The Sun.
London, England, 1862-08-11 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON'.

and Yeovil Railway Company have commenced to
lay down the additional rails on portions of their
line, so as to make a double road. The directors re-
gret to inform the shareholders that in consequence
of the adverse verdict of the jury upon Ford's case,
arising out of the accident which occurred at
Wimbledon in Jan., 1861, the company has been
called upon to pay several large amounts for com-
pensation. The directors are still of opinion that
the verdict of the coroner's jury was correct. The
directors have carried £6,792 to the compensation
account for the half-year. They have purchased
the shares and property of the South-Western
Navigation Company for a corresponding amount
of 4 per cent. debenture stock, instead of paying
rent at 5 per cent. The board recommend the ac-
ceptance by the proprietors of a lease for seven
years from the Ist of January last of the Exeter
and Credition Railway at a rent of 55 per cent. of
per cent. of its gross receipts. The directors have
also made arrangements for leasing the North
Devon Railway 35 miles in length, from Crediton
to Barnstaple, at a rent of about £15,000 per an-
nual for the first seven years of the lease, and
£16,000 thereafter. The rent of the Bideford line
of six miles in length will be about £2,375 for the
first seven years of the lease, and about £2,650
thereafter. It is proposed to complete the narrow
gauge accommodation on those railways forthwith.
The report of J. Beattie, the engineer, states that
the expenditure in the locomotive and carriage de-
partment averaged 9.07 d. per mile ; and that 47
goods, six timber, two cattle, and five coal wag-
gons, and two carriage trucks, 62 in all, have been
built in lieu of a similar number worn out, and the
cost has been charged to the revenue account. The
capital account shows that £12,037,321 had been
expended, !caving a balanca of £267,194.

PIRACY, MURDER, AND BURNING OF

A SHIP.

(From the Western Morning News.)
We are enabled to place before our readers some
details of the most atrocious case of piracy, murder,

and burning of a ship that has occurred for many
years past, at least in European waters. Captain
Grove, of the English brig Susannah, who arrived
at Falmouth on Wednesday, has fully narrated the

appalling circumstances to our correspondent at
that port. It appears that about 8 a.m. on the 9th
of July last, when about 16 miles S.E. of Malaga,
Captain Grove observed the American barque Rein-
deer, with her ensign down, and her sails flying
about as if she was adrift. Ho was then some dis-
tance from her, but he immediately lowered his
quarter gig, and (with four of his crew) proceeded
towards the Reindeer. On arriving alongside,
Captain Grove observed a man with his head partly
over the rail. Smoke was issuing from the poop of

the barque. Before getting on board Capt. Grove
spoke to the half murdered man on deck, and endea-
voured to obtain some particulars of the disaster.

He was only just strong enough to say that a
part of the crew had been murdered by two Spa-
niards, who belonged to the Reindeer, and that
after murdering or disabling the crew, they had
set fire to the ship, stove one boat, and had taken
away the other, and made their escape. The cap-
tain and crew of the Susannah went on board, and
were horror-struck on seeing the state of the vessel.

The appearance of the mutilated men on board, the
quantity of blood on deck, the groanings of the
captain and men, were horrible beyond description.
The steward was on the deck half murdered and
lying in his blood ; his face and head had been so
cut and disfigured with a knife as to make it won-
derful that he should have survived. He was very
weak through loss of blood, but just able to move.
The master of the Reindeer (Capt. S. W. Hewitt)
was on the main hatch, covered with a blanket,

