The Sun.
London, England, 1866-09-22 00:00:00

Completion of the St. Lawrence Cable.

From Cyrus W. Field, Auxee Bay, to the Direc-
tors of the Anglo-American Telegraph Company,
London, Sept. 20 :
" The cable across the Gulf of St. La wrence was
completed this evening. I send you this message
through the same.

"We have now two cables in good working order
between Newfoundland and Cape Breton.
"The Medway and Terrible leave early to-morrow
morning to lay an additional cable across the Straits
of Northumberland."

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE--This Day.

LONDON, Sept. 22.—Wind this day at noon—North-
Westerly ; moderate breeze and cloudy weather, with
heavy rain.
PORTSMOUTH, Sept. 21.—Wind W.—Arrived—Glenaros,
from London for Adelaide ; Maori, from London for Auck-
land, N.Z. _

FALMOUTH, Sept. 20.—Wind N.W._Arrived—Mar-
garetta, from Bahia.
PLYMOUTH, Sept. 21.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Sien-tien,
from London for Mauritius.

BRISTOL, Sept. 21.—Wind W. to X.W.—Arrived—
Maddelena, from Now York; Douglas Castle, from New
York

CARDIFF, Sept. 21.—Wind S.W.—Sailed—Condor, for
Shanghai ; Heahnan, for Buenos Ayres; Ludvig, for Rio
Janeiro.

CARDIFF, Sept. 20.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Sensitive,
from Camillas.

BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

GRAVESEND, Saturday Morning.
__ _ _

' Arrived, Sept. 21—Sir Robert Pee], steamer, from Dun-
kirk ; Taurus, steamer, from Tonning ; Wabash, from
Gaudaloupe ; Immanuel. from Ibrail.

Arrived, Sept. 22—Triton, steamer, from Boulogne ;
Moselle, steamer, from Antwerp.
Returned —Balgowan, from Sunderland, for Palermo;
Eliza Laing, from Sunderland, for Point de Galle.
DEAL, Saturday Morning.
Passed, Sept. 21—Alexandra, screw steamer, from Lon--
don, for Genoa; Citizen, from London, for Bordeaux.
Arrived—Lily, from London, for Cienfugas ; Forest
Rights, from London, for Port Phillip.

CRYSTAL PALACE.—The great fountains will be
played at 4 o'clock this afternoon. The band of the Cold-
stream Guards will play on the terrace during tho display.
One Shilling day, Friday, Sept. 21.—Admissions on pay-
ment, 2,524; ditto by season tickets, 1,237-Ltotal visitors,
3,761.

THE PRINCELY GIFT TO MR. SPURGEON.—A
weekly contemporary says it is reported that the lady who
has promised the noble sum of £20,000 to Mr. Spurgeon,
for the purpose of founding an orphanage in connection
with his chapel, is the Duchess of Sutherland.

The directors of the Scinde Railway Company
have issued a report for the six months ending 30th
June last, including reports of their other under-
takings, the Punjaub Railway, the Delhi Railway,
and the Indus Steam Flotilla. The gross receipts on
the Scinde Railway amounted to £53,166, and the
expenses were £43,oB3,leaving a balanceef £10,083.
The earnings of the Steam Flotilla cannot be ex-
actly stated, but the net receipts are estimated at
£11,500. On the Punjaub Railway the receipts
have reached, in the aggregate, the sum of £52,664,
or about £15,053 more than in the previous six
months. The report of the Delhi Railway states
that the works progress in a satisfactory manner,
and an early opening of a portion of the line at each
extremity, it is anticipated, will soon be realised.
The Secretary of State for India has sanctioned an
addition of £2,500,000 to the capital of the under-
taking under the guarantee of five per cent.

