The Sun.
London, England, 1840-03-30 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY, MARCH 30, 1840.

LOSS OF TH

E LUNDA. CHINAMAN.

(FURTIIER PARTICULARS.)
'lhe wreck of this fine vessel, with her very valuable
cargo, has excited a sensation in Manchester which few
events of the kind are calculated to produce. The melan-
choly fate of Mr. Newbery struck a chord which has vi.
hrated through the extensive circle of his acquaintance
with truly distressing effect. This fine young man—in the
prime of life—endeared to his family by a character and
disposition more than usually amiable, and entering on his
career of business with prospects of the most flattering de-
scription—has been cut off in.a manner equally unexpected
and melancholy. The particulars will be found inc the
captain's letter, which we subjoin. To add to the severity
of the blow, we may mention that the first intimation the
bereaved parents received of the calamity was by seeing it
announced in the public papers.
The cargo of the Lunda was valued at 280,0001., and
the loss is expected to prove total.
" On the 11th," says the Captain in his letter, "it con-
tinued moderate, and at 3 p.m. we saw the Loya Islands to
leeward, where we bore up and set the foresail, run down,
and brought up under the northernmost island of the group,
in 12 fathoms water, at 8p m. At this time the weather
was moderate, but a heavy swell came from the north-east.
At 9 it began to blow strong from the north-east, and
continued increasing till midnight. Then the vessel drove
with 90 fathoms of chain; we immediately gave her the
whole length of the chain, being 120 fathoms ; she
then held on till about two, when the chain parted; we
then loosened the foresail
.and . the fore topmast staysail
and main trysail. At this time it blew a heavy gale, with
a tremendous sea. At four the vessel touched the
ground, when in the hollow of the sea ; when we set the
square mainsail. We now deepened our water till five,
a.m., when the fore topmast staysail and mainsail were
blown away. The land . was now distinctly visible, close
to leeward of us. At six, a.m., the vessel struck the
ground. We then endeavoured to get the boats out, when
they were both washed away in the attempt. In about
half an hour after she struck the stern dead lights were
washed in, and the cabin filled with water. We now re-
moved the passengers to the fore part of the poop, and
took shelter in the half-deck. About an hour after the
companion of the half-deck was washed away, when we
were all washed out. We all succeeded in gaining the
poop, excepting poor Mrs. M‘Pherson and her female
servant, who were washed forward. Mr. A/Pherson, in
attempting to reach Mrs. M‘Pherson, was washed away.
They all three remained in the body of the vessel for a
short time, when a very heavy sea washed them over-
board. The other passengers and myself, with part of the
crew, succeeded in gaining the mizen rigging. At this
time the decks were broken up, and the cargo floated
out. At three a.m., the sea fell considerably, when
we all succeeded in gaining the fore part of the ves-
sel, and got upon the fore-rigging. At this time
the vessel began to work very much, and became a
total wreck. We continued on the wreck until even-
ing, when I had no hopes of her holding together during
the night, and thought the only chance of saving our lives
was by attempting to get on shore before dark, which the
most of us succeeded in doing on pieces of the wreck.
Poor Mr. Ilberry and Mr. Marrillier, I am sorry to say,
with one of the crew, were drowned before reaching the
shore; Mr. Newbery being the only one of our passengers
who reached the shore in safety. The gale still continued
to rage during the night, tbcugh with less fury ; in the
morning we found that the vessel still hung together, the
main and mizen-masts, however, being both carried away.
The sea still continued so high, that all communication
between the shore and the wreck was impossible, and
remained so during the day. On the 14th the gale had
entirely subsided, when we found that the nstives had
got on board, and were breaking up the cargo, and swim-
ming with it on shore ; the beach was crowded with thou-
sands of natives, who were busy plundering what cargo came
on shore. I saw it was impossible to save any cargo which
came on the beach, the natives being too numerous, and
apparently under no control. I then determined upon
taking possession of the wreck, until some of the authori-
ties might appear. I had the greatest difficulty in getting a
boat, but at last succeeded in taking one which landed
on the beach with part of the cargo, and got on board
the wreck with three of my crew, when we drove the crowds
of natives from on board, and took possession of the wreck,
and kept it all night, although it was attempted to be
boarded on several occasions by beats from several junks
anchored close by ; in the morning the doctor swam ashore,
with orders to get the remaining part of the crew ready
to come on board on the boat being sent for them. At
noon I sent the boat on shore, when Mr. Newbery and
seven of the crew got into her, and got on board the
wreck, the others not being able to get into the boat, which
was almost swamped by the heavy surf ; the boat was sent
a second time for those left on shore, with a line fast to
it to haul it off by ; immediately on reaching the surf the
natives swam out and out the rope, and took possession
of the boat. I was then left on board with Mr. Newbery
and four of the crew, without any means of communi-
cating with the shore. At six o'clock it began to blow
strong ; at ten it had increased to a heavy gale, with a tre-
mendous sea passing clear over the wreck. At midnight
she broke in two, and very soon after went to pieces. I
remained by the wreck until nothing was loft but the stern
and fore part of the bows, when I was washed overboard,
and succeeded, I scarcely know how, in gaining the
shore; being so much cut and bruised by the floating
wreck, that I was unable to cis. from bed for three weeks
after. When I was :vatted overboard I left Mr. Newbery
on that part of the wreck frunt which I was washed ; but it
appears from the report of one of the crew, who also got
on shore, that, on my being washed away, he left that
place, and went to the mainmast, which was still fast to
the lee side, where himself anal two others were clinging ;
and further, that a piece of the wreck passed over his head,
when, on looking round, he found Mr. Newbery and the
other two had disappeared, and he made no doubt that
they were curried away by the portion of the wreck which
p.s7s.ed over them, which in my opinion trust have been
the case, in consequence of the bodies, found on the
beach, exhibiting marks of having been severely bruised.
From the report of my officers, scarcely any part of the
wreck was to. be seen in the morning. Part of the stern
was lying high and dry on the beach, and a small por-
tion of the how was to be seal floating. w
a small dist•ec
from the shore. I remained six dais -at the place where
we were wrecked, thinking it possible that part of thetreasure might he recovered; but I could not prevail on
the authorities to lend me any assistance, as the treasure
must have been landed soon after the vessel broke up.
We left the part of the coast on the 21st, to proceed
on our journey to Canton, where, after various delays
and a most circuitous route, we arrived in the afternoon
of the 17th of December. I cannot close this without
stating that we have received the greatest possible at-
tention and kindness from the American gentlemen re-
sident here."

