The Sun.
London, England, 1867-12-04 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDoiN. WEDNESuAY EVENING, DECEMBER 4, Ist,7.

crew of the wrecked vessel, as well as the lifeboat,
in all 26 men, were drowned. Only seven men were
saved by clinging to the capsized boat. They were
taken on board a small boat and transferred to the
steam tug Andrew Woodhouse, which brought
them into the harbour. Most of the Gorleston men
were married, and had children depending upon them
for support. The lifeboat drifted to the beach. She
was followed by thelifeboat Refuge, which pickedup
one of the men, John Sheen,aged 30 years. He waa
quite dead. The Rescuer, which belonged to a
private company, was capsized on the same spot in
January, 1866, when 13 beachmen were drowned.
Crowds of people, with the wives and families
of the drowned men, lined the pier at the har-
bour's mouth, and as the Refuge returned the scene
was heartrending.

Wll I TSTA B LE, Tuesday.
'The gale was severely felt here, and caused very
considerable damage. The Edward Fairbrass, which
was lying in the cut of the harbour, ran into colli-
sion with two other vessels—the Emily and the
George Anson —and drove them from their moor-
ings ; the two vessels then ran foul of several others
and more or less damaged them. One, the Mary,
was sunk, while another, the Emma, had her stern,
bulwarks, stanchion; bowsprit, and main cutwater
carried away. The Para Packet, the Northern
Light, the Sarah Jane, the Edward Fairbrass, and
the Emily were also damaged. In addition to the
damages in the harbour, the Lord Warden was
driven ashore just outside so far as high water mark ;
the diving cutter Fearnought was sunk in 'Whitstable
Bay by another diving vessel driving foul of her ;
two vessels, the Mayflower, of Brightlingsea, and
the Sally, of this port, were washed ashore near
Tankerton Castle ; several small oyster-boats were
also washed ashore, and about 50 rkiffs. A place
erected at Swalecliff for the breeding of oysters was
swept away.

RAMSGATE, Dec. 2.

The Bradford lifeboat and steamtug Aid have
again been out on service, in reply to signals from
the Gull and Goodwin lightships, about 6 o'clock
this morning (states Captain Shaw). On reaching
the Gull lightship they were informed that a large
light bearing E.N.E. was being burnt as a signal of
di,tress. It was at this time blowing a perfect
hurricane, and there was a tremendously heavy sea
on. A sunken schooner was shortly afterwards
seen in the Gull stream, with her masts out of water,
but no one was found clinging to the rigging.
Afterwards a dismasted schooner was seen with a
steamtug alongside her, and the lifeboat remained
by in case further assistance should be needed, but
the schooner was enabled to slip her cable and pro-
ceed to a safe anchorage in the Downs. Before
leaving the lifeboat searched around the North
Sand head and shoals in its vicinity, but nothing
was seen requiring her services, and the boat and
steamer then returned to harbour.

NORTH DEAL, Dec. 2.

At 6 a.m. this morning, says Mr. J. Nethersole,
intelligence was brought here that the Gull light-
ship was firing guns and rockets ; the crew were
immediately assembled and at once launched the
Van Kook lifeb@at, belonging to the National Life-
boat Institution, and proceeded towards the light.
vessel, and the lifeboatmen were then informed that
they were firing for a ship that was near the Good-
win Knoll in a dangerous position, but not aground.
The Ramsgate lifeboat Bradford had also gone off
to the same vessel, and found that her services were
not required. The two lifeboats then returned to
the shore, Lut the wind was blowing so heavy that
the Van Kook was obliged to land at Walmer.
There is not the slightest foundation for the report
that has appeared in some of the newspapers that
the lifeboat had capsized and drowned one man.
CORNWALL, Dec. 2.

A gale, which began yesterday, is blowing with
tremendous force from the north-west, and its vio-
lence seems to be gradually increasing. All day
yesterday there was a great fall of rain, but during
the night the thermometer showed a material de-
crease of temperature, and a hoar frost followed,
succeeded by some heavy showers of hail. Con-
siderable damage to shipping and house property is
reported, but no reliable particulars are yet to hand.
I have to report (says Mr. It Thomas) that infor-
mation was brought yesterday during church time
that a brigantine was ashore on the rocks between
Looe Island and the mainland. The lifeboat Ox-
fordshire, which belongs to the National Lifeboat
Institution, promptly proceeded out to her assist-
ance; it was blowing a gale from the west at the
time, and the weather was very thick. Fortunately
the vessel, which was the brigantine St. Brannich,
from Havre for Runcorn,with flints, held on till the
flood tide, when after throwing overboard about 50
tons of her cargo, she floated off and was got safely
into our harbour in a very leaky and damaged state.
The crew of the lifeboat and the coastguardsmen
rendered considerable assistance, and remained by
the vessel until she was in safety. After the life-
boat had returned to the shore, it was reported that
a schooner was at anchor close in shore at Whitsand
Bay. The lifeboat was despatched to her assistance,
but as the wind shifted to the north, the schooner
was able to get under way and sailed, it is supposed,
for Plymouth. The lifeboat at Mullion was also
got out with the view of rendering assistance to the
crews of distressed vessels, but her services fortu-
nately were not ultimately required.

