The Sun.
London, England, 1852-04-07 00:00:00

Bradly, Byrne, Carrington, Cellus, Clines, Cummons, poop struck him on the head, and he never roseCostello,lo, Cragg. Deremick, Durkin, England, Field, again. All were clinging to the raft till it
Fe zgerald, Flateesan, Feanley, Free man, Finn, Grin- broke up, end then some swam back to the w!, ek,
shaw, Hart, Hay ward, Samuel Johnston, Wootton, and some to the maintopeatlyard. About forty-five
Keleher, Kerry, Lambdon, Lawlor, Lee, M‘Derrnott, people were on the yard, where they remained about
M'Donnell, M`Morrow, mattraeers, Mealey, Mullany, tevelhe hours, till the Lioness schooner came and took
Moran, Morrison, Muni, O'Connor, Owen, Palmer, them off, about two o'clock on the Thursday afternoon.
Petifer, Pucell, Renalds, Roach, Shepard, Smith (2,714), About 100 of the soldiero were drowned below. The
Spriggs, Thompson, Tigne, Wales, Wilson. vessel filled so fast that they had no time to get up.
" Draught 43d Light Infantry—Sergeant William From the time we first struck, which was about two
Hicks, Corporal Joseph Harrison, Corporal Benjamin I o'clock on the morning of Thursday, until the vessel
Cousins, John Anderson, John Butler, John Byrne, i was all to pieces, was about half an hour. Captain Sal-
William Ballot), Daniel Brennan, Thomas Cave, John mond might have saved himself easily, bat he remained
Cosgrove, George Gilbam, William do Bank, Thomas giving orders until the after part of the vessel surged,
Dews, William Donald, Joseph Penning, Kelly, Houton, and threw him overboard ; he might still have been
al,Quade, Michael M. Rerklin,
John Riddleston, Reardon, Sullivan, Vickery, Edward saved if it had not been for this accident. Young Mr.
Quin, Maurice Welsh, Charles Renshaw, Shepherd, John Mt, of the Lancers, asked the sergeant of marines to
try and save him ; he did try, and got him on the raft,
Liam Tucker. but as it surged against the rocks it parted, and he sunk.
" Draught 45th Regiment—G. Cocker, William Con- About 117 men, women, and children, came into Sireon'e
sell, M. Daughtery. rimothy Sheehan, Wil-
Bey on hoard the schooner, and about 30 or 40 lauded on
" Draught 60th Rifles—Corporal Francis Curtis, another raft. That number could be counted on the
James Brown, James Brookland, James Callaghan, Wil- beach. Of the 45 that remained on the yard were Mr. Hire,
ham Chapman, Eli Elliott, Thomas Frost, Arthur Ha- the clerk, John Drake, sergeant of marines, John Cooper,
milton, Michael Keleher, William Kelly, Charles Lucas. private marine, John King, a stoker, and 42 soldiers—
James Maher„,
James Moore, John MeAcy, Daniel when all, with one exception, behaved most admirably.
M.Quacle, Petrick O'Brien, Thomas Peacock, John They were rather in a hurry to get into the schooner's
Rees, William Russell, Thomas Seutts, James Storey, boat when she came to take them off, which nearly
Patrick Stokes, James Thompson, William Wilkins, caused an accident; but all were saved. The behaviour
Wilkinson,William James Wilson, William Woodward, of the crew was admirable--all obedient to:orders. There
John Wallis, Simon Jacobs, Joseph Ladd. is no chance of Captain Salmond being alive. Mr.
