The Sun.
London, England, 1858-10-09 00:00:00

rHE -SUN,T !LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 9, 1858.

should pay their own bills, truly we are reminded
of a certain passage, which Bishops, we suppose,
have read, respectimg pulling a beam out of our
own eye, to enable us to see clearly to extract the
mote from our brother's eye.
We have some hope, however, that next session
Mr. D6COMBE will again be the Deus ex machine
of another question of religious liberty. The bill
of which he has given notice exhibits the common-
sense of the question. If the parish has to keep
the fabric of the church in repair, then by all
means let the freehold of the church be in the
parish, through its officers, and not in the parson ;
and if the patron, the incumbent, and the Church-
men of the parish cannot keep their house in repair
on condition of having it rent free, then let it be
open to the parish to offer the church to some other
Christian sect which will be glad of it on such easy
terms. We shall then hear no more of Church-
rates.

DREADFUL SHIPWRECK AND LOSS OF LIFE
ON THE NEWCOMBE SANDS.

LOWESTOFT, FRIDAY.

A melancholy catastrophe, resulting in the loss of a fine
barque—belonging to Leghorn, and bound from Newcastle
outward, with coals—and of five lives, occcurred here yes-
terday morning. The vessel was seen about 11.30, during
a hurricane from the S.S.W., to ground upon the middle
part of the Newcombe Sands, abreast of Pakefield, and in
less than 20 minutes she was all in pieces. An eye-witness
says that, shortly after striking, her mainmast, upon which
could be seen four of the crew, went away, followed by the
mizen topmast, and 'then the mizen mainmast ; and after
the vessel had given two or three heavy lurches, the mainmast
went, carrying with it the rest of the hands, and that soon
after the vessel disappeared.
This heart-rending scene excited the greatest sympathy
and interest for the safety of the crew amongst the specta-
tors on our pier and esplanade ; ladies were weeping, and
gentlemen were running hither and thither to learn what
could be done to save their lives. The perilous position of
the vessel and her crew had not, however, escaped the
notice of the brave fellows of Pakefield. They mustered
their men, many of whom were at Lowestoft engaged in the
fishing, launched the lifeboat which is in connection with
the National Lifeboat Institution, and a crew of twenty
hands nobly risked their lives to save the crew ; but before
they could float their boat the barque had gone to pieces,
and the poor fellows were drifting down our roadstead on
spars or pieces of the wreck. Through a tremendous sea,
however, the lifeboat dashed- forward on her errand of
mercy, her crew expecting every minute to be washed out
of her, but the object in view nerved alike both their
hearts and their arras, and they were rewarded
by recovering eight out of sixteen hands from a
watery grave. One by one they picked the poor fellows up,
the last one having drifted below Lowestoft Ness, a distance
of two miles from where the vessel went to pieces.
The poor fellows, in order to have a better chance of
saving their lives, had divested themselves of their clothing,
and one was almost naked when taken into the lifeboat, the
crew of which took off their own clothes and wrapped the
exhausted men in them. We understand that the captain,
three of the crew, and an English pilot are lost.
We cannot speak in too high terms of the gallantry,
bravery, and promptitude exhibited on this, as on previous
occasions, by the bold and daring men of Pakefield, nor of
the excellent seagoing qualities of the lifeboat they manned.
The gallant men are sure to receive, as usual, a reward
from the Royal National Lifeboat Institution for their noble
services.

COURT CIRCULAR.

BALMORAL, OCT. 6.

Her Majesty the Queen and her Royal Highness Prin-
cess Alice, attended by Lady Churchill and Major-General
the Right Hon. J. Poel, drove out.

His Royal Highness the Prince Consort went out deer-

stalking,

His Royal Highness the Count of Flanders also went out
deer-stalking.

Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent left York yes-
terday for her residence, Frogmore.

A deputation from the Local Marine Board of London,
consisting of Mr. Duncan Dunbar (chairman), Mr. Henry
Green (deputy-chairman), Captain Barnett, R.N., Mr.
George Marshall, Captain Hunter, M.S., Mr. J. Anderson,
and Captain Toiler, M.S., had an interview with the Right
Hon. J. W. Henley yesterday at the office of the Board of
Trade. •

A deputation from the Hull Dock Company, consisting
of Mr. Firbank, Mr. Collinson, Mr. Huffam, Mr. Frost,
and Mr. Charles Parkes, land an interview yesterday
with the Right Hon. the President of the Board of Trade.
Despatches for the Governors of the North American
provinces were sent yesterday from the Colonial-office.

Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent left
York yesterday for her residence at Frogmore.
The Princess Bariatinsky and family have left
Claridge's Hotel for Paris.
The Princess Scwikowska and family have taken
their departure from the Brunswick Hotel for the Continent.
The Duke and Duchess of Hamilton and family
and the Count Potocki arrived at their mansion in Arling-
ton-street on Thursday evening, from Brodrick Castle, Isle
of Arran.
The Duke of Wellington has left Apsley House
on a visit to his brother, Lord Charles Wellesley, who con-
tinues seriously indisposed at Conholt Park.
The Duke and Duchess of Beaufort are staying
with the Earl and Countess Howe at Gopsall Hall. The
noble duke leaves Gopsall on Monday next for Newmarket.
The Duchess of Buccleuch passed through town
yesterday to Richmond, from Sir William and Lady Har-
topp's seat in Warwickshire.
The Marquis of Bath comes to town to-day from
visiting the Earl and Countess of Chesterfield, at Gedling
Lodge, Nottinghamshire.
The Earl and Countess of Ellesmere have re-
turned to Worsley Hall from a tour of visits in Scotland.
The Countess of Powis and the Ladies Herbert
will return to Powis Castle early next week from a tour of
visits in Scotland. The Earl of Powis comes to town
to-day.

The Earl of St. Germans is at present at Port
Eliot, Cornwall. The noble earl is expected in town at the
latter end of this month.
The Earl and Countess of Cork are passing the
season at Marston House, Somersetshire.
Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston have re-
turned to Broadlands from visiting Sir Augustus and Lady
Clifford at Westfield House, Isle of Wight. The noble
viscount and her ladyship are about to receive company at
Broadlands.
Viscountess Jocelyn has left St. Leonards-on-Sea

on a visit to the Earl of Roden at Hyde Hall, Herts.

The Count de Paris and the Prince of Wurtem-
berg arrived at Plymouth on Tuesday last, and left on
Thursday for Penzance.

Lord and Lady Stanley of Alderley have returned
to Alderley Park from a tour of visits in Scotland.

,We are glad to learn that lord Adolphus Vane
Tempest is somewhat better.

Baron and Baroness Fressinet de Bellanger have
arrived at Claridge's Hotel from Kingthorpe Hall, near
Pickering.

Sir John and Lady Pakington are receiving a
'elect circle at Westwood Park, near Droitwich.

Admiral Sir George Seymour and Lady Seymour,
Lord and Lady Ebrington, Mrs. Lane Fox, and Gen. Sir
James Scarlett, left Portsmouth Harbour, on Wednesday,
on board the Fire Queen, for Ryde, on a visit to Sir Augus-
tus and Lady Clifford.

The marriage of Miss Hill, daughter of Lord and
Lady Marcus Hill, with Sir Edmund Filmer, will take
place on Thursday next, in London.
It appears that Mr. Henley's powerful instru-
ments were attached to the Atlantic cable at Valentia on
the 20th of September, and as the accounts from Trinity
Bay, Newfoundland, of the 23d of that month state that
perfect signals had been received from this side during the
preceding three days, it seems evident that the restored
communication was owing solely to this cause.

AUSTRALIAN MAILS.—The Admiralty agent at
Galle (Aug. 28) advertised for a steamer to bring round the
500 boxes of mails from the royal mail steamship Austra-
lasian at Trincomalee to Galle, it being his intention to stop
the royal mail steamship Columbian with the homeward
mails, and send her back at once, forwarding her mails for
England to Suez by the Peninsular and Oriental Company's
steamer from Calcutta.

THE INDIAN MAILS.—Last evening notice was
issued at the chief office, St. Martin's-le-Grand, that mails
for India, Bombay, Calcutta, and China, to be forwarded
via Marseilles, would be made up and despatched this even-
ing, the 9th inst. ; also that an extra nail for India, to be
forwarded to Bombay, would be despatched with the Austra-
lian mails from Southampton on the morning of the 12th
inst., and via Marseilles on the evening of the 16th inst.
The next mails from Calcutta direct, Penang, Singapore, and
China, via Marseilles, are due in London on thel4th
inst., and from India via Bombay on the 19th inst.
The Royal Mail steamer Sultan will convey the heavy por-
tion of the Indian mails from Southampton on the morning
of the llth inst.

SINGULAR FATAL ACCIDENT AT TURRIFF.—A
fatal accident took place at a farm in this neighbourhood in
Ahe forenoon of Sabbath last. A boy, who was employed in
fending cattle, having been amusing himself with a piece of
fencing wire, had it fixed round his body and round the
neck of one of the cattle. The animal becoming frightened
ran off, dragging along with it the unfortunate boy. The
struggles of the animal appear to have become more and
more violent until the wire was broken, by which time,
however, from the animal having moved several times, as
in a circle, round the body of the boy, the wire was twisted
so tightly as to compress the body to such a deg Tee that
death immediately ensued.—Bay Journa/.

LATEST NEWS.

AUSTRALIA.

