The Sun.
London, England, 1861-09-20 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 20, 1861.

shaking and vibrating from stem to stern, and after
all to return to a British harbour, with sad marks
indeed of the struggle, but " without a rivet started
anywhere, or the butt of a plate shaken"—and we
must surely believe that the Great Eastern is not
only the largest but the strongest vessel afloat. That
it seems, in the language of a passenger, " as if the
great idea were realised in the construction of a
ship not to be broken up by the winds or waves."
Marvellous, too, is the strength of the engines.
Even when the huge paddle-wheels, with a circum-
ference equal to that of ASTLEY'S Amphi-
theatre, proved too weak to resist the waves, in
which, notwithstanding their height, they were
sometimes immersed, when they were bent till they
grated on the side of the vessel, then successively
wrenched and torn from their axles, still the en-
gines went on quietly doing their duty. The
strength requisite for those vast circumferences in
a gale had not been rightly calculated, but paddle
and screw engines stood all the shocks thrown
upon them, and to the latter the passengers owed

their safe return to Queenstown—those who knew
their full danger only too happy to forget the mor-
tification of delay in thankfulness for safety.
It was not till Saturday evening that the storm
began to abate, and it was just before sunset on
Thursday that the rudder-head was broken—that 10
inches of iron were broken " like a lucifer match."
All steering was at an end, but with admirable
prudence the Captain kept the men at the wheel, and
thus also kept from the passengers the knowledge
of their real danger, and saved them from fears

worse than their actual sufferings. Bad enough
must it have been for all landsmen to
behold the terrors which were obvious enough,
and to suffer the tossings, contusions, and, in some
cases, dangerous surgical injuries which no care
could avert. Long they looked out, but looked in
vain for a friendly sail, and not as till the worst
had begun to subside, did the huge Great Eastern
feel it a comfort to have the little brig—the
Magnet, of Halifax, lying to, to take cire of her
should she be needed.

Happily, though the passengers had the pleasure
of offering her the only recompense in their
power, their " unanimous and heartfelt thanks,"
the services of the Magnet were not needed.
An American Civil Engineer was on board
—Mr. HAMILTON TOWLE American genius,
amongst the most fertile in the world in exigen-
cies, saw what could be done, communicated it
to the captain, who, again, with the wisdom of
a commander, " places the engineer's depart-
ment at his disposAl "—well knowing that confi-
dence and responsibility will make the most of
any man. And one of the letter-writers, and
one not given to overmuch praise, tells us that
it " succeeded perfectly"—was " simple," " scien-
tific," " ingenious," and " strong." And, what
with a ship of unrivalled strength, a first-rate
captain, and an engineer evidently not his infe-
rior, the rudder which had just been useless,
which, flapping against the screw, had even been
dangerous to their last moving power, now became
a tractable sarvant, aided the operations of the
mighty uninjured screw, and all were borne in
safety to the land which at one time they had
scarcely hoped to visit again. The story of such
a tempest, encountered by such a ship, deprived
by it of all its powers of guidance, will probably
not soon have to be written again.
The inquiry—who is to blame—will no doubt be
vigorously pressed. Not certainly the builder of
the ship—or of the engines. For the weakness of
the paddle wheels, and of the rudder head some
will think there may be censure due—but even
there we pause ; not being engineers we
are very much impressed by ten inches
of solid iron ; Sir WILLIAM ARMSTRONG
would, we are sure, have nothing to do with it.
But all the rest, we fear, there is little to say for.
The passengers and the correspondents have told a
tale of what the directors are responsible for, in
regard to all internal arrangements and conveni.
ences, which demand the immediate attention of
the latter. We do not like censuring before
both sides have been heard, but if half
what is told us be true, the passenger arrangements
must be placed in hands which will inspire confi-
dence before four hundred persons will again rely on
reasonable comfort for ten days aboard the Great
Eastern.

Since the above was written we are sorry to
[earn that at 4,30, owing to the force of the wind,
the Great Eastern had not been able with her
.emporary apparatus to steer into the harbour.

