The Sun.
London, England, 1858-10-13 00:00:00

those of Mr. HENLEY and Lord SALISBURY—
frankIy we acknowledge as much—with disap-
pointment. After this we really don't see much
room to regret the absence of , this Minister
of the Crown, that Minister of the Crown,
and the other, from provinc. 1, mostly
agricultural, meetings, attended by their eager
and curious constituents. If noble lords and
right honourable gentlemen went there we
should probably have merely vague gene-
ralities. Altogether, perhaps it is just as well that
it should be so : for while the country learns a
lesson of patience, Ministers have leisure (we trust
they are now profiting by) for serious and whole-
some deliberation.

The Government is manifestly determined to
shake off the red-tape trammels by which every
preceding one has been fettered and restrained.
It profits by the fearful calamities that, unfortu-
nately, are of too frequent occurrence. It looks to
the causes of the awful catastrophe, and endeavours
to adopt adequate means to meet a similar danger
on another occasion.
The awful destruction of the Austria has thus
been turned to advantage. That magnificent
vessel, 2,500 tons burden, had only recently been
completed. She was, in fact, little more than
twelve months old. She left Hamburg on the 2d,
and Southampton on the 4th of last month, with
425 passengers, and 103 seamen, engineers, and boys,
as crew. She was provided with every modern im-
provement; and, with ordinary care and ordinary
courage, every one of those on board the doomed
vessel, passengers as well as crew women,
children, and all, might have been saved.
The cause of the conflagration has been accurately
ascertained. Indeed, there was not a moment's
doubt or difficulty on that part of the case. It was
intended to fumigate the steerage of the ill-fated
ship, and for that purpose the end of an iron chain
was made red-hot and was plunged into a bucket of
tar. A single man was employed in this delicate
and difficult operation. He found the chain too hot,
dropped it into the basket, which was very natu-
rally upset, and the blazing tar speedily set fire to
the cabin, and the ship, with its valuable cargo, and
far more valuable human freight, was speedily in
flames.

Discipline and courage might have done much
in this trying emergency. The captain lost heart,
and the crew followed his example. By cool de-
termination the fire might have been extinguished,
and even the ship and the bulk of the cargo saved.
Nay, even if these were irretrievably lost, the far
more valuable lives of the hecatombs of victims
might have been saved. There were nume-
rous boats, which could have taken off every
passenger and every seaman and boy on board the
ill-fated ship. Unfortunately, nothing was done
right. The screw, which remained working to the
last, the steam never having been turned off,
crushed several of the boats, and drew others
into the vortex which it occasioned ; while
many were swamped by the terror-stricken pas-
sengers, who, in their temporary madness, destroyed
their last hope of safety, and sealed their own
doom, as certainly as though it were produced by
their own hands.

At last, 400 out of the 471 lives that
were forfeited might have been saved. The fire
might easily have been suppressed at its first ap-
pearance. The very steam itself, the article so
readily available, would have combated the fire—
and conquered. This principle has long been re-
cognised, but has only been recently beneficially
adopted. The household experience of every-day
life convinces us that steam not only sub-
dues flame, but extinguishes fire. The
child is more potent than its parent. The
aged Saturn must yield to the infant Jupi-
ter. There was, however, neither the know-
ledge nor the machinery to render this valuable
auxiliary available. The fire gained the ascendancy,
and the first act of the terrible tragedy was com-
pleted.
The following paragraph, which appeared in our
impression of yesterday, will properly apply to that
portion of the case. We have it on high authority,
that in consequence of the lamentable destruction by
fire of the steamer Austria, the Admiralty have
directed their attention to the necessity of using
every precaution to prevent the possibility of so
fearful a calamity occurring on board any of her
Majesty's steam-ships, and yesterday orders were
issued for experiments to be made with HORSEY'S
patent, which consists of a steam cock at the top of
the boiler, from which pipes extend allover the ship,
so that on fire occur ring in any part of a vessel it may,
by simply turning the cock, be deluged with steam
and extinguished. Had this simple, easy, and cheap
precaution been taken the Austria would have been
saved, and the valuable cargo would not have been
destroyed.

But, oven failing that, the invaluable lives
might have been rescued. There are means by
which boats, even fully laden, may be safely
lowered. One only, out of many, accomplished the
feat, and that saved 23 human beings ; all the others
shared the fate of the parent, and that through
the incapacity and timidity of the captain and
his followers, who were infected by his fears. We
trust that something will, even at the eleventh
hour, be attempted to lessen these evils, if they
cannot altogether be got rid of. The Government
are doing their part by the experiments which
they have directed, and which, we hope, will to a
certain extent at least get rid of the danger, which
is now truly formidable.

His Royal Highness the Count of Flanders,
accompanied by Capt. Burnell, returned to Grillion's Hotel
yesterday morning, from Balmoral. .

The Prince and Princess Gagarine have left
Fenton's Hotel for the Continent.