Omits HEAD, Dec. 1.
The smack Brothers, of Beaumaris, was wrecked
in Llandudno Bay, during a strong gale from the
north, this evening. The Sisters' Memorial lifeboat
was launched with a crew of ten men only. Of these
men three formed part of the regular crew, and the
other seven were volunteers, some of them not being
seafaring men. Owing to the heavy sea and want of
strength in the crew the boat was driven back
ashore, and all the efforts to launch it again were
unsuccessful. Seven of the men then put offjn a
shoreboat, and at much risk fortunately saved the
two men from the smack, shortly before she became
a total wreck.

HOLYHEAD, Dec. 2.
" We have been visited here with a most terrific
gale from the north," writes Admiral Schomberg,
Queen's Harbour Master, " and but for the inde-
fatigable and courageous conduct of the crew of the
lifeboat Princess of Wales, belonging to the Na-
tional Lifeboat Institution, we should have been in
much distress. We have had three wrecks—one a
French bark, the Bayard. She parted and came on
the rocks near the lighthouse. The lifeboat was
launched at 9 p.m. in the face of all difficulties—
heavy sea and lee shore —and brought all on board
the vessel safely to land, about 14 in number. The
lifeboat then went out three separate times to an
English ship which had sunk near Salt Island, and
brought 30 of the crew in all on shore. At 5 a.m
she was again manned and sent to act near the
Breakwater to save a schooner's crew. The men
were ultimately got on to the Breakwater. Nothing
that I can express can be too strong for my admira-
tion of the men, for a worse night I never saw ; it
was just such a night as the Royal Charter gale."
Another correspondent, probably writing later, says
that the boat had been out six times and had saved
altogether 52 lives during the gale.

Mr. Frank Connelly, son of the Rev. Pierce
Connelly, Baltimore, is warmly spoken of as a sculptor by
the Italian correspondent of the New York Times. He is at
Florence, and has gained a great reputation by an ideal
bust of Shakespeare's Cordelia, as well as by the truth and
beauty of his likenesses in busts and figures.

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lungs, healthy liver, pure blood, refreshing sleep, functional
regularity, ano energy to the most disordered or enfeebled. We
extract a few out of 68,000 cures ;—" The Pope's health restored
by Du Barry's Food. Cure No. 68,413. "Rome, July 21, 1866.
—The health of the Holy Father is excellent, especially since,
abandoning all other remedies, he has confined himself entirely
to Du Barry's Revalenta Arabica. Food. of which he consumes
a plateful at every meal. It has pmtit.oed a surprisingly bene-
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MISCELLANEOUS NEWS.

CFrom the Anglo-American Times.)

A correspondent writing from Naples, Nor. 23d,
says:--

In the lull of general politics we have had a
storm in a teacup, by the dissolution of the Com-
mercial Council of Naples, and the appointment
of a Royal Commissioner to manage civic affairs
until a new election. Any one knowing something
of the worshipful Corporations of New York and of
London, can have a pretty clear idea of that of Naples,
and will understand why much was said and little
was done. Many honest people are willing to ac-

cept civic honours without troubling themselves
much aboat the corresponding duties. As a natu-
ral result a small knot of professed politicians had it
all their own way, and ended by electing an execu•
tive committee of the brightest red colour.
It was expected that the Government would
let them have a fling, but it turned out dif-
ferently, and a telegram from the Minister of
the Interior destroyed in an instant the result of
several years electoral labour. The wrath is great,
particularly as it is believed the Minister has in-
tended thereby to give the advanced party a fore-
taste of what he will do if they make themselves
too troublesome in the approaching meeting of the
Italian Parliament.

