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

LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 25, 1854.

NAVAL AND MILITARY INTELLIGENCE•

The masts of the Orion, 93, screw, are being com-
pleted with all speed, when they will be sent to Sheer-
ness to be put on board, after which the ship will return
to Chatham to be fitted.
The Exmouth, CO, was not commissioned on Satur:
day. It is understood that the commission of Captain
Pelham has arrived at Devonport.
The Hawke, 72, fitting for a floating battery at Chat-
ham, has the shipwrights, sawyers, &c., employed before
and after the yard hours, to insure her completion by
March next.
The Nankin, 50, Captain the Hon. Keith Stewart,
has been put out of dock at Chatham, and lashed along-
side her hulk (Superb) to complete her fittings. She
will be out of the hands of the dockyard the end of this
month.
The Tartar, 21, screw, Captain Hugh Dunlop, has
been taken into the deck at Chatham, vacated by the
Nankin, to complete rigging and fitting for sea. She
is expected to be out of the hands of the dockyard by
the 20th of next month.
The steam-ship Pacific, Captain Thompson, which left
Gravesend on Thursday morning, arrived in less than
25 hours in Plymouth Sound. She is appointed to sail
at 3 p.m. to-day for the Cape if Good Hope and Aus-
tralia.
The ship Whirlwind, Captain Edgell, belonging to
Messrs. Somes, which left London on Sunday with 400
passengers for Launceston, Van Diemen's Land, car-
ried away her rudder off the Isle of Wight on Tuesday
night, and entered Plymouth Sound yesterday after-
noon. Divers from her Majesty's dockyard at Devon-
port will examine the defects to-day. If possible, she
will be repaired in the Sound ; otherwise she will go
to the dockyard.
The ship Northumberland, Capt. Spencer, which left
New York on the 21st Oct., with passengers for Lon-
don, entered Plymouth Sound yesterday afternoon.

THE FLAG PROMOTION AND VACANT
APPOINTMENT.

By the death of Admiral Prioe, Capt. Geo. Wm. Con-
way Ceurtenay (1838), relative f Sir Jas. Graham, and
superintendent of the Clarence Victualling-yard, has be-
come rear-admiral of the blue, thereby vacating his ap-
pointment.
Captain Henry Smith, C. B. (1839), of the Prince Re-
gent, 92, at Portsmouth, is to succeed Rear-Admiral
Courtenay as superintendent of the hospital and victual.
ling-yard.
Captain the Hon. F. W. Grey, C. 8., A.D.C. (1828),
of the Hannibal, 91, screw, en route to the Black Sea, is
now the senior Captain on the list.
Capt. Henry C. Otler (1854), promoted while serving
in the Alban paddle-wheel steam sloop, laying down
buoys in the Baltic, and now returned to England, is re-
appointed to command that vessel, with the rank of cap-
tain.
Lieutenants Roberts S. Moore (1854), recently First
Lieutenant of the Rattlesnake, 8, sloop, has been ap-
pointed to the Formidable, 84; John Packwood (1850),
recently serving in the Tortoise storeship at the Island
of Ascension, to the Impregnable flag-ship at Devonport.

ed to act as Assistant Quartermaster-General, attached
to Major-General Sir Colin Campbell ; Captain the Hon.
W. F. Scarlett, Soots Fusilier Guards, to act as Aide-
de-Camp to Major-General Scarlett, and Captain Lord
Bingham, Coldstream Guards, extra Aide•de-Camp, to
be Aide-de-Camp to Lard Lucan.

The under-mentioned officers have been appointed to
act on the staff of the depot at Varna :
Ensigns J. Forbes, 30th Regiment, Acting Adjutant,
with pay at 7s. 6d. a-day '• W. Little, 88th Regiment,
Acting Quartermaster, with pay at is. 6d. a-day.
The undermentioned officers have been appointed to
do duty with the provisional battalion formed at Bala-
klava

Lieutenant W. E. Webber, 42d Highlanders, Acting
Adjutant, with pay at 7s. 6d. a•day ; Ensign-d. Deacon,
Ist Royals, Acting Quartermaster, with pay at 7s. 6d.
a-day ; Captain Stevens, 88th, and Lieutenant Vacher,
33d, to act as engineers, with 7s. 6d. per diem extra pay,

THE MILITIA.
TII 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.,
CORE, Nov. 22.—The enrolment of the North Cork
Militia is advancing with much 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 Castle-street, and George's-street.
The head-quarters, we understand, are to be stationed
at Fermoy, under the command of the adjutait, Captain
Frederick Callaghan, J.P. The staff, we teller°, has
already proceeded there.

TIPPEEARY.—We learn from a correspondent that the
enlistment for the Tipperary South Ridingivisnent of
Militia proceeds rapidly, and that its ranks are quickly
filling up with smart and intelligent young men. The
first step towards organising the North Riding, or Light
Infantry corps, hare also been taken. Lord Lismore,
as lieutenant of the county, has commissioned the Hon.
George O'Callagian to be Colonel, the Hon. Cornelius
Maude to be Lieutenant-Colonel, and Mr. George Massy
Dawson, to be Major.—Nenagh, Guardian.