groaning most piteously, insensible. It seems that
he was attacked when asleep in his cabin ; his head
was partly severed from his body, and it is supposed
he was left for dead ; one half of his left ear was
cut off, and when he awoke and was a little sensible
the cabin was full of smoke, but he has no r ecollec-
tion of any of the circumstances of the horrible out-
rage. The first mate had also been attacked, and
was cut with a knife very severely in the neck, and
seriously injured. Tho second mato, J. H. Hancoy,
of Liverpool, and a seaman named Henry F. Jones,
of Cardiff, were both murdered whilst asleep in their
berths. Capt. Grove saw them lying there, and
thinks that their deaths must have been instantane-
ous ; they werein the same position as if asleep, but
the quantity of blood around them formed a large
pool ; the hearts of both men were visible through
the severe cuts in their sides, and it would seem as
if they had been struck on the head by some instru-
ment and then immediately stabbed in the left side,
near the heart ; their features did not appear to have
been altered. The ship's boy on board was also
attacked by the ruffians, and, having received a cut
from a knife, he jumped overboard and swam for-
ward to the hobstay, where he quietly remained
until the murderers left the vessel. The carpenter
and cook were murdered whilst on deck and thrown
overboard ; the boy saw these two attacked and
killed, and their bodies thrown out. The others of
the crew who had up to this time escaped, seeing
the frightful state to which matters were approach-
ing, climbed to the foretop and cut the topgallant
studding sail halyard-block to protect themselves.
The ruffians did not venture aloft, and it would
seem that they were short of powder, as, although
they had pistols, they did not fire. Amongst the
crew of the Reindeer were two Spaniards. They
were not in the same watch; and on the night of
this horrible act one of them contrived to borrow a
knife from each man of the watch, saying that he
wanted to cut some meat to eat. At this time the
other Spaniard was supposed to be asleep. After
having obtained the knives from the whole of the
crew of that watch, and deprived them of their usual
means of protection, these cold-blooded murderers
set to work in a business-like manner. They first
provided themselves with two pistols each, and a
maul under one arm,and attached knives to their side.
A pistol was presented to the first mate several
times, but it snapped and did not discharge. Thus he
was spared his life, but received several severe cuts
and injuries from knives. Some little time after
Capt. Grove had been on board the Reindeer, the
American ship Minstrel, Capt. Clifford, came to her
assistance, and every endeavour was made by these
two ship-masters and their crews to save the barque
from burning. She had been set fire to fore and
aft ; they battened everything down to prevent any
air reaching the fire, arid cut holes in her deck, and
for a time the fire appeared to be somewhat sub-
dued ; when, however, it reached the transom, the
flames broke out with much force at the stern.
The Reindeer was a ship of about 800 tons. Capt.
Grove and Capt. Clifford having consulted toge-
ther, they thought it best to take the whole of the
crew on board the Minstrel, and in doing so expe-
rienced some difficulty in getting the wounded from
the ship ; they had to lower them down over the
sides of the vessel, Capt. Hewitt at the same time
being senseless. They left the Reindeer at about
five p.m. ; Capt. Grove remained close to her during
the night, and saw her go down about eight a.m.
the next morning. When on board the Reindeer
Capt. Grove noticed a log-book, whicla had been
kept by Jones, one of the murdered men, from which
it appeared that he shipped on board the Mary Ann
in Cardiff in 1861, and ran from her. Three watches
wore carried off by the murderers, as well as 400
dollars. Capt. Grove has in his possession three of
the knives used on the occasion, with the blood of
the poor murdered and mutilated crew of the Rein-
deer still about them. During the night after the
murder, and whilst the Susannah was in a calm, and
only a short distance from the burning ship, Capt.
Grove saw a boat with four hands and a litter pul-
ling close to the Susannah. Suspecting that there
was more mischief nt work, he mustered the whole
of his crew on the quarter-deck, and armed them,
in the belief that the boat consisted of pirates be-
longing to the same party. When the boat came
near his vessel Capt. Grove fired a shot across the
boat's bowOn this they pulled away as quickly as
possible, andwas he saw no more of them. A Spanish
felucca
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opinion of Captain Grove that
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MONDAY IVE XING,