Turning from the political stage, the operatic
company at the San Carlo is better than what
the public has been accustomed to of late years.
The " Africaine"and " Otello" are being given on
. alternate nights. The contrast is interesting be-
tween the most recent work of the great German
composer, and one of the earliest productions of
the Italian composer, who brought it ought forty
years ago on these very boards, receiving about
1,500 fr. for the copyright. It is true that in those
halcyon days the best pit seats were about lfr.
Vesuvius is also busy for our entertainment. Al-
though the lava has not yet descended below the
great cone, the eruption is daily increasing and be-
coming more interesting. The weather is bright
and clear, so that those who ascend at night and
wait until the morning are repaid by a series of the
most magnificent scenes that the world can show.

The Duchess of Genoa is expected here this win-
ter. The ladies may thus expect some balls at the
Royal Palace, and the Union Club will also give a
series. The Union Club is the Almack of Naples,
always most liberal for travellers ; its balls are
much more select than the official soirees, and have
consequently always obtained a brilliant success.
Russian America has been formally transferred to
the United States authorities. The ceremony took
place at Sitka, October 8, Major-General Rousseau
acting for the Unitel States, And Captain Fest-
vehoff, for Russia. A battalion of United States
troops, headed by Major Charles 0. Wood, of the
9th Infantry, drawn up in front of the Governor's
house, where a large assemblage was congregated, wit-
nessed the attempted lowering of the Russian and the
rise of the United States flag. The Muscovite bunt-
ing obstinately ref used to come down, and eventually,
being torn from the halliards, floated away on the
breeze. The Stars and Stripes went up easily and
gracefully. The speeches were short and to the point ;
the Captain in substance saying, " I transfer the ter-
ritory ;" the General replying " 1 accept it." The
Princess Makesatoff is said to have wept audibly,
and probably sympathised with the obstinacy of the
flag which refused to be degraded for lucre, and
took its own way out of the ceded territory.
Except the postponement of the trial of Mr.
Davis until March, the only cable item of news is
that the majority of the Judiciary Committee have
presented their report, which is in favour of the
Impeachment of President Johnson.
The Albany Reconstruction Convention remains
in Session, and is devising disfranchisement measures
so sweeping that not one out of every ten white
men will be able to vote. A resolution has been
adopted, demanding payment of wages to negroes
for work performed by them after the publication
of the emancipation proclamation. The white dele-
gates are abandoning the Convention in disgust,
and the galleries of the house where it sits in Mont-
gomery are daily filled with negresses. legislating
is a new toy, in which Sambe is not likely to suc-
ceed, as well as when, with the banjo, "kicking up
before and behind." It is probable that the Conven-
tion feels a little astray, as it has despatched a dele-
gate to Washington for instructions how to act. The
Finance Committee, of whom twoare negroes, neither
able to read nor write, has reported an article to
make illegal the financial acts of the State, under
the Confederacy. Similar Conventions are in Ses-
sion in Arkansas, Florida, and Georgia. The ex-
penses of the military government in Virginia for
the past ten months, exclusive of the subordinate
civil government, has amounted to $5,239,000,
which comes out of the Federal treasury. It is no
wonder, considering the number of States similarly
situated, that the feeling of the North is opposed to
the Congressional plan of reconstruction, as there
arc good grounds on the question of finance alone.
General Pope proposes to send to Congress a list
of the prominent Georgians, who, though disfran-
chised by the Reconstruction Acts, have actively
interested themselves in favour of Reconstruction,
with a view to their restoration to their political
rights by a special Act of Congress. It is thought
that this will give Congress the opportunity of re-
viewing its late policy in this matter, as the terms of
the Act have been proved to strike at persons who
are now considered to be the most loyal and best dis-
posed, as well as the most intelligent, of Southern
citizens.

The New York Citizen states, upon reliable au-
thority, that John Mitchell, editor of the New York
Irish Citizen, has commenced a suit against Major-
General John A. Dix, now United States Minister
at Paris, for falseiniprisonment during the war, and
that Mr. Charles O'Connor will be leading counsel
in the case, assisted by legal companions of the
highest character and calibre. The captain of ar-
tillery who, acting under the General's orders, ar-
rested Mr. Mitchell, will also be proceeded against.
At the time of the arrest Mr. Mitchell edited the
Daily News in New York, and General Dix com-
manded the department of the East. The case ex-
cites much interest, as it will affect, if pushed to a
decision, many similar cases. The first question to
decide is whether General Dix, or any other officer
or ex-officer, can be held individually responsible for
acts committed under the orders of a superior, and
in the line of duty. The special act of Congress
which specially directed and gave impunity to such
transactions must first be declared unconstitu-
tional and void by the Supreme Court of the United
States.

On the 7th inst. the Tennessee Senate recon-
sidered the bill probibiting distinctions on account of
colour by railroads in the conveyance of passengers. A
motion was made to amend by requiring roads to provide
cars especially for coloured people.