The Collision between the Haswell and
Bruiser Steamers.
-
The following is the official report on the recent
inquiry relative to this casualty :
Greenwich Police-court, Sept. 15, 1866.
The following is the report of the inquiry into
the cause of the collision of the screw collier steamer
Haswell and the screw passenger steamer Bruiser :
—" This was a case of collision betwixt two screw
steamers, the Haswell and Bruiser, on the morning
of the 19th of AugaSt last, on the coast of Suffolk.
The Haswell was a screw collier of 560 17-100 re-
gistered tonnage and 90-horse power, and the Bruiser
a screw passenger steamer of 343 92400 registered
tonnage and 80-horse power. The Haswell was
owned by Mr. J. Fen wick and others, and the
Bruiser was the property of the General Steam Na-
vigation Company. She was employed in the Hull
and London trade, and was in every respect fitted
out in conformity with the requirements of law as a
steam passenger ship. Both vessels were furnished
with lights as required by the Admiralty regulations.
At the time of the collision the Haswell was bound
northward in ballast, and the Bruiser was on her
passage from Hull to London with cargo and (as is
believed) about 90 passengers. The exact number
is not known, there being no list of passengers, and
some of them having return tickets. The vessels
came into collision about 2.30 a.m., on the 19th,
about four or five miles off the coast, in the neigh-
bourhood of Aldborough. The Haswell and Bruiser,
when they approached each other, being in a direc-
tion to meet end on, or so nearly as to involve a risk
of collision, the helms of both should have been put
to port, so as to pass on the port side of each other,
as directed by Att. 13 of the " Regulations for Pre-
venting Collisions at Sea." Instead of observing
this rule, the chief mate of the Bruiser put his helm
a-starboard when between 300 and 400 yards from
the Haswell, mistaking, as he alleges, her bright
light for the riding light of a ship at anchor, and
without due regard to the difference between a
riding light and the height of a mast-head light.
In a minute or two after putting his helm a-star-
board, on seeing the Haswell close upon him, he
ordered the helm to be put hard a-starboard, but
too late to avoid the collision, the Haswell, at the
same time, porting her helm. The vessels met, the
stem of the Haswell striking the Bruiser on her
starboard beam amidships, and penetrating deeply
into her hull. In this state the two vessels remained
together, the Bruiser being, as it were, impaled upon
the stem of the Haswell. The engines of the Has-
well were kept slowly moving a-head, by which
means the Bruiser was kept afloat about 10minutes,
during which time, by most prompt and judicious
exertions, 96 persons were rescued from the sinking
ship. It is apprehended that as many as 13 persons
at least must have gone down with ,the Bruiser
when the Haswell backed out of her, and she sunk.
The Haswell was found to have sustained very con-
siderable injury, but was able to return to London,
having on board those who were saved from the
other ship. It is agreed by all the witnesses that
the night was fine and clear, so that the lights of
the ship might be seen from two or three miles, and
hull from half a mile to a mile off. There was no
throng of shipping, or any other circumstance, to
account for the collision, which can only, therefore,
be ascribed to some default of the persons in charge
of one or both vessels. As usual on these occasions,
each party lays the blame on the other. The case
stated by the witnesses from the Haswell is to the
effect that whilst they were proceeding, in a course
N.E. N., at the rate of 7i to 8 knots, the mast-
head light of an approaching steamer was reported,
and in a few minutes the red light. These lights
had scarcely been seen, and the helm of the
Haswell ported to widen the distance, when
the approaching steamer (which afterwards
proved to be the Bruiser) suddenly put her helm
hard a-starboard, and endeavoured to run across the
bows of the Haswell. Seeing this, the mate of the
Haswell, after an exclamation of surprise at the
recklessness of the person in charge of the Bruiser,
put his helm hard a-port, and almost immediately
the collision took place, and which witnesses from
the Haswell ascribe to bad look-out on board the
Bruiser. On the other hand, the case as stated by
the witnesses from the Bruiser was to the effect that
whilst she was proceeding on her course S.W. by S.,
