The Sun.
London, England, 1870-07-28 00:00:00

THE LOSS OF H.M.S. SLANEY.