The Sun.
London, England, 1858-12-18 00:00:00

and almost immediately aferwards Capt. Baker,
with the survivors, was washed from the rock,
notwithstanding the desperate efforts of the crew
on the cliffs to reach them.

We may add a single specimen of the curious
anecdotes in which this interesting little book
abounds. The following is from the account of the
wreck of the Minotaur :—The fate of Lieut. Sals-
ford was distinguished by a singular circumstance.
A large tame wolf, caught at Aspro, and brought
up from a cub by the ship's company, and exceed-
ingly docile, continued to the last an object of
general solicitude. Sensible of its danger, its howls
were peculiarly distressing. It had always been
greatly attached to the lieutenant, and through the
whole of their sufferings he kept closilo his mas-
ter. On the breaking-up of the ship, both got upon
the mast. At times they were washed off, but by
each other's assistance regained it. The lieutenant
at last became exhausted by continual exertions,
and benumbed with cold. The wolf was equally
fatigued, and both held occasionally by the other
to regain his situation. When within a short
distance of the land, Lieut. Salsford, affected by
the attachment of the animal, and totally unable
any longer to support himself, turned towards him
from the mast, the beast clapped his forepaws round
his neck, while the lieutenant clasped him in his
arms, and they sank together.—Saturday Review.

EAST INDIA COMPANY.—At a Court of Directors
held on Wednesday, the 15th inst., Colonel Sykes, M.P.,
was unanimously elected chairman.
The Peninsular and Oriental steamer Indus, to sail
on Mondayfor the East, will take out silver to the amount of
£324,262, of which £lO,OOO is for Ceylon, £120,900 for
India, and £193,362 for China and the Straits.
Silver continues in demand, and a further supply
from Mexico will not be due till the Ist of January by the
Atrato. The deficiency in the receipts from Mexico this
year, consequent, it is believed, solely upon the anarchy
which has desolated the country and prevented the possi-
bility of transmission, now amounts to more than
£1,700,000.
The Pera, with the heavy portion of the China
and Calcutta mails, having lost her screw just after leaving
Gibraltar her mails andpassengerswillbe brought toSouth-
ampten by the Peninsular steamer Alhambra, and will
therefore arrive about the 23d inst., instead of the 20th,
when the Pera would have been due. As the Pera has a
valuable cargo, including .4600 bales of silk, the Ripon has
been sent to tow her home.
ENFILINCF-sElms:Lor-Do Silit
stand that -ICfr...W. Marratt, secretary to the Doncaster
Reform Association, has called a preliminary meeting of
the gentlemdn who are in favour of the Parliamentary
represgttation of Doncaster, for the purpose of bringinc, the
claimstf the borough before the existing Government,. and
also of expressing the sentiments of the inhabitants of the
town on the subject of reform generally.
SINGULAR ESCAPE.—On Tuesday night, as a
man named Robert Wilcockson, in 'the employ of Messrs.
Barber, Walker, & Co., was attending to bis duties at the
Underwood Colliery, in placing the trams on the top of the
shaft, he inadvertently put the tram on the wrong side, and
was precipitated in consequence down the pit, a depth of
200 yards. Providentially, catching hold of the rope at the
commencement of the descent, he slid down to the bottom
without any harm, and returned to his employment on the
surface as coolly as can well be conceived.—Nottingham
Review.
A MEMORIAL OF WALLACE, THE SCOTTISH
HERO, FOR WESTMINSTER HALLe—WalleCe was tried in
the "great hall" at Westminster in the year 1305. It may
be that the subject was not honourable to England, more
particularly considering what was the issue of that trial ;
but if illustrations of history should be as truthful in their
impressions as history itself, it would be a sin of omission
to leave out an appropriate subject on the sole ground of its
not flattering our national vanity. Indeed, the emphasizing
the event by a great picture, as a memorial of honour to
Wallace, would be one of the few modes now left to us of
lessening the disgraceful stain it leaves in our archives, and
at any rate it affords us the opportunity of expressing our
present sense of it.—The Builder.
THE LAST MALE REPRESENTATIVE OF• SIR
WALTER SCOTT.—The death of the only son of Mr. Hope
Scott, Q.C., is announced. This interesting child was the
only living male descendant of his illustrious great grand-
father, Sir Walter Scott, whose name he bore. He was
only a year and a half old, and has survived his mother,
the poet's granddaughter, little more than six weeks. An
infant sister died a fortnight ago. Only one little girl re-
mains to bear the great name of which she is the sole sur-
viving representative.—Scotsman.
Rome is beginning to assume the gay aspect which
it always wears when the hotels are full and the carnival is
approaching. Amidst the most recent visitors are the Arch-
dune Louis of Austria, Lord and Lady Lismore Captain
Aubrey de Vere, Mr. and the Hon. Mrs. J. G. Marshall,
the Earl and Countess of Sheffield, the lion. Douglas Hol-
royd, Col. Sir Wm. Davis and family, Sir John and Lady
Duckworth and family, Lady Mordaunt and family, the
Hon. James F. Stuart Wortley, Hon. Mr. and Lady Chi..
chester and family, Princess Durousoff and family, Prince
and Princess Wertheim, Prince and Princess Camporeale,
Count Stroganoff, and a host more of titled dignitaries from
various parts of the Continent.
" UNCLE TOM'S CABIN" " TRANSLATED" IN
ROME.—A letter from Rome in the Independance of Brus-
sels"states that a translation of Uncle Tom's Cabin has just
been published in that city, but that the Protestant senti-
ments expressed in the work have been changed into
Romish ones. Thus, the reason assigned for the cruel
whipping of Tom by the ferocious Le Gree is that Tom be-
lieved in the doctrine of the Immaculate Conception.
DR. RAE ON ARCTIC EXPLORATIONS.—A lecture
illustrative of life in the hyperborean regions was delivered
at Niblo's Saloon last evening (Nov. 26) by Dr. Rae, the
gentleman who has been made famous by the discovery of
certain relics of. Sir John Franklin. The lecture was de-
livered under the auspices of the Geographical and Statis-
tical-Society, and the audience was as large as the saloon
would admit. The lecturer described the manner of the
formation of icebergs, narrated his several northern jour-
neys, related interesting anecdotes connected with his own
experience and observations, and gave a thrilling account
of his discovery of relics of Franklin's party. These relics
were exhibited, and excited deep interest.--New York
.Evening Post.
COMMUTATION OF SENTENCES.—At the last ses-
sions of the Central Criminal Court it may be recollected
that an old man, 63 years of age, named Edward Mark
Council, was found guilty, and sentenced to death, for
feloniously shooting at and wounding William James Budd,
an inspector of police. The convict has had his sentence
commuted, and has been ordered to undergo penal servitude
for life. John gennessy, convicted at the same sessions,
of a robbery witholence, by wounding John Avis; and
who was also sentenced to death, has had his sentence
commuted, and he is ordered to undergo ten years' penal
servitude

