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
Here's Wad, Wapping, on Saturday night. The prisoner
received orders from the master to navigate the barge to the
East India dock, and went on boari 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 scutle 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 recovered.
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. Tbs
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 Zlh'.Bn
Annie, and the Cornubia. The steamer Ceres has
. arrivedhe
here from London, and the following are also in P4)ris coal-
Heroine, Beaton, and Gibraltar. The latter vesselrron2 the
ing, and will leave for Liverpool in a few &VP—
ram terce.
Correspondent of the Liverpool Journal of _!,-
w e under-
DIE OFFICE OF CITY ARCHITECT.
mittee have
stand that the Officers and Clerks'
(3t
marchitect. The
a report prepared on the vacant office
ofacilie office shall in
committee recommend that the holdert.
as of architect being
future be called the city surveyor,thehe,
desirable effect of
discontinued. This would
throwing open to competition.
The
workshave
et
in which the corpora-
tion may in future be engaged:
Staff of four persmst—one
is X 1,200, the surveyor to hav-3,
and one at £loo.—City
at XlOO per annum, two at .•30,1
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THE CATTLE DISEASE IN EGYPT.—The screw
steamer Iberica, 675 tone, Capt. W. Hall, beating the Pen-
insular and Oriental. Company's flag,arrived at Malta on the
21st ult. , 14 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
They are to be used for curying cattle, and
Government•
are
e,pechdly 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. The Iberia left for Alexandria on the
24th, having been detained to repair some slight damages
sustained in the late rough weather.
MAJOR YELVERTON, it is said, has taken up his
residence in Mc'bourne.