The Sun.
London, England, 1862-04-29 00:00:00

COLONIAL.

TEA.—There has been a very limited business transacted,
tho dealers being occupied with the samples of the forth-
coming public sales.
SUGAR.—The market has been dull, and prices have re-
mained without material variation, Refined descriptions,
however, are a shade flatter.
COFFEE.—Business has continued moderately active, and
full prices have been realised for good and superior descrip-
tions.

I.l7cE.—The operations have been to a fair extent, and late
quotations have, in most instances, been well supported.
SALTPETRE.—The demand has continued brisk, and for
British refined a further advance has been demanded b)
holders.
TALLOW.—The market has continued moderately active,
upward tendency. P.Y. on
the
ed prices
spot
is quoted
dsh4o6c: n an upward
46s 6d, and last three months
delivery 48s 9d to 49s per cwt.

THE LATE MURDER IN KERRY. TRALEE,
MONDAY MORNING.—It was erroneously stated on Satur-
day that Foley, tile alleged murder of his cousin at Killoe-
glin, was captured. He is still at large, and in possession
of the double-barreled gun with which the murder was
committed.

LOSS OF 2HE SHIP CONQUEROR.

The following Admiralty memorandum, dated
the 20th ult., revises the sentence of the court-mar•
tial, held at Bermuda, on the captain and officers of
her Majesty's late ship the Conqueror :
" My Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty
have had under their consideration the minutes of
the proceedings and the sentence of a court-martial
held on board her Majesty's ship Hero, at Bermuda,
on the Bth, and by successive adjournments to the
15th day of February, 1862, for the trial of Capt.
Edward Southwell Sotheby, C. 8., the remaining
officers, and ship's company of her Majesty's late
ship Conqueror, for the loss of that ship on the reef
on the eastern side of Rum Cay, on the 29th of
December, 1861.

"My Lords have read with much surprise a pas'
sage in Captain Sotheby's defence, where he ob°
serves:—

"' If, after the scrutinising test that the master's
work has undergone, it should be found incorrect;
proper allowance not made ; or the place of the shin
not properly noted in the chart, I maintain, in which
opinion I have no doubt I shall have the full con-
currence of the members of this court, that a can'
fain is not supposed to doubt the accuracy of such
work, when he can conscientiously place most tho'
rough confidence in the master; and that it is r•.ot his
duty, under those circumstances, to work the
reckoning himself, that officer being appointed for
that specific purpose.'
_ _ _

" My Lords cannot dissent in too strong terms
from the views expressed by Capt. Sotheby. They
consider that it is the duty of the captain to take
every precaution for the safety of the ship he eom.
mends, and that he can only acquit himself of that
responsibility which attaches to him by showing
that he has neglected no means within his power of
ascertaining the position of the ship, the prevailing
currents, and the dangers to which she may be Q
posed_
"My Lords further regret that Capt. Sotheby's
views appear to have been accepted by the members
of the court without remark, and to have been so far
adopted by them, that while they reprimanded the
master, they fully acquitted the captain. My Lords
cannot concur in the finding of the court.
" One of her Majesty's ships, in fine weather and
under no unusual circumstance, while making a
passage through a channel in which the currents
are known to set to leeward with varying:strength,
has been totally lost in consequence, according to
the finding of the court, of an insufficient allowance
for leeway and currant. The captain is, neverthe-
less, fully acquitted, and the master only repri-
manded, though no reason is given why the ship
should have continued all night on a course which
the master acknowledged might carry her within
six or seven miles of an island surrounded by day-
gerous coral reefs.

"It appears to their lordships that, had the ordi-
nary and natural precaution been adopted of making
a tack to the south-east, before the ship could by
possibility have been swept upon the coral reefs of
Rum Cay, the country would not have had to
deplore the loss of one of the finest line-of-battle
ships in her Majesty's service; and my Lords consi-
der Captain Sotheby to have been highly culpable
in not having taken that precaution.
" To prevent all future misconception as to the
responsibility of captains in command of her Majes-
ty's ships, my Lords have caused the following
additions to be made in the Ist and 2d Articles of
Chapter XIX., page 160, of the Queen's Regulations
and Admiralty Instructions for the government of
her Majesty's Naval ti ervice. The first Article will
commence with the words---' The captain is respon-
sible for the safe conducting and steering of his
ship;' and the last paragraph of the second Article
will in future stand as follows If it shall appear
that the ship has been run on shore, or brought into
danger of being run on shore, or wrecked, and that
there has been any want of due care or precaution,
or that the foregoing orders have been disobeyed,
the captain will be held responsible for the same.'---
By command of their Lordships, "C. PAGET."

