The Sun.
London, England, 1846-03-19 00:00:00

COUNTY OF KILDARE.-SATURDAY.

TRILL FOE THE MURDER OF DONNELLY, TIIE CRIPPLE.
—This case, which excited so much attention throughout this
county, was called on at the sitting of the Court.
The prisoner, James Quigley, a low, smooth-faced, rather
ill-looking young man, was put to the bar, and indicted in
the usual form for the wilful murder of Patrick Donnelly, at
Caragh, on the 24th of September last.
The principal evidence for the Crown was that of an ap-
prover, named Francis Reilly, who deposed that on the night
of the murder, he and the prisoner were going to rob a
Scotchman, who was travelling in a gig, when the cripple
and two women came up to where they were standing, near
a gravel pit ; a scuffle ensued, when the prisoner drew a
pistol and shot the cripple dead.
On cross-examination this witness stated that he could not
form the remotest idea of the number of outrages, robberies,
and crimes he had been engaged in. Could not go within
twenty of the number.
Mr. GORMAN—TeII me within five times of how often you
were tried.—Oh, I was seldom caught, you know ; I generally
pat in another in my place, and that was my business to the
castle; Ir.y conscience smote me when the man was mur-
dered, and I went out and committed a highway robbery
next night. I was afraid I would be hanged, and then my
conscience smote me, so I said I would save it and my neck
together. I thought as much of my neck, if not more, than
I did of my conscience.
Mr. GoalwAsr—On your oath, do you think there is as
great a villian as yourself breathing the breath of life at this
moment ? Witness—l don't think there is.
After the examination of other witnesses, the jury re-
turned a verdict of not guilty.
CHIEF Jusrica.—ls. there any other charge against this
man ?

Gaoler—Yes, my Lord, he is under sentence of fifteen
years' transportation for the robbery at Blanchardstown.
CHIEF JUSTICE—I am very much delighted to hear it,
as it will prevent him from troubling this country for that
time.

RYDE.
(From the Hampshire Independent.)
The specimen of clerical intolerance, which we pub
„liels-below.frons our correspondent, is one of those cases
which bring disgrace, iutead of credit, upon the
" Church by law established"—the Church, which is so
fond of calling itself the Church of all the people, when
all the people are called upon to contribute to its
luxuries; but which invariably proves itself to be only a
sect, when sectarian purposes are to be served. The
present case is one, too, in which all the natural, as well
as social, feelings are outraged. Such exhibitions are
as unwise as they are intolerant and unjust, and are only
calculated to cover with contempt and obloquy a system
which would vainly call itself national, whilst it is, in
fact, the reflection of every petty obloquy and every local
abuse. The Church ought to be relieved by its rulers
and superiors from such suicidal wrong.
REFUSAL OF A CLERGYMAN TO INTER THE BODY
OF A DISSENTING MINISTER.—The following particu-
lars of one of the most atrocious specimens of clerical
intolerance that have recently occurred, are supplied by
a correspondent, of whose entire accuracy we &reassured:
—The late Rev. T. S. Guyer, as a minister of the
Gospel, laboured faithfully in this town for more than
c2hB yoseeaursin.
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infant
daughter that died, and she was buried there. About
four years since another daughter died; she was twelve
years old. She was buried by the present Minister at
Binsteed without objection. Accordingly Mr. Guyer long
since fixed on Binstead as the place where he and his
family should be buried. Those who attended his
ministry know that he has often spoken most touchingly
of the spot where the babe and the daughter rest, expect-
ing his dust would mingle with theirs. A few days before
he died he "gave commandment concerning his bones,
and requested to be buried at Binsteed. Arrangements
were made accordingly, and notice was given to that
effect on Sabbath evening last. On Monday, the un•
dertaker, who is a deacon of the Independent Church at
Ryde, applied to Mr. Hewett in the usual way for leave
of interment, but was refused, he assigning as the reason
that the late Mr. Guyer was a Dissenting Minister, and
that he had preached against the Church of England ;
assuring the applicant that no consideration (for many
sere urged) would induce him to alter his decision.
That if the family wished, he would raise no obstacle to
their moving the ashes of the children, to facilitate
which the Reverend Gentleman offered to forego his
his fees. At the request of the widow and family it
was then arranged that the remains of our beloved
Minister should be interred in a vault to be prepared in
the chapel where he had so long laboured. These are
the facts and circumstances. I leave the Successor of
the Apostles in the hands of the friends of the Church
as by Law Established.
