The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1858-05-18 00:00:00

INDIAN GOVERNMENT AND GUDE.

Soon after Lucknow was re-captured, the following
proclamation, prepared and dated aeveral days before,
wee issued by the Governor-General :

" PROCLAMATION.

"The army of his Excellency the Commander-in-
Chief is in possession of Lucknow, and the city lies at
the mercy of the British Government, whose authority
it has for nine months rebelliously defied and resisted.
This resistance, begun by a mutinous soldiery, has found
support from the inhabitants of the city and of the
province of Oude at large. Many who owed their pros-
perity to the British Government, as well as those who
believed themselves aggrieved by it, havejoined in this
bad cause, and have ranged themselves with the enemies
of the State. They have been guilty of a great crime,
and have subjected themselves to a just retribution.
The capital of their country is now once more in the
hands of the British troops. From this day it will be
held by a force which nothing can withstand, and the
authority of the Government will be carried into every
corner of the province. The time, then, has come at
which the Right Honourable the Governor-General of
India deems it right to make known the mode in which
the British Government will deal with the talookdars,
chiefs, and landholders of Oude and their followers. The
first care of the Governor-General will be to reward
those who have been steadfast in their allegiance at a
time when the authority of the Government was par-
tially overborne, and who have proved this by the
support and assistarice which they have given to British
officers.

" Therefore the Right Honourable the Governor-
General hereby declares that Drigliejjie Singh, Rajah of
Bulrampore ; Koolwunt Singh, Rajah of Yudnaha ;
Rao Hurdeo Buksh Singh, of Kutiaree ; Kasheeper-
shaud, Talookdar of Sissaindee ; Zuhr Singh, Zemindar
of Gopaul Kheir ; and Chundeeloll, Zemindar of
Moraon (Baiswarah), are henceforward the sole here-
ditary proprietors of the lands which they held when
Oude came under British rule, subject only to such mode-
rate assessment as may be imposed upon them' and that
these loyal men will be further rewarded in such manner
and to such extent as, upon consideration of their merits
and their position, the Governor-General shall deter
mine. A proportionate measure of reward and honour
according to their deserts will be conferred upon others
in whose favour like claims may be established to the
satisfaction of the Government.

"The Governor-General further proclaims to the
people of Oude that, with the above-mentioned excep-
tions, the proprietary right in the soil of the province is
confiscated to the British Government, which will dis-
pose of that right in such manner &sit may seem fitting.
To those talookdars, chiefs, and landholders, with their
followers, who shall make immediate submission to the
Chief Commissioner of Oude, surrendering their arms
and obeying his orders, the Right Honourable the
Governor-General promises that their lives and honour
shall be safe, provided that their hands are unstained
with English blood murderously shed. But, as regards
any further indulgent* which may be extended to them,
End the condition in which they may hereafter be placed,
they must throw themselves upon the justice and mercy
of the British Government. To those among them who
shall promptly come forward and give to the Chief Com-
missioner their support in the restoration of peace and
order, this indulgence will be large, and the Governor.
General will be ready to view liberally the claims which
they may thus accpure to a restitution of their former
rights.
"As participation in the murder of Englishmen and
Englishwomen will exclu4e those who are guilty of it
from all mercy, so will those who have protected English
lives be specially entitled to consideration and
leniency.
"By order of the Right Honourable the Governor.
General of India. _ _ _

G. F. EDUONSTONI,
"Secretary to the Government of India.
" A.llahabed, March 14."
The following are the paragraphs in the dospateli son-
taming the sensure of the Government on Lord Canning
for the above proclamation, and which Lord Ellen-
borough said it would be inoonvenient to publish ;
but on the papers presented to the House of Commons
those paragraph were inserted :
" 0. We cannot but injustice consider that those whore.
gist our authority in Gude are under very different cir-
cumstances from thole who have &chid against tin in pro-
vinces which have long been under our Government.
"10. We dethroned the King of Oude end took pos-
session of his kingdom by virtue of a treaty, whioh
had been subsequently modified by another treaty, under
which, had it been held to be in force, the °puree we
adopted could not have been lawfully pursued ; but we
held that it was not In fora, although the foot of IN
not having been ratified in Ingland, Al regarded the
provision on which we rely for our justification, had
not been previously ma& known to the King of
_

'774. That Sovereign and his ancestors had been
uniformly faithful to their treaty engagement/ with no,
however, ill they may have governed their subjeots.
"12. They had more then ono* assisted no in our
difficulties, and not a suspicion had ever been enter•
tamed of any hostile disposition on their part towards
our Government.
13. Suddenly the people law their King taken from
amongst them, and our administration subetituted for
his, which, however bed, was M least native, and this
sudden shin's of Government wee immediately fol.
lowed by it summery settlement of the revenue, which,
in a very oonsiderable portion of the proving', deprived
the most influential landholders of what they denied to
be their property ; of what certainly had long given
wealth, said dietfnation, and power to their family.]

