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

TVRECK ON 711 E GOODWIN.

several shipping
A report from Ramsgate states that a violent
gale sprang up there ou Saturday, and re3ulted in
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 siguaL4 from one of the lightships the
lifeboat again put to sea yesterday morning, and
All 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 to 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 left to his fate. The lifeboat crew laboured
for two hours before they could get their own
boat off the sands ; and when they succeededf
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. me
boat continued to drift to sea, but the ship could
not render any assistance ; she, however, signalled

'or assistance from shore, and the Broadstairs boa

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 beard 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 in a dangerous
position, and the lifeboat was launched to her assist-

ante. 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. A pproaching
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.W.
(reports Captain
I.llyard). 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
Goodwin Knoll buoy. On speaking her the life-
boatmen found that she had bean boarded by a
fishing smack. They, however, remained near her
an hour, until she was saes to be safely at anchor,
when the lifeboat returned to Broadstairs.

A magnificent piece of plate was received in
Paris by bldlle. 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
18G8." It would appear also that Mr. Mapleson,
the manager of her Majesty's Theatre, came over
to Paris for the express purpose of requesting Mdile.
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.

CORRESPONDENCE FROM FARM

..FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)

The Etendard once more takes the trouble to deny a
statement by the Nord, that the Imperial Government
supported the candidature of Queen Isabella's son. The
Emperor, says the semi-official paper, has in nowise
departed from his policy of non-intervention in the
affairs of Spain. The same journal, adverting to
the Convention between Baden and North Germany on
the subject of recruiting, announces that the arrangement
has no political significance whatever. It is merely to
prevent the subjects of the two States from escaping their
military obligations. If this be all that is intended, why
should not a similar treaty be concluded with the other
German States which are not in the Confederation?
The Opposition has lost the election in the Manche
department caused by the death of M. Ravin. The offi-
cial candidate gained 17,600 votes against 10,751. It is
not a little odd that the official papers have taken to
speaking of the Government voters as Conservatives !

There is now no doubt that Count Paiva, Portuguese
Ambassador at Berlin, whose death was recently an-
nounced, committed suicide.

The Gaulois announces that the health of Count Goltz
has so sensibly improved since his return to Berlin
that all danger has disappeared. This miraculous
change has been brought about by drinking the
mineral waters of Solfatara, near Naples. These waters
were recently discovered in an old crater of Vesuvius.
The late Prussian Ambassador at Paris, like all eminent
invalids, is the subject of diverse reports. It was
announced the other day that Count von Goltz was
rapidly dying. The story of the Gctulois has not on the
whole a satisfactory appearance.
Patti's appearance in Brussels has been an unprece-
dented success. The three performances netted respec-
tively £720, £BBO, and £1,120.
The Journal Officiel has opened its feuilleton with an
account of the trial of Marie Antoinette. When, asks
the Temps, is the account of the Duke d'Enghien's trial to
appear ?

THE EFFECTS OF AN INDIAN CYCLONE.

By the Indian mail we have further particulars of a
remarkable cyclone which recently occurred at Akyab.
It appears that the damage to the shipping con-
sisted of the stranding of the Busheer (since
arrived at Calcutta), the Volunteer, the Naomi,
and the Duke of Northumberland. The captain
of the Naomi had three of his ribs fractured, but
is going on favourably. Two Madras vessels are high and
dry; one on the public road, and the other in a paddy
field. All the port cargo boats and water boats are perfect
wrecks, and almost all the country boats are dashed to
pieces. A small portion only of the top of the Savage light-
house was blown away. The Government loss in
the marine department is estimated at about 20,000
rupees. All the merchants' godown at Cherogeah creek,
as well as the landing jetties, have been blown down,
the roads being covered with these ruins, the dead
bodies of cattle, and trees. The private houses have
suffered almost as much, the roofs of nearly all having
been blown off, and in many cases the entire houses
blown down. Amongst the latter were the houses of
the commissioner, Colonel Stevenson, and Colonel Salis-
bury, as well as the private residences of Mr. Damford,
Mr. Brown, and Mr. Hurst. Mr. Hurst had a narrow
escape for his life. The deluge of rain completely filled
some of the lower stories of the houses after the roof
had gone, and rendered escape very difficult. All the
Government offices, as well as the gaol, had been more or
less damaged, and the telegraph was blown down for
miles. Workmen were at once engaged at the rate of
Rs. 20 a month to repair the telegraph, and communica-
tion has since been restored with Calcutta. The handsome
trees, which were one of the principal features of Akyab,
have nearly all disappeared. The total loss of
life in the town is supposed to have been about twenty,
and 500 head of cattle were drowned in one of the suburbs.
The estimated loss of the rice crop was 15 per cent.
Colonel Fraser, the chief engineer, had a very narrow
escape. In attempting to land from the Busheer he fell
between the steamer and the pier, but succeeded in cling-
ing to the pier, from which he was rescued when almost
exhausted.

