The Sun.
London, England, 1859-07-18 00:00:00

1857.

11,870 13,710 15,492
53s Od to 5880 d to 48s sid to'
—6 Od —s )d —8 Od
3,005 1,768 2,337
15,577 8,867 7,526
1,793 589 2,091
9,737 9,443 ' 11.451
548 3d 598;6d 502 6d

STATEMENT OF TALLOW SHIPPING AT ET. PETERSBURG.
Tallow despathed from Cronstadt 1858. 1857. 1856.
O. S. (estimated at 25 Casks. Casks. Casks
In ships loading and ters ...... 6,300 3,538 2,381
......
ptoccJduslyt'o ;
22he
cask)
1igh.......... 14,393 6,727 2,278

Total loaded off from St. Peters')
June 24, 0. S ................... .. -2A
Do. after this date ........,-93 10,265 4,659
....... 101,747 99,102

Total at the close of the navigation

112,012 103,761

London .. . . .... . ............ 11,830 6,996 895
Other Eng11;11 porta..
.....
Scotland ................. 1,736 656 1,005
........ 2f 8 73 372

Germany ......................
France ........................

:73 372
6

Total ............ 112,012 103,761 112,095

CEN:

RICA.

Whilst the British public have been bent on.the
destruction of Petro Paulowski and Sebastopol,
leaving the French to arrange for the quiet occupa-
tion of Egypt by the commercial agency of a canal;
—whilst the Russian has been allowed to establish
himself in Villa Franca, and France to complete
the late quiet arrangement whereby Italy is to be
still further enslaved, pendulous between the
tyranny of Austria and the sympathy of France ;'
—whilst fears have been entertained lest Russia
should subvert our Indian authority, and France
convert the Mediterranean into a French lake, we
haverepeatedly called the attention of the mercantile
classes of this country to the condition of Central
America. The present Emperor of the French has
evinced a desire to dictate to Europe; but the mari-
time country that shall possess Central America will
be in a position to rule the world. This was the
opinion of Louis Napoleon when a prisoner in Ham.
He had time to study the map, not only of Europe,
but also of America; and on his escape, -he pub-
lished in London a pamphlet showing the feasibility
of connecting the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans by the
River San Juan and the Lake of Nicaragua. This
rout has since been virtually taken possession of
by the United States, by means of the bombardment
of Greytown and the disorganisation of Nicaragua,
effected by the piratical aid of William Walker. .
For several years past the secret diplomacy of
the Foreign-office has led to the belief that British
interests in Central America were to be abandoned.
The United States, with a keen perception of the
future, put their own construction on the Bul wer-
Clayton Treaty ; and, knowing that this construc-
tion would not bear the test of reasoning, re-
fused to submit the matter to arbitration, and de-
manded that Great Britain should yield up the Bay
Islands and relinquish her protectorate over the
Mosquito Indians, who have ever been strong
enough to defy the Dower' of Spain, and ever
faithful to the British'in affording them shelter,
wood, and water, and in rendering other assist-
ance when Great Britain has been at war with
Spain. Nay, so far did this line of fatuous
policy extend, that there was even a fear
that the British settlers in Belize might be reduced
to the same position that American diplomacy
would assign to the Mosquito race—the same right
that a buffalo has upon the prairie, or a turtle on a
sandbank.

It is with considerable pleasure, therefore, that
the eye rests on one or two small items in the
" Civil contingencies" just presented to Parliament
by her Majesty's command. From these we learn
that Mr. Moir, the presiding magistrate of the Bay
Islands, has recently been sent from Jamaica to be
formally installed is his duties in the island of
Ruatan. And we further learn that, though it
pleased Lord John Russell once to stigmatise the
head of the Mosquito race as a " phant )m king,"
yet Lord Malmesbury has not hesitated to remove
the reproach by having him publicly recognised by
his title of " king of Mosquito," and entertained
on board her Majesty's ship Valorous at the expense
of the British nation. There is also a, rumour that
Lord Malmesbury has put one dangerous question
at rest by inducing the Repubiic of Guatemala to
settle the boundary of British Honduras, so that
the settlement of Belize wiil be assured that it is

not the intention of their brethren at home to leave
them to the mercies of any set of filibusters a weak
or vicious Government at Washington may en-
courage or permit to attack them. These acts of
Lord Malmesbury show that he has more sagacity
about him, than his opponents gave him credit for ;
and we trust his foresight will not be defeated by
the apathy of the present Government. It is with
considerable pleasure, also, that his lordship cast
the first stone at secret diplomacy on Friday night,
when he regretted that the rules of the craft did
not allow him to clear himself from imputation
whilst assisting the cause of peace in Italy.—
Liverpool Albion.

TERRIBLE RAILWAY CATASTROPHE
INNAMBRICA.

(From the Cleveland Herald, Tune 29.)

