The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-12-07 00:00:00

YESTERDAY.

The inquiry was resumed in the Sheriff's Court of St.
*George's Hall, yesterday, (in consequence of the Crown
Court being occupied with the election of an officer of
the Marine Board,) before Mr. T. S. Raffles and Captain
Harris.

The cross-examination of Captain Sewell was pro-
ceeded with by Mr. Tyndall. Ile said :—My own chart
got wet in the boat, and I left it in the Ottila. I had
my Tosition down at twelve o'clock on the day we
abandoned the Maggie Walker ; and on going on to the
Ottila in the evening, I found there was a difference of
ten or fifteen miles between the supposed position of my
vessel and the Ottila. I did not get an observation on
the Monday; but I knew my position from the distance
we had come from the previous day. At that time we
were in latitude 50 and longitude. 8.29. We
were-then about fifty-seven miles from the nearest land,
and going about, on an average, five knots an hour. The
distance between the position I was in between seven
and eight o'clock on Sunday night and the position I
was in at twelve o'clock on Monday was 68. The
course and the bearings I gave in 'my examination of
yesterday,were given from memory. I did not trace out
my position
to Captain Flaherty at his house the other
night, nor open any chart, but I did take a new chart I
had bought up to him, and asked him to give me his
old one, as it contained some marks of the course I had
pursued, but I did not get it, because he had erased the
marks. I did not look into the log-book, nor write
upon the slate from the day I left Liverpool. It is not
a usual thing for a captain to look at the log kept by
the chief mate while in the channel, but I generally do
so every Sunday, or when near land. I did not do so
on the Sunday before we were wrecked. The witness then
described the colours of several of the points he passed up
to the abandonment of the vessel, and gave other navigable
evidence from a chart before him. I directed my course
towards Cork, because I wanted some repairs done to
the vessel, but not on account of the loss of the jibboom.
I did not report the loss of my vessel in Dublin, but
noted a protest to the agent of the underwriters there—
Messrs Falgrool and Co. I informed them that• my
vessel had sprung a leak between Lundy Island
and the Smalls after the 12th of October. I did not
state to them that the Maggie Walker had nine feet of
water in her hold when we abandoned her, but said I
thought about four feet. I lad no fault to find with
the second mate, Thompson's; conduct while with me,
and I gave him a written certificate on the 6th of Sep-
tember last stating that while he was with me I found
him "an honest and industrious man." The certificate
was put in evidence, after which Mr. Tyndall said that
was all the evidence he intended to offer upon the case.

Mr. Hull then put in a chart marked by the witness,
as accurately as he could with the course he nursued from
the day he 16ft Liverpool to the, day he alSandoned the
Maggie Walker. Mr. Hull then proposed to call seve-
ral captains to show that it was not a usual thing for
captains to look at the log until they got into the seaf
when it was necessary to take observations.
Captain Harris said if they did, net take the surest
precautions then they must be responsible for the conse-
quences that ensued if their vessel was lost.
Mr. Hull—Very,well, sir. Then I will not jeopardise
the" men by calling them.
Captain Harris—Well, you know it would not justify
the man in losing his vessel.
Mr. Hull—But I wish to exonerate the captain from
any impression that may have been made upon your