The Sun.
London, England, 1861-09-04 00:00:00

(From the Liverpool Mercury.)

The " Swedish Nightingale" has made arrangements for
an autumnal professional tour, during which we understand
she will visit Irelend and other parts of the kingdom. Her
visit to Liverpool, as has already been announced, is fixed
for the 28th and 29th of next month. Having retired with
a large competency, some curiosity will naturally arise in
the public mind as to the tempting offers which have been
made to induce the charming songstress again to emerge from
private life. On the occasion of her last visit to Liverpool
Madame Goldschmidt was engaged by the Commit tee of the
Liverpool Philharmonic Society, who gave her £l,OOO for
her services on two evenings. Some time ago, when
rumours were abroad of the intended visit to Ireland of "The
Nightingale," communications were opened direct by the
ame Society with Mr. and Mrs. Goldschmidt, but the offer
of £l,OOO for the services for two evenings was declined.
The Committee advanced the offer to 1,000 guineas, but
that also was declined. A long correspondence subse-
quently took place, and at length a satisfactory arrange..
meat was made. The report here was that the committee of
the Liverpool Philharmonic Society had given £1,200 for the
two concerts, but that report was not correct. So far as
we can learn, no specific sum has been named. A " sharing
arrangement" has been made. In addition to Mr. and
Mrs. Goldschmidt, the services of Mr. Sims Reeves, Signor
Belletti, and other artistes will be secured, but " the party"
as a whole will be supplied by Mr. Mitchell or the persons
for whom he acts, and he or they will take a very large
proportion of the receipts. It is expected that there will
be at least 3,000 persons present each evening. The
charges for admission are 205., 155., and lOs 6d. Taking
the average at 155., and supposing the hall to be full eaph
evening, the gross receipts would be £4,500. At the very
lowest estimate, Madame Lind will receive two-thirds of
the receipts, or £3,000. Out of this, of course, she will
have to pay the other artistes, and £1,500 would be left
for the committee to pay all the enormous incidental ex-
penses attending such concerts.

Two GREAT FIRES (THIS DAY).—About 1 o'clock
this morning the cooperage of Mr. Wooslley, Oak-lane,
Limehouse, was discovered to be on fire, and although one
of the floating engines and numerous land engines were soon
at work, the fire continued till it destroyed the whole of the
premise 4, together wish those of Mr. Seaton, also a cooper,
adjoining. Both gentlemen are insured. Another fire of
an extensive character broke out about 5 o'clock in the
premises of Messrs. Batten and Co., tea dealers, Low3r,
Thames-street. The engines were soon on the spot, but
the fire was not subdued until the premises were entirely
destroyed, and the adjoining buildings much damaged by
water.

