The Sun.
London, England, 1859-09-02 00:00:00

AMERICA.

(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)
SOUTHAMPTON, FRIDAY MORNING.
The Fulton, steamer, Captain Cope, has arrived
at Cowes, with New York mails of the 20th ult.;
she has gone on to Havre. Her advices are anti-
cipated.

She brings 200,000 dols. for England, and
266,000 dols. for France.

On the 20th, she passed the ship William Belson,
bound for New Y0,..k ; on the 29th, at 10 a.m., in
let. 49.34, long. 25, exchanged signals with an Eng-
lish ship steering westward, showing second or third
distinguishing pendant with number 756 ; on the
31st, lat. 49.30, long. 13.30, passed English barque
Antigua, bound east; Sept. 1, off Land's-end, ex-
changed signals with English barque Caroni, bound
eastward ; and. at 2.30 p.m., passed steamer Ocean
Queen, bound for New York.

The Due and Duehesse d'Aumale have been stay-
ing at Shrubland, the seat of Sir Vim. Middleton, near
Ipswich, but are now the guests of the Countess Viable-
grave, at Dudbrook House, Navestock, near irentwood.

TILE MAGAZINES.

Blackwood's Magazine.

" Horse Dealing. in Syria" is the title of the first
paper that meets the reader of Maga. The writer
was engaged in a horse purchasing expedition,
despatched into Syria, in 1854, by the British
authorities, previous to the invasion of the Crimea.
The particulars of the dealings with the Bedouins,
and the qualifications of the Arab horses, so famed
"in story and in song," will be attractive to all
who take an interest in equestrian pursuits. The
traveller's opinion on the relative merits of English
and Bedouin horsemanship is worthy of attention,
and perhaps, now that Mr. Rarey has inaugurated
a more humane system of treating these noble and
sensitive animals, it may convince some readers.
After describing the mode of riding, and the Arab's
thorough control over his horse, without bit or
spurs, he observes—" When I say that our pur-
chases in the desert amounted to one hundred
horses, it may be supposed that the number of
horses I saw tried and ridden was considerable :
amongst the whole I never saw one attempt to
pull or show the least want of docility." After re-
marking that this fact will appear most wonderful
to those who have seen the Arab horse with our
troops in India, where he is so restive and inclined
to pull, he asks, " Why should he display this
failing with us, and not with his original masters ?
My own impression is that the secret lies in the diffe-
rent Kemper of the English and Bedouin horseman.
'I he Bedouin exhibits a patience towards his horse as
remarkable as the impatience and roughness of the
Englishman. I am not inclined to put it to his
credit in a moral point of view ; he is simply with-
out the feeling of irritability which prompts the
English horseman to acts of brutality, and he rides
on serene and contented where the latter would go
into a paroxysm of swearing and spurring." After
describing the calmness with which an Arab
secured a horse which had broken loose among the
horses brought for sale, and had thrown everything
into confusion, leading it back without any anger
to its pickets, he observes, " Contrast this with the
job' in the mouth and the kick in the ribs, and the
curse that the English groom would bestow under
similar circumstances, and you have in a great
measure the secret of the good temper of the Arab
horse in Arab hands." The story of " Felicita" is
bronght to a conclusion. The calm and matter of
fact fortune hunting of Angelo Peruzzi is abruptly
terminated, and after a probation of five years he
finds a more suitable bride in his cousin. An
article on " Voluntary and Involuntary Actions,"
plunges into the dark regions of abstruse meta-
physics. It is justly observed that on this and
similar topics no man will wisely dogmatise, since
we can but build systems—we cannot see the
truth. " The Luck of Ladysmede," is con-
tinued, and is followed by an admirable
article on " Fleets and Navies," which we
have noticed elsewhere. Mr. Speke furnishes
an account of his cruise on the Tanganyika Lake,
in Central Africa, in answer to the numerous in-
quiries which have been addressed to him by men
of science and learning. To gratify their desire
for information he has sent a journal, kept during
the expedition, to Messrs. Blackwood, hoping by
its publication in their magazine to give the oppor..
tunity of perusing it to a wide circle of readers. A
map which accompanies it will enable the reader to
comprehend the narrative. The lover of mysticism
and originality will be attracted by a curious sketch
entitled " A Dream of the Dead." It professes to
be a faithful transcript of a dream which visited
the writer, and which was certainly well worthy
of preservation. It is an extraordinary mixture of
life and death, a quaint combination of reality and
romance, from the immensity of the hall of infini-
tude in which the wanderer finds himself at the
commencement, to the sudden suspicion of the new-
comer, whom he is introducing to the mysteries of
the place at the conclusion, when he innocently
asks how much money he has brought with him ?
Papers on the mortifying disclosures of the recent
elections, and on the present position of foreign
affairs, conclude the number.

