The Sun.
London, England, 1854-11-25 00:00:00

STAFF CHANGES.

The following comprises the principal changes offiej.
ally notified on the staff of the army :
Captain John W. Gordon, to command the Royal
Engineers, vice,Lieutenant-Colonel Alexander, deceased,
Captain Gordon to be under the general superintendence
of Sir John Burgoyne ; Lieutenant-Colonel Dacres, to
command the Royal Artillery, vice Brigadier Strang-
ways, killed in action on the sth ; Brevet-Major Adye,
to be Assistant-Adjutant-General to the Royal Artillery,
and Captain the Hon. E. I. Gage to succeed Major
Adyc as Brigade Major of Royal Artillery ; Captain
Level, R.E., to be Major of Brigade to Royal Engi-
neers, vice Tylden resigned ;'Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel
A. C. Sterling, Major of Brigad.), Highland Brigade, is
appointed to act as Assistant-Adjutant-General upon the
staff of the army, to be attached to Major-General Sir
Colin Campbell ; Brevet-Major the Hon. R. Rollo, 42d
Royal Highlanders, to act temporarily as Major of
Brigade to the Highland -Brigade ; Captain Ellison,
Grenadier Guards, to be Major of Brigade to Guards
Brigade; Captain Shadwell, 19th Regiment, to act as
' Assistant Quartermaster-General to the force serving
-under Major-General Sir Colin Campbell, K.C.B. ;
Captain J. Kirkland, 21st Fusiliers, to act as De•
Duty-Assistant-Adjutant-General, to be attached to
bead-quarters ; Captain C. S. Glazbrook, 49th
Regiment, to act as Deputy-Assistant Quarter-
master-General, to be attached to the Second
Division; Major Xaorayth, 11,1)., unattached, is appoint.

THE MILITIA.
THE OXFORDSHIRE MILITIA..— We are authorised to
to state that his Grace the Lord-Lieutenant yesterday
(Friday) received, at Blenheim Palace, an intimation
from the Government that the Queen's warrant will
forthwith be issued to empower his Grace to call out and
embody the Oxford regiment of Militia.
CORK, Nov. 22.—The enrolment of the North Cork
Militia is advancing with n!inch success within the past
week. Upwards of sixty Volunteers have been already
sworn in, and large numbers of able-bodied fellows may
be seen daily collected around the places of rendezvous,
which are held in Castletleseet, and George's-street.
The head-quarters, we understand, are to be stationed
at Fermoy, under the command of the adjutant, Captain
Frederick Callaghan, J.P. The staff, we believe, has
already proceeded there. ,
TIPPERARY.—We learn from a correspondent that the
enlistment for the Tipperary South Riding regiment of
Militia proceeds rapidly, and that its ranks are quickly
filling up with smart and intelligent young men. The
first step towards erganiming the North Riding, or Light
InfaAytry corps, ha►e also .:Vtis. ta,kno. - Lord Liemore,
as lieutenant of the county, has commissioned the Hon.
George O'Callaghan to be Colonel, the Hon. Cornelius
Maude to be Lieutenant-Colonel, and Mr. George Massy
Dawson, to be Major.—Nenagli, Guardian.

THE NAVAL ENGAGEMENT IN THE

PA.CIFIC.

LAMENTABLE SUICIDE OF REAR-ADMIRAL

PRICE.