On Friday there were no fewer than six sudden
deaths in Dundee. Ono was caused by a piece of beef
sticking in the throat of a labourer and choking him whilst
he was eating his dinner.

Mr. Greening, who unsuccessfully contested Hali-
fax at the last election, on Saturday night was presented,
by his friends at that town, with a silver tea and coffee ser-
vice, as a recognition of the manner in which, as the work-
ing man's candidate, ho conducted the election.
The death of another Waterloo veteran is an-
nounced. George Simon Harcourt, Esq. (ad Ainslie), of the
69th Foot, and afterwards with the Ist or Itoyal Dragoons,
one of the few remaining oflicers who served at the Battle
of Waterloo, died on tho 29th of December, at Bedford at
the ago of 72.

At Liverpool a pipe-maker, named Garbert, quar-
relled with hia wife, who, it is said, had dishonoured him.
The woman was enciente, and her husband knocked her
down, and literally ripped her opan with a knife. The im-
mediate consequence is too horrible to relate, and the poor
woman died the same day. The murderer is in custody.

The first ice accident is reported from Sheffield. A
number of skaters and sliders, chiefly lads, had collected on
the ice on a brick pond at Cross Pool, when the ice gave
way, and several of the lads were precipitated into the water.
An alarm was at once raised, and assistance promptly ren-
dered by the bystanders. Among those who took an active
part was a youth named Frederick Dyson, who bravely
rushed into the water and succeeded in saving one of the lads
froni a watery grave, but unhappily fell a victim to his
heroism.

PARIS, MONDAY, January 4.
The indemnities which were voted a long time back to
the co-operators in the Exhibition of 1867 are to be paid.
Why the Iniperial Commission cou'd not decide this point
sooner is a mystery to most people. The indemnities had
to be met, and the cash was ready : why, then, wait some
year and a half before coming to a conclusion on such a
point ?

Young princes are not so frequently guilty of the un-
princely sin of gratitude but that an instance of the kind
should be recorded when it transpires. The story goes
that the young Duke of Brabant, who 'still lingers on his
bed of sickness, asked for a new year's gift of £240.
In reply to a question as to the disposal of
such a sum, he stated that he intended it for the two
Sisters of Charity who had nursed Lim during his illness.
The money was given and immediately transferred.
The Civil Tribunal of Marseilles has just decided an
important will case affecting an English family. It is
another instance of the evil results of people making
wills which do not adequately express their intentions.
Robert Gower, a merchant of Marseilles, who died recently,
leaving a large property, disposed of it under the following
enigmatical terms :—"I name and institute as my heirs
my brother, George Henry Gower, or his children, and
my other nephews and nieces who shall exist at the date of
my death, or their representatives." Now, the brother had
five children, and there was besides a married sister with
six, and. another sister, a widow, without "encumbrance."
Mr. Gower claimed that the intention of the deceased was
to make him sole legatee, and that only in the event,
of his death at the moment of the succession becoming
open was the fortune to be shared among all the nephews
and nieces. The six children of Mr. Jenkins pretended
that the dec:ased meant the property to be divided among
the brothers of George Henry, or his children, and the
other nephews and nieces ; under this hypothesis the
Jenkinses would take six-eighths of the whole, and the
uncle and aunt each one-eighth.. The third demand was
by Mrs. Mathias, who held that the estate should be
apportioned in equal parts among the three branches of
the family represented by the surviving brother and two
sisters. The court decided that the mention of the
brother by name designated him as the heir, to the exclu-
sion of the rest, providing that if he died before the will
was executed the property would then be divided amongst
all the nephews and nieces. The Mathias and Jenkins
claims were therefore rejected.
Jeffssrson Davis adds another to the list of eminent per-
Benno *horn adversity has driven to the great asylum of
princes. The ex-President of the South is enjoying
all the spectacles which Paris can offer. That capital
seems to prove as agreeable a retreat to him as to Queen
Isabella. He is an indefatigable sight-seer, promenading
Paris the entire day. Those with whom he has been in
converse testify that his chant ter has lost none of the
decision which baffled the efforts of the North during
the civil war ; the failure of his great schemes has
in no respect changed his opinions ; he remains
the advocate of slavery, tempered with the posses.
s'nn of those rights which the negro race is capable of
enjoying. He is persuaded that the African and Can.
casian race can never intermingle. Mr. Davis is indifferent
to the material things of life. He breakfasts on buttered
toast and coffee, and dines off two dishes with all but
Spartan simplicity.
One hundred and thirty-nine new journals have ap-
peared in Paris alone during the past half-year. Of these
101 were literary and artistic, fourteen political, and the
remainder devoted to class purposes. Thirty five papers
have been founded on the model of La Lanterne. Their
borrowed light has not been a lamp unto their feet, for hut
two now remain in existence.
The Emperor of Austria has sent a magnificent missal,
enriched with exquisite miniatures, as a present to the
Pope. This chef a'tcurre of its kind has employed nine
teen artists for ten years !