The Sun.
London, England, 1847-11-15 00:00:00

WRECK OF THE NEW YORK
PACKET-SHIP STEPHEN WHITNEY.
LOSS OF NINETY-ONE LIVES.
(From the Liverpool Albion of this day.)
We regret to annonnce the total loss of the New
York packet-ship Stephen Whitney, off the south-
western coast of Ireland, on the night of 'Wednesday
last; and the disaster, it appears, has, unhappily, been
accompanied with the loss of ninety-one lives.
The details of this lamentable disaster, attended
with a loss of life so extensive, are not yet fully in
our possession ; but from the subjoined letter received
from the Comptroller of Customs at Skibbereen' and
kindly placed in our hands by Messrs. Smith and
Co., of Water-street, it will be perceived that of the
main facts mentioned there can be no question.
" Skibbereen, Nov. 12, 1847.
" I send you a very bad account of a wreck, as
you may know some of the merchants concerned.
The packet-ship Stephen Whitney, from New York
to Liverpool, totally lost on the West Calf (an island
of Scull), on the 10th inst., at ten P.M. the master
(Popham) drowned. She had on board a general
cargo; crew and passengers, 110 ; 91 lost; viz. :
passengers, 76, and the master and crew, 15 ; 20
were females, and 3 children. The names of the
cabin passengers lost were Mrs. Thom, English ; Mr.
Roberts, New York, merchant; Mr. M'Cabe
American ; Dr. Sweeny, Irish ; Mr. Robinson,
Liverpool."

TILE BISHOP OF MANCHESTER.—ARRIVAL OF TIIE
CoNGE D'ELIIIE.—At length this long expected docu-
ment has been received. It reached Manchester through
the post, on Thursday evening last, and was delivered to
the Very Rev. the Dean. The canons at present in tow n
are the Revs. C. D. Wray and Oswald Sergeant, We
believe it is likely that a chapter will be held on W ed-
nesday next, for the election of the first bishop of Man-
chester. The conge d'elire is a royal license, under the
great seal, granting permission to the dean and chapter
to proceed to the election of a bishop. It is accom-
panied by a letter-missive, which contains the name of
the person they shall elect, and they may not legally
elect any other. It is needless to add that the name in
this letter-missive is that of the Rev. James Prince Lee.
The consecration of the new bishop will take place in
the Chapel Royal, Whitehall, on the 28th inst.—Man-
chester Guardian.

A HINT TO THE LADIES.—The Nottingham Journal
states that a singular fraud has been successfully at-
tempted by some laceworkers, who have given to cotton
the appearance of silk. Silk thread is dissolved by a
chemical process, and after the cotton thread has been
drawn through the solution thus obtained it has the gloss
and appearance of silk: thread, from which the eye can-
not distinguish it.
The Observer, of
iyesterday, Nov. 14, gave a sort
of programme olthe intended performances at Covent-
garden, on the 7th of December, in aid of the. Shak-
spere House Fund, with the names of twenty talented
performers, who' have already volunteered their valuable
services. A copy athe Observer will, at all times, be a
great treat to country cousins. Price of the Observer
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land, Ireland, the Continent, East and West Indies, &c.,
, in which the Observer is not taken in, and frequently
duplicate copies. The extensive publication of the
' Observer commences at Six and concludes 'at Ten
o'clock on Sunday niornink. A Monday edition of the.
Observer, beit 'adapted > for .the country,-autLabroad, is
regularly. published at-. Four o'clock. _op Monday after-,
loon.
PRINCIPAL CONTENTS OP THE " OBSERVER," NOT.
14.—Upwards of 6 'folio columns of monetary affairs up
to the latest hour. of Saturday, including Messrs. Laing
and Bruener's circular • two columns of Marylebone
important meeting at Vestry Court-house ; full parti-
culars of the suicide of Count Bresson; the negottetor
of the Royal Spanish marriages ; death and a memoir
of Mendelssohn Bartholdy ; art and artists, &c.
HULL, Nov. 18.—Last evening a meeting of the
Liberal electors took place in Marlietllace Waro, for
the purpose of selecting a fit and proper person es coun-
.cillor, in the room of Mr. Forrester, lately elected an
alderman. There were. two candidates proposed, 'but
the large majority of hands held up for Mr. Thomas
Mitchell places his el( ction for the office beyond a doubt.
Indeed, it is a compliment Mr. Mitchell richly deserves
for his straightforward and unflinching conduct during a
churchwardenship of ten years, held to the satisfaction
of the greater portion of the parish of Holy Trinity.

THE ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.—Last evening, about
five o'clock, the clerks at the Manchester station of the
Commercial Electric Telegraph received by the instru•
ment the gratifying announcement that the wires were
all connected, and that the communication was now
rsquite completed, and ready for the transmission of in-
telligence throughout to the metropolis; and the best
proof of this was given immediately afterwards, by the
transmission to Manchester of the closing prices in the
money market and the share market up to four o'clock,
and also of the corn market, Mark-lane, to its close.
The route of the telegraphic wires would be called
circuitous, if the swift elemental fluid did not virtually
annihilate distance. From Manchester, the wires ex-
tend to Normanton, where there is a telegraphic station;
thence along the North Midland line to Derby,
where also there is a telegraphic station; thence
by the Midland Counties to Rugby, where there
is another telegraphic station; and thence by the London
and North Western line direct to Euston-square, where
this and other northern lines of telegraphic communica-
tion are conected with those extending to the south and
south-eastern coast. 01 these, the principal now open
are those having telegraph termini at Dover, at Gos-
port, and at Southampton. With these ports, we, in
Manchestet, may now communicate in a few minutes.
As the telegraph stations are now open day and
night, of course any important intelligence can be
transmitted throughout the kingdom with a speed sur-
• passirg every need of even this railway age.—Manches-
ter Guardian.

