The Sun.
London, England, 1864-08-03 00:00:00

LOSS OF THE LABIIAN,

The following report has been made to the Lords
of Committee of Privy Council for Trade :
"My Lords,—l beg to report, for the informa-
tion of your lordships, that I have; in conjunc•
lion with Captains Harris and Baker, as nautical
assessors, held an inquiry into the loss of the
steamer Labuan, which occurred off the Island of
Harris on June 28 last. The Labuan was an iron
screw steamer of 837 tons and 80 horse power, built
at Liverpool in 1855, and owned by Messrs. Bailey
and Leotham, of Hull. She was commanded by Mr
Charles Hargitt, who holds a certificate of compe-
tency as master, dated May 26, 1859, and had a
crew of 21 hands all told. The Labuan left Liver-
pool June 25, laden with 1,700 bales of cotton, with
225 tons of coal, and bound to Narva and Cronstadt.
She cleared the North Channel between the Mull
of Cantyre and Itathlin Island at 5 40 a.m. on the
27th. At 4 a.m. on the 28th they sighted Deer
Island, and at noon they were up to Grebanish
Head, iV bleb. bore N.W. N., at a computed distance
of from two to three miles, but the weather being
foggy no great reliance could be placed on this
assumed distance, as they failed to obtain soundings
with 60 fathoms of line. From this position a course
was steered E. and N. for 30 minutes, when the
lighthouse on Glass Island was seen through the
fog. The master, who was on deek,ordered the helm
to be ported, and the ship to be brought to E. i S.,
which was dune, the vessel going very slowly, and
in 10 minutes she struck upon a sunken sock, which
has since been ascertained to bo the Lag na Laire.
Efforts were immediately made to move her, with•
o'at success, and the master, in consequence, pro-
ceeded to Stornoway for assistance, returning the
next day about 9 p.m. in the Princess Royal cutter,
which was followed during the night by three
lighters. About 9 a.m. on the 30th the vessel broke
in half, and the after part settled in deep water, but
a large portion of the cargo, more or less damaged,
was saved. No lives were lost. The captain appears
to have navigated the ship with care and caution
throughout, but in consequence of the thickness of
the weather on the morning of the 28th, and failing
to obtain soundings, he seems to have been in error
as to his distance from the land. The course steered
from the last headland would, however, appear to
have been a safe one to clear all dangers, accord-
ing to the chart by which he navigated his vessel,
but, unfortunately, the sunken rock on which he
struck is not laid down on that chart—one of Im-
ray's of 1862, and which the master had purchased
in Liverpool just before sailing, in the belief that it
was the latest. It is but right to state that, in a
more recent chart of the same publisher for the pre-
sent year, the rock in question, the Lag na Lairs, is
correctly laid as in the Admiralty charts. But,
regarding the fact that the master's chart was defi-
cient in the iaformatien which would have enabled
him to avoid the danger, and there being no buoy
or beacon to point it out, as there would appear to
be on other dangers in the same neighbourhood, I
am disposed to acquit him of default. lam glad
to be able to do this, as the master's antecedent a are
all favourable to him, and his attention to his duties
both before and after the accident appears to have
been highly creditable. I have therefore, with the
concurrence of the assessors, returned to Mr Her.
gilt his certificate.— I have, 8:-
" T. S. BAFFLES, Police Magistrate.
" Liverpool, Joy 29, 1864.
" We concur in this report,
" lIY. HARRIS, N3Utietti AsF.essore,"
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HER MAJESTY,

OSBORNE, &lag. 2:
Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales and
Prince Louis of Hesse went to the Royal Victoria
Hospital at Netley yesterday, where the Prince of
Wales laid the first stone of the monument
about
to be erected to the medical effictrs who died in the
Crimean war.
Major. General Seymour and Captain von Weeter-
weller were in attendance.
Sir James Clark also accompanied the Prince of
Wales from Osborne.
Lieutenant-General the Hon. C. Grey and Lieu
tenant-Colonel Da Plat have succeeded Me.Pr-
General Seymour and Colonel the Ron. A. 113rd19ge
as Equerries in Waiting,

