The Sun.
London, England, 1867-11-21 00:00:00

FRANCE.

Prince Napoleon has arrived at Havre, and yes-
terday made a trip out to sea on board the steam
yacht Tamaris, which had taken to llavre the small
Egyptian vessel, the Dahabie.
Baron Haussman passed through Toulon on the
evening of the 17th from Nice, and arrived in Paris
the next morning, in time to be present at the
opening of the Legislative Session by the Emperor.
The Marquis de La Valette left Paris yesterday
for his estate of Cavalerie, Bergerac.
The Marquis de Cadore, Minister of France at
Munich, has arrived in Paris.
M. Du Miral, deputy, is appointed Vice-Presi-
dent of the Legislative Body in the place of M.
Gouin.

M. Grandperret, Procureur-General at the Court
of Orleans, is appointed to similar functions at the
Imperial Court of Paris, in place of M. de Marpas,
resigned.
The Emperor, Empress, and Prince Imperial are
to return to the Tuileries in the first days of De-
cember. The Court will not make any stay at
Compiegne this year.
Not less than 1,081,000 litres of milk (11 pin
each) were two days back contracted for to be sup-
plied to the Paris civil hospitals and asylums for the
ensuing year's consumption.
BOURSE, Nov. 20, Two o'clock.—The market is
rather weak, and securities are generally offered.
Threes are at 68f. 35c., losing 7f c. Italian Fives,
45f. 75c., showing a decline of 30c. Credit Mo-
bilier are very weak at 142 f. 50c., losing Bf. 75c.
Spanish Mobilier recedes 5f., at 160 f. Comptoir
d'Escompte at 6401., with a decline of 7f. 50c.
Credit Foncier loses 101., at 1,350 f. Paris Gas
shares are firm at 1,457 f. 50c., only 2f. 50c. lower.
In Railway shares—Orleans 865 f., Lyons 870 f.,
Austrian 503t'. 75c., Lombard 345 f. English Con-
sols are telegraphed with a fall of at 93.
Three o'clock.—At the close of the market weak-
ness still prevails. Last quotations :

4f per Cont.
End of month._ --
3 per Cent
End of month 6B 32f
Crt3dit_Mobilier

Bank Shares 3300
Ital'an Loan
End of month 45 60
Mexican Loan
Do. Bonds

End'of month... 138 75
Credit Fonder ...1340
End of m0nth...1312 50
RAILWA'
_ _

Spanish Threes 36 50
Home Debt —
Deferred —

Orleans
N orthern .

Account
. 863 k
1160

Lyons and Mediterranean
Southern__ 5471
Western
Eastern
, . 532k
Sardinian
Austrian
Lombard
North of Spain
Saragossa ~.,
Roman..

5021
345

921
47

THE HURRICANE IN TILE WEST INDIES.

SOUTHAMPTON, Wednesday.

New York papers to the 9th inst. have come to
hand, but all the intelligence they contain in refer-
ence to this calamity will be found in the subjoined
telegrams :--

" Havannab, Cuba, Monday, Nov. 4.

" Advices from Porto Rico state that during the
hurricane on the coast on the 29th ult., the ship
Nuoyo Apollo and four coasting lighters were sunk
in the Bay. 1 hree ships, names unknown, dis-
mantled in the gale, are in the offing."

" November 5.

" Advices from St. Thomas represent that the
Bay is full of wrecks. Five steamers and 60
vessels have been lost in the great hurricane. The
dock, coal-yards, and factories at St. Thomas have
been destroyed. The Royal Mail steamer Rhone
was sunk. She had 145 passengers on board, of whom
only 25 were saved. Most of her crew were lost.
Forty of the crow of the Wye and another steamer,
name unknown, were saved. The steamers Conway
and Derwent were driven ashore, and the steamers
Tyne and Solent were dismasted. The Sarah New-
man, fro:n New York, was ashore. Nearly 500
lives have been lost, and the town nearly destroyed
by a tornado. Pieces of wrecked vessels and wrecked
material are reported as having been fallen in with
floating arourid, off Santiago de Cuba. A French
steamer was also damaged by the hurricane at St.
Thomas, and the list of other vessels that received
injuries is very large."