A MAIM TM Till 111811LAND11,--A specimen of this
rare spit:deo has been 'lnhibited in the shop of Mr. Clift,
hairdremer, which WM lately trapped on the hill of
Strimathro 'instead of a rabbit. It la 24 Mahe. long,
with Tether a dere* appearance. It is seldom lob.
found in this quarter, but it is not so rare in the Welt
Highlands. It it six 'inches longer than the one Gold.
smith speaks of in his Motet,' of Animated Nature,
where he says it le the most beautiful of all beasts of
prey, and we might congratulate air James Campbell on
his getting rid of so formidable an noisy to the gems in
the dietrict. The fur of these animal/ ii very Ise and
Welly prised,

VOTE OF CONFIDENCE IN LORD CANNING.—We are
informed that • Court of Directors of the East India
Company was held on Monday, at which a vote strongly
expressing the confidence of the Court in Lord Canning
wad passed, we believe unanimously.—Globe

MIIIGRATION FROM MILFORD MAVEN.-A party of
emigrants for Auckland, New Zealand, will embark at
Noyland, the terminus of the South Walea• Railway
at Milford Raven, on Wednesday, next, and sail
the following day for New Zealand. The steamer
Lord Ashley ic one of several steamers intended fur the
intercolonial mail-packet service.

GOVERNMENT EMIGRATION.—The Government emi-
grant ship General Hewett, 1,055 tons, Captain Louttid,
sailed from Plymouth on Monday, week, for Ado.
laide, South Australia, in charge of Surgeon-Super-
intendent James O'Donnell, with 54 married couples' 98
single men, 72 single women, 45 boys between the
ages of 1 and 12, 27 girls between the same ages, 7 male
infants, and 8 feinales, making • total of 355 souls equal
to 314 statute adults.

GOVERNMENT EMIGRATION.—The Government eini•
grant ship Stebonlioath, 1,014 tons, Captain Connell,
which sailed from Plymouth on the 30th of September,
in charge of Surgeon-Superintendent William Johnson
Rowland, with 26 married couples, 84 single men, 149
single women, 35 boys between the age. of 1 and 12, 27
girls between the seine ages, and 8 infants, making a
total of 355 souls, equal to 316 statute adults, of whom
201 were English, 8 Scotch, and 146 Irish, arrived at
Sydney, New South Wales, on the 27th of February.
Five deaths, viz., 1 adult and four infants, and four
births occurred during the voyage.

Tax STRAND BUILDINGS.—His Royal Highness the
Prince Consort, attended by Colonel Ponsonby, in-
spected on Wednesday the Strand Buildings (improved
dwellings for the poor), in Angel-court, Strand. His
Royal Highness was reoeived by Viscount Ingestre,
M.P.' chairman ; Viscount Ranelagh, Rev. A. G.
Riouart, Major-General Treinenheere, Mr. H. B.Adams,
Mr. Henry Pownall, Mr. N. W. Winatanley, members
of committee ; Mr. George Morgan, hon. secretary and
architect; and Messrs. Piper and Son, builders. His
Royal Highness minutely examined the buildings, and
expressed his gratification at the result of his visit. His
Grace the Duke of Marlborough presided at the open-
ing of the building, on Thursday.
DISCOVERY OF I ROMAN FORD—Last week, during
the progress of the wor...s for the improvement of Upper
Witham, the excavators laid bare the Roman ford on
the Foss-road from Lincoln to Newark. It is eight
chains south of the Bracebridge-bridge. The floor or
bed was composed of stone, gravel, and concrete, so
very hard that, although only 20 yards long (the width
of the river) and 30 feet in breadth, the men were en-
gaged two days before they lowered the bed 18 inches.
There is every reason to suppose that the causeway may
be found on the low land leading from the ford to Brace-
bridge village. Several wood -bridges appear to have
been erected over the Witham at different periods near
the present bridge, and between it and the ford men-
tioned above a number of piles were discovered in the
excavation. Several spear heads have also been found
—two in beautiful preservation. They are now in the
possession of Mr. Padley, the surveyor to the Commis-
sioners of Sewers.