THE DUKE OF NEWCASTLE,—The annouvce•
ment of the relapse of his Grace the Duke of Newcastle ball
cauEed wide-spread grief not, only in Nottinghamshire Was
throughout the midland counties generally. The 10th 0.0
the date fixed for his grace's departure from London f0i..1116
postponed, As erroneous statements are
seat, Clumber Park, Notts, but the visit is now indefinit.ell
respecting his grace's malady we may state that it is sunq
in circul.atw_n
gout, and that the attacks, though fugitive, are frequell,4.
and exceedingly painful during their continuance.--,3°`

tingliant Daily Guardian,
Mit• .—John Bright, Esq.,
MR BRIGHT
.--John
Tulchan Lodge on Friday last. He has been 01
since, and has enjoyed good sport. On Saturday b°
one salmon, and on Monday he had two, and on Tue6a't
one. There seems to be plenty of fish in the water J-nil
now. Mr Bass and party arrived at Tulchau Lodge -
Wednesday.—,Elgin Courant. hi•P•~ arriVed

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virtues,Ah e.h lefianrn
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nnme Harnett, :40 Bausi;s:lirfeme,
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long and severe sufferings of the latter months of .1 his
have resolved to raise by subscription a provision f°rnitele
widow and children, and to that end the following J_hu
menlaveform:l.D.,
d themselves into a committee
Brady, Esq.,
M.P.; Patrick M' -let
M.P. ; Richard Quain, Esq., F.R.S ; H. Twentill;
Esq. ; and Chas, Russell, Esq-, Barrister at Lavi' d
Harnett was connected with the press both in London and
Dublin, and was endeared to all who knew hil33, by tie%
amiability of his manners and the purity of his t
was for many years in impaired health, and during te!lass,
14 months of his life he passed through extremes
vl2.llse•roinlighe
exhausting during his long illness watever Pr° died,
had made for his family—and on the 6th ult. he e
leaving them totally unprovided for. A case of
so severe, so patiently borne, and incurred withetit; I
trace of blame attaching to himself, will, it is Wed, 97ha's
effectually to many beyond the immediate circle eb
friends. Subscriptions will be received by Alfred ga6s°
toll.
Esq., Hon. Sec., 13, Sandford-place, Stoke Newing
HERRINGS.—The Scottish herring fisher/
employment to a large number of people, 813—: f
immense capital is sunk in boats and other aPParatlit.ta;
the capture. The way commerce is carried on in her- f
rather peculiar. It goes thus :—" Cookie,' the sialithe
Shavie," or in plain languege, John Cowie tertielat
ut
son of John Cowie, junior, of Buckie, is thinking sllioai
taking a wife, and settling in the world. Ile has hired-e
pounds saved up, the produce of his industry as a ,
eateei:
hand at the fishing, and of a speculation he made ru
for net dying ; and his father has promised to give
raisfortanui
couple of 10 notes to help him topurchase a boat. "" s
..0 sot
John is rather ambitious, and his sweetheart still rao. its
he finds he his not money for more than one boat °lid, bat
train of nets ; and it is a sine qua non of " Big Beardie"
is the nickname of Alex. Reid), that his daughter, *A a
Reid, John Cowie's, alias Cookie's, sweetheart, Inustllo%
husband with two boats at least. What is to be done;
such a difficulty ? Oh the remedy is very simple 3°De °f
curers of the district will, without doubt, advance 131°13-
for another boat. This is a common practice, and add°
spirit of gambling to the other excitements of the fisherY;
The curer advances money on the faith of Cowie's boat
fishing for him till the sum advanced be paid up-132akirg!
an
of course, a better bargain with John than he could vinad
a free fisherman ; and so Cowie tertius gets married,
usual
becomes, let us hope, a successful fisherman. The tim
way of conducting the business of the herring fishery i 8
make the bargain for the following season at the conelloi°-
of the present one. An immediate bounty of ten, Ocer
or twenty pounds per boat is paid town, as well as a grt'PA
of allowances of various kinds—sack as bleaching-grow
g
for nets, dye-stuffs for ditto, and perhaps a few %Don° :8-
whisky as well ; and, beside all these, a price for b.;
green fish, at so much for every 45 gallons, or " crant;
it is called. The quantity of herring usually bargained ,
each season is 200 crane, but few of the boats take o ela°;
The
curer, of course, provides his salt, barrels, coopers, ell'
gutters, and undergoes all the anxiety of the curing soaßalliii
and in some seasons "the take" will be so bad that he W.,
be a heavy loser, and have to carry forward to next Ye bus
h
heavy lot of barrels and a large quantity of salt. It will tn
be seen that the herring fishery is a kind of lottery
up
which all the inhabitants of a town hang withfiercest aultielec;
so that to get a boat from a wealthy curer isnot difficult;