SPIRIT of the PUBat.FJ-OURNALS

FROM THE DAILY I":%PERS OF SATURDAY.
( From the Globe.)
The absence of filly-tvee Liberal Members, withou,
pairs, from their 'Parliamentary duties on Thursday
evening, will account at once for Lord Stanley's Iri-h
Registration Bill being read a second time. The, ma•
jority for the second reading was sixteen. The Tory
Journals arc, of course, chuckling over what they are
pleased to regard—or rather, to please their party, they
arc compelled to proclaim—a temporary triumph.
Their exultings are, pioperly, so many uphr=tidings
of the Liberals for their supiuess. It would seem
that the absent Liberals are satisfied with their
victory over the Tories at the commencement of
the Session, and have retired from the field to repose in
their laurels, while the enemy is still in sight, watching
for a convenient opportunity to recover from the effects
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occasion we allude to is deserving of rebuke ; but what
terms will express censure sufficiently poignant to convey
to the absent Irish Members the sense entertained of
their breach of duty and of faith toward their consti-
tuents? The absence of five Irish county Members—
we must name them—Mr. Villiers Stewart, Main.
M‘Namara, Mr. Luke White, Sir W. Brabazon, and
Colonel Fitzgibbon—while it will not be received as an
excuse for the absence of English Liberals, may well be
pleaded as a palliation.
(From the Standard.)
It is quite impossible to infer anything from the sham
debate upon Mr. Hume's second motion. As we have
intimated, the farce was got up expressly to exclude the
light. Sir R. Peel, however, used the opportunity to
make a pleasant exposure of Lord Palmerston's non-
sense about the Lord Lieutenancy of Egypt. The
nonsense, indeed, is characteristic and instructive. It
shows that the range of vision in the Whig Ministers
really does not extend beyond the little official system
in which they move. Lord Palmerston can imagine
nothing of a vassal Governor or a great country, but that
he must be a Lord Lieutenant, with a Lord Morpeth
and a Mr. Drummond—a Mr. O'Connell to direct him,
and a corps of beef-eaters to guard his person to Church,
if he is like Lord Ebrington—or to other places, if he
is like Lord Ebrington's predecessor.
(From the Courier.)
We are not now to discuss the particular provisions
of Lord Stanley's Bill ; but suppose that, like almost
all other measures for effecting important and exten-
sive improvements in a corrupt system, some may not
perhaps be perfectly adapted to procure the object their
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reject the Bill, after the exposure in the debates o
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IMPOSITION OF A " CHAPEL-RATE" AT
STarrroan,—A number of respectable inhabitants of the
township of Stretford, within the parish of Manchester, have,
within the last week or two, been in no small degree astonished
at what is to them—as it would be to that
venerable personage
to be found in every town, whose memory. is so constantly re-
ferred to—" the oldest inhabitant"—a. per unprecedented
and novel demand. They have received printed rate notes,
demanding the
payment of a " chapel-rate." It would appe
that a little knot of persons got together on All Fooks' Day, as
it is called, the Ist April, 1839; and taking care that thereshould be a majority present in their little clique, some six,
eight, ten, or a dozen persons, out of a population of about two
thousand five hundred inhabitants (the number in 1831), re-
solved to lay a chapel-rate of three-halfpence in the pound,
upon the annual value of all rateable property in the township.'
W. e understand, that between fifty and sixty respectable inha-
bitants have declined to pay this chapel-rate ; and twenty-eight
persons were summoned to appear at a petit sessions, held at
Stretford on Monday last, when the cases was ordered to stand
over till the 6th of April. We understand that twenty or
or thirty more of the leypayers who refuse payment of this
chapel-late, may yet be summoned.--Manchester (;t;arrlicti,