FUNERAL OF THE Ray. T. S. GUYER.—On Friday
(yesterday) the remains of the Rev. gentleman, amid a
vast concourse of spectators, were borne to their rest-
ing place, and deposited in a vault prepared for them
at the foot of the pulpit, of which for 28 years he had
been the ornament. The mourners, in great numbers,
assembled at ten o'clock, wearing flowing hatbands,
and proceeded at eleven o'clock to meet the corpse,
which they followed in procession. The ministers of
Independent Chapels supported the pall, and after the
family followed the ministers of the county, next the
members, 'congregation, and other friends. Tickets
had been preciously issued to the occupiers of seats in
the chapel, without which no one was admitted till
after the procession had entered. The Rev. T. Cousins,
of Portsea, officiated at the interment, and the Rev. T.
Bieney, of London, pronounced the funeral, oration.
which, by its powerful and effective eloquence, created
an intense and thrilling sensation. The Rev. T.
Adkins, of Southamp.on, preached the funeral ser-
mon in the evening. The shops were generally closed,
and every demonstration of love and respect for the
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been
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of the reverend gentleman that he should be buried
alongside his children in the ground at_
but the rector, the Rev. Philip Hewett, on
the
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nor
claim his fees for the removal in due form of the re-
mains of the children, should it be desired by the gionrf thattoedurinmsdseenntt,
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mily. A deep feeling of regret pervades the whole
town (and more especially among the members of the
Established Church), that such an uncalled-for attempt
to taint the memory of such a man as the deceased,
should emanate from a minister of the Church of Eng-
land. It has created a generous expression of sympathy
for the widow and family, whose feelings have been so
unnecessarily outraged. The following letter of condo-
lence has been numerously signed by members of the
Established Church :
" The undersigned members of the Protestant Church
of .England, having long known the exemplary deport-
ment of the late Rev. Thomas S. Guyer, as a minister of
the gospel, feel ourselves more especially called upon,
under present circumstances, to unite in testifying our
d en respect for his memory, and our sincere sympathy
with his bereaved family.
" Hyde, March 11, 1846."

DEATH OF JOHN LANOAN.—On Tuesday Mr. John
Langan, more familiarly styled and better known as " Jack Langan,"
the waging, breathed his last at the house of Mrs. Lewis, Five-lane-
ends, near Nestor), Cheshire. Ms death will 132 lamented by a larger
circle of friends. acquaintances, and admirers, than many moving in
the higher ranks of life can boast of possessing. Jack passed through
many vicissitudes of fortune, and at length realised for himself a
very handsome independence. Though he was never fortunate
enough to be the victor in any contest of note, yet he stood for many
years second only to one in the ring.--Liverpool Courier.
A large. quantity of potatoes are being sent from
Ciotti% to Ireland.

NAVAL IN TELLIGENCE. .
PORTSMOUTH, Mancrs, 18.
TITE RETRIEUTION.—TRIAL OF STEAMING.—" The Re-
tribution, steam-frigate, Captain Lushington, the Cyclops,
steam-frigate, Captain Lapidge, and the Scourge, steam-
bomb-sloop, Commander Caffin, got underway, on Saturday
morning, from Spithead, and proceeded to Cowes to accom-
pany the Fairy, Royal yacht tender, which was in waiting
there on her gejesty the Queen, to convey her to the Gosport
station, en route to London. The Royal standard was
hoisted on board the Fairy, on her Majesty's embarkation, a
few minutes after nine ; and the other steamers lay to await-
ing the Fairy to pass them; when a signal was observed on
board the yacht, directing all power to put on compatible
with the safety of the engines. The four vessels were now
pretty well abreast of each other, and it was a fair start. The
station of the Royal yacht was on the beam of the Retri-
bution, distant but a few yards, which ship the Queen, who
was on deck, seemed to view with great interest. The Royal
yacht proved that she had the legs of the others soon,
and passed on ; while Cyclops dropped so rapidly that she
was soon nowhere. The prettiest race imaginable was now
between Retribution and Scourge; and for five miles, with all
the power they could get on, a biscuit could be pitched from
one to the other; or, to borrow a phrase of the turf, a sheet
might have covered them. At length the acquiritive force
of the Retribution, from her greater weight, seemed to pre.