the three lights of a steamer were discovered right
ahead. This vessel (as afterwards appeared).was a
steamer called the Grenadier, bound northward, and
which about 10 or 15 minutes previously had passed
to starboard,of the Haswell. That the Bruiser ported
her helm to pass the Grenadier, and almost imme-
diately afterwards A bright light, which was the
Haswell's masthead light, was seen nearly ahead, or
at most one point on the starboard bow, which was
taken to be the riding light of a vessel at anchor.
That the helm of the Bruiser was then put a-star-
board, and immediately afterwards, upon sight, for
the first time, of the Haswell's red light, was put
hard a-starboard, when she ran under the Haswell's
bows, and the collision which then took place is, by
the witnesses of the Bruiser, ascribed to the defec-
tive lights, particularly the red light, of the Has-
well. In this conflicting state of testimony we have,
fortunately, the evidence of two or three disinte-
rested witnesses. First, there is the evidence of John
Jeffels, master of the schooner Perseverance, who
states that he noticed the taswell's lights when she
was astern of him, and could distinctly see the three
lights at 1 to 2 miles distance. A question had
been raised whether this witness had not mistaken
the lights of the Grenadier for those• of the
Haswell, but he speaks unhesitatingly that they
were the Haswell's. He also states that when
the Haswell was passing close to him, he saw
the masthead and red lights, but not the
green light, of the Bruiser, from which it is to
be inferred that the Bruiser must have been to port
of the Haswell, and should have seen her red light,
which was then burning clearly. Again, in corrobo-
ration of the case of the Haswell, the chief mate of
the Grenadier states that after passing the Haswell,
and getting ahead of her, he saw her three lights,
and could see her hull well. That the lights were
burning brightly, and were good lights. That after
passing the Haswell and the schooner Perseverance
he kept his course, and was then on the port bow of
the Haswell. That he then passed to port of the
Bruiser, about a length off, without having occasion
to port his helm, and that after passing him the
Bruiser went acrnss the wake of the Grenadier in the
direction of the Haswell, the Haswell then being
about a point and a half on the starboard side of the
Grenadier's wake. This witness's evidence is con-
firmed by that of the chief engineer of the Grenadier,
who was also on deck at the time. From this inde-
pendent evidence, corroborating the testimony of the
witnesses from the. Haswell, two conclusions seem to
follow :—First, that the Haswell's lights up to the
period of the collision were burning clearly ; and,
secondly, that if a proper look-out had been kept on
board the Bruiser, the red light of the Haswell might
have been seen by the Bruiser before, or at all events
immediately on her passing the Grenadier; and there-
fore, that the officerin charge of the Bruiser, by star-
boarding his helm and -going under the bows of the
Haswell," committed a breach of the Regulations for
Preventing Collisions at Sea, Table (C), Art. 13, in the
Schedule to the Merchant Shipping Amendment Act,
1862. In consequence of the non-observance of this
rule, the damage arising from the collision in this
case is, by the 299th section of the Merchant Ship-
ping Act, 1852, to be deemed to have been occa-
sioned by the wilful default of John Scott, chief
mate of the Bruiser, the person in charge of the ship
at the time ; and as there appeared to be no circum-
stances in the case making a departure from the
rule necessary, the court, on a careful considera-
tion of all the circumstances, and maturely weigh-
ing the evidence adduced on behalf of the respec-
tive vessels, as well as of those witnesses who were
not interested, came to the conclusion that John
Scott, the chief mate of the Bruiser, was guilty of a
default causing the collision and loss of the Bruiser,
and for this default his certificate was cancelled from
this date. It was contended on the part of chief
mate of the Bruiser that the Grenadier might have
intercepted the view of the side lights of the Has-
well until the former had passed the Bruiser, and
that he might have been confused by the brightness
of the lights that bad just been passed. The court
could not assume this to have been the case, in the
absence of positive proof, and it could be urged only

