The Sun.
London, England, 1866-11-16 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONLON, FRIDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 16, 1866

in Chesapeake Bay ; it then curved to the north-
east with the gulf stream, and was in full force
half-way between Cape Hatteras and Bermuda.
This, it seems, is the general course of hurricanes in
those seas, and the question is worth studying, since
the interests affected are very widely extended.
At daybreak, on the morning of the 2d, a melan-
choly spectacle presented itself. In the harbour
every vessel, with one exception, was driven ashore
or had foundered. The road along the coast was
blocked up with the cast-up craft. In the city a
still worse scene was visible. "It would
hardly," says Governor RAWSON, " have suf-
fered so much from a bombardment ;" and
certainly the details which he gives fully
confirm the assertion. All the public buildings
were injured. Government House was unroofed
and the windows dashed in. The Court-house,
Council Chamber, and old gaol were unroofed ; the
new gaol, in process of building, being partly blown
down. The cathedral, churches, and school-houses
were all more or less damaged, while two chapels
were blown down, and a third, the Wesleyan, just
finished at a heavy expense, was totally destroyed.
A considerable portion of the Ordnance Storehouses
was levelled with the ground, and the Military Hospital
partly blown down. As might be supposed the lesser
buildings have suffered still more severely. Scarcely
a warehouse or store has escaped partial destruc-
tion ; some of them have been wholly destroyed.
Most of the stores were roofed with metal, and of
such only one escaped. The mercantile community
have of course suffered very much by the injury to
their stocks of goods.

The damage done to the shipping has been very
great. Of the craft in the harbour 92 have been
totally destroyed, 97 badly injured, and 48 slightly
injured. There were two steam-tugs, one of which
foundered, and the other was dashed against the
wharf and crushed, after having herself crushed a
colonial schooner. Even H.M.S. Nimble was
driven from her moorings and nix ashore in 6 feet
water. The worst part of the damage to the ship-
ping is that a large portion of the population de-
pended for their fishing and sponging, and also for
their daily supplies, on the produce of the out
islands. The Governor appears to have acted with
promptitude and discretion in the emergency. He
despatched the solitary vessel remaining to visit the
uninhabited cays on which he thought it probable
that the crews of some of the wrecked vessels
might be known. Many shipwrecked men were
thus found and brought in safety. He has also
orgabised an efficient system of relief, and sum-
moned the Houses of Representatives to meet in an
extraordinary session. At the same time he has
been careful to stimulate the people to exertion and
independence, not wishing them to rely exclusively
on public charity. His account will be read with
deep interest, and it is to be hoped that the terrible
experience of this year will induce the population
to take all possible precautions against a possible
recurrence of the calamity.

The new Attorney-General has been re-elected
without opposition, and made some interesting ob-
servations on the occasion, which appeared to give
great satisfaction to his hearers. In taking a glance
at recent events, Sir JOHN alluded to the position
held by Earl RUSSELL upon his accession to office.
lle then had a majority of sixty or seventy, the
largest majority that any Government had had for
some years, but it availed him little or nothing,
in consequence of bad management. As for
the plan adopted by the late Govern-
ment of dividing the question of Reform into
sectionary fragments, Sir JOHN denounced it as quite
a mistake; it was, in point of fact, he said, as
" stupid as tricky." "It was very analogous to the
boys' idea of catching a bird by putting some salt
on his tail; they supposed the bird would stop to be
caught." After getting over this difficulty they
came to the stumbling-block of a rating or a rental
franchise, and upon this secondary question they
went out. Sir JOHN declares that Lord DERBY
was one of those who had the share in carrying
the measure of Reform through the House in
1832, and he has assisted the cause of national edu-
cation as much, if not more, than any man in the
country; and in addressing himself to the questions
of the day has he displayed an eloquence in debate
that is unrivalled, and he has advocated and defended
well the Constitution of our country and the main-
tenance of our institutions in a liberal spirit.

