The Sun.
London, England, 1859-10-28 00:00:00

CARDIFF.

Eight bodies were washed ashore at Cardiff on
the 26th, at 7 p.m. Several wrecks have passed in
the channel, and three or four vessels are on shore.
One unfinished house in Cardiff and one in Routh-
town are b!own down.

SHIELDS, THURSDAY, NOON.
The gale has entirely abated. The wind is N.N.W.,
mild, and a fine clear day. We have fortunately
no shipping disasters to report on the'coast of
Northumberland. But • the reports that are being
received hourly by the ship insurance clubs of
wrecks and losses that have occurred south of the
Tyne are of the most painful character. Great
anxiety Prevails for the safety of the laden colliers
that were at sea during the gale. Those that
have come ashore and are wrecked are pretty
well ascertained, but those that were out at sea,
and may have sprung a leak and sunk, or may have
been run down, are the greatest cause of anxiety.
The Welsh schooner Aneurin, from Carnarvon, was
towed into the Tyne last night with her masts gone
and the decks swept. On Tuesday night about ten
o'clock during the gale the Syren, of Shields, was
run down, off Whitby, by the Victoria, of Maldon.
As the Syren was sinking the men endeavoured to
get on board the Victoria, when unfortunately three
of them were crushed between the vessels and.
drowned, and the fourth, in leaping to the Victoria,
fell into the sea and was drowned.
Two vessels are ashore near Sunderland, but, for-
tunately, the crews were rescued, and, as the weather
has moderated, hopes are entertained that they may
be got off; and as the weather is mild the larger
number of the vessels that ran ashore at Hartlepool
and were stranded in the gale will be got off. It
is reported here that a Hartlepool vessel, the Ben-
jamin Barnett, sunk at Bridlington, and all hands
,drowned, A considerable amount of damage has
been done to the pier works and railway at the
mouth of the Tyne by the storm.

CHESTER AND HOLYHEAD RAILWAY.
The line of rails at Bagilit, onithe above railway,
was washed away by the sea on Wednesday morn-
ing. The telegraph posts have been blown down,
and communication with Holyhead interrupted.
The Great Eastern in the course of Tuesday eyen-
lug had her steam got up, in case of necessity, to
run out to sea. Wrecks are reported on the coast
in that neighbourhood, but the number cannot at
present be ascertained.

THE ENGLISH AND FRENCIIPRESS

ON IRE TREATY OF

The following article by M. A. Peyrat appears
11 La Presse:—

On the 21st of June, 1807, seven days after the
battle of Friedland, an armistice was concluded at
Tilsit between the Russian and French armies,
with a view, to negotiate a peace. On the 25th a
first interview with the Emperors Alexander and
Napoleon took place in a tent set up on a raft in
the middle of: the Niemen.

On the 11th of June, 1859, after the battle o
Solferino, followed by an armistice, the Emperor°
Austria and the Emperor of the French had an in
terview at Villafranca, and fixed the basis of a
preliminary treaty. At Villafranca, as at Tilsit,the
Emperors were surrounded by a brilliant staff, com-
posed in part of the marshals of the two empires.
History has informed us of what took place en
the raft in the Niemen. "I do not like the Eng-
lish any better than you do," said Alexander to Na-
poleon, " and I ath ready to second youin any enter-
prise against them." " In that case," replied Napo-
leon, " everything will be easily arranged, and
peace; is already made." Is it possible, by any
chance, that something analogous was said at
Villafranea ? We do not think so ; yet one might
think so on seeing the attacks directed against
England by certain journals of Paris and the de-
partments, with a significant simultaneity which
has been much remarked in Europe.
But who knows exactly what was said at Villa-
franca? The two Emperors, excluding on this oc-
casion diplomatists and soldiers alike, shut them
selves up in a small room, withsut any witness than
a bouquet of roses placed on a small table. After
an interview of two hours they came out radiant :
they had just given peace to Europe. What took
place in that mysterious interview ? As neither
bouquets nor tables speak, we must wait until it
pleases the two interlocutors to inform the world ;
and in the meantime confine ourselves to judging
of the results.
The results of the treaty of Tilsit were clear,
well understood, and submitted to by Europe with
trembling. There remained only a single state
really and absolutely. independent—England. The
other powers, vanquished and humbled, subscribed
unreservedly to the wishes of Napoleon, whose
power was not more formidable than the tempta-
tions and miscalculations of a policy always gigan-
tic, incoherent, and unaccomplished.
Matters evidently took place otherwise at Villa-
franca. The Emperor Francis Joseph arrived there
more thoroughly beaten and overthrown than the
Emperor Alexander after Friedland. Austria had
lost all she could lose. She had been dislodged
from every position ; conquered in every battle.
The prestige qi- her arms was destroyed, and her
soldiers fought in retreat, even less demoralised by
their repeated defeats than by the incapacity of
their chiefs. Venice was threatened ; Peschiera
invested; the taking of Mantua . or of Verona re-
garded as certain. In this position, to sign an ar-
mistice was to confess that Austria gave up the
idea of measuring herself against the allied armies
and of retrieving her irilitary honour.
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what he still possessed. The Archdukes, placed
between Austria and Italy, had taken sides with
Austria, and like her they had been conquered at
Solferino. It seems that it was as impossibleto re-
establish them on their thrones, which they had
staked and lost, as to restore Lombardy to Austria.
Three months before, Europe, reckoning on peace,
had been surprised by war. After Solferino, when
she had no doubt that a lost battle, fought by Aus-