The Right Hon, W. Hutt has arrived in town
from Cibside.
John Fenton, engraver and grocer, of Jamestown,
Scotland, was recently tried at the Glasgow Old Court and
sentenced to two months' imprisonment for shooting Maria
Kennedy, his servant. The prisoner had attempted to
compromise the matter by giving the girl money, with
which she got married, and was on the point of emigrating
when detained by the police.
A remarkable case of impiety occurred the other
day in a village in the west of England, A man of large
fortune died, and directed in his will that his horse should
be caparisoned and led to his grave, and there shot, and
buried with him, that he might be ready to "mount at the
resurrection, and start to advantage." To the disgrace of
all concerned this was actually performed. The executors
and legatees probably thought themselves bound to obey
the will, but why the clergyman permitted such an exhibi-
tion at such a moment is unaccountable.
IRVING'S PERSONAL APPEARANCE.—IrviDO
remarkable appearance seems to have impressed everyhodY.
A lady, who was then a member of Dr. Chalmers's church,
and who had access to the immediate circle surrounding
him, tells how she herself, on one occasion, being partiow•
larly engaged in some domestic duties, had given orders to
her servants not to admit any visitors. She was interrupted
in her occupation, however, notwithstanding this order, by
the entrance of one of her maids, in a state of high excite-
ment and curiosity. " Mem 1" burst forth the girl, "there's
a wonderful grand gentlemen called; I couldna say you
were engaged to him. I think he mann be a Highland
chief?"—" That Mr. Irving!" exclaimed another indi-
vidual of less elevated and poetical conceptions—“ Thai
Dr. Chalmers's helper I I took him for a cavalry officer I''
Do you know, doctor," said a third, addressing Chal-
mers himself, " what things people are saying about your
new assistant? They say he's like a brigand chief."
"Well, well," said Dr. Chalmers with a smile, "whatever
they say, they never think him like anything but a leader
of men." Such was the impression he produced upon the
little mercantile-ecclesiastical world of Glasgow.—Front
Mrs. Oliphant's Life of Irving.
FOSSIL MAN IN THE COUNTY OF DURHAM.—'
Considerable interest has been excited in the highest geolo-
gical circles in London by an important discovery which
hqs been made in our neighbourhood. A cave, locally
known as the " Heathery Burn Cave," near Stanhope, ill
this county, exists in a deep ravine in the limestone strata,
which are being worked by the Weardale Iron Company to
obtain a flux used in smelting their ironstone. The pro-
' gress of the quarrying operations has laid the entrance to
this cave bare; and in a deposit of sand under 4 inches of
the stalagmitic stone which has been formed by the drip-
ping of water holding lime in solution from the roof, have
been discovered a human skull, as well as several hundred
bones of various animals, and some bronze ornaments, as,
for example, armlets, pins, &c. These have been carefully
collected by an able local geologist, John Elliot, Esq., and
by him transmitt:d to London, with a view to obtain the
highest scientific opinion on this most interesting discovery.
It is said that Mr. S. J. Mackie, F.G.S., F.S.A., Editor of
the Geologist, is engaged in researches, with the intention

of defining exactly the age of this cave deposit ; and the '
bones have been submitted to eminent gentlemen in London
for identification and description. Great credit is due to
Mr. Elliot for the care with which he has collected all the
evidences, and the lucid description which he has given of
the nature of the cave. As these remains, unless some
error of observation has been committed, would apparently
indicate the existence of man in the county of Durham at
a period of time long previous to the known historical age,
the result of the investigation now going on will be
watched by us with the greatest interest.—Duiltam Chro-
nicle.

FOSSIL FEATHERED REPTILE.—The announce-
ment made to the geologists of Germany, about three
months ago, by Hermann Von Meyer, that he had ob••
tained from the lithographic slate of Solenhofen, in Bava-
ria, a fossil impression of a feather on the upper and under
surfaces of a split slab, and that this feather was undistin-
guishable in its appearance from that of existing birds,
a'

meted but little attention beyond palmentological circles.
We had already evidences of birds from the greensand ;

and the discovery of birds in the Solenhofen oolite would
merely lead us to connect the osseous remains still more

closely with the evidences of avian footprints discovered
by Hitchcock in the Triassic sandstones. Von Meyer's
feather, which he termed Arclswopteryx, is, however,

completely eclipsed in interest by the intelligence made

public by the venerable A. Wagner, of Munich, that in the
collection of INT. Haberlein, of Pappenheim, exists the skele-
ton of an animal undoubtedly of reptilian organisation, as

indicated by the vertebral column And the form of .he petvis,
and offering most analogy to the genius Ran2phorhynehus,
or long-tailed Pterodactylus. It approaches the class bird);
by its trifid metatarsals, and by having developed from a gat
bone near the ulna and radius, and supposed to be a carpa't
a radiate tan of feathers, similar to those of birds. At the
apical extremity of the tail is another radiate fan, also of
feathers. The rest of the animal appears to have been des-

titute of plumage. V Unfortunately the head is ;;;;ti-rig•
This anomalous form is referred by -Wagner to the order
term Griphosaurus, from ypt(kor, eniyma.--,medi-
Pterosauria, and has been generically
distinguished
ca Tunes and liazate. by the