The Sun.
London, England, 1857-10-06 00:00:00

piee. It appeals to the sentiments of equity of the
Powers interested; and expresses the hope that its
juit request will be taken into consideration. At
the same tima, the Turkish Government expresses
its willingness to accept, as regards the internal re-
organisation of the Principalities, any reform com-
patible with the suzerain rights of the Sultan, and
thit the idea of separation does not exclude that of
an assimilation in the government of the two pro-
vinces.

The Lidepenclauce, of Brussels, states the com-
mercial circles of Belgium, Holland, Antwerp, and
the Hague have been thrown into some alarm bir
the fact of their last letters from Bengal having
arrived with the seals broken, and with some pas-
sages erased. Nothing is known to explain the
origin of this violation of private correspOndence.

It is certain (says the Cologne Gazette, under its
Vienna head) that Count de Buol has tendered
his resignation, in case that his absence should ho
prolonged on account of his health. It is thought
that the count must remain for a length of time in
a state of complete repose, as his medical advisers
fear an induration of the liver. Should the count
be obliged to withdraw from public affairs, he
would be replaced by Count de Rechberg.

The Opinione of Turin says :—" The police of
Milan have sent a circular to all the frontier offioes,
in order to recommend them to exercise the greatest
vigilance over persons crossing the frontier, and to
search their persons, in order to prevent the intro-
duction of printed papers and lithographed draw-
ings offensive to the Archduke Maximilian."

THE WRECK OF ARUSSIAA LINE-OF

BATTLE BIIIP.

LOSS OF ONE THOUSAND FOUR HUN-

DRED LIVES.

The following extract of a private letter from St.
Petersburg, dated the 16th (28th) September, gives
fuller details than those we published yesterday :
" We hear of a most melancholy occurrence at sea,
in the neighbourhood of Hogland. Five Russian
men-of-war were returning from Reval to Cronstadt,
They were caught in a squall, and one 84-gun ship,
' La Forte,' although carrying double-reefed top-
sails, capsized and went down with all hands (except
five or six men.) There were upwards of 1,400 per-
sons on board. These ships had been at Reval, and
were returning home with the wives and families of
the crews. Thera were three admirals on board, ono
of them being Admiral Moller, the captain in com-
mand, who had only just married, and had his wife
on board, with two of her cousins."

LUCKNOW AND TILE AUSTRIAN
OPPICERS.

A letter dated Vienna, October 3, says :—The
officers belonging to the scientific branches 'of the
Austrian army take great interest in everything
that occurs in India, and some of them seemed
greatly disap ointed when they learned that General
Havelock had not succeeded in leaching Lucknow.
Naturally the military men who are on the spot
must best know what ought to be done, but it may
be as well to mention that several highly distin-
guished Austrian officers have repeatedly expressed
themselves to the effect that the commander
of the troops before Delhi 0 ought 'to have
imitated the example of General Haynau." When
the garrison of Temesvar was reduced to extremities,
and was in imminent danger of falling into the
hands of the Hungarians, Haynau suddenly quitted
the fortress of Cumorn, which be was investing,
and marched his army to the relief of Temesvar.
" Now, Lucknow," say the Austrians, " was in the
same position as Temesvar, and might have been
saved by a coup de main, although nothing could
with such a small force be undertaken against
Delhi." By the foregoing you see that no hope is
now entertained here that the gallant garrison of
the citadel at Lucknow will be able to hold out
until assistance arrives.

BUENOS AYRES LOAN.

TO THE EDITun OF THE SUN.

leol,o7oth
September, something 0
bonds,
has in it at once depressing, yet
a ho
journald er
of
soon m et
h
cheering as regards the above question. I pass over as
n your from
excellent
mere verbiage
all the writer says about intention, which
published isshhoerdt letter
may be good, or may be quite the reverse. I dare not
encroach upon your space at any length, but I must be
allowed to differ with the opinions expressed in said
letter as to the influence, or supposed influence, of cer-
tain persons (though large bondholders), for I will not
believe that the Messrs. Barings, lunch less their
agent, would allow any dictation from any one but the
bondholders.
Their sentiments were clearly c,nveyed in a public
meaing, held, I think, in December last. Our bonis
fall, and from 90 are now little above 80. I am not
clear that a serious respons:bility has not been incurred
by some persons, I•l%)thing cm justify any such inter-
ference in these financial questions, and if made to pay
handsomely for their good intentions it would only servo
them right.
I semi my name and address, and remain, sir, your
obedient servant,

ALSO A SMALL BONDHOLDER.
Oct. 5, 1857.

POISONED BT A FLY.—A tradesman of Lyons, named
Laprevote, was one day last week pricked on the upper
lip by a fly, taut though the little wound caused hint
some annoyance, he took no notice of it. After the
fourth day his face swelled up to a great height, and a
hrge sore came on it. Medical assistance was of no avail,
and two days back he died. It turned out that the fly
Inuit have innoculated him with poisonous virus takm
from some diseased aniirwl.

