The Sun.
London, England, 1837-08-31 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MANSION-HO USE.
Mr. Drew, of No. 21, Great Trinity-lane, and a gentle-
man of the name of Wellington, accompanied by John Ire-
land, a lad about nineteen years of age, appeared before
Alderman Piano. _ _ _

Mr. Drew, who stated that he was brother-in-law to one
of the passengers who were on board the Chas les Eaton
when that vessel was wrecked in Torres Straits in August,
1834, said that John Ireland was the lad seen on Murray's
Island among the savages when the ship Mangles touched
at that place to water ; that William D'Oyley, a child, the
son of Captain and Mrs. D'Oyley, who were murdered by
the savages of the island of Boidang, was on Murray's
Island at the same time ; and that Inland was convinced
if two or three axes had been offered to the natives he and
the, little boy would have been at once given up to the
crew. Bad as was the case which had been recently laid
before the Lord Mayor, the atrocities committed in the case
of the unfortunate crew and passengers of the Charles
Eaton were still more frightful, not one more than Ireland
and young D'Oyley having been saved out of about twenty-
six. The poor lad had been two years along with this
child amongst the savages, and had arrived not many. days
ago from Sydney, having worked his passage home, and was
now without a situation, and penniless.
The following is the account given by Ireland of the oc-
currences after the vessel struck on the coral reef in Torres
Straits :

There were 26, of the crew, and the family of Capta
D'Oyley, consistinged himself, his wife, and two childre
George and William D'Oyley, and the servant maid, at
a young gentleman from Ireland of the'name of Armstrong
The passengers bad been on a party of pleasure. The
coral reef on which we struck_ was called Detach Reef. We
set about making a raft from the timbers of the wreck, and
after great labour we constructed one in the course of seven
days. When we got upon the raft and into. deep water,
we found that it went too deep, and we returned to the
wreck to remedy the fault. The captain and passengers
remained on the raft, and the crew went to the wreck, and
in the morning we missed the raft with the captain and the The inquest on Elizabeth Davies afforded an oppor-
passengers. The rope had been cut away in the course of tunity, of which, however, the coroner did not avail him-
the night, and the raft had drifted down with the tide. We self, to investigate the cause of the fire on board the Med-
then set too to make another raft, and we completed one tv.-ty steamer. There ought to be in England, as in Set-
in seven days more, on which we all got and drifted with rand, some public functionary empowered to make inquiry
the tide, living on two wine glasses each of distilled salt into the circumstances of all public injuries. The Chief
water At day, and a little broken biscuit. For two days and Justice of England is, indeed, the principal coroner, and
two nights we continued to go along with the current and may, if ho pleases, exercise his jurisdiction in any part of
the wind, and one of them was drowned. At the end of the kingdom. In our bumble opinion, the disastrous acci-
that time, 'we saw something a-head of us, which turned dent wli:ch occasioned the loss of two lives, and wan nearly
out to be a canoe with from fifteen to twenty natives in it, the cause of the destruction of several hundred persons, is
naked. The canoe approliched, and the natives made a very fitting subject for a much more searching inquiry
auce than that conducted by Mr. Carter. It is mere nonsense
signs to us that they would use us well, and to it
US to go on board. We did so, and they let the raft drift to assert that such a calamity could occur without gross
away, and they took us ashore on one or the small islands, neg:igence in some quarter.,---Times. [We entirely agree
owing
called Boidang Island by the inhabitants.
We were all greatly exhausted and fatigued, and we lay into thetiie suggestion,
scuifmonul
arr
y Contemporary,tribunal
that
public chCiefiy
onipanies,
down to sleep. I was suddenly awakened by the violence who are in themselves individually irresponsible, speculate,
Of a native, who had in his hand a knife, which I afterwards Ili oit,h Their agents, at the expense of public safety, totally
found they had taken from the captain and passengers on the regardless of consequences, except those that touch their
first raft. He advanced, as I thought, to cut my throat, profits.—En. Sun.]
but I struggled hard for my life, and I had the best of it. COACII PROPRIETORS.—It may probably surprise
I then ran into the water, determined to swim out and be many of our readers to be informed of the extent to which
drowned rather than be killed and eaten ; but I turned individual persons in England embark their capital in what
litick, and the native that attacked me did not continue the is termed the coaching line. Mr. Chaplin, who is the
attack ;on the contrary, he acted kindly to me, and saved occupier of the five following " yards," as they are termed
me from violence frOm the hands of the others. 1 soon in London—namely, those of the Spread Eagle and Cross
perceived that every one of the crew except a boy like my- Keys, Gracechurch-stroet ; the Swan with Two Necks,
self, named Sexton, was murdered. Some had their brains Lad-lane ; the White Horse, Fetter-lane ; and the Angel,
dashed out, and others were stabbed, and the savages after- behind St. Clements—has no less than 1,300 horses at
wards stripped the bodies and let them down with the tide, work, in various coaches, on various roads ; and Messrs.
keeping all the heads, which they placed in a row be
fore Horne and Sherman, the two next largest coach proprie-
the fire. They ate no pet except the e} es and cheeks. tors in London, hard about 700 each. Those who have
Next day they took us off to another island in their canoes, not witnessed it might perhaps be still more astonished
in which they brought all the heads of the crew, and on at the regularity and case with which these prodigious—
landing on the beach we saw a Newfoundland dog, which we apparently overwhelmig—establishments are conducted, by
at once knew to be Capt. D'Oyley's, and which lie had brought the means of foremen and subordinates well traiacd to
from the Isle of Wight with him, and soon afterwards we saw Vick business. Mr. Chaplin is likewise the proprietor of
George and
William D'Oyley. George appeared to be seven two London hotels, residine in that called e Osborne's," in
or eight years old, and William was about fourteen or fifteen the Adelphi.-2'he Tut!, the Chase, and the Road.
months. They were with some of the native women. George
approached the canoe in which Sexton and I were, and oe
asked him what had I:ecome of his father and mother? He There have been only five entries of notices of mar-
riage in the marriage notice-book kept by the Leeds super-
replied that the blacks had killed them, and the captain, •
and Mrs. Armstrong, and the servant girl, and that he an I intendent-registrar, since the Act came into operation, eight
1 his little brother were all that remained alive. I told him l The Museum of King's College yesterday morning
weeks ago.—Liverpool Standard.
that all the crew were murdered except myself and Sexton. .received a present from the Bank of England of twenty
The natives then took us b
into. some open huts which they ' millions of nk of England
fter being destroyed y'fidreced to the size of.

W OR SHIP- STREET.
Yesterday .211(v y O'Donnell was placed at the bar be-
fore Mr. BItoUGHToN charged with having entered the pre-
unites of the Messrs. Whitbread, the brewers, iu Chiswell-
st ruet, Moorfields.
The prisoner was sent to the House of Correction for
three weeks.