The most dreadful railway disaster which ever
happened in America took place the night before
last, about 12 o'clock, about two miles east of South
Bend, Ind. A train, consisting of six cars, was
totally demolished, and over seventy persons were
killed. The precise number is not known, but no
less than sixty dead bodies had been recovered at
the date of the latest intelligence. People were
searching for more.

It is slated that there were 150 passengers in the
train, only 75 of whom are now living. We think
the estimate of the whole number is rather small.
When the train left the city, at eight o'clock p.m.,
there were two first-class cars crowded to excess,
one sleeping car comfortably full, one second-class
car full. and one emigrant ear empty. The latter
was taken along for the purpose of carrying down
a number of railroad hands, who were taken on
board at Ainsworth, Calumes, and other stations
along the road. Among the passengers were a
number of Chicago people, of whom we have the
names of only of L. P. Hilliard, E. Dickinson, Mrs.
Sumner, and some others. David Runnion, late
proprietor of the Revere House, left the train at
South Bend, two miles this side of the place of the
accident.

A passenger on the train, just arrived in the
city, gives us the following account of the fright-
ful calamity :—He was in the sleeping car at the
time of the accident, and was startled by a sensation
as if the car was jumping on the bare ties. Then
came a crash and a plunge downwaid into a deep
abyss. The car turned over ou its side; but being
the last car in the train, and strongly built, did not
break up, so badly as the others, and therefore pro-
tected its occupants from severe injuries.
The train was a heavy one, containing five well-
filled passenger cars, besides the baggage and mail
car. The tr ain was about half an hour behind time
previous to reaching the fatal spot. About ten
o'clock on Monday night, two hours before the time
of the accident, a tremendous rain fell throughout
that section of the country, flooding the fields and
swellincr the streams to considerable bulk.

The surviving breaksman says that ile.train was
run with great caution over all the culverts pre-
vious to reaching the fatal culvert, but on nearing
the latter the speed was increased to twenty-five or
thirty miles an hour, as this culvert was considered
the most reliable on the road. On reaching the
gap, which was about one hundred feet wide, and
about thirty feet deep, the train first fell on the old
trestle work which crushed beneath the weight,
and then leaped into the chasm. The engine fell at
the base of the farther bank, and buried itself in
the sand. The baggage car, two second-class cars,
and two first-class cars piled into one mass, and
drove each other into the earth. The sleeping car
fell on its side on the top of the pile of shattered
cars.

Every man connected with the train, except the
conductor, one breaksman, the conductor of the
sleeping car and his boy, were killed.
When the uninjured passengers crawled out, the
scene is said to have been awful. Scarcely dis-
tinguishable in the darkness lay a pile of shattered
wood and iron, and about 150 dead and dying per-
sons, part buried in mud and sand, and part wash-
ing away in the boiling torrent that swept down to
the St. Joseph's river, but a few rods distant.

The conductor and breaksman set out to seek
succour at the stations of South Bend and Misha-
waukie, whilst the uninjured passengers built fires
around the spot, and carried off some of their
wounded fellows to the neighbouring houses._

It was nearly three hours after the -accident before
succour arrived from the nearest towns which were
three or four miles distant. A strong body of
labourers were brought down by the peOple of the
towns, and the work of digging out the dead and
wounded commenced.

Tuesday afternoon 32 bodies had been taken to
Mishawaukie ; eight or ten were reported taken to
South Bend. Some 10 or 12 bodies were reported
to have been taken up about 10 miles below, on the
St. Joseph river. About a dozen of the wounded
have scarcely a chance of life.
Some five or six labourers who were on the train
report that about 20 of their fellows are yet miss-
ing. It is supposed they remain buried in the
sand, or have been washed out into the St. Joseph
river. _ _

Very few of the passengers escaped death or
frightful injuries.
The scene on the banks of the ravine, a passenger
says, was truly awful, as one may well suppose ;
but he says the amount of human misery among
the wounded was terrible to behold. In the
Mishawaukie Hotel he saw a fine little boy, about
nine years old, with his left leg broken, and almost
open through the thigh ; while the right leg was
cut completely off. He was failing fast, and it was
impossible for him to recover. He was one of a
family of five children, with the mother, who were
going to meet the father and the husband of this
family. The mother is killed, a daughter is miss-
ing,.and another boy is wounded, but not seriously.
He is in the same room with his 'wretched brother ;
while he saw another of the young ones, six years
old, dead, having had his face completely cut off.
The bodies of the females were not much mutilated.
One passenger got out of the sleeping car into
the current and was swept along; but in going
down he luckily clutched hold of a tree,ind by
that means effected a landing.
One woman, who was on the train with her hus-
band and five children, ran wildly about all night
seeking her family, but without success, until morn-
ing, when she found them all dead. She then went
to a farm house, a few yards off, where, after sit-
ting some minutes, the wretched wife and mother
expired.