The Express.
London, England, 1865-11-30 00:00:00

HOW H. M. SHIP BULLDOG WAs
LOST.

DETAILS
CAPE N.
The New York Herald of the 17th pljbmB4
long details from Kingston of the bombardment of
Cape Hayden by the Bulldog, and the destradee
of the latter vessel :
The follow's' is an extract from the *dual of as cee,
OD board the United States steamer De Soto, who mew*
the whole affair from her decks
„ From 8 ..m. w meridian, wind ridable, from imq
to south-west, weather clear and fine, thermometer (ct
shade) 90 derma, barometer 30 dogmas 5 moat.
At 8.35 her British liejedy's steamer Bulldog AA.
her appearance off the entrance of the harbour, in
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with three Haytiss (fir rd) war Ammer% liammee.
coommandbag Howell retureedlen board, Drizzles .8 811
families of the Plosion and Belgian ocesula. At a qem.
to 9 o'clock, whoa abreast of Fort Pioolet, the Bull nut
opened fire on the same, and about five minutes law Is
fort returned the fire. At ten minutes to 9in mow
fires under the main boilers foe the purpose of wain .
steam, and sent lA/Mount Read in the *4
cutter with • means to the Bulldog, lint
Head was
ship.wu eTnharbeßanatoog board
bsing her, and wwisitanic
I stood for the rebel steamer Voldroque at full speed, .4
I esnieginos•aringut
her starboardrifle
othbe peatteropyloupooun
ththmee city sad
the em.
of Voldroque. When within short musket nags
I the Voldroque, sad going at full rimed, and abrod d
the " turret Detatng,* the Bulldog grounded, tad ies
menhir to extricate herself from her perilous pww,
Meng within point blank range of a hoary marked b"
leery ea shore, which immediately opened fin UM hi,
1 es also did DIODIDOOD sharpshooters and riflemen. A
fragment of • shell from the Bulldog stains aa Fe&
blockede Teaser,
she was immediately abendosed b
captais and crew, who came on board thin reed is
protectioo. Hove shod, end sent Lialtagmt End •
the Bulldog with a message to her commander. Illi
tenant Read succeeded in boarding her, sad through".
midst of a heavy fire, at twenty minutes to 9 o'clei
Lieutenant Commander Howell returned in the lesek
bringing off • large number of prima', among ,Ma
were the Hamburg and Oldenburg weeds, who eia
protection under our flag. At a quarter to is the 7ai
drogue sunk, and with her colours flying, having lug
hulled several times by the Bulldog, and the fee di
remained on board dung to the rigging, Am 8
steamer's hull disappeared, and thus remained nerds
the fire of the Eoglishman's riflemen until picked sp ti
his boat end taken prisoners. Several of the On g
the Voldroque and • portion of the crew of the Isqpii
sebooser of the Raytion fleet WOOD rescued tom th
water, in the midst of a shower of bullets, end titan
alms by ideuteuent Sumner is the third cutter, ehttee
despatched upon this errand of humanity by Coia
Walker. At 10 Lieutenant Commander Rowe and AMR
Resign Sane went on shore with a heavily liarmed deo
mew, for the purpose of bringing off any foreigner' di
desired proteetion. At ten minutes put 10 the hies
echoorre of the Baytten war fleet sunk, het* 'swindle
shot holes in the port bow and at the waterline. Mid
past 10 hove up who, and got under way under stem
a boat with an officer from the Bulldog coming dinged
at the same time with a nuesage for thecommandiegoem
At half-peat 11 another officer came alongside from in
Bulldog, with • message which amounted to this, "se
he wished us to attempt to tow him off shore." At forty
five minutes peat 11 came to anchor in ten sad aid
fathoms of water,and veered to thirty-five fathoms of elm
at the "buts " on the starboard bower chain. Beady 4
anchorsp—Fort Pieolet,north by west thnomiartan me;
Custom-house, west southwest; Fort 'Villein. south by yil
onohalf west ; Petit Anse, south thrsoquartas mat no
grove Islands,esstby south. At 35 minutespastULiestme
Sumner returned with the first cutter from shoes, brisk
off dead foreigners claiming protectioo, unmet she
was the Vice-Consul of France. At meridian Limited
Sumner went on board the Bulldog with en dm be
the commanding officer to receive and care for sad woad
persons as he (the commander of the Bulldog) might in
fit to mud off. The commanding officer of the RAW