• His Excellency the Prussian Minister and the
Countess Bernstorff returned to Prussia House yesterday
from Brighton. Their infant son, we are glad to learn, is
progressing favourably towards recovery.
The Countess de Paiva has arrived at Fenton's
Hotel from Brighton.

Mr. H. Arbuthnot and Lady Charlotte Arbuth-
not have left the Queen's Hotel, Upper Norwood, for town.
A despatch from Tetuan, Morocco, states that
the Vice-Consuls of England and France have been
assassinated. No particulars are communicated.

The following regiments are ordered home from
India, viz., 10th, 32nd Light Infantry, 78th Highlanders,
and 84th.

The Lord Chancellor has presented the Hon. and
Rev. Frank Sugden, M.A., of Trinity College, Cambridge,
domestic chaplain to Lord St. Leonards, to the vicarage of
Great Hale, near Sleaford, Lincolnshire, rendered vacant by
the death of the Rev. Richard Bingham, M.A. The bene-
fice is worth about £l,OOO a year. Mr. Sugden's appoint-
ment to Great Hale renders vacant the vicarage of Brignall,
near Greta-bridge, Yorkshire, which is the gift of the Lord
Chancellor, and worth £350 a year.
FALMOUTEL—His Royal Highness the Count de
Paris, accompanied by the Duke de Wurtemberg, the
Marquis de Beauvoir, and the Baron von Guttenborg, arrived
at the Greenbank Hotel, in Falmouth, from a tour to the
Land's End, on Saturday, and soon after embarked in the
Hind, gunboat, tender totho Russell, 60, for Porthgwidden,
up the river Fal, the seat of the Rev. Thomas Philpotts,
where the party would dine, and then leave for Truro, en
route to Plymouth. Capt. Story, of the Russell, was in at-
tendance on the prince, and accompanied him in the tender.
SIR A. BANNERMAN, GOVERNOR OF NEWFOUND-
LAND.-Our readers have had some samples of the enthu-
siastic manner in which the news of the completion of the
Atlantic telegraph was received by our American cousins.
Among other memorials of the great event, Harper's New
York Illustrated Weekly devoted nearly the whole of its
pages for one issue to views of the principal points of
interest, and portraits and memoirs of men directly or
indirectly connected with the undertaking. Our worthy
townsman, Sir A. Bannerman, as governor of the province
which the Transatlantic end of the line reaches, comes in
for a fair share of notice. " Harper's" contains an admir-
able likeness of him from a photograph, and a brief memoir.
—,dbenken Zerarce,

LATEST NEWS.

INDIA AND CHINA.

Telegrams from Trieste of the 11th communicate
the following intelligence received there from Alex-
andria, under date of Oct. 2 :

" The Begum of Lucknow has offered to give up
Nana Sahib on the condition of her receiving a
free pardon.
" Calcutta advices to the Bth Sept. state that it
was hoped the insurrection would be completely
crushed by the time winter set in. General
Roberts had obtained another victory near Tel-
hamma. General Grant had driven the rebels from
Sultanpore to Susanpore. Nana Sahib was closely
hemmed in in his jungle stronghold.
" Accounts from Hong Kong to the 24th Aug.
confirm the destruction of Nantow ; and that
Canton was quiet, and that Kweiliang had been
appointed Commissioner there."

TRIESTE, Oct. 11.—King Otho has embarked
this morning for Greece. Accounts from Alex-
andria say that there is no truth in the reported
rising at Djeddah.

FRANCE.

PARIS, TUESDAY.

