The Sun. — London, England, 1868-01-03 00:00:00

_ OP TUE PIIBLIGIOURNALS, The American Fenians have lately addressed to the people of England a highly rhetorical appeal ror their 'sympathy and support in the underta k i n g now in hand. alleTimes is certain that the appeal is not likely to re cei,ye much attention. The English, with all their weak nesses, are not likely to take up conspiracy in the place of open dealing, loaded revolvers in the place ofi walking sticks, infernal machines in the place of mutual amenities, seditious harangues in the place of duty or work, and anarchy in the place of order and peace. Fenianism has not shown itself lately in a light to win converts. But there arc a few points in this address worthy of a passing remark. In their over-anxiety to act up to the part of an affectionate brother and fellow-sufferer, the American Fenians have tripped into some admissions which it is as well 1,0 jot down. They admit, then, what, indeed, we haa4 often had to observe, that under our Im perial systa:n and our equal laws there is no sub stantial and necessary difference between the case of an Irishman and that of an Englishman. They admit that the working Englishman finds neither less nor more obstacles in his way than the working Irishman. They admit that the difficulty of finding everybody a bit of land to call his own is not confined to Ireland. They admit—indeed, they make much of the fact—that there are " millions " of Irish people mixed up with the native population of this island, sharing all their opportunities, and naturally led to regard themselves as one with us. They admit the fact of a social brotherhood in this island vastly more important and real than any of the Fenian sart. They admit that the country which thus invites immigration from Ireland and the en tire fusion of races is much the more prosperous of the two islands, much the happier, and much the more powerful. It is England that is still the object of envy, and England that is still the oppressor in this appeal ; but it is not old England, not Eng land of the English, not the purely feudal England or the England that kept out Irish manufactures, Irish produce, and even Irishmen themselves. No ; the England here confessed to be so prosperous is simply that common centre and hospitable hearth which opens her doors and her workshops to all the sons of toil from all nations, but most of all to Ireland. By these admissions, hazarded for the sake of getting up, anyhow, a common Republican cause, the American Fenians abandon the case for special Irish grievances. They admit the daily increasing soli darity of the two populations, their perfect community of interests, and their mutual obligations. As they can be candid for once, and for an end in view, perhaps they would throw in a trifle of spontaneous candour. Will they not confess that an Irish Man presenting himself to share the employments of the English working classes is received far more kindly and unreservedly than an Englishman who has to seek his bread am mg the native Irish ? They must know how this question should be answered. In the opinion of the Daily News, the materials do not exist in Ireland for an independent Parliament. A sepa rate Irish patriotism no longer animates her peers and country gentlemen. The Leinsters, Charlemonts, and Cloncurrys, the Floods, Grattans, Langrishes, Burrowes, and Parsons of the close of the eighteenth century, have left no political descendants. At the same time, we accept the testimony of the Dean of Limerick and his friends that a distinctive national feeling does animate the Catholic population of Ireland, the farmers and shopkeepers, the artisans and peasants of the country. It is evident, and we are glad to learn, that this feeling is shared by the clergy who act as its interpreters. They have not become so wholly Roman as to cease to be Irish. It is for English statesmen to find some means of indulging, within the limits of the Union, a feeling which cannot be eradicated, and which may be wisely directed. A bad Irishman will never make a good British subject. It is easy to declaim about the faults of the Irish character. But that character has in great part been formed under the influence of seven hundred years of British rule, and by the alternate use of two of the most debasing instruments that power can wield—oppression and corruption. We have helped to make it what it is ; and we ought in atonement to try and make it better. In the meantime, certain wrongs and abuses exist which can at once be grappled with. Patriotic Irishman will commit a fatal blunder if they allow impracticable demands for the Repeal of the Union to divert their attention from the redress of the Church grievance and the reform of the land laws ; or afford, statesmen desiring nothing better, an excuse for inaction. The Standard believes that if there be anything certain In this world it is that the Government and people of this country are even morbidly anxious to deal fairly, nay chivalrously, with Ireland. We have griefs—if not grievances—of our own, pressing themselves with impor tunate urgency on our attention, yet we elect to make them wait still longer for a solution, in order that we may dedicate our whole energies to discovering what is really amiss with our sister island, and which of the multiplicity of panaceas, passionately presented for immediate adoption, is the one that will put her now and for ever to rights. Our own trade is deranged, the employment of a goodly part of our own capital suspended, and an alarming pro portion of our own mechanic., and labourers thrown out of work. Much as has recently been done by the present Cabinet for the reorganisation of our poor-law system, the public is crying out, not without something to shew for the cry, that much yet remains to be effected. We are in fested with an almost übiquitous plague which calls itself trades' unionism, with whose pretensions we are already acquainted, but whose genuine vitality we have yet to test. We have a rude scheme for introducing direct compulsory education to resist,and a system of voluntary education,aided by indirect inducements, to foster and amend. Our hands would be full of our own affairs if we would but selfishly postpone every other consideration to their settlement. But, far from our being actuated by any such motive, we thrust them aside, we bid them be patient, and tell them that their turn for treatment will come round only when we have dealt with Ireland's importunities, and made an end, if it be possible, of Ireland's wrongs. The Star thinks it worth while to ask whether we are or are not to be a military people for the future—a people of training and drilling and citizen soldiery ? Certainly the taste for this kind of thing seems immensely, some people might say ominously, on the increase. The volunteer movement itself, properly directed, may be made a grand national organisation, the means by which patriotism, an d not pipeclay, may hereafter be the chief defence of our nation. If the inclination for playing all manner of mili tary or semi-military parts should be turned to account by enabling us to retain only a nominal standing army, it will of course prove a blessing to the country. It is the military caste, the distinct, isolated military body, whose interest is in war, that is a danger to a country, and not the mere practice of arms by citizens who, whatever their