The Sun.
London, England, 1847-05-17 00:00:00

THE LORD-LIEUTENANT OF

IRELAND.
DUBLIN, MAY 15.—We regret to state that the Lord-
Lieutenant has been rapidly sinking since yesterday.
This morning the following bulletins were issued:—
" The Lord-Lieutenant's strength is much reduced since
yesterday." " Two o'clock.
" The illustrious patient does not feel restored from the
prostration of strength under which he suffered during the
night." " Four o'clock.

" His Excellency is not worse than he was this morning.'

REPRESENTATION OF MARY-
LB BONE.
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The following letter addressed by Admiral Sir Charles
Napier to C. FL)ed; Esq., the vestry clerk of Mary-
was read at the meeting of the Maryleboue
vestry on Saturday :
"May 15, 1847..
" My dear Sir—Will you be so good as to present my
compliments to the vestry, and say that it was my de-
termination to have attended to-day, and thank them
gahnte)—but I am obliged
dr
for their kindness since I have been the representative
of the
to solicit their sup-
port at e b(oLnaeu,
to go to Portsmouth and hoist my flag,
" C. Flood, Esq. " CHAHLS NAPIER."
btohre borough
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cranattrdhot rehdtdoeiGi
distant
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algrloeoeskaotuPon with suspicion. We
nitaloeendvi mostset to
ethatnetx,
BOSJESMAN'S, on Bus" PEOPLE, FROM SOUTHERN
race of human beings have been landed in our port, they are
the Bojesmans, or Bush People, from the interior of South
Africa, of which so much has been written by the Mission-
aries,
or 1,400 miles from Cape Town. The
are natives of the country borderingresp
Travellers" which we have
AFRlCA.—lnterestingwhsopechiamveentsraevfas:
raeirrgihaesineibngi.eatnandlTmiyhtoehersyet as striking an absence of the intellectual ory
higher faculties as is observable in the scull of that mockery
of humanity, the Baboon, while the preponderance of the
could scarcely have credited that such a race could be in ex-
istence on the earth. That they are genuine HO one can
calculatedanimalficerrmtawithinl iysalmostthe
full
inclined
tt equallyiet he e, ,
taTo greatests
doubt, in proof of which we give the following extract from
a Cape Town Paper of the 24th of December, which we have
just received :—,, we understand the brig ' Fanny, Captain
Wheeler, which recently left Table Bay for Liverpool, had on
board an unusual kind of exportation, viz.,
two males and
two females of the genuine Bushman species, they are in
charge of a Mr. J. G. B. Bishop, who has been at consider-
able trouble and expense in procuring them from the interior.
They are authentic specimens of this diminutive and rapidly
decreasing tribe of aborigines, found only in Southern Africa."
—Liverpool Standard.
A SHIP SUNK, AND THE CAPTAIN AND OFFICERS
MURDERED BY THE CREW.—Letters were On Saturday re-
ceived from Launceston, communicating the particulars of
the sinking of the ship Prima Donna, and the murder of the
Commander, Captain Jones, and his officers, by the crew.
The vessel, it appears, had called at Lowbock for water and
rice, being bound from China to Hobart Town and England.
In the latter part of December last the Prima Donna's long
boat, containing fourteen of the crew (all Manilla men) ar-
rived at the port of Ball, in the Java seas—the ship, ac-
cording to their statement, having founderec south of Java,
and the captain and his officers had perished. Subsequently,
when questioned more fully as to their fate, their statements
differed so widely that no reasonable doubt could be enter-
tained but that they were cruelly murdered and the ship
plundered and sunk. The whole of the crew have been
placed under arrest, and search is belt+ made n the locality
whore the ship is said to have been scuttled fcr the remains
of the captain and officers. It was expected several would
divulge the circumstances. The ship and cargo were valued
' at 8,000/. .