The Sun.
London, England, 1863-12-17 00:00:00

Walla End.

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Ships at market,

Foreign Mail Packet List.

MAILS DUE.
Australia and Mauritius, via Southampton .. Dec' "
via Marseilles .. Jan' r
•
Jraxil and Cape Verds, by British packet. Jan.
Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St. Helena.. Dec. 19":
China, Penang, and Singapore, via Southampton. Dee•
via Marseilles "

Falkland Islands
Gibraltar, via Southampton
India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southampton Dee'4,
D via Marseilles D/.
eo. 21
India (Bombay), via Southampton . Dec. 0,,
via Marseilles
Portuga1....
• • • 1 .
Malta, Egypt, and Aden, via Southampton . •nee' 1.
.„_„.
via Marseilles • Dee. l 3•
Newfoundland .. y.

Oporto and Vigo
U. S. and British N. America, by Brit. packet....
by U.S. packet.... iS.
by Canadian packet. Dee•
W.C. of Africa, Madeira, and Teneriffe .......... Jan.
Jan. j 4.
Bahamas, via New York
Mexico .
All parts of West Indies, including Chili,
.13;;Ieecc.. 2299.'
California. and British Columbia..

THE DROWNING OF TWO NAVAL OFFICERS '°
LAGOS.—In a letter to his father, a midshipman °„°
board her Majesty's ship Investigator gives the followillP
details of an accident which occurred on the Ist of Septet'''.
ber last on the bar off Lagos, and which was noticed hi
us some time since :—" On the morning of the let Septe
ber Lieutenant Dolben came on board in his whaler to see
the Commodore, as he bad only just received his aFPnil't..
opedi"
ment to the Investigator, and was to command the
tion. He came out over the bar without shipping a drop
of water, about eight a.m., and after making arrangentel
with the Commodore he asked for a midshipman, and
volunteered to go with him, with one of our lieutenants:
poor Atkinson, who also asked that I might be allowed
to accompany him. Lieutenant Dolben seemed to thitti
nothing of going in, no more than pulling on shore in
harbour, so we shoved off from the Rattlesnake, and
pulled in about a mile before we approached the bat,
I, so far from thinking there was any danger, was sitting
in the bottom of the beat smoking my pipe, and poor At'
kinson was smoking his, and we were laughing and talking
about our expedition up the Niger. We arrived on the bat;
at 1.15 p.m., having left the ship at 12 o'clock, 811:
the very first breaker we met capsized the b°a"
and rolled her with tremendous force over and O'l
I just heard poor Dolben say, before the boat Or:
sized, Here it comes;' and, being in the bottom a thy;
boat, I put my head over the gunwale and looked, and sat It
a towering sea curling down upon us ; the next thing I ley
was a smack on the face from it, and over we went. In To
first attempt to rise to the surface I hit my head against t
boat, but succeeded the second time in laying hold of
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when I found all my companions holding on with the 81'.
caption of one of the Kroomen, whom we never saw atilt;
Poor Atkinson asked what was to be done, when Dt","l,-,,
said, Hold on to the boat, and we shall be seen frBBl,hil
shore in a minute.' He had scarcely spoken when 88eho
sea washed us all again into the water, and we had to swtue
up to her again to catch hold. Poor Atkinson was hit o,t •
head by the boat, which was washed on the top of :7 ho 0;
and when I looked round for him he was gone. I hear' -lop
call for help to one of the Kroomen, but it was il:01)(to
to save another person in a sea like that in which We 7..0,
struggling, The next sea washed us off for the third t7'oB,
I was the first to regain the boat, and saw Dolben a
distance away from the boat, but unable to swim frota 0,
haustion and the weight of his clothes. One of the P‘9
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men succeeded in pushing a mast to him, to which he 67"
for a time, and then all of a sudden disappeared. There fro,
remained the three remaining Kroomen and myself, ancifer
held on for a few seconds, scarcely long enough to re& 00
our breath, when we were again washed off. This welltoe
for half an hour. Once I went right to the bottom, and g
one
myself up for lost., being quite done up, when I ggo' "et
struggle more and rose to the surface, and fortunatel_lii'fot
on the top of the boat, and there I lay during a
nearly a minute. That gave me breath, and I then beeio
to feel able to swim again. We went on for some title
this, until the Kroomen proposed that we should roll
her
boat over and over broadside on the surf, so as to bring ,0
I in shore, because all the time we were out there We aOL.I
beaten about in a most frightful manner, and liable at ;iv
moment to be taken by sharks. We succeeded thus in riot'
ing the boat to within 30 yards of the shore, when ecoet
a canoe coming off. I then let go, and swam for the 8"1-10
which landed me and the Kroomen, and the boat was Was
upon the beach." oiof
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GOLDSMITH.—On the 13th 'lust
Births.
at Carisbrook-vili*
Blackheath, Mrs. Henry F. Uoidonith, of a son.
HONYWOOD.—On the 14th inst., at Bvington-place, 1:004
Lady Honywood, of a son.
MOHIER.—On the 13th inst., at Berlin, Mrs. Morier, of lb
son.
Moss.—On the 12th inst., at the Old Palace, Lincoln, tie
Ryde, Lieut.-Colon
wife of ww. MOBS, BrICI., of a daughter.
Marriages.
IBBETSON—AVIIITING.—On the 15th
Lieut.-Colonel C '
third daughter of WilliamP.lnlsbtbeatstoSnt, tTobt::
Henryen Whiting, Esq.,
woonslAw —On the 1
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son of Nicholas B.
vania, U.S., Wood, Esq., barrister, of Pen rub!
B rratt-hill, Broseley, Salop.

Deaths.
BAcii,t—On the 15th inst., at \Valthamstow, lira.
Ells
Back, aged 61
BATES.—On the. 12th inst., at Ryder .street, St. Jar'clt'Bf
Henry W. Bates, Esq. aged
BEGREZ.—On the 13th inst., P. I. M, Begrez, Esq.,
79. riolo4
BANKS.—On the 12th inst., at New-cross, George •-
Banks, Esq., aged 37.
GREEN.—On the 13th inst., at The Mount, HadleYl
dlesex, Joseph Henry Green, Esq., .13.0. L,,
aged 72. 11,14
MOLESWORTIL—On the 11th inst.' at Clapham,oles 011.11
Francis, second son of Sir Paul William Alcf
Sit
Bart., aged 9 years. R.I.P. -a f•
SHIFFNER —On the 14th inst., at Chichester, the AO
George Shiffner, Bart.. aged 72. to°
UNGER.--On the 14th inst., at Morden College, - °
Andreas Unger, Esq., aged 86.
—O4

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kitidleeex.—ThurtylaY, December 17, 1863.