THE ATLANTIC TELEGRAPH.—II is stated that Hull
is to be the great intermediate station of the Trans-
atlantic and British and Irish Telegraph Company for
the transmission of messages between America and the
continent of Europe. A. four-wire cable is now being
laid in the neighbourhood of Hull for this purpose. Lon-
don, Liverpool, Manchester, and Glasgow will be placed
in direct communication with Hull, as well as Valentia,
on the Irish coast, whence messages will be received from
America. Communications intended for the Continent
will be forwarded direct to Hull, and thence along the
cable now about to be carried rid Withernsea to Spurn
Point, where it leaves the British Ides and passes directly
across the North Sea to Cuxhaven, at the entrance
of the Elbe, and thence by land to Hamburgh, the prin-
cipal terminal station on the Continent. Mr. Powell,
one of the company's engineers, is now in Hull preparing
for the transmission of messages by sound, the vibrations
being produced by strokes upon a fine-toned bell, entirely
dispensing with the use of the needle. It is expected
that the communication between New York and Hull
will be completed by July next.
RAGGED SCHOOL UNION.—This society held its an-
nual meeting last Tuesday night in Exeter-hall, the Earl
of Shaftesbury presided. The hall was densely crowded,
and many hundreds of persons sought in vain for admis-
sion. After an opening address from the chairman the
secretary read the annual report, which announced an
increased number of scholars in the schools, an improved
state of finances, and a general extension of the various
operations of the union. The number of Sunday schools
in the union was 134, containing 20,500 scholars; day
schools, 98, containing 14,302 scholars; week evening
schools, 131, containing 8,650 scholars. The voluntary
teachers numbered 2,580, and the paid teachers. 328.
There were nine shoe-black societies in various parts of
London. Of these the three most important—the red,
yellow, and blue brigades, containing 190 boys, earned
during the year £3,227, about Is. a day for each boy.
57 of the teachers had been formerly themselves ragged
scholars, and 105 of the pupils had become communicants
of various Christian bodies. A large number of the
scholars had been placed in service at home and in the
colonies, of whom several had entered the army and the
navy. The penny banks had received £2,530 from
15,000 depositors. The annual grants to the schools
amounted to 22,000 a year, besides special grants of a
considerable amount. The entire reoeipts of the Union
and of the local schools were £35,000. The meeting was
addressed by several gentlemen, who advocated the cause
of the society, and detailed some of the results of its
operations.

CAPTURE OF A RICH SLAVER.-A letter from an offi-
cer on board the gunboat Jasper. Lieutenant and Com-
mander H. Pym, says :—" We have captured and
brought in, I may safely say, the largest and richest
prize ever captured in the slave trade. She is a full-
rigged and fast sailing ship of 750 tons burden, with a
full slave equipment, and provisions for their sustenance.
she also had on board specie in gold to the amount of
2,260 ounces, Spanish and Mexican, or about £.1,500
sterling. Her name and nation unknown. We cap-
tnred her on the north aide of Matanzas, on the 22nd of
March, between 9 and 10 o'clock a.m., she having sailed
from Havannah on the previous night, to purchase and
bring over slaves for the island of Cuba. We had
rather an exciting chase for about four and a half hours.
At 7 a.m. the Styx (6, paddle, Commander Vesey) hove
in sight and joined the chase, but kept astern of us un-
til the prize was taken. She, however, stood on until
we were within a mile of her, when she lowered her
royals, but did not heave to until two more shots were
thrown. We boarded and examined her. She had no
papers. Slave coppers were lying on the main deck,
and their furnaces In s case in the square of the main
hatchway, marked ' Marseiles,' to which place they pre-
tended to be going. We also found slave tins and spare
plank for slave deck, marked, fitted, and numbered, but
not in its place, 350 ' leagers,' and 303 tons of water in
them, an immense quantity of rice, farina, coffee, dried
salt fish, 18 puncheons of ruin, and other necessaries.
The Styx shares, but the Jasper will share in the pro-
ceeds of a prize taken the previous day by the Styx."