" Draught 73d Regiment—Lieutenant G. W. Robin- Brodie, the master, was in the act of clearing the paddle-
son, Lieutenant A. 11, Booth, Thomas Bermingham, box boat, when the ship parted in two, and he was
James Bernard, James Beggam, William Beeman, Da- killed at once. Nothing oculd exceed the kindness of
niel Buckley, John Byrne, William Barton, John Bryan, Captain Ramsden, of the Lioness schooner, who took us
Michael Caffy, Matthew Collins, Patrick Corney, John on board; he clothed us and fed us as well as he could;
Clements, Charles Dawson, Hugh Deegan, William Dad- and we shall always remember his kindness. It is sup-
ley, Patrick Doyle, Hugh Feehy, Matthew Fitzpatrick, posed when we left Simon's Bay that there wore about
Michael Flanagan. Hugh Feely, Michael Frontal. Ma- 486 officers and men of different regiments, besides
lachi Garin, Michael Gavin, Samuel Giles, John Grant, women and children, and ship's company of the Birken-
William N. Hall, John Harmer, Patrick Feanley, Re- head, amounting to about 115. It is feared that, on the
bert Hinchin, Michael Henley ,William Kearns, Timothy whole, not less than 500 lives have been lost.
Skelly, George Lawrence, Thomas Larkin, Michael "We presume a naval court-martial will be held on
Maher, John Maheys, John Murphy, Thomas Murray, the surviving officers of the ship, by which full particu-
Patrick O'Brien, William O'Connell, Michael Roonan, lays will be elicited. At present we are unable to furnish
George Randall, George Darcy, William Flynn, Philip any further details which can be relied on of this ap-
Scott, Timothy Sheehan, Daniel Shea, James Sullivan, palling occurrence."
Robert Shepherd, George Smith, James Wilson, Wil- The following is a list of officers and seamen saved
ham Holmes, James M`Murray, from the Birkenhead :
" Draught 74th Highlanders—Major Seaton, Ensign " Dr. Culhatie, assistant-surgeon; C. B. Renwick,
Russell, Corporal M. Mathison, Corporal William Laird, assistant-engineer, Ist class; B. Barber, assistant-engi -
George Anderson, Archibald Baxter, John Binnie, neer, 3d class; J. Freshfield, passed clerk; G. W. S.
Robert Blackie, Waner Bruce, John Cattanach, John Hire, clerk; R. B. Richards, master's assistant; J. Arch-
Cowan, David Cousin, William Donald, David Donald- bold, gunner.
son, James Gibson, Charles Gow, D. R, Gormon, Wil- "Ship's Company—J, Bowen, A. 8.; G. Till, A. 8.;
Liam Graham, Thomas Harrison, Alexander Henrie, J. Smith, A. 13.; T. Dunn, A. 8.; C. Noble, A. B.; T.
David Hunter, James Kirkwood, John Lowrie, James Daley, A. 8.; W. Langmaid, A. 8.; J. Ashbolt, stoker;
Morton, Alexander Murdoch, Alexander Mathison, G. Randall, stoker; J. King, stoker; T. Dew, stoker; H,
Thomas hiarwell, Alexander Miller, David Miller, Maxwell, quartermaster ; E, Wilson, boatmate; J.
George Miller, William NlSAnley, James m‘Kinnon, Lacey, captain maintop; J. Measure, sailmaker's mate;
Edward 'Lend,d, John lopclarney, Thomas Robertson, W. Neale, captain's mate; J. Tiffrey, paymaster and
Ebenezer Rutherford, John Sharp (1), Duncan Shaw, purser's steward; T. Aandrain, T. J. Stoker; E. Gardi-
Robert Smith, William Smith, Robert Stewart, William nor, stoker; J. Hoskins, stoker; E. Croker, A. 8.; S.
Stewart, John Thomson, Adam Thomson, Francis Harris, A. 8,; R. Tiggle, A. 8.; H. Cheeseman, A. 8.;
Turner, Robert welesr, George Watson, Pieter Hamil- A. Stone, ord; J. Weates, stoker; W. Chest., stoker;
ton, John Nelson, 'Thomas Pride.
G. Kelley, stoker; M. Bush, A. 8.; R. Finn, A. 8.; G.
"Draught 91st Regiment—Sergeant William Butler, Windsor, A. 8.; T. Harris, A. 8,; G. Lewis, A. 8.; T.