wail, and it was thought by those looking on that she might
have crossed the bows of the Scourge. The Retribution is
1,641 tons burden, and of 800 horse power. The Scourge is
1,124 tons burden, and 420-horse power. The Cyclops is of
nearly the same tonnage as the Scourge, but only of 320-
horse power." Of the Retribution and her stability the
Portsmouth paper says " Admiral Sir C. Ogle was much
pleased with the state of the ship as far as respects her disci-
pline, arrangement, and cleanliness. What report he can
give of the unfitness or capability of the ship we know not ;
but we find that when he desired the guns of one broadside
to be run out, the ship heeled over so much, that her guess-
warp boom was in the water ; and when she assisted in es.
corting her Majesty from Osborne House to Spithead, in
rounding the Bellerophon, the effect of the wind on the
colours with which she was decorated had such an influence
on her, that she inclined over six degrees."
DEATH OF THE SENIOR CAPTAIN ON TILE NAVY LIST.—
A few days since, in announcing the promotion of his son,
we alluded to the illness of Captain John Clavell. We regret
to state that this gallant officer died at Greenwich Hospital
on the 11th instant, at the advanced age of seventy. He
was the senior captain of the Navy List, the date ofhis.corn-
miss'on being February 4, 1800; and although hawing n
preface or appendices to his Christian and surname, his
career
in hard times was nevertheless distinguished, and his brilliant
services were officially acknowledged; and if he did not re-
ceive those honours which are the just and appropriate re-
ward of ,the brave and the skilful officer, he fairly earned and
richly deserved them. He was midshipman of the Victory,
at Toulon, in 1793, when Sir G. Cockburn was lieutenant of
that ship, served on shore under Nelson at the siege and
taking of Bastia and Calvi, in 1795; in Hotham's second ac-
tion, in the July of that year, insthe action off Cape St. Vin-
cent, in February, 1797, in command of the jolly-boat of the
Victory, with six men, captured two transports laden with
powder. He was promoted to the rank of lieutenant in July,
1797, and was senior of Lord Collingwood's ship, the Royal
Sovereign, at the battle of Trafalgar, in which be was
wounded. His services were officially commended, and he
was promoted to the rank of commander. his commission
bearing date the day after the battle. He subsequently com-
manded the Weazel brig, in which ship he engaged for
several hours, and captured, a Spanish privateer pierced for
20 guns. He also took part in numerous actions in the
Adriatic, and on one occasion was again wounded. He
was appointed, in 1837, to the superintendent ship of Chat-
ham Dockyard, and on the expiration of his term of ser-
vice there was appointed to Greenwich Hospital. Captain
Clavell received pecuniary reward from the Patriotic Fund
for his services.
THE COAST GUARD.—lnstances having recently occurred
in which the allowances granted to the widows of officers of
the Coast Guard service, for the maintenance of their children,
until they should attain the age of 15 years, had been paid
after the children had respectively attained that age; and it
appearing that certificates of the ministers and church-
wardens, in accordance with the form prescribed by the order
of November, 1837, bad been produced by the parties in each
case; the revenue authorities, with the view of preventing
any similar irregularity, have directed that new forms of
certificate and declaration be substituted for those required
by the order above referred to, and transmitted to the col-
lectors and comptrollers of the several ports of the United
Kingdom for their government; and those officers have been
directed to keep a record of the allowances granted for the
support of the children of officers, showing the ages of the
respective parties, with the dates when the allowance will
cease and have reference thereto, in every case previously to
making any payment claimed on account thereof; and
directions have further been given that on the grant of any
similar allowance in future the dates of the births of the
children be communicated to the Comptroller-General of the
Coast Guard, in order to enable him to check any payments
which may be improperly made.
Her Majesty's brig Snake put back to St. Helen's yester-
day morning, in consequence of the heavy gale of wind
which prevailed on Monday. After setting up the rigging,
Commander Brown put to sea again this morning, the wind
being fair at E.N.E.
The Carysfort, 26, took shelter in Weymouth roads.
