The Sun.
London, England, 1842-07-29 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, JULY 29,11842

on Saturday night under amputation, leaving behind
him, a wife, who, besides her husband, lost six children.
All the seriously wounded were brought in a Durham
boat, on Saturday evening, and are now lying in the
General Hospital. The remainder are at rachine.
Three of the crew and one bargeman perished ; the
master and enginneer are safe.
The English immigrants had with them a very con-
siderable capital and valuable personal property.
The Indians on the opposite side of the lake are busy
in the work of plunder, which, We trust, will be arrested
by the police authority.
ANOTHER EXPLOSION.

The St. Louis Republican furnishes us with the fol-
lowing account of another explosion near the mouth of
the Missouri, by which sixty-three persons, mostly Ger-
mans, were wounded.
The steam-boat Edna collapsed both flues of her lar-
board boiler at a quarter past four o'clock, this morning,
at the mouth of the Missouri river.
The Edna landed at the mouth about one o'clock this
morning. The latan was lying there, and the Edna
landed on the outside of her, and laid in suck a position
that it was difficult for the latan to get away from the
shore. However, after a little trouble, the latan got
under way, and had run three or four hundred yards,
when the Edna shoved out from the shore. Her bow
could not have been more than one hundred feet from the
shore when she collapsed her flues. Her engine had
been working out of gear full a half hour, and had not
been stopped more than ten minutes at the very outside.
I was looking at the Edna when the casualty hap-
pened, and had observed her some time before the acci-
dent, and I did not think she had unusually high steam.
I am of the opinion that some obstruction existed either
in the supply pipe, or in the force pump, which pre-
vented the usual quantity of water from going into the
boilers. _ _

The number of wounded is sixty-three, mostly Ger-
mans. Some two or three were blown into the river and
saved, and it is supposed that two or three others were
lost. The cabins of the Edna and latan are filled with
the wounded, and they are receiving every attention from
the passengers and others, that can be bestowed upon
them,
As soon as the accident happened, the latan dropped
alongside the Edna, and towed her to the Illinois shore,
when the Annawan took her in tow, and the latan pro-
ceeded to St. Louis with the wounded.

The Edna was bound up the Missouri with full freight.
She had been towed in by the Annawan. So far, we are
unable to get the names of the wounded, but learn from
the officers of the Edna that they were Germans, with
the exception of the second engineer, who was on watch,
and one fireman. They are a portion of a party of
emigrant% who landed here a few days since from the
Caledonia,

We understand that not a single cabin passenger was
injured.
Twe or three only have died, though it appears almost
impossible that several of them can recover.
We were on board the Edna, and never have we be-
held such a sight. A number of men and women appear
to be literally skinned. The whole force of the steam
was thrown aft, over the deck passengers, as they slept.
They will be removed to the Hospital.
EMIGRANTS.—The Quebec Mercury of the Bth says,
the steeets have beeh crowded with emigrants for
some days past, many of them are respectable
in appearance, and several have brought money with
them ; others are poor and have already added to the
number of street beggars, no legal provision existing
for the poor here. Those who are able proceed up the
river, and they get to Montreal for an English shilling.
Generally we should say, there are three children for
one grown person, and we fear that the fate of many
nest winter will be worse than it could have been at
home, where a compulsory provision is made for the
poor, and there is great weath to aid them by charitable
contributions.

gistrates and police, but owing to the vigilance of the
Press, and also to the open manner in which the pro-
ceedings in all the inferior Courts are conducted, the evil
is trifling when compared with the doings of these func-
tionaries in the country. In remote districts they are
almost left without control. The local newspaper is,
probably, under the influence of some of them,
and consequently the grossest acts of oppres-
sion only reaeh the oars of the public through
correspondents to leading provincial or London
journals. We noticed yest'rday a remarkable stretch
of power in committing some poor man to prison for
non-payment of rates, and some months ago another of
even alworse description, which occurred at Stoke-upon-
Trent. A respectable man, the owner of a boat on the
canal, was taken into custody by a constable, on sus-
picion of having stolen a plank, conveyed to a station-
house, where he was chained by the leg to an iron
ring fixed in the floor, and confined in this manner
for four days in a most filthy condition, when he
was at last taken before a Magistrate and discharged.
This cruel treatment did not satisfy the parties, for a bill
was filed against the unfortunate man, the Grand Jury
returned a true bill, and having been arrested on a Bench
warrant, he was again committed to prison. The Ma-
gistrates refused to bail him, and he was consequently
confined till a Judge's order for his release could be ob-
tained. He surrendered to take his trial at the present
Assizes at Stafford, but the Judge stopped the case.
He of course brought an action for false impri-
sonment, and obtained a verdict with 201. damages.
The constable against whom the action was brought was
the least guilty party, for the gaol, it appears, was in
such a dilapidated state, that this iron ring with chains
was found necessary to prevent prisoners from escaping.
The Magistrates and Grand Jurors who suffered such an
abomination were allowed to go free. Yet this is called a
land of liberty, and praises without end are bestowed on
the humanity of our laws, and the mild administration of
justice, and the sum of 201., is considered a sufficient
compensation to this unfortunate victim of oppression.
To crown the proceedings, the intelligent Jury at first
refused to assess the damage, and asked the Judge to fix
the amount, but Lord Chief Justice TINDAL said that it
was no part of his duty, and no doubt looked with
wonder and amazement at the twelve gentlemen in the
jurors' box.

