The Sun.
London, England, 1868-02-07 00:00:00

IJER MAJESTY.

OSBORNE, Feb. 6.
The Queen drove out yesterday afternoon, ac-
companied by Princess Christian.
Her Majesty drove out this morning, accompanied
by Princess Louise.

The Marquis of Lansdowne is gradually recover-
ing from the effects of his severe accident in the hunting
field.

The Earl and Countess of Bradford and family
are expected at their residence in Belgrave-square early in
the ensuing week from Castle Bromwich.

The Earl and Countess of Tankerville are ex-
pected to arrive in town at the end of the ensuing week
for the season.

'The Earl and Countess of Wilton intend to re-
main at Egerton House, Melton Mowbray, till the first
week in April.

Lord Raglan has returned home from Vienna,
after attending the funeral of the Emperor Maximilian as
Lord in Waiting to the Queen.

Lady John Manners and infant son are pro-
gressing favourably.

THE LANDSLIP AT NAPLES.

(From a Correspondent of the Times.)
NAPLES, Jau. 30.

The terrible catastrophe in Santa Lucia has
created so much excitement that the Royal Dele-
gate, who now represents the Municipality, found
it necessary to issue a proclamation exhorting the
people to be calm. There is a wide-spread convic-
tion that there has been criminal negligence in
not anticipating the disaster, and his criminal
apathy in not having made efforts sufficiently
strong to rescue those who are still under the ruins.
Thirty-six hours were suffered to pass away in hesi- .
tation and discussion, when it was at last decided
that nothing could be done to save life. On going
down this morning I found the same curious and ex.
cited crowd kept off by a barrier and by the troops,
but, showing my pass, I was admitted among the
ruins. Much progress has been made since yester-
day; it good deal of the debris has been removed, so
as to open a narrow path nearly to the entrance. of
the Castello, and here the principal work was going
on. The road is obstructed in this direction by
tufa and mason work in large masses, rising to the
height of thirty or forty feet, and increasing as one
approaches the other side of the street at the base
of the mountain, against which was built the wine
shop. Here it is supposed were no fewer than 15
persons, who may, it is conjectured, have fled into
the cellars cut in the tufa at the back, and the
only thought which has occupied every one has
been how to get at them. At first an attempt was
made round the corner of the Santa Lucia side to
pierce through the walls of buried houses until the
cellars Were reached, but as everything gave way
under the superincumbent weight it was aban-
doned as too dangerous, though, had he been
allowed to do so, Signor Zampari would have
tunnelled not far from this spot 24 hours earlier.
It is due to this brave man, who is a native of
Udine, in the Venetian provinces, to say that,
with equal courage and humanity, he has never
ceased from urging the necessity of making the
attempt, and on Thursday morning, the disaster
having occurred on Tuesday evening, he ob-
tained the support and permission of the Due
d'Aosta. During the rest of the day and the following
night, when the works were carried on by the aid
of electric light, this brave man, with a few of
his folloWers, continued the operations. They were
commenced at the entrance to the Castello, the gate-
way of which is nearly blocked up with ruins, and
when I arrived nearly 40 feet had been already
tunnelled. Every now and then the sides and
the roof were shored up with strong poles, but,
with all the precautions taken, it was a fearful
risk. On entericg the tunnel I found it scarcely
wide enough for two men to stand abreast,
and except at the farthest extremity it was pitch
dark. Had the mass above and on the sides
been one solid material, the danger would have
been less, but formed as it was of loose matter,
huge pieces of mason work of several tons weight,
of sand and sandstone, any shifting in the superin-
cumbent debris might have produced another disaster.
At the farthest extremity the workmen had met
with another obstacle in the form of a rock, which
compelled them to make a zigzag road, thus adding
to the labour and increasing the time necessary for
its completion; and though only 15ft. or 16ft. re-
mained to be bored, it was not believed that they
could arrive at the wineshop before midnight. Re-
turning to the entrance of the tunnel, and scaling
the debris which blocks up the gateway of the castle,
a view was obtained of another danger which
threatened the men at work. Just 270 ft. above

this spot there hang large masses of mason work,
detached from the mountain, which a strong vibra-
tion, a shock of earthquake, or heavy rains might
easily bring down, adding the weight of hundreds
of tons to the material which has already fallen.
Besides this the officers' quarters in the barracks
stand at the very verge of the mountain, which
is in a fragmentary condition. The public sym-
pathy is, therefore, as strongly awakened for those
who are working as it is for those they are trying
to save.

FEBRUARY 1.

I have just returned from the scene of the disaster,
which threatens to assume even larger proportions.
Much of the debris at the turn of Santa Lucia has
been removed, too much for the peifect safety of
the tunnel i❑ construction, as it served to shore
up the material above. The tunnel has been car-
ried as far as the wine-shop, but unfortunately
against the walls of the house, instead of the door,
an error occasioned by the necessity of making a
zig-zag road. At the same time, another tunnel has
been constructed with somewhat more successful
results, under the direction of the city architects,
Enrico-Alvino, chief engineer ; Signor Faust Nic-
colini and Signor Giambarba. '.['he last• named
gentleman had the courtesy to conduct me through
it. The entrance is near the border of the sea,
and passes first through a magazine which lies
under the street ; the passage has been cut through
the tufa as far as a well which is under the house
of the wine merchant ; above it is a tenement,
divided into four compartments, in one of which,
which was perfect, was found a cat alive, as also
some glasses and bottles unbroken." The roofs of
two of the other compartments had been broken
in by the pressure of the soil above, and if any
persons were there they must all have perished.
The shop only remains, the state of which is un-
known as yet, but there is little expectation of
saving any one. As no one has been found in the
compartment behind, the probability is that the
unfortunate persons in the shop rushed to the door,
outside of which they must inevitably have met
their fate. As far as I could collect from the au-
thorities and engineers on the spot, there are at
least 20 persons missing, among whom are seven
soldiers, two sergeants, the family of the wine-seller,
and some other persons. As to those who were pass-
ing in this much, frequented thoroughfare nothing,
of course, is known.

THE DUKE OF EDINBURGH A FREEDIASON.-•"
By a private letter just received from Australia, we learn
that the Duke of. Edinburgh was about to become a mem-
ber of the Masonic brotherhood, preliminary to conducting
the ceremony of laying the foundation of a public ball la
Sydney. The initiation of this popular member of the
royal family into the order can scarcely fail to have a most
important influence on the future extension of free-
masonry, and its increasing patronage by all classes of her
Majesty's subjects, both at home and abroad.—Dumbarton
llerald.
A CRUEL PARENT.—A shocking case, showing
what fearful consequences may arise from drunken"
ness, has come under the notice of the Liverpool police.
A woman named Bridget Moyles, while in a drunken
frenzy, threw her daughter, a child twelve months cidt
on the fire. A little boy who observed the occurrence
took the child off the fire, and a police-officer being called
it was at once conveyed to the Northern Hospital. It Wel
found that it had been burned on both arms and one e`
the thighs, but fortunately the injuries were not of
a
serious character. The doctor also examined the woman
who had committed the unnatural act, and found that 6"
was labouring under delirium tremens.

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