AUTOGRAPHS.—The interesting colleotion of autograph
letters formed by the late John Wilson Croker was
lately sold by Messrs. Sotheby and Wilkinson. The
collection comprised the celebrated Nelson corres-
pondenoe of more than 2000 letters addressed to the
hero of Trafalgar, PA well as his Lordship's unpublished
letters to Lady Hamilton. Lot 228, containing the
correspondence (private and official) principally of naval
and military men and statesmen, and his letters in reply
and sea )ournals, was pot up at £5O, and after spirited
competition was knocked down for £3BO to Mr.
Pilkington, Lots 229 to 286 were letters of the most
affectionate character to Lady Hamilton, and were
eagerly purchased at prices varying from £1 to £l6 the
single letter. Lot 289 consisted of a large number of
documents relating to the French Revolution, and was
knocked down for £5O. The legal documents and other
papers used at the celebrated trial in 1763 of John
Wilkes, for the publication of No. 45 of his famous
periodical, the North Briton, &c., fetched £7O. The
Dyer correspondence of about 100 letters written to
George Dyer, £7. A short note of condolence from
Queen Anne to Mr. Secretary Harley was sold to Mr.
Holloway for £3 4s. A letter of Itterbury, Bishop of
Rochester, confined in the Tower, fetched £4 6s. A
note of Francis Bacon, Earl of St. Alban's, to Sir
Edward Conway, sold for £l4 14s. The rare letter of
George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham, was sold for
£ll 11e. Lord Byron to J. W. Croker, £2 3a. Another
of the noble poet, £7 15.. Chatterton the poet, £3 15e.
Queen Elisabeth to Henry Duke of Brunswick, £29 10s.
Valentine Greatrackes (the quack), £5. Hogarth, £B.
Johnson £B. Spencer Percival, £l9. Total of the isle,
21,215.

DESPERATE BOHOL ARS 124 Tull NORTH-EAST
TOWNS.—During the put 10 days great alarm has been
caused in Shields and its neighbourhood by a series of
audacious burglaries which have been perpetrated in the
residence. of some of the leading inhabitants of those
towns. Lut week Etta Villa, the residence of the Mayor
of Tynemouth, was entered while the family were uleep,
and every room was ransacked. Above £l5O worth of
silver plate was stolen, and sinoe then three notorious
fellows have been apprehended offering for sale from 60
to 70 ounces of silver melted downs into bars. The real•
donee of Mrs. Nall in North Shields WM also entered lest
week. The thieves took away all the keys of the house,
and made an attempt to effect a second entrance the
Caine night, but were frightened sway. The next night
they administered poison to a large watchdog and at•
tempted the residence of Mr, George Baynes, but did
not fumed in making an entranoe ; and on Munday morn.
ins the residence of Mr. John Carr, of King Jeinee-street,
Gatosheekl, we. robbed of silver and eleotrrowllver plate.
Mrs. Carr, having been alarmed, got up, and um one
follow leap out of the window and mope. Having die.
covered that part of the ;stolen property woe uleotro.
plated, they had depolited what they considered the
;earthling portion on the segoliore near South ithielde
the same day. Two portions have been apprehended on
suspicion of having committed title robbery, On Toes.
day morning one of the most daring burglaries on re•
cord wee (committed in Weston Villa, ;tear South Shields,
the redden°. of ?dn. Wood, The family retired to rest
about half -past 19 o'clock, and about 3 some of the house.
hold having got up discovered that in that short time
the house had been broken intothrough the only window
that had not a bell, and that every room had been ran.
stoked. The villiane had entered the bedroom* were tits
dotneetlee were sleeping, and took what little money they
had out of their dross pockets, and a small stun out of a
chest in ORO of the girl& rooms, It is supposed that
they had used ohloreforin to the girls to eons. stupor,
There is little doubt that they had also " doctored"
two dogs that are kept about the plate. After altering
out of the house with some /no or 212 ingold and alive,
they had regaled themselves on the green with provi•
lions and beer, which they bad stolen out of the pantry.
On Monday night a serious acteldtnt arose not of the
ezeittinent consequent on those burglarise. Peron. are
arming themselves, and It moms that Miss Emma Winn,
daughter of Mr. J. T. Wino, a county megletrate, to.
siding at West lieldon, found a pistol in one of the bed.
room, and attempted to fire It out of the window, As
It misted fire oho thought that It vie not loaded, and,
putting a up on it, she ran down stein, and presenting
it at her atinpanion, Mee Kisco, said in a playful man.
net, " Your money or your life l" Mist Niece bent her
head aside and said, "Dont point that at me," and by
swerving her head she appears to have mired her life,
for the pistol went off and It. content/ were lodged in
her shoulder. Sixteen shone have bora taken from her
shoulder, him Is not in say danger.

