The Sun.
London, England, 1849-11-16 00:00:00

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DISASTROtS SHIPWRECK.
The ship lI,Wn Thompson, of Ayr, arrived
Troon on Nov. 12 from St. John's, reports that or
the sth of Novel-AL-2r, lat. 54 N.. long. 20 28 W.
came up with the brig South Stockton, of Newcastl ,
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late %Vickers, waterlogged. The circumstances e
as follows :—The brig left Quebec on the Bth of
September, for Newcastle. Ou October:-14 the
brig was running in a heavy gale of-wind from the
westward; at eight Pau. the master judged it Dices-
, nary to heave the ship too, which he did under close-
! reefed maintopsail ; at midnight they tried the pumps,
and found her to make the usual quantity of water;
at four a.m. they again tried the pump, but could
not get her to suck ; all hands were immediately
called, but still she gained upon them. They then
sounded her, and found eight feet water in her hold.
In this dilemma they considered it vain to pump
longer, but rather begin to prepare for the worst.
They put a considerable quantity of provi-
sions; water, and other articles in a large house,
which the vessel had on deck, which, Just having
succeeded in doing, the vessel suddenly careened
over on her beam ends, and washed the master and a
boy overboard. She then hove the deck cargo oti,
' carrying away the topmasts and rudder, and sweeping
the clicks of everything, house and all, and after wards
sh:, gradually began to right. The men now took to
the tops, and made a cover of canvas around them, to
f save them as much as possible from the severity of the
weather. In this state they remained eleven days
without any assistance, excepting a very small quan-
tity of water, when one of them died ; they were under
the necessity of eating a small portion of their com-
panion. They continued drooping one by one till
they were all dead but Robert Hogg, chief mate, and
Henry Leslie, second mate, who sustained themselves
by eating a small portion of their companions, and
drinking their blood. They were in this deplorable
situation 25 days, when, on the sth of November, the
Helen Thompson, in company with the barque
Ganges, came up with her, it then blowing fresh gales
N.N.W., with ' a heavy sea running. The Helen
Thompson succeeded in putting out a boat, and bring
ing the suffers on board in a very exhausted state.
The chief mate recovered very fast, but the second
mate still remains in a very poor state of health,
having very sore hands and feet.

THE NAVY.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE, SUN.
Sia,—The noble profession of which I am a humble
member cannot but feel grateful for the late remarks
in your valuable journal on the subject of the Royal
Navy, naf)re particularly the treatment of its junior
members, the commanders and lieutenants, who after
attaining the age of 40 (if not possessed of para-
mount interest) are laid on the shelf as ineligible,
and all the applications for employment, from long
and arduous service, quite unheeded.
The principle, I understand, the Board of Admi-
ralty go upon is to instil young blood into the service,
which may be plausible enough, but surely it is
very hard upon those who have served, and are willing
again to serve, to be thrown aside, and kept upon the
half pay of their respective ranks only, without any
prospect of obtaining that rank (captain) they were
ambitious of on first entering the Royal Navy.
There are only 14 out•pensioners of Greenwich
Hospital for commanders, lieutenants 51, which I
think an additional grii \ranee to us unfortunates—
(there are many others, of which, no doubt, you must
be a Nare); whilst the seniors have, in addition to the
late grant of retirement, and gradually increasing
half pay, from 10s. 6d. to 14s. Gd., ten naval aides- de-
camp and 21 good service pensions, independent of
other good things at their Lordships' disposal to
captains only. The admirals are old veterans, of which
we juniors do not so much complain.
In having made the above statement, and hoping
your advocacy and that of other public journals, I
trust you will have no objection to comment upon it
in your valuable piper, as the complaint and grievance
of an old commander of nearly 20 years standing, 45
years in the Royal Navy, nearly 25 of which on sea
service, but not since his promotion to his presentrank.
I remain, Sir, your humble servant,
AN OLD COMMANDER.
Novenikr 15 , 1849.