The orders for her Majesty's ship Warspite to be paid off
at Plymouth have this day been countermanded, and she is
to be put in commission at this port. She is hourly ex-
pected, and has on board a number of military invalids from
Afalta and Gibraltar.

The officers and crew of the Rodney having cleared the
Bellerophon of all her stores and provisions, she has been
transferred to the officers of the dockyard. For the extra
service of fitting out and dismantling the Bellerophon, the
following allowance is made to the crew of the Rodney, agree-
ably to the Queen's regulations ;—Lieutenants of the navy,
captains of marines, and masters, 3s. a day; other officers,
ranking with lieutenants of the navy, and lieutenants of ma-
rines, 2s. 6d. a day ; mates, and officers ranking with them,
2s. a day; warrant officers, and subordinate officers, is. 6d.
a day; first class petty officers, sergeants of marines, and all
artificers, I.s. 3d. a day ; second class petty officers, corporals
of marines, seamen, and others, ls. a day; private marines
and landsmen, 9d. a day; boys, Bd. a day. The time occu-
pied has been twelve days.
The Electra has a few defects to make good, and will be
ready to be paid, and proceed to aea by Saturday. Her
armament is to be changed, and she is to carry 32-pounders.
The guns and carriages will be shipped at Spithead. The
destination of the Electra is not known.

Commander Alexander Murray, late of the Rodney, is ap-
pointed tolhe Favourite, 18, at Plymouth.
The Monkey, steam tug vessel, on her passage from Wool-
wich to Cork, put into this harbour on Monday, during a
gale of wind, and was to have proceeded this day ; but a
report being made to the Commander-in-Chief of her unfit-
ness to encounter a gale, and her general debility, a survey
has been held, and the officers of the dockyard have pro-
nounced the Monkey to be no longer adapted for sea duty.
Mr. Bryant, the master, and his crew will be turned over to
another vessel.

The Netley returned to Plymouth this day.
A vessel arrived at Spithead on Monday from the River,
with convicts on board for New South Wales. This morn-
ing some cases of small-pox have appeared among the pas-
sengers, and she has been ordered to the Quarantine-ground,
to wait a few dam to see if any new cases occur.
Disastrous accounts have been received from her Majesty's
ship Fox, .42, Commodore Sir Henry Blackwood, Bart. It
appears that on her passage to Bombay, she got on some
rocks in the Gulf of Persia, and sustained so much damage
that it was with difficulty she got to Bombay. She was
caught in a hurricane, but had about thirteen fathoms water ;
this suddenly shoaled to 3% fathoms, and her anchors were
let down ; she drove on the rocks, and before she could be
cleared, her guns were thrown over to lighten her; all the
false keel, great part of the stem, and the dead wood, is car-
ried away, and her injuries are described as being much more
serious than those of her Majesty's ship Pique, when she got
on the rocks on the coast of North America. Toe Fox is in
dock at Bombay, and is estimated to cost 5,0001. to repair,
and make her fit for sea.
Commander Smith, late of the Siren, and Lieutenant W.
E. Triscott, formerly acting flag-lieutenant to Admirals Sir
C. Rowley and Sir C. Ogle, have this week been promoted.
Her Majesty's ship President, 50, with the flag of Rear.
Admiral Dacres, was at Rio Janeiro on the 19th January,
all well. She had had a very good passage of five weeks
from Madeira. The President, after completing water and
provisions, was to proceed to the Cape of Good Hope, with
all speed.

Tfie North Star, 26, Captain Sir J. E. Home, Bart.; the
Racehorse, 18, Commander Hay ; and the Hon. East India
Company's sloop Elphinstone, were at Auckland, New Zea-
land, on the 22d of November.
The Hazard, 18, Commauder Egerton, had left Auckland
for China, to conmuinicate with the Commauder-in-Chi4f,
Rear-Admiral Sir T. Cochrane, on her way to England to be
paid oft: • • -
The Wanderer, Commander Sommerville, and harlequin,Commander Curry, have nearly completed their rigging, at
Portsmouth; and the Childers, Commander Pittman, is also
beginning to make a show, having her lower rigging over
and tops and caps on. They have not yet received their
guns, but it is still said they will only have 12 32-pounders
each, instead of 16 carrouades.