love for uniforms and rifles, will assuredly have little incli nation for Crimean wars and Abyssinian expeditions. But whether it be for good or evil, it seems to us that the taste for arms and drill and semi-military avocations has immensely grown among our population within the last few years. It will have to be taken into serious account by politicians and philosophers alike. If its tendency should merely be to feed and swell the purely military profession, it will prove one clay an almost unmixed evil. If, however, it tends rather to render the military caste superfluous and obsolete, then it is a march in the way c The Herald observes that the French Emperor, having once utilised the new year's reception for a great surprise, he has allowed it to sink back into its customary routine of commonplace. He might be going to war with one of the great Powers next month, but it is not, therefore, to be supposed that he would deviate one jot from his usual politeness in responding to the well-meant compli ments of the representative of that Power on the day of the year. The sharp speech which, in 1859, came like a thunderstroke upon poor Baron Hubner, answered its purpose well enough then. The manceuvre has had its day ; the trick is played out. Since that there have been wars, and rumours of wars, heartburnings, and open dif ferences between France and other nations. If we may except the Roman expedition, for these nine years the sword of France has not flashed over Europe ; but if it had been the secret intention of her ruler at the commence• ment of any year to vindicate her position or her supposed rights by levying war upon any of the European Powers, we can scarcely imagine that be would have again chosen so open a method of proclaiming his design, and of en abling his opponent to be forearmed because forewarned . Men have not yet forgotten that New Year's Day which preceded the Italian war and ushered in the first humilia tion of Austria. They have looked to every returning Ist of January with ever fresh apprehensions. This anxiety of theirs is perhaps the very reason of all others why th e utterances of the French Emperor on such occasions have been so uniformly and so studiously polite as to be almost unmeaning. AN EXTRAORDINARY DENITATION. —lt is an nounced that an offer has been made by a distinguished Anglican reunionist to convey to the Eastern patriarchs the Lambeth encyclical and the Archbishop of Canter bury's letter. It is proposed to send them by a special envoy, with appointed retinue. The subject is said to be under consideration of the authorities of the Church of ,England. THE PRINCE IMPERIAL.—One of the most in genious of the New Year's gifts presented to the Prince Imperial is certainly that given to him by his father. It consists of a lilliputian engine so perfect in its construc tion that it can draw a train of carriages on a rail way of five hundred yards in length, the rails having been laid on the terrace running along the reserved gardens of the Tuileries. An engineer attends during the Prince's recreation to teach him how to manage the locomotife, explaining the construction of the LAW AND POLICE. A LADY CHARGED WITH FORGTMY.—A lady from Dover NI as charged before Sir Thomas Henry, at Bow street Police-court, with having forged and cashed a cheque for £95, with intent to defraud the London and Westminster Bank. The gentleman whose name was forged was closely cross-examined as to his relations with the lady. While stoutly denying the existence of any ten der attachment between them, he- admitted that the money was laid out by the lady in. paying for wine and other articles consumed at a house taken in his name, the lady's residence in Dover, by persons whom he invited there,a.nd expressed his willingness to be debited at the bank with the £95. The magistrate at length dismissed the case, saying that there was not the slightest pretence for giving the lady into custody-on a criminal charge. A DEFAULTING APPRENTICE.—CharIes Saward was sentenced by Alderman Coptlind to two months' imprisonment for general misbehaviour as an appren tice. It appeared that though the prisoner was more than 21 years age he had only 17s. Cd. a week ; at the same time he refused to cancel his indentures, though told he might do so if he chose. ALLEGED MURDER IN SOUTH WALES.—A collier named Lewis, living near Aberdare, has been charged with the wilful murder of Richard Jones. The prisoner and de ceased had been seen scuffling in the vicinity of the Gla morganshire Canal, on Sunday night, about eleven o'clock. Soon after a cry was heard of " Where is he ?" and after the lapse of a few minutes the prisoner went up to a house and asked for a light and assistance as a man had fallen into the canal. A search was made, and the body of the deceased was found dead in the canal basin. An examina tion of the body shewed a bruise upon the face under the right eye, and a severe wound at the back of the head. Prisoner was arrested in the course of an hour. He made a statement to the effect that both he and the deceased were drunk, and were walking home. Deceased's hat blew off into the canal, and he (prisoner) went for a boat-hook to try and recover it, leaving deceased standing upon a stone. On his return he missed deceased, whom he afterwards found in the water. The parties, it appeared, had hitherto been on the most friendly terms. The case was re. inanded. THE MURDER OF CONSTABLE JUHP.—At Ashton-rmaer- Lyme, Robert Ryan has been brought up on remand. Mr. Ludlam, superintendent of the Lancashire constabulary, produced three warrants against the prisoner, signed by Mr. Justice Mellor, at the Liverpool Assizes, in 1862—the first for the murder of Jump, the second for firing at Inspector Harrop, with intent to do him grievous bodily harm, and the third for damaging bricks at Ridgehill, near Stalybridge. He said the prisoner had been charged with the murder of Constable Jump, but was not present at the assizes. He had been before the Ashton magistrates in 1862, but was then discharged, and he then absconded, and had been to America. The grand jury at Liverpool had found true bills against the prisoner, and he gave him self up on the 23rd ult. The prisoner gave himself up voluntarily, and he (witness) had since read the warrants to him, but he made no answer. The prisoner was then committed for trial. Bail was accepted, himself in £lOO and two sureties of £5O each. THE MURDER BY A REJECTED SUITOR.