The Sun.
London, England, 1853-11-08 00:00:00

CITY OF LONDON COMMISSION.

(THIS DAY.)
The Commissioners resumed their inquiry this morn-
ing in the Council Chamber of the Judicial Committee
of the Privy Council. Mr. Acland took up the thread
of his examination where he left it on Friday, and pro-
ceeded to point out the injustice and inconvenience
which attended the management of the Irish estates of
the Corporation. He also dwelt at some length upon
the impolicy of excluding the city from such general
acts as the County Court and other similar acts ; and
stated that the city was often put to the expense of ob-
taining separate acts for matters which had already been
extended to every other part of the country. Mr.
Acland was under examination all day.

MASSACRE OF A BRITISH- CAPTAIN AND
CREW ON THE AFRICAN COAST. •

The Castletownsend correspondent of the Ship-
ping Gazette writes on the 3rd :
" The schooner Heroine, Stafford, of London, arrived
in Castletownsend Harbour about noon this day. This
vessel has been the scene of a tragical event on the coast
of Africa. She sailed from London about 18 months
ago, on a trading voyage to Africa ; her owner, Captain
Cormack, being master. He traded with the King of
Tabou, and his people, on credit to be paid by palm oil,
&c., and, after every exertion, failed in getting what he
was promised. He then took the King and some of his
people and kept them on board of his vessel, until their
part of the contract should be fulfilled. The King's
subjects felt indignant at this, and were determined to
have revenge, and came off in their canoes with a num-
ber of casks filled with water, and only two of palm oil,
and got on board the vessel. Poor Captain Cormack was
completely thrown off his guard, although well armed,
and when in the act of stooping over the side of the
vessel looking into the canoes, laden with oil as he
thought, he was stabbed from behind by the King's son
and pitched overboard ' • they then attacked and mur-
dered the remainder of the crew except one boy from
Ireland, who has remained at the American settlement
on the coast, in expectation of getting a passage to Ame-
rica, where his father and mother reside.
" The King and his men took the vessel close in
shore, determined to burn her for her copper and iron ;
but in two days after the brig Tweed, Boaden, of Bristol,
chanced to anchor at night at the same place, and hear-
ing of what had happened, went on board and induced
the natives to give her up to him on paying something
for her, and ran her to a place of safety by part of his
crew, and subsequently gave her in charge to Captain
Stafford, first officer of the Chalco, of Bristol, to bring
her home with a crew of three white men and Kroomen,
and on the 22nd of October she was dismasted in a
heavy gale near the Western Islands.
" Capt. Stafford deserves great praise for his exer-
tions in getting the vessel to a harbour of safety, con-
tending with heavy gales in his disabled state, and
having nothing to subsist on but salt meat and bread
for a great part of the voyage, and the men being kept
at the pumps almost constantly. It is supposed that
Captain Cormack's widow resides in London."