, Sir M. It.
Darner, L. S. W. D. Legh, G. C. Stuart, Major W.
Dawson, R. P. Leighton, Sir B. Sturt, H. G.
Deedes, Wm. Lennox, Lord 11.. G. Stracey, Sir H.
Dickson, Col. Leslie, C. P. Talbot, Hon. W. C.
Disraeli, Benjamin Lever, John 0. Thynne, Lord E.
Du Cane, Chas. Liddell, Hon. H. G. Thynne, Lord 11.
Duncombe, A. Lindsay, Colonel Tollemache, J. H.
Duncombe, W. E. Long R. P. Torrens, R.
Dunne, Col. Longheld, Robert Trefusis, Hon. C. li.
East, Sir J. B.
Lopes,
e ir, H. Bt. Trollope, Sir John
Edwards, Major H. L Upton, Genei al
oSLo
vain
Egerton, Sir P. Lowther, Col. H. C. Valctort, Lord
Egerton, W.
Egerton, A. F.,
Elcho Lord Verner, Sir Wm.
Lyall,Lowth G. Verner,
Captain
IVraainiicesit,tJaroth,nvirm.
Lgon, Hon. F.
Elmley, Viscount Lytton, Or E. B. Walcott, Adm. J. E.
Estcourt, S. Macaulay, K. W alker, James R
W,
Farquhar,'Sir, M. Mainwaring, T.
al, Walshpole SS. H.
J. B.
Ferrer, James Malins, R.,
Fellown, Edward Manners, Lord J.
___lwVaay, tlinAgtrtohnu,rJE.
. W.
Forde, Lt.-Col. W. March, Earl of
Forester, Col. G. C. Miles, Sir W. Welby, W. E.
Forster, Sir G. ' Miller, T. Whiteside, Rt Hn J.
Galway, Viscount Mills, A. Whitmore, H.
Gard, R. S. Mitiord, W. T. Williams, T. P.
George, John Montagu, Lord R. Woodd, B. T.
Gilpin, Colonel Montgomery, Sir G. Wyndham, Sir H.
Gladstone, Capt. Moody, C. A. Wyndham, Hon. 11.
Goddard, A. L. Mordaunt, Sir G. Wynn, Col.
Gordon, C. W. Morgan, C. 0. S. Wynne, W. W. R.
Gore, J. R. 0. Morgan, Major Yorke, Hon.E.
Gore, W. R. 0. Mowbray, Rt. Hn. J.
Graham, Lord Wm. Mundy, William TELLERS.
Haliburton, Justice Mure, David
Hamilton, Lord C. Murray, William Jolliffe, Sir W.
Hamilton, JR& H. Naas, Rt, Su, Lord Taylor, Colonel

SAVING LIFE FROM SHIPWRECK.

(From the Manchester Examiner and Times.)