ACCIDENT ON THE ROCKS AT HASTINGS.—On
the evening of Tuesday last, a gentleman named Heinke, a
visitor of St. Leonard's, had the misfortune to fracture the
bone of his arm by falling on the above rocks, which are
situate opposite the east end of Marine Parade. It appears
that he was going off to the wrecked schooner Louise,
which was lying near the shore, and was in company with
the divers employed in securing the vessel, when stepping
upon a rock covered with a green slippery weed he fell and
sustained the injuries in question. He was immediately
taken to the surgery of Mr. F. Ticehurst, and the fractured
bone having been set by that gentleman he proceeded to
his home in a fly, We believe that he is now progressing
favourably. 1 isitors and others who are in the habit of
seeking amusement on the rocks by the sea-side will do well
to be careful, as a hasty flight across the same is not alto-
gether unattended with danger.—Susscx Advertiser.
A YACHT SUNK BY A STEAMER OFF RYDE.-011
Monday night a serious collision took place off Ryde Pier,
the result of which was that the Amazon, Smith, Esq.,
owner, a crack and well-known cutter-yacht, was sunk at
her moorings. As far as we have been enabled to ascertain
the facts of the unfortunate affair are as follows :—On the
night in question the Prince Consort, Captain Beazley, a
splendid new boat belonging to the Portsmouth and Ryde
Packet Company, left Portsmouth Pier at 8.10 p.m., and
proceeded to Ryde, first touching at Southsea. It is stated
that the captain never once left the bridge, as the night was
very dark. When off the Ryde Pier, where the Amazon
was lying moored, the Prince Consort ran directly into the
yacht, which immediately commenced to founder. On
board the Amazon was the owner, his lady, another lady,
and two children. At the moment the yacht was struck
the children were being put to bed. Luckily the yacht did
not sink entirely for eight or ten minutes, during which
time the ladies, children, and crew were enabled to take to
the boats and escape. They had no sooner left the beauti-
ful yacht than she sank in many feet of water. The Amazon
was fitted up with elegance and splendour, and the damage
done is very great. The yacht when struck lay anchored
at her moorings, being furnished with a signal light which
was hanging halfway up the mast, and which ought, it is
said, to have been her sacurity. A diver has been down to
the yacht, but she still remains where she sank.
REPAIR OF THE SINGAPOREAND BATAVIA CABLE.
The Dutch screw steamer Draak started with 61 miles of
new deep sea cable on board, intended to repair the cable in
the Straits of Banka. The examination of the cable was
commenced with that part between 176 to 179 miles from
Batavia, lying to the south of Lucipara, and which was laid
in a W.N.W. direction, it being proposed to splice on the
new 61 mile cable, and to lay it further to the N. W. in a
depth of two fathoms. On taking up this 3/ miles of cable
it was found that where it lay the bottom consisted of blue
and soft mud, like that on the east coast of Sumatra, and
that the cable in this mud was not encrusted with shells, but
remained clean and undamaged and as good as new. After
this examination the Draak returned to Batavia in order to
repair the ruptures in the cable near that place. From the
mouth of Muarabara, where the shore end of the cable is
situated, to a distance of 40 miles from Batavia, W.S.W.
of Pulo Katok, the number of breaks were not less than 20,
the repairs of which occupied a long time. It is noticeable
that all these breaks were found in the deep sea cable,
while the whole line from the south of the Agnita islands
to the south of Middleburg and Amsterdam, where the
shore end cable lie, was not damaged in a single place. Of
the deep sea cable, which was under-run for a length of 40
miles, it was found in some places that the iron wire cover-
ing had wholly disappeared, while in others it had become
very thin. It is reported that the line will be again in
working order.—London and China Telegraph.
SLAVERY AND SECESSION.—Some people say that
slavery has had nothing to do with originating' the present
difficulties, but that it is the desire of the South to be free
from the protective tariffs of the North which has caused it
to rebel against the Union; whilst others say that neither
slavery nor free trade have any hand in the matter, butthsat
the whole affair is the work of a band of exasperated politi-
cians, who have decided to deluge their country with blood
rather than submit to the constitutional defeat which they
experienced in November last, when Abraham Lincoln was
placed at the head of the poll and declared President of the
United States. There is, doubtless, some truth in these
notions, but their advocates ignore the fact that slavery
is at the bottom of both. We have the word of
Southerners themselves that it is the fear of Northern
interference with slavery alone which has been the cause of
the present hostile attitude of the cotton States. Two years
ago it was foreseen that an anti-slavery President would
reign at Washington, and Messrs. Davis and Stephens (now
President and Vice-President respectively of the Southern
Confederacy) declared that in case events should turn out
as anticipated, the Union would be dissolved, simply because
under a Republican Executive the " property" of the South
would no longer be secure. In March, 1860, the first num-
ber of " The Plantation, a Southern Quarterly Review,"
made its first appearance in Georgia, and in the prospectus
of the work we were told that, unless a change Pockplace
in the opinions of the world outsi4 rho fee States concern-
ing the true status and relations of negro slavery, the Union
would be disse'.ved, "and dissolved in blood;" and the edi-
tor, in his " salutatory," remarks that, "unless there is a
speedy and great revolution in public opinion in the North-
ern States upon the subject of slavery, war—bloody war—
between the North and the South is inevitable." Slavery,
and slavery alone, then, is the cause of the revolt of the
Southern States.—Ellision's Slavery and Secession in Ame-
rica.