The Sun.
London, England, 1863-06-27 00:00:00

FOUNDERING OF THE CATALONIAN.

Stephen Kelly and Daniel M'Neil, able seamen,
rescued from one of the boats of the Catalonian,
Oporto and Liverpool steamer, have been examined
on oath by the Receiver of Wrecks regarding the
loss of the steamer, and the melancholy fate of their
companions. They stated that they were ablesea-
men on board the steamer. They left Oporto for
Liverpool at five p.m. on the Bth inst., with a light
breeze from the south. The cargo, besides 350 head
of cattle, consisted of woo!, oil, and wine, and was
shipped by Messrs. F. Chemico, merchants of
Oporto, No fault was to be found with the vessel.
She was in good condition, and well found in stores.
Nothing alarming happened till they reached
abreast of Cape Finisterre, at 10 a.m. of the 9th,
when it commenced blowing a heavy gale from the
S.W. The ship was under steam and canvass. As
the gale increased the vessel laboured heavily, but
they kept her course—namely, N.E. half E. At
6 p.m., owing to the ship pitching so tremendously
in the heavy sea, and the gale still holding out, all
hands were called to take in the square sail for the
purpose of leaving the ship to the wind. Daniel
M'Niel was at the wheel ; he starboarded the helm,
and the ship came up, but again fell off. The cap.
tain finding the ship would not lay up in the wind,
he set all head sail to keep her away. However, by
this time she was becoming unmanageable; for the
heavy seas she was constantly shipping got down
into the engine-room and extinguished the fur-
-1 nace fires, and, to render the case worse, the cattle
on deck had broken adrift, and rolled to leeward
with terrific force. Suddenly the ship made a
plunge from which she did not recover. She went
down head foremost, Kelly and M'Neil saved
themselves by the ship's boat, and after drifting
about for three days were picked up by the brigan-
tine Angelina, of Cardigan, Captain Rees, master,
who after wards put them on board the Una steam-
ship, of Waterford, and were landed at Liverpool.
The number of lives lost in the wreck was 25. One
was a passenger. They estimate the value of tho
ship at £20,000, and that of the cargo at about
£lO,OOO. Both steamer and cargo were insured at
Lloyd's.

RECENT WILLS AND BEUESTS.

(From the Illustrated London News.)

The will of his late Royal Highness the Prince
Consort has been presented to the Court of Probate,
but it becomes a question whether it will be proved
in the ordinary course.
The will of the Right Hon. George Granville
Francis Egerton, Earl of Ellesmere, of W orsley.
hall, Lancaster, and Bridgewater-house, St. James's,
was proved in her Majesty's Court of Probate under
1160,000 personalty. The executors are the Hon.
Francis Egerton (the brother) and the Hon. and
Rev. Lord John Thynne. The testator, who died
at the early age of 39, was a twin. His twin brother
died in infancy. His lordship married, in 1846,
Lady Mary Campbell, daughter of the first Earl of
Cawdor, and succeeded to the title and estates in
1857. His successor, their son, the present Earl of
Ellesmere, heretofore Viscount Brackley, is in his
16th year. His lordship inherited a large portion
of the property of the late Duke of Bridgewater,
whose name of Egerton the first Earl assumed, in
1833, in lieu of Leveson-Gower. The will bears
date 1861, and a codicil April, 1862. To his relict,
the Countess of Ellesmere, beyond her marriage
settlement and reversionary interest, his lordship
bequeaths certain jewellery and other personal
effects, and a life interest in the estate of Burwood,
Surrey, which latter estate will revert to their
second son, the Hon. Alfred John Francis Egerton,
and to whom his lordship has bequeathed a legacy
of £40,000. The estates in Lancashire and Cheshire
are devised to the present earl.
The will of Mrs. Elizabeth Wray Martin-Leake,
of Queen. Ann-street, Marylebone, was proved in
London under £30,000 personalty, by the sole
executor, Mr. Charles Henry Moore, of w•
street. The charitable bequests are—to inapo,c•
the King's
College Hospital, £200; Charing-cross Hospital,
Middlesex: Hospital, Marylebone
Marylebone Governesses' Benevolent
Almshouses, Dispensary,
Institution, Distressed Widows'
Society, Sackville.
street, each £lOO ; and a small legacy to the Alden•
ham parochial schools.

RUSSIAN CLEMENCY.—The Posen Journal has tho
following
Madame M--, the wife of a landed
proprietor in the neighbourhood of Wilna, waited en Gene-
ral Mouraviefl, the now governor, and requested hint to
re-
vise the papers connected with her husband, who, she said,
had been condemned unjustly by the former governor,
Nazimoff, to six years' banishment to a distant government
of the empire, Mouravieff listened very politely to what
she had to say, and promised to make known the result. On
the Bth Madame 111— received information that her hus-
band was condemned to be shot, and on the 10th the sen-
tence was carried into execution."
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