" November 5, 10.5 p.m.

" Official advices have been received from the
superintendent of the Royal Mail line at St. Thomas
by the British Consul here to the effect that the
steamer Rhone was lost at Peter Island ; the
steamer Wye, Capt. Taylor, at Buck Island ; the
steamer Conway, Capt. Hammack, went ashore at
Tortola, and the steamer Derwent at St. Thomas.
The steamers Solent and Tyne have been dismasted,
and all the company's property is destroyed. The
town of St. 'Thomas is in ruins, and five steamers,
with 50 other vessels, are ashore. The loss of life
has been terrible. All the officers and engineers of

the Rhone have been lost ; and out of all the pas-
sengers of the Rhone and the Wye only 4 have
been saved, including Capt. Taylor, of the Wye,
and Mr. Hodgeson, of Southampton, England. The
steamer had 150 passengers, mostly for Southamp-
ton, only 12 of whom are known to be saved."

The non-appearance up to the present time of the
anxiously looked-for steamship, the Douro,
strengthens the opinion which has been from the
first entertained by some persons well qualified to
judge as to the probabilities of the case that she will
not arrive till towards the end of the month, bring-
ing in regular course the mails and passengers due
on the 28th and 29th inst. Whatever may have
been the intentions of the Royal Mail Company's
officials at St. Thomas when the despatch was sent
away to Havaunah announcing that " the Douro
will leave homewards on the 4th, and the Danube
will follow," it is believed that those intentions
could not be realized, or were changed from force of
circumstances. It appears from the meagre scraps
of information which have reached this country, via
Havannah and New York, that the coals, coal
depots, and wharves at St. Thomas shared in the
general ruin ; while the brief despatches to hand
this morning from New York afford too much
reason to fear that the passengers and mails had
been transferred from most, if not all, the intercolo-
nial steamers to the ill-fated Rhone before she was
overtaken by the hurricane. Hence it is argued with
much force of reasoning, that even if coals could have
been obtained for the Douro's homeward voyage,
probabilities are against the supposition that she
would have been sent home as an empty ship,
having few or no mails, passengers, or cargo to
bring. It is thought that, finding difficulties in the
way of obtaining the necessary supply of coals, the
Douro may have been sent on to Jamaica to coal,
and probably thence to Colon, embarking at that
place the homeward Australian and Pacific mails,
merely calling at St. Thomas ou the way home. We
have now reached the 20th of the month, and in about
a week or eight days, ,should the steamers on the
Pacific side of the Isthmus arrive up in Panama in
proper time, the Atlantic steamer may be looked for
in England. If these conjectures prove to be cor-
rect, and the Douro do not earlier show herself,
another week must elapse before the anxious sus-
pense in which so many thousands have been kept
for the last 12 days can be relieved by a knowledge
of the actual facts, however sorrowful that know-
ledge may be. Meantime, the numerous relatives
and friends of those engaged in the devastated
regions of the west pass hour after hour in painful
anticipation and expectation of the Douro's arrival.
The subject of the public meeting, which, as stated
in The Sun of Monday, the Mayor (Mr. Stebbing)
has convened for 2 o'clock on Thursday afternoon,
was incidentally alluded to at a meeting of the
Chamber of Commerce last evening by Mr. Lan-
kester, who suggested whether, if the Douro had not
arrived previously to the hour named, it would not
be advisable to postpone that meeting until her ac-
tual arrival, in order that the real facts might be
placed before the public.
The MAYOR replied that he proposed, in the event
of the Douro not arriving, to postpone the meeting.
(Hear, hear.) There had, however, been a very ear-
nest feeling that we should lose no time in the mat-
ter—(hear, hear)—and there were more reasons than
one why there should be no more delay than was
really possible. (Hear, hear.)
Mr. BUCHAN said the Rev. M. Cooper had in-
formed him that he and his curate had been busying
themselves in getting up statistics as to the number
of orphans and widows that would be left in St.
Mary's parish by thecalamity. Hetherefore thought
it unadvisable to defer the meeting.