in mitigation of his default, and would, no doubt,
be taken into consideration by the Board of Trade
on an application for a renewal of his certificate,
which, under the very serious circumstances of this
case, the court felt it necessary, in the execution of
its very responsible duty, to cancel. The court
having no reason to attribute any portion of the
blame of the collision to the officer in charga of the
Haswell, his certificate was returned to him.

(TAMES TRAIL.
Hr. HARRIS,/ Nautical Assessors.
R. B. BAKER,

E,rl Grey at Newcastle-upon-Tyne.

On Wednesday Earl Grey delivered an address at the
opening of a Fine Arts Exhibition in connection with the
Newcastle-on:Tyne Mechanics' Institution. Th.i object of
the noble earl'saddress was to prove that mechanics' ins.i-
tutes had iu no sense of the word proved failures, and that
they were yet capable of doing a vast amount of good. He
thought there could be no doubt that the facilities for study
afforded by those institutions had given most valuable as-
sistance to many men of talent and of slender means, and
had enabled them to qualify themselves for higher employ-
ment, and for greater utility to their felloW-countrymen
than they could otherwise have reached. In the next place
it seemed to him that that and similar institutions might
be highly useful in bringing together and improving the re-
lations with each other of the two great classes of the em-
ployers and employed. They knew that those institutions
were formed principally for the benefit of the working
classes ; but it was not by their unaided exertions that they
had been generally established. Almost invariably—and
certainly it had been the case with regard to that institu-
tion—they had received generous assistance and support
from the employers of labour, as well as from those who
worked with their hands. Surely, then, the fact that both
employers and employed joined in establishing those insti-
tutions, and that [employers were liberal contributors in
money towards their expense, ought to•create a feeling of
mutual good will in both. (Hear, hear.) Referring to the
strike in the iron trade, he said he should express no opi-
nion as to which party might be in the right in these nu-
fortunats disputes. But he hoped that, without giving
offence to anyone, he might say that it was deeply to be
lamented, for the interests of all parties concerned, that the
differences which had arisen between the masters and men
had led to that unfortunate strike, and that such a mode of
attempting to arrive at a settlement had been adopted. It
was greatly to be wished, for the sake of all parties, that
some amicable settlement of those unhappy differences
could bo arrived at. He would ask them to consider how
very great and important were the interests which were
affected by that unhappy state of things. He was told that
the amount of money annually paid in wages to those per-
sous who were directly or indirectly dependent for em-
ployment upon the iron trade—he included those who
worked iron, and those who raised coal for employment in
furnaces, and all the trades immediately connected with the
produce of iron, and the rolling mills—was not less than
two millions sterling. What an enormous amount that
was with reference to the general welfare of the country it
was not necessary for him to remind them. He was fur-
ther informed that during the strike, which was happily
over with regard to the blast furnaces, but which had
lasted for somewhere about four weeks, or rather more,
no less than £50,000 in wages had been lost ; and that
amongst those connected with the rolling mills, who were
still unhappily on strike, £lOO,OOO in wages had already
been lost. That made £150,000 in wages, lost in a com-
paratively short time. When one considered how much
privation, how much suffering to many families, such a
loss of income to the labouring man must create, it was,
he thought, impossible to look upon it without the most
painful feelings. Not only amongst the men themselves,
but amongst their families, how much distress and misery
had to be endured ? Must there not have been women iu
weak health to whom the loss of their accustomed weekly
income would make the difference between life and death,
or at all events between permanent and confirmed sick-
ness and restoration to health ? Must there not have been
children, whom at their critical period of life, the loss of
their income by their parents must deprive of the ad-
vantages of schooling and of that nourishment which was
so essential to their good in order that they might grow up
to be strong and healthy men and women ? Were there
not the causes of future and greater suffering, perhaps for
many years to come, to numberless individuals in that un-
happy state of things ? They must remember that it was
not the workmen alone who suffered. The loss to the mas-
ters was also very large from having their capital standing
idle, and from being compelled to keep their works and
machinery in repair whilst they were doing no profitable
w ,rk. And not only that, but all those connected with
them—the whole retail trade of the town and of the vil-
lages around it, the railways and the public companies—in
all these there was a loss of income which was felt directly
and indirectly by a very large number of persons indeed,
and was calculated if it went on to produce very great suf-
fering. Surely, when they considered all that, they must
very greatly lament that such a state of things should
exist; and they must be led to hope that by some means
or other a better understanding might be arrived at. He
earnestly hoped that mechanic institutes might, in some
degree, continue to produce a more friendly feeling be-
tween employers and employed, and he thought that
the considerations he had ventured to lay before them
were sufficient to prove that, independently of their duty,
it was for the common interest of both parties to arrive
at an amicable settlement of those disputes. But their
duty in that matter must not be overlooked, and he was
sure he need not tell them that if a really Christian
spirit prevailed both amongst the masters and amongst the
workmen, such a thing as a lock-out or a strike would
cease to be heard of. (Applause.) There had been, and he
trusted there was still going on, a great improvement in
the manners and habits of all classes in the nation. If they
looked back, not for a year or ten years, but fora century
or a century and a half, no one could doubt what a great
change for the better had in many respects taken place in
their habits as a people. Formerly .habitual drunkenness
was considered no disgrace by a gentleman; now for a
gentleman to be seen drunk was considered one of the
greatest disgraces that could be conceived. But that
change had not been suddenly brought about. It had
been by a gradual improvement of manners, and very much
owing to the fact that by degrees the higher classes of so-
ciety had learned to seek a part, at all events, of that
amusement and relaxation which all men required from
their serious occupations, not merely in field sports and in
mere animal indulgences, but in intellectual amusements
and pursuits. Might they not hope that the same process
would by degrees take place in a lower rank of society,
and that the s musing books circulated by mechanics' in-
stitutes, the lectures, the opportunities for conversation and
social intercourse without the temptations of a publichouse,
which those institutions supplied, would by degrees pro-
duce a considerable improvement amongst the working
classes? In fact, precisely by the same means by which
that great reform had been accomplished in the upperranks
of society, they might hope and trust that it might also be
accomplished in the lower. Perhaps even the youngest man
there present might not live to see anything iike a complete
change, but that was no reason they should despair of ulti-
mately effecting great reform. And he hoped that there
were already symptoms of it. He was told, and he believed,
that already there were many working men who showed by
their conduct that they understood the value of mental cul-
tivation, and the formation of provident and temperate
habits. They might be a minority, and he was afraid they
were. and at present a small minority; that the indulgence
in intoxicating liquors was still the besetting sin of Eng-
lishmen as it was the sin of the descendants of English-
men in Australia and America. But still the moment that
even a minority began to see the folly and error of those
ways, they might hope that their good example would
gradually spread until the time should come when, in the
opinion of his own class, it would be as disgraceful to a
working man to be goon drunk as it now was to a gentle-
man. That he thought was one manner in which those in-
stitutions were calculated to be useful, and though they
had not hitherto accomplished so much as had been ex-
pected of them, he did not see any reason for despairing as
to the gradual increase of their utility.