THE Loss OF THE CANDACE.—A telegram was re-
ceived on Tuesday, by the African Steam Company,
from the British Consul at Cadiz, relative to the loss of
the steamship Candace, on her homeward passage from
Africa, in consequence of a collision with the bark Ida
Elizabeth, on the 4th inst. The telegram states that
the persons drowned were J. H. Holt, commander;
James Byall, second engineer; Frederick Keen, boy;
Captain Goodhead and George Davis, passengers. The
officers and purser were to proceed to Southampton in
the packet on the 16th inst.

•
A NOTORIOUS BURGLAR.—Williain Daglish, a power-
ful, thick-set young man, 25 years of age, is in the cus-
tody of the South Shields police, and has been identified
with two desperate burglaries—one committed at Gates-
head, at the residenbe of Mr. Carr, on Sunday week;
and the other at the residence of Mrs. Wood, in Westoe,
on Tuesday morning. Ho admits having committed the
latter robbery, and another desperate burglary at the
residence of Mr. Marshall, in the same village, a few
weeks ago; and there seems no doubt but that, though
he is 25 years of age, he is the leader of the gang of
burglars who have caused so much alarm in the north
country towns during the past two or three months.
He says that he shall get 20 years for the "job" at
Mrs. Wood's residence, but that when he gets out he
will be at it again. He has suffered four years' penal
servitude for shoplifting at Sunderland; 18 months'
imprisonment for a burglary in the parsonage of Holy
Trinity Church, South Shields; and has been imprisoned
for three other offences. It is suspected that his com-
panions are either returned convicts, or ticket-of-leave
men.
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THE HORSE-TAMING MYSTERY.—A correspondent of
a medical journal quotes from Catlin's " Letters and
Notes on the North American Indians," • work of good
repute, two statements which record something like a
taming system. Catlin says that he has often adopted •
custom of the country, when a wild buffalo calf has been
captured, viz., held his hands over the animal's eyes,
and breathing strongly several times into its nostrils,
after which it would follow his horse as he rode home
as tame as a dog. The same plan is successfully applied
to taming wild horses taken by the lasso, and they
become tame immediately.
MMus 'Eunuch—The London Express of Friday last
publishes the following letter :—Sir,—Observing re.
pirated notices in your paper respecting the American
secret of horse taming, I beg to state the secret has been
divulged here for some months, and is now generally
known through this pre. I here state Mr. Rarey's
theory of taming the horse. Having haltered your colt
and caressed him, fasten his near fore-foot with a strong
strap round the pastern and radius or fore-arm, fasten
his foot up safe, make him hop round on three legs till
tired. When he is tired put a strap with noose round
the off prollern, make him hop, then pull the strap that's
on the off pastern, and he will come on his knees. When
on his knees keep the strap tight that he cannot get his
foot slack to get up. Bear against the horse's shoulder
with your's steadily, and he will lie down in • few
minutes. When he is down stroke him the way the hair
lies. Take off the straps as soon as he is down. You can
now do anything with him you wish, or beat a. drum on
him, &a., without alarming him. Operate on your
ho se in this manner as often as occasion requires. I
have operated by this theory on some of the wildest and
moat vicious horses with perfect success. I beg to apo-
logise for trespassing on your columns so far. Begging
you will give this an insertion for the benefit of the
public, I am, &c. William Ward, late of Preston' Rut-
land. 124, Richmond-street, Toronto, Canada West,
Aril 25.
THB LONDON HOME.—On Wednesday afternoon • new
institution, bearing the above title' was opened at
Stanley-terrace, Notting-hill, as an hospital for the
reception of respectable females, suffering from curable
surgical diseases. The situation of the establishment is
elevated and healthy, and the several bedrooms are
most comfortably fitted up, and are lofty and well venti-
lated. The Rev. Mr. Gell, Vicar of St. John's Church,
presided at the insugurative meeting, and it appeared
from the explanation of the scheme of the "Home," as
presented to the audience by Mr. Baker Brown, that
the institution is intenied to be the means of placing
within the reach of patients suffering from the irksome
and incapacitating infirmities incidental to females, all
the appliances of modern surgery, at a cost within the
means of those whose position compels them to refuse
to participate in the privileges of the poor by accepting
hospital relief, but who are yet quite unequal to meet the
expense inevitably attendant upon the performance of
critical operations at their own homes or in hired lodg-
ings—each patient paying from 10s. to 40s. per week,
according to the class of accommodation afforded to her.
The promoters regard skilled nursing as an indiepensible
accessory to its working, and as it will be impossible to
make the " Home " sellsupporting, they contemplate
appealing to the public for pecunary assistance. There
are about 10 beds in the institution, and it is calculated
that 2.500 per annum, in addition to the patients' fees,
will be sufficient to defray the whole cost of manage-
ment.

