The Sun.
London, England, 1863-12-07 00:00:00

THAMES.

FATAL PUGILISTIC RENCONTRE—A MAN DROWNED.
—Thomas Symes, a lighterman, who is very respectably
connected, and employed at Messrs Lock's extensive lead
works, at Horsleydown, for the last two years, was brought
before Mr. Woolrych charged with manslaughter,
Mr. Stoddart, solicitor, defended the prisoner.
This was a most unfortunate affair. The deceased, George
Carter, a labourer, and another man named Macdonald
were employed in landing a barge called the Fanny, off
Hore's Warf, Wapping, on Saturday night. The prisoner
received orders from the master to navigate the barge to the
East India dock, and went on board for the purpose of taking
charge of the barge, and a quarrel took place between him
and deceased. From words they came to blows and fought.
They closed, and in the soul& which took place both men
went overboard. A man named Lygon immediately lowered
the barge's hitcher (a long staff with an iron hook at the
end), and the prisoner grasped the hitcher and was saved.
Carter was carried away by the tide and drowned. His
body was not reeovered.
The defence set up by Mr. Stoddard was that great pro-
vocation was given by the deceased.
Mr. Woolrych remanded the prisoner.

LIVERPOOL, Dec. 6.--Bermuda, Nov. 15.—The
steamer Lucy, Captain Duguid, has sailed for a
Southern port. The steamer Dee has made one trip to the
Southern States, and is now on her second voyage. The
Gibraltar, late Sumter, arrived here from Wilmington on
the 15th inst with a cargo of cotton. She brought the news
of the capture of the R. E. Lee, late Giraffe, the Ella and
Annie, and the Cornubia. The steamer Ceres has arrived
here from London, and the following are also in port:"—The
Heroine, Easton, and Gibraltar. The latter vessel is coal-
ing, and will leave for Liverpool in a few day—Froin the
a.
Correspondent of the Liverpool Journal of Commerce.
THE OFFICE OF CITY ARCHITECT...—We under-
stand that the Officers and Clerks' Committee have
a report prepared on the vacant office of city architect. The
committee recommend that the holder of the office shall in
future be called the city surveyer,the title of architect being
discontinued. This would have the desirable effect of
throwing open to competition works in which the corpora-
tion may in future be engaged. The salary recommended
is L 1,200, the surveyor to have a staff of tour persons—one
at £4OO per annum, two at £3OO, and one at £loo.—City
Press.

THE CATTLE DISEASE IN EGYPT.—The screw
Capt. W. Hall, bearing the Pen-
arrived at Mal alts on the
steamer Iberica, 675 tons,
insular and Oriental CorapanY'a flag,
21st ult., 11 days from London and five from Gibraltar
laden with coals for the company. The vessel is one of
several which have recently been purchased for the Egyptian
Government. They are to be used for carrying cattle, and
are especially fitted for this service, it being the intention of
the Viceroy to make good as far as in his power the loss
sustained by the cattle disease by the introduction of ani-
mals from abroad. he Iberia left for Alexandria on the
21th, having been detained to repair some slight damages
sustained in the late rough weather.
MAJOR lELVERTON, it is said, has taken up his
residence in Melbourne,