The Sun.
London, England, 1867-02-08 00:00:00

FRANCE.

PARIS, Feb. 8.

An Imperial decree has been issued to-day deter-
mining the relations of the Senate and Corps Legis-
latif towards the Emperor and the Council of State,
and establishing the organic conditions under which
their labours will be conducted. This decree, which
is a modification of the decree of the 19th January,
contains no important regulation not already
known.

BOURSE, Feb. 7.—Two o'clock.—The market
is dull, and there is little change to notice. Three
per Cents. are at 691 r. 571 c. ; Italian Fives at 54f.
65c., or sc. lower. Credit Mobilier are 2f. 50c.
lower, at 530 f. Credit Foncier opened at 1,500 f.,
but are now quoted at 1,490 f., or the same as yes-
terday. There is no feature to call for notice in
the Railway Department.
Three o'clock.—Greater buoyancy has been dis-
played towards the close, especially on Credit
Foncier shares, which have advanced 30f. The
closing prices are as follows :

I/ per Cents 99 25
Do. end month....„
3 per Cents. 69 65
Do. end month 69 62/
Credit Mobilier
Do. end month
Credit Poneier —
Do. end month 1520

Bank Shares ..... 3590
Italian Loan 54 GO
Do. end month— 54 75
Mexican Loan 2l 50
Do. Bonds ..... 145
SpaniBh Threes
Home Debt —
Deferred

'ttYB.

For Account.
Orleans
Northern 1205
Lyons and Moditorrauoan 921 25
Southern 570
_„_

Western
Eastern
Sardinian

Austrian

Lombard
North of Spain

Sarap;oEf a
Ditto to Barcelona--
Roman

585 -
545 -

406 25

131 25

95 -

THE BOMBAY MAIL.

The present mail brings letters and papers from
Bombay to the 14th January. The Times of lnelia,
of Jan. 13, contains the following

No improvement has taken place in the work-
ing of the Indo-European Telegraph. The latest
date to hand from Great Britain is the 31st Decem-
ber. When the mail arrived on January 10th it
brought London telegrams from Alexandria of the
24th, the latest received by the Indo-European line
being at that time of no later date.
A preliminary meeting of European and native
gentlemen has been held in Bombay, at which it was
resolved to commemorate the public services of Sir
Bartle Frere. An influential committee was ap-
pointed, and a public meeting is to be called.
The debenture loan of £600,000, required by the
Government of India for public works in Bombay,
has been rapidly taken up.
His Excellency Sir Robert Napier, the Com-
mander-in-Chief of the Bombay army, is on a tour
of inspection in Sind.
A troopship recently arrived at Bombay from
Cork, the captain of which is reported to have been
in a state of intoxication nearly the whole of the
voyage. His conduct has been reported to Govern-
ment. _

The High Court of Bombay has rescinded the
order which prohibited the transmission to England
of the funds of the Commercial Bank Corporation.
Resolutions have been passed for winding up the
United Victoria and Colaba Reclamation Company,
and for forming a new company, under the name
of the Colaba Company, with a fully paid-up capi-
tal of £1,000,000.

The Bishop of Bombay has been severely criticised
for forcibly removing some evergreen decorations
from the altar of the Cathedral Church at Calcutta
ou Christmas-day. •
It is stated that Earl Cranborne has desired the
Government of India to introduce a uniform sys-
tem of copper coinage throughout the country.
The Government of India has resolved to erect
three strong forts in the North-West Provinces—
one at Rawul Pindee, another at 11looltan, and a
smaller one at Peshawur.
The Government of India has stopped the annual
allowance to Spud Toorke, the brother of the late
Sultan of Aluscat, in consequence of some mis-
conduct on his part.
The committee now sitting at Calcutta for the
revision of the customs tariff of India has recom-
mended the reduction of the duty on light wines,
and the abolition of many of the existing duties on
both exports and imports.
Since the final meeting of the Bengal Famine
Relief Fund, its secretary has handed 50,000r5. to
the Board of Revenue, exclusive of the balance due
from Bombay. The committee have received the
thanks of the Lieutenant Governor of Bengal.
The Commander in Chief in India has published
a despatch, expressing his great satisfaction at the
devotion shown to his duty by Lieut. Kemble, and
with the excellent arrangements made by that offi-
cer in meeting a very sharp outbreak of cholera in
the Ist squadron 2d Bengal 1.C., in November last.
The Russians are reported to have captured Juzak,
the scene of General Tcherniayeff's defeat last
February in Bokhara, after a siege of five days.
The King of Bokhara has sent a messenger to the
Lieut.-Governor of the runjaub to request his
assistance against the Russians.
Reliable information of the death of Feroze Shah,
the only great Delhi rebel who escaped punishment
in the mutiny in 1857, has been, received by the
Government of India. He died of fever at Bokhara.
Col. Crawford Chamberlain has been appointed
political agent in Western Malwa and commandant
of the Central India Horse, in succession to Colonel
Daly.
The Rajah of Bhurtpore is about to pay a visit to
England.
ORITUARY.--Major-General IL F. Coley, Bengal

FEBRUARY 8, 1867.