We deeply regret that intelligence more authentic
than that from the American papers has reached official
quarters, which leaves no doubt as to the manner and
intention of the death of Rear-Admiral Price, the cona-
reander-in-chief of the Pacific station. That ill-fated
officer died by his own hand, in his own cabin, on board
of his own ship, at the moment of going into action.
Strange to say, we hear nothing of the public despatches
of the affair at Petropaulovski, but letters have been
received from the squadron giving ample details of the
unfortunate death of the admiral. It was known that
the Russian squadron was making for the Sitka settle-
ment from the Chinese Seas. He ordered the Amphi-
trite, 25, Captain Frederick, to follow the Russian fri-
gates Aurora and Diana from point to point, and fol-
lowed himself in his flag-ship the President, with the
French admiral in his flag-ship the Forte, 60. He con-
stantly exercised his crews in gunnery and small arms,
and made every preparation for an obstinate fight when-
ever he could find the opportunity of bringing the enemy
to action. It was remarked, however, that latterly he
appeared to feel the responsibility of his situation, and
to attach to it a weight that seemed to prey much upon
his mind. Notwithstanding which, he, in his flag-ship
the President, Captain Burridge, with the Pique, 40,
Captain Sir F. W. Nicholson, Bart., and the Virago,
6, paddle, Commander Marshall, with Admiral de
Sointes, in his flag-ship Forte, with the Eurydice,
30, and the Oblig,ado, 10, reached the Russian
settlement, and found the Russian frigate Aurora,
50, and the Dwina (not the Diana), corvette there, he
determined either to destroy or cut them out of that
place : and it would appear that Admiral Price must
have felt himself quite equal to the work, for he did not
wait for the Amphitrite or Artenaise, that had parted
company, but at once got about arranging his plans. He
had tested the strength of the forts, by proceeding in
the Virago and drawing their Are ; ho had discovered
the condition of the Aurora, stripped and placed in a
position of defence, and the disposition of the enemy to
receive him. He and the French admiral ha i consulted
together, and of the morning of the 20th the squadron
proceeded to engage the batt.,?ies. It was decided by
the admiral that the President should be taken to a po-
sition within 400 yards of the heaviest battery, and that
the other ships were to take up stations so as to de-
ru&ish the defences, and then, after shelling the enemy
out, to land and destroy both ships and forts. The flag-
ship was actually under weigh, and every one nerved
for a hard day's work, The admiral himself gave his
orders, and remarked aloud, "Now we are in for it."
Saying this he went down into his cabin. Shortly after-
wards the explosion of a pistol was heard, and on pro-
ceeding to the spot the poor chief was found wounded
and bleeding, with a discharged pistol in his hand. The
French admiral was immediately sent for, and sufficient
transpired during the three hours that he lived to satisfy
every one that his death was not an accident.
As might easily be expected, this fatal and unaccount-
able catastrophe struck every one with consternation,
and disarranged for a moment the plan of action, and
threw a damp on the spirits of all. But, nevertheless,
it was determined to attack, and on 31st of August the
engagement commenced ; but instead of coming to short
quarters both the President and Forte engaged them at
2,000 yards, and successfully, too, for they demolished
the heaviest of them without sustaining any injury from
the fire. They landed, drove the Russians from thorn,
spiked the guns, and did as much mischief as they could,
re-embarking in good order, and without loss. The
Russians, however, seemed to have done their best ; for,
althoegh their forts were demolished one day, in the
course of the night they had repaired their batteries, and
had rendered them more formidable. Thus, they were
taken by day, and re-occupied by night.
On the 4th, however, the landing took place as de-
scribed in Thursday's Sun, and in this expedition it ap-
pears the seamen and marines of the Allies enacted their
parts with steady and effective gallantry,sbut, ignorant
of the locality, entangled in a forest, and over-matched
in numbers, after fighting their way into the country,
they had to fight their way back again, and re-embark
in their boats under cover of the steamers' guns.
It was intended, as we understand, that whilst the
party was fighting ashore, and the Russian seamen and
soldiers had been withdrawn from the batteries to op-
pose their advance, the ships should take advantage of
the defenceless state of the batteries and the Russian
men-of-war, and, after bombarding both, a landing
should be effected, and the destruction of the Aurora,
Dwina, and the storehouses should be consummated.
The President and the Forte did go in, and fired upon
the frigate and forts ; but the Pique could not be h rought
into action, because her men were ashore ; the Eurydice
took no part in the affair, most likely for the same
reason, and the steam-sloop, the only steamer belonging
to the squadron, seeing how matters were going on with
the force fighting on shore, dared not leave her position
of covering the return of the boats. And thus as soon
as the men had returned to their ships the fighting
ceased.

