The Sun.
London, England, 1864-02-18 00:00:00

ME KIN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 18, 1864.

MISC ELLANHOUS—Continued.
London Provincial Marine, 2; 3
Mercantile Credit Association, lira., 101 10 1
Natal Land and Colonization Company, lim., 51
National Discount Company, lira., ,2/ 12
North British and Mercantile Insurance, lira., 201'
Oriental Inland Steam, lim , 11 1
l'eel River Land and Mineral, 411
Rio eh Janeiro City Improvements, -
w,16 Ditto (4), 4i
Royal Mail Mi,am, 851
Societe Financiere d slrypte, lim., 51
Thames and Mersey Marine (Insurance), Bra., 71
United Kingdom Telegraph Co. ' 21
Universal Marine (Insurance), lira., 51

THE GALE.

The two survivors of the crew of the collier brig
Thomas Barker have arrived in Shields, the vessel
having been run down, and the mister and seven
of the crew drowned. The Thomas Barker, under
the command of Mr. Thomas Pyle, and with a crew
of nine hands, left the Tyne on Friday afternoon,
coal laden, for London. On Saturday, during the
height of the gale, and when about four miles from
Filey Bay, she was struck on the bow by the
Edith and Mary, of Sunderland, in ballast from
Southampton. The Thomas Barker went down
within a few minutes after she was struck, taking
with her the in ester and seven of the crew. The
persons saved wero William Walker, seaman, end
James Dickenson, apprentice. Walker at the time
of the collision was in the rigging, and he fortu-
nately succeeded in jumping on board the light
brig. Dickenson saved himself by rnnning along
the jiohoom of the Thomas Barter, and jump-
ing into the forechains of rte Edith and
Mary, whence he was taken abeard that ves-
sel. The following
is a list of the lost:—
Robert Pyle, master ; Richard Enbleton, mate;
Thomas Dennale, cook ; the carpentr, whose name
was not known yesterday ; Thomas t..unnex and
John Bannerman ; another seaman, who was at the
helm when the vessel went down, aid whose name
is not known, and James :11‘Donsld, apprentice.
The vessel belonged to Nlessrs. Thomas Barker and
Sons, South Shields, and was uninsured. The
schooner Triumph, of Brisham, arrived in the Tyne
on Tuesday. The master reported that while off
the Leman and Omer lightship ea Sunday, and
while the crew were below at dinner Neil Campbell,
an ordinary seaman, who had been left at the wheel,
disappeared, but whether he bad thrown himself
overboard, as he was in a desponding state of mind,
or was accidentally drowned, the master could not
tell. The vessel that the steamboats have in tow in
a capsized condition off the Typo is the Victoria,
from Hull, a Danish bark. She had been coming
from Kull on Friday in tow of the Robert Scott
tug, when she struck upon IVhitlee Rocks, and,
having slid off the reef, she capsized and
floated out to sea. The master, his wife,
and crew were rescued by the steamtug
and brought to the Tyne. The steamboats
could not get the deralict into Shields har-
bour on Tuesday night, it is thought, on account
of the masts touching the bottom. '!'hey will have
to be broken off in some manner before the vessel
can be got into the harbour. On Saturday a number
of light and laden vessels were blown to the north
of the Tyne, and found shelter behind the Coquet
and Fern Islands. On Tuesday night, as the wind
got well from the northward, they would be enabled
to make their passage south again. A good deal of
anxiety. bad been occasioned in Shields since Satur-
day through the reprehensible practice of taking
vessels to sea without their full complement of
bands en board, the vessel lying in the offing until
the master or mate gathers together the remainder
of the crew in the public-houses in the town. A
laden bark was taken out thus on Friday evening,
short of hands, and the master returned to Shields
in a steamboat, leaving an owner of a steamboat
and the pilot on board the vessel with the mates
and such of the crew as had gone off with her. The
ship was blown off the land during the night, and
had not -cast up on Tuesday.

THE LATE MR. MITRE,

By the untimely and lamented death of Mr. Wil-
liam Mure, the post of Consul at New Orleans is
left at the disposal of her Majesty's Government.
The late Consul will be regretted by those in New
Orleans and in the United States, by whom his im-
partiality and honourable feeling in the discharge
of duties rendered particularly difficult and onerous
by the nature of the times were appreciated and
acknowledged, even in the midst of great party
strife and national animosity. Appointed in 1843,
he speedily made himself known at the Foreign-
office by his lucid and admirable reports, which
rose to the elevation of State pagers in largeness of
view and accuracy of expression, and his great
tact and knowledge of affairs and 1338!1 enabled
him to steer his coarse amid peri.s in which his
brother consuls in the United States were wrecked,
although he never for a moment coilpromiaed a
principle or shrank from its assertion. He obtained
from the State Legislature of Louisiana large con-
cessions towards the free blacks, British subjects,
who had been incarcerated with common felons
during the stay of the vessels to which they be-
longed in the State ports. By Mr. M ure's exer-
tions these free blacks were allowed to remain at
large under certain conditions, and his services
were acknowledged by Lord Palmerston, who,
though not in office at the time, wrote a letter to
Mr. Mure to express his high sense of the benefit
he had rendered to freedom and hutttanity. During
the Crampton difficulty he managed to avoid the
breath of suspicion and slander, and in many diffi-
cult questions ho displayed eque judgment and
address. From his intimate know:edge of Ameri-
can affairs, ho was enabled to predict with remark-
able foresight the sure advent of the tremendous
struggle which gave no sign to others, and Lord
Russell bestowed high praise on his despatches in
relation to the causes of Secession and its probable
consequences and result. No man could bcave the
climate of New Orleans for so many years without
serious injury to his constitution, and Mr. More
came to Washington in 1862, on his way to Eng-
land, in deplorable health, which was aggravated
by the hardships of a journey in winter from New
Orleans through a country ravaged by hostile
armies, and, destitute of ordinary conveyances and
facilities for travelling. He came to England in
the hope of recovering his strength, bat never alto-
gether rallied, and expired on the 14th in London
from the effects of debility and disease.