—In the same court Timothy Faherty was charged with the wilful mur der of Mary Hanmer. Mary Brodrick stated that the deceased had lodged with her. On Christmas Day witness had been out, and returned home about four o'clock. She found the deceased lying on her back upstairs, and the prisoner with her. She was covered with blood. She asked the prisoner why he had done that, and he replied, "I have done it. She is mine, and I will die on it." The prisoner had been a lodger of hers, but he had left her through drinking. He had been paying his addresses to the deceased, but she had refused him. Bridget Brodrick, daughter of the last witness, gave evidence similar to that given on the inquest. She stated that the pri soner had often threatened the deceased. After the examination of several other witnesses the prisoner was committed for trial. TRADES UNION OUTRAGE. —At the Derbyshire sessions, John Beadmore, nailer, of Belper, was indicted for having unlawfully wounded John Nightingale, with intent to do him grievous bodily harm. The prosecutor is in the employ of Mr. John Watson, Belper. For some time pre_ vious to the outrage a number of his workmen had refused to work, owing to improved machinery being introduced. The Union ordered that no horse-nail maker should work for Mr. Watson as long as he continued to use the machi nery. Amongst the men who worked was the prosecutor. On the evening in ciril;stion, about eight o'clock, he was leaving his workshop, having in his hand the nails he had made during the day. After he had locked the door he was felled to the ground by a stroke on the back of the head with some heavy instrument. He was also struck on other parts of the body, and rendered insensible. His daughter in-:aw, who resided close by, came to his assistance. The man was on the top of Nightingale, and as soon as he s.iw the woman coming he took to his heels, but not before she had full opportunity of seeing his face, having a lighted candle in her hand. This witness positively swore to the prisoner being that man, and the prosecutor de posed that he had previously threatened to do for him some time. For the defence an alibi was set up. The prisoner was sentenced to eighteen months' imprisonment, with hard labour. THE LAW OF BREACH OF PROMISE.—In the ShentTs Court, on an assessment of damages in a breach of promise case, a question was raised as to whether a jury could give damages for seduction where an affiliating order had been obtained for 2s. 6d. a week. Mr. Under-Sheriff Burchell decided in the negative. £lOO damages were ultimately given to the plaintiff, a domestic. FENIANIS3f IN THE BLACK COUNTRT.—At the Walsau Police-court yesterday John Lavin, a stalwart Irish man, was brought up under a warrant charged with violently assaulting William Walker, a publican, at Blox wich. The prisoner was at complainant's bar, and as he was declaring himself to be a Fenian, and wished the company to drink a treasonable toast, he was turned out of the house. The prisoner determined to be revenged on the landlord, and returning struck him a frightful blow on the temple with a stone, and as the landlord fell back in sensible he broke the collar bone of his neck in two places. After this the prisoner expressed his intention of having the prosecutor's head clean off, but he was prevented from doing further mischief. The magistrates remanded tilt prisoner. APPREHENSION OF A. MURDERER.—A telegram from Rotterdam was received on Thursday by the Liver pool police officials, stating that Thomas Quigley, who brutally murdered his wife in Liverpool about a week ago, had been apprehended in that city. Directly after com mitting the murder, it appear 3 Quigley shipped as a " lumper " on board a Liverpool steamer, and left that port on Sunday, the 28th of December, for Rotterdam. He will at once be sent to Liverpool. A reward of £5O had been offered for his apprehen sion. THE OUTBREAK OF FEVER IN ESSEX. —Our COT respondent writes :—The outbreak of typhoid fever at Terling has progressed with an intensity and rapidity of increase rarely witnessed under similar circumstances. Nearly one-eighth of the whole population have been at tacked, and fresh cases in large numbers are occurring every day. Up to the second week of Cie fever, to the time of Dr. Thorne Thorne's appearance on the scene on behalf of the Medical Department of the Privy Council, no steps were taken by the local authorities to check the spread of the disease. Disinfectants were only dispensed by a few private individuals, notwithstanding that their use was urgently pressed uppn the nuisance authority; and this has helped considerably to swell the list of cases, the poison having had every chance of increasing in in tensity and diffusion. Dr. Thorne Thorne has been for some time, and is still, pushing his investigations, espe cially with reference to the connection of this fever with alterations in the height of surface water.—British Medi cal Journal. MAKING RAIN.—A Pekin correspondent of the English Independent mentions the following curious mode of bringing down rain practised in China :—During the late drought the President of the Board of Works, 'Wen Siang, was sent with a tiger's head to throw into a tank of water a few miles from Pekin, dedicated to the black dragon. Itain is supposed to result from a struggle between the white tiger and the black dragon. A tempest of wind is raised by the tiger ; a tempest of rain by the dragon. The throwing of a tiger's head to the dragon would excite war and cause rain. How far Wen Siang, the most enlightened of the progressive party, believes in this it would be hard to say. But it is not only in China that men in high position join in acts of worship in the efficacy of which they do not believe. In the Pekin Gazette the President of the Board of Ceremonies reports a visit to the Holy Well, 350 mils from that city, at the command of the Emperor. This well contains a large number of iron bars or tablets. For several centuries it has been the custom in years when the rain falls for the Emperor to send for one of these tablets from the well. It is brought to Pekin carefully wrapt in silk and satin, and placed in the temple dedicated to the local god of the city, Cheng-hwang-miau. This year, when brought, rain fell in abundance on the third day after its being placed in this temple. The Emperor then ordered it to be returned with honour, and escorted by the President of the Board of Punishments, who would throw it back into the well. All the way back it rained at every place where the procession rested, which was considered to be proof of its remarkable efficacy. The Emperor ordered a gilt tablet to be pre pared and placed before the image of the god of the well, who is likely to receive a new title, and to be denominated henceforth the " Dragon Spirit of the Holy Well." The Emperor is also advised to appoint a semi-annual sacrifice to this spirit, to be performed by the local mazistrate of Hantan. the adioinim: city. THE SUN, LON Dori. v ENING, .JANUARY 3, ISt 8 THE ABANDONMENT OF THE SMYR NA. OFFICIAL REPORT. To the Right llonourable the Lords of the Cora mittee of Privy Council for Trade. We, the undersigned, Edward Leathes and Robert Cook Fowler, Esqrs., two of her Majesty's justices of the peace in and for the county of Suffolk, hav ing been applied to, on the 11th day of December' to hold a formal investigation, under the provisions of the Merchant Shipping Act, 1854, and of the Merchant Shipping Act Amendment Act, 1862 into the circumstances attending the abandonment of the Smyrna (s.s.), of the Port of London, be tween one and two o'clock of the afternoon of Dec. 3, about 60 miles E. by S. off Great Yarmouth, in Norfolk, have the honour to report to your lordships that, in compliance with such application, and with the aid of Captains Harris and Baker, nautical as sessors, we proceeded on Dec. 13, at the Court-house in Lowestoft, to make such investigation, and con tinued the same on Dec. 14th, 16th, and 17th, and examined on oath the following witnesses :—George Richard Penney, chief officer ; George Trott, pilot; Jesse Hann Harding, second mate ; Chas. Stephens, third mate ; Aikman Taylor, chief engineer ; Robert Mitchell, A. 8.; Alfred Jeram, quartermas ter; and James Toby, smack owner ; the minutes of whose testimony we hereunto annex. The Smyrna was a British screw steamer. She was built at