MR. WALPOLE ON THE REMOVAL OF MR. BEALES.
Out of a resolution passed by the reformers of Maryle-
hone and Paddington, at a public meeting held by them bn
the 7th inst., a correspondence has arisen, of which the
following forms part : —" To Mr. D. Gruyther, Tarlington-
hall. Sir—l beg to acknowledge the receipt of your letter
of the 10th inst., accompanied by the copy of a memorial
respecting the removal of Mr. Beales from the office of re-
vising barrister, and asking me to receive a deputation
"appointed to wait on me to present a memorial to obtain
my answer in form." As these papers were sent to my
private residence I did not receive them until the other
day, when they were forwarded to me at Balmoral, and, in
acknowledging them now, I have only to say that since I
neither had nor have anything whatever to do, either di-
rectly or indirectly, with the appointment or removal of
Mr. Beales from his office, it would be absolutely useless to
allow tho deputation to wait upon me.—l am, &c., S. H.
WALPOLE, Th 4 Cairnies, Perth, Sept. 18.".
THE SHIP FAVORITE.—The following is a re-
turn to an order made on the motion of Mr. Seely, giving
date when her Majesty's ship Favorite last sailed from
England to North America, stating whether she had any
steel or chilled-iron shot or shell on board ; and if so, how
many ? And whether any steel or chilled-iron shot or shell
have been since sent to her ; and, if so, how many and
when ? And, if none have been sent, whether it is in-
tended to send any, and when :—" I. When last sailed from
England to North America ?-24th of April, 1866. 2. Had
she any steel or chilled-iron shot or shell on board ?
None, 3. Have any steel or chilled-iron shot or shell been
since sent to her; and, if so, how many, and when ?
None have been sent, but 1,539 chilled shot for 7-inch guns
have been issued to Halifax for the land service, and they
could on an emergency be made available for the Favorite.
4. If none have been sent, is it intended to send any, and
when ?—Steel shot and shell for the Favorite will probably
be ready in about the second week in September, and they
will then be shipped to Halifax."

NOTES

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TRAINING DISTRICTS

(THIS DAY.)

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NEWMARKET.

Our Cesarewitch and Cambridgeshire horses are
progressing satisfactorily ; and we have a great
many nags that are receiving a final polish for the
ensuing week's racing here. Breeze, however, has
been stopped again, as we had prepared our readers
for, her legs giving the senior Hayhoe a great deal
of trouble. Lothario, though, does plenty of capital
work ; and this morning Tourmalin led him two
miles at a clipping pace., He will be the only runner
for the Baron in the Cesarewitch, and he looks
uncommonly well. Arnull lir6 got to work
again : with Emigrant, but he is far from
a good one. Broomielaw is doing first
class, and goes a clinking mile and three
quarters daily. Eakriug has done little or no-
thing at all this week, but Sealskin gallops two miles
in good form. Godding gets Vulture to lead Jollity,
who is really doing more long work than any other
horse on the heath, and she appears to do well with
it, as her action is free. Il Re Galantuomo, and
King Charming, receive John Dawson's strict atten-
tention, and they move beautifully. It is possible,
however, that the first-mentioned will be asked to
pull off the Great Eastern Handicap. Nu is both
looking and going well, but may not be required
yet. Breadalbane is quite right for his text week's
engagements; and Fidelite, Gentille Dame, Gon-
tran, La Favorite, Matamore, Mathilde, and the
Squire are shortly expected from France. In
addition to the above horses the following are
in nice preparation :—Saladin, Eccleston, Python,
the Amanda colt, Jewel, Problem, Knight of the
Garter, The Rake, Verulam, Sosur de Charite,
Dragon, Imperator, Hippia, Falkenstein, Dutch
Admiral, Plunder, The Hatter, Ambition, Gowns-
man, Peeress, Duke of York, Qui Vive, Gold Pen,
Highwood, Chapel Royal, Artesian, Nine Elms,
Out and Outer, Cheltenham, Earl of. Derby, the
two Robin Hoods, Purchase, Canard, Bombastes,
Misfortune, Julius, and others. Plutus is following
Gladiateur, and both are well. Kingsley and Land
Tax have arrived from Drewett's.