ARRIVAL OF TILE WARRIOR AT

SPITEBAD.

PORTSMOUTH, FRIDAY MORNING.
The Warrior arrived at Spithead at 8 o'clock
,his morning.

THE GREAT EASTERN STILL IN

DANGER.

QUEENSTOWN, THURSDAY.
The Cork Examiner says :—" The Grew
Eastern's temporary steering gear, was found yes.
terday to be quite inadequate to counteract the in-
fluence of the wind upon her huge side, and all at•
tempts to get her into the harbour were quite in.
effectual.

" The four tugs in attendance upon her were ut-
terly powerless. At last she had to give up and
come to an anchor last night, about five miles south
of the harbour's mouth, in order to have sea-room
in case of her anchors dragging.
"To day the weather was too bad to admit of
any attempt being made."

THURSDAY, 4 30 P.M.

The wind is blowing a gale from the south.

The Great Eastern is in the offing, but out of
sight. The Edinburgh screw steamer has gone in
search of her.

& great portion of the passengers on board could
not be got off, owing to the defection of her rudder.

1 FOUNDERING OF ANOTHER HULL STEAMER,
WITH Loss OF SEVERAL LivEs.—We regret to announce
the total loss of another Hull steamer engaged in the Baltic
trade, making, we believe, the tenth or twelfth within the
last twelvemonths. The following was posted yesterday at
Lloyd's :—" Lowestoft, Sept. 18. The schooner Bella,
Captain Waters, belonging to this port, from Harborg for
Newcastle, in ballast, put into the harbour, with loss of
main boom sails and other damage, having encountered
very bad weather. The captain reports having passed on
the 16th (Monday last), at about 11 o'clock in the forenoon,
a large screw steamer on her beam ends, with signals of
distress flying. Owing to the sea being so heavy, we could
not render her the least assistance. She had round stern,
funnel black at top and bottom, and red in the middle, and
her bottom was painted flesh colour. She had a long cabin
on her deck, and was rigged with two masts, topsail, and
foreyard. A brig was observed to leeward of her, and the
steamer was apparently bearing towards her." Some time
after the above notice was posted, another was exhibited :
" Hull, Sept. 18.—Captain S. Anderson, of the Swedish
schooner Matilda, which arrived to-day from Gefle, reports
that when on the Dogger Bank on Monday last, the 16th,
he saw a large two-masted screw steamer go down, and he
thinks part of the crew was saved by another brig, which
was then near the steamer." Later in the day a third no-
tice was posted—a telegram from Lloyd's agent at Deal,
dated 1 p.m. " The Colonist, screw steamer, Capt. Baker,
from Konigsberg for Hull, with a cargo of grain, was
totally lost on the Dogger Bank on the 16th. Seven of
the crew and six passengers are supposed to be drowned.
The remainder, 12 in number, were picked up by the
brig Harmony, of Wioraar, for Bristol, which landed them
here to day." The Colonist, in Lloyd's register, is de-
scribed as a first-class built steamer, with four tight bulk-
heads. Tonnage, 500 tons. She was only built last year.
"It appears it is Marshal de MacMahon, the
hero of Magenta," says a Paris letter in the Satut Public of
Lyons, "who is to represent France at the coronation of
William I. of Prussia. This choice is said to have been
mule et the request of the g himself."

