The Sun.
London, England, 1866-11-15 00:00:00

THE SUN, LuAtM, THURSIMY EVENING, NOVEMBHII 16, Ists6.

tain, in the face of a starving population, an atti-
tude of neutrality. This conviction haunted the
minds of the Northern statesmen. Yet England,
enduring the greatest suffering, did maintain, in
spite of all inducements to the contrary, a neutral
position. America should reverse the position, and
see what her own attitude would be under similar
circumstances. If the great staple of her manufac-
tures was supplied by Ireland, and if Ireland erected
herself into a Sovereign State by the unanimous
decision of the people, and commenced a war of re-
bellion against England, how would the feelings of
the citizens of the Great Republic induce them to
act? Could England count on anything but the
most determined opposition on the part of the Ame-
ricans
to the reconquest of that island 2- If Ame-
rican sympathy was enlisted against England in
favour of Russia, when engaged in a war of aggran-
disement, England could hope for little but denun-
ciation and active interference if she were engaged
against the Irish in a war of independence. It is a
lamentable thing to think that these kindred nations
should always be opposed to each other, and in
favour of each other's enemies, however alien to
each these enemies might be, and it is a sad proof
of the perversity of mankind that the two most free
nations on earth and the leaders of freedom should
always be snarling at each other, and ready with or
without provocation to bite.
The newspapers have been followed in this matter
by many of the monthly and quarterly periodicals,
all taking the same tone of conciliation. We feel
persuaded that America will accept the hand
stretched out—and that this irritating question will
receive a solution that will tend greatly to the future
benefit, not only to their own mutual interests, but
to those of all maritime nations. It is the highest
effort of wisdom to extract good out of evil, for it
can only be accomplished by subduing feelings of
irritation, and in the manner so beautifully laid
down in a sermon by the Rev. HENRY WARD
BEECHER, when taking for his text the words of
the Apostle PAUL—" Overcome evil with good."
The opinion which weighs most forcibly in America
is the opinion of New England—because there
religion, education, and civilisation have attained to
their highest development. Had England been
more guided by the sentiments expressed by the
people of those States she would not have gone so
far wrong in her judgment of American questions.
This truth is becoming strongly impressed on the
nation, and the change we believe will not be
without its weight in influencing opinion not
only in the New England States, but throughout
America.—Anglo-American Times.

crush him, knocked him back into his place of power
and command over the nation. Such a result is by
no means improbable.—Anglo-American Times.

Terrific Gale at Liverpool.

LIVERPOOL, Wednesday.
The gales which have passed over Liverpool since
Saturday were exceeded last evening and to-day by one
more furious than any that preceded it. Unlike the gales
of the previous days, which generally blew in hntvy
squalls, that of last night was continuous from th N. W.,
and was accompanied by blinding sho;,•ers of rain and hail
—the latter being of an unprecedented size. In the neigh
bourhood of BootlP, Scaforth, and Waterloo, the hailstones
made sad havoc amongst the windows and glass-houses of
mane of the more exposed and detached residences. In the
river fortunately the presence of a large number of steam-
tugs prevented many of the vessels from dragging their
anchors ; but one ship, more unfortunate than the rest, has
come to grief. The British Lion, Capt. Mann, a splendid
North American built ship, which had only reached the
Mersey on Tuesday from Quebec, went to her anchorage in
the Sloyne. In the height of the gale the ship dragged her
anchors, and before any assistance could be rendered the
storm and the heavy sea carried her on to the Devil's Bank,
near Grassendale, at the scuth end of the town. The
schooner Mineral, from Greenhithe to Runcorn, is reported
a total wreck in the Victoria Channel. Nothing has been
heard of the crew. The Alberti, hence for Genoa, has been
compelled to run into Holyhead for shelter, having suffered
in the storm. The well-known Glasgow trader Gipsy
Queen is reported on shore near Garlock Head. The barque
Ocean Spray, hence to Galveston, has been compelled to
put back to the Mersey in a damaged state. The Christian,
from Shoreham for Swansea, has gone ashore, and remains
in a very critical position near Llanelly. The ship Ellen
Stuart, which sailed a few days since for Melbourne, after
attempting to bear up for Holyhead, has succeeded in
reaching this port rather leaky. A foreign barque, name
unknown, laden with fish, has been reported a wreck in
the neighbourhood of Belfast. •

The British Lion, mentioned as having gone on the
Devil's Bank, still remained there up to the despatch of
this parcel, and fears are entertained that she will break
up if the stormy weather continues.

A steamer is reported to be lost, with many lives, on
Blackwater Bank.

The Great Storm at Nassau.

