The Sun.
London, England, 1861-01-08 00:00:00

The reply of Abd-el-Kader is as follows :

" Glory to God ! Praisa and salutation to the
Prophet Mahomet, and to all the prophets! The
poor before the rich, Abd•el-Kader, son of Mouhi-
ed-Din-el-Hossaim, to the brother in God and dear
Ulemar Schamyl ! May God protect us, him and
me, in the time of repose and in the hour of
departure. May peace and Divine mercy be
given to you. I have received your letter and
your amiable praises. What we have done for the
Christians was a religious duty and one of huma-
nity. Our faith is the perfection of good qualities
—it comprises all that is praiseworthy and all that
ought to be done. All these good things must be
with us like a collar round his neck. Injustice is
blamed in all nations, and its dwelling is sullied.
The poet has said, When the day of temptation
comes man so loses his head that what is ugly he
finds handsome.' We come from God, and we shall
return to Him. We live in a time when few of the
faithful cause justice to triumph, and people have
believed that Islamism inculcates cruelty, injustice,
and exclusiveness. May God grant as patience !
We know that you are with the Emperor of Russia,
and that he gave you a reception worthy of you.
We know that you requested him to allow you to
make a pilgrimage to Mecca. Let us pray God that
he may grant it. The Emperor of Russia is a great
king, and he merits all the praises which have been
lavished on him. I hope that the Sultan of Russia
will shower down his benefits on you as the Sultan
of France has done on me. Let us hope in God,
who is alone to be adored.

"ABD EL-KADEI3.."

TRE WRECK OF 711 E Que EN VICTORIA

STEAM-SHIP.

Yesterday the Board of Trade received the official
report of the Receiver of Wrecks at Plymouth,
containing the sworn deposition, as required by the
Merchant Shipping Act, of Captain G. P. Lambert,
commander of the Queen Victoria screw steam-ship,
1,430 tons, which was wrecked in leaving Plymouth
Sound for Keyham.
The Queen Victoria, laden with the Rtngoon
and Singapore electric telegraph cable, left London
on the 4th of last month, with 18 passengers on
board. In accordance with the contract, she put
into Plymouth and remained in the Sound until the
the 2d inst., the weather fine, and the wind in the
E., blowing a moderate breeze, when the ship
weighed anchor from the usual merchant anchor-
age, for the purpose of proceeding to Keyham
dockyard, according to orders received on the Ist
inst. The ship was in charge of a first-class pilot
of the port of Plymouth. On starting, the ship's
head being to the eastward, she proceeded under
steam round the shipping for the purpose of point-
ing her head fair for the II imotize Channel, when
it appeared that the ship did not answer her helm
quickly, on which he (the captain) said'to the pilot,
" If you want the ship to answer her helm promptly,
you must ease the engines." The pilot consented
that they should be eased, and it was accordingly
done, and the ship went round immediately. He
then remarked, " You see now how she answers."
He was himself ignorant of the Channel, and de-
pended entirely upon the pilot, but seeing the vessel
was going at a fast speed, he asked the pilot if all
was right, who replied that it could not be better.
On the ship coming round the Vanguard buoy,
having full speed on, he (the captain) being on the
bridge with the pilot, suggested to him (the pilot)
whether the engines had not better be stopped, to
enable the ship to answer her helm, which was
hard a-port. The pilot assented to the suggestion,
which was immediately carried out; but observing
her head was continuing to approach the shore, ha
(the captain) proposed that the engines should be
reversed at full speed, and the pilot having ac-
quiesced, it was almost immediately done, but
before her way could be stopped she grounded on
Wilderness Point, in Barnpool.
The report then details the efforts made, but
without success, to get the ship off, and adds, " the
ship still remains fast, and is rapidly being cleared
of all moveable stores and cargo. Captain Lambert
considers that the casualty was caused through
want of caution and judgment on the part of the
pilot when navigating a vessel of such length and
tonnage.
The Receiver, in submitting the report to the
Board of Trade, writes to the effect t hat the casu-
alty appears to have been caused by the vessel
having been kept at full speed when approaching
the Vanguard Buoy, which together with the great
length, prevented her from rounding the buoy so
closely as is necessary to avoid running aground
on the opposite shore.
The ship and cargo, it is stated, are insured at
Lloyd's and other offices for upwards of £lOO,OOO.

TILE ,PRIVATE OF THE BUFFS.

Br SIR F. H. DOYLE.

" Some Seiks, and a private of the Buffs, having re-
mained behind with the grog-carts, fell into the hands of
the Chinese. On the next morning they were brought be-
fore the authorities, and commanded to perform the kotou.
The Seiks obeyed ; but Moyse, the English soldier, declar-
ing that he would not prostrate himself before any China-
man alive, was immediately knocked upon the head, and
his body thrown on a dunghill.—See China Correspondent
of the Times.
Last night, among his fellow roughs,
He jested, quaffed, and swore;
A drunken private of the Buffs,
Who never looked before.
To-day, beneath the foeman's frown,
He stands in Elgin's place,
Ambassador from Britain's crown,
And type of all her race.

Poor, reckless, rude, low-born, untaught,
Bewildered, and alone,
A heart, with English instinct fraught,
lie yet can call his own.
Ay, tear his body limb from limb,
Bring cord, or axe, or flame :
He only knows, that not through hint
Shall England come to shame.

Far Kentish* hop-fields round him seem'cly
Like dreams, to come and go ;
Bright leagues of cherry-blossomgleaned
One sheet of living snow ;
The smoke, above -his father's door,
In grey soft eddyings hung
Must he then watch it rise no more,
Doom'd by himself, so young
Yes, honour calls I— with strength like steel
He put the vi sion
Let dusky Indians whine and kneel;
An English lad must die.
And thus, with eyes that would not shrink,
With knee to man unbent,
Unfaltering on its dreadful brink
To his red grave he went
•

'Vain, mightiest fleets, of iron framed;
'Vain, those all-shattering guns;
Unloss proud England keep, untamed,
The ,strong heart of her sons.
So let his* name through Europe ring—
A rsan of mean estate,
Who died, as firm as Sparta's king,
Because his soul was great.
* The Buffs, or West Kent Regiment,
.AfetjailiC for December.