ASSIZE IN TELLIGEN CE

HOME CIRGUIT.—KINGSTON, MARCH 28.
NISI PRIUS COURT.
(Before Lord ABINGEB and a Special Jury.)
THE QUEEN V. FALL AND OTHERS, OFFICERS OF THE

PARISH OF ST. MARY'S, LAMBETH.
Mr. Theisger, Mr. Sergeant Channel, and another '
Learned Gentleman, were Counsel for the Crown. Mr.
Sergeant Shee, Mr. Platt, and Mr. Chambers were for
the defendants.
The pleadings having been opened,
Mr. THESIGER stated the details of the case, which
have been repeatedly before the public, and which are
interesting chiefly to the parties concerned. The
question arose out of a dispute between the Rector and
the Churchwardens on Easter Tuesday last relative
to the election of parish officers.
Evidence was called to prove the allegations, when
Mr. PLATT addressed the Jury, and Lord ABINGER
summed up. He said the address of Mr. Platt was
addressed to him rather than to them ; it was a ques-
tion of law ; and it was one upon which he was bound
to state his opinion. His Lordship expressed his .asto-
nishment that the advocates of popular elections should
have pursued the course they had in the present in-
stance. He was of opinion that the Rector had acted
legally in every respect, and that being so, the Jury
must find a verdict for the Crown.
The Jury accordingly returned a verdict against the
defendants.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MANSIOIV-HO USE.
THE CITY POLICE COMMISSIONER AND THE
GUARDIANS OF THE POOR.—On Saturday last a sub-
ject of considerable importance as regards the disposal
of persons found destitute in the streets at night came
on before the Lord Mayor, and was by his Lordship
referred for decision, as to the general principle, to the
Police Committee at Guildhall. It will be recollected
that Mr. Harvey, upon being installed in, his office,
directed his force to take any persons whom they might
find destitute at night to the relieving officer ; and an
instance having occurred in which the relieving officer
refused to give assistance to an individual who had been
sent to him at a late hour, the Guardians were called
upon to consider the subject. Subsequently the case of
Saturday week stated to his Lordship, and as no
mention of it was made in the Committee on that day
or Saturday, we think it necessary, for the sake of the
public, to detail the particulars.
Policeman No. 321 stated, that Mr. Thwaites, the
Relieving Overseer of the City of London Union, gave
the defendant, Charles Roth, into custody for knocking
violently at his door at four o'clock in the morning.
Inspector M'Clean stated, that the defendant was
brought in a destitute condition to the station-house at
a quarter past two in the morning ; witness sent him to
Mr. Thwaites, according to the order of Mr. Harvey,
the Commissioner, but the Overseer refused to give him
shelter ; witness again sent him to Mr. Thwaites, and
told him to continue to knock at the door until he should
receive an answer and assistance. The consequence
was, that the man was charged for awaking the Re-
lieving Officer.
Th LORD MAYOR said that be had received a letter
from the Union, stating that the Board had taken his
suggestion into consideration, as to the propriety of
having destitute persons received by night as wei as by
day, and they had determined that it was the duty of
the Relieving Officer to attend to real objects by night
as well as by day, but that they had nothing to do with
vagabonds.
Mr. Harvey requested the Lord Mayor's particular
attention to the case. The principle was a most im-
portant one. He then called the policeman who found
the defendant in the street, and desired him to state the
facts.
Stewart, policeman, No. 276, said. that two gentlemen
in Cheapside told him that the defendant was begging,
and requested that he would take the man in charge.
Witness asked the defendant why he begged? to which
he replied, " I certainly did beg, but I have no place to
put my head in, and I wished for a night's lodgint'e.."
Witness then took him to the station-house, where he
stated the same fact to the Inspector, who ordered that
he should be taken to Mr. Thwaites, the relieving officer.
Mr. Tnwaites, after a delay of half-an-hour, came down
stairs, said he could not provide for all the vagabonds of
the streets, who were sent to him at all hours of the
night, and betrayed great impatience.
It was stated that Mr. Thwaites afterwards insisted
that the defendant should be taken to the station-house.
and gave him in charge for disturbing him at an unsea-
sonable hour.
Mr. Harvey said tbat the relief which the defendant
needed was a night's lodging. The relieving officer
was bound to give that relief, and it was no excuse to
say that there was no accommodation nearer than Peck
ham, a distance of three miles, and a toilsome journey
to a poor object already weak and fatigued. The
defendant, who had only three halfpence in his pocket,
continued to knock at the door, and the result was that
he was charged at the station-house. Now, it was
important to know whether a man in such a condition
was to be obliged to walk to Peckham for a bed. The
police officers could, in all cases where they found pal-
pable evidence of poverty, send the objects to knock
at the door of the relieving officer, for he never wculd
allow mere indigence to be treated as a crime.
Mr. Rowsell (clerk to the Union) said that the re-
marks made by Mr. Thwaites were beside the ques-
tion, which was, whether a person found in the streets
at night ought or ought not to be brought before the
relieving officer.
The LORD MAYOR stated that it was more than any
one man could do, to do business all day and all night too.
The case ought, he was convinced, to be brought before
the Police Committee.
Mr. Rowsell said that the Board of Guardians were
most anxious that every case of destitution should be
relieved, but the defendant was not a person to be con-
sidered of that class. He might have applied early in
the morning if he was really destitute. Ho had been
about the streets all day, and there was about him prima
facie evidence of vagrancy. As for the duties of the
relieving officer, his Lordship saw by the communica-
tion that they expected him to atten d day and night. In
the country the union houses were at much more re-
mote distances than Peckham was from the metropolis ;
sometimes destitute persons had to go eight or nine miles
before they could obtain assistance.
Mr. Thwaites said that he might well be excused for
having used hasty language, after having been reused
out of his bed at the conclusion of a hard day's work.
He bad found it necessary to charge the defendant, and
he claimed a right to protection. The defendant was
decidedly an idle vagrant.
Mr. Harvey repeated that his officers would not
relax in the performance of their duty, and had orders
to direct every destitute person, found either by night
or by day, in the streets of the City, to go to the reliev-
ing officer, who was bound to afford relief, and to
knock until admission should be obtained. He consi-
dered it monstrous inhumanity to treat a man as a cri-
minal because he was in distress, and he never would
sanction any atrocity of the kind.
The LORD MAYOR—I discharge the defendant, and
I shall send the matter to the Police Committee. It is
evident that some arrangement must be made on is
subject of this kind. It comes home to our feelings,
and I certainly am of opinion that great caution ought
to be taken not to confound the punishment of offenders
against the law with the treatment of real distress.
We trust that immediate measures will be adopted
to remedy the evil. The relieving overseers of the
City have very heavy duties to perform, and are, we
understand, very shabbily remunerated.