Hepburn, in the county of Durham, in January, 1864, and registered at the port of London in the same year. She had two decks, three masts, was schooner rigged, her framework was of iron, her registered tonnage 1,624 77-100, gross tonnage 1793, 150 steam horse power, her length from stem to stern was 299 feet, main breadth 31 feet, and depth in hold 24 feet 5-10ths. She was the sole property of William Edward .11PAndrew, of Bond court Chambers, Walbrook, City of London, mer chant. Her crew consisted of 42 hands, all told, her master being Frederick Stanley Ewen, who holds a certificate of competency number 83,966. He appears also to hold a commission as lieutenant in the Royal Naval Reserve. There was an insur ance on the ship and freight of about £40,000, and on the cargo of £32,000. The said ship sailed from Odessa on the sth of November last, laden with 2,000 tons of linseed and 600 bags of rapeseed, con signed to Hull. That the abandonment of the said steamer Smyrna, hereinafter more particularly men tioned, happened on the 3d day of December, between one and two o'clock on that afternoon, about 60 miles east and by south off Great Yarmouth, in the county of Norfolk. That the abandonment appears to have taken place under the following circumstances :—The Smyrna arrived at Gibraltar on the 23d November, and left again the same day. Before reaching the anchorage the ship had got a considerable list to starboard, caused, as is supposed, by the linseed shifting, which was stowed in bulk. After leaving the anchorage it appears that the ship was trimmed nearly upright while passing through the Straits. She reached the Downs safely on the Ist day of December, where she took on board a North Sea pilot to aid and assist the master in navigating his ship to Hull, her port of destination. The pilot, Mr. George Trott, seems to have had charge of the ship as far as the course steered was concerned, but the master was always on the alert and attentive to his duties. On leaving the Downs the wind was fresh from S.S.W., with thick weather. Various courses were shaped to pass outside the banks, having sighted and passed the Gabbard Buoy at 4 p.m. At 10 p.m. a cast of the lead was taken, and, after consulting the chart with the pilot, it was decided to go outside the Le mon and 0 wer, the soundings obtained at 10 p.m., 26 fathoms, verifying the supposed position. At 11 p.m. on this (Sunday) night the wind shifted sud denly from S.S.W. to N.W., in a heavy squall, ac companied by hail and sleet. The square sails were taken in, but in half an hour after, the wind having lulled, the foresail was again set, also the foretop sail reefed. About this time the crew began to grumble and growl at being called upon to make and reduce sail, as was considered necessary by the pilot and the master. About midnight the wind began to increase, when the foresail was again taken in, and a cast of the lead taken in 27 fathoms. The fore and aft sails were then set to keep the ship steady. At about 1 o'clock a.m. the wind had increased to a heavy gale at the north ward. The ?,,f ore and aft sails were taken in, and the ship kept going as near the wind as possible, and the engines kept going at nearly full speed. At two a.m. the ship listed over to starboard, and it was ascertained that the cargo had shifted, which caused this list to increase to a dangerous extent. Shortly after this the steering chains both gave way. The relieving tackles were hooked, and the tiller put hard down. After this accident the steering apparatus was applied to the after wheel, but very soon after this was in working order a heavy sea struck the rudder and rendered it use less. The tiller was then kept steady by the re lieving tackles alone. By eight a.m. on Monday the ship had become almostunmanageable, inereas ing the list to starboard. At this time they set all after sails and put on all the steam that could be obtained to endeavour to stay the ship, but she would not come round. When nearly head to the wind, in a plunge two heavy seas came on board over the bows, when the vessel fell off again on the port tack. Efforts were then made to wear the ship by settling all the head sails, but in this endeavour they did not succeed after two attempts. About this time a man was knocked down by the sheet of the main trysail ; his leg was broken and set by the ca' ptain in his cabin. By noon on this day the ship had settled down to star board nearly on her beam ends, and had become quite unmanageable. The starboard anchor was then let go to bring her head to wind ; the chain ran out to the clinch and parted. About this time the chock in the foretopsail yard gave way, and the yard flew out to leeward. After a little consulta tion it was decided to cast away the foretopmast to ease the ship, which was done just before they let go the starboard anchor. After the starboard chain parted the port anchor was let go, and 75 fathoms of chain veered out. This chain did not part, nor did it bring the ship up at the time, but it tended to keep the ship nearer the wind. During the after noon of Monday there were several fishing smacks near the ship, when the mate suggested to the pilot the propriety of hoisting a signal of distress, to which the pilot did not assent, but the ensign was hoisted Union down by some one, without any orders, it would appear. Soon after it was hoisted the master ordered it to be hauled down, but some of the crew would not allow it to be done, evincing on this and other occasions a good deal of insubordina tion. On Monday afternoon the gale had increased at the northward to a hurricane, and continued so all night. They made signals of distress at different times during Monday night by firing off rockets and burning blue lights, which were observed by the smack Star of Hope, which vessel bore down to the Smyrna, and remained by her all night. The donkey engine w as also kept going. This was con tinued all Tuesday morning up to about noon, when the crew gaveup bailing, all hands being exhausted. During the forenoon several smacks had approached close to the ship, the weather having moderated. Two of them sent boats, which could not come alongside, but were veered astern, into which 16 or 17 of the crew got by a lifebuoy and a line. After this a consultation was held in the cabin by the master, the pilot, and officers of the ship, and the engineers ; and it was the opinion of all, excepting the master himself, that it would be imprudent and dangerous to remain ou board during the night, as the ship was lying over with her starboard rail under water, and the water increasing in the engine room ; besides, the firemen and ship's company had decidedly refused to remain on board. Be fore dark on Tuesday all hands had left the Smyrna and got safely on board the smack. The commander and his party were on board the Cham pion Trawler. We may here mention that the master had met with a serious accident on Monday, injuring his ribs by falling in a heavy lurch of the ship, which had incapacitated him from active duty from the time of the accident. He very properly gave over charge to the chief mate, requesting him to report progress to him from tine to time. The Champion Trawler remained by the Smyrna all night at the master's request, the weather mederatihz ; at day light on Wednesday morning the master and the portion of the crew who remained with him boarded the Smyrna, and found the ship had settled