The Sun.
London, England, 1868-01-07 00:00:00

TD .E SUN, LOIN D IN, TUESDAY EVENING JANUARY 7, 1868

publication of the offensive and defensive treaties,
concluded with the States of Southern Germany,
imparted to our patriots the:confidence that, for the
defence of the national territory and the independ-
ence of the country, entire Germany was united
under the direction of Prussia by a stronger and
more efficacious bond than she had ever known under
the former Confederation. The entire German po-
pulation feel and know now that they are a united
and powerful people, and such as they had not
been previously ; and in this conviction it is that
they will enthusiastically labour to complete their
internal union and their national greatness. As
1367 has brought to maturity the fruits of those
seeds sown in blood in 1866, so, with the aid of
Divine Providence, the year we now enter upon
will be one of safety, the year of the regeneration
of the prosperity of the nations, and of general and
peaceful progress."
The Augsburg Gazette has the following .—" The
reiterated representations of Austria, France, and
England, but, above all, the impression produced by
the journey of General Ignatieff to St. Petersburg,
appeared to have exercised a certain influence on the
decisions of the Porte. Let us add, besides, that the
most recent reports sent from Canea by the Grand
Vizier are not more reassuring than the preceding
ones. Possibly, therefore, in presence of these
circumstances, the Turkish Government will revise
its intention of leaving the Declaration of the four
Powers unanswered. Already Fuad Paella has
announced to the Ambassadors of Austria, France,
and England that a communication has been ad-
dressed to the friendly Courts.' A statement
is even made that the Porte has resolved
upon granting to the island of Candia more ex-
tensive concessions than have been introduced by
Aali Pacha ; the question would seem to be chiefly
the nomination of a lieutenant of the Sultan, but
who should profess the Christian religion, and be
invested with extraordinary powers concerning the
internal administration of the island."

ADDRESS 01, THE SPANISH CORTES.

MADRID, Jan. 2.

The Chamber of Deputies has unanimously
passed the draft of the address in reply to the speech
from the Throne laid before it by the committee.
The most notable passage is the following, in which
the Chamber refers to the position of Spain with
regard to the Roman question :
" The deputies may be permitted to express their
satisfaction at the flattering and pacific state of
our relations with friendly Powers, and to
render themselves the interpreters of the extreme
joy that has been produced in all truly Spanish,
and consequently Catholic, hearts by your Ma-
jesty's magnificent words relative to the Pontifical
Power, and favourable to the independence and
stability of the legitimate power and the incontest-
able rights of the Holy See.
" While making use of the initiative and taking
up the attitude suitable to an eminently Catholic
nation, and while offering to the Emperor of the
French—a friend and ally of Spain—the support of
our moral co-operation, and even of our forces, in
case it should be thought necessary to employ them
in the defence of the legitimate rights of the Holy
See, the Government has deserved well of the nation,
has shown itself worthy of the Queen who happily
occupies the throne of Isabella 1., and worthy also
of the nation which has combated for the integrity
of its faith during seven centuries. In the horrible
struggle of the revolution against legitimacy, of
force against right, the Holy See symbolises the
cause of right and of legitimacy. By her filial love
towards the Holy Father, by the moral influence of
her opinion, by her language and her vote, if the
European Conference came to be realised, Spain
must assume the post of honour and of justice at
the right of the Sovereign Pontiff, who is the most
august, calmest, and the most venerable figure cf
contemporary history."

NOBLE DEEDS IN SAYING LIFE.