LONDON RIFLE BRIGADE.—This corps will pro-
ceed to Aldershott on Saturday next, nnder the command
of Lieutenant-Colonel Vere Close (late of Her Majesty's
99th Light Infantry), and, by permission of the Secretary
of State for War, with the concurrence of the Commander-
in-Chief, take part in a field-day with the regulars. The
brigade will return to town after the evolutions.
THE GREAT EASTERN.—" A shareholder in a
letter to a contemporary suggests that the replacement of
the paddle-wheels be deferred until the financial affairs of
the company are in a more fLurishing condition. This
will enable the screw to be tried on its own merits, more
especially against a head-wind, the paddle-boxes, in such
a case, being a considerable obstruction."
THE FIRE AT BETHNAL-GREEN.—Loss OF THREE
MORE LIVES.—Mr. William Roworth and Miss Sarah
Roworth, as well as Mr. Deacon, have died in the London
Hospital.
FIRES IN SUFFOLK.—Within the past month
something like a score of fires have occurred in different
parts of Suffolk, involving the destruction of much valuable
property. In two or three instances the hand of the vile
incendiary has been at work, but the great majority of the
fires wero the result of children of tender years playing
with lucifer matches. In most instances the neglect of the
parents was most culpable.
SUDDEN DEATH OF A BRlDE.—Yesterday Mr.
Payne held an inquest on the body of Rosanna Stewart, a
fine young woman, who had died suddenly whilst on her
way to St. Luke's Church, Old-street, to be married.
Susannah Parker, aunt of the deceased, residing in Bell-
court, Walbrook, stated that her nieca left the house at 10
minutes past Bin the morning. Witness, having something
trifling to do, told her that she would immediately follow.
A minute or two after she did so, and at the corner of
Walbrook she saw the deceased lying on the ground, and
several people attending to her. She was then alive, but
could not speak : for a moment sh,, regained consciousness
and knew witness, but in a few minutes after she expired.
William Stewart, of Higham Ferrero, Northamptonshire,
said the deceased was his daughter, and had been in ser-
vice in London. In her letters to him she had sometimes
complained of being poorly. The jury returned a verdict
of " Natural causes."
SHOCKING ACCIDENT TO A THEATRICAL
MANAGER AT HULL.—On Wednesday afternoon last a
very serious accident, which is likely to prove fatal, hap-
pened to Mr. J. H, Wolfenden, one of the managers of the
Royal Queen's theatre, Hull. It appears that Mr. Wolfen-
den had purchased a chesnut mare a day or two ago, and
on Wedn sday determined upon g ing into the country
for the rurpose of having its capabilities tried. Mr. W.
F, Wallett (the celebrated clown and Queen's kster) r•)de
the horse out of Hull on to the Cottingham• road, followed
by Mr. Wolfenden, Mr. Walker, landlord of the King
William Hotel, and another gentleman in a dog-cart. When
a mile or two from Hull, Mr. Wallett got off the horse, and
Mr. Wolfenden mounted. The animal immediately took
fright and galloped off, and ultimately Mr. Wolfenden was
thrown violently on the road, and received a fracture of the
base of the skull. He was removed to the Hull Infirmary,
where he at present lies without the slightest hope of