CAUTION TO LADIES.-•-A shocking accident oc-
curred on the Ilth inst., resulting in the death of Mrs.
Eckett, ewidow, residing in Arboretum-street, Derby. It
appears that Mrs. Eckett, having put her two youngest
children to bed, was dressing her hair by a glass over the
chimneypiece about 9 o'clock when her dress, which was
muslin, and expanded in the dangerous fashion of the day,
was drawn towards the fire and ignited. Attempts were
made to envelop her in the hearthrug and table-cover, but
she threw them off and rushed into the street, screaming
fearfully; the draught, of course, added to the intensity of
the fire, and before the neighbours, who were alarmed by
her screams and hastened to assist in extinguishing the
flames, could succeed in doing so, she was burnt in nearly
every part of her body. Every attention was paid to the
sufferer, but she gradually sunk from, the injuries inflicted
and the shock sustained by the system.—Derbyshire
Advertiser.
JUSTICE IN RUSSIA.—A St. Petersburg letter,
in the Emancipation, of Brussels, relates the following curi-
ous story :—" Prince Leon Kotchoubey, of a rich and
ancient family, a man of imperious character, had long em-
ployed as his land agent an Austrian named Saltzmann.
About a year ago, when they were alone together in the
Prince's cabinet, a warm discussion arose about some ac-
counts. A pistol was suddenly fired, which wounded the
agent in the side. When some of the household rushed in
to see what had taken place the Prince accused Salts-
mann of having fired the pistol at himself in a spirit of
revenge and to drag the Prince into a criminal trial.
On the other hand the agent asserted that Prince 'icon
had fired at him in a fit of rage. The medical men
who were called in declared that the wound could not
have been produced by the man's own act. The case
came before a police tribunal, presided over by a Gene-
ral Pool. The influence brought to bear on the court
led to a declaration that the Prince was innocent,
and the unfcrfimate Saltzmants., being declared guilty of
wounding himself,. was thrown into prison. The sentence,
in due time, received the confirmation of the Governor of
St. Petersburg, and the affair seemed at an end. The wife
of the imprisoned man, however, was a woman of energy,
and she went about from door to door with her four young
children, imploring every one to aid her in obtaining jus-
tice. She was at last called to Tsarskee Selo, and also im-
prisoned, leaving the children to be provided for by any
one who might have pity on them. Public rumour brought
the case to the knowledge of the Emperor, and he ordered
an inquiry to be instituted by the Senate, whose decision
no one doubts of. The following are said to be its disposi-
tion s:-1. Saltzmann, having been unjustly condemned,
has a right to fix the indemnity which the Prince should
pay him; secondly, the governor who confirmed the sen-
tence cannot be reached in his person, as he is dead, but
his memory shall be branded with reprobation ; and,
thirdly, General Pool is to be tried for injustice, and his
two assistants in the affair shall be similarly treated."
THE COLLISION AND Loss OF LIFE IN THE
CLYDE.—The Shipping Gazette gives the following parti-
culars relative to this collision. About a quarter-past two
a.m., the tug-steamer Glowworm, (not Glendower, as stated
yesterday), belonging to the Glasgow Underwriters' Asso-
ciation, was coming in the channel, about two miles outside
the Cumbraes, and at the same time the tug-steamer
Champion, belonging to the Greenock Towing Company,
was going out, when, by some misunderstanding, they ran
direct into each other, and almost immediately after the
Champion went down. There were seven men on board at
the time, and they all got on deck, and contrived to get out
the steamer's boat, but the boat being small she capsized,
and they were left struggling in the sea. In the meantime
the Glowworm had put round, and sent her boat in search
of the drowning men, but only three were picked up, viz.,
Daniel M'Bride, pilot ;, Hector M'Neill, a deck hand ; and
Neil Logan, one of the firemen. The other four must have
sunk. Their names are—Alexander Storms, master' Thos.
Cron, engineer; John Sommerville, fireman; and John
M'Donald, a deck hand. These poor men were all married,
and have left wivesend