The Sun.
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deceased a violent blow, and he fell with his head
against the doorpost of the Pied Bull, and he (witness)
heard the sound of the fall at a great distance.
Elizabeth Adams, of Brand-street, Islington, con-
firmed this evidence. Moss (deceased) was in the Coach
and Horses, Holloway, when the prisoner entered and
interfered with some persons who were present, and
asked to be treated, which led to a squabble and blows.
Moss followed him, and the result already described
took place.
Mr. Reymond Haynes, a surgeon, of Holloway, said,
the skull of the deceased was fractured, which must have
been caused by a severe blow on the head, or by its
coming in contact with the doorpost in the fall.
Other corroborative testimony was given.
Mr. Wakeling reserved the prisoner's defence, and he
was fully committed to Newgate for trial.

THAMES.—.Tames Boyd, a sawyer, of No. 7, Upper
Mary-street, Bromley, was brought up yesterday on re-
mand charged with assaulting his wife, Ellen Boyd, to
whom he had been married 18 years, and whom he had
frequently beaten in a most cowardly and savage man-
ner.
.The police had frequently interposed for the pro-
tection of the unfortunate wife ; but although he had
been brought to this court before, she had absented her-
self, and he was discharged. Last Thursday he struck
her with an adze and inflicted serious injuries upon her.
The prisoner had brought home a strumpet with whom
he passed the night, while his wife and his children oc-
cupied another room, and this flagrant act of indecency
and immorality led to a quarrel and the prisoner vio-
lently assaulting his wife.
The prisoner, in his defence, said, his wife was an
habitual drunkard, and had committed adultery with
another man named James Pritchard, whom he had
found lying on his bed on Sunday in the daytime.
This man was summoned as a witness, and he said he
had been invited to dine by the prisoner himself, and,
being sleepy, preferred a nap on his bed, on which he
threw himself, and when he awoke the prisoner was in
the room having his dinner. He denied most emphati-
cally that any improper intercourse had taken place be-
tween him and Mrs. Boyd.
Mr. Yardley said, that although the woman was not
blameless, he must effectually deter the prisoner from
continuing to inflict such cowardly and savage assaults
upon her, and he sentenced him to four months' im-
prisonment and hard labour.

LAMBETH.—Mr. George Tyer, a young man of
gentlemanly appearance, who holds a lucrative situation
in a public office, attended, in discharge of his bail, to
meet a charge of stealing a diamond ring, of the value of
51., the property of Rachael Israel, of No. 9, Hanover-
court, Hart-street, Covent-garden.
From the evidence of the complainant, a fat, frowsy-
looking Jewess, it appeared that, while at Vauxhall-
gardens, the accused invited her to have a waltz with
him, and during the dance she felt her ring going off her
right hand. She accused the prisoner with taking the
ring, and gave him into custody on that charge, but she
did not wish to press it. In reply to the questions of
the magistrate, the witness acknowledged that the ac-
oused had not made the slightest effort to move away,
but, on the contrary, had offered to submit to a search,
and had assisted her in looking about the place for the
ring, believing she had dropped it.
Mr. Gunn, the clerk, drew the magistrate's attention
to the fact, that though the hand of the prosecutrix'was
very fat and very coarse, yet the finger joints were very
small, so that die ring would have easily slipped off by
the pressure of the hand itself.

The magistrate was thoroughly satisfied the accused
was entirely innocent of the charge, and at once dis-
missed it.

The accused expressed his determination to bring an
action for damages against his accuser, and left the court
in company with his friends.

THE LOSS OF THE BOMBAY MAILS.

The following is an account of the loss of the Arab
ship Fazl Kereem, with the outward English mails for
Bombay of June 24, and almost the entire crew and
passengers, amounting to 180 persons :

The Peninsular and Oriental steamer Hindostan, com-
manded by Captain Harris, the most zealous and efficient
officer of that company's steam fleet in these seas, ar-
rived at Aden, from Suez, at 3 p.m. of the 12th of July,
as usual with that vessel, one day earlier than she was
expected, bringing the home mails for Calcutta and
Bombay of the 24th of June. The Bombay portion of
these mails is not that for which the Indian Government