Army; Assist.-Surgeon Vessey, Bombay Medical
Staff.

THE LOSS OF A STEAMER AND TWENTY
PASSENGERS.

We (Bombay Gazette) have to chronicle a pain-
ful
_catastrophe which occurred in the River
Hooghley on New Year's-day, and which, result-
ing in the loss of a number of lives, has thrown a
gloom over Calcutta. The good people of that city
make a point of celebrating their New Year's holi-
day by holding a llowrah fancy fair, which, with
the attraction of a steamboat trip on the river,
draws them in hundreds to How rah. One of the
steamers (the Calcutta by name) employed on the
occasion of the present New Year's excursion left the
Gardens at 5 p.m., and on her passage up the river
(having gone some 300 or 400 yards out of her way,
struck upon the sunken wreck of the Satellite, which
was sunk during the cyclone of 1864. The locality
of the wreck was marked by a buoy, attached to the
engine room of the sunken vessel. The decks of
the Calcutta were overcrowded with passengers,
consisting of Europeans, Hindoos, Jews, Parsecs,
Moguls, &c., many of the Europeans being women.
The engine room immediately began to fill with
water, and it was evident that the vessel could float
only for a short time longer. The panic which
seized upon the passengers baffles description, and
to the terror which danger inspired must be attri-
buted the loss of life which followed. The native
passengers, losing all self-control, shrieked for boats
—the European ladies, who were returning home
after their day's enjoyment, " imagned themselves
face to face with death," and joined in the terrible
cry ; and the frantic fears of all exceeded all bounds.
When the vessel struck it was nearly dark, and a
writer, describing the scene, says that the bitter cry
of alarm from the passengers " went echoing over
the river through the fast deepening darkness, start-
ling the crews of the neighbouring vessels and
tugs." The steamer was instantly surrounded
by native boats and the boats of neighbouring
vessels. Ladies threw themselves iuto the water
to reach the boats, and gentlemen tore up chairs,
benches, &c., by which to float ashore. It is
stated that a river steamer, which was two or three
hundred yards distant when the accident occurred,
went to the rescue, and that the rash to get on board
of it was so tremendous that many jumped through
her awning, and the captain was obliged to sheer off
a little. It was impossible that lives should not be
lost in a frenzy of terror like this. The parties re-
ported as missing and probably drowned are about
20. The question still remains—Why was the
steamer so far out of its course ? We regret to
state that the evidence which is being taken at the
inquest goes to show that the captain was intoxi-
cated, and this seems to be popularly assigned as
the cause of the accident, though some of the wit-
nesses assert their belief that the captain was quite
sober. If he was, he has to account for steering
the vessel so far out of its course, and right over a
danger which was indicated by a conspicuous signal.
It remains also a remarkable tribute to the fore-
sight and prudence of an Indian government that
an old sunken hulk has been allowed to block up
the river in the very line of traffic for upwards of a
couple of years.
The Calcutta Englishman, of Jan. 7, gives the
following further particulars of this sad catastrophe •
The police belonging to the reserve and river divi-
sions are working hard and well to recover the
corpses of the victims of the accident, and beyond
the limits of the port, north and south, the Bengal
police are taking up the search. Orders have
been issued that all bodies are to be brought to the
superintendent before they are sunk in the usual
manner. Up to last evening the following had been
recovered :

Edwin flay, of 3, Cooper's-lane. He was a young
unmarried man, and the support of the rest of his

family.
11. R. A. Harris ; found near the wreck. He was
also the support of his family, and was engaged to
Miss Robertson, who was likewise drowned.
Abdool Rulanan ; found near the dockyard at

liidderpore.
Mrs. Dwyer, whose sister, Miss Taylor, has also
been lost, was found close to the steamer Howrah.
George Smith, of Ballygunge. The body was
found near the wreck.
Mrs. Brown, the sister of Mr. Simeon, was picked
up at one o'clock on Sunday, at Goosery.
The body of Mr. Simeon was found on the night
of the accident.

An European, supposed to be either Mr. Godfrey
or Mr. Graham, was picked up in Garden Reach.
Only eight bodies had been recovered up to the
time of our going to press, and, strange to say, no
corpse of a child has as yet been found.