down considerably since the previous evening, and that she had six or seven feet of water in her. The Smyrna had four boats, which had all been stove in on the Monday and Tuesday previous to leaving the ship. At about noon on this day (Wednesday), after the master and the small portion of his clew had got on board the Smyrna, the steamer Sheffield bore down to them, and, after taking them in tow and using every endeavour to save the ship, was obliged to abandon the attempt, as the Smyrna was quite unmanageable. She would not steer, although the smacks were made fast astern under sail to assist in keeping her fair after the Sheffield. On Wednesday night the master remained on board the Smyrna, with two or three others, the Champion Trawler keeping close to the steamer with some of the crew on board. On Thursday the weather began to get worse, and the master of the C hampion Trawler, Jas. Toby (who deserves high commendation for his conduct), ap proached close to the Smyrna, and urged upon the captain the absolute necessity of his leaving the ship, but he was most reluctant to do so, but at about 3 p.m. the weather had become much worse, and the master of the Champion Trawler had hailed the captain, and told him that he could not remain any longer as he was short of provisions and water, and the provisions and water on board the Smyrna were both submerged. This announcement seems to have convinced the master of the necessity of giving up all hopes of saving his ship. He then made a signal for the smack's boat to be sent, and, after considerable risk and difficulty, in his crippled state he was got into the boat, and safely reached the smack. She then bore away for Lowestoft, where they landed on Friday, the Smyrna being finally abandoned. It was brought to the notice of the court, during this inquiry, that the Smyrna had been picked up at sea by the steamers Ravens bourne and Waterloo, and towed into Brouwers haven, on the coast of Holland. In reviewing the evidence in this case, the court came to the conclu sion that, taking into consideration the dangerous state in which the Smyrna was on Tuesday and Thursday, the 3d and sth of December, the master, Mr. Frederick Stanley Ewen, was quite justified in abandoning his ship on both occasions. The evidence, moreover, proves that the captain exerted himself up to the period of his accident, and although severely injured he evinced a laudable anxiety to do all he could to save his ship, although the crew had nearly all left on Tues day morning, but the captain did not leave her till it appeared to all quite hopeless to remain by her. As to the charge of insobriety which was alleged from certain statements having been made, but withdrawn, the court is quite satisfied that there is no ground whatever for so serious a charge, and that Capt. Ewen leaves this court completely exo nerated. The court cannot conclude this report whin:it ;remarking upon the construction of the Smyrna, the ship being nearly ten times her beam in length, and being an auxiliary steamer, with small power in proportion to her size. She was a most dangerous vessel to handle in bad weather, as she appears to have been a very crank ship, and it will be seen by the evidence that she became unmanage able shortly after the gale commenced. 'We there fore, with the concurrence of the nautical assessors, return to Mr. Ewen his certificate. EDWARD LEATHES,/ Justices. A. C. FOWLER, We concur in this report, HARRIS,} Nautical Assessors. H. B. BAKER, NAVAL AND MILITARY INTELLIGENCE. Yesterday the Aldershott division, under the command of Lieut.-General the Hon. Sir James Yorke Scarlett, K.C.8., was exercised in route marching. The troops left Camp at nine o'clock. The Cavalry Brigade, with one battery of Royal Horse Artillery attached, proceeded acrcss the Long Valley, over Pondtail-bridge, by Fleetpond, and 'debouched en the Hartford-bridge-road, between the 32d and 33d milestones. It then took up a position in the rear of the infantry, awaiting orders. The remaining two battalions of Royal Horse Artillery took the same route, and formed in rear of the cavalry. The Ist and 2d brigades of infantry, with a field battery attached to each brigade, marched by Cove and Minley Manor, to Hartford-bridge Flats. The 68th Light Infantry marched to Blackwater by Hawley, leaving a sub division on picket in Frimley, to watch the road leading from Bagshot. The remainder of the regi ment guarded the bridge over the Blackwater, and the approaches from London. The programme supposed an army advancing from the north upon the camp, and who on arriving at a certain poin had sent his main body through Blackwater. On reaching Hartford-bridge Flats he was opposed by the division from Aldershott, which had made a flank march to intercept him. This programme was admirably carried out. The whole of the in fantry was under the command of Major-General Renny, who placed the Ist and 2d brigades and the field batteries in the most advantageous position to oppose the advance of the enemy, and the regiments were furnished with 15 rounds of blank ammunition per man. The flank march and the skilful disposi tions made by the Generals were eminently success ful, and the invader was obliged to retire, com pletely baffled and discomfited. The troops then returned to quarters. Major-Gen. Hodge, C. 8., having relinquished the command of the Cavalry Brigade at Aldershott, owing to the expiration of his period of Staff service, Brigadier-Gen. White, C. 8., lately commanding the cavalry in the Dublin district, has been appointed in his place, and as sumed command of the Cavalry Brigade at Alder shot on the Ist inst. The 51st (2d Yorkshire) Regiment is ordered to proceed from Dover to Aldershot on the arrival from India of the 27th Regiment, and will be quar tered in A, B, and C lines, North Camp. The 56th (West Esssex) Regiment, now stationed at Aldershot, is held in readiness to move to Ireland about the middle of the present month. The Duke of Cambridge has granted leave of ab sence to Capt. Thompson, 24th Brigade, Royal Artillery, until the 31st of March, previously to embarkation, and Lieut. Shortland to the 14th inst. Excepting under very special circumstances leaves of absence to officers and furloughs to non commissioned officers and men at Chatham have been stopped, and by order of Gen. Murray no officer is permitted to be absent from his quarters beyond a few hours daily. The spacious range of buildings recently erected near the Royal Marine establishment, Chatham, for officers' quarters, having been completed by Messrs. Foord and Sons, Rochester, the contractors, has been handed over to the Government, and during the last few days has been taken possession of by the officers at head-quarters. The building, which has an imposing appearance, has been erected at a cost of upwards of £20,000, exclusive of the site, which was originally a portion of the storage ground belonging to the dockyard. In addition to a suit able residence in the centre of the block for the Colonel Second Commandant of the division quar ters are provided for four field officers, eight cap tains, and a proportion of the subalterns. The plans for extending the present parade-ground, by the removal of the existing quarters hitherto occupied by the subalterns, together with the grand division and other officers, are now under the consideration of the Admiralty. Should it be decided to take down the