Corporal Alexander Webber, Joseph Burt James Bryan, Woods, stoker; J. Thttlan, A. 8.; J. Dyke, A. 8.; J.
James Buckham, Wm.Whibro, James Cavaner, Daniel M,Carthy, A. 8.; T. Forbes, A. 8.; H. Bewhill, seaman;
Daley, James Drury, Hugh Ford, Patrick Gaffy, John W. Woodward, seaman; T. Drsckford, seaman; T.
Harsher, Stephen Higgen, Patrick Iliggan, Thomas Jays, Coffin, seaman.
George Kemp, Francis HackenneY, James Evans, James "Boys—W. Gale, C. :Mathews, J. B. Howard, G.
Montgomery, William Mathson, John Smith, William E. Windhion, B. Turner.
Smith, Leke Smith, Patrick Smith, William Clark, " Marines—J. Drake (colour sergeant), W. North-
James Tenney, Christopher Ware, Alexander Welling- oven (private), T. Daniels (private), J. Cooper (pri-
ton, Joseph Grant, John Moore, William woodman, vale), W. Luck (private), T. Keane (private).
George Justs, James Moon, William Foster, William " Abstract—Officers 7; , seamen 42; boy ,s 5; marines,
Measures, William Sedgewood, Patrick Kelly, James Dd 6. Total, , 60.
Laney, Alexander ed.Feden, Henry Haywood, Patrick " List of officers drowned—Mr. R. Salmond, master
Hussey, John Sweeney, David Pratt, James Walsh; commanding; Mr. W. Brodie, master; Mr. R. D. Speer,
passenger, Andrew White, a servant,
second master; Mr. J. 0. D. Davies, second master;
Cornet Bond, of the 12th Lancers, one of the sur- Mr. W. Whyham, chief engineer; Mr. C. W. Hare,
vivors, gives the following particulars : master's assistant; Mr. James M'Clymont, assistant en-
"We left Simon's Bay at seven o'clock on the even- gineer; Mr. Deeley, assistant engineer; Mr. T. Harris,
in;; of the 24th. At two o'clock the next morning I boatswain; Mr. James Roberts, carpenter.,,
was awoke by the vessel striking upon a rock. I im- The Gape Town Monitor of March 3, says : _
mediately dressed myself and went on deck, and "It thus appears that out of the 638 on board at the
found all in confusion. I heard the captain give orders time of the wreck, 184 in all have been saved, and 454
to back her, which I hardly think was carried into of our fellow-creatures have been suddenly launched
effect, as the fires were almost immediately extin- into eternity. We have heard that the devastation of
guished. lie then gave orders to Major Seaton to get the sharks which surrounded the rafts and spars theher-
sergeant the horses up and throw them overboard, and I, with a wreck in shoals, was most dreadful. The scene is
and some men belonging to the 12th Lancers, rowing to contemplate."
succeeded in doing so. I then went on the poop, where The troops on board consisted of 499 officers and
the captain was standing. He told me to go and get men; the crew, 132; women and children, 12; total,
the women and children up; which I did behcarrying up 650 persons.
two of the latter. The others followed, and were imme- Names of the officers on board the Birkenhead when
diately lowered into the boats. At this time the greatest lost:—
order and regularity prevailed. All the officers were Cornets Bond and Bolt (12th Lancers), Ensign Boylan
then employed with gangs of men at the pumps' Queen's), Ensign Metford (6th Royals), Lieutenant
and a (2d
number of soldiers wider the command of Mr.