The Dublin-University Magazine.

This magazine, always one of the most worth
reading among the serials, greets us with an inter-
esting title-page. The third part of the story of
" Artist and Craftsman" opens it, and shows us Clara
resolutely following her art at Venice, and resisting
all the charms of success and society. As an artist,
in the highest sense of the word, she is resolved to
be something more than a mere commonplace prima
donna, and endeavours to qualify herself as a fitting
interpreter of the spirit of her art by severe and
patient study. Mark, the " craftsman," is repre-
sented as regarding with some jealousy the applaud-
ing crowds that greet the success of his, beloved.
The sixth of the series of University Essays is on
the important and comprehensive subject of " The
General Principles of the Religions of Mankind."
The author is the Rev. James Byrne, A.M., ex-
Fcllow, T.C.D. It takes a thoughtful review of
the various principles that have animated or in-
spired the different creeds which have swayed
humanity. The effect of the aspect of nature on
the religions of various localities is remarked upon.

" Thus, the sense religions of America answer in some
degree to the latitudes in which they are found. The in-
habitants of the northern regions, where, the long nights
shut out external Nature, devote their principal homage to
spirits ; in the southern regions the worship of the powers
of Nature predominates. The great spirits, both good and
evil, of the Greenlander, dwell in the sea, because to him,
who lives by fishing, the sea is the principal object in Na-
ture. Among the hunting natives of Canada, the worship
of the spirits of the brute most prevailed. Of the powers
of Nature which were most worshipped further south, the
Missouri Indians adored the atmosphere and the fertile
earth. The worship of the sun appears among the Natchez
still further south. The ferocious Caraibs adored the moon
as their national god, and as an evil deity, no doubt because
its light favoured nocturnal enterprises, and their national
genius was war and mischief. For similar reasons the
warlike Abipones of Paraguay cultivated the worship of
the constellation of the Pleiades, and saluted it as their
grandfather. The national god of the Orinoco Indians was
the bounteous power which gave them their abundant
harvests. The religion of each race assuming a form which
is the reflection of their habits and of the aspects of Nature
which struck them most."