THE JANus, STEAM-SLOOP.--The workmen have not yet
commenced the repairs of the damage done to the engine of the
Janus at the last trial. If any more of the public money is
to be spent on her, it is said that to make good her defects
she will have to be taken to Woolwich, as they cannot be re-
paired at Portsmouth. .
COmmander Caffin, will be
The Scourge,bomb-stearn-sloop,
sometime under the hands of the dockyard at Portsmouth.
It is said her cathead and bilboards require some' alteration.
SHEERNESS, MARCH 17.—The America, 50, Captain the
Hon. John Gordon, 14,18 at Maiatlan on the 6th of January,
collecting freight, of which she had on board specie to the
amount of 1,000,000 dollars, and was to sail for Valparaiso
about the middle of February, where she would most pro-
bably transfer her specie to another vesssel.
The Heels steam-sloop, Commander John Duffill, arrived
at Constantinople on the 18th of February, with dispatches
for the Embassy.
The Athol troop-ship, Master-Commander J. Pearse, ar-
rived at Port Royal,, Jamaica, on the Bth of February, from
Barbadoes, where she had transferred the troops affected with
small-pox intended for that island, to a separate vessel,
bringing on Major Vaughan and Captain Glasgow's com-
panies of Royal Artillery for Jamaica.
The Blenheim troop-ship sailed from Jamaica or the 25th
January, with the head-quarters of the 77th Regiment, under
the command of Col. Wilson, for Halifax, Nova Scotia.
The Virago steam-sloop, Commander G. G. Otway, in con-
sequence of the intelligence from India, has been placed at
the disposal of the Consul-General at Alexandria.
The Brilliant, 20, Capt. R. B. Watson, C. 8., progresses
favourably with her rigging and manning ; Lieut. Wm H.
Bridge has been appointed first lieutenant. It will be re-
membered that this officer was lieutenant of the Cormorant
steam-sloop at Valparaiso, and was dismissed his ship by
court-martial for refusing to shake hands with the Vice •
Consul at Islay.
The Speedy cutter, Lieut.-Commander George Spong,
haring bean found very defective, has been paid off into
ordinary.
The Speedwell has been undocked, and continues her fit-
tings in the Camber. The Goodwill lighter has replaced her
in dock, to have her bottom repaired.
The Cornwall, 50, is under the shears, to be masted.
The Conquestador, 50, will be undocked in the course of
next week, to be masted, when the Worcester, SU, will be
hauled in to be fitted.
. The Trafalgar, 120, flag-ship, Capt. J. N. Nott, is ordered
to be got ready for sea, and take on board six months' stores
and provision. She is now all ataunt in the harbour, but
requires considerable repairs. Since her last cruise she has
lost upwards of 100 men by desertion.
The Avenger steam-frigate, and Inflexible steam-sloop, are
ready for the penant at Devonport.
The Favourite, 18, is ordered to be commissioned at that
port by Commander Alexander Murray.
PLYMOUTH, MARCH 17.—0 n Sunday letters were received
from the Lords of the Admiralty, expressing great satisfac-
tion at the manner in which the Calcutta had been got ready,
and ordering her to be restored to her original position, and
also directing that the men should have extra pay for the
time that they kad been employed. She was removed from
the Sound and towed up the harbour to-day, the weather
yesterday being too bad.

THE ARMYr,
It is reported in military circles th he effacers 'Of the
Guards intend to erect a cenotaph to •413WOrysof the late
i
Major Somerset, who was slain n- sorthe late battles-1n
India.
The white trousers, as an article of summer dress, will no
longer be worn, and on the Ist of May licit the soldiers will,.
for the first time, appear in an article of a darker texture,
more serviceable and less liable to be soiled. - r
Several sergeants in the household troops' hay. received -
commissions in the regiments of militia about to.be called out
for training. ••r f,•.;
The sth Dragoon Guards, serving for some time back at
Nottingham. proceed to York, there to relieve the 10th Hus-
sars, who will embark in a few days, at Gravesend, for India.
The 6th (Enniskillen) Dragoons are under orders for Ire-
land • as are the 92d Highlanders.
The 17th Lancers, lately stationed at Brighton, are ex-
pected to be ordered to Ireland in a short time.

MELANCHOLY SHIPWRECKS.
EIGHTY LIVES LOST.