The squadron then remained off the port, with the
hope of catohing a screw-steamer that was known to be
the tender to the Russian frigate Pallas, and had been
seen in the vicinity, and when the 10-gun brig Sitka
was seen and chased, they hoped it was the screw-vessel.
But the capture of the Sitka and the Russian merchant
schooners was most fortunate for the expedition, for not
only did they contain money, provisions, and stores of
all kinds, but some 20 tons of gunpowder. It then be-
came a question whether, by seizing the provisions,
they had so placed the garrison at their mercy that
they could summon them to capitulate or starve, or
whether they should attempt to join Sir J. Stirling,
who was known to be in pursuit of the Russian
squadron from the China seas, and so assist him in
engaging the large force of the enemy. But under
the circumstances, believing that they had effectu-
ally crippled the Russian frigate Aurora and the
corvette D wine,, that they had done serious damage
to Petropaulovski, and had cut off their suppiles ; well
knowing also that the Russian 50-gun frigate Diana, the
50-gun frigate Pallas, with her screw tender, and per-
haps the Ingermanland, 74, and the rest of the squa-
dron were at Sitka and would net be likely, from the
state of the weather in those latitudes, to stove out to
attempt any enterprise, the allied squadron deemed it
best to return to San Francisco and Vancouver's Island,
and wait for the spring before making any further at-
tempt at hostilities. Moreover, it was most desirable
that Capt. Frederick, of the Amphitrite, should be corn-
Inunicated with, as by the death of the Admiral, he be-
came the acting commander-in-chief of the British forces.
Poor Admiral Price. He was the last man that any
one could suppose to be likely to commit suicide—and
strong, indeed, must have been the temporary abera-
tion of mind under which he committed the fatal deed,
and thereby perilled the honour of that flag he had so
nobly maintained for many years. A braver man never
were the British uniform, and we feel convinced that if
he were now in England, and this expedition against
Petropaulovski was contemplated, Admiral Price, be-
yond perhaps any other flag offieer, would be the man
selected to conduct it, for no man in the navy had so
much experience in such expeditions as he had in the old
war, as will be seen by the following epitome of his
career from " O'Byrne's Biography :"
" David Price, barn about 1790, is descended pater-
nally from the Prices of Balch Trebanne, county Caer-
marthen, and maternally from the Powells of Abersenny,
county Brecknock.
"This officer entered the navy Jan. 1, 1801, as first-
class volunteer, on board the Ardent, 64, Capt. Thomas
Bertie and George M'Linley, and on the 2d of April
following was present in the action off Copenhagen. In
July, 1802, he joined. the Blenheim, 74, Captains Philip
Turner Boyer, Murray Maxwell, 'Henry Matson, and
Thos. Graves, employed at first as a guard-ship at Ports-
mouth, and afterwards under the broad pendant of Sir
Samuel Hood in the West Indies, where he was fre-
quently under fire from the batteries of Martinique. In
the course of 1804-she removed in succession, on the eta-
' tiOLI last-named, to the Osprey and St, sloops.