Alderman COLES remarked that it was possible
this return might be based on data that would prove
comparatively worthless when the actual facts were
known.

The MAYOR said he felt that there were persons
here who could as well afford £5O as £5. If sub-
scription lists were got up in anticipation of the
misery, he feared there would be more £5 than £5O
given ; but in the presence of the actual calamity he
hoped the reverse would prove to be the case.
(Hear, hear.)

NEW YORK, Nov. 9.
The followiug particulars of the late hurricane at
St. Thomas have been received here :

" HAVANA, Nov. 5.
" An official despatch from the superintendent of
the Royal Mail Steamship Company at St. Thomas
to the British Consul in this city says that all the
property of the company has been destroyed by a
terrible tornado which took place on the 29th of
October.
" The steamer Rhone was lost on Peter Island,
and the Wye, Captain Taylor, on Buck Island.
The Conway, Captain Hammack, went ashore on
Tortola Island, and the Derwent at St. Thomas.
The Solent and the Tyne were dismasted. All the
officers and engineers of the Rhone, and all others
on board of her, are lost. From the Wye 40 persons
were saved, including Captain Taylor and Mr.
Hodgeson. Over 50 vessels are wrecked.
" Of the passengers on board the regular steamer
for Southampton, which had sailed with 150 pas-
sengers, only 12 were saved.
" The town of St. Thomas is in complete ruins.
The loss of life has been very great, amounting to
100, and the destruction of property immense. The
tornado has, indeed, been a fearful one.

«A French steamer was also damaged by the
hurricane at St. Thomas, and the list of other
vessels that received injuries, large at first, is in-
creasing."

" HAvANA, Nov. 5, 6 p.m.
" Advices from St. Thomas represent that the
bay is full of wrecks. Five steamers and 60 vessels
have been lost in the great hurricane. The docks,
coalyards, and factories at St. Thomas have been
destroyed. The royal mail steamer Rhone was
sunk. She had 145 passengers on board, of whom
only 25 were saved. Most of her crew were lost.
" Forty of the crew of the Wye, and another
steamer, name unknown, were saved.

"The steamers Conway and Derwent were driven
ashore, and the steamers Tyne and Solent were
dismasted. The Tara Newman, from New York,
was ashore."

" IIAvANA,Nov. G.

"Arrived, steamer Eagle from New York. She
reports having met the steamer Hendrick Hudson
with her machinery disabled, and towed her one
night, but in the morning her hawser parted, and
the Hendrick Hudson drifted on the coast. Tugs
have been sent to her assistance. Her stern is
ashore, but she will probably get off."

A TTEMPTED ASSASSINATION IN

DUBLIN.

DUBLIN, Nov. 20.

At nine o'clock this morning an attempt was made
to assassinate a pensioner of the 25th Regiment.
The man was walking down Peter-street, when he
was fired at from behind by some person unknown.
His hat was riddled by large shot, but he was not
wounded. It is supposed that his assailant mistook
him for a member of the detective police.

Yesterday evening the police made a seizure of
arms and ammunition in a public-house within the
liberties of Dublin, and at the same time arrested
four men, assistants in the establishment. The
constables found eight revolvers, and a quantity of
ammunition. The four prisoners were brought
before the magistrates this morning, who remanded
them for a week. Some of them openly avowed
Fenian sympathies.