Panama is becoming one of the great commercial
ports of the world. It is stated that 22 steamers a month
arrive at and leave it for different parts o f the world.
Only a few years ago the place was nothing more than a
wretched hamlet.

REPORT OF THE COMPTROLLER OF CURRENCY.-
The report of the Comptroller of Currency has been com-
pleted and laid before the Secretary of the Treasury. The
entire report will make a volume of 700 pages, which will
include the last quarterly report of each national bank in
the country in detail, and abstracts of the report for the
preceding quarters during the year. It will also embrace
extended general remarks on the currency question, and
the workings of the national bank system. The manner
in which it will appear will be a standard book of reference
for all bankers and those interested in national banks.

FoUNDERING OF A STEAMER ON LAKE ERIE.—
Dunkirk, New York, November 4.—The propeller Ackma,
belonging to the Western Transportation Company, foun-
dered and sunk 20 miles off Dunkirk this morning. Two
of her hands have just arrived at this place. One of her
boats was picked up by the small beat of the revenue cutter
Commodore Perry, Captain Otthger, now lying in port
here. There is another small boat containing the captain
and nine men yet to be heard from. She was all safe at
seven bells this morning (half-past 8 o'clock),and is supposed
to have landed somewhere near Silver Creek. The Ackma
had a full cargo on board when she went down.

News from Lisbon, on the evening of the 22d,
stated "The American ship of war, the Guard, has sailed
for New York direct, by order of Admiral Farragut."

FRIGHTFUL TRAGEDY IN CALIFORNIA.—SpeciaI
despatches to the San Francisco papers say that a fearful
tragedy occurred on the day at the recent election at Little
Lake, in Mendocino County, California. It appears that a
feud had long existed between two families of the names
of Coates and Frost, who resided iu that vicinity. On the

day mentioned several members of each family went to,the
town armed, and on meeting the elder Coates fired upon
vnd killed one of tho Frosts. The firing at once became
general between the families, during which five of the
Coates family were killed and three wounded dangerously,
while on the other side Frost was killed, and his son-in-
law, Duncan, was mortally wounded. Not a word was
spoken by either party during the affray.

Yesterday morning the gunsmith's shop of the
Messrs. Richardson, Cork, was discovered to have been
entered, and 200 stand of the most improved rifles and
revolvers stolen during the night. The procession which
to-morrow is to pass through the streets of Cork, in
mourning for the executed Fenians, excites some fear.

A frightful explosion occurred yesterday at
Liverpool, by which the old American blockade-runner
the Colonel Lamb, now the Greek Government steamer
Bonboulina, was totally destroyed, and half the crow of 73
killed. The vessel was blown to pieces by the explosion
of her after boiler.

A new Order of Mentana is to be distributed to
the Pontifical troops. It is a cross, with the words "Pius
Papa Nouns," and the date 1867 on both arms.

The capitol in Washington i 3 finished. The last
stone of the extension was put in its place on the morning
of November 14.

The recent census makes the population of Wash-
ington 73,000, 22 000 of whom aro coloured.
THE AMERICAN MAILS.—In the house of Com-
mons Mr. Graham asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer
last Thursday what, if any, arrangement had been made
for the conveyance of the mails between Great Britain and
the United States of America after the termination, on
Saturday, the 28th of December, of the present service,
which had been so efficiently conducted. Mr. Hunt (in
the absence of the Chancellor of the Exchequer) said it
would be in the recollection of the house that it was
arranged by the late Government, and adopted by the
present, that at the expiration of the postal contract with
the Cunard Company, tenders for the conveyance of the
American mails should be solicited by public advertise-
ment ; that there should be no subsidy, but that ship-
owners should be asked to make offers for the conveyance
of the mails to America, leaving the United States to
arrange for the mails irom America to England. Adver-
tisements were accordingly put out; but the answers did
not meet the expectations which had been formed on the
subject. There was one offer from the North German
Lloyd's for Tuesday, from Messrs. Inmans for Thursday,
from the National Steamship Company for Friday, and for
the same day from the Hamburg American Steamship
Company, but there was no offer for the Saturday's convey-
ance. The advertisement was issued by the Post Office
authorities ; and it contained a note that the tender might
be varied from the printed form. Accordingly, the Messrs.
Cunard sent in a letter stating that they were prepared to
send in a contract for a smaller sum than was now paid.
The Post Office exp;essed a willingness to receive it, and it
was sent in. It was for a fixed sum:for ten years, and a year's
notice, and they were to receive no sea postage, the Post
Office receiving the homeward sea postage from America.
An officer was sent over to America to ascertain what
America was doing, and communications were going on
even up to that day. But her Majesty's Government
thought it would be impossible to enter into that arrange-
ment. They were, therefore, in great difficulty, besides
having no offer for the Saturday mail, and they feared that
the mercantile community would be put to great incon-
venience. Under the circumstances ho had been in per-
sonal communication with Mr. John Burns, one of the
managers of the Cunard Company, who had met the case
in a public spirit, and had expressed his desire to meet the
wishes of the Government ; and within the last few hours
arrangements had been settled with the Cunard Company,
for one year, for a fixed sum, for the conveyance of the
mails. As soon as the negotiations ware complete there
would be no objection to laying the whole of the correspon-
dence on the table.