Brodie, Fairtiough (12th Foot), Lieutenant Girardot (43d Light
the master, were endeavouring to haul out the paddle-
Infantry), Lieutenants Robinson and Booth and Ensign
box boat on the port aide, which was nearly
Hi hoisted out Lucas (7.blenders), Captain Wright (91st Regiment),3d Regiment), Major Seton and Ensign
Russell
when the tackle broke, and it remained fixed in the air. (74th g
The fora part of the ship now broke off at the fore mast, Dr. Bowen and two other stuff surgeons.
and soon after she cracked in the middle and filled with The following are the officers of the Birkenhead,
water. A great many of the men on the troop deck taken from the Navy List for January:—
were drowned in their hammocks, not being able to effect Master-Commander R. Salmond; Master W. Brodie;
an escape. All those who could succeed in reaching the chief engineer, William Whyham; Assistant-Surgeon
poop now crowded there, and the captain sung out to W. Culhane; Second Masters J. D. Davis and Robert
those that could swim 'to make for the boats,' of D. Speer; Clerk, John Freshfield.
which there were three at a distance of 150 yards. They
did not come nearer for fear of being swamped. A gig
on the starboard side was then ordered to be lowered, in
neheas Mr. nolt, of the 12111 T. —titiceib, who wee unable to
swim, and several seamen, were seen to enter; but in
lowering it ono of the ropes broke and she was swamped.
Poor Rolt rose, but was unable to reach the shore, and
was drowned. The poop immediately afterwards, owing
to the force of the water rushing up, went down, draw-
ing all those who were on it, as well as myself, under
water. I rose to the surface almost immediately. I had
one of Mackintosh's life preservers on, which may be
filled in the water, which I did. The sea at this time
was covered with struggling forms, while the cries, pierc-
ing shrieks, and shoutings for the boats were awful. I
I swam astern in hopes of being picked up by one of them.
hailed one 60 yards off, but could not reach it, as they
pulled away, I suppose, for fear of too many attempling
to get in. I then turned round and made for the shore,
about two miles distant, which I finally succeeded in
reaching, at a little after five A,M,, by swimming only.
Two men, who were swimming close to me, I saw dis-
appear with a shriek, most
probably bitten by sharks.
I fortunately hit on the landing place, but owing to the
great quantity of seaweed I had to struggle through, and
being quite exhausted, I almost failed in reaching it.
I then walked up a sort of beaten track from the
beech, in hopes of finding some habitation. In doing
so I perceived my horse at a short distance, standing,
in the water on the beach. I got him our, and then re-
turned to the place at which I landed, when I saw a raft,
with about nine men
°II it, endeavouring to land, but
they dit succee doing d in go until they saw me on
the rocksd not
snding opposite to the proper spot; they
then steered straight for irle, and finally landed at seven
A,M, Lieutenant Giardot, of the 43d Light Infantry,
was one of them. At the same time two or three other
men were thrown on the rocks cff a spar, and landed,
very much cut and bruised, and entirely naked. We all
then proceeded up this track, and,
after two hours'
march, we saw a waggon along the shore, to which we
went and obtained some bread and water. The driver
directed us to proceed further up tho beach, and at five
miles' distance we should find some fishing cottages be-
longing to Captain &males, where we urrived, very much
fatigued at noon; here we obtained some more bread, and
then marched on to Captain stnales, residence, about 12
miles off, over the sands. On our way thither we met a
bullock waggon, which took some of our men, who were
too much knocked up to proceed, back to the cottages we
had just left. At seven o'clock P.M. our party, ing of two officers and four
consist-
men, arrived at Captain
Sneaks', where we were most kindly received, the men
being provided with both clothes and victuals. Captain
Smnales
immediately dispatched a meesenger for the field
cornet and magistrate of the district, who on their ar-
rival proceeded with us the next morning to the scene
of the wreck. On our way thither we
met numbers of
men who had landed. Some came ashore in the paddle-
box boat, which had floated up; the one was full of
water, and the other keel upperrnost. One of the ship's
quartermasters told me that there were seven others in
the boat with him, which was full of water. The how-
ever, all died from cold, having bean many. hours in the
boat and quite naked. He had his clothes on. We also
met Captain Wright, 91st, who had landed ou the spon-
soon; ho had been along the shore and had
picked up
several men. Some rafts reached tie shore with bodies
lashed on them quite dead; other bodies washed u
some of them dreadfully mangled by ehurks. Her Map:
jesty's steamer Rhadamanthns heye in
eight on Sunday,
took us off, and brought us into Sinews
t.