PURE WATER! PURE BEER!--The general ad-
mission that no process is known by which polluted water
can be rendered free from injurious qualities, and thus
harmless to health, is one which has spread a good deal of
alarm and anxiety amongst families, who know not who
ther, directly from their cistern, or compounded with their
beer, they may not be inviting an insidious and powerful
enemy into their homes. The sinking of Artesian wells
has often been pointed out as the remedy for this evil.
But an Artesian well involves expense and time. We have
before us an account of one some 200 feet in depth, which
took three years to complete, and in which upwards of
£3,000 was expended before it gave the perfect water from
the chalk, secured against all other springs and surface
drainage. This, however, has just been effected by Messrs.
Docwra, the eminent hydraulic contractors for the Messrs.
Savill, of the Stratford Brewery, whom, we should imagine,
in self-defence, have been compelled to set this oxcellent
example to family brewers, more particularly after the
exposé of the condition of the Lea water in the neighbour-
ing parish 91 Dow.— Globe.

4,, trot ,

lIER MAJESTY.

WINDSOR CASTLE, Nov, 20.
The Queen walked and drove in the grounds
yesterday afternoon, accompanied by her Royal
Higimess the Princess Christian, and her Majesty
drove out this morning, accompanied by Prince
Leopold. The lion. Emily Cathcart was in at-
tendance.

The Earl and Countess Russell received a select
party at dinner yesterday evening at their residence in
Choshain-place.

The Earl and Lady Constance Grosvenor and
family have arrived at. Mentone from Paris.

The Earl of Strafford has left St. James's-squaro
for Wrotbaul Park, Herts.

Opening of the Canadian Parliament.

-

The Canadian Parliament was opened at Ottawa
ou the afternoon of Wednesday, the 6th inst., when
the members of both Houses were sworn in, and the
Hon. Mr. Couchon took his seat in the Senate as
Speaker, after which the Governor, accompanied by
his Staff, entered and took his seat on the throne.
Members of the House of Commons were summoned
to attend, and the Speaker read a document stating
that his Excellency wculd not give his reasons for
calling Parliament together until they had elected
their Speaker. The Governor then retired, and the
Senate adjourned. In the House of Commons Hon.
James Cockburn was proposed for the Speakership
by Sir John A. M'Donald, seconded by Hon. Mr.
Cartier, and elected. No opposing candidate was
proposed. The House then adjourned until the
following day. On the 7th the Session was formally
opened by the following speech from Lord Monck,
the Governor-General :

" Hou. Gentlemen of the Senate and Gentlemen of
the House of Commons :

"In addressing you for the first time, Parlia-
mentary representatives of the Dominion of Canada,
I desire to give expression to my own deep feelings
of gratification that it has been my high privilege to
occupy an official position which has made it my
duty to assist at every step taken in the creation Of
this great Confederation. I congratulate you on
the Legislative sanction which has been given by
the Imperial Parliament to the Act of Union, under
the provisions of which we are now assembled, and
which has laid the foundation of a new nationality
that I trust and believe will ere long extend its
bounds from the Atlantic to the Pacific oceans. In
the discussions which preceded the introduction of
this measure in the Imperial Parliament between
the members of her Majesty's Government on one
side, and delegates who represent tho provinces now
united on the other, it was apparent to all those
who took part in those conferences that while her
Majesty's Ministers considered and pressed the
principle of Union as a subject of great Imperial
interest, they allowed to the provincial representa-
tives every freedom iu arranging the mode in which
that principle should be applied. In a similar spirit
of respect for your privileges as a free and self-
governing people, the Act of Union, as adopted by
the Imperial Parliament, imposes the duty and con-
fers upon you the right of reducing to practice the
system of government which it has called into
existence, of consolidating its institutions, bar'
luonisiug its administrative details, and of making
such legislative provisions as will secure to a con-
stitution in some respects novel a full and unpre-
judiced trial. With the design of effecting these
objects, measures will be laid before you for the
amendment and assimilation of the laws existing le
the several provinces relating to currency, Customs,
Excise, and revenue generally; for the adoption
of a uniform postal system ; for the proper
management and maintenance of the public
works and properties of the Dominion ; for
the adoption of a well-considered scheme
of military organisation and defence ; for the
proper administration of Indian affairs; for the intro-
iluaiou of uniform laws respecting patents of inven-
tion and discovery; the naturalisation of aliens, and
the assimilation of criminal law, and the laws relat-
ing to bankruptcy and insolvency. A measure will
also be submitted to you for the performance of the
duty imposed upon Canada, under the terms of the
Union Act, of immediately constructing the Inter-
colonial Railway. This great work will add a prac-
tical and physical connexion to the legislative bond
which now unites the provinces comprising the Do-
minion, and the liberality with which the guarantee
for the cost of its construction was given by the
Imperial Parliament is a new proof of the hearty
interest felt by British people in your prosperity
Your consideration will also be invited to the im-
portant subject of Western territorial extension, and
your attention will be called to the best means for
the protection and development of our fisheries and
marine interests. You will also be asked to consider
measures defining the privileges of Parliament, and
for the establishment of uniform laws relating t°
elections and the trial of controverted elections.