Las a contract with her Majesty's Government to carry
by steam, consequently it is not obligatory upon the
former to supply a steamer for the purpose. However,
when there have been steamers sufficient at its dis-
posal, the Bombay Government have generally ordered
one for this service. The number of such vessels now,
and for a year past, employed at Burmah, has precluded
the possibility of such an arrangement during this sea-
son, and, consequently, sailing vessels have been ap-
pointed to do the duty. The Bombay mails, therefore,
which arrived at Aden by the Precursor, on the 14th of
June, from Suez, were dispatched by the hon. company's
sloop Elphinstone on the same day. On the 20th of
June the hon. company's steamer Ajdaha left Bombay
with the homeward-bound mails, and it was calculated
that she would have reached Aden by the sth of July,
and, after delivering over her mails and passengers to
the hon. company's steamer Akbar, which was to take
them to Suez, be ready to return to Bombay with the
home mails expected from Suez by the Hindostan. Un-
fortunately the Ajdaha, encountered very severe weather,
1 and did not reach Aden till the afternoon of the Bth,
having been obliged to burn all her spare spars and
cables on the voyage. From the accounts given by the
passengers it appears that the vessel was frequently in
the most critical positions, and when she arrived here it
was found that she was-in a most shattered condition,
and, on examination, her rudder was discovered to be
so completely rotten that the wonder is how she ever
made Aden at all, and did not founder at sea.
Such being the miserable plight of the Ajdaha, it was
impossible to send her to Bombay, and the only other
vessel belonging to the hon. company in the Aden har-
bour available for the purpose was the small schooner
Mahe. Had she been sent, the present disaster would,
in all probability, have never occurred ; but the reason
assigned for not sending her was, the almost certainty
that the Ajdaha would not be ready for sea by the time
of the arrival of the Akbar with the contract mails from
Suez, expected at Aden on the 26th of July.
Under these circumstances, an Arab ship called the
Fazl Kereem, which had a few days before arrived front
Jiddah, with a carp; of salt and pilgrims bound to Singa-
pore,
was engaged by the political agent to carry the
mails to Bombay. It is not known whether she was
properly surveyed before the engagement was entered
into, but as no veto was placed upon the native com-
mander against taking freight from Aden, he took an
additional large cargo from that port, so that when she
put to sea she was deep in the water, and carried in
crew and pilgrim passengers 191 persons. The Hin-
dostan, as above stated, arrived from Suez on the 12th,
coaled, and left on the 13th ; but there being no steamer
to tow out the Fazl Kereem, she remained in harbour
till the evening of the 13th, when, a favourable wind
occurring from the north-east, she made sail and got
clear of Cape Aden. Mr. Hankins was sent in charge
of the mails. He was an acting master in the Indian
navy, the son of an English clergyman, and was sup-
plied with a chronometer to aid the native commander
in the navigation of the vessel.
The Fazl Kereem left in one of those storms called by
the Arabs a " Shamaul," which bring with them clouds
of dust, completely filling the atmosphere, and making
everything look gloomy and desolate. On sailing out
of the harbour several of her sails were riven by the
wind—a sad presage of the fate which awaited that un-
fortunate ship ! Many were the predictions in Aden
that she would never reach her destination, for, even if
she weathered the sea, it was firmly believed she would
fail to make Bombay in her course. Some of the Aden
residents so much anticipated an accident that they
chose to send their letters to Bombay by the Hindostan,
via Galle, and others detained them for a future and
more promising opportunity.
Only 11 out of 191 souls have lived to tell the fate of
their doomed companions. Three of these have reached
Aden, two pilgrims and a Lascar, and they state that
on the morning after the ship left Aden, when she was
only about twenty miles from that port, it was discovered
that there were six feet of water in the hold. This
alone, with an under cargo of salt, was sufficient to call
forth the energy, and perhaps to baffle the stalwart
strength, of British seamen ; but the crew were poor
miserable natives, and the passengers were chiefly Mus-
sulmans, whose wretched doctrine of fatalism robbed
them of their natural power. The witnesses speak most
strongly of the efforts of poor Mr. Hankins, who urged
the men to stand to the pumps, and to clear the long-
boat, but it was all in vain. The spring butt (which
appears to have been the cause of the disaster) gave ad-
mittance to the water, and little or no effort was made
to stay the progress of the drowning element, and in a
few hours the vessel filled, and went down bodily.
Judging from the narrative of the witnesses, 10 of the
11 men saved owed their lives to Mr. Hankins, since
they managed to get into the long-boat when the vessel
foundered, a clear proof that something had been done
through his exertions to loosen it from the davits. Th.
other man was drifted to the shore on a plank. , , ~..
Whatever value or importance may b"ttlrcaomw-
such a misfortune as the loss of 68 boxes of rnmai
sr ,
to
mon humanity will allow that it is nothing_c...onAnsecland
the dreadful sacrifice of human life. r. 11 a.'
180 souls have by this fell disaster been. hurried out of
the world ; and this leads to the following remarks and
suggestions : afterh,y having been in
flow comes it that the Ajda_ha;32
was so unsea-
dock for several months atsußo
rottenl 'that it had been
worthy, and with a rudderk
fit newst
state
one
shefor
wouldher i in
found necessary to ma
Aden ? Had this steamer ea'
ibeeenntiirnelaY
have been able to return withnet thhaevemhaeilesn,
raencidutihreeds.er-
vices of the Arab ship would
Ajdaha, was the Mahe' not sent with
2 She has taken them before ; why could she
Why, failing the
the mails .
not
have taken them again ?
But if the Mah4 was detained for a future mail--a
contract mail—upon which so much more importance
seems to be placed—why were not the mails sent on by
the nindostan, via Galle, whence they would have been
taken on to Bombay by the Peninsular and Oriental
company's steamer, and would in all probability have
reached there days before the Fazl Keerem ?