The following are the' particulars, so far as they are at
present known, of the loss of two vessels, the Ida, 550 tons
(British barque), and the John Minturn (American vessel),
the wrecks of which were reported at Lloyd's on Monday The Ida was commissioned by Government for the con-
veyance of stores to Canada, and left the River on the 18th
of last December for Portsmouth, where she took in the
stores, and finally sailed for St. John's, New Brunswick, on
the 4th of January. There were on board, besides the
crew (18 in number, including the master, Captain William
Chamber), 38 passengers, male and female. After her de-
parture nothing was heard of her until Monday last, when
the intelligence of her fate was received. A letter, stated to
be written by Mr. Sherwood, the British Consul at Port-
land, thus describes her loss :—" On the 2Gth of January,
being in lat. 44 N., long. 52 30 W., the barque broached
to, while scudding before a severe gale from S.S.E., and was
thrown on her beam ends. Orders were given to cut ay ay
the foremast, but before they had time to do so the barque
righted, full of water. The captain then ordered the long-
boat to be got under the lee, the other boat having been lost.
The passengers immediately rushed into her promiscuously,
followed by the captain and crew, to the number of 45. The
painter parted, and the beat dropped astern. The land bore
N.N.E., distant about 30 leagues by observation. The boat
got about two cables length from the vessel, when she ship-
ped a sea, filled, and all in her perished. The -mate, nine
men, and one young woman remained on the wreck, in the
the tops, from Monday morning until Friday morning, when
they were taken off by the schooner Three Sisters, cf Eden,
when they were landed much frozen, and in destitute circum-
stances, the mate being the only one able to travel."
The Ida was not registered at Lloyd's, and the inquiries
made to ascertain who were her owners, andt:to know the
names of the passengers, have not been successful.
The fate of the John Minturn and her crew and passen-
gers, amounting to fifty in number, was of a most deplorable
character. The ill-fated ship, a newly built vessel, more than
5,000 tons burden, was bound to New York, having, besides
a number of cabin and steerage passengers, several ship-
wrecked seamen, who had been picked up on the voyage. Up
to Saturday, the 14th ult., the weather was most favouratle
for the voyage, and they were within three days' sail of her
destination. Soon after sunset on that day, however, there
came on a stiff breeze from the eastward, which, as the even-
ing advanced, greatly increased. The ship stood N.N.E. till
twelve o'clock, by which period the wind had increased to
a gale. Tier course was then altered to the south, and was
kept till daybreak. When the shore was discovered, it ap-
peared to the leeward, about two miles distant. The tem-
pestuous weather in the meantime had increased considerably.
Every sail was torn almost to ribbons by the violence of the
wind, and the ship rendered unmanageable. On the land
being perceived, every nerve was exerted to keep her off, but
unfortunately it was impracticable, as the gale blew direct on
to the coast, and gradually drifted her inwards, and at half-
past nine o'clock she struck with tremendous force. The
succeeding wave raised her, and dashed her with violence on
the rocks, when she broke but did not separate. The horror
and; confusion at the moment of her striking were terrific,
and when the worst was known every effort (says one of the
survivors, a seaman named King) was made to preserve the
lives of those on board, numbering fifty- one, including
passengers. The masts were cut away to ease her, but with
little effect, as she continued to strike fearfully. The yawl
was then cut loose from the stern davits, but the surf
ran so high that before she could be got round she swamped,
and became useless. The captain, with his wife, sen, (laugh-.
ter, servant, and cabin passengers, took refuge in the poop
cabin, the only place whero they could be sheltered from the
violence of the sea, which was pouring over them in all direc-
tions. By great exertion the long-boat was cast adrift, and
launched over the bows. Five of the crew and a steerage
passenger, a Portuguese, jumped into her, and a long coil of
liue was stowed in her stern sheets, by which it was intended
to carry a hawser ashore, and she was then shoved off. On
approaching the land, the men found that it was impossible,
to tow the line through the breakers, in consequence of the
great pressure on the boat. They resolved on cutting it away,
that being the only chance of reaching the shore. All hope,
was now lost of saving those on the wreck. Their sufferings
are described as being truly frightful. Being exposed to the
full 'violence of the sea, and a piercing cold wind,
ice soon formed over the surface of their drenched clothing.