A more unpretending, but, at the same time, a
more interesting document than the report of the
National Lifeboat Institution is rarely issued from
the press. The novel reader may perhaps fail to
find excitement in it ; the than of business may not
see in it the details of commercial information which
go to make up his " whole duty of man ;" but a few
moments' consideration will show either of these
gentlemen how readily they may procure in it
either one or other requisite of their daily existence.
The report of the Lifeboat Institution forms, in
fact, a sort of neutral territory where business and
romance may meet without endangering each
other's safety. It is a border ground where com-
mercial life, under one of its most terribly necessi-
tous conditions, comes face to face with all that is
romantic, heroic, and chivalrous, and where it
separates itself for the time from the dry details of
counter and counting-house life, as far as is a gallant
vessel in distress from the warehouse keeper who
stocked her cabins with beef and pickles, sugar and
biscuit. The business part of the arrangement,
indeed, scarcely appears in the report of the Life-
boat Institution, but it leaves its traces very strongly
imprinted there. It only goes as far as " pleasant
weather" carries the deeply and richly laden vessel.
When the gale blows and the murky and black-
looking clouds are gathering round the ill-fated
ship, when even amidst the thunder of the wind
the angry dash of the breakers is heard on the lee
shore, when the hapless crew look with despairing
eyes on the sky, the land, and the water, then it is
that business, which, as Young says of sleep, gi her
ready homage pays where fortune smiles," deserts
the luckless mariners, and leaves them to the for-
tune of some daring adventurer's aid. It is here
that the Royal National Lifeboat Institution steps
in with what may be called, without exaggeration,
its redeeming hand, and nothing more beautifully
iliustrates the beneficent nature of its services than
the simple record of the transactions recorded
in the report for 1859. It is a long list of
noble services from January Ist to December 30th,
and a few of them will be enough to show
what strong claims the institution has on the pub-
lic gratitude. Here is April 15, Goodwin Sands—
terrible name of ill omen to sailors—wind W.N.W.,
sloop Liberal, of Wisbeach, one man saved by the
Walmer lifeboat. Sept. 17 and 18, Misner Haven,
wind N. and W., strong gale, brig Lucinde, of
Memel, 11 men saved by the Southwold lifeboat.
Feb. 28, Jack's Hole Bank—a cognomen fearfully
suggestive of danger—brig Louise, of Genoa, ship
assisted by the crew of the Padstow lifeboat.
March 8, Doom Bar Sands—another hideously sug-
gestive designation—brig Gonsalve, of Nantes, seven
men saved by the Padstow lifeboat. Nov. 1, Holm
Sands, wind S., heavy gale, steamer Shamrock, of
Dublin, 14 men saved by the Lowestoft lifeboat.
Nov. 2, Whitburn, blowing a hurricane, schooner
Anton, of Denmark, 6 men saved by the Whitburn
lifeboat. Nov. 26, Redcar, wind S.E., heavy gale,
brig Fortuna, of Memel, 11 men saved by the Red-
car lifeboat. Dec. 30, Barmouth, wind from the
S.W., blowing a gale, ship Britannia, of Bath,
United States, 14 men saved by the Barmouth life-
boat. Dec. 21, Lytham, weather stormy, the bri-
gantine Hannah Jane, of London, 7 men saved by
the Lytham lifeboat ; and so the record goes on
through a long page, enumerating services of the
most humane and sterling character, in words and
figures as simple as an ordinary entry in a mer-
chant's ledger.
We have said sufficient to show the inestimable
public value of an association like that of the Na-
tional Lifeboat Institution ; but how much more
might be said of the services it has rendered to
what may be called the private and hidden circles
of our life. Running the eye down the list of
vessels to which the boats of the association have
paid a visit, when the wind was blowing " great
guns and small arms," we have of course the most
liberal supply from our own islands. The Betsys,
Johns, Georges, and Marys are unmistakeably
attached to the north-east coast. The simple mari-
time nomenclature of Shields and Sunderland is
almost confined to the family circle, and a favourite
son, or a brother, or a wife, or some one " nearer
and dearer," is generally the godfather or god-
mother of the first venture of the small ship-
owner. But every little port and every
.large
harbour in the island have representatives in the
National Lifeboat Institution list, and from thence
the area of services rendered extends to the natives
of France, Spain, Genoa, Norway, Prussia, United
States, Sweden, Denmark, the whole maritime
world in fact, for misfortune and loss are just as
catholic in their visitations as the services of the
lifeboats on our coasts. Now, looking at the use of
the association in this light, it is the distributor of
an amount of happiness almost incalculable. The
painful picture drawn by Campbell, in his " Plea-
sures of Hope," of the mariner's wife watching for
the barque that " never shall return," is but a copy
of an agonising reality in the life of those connected
with sailors. How many families have the Life-boat
Institution saved from such a terrible fate ? Here
is the romance—not the dead fictitious thing we
read of in love stories but the living, active, ro-
mance which makes life beautiful, and which really
surrounds the Lifeboat Institution with a halo of
renown. All the thrilling narratives that have
been written for a century are sketchy and feeble
before the reality of a lifeboat adventure. Ten or
a dozen, or it may be 20, 30, or 40 men are hang-
ing on to the shrouds of a shipwrecked vessel, as
powerless to help themselves as is the vessel which
gives them a momentary resting place. Death is
literally hanging over them, with his fingers out-
stretched to pull them into his ravenous maw ; and
the only human means to save them is the agency
of a lifeboat. Each one of those poor fellows, who
were one moment dead, and in another restored to
life, was, to use the expressive phrase of the old
Scotch wife, " somebody's bairn ; ' and how mans
thankful hearts must their redemption from a
watery grave create. This is no single example
either ; it occurs day by day, in the winter season,
round the coasts ; it is miserably frequent during
the recurrence of the equinoctial gales; and the
chances in every seaman's life are about equal
whether he will be wrecked or not. This is the
fate, the destiny of a sailor, and no mechanical in-
genuity will ever wholly obviate it. We may hope
to relieve the death list considerably ; this is,
indeed, the object of the National Life-
boat Institution but we can never calculate on
this side of the prophetic change when "there
shall be no more sea," on the abolition of shipwrecks,
and the total abrogation of human misery by losses
and disasters on the ocean.

