The Sun.
London, England, 1858-05-19 00:00:00

ELECTIONS IUR-IA:

In addition to the letter of the Minister of the
Interior noticed on Saturday, in addition to the
Prefect's circular and the exertions of the mayors
and muicipal councillors electoral district,
the absolute influence of Marshal Canrobert, who
commands in the department, was brought to bear
against M. Migeon ; and, neverthule,;s, a telegram
• ecei wed in Paris yesterd,,y afte noon announces his
election as deputy for the Haut-Rhin. Eithei'M.
Migeun must be a r,inlrkable man to hare suc-
ceeded against such formidable force, or the Go-
vernment must have lest all i•s popularity in
Alsace, where formerly the name of Napoleon was
a tower of strength.
Should the news of N. Migeon's success be con-
firmed, I look upon it as a fact of far greater
gravity than the election of three Oppos;Lon candi-
dates. When we remember the all but irresistible
machinery brought to bear against him—his trial
before the Tribunal of Colmar—the contumely
which was heaped upon him; which grew to.petse-
cntion, 1-1(.1 which invested him with the charaCter
tf a martyr—the animosity (of which, as is currently
reported, the cause is somewhat se.i..ndalous) of one
of the most influential pet sonages of the day—the
dm et and positive, but not ova decorous, inter-
vention of the Minister at whose i eeK are prefects
and mayors and the whole of the civil functionalics
—the dicta' orial language of the first military officer
oft :e department—when all this is cal'ed to mind,
the election of this man, flesh flora his prison, and
with his political and personal character covered
with every sort of indignity by officials, from the
highest to the lowest, c (la La-dly l.e exaggerated
iu itnpor:anc:..—Times' second edition.

TRAGICAL OCCURRENCE O.P. 21:111
DPRHAM COAST.

A painful feeling was occasioned in NorthShierlde
on Monday when it was known that a most tra-
gical acc;dent had occurred off the Durham coast
on the previous evening, and that three young
men belongiuu to the town had been drowned. It
seems that Mr. Alexander Af'Donald, shopman
with Messrs. Phillipson and Hare, booksellers in
North Shields, and Mr. John Cookson, chemist in
the same town, bad proceeded during the afternoon
to Msrden Rock, on the Durham coast, in a large
soy goat, Jigged with two lugger sails, and navi-
gated by a man named R. Coatsworth and a lad
called Wheatley. The weather had been
,tolerably
fine at the time the patty left the Tyne, though
changeable, and there was a swell breaking on
the coast. Coatsworth does not appear to have
lien a good sailor, and as they approached
towards the shore to land at the rock they
encountered a good deal of sea, which seemed to
be breaking across a sandbank. One of these seas,
about two feet high, overlapped the bcat and half
filled her with water, and a second sea struck her
on the quarter and capsized her, throwing the four
young men into the raging waves. They could
all swim, and three of them, M'Donald and the
two boatmen, got on to the boat's bottom, but
Couk,ort kept swimming about. He observed an-
other wave coming, and dived. When he came
up again he found that the boat had carried away
Ler masts, and that she was floating about, gun-
wale up. Hi companions were scattered about, and
he cslled upon M'Donald. to swim towards him.
They met and M`Donsld got hold of hishand, and
exclaimed that he was dreadfuly weak. He asked
Cookson if he saw any boats cowiug to their rescue,
who replied that he did not, but told him to rest
his hands on his shoulder, and they must dive
at the next wave. They did so, but on rising
again were separated. Cookson then attempted
to push ari oar to him, but the back sweep pre-
vented him reaching it. At this time M'Donald's
dog was seen by Cookson swimming with a plebe
of plank towards his master, which he put into
his hand, and M'Donald was enabled to reach the
boat again, to which Coatsworth and another were
clinging. They hung by the boat, which was full
of water for a minut or two, when Cookson ob-
served another great wave surging towards them.
He dived to avoid being struck by it, and when he
came up again he discovered that his companions
had been swept into eternity, and that he and
M'Donald's dog were tossing about on the sea
alone. He made a desperate effort to reach the
shore, and after a hard struggle with the back sweep
of the waves he at last succeeded in reaching the
bottom with his feet, when a young woman ran into
the water and assisted him out. The young wo-
man was one of the daughters of Mrs. Allan, who
keeps the hotel at the rock, and it is stated that she
was engaged to .IWDonaldalAs soon as he was got.
on shore she asked how manythere were in the boat,
and observed that if M'Donald had been there none
of them would have been lost. Cookson replied,
"M'Donald was one of us," and the poor girl ran
screaming to the house. A riled:cal man was sent for
as soon as Cookson was taken to the hotel, and by
prompt attention he recovered. He is a powerful
young fellow, and is one of the beat swimmers =-
the Tyne. He holds several medals for skill in
swimming. Mr. M'Donald, whose death is deeply.
deplored, also held two medals presented to him by
the Royal Humane Society--one for rescuing a
person at Blackwall while he was an assistant with
Messrs. Simpkiu and Marshall, in London, and the
other for saving the life of a woman flora drown-
ing at Chorley, in Lancashire. His body was re-
covered on Monday afternoon.

Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent visite I the
Princess Anna of Saxe Weimar yesterday.
Ilis Ssrene Highness Prince Edward of Saxe-Weimar
visited her Royal Highness the Duchess of Bent, yes.
terday, at her residence, Clarence House, St. James's.
His Highness the Maharajah Duleep Singh, with the
gentlemen of his suits', have arrived at Claridge's Hotel,
from a sporting tour to the Island of Sardinia.
The Hon. Col. Saumarez end Mrs. and the Misses
Saumarez have arrived at iNlaurigy's Hotel, from a tour.
Sr Charles Slingsby and Miss Slingsby have arrived
at venton's Hotel, from Scriven Park, Yorkshire.

NEW REPRESENTATIVE PEER OF SCOTLAND. —The elec.

tion of a new representative peer of Scotland in the
root of the late Earl of Morton, has been delayed until s
sec •nd proclamation can be issued to remedy a defect in
the dale, which, under an Act of Parliament passed in
the year 1851, would have made the election invalid.

IfER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.—The Queen's box at her
Mejes'y's Theatre was researiley (Tuesday) evening oe-
copied by Colonel the Hon. C. B. Phipps, Bart., K.C.B.
and Lady Phipps, Mrs. Phipps, Mrs. Bethurst, Mr.
Bathurst, Mr. C. Phipps. Mre. Sayer, C.B , and party.
Amongst the numerous illu,trious, noble, and ais.
tinqui,hed visitors also honouring Her Majesty's
Theatre with their presence on this occasion were
—The Lard Ward and party, the Marchioness of
Cianricarde and Lady Harriet Augusta de Burgh,
Maria Marchioness of Ailesbury, the Marquis of
Clauricarde, the Marquis cf Sligo, and the Ladies
Browne, his Excellency the Russian Ambassador
(~he Biwa Brunnow), his Excellency the Netherlands
Minister (the Baron Blntinek), the Secretary of the
Au Arian Legation, the Countess of Desert, the Countess
Dowager of Harrington and the Countess of Mount•
charley, the C:eintees of Bradford, the Countess of Glen-
gel! and Lady Margaret Butler, the Countess of Bees•
borough, the Countess of Fife, the Earl of Cardigan, the
Enil of Mountcharles, the Earl of Gifford, the Earl of
Bessberough, the Earl of Shelburne, the Earl of Weet-
rnoielentl, the Ceuut de Jancourt, the Count Aloya
Kerolyi, the Viscount Powerscourt, the Viscount Cur-
e ir, Lord and Lady Beauclerk, Mrs. J ,bnson and party,L
Lady Nicholson, Lady Harry Vane, Ladyeß,
jo_z_t2yail
Bo .varl and Miss Howard, General the_ _11B:
Sir Ralph
Caven-
dish, Major General Sir G. Bowles, K C
Sr. C. Roney, Sir John
Culonfl Si, P. gantlet', K• 11:! Ham.yn,
iHnomw,artid,,e
11Baonrt..,0cflwl.ayET. B,l•serr,ocsheir,
Gtb.ewloimo Lang
ham, the lion. Orway Tier, Sir G. %Vornbwell, Bart.,
Colonel
Phillipart, Colonel Pager,, Colonel
I ''PO. organ, M.P., Mr. J. P.
Dick-on, 111.ijor
Captain Lyon, Captain and
Hmerys.wLoooydA,ll3CrudepFatia,ir(iind,leßielAisitesrs.°L.ne'ylaud, Mrs. Wheeler, Capt.
Viner, Mr. Josephs, Mr. W.
Delafiel 1, Billings, Mr. T. Franks, Mr.
13,1aier, •
G. T.
Ta A'
FATALI4t—The irCcii I."'ucliPrcyl:DeEilNstroC3
the
eT HcEirTcunEmNsTtanVcAesLLaEtrteßndaiint•g•
accident was resumed yesterday, at the Bull Hotel,
this
Nuneaton, pursuant to adjournment from the previous
WAY.
day, when
mass of evidence had been taken without
any material fact in relation to the catastrophe.
At the sitting yesterday, Mr. Robert Swinnerton and
Mr. Charles Curi,tian Jee, extensive farmers at Nun-
eaton, gave evidence to the effect that the
rad.
their judgment, was good and suffillciiceatrdaexs‘Na,a
i
and Mr. Joseph Moore, who
te sects
the nm
oagainst a f
tcattle.after
the a c
eli'dheen
te. gentlemenm
r. pro-
NtamteaamtounCh later period, the former not
what now remains of it till yesterday
heoxaf
ete,irnt
suspectedh lle fenceill,
ving
morning, differed from the other gentlemen as to the
strength of the fence. Two men from Buckingham, who
had "cut and laid" the fence in March last, one of
them having lad 20 years' experience, deposed to its
sufficiency, and that it was the sort of fence generally
adopted in Buckinghamshire as a protection against
cattle ; but one and all of the wi'nesses were of opinion
that it was not practicable to provide a fence suffi-
eieut to resist cattle under the influence of excitement,
as was the cate with the cow ou the day in question.
The gateman at the level crossing was examined at
great length, and it appeared that he was attending to
eis duties at the time, and used every exertion to tura
the C" off the line, but was unable to do so before the
train reached the spot. The proceedings of the day
te7ininated by the coroner and jury giving instructions
to a surveyor of their own selection to report to thane
upon the feece this efternoon at 2.30 p.m., towhich hour
the inquest was adjourned.
MR. ROBERT OIVEN.—A public meeting was held in
St. Martin's Hall on Friday evening last, Mr. Robert
Owen in the chair Resolutions were unanimously
passed to petition both Houses of Parliament far an in-
quiry into the plans of social change which the. Toner*
able chairman has so long promulgated.