The Sun.
London, England, 1861-06-27 00:00:00

THE LOSS OF THE CANADIAN.

Captain Graham, of the ill-fated mail steamer
Canadian, writes from St. John's, Newfoundland:
tho
Cu
and filled with
bluk, we lost
no— ftimet --"After seeing.
getting l
people, and we had not left her more than three
minutes when she went down head foremost, like a
ship going off the stocks. The sight of the sinking
ship was terrible to behold. The poop deck flew
up into the air, and when she arrived at the bottom
the boilers burst and sent up an explosion that nearly
swamped all our boats." According to a letter from
a passenger, several persons were drowned before
they could reach the deck. The following is a list
of the passengers lost :

Cabin—Mr. Houseman, S. Mahew, John Hessley,
Captain Hickman, and A. Heathcoate.
Steerage—Thomas Cosen, Sarah Bellan or Bal-
lam, Mr. Tasker, George Lee, James Moffat, W
Bain, Emery Wingfield, Eliza Wingfield, john
Defreck, Simon Jeddins, George Binck, A. Sander-
son, Mr. Blount and wife, Mrs. Beattie, and two
children, John Barr, Andrew Heytheryton, A. A.
Wright, and Eliza Hacknell.

The Prince and Princess of Prussia, accompanied
by their two children, arrived at Gravesend yesterday
morning, and were met by the Prince of Wales. Their
Royal Highnesses at once proceeded by train to London.
FEARFUL THUNDER STORMS IN YORKSHIRE.--
On Sunday evening, and again on Monday evening, the
Vale of Pickering was traversed by most violent thunder
storms, accompanied by torrents of rain and showers of hail
and ice. In the neighbourhood of Ganton the pieces of ice
are reported to have been of a size between nuts and wal-
nuts, and the rain caused the fields to seem like lakes for
some hours. The lightning struck the vane of Ebberston
church, and has done damage to the spire. At Scampston
some cattle and horses were killed in a field, and a stable
containing a donkey was struck and the animal killed. A.
house in Thorpe-Basset was struck, and an old man, a
shepherd, named Walter Wilson, and his dog, were thrown
to the further end of the apartment. Wilson was prostrate
for abouthalf an hour, but is now recovered. Crops where
the rain fell heaviest are laid, but not being in ear will rise,
and the damage will be slight. The York and Scarborough
Railway in the low country was flooded for some time, and
telegraphic communication was interrupted. At Knapton
the hail and ice were collected against the sides of build-
ings to the depth of a yard, and remained on the ground a
upwards of 30 hours. On the High Moors the storm has
been most severe, and losses from lightning are being dis-
covered among the flocks. Direction of the storm, N.W
to N.E,

BOARD OF TRADE RETURNS.—The Board of
Trade returns are issued for the month and five months
ending the 31st of May. For the month the total declared
value of exportations has reached £11,206,070, against
£10,949,188
410,949,188 in the same period of 1860, and £10,485,744 1
8 in
1859. The increase thus established has been £25-A ,82
38
£49,780,532
with 1859. In the five months the totals
and £52,337,268 for
favour of 1861 contrasted with 1860, and 4720, 26 contrasted
for 1861, against £52,783,535 for 1860, "
al'with the 1859; or a decrease of £3,003,003 comparedred with the latter.
for-
mer, and a decrease 0f42,556,736 co
enrelations with the North
tiin'n:upeas depressed, though
in
n the unfavourable of new markets in
reanimation
counteractedic .
.The
tlh:,
oweixl Ipbe
expansion,
epi
oe perceived e ived
through that
ofin Europe, has
and
st the
artetliry
an crisis. balance of
in-
fluence exercised by the American
and £10,109,092 in 1859. During the
is yet frightfully adverse. The figures
articles imported,
April show total '
trade, according to the computed real value of the priucips
a of 417,509,940, against
months ending the same date the aggregate in 1861
four
represents £51,821,567, contrasted with £42,410,364 in
xt hi.e3, m0nth679,30l endingin
3.60:
1s o,
6 and £33,407,156 in 1859.
The gold ships at present known to be on their
way from Australia to England are the Marco Polo (which
put into Valparaiso disabled by striking an iceberg)? Nriti!
426,000, 128 days out ; the Boreas, with £42,000, 114 daYs,
Agincourt, 479,000, 90 days ; Norfolk, £235,000, 74 days
and Donald McKay, £200,000,
therefore, that may be considered due, or nearly due, 15
£382,000. 67 days. The amount,
EMIGRATION FUNDS.—At the commencement of
1860 the funds in the hands of the Emigration Commis-
sioners for the conduct of Australian immigration were, for
Victoria, £;0,000; New South Wales, £25,000; South
Australia, 49,000. During the year the only remittances
they received were £54,000 from New South Wales, South
Australia, and Queensland. The Governor of New South
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Wales has intimated that the assisted emigration is to ter-

tninate with the fulfil .ent of the existing engagements•

The assisted emigration to South Australia has also been

discontinued, and the commissioners have been desired to
pay over the balance of the funds in their hands to the co-
lonial agent. As regards Victoria, the Government etnt:

gration will cease as soon as the small balance in their
hands is exhausted. The commissioners in their annual

report say that, so far as the selection and de,spatch of en.
grants is concerned, their operations, which since the
middle of 1847, though varying in extent, have never been
interrupted, may (with the exception of Queensland) be
cosidored as for the moment suspended,