Bay he next
morning.
" The time from when the ship struck to the period
at which the poop sunk, and those on it were precipi-
tated into the water, did not occuPY More than twenty
minutes."

COURT CIRCULAR.

The Queen, attended by the Marchioness of Ely,
Lord Colville, and Lieutenant-Colonel F. H. Sey-
mour, visited her ltoyal Highness the Duchess of
Gloucester, at Gloucester-house, Piccadilly, yesterday
afternoon.

His Serene Highness Prince Leopold of Saxe
Coburg visited yesterday her Royal Highness the
Duchess of Gloucester, at Gloucester•house, his
Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, at his resi-
dence in St. James's-place ; and his Royal Highness
the Count d'Aquila, at Mivart's Hotel, Lower Brook-
street.

Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales, the
Princess Royal, Prince Alfred, the Princesses Alice,
Helena, and Louisa, and Prince Arthur, took pony
and walking exercise yesterday in the garden of Buck-
ingham Palace.

The royal dinner party at Buckingham Palace
yesterday included his Serene Highness Prince
Leopold of Saxe Coburg, his Excellency the Portu-
guese Minister and the Countess Lavradil, the
Marquis of Exeter, the Earl and Countess of Derby,
the Earl and Countess of Hardwicke, and Lady Eli-
zabeth York.

A deputation, consisting of Lord Glengall (chair-
man of the Waterford and Limerick Railway), Sir
Edward M'Donnel (chairman of the Great Southern
and Western Railway), Mr. Barlow (Governor of
the Bank of Ireland, and deputy chairman of the
Dublin and Belfast Junction Railway), Mr. H. A.
Herbert, M.P., and Mr. Pennefather (chairman and
director of the Killarney Junction Railway), Mr.
Murland and Mr. Evans (chairman and deputy chair-
man of the Dublin and Drogheda Railway), Mr.
Redmond (chairman of the Irish South-Eastern Rail-
way), Colonel Chatterton, M.P. (director of the Cork
and Bandon Railway), Mr. James Clay, M.P. (chair-
man of the Londonderry and Enniskillen Railway),
Sir Mathew Barrington, Mr. Jeffers, and Mr. Kane,
had an interview with the Earl of Derby yesterday,
at his official residence in Downing-street.
The Duke of Leeds had an interview with Mr. Se-
cretary Walpole yesterday, at the Home-office.
The Bishop of Cape Town had an interview yes-
terday with Sir John Pakington, at the Colonial-
office.

A deputation, consisting of the Hon. Mr. Hincks
(Inspector-General of Canada), Sir Percy Nugent,
Bart., Mr. O'Flaherty, M.P., Mr. Perry and
Mr. Stirling (directors), and Mr. Hemans (engineer
of the Midland Great Junction of Ireland Railway),
Mr. Hartley, and Mr. E. O'Flaherty, had an inter-
view with the Chancellor of the Exchequer yester-
day, at his official residence in Downing-street.
The Austrian Minister had an interview with the
Earl of Derby yesterday, at his official residence in
Downing-street.
A deputation on the subject of the proposed re-
moval of the Courts of Law and Equity from West-
minster, to the Inns of Court, had an interview with
Lord John Manners yesterday, at the office of Works
and Public Buildings. The deputation consisted of
Mr. Gregory (President of the Incorporated Law So-
ciety), Mr. Coverdale (Vice-President), Mr. Ludlow
(one f the members of the council), and Mr.- Mau-
ghan (secretary).