Captains Wm. Hy. Byam Martin and Geo. Edmund Byron
Bettes worth ; Centaur, 74, Commodore Sir S. Hood ; and
Galatea and Hyena, frigates, both commanded by Cap-
tain Murray Maxwell. Returning in the latter vessel
with convoy to England in November 1805, he again,
in February, 1806, joined Sir Samuel Hood on board
the Centaur. While in that ship he assisted as signal
midshipman, in company with the Mars and Monarch,
74's, at the capture, Sept. 25, 1806, of four heavy French
frigates from Rochefort, after an action in which Sir
Samuel Hood lost his arm. Accompanying also Admi-
ral Gambier's expedition against the Danish capital in
1807, he was employed during the bombardment of Co-
penhagen, in the Centaur's guard-boats, in preventing
the arrival of supplies for the besieged from the Baltic
side. On the surrender of the enemy he aided in fitting
out and conducting to England one of the prizes taken,
the Norge. 74. He subsequently witnessed the occu-
pation of Madeira ; and on his return to the Baltic,
in 1808, was wounded in the hand by a spent musket-
ball while engaged in one of the Centaur's cutters, under
the command of Lieut. James Shea (who was killed),
in an ultimately successful attempt to obtain possession
of a Danish despatch-boat which had run on shore under
the. protection of a body of troops posted, with several
pieces of cannon, upon a high cliff on the island of
Moen. On the 26th of August in tie same year we find
him, in company with the Implacable, 74, contributing,
within sight of the whole Russian fleet near Rogers wick,
to the capture of the 74-gun ship Sewolod, at the end of
a close and furious conflict, in which the Centaur had
three of herpeople killed and 27 wounded and the enemy
180 killed and wounded. Being nominated, April 7,
1809, acting lieutenant of the Ardent, 64, Capt. Robert
Honeyman, Mr. Price was frequently employed in the
boats of that ship in protecting the trade passing through
the Great Belt. On one occasion, while watering with a
small party at the island of Renews, he fell into the lands
of 300 Danes, by whom, however, he was detained but
a very short period. When subsequently in charge of a
small prize which he had captured, he was cast away,
and again endured a brief captivity. On finally leaving
the Ardent, to which ship the Admiralty ti con-
firmed him by a commission bearing daUk-Seift: 2 e 110,
he joined as second lieutenant, in February, 1311, the
Hawke, brig, of 16 gnus, CaptainsHenryßourehier and
George Wyndham. Under Captain Bourchier Mr.
Price was present, March 25e 1811, at the destruction
near Cape Barfleur, of the French 40-gun frigate Ansa-
zone. On the 17th' of August following we fink him
cutting out, with 'the Hawke's jelly-beat, a French
vessel protected by a galling fire from the shore, in the
same vicinity ; and two days afterwards participating in
a very gallant action fought between the Hawke on one
side, and on the other three gun-brigs, carrying each
from 10 to 16 guns, and two loggers of from 8 to 10 gins
each, in escort of a large convoy. The contest was main-
tained until the two luggers; together with two of the
gun-brigs and 15 of the merchantmen, were driven en
shore. The Hawke shortly afterwards; while in the act
of wearing to prevent the third brig from raking her, un-
fortunately took the ground, and thereby enabled the
latter, with a few of the convoy, although they had
struck, to effect their escape. One hourand a half elapsing
before the British vessel could be again got afloat, she
lay exposed during the whole of that period to an inces-
sant discharge of artillery and musketry from the shore.:
Being then brought to an anchor for the purpose of re-,
pairing her damaged rigging, Mr. Price, owing to the
absence of the first lieutenant in a prize, was sent with
the boats to bring ont or destroy as many of the enemy's
vessels as practicable. Although exposed to a galling
fire of musketry from the beach, which was lined with
troops, he assisted in bringing out the Heron, national
brig of 10 guns (pierced for 16), and three large transports
laden with timber for ship-building ; the remainder were
all on their broadsides and bilged, and were only pre-
vented from being burnt by the strength of the tide
being in their favour. I feel,' says Captain Bourchier,
in his dispatch narrating the particulars of the exploit,
' I am barely doing justice to the merits of Lieutenant
Price in recommending him most strongly to their
lordships' notice for his spirited conduct in the action,
as also in the beats, and, in short, en all occasions ; he
is a most deserving 'and meritorious young officer, to
whom I feel myself much indebted.' Captain Bour-
chier's own conduct, we may add, was rewarded with a
post commision. Not long afterwards Mr. Price was
again highly spoken of by Capt. Wyndham for the man-
ner in which, in a small gig, he made a prize of L'Hiron-
dells schooner in the river Isere, although opposed
by a smart fire of musketry from the shore. On Oct. 21,
1811, with two of the Hawke's boats, one of them com-
manded, by Mr. Smith, the master, he made a dash at
one of several brigs lying in Barfleur Harbour, and was
received by a heavy fire, which killed teso and wounded