declined the offer ; his men being badly wounded. and its
ship trader fire, be deemed it inexpedient to remove them
" From meridian to 4 p.m.—Light wind from the sod
II north-east ; weather clear and fine ; thermometer. di*
I moven degrees ; Wooster thirty degrees two misetse;ln
1 Britannic Majesty's steamer Bulldog still second, ad is
gaging the shore batteries. Lieutenant Commander Heel
went ashore in the mound cutter, returning oe braid
1 forty-five minutes pest 1. The town is on fire is fie
I northern and windward part, from the effect of the Bali
,dog's shells. At 4 the firing nearly ceased es ted die,
'the Bulldog firing only occasionally. Received la bid
In all, 47 persons, people from the city of Cope Balm
who have desired protection.
"From Your to Be p.m.—Bulldog still drip' althea*
batteries; and occasionally spiritedly sweeping the did
in the vicinity of the Barenueu.Port with broaddis of
'raps and canister, the shore batteries answerfog bat
feebly end occasionally. A number of the people don
we brought of from shore (foreigners) left the dip lad
embarked on an English 'chooser, which will yds*
run the blockade tonight. Three of Oeffraris dorm
are cruising in the offing. Received from her Wad
Majeety's steamer Bulldog, for medical trained, its
following wounded men, viz. :—Samuel Boden, wales
James Graeae, captain of foretop; John Deadly, add,
of maintop ; Francis Merediff, seaman ; Beejamia Baud.
son, seaman ; Jerome Pascoe, stoker ; James Buts, No
rine ; and Bina Japrey, • Maytion, one of the crewel the
Voldroque. Received also from the Bulldog sass fief'
thins, being a portion of the crew of the Voldroqm, tie
se prisoners from the water and the rigging of de erste
schooner Voldroque by the English boats.
" From 6 to 8 nothindworthy of note occurred. Add
sideman from the Bulldog came on board with * lawn/
from the commanding officer.
" From 8 p.m. to midnight, calm, weather clear.
"At thirty minutes past 10 her Brawled lbjell'l
steamer Bulldog blew up with terrific force, the decors
shaking this ship. Is an instant all our beats were loved
and manned, and despatched .to the wreck of the Dam
under the following officers, respectively :—Liestelle
Summer, Lieutenant Road, Acting Master Brim, sea MN
Ensign Kane. Arriving there no bodice were food,
PI ll
having tem abandoned previous to the ciphers,
carrying off their dead with them."

were actuated.
The diplomatic body had then bad more than the time
necessary to interpose its good offices. The di approval by
the Queen's government of the arrangement concluded by
Senor 'rewire, and the approaching arrival of the new
plenipotentiary with hie Kaaren were known se early as
the 12th September at Santiago. The instructions
given to the latter by the Queen's government in
the presumption that the diplomatic body would
visit him upon his arrival at Valparaiso, deaired him
to engage in conference with that body sad interest it,
so far am his dignity would permit, in a prompt and pacific
arrangement. This presumption was deceived ; none of
the members of the diplomatic body thought proper to
visit Admiral Parris, neither upon his arrival nor
during the four days which elapsed between the
17th and the 21st—the respective dates of his note
and of the reply. It that had taken place —if, at least,
the diplomatic body had offered in writing to employ its
good offices eta useful time and opportunity, i.e. before
the refusal of Chili oa the 21.0.—1 can confidently ware
you that Admiral Pareja would have facilitated an arrange-
ment by every means in his power, for slash was his
wish, and that of the Spanish gammon. Two favour-
able opportunities MOO therefore lost ; the lint, before he
forwarded his note on the 17th, upon arriving at Val-
paraiso ; the second before the peremptory refusal of Senor
Minister Courrubies had been received. All that wee done
afterwards was perforce tardy and inopportune, even look-
ing any from the form sad matter of the communication&
The deductioe may be clearly drawn that if, inspired
by so lendable a desire, the foreign diplomatic
body bad profited by then two propitious occadons, it is
very probable that the disadvantages commerce is now
suffering might have been avoided, and which we are
sincerely the first to deplore.
