The Sun.
London, England, 1866-09-24 00:00:00

1805, and remained prisoner in England for some

time.

Autumn commenced to-day very boisterously at
6.59 a.m., and French astronomers predict that there
will be very rough weather from the 26th to the
27th. There will be a very high tide on the 26th.
To-morrow (the 24th) there will be an eclipse of
the moon, invisible at Paris, but on the Bth of next
month there will be a partial eclipse of the sun,which
will be visible at Paris. The weather yesterday was
very wet and stormy. The wind blew all day with
great violence. It rained heavily all last night. To-
day the wind has abated, but it has rained heavily
and almost incessantly.
A married woman, living at Auxerne, had cri-
minal relations with a young man of the country,
and a few days ago the husband caught them toge-
ther in a barn. The woman tore her hair and con-
fessed her guilt. The woman being afterwards left
alone in the house, she cut her child's throat with a
razor, and also her own. She was found dead
stretched on the floor, saturated with blood, and
the dead child by her side.
The papers publish accounts of more crimes. A
man named Voitot recently returned from America
to the commune of Grammont (Haute Saone) with
his wife and infant daughter. At a family meeting,
to which friends were invited, a discussion arose,
which so excited Voitot that he produced a dagger,
with which he stabbed two of his brothers-in-law,
his sister-in-law, two of his nieces, and a guest (a
young man of 24). The sister-in-law died the next
day, and the wounds of the two nieces are supposed
to be mortal. The assassin rushed out, but was
arrested next day in the neighbouring forest. He
attempted suicide.

The Italie states that the future Minister of Italy
at the Court of Vienna will be Count de Launay,
who is now Minister at St. Petersburg.

Raising of Sunken Vesse's.

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TO THE EDITOI3 OF THE SUN.

SlR,—The enclosed extract from the Dundee Ad-
vertiser, and my letter to Sir John Pakington on
the same subject, may be worth noticing in your
journal, as showing the extent to which red-tapism
is carried at the Admiralty. No official answer has
been received, but I have been promised that the
subject should be reconsidered; but it will be too
late, as nothing can be now done this season, and
the Ostenden must remain in the Channel this
winter.—Yours, KINNA IRD.
Rossie Priory, Inchture, Sept. 19.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE DUNDEE ADVERTISER.

Sir, —I have seen a paragraph in your paper headed
" The Raising of the London," to the effect that Mr. Page
intends making a trial at lifting her by two vessels tied
down with chains. There is no doubt Mr. Page can lift
her if the chains do not slip or break, but there is a possi-
bility of her slipping into deeper water and obstructing a
useful channel.

If Mr. Page would adopt a plan which I would advise
him to adopt there would be no risk of that. It is to got a
quantity of vulcanised indisrubber air compartments,
made into the shape of small balloons, covered over some
way as balloons are done with netting—say each of them
to hold 500 cubic feet of air when inflated, to be tied
round the vessel in such quantities as would lift her. If
the vessel is under water the fastening would have to be
done with a diver and the air compartments collapsed and
ballasted to sink them. Whoa properly fastened attach an
air-pump to a tube leading to each compartment, and then
inflate till the vessel comes to the surface. If the vessel's
hull is above water he will have to calculate the number
of feet required to lift her according to tonnage and wait for
the tido. It does not take mom than 20 cubic feet of air
to lift a ton of general cargo to the surface.
Some time ago I had a min!ature trial of the principle
I want Mr. Page to adopt. I had a small yacht which
rode dcwn at her moorings, with four cwt. of pig iron
ballast in her. I lifted her myself without any assistance
whatever. The plan was this. I got twelve bladders
and covered them with rabbit nets, and tied six to each
gunwale at low water. I had to work under water with
my arms at low tido. I got them all fastened at one tide,
my friends laughing at my folly, and telling me that a hun-
dred bladders would not move her, But to their disap-
pointment, and my great satilfaction, she rose with the

tide, and I towed her ashore a; high water. The only as-
sistance I had was twelve air-ight bladders.—larn yours,
Sao., Pao BONO PUBLIC°.

Belfast, Sept. 8,186 G.
[The same plan has been already experimentally exhi-
bited by Mr. James Laing, Dandee, and Mr. Jonas Kidd;
Newport.-- ED. L. A.]

Rossic Priory, Inchture, N. 8., Sept. 11, 1866.

Dear Sir John,—l cannot help thinking that you
have not been consulted, or that there has been some
misapprehension which has led to the refusal of the
Admiralty to allow the Coast-guard men in the neigh-
bourhood to volunteer to assist in raising the Lon-
don steam vessel, sunk in the river Tay, interfering
seriously with the navigation of the river.
The cnly ground for refusal can be that the
vessel belongs to a private company, but this,
considering the circumstances, cannot, I should
think, weigh with you.

It is not with the view of saving expense that the
company desire to obtain the assistance of the
Admiralty. 'lhe engineer having failed in his at-
tempt to raise the vessel, and Admiral Sir 11. Keppel
having pointed out to the directors the mode of
effecting this by means of pontoons, which can be
obtained (but the handling of which requires expe-
rienced seamen) they naturally turn to the Admi-
ralty, considering that they have Coast-guard men at
hand, it being too late in the season to make arrange-
ments to procure experienced men elsewhere, and
they cannot understand what objection there can
be on the part of the Admiralty to grant such assist-
ance, as the raising of the vessel is not only for
private purposes, but, as I have said, to clear the
channel of a serious obstruction. Admiral Keppel
spoke with such certainty of the willingness of the
Admiralty to grant the request, that the refusal will
cause the greatest dissatisfaction to the people of
Dundee, who are entitled to some consideration,
looking to the fact that the town supplies the largest
naval reserve of any town in the kingdom, not
available of course for the purpose alluded to, and
every one must be of opinion that such a practice
would be of advantage to the men themselves.
The directors also wish to have the use of the
cables of the Brilliant, there being no other vessel
with cables of sufficient size on the spot, and pro-
curing them elsewhere would be attended with delay.
Of course the company would be bound to make
good all damages, and pay the men employed.—
Yours faithfully,
(Signed) KINNAIRD.
The Right Hon. Sir John Pakington,
Bart, K.C.B.