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE,

HOME CIRCUIT.—GUILDFORD, Aug. 9.
Mr. Baron Martin and Mr, Baron Bramwell were
both engaged on Saturday in trying civil causes,
and they disposed of a number of common jury cases.
(Before Mr. Baron Bramwell.)
COLLIER T. MILLSON.
This was an action of false imprisonment, and the
defendant pleaded that the plaintiff was the keeper
of a public-house, and that he went to his house
for refreshment, and while he was there he was
robbed of his watch and chain and some money,
and that the plaintiff was present when the robbery
was committed, and did not render him any assis-
tance, and that he was therefore justified in giving
him into custody.
Mr. Oppenheim was for the plaintiff, and Mr.
Prentice appeared for the defendant.
The plaintiff in this action is the landlord of the
Golden Lion public house, Kent-street, in the
Borough, and the defendant is an architect, who

carries on his business in Lincoln's-inn-fields. The

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the day before Good Friday, the defendant went to
the Golden Lion, accompanied, as was stated by
several prostitutes and other disorderly persons,
and there was no doubt that he conducted himself
in a very extraordinary manner for a man in his
position. He called for all sorts of liquors, with
which he regaled the women and the other persons
who accompanied him, and upon some man coming
into the house to play the banjo he took the instru-
ment from him and went into the tap-room, and
began to dance and play nigger fashion. The plain-
tiff it appeared did not come home until nearly 12
o'clock at night, and at this time there was a scene
of great uproar and confusion, and he went to the
room where the defendant was, and requested him
and the other parties to leave the house, as he said
he must close at 12 o'clock on account of the fol
lowing day being Good Friday. Upon this the de-
fendant and all the others came in front of the bar,
when it appeared there was some scuffling and
hustling, and the defendant dropped some gold
ooins, and they were scrambled for and stolen. At
length the defendant and all the other people left
the house, and either at this time or shortly after-
wards the defendant was robbed of a gold watch,
which he stated to be worth £35, and he gave a
man named Donkley in charge for stealing it, and
he was taken to the police-station and locked up.
He then it appeared went back to the house of the
plaintiff, accompanied by a policeman, and gave
him also in charge for being concerned in stealing
his watch with the man Donkley, and as the fol
lowing day was Good Friday, he was detained at
the police-station until Saturday morning, the po-
lice not having power to take bail in cases of felony.
He was then taken to Southwark Police Court, but
the defendant did not make his appearance to sup-
port the charge, and the plaintiff and the other
man were consequently set at liberty. Some cor-
respondence subsequently passed between Mr.
Neale, the plaintiff's attorney, and the defendant,
who seemed inclined to persist in the charge he
had made, and the only excuse he gave for not ap-
pearing before the magistrate was, that he was
going to be married and that he did not wish to have
his name brought before the public in connexion
with such a transaction Police-sergeant Gardner
of the M division, who took the charge, stated in
cross-examination that the Golden Lion was
situated in a very low neighbourhood, and that it
was principally frequented by prostitutes and
thieves, but he at the same time said that these
were the only description of custcmers that could
go to it, as none other lived in the neighbourhood.
Mr. Prentice, in his address to the jury for the
defendant, contended that he was justified in giving
the plaintiff into custody under the circumstances.
He said he did not deny that the defendant had
acted very foolishly in going to such a place and
conducting himself as he did, and he might very
well be ashamed of appearing before the magistrate
and giving his evidence, but the jury would con-
sider whether it was not the duty of the plaintiff to
have protected him when he knew the class of per
sons by whom he was surrounded, and that as he
did not do so the defendant might very reasonably
have believed that he was aiding in the robbery.
Baron Bramwell having summed up, the jury,
after a short deliberation, returned a verdict for
the plaintiff—damages £5O.
Mr. Prentice subsequently applied that execu-
tion might be stayed, on the ground that the
damages were excessive and his lordship granted
the application.
SEALE V. WEAGGE.
This was an action to recover damages for injuries
caused to the plaintiff's carriage upon his return
from the races on the Derby day.
Mr. Hawkins, Q.C., Mr. Prentice, and Mr. J.
Sharpe appeared for the plaintiff; Sergeant Ballan-
tine and Mr. Garth were for the defendant.
The plaintiff in this action it appeared was a
gentleman residing in Craven-street, Strand, and the
defendant is a coach proprietor and job-master at
Walthamstow, and it was stated that he used to drive
the renowned Brighton coach, the Vivid. On the
Derby day the plaintiff and some other gentlemen,
all of whom were connected with the law, went to
Epsom in a carriage and pair, and the accident that
was the subject of inquiry occurred about 8 o'clock at
night, on the return home. According to the evi-
dence of plaintiff and his witnesses, his coachman
was in the act of pulling into a rank of carriages
that were going along on the near side of the road,
by the direction of the police, when the defendant,
who was driving a drag in which were a number of
gentlemen, came up at a rapid rate, and his hind
near wheel caught the off hind wheel of the plain-
tiff's carriage, and broke it to pieces, and threw the
party out. None of them, however, it appeared,
received any personal injury, and the amount of the
damage done to the vehicle was estimated at £l6.
The case on the part of defendant was, that the ac-
cident arose from the carriage of the plaintiff having
suddenly backed out of the rank upon the drag, not
through the negligence of the driver, but on account
of a jibbing horse having suddenly stopped and
thrown the rank into disorder. It appeared in the
course of the case that no application was made to
the defendant for compensation after the accident,
but he was at once served with a copy of a writ, and
also that an attempt had been made to get the trial
sent down to the Warwick assizes, the ground for
this application being an affidavit that a fair trial
could not be had in the county of Surrey.
Sergeant Ballantine, in addressing the jury for
the defendant, endeavoured to show that the ae•
cident was occasioned by the plaintiff's carriage,
and that there was no negligence on the part of
the defendant, who, he said, from the position
he formerly held, must have been a first-rate whip,
He also characterised the action as a very trumpery
one, and said he believed it would never have been
brought if it had not unfortunately happened that
all the persons in the carriage were lawyers or con-
nected with the law.
Baron Bramwell, in summing up,said it certainly
appeared to him a very great pity that a case like
this, when a sum of £l6 appeared to be all that
was in dispute, should have been brought for trial
at the assizes at an enormous expense, when it
might have been very easily settled in the County
Court, and he also observed upon the folly of endea-
vouring to have the trial sent down to the Warwick
assizes.
The Jury, after some deliberation, returned a
verdict for the plaintiff, but it was arranged that
the amount of damages should be settled out of
court.
There were several causes in the list in this court
in which the plaintiffs were professional artistes
and the defendant was Mr. Simpson, the late pro-
prietor of Cremorne. The actions were all similar to
the one tried at Lewes last week, and, as upon that
occasion, the plaintiff obtained a verdict, the ques-
tion being, if the defendant had entered into sea-
son engagements with the parties for their services
at the Surrey-gardens during the present season.
Mr. Simpson would not contest the point any fur-
ther, and these actions were all understood to be
settled.

