The Sun.
London, England, 1852-01-16 00:00:00

THE LOSS OF THE AMAZON•

We have received, by express from Exeter, the
following telegraphic dispatch, forwarded by our cor-
respondent at Plymouth :
" PLYMOUTH, THURSDAY EVENING,
SEVEN O'CLOCK.

" The port life-boat of the Amazon was picked
up by a Dutch galliot in the Bay of Biscay, and
the following persons on board have been landed

here :

" Rev. William Blood, Mr. Gilley (Glennie),
Lieutenant Geylls, William Angus, second engineer ;
Isaac Roberts, boiler maker, and as fireman ; C.
Deudney, stoker ; W. Wall, stoker; G. Webb, sea-
man ; Wright, seaman ; M'lnnes, storekeeper; and
Harris, boy."—Times.

TEE ENGINEERS.—There is no new feature in this
question. The masters of Manchester had sent deputations
to the masters in Bury, Blackburn, Preston, Bradford, Hali-
fax, and Leeds, to induce them to join the strike, and
meetings of the men were to be held at Oldham and Man-
chester last evening.
TEE MURDER AT SHADWELL.—Yesterday Mr.
Baker concluded the adjourned inquiry, which was protracted
through eight hours, at the expiry of which the jury returned
the only possible verdict, namely, that of " Wilful murder
against Joseph Berdugo, the Spaniard."

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THE GUN TRADE.—EXTENSIVE GOVERNMENT
OnDER.—BIRMINO HAM, THURSDAY. —The Board of Ord-
nance have sent down to this town for tenders for the setting
up of 23,000 rifle muskets. The tender-papers arrived about
ten days ago, and this day was fixed for returning them, but
the pattern, it appears, was not ready ; at all events it was
not sent down until yesterday morning, and art exten-
sion of the time has taken place to the 2•)d instant, when all
proposals must be in. The tenders have been sent to nearly
all the extensive makers, and, in all probability, the lowest
will have it, and, if so, there may be no small amount of un-
certainty about the execution cf the order. The workmen
met yesterday to fix a price at which they will perform their
part of the labour ; and any contracts not given in subject to
their terms, may be attended with delay and uncertain exe-
cution. The guns are to be the same as those lately sent to
Sir Harry Smith, and which are said to have astonished the
natives.
WAnwicKsmns BUNT BALL.—The gentlemen of
the Warwickshire Hunt Club gave their annual ball and
supper in the noble suite of apartments at the County Hall,
Warwick, on the evening of Wednesday last. The magni-
ficent salon de danse was appropriately decorated for the oc-
casion with birds, animals, ancient boar spears, &c., tastefully
arranged en tableau. The supper, consisting of every deli-
cacy of the season, was superbly served upon costly china,
the whole presenting a most perfect ensemble. Among the
assemblage, which amounted to nearly 500 were—Vis-
count and Viscountess Lewisham, Viscount and Viscountess
Duncan, Viscount Villiers, Viscount and Viscountess Mount-
garret, Lord and Lady Leigh, Lord and Lady Guernsey, Lord
and Lady Berriedale, Lady L. Pole, Lord and Lady Somer-
ville, Lord and Lady Wrottesley, Lady Heathcote, Lord
Lurgan, Lady Dormer, Lady Crompton, Lady Mordaunt,
Lady Margaret Littleton, Lady Cave Browne Cave, Lady
Willoughby de Broke, Lord Newark, Sir Harry Vane, Lady
Mary Bridgeman, Sir Francis Shuckburgb, Sir Charles Mor-
daunt, Sir Peter Poles, Sir Theophilus Biddulph, Sir Eardley
Wilmot, Sir John de Beauvoir, Hon. James Dormer, Hon.
Hubert Dormer, llon. E. C. Leigh, H. Barnard, Esq. (Ma,
ter of the Hounds), Barnard Granville, Esq., C. N. Newde-
gate, Esq., M.P., Mark Phillips, Esq., Spencer Lucy, Esq.,
H. C. Wise, Esq., &c. &c.
EASTERN COUNTIES RAILWAY.—The estimate of
the company's engineer, Mr. Bidder, for constructing the new
works for a junction with the East and West India Dock
line, with branches to the Northern and Eastern, the Strat-
ford and Thames branch, and a connecting line between such
branches, and for enlargement of goods station, Devonshire-
street East, is 50,0001.

THE LATE FATAL POACIIING AFFRAY IN NoTYING-
HAmsHIEE.—A framework-knitter, of Sutton-in-Ashfield,
named George Dunlop, has been committed for trial at the
Nottinghamshire assizes, along with several others pre-
viously in custody, charged with the manslaughter of
Thomas Roberts, one of the. Earl of Scarborough's keepers,
in October last. From private information received by the
police he is suspected to be the man who struck the fatal
blow.

The Lord Chancellor has been pleased to appoint
William Oliver Jackson, Esq., of Ahanesk, Midleton, to the
commission of the Poo for the county of Cork•