block of buildings which, since the erection of the new quarters and barracks, is no longer required, the parade-ground will be ex tended to about double its present length, and supply a want which has long been experienced at the Chatham division. A Royal Marine Department circular has been received by Colonel Suther, C. 8., commanding the division at Woolwich, requesting him to detach Lieutenant-Colonel J. H. Stewart to Queenstown, to take the command of a newly-formed battalion of Marines to be raised from the divisions of Wool wich, Chatham, and Plymouth, for service on board her Majesty's steam frigate, 36 guns, Mersey, to beat about the Cove of Cork until further orders. Colonel Stewart, who was on leave, was recalled to headquarters at Woolwich, and, together with a party of non-commissioned officers of the division, he took his departure, having been furnished with a route to proceed, via Bristol. The battalion will sail in the Himalaye from the rendezvous at Ply mouth, and will proceed thence to Queenstown. One sergeant, one corporal, and 15 privates, Woolwich division, Royal Marines, were yesterday told off for service on board her Majesty's iron storesbip Megxra, commissioned by Navigating Lieutenant Jabez Loane, and six additional pri vates were sent on board the flagship Fisgard, off the dockyard, the whole of her officers and men having been paid off and recommissioned for the ensuing year. The French man-of-war brig Beaumanoir, 4 guns, Captain Crudelle, from Cherbourg, is now lying at the red buoy off the Royal Arsenal, Woolwich, engaged in shipping 20 tons of ammunition, and will return to Cherbourg on completion of ship ment. The steam launch employed in the " row-water" for night duty off the Royal Arsenal and Dockyard at Woolwich was yesterday fitted with a water proof awning, to screen the officers and crew from the inclemency of the weather. A number of war rant officers were yesterday told off for service on board, and are to take up the night duty according to the roster. Some weeks since we stated that Mr. W. Scamp, the deputy director of engineering and architectural works to the Admiralty, had requested the Lords of the Admiralty to relieve him from the duties of his office, which he has now filled for many years. We now understand that the Lords Commissioners of the Treasury have awarded him a retiring al lowance equal to the full amount of his salary -1900 per annum. At the request of the Lords of the Admiralty, however, Mr. Scamp will remain at his post at Somerset-house, conducting the general duties of the department until the return to Eng land of Major Clarke, R.E., the chief of the depart ment, from Malta. The armoured screw corvette Pallas, 6 guns, 600 horse power, Captain Edward H. G. Lambert, ar rived at Spithead on Wednesday from Devonport, with the screw storeship Supply, Staff Commander Charles Bawden, in tow, from Devonport. The Pallas remains at Spithead. The Supply has gone into Portsmouth harbour, and yesterday was being taken into the steam basin for repairs, when it was discovered that in her bold were stowed the rifled guns sent out to Malta some considerable time since for the Royal Oak. There was but one order that could be given under the circumstances, and the Supply was, therefore, backed out again from the steam basin and sent under the sheer jetty in the harbour to land her guns there, the Royal Oak be ing luckily at the present time at Portsmouth har bour under a recommission by Captain Hellyar, after being out of commission on her return from the Mediterranean by her old captain, the lion. G. D. Keane. It is now nearly two years since these guns were sent from Woolwich for the Royal O. the ship being then on service in the Mediterranean. THE CRADLEY COLLIERY EXPLOSION. Mr. R. Docker, coroner for the district, attended at the Maypole Inn, Cradley, on Wednesday, to pursue the inquiry as to the deaths by the above occurrence. The present inquest had reference to nine of the men—John Edwards, William West wood, Jesse Thomas Heathcock, Francis Barratt, Edward Barnbrook, William Burtleton, Daniel Harl, George Griffiths, and William Gordon. Three other men died in Staffordshire. Mr. Baker, Go vernment inspector of mines, was present. The coroner said the inquiry on which they were enter ing had reference to the deaths of a number of per sons. The law required that the death of each of these persons should be the subject of a separate and independent inquiry. It was trival, however, iu cases wh.n.e several deaths occurred from the same cause, to take the evidence as regardA the whole of them at the same time, and the verdict in the first cme ruled the others. Isaiah Foley, mining surveyor, Cradley, said he was surveyor to the Homer Hill Colliery. The pro prietors were James Evirs Swindell, Charles Swin dell, and Frank Evirs. He produced a plan of the north workings of the colliery. Edward Foley said he was one of the charter masters at the colliery. The other was Isaiah Baker. He was in the pit at the time of the explosion on the 11th November. It was about 7.30 a.m. when it occurred. He was about 70 or 80 yards from where the men were at work. They were working in the nine foot or lower part of the thick coal workings. Ths deceased were all in the workings when he left them. He was overtaken by a sudden rush of air. He did not hear any noise, but he felt himself blown down. He was for a time unconscious, and on recovering himself he got up and tried to find his way out. He groped his way to the botto:n of the shaft, 400 yards off. He communicated with the top of the shaft. The cage had been blown up 60 or 70 yards, and could not be lowered. Ultimately, a communication was opened. Soon afterwards he got to the bottom of the shaft. They were burnt, part of them. There were 31 men in the north workings, and nine in the south. All but three made their way to the bottom of the shaft with out asssistance. There were 20 injured. They were taken up as speedily as possible, and sent to their respective homes. On its being discovered that there were three men left in the workings, some of then went back and brought them up. Their names were Guest, Edwards, and Jenkins. Witness stopped till all the men went out. The morning after the explosion he went down the pit with Mr. Swindell, jun. They went into the workings, and found traces of an explosion of gas. (He pointed out on the plans points where several doors had been blown out in the cross roads, and the ventilation consequently cut off.) He found, on examining the workings, that there had been a fall of shult. It took place iu the back opening, where they had discontinued to Work, the coal hav ing all been gotten. The back opening was 10 yards wide and 32 yards long. Shult had fallen before the 11th November, and on that day an additional fall took place. Previously to the men beginning to work, on the morning of the 11th, the workings had been examined by the " doggy," Edward Foley, jun. A man named Haden went with him. Haden was dead. He went down himself soon after six. He did not examine the pit himself. There was no indication of gas. The " doggy" reported that it was all right. The entrance into the back opening had not been closed up. The shult could only be examined at the risk of a man's life. Two men nearly lost their lives that morning in doing so. He had never known of the presence of gas in the back opening up to the time of the