three of his companions. He nevertheless boarded, with
but one follower, and maintained an obstinate struggle
until the two were wounded (himself by a thrust of the
bayonet) and disarmed. He then, trusting to the chance
of being picked up rather than to the certainty of being
taken prisoner, jumped overboard, and contrived to
keep himself afloat Rail happily fallen in with by the
cutter under Mr. Smith, who had been foiled in his at-
tempts to gain the deck of the French vessel. The boats
of the Theban frigate had been sent to co-operate in the
attack, but did not arrive in time to afford any support.
On the return of the Hawke to Portsmouth, Mr. Price
I was sent to the hospital at Hasler, where, after three
months of protracted suffering, it was discovered that,
instead of his hip•bone, as had been supposed, being
fractured, four inches of the bayonet steel had re-
mained lodged in his side. As soon as the state of
his health would permit, which was not until Septem-
ber, 1812, he was appointed to the Mulgrave, 74, Cap-
tain Thomas James Maling, stationed off Cherbourg.
He next, in January, 1813, joined the San Josef, 110,
Captains Henry Bourchier and William Stewart, in
which ship, although but the third in seniority, ho was
selected by Sir Richard King, whose flag was at the
time flying on board, to perform the duties of first lieu-
tenant in the partial action fought with the French fleet
off Toulon, Nov. 5, 1813. Being advanced to the rank
of.commander, Dec. 6, in the same year, and appointed
to the Volcano bomb, he volunteered, in the summer of
1814, to join in the hostilities then rife on the coast of
North America. Proceeding thither accordingly, and
arriving in time to form a part in the expedition against
Baltimore, he covered the landing at North Point, as-
sisted at the bombardment of Fort M'Henry, and was
the last, after having covered the re-embarkation of
the troops, to leave the Patapsco. When subsequently
aide-de-camp to Rear-Admiral Pulteney Malcolm
in the Potomac, he led on part of the forces up the
Yocomoco, while Captain Richard Kenai', of the .'Etna
bomb, who was killed, led the other up the Coen. On
Oct. 31, 1814, being then in the Windward Passage
with a transport under convoy bound to Jamaica, the
Volcano fell in with and, after two broadsides, put to
flight the Saucy Jack, American schooner privateer, a
vessel of far superior force, seven of whose people were
killed and fourteen wounded, with a loss to the British
of an officer (Lieut. J. P. Furzer, R.M.A.) and two men
killed. At the commencement of the operations against
New Orleans, Captein Price was employed, in conjunc-
tion with Captain the Hon. Robert Cavendish Spencer,
in surprising the American picquet posted at the entrance
of the Bayou Catalan, and so effectually was the service
executed that net a man escaped, and the British troops
were in consequence enabled to land without resistance.
On General Keane's army being attacked, on the even-
ing of the 24th, by the enemy, Captain Price was des-
patched to acquaint him with the approach of rein-
forcements. In carrying out his instructions he fell
in with a party of the enemy, who fired at and shot
him through the thigh. In this state,' reports Rear-
Admiral Malcolm, he not only made his escape, but
secured an American soldier ; I trust his wound is not
dangerous, as he is a gallant young man and an excellent
officer.' The Volcano subsequentlyaided in the bombard-
ment of Fort St. Philip, and continued on the Mississippi
until the retreat of the British army. In February, 1815,
after landing a body of troops on Dauphin Island, Cap-
tain Price took a zealoui and active part in the attack
on Fort Bowyer. During the proximate siege of Fort
Mobile he was sent in charge of a division of boats to
intercept a force of 800 men, which had been sent from
the town of Mobile for the purpose of raising it. Suc-
cessful in the object of his mission, he effected the cap-
ture of two schooners, in one of which were found des-
patches of consequence from the American General Blew.
The importance of Captain Price's performance, was ac-
knowledged in Major General Lambert s public letter to
the War Office. On the intelligence of peace arriving
from England he was sent with a flag of truce to com-
municate the information to the Americans at Mobile,
and to restore Fort Bowyer to the pioper authorities. On
his return to England ho was advanced to his present
rank, June 13, 1815. When next in command, from
May 1, 1834, until the spring of 1838, of the Portland,
52, on the Mediterranean station, he was presented by
King Otho with the Order of the Redeemer for his ser-
vices to the Greek Government. The assistance afforded
by him to the British mission was also acknowledged in
the official letters of Sir Edmund Lyons, the minister
plenipotentiary at the court of Athens.
" In November, 1846, he was appointed Superinten-
dent of the Dockyard at Sheerness, and remained there
until his promotion. Admiral Price was a magistrate
for Brecknockshire. He married, July 30, 1844, Eliza-
beth, eldest daughter of the late John Taylor, Esq., and
niece of the late Admiral William Taylor (1830), of
Maize-hill, Greenwich."