CURIOUS DISCOVERY IN THE SOUTH ATLANTIC.—
The following is the copy of a letter written by Captain
Cubins, of the Caribou, belonging to this port, to the
Secretary of the Admiralty, relating to a cluster of
islands not laid down in the chart, and which lie in the
direct tract to Australia. The attention of owners and
masters of ships ought to be called to the subjeot, as
many vessels of which no tidings have been heard may
have been wrecked on them :—"Ship Caribou, Hobson
Bay, March 13, 1858. I sailed from Liverpool on the
Bth December, 1857, bound to Port Phillip in Australis.
On February 22nd, wind westerly, brisk gale with snow
squalls, at 10.33 a.m., in a clear between the squalls, I
fancied I saw land to the southward ; took in studding.
sails, shortened sail, and stood towards it. At 1.30 p.m.
hove to abreast the island, in the centre bearing S.S.W.,
about 12 miles ; lowered a life boat and sent her to the
land. I afterwards stood in to about nine miles
off shore, and got no ground with 120 fathoms of line.
The island appeared to hem a S.E. and N.W. direction,
about 25 miles, its southern extreme tending to the
S.W. forming a deep bight on its western side, which
was entirely snow clad, and gave it the appearance of a
great barrier of ice. The greater part of the whole
island was covered with snow ; there was • remarkable
group of high rocks lying off to the.N.E. from the S.E.
part of the island, apparently six or seven miles, and on
the N.W. extreme an iceberg aground. The island
was cloud-clapped, but I think that its greatest eleva-
tion could not be less than 450 feet above the
level of the sea. While hove to, awaiting our boat's
return, I was astonished to see vessels at anchor
in a bay, we having opened it through drifting to the
S.E. One of them got under way and stood towards us;
it proved to be the American schooner Oxford, of Fair-
haven. They put out a boat, and the master came on
board; he told me they called it Kurds Island, and
that it was discovered by them 18 months before. He
seemed annoyed that my boat had landed, and advised
me to go and leave her behind, saying she would never
return; but I told him I would never leave her while I
had another boat to seek for her. I was very anxious,
for it was then sundown, and darkness coining on fast;
but while speaking the lookout at the masthead reported
the boat in sight. He then became more communicative,
and told use they were after oil ; that the shores of the
island swarmed with sea elephants; and that they had
sent to America from the island since the discovery 25,000
barrels of oil. The island was bold on the N.E. side,
and no hidden dangers; and the bay where they lay
was a fine bay or natural harbour with good anchorage :
no sunken dangers, with 12 to 20 fathoms all over, and
sheltered from all winds except a north-easterly, with a
fine river of fresh water at the head of it. lie also told
me that there was another island west of Kurds, distant
mine 30 miles, and another E.S.E. 70 miles, both o f
which he had seen, but never landed on. My own
officers that were in the boat confirmed his statement
of the sea elephants, and the island being well watered;
there were penguins and other birds in myriads, and on
an Wind about a mile apart from the main appeared to
be • great mound of guano. While lying to I went to
look at my abstract, and it made me shudder to think
that only 12 months before I ran past the island at mid-
night in • heavy gale of wind, not more than four or
five miles distant, ignorant of its existence. My greatest
wish on sending my boat to the island was to find
out if there were any shipwrecked persons on it whom
I might relieve. I send, enclosed with this, a sketch of
the island, in the execution of which I was very.much
assisted by one of the passengers. It was entirely of
volcanic origin, my six officers having found the surface
ashes and stones, like the specimen enclosed. I made
the northern extreme of the island in lat. 53 1 S., long.
73 7 E.—good chronometers—Lives-pool Daily POOL