explosion. (He pointed out in the plan a spot where gas had occa sionally been found while driving the roads.) There was never more than they could brush out. There was a fissure where this gas issued from, and if a quantity of gas accumulated it was probable a fall of shult would drive it out into the workings. There was an opportunity for gas to collect at the top of the back opening ; and although some air passed round the opening, it did not pass high enough to carry away the gas. by Mr. Baker—The " doggy" only bad means to examine the state of the opening to the length of 25 feet. There were five or six feet above which he could not examine. It had not been the practice in that neighbourhood to go up into the shult to exa mine for gas. By Mr. Breakwell—About six weeks before the 11th November some gas was fired by some men putting a candle up into the back opening. It was trifling, and did no damage. John Jenkins was the next witness. The poor fellow - was carefully wrapped up, and though so long a time has elapsed since the explosion he was still so weak that he had to be carried into the room in a chair. He said he lived at Quarry Bank. He was a collier, and on the 11th November was at work in Homer Hill Colliery. He was at work near the back opening. When the explosion happened he was removing timber. He heard a lot of stuff come. It was coals or shult. This fall drove a lot of gas out of the back opening, and his candle fired it. He saw it on the candle. Ha WOA knocked down on to the bottom. Ile was at work on a slipper. He became insensible for a time. The choke damp gradually overpowered him. When he got up he tried to make his way to the bottom. On his way he became unconscious again, and did not recollect anything till he found himself being carried towards the air at the bottom of the shaft. He was very badly burned about the upper part of his body. He had worked in the pit three weeks. It was the custom to examine the pit in the morning. He never saw any indication of gas in the pit. The ventilation was abundant. There were two " sinecks." The one explosion was close after the other. The second was not fired at his candle. The ventilation in the mine was always very good. Where he was at work it had not the power to come up there. At this point the inquiry was adjourned till Tues day next. The Late Fatal Collis on at Sea. We have already briefly reported a disastrous collision between the Dundee steamer Anglia and a brigantine on the English coast. Captain Speedie, master of the former vessel, now gives the follow ing account of the catastrophe :—" We sailed from London about a quarter to four o'clock on S,iturday afternoon, the wind N.N.E., and the weather mo derately clear. We were abreast of the Newarp Lightship between 3 and 4 o'clock on Sunday morning. We passed the light about a quarter before 4 o'clock in the morning, steering N.W. by N. The weather was looking gloomy, and there was the appearance of a fog. The light was on our quarter, and was bearing N.W. We saw a schooner or brigantine, about two points on our starboard bow. We were apparently about half a mile from her, and, so far as we could see, she displayed no light. As soon as the vessel was seen the order was given to starboard the helm. This was accordingly done, but, as the schooner continued on the same tack, a second order was given to put the helm hard a starboard, and at the same time the engines were stopped. The schooner was now quite near us, and we called out to those on board to alter her course. No reply was given, and immediately after the schooner struck us on the starboard bow, nearly stem on. The bowsprit, foretopmast, topgallantmast, foreyard, topsailyard, topgallantyard, and royalyard, with rigging and sails, fell on our forecastle head with a loud crash. The mainmast fell over alongside of us, and imme diately after the collision the schooner went to pieces and sank. We called out, asking if there was any one could help, but we heard no noise. After a minute or two we heard some one call from windward. All -baste was made to lower a boat, and she was manned in a very few -minutes, and pulled towards the place whence the sound proceeded. We took a light with the boat, and it was very thick at the time. We lost sight of the Newarp Light, and for a considerable time were unable to discern the boat. We kept the whistle going for the purpose of di recting the boat back to the ship. The boat came back in about half an hour, the crew having suc ceeded in picking up Joseph Edward, a young negro, one of the hands of the schooner. The lad was stripped of his wet clothes, every attention was paid to him, and he speedily recovered. The pas sengers assisted most praiseworthily in handling the steamer. When it was seen that there was no likelihood of saving any more of the crew, it was con sidered expedient to inquire into the condition of the Anglia. We discovered that the principal da mage the vessel had sustained was the loss of the cathead on the starboard side. The spindle of the capstan was also bent, and it was not until day light that we ascertained that ouc topgallantmast had been broken. The fog cleared away as the morning advanced, and we proceeded towards Dun dee, with a strong wind from about N.N.E. The steamer's head was off W.N.W. i when the vessel struck her." Joseph Edwards, a negro, about sixteen years of age, a native of the West Indies, who was saved from the schooner, says :—" An old man was at the helm at the time the collision happened, and the captain, mate, and myself were on the deck at the time. We saw the steam boat, but thought it was the Newarp Lightship. The mate kept walking on the deck, talking to the captain. After a while the captain looked over the side, and saw it was a steamer in motion, and not the lightship at all. He ran forward and cried to the mate to put the helm hard down. The mate said, ' It is too late now, captain,' and the collision happened immediately after. When I saw the foremast down I jumped overboard. I saw the mate in the water alongside of me. I caught hold of a batch, and told the mate to come and share it. He was, however, prevented from doing so ; and I afterwards lost sight of him. The reason why our lights were not seen by the steamer is due, I think, to the mainsail and mainstaysail obscuring them. There was no look. out on board the ship. When. the collision happened there were two men and a boy below, and they were drowned: Our vessel struck the steamer, and at the time was under full sail, and going at the rate of seven miles an hour, I should say. 1 joined the ship at Lon don, and we went to Middlesborough and loaded pig-iron for Cardiff. We sailed on Friday, at three o'clock in the morning. The captain's name was Johnson, but I do not know the names of the other members of the crew who have lost their lives." NATIONAL TEMPERANCE LEAGUE. This association held its New Year's festival last evening, in Exeter Hall. The programme consisted of the usual nature, of tea, music, and eloquence. The tea was disposed of in the hours between five and seven ; and at the same time the musical en tertainment was going forward in the large hall by the help of Mr. J. G. Boardman, on the organ, and a choir of eighty voices, which were led by Mr. W. Harland. At seven o'clock the tea drinkers, as well as some who dispensed with that portion of the ceremony, mustered in the hall, which was more than half