Sir ROBERT PEEL last night protested, and we think
with good reason, against the system lately adopted of
reporting interviews between Ministers and Deputations
from different classes. The practice is objectionable,
even when correct and impartial reports are given, be-
cause it tends to check free communication between the
two parties ; but it is quite unjustifiable when only a
one-sided view of the question is given, and the conver-
sations are reported from memory. It would be only
fair, when the result is to be published, that the state-
ment should be drawn up and submitted to the revision
of the Minister before it goes forth to the world. had
such a plan been adopted many misconceptions which
have arisen from the late interviews with the Gorern-
ment would have been avoided. We have found it
necessary to mention the subject, in order to justify
ourselves for refusing certain communications made to us
by respectable Correspondents.

The French Journals of Wednesday have all been re-
ceived. We subjoin the following extracts from them :
It appears (says the Debats) teat tne Deputies of the Left
have determined on giving all their votes to M. 0. Barrot for
the Presidency of the Chamber.
We perceive by the Austrian Observer that the Court of
Vienna went into mourning for the Duke of Orleans on the
19th. This was-to continue to the 26th. Half mourning was
to be worn from that period till August 3d.
We find in the Leipsic Gazette the following letter from
Constantineple. July 6, stating that conflicts had taken place
between the Turkish and Persian troops, near Erzeroum
and Bagdad. The letters from Constantinople of the 7th,
from other sources, do not, however, speak of these collisions.
The account in the Leipsic Gazette says The Turkish
troops have fought with those of Persia in the environs of Er-
zeroum and near Bagdad. The Turks were conquerors. The dif-
ferences between Persia and Turkey, relative to the frontiers,
led to this collision ; to which must be added the fact that the
Persians refused to give up to the Turks a Pacha who had
taken refuge in Persia."
The Egyptian General Edhem-Bey, Minister of Public In-
struction, has arrived at Marseilles from Malta, on his way to
London. He is accompanied by a numerous suite.
An ordonnance relative to the expenses of the funeral of the
late Duke of Orleans was signed by the King, at Neuilly, on
the 18th instant, on a report of the Minister of the Interior,
and with the advice of the Council of Ministers. The follow-
ing are the essential articles :—" There is opened to our Mi-
nister of the Interior, on the grant for 1842, an extraordinary
credit for 400,0001., for -the expenses of the obsequies of our
well-beloved son the Duke of Orleans Prince'Royal.• The re-
gularisation of this credit shall be proposed to the Chambers at
the next session." By another Royal ordonnance, dated 20th
instant, the King, after reciting the law of the 7th of May,
1837, fixing the sum to be paid out of the public Treasury as
a dower to the Duchess of 4:Veans in case of her widowl.ood,
ordains as follows:—" There is opened to our Minister of the
Finances, out of the grants for 1842, an extraordinary credit f
139,166 f. 66c., applicable to the dower of our well-beloved
daughter:in-law the Duchess of Orleans. This expense shall
be the object of a special chapter in the btidget of 1842. The
regularisation of this credit shall be proposed to the Chambers
at their next session."
The Bishop of Evreux, who had returned to his diocese,
will come back again to Paris to assist at the funeral of the
Duke of Orleans, and will accompany the corpse to Dreux.
Two African priests, in behalf of those of their own colour
living in Paris, and who have so frequently experienced the
benevolent protection of the Royal family, celebrated on Mon-
day, in the chapel of Neuilly, a mass for the repose of the soul
of the Duke of Orleans. A great number of blacks of both
sexes on the same day attended the mortuary mass at the church
of Saint •Sulpice.
Count d'Appony, the:Austrian Ambassador, had the honour
of delivering on Monday to the King and Queen at Neuilly
letters of condolence from his Sovereign on the death of the
Prince Royal.
The Swiss journals publish the following letter sent by the
King of the French to the Helvetic Diet, on the day after the
death of the Duke of Orleans :—" Very dear and great friends,
allies, and confederates.—A horrible accident has just deprived
our family and France of our beloved son Ferdinand- Philippe-
Louis-Charles Henry Duke of Orleans, Prince Royal of the
French. He expired in our arms, and in those of the Queem,
yesterday. at half-past four o'clock in the afternoon. Over-
whelmed with the most profound grief, and assured of the
sympathy which the praiseworthy Cantons of Helvetia, the an-
cient and noble allies of France, feel for all that affects her,
we announce to you this cruel and unexpected event, and offer-
ing up prayers that Heaven may have in reserve for Switzer-
land only days of felicity, we eagerly renew to you the assur-
ance of our sincere esteem and unchangeable good will.
(Signed) " LOUIS PHILIPPE.
( Countersigned ) " G UIZOT."
So fully was the Chamber attended yesterday by the Mem-
bers of the Two Houses, that a little before the King entered,
M. Emile de Girardin, after in vain seeking a seat on the lett
side, went to the right on a similar mission, and was equally
unsuect saful. We believe that the Hon. Deputy was obliged
to stand during the whole period that the King was present.