Tho peculiarities of race, the increase of knowledge,
and the progress of social organisation are also con-
sidered as influencing creeds. It is an able and
thoughtful article, suggestive of reflection. The
melancholy story of " A 'Woman's Sacrifice" is con-
cluded. Lady Douglass is arrested on the charge
of committing the murder of which her husband
was really guilty. Unable to account for the pos-
session of the fatal weapon, without inculpating
him, she is silent, and is found guilty. Her hus-
band, who is travelling abroad to escape detection,
hears accidentally of the condemnation. In dismay
he hurries back to England just in time to receive
the last adieux of his wife, who sinks under her
sufferings. James Orton contributes a graceful,
though somewhat mystical lyric, entitled " The
Belfry." Another paper belonging to the poetic
department gives us a criticism on the poems of
Mrs. Alexander. In some of the extracts from her
graceful writings the readers of the Dublin Univer-
sity will recognise a familiar hand. A sketch of the
great Earl of Cork does not represent that celebrity
in a very attractive light. The writer remarks that a
biographical sketch, like a landscape painting, is
tame if without contrast of lights and snadows,
and he tells us that Mr. Budgell, author of " Lives
of the Boyles," has forgetten this maxim, since hie
memoir of the Right Hon. Richard Boyle, com-
monly called the great Earl of Cork, is a simple
panegyric, unshadowed by a censure. The article
before us goes farto prove such unqualified approval
to have been unmerited. An ably written paper
entitled " Kaye and Marshman on India," reviews
the two works by these well-known writers, and
displays much straightforward sense and modera-
tion. Referring to the high theories so readily
upheld by those who are safely removed from the
difficulties of practising what they preach, the
writer refers to the Hon. Baptist Noel's recommen-
dation that none but good men be appointed to any
office in India. This advice, he observes, " may be
left with Ahasuerus' injunction that all wives
should obey their busbands'—a piece of good advice
always desirable, but not always attainable." After
rendering due honour to Mr. Kaye's admirable
work, the writer goes on to comment on the result
of the recent mutiny. We have had enough ex-
perience, he says, to teach us two things—that
the policy of State interference either to promote
Christianity or to prop heathenism is equally
dangerous. "We do not conciliate the Hindu by
protecting his religion ; we shall not convert him
by prohibiting it. We are not believed when we
disclaim all idea of proselytising. We should not
succeed if we were to attempt to makes proselytes
as the Dutch and Portuguese did." The writer
arrives at the just and sensible conclusion that it
is our duty to lay truth before the Hindu by every
agency in our power, whether schools, the pres or
public preaching, but to use no other means of'
persuasion, not challenging the progress of a work
which is overruled by a higher wislom than ours—
content to lay file seed in the ground, not pulling,
it up to see whether the root has-struck. Imme-
diately after this able paper we come to the con-
tinuation of our old friend " The Season Ticket,"
which is as usual full of amusing anecdote. There
are other papers of interest in the number, one of
them bearing the appropriate title of "A Peep
into Dublin."

Fraser's Magazine.
A treatise on Machiavelli is the first paper in
Fraser, and discusses the merits and demerits of
that Italian, who has given a name to all unprin-
cipled and Jesuitical statesmanship since his time.
The writer remarks that, whether Machiavelli was
a good republican and an honest man, and his
Prince a satire on rulers, or whether he seriously
maintained the principles he advanced in it, and