full. Capt. W. King Hall, C. 8., who vas to have presided, was kept away by his dutirs at Sheerness Dockyard, of which he is the captain superintendent, and in his absence the meeting was presided over by Mr. J. Taylor. A hymn, probably composed for the occasion, was first swig, to the tune of the Hundredth Psalm ; after which the speech-making began, and continued for more than two hours, the gentlemen who undertook this part of the pro gramme being the Rev. J. Fleming, Mr. W. Saunders, Mr. M. Young, and the Rev. Newman Hall. The addresses, which were wisely kept within certain specified limits—ran over the whole range of ordinary teetotal arguments, and presented no fresh features of importance or interest. Details of in dividual cases, occupied the attention of the speakers, and the usual wide-spreading inferences were drawn from these isolated cases. One speaker argued that the daily consumption of alcoholic liquor in the: United Kingdom is equal to £2,000,000, and that if., only for one day, this source of ex pense wes.e applied to charitable purposes the charities would be largely benefited, and nobody would be any the worse. Another speaker main tained that; after the experience of 30 years they were jus cited in saying that alcoholic liquors were wholly unnecessary, and might be done away with. Mr. M. Young made a statement describing, in rather a v ague sort of manner, what the society has been &A ng during the past year. Conferences with clergy have been numerous, active deputations have visited some of the large towns in the king dom, awl the suburbs of London have not been neglect et l. At the present moment there are 548 total ab , sf :aining Congregationalist clergymen, nearly 700 belo: aging to the Church of England, 270 Wes leyan, 21 ;0 Baptist, 426 Primitive Methodists, 360 Welsh Calvinistic Methodists, and 320 Free Church of Scoqtand clergymen ; altogether the number of abstain Ling clergymen is reckoned at 4,000. The ships in the Thames, the Congregatiunal colleg es, the sailors in the docks have been visited ; in onti instance it is reported that a whole ship's crew 'were induced to sign the pledge. Sermons have , been preached in various parts. The society sue :ceded in obtaining permission to hold a special ser vice in Westminster Abbey. The conversazionc w filch they ventured to hold in Willis's Rooms was b .ighly successful, and the Crystal Palace fete gave vneral satisfaction. The Bn. NWhilliAlsl Ilau l who was warmly re- ceived upon his return from America, then delivered a speech, in the course of which he touched upon some of his Transatlantic experiences. In reference to the statement he made in America (and which had excited some enthusiasm at home), that he had seen more drunkenness in one night in England than in three months in America—and that state ment had been compared with one made by an Ame rican bishop exactly to the contrary effect—well, all he could say was this, that he had been in New York, and had seen some of its woist parts in the evening tine; he had been a thousand miles in the West, to Boston, Philadelphia, Richmond, Brook lyn, Newhaven, and elsewhere, and he was prepared to repeat the statement that had been so much con demned, and to maintain that he had seen less drunkenness in America in three months than he might see any night in walking home along the New-cut and over Westminster-bridge, and through the streets near Charing-cross. And what was more, he saw one night, in America, more drunken ness than he had seen all the rest of the time that he spent there. But the place was Halifax, in our own colony. Upon landing at that place he saw some British soldiers; his heart warmed to them and he addressed them, and in a way to show his plea sure at seeing the old colours again; but the first thing they said was, " It is a cold night, sir ; give us something to drink." He was disgusted (cheers) —for it was the first time he had ever been so ad dressed in America, and he told the men he was ashamed of them, and that it was disgraceful to hear that a man could not speak to them without being asked for drink. (Cheers.) The same men afterwards came on board his ship, and had berths near his cabin ; and they talked and laughed and made so much noise (even wanting to smoke), that he was kept awake for more than an hour, and could not help feeling more ashamed of his country men than ever. (Cheers.) He did not mean to say that there was not a good deal of drunkenness in America, but he - was prepared to stand by his original statement so far as his own observation had gone. He had left America more impressed than ever with the necessity of social reform in the habits of the masses in England. Political reform was all very well ; but neither political power, nor educa tion, nor material prosperity, could confer real respectability upon a man who was the slave of drink. In the thing called " society" in England total abstinence was discouraged and little prac tised, but it was not so in America. In the private families to which he had introductions wine was rarely seen. It was quite the exception when it was introduced. In many houses of eminent mer chants and distinguished clergymen wine was never seen, and no apology was considered to be neces sary for its absence, for nobody seemed to look for it. Good water was put upon the table, and after dinner the ladies and gentlemen retired together to tea and coffee ; and it did not appear to be at all the custom iu society for wine or beer to be upon the table. It seemed to be the rule for clergymen to be abstainers. (Cheers.) It was quite the exception for him to meet one who took wine. No doubt a good deal of drinking on the sly might take place in some parts, but he only spoke of what came under his own knowledge. As he had told them, he went once to some of the worst places in New York, under the protection of a couple of policemen and two missionaries, and his impression was that the worst parts of New York were by no means so bad as the worst parts of London. By the present law drinking licenses in New York wero never granted to dancing saloons. He went to a dozen of the latter places, and they were all near:y empty ; and he was told that in consequence of the wise law for separating drinking from dancing saloons, 2,000 of those places bad been closed for want of custom. All the public-houses are closed on Sundays and on election days, to the infinite advantage of public justice, order, an d d ecenc y. The day of an election in America presented a very agreeable contrast to its appearance in England. (Cheers.) The speaker gave some other instances of the spread of the principles of teetotalism in America, and concluded by expressing his hope that the present feelings of dissatisfaction and dislike between America and England would be speedily removed, and the two nations be once more united n bonds of brotherly affection. (Cheers.) The singing of the Doxology ended the pro ceedings. Foreign Mail PaeEet Lisle MAILS DUE. australia. and New Zealand, via Southampton...... Jar , 19. Ditto, via Marseilles 1?. Ditto, via Panama J..n. Irani, Buenos Ayres, ond Monte V ideo Jan. 5. Ditto, Jy trrenon peoket Cape Verde. by Braztl paottet ..ape of Good Asoeasion, and ,r. fir eam Jan 1. China. Penang, and Strig-ipJre, via Sou, aamptou Jan 3 Ditto, via Marseilles N'atn. Jar. 5. kr l a al v tna i dr a . 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