The moral of our story is, of course, that the Na-
ti▪
onal Life-boat Institution is one of the most worthl
of our national associations. We have essayed to
point out
i the munificent labour which the institu-
ti▪
onal s engaged in, and we may ask the public who
agree with us in our views, in seamen's phrase, to
~ ,
lend a hand" in extending the bountiful work 01
this society. There is a general indifference, or,
e
perhaps it would be more correct to say, a want 0'
knowledge, in inland places of the necessities of such
aninstitution as this one we now recommend. recr
pie generally only know the dangers of a seamen
life when some great calamity like that of the loss
of the Royal Charter comes before them. They, do
not think of the hundreds of cases occurring
every year, where one, or two, or three, or in°l
seamen drop at a time into a watery grave, and
where the annual aggregate number of such losses,
dwarf even the enormous destruction of the
Charter. Last year, for instance, the losses by shinPf
wreck on our coast amounted to 1,646 lives• t:
persons saved, there were 2,332, making together in
the course of one year close upon 4,000 people vile
were exposed to the miseries of shipwreck on tut;
shores of the British isles. Since 1824 the Lifeb°llo
Institution has been instrumental in aiding to asps
11,401 persons, and we see at a glance what a large
share the working of the Institution has in our na-
tional tional comfort. At a moderate computation, the
number of the lost will be about three-fourths fe
those saved ; another very powerful reason why
society should receive public assistance. o?,
But to'
last, and perhaps the most powerful claim wh
the society has upon the public at this moment
that its liabilities for life-boat establishments amon01"
to nearly £4,000. We cannot say, indeed, that the
work of the institution is one of pounds, shillings,
and pence. It is too grand and
with a pecuniary motive; it
too noble to be mixedusl:
that it cannot be carried on without aid from t:
beneficen tend thoughtful. There are scores ofplaede
where a lifeboat might be advantageously piste
but this cannot be done without money. T"e
et ;
",1
is continual improvement, repair, and care need
in the boats which the association have at prese?he
but this cannot be done without money either. 0
men who are engaged in the lifeboat service are, 133
doubt, as brave and devoted as men can be ; butt
is not fitting that these men should risk their
expose themselves to danger, hardship, and 111°°„t,
venience without fee or reward, All these are In%
tars which the Institution has to provide for,
the only means by which they can providersli-
them are the gene' osity and benevolence of Eng 1
men. An appeal to the country is not, indeede'crees-
quired ; it only needs that the merits and be her
sites of this Institution should be brought f;ther
the public, and not a single wealthy man, whet or
he be a shipowner, manufacturer, agriculturirAw
merchant, but would, we are assured, else
contribute his mite in such a cause.

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WRECK AND Loss OF Six LIVES.—A telectieb.
from Dartmouth announces that the Nyasia; Ca°lino oral
nitzky, of and for Stettin from Liverpool, with a ' 13;111°
cargo, capsized and sunk off the Start on WednesdaY• ,(1
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elegram adds that 4( sit men were drowned;
two men eaved."