CHl:lA.—According to the telegraphic accounts from
China to-day, which reached to the 11th of October,
there had been a renewed rise in the rates of exchange,
which will lead to further shipments of silver from this
side. At Canton the quotation by the previous mail
was 4s. 9d., and it is now 4s. ; while at Shanghai
it has advanced from 6s. ld. to 6s. 4d. The export of tea
to date had been 25,400,0001 b., showing an excess 'of
only 2,000,0001 b. as compared with the corresponding
period of last year, instead of 4,500,0001 b. as at the date
of the previous advices. The export of silk had reached
about 8,000 bales. Three chops of tea had come down,
• and also about five chops in bags—an injurious mode of
transmission, resorted to only from the impossibility of
sending it in any other way so as to escape capture. It
was consequently in a crude state and bad condition.
The silk at Shanghai was still inferior, but prices were
$l5 higher. The settlements amounted to 14,000 bales,
against 22,000 last year. Thrown silks were at $275
per picul. Nothing fresh had transpired regarding the
political position of the country.

THURSDAY NIGHT. '
Since tits above icz..qunt Lhave seen Edward Downs,
.the only survivor out of the 23 men who went out with -I
hiM yesterdaY afternoon, and he gives the following ac-
count of the catastrophe :
The vessel, a barque about ten years old, was of 500
tons burden; and drew 17 feet water when coal ladens
She had got her cargo of coals aboard, whewthe owner
gave instructions that she should be, taken -911 t of the
harbour to the roads in the afternoon tide, and
bring up there to wait for the !halter and mate,
.who were ashore looking after two of the crew who
were absent. The cabin boy was also ashore for the
mate's clothes when the vessel hove out of the tiers, and
did not get aboard again to go out to sea with her.
The vessel was, therefore, in charge of an old North
Sea pilot, who was assisted by Mr.'lltinter, a master of
a vessel. Mr. Elliott, the managing clerk .in the em-
ployment of the owner, was also sent out to look after
the workpeople. Tea of the crew' were aboard, who
were assisted by ten riggers. The vessel, it appears,
was in a very disorderly condition to go to sea, her
lower rigging being loose, her decks. full of coals, and
the galley and coppers knocking about in different
directions ; and, though the wind was the
glass was falling very rapidly, and seafaring men, by the
banking up of the clouds, predicted a gale of wind. The
vessel went out about five o'clock in the afternoon, but
struck on the bar, and had to be towed off by four
steamers. She was got into the roads between 6 and 7,
and, the men having dropped both anchors, tried to
make the masts secure and clear away the decks, which
they did to some extent ; but at the time they were
securing the masts and rigging (between 10 and 11
o'clock at night), the wind changed to the eastward,
dead upon the land, and, to make her ride more easy,
the crew payed away several fathoms of chain until it got!
fast in the trunk. The wind increasing, and the sea rising
with fearful fury about midnight, the crew endeavoured
to make the'vessel more easy. But towards one o'clock
this morning, there being no prospect of the vessel riding
until daylight, the crew were ordered to slip the cables
and try to put the canvas on her to run her out. Be-
fore that could be done, however, •she had snapped
both cables by the anchors, and began gradually
to drive on towards the coast. The crew then burnt
flash lights to apprise those ashore of their danger,
And they could see the Wear Commissioners' men
bring down the rockets and try to fire a line to
them ; but the experienced men aboard knew that
from the heavy sea which had arisen, human help was
not possible from the shore ; and about two o'clock the
vessel struck on " the stone heads" about half a mile or
less from the strand. She then lay athwart the sea, the
waves making a breach over her ; but sltortly after she
got with her head to the eastward, and lay more easy,
and hopes were entertained by those aboard that she
would weather ont till daybreak, when assistance would
reach them. She remained in this position until five
o'clock, the poor creatures on board countipg every
hnur of the night as they were chimed out by the clocks
of the town. Towards high water, however, the vessel
drifted over the stones, and coming nearer to the shore,
was thrown athwart a more fearful sea than she had be-
fore encountered, and every moment she was expected
to go to pieces. The old pilot was hauled out of the
cabin in a state of intoxication, and he and eight or nine
more were shortly washed off the poop, and seen no
more by Downs. He, with those who remained, then
clung to the rigging, and in about half an hour the ves-
sel broke up, the men having previously taken an
affectionate farewell of each other. Downs had been
washed from his hold in the rigging two or three
times, when he saw one of the longboats wash out
amidships, and made an effort to swim to it. Being
a very powerful man he succeeded. Before he
reached it, however, he saw the solitary man who
remained in her washed out and drowned. He and
the boat then gradually drove in towards the beach, and
he appears to have made a desperate struggle for his
life. He remembers being washed out several times,
but he fought his way back each time. At last con-
sciousness left him, and when the boat came to the
beach he was found by the spectators clinging with his
arms round the thwarts, which he held with a grasp
which had to be forced loose with considerable violence
before he could be taken out of the boat. He was re-
moved to the Royal Humane Society's house, and, for-
tunately, recovered. He was doing well this afternoon.
The poor clerk, Elliott, whose body was found on the
shore shortly after, had stripped, and tried to swim
ashore, as he was picked up naked. The force of the
sea had killed him. Some other bodies have been picked
up and identified, among which was that of the old
pilot, Hodgson. The vessel is completely broken to
pieces, and an immense number of persons are carrying
away the coals to their homes, which they are allowed