Governor Rawson has addressed a despatch, dated
October 17, to Lord Carnarvon, giving a long account
of the great storm which recently caused so much damage
at Nassau and the neighbouring islands.
The destruction of property on land and at sea (says the
despatch) has been very great throughout all the islands,
and especially in New Providence. Happily, the loss of
life has been comparatively small. On this island only
three deaths have been reported. On some of the out
islands it has been greater. Considering the number of
vessels, colonial and foreign, which have been wrecked
throughout • the Archipelago, it is surprising how few of
the crews have been lost. I estimate the number, includ-
ing five crews, two of colonial and three of foreign vessels,
at between 60 and 70 persons.

Of the two steam-tugs, one had foundered in the har-
bour; the other, the General Clinch, respecting which I
have had occasion to write, as the last of the three vessels
which the government of the United States claimed as the
property of the late Confederate Government, had been
dashed into countless pieces against the public wharf, after
having crushed and inflicted a similar fate upon a colonial
schooner. Fortunately, the number of foreign vessels in
the harbour was at the time small. But of colonial vessels
and boats the number was great. Of the craft in the har-
bour 92 have been totally destroyed, 97 have been badly
injured, and 43 have been slightly injured. Upon these
vessels a considerable portion of the population depended
for their income derived from fishing, sponging, and wreck-
ing, and for the daily supplies of fish and of market pro-
duce brought from the out islands.
On shore the city exhibited a scene scarcely less distress-
ing. It would hardly have suffered so much from a bom-
bardment. The streets were chocked with the debris of
fallen and unroofed houses, and with prostrate trees.
I enclose an abstract of the information obtained by the
police as to the extent of injury done to house property
throughout the island. It is necessarily imperfect to some
extent, and it does not include the injuries done to out-
houses, fences, orchards, gardens, &c., which add consider-
ably to the losses of the population. But your lordship will
be able to form from it some idea of the calamity which has
befallen this island, containing perhaps 12,000 to 13,000
inhabitants, of whom the greater portion reside in the city
and its suburbs : 617 houses destroyed, 609 houses in-
jured, 17 warehouses destroyed, 18 warehouses injured, 12
shops destroyed, 17 shops injured, 5 schoolhouses de-
stroyed, 2 schoolhouses injured, 5 churches and chapels de-
stroyed, 3 churches and chapels injured, 1 theatre de-
stroyed-1,034 persons made houseless.

The accounts from the out islands are, as yet, hurried
and incomplete, but we know that every one, without ex-
ception, was visited by the storm, and that on all greater
or less injury has been inflicted. I regret to say that almost
all have been severely injured.
I annex such further information as I have been able to
collect with respect to the ravages of the storm 1. An
abstract of the injuries done to the public buildings in
New Pfovidence, with the civil engineer's estimate of the
cost of repairs, amounting with the injuries done to roads
and streets not included in the estimate, to about £9,000.
2. Au abstract of the injuries done at the several light-
house stations. 3. An abstract of the injuries done to the
several public-houses as far as is known. An abstract of
the injuries done to buildings belonging to the Church
of England (exclusive of those belonging to the Colonial
Government) in the several islands, estimated by the
bishop of the diocese at £5,000. An abstract and
detailed return of wrecks and casualties to foreign-
going vessels as far as known. Captain Chat-
field, R.N.,
,commanding her Majesty's ship Nimble,
is preparing a chart of the course of the hurricane, of
which, and of his report thereon, I hope to be able to for-
ward a copy by the next mail. At present I will only
state that it passed over or near the Turks Islands, fol-
lowed the edge of the Great Bahama Bank, sweeping all
the inhabited islands in that direction; continued its
north-westerly course after crossing New Providence ; was
felt at Key West, and in Chesapeake Bay, on the coast of
the United States; curved to the northward and eastward
with the Gulf Stream, and was felt in its full force half-
way between Cape Hatteras and Bermuda—the usual course
of hurricanes in these seas."

After stating what measures had been adopted to meet
the emergency, Governor Rawson says :—"I anticipate
being under the necessity of raising a loan of moderate
amount, but I hope to avoid recourse to the English mar-
ket. I may perhaps be able to avail myself of the opportu-
nity of obtaining a moderate circulation of Government
note; which will be a great convenience to the public,
under arrangements which I trust will be found unobjec-
tionable, and will be submitted for approval before adop-
tion."

in the week was 48.4 deg., which is 8.2 deg. above the aver-
age of the same week in 50 years (as determined by Mr.
Glaisher). The highest day temperature was 59.6 dag. on
Monday; the lowest night temperature was 30.6 deg. on
Saturday. The entire range of temperature in the week
was therefore 29.0 deg. The mean of the highest temper-
ature of the water of the Thames was 50.4 deg., that of the
lowest was 48.0 deg. The difference between the mean
dew-point temperature and air temperature was 3.9 deg.
The mean de2,-re.e of humidity of the air was 87, complete
saturation being represented by 100. Rain fell to the
amount of 0.32 in., of which 0.31 in. fell on Thursday. Ac-
cording to a. return furnished by the engineer of the Metro-
politan Board of Works the average daily quantity of sew-
age pumped into the River Thames at the southern outfall
works, Crossness, was 192,379 metric tons.