recovery. •
STRANGE CASE.—Yesterday Mr. Payne held an
inquest at Guy's Hospital, on the body of Francis Beckett.
About 10 o'clock on Thursday night he was found close to
a cab-stand near the Bricklayers' Arms Station, lying
across the road, and weltering in his blood. The cabmen
had not heard any cries, although they were close upon the
spot. His left collar bone, his left arm, and three of his
ribs on the left side were found to be broken. He appeared
as if he had been drinking. He recovered his conscious-
ness, but, on being questioned, declared that he did not
know how the accident happened. He never rallied, and
died on Sunday afternoon about two o'clock. An envelope
was found in his left-side pocket, stained with blood, and
directed, "Francis Beckett, Grove-lane, Shepherd's-bush,"
but he was not known there. The jury returned a verdict
"That the deceased died of the injuries received, but how
occasioned there was no evidence to show."
SUICIDE THROUGH GRlEF.—Yesterday morning,
about eight o'clock, a suicide was committed by Mr. Thomas
Blackburn, at his residence, No. 60, Judd -place, Euston-
road, under circumstances of a melancholy character. The
deceased, who was over 60 years of age, had for many years
carried on an extensive business as a pawnbroker and silver-
smith in Skinner-street, Somer's-town. About two months
since he lost his eldest son by a pulmonary complaint, which
so deeply affected him that he immediately retired from
business. Since then nothing had appeared to reconcile him
to what he deemed anirreparable loss. He would frequently
sit and cry for hours together, and become so low and de-
jected that no endeavours on the part of hiswifecould rouse
him. Yesterday morning Mrs. Blackburn rose and left her
husband asleep in his bed, and on returning in about ten
minutes she was horror. striken at finding him hanging by
his neckcloth from the bedpost. He was quite dead.
MURDER AND ATTEMPTED SUICIDE AT GOOLE
—Yesterday morning, a woman, whose name has not
reached us, administered poison to her two children—one
18 months old, and the other six years—and then tried to
take away her own life by the same means, It appears
that between two and three o'clock in the morning she
awoke the children and gave to each a quantity of opium,
and then took a dose herself. FroM the effects of the poison
the youngest child died in the course of the forenoon. To
keep the other child awake he had to be walked about in
the open air, and at four o'clock in the afternoon, the time
at which our report left Goole, he seemed completely ex-
hausted. The woman did not appear to be much worse.
She is the wife of a policeman at Newcastle, and is said to
be a policeman of weak mind. A week or two ago she
came to Goole on a visit to some friends, for the benefit of
her health and for change of scene, as she appeared to be
in a low state. We understand that within the last few
days she was seen by some of the neighbours beat the head
of one of her children against the wall most unmercifully,
as if she would murder it.—Eastern Counties Herald.
DISCOVERY OF A STALACTITE CAVERN. —OD
Monday a man, whilst engaged in blasting a rock by the
side of the road leading from Wells to Milton Lodge, sud-
denly came on a hole, and on looking into it a place having
the appearance of a cave was discovered. A descent was
made, when a cavern of about thirty or forty feet in cir-
cumference was found, which c Jntains some beautiful stalac-
tites, one of which has already received the cognomen of
Glastonbury Tor, the mound of which it resembles, though
the "tor" is wanting. Another stalactite, of about ten
inches in circumference, extends from the roof to the bottom
of the cave. Further explorations are to be made, as there
are indications which lead to the belief that it will turn out
to be a very large chamber.— Western Counties Herald.

How TO TRAP A RUNAWAY DEBTOR.—Strange
stratagems are often resorted to by creditors in pursuit of
runaway debtors. At a meeting in Leeds of a society for
the protection of trade one of the speakers related an
instance in point. A poor fellow arrived in Liver-

pool from the West Riding, in pursuit of a fugitive who
had carried away £3OO of his money. He applied to an at-
torney, to the magistrates, and to the chief of the police in
vain. Turning sorrowfully away, a police officer offered
him a bit of advice. "Go you to the ship's side to-mor-
row at 10 o'clock—the vessel sails at 12—and ask your
debtor ashore, civilly. Will he come, do you think ?"
" Oh, yes, he'll come, for he says I cannot touch him."
" Well, that's all right. Ask him to come to you on tho
quay. As soon as he comes knock him down. I'll be
dote at hand and take you both into custody for a breach
of the peace. You will get to the police-office just as the
magistrates are gone. The next day is Sunday, and he'll
have to stop till Monday. You'll have time, then, to force
him to give up your money." The man tgok the police-
man's advice, knocked the runaway rogue down, both
were taken to the station-house, and the fellow in the end
was glad to disgorge the £3oo.—Newport gazette.
THE UNITED STATES RECRUITING IN FRANCE.

—The Journal du Havre says :—" Several superior and
subaltern officers belonging to the French army have lately
had and are still having, propositions made to them to take
service in the Federal army of the United States of America.
Some of them have had an offer of as much as 6,000 f in-
demnity for the expense of removal, and a pay of 20,000 f.
per aanum guaranteed for several years. At first the
French Government appeared inclined not to refuse its
consent, but on Saturday last, on a formal order from the
Emperor, the Minister of 'War declared that he would not
grant any authorisation. This refusal has been already com-
mented on by certain correspondents of foreign journals as
a proof of warlike intentions being entertained by France.
Those remarks are formally contradicted in well-informed
circles. It appears more probable that the Emperor's Go-
vernment has only wished by its refusal to avoid any inter-
pretation of interfering, even indirectly, in the pending con-
flict on the other side of the Atlantic."