MARYLEB ONE.

We gave last week the examination of a young wo-
man named Bagnall, who charged a man with having
assisted ber in bringing into the world an illegitimate
child, in the St. Pancras New-road, with which he ran
away, threatening to murder her if she disclosed the
fact. On Saturday, Mr.M'Grahey,:the vestry-clerk, ap-
peared before the Magistrate, and stated that from cir-
cumstances related by the medical attendant there was
reason to believe that the young woman never had a
child, and there was no foundation for her statement.
After some conversation, the girl was discharged for the
present, the Magistrate thinking she was labouring
under some delusion;

THAMES POLICE.
Samuel Woodward, the steward of thatlalcolm, East
Indiaman, was :charged by the Commissioners of Cus-
toms with being in possession of 9001bs. of cigars, in
boxes of less size than allowed by the Act of Par-
liament, by which the vessel became forfeited, and
the defendant liable to a penalty of 1001. The
Custom-house officers who went on board the vessel
at Tilbury fort asked the defendant if there were any
goods liable to duty on board, to which he replied,
"Yes, I have brought home a quantity of cigars, which
I bought for the use of the passengers, but so many of
them were ill that I have made a very bad bargain, and
wish to bond them ; I've directed them to the bonding
warehouse." The cigars were in 41b. packages, and the
law only allows them to be landed in 4001 b. packets.
The Magistrate said that there was evidently no in-
tion to defraud the revenue, and asked the Solicitor of
the Customs if be were prepared to show that the
quantity was beyond what could have been thought ne-
cessary for the passengers
The Solicitor declined to enter into the question, as
he was entitled to call for a conviction without any in-
tion of fraud being shown.
The Magistrate was obliged to sentence the defendant
to pay a fine of 1001., but he. expressed a hope that the
Commissioners would remit it, as there was neither
fraud or concealment on the part of thF steward, against
whim it was a case of extreme hardship.

UNION HALL.
Francis Robinson, a bird-fancier, in the Waterloo-
road, was charged by Mr. Henry Massey with having a
setter dog, which had been stolen from him in his pos-
session, knowing it to have been stolen. On losinc,
the dog Mr. Massey advertised it, when the defendant
called, and made an appointment to meet at the