NORTH AMERICAN MAIL.—On Saturday, notice
was issued and affixed at the General Post Office, St.
Martin's-le-Grand, that the Britannia would convey the
mails of the evening of the 18th instant for British North
America, Bermuda, and the United States, which would
be the last semi monthly mail dispatched till the month
of April, 1848.
THE APPROACHING POLISH BALL AT GUILDHALL.
—Au unusually full meeting of the committee for con-
ducting this entertainment was held on Saturday last, at
Guildhall. After an address from Lord Dudley Stuart,
M.P., expressive of his confident hope that the present
meeting would exceed all which had preceded it, Mr.
Carr, the honorary secretary, announced that, notwith-
standing the late pressure in the money market, the sale
of tickets was proceeding much better than in former
years, and that the present arrangements far surpassed
all the previous ones in splendour. It is expected that a
great number of the patronesses will be present upon
the occasion.

HANDLING " FILTHY LUCRE."--At the City
Police Committee, on Saturday, a number of• Jew sales-
men, carrying on business in Duke-street, St. James's-
place, &c., in the vicinity of Houndsditch, were fined in
sums varying from five shillings and costs to the
amount of expenses for having casks and fruit baskets
placed upon the foot-pavement. The defendants said
they could not pay the fine that day, being their Sab-
bath. If the officer called they might get it, or if the
bench allowed they would send the amount on Monday.
Sir P. Laurie—Not pay, indeed, on the Sabbath ! Will
you receive any money on that day ? One of the do-
tendants—Ah, your worship, that's quite a different
thing. Of course we do.—(Laughter.) Sir Peter
Laurie—l thought so—receive all, and pay none. Mr.
Alderman Wilson—Well, I do not wish to interfere
with your form of religion. Pay the fines on Monday,
at the Guildhall justice room.
DETERMINED SUICIDE.—MT. Mills held an in-
quest on Saturday at the Sir Isaac Newton, Union-
street, Marylebone, on Henry Dymark, aged fifty-
eight. It appeared that the deceased, who had been a
servant in the employ of Mr. Schweppe, mineral and
soda-water manufacturer, Berners-street, for thirty
years, had lately, through family quarrels, indulged in
drunkenness. On Wednesday night he returned to his
lodgings, 4, Union-street, where he cohabited with a
woman, having deserted his wife. That woman was
not then at home, and he went in search of her. After
Some time lie found her in a public-house drinking,
and asked her to accompany him home, which she re-
fused doing. He then deft her, and returned to his
lodgings. Shortly afterwards, his son, a young boy,
went into the room, and seeing something ,white as he
thought standing in it, ran down stairs and continued
playing in the street for an hour afterwards, and then
returned to the room and struck a light, when he found
that the object in white was his father, who had hanged
himself from a staple that he had fastened in the ceil-
ing. Verdict, " Temporary insanity."
SUICIDE.—On Saturday morning Mr. John Mills,
a master baker, in Short's-buildings, Clerkenwell,
hanged himself in his bakehouse. The unfortunate
man was much respected, and at present no reason is
assigned for the dreadful act.
J. Drinkwater Bethune, Esq., some time Parlia-
mentary Counsel at the Home-office, is appointed to suc-
ceed Charles Hay Cameron, Esq., barrister-at-law, as
President of the Indian Law Council, and Member of
the Supreme Council at Calcutta.
BRISTOL SUSAR MARKET, NOV. 12.—The marke
is improving, and a steady consumptive business is being
transacted at an advance of fully is. on previous rates.
—Bristol Mercury.
THE CITY COUNTY COURT...—OH Saturday Mr.
Commissioner Bullock had no fewer than 102 cases to
dispose of, and, by his decisions and impartiality, gave
much satisfaction in almost every case, the oppressive
creditor and the dishonest debtor being the only parties
to find fault.
REPRESENTATION OF STOCKPORT.—We again beg
to assure our townsmen, that as soon as a vacancy shall
be declared, by the resignation of Mr. Cobden, it is the
intention of the Conservative party to bring forward a
gentleman whose claims to the suffrages of the electors
will, we think, be not only unquestionable, but uncleniable.—.stockport Advertiser.
Forgeries of the 250 f. notes of the Bank of Lyons
have been made, but they are so clumsily executed that
they May be easily recognised. They are printed on a
sheet of white paper, on which a greasy substance has
been passed to make the paper transparent and of a
greenish yellow colour. The words " Deux Cent
Cinquante Francs," and ". Dank "de Lyon,"
,disappear
when the note is held up to the light. Again, iu the
genuine notes, it is as easy to, read on the hack as on the
front; whilst on the forgeries it is not so. And, finally,
the paper the forgeries is soft and yielding.--Galianani.
• The' Earl'of Yarborough will move, and the Earl
of Beaborough second, the address in the Lords. Mr.
Jensesaleywood and Mr. A. Shafto Adair will be
cre-
spetßelhi y tepom and !seconder in the
• • • =Commons,

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