The Sun.
London, England, 1865-11-16 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY- EVENING, NOVEMBER 16 1865.

SHARE MARKETS.

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LAW INTELLIGENCE.—This Day.

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COURT OF •CHANCERY.
(Before Vice-Chancellor Sir John Stuart.)
BARNETT V. LETJCIIARS-PHAROAR'S SERPENTS.

Mr. Malins, at the sitting of the Court, said his Honour
had given leave to serve notice of motion for an injunction
on the defendant to restrain his manufacture of articles of
chemical composition, now known as Pharoah's serpents,
but he was instructed that the defendant asked for time to
answer affidavits.

Mr. Morris appeared for the defendant, and said he was
informed his client had a complete answer to the case made
by the plaintiffs, but the evidence which had to be obtained
from Paris was not yet ready. He must, therefore, ask for
time, and that the plaintiffs, who described themselves as
residing out of the jurisdiction, might give security for
costs.
His Honour granted the application.

The Burning of the Australian Ship Fiery

Star.

THE FATE OF THE SEVENTY PEOPLE IN THE

BOATS.

The fate of seventy of the crew and passengers
who abandoned the homeward-bound Australian
ship Fiery Star, in four of the ship's boats, after she
was found to be on fire, has for months excited the
greatest anxiety ; but from the official communica-
tion forwarded to the Secretary of the Admiralty,
herewith annexed, there can now be very little doubt
but that the whole of them perished.
The Fiery Star, it will be remembered, sailed from
Moreton Bay on the Ist of April, under the com-
mand of Capt. William Hunter Yule; she was 1,345
tons burthen, and belonged to Messrs. James Baines,
of Liverpool.
At the time the disaster occurred, on the 19th
April, she was running before the wind with a 12-
knot breeze, being then in lat. 46.10 S., long. 170 W.
Upon the fore-hatch being taken off the smoke
ascended in clouds. In an instant all hands were
summoned to the pumps, although the crew, under
their officers, were prompt and vigorous in their
exertions to batten down and secure every hatchway,
the flames broke out through the port bow on the
following day. The passengers and crew had been
employed pumping water below throughout the
previous day and night, hoping to extinguish the
fire ; but the gas and steam had now reached the
cabin, and the captain, thinking there was no chance
of saving the ship, ordered all the boats to be got
ready. At about 7 o'clock on the 20th the captain,
most of the crew and all the passengers, with the
exception of one, left the burning ship in four boats,
leaving on board the chief officer, Mr. Sargent, and
seventeen others, who had volunteered to remain on
board, there not being sufficient room in the boats.
Capt. Yule took with him the chronometers, charts,
sextant, and compasses of the ship, leaving the chief
officer with no means to navigate the ship.
Mr. Sargent gave orders for the boats to lay by
the side of the ship all night ; but on the following
morning they were not to be seen. Sargent then
took command, and those on board at once set to
work and got under way the steam-pumps, and
succeeded in checking the flames.
The mate, Mr. Sargent, remained in charge of the 1
ship till the 12th May, when they were taken off by
the ship Dauntless, all safe ; and there is no doubt
had the 70 people remained by the ship no harm
would have occurred to them.

A search was ofdered to be instituted by Sir Wm.
Wiseman, Bart., Commander-in-Chief of the station
at Auckland, for the helpless creatures, and the re-
sult is shown in the following letter received at the
Admiralty

" H.M.S. Brisk, Auckland, June 1.

"Sir,—ln compliance with orders from Capt. J. P. Luce,
R.N., dated the 16th ult., of which I enclose a copy, I have
the honour to report that having left Auckland at 2 p.m.
that day, I hove too about 20 miles off the Chatham
Islands at sunset on the 19th, bore up at daylight next
morning, and at noon reached Port Waitangi, where I an-
chored, finding that this was the principal place on the
island, and the residence of Capt. Thomas, the resident
magistrate. I found an American whaler and an English
schooner here. Capt. Thomas could give me no tidings
whatever of the missing people from the Fiery Star, but at
my request despatched messengers to various parts of the
island to make inquiries. The weather when I anchored
was fine, but the barometer was very low, and it came on to
blow hard, which increased to a strong gale next day
(Sunday, 21st). The gale moderated at sunset on the 22d.
A report having been brought to Capt. Thomas of six
strangers having been seen on the N.W. side of the island,
and also the wreck of a boat, I proceeded on the 23d (after
creeping for the anchor without success) to Wangaroa, (Port
Hutt.), and remained there during the 24th, while other mes-
sengers were despatched to ascertain the truth of the re-
port. It turned out that the people seen were Maories hunt-
ing cattle, and the wreck proved to be only a few planks
painted green outside, and answering more to the descrip-
tion of part of a whale boat than a merchant ship's boat.
At daylight on the 26th I left Port Waitangi, the S.W.
wind still continuing, and proceeded to Pitt Island, where
I communicated with Mr. Hunt, the English resident,
who told me that nothing had been seen or heard of any
people or boats, and that it was impossible they could have
landed anywhere without his knowledge, as ho has the
whole island in his hands. Up to this time I had enter-
tained a hope that some at least of the missing people might
have reached Pitt Island, and as it lies more in the direc-
tion in which the Fiery Star was abandoned, and as Capt.
Thomas had had no communication with that island since
the date of the disaster, I had resolved not to leave the
Chatham Islands without going there. I fear, however,
that they must all have perished, as five weeks have elapsed
since the boats left the Fiery Star, and there had been a
good deal of bad we..ther during the month previous to our
arrival. - I was told that the gale we experienced was the
worst that had been felt at the islands for some years. At
3 p.m. on the 26th I bore up from Pitt Island, and pro-
ceeded by the eastwards of the group for Auckland, where
I arrived at 11 p.m. the day before yesterday.—l have, &c.,
(Signed) "C. W. liorz, Captain.
" To Commodore Sir W. Wiseman, Bart."