The Sun.
London, England, 1859-05-25 00:00:00

THE PRINCIPALITIES.

A letter from Bucharest of the 15th states that
the Austrian consul general had re-established
diplomatic' relations with the Wallachian Govern-
ment, which he had interrupted on the election of
Prince Couza. In a note addressed to the Govern-
ment he stated that he did so in consequence of
the extraordinary circumstances which had arisen
having prevented the conference on the Danubian
Principalities from coming to any result, and that
he hoped that his relations with the Government

would be amicable. The resumption of relations
had caused great pleasure to the Austrians in
Wallachia.

THE WAR.

The following intimation that the Duchy of Tus-
cany is to be considered a belligerent country, to
which the terms of the recent neutrality proclama-
tima are to be held applicable, has been received by
Are6srs. Pietroni and Draper, in reply to an in-
quiry on the subject : . _ _

" Foreign-office, May 23.
" Gentlemen,—l am directed by the Earl of Malmesbury
to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 21st ins:.,
requesting to be informed whether her Majesty's proclama-
tion extends to'commercial intercourse with Tuscany ; and
I ate to state to you in reply, that the Tuscan Provisional
Government having sent its army to join the French and
Sardinian forces engaged in war with Austria, and Leghorn
having since been occupied by French troops, it canno4be
doubted that under such circumstances Tuscany must be
considered a belligerent country, and that neutrals carrying
contrabands of war to Tuscan Ports are liable to the risks
Pointed out in her Majesty's Proclamation.
"I am, gentlemen, your most obedient humble servant.
"E. HAMMOND."
Subjoined is the answer of the Board of Trade to
the • Shipowners' Association on the question of
contraband. The reply of Lord Malmesbury to a
similar• application was published several days
back : ..

"Office of Committee of Privy Council for Trade,
Whitehall, May 23.
" Sir,—ln reply to your letters of the 16th and 18th Last.,
I am directed by the Lords of the Privy Council for Trade
to inform you that their Lordships having submitted them
for the consideration of the Lords of her Majesty's Privy
Colincil, have received a reply to the effect that with a full
appreciation of the importance, as well as of the questions
submitted to them as of others which may arise, and of
the magnitude of the interests concerned, they have arrived
at the conclusion that her Majesty's Proclamation having
already called the attention of the public to the only munici-
pal law on the subject—viz., the Foreign Enlistment Act,
it is not for her Majosty's Governmeht to give any
exposition of that Act with reference to any particular
case.
" I am at the same time directed to enclose for your in-
formation the copy of a letter from her Majesty's Secretary
of State for Foreign Affairs in reply to similar inquiries
addressed to his Lordship by other parties.—l am, sir, your
obedient servant,

"J. EMERSON TENNENT.
" Wm. Bonar, Esq., General Shipowners' Society."

THE EXPLOSION OF THE TRITON.

The following particulars relative to the explo-
' sion on board the Triton have been received from
-Ragusa. The whole crew, excepting eight men,
One of whom was the captain, was on board. Just
before the vessel blew up, one of the boats had
taken 15 men on board, and one of them gives
The following account of what happened :
The
narrator, a. sailor named Sehmerhofsky,
44111 gone back. to the boat to fetch some-
th'
- when suddenly' an explosion took place,
which was so very violent that the boat was
upset. A rope got twisted round the man's
neck, but with some difficulty he managed to
loosen it, and to lay hold of a large piece of
Wood which was floating near, him. On looking
round, he found that he was in the midst of frag-
ments of the ship, disfigured bodies, and severed
limbs. He heard his name called by some of
his comrades, who begged of him to help them,
"as they had lost their hands and legs." Two
other men, who were sinking, caught hold of
Schmerhofsky's legs, and it was not until after a
violent struggle that he was able to disengage him-
self from their grasp. One mac, a certain Riesch,
he managed to save by pushing a piece of wood
under his arm. One of the men on board, who was
at work at the end of the bowsprit when the explo-
sion took place, escaped uninjured. About 80 men
were either killed outright or terribly maimed. The
Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian visited the sur-
vivors in the hospital, and gave strict orders that
every possible eare should be taken of them.