Captains Wm. Hy. Byam Martin and Geo. Edmund Byron
Bettesworth ; Centaur, 74, Commodore Sir S. Hoed ; 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 the same year we find
him, in company with the Implacable, 74, contributing,
within sight of the whole Russian fleet near Rogerewick,
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 protesting the trade passing through
the Great Belt. On one occasion, while watering with a
small party at the island of Ronsoe, he fell into the hands'
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 had con-
firmed hint by a commission bearing date Sept. 28, 1809,
he joined as second lieutenant, in February, 1811, the
Hawke, brig, of 16 gnus, CaptainsHenryßourchier and
George Wyndham. Under Captain Bourchier Mr.
Price was present, March 25, 1811, at the destruction
near Cape Barfleur, of the French 40-gun frigate Ansa-
zone. On the 17th of August following we find him
cutting oat, with the Hawke's jolly-boat, 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 luggers of from 8 to 10 guns
each, in escort of a large convoy. The contest was main-
tained until the two loggers, together with two of the
gun-brigs and 15 of the merchantmen, were driven on
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 enablei 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 theial 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 out 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 dispatc'i 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 boats, 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'Hiren-
dells schooner in the river Isere, although opposed
by a smart fire of musketry from the shore. On 0ct.,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 two and wounded
three of his companions. He nevertheless bearded, 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 until 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 net arrive in time to afford any support.
On the return of the Hawke to Portsmouth, Mr. Price
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, he 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
Yecontoco, while Captain Richard Kenah, of the 2Etna
bomb, who was killed, led the other up the Coan. 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 f the operations against
New Orleans, Captain 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 oat 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 ho 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 zealous 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. Sue-
easeful 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 proper authorities. On
his return to England he 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 Breoknockshire. 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."

CHINA.—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 45. 9d., and it is now 4s. 91d. ; while at Shanghai
it has advanced from 6s. ld. to Os. 4d. The export of tea
to date had been 25,400,0001 h., chewing an excess of
only
compared with the corresponding
period
01 0012,00 as compared
of 4,500,0001 b, as at the date
poost year,l b. a
of the previous advices. The export of silk had reached
bales.about 8,000
Three
chops of tea had come down,
and alo 8,
about tin bags--an injurious mode of
soofive chops
transmission, resorted to only from the impossibility of
sending it in any other way so as to escape capture. It i
was consequently n. 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 potlition of the country.

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FATAL SHIP frRECK.

SUNDERLAND, THURSDAY, Noox.
A fearful catastrophe happened off our harbour mouth
this morning about 2 o'clock. Last evening the wind
was from the N.N.W., with moderate weather, and
among the vesselii that went out to sea by the after-
noon's tide was the barque Mary Graham, belonging to rit
Mr. Thompson, shipbuilder, with coals for Bombay. The
principal part of her crew, it appears, were on shore for I
amusement, and the master and mate remained behied ,
to look after them and get them aboard, sending the
vessel out into the roads in charge of Mr. Hodgson, a -
North Sea pilot, and several riggers and men employed
at daywork. The rigging was loose, and under such cir-
cumstances the vessel was in a very disorderly state when
she went out. Mr. Elliot, one of Mr. Thompson's clerks,
also proceeded to sea with the vessel, to look after the
riggers ; and it appears that while the vessel was riding
with two anchors out a tremendous gale came on
from the east about 9 o'clock last night, blowing
straight on to the shore, and that a little before 2
this morning the man in charge of the south pier
lights saw the sea in the offiing illuminated with sig-
nal lights from the barque, as she had then drifted
from her anchors and was coming in to the shore. He
immediately sent to the town to give the alarm, and
speedily a number of pilots and harbour men arrived,
and the life-boats and Manby's apparatus were gut
out, but on account of the fearful sea that had by this
tiree risen, neither the one nor the other was of service.
About two o'clock the hapless vessel drifted on to the
" stone heads" lying between the south pier and
the beacon, and within an hour she had gone to pieces,
and every one on board of her had perished, with the
exception of a seaman named Edward Downs, who
drifted ashore in one of the long-boats. The body of
the pilot, and Mr. Elliott, with several others, have
been picked up during the forenoon, and the wreck of
the vessel is strewn along the shore as far as, the eye
can reach.

THURSDAY NIGHT.

Since the above account I have seen Edward Downs,
the only survivor out of the 23 men who went out with
him yesterday afternoon, and he gives the following ac-
coant 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, when the owner
gave instructions that she should be taken out of the
harbour to the roads in the afternoon tide, and
bring up there to wait for the master 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. Hunter, 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. Ten 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 N.N.W., 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'
East 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 te 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 shortly after she
got with her head to the eastward, and lay more easy,
and hopes were entertained by those aboard that she
would weather out till daybreak, when assistance would
reach them. She remained in this position until five
o'clock, the poor creatures on board counting every
hour 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 is 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 beat 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 lie 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
Stroud, riggers ; Peter Campbell, aged 26, carpenter,
Sunderland ; Alonzo Warner, aged 26, seaman, Lon-
don ; Thomas Clarke, aged 50, steward, Perth ; Robert
Harling, aged 34, cook and seaman, Sunderland ;
John Rushton, aged 2i, seaman, Haselden (Lanca-
shire) ; Robert Cooney, aged 22, seaman, Dublin ; Re•
bert Shawl, aged 46, 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 had been engaged tak-
ing account of some stores that were shipped in the dock,
which he wished to see prcperly 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 left
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.

HAETLEPOOL, 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 se:sooner, labouring very heavily,
was observed making for the harbour. It was evident
that she could Rot hold ont 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
by 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 teu o'clock she struck on the
sand opposite the Black Beacon. She proved to be the
William, Hull master, of and from Shields, which port
she left yesterday, coal-laden, for London. Shortly
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 HARTLEPOOL, Friday.
Early this morning the barque Mary Muir, of Liver-
pool, Calvert master, from Sunderland for Constanti-
nople, while making for the harbour, struck against the
pier head, and was driven upon Stranton-beach. While
in Sunderland-roads last night shewa
which s
both vessels in contact with a
large barque, name unknown, byws lostri
t
their bowsprits. A large barque, with herbop
gone, has been observed off the harbour all the morning,