CAISTER, NORFOLK, Jan. 4.—The Rev. G. W.
Steward gives the following particulars relative to
the Lunch of the " Birmingham No. 2" lifeboat of
the National Lifeboat Institution, yesterday, on
service. He states that it was very squally at the
time, with snowstorms, the wind blowing from E.
to E.N.N. After the lifeboat was launched she pro-
ceeded down the Wold, when aforeigu brig was ob-
served on thesouthern part of the Hasborough Sands,
with her masts and sails standing. The sea was break-
ing heavily, and the mastssoon fell. The Scratby life-
boat was ahead of the Caister boat, and a Revenue
cutter and another cutter boat were also in the
vicinity of the wreck. By the time the Caister lifeboat
arrived there the brig was nothing but a mass of
floating wreck, and after cruising about for upwards
of two hours the two lifeboats were returning home-
wards, but were recalled by a signal from one of the
other boats, and at once returned to the wreck.
Two men were then discerned, and ultimately gal-
lantly rescued, by the Scratby lifeboat, which was
again the first to reach the spot. At the first
attempt the boat drove right on the wreck,
but failed to reach the men, who were crouch,
herready
the
bidding lay to and be
down
if they failed next
time, the Scratby men again gallantly bore down
through the heavy sea incessantly breaking
.on the sands, and with much difficulty succeeded in
The rescuing the poor fellows, who, although young
sawndullesntrownigth men,wet andwerehelpless,Th remainder of the
crew, eight in number, had unfortunately perished
as they were on the mainmast when it fell over-
cold.
ld. their limbs being
over-
board. The two rescued men were most kindly and
hospitably treated by the Scratby beachmen when
they reached the shore, and have since gone to
London all right. Howni, near Dublin, Jan. 4.
Signals of distress were observed early yesterday
morning from a vessel on shore on the Baldoyle
Sand (states Staff Commander Burney, R.N.,
the officer of Coastguard.) It was blowing a
fresh gale from the S.E. at the time. The
lifeboat of the National Lifeboat Institution was
very quickly manned and launched, proceeded to
the sands, and found the schooner, Seven Brother 3,
Wicklow, stranded there. After same difficulty
and danger, on account of heavy surf and broken
water, the boat got alongside, rescued the master
and crew of two men and brought them safely
ashore. The Bradford lifeboat at Ramsgate, the
Sabrina at Kingsdown, the Royal Thames Yacht
Club lifeboats at Walmer, and the Herbert Ingram
boat at Skcgness, which are in connexion with the
National Lifeboat Institution, also put off during
the recent severe weather, but fortunately their ser-
vices were not ultimately needed.

ADRIFT IN TIIE BRISTOL CIIANNEL.—On Thurs-
liy a boatmen named Reed, who had been picked up in
the Bristol Channel in a boat, was put ashore at Bristol
by the French sloop Edna. Reed and a man named Duns-
combo were sent on the 26th ult. from the Helms, an island
in the Bristol Channel now being fortified by the Govern-
ment, to Weston -super-Mare with a letter. A fog came
on and they completely lost their course, drifting about
the Channel terrified and benumbed with cold. Duns-
combo, in endeavouring to recover an oar which had
fallen overboard, fell into the sea and was soon lost in the
darkness, his comrade being unable to reach him. Reed
remained in the boat drifting helplessly about until mid-
day on Sunday, when the Edna picked him up almost dead
from cold and hunger.

INCREASE OF THE POLICE.—The decision of the
Howe Secretary, Mr. G. hardy, to increase the
metropolitan police by an addition of 1,000 inert, has been
already carried out to a great extent. This addition will
only bring the 1 °lice force of the metropolis up to the
proportion which it bore to time area and population of
London when it was established in 1829. Since then
the decrease in the relative strength of the police has
necessitat, d the lengthening of their beats and generally
the increase of their duties to an inconvenient extent.—
Observer.

THE MERCHANT NAVIES OF EUROPE.—The
entire mercantile navy of Europe, according to the latest
statistical returns, ccsnsists of 100,000 vessels, representing
a total tonnage of 12 millions, and employing 600,000
men. This amount of shipping is thus distributed:—
Bremen, 294 vessels; Hamburg, 539; Lubeck, 45; Han-
over, 906 ; Mecklenburg Schwerin, 424 ; Oldenburg, 610 ;
Prussia, 1,443 ; Austria, 9,491 ; Belgium, 107 ; Spais,
1,359 ; France, - 15,259 ; Greece, 4,452 ; Holland, 2,227 ;
Italy, 13,223; Portugal, 591 ; Great Britain, 27,868 ;
Russia, 1,416 ; Denmark, 2,740 ; the Elbe Duchies, 2,552 ;
Norway, 5,878; Sweden, 2,236; Turkey, 2,300.