if the newly-married pair we have described be very .
they may be free from their debt in a couple of Years' lied
go on increasing in wealth till they have many beats' r° flits.
sons of their own to aid them in becoming prosp in
On the other hand, hundreds who hasten to riehmt
this way suffer disappointment, and bitterly curve the oil
of their ambition. A bad season may engulpb. the °ea
deeper in the books of the curer, or a sudden sterea
ar.
wreck their boat and close up their industry for ev
Macmillan.
HE LIMITED ENLISTMENT NLISTMENT ACT---Nt°:l6pire°
what are
theril which tempt the l m tWe •
soldier to abandon the service? If we find th: °lloltlier
may be able to remove them. First, the Pri'r`,.tisa for
dearly loves change. After he has lain at one e"'•:.; that
some years the sameness becomes so irksome °be looses
tie longs to exchange it even for quarters Soo°
to be inferior. Au instance of this may he gi-v-Cheffield'
years ago the 16th Regiment was stationed in I*--- sider
with every prospect of remaining there for soul e e°l
ortfto
latelieit,
able time. A number of men whose time wao
expire had given notice that they were then to tril° their
discharges, when the news of the Trent outr ge reached
hot
England, and the 18th was ordered to Ca• adathat
haste. At the prospect of an immediate cl lenge
°f
change being colonial service, with the possib
and the certainty of a lengthened absence from theirdritheir
land—these men, with hardly an exception, ref ractee
notice of withdrawal, and re-enlisted for the e eeon
-_idier
• . . Again, it cannot fail to chafe the vet eras e_
who has borne the brunt of Canada's frost and Judia,vB and
who mayhap has fought and bled, who knows iie du' re'
can do it, that the raw recruit who joined
ceives the same pay as he who has been a El Didier f°
years. " Ah, no!" say our superiors ; " Inembegr din
good conduct pay, which in 10 years amounts to 2d, and
21 years to 5d per diem additional." Very well.
man may be a thorough good soldier and yet flat ""18
good-conduct badge. Eight days' pack-drill forfeit* toe
distinction for two years ; and every soldier kllawsbe
easily, often how innocently, this punishment sea) 00
incurred. An unavoidable absence of two hours fr__
tattoo, a single inadvertence, even a bleok
• of 4'oo
kayo known construed into the peculiar crepe
y Tsterdar 10
A get
iwl 1 sa
ro
nl Coe. "
Cinenayitstbriep
wthonedbeareddg
refuses to include an item so precarious as good cone sot
eat°,ffthheins ,atrhma tatthaen sot12°
4ier
pay in the schedule of his advantages ? Can we exi'lleio
that he will take it much into account in making UP.it
mind as to re-enlisting ? We offer a bounty of one, e
may be, two pounds to the lad who was behind the coell
ill the
yesterday, or to the rustic who last week was followgthe
plough, and whom it will take six months' time and Joe
expenditure of care, work, and money to fit for the retool
This being so, what temptation do we hold out to the
axo to
who has been a soldier for ten years, who is reader-Int iete
our hands, and available for active service to-morrow'lB,lll
want to engage him at the same price for which we fit:totee
secured the raw recruit. Can we expect him to
weii ss
himself at this valuer It may be argued that what boa tie
made him, that he owes to U 9 what he has learnt at reittl
pence, and that he is bound to remember this in any
L'oalrofeg
he may make with us. But this is poor reasoning 'lee
scold
to the views of men in the ranks. The master wh°_
lool‘ toglit
say to an apprentice whose time has expired, " I bes vj
to
you your trade, you owe all you know to WeloVer l s'B e'
you to show your gratitude by serving me t '
than you can command elsewhere," would not be en, 110
to with much consideration. Our soldier's time 10 efnette*
that, of the apprentice; he is free, and entitled to
eP.
for the best terms he can make • • ee eel 6°l:
Another cause is that constant drill which t''''ciorgo '-
diet., who needs it not, is compelled to nude nee
common with the young recruit, to whore
eriordlr;
sary. It galls the man who has performed I,ll°.„sfarltri"
else in grim earnest at Balaclava, or the with
ho, on the Alumbagh, saved his life by dee
bayonet, to grind on, day after day, in the eatmerel:reeeleecil-fttlegb::::
never-ceasing course of drill. Practice makee!
aPrt 10 Ye" rit'
surely perfection may be attained in less to , eehicee
and maintained without the same assiduous
alat tbo soltaa's ;
has taken to reach it. No one will argue than hi4i;rtria°
ought to be allowed to get rusty any moral,
,oet.
ine for -
but continual friction wears out Heldlatter
_a' A.
the patience of the forraer.—Cor ..illaga-cos
as so Irea
The Moniteur de la Flotte antlioei!Ll
_se has ordi6lo.
portant fact, that an English roercant!..ro No
st'
aship of 1,200 to be built at St. N,,Z .11
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