The Sun.
London, England, 1868-02-10 00:00:00

GREECE.

ATHENS, Feb. 8.

A royal decree has been issued dissolving the
Greek Chambers. The elections are fixed for the
3d of March. The new Chambers are to meet on
the 3d May.

CALCUTTA AND CHINA MAILS.
GIBRALTAR, Feb. 9.

The Pera, from Southampton on the 4th inst.,
arrived to-day at 7 a.m., and left at 11 a.m. for
Alexandria.
Experienced good weather.

FRANCE.
BOURSE, Feb. B.—Three o'clock.—The market
closed as follows :

4 per Cent.
End of month —
3 per Cent
End of month 6B 65
Credit Mobilier 191 25
End of month l9O
Credit Foncier 1380
End a month 1383 75

Account
Orleans ... 8881
Northern
Lyons and Mediterranean
Southern__ • 545
Western nt,
Eastern • •
Sardinian
Austrian
Lombard 360
North of Spain 75
Saragossa
Roman 47

Bank Shares 3230
Ital'an Loan
End of month 43 40
Mexican Loan
Do. Bonds
Spanish Threes
Home Debt 34
Deferred

RAILWA•

IRELAND.

DUBLIN, Sunday Evening.

Captain Mackay, who was arrested on Friday
night, was brought up at the police-court yester-
day, along with six other prisoners, named Cronin,
(the publichouse keeper,) Mannix, Walshe, Hart-
nett, Hinchin, and White.
The prisoner Hartnett is a draper's assistant ;
Mannix a fisherman ; the other three are labourers.
Head-constable Geales described the struggle
which took place while making the arrest. One
of the men in the room, who is not in cus-
tody, got on his back and endeavoured to
choke him ; he struggled for about twenty minutes,
and was frequently up and down on the ground.
Mackay caught Geales's revolver by the muzzle and
tried to wrest it from him. He then got his own
and fired, wounding Casey, another constable, in
the leg.
All the prisoners were remanded, except Cronin,
who was discharged.
Since the investigation Mackay has been iden-

tified as the leader of the party who attacked the
marten° tower at Fota. lie is a very young man.
The schooner Jane, of Portrush, struck on Cans
Rock, near the Skerries, yesterday evening, and
sank in deep water. Four of her crew were
drowned.

LOSSES AT SEA.

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We are requested to print in extenso the follow-
ing memorial of the local Chamber of Commerce :
To his Grace the Duke of Richmond, President
of the Board of Trade.—The memorial of the New-
castle and Gateshead Chamber of Commerce showeth
that your memorialists, on the sth of September,
1866, addressed your honourable Board on the sub-
ject of the largely increasing number of losses and
casualties at sea, which your memorialists had
reason to believe arose frequently from pre-
ventible causes, such as vessels being sent to
sea in an unseaworthy condition, or over-
laden, or in command of incompetent or care-
less men. That your memorialists suggested
the appointment of a Government inspector to exa-
mine periodically all British ships holding no certi-
ficate of classification, for the purpose of granting
them a certificate of seaworthiness, which certificate
every such vessel should be bound to hold. That
your memorialists also recommended the appoint-
' meat, at each important seaport town, having a
local marine board, of a legal functionary to con-
duct on behalf of the Government official inquiries,
whenever called for, into the conduct of shipmas-
ters and seamen. That the experience of your me-
morialists more and more confirms their opinion
that the adoption of their suggestions would tend
materially to lessen the number of such losses and
casualties. That your memorialists would further sug-
gest that it should be required that every master in the
event of his vessel being lost, be bound to deliver
or forward a copy of the protest relative to the dis-
aster to the shipping master of the port of registry
of the vessel, and that such shipping master have
power, if it appear desirable to him, or at the in-
stance of any person concerned in the disaster, to
order an inquiry to be conducted before the local
marine board by the legal official whose appointment
your memorialists have referred to, and that such

local board be vested with discretionary power to
cancel or suspend the certificate of the master or
person that was in command of such vessel at the
time of the occurrence, if the circumstances attend -
ing same warrant such a course of proceeding. That
in the opinion of your memorialists it would be no
hardship to a shipmaster to submit to such an in-
quiry, as no man who has performed his duty need
fear to show having done so ; while, on the other
hand, the dread of an official inquiry woull doubtless
materially contribute to making men more careful.
That your memorialists are aware mutual insurance
clubs occasionally make an inquiry into the con-
duct of masters, and, in cases of palpable negli-
gence or. incompetency, they decline to insure any
vessel commanded by a master who may not have
been found equal to the proper discharge of his
duties ; but inasmuch as in the absence of an offi-
cial inquiry such person does not lose his certificate
he is not debarred, as he would be by the forfei-
ture of his certificate, from going where he is not
known and taking the command of another vessel,
notwithstanding his ascertained incompetency or
carelessness. That your memorialists, being per-
sonally interested in shipping, cannot too strongly
urge upon your honourable .Board the great im-
portance they attach to the suggestions which they
have ventured to place before you, and they trust
your honourable Board will be pleased to give these
suggestions your careful consideration.—Signed at
Ne w castle-upon- Tyne this 3d day of February,
1868, on behalf of the Newcastle and Gateshead
Chamber of Commerce.—W. HUNTER, Chair-
man."—Newcastle Daily Journal.

SACRED HARMONIC SOCIETY.—On Friday next
Mendelssohn's " St. Paul" will be given by the Sacred
Harmonic Society at Exeter Hall. Tim 'principal voca-
lists will be Mdlle. Carola, Madame Sainton-Dolby, Mr.
Sims Reaves, 21r.p.unraings, and ignor E9li•