" Gentlemen of the House of Commons,—The
circumstances under which the act of Union cares
into operation rendered it impossible to obtain the
assent of the Legislature to the expenditure neces-
sary for carrying on the ordinary business of the
Government. The expenditure since the Ist of JulY
has, therefore, been incurred on the responsibility
of the Ministers of the Crown. The details of that
expenditure will be laid before you and submitted
for your sanction. I have directed that the esti"
mates for the current and succeeding financial
year shall be laid before you. You will find
that they have been framed with all the attention to
economy which is compatible with the maintenane°
of efficiency in the different branches of the public
service. Hon. Gentlemen and Gentlemen,—The
general organisation and efficiency of the Volunteers
and Militia has been greatly improved within
the last year, and the whole Volunteer force of
Ontario and Quebec is already, by the liberality
of the Imperial Government, armed with the
breech-loading rifle. lam happy to be able to con'
gratulate you on the abundant harvest with which
it has pleased Providence to bless the country, and
in the general prosperity of the Dominion. Your
new nationality enters on its course backed by tb°
moral support, the material aid, and the most ar"
dent good wishes of the mother country.
your own borders peace and prosperity prevail ; and
I fervently pray that your aspirations may be
directed to such high and patriotic objects that may
be inspired with such a spirit of moderation and
wisdom as will cause you to render the great vOric
of Union which has been achieved a blessing to your;
selves and your posterity, and a fresh starting Poi°
in the moral, political, and natural advancement °1
the people of Canada."
at
Both houses then adjourned, and on the Bt.t. 1,0
3 p.m., the House of Commons met to consider tu
0-
Speech from the Throne. It was moved by Air* 1,0
Fisher, of New Brunswick, and seconded by Mr.
Salnier, in the French language, that an address a,
answer to the Speech from the Throne be prePar°ja
which was carried. Mr. Galt then rose to exPls,
his motives for resigning his position in the Goverot
meat. He said that there was a feeling of distr
felt towards him in Ontario, and that he had b°
u_°
charged with the ruin of families by the failure
to
certain banks. Ile therefore deemed it proper
to
retire. As to the charge against him referrei
last, he was not, he said, to blame. He read:o Ic.,
solution of the directors of the Commercial -I!_..
thanking him for his endeavours to avert the itos or_rt,
tune which had overtaken the bank. gr. tA. a
wright, president of the Commercial Bank, roe 3
_O,
in a few words confirmed the substance of the
lutiou. On the other hand, Mr. Alexander Al,l‘o
zie asserted that Mr. Galt was the cause loferbrls
downfall of the Bank of Upper Canada. Mr.i ,rbo
replied, denying the correctness of the charge: 'l,
'
house then adjourned until half-past seven 0 cloe'
of
THE DUKEDO3I OF NAssAu.---The ex tt.°
Nassau has at length recalled his ambassadors
ent,
Bogue and Vienna. The intendant of his propa
just been placed by the Prussian Government 1
ieb, witll:
sion of the magnificent e4tate of La Platte, `PL,. 000
its preserves, has an extent of 2,000 acres 01 0
woodland.