In this state they remained until noon, when those who
were alive, for some had already sunk from their awful suf-
fering, went forward to the forecastle, where they lashed
themselves to prevent the sea from washing them from the
wreck. It is supposed that the captain, his mate, and the
pilot remained in the poop, for they were not seen after-
wards; and in the course of an hour the ship parted amid-
ships, and the after part drifted away into the sea. The re-
maining portion of the wreck then floated considerably in.
shore. In the latter part of the day another portion of the
wreck separated, which carried away the half of those who
were lashed to the forecastle, all of whom instantly perished.
The rest lived a few hours afterwards, till by the combined
effects tif the intense frost, and the surf beating over them,
they gradually sunk and expired. Between eleven and
twelve o'clock-at night a boat was put off to rescue these
who were clinging to other pieces of the wreck, consisting
of two mates, two of the crew, and four of the steerage
passengers ; and after almost instlrmountable difficulties
they were preserved, although, as may be readily conceived,
reduced to the last stage of exhaustion. In the wreck of
the forecastle sixteen bodies were found lying in a cluster
round the slump of the foremast, and it seemed as if the
unfortunate creatures had huddled themselves together for
warmth. Among them could be recognised the captain's
wife, his children, and a female steerage passenger, with an
infant at her breast, and so firmly grasped that they could
not be separated. Owing to the quantity of ice that co-
vered the wreck the task of removing the bodies that night
was given up, in consequence of the extreme danger attend-
ing it. On the following morning, at daybreak, they were
brought ashore, when the beach was lined by the inhabit-
ants of the neighbouring villages. Aniongst them were a
desperate gang of wreckers, who plundered every body that
was washed up from the other pieces of wreck. Several of
the passengers were known to have had a large amount of
money about them. Up to the last accounts, thirty-two
bodies were found. The ship had entirely gone to pieces, a
portion of her bottom only remairing, which was embedded
in the sand by the weight of the pig iron which formed par t
of her cargo. She was only partially insured.

EXPERIMENTS WITH LIFE-PRESERVING APPARATUS
AT Woorwmn.— On Thursday last Captain Sir Thomas Hastings,
lint., R.N., clerk of the Ordnance, Lieutenant-Colonel Barney, com-
mandant of Royal Engineers at Woolwich, Lieutenant-Colonel
Dundas, C. 8., Lieutenant-Colonel Colquhoun, and Captain
Palliser, of the Royal Artillery, assembled at the Royal Ar-
senal to, witness experiments to illustrate a simple mode of sav-
ing the lives of persons when shipwrecked on the sea coasts, of
a plan submitted by Captain Jerningham, commanding the coast
guard at Yarmouth, a station which has afforded him an oppor-
tunity of .witnessing in many cases the complication and ineffi-
ciency of the plans adopted at present. The experiments on
Thursday were made from a 5U inch brass mortar, by tiring
an anchor, weighing 341b5., made on a similar principle to
Porter's anchor, with the exception of its wanting the small
projecting part to give it the first holding quality, and the two
flukes moving on the pivot independent of each other, for the pur-
pose of both being enabled to lie close to the shank when placed in
the mortar. On being fired, the flukes open during the flight of the
anchor, and are secured by a spring in their extended position.
When fired into the Thames it required the united strength of seven-
teen men to drag home the anchor. The experiments were resumed
On Tuesday, in the Marshes at Woolwich, in the presence of Lieu-
tenant-Colenel-Dundas, C. 8., Lieutenant-Colonel Dansey, C. 8., Lieu-
tenant-Colonel Claimer, Assistant Director-General of Artillery ;
Lieutenant-Colonel Barney, Royal Engineers ; and Captain Palliser,
of the Proof Department at the Royal Arsenal. The object of the
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united strength of twelve athletic artillerymen to drag It home.
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a rope upon a wooden roller attached to a hand-
barrow,which occupied exactly three minutes in winding up, an-
sered
remarkably well, and appeared greatly superior to the
arrangement of a rope adjusted by a wooden rack, which is far more
cumbersome, and requires a greater number of hands to work it. The
rope used by Captain Jerningham is known by the designation of
" manilla." one and a half inch thick where attached to the shot, and
possesses great advantages over the hide leather previously used ;
as when dry and lying fhr some time untamed, the latter becomes
liable to break when fired. Twelve rounds were fired on Tuesday
with the manilla, which answered the purpose effectually.
hi UICIDE.—S mattuitY, MARCH 16.—Yesterday after-
noon, between twelve and one o'clock, another awfbl and melan-
choly case of suicide occurred in this town, Mr. Alexander Frost,
postmaster, having cut his throat with a razor. It is supposed that a
deficiency in his accounts relative to the Post-office department, with
the anticipation of being shortly removed from his situation, led him
to commit the rash act by which he has left his wife a widow, and
four very young children fatherless and wholly unprovided for. This
afternoon an inquest was held at the Angel Inn, before William
Dawman, Gent., coroner of the borough, when A verdict of " Tem-
porary insanity" was returned.—Bury Post.