Then as for the claims of their leader in the
House of Commons to support, Sir JOHN showed
himself an eloquent advocate. He is said to be of
large experience, " ripe and mature in the know-
ledge of a statesman, and having that indomitable
courage and pluck without which no man can head
the House of Commons." It is worthy of notice
that during the twenty years he has got together
more than two hundred and fifty men of his party.
Mr. DISRAELI has not had a single desertion, a
boast which none of his opponents on the
Liberal side can make. Regarding foreign politics
Sir JOHN declared that if we went on too long ne-
glecting our own interests abroad, ere long we
should become a second Denmark ; and that re-
specting our army and navy we must be on the
alert, or very serious consequences would follow.
He took a high stand and said that he made no
apology in coming before them upon taking office ;
but, on the contrary, was proud of having done so,
believing that the best interests of the country would
be looked after by the present advisers of the
Crown.

The Election for Wexford County.

DUBLIN, Thursday Evening.

The nomination for Wexford county election took
place this day, in the Court House of Wexford.
There was some excitement, but no tumult. Captain
Esmond, J.P., High Sheriff, presided.
Mr. J. Pope Hennessy was proposed byMr. Lam-
bert, D.L., and seconded by Mr. Cullen.
Mr. Arthur Kavanagh was proposed by Mr. Doyn,
andsecoAndhbedey b. y Mr. Itossborough Colclough, of
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He spoke highly of Mr. Kavanagh, but declared
that he himself would go to the poll, believing that
he would better represent the opinions of the people.
He described at length his whole Parliamentary
career, and defended with great earnestness the con-
duct of the Conservative party in respect to Ireland.
Finally, he expressed his confident belief that he
would be returned. Throughout he was cheered
with great enthusiasm. The show of hands was in
favour of Hennessy, and a poll was demanded for
Mr. Kavanagh. The polling was fixed for Monday
next.

Monday next is also fixed for the nomination in
Belfast. Captain Talbot will contest the county
Waterford on Conservative principles, and Mr.
Edmund de la Poer is the Li beral candidate.

THE QUEBEC FIRE.—We am, authorised by the
London committee to state that at their Mansion louse
meeting on Wednesday the sum to ) drawn by the Mayor
of Quebec was £4,000, and not £l,OOO. The subscriptions
up to last evening amounted to aboi It £16,700, of which
sum £14,000 had been already rendered available at Quebec
in relieving the distress of the poor sufferers. Amongst the
donations received yesterday was o ue of £5OO from the
Lord Mayor and Corporation of the llitY of Loudon.

L A TEST INTELLIGENCE.

(REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.)
AMERICA.
(PER THE CHINA.)
NEW YORK, Nov. 6 (Evening).

On Saturday the old Police Commissioners of
Baltimore arrested and confined the new commis-
sioners, with the sheriff, in gaol, charging them
with endeavouring to excite a riot. The latter
refused to give bail, and still remain in gaol. Their
counsel applied for habeas corpus, which, it was de-
cided, the warder of the gaol was not bound to

return.

Genral Grant visited Baltimore on Sunday un-
officially, and conferred with the old and new com-
missioners. Through this interposition the diffi-
culty was compromised by the appointment of a
Conservative judge and clerk of the election in each
district in addition to the judges already appointed.
Four thousand muskets have been seized in the
stores of different Conservatives in Baltimore.
The Radical Republicans have held an open air
meeting in front of the City Hall, New York. Gen.
Butler delivered a speech on the occasion, during
which he was hooted and pelted.
Fenian indignation meetings are still held
throughout the States.
A Fenian Protestant clergyman, the Rev. Mr.
Lumsden, has been tried and acquitted in Canada.
Considerable ill feeling has been aroused among
the Roman Catholics by his acquittal. A new trial
for Lynch and MacMahon will be applied for during
the week.

MEXICO.

NEW YORK, Nov. 6 (Evening.)

Advices have been received here from the city of
Mexico to the 22d ult. The Emperor Maximilian set
out for Vera Cruz on the 21st, via Orizaba, in order to
avoid meeting General Castelnau. Before leaving,
he verbally appointed Marshal Bazaine temporary
Regent. The Mexican Ministry, on hearing of
Marshal Bazaine's appointment, resigned. General
Castelnau arrived in the city of Mexico on the 23d,
and took upon himself the administration of the
Government.