deserved his ill-repute, are points yet undecided,
notwithstanding Lord Macaulay's brilliant essay.
It is remarked in the paper before us that " Machi-
avelli invents little or nothing. What he has really
done is to yeduce the politic practice of successful
and unscrupulous politicians, not only of his own
time but of all ages, to the form of principles.
Indeed we believe it is less the matter than the
manner of the " Prince" that has brought so much
obloquy upon its author. He does not shroud his
meaning in fine phrases or a circuitous form of
words. Machiavelli does not, with M. Thiers and
others, term a murder a tragical revolution at the
palace,' or disguise other ' deplorable events' in in-
flated language. He simply says that the man was
strangled, or as the case may be." This article,
which will interest many readers who are attracted
by historical and political topics, is followed by an
essay on the '• Gold Question." " Holmby House"
is proceeded with, and shows us Charles Stuart a
prisoner, though not yet a hopeless one. Our fair
friends, Mary Cave and Grace Allenby, again ap-
pear upon the scene ; and a mysterious fisherman
gives promise of being something more than a
pescatore ignobile. " Some Remarks on Mr. Buckle's
History of Civilization'" are well worthy of per-
usal. Mr. Buckle seems to be getting into the wars
with the contributors to Fraser. In this instance,
however, so much genuine admiration is expressed
for his work that he may well pardon the strictures
of so discriminating a critic. The Ns riter objects to
Mr. Buckle's comparison of the effects produced by
the moral and intellectual forces in the civilisation
of mankind. Mr. Buckle assigns the higher place
without hesitation to the mental powers, and asserts
• that moral principles are stationary, that " morality
admits of no discoveries." In this view of the
question Mr. Buckle appears to us to make a mis-
take. It does not follow, though the laws of mor-
ality are unchanged, that their influence is there-
fore restricted. They may be better diffused among
mankind, we may be slowly acknowledging their
power ; and who shall say that the dominion of
the laws of morality over the world at large is fully
established ? When it is, and no beneficial result
towards the cultivation and elevation of humanity
is perceptible, the historian of Civilisation will
have a right to say that its civilising influences are
inferior to those of the Intellect. The facts of
reading and writing remain the same now as they
were on the discovery of printing; but who shall
say that the influence of those capabilities is the
same now as then ? Thousands have learned to
avail themselves of those faculties they were igno-
rant of, thousands have learned to love literature
and to be influenced by its teachings. A science,
an art, a principle, may be the same intrinsically ;
it may be capable of no further development ; but
so long as it is capable of diffusion and extension
among those who formerly disowned it, its power
cannot be said to be exhausted. Mere intellect,
however lofty, will not succeed in reforming the
world. As the critic in Fraser observes, "If in-
tellect could keep the passions in order those of
Caesar Borgia, and Tiberius might have been as
well regulated as Fenelon's." The new work of
the Poet Laureate receives a highly favourable
notice ; and the copious extracts afford the reader
who has not met with the work, a fair opportunity
of judging of its merits. Mr. J. It. Chorley, con-
tinuing his " Notes on the National Drama of
Spain," gives some interesting sketches of the
Hispanian character and code of honour. The
system adopted is no doubt highly romantic, but to
ore inary observers it appears to be remarkably in-
convenient; and however great the deference and
devotion professed towards the fair sex, and how-
ever queenlike the right conferred on them of ex-
acting the assistance, and, if need be, the life of
any stranger they meet, the jealousy and suspicion
which give rise to such a system are anything but
complimentary. " Sword and Gown" is continued
with spirit. The fair and proud heroine is placed
in a most painful position in which she does not
acquit herself heroically. One of the mysteries of
Royston Keene's ltfe is cleared up, and the author
contrives, notwithstanding his repellent qualities,
to invest him with some degree of interest. A
paper entitled " Concerning Friends in Council,"
gives a well-merited welcome to the new edition of
Mr. Helps' delightful work. Those who have not
the pleasure of the acquaintance of the circle of
friends will be tempted by the perusal of this
article to obtain a speedy introduction.

Bentley's Miscellany.

The first paper in Bentley puts a question which
a good many individuals, more experienced in State
craft than the readers of this miscellany are likely
to be, might be puzzled to answer. "Is the peace
peaceful ?" is the Spinx-like query propounded,.
and it is not inaptly observed that the Peace of
Villafranca bears a strong resemblance to the last
chapter of Rasselas, which is " a conclusion in
which nothing is concluded." Ouida furnishes
another of his amusing stories, in which the familiar
figures of a professedly stern and misanthropic
hero, who is secretly sincere and warm-hearted, and
a lovaly intelligent damsel, who immediately pene-
trates the secret of his assumed cynicism, re-appear.
These interesting personages, in the present in-
stance, ant on Sir Anthony Absolute's plan, that it
is best to begin with a little aversion, for they en-
tertain a cordial dislike of each other, which it
takes much acquaintance, and sundry romantic
catastrophes to counteract. Sufferers from the
gout may find some consolation for their miseries
in Monkshood's article, " A Gouty Subject." He
fun nishes a list of the illustrious victims who have
suffered from this respectable malady, from Charles
the Fifth, the mightiest potentate in Europe, whose
abdication of his weighty sceptre was hastened, the
historians tell us, by the ravages of his constitu-
tional enemy, more invincible than French kings or
Algerine pirates ; down to James Smith, whose verses
on Mr. Strahan's gout so pleased the old gentleman
that he left him three thousand pounds, which, we
may hope, consoled him in his old age, when, as
Monkshood tells us, he went on crutches from the
same complaint. A new story, which promises in•
terest, is commenced under the title of "Great and
Little Whitton," and our old acquaintance "Gurney,
or Two Fortunes," is continued. The story of the
virtuous and unfortunate Francesco de Carrara is
proceeded with, and we meet with an interesting
historical paper on Frederick the Great and Cathe-
rine IL, two contemporary potentates, whose
celebrity, as sovereigns, certainly ranks high above
their memories as man and woman.

