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

Walls End.

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Ships at market

Foreign Mail Packet List.

MAILS DUE.

lustralia and Mauritius, via Southampton. Dec. 19.
via Marseilles
drazil and Cape Verds, by British packet. Jan. 4.
.Jape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St. Helena.. Dec. 29.
;hina, Penang, and Singapore, via Southampton. Dec. 19.
via Marseilles ...Dec...a.
Falkland Islands
3ibraltar, via Southampton Dec. 19.
India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southampton Dee. 19.
via Marseilles Dec. 27
India (Bombay), via Southampton Dec. 27.
via Marseilles Dec. 21.
Portugal....
Ivialta, Egypt, and Aden, via Southampton Dec. 19.
via Marseilles Dec. 21,
Newfoundland
..Dec. 23.
.__ .. .
iiporto and Vigo • • • • :
U. S. and British N. America, ty llrit.'nztOtot....Dec. 23.
__ _ ....

~- - - - -
. -by U.S.plii:ket.....
by Canadian packet. Dec. 18.
W.C. of Africa, Madeira, and Teneritfe .. Tan. 10.
Bahamas, via New York
Nlexico ..

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All parts of West Indies, including Chili, Peru,• Dec. 29,
California, and British Columbia..

THE DROWNING OF Two NAVAL OFFICERS AT
LAGOS.—In a letter to his father, a midshipman on
board her Majesty's ship Investigator gives the following
details of an accident which occurred on the Ist of Septem-
ber last on the bar off Lagos, and which was noticed by
us some time since :—" On the morning of the Ist Septem-
ber Lieutenant Dolben came on board in his whaler to see
the Commodore, as he bad only just received his appoint-
ment to the Investigator, and, was to command the expedi-
tion. He came out over the bar without shipping a drop
of water, about eight a.m., and after making arrangements
with the Commodore he asked for a midshipman, and I
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 think
nothing of going in, no more than pulling on shore in a
harbour, so we shoved off from the Rattlesnake, and
pulled in about a mile before we approached the bar.
I, so far from thinking there was any danger, was sitting
in the bottom of the boat smoking my ripe, and poor At-
kinson was smoking his, and we wet e laughing and talking
about our expedition up the Niger. We arrived on the bar
at 1.15 p.m., having left the ship at 12 o'clock, and
the very first breaker we met capsized the boat,
and rolled her with tremendous force over and over.
I just heard poor Dolben say, before the boat cap-
sized, ' Here it comes;' and, being in the bottom of the
boat, I put my head over the gunwale and looked, and saw'
a towering sea curling down upon us; the next thing I felt
was a smack on the face from it, and over we went. In my
first attempt to rise to the surface I hit my head against the
boat, but succeeded the second time in laying hold of her,
when I found all my companions holding on with the ex-
ception of one of the Kroomen, whom we never saw again.
Poor Atkinson asked what was to be done, when Dolben
said, Hold on to the boat, and we shall be seen from the
shore in a minute.' He had scarcely spoken when a sec
sea washed 113 all again into the water, and we had to swiel
up to her again to catch hold. Poor Atkinson was hit on th°
head by the boat, which was washed on the top of hill' ;
and when I looked round for him he was gone. I heard him
call for help to one of the Kroomen, but it was impossible
to save another person in a sea like that in which we were
struggling, The near, sea washed us off for the third time.

I was the first to regain the boat, and saw Dolben a little
distance away from the boat, but unable to swim from ex-
haustion and the weight of hi clothes. One of the Kroo-
men succeeded in pushing a mast to him, to which he clung
for a time, and then all of a sudden disappeared. There now'
remained the o..ree remaining Kroomen and myself, and Iva
held on for a few seconds, scarce y long enough to recover
our breath, when we were again washed off. This went en
for half an hour. Once I went right to the bottom, and gave
myself up for lost, being quite done up, when I gave one
struggle more and rose to the surface, and fortunately got
on the top of the boat, and there I' lay during a lull for
nearly a minute. That gave me breath, and I then began
to feel able to swim again. We went on for some time like
this, until the Kroomen proposed that we should roll the
boat over and over broadside on the curt, so as to bring her
in shore, because all the time we were out there we Were
beaten about in a most frightful manner, and liable at any
moment to be taken by sharks. We succeeded thus in roll-
ing the boat to within 30 yards of the shore, when we saW.
a canoe coming off. 1 then let go, and swam for the canoe,
which landed me and the Kroomen, and the boat was washed
upon the beach."
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Births.
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GOLDSMITH.—On the 13th inst., at Carisbrewk-villat
Btackheath, Mrs. Henry P. Goldsmith, of a
lace, Kent
son.
MORIEL—On the 13th inst., at Berlin,,
son.
Moss.—On the 12th inst., at tho old Palace,
Lincoln, the
of a daughter.
wife of Wm. Moss, Esq.,
HONYWOOD.—On the 14th inst.
Lady Honywood, of a son. Mrs. .Morier of a

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