The Sun.
London, England, 1838-10-30 00:00:00

THE NORTHERN YACHT STEAMER

All hope of the safety of this vesel seems now to have been
given up. We understand that the master of one of the Lon-
don smacks arrived at Leith on Saturday last, on passing Eye_
mouth, was told by some fishermen that a quantity of wreck
had been driven ashore on that coast, among which were some
long green painted seats, such as are used on the quarter-decks
of steam-vessels. The Perthshire Advertiser of Thursday
states that " a gentleman who was in conversation with some
of the crew of the Euphentia, belonging to Perth, which ar-
rived there on Wednesday, informed us that they passed the
Northern Yacht, on her way to Leith, twice on the night of
the storm. The last time they saw her the sea was running
terribly high, and must have run over her decks, so that the
probability is she was in this way filled with water, and ren-
dered incapable of weathering the storm. The crew of the
Euphemia state that on Thursday night they saw pieces of
wreck floating about, and no fewer than four vessels go down,
but were unable to render them any assistance from the danger
they themselves were in. The crew of the Circassia, of
Newburgh, report that they saw a vessel sink close to the Bell
Rock. Another Perth vessel, just arrived,brings the intelligence
that, during the storm, there were 1,500 sail in Yarmouth
Roads, and that the Yarmouth steamers were actively engaged
in towing in dismasted vessels."--Scotsman of Saturday.
It is a singular circumstance that the dog belonging to the
captain would not go on board at the time when the vessel
sailed; and, although beat and put on board, it jumped on
shore, and is now in one of the other vessels plying to Leith.
There is, we fear, too much reason to believe that the unfor-
tunate vessel, with all on board, went down in Berwick Bay,
on the evening of the day she sailed from Newcastle. Cap-
tain Pattinson, of Spittal, was then looking out, as was his cus-
tom, with a glass, and observed at a considerable distance a
steamer, apparently in distress ; his attention having been
drawn to some other object, on returning to the same point the
vessel had disappeared. This was probably the awful moment
when the Northern Yacht sunk, and every living being eut
contained perished. It is stated that when the unfortunate
vessel left the Tyne, she was not in sea-worthy condition, and
that on her preceding voyage sbe had had several feet of water
in her hold. If this be the case, a very awful responsibiliti
a taches to the proprietors, who are at least called upon to offer
to the public some explanation in respect to so serious a
matter.—Newcastle Journal.

CAPTURE OF JOSEPH REITTERHOFFER, alias
COUNT RUTTER.—This person (whose apprehension was
noticed in The Sun of yesterday) against whom a true bill
was found last June for a conspiracy to extort money from the
Marquis of Downshire and family, and who had hitherto
managed to evade the officers who had received instructions
to apprehend him, was on Saturday taken into custody by
Goddard, the Bow-street officer, in a house, where he had
been concealed for some time, at Arabella-row, Pimlico. It
appeared that Mr. Humphreys, of New ,g the soli-
citor for the Marquis of Downshire in the late prosecution
against the other parties included in the indictment for con-
spiracy, received information on Saturday by which he
enabled to trace out the hiding-place of Reitterhoifer, and,
having succeeded in that object, he secured the assistance of
Goddard, who on Saturday evening proceeded to the house
above-mentioned, and on the street-door being opened, he di-
rectly went up stairs to a room on the second floor, where he
found the object of his search, and imn3ediately took him
into custody and conveyed him in a coach to Bow-street,
where he was provided with a room in a public-house
near the police-office. The defendant was very anxious that
Goddard should leave him his razor and penknife; but, from
some information which the officer had received, he declined to
do so, and it appeared that he was justified in that refusal ;
for yesterday morning, when Goddard went to the defendant
to apprise him of his intention to convey him forthwith before
a Judge, he found the wretched man almost insensible, an
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parently labouring under the effect of some stupify g
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Upon Upon searching him, Goddard took from his persorge
opium pill, and it was evident that he had partaken largely of
the same deleterious ingredient. The officer was compelled
to procure assistance to place him in a coach, in which he was
conveyed to the chambers of Mr Baron Gurney, where he
appeared barely conscious of what was passing. Upon a re-
presentation of the facts of the case to the Learned Judge,
supported by the necessary evidence, the defendant was ordered
to put in bail to answer the charge at the next session of the
Central
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curities, Mr. Baron Gurney issued a warrant for his committal
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