Miss Priscilla Edwards, and two other women,
will publish on the Ist January a weekly newspaper at
Terre Haute, devoted to the rights of women. There are
nine women editors and assistant editors of newspapers in
Oh:o.

The Round Table tells us—" The price of books is
the subject of a letter from Messrs. Leypoldt and Holt to the
New York Times, in which some important points are quite
clearly stated. The occasion of the letter was an allusion,
apropos of Mr. Bristed's "Interference Theory of Govern-
ment," to the excessive price of American books, and here
is the story of it :
The volume in question was published at Mr. Bristed's
expense. Five hundred copies were printed at a cost of—
For stereotype plates... ... $127 24
For paper 41 12
For printing ... 10 00
For binders' stamps 15 00
For binding ... 90 00

$283 36
Aivertising casts . ... 50 00

Total $333 36
Mr. 13risted is to receive from us the half of
the retail price of each copy which wv sell.
Fifty copies are given to editors. If the
remaining four hundred and fifty are sold,
Mr. Bristed will realise ... ... 225 00

Leaving him out of pocket ... $lOB 36
That is on the supposition that the whole edition is sold,
since each unsold copy is an additional loss of 50 cents to
the author, and from the subject of the book—by no
means a popular one—neither author nor publishers
looked for more than one edition. Mr. Bristed is there-
fore sure to lose vot less than $lOO, while Messrs. Ley-
poldt and Holt—who say that the trouble of preparing a
$lO quarto would have been no greater—can, under the
most favourable contingencies, make no more than $45—
the inducement to both these parties being their interest
in the views set forth in the bGok. Whence, argue these
publishers in a manner that cannot, so far as wo see, be
gainsaid, it is necessary to charge for the popular books
that do sell large editions enough to pay themselves and
their clients for hose which do not. The causes of high
prices they further enumerate thus :

"I.—The Tariff.—An ingenious means of making the
purchaser of most of the materials used in book-making
pay $2 to certain officials and protected interests, in order
that $1 may get into the national Treasury.
"2. The Absence of an International Copyright Law.—
Which deficiency prevents American authors and pub-
lishers from collecting their profits wherever the English
language is spoken, and obliges them to collect them all
here.

"3. The absence of a class of readers who habitually
pay high prices;"

in regard to which last we regret our inability to quote in
full.

"In the European market," slys the writer, " there cir-
culates a dim suspicion that a book has had something to
do with brains. For instance, in England a book con-
t iining the ideas of kill is worth many times as much as
a book of the same mechanical attributes containing the
ideas? of Munlbach. Here Muhlbach's Joseph 11. sells
for the same price as the somewhat larger Mills'
"Logic." In Europe the man of culture enough to read
Mill is supposed to have acquired his culture through the
possession of money enough to pay for him. And he is
supposed to have acquired, through his culture, sense
enough to see that the sale of books of that class must be
limited, and that, therefore, in order to adequately remu-
nerate author and publisher each copy must command a
high price. . . .

" Books of a certain class are wanted as soon as they
appear. People who can afford it will pay a big price to
get them at once. In Europe they allow such people the
privilege. . . .

" It appears, then, that the European publisher has two
sources of revenue which tho American publis'oer has not
—in the willingness of readers of good books to pay good
price; and in the readiness and ability of expectant curio-
sity to satisfy itself at an absurd cost. This gives him
room to carry on operations not affected by these influences
at a rate of cheapness which Americans can hardly dream
of. When a demand for a popular edition of Mill's socio-
logical works arises in England, the reward already reaped
and constantly accruing from the more expensive editions
enables the publisher to make the cheap edition at a price
staggeringly low ; and when any book is published purely
for the million, it can be done at a rate which, if applied to
all books, would not pay a publisher's office expenses.

" The case with us seems to be but one more illustration
of the averaging effect of Democratic institutions. The
rich and cultivated pay less, so the poor and ignorant must