AU then explanations—those contained in the circular of
this &nand the text of the annexed documents (already pub.
lashed) contained in today' OcceUe, will supply your Excel-
lency with safficient data to rectify the fade andbring back
to its veritable bearings that public opinion which has been
led astray, either by politico' causes or by the material in-
terests which find themselves injured. No one can deplore
more sincerely than the govbeern by the meet of the Qu en
the dis-
advantages which may suffered subjects of
friendly and allied nation which maintain does
commercial relations with Chili. A striking testimony
to the solicitude it feels upon their account is afforded by
the text of the instructions given to Admiral Puri% in case
hostilities should occur. But at the same time no one can
be blind to the fact that right is on our side, and that sew,
when unfortunately eventualities such as those in which
we are at present engaged towards the said republic have
come to pees, no government can take into anent
otherwise than by lamenting and averting it so far
as possible, the damage which may be ceased to the com-
merce of foreign nations. We have frequent examples Of
blockades which have been prolonged foe months and even
for years, during which commerce has had to suffer imam
!able injury ; and in the present can no government
can be surprised at the measure adopted by the govern-
ment of the Queen which has preferred this prelimi-
nary act of blockade to mare serious • hostile acts
entailing the destruction of property and the effusion of
blood, which constitutes an additional proof of the modera-
tion, desire for peace, and conciliation which have always
animated, and still animate, the cabinet of Madrid.
These considerations cause us to hope that the govern-
ments, whose subjects may more directly suffer in their
interests, owing to the peralisation of commerce,
pelatestad with the justice and right whin are upon
our side, will exert their isthmus with Chili no longer to
refuse us the moderate satisfaction we ask from bra for the
immune and repeated insults she has offered to a nation
which has always admired her sad treated her sa a friend
end an ally ; and we entertain that hope with the greater
reason, because the satidactioa we ask contains nothing
undignified or humiliating.
I authorise your Excellency to read this despatch to the
Minister for Foreign Affairs and to Senor Banks, the
Chilies Minister, in answer to the animated observation he
!addressed to you at the conference mentioned in your Ex-
cellency's despatch of the 19th, to which I have had the
honer to reply.
God preserve your Excellencymany nem
(Signed) M. Bennunaz DI CAM*.

To the fund raised for the sufferers by the SIP
field inundation the Queen and the Prince of Waits.°
contributed 2001. The committee who had the mousers
of the fund are sow returning 50 pet cent. to The subsoils'
out of thesurplus remaining in their hands. he Qum lod
the Prince having been consulted au to the way in eat
they desire to have the surplus of their subsediAke° a*
poudood
eueof, have
ilak both directed that it shall be handl:deur,
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The marriage of the Princess Anna Murat ellt
the young Duke de Moonily has been postponed is foe°
queues of se injury received by him when ridieg. 11000
the fortune bestowed nue the lady by the Esilaght
amain, which is said to be ousiderabla, his Male* o"_,
presented her, as a marriage premed, a pearl sad far
necklace of the value of 200,000 f r. (B,OODt .), sale new
prier • weddietdren the emit of which I O!
(3,2001.) Moreover, the Pokes of Eu 411141011 eill::
plead at the disposal of the young couple. Is Weisal"
' alliance which the duke thus contracts with a hdl .
' near the throw. the duke's family, it is sael.
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