Colburn's New Monthly Magazine.
The opening paper is on " The Navies of Great
Britain and France," and is well worthy of perusal,
as it contains many useful statistics, and a com-
parison of the marine forces of the two countries is
just now not without interest. In conclusion, the
author remarks that our policy, like our morality,
is pre-eminently peaceful ; although, being without
land defences, we cannot afford to let our fleet be
inferior to that of any other power. "It might be
thought, indeed," he remarks, " that we had had
enough of deadly feuds and battles, seeing that
out of the hundred and sixty-seven years interven-
ing between 1688 and 1855 sixty-seven were de-
voted to war and carnage. The aggregate cost of
these sixty-seven years of struggle with our various
foes on land and at sea was just £1,500,000,000, or,
on the average, rather more than £22,000,000 a-
year—that is, about £B5 per minute during that
long period." " The Old Keep" is the new name
for the continuation of the tragic history of the
Lords of Pommeroy. The fratricide, and survivor
of the death struggle in the West Room, proves to
be Guy, th© lord, not Rupert, the second brother,
as supposed. It is a curious tale, with more of the
startling and horrible than some readers will like.
A paper on "Irish Minstrelsy" can scarcely be de
void of interest ; but the writer on the ancient
bards does not seem to have caught their spirit, or
to appreciate the merits of the rugged simplicity of.
the old ballad-singers. Flavius Josephus, the his-
torian of the Jews, is the subject of Sir Natha-
niel's " Notes on Note-Worthies. His sketch is as
usual full of extract and quotation, and gives some
curious disputes as to the authenticity of some of
the historian's statements. Mrs. Bushby contri-
butes a West Indian tale, entitled " The Planter's
Daughter," and a review of a French work on
" Slavery in Brazil" furnishes a good companion to
it. Cyrus Redding, the indefatigable literary vete-
ran, addresses a letter to the editor on Mentelle, an
Hungarian, with whom he became acquainted
many years ago. He appears to have been a most
singular character, and was possessed of an extra-
ordinary talent for acquiring languages. " The
Rifle Movement" is discussed, and is spoken of with
respect and approval. "Evalla" is continued withinterest,,but not yet brought to a conclusion.
The
readers of the New Monthly will regret to see"
Last of Pickles," that unfortunate individuallt
of
hav-
ing, we are told, broken down under the weight
deal
his accumulated troubles. There is a goo
truth in his sorrowful jests, and he attacks many
annoyances which are really "social grievances."
of
Mr. Keightley's new edition of outr.egst;
jelat,esprciepsooetf
receives cordial praise. The -
W. " Stereoscopic Glimpses," by
giel," showingvividcon-
tinuedbyau
s therustic
portraiture
poet ‘of , u
B, Kent, is
ul
oerint s r
ing amid
the ripened corn," watching his " bonnie Jean."

The United Service.—This magazine has several
articles on subjects of importance, among which
"The National Defences" are the most prominent.
The opening paper strongly recommends the main
tenance of an efficient Artillery ; and an article on
" Our Home Defences," addresses some useful advice
to the Militia, Yeomanry, and Volunteers. The vexed
question of the European military force in India
is discussed. The conduct of the Calcutta authori-
ties, in giving rise to the late disputes, is censured
as injudicious. " Something wrong, very wrong,