The following telegram has been received from
Corfu, dated act. 8 :

ALEXANDRIA, OCT, 5.
The Cambria sailed this morning with the Aus-
tralian mails, and gold valued at £165,033.
The dates of intelligence are—Melbourne, 16th,
Sydney, 12th of August.
The May and June mails reached Melbourne
on the Ist and 13th of August respectively.
The following are the departures of goldships :
July 24th, the Agincourt, for London, with
70,780 ounces.

August 14th, the Lincolnshire, for London with
105,621 ounces.

The contract between the Government and the
six banks for the negotiation of the railway loan
was signed on the 16th of August.
The export trade very dull.
The import market continued overstocked.
The Banks were selling exchange at 1 to 1

premium.
At Sydney the supplies of wool were very small,
A fire at Auckland had destroyed a large por•
tion of the city.

MALTA, OCT. 9,

The Cambria, with Colombian mails, in charge
of Commander Stevens, arrived at midnight on the
Bth, and brings 46,758 ounces of gold.
The Wye leaves for Marseilles at 3 this morning.
The Emeu reached Ceylon on the 10th of Sep-
tember, and left for Austtalia on the 12th, taking
mail of Australasian, which left Trincomalee on the
11th for Sydney.

The Oriental, with the 46th, reached Ceylon on
the 25th of September.

AMERICA.

(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)

SOUTHAMPTON, SATURDAY MORNING,

The telegraph from Hurst announces that the
screw steamer Bremen, from New York, passed
that station at 9.40.
LIVERPOOL, ►SATURDAY MORNING.

The screw steamship Vigo, with the United
States mail of the 25th ult., was off Queenstown at
6 o'clock this morning.

The following telegrams have been received a
Mr. Reuter's Office, Oct. 9, 9.55 a.m.
BERLIN, SATURDAY MORNING.

The Minister of the Interior, Herr von West-
phalen, has been dismissed. The President, Baron
von Flottwell, formerly Minister of Finance, has
been provisionally appointed in his place.
Baron Flottwell has already arrived in Berlin.

PARIS, SATURDAY MORNING,

The Moniteur of this morning publishes a de-
cree by which the exemption of the navigation
dues for cargoes of corn, flour, rice, potatoes, and
vegetables in general, is prorogued to September,
1859.

O'Donnell's Irish descent. " The" promulgation
of the important decree relative to the sale of
civil property is," says, a Ministerial organ,
" another proof of the recklessness with which
the enemies of the Cabinet declared that Marshal
O'Donnell and his colleagues did not possess the
Queen's confidence, and that her Majesty would
never consent to the expropriation of the property
referred to, the Royal signature having been given
on the very day on which that assertion was most
boldly made !" The Peninsular Correspondence
says :—" Great discouragement prevails in Pro-
gressista circles. The circular of the committee
on the elections has been almost unanimously con-
demned as weak in style and poor in ideas. Be-
ing studiously framed to please everybody, it pleases
nobody. It is spurned by the Democratic party
as vague and unmeaning, and laughed at by the
Ministerialists as a sort of involuntary confession of
impotency. The Diario Espanol taunts the signers
of this manifesto with having been abandoned by
all the statesmen, Gen. San Miguel, the Marquis
de Perales, and others, who gave importance to
their party. The secession of these personages will
no doubt produce great effect in the country, and en-
courage those electors who, tired of the exigencies
of men of extreme opinions, are about to join the
supporters of Government. M. Escosura, the ex-
Minister, in an article published in the Iberia, at-
tempts to attenuate the effect of the split among the
Liberals by stating that it would have been worse
if it had existed latent than it is now that it is de-
clared." The Queen and King had attended the open-
ing of an exhibition of Painting and Sculpture in
the magnificent saloons of the Trinidad in the
Calle de Atocha. Their Majesties were received
by the Ministers, the members of the Council of
State, and the sub-secretaries of the different
departments. The Pope's nuncio and many distin-
guished foreigners were present. The Government
had remitted to Portugal 405,456 reis to pay some
battalions of Oporto who were in the service of
Spain in the war of independence.

" General Count de Goyon, Commander-in-Chief
of the French troops in this city," says a letter
from Rome, " arrived here on the Ist, and re-.
sumed his functions. From a sentiment of pro-
priety, the General refused, in consequence of the
residence of the Holy Father in the city, to receive
any of the honours due to his grade and position.
This decision was made known to the troops be-
forehand by General Count de Noue. The next day
the Commander-in-Chief held a grand reception, at
which the principal French and Pontifical officers
were present."

A Berlin letter states that the propositions made
by the representative of Denmark, in presence of
the committees of the Diet, are not of a nature to
satisfy completely the demands of the Confedera-
tion, and that the Danish representative has, con-
sequently, been obliged to apply for fresh instruc-
tions from his Government.