EMBARKATION OF SIR HENRY AND LADY
LYTTON BULIVER FOR TIIE UNITED STATES.—PORTS-.
3IOUTII, THURSDAY EVENING.-11 is Excellency Sir
Henry Ly tton Bulwer, accompanied by his secretary,
Mr. Fenton, and two gentlemen attades, arrived from
London on Wednesday evening, at the Portland Reid,
Seurhses. In consequence of the boisterous state of the
weather the party could not embark till to day, when
the Commander-in-Chief pltced the Myrtle steamer at
his Excellency's disposal, to convey the party to the
Hecate at Shithead. At a quarter past one, the Myrtle
having come alongside the Victoria pier, the party etn-
harked, having been met at the pier by Admiral the
lion. Sir Bladeu Capel, his flag. lieutenant, Mr. Corkran,
and sev,ral other naval officers. Sir Henry and Lady
Bulwer and suite were received on board the Hecate by
Commander Shad well, with manned yards. The weather
is still wild looking and squally; the wind a strong gale,
but inclined to draw to the northward; it is now about
N.W? It is therefore not likely that the Hecate will
start from Spithead to-night unless the wind should
moderate.
A SHIP DESTROYED BY FIRE OFF THE ISLE OF
WronT.—About ten o'clock on Tuesday morning a
large ye sal was seen en tire off the Isle of Wight,
abreast of Sharklin Bay. She was making for that
place of shelter with all speed, and eventually the crew
ran the vessel upon the sands at Shanklin, where they
immediately abandoned her, as the whole of her cargo,
consisting of *wards of eighty barrels of turpentine,
was on fire. The vessel, which was soon burnt to the
water's edge, was bound to Bremen, from Wilmington,
North Canada, and was culled the Gazelle. Iler loss is
reported at 2,500/,
DE•THS OF Two CHILDREN AND A DOG FROM
EXPOSURE TO THE WEATHER.—Doting the last ten
days great numbers of the poor of the neighbouring
townships had frequented the strand to collect nuts, &c,,
thrown up by the tide from the wreck of the Mischief;
amongst others two little girls were observed, followed
by a deg, and it is imagined that being disappointed in
their expectations, and exhausted by hunger and cold,
they had secured themselves under a hedge on Formby
Rabbit':Warren, where they were found by the coast•
guard On going Lis rounds on Wednesday morning, both
of them crouched together, and the dog, which appears
to have been a faithful attendant, stretched across the
breast of the eldest child, all stiff in death.—Liverpool
Mail.

THE KING'S ROAD, EATON-SQUARE.—It is with
considerable reluctance that we again find it necessary
to refer to the highly disgraceful condition of this
fashionable locality, f'or we had hopes and believed that
the remarks which had been before made on the subject
would have had the salutary effect of inciting the par-
ties who are responsible to the public for the proper con-
dition of the highways, either parochially or by virtue
of their title to the ownership of the property, to a
sense of their duties in this regard. The fine weather,
however, hus now been succeeded by dark nights of
great length and a hazy atmosphere, and the former in- •
convenient condition of the place for want of light has
been. rendered still more inconvenient, and in fact unsafe,
either for vehicles or pedestrians passing the place after
nightfall. When it is stated that we a night or two
since observed a nui.ance of a most offensive character
being committed on the public path, in the absence of
light to protect the place from common outrages on de-
ceney, we think we shall have sufficiently illustrated the
unprotected condition of one of the most wealthy and
fashionable quarters of the metropolis. If, as is pretty
generally understood, the parish authorities neglect to
light this important road because the owner of the pro-
perty declines to perform certain other requirements on
their part, we unhesitatingly assert that it is their bounden
duty to put an end at once to the present great incon-
venience, and, having done so, to take such measures as
they may deem requisite for the remaining public re-
quirements to be fulfilled. It is hoped that the several
parties will see the necessity of performing the duties
which respectively devolve upon them without further
delay.
THE FOREIGN MAlLS.—Yesterday being the day
appointed for the General Thanksgiving for the cessa-
tion of the ravages of the cholera throu:hout the coun-
try, was observed as a strict holyday at all the Govern-
ment offices, and no business of a public nature was
transactede in any of the departments of the revenue.
Arrangements were made, however, for the clearance of
the steam-vessels, which were appointed to sail again
this morning with the Continental mails, in order to
prevent any public inconvenience which would otherwise
be experienc“l.

THE NORTH MAIL ARRANGEMENTS.—The recent
alterations in the north mail, have, we may say, excited
universal ;dissatisfaction. The newspapers in the north
have all taken up the subject, and complain warmly of
the new postal arrangements. We, in our last publica-
tion, quoted the complaint of a Fife contemporary, that
copies of its journal took 48 hours to travel from Cupar
to Kennoway, a distance of ten miles. Is this locomo-
tion, or are the papers
atisentonanortherputronuarisbinefaokree
delivery ? Perth, Dtlee, and Aberdeen
similar complaints, avid the public bodies in these places
are taking up the matter with spirit. For ourselves.
we now receive the piper published on Tuesday morn-
enatthree P.M. en Wednesesy ; while
vir:.gryi ner o
fthnbdi
private express, we have received the
Aberdeen prper on Wednesday at the same hour. The
Post ffice is therefore 24 hours later than it ought to
be. Our Dundee and Perth papers are also delayed
four or five hours by the new arrangement, and in no
sense v, hatever has the alteratien been an iMprOVtineat.
\V may state, that at a meeting of newspaper proprie-
t.a-s, hekl cn Monday evening in the Reyal Exchange
C-AcchousP, a memorial was framed and ordered to be
transmitted to the Postmaster-General. prototing
against the present unsatisfactory arrangeno-nte, and
respectfully craving redress.—Caledonian Mercury.
The man Bank;, who has been several times re-
manded on suspicien ef having a guilty knowledge of
the murder of the late Mr. Griffith, underwent another
private catmint:Lion yesterday afternoon, before the ma-
gistrates, and was again remanded till tO-morrow. As
the examiva;ions throughout have been carried en to the
exclusion of reporters, we are not in possession of the
facts, but we may state that Banks has attempted -more
than once to prove an alibi, but has most signally failed,
and there is no doubt that he was in Brighton on the
night of the murder. Other parties are suspected, and
the police tore on the alert to apprehend them.—.itriy:hten
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