A mistake has been made in the papers which an-
nounced the arrival of Joseph Buonaparte, ex-King of *Spain, from
America, that individual having died in Italy about two years ago.
THE TARIFF.—The butter merchants at Brew's Quay,
yesterday, received intimation, through the bone'ing officer of her
Majesty's Customs, that Government were prepared at once to re-
move the duty of 10s. per cwt. from foreign butters, provided they
would guarantee the amount, should the measure new before Parlia-
ment not become law. The immediate effect was, that Dutch butter
fell from 130 s. to 128 a., this, added to the ss. per cent., reduces the
article altogether 13s. per cwt. This reduction does not appear to
have affected the price of English fresh batter.
BODY FOUND IN THE THAMES —Yesterday the body
of a man was found in the Thames near Bermondsey, which appeared
to be that of a sailor, and had evidently been in the water ten or
twelve days. The body now lies at the Bermondsey workhouse, to
await the Coroner's inquest,
WOODEN PlvEmErr.—The City Commission Of
Cowers decided on Tuesdao, by forty votes to one, that Newgate-
street should be paved with granite, and that the strec t should be
closed for that purpose for three weeks, the dissentient being Mr.
Eagleton, of Newgate-street. Two years ago the votes in the same
body were forty to one against stone, and in favour of wood, that one
being Sir Peter Laurie. _ _ -

INJURY TO AN ORGAN.—The new organ of St. (Mare's,
Southwark, now in course of completion, was on Sunday last da-
maged by some evilly disposed person, who must have gained ad-
mission into the interior by a false key. The action or the great
organ key-beard was tampered with and injured. The new pipes
pinched together at the top, and In one case rent down, the trot
_counterbalance of the bellows torn up (an act requiring very consi-
derable force to perpetrate), and the valve of the pedal bellows very
much damaged. The organ was the first instrument in England
constructed on the principle ore double-double gamut, having a 32-
feet diapason throughout the grand n'anual key-board. It has been
two year Tin the course of perfecting, under the design of Dr. Gaunt-
lett, the organist, and had been lately placed in Mr. 11111's hands for
completion. A first trial was made on Sunday of certain stops, and
daring the morning service the instrnment was in good and perfect
order, but at the evening service the mischief perpetrated was so
great as almost to occasion an impossibility of playing upon it. The
extent of this malicious mutilatlen was fully discovered on the
worlmen assembling on Monday, but how admission Ivan procured
into the interior is yet a mystery. It is evident that some know-
ledge of the mechanism of an organ must have been poisessed by the
perpetrator, as all his exertions were directed to those pbrtions of the
instrument which could suffer most from violence.
Too MUCH TROUBLE.—'I he newspnimr reports from
the Western circuit state that at Winchester, the week before last,
three soldiers were indicted for assaulting a woman named Lucy
Edmonds, and robbing her of half-a-crown, her property. The first
witness proved that the prosecutrix was a married woman. Where-
upon Mr. Justice Erie said, that " as the money in the indictment
was stated to be the property of Lucy Edmonds, and it turned out
that she was a married woman, the prisoners must be acquitted, be-
cause a married woman eouldnot have half a-crown of her own." Now
this may seem a very hard case ; and it may appear a very easy
matter for the Legislature to pass an enactment rendering the speci-
fication of the person actually robbed sufficient, in a case of felony,
for the validity of an indictment. But this change in the law is net
called for ; that's, there is no serious danger of an insurrection or a
revolution from its not being adopted : why, therefore, Should Minis-
ters take the trouble to effect it ?—Punch.
:Wetter froth Rome-mentions the death, in that city,
nntro 4th, of Cardinal Mangelli, aged 84.