The Fire and Loss of Life in Hampstead-
Road.

Yesterday Dr. Lankester and the jury previously em-
panelled resumed the inquiry respecting:the circumstances
attending the death of Emanuel Lazarus, aged 10 years ;
Marian Lazarus, aged nine years ; and Sophia Lazarus,
aged eight years —the three children who were suffocated
at a fire that occurred at the residence of their father, a
clothier, at 44, Hampstead-road.
The inquiry excited greater interest than on the former
occasion, as it was stated that had the police on duty at
the time used proper precautions, and not have prevented
those who had previously saved two lives, the other three
might have been rescued without danger.

The evidence of the porter was to the effect that when
he closed the shop he forget to turn off the gas at the main.
A fireman named Radford, in charge of Well-street fire-
station, said that be was first at the fire, when he found it
confined to the shop. In three minutes he got water and
poured it upon the fire, and it was got out in about a
quarter of an hour or 20 minutes. One of the firemen
turned off the gas after he got there. The gas was on
when he arrived at the fire.

.
By Mr. Solomon—Two escapemen were there when ho
arrived, and another came directly afterwards. The street
door was shut when he arrived. The police were employed
in keeping the crowd back, but they were not able to
stand at the street door on account of the heat. If he had
known that the children had been in the first floor he
could have taken them out, but it was 20 minutes before
they were got out.

John Hutchings, a fire-escape conductor, said that he ar-
rived with his escape, and pitched it in front of the build-
ing, when he was told that there were three children in

the second floor. He went up three times, but found no
one therein. He was afterwards told that the children were
in the third floor. He searched that floor, but whilst in
the front-room the smoke extinguished his lamp, and
he had to search the back-room in the dark. After

that he heard that two children had been taken out, but
that others had been left behind. lie went on the roof,
and there saw a man who told him there were other two
children at the trap-door. He asked him the way to the
trap, and he showed him, but he was unable to get down
on account of the smoke.

Ann Wardle, recalled, said that when the first escapeman
arrived she said there were children in the first floor.

This was contradicted by the escapeman. He could not
recognise the female who had given evidence.
Mr. Solomon said that he had no fault to find with the
conductor, who had behaved most courageously.
William Puckett, foreman of the London Salvage Cops,
said that he found two of the children on a bed. He could
not say whether they were alive, but he thought not. He
took one child away in a cab to the hospital, but it was dead.
Thos. Comber, police-constable, 54 S, said that he was
on duty on the night in question, and saw a large crowd
running along the Hampstead-road. He followed, and found
Mr. Lazarus's house on fire. He was told that there were
some children in the fit st floor. He went up the stairs to
that part of the building, but could get no further. Some
five or six persons then made an attempt to get to that
floor, but they were unable. He called to the escapeman,
and told him that there were children in the second floor,
and to make haste, as they could only be saved by the escape.
Police-constable 218 5 said that ho found the door of the
house open, and several persons attempted to get upstairs,
but were unable, and as others made attempts to go up, he
told them to get clear of the doors to enable others to get
eout. His instructions were to keep the doors at fires. He
should not think of keeping the door if he knew there were
any persons in the house. He heard that two children had
been brought down, but he did not hear that there were
other children in the place until the fire escape arrived.
Mr. James Laxton, superintendent of the S
said that he was sent for on the night of the fire, and when
ho arrived he found the fife out. In every man's instruction
book it is laid down that, on the alarm of fire, he is to
hasten to the spot, arouse the inmates, and send some one
else for the engines and escapes, and to keep the doors
closed after the inmates had escaped until the arrival of the
brigade, and then to hand the premises over to the firemen.
He had examined the circumstances, and he could not at-
tach the least blame ,to constables 54, 213, and 50.
By Mr. Solomon—The first constable ran off for the en-
gine instead of stopping at the fire.
Mr. Sampson Lowe said that the first intimation ought
in all cases to be given to the fire escape conductors.

Mr. Laxton said that no orders to that effect had ever
been issued by Sir Richard Mayne. The constables were
instructed to use their own discretion on such occasions.
Other witnesses who were examined stated their belief
that there was ample time to savj the children. Oue.per-
son said that he saw Ann Wardle, the servant, trying to
get to the door, but that she was pulled back.
The inquiry, after lasting four hours, was adjourned till
Monday next.