The Sun.
London, England, 1866-01-20 00:00:00

THE OUTWARD BRAZIL MAIL.

The Royal Mail Steam Packet Company's ship
Rhone, from Southampton, with the mails of the
9th inst. from Brazil, arrived at Lisbon and sailed
for Brazil on the 14th inst., her proper day. The
company's agent at Lisbon has telegraphed that he
sent the usual telegram, which, however, has never
been received.

FRANCE.

PARIS, JAN. 20.

The Constitutionnel of this morning publishes an
article signed by its chief editor, M. Paulin Limay-
rac, entitled, " Les Emigre's a l'lnterieur." The
writer reverts to the attacks of the hostile parties,
particularly in the newspapers against the foreign
policy of the Government. 'He then alludes to the
difficulties of the wars in the East and in Italy,

through which France successfully passed, and states
that at present there only remain two pending
questions of foreign policy, namely, that of the
extradition treaty and the Mexican question. The
first matter, continues the writer, is entrusted. to
the care of diplomacy ; as regards the Mexican
question, after a war of three years, the assistance
of our soldiers is still required for its solution.
That party in France which we might call foreign
has pronounced against French interests, reserving
its sympathies for the bands of plunderers and
assassins forming the last remnants of the Juarez
party.

CRIMINAL S AVANS.

TO THE EDITOR OF TIIE SUN.

Sin,—The recent letter of Dr. Donovan, pub-
ished in your journal, is interesting, and Southey's
case further tends to confirm the opinion of Dr.
Spurzheim, that persons with a large amount of
self-esteem and love of praise, without a due pro-
portion of the reasoning faculties to balance such
qualities, are rarely satisfied with the existing
state of society, or with their particular posi-
tion in the social scale. But Southey seems to
have had a dash of philosophy in his compo-
sition, which, under more favourable circum-
stances, might have been sufficient to prevent
him from ending his days upon the scaffold at least.
He was the only criminal, according to my belief,
who desired to have a post mortem examination of
his cerebral Turniture. Generally criminals fear this
process as much as they feared dissection or the
selling of their clothes. The fact of itself removes
Southey from the usual circle of criminals, such as
Greenacre, Rush, and Co. They may have all
deserved the mark of Cain, the first murderer ; but
Southey's title to it seems to have been based upon
particular documents not of an ordinary character.
According to the astral theory, as explained by
me, the brain is influenced by the position of the
heavenly bodies before and at the time of a person's
birth. I regret to observe, after my 14 years costly
attempt to pave the way for the legality find social
position of our old friend, Sidrophel, that he still finds
it a dangerous pastime in Britain " to dance by the light
of the moon," as the following extract from the
letter to me of an able and respectable member of
the craft too truly testifies. He writes, on the 10th
inst., thus :—" I feel interested by the remarks in
your letter, and agree with you that before men of
ability in general can and will afford the necessary
time for the investigation of the science, it must be
unshackled by the law and not as it is at present.
But how this is to be brought about by no means
seems clear to me, as it seems to me that professors
are not so bold now as they were several years
ago, but they have to hide their heads more
and more. The day for its practice openly and
legally seems to me as distant as ever, though there
is great truth in the leading principles of the
Sciences, which cannot be gainsayed." On the eve
of the new Parliament these remarks seem worthy
of particular notice, especially by liberal legislators.
—I am, Sir, yours obediently, Cm:. COOKE.
London, Jan. 19, 1866.

WONDERFUL RESCUE OF A CABIN BOy.—The
Union of Saint-Servan, Ille-et-Vilaine, France, re-
lates the singular recovery of a cabin boy, supposed to
have been drowned at sea. The Admiral Magon, of that
port, loft Swansea for Lisbon, a month back, with a cargo
of coal, but the following night, during a thick fog, was
run into by an English ship, and the damage to the Ad-
miral Aragon being considerable, the crow hastened. on
board the other vessel, leaving behind them, in their pre-
cipitation, a boy named St. Julien. The two vessels im-
mediately separated, and were soon invisible to each other,
and the French captain supposed that his ship had foun-
dered, and that the lad had gone dawn with her. A letter
from the boy, however, has just been received at Saint-Ser-
van. He remained on the wreck for three days, when he
was rescued by a vessel bound for America. The latter
was, however, driven back to Wales by stress of weather,
and the lad was put ashore at Milford. He is now on his
way home, with three cats and a dog, which he had saved
from the wreck. He relates that on finding himself alone
he sat down and cried for some time, but then recovering
courage, he got up, hoisted a light, and finding that water
was increasing in the hold he passed the night alternately
pumping and tolling a bell to attract the attention of a
passing ship if possible. The next day he displayed a
signal of distress, breakfasted and fed his animals, and then
returned to the pump. The three days passed in that
manner until his signal was son and the lad rescued.