to do.
The following are the names of some of the suf-
ferers :—Mr. Elliott, clerk with Mr. Thompson, the
owner ; Hodgson, the North Sea pilot ; Mr. Hunter, a
master of a vessel ; William Reed, Charles Scott, George
Wearmouth, William Willie, Follett, and John
Stroul, riggers ; Peter Campbell, aged 2G, carpenter,
Sunderland ; Alonzo Warner, aged 25, seaman, Lon-
don ; Thomas Clarke, aged 50, steward, Perth ; Robert
Harling, aged 34, cook and seaman, Sunderland ;
John Rushton, aged 23, seaman, Haselden (Lanca-
shire) ; Robert Cooney, aged 22, seaman, Dublin ; Ro-
bert Shawl, aged 45, seaman, Wells (Norfolk).
There were four apprentices belonging to the vessel,
but one of them, David Barry, of Limerick, was on
shore. The names of the three lost are Michael Walsh,
Cork ; James M'Donald, also from Ireland ; and Wil-
liam Farrow, belonging to some port in the south of
England.
It is blowing a fearful gale outside to-night, and seve-
ral laden vessels were observed off the Durham coast
before dark, trying to keep an offing.
FRIDAY, Noon.

The Mary Graham was laden with coals for Constan-
tinople, and the captain had been obliged to take down
some of the lower rigging to get in the cargo. The
circumstances of the melancholy affair are inexplicable
except in one way, drunkenness. The captain states
that when he left the vessel he suggested to Mr. Elliott
that he might come along with him, as there was little
use of him (Mr. Elliott) remaining on board. Mr.
Elliott, however, declined, as he hal been engaged tak-
ing account of some stores that were shipped iu the dock,
which he wished to see properly put aside, and he also
expressed his anxiety to see everything going on pro-
perly during the captain's absence.
An inquest will be held upon the bodies on Monday.
SHIELDS, Friday Noon.
A gale from the east and east-south-east broke upon
the Northumberland coast on Wednesday about mid-
night, and continued in tremendous squalls during the
whole of yesterday. About 50 sail of laden colliers loft
on the afternoon tide, and the greatest anxiety is felt
for their safety. About a dozen sail have put back, and
some light ships have got in. There is nothing on shore
this morning.

HIRTLI2OOL, Thursday Night.
The wind blew all last night a gale from the south-
east. A very heavy sea rolled into the harbour. At
daylight this morning a schooner, labouring very heavily,
was observed making for the harbour. It was evident
that she could not hold out very long if she did not suc-
ceed in obtaining shelter. She continued her course
for the harbour, making very little progress. Her dan-
ger being imminent, the two lifeboats, the one manned
fly the pilots, and the other by the seamen of the port,
in their own boat—pulled off, to be ready in case their
assistance should be required. They signalled to the
men of the vessel in the direction they were to steer,
but she was so unmanageable that she could not obey
her helm. At a quarter to tea o'clock she struck on the
sand opposite the Black Beacon. She proved to
portbethe
William, Hull master, of and from Shields,
which
she left yesterday, coal-laden, for London. likortly
after leaving she sprang a leak, and the crew were kept
at the pumps all night. So exhausted were they that
they could not possibly have held out much longer.
Her crew consisted of five men, including the master,
and a boy. All hands were saved.
WEST HA.tTLEPOOL, Friday.
Early this morning the barquebarque Mary Muir, of Liver-
pool, Calvert master, from SunderlanMaryMuir,ofLiver-
pool, Sunderland t antinople, while making for the harbour, struck against the
pier head, and was driven upon Stranton-beach. While
in Sunderland-roads last night she was in contact with a
large barque, name unknown,
by which both vessels lost
their bowsprits. A large barque, with her bowsprit
gene, has been obleqecloff the harbour all the morning.