The Sun.
London, England, 1852-01-12 00:00:00

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SOUTHAMPTON, JAN.
ship Avon, Captain Onslow, sailed .3 afternoon for
nttird
funnel.lfthe
fire
St. Thomas's, Carthageaa, Chagros, and Grey-town,
with ship letter-bags for those places, but no mails for
Jamaica, Demerara, or the other British West Indi.a,
isl,lnds and colonies. The Avon has been dispatched as
an extra ship iu place of the Amazon, to bring home
mails from the Spanish Mon, West Indies, and G%ilf of
Mexico, due at Southampton on the sth of March next,
and will therefore fill the vacancy on the. homeward route
made by the disastrous loss of the ill-rated Amazon.
Thu Avon takes out only one passenger, and no spocio or
cargo of any kind.
Nothing further has transpired since. Friday. rolakvo
to the loss of the Amazon, nor has any fresh intelligence
come to hand. Sermons for the benefit of the widows
and orphans were preached to-day in several of the
churches and chapels of the town to large and deeply
impressed congregations.
Mr. George Mills, the engineer-in-chief of the Royal
Mail Steam-packet Company, has just received the fol-
lowing letter from William Stone, the fourth engineer of
the Amazon, who has landed at Brest:—
" Brest, Jan. 5, 1552.
" Dear Sir,—l am very sorry to inform you that the
steam-ship Amazon caught fire about one o'clock on
Sunday morning, in the Bay of Biscay, burnt to the
water's edge and went down. I think the captain and
officers, with all the engineers, except myself, are burnt
or drowned. The life-boats were burnt before they
could be got down. There was a boat full went away,
but has not been heard of. We are 25 saved in two
boats, and were picked up on Sunday night, at six
o'clock, and the second boat at seven, A.M., on Monday
morning, by a Dutch galliot, and taken into Brest. I
shall come to Southampton as soon as I can, and shall be
" W I
confounded
the f
o.lh form-hold
Ni
able to tell you all the particulars when I return.
" I remain, your obedient servant,
seen coming up the
. " Fourth Engineer of tho Amazon.
" George Mills, Esq."
forward boilers, a totally
This letter convoys no information relative to the pro-
bable cause of the fire on board the Amazon, and con-
dE
with among
the
con-
jecture is as rife as ever as to the origin of the confla-
gration. It is the opinion of Mr. Mills, the company's
engineer, ...
from tl
vtatenshyt
et,th hbeaeon flamesfii
al
leadingerteri
boilers
tasrenowhkdt
ehaersefeoo
burfiwetrei
originated
srriegeteicinnhhacarfaitgitcepodhhOwratmai portion ofgs
amongst
thehe vessel,carg e althoughit ito
be
feared
ae d gtrhe.aatte dis-
tanceom
cop:tar tuns t
jobfi
ethe
was generated, which in process of time ignited, and
reacsh,anodristekstatoi3owmede theredeseri p.ctoinoi.asisotefdgaosf
spread with fearful and uncontrolled rapidity. Whether
this supposition be correct or not it is impossible to say,
but it is hoped that some of the survivors at Brest will
be able to give their testimony and opinion, so that a
ul of persons which got away, and is alluded
reliable conjecture may be formed of the cause of the
to catastrophe.Tinliebat William Stone's letter, is thought to be the boat
materials,
fallen in with by the Marsden. If not, it is to be hoped
it may have been picked up by some outward bound
vessel. Two boats at least now remain to be accounted
for,
and some time will elapse before it may be said
with certainty that all but the 46 who have been landed
at Plymouth and Brest have perished.
Tho packet brig Brilliant, Captain Caldbeck, arrived
here this morning from Madeira. Although she has
crossed the Bay of Biscay, she has seen none of the Ama-
zon's boats or crew, and no vestige of the wreck. She
spoke a large war-steamer, outward bound with troops
for the Cape of Good Hope.

We understand that the following communication has
been addressed to the owner of the Marsden:—
" Royal Mail Steam-Packet Company, No. 55,
Moorgate-street, London, Jan. 9, 1852.
" Sir,—By desire of the directors of this company I
called at your office this morning, being the earliest mo-
ment after the inquiry held yesterday at Southampton,
respecting the destruction by fire of the Amazon, to ex-
press to you, as owner of the brig Marsden, the great
admiration of the directors at the conduct of Captain
Evans, in so kindly receiving on board that vessel the 21
persons who escaped in a life-boat, and in bearing up to
land them at Plymouth, by which their relatives and
friends have been spared much suspense and cruel anxiety.
" Should any expense have been occasioned, either to
you or Captain Evans, by the return to England and con-
sequent slight detention of the Marsden, the directors
will be mot ready to receive the particulars, with a view
of defraying the same.
" I am to add that a copy of this letter will be sent to
Captain Evans by this evening's post, with an intimation
of its being the intention of the directors to present him
(through you) with some mark of their approval and
respect. .

"I am, Sir, your obedient servant,
" E. CHAPPELL, Secretary.
" Mr. Gibcon, 19, Gracechurch-street."
Mr. Trewicke, the unfortunate second officer of the
Amnion, and who bad command of the watch on tho
fatal night, was about to emigrate to Canada on his re-
turn home in tho Amazon. It was to be his last voya7o
as a sailor. Though a first-rate officer, he had a strange
dislike to the sea. One of the boys who was lost in the
Amazon was named George Jerram, aged 17. He had
always assisted his father, who is a Southampton fisher-
man. This boy had entered on board the ship without
the knowledge of his parents, and they were broken-
hearted when they took leave of him. Ltany of these
fishermen have a strange horror of steamers.
The Royal Mail Company have rewarded Mr. Vin-
cent, the heroic young midshipman of the Amazon, by
appointing him 4th officer to the Thames. They are
about to present him wii,h a quadrant, on which will be
cngraien a record of his heroism and pre-eminent meriii
and he has been ordered to replace everything he lost I%
tho wreck at the expenze of the company.