Sir Alexander Spearman had an interview with the
Chancellor of the Exchequer yesterday, at his official
residence in Downing-street.
The Rev. W. C. Dowding had an interview with
Sir John Pakington yesterday, at the Colonial-office.
_
A de p George Lake Russell, J. V. Prior, .and
t Lord
Selwyn had an interview yesterday
John Manners at the Office of Works
¢ d Public
Buildings. w with the
wn
The Duke of Atholl had an intervie
Earl of Derby yesterday. Sir Matthew
arrington
also had an interview with the Noble Earl. 1 3
A deputation on the subject of steam commu2.
Ica-
tion with Newfoundland had
an interview with Sir
H10.0:i4 The,
' John Pakington yesterday at the Co o nißalr-ooffi
deputation consisted of Messrs.
J.
N. Hunts, W. Schenk, and C. 1
Holmwood.
unemployed A deputation of
weavers, consisting of
John Tempest, Thomas Buck, and William Sponv,
had an interview with t. h Righte W. Henley
yesterday at the Boardof Trade.
Lion. J. -
Mr. Mullings had an interview with Sir John Pa-
kington yesterday at the Colonial-office.
Dispatches were received from the Governor of
South Australia at the
patches were sent from the Colonial-office to the Go-
vernor of Gibraltar.

saved froth the wreck of
Abyain. . .
SURVlVOR.ofliTcebre commissioned
o ffNotlAhl oeßwaßirntAugTyn:aVwr narrative,
wasißvYe,
the Birkenhead, has been banded to us for in-
sertion :
" She left Simon's Bay at about Six o'clock in the
evening, and everything went on comfortable until about
a quarter before two in the morning, at which time the
vessel struck upon a rock, which made a hole in her
port side under water, just before the paddle-wheel.
She began to fill immediately; hands were turned up to
get the boats out; lowered two cutters down and one
gig; then turned to get the paddle-box boats out, but
the pin of the davits was rusted in, and would not come
out. At this time the vessel was swinging and grind-
ing, and grating against the rocks very much.
A party
see to work at the chain pumps to the after cockpit.
The next thing was to throw the horses overboard, end
get all the women and children in the second cutter,
which Mr. Richards took charge, of, with orders to land
them et the nearest place. 'rimy could not land en
account at the breakers; so her head was put out
to sea. Just at this moment, the Birkenhead parting
in two ju=t, before the engine,
the fore part of the
deck sunk with several people on It. Captain Saltnend
then gave orders to do the best they could to save their
lives. The other cutter and gig were then lying off,
manned. Several men then jumped overboard and s w a ra
to the bolts, the captain standing on the Poop giving
orders. Up to this time perfect order and discipline
were observed; all the men quiet and steady, and obe-
dient to orders. At this time, the captain was standing
on the poop with several others; the atter part of the
ship then lurched forward, aad all were thrown into the
water. Some swam to the boats, and some to the
wreck. Ac this time the maintopmast and rnaintopsail-
yrrd were out of water, and all that could made for the
topsailyard. Part of the forecastle deck was then float-
ing at about twenty yards' distance. Captain .!3almond
swam for the wreck that was floating; and as he
was swimming something that was washed off the

LITERARY FORGERIES.—M. de Bacourf,
one of
the executors of the late Prince deTa!leyrand, has written
a letter to the public journals, stating that trauds, similar
to those lately discovered in England relative to Shelley's
letters, have been attempted. iu Prance tor letters falsely
by
stated to have been written the late Prince
acourt, " a certain. 'el have in
B
my possession at present," says M. de
number of those letters, g exceedingly well the
writing of the deceased Prince, but which have been declared
by the persons intimate wi h he deceased, such as M. Guizot,
the Duke de Broglie, Count Mole, Duke Pasquier, &c., to be
forgeries."
• METROPOLIS WATER SUPPLY COMMITTEE.--011
Monday the Committee declared the preamble a the Go-
vernment Dill proved.