must have occurred to make this army,
almost alone before Delhi, that retook 13enares that
Allahabad, that quelled the revolt at 3,looltan,
shaved with their brethren of the home servicefto,
grand advance on Cawnpore, and the relic
wrongl
Lucknow ; something, we repeat, must be
to make this army no longer loyal." After CO
sidering the plans for the-future, the writer arri
at the conclusion that for the good of India a lee
army, both European and Native, is necessary.
The record of the last Campaign in Lombar.doYn
that stood
brings us to the fall of Milan, and the conclus!.
of hostilities. Several papers of political and miril
tary interest are given, and full information,
eth
specting the movements and promotions D
services is, as usual, appended.
nd
The Universal Review of Politics, Literature, a
Social Science.
This new comer in the literary field has no re?.7
son to fear comparison with older competitors.
_ci
is generally sensible and moderate in its tone
anlt
views, and solid in its style and character. _
opens with a forcible paper on "The
Army," which gives expression to the sentimentse
of a large class. The neglect of the health of
e,.
army is a grievance that calls loudly voluntarily redre
When men risk death and disablement
for the defence of their country, it is surely n
much to expect that those in authority over them
ss,
should mitigate their sufferings when in sic/113e 0,
and consult the preservation of their health iyi),
due regard to sanitary laws and precautions, an".
Wants of the
the adoption of every possible means of alleviatitohe
When soldiers are sent under a tropic sun inhen
regimental costume of temperate climates, or with-
an army is despatched on a distant campaign er-
out any conveyance for the wounded, there is 5
tainly some call for redress. It is justly .remarget
that sanitary precaution is more essential natione
military economy than in that of any other •
in the world, owing to the necessity of our Inabirf.
taming a force in such various parts of the glo
The climate with which our soldiers have to con:
tend is described as " tropical in India, China, overt
Indies semi-tropical in the Mediterranean,
South Pacific, and Australia, the Cape in Souq.
Africa ; temperate with ocean influences in ",„
Helena and Madeira, and extreme cold in
and Nova Scotia." Notwithstanding the 'Wen"
which have been made to acclimatise the men fi.
gradual removal, " There has been going nil' -f
many years, a consumption of life sad to think.oo
for humanity's sake, and most costly to the pu1311.1;
It is calculated that the European army 1,,
India has been consumed every thirteen yeart.
The writer concludes his article by remaF
ing as hundreds have remarked before him,
that " not to the want of military discipline, ow ant
qualities in the officers and men, but to the wan'
of administrative faculty and efficient official alma_
chineiT, must be attributed the horrors of war the
accompanied our last appearance in the field'
horrors which set up such a feeling of indignati°
in the national breast as even now to prejudice the
people against the service. Englishmen rathei
like fighting—the death of a soldier is an en
vie'
and a glorious one—but to be left to die lik,e asheep in a ditch is beyond Spartan fortitude.'
new feature appears in this month's numbe timetu
first instalment of a story which bears the,
1311
" A Great Mistake." It is written with spit,
we fear the interest will be of a painful naturf_.
" The Secret Literature of Russia" is discussed ni
a comprehensive paper, which draws most faveur,.;
able auguries from the reforms introduced in
,%,
Russian Government by the present ruler of /1-`'
the Russias. Four books of American travel, 70
cently published, are passed under review, and t
critic marvels that so little general desire to is!
our transatlantic cousins and explore the marvel:
of the great Continent of the West is felt amongtso
us. An essay on Canning can scarcely fail -0
interest the reader. The article in question !,
founded. on a recent work on Canning and hi
Times, and takes a review of his career as a states-
man and a politician, drawing from it the conelw
sion that he was the greatest Foreign
and one of the greatest political minds that Eng-
land has produced. How far he deserves this
exalted praise will be a matter of discussion oil!
the readers of the Review. There can behp
doubt at the present epoch as to the individual
is the subject of a paper headed " The Alan h°o
Mystery." The writer subjects the conduct of The
Emperor to a severe and unflinching scrutiny. 1.11
Minister,
usual summary of the events of the Parliamentl
session, which this month is but a brief rec"
concludes the number.

PRESERVATION OF LIFE FROM SO

WRECK.