ABORTION IN CALIFORNIA.—The Legislaturo of
California has decreed that the woman upon whom abortion
is practised shall be held as guilty as the operator. The

design of this law is thus explained by the San Francisco
Medical Press :—" The design was to prevent wicked feraa'e
adventurers from attempting to blackmail medical men by
applying to them, even when not pregnant at all, for the
ostensible purpose of having an abortion produced, but
who, when the doctor would, in order to get rid of them,
prescribe some inert substance, would have a prosecution
commenced against him for producing a criminal abortion,
and cause much trouble, unless he would buy them off in
the beginning. Or, what is still worse and entirely un-
avoidable on the practitioner's part, they could swear him
guilty of producing criminal abortion, when he had not
even been applied to at all in the matter. This oc.3urred
once in this city, and although the perjury soon became
apparent in the case, still the idea of a respectable medical
man being arraigned as a criminal is not very palatable,
even though it ultimately becomes plain to everybody that
his prosecution is based upon perjury alone. As the law
now is, the practitioner has only to perform his duty con-
scientiously to be free from this species of annoyance, while
these wicked adventurers, under the assumed connexion of
dear husband and wife, will have to conduct themselves
cautiously, or otherwise find a quick way to the State's
Prison."—Medical Times and Gazette.
THE ST. LEGER.—The smallest number of sub-
scribers to this most celebrated race was in the year 1785,
when there were 5 subs, one of whom paid forfeit. In that
year the race was won by Mr. Hill's Cowslip. To the race
won yesterday there were 178 subs', and for that of the en-
ilhhar year thee au 1814

Ek-iT NEWS
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AMERICA.
NEW YORK, SEPT. 6, EVENING
(PER GLASGOW, via QUEENSTOWN.)

The applications from the people to subscribe to
the Federal Loan continue numerous.

Further seizures of Southern property have
taken place on an extensive scale in the Northern
States.

The New York Democratic State Convention has
passed resolutions recommending the vigorous pro-
secution of the war.

Despatches from Maryland estimate the aggre
gate Confederate force opposite Washington at
125,000 men.

The same despatches state that they are wel
provisioned, and that an immediate attack is in.
tended.

The ship Gondar, from Liverpool, has arrived
at Beaufort.

The commercial news has been anticipated via
Father Point.

TURIN, SEPT. 19.
Notwithstanding all previons denials, the Turin
papers of to-day again positively assert that Gari-
baldi will go to America.

TURIN, SEPT. 20

The news repeatedly published by the Turin papers
of the approaching departure of Garibaldi for
America has again to-day been positively denied.

ROME. SEPT. 19.
The marriage of the Prince of Tuscany with one
of the sisters of Francis 11. took place to day.
The Pope pronounced the nuptial benediction in
the Vatican, and afterwards addressed an eloquent
discourse to the bride and bridegroom.
Francis 11., the ex Queen of Naples, and the
whole royal family were present at the ceremony.

TRIESTE, SEPT. 20.
Six persons, who had been nominated members of
the Istrian Net, have declined to be elected.
ive Turkish war steamers, with troops, are on
the way to Albania.

NAPLES, SEPT. 19,

General de Montebello will first proceed to Rome,
and will afterwards repair to Florence, in order to
have an interview of the King of Italy.

CRACOW. SEPT. 19.

On Tuesday last the Polish mob continued to
commit acts of violence against the German resi-
dents in Warsaw.

Several shops were demolished.

The situation of the Germans is full of danger.
No measures for their protection are taken by the
authorities.

THE BOMBAY MAIL.

FRIDAY MORNING, SEPT. 20.

The Vectis, with the above mail, left Malta at
10 p.m. on the 17th, and may therefore be hourly
expected at Marseilles.
The Euxine, with the heavy portion of the mail,
was expected at Malta on the 18th, and may be
looked for at Southampton about the 27th.
The Jeddo brought the mail to Suez, arriving
there on the 13th.