FRIGHTFUL ACCIDENT AT BATTERSEA.—Yesterday an
accidents from which there is not the slightest hope of
recovery, took place in the Bridge-road, Battersea. A
man named John Scales, in the employ of Mr. Vickers,
cow-keeper, of Pimlico, was driving a Waggon loaded
with grains, when, in descending from the 'thrift (upon
which he had imprudently been riding), he stumbled, and
both the near wheels went over Lis thighs ; in addition
to which his bead was kicked so severely by the hind
legs of the near shaft horse that the skull was fractured.
The unhappy sufferer was taken up, and conveyed to the
house of Mr. Wheeler, a surgeon, residing in Battersea
Park, who, however, was unable to do anything effectual
for the wretched man, mere than stanching the blood by
profuse bandages. He was then placed on a mattress in
a perfectly insensible state and conveyed in a spring cart
to St. George's Hospital. The surgeons* gave not the
slightest hope of his recovery. Last evening his death
was momentarily expected.
THE RECENT ESCAPE FROM NEWCASTLE GAOL.—Just
before the midsummer assizes, it will be remembered,
four prisoners escaped from the gaol of Newcastle-on-
Tyne. Two of them were re-captured near Carlisle some
days after they escaped, but Blackstone, Hind, and ano-
ther man named Winship (the other two, who had been
committed for trial charged whilst violent highway rob-
Lary) have evaded detection until within the last two or
three days, when Hind was apprehended at Sheffield
under somewhat singular circumstences. A man who
had worked at Gateshead, and knew Hind, and the cir-
cumstances of his escape from Newcastle gaol, met him
in the streets of Sheffield, and went up to him and ac-
costed him as Hind. Hind denied that he was the man,
when the person who had challenged him narrated some
of his adveetures to him, but he still maintained that he
was mistaken, and took hie departure. The man, how-
ever, dogged him until he saw him go into a house in a
small row at a place called Stourbridge, in the neighs
bourhood of the town, and having given information,
Hind was apprehended. He has since stated that for
two or three weeks after his escape, he and 'his compa-
nion Winship lay concealed in Sunderland, onl,y eleven
miles from Newcastle. •
EXTRAORDINARY FRAUD ON THE CUSTO3IB.—A
diß-
covery of a rather extensive tea robbery and fraud on
the Customs, which has just beers brought to light in
Belfast, has created no small excitement in that mercan-
tile community. The Banner of Saturday gives the
following account of the manner :—" Yesterday the
commercial public and general community of this town
were startled by the discovery of one of the most ex-
tensive and systematically fraudulent affairs that have
ever occurred in this country. It came to light
clearly that a person engaged in the tea trade, under
the firm of John James Moore and Co., had been
in the habit of replenishing his • stock for a con-
siderable period past by an ingebious process skil-
fully artful and recklessly illegal. His concern was
situated in Skipper-street. At the rear of it they() are
several storehouses in which bonded teas' were placed.
Moors had let this concern to the authorities for this
purpose. He was unmarried and lived upon the pre-
mises ; out of his back office a doorway led to the
bond store which is closely adjoining the office.
Moore managed to get a key fitted to the lock of
the bond store, and by that means could effect an en-
trance whenever he pleased. How he got this key
forged and fitted to the lock of the store is, as yet a
mystery, and there are a number of other oircum•
sfatarll areCes in connection with the occurrence that, for so
unexplained, if at all explicable.
SUNSHINE AND FIRE.—The common opinion that the
sun shining en a fire tends to extinguish it, and that
consequently the embers must be shaded if we would pre-
serve them alive in a fire-place, was male the subject of
experiment by Dr. Thomas M‘Ksever. The fire employed
in both the sets of experiments was a wax candle.
M'Keever found it burn about 12 per cent, faster in the
dark, but Le Conte finds the light of the sun, even when
concentrated by a large lens. produces no effect except
by heating. It the air in the dark be heated to the came
extent, and the air in each case be kept equally quiet,
the candle burns at precisely the same rate. Al•Keever's
experiments indicated that the candle burned from 5 to
11 per cent. faster in the dark than in common sunshine.
He supposed that the chemical rays exercisedsa deoxidis-
ing power, which, to eorne extent, interfered with the
rapid oxidation of the combustible matter, and by trying
toe candle In uithreLA parts of the coloureu kliceiluuk
(produced by deootnpok4eg a ray of light in pa,sing it
through a prism) his experiments appeared to indicate
that a taper burned more rapidly in the red than in the
vio!et Extremity of the s.lar epectruae-74eScierctifia
Atnerion.