A letter from Rheims gives some further details
of the entry of their Majesties into that city :
" The Emperor and Empress were accompanied by
a numerous suite, for whom fifty-two apartments
had been prepared in the Archbishop's Palace and
elsewhere. Their Majesties entered the city by the
Dieu-Lumiere gate, where M. Werle, the mayor,
and municipal authoritie swere in waiting to receive
them. On their arrival the mayor approached the
Emperor and presented to his Majesty, on a golden
salver, the same keys of the city which had
been used on a similar occasion at the visit of
Charles VII. In presenting the keys the mayor
addressed his Majesty as follows :
" ' Sire,—We are happy to conform to ancient
custom, in presenting to your Majesty the keys
of our city and the homage of our fidelity. But a
duty, still more pleasing to perform, is that of ex-
pressing to you the feelings of deep gratitude with
which the inhabitants of our city are inspired by
the visit you have deigned to make to it. Allow us
to particularly thank your august companion for
the great proof of interest which she has given to
us by responding with so much grace and kindness
to the wishes of the municipal council. The
presence of the Empress doubles for us the pleasure
of that of your. Majesty, and our people will retain
an eternal remembrance of it. Eight years ago,
Sire, our gates were opened to receive you, and you
will soon hear repeated the acclamations which
then welcomed you. If, in 1850, the people hailed
you with enthusiasm as the hope of the country,
their plaudits will now be the still deeper felt, in ex-
pressions of gratitude and of admiration for the
wonders of your reign. We shall not now call to
mind all that your Majesty has done for the glory
and the prosperity of France. Our contemporaries
are well aware of it, and history will hand down
the facts to future generations. But in this city,
where so many Kings have demanded from religion,
for themselves and their descendants, the consecra-
tion of their rights to the Crown ; in this city, with
the name of which are more especially connected
ideas of the hereditary rights of monarchy, we can
perhaps feel more strongly than elsewhere that
stability is necessary, and that the security of the
future must be guaranteed. We also comprehend
that when a dynasty becomes extinct or removed, the
nation does not the less feel the necessity of being
governed and protected against its own violent im-
pulses. If Providence then sends a man who by
the power of his genius and the energy of his will
re-establishes moral as well as material order, it is
not only the man of the moment whom it designs,
but also him of the future, and that man becomes
the elect of the people as he is the chosen of God..
It is thus that a new dynasty begins ; the hand of
God is extended over it ; legitimacy exists, and we
hail in your Majesty the Napoleonian race. May
it reign for centuries over the country which is
already indebted to it for so much glory and so
much happiness. May the young Prince Imperial,
the object of your love, as he is of our devotedness
and of our dearest hopes, continue, after many
years, the work so gloriously commenced by your
Majesty. In order to be admired and cherished
by our children, he will only have to follow your
example and that of his august mother. 'Vive
l'Empereur ! Vive l'lmperatrice ! Vive le Princ e
Imperial !"
The Emperor briefly replied, and the cortege then
continued its way towards the cathedral, by the
Rues Barotte, Peirriere, and des Carreaux, the
Place Royale, the Place du Palais de Justice, and
the Rue de I'Universite. On either side of these
streets deputations, representing all the localities of
the department were drawn up with appropriate
banners. The different corporations of workmen
had also assembled, each bearing emblems of their
respective trades. The Agricultural Society had
erected a triumphal arch, formed of a mixture of
evergreens, fruit, and vegetables. Two cows were
placed as sentinels, one at either pillar of the arch,
while from the summit hung suspended several
wicker baskets, containing the denizens of the
poultry yard. On the arrival of their Majesties at
the cathedral, Cardinal Archbishop Goasset,
surrounded by his clergy, were in waiting to re-
ceive them.

BOURSE, Oct. 12.—The market has been heavy,
in consequence of a report that the rate of discount
had been raised from 4 to 5 per cent. at Berlin.
Threes, after having been done at 73f. 60e., declined
to 73f. 40e. Mobilier varied from 955 f. to 940 f. ;
Orleans, 1,365 f. to 1,355 f. ; Lyons, 870 f. to 865 f. ;
Northern, 975 f. to 970 f. ; Eastern, 732 f. 50c. to
727 f. 50c. ; and Southern, 600 f. to 597 f 50c. The
following were the last quotations :

41 per Cents. 95 90
Do. end month 96 5
3 per Cents
Do. end month 73 35
Bank Shares. 3lOO
Credit Mobilier
Do. Account

Credit Foncier 665
Belgian 4 . lOl
Piedmontese (5) 92 75
Roman 93
Austrian
Spanish Threes
Home Debt —

RAILWAYS.

Cash. Account.
Orleans
Northern
New ditto. Bl5 815

Lyons and Mediterranean 867 50 :: iii 50
New ditto - • •
Geneva 642 50 .. 642 50
Midi

Western 617 50 .. 616 25
Eastern

Grand Central
Sardinian
Austrian

••
455 - 457 50
652 50 .. 653 75

Exchange on London, at sight, paper, 25f. 15e. ; money,
25f 121 e. ; three months, paper, 2.5 f. ; money, 24f. 25c.

TURKEY.

A letter from Constantinople, published in the
2iessager du Midi, says:—" In spite of the opti-
mists, the situation of the Ottoman empire be-
comes- worse and worse every day. The fire
smoulders under the ashes. It is true, serious
movements are not yet reported, but in every direc-
tion the governors are on their guard, and are called
to repress acts of insubordination, which are the
forerunners of a rising. Omer Pa cha, in spite
of the prestige which still attaches to his name,
has lost all influence, and cannot keep in order
the province he governs except by the most in-
cessant vigilance and unflinching firmness. The
Bosnians and the Croatians, under Servian in-
fluence, manifest a desire for independence, ever
since the Moldo-Wallachians have been in imme-
diate expectation of shaking off the yoke of the
Porte. These latter, in order to encourage such
tendencies, talk of the convocation of a national
assembly, where the people will have the right to
appear in arms. All the Sclavonian and Bulgarian
populations are preparing for a struggle, which
they see at hand. For a long time past the trade
has not been so brisk as now in arms and ammuni-
tion, which are easily introduced into Constanti-
nople, owing to the venality of Ottoman func-
tionaries. The Turks behold with alarm this
situation becoming aggravated, and they fear to
be sooner or later flung back on Asia. The rayahs,
who carry their heads high, and have never shown
themselves so insolent, boast of their number and
their weaith; and they make a point of speaking