•
Yesterday a meeting of the Royal National Life:
boat Institution was held at its house, John-styesbt
Adelphi ; Sir Edward Perrott, Bart., in the chair'
Amongst other gentlemen present we observed Ad-
miral Gordon, deputy master of the Trinity 11.?,11,,,i5e;
Montague Gore, Esq., Captain W. H. Hall,
C. 8., W. H. Harton, Esq., and Capt. Ward,
inspector of life boats to the society.
The minutes of the previous meeting having
been read,
A reward of £6 10s. was voted to the crew el
the institution's life-boat stationed at Arklowf
the Irish coast, for putting off with the view nd.
rescuing the crew of a vessel which wis strand
e
during the stormy and foggy weather on
Aria
Bank, on the 23d ult. On approaching the
l
VeSSe 9
however, the crew declined to leave her, belieirill
that after the ship was lightened she would get opk•
A reward of £5 was likewise voted to tWo con'
stables and another man for swimming off and re
s:
cuing, at some risk of life, two monks who, Wit.o
their servants, had been capsized from their boa
tl
a squall of wind off Roundstone, on the coast
Donegal. They were some distance from the sh°e'7„
at the time of the accident, and as soon as th
were observed the two constables and a country
lad swam off to their help. It was said that the,
monks would assuredly have perished had nev
timely assistance reached them. They were heavilY
clad at the time, and could make little or no exer-
tion to save themselves. Their servants reached
the shore, unaided, by swimming.
A reward of £1 was also voted to a boat's era/
for saving two men from a boat, which had also
been upset in a squall off Whitehaven.
A reward of £4 was likewise given to two pilots
for putting off on two occasions, and rescuing, at
considerable risk of life, eight seamen from two
ships' boats off the Holmes, in the Bristol Channel,
on the 3d ult. It appears that the Austrian barque
Frederick, from Cardiff, was lying at anchor near
the Holmes, with two anchors down, and, fouling.
another ship's cable, slipped one of her oathna
parted another. The next morning, the er
being moderate, two of her boats were sent with a
long line to sweep for the missing anchors, when a
gale from the southward came on, and e sea
rising they were unable to reach the ship, anthd drove
to leeward towards the Welsh shore, using every
effort to keep to windward, the sea fearfully sweep-
ing over them. In this situation they were descried
by two pilots named George Hunt and Joseph
Rumney, who happened to be cruising near the
place ; they bore down to them, and throwing a
rope to one of the boats succeeded with great diffi
culty in towing her to the ship—it not being pos-
sible to take both boats. The other boat, with three
men in her, was necessarily abandoned to the fury
of the waves, and went drifting towards the shore
between Sully and Lavernock. Hunt and Rum
the
determined to make another effort to snatch
men from certain death, and therefore bore away
towards them, and succeeded, by throwing ropesat
so
them, in drawing them on board their yawl
distance of about 100 yards from the shore. Th. g
poor fellows had given themselves up as entirely.'
lost. After being thus rescued, the men were put
safely onboard their vessel, expressing their deep
gratitude for their providential preservation.
It is gratifyinA to find how much the rewards
of the National Life-boat Institution for valuable
and courageous services in saving life from wrecks
are appreciated on the coast, and how they stimu-
late laudable and gallant efforts to rescue, often un-
der the most trying circumstances.
It was decided to station a new life-be,at in the
vicinity of the Cefn Sidan Sands, in Carmarthen
Bay, where some fearful wrecks with loss of life
have frequently occurred. This humane undertak-
ing has received the liberal support of Earl Cawdor,
Lord Dynevor, Sir James
Hamilton,
other gentry of the county. One or two life-boats
are also much wanted in the
vicinity
ofß asr
wt . :soe and
Bay.
It was reported that the institution would soen
have 90 life-boats under its control. The average
expense of each lite-boat establishment is about £3°
per annum, so that it is indispensible if this philan-
thropic and national work is to be maintained in sa
. efficient state, that the public should extend to the
Life-boat Institution their liberal and conti
L nued
support.
It was stated that the late Mrs. Ann ThonaPorb
of Blackheath, had left the society a reversionary
legacy of £lOO.
Various payments were made for the maintenance
of life-boat establishments ; the proceedings after-
wards terminated.

tlalautg _
SINGULAR FATAL ACCIDENT.—On 'Wednesday
daughter
last a fatal accident occurred to l‘liss Smith, the
trdoefeeaasseucrLvlevyhoor,wrieissidaihnoguatt
cars
appears
turning. from Gravesend in company f age, was re-
board the Petrel steamvessel, when, in passing down the
cabin stairs, her foot slipped, and she fell with such iolet?e?
as caused severe spinal in'ary On arriving at Greenwich
pier she wasconveyed j d aid rendered, but
home, an every
death resulted on the same night. with her father n.

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