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

TEE LOSS OF THE CANADIAN.

Captain Graham, of the ill-fated mail steamer
Canadian, writes from St. John's, Newfoundland :
—" After seeing that the ship was to sink, we lost
no time in getting the boats cleared and filled with
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 alight. Tho 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
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 in the same period of 1860, and £10,485,744 in
1859. The increase thus established has been £256,882 in
favour of 1861 contrasted with 1860, and £720,326 contrasted
with 1859. In the five months the totals were £49,780,532
for 1861, against £52,783,535 for 1860, and £52,337,268 for
1859; or a decrease of £3,003,003 compared with the for-
mer, and a decrease of £2,556,736 compared with the latter.
Iz will be perceived that trade continues depressed, though
the expansion, through the opening of new markets in
in China and the reanimation in relations with the North
of Europe, has parthily counteracted the unfavourable in-
fluence exercised by the American crisis. The balance of
trade, according to the computed real value of the principa
articles imported, is yet frightfully adverse. The figures
the month ending April show a total of £17,509,940, against
£13,679,301 in 1860, and £10,109,092 in 1859. During the
four months ending the same date the aggregate in 1861
represents £51,821,567, contrasted with £42,410,364 in i
1860, and £33,407,156 n 1859.
The gold ships at present known to be on their
ly, b
way from Australia to England are the Marco Polo (which
put into Valparaiso disabled by striking an iceberg), with
£26,000, 128 days out ; the Boreas, with £42,000, 114 days;
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Agincourt, £79,000, 90 days ; Norfolk, £235,000, 74 days ;
£382,000.
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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, £60,000 ; New South Wales, £25,000 ; South
Australia, £9,000. During the year the only remittances
they received were £54,000 from New South Wales, South
Australia, and Queensland. The Governor of New South
Wales has intimated that the assisted emigration is to ter-
minate with the fulfilment 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 emi-
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 dt,spatch of emi-
grants is concerned, their operaions, which since the
middle of 1847, though varying in extent, have never been
interrupted, may (with the exception of Queensland) be
couxidered 45 for tln ramieut stopended.