(Before Baron Martin.)
His Lordship disposed of a Lumber of common
jury causes during the day; our of them, Fletcher
v. Marriott, occupied a considerable time. The
plaintiff, Major Fletcher, sued the defendant, who
was his father-in-law, to recover the sum of £3OO,
the balance of £l,BOO that had been paid for his
commission in one of the West Indian regiments.
The case appeared to have arisen out of family dif-
ferences, and was of no interest to the public.

CALLANDEIE. THE MOORE AND FORESTS.—
Sportsmen are beginning to arrive et their shooting boxes
in this quarter. The weather is very wet. The stock of
grouse here is below the average, End there is a great defi-
ciency of young birds. The coveys on the best ranges here
do not exceed from four to six birds in each—indeed it is
almost rare to see a covey with fore than four. On the
Balquidder moors the birds are roach smaller than usual,
having grown ill. There is, however, an abundance of old
birds. On the Stronvar, Edinchip, Strathgartney,
prior, and Leny moors average sport is not expected, and
the birds are not nearly full g-own. On the Callander
moors the prospects are rather better. Fallow deer in the
forests are plentiful and in excellent condition. Rod-fish-
ing.—Excellent baskets of freshwater trout are got almost
daily on the fishing waters here. On Loch Ard, Loch
Achray, and Loch Lubnaig, anglers are making capital
sport. Several of the trout weigh 41b. to 71b. on Loch
Vennachar, Loch Voil, and the Lake of Monteith trout
fishing is very successful, and sme anglers on Tuesday
got from ten to twelve dozen. Visitors.—This season the
visitors are few, antl'the hotel and 'lodging-house keepers
complain of an unremunerative season.-Bcotsmara.