. . ._
Most of the churches and chapel; .in Southampton
have been filled to-day, in consequence of the clergy
and ministers improving the event of the wreck of the
Amazon by imploring sympathy end support for those
who have been rendered friendless and fatherless by
the catastrophe, and holding up the judgments of God on
earth in all their terrible sublimity as a warning to
the thoughtless and the guilty.
The loss of this ill.fated ship (says our Plymouth
correspondent) has formed the subject of painful excite-
mt.nt here since Tuesday, when the 21 persons rescued
by the Marsden were Linded here. One of the passen-
gers, Lieutenant H. Grylls, of her Majesty's ship Sidon,
is well known and much respected in Doronport, and
is the son of the Rev. Mr. Grylls, tho esteemed incum-
nothSeartus,rdlse,ays
bent of St. Neots, in Cornwall. Tho gallant young
officer bad been advised to delby his departure, in con-
sequence of the anticipated death of another son, who
died shortly after the lieutenant's departure, on the Ist
of January.
The interest created by this sad calamity increases
rather than diminishes, every fresh ray of hope, from
whatever source, and whether founded upon fact or
, all
which
that hewe knew,
hope
simple supposition, serving to keep alive the excitement
conveyed into Brost by the Dutch barque Gertruida,
which had picked them up at sea, had immediately upon
nwdhoouswicthatatssit.reonpti)i,e:f 0
uOr
his arrival in London, an interview with the directors of
the Royal West India, Mail Steana-Packet Company.
caused by btLtshui
turn out to be correct, that, in his
may
are three.ho3ts besides those already accounted for with
this tremendous
or, with
part of the crew and passengers
onboard, which escaped
and added
agiednetdlemenaen communicated uinulipcoartemdztto tphoeinmt
from the wreck. Those boats I-
there is
have not yet been heard
of; but he thinks there is reason every
have been picked up by some to hope that
they
vessel proceeding to Ulu
West Indies; or id SSUCiti2g them to have cleared the
Amazon, end not to have been picked up, they have
been driven to the southward, towards the coast of
Spain.

STOCKING ACCIDENT.
SUIL
'
LDS, SATURDAY NIGHT.—This morning a
shocking and fatal occident won discovered to have ;alien
place on hoard the Clippar, belonging to Falmouth, a
vessel, that after delivering a cargo of oil at Hull, from
the Ileniter:aneran,
came round hero to load coals. Two
seotnen and a boy, the foremast men, had filled a pan
full
ot burning cost, and placed it in the forecastle,
where they slept, to warm it. The mater, for fear they
would set fire to the ship, ordered them to extinguish
it before they turned in, but they had neglected to do
so. When the hatch was closed there was no mode of
egress for the smoke from the fire, and on the mato
this morning, about seven o'cicek, proceeded to
knock the bends up, he got no anbwor,
fearing something w t-,s• the matter, took off the
hatch and went below. Ho discovered the boy, John
Porter, dead, and the two men lying, he could not tell
whether alive or dead. He immediately gave the alarm,
end the master ascertaining what was the matter, sent off
for assistance, and the men were brought on deck. Two
medical gentlemen were soon on board, and every effort
was made to save tho lives of the two poor fellows that
were alive. They were taken by the police boat to the
station, and from thence to the Lord Nelson public-
house, where every attention was paid to them. Very
great 'doubts were expressed of their recovery, but this
evening the medical men were very sanguine of fetching
them about. The name of the master of the vessel is
Henry Whitburn; ono of the seamen is named James
Dotley, the Christian name of the other is Stephen, but
his surname is not known. This is the second ease of
suffocation on board ship in the Tyne, caused by burning
coals in the forecastle without a funnel to
let away the
smoke.

EMPLOYERS AND &UPLoYisD.—Of all the problems
which now perplex the mind of Europe, the proper adjust-
meat of the rights and duties of employers and the employed
is the most pressing and the most difficult. Earnestly and
anxiously do we look for its worthy solution : earnestly and
anxiously do we hope that both classes will exhibit mutual
position obviously_ involves—those
forbearance and consideration. Modifications must come ;
kindliness, and charity,
but pending the decision cf them, let us all, whether work-
man or master, endeavour to discharge faithfully those obli-
of masters and men for
Bunionof class against class.—
ugbaltiigoantsiownhsiNevhh
which
hr presentreason ,
justice,
make immutable. What we want is a movement for eduea-
ti°nal
mutuala
The Builder.
ALTEN MIN""G AssocuTioN.—The annual meet-
ing of this association was held at the offices, New Broad-
street, on Saturday ; Mr. John Labouchere in the chair. The
nadczitaalgper,ougurtcstsh—e
report stated that the expenditure at home and abroad for
the twelve mouths amounted to 8,4531. le. id., and the re-
ceipt for the 112 tons of metal to 8,960/ lea ' profit of
~ vng a
506/. s 18s. sd. With regard to the resultsof the
i pre sent year,
eliding on the 31st March next, notwithstandingthe
, falling
off at Raipas, the directors calculated he protits at 1,0001.
The report was adopted.

TEE DEISIERAUA.—A further and more complete
survey of this unfortunate royal mail steam-packet having
been deteamined on, she is now being stripped of her copper
in order to her being opened out ; a process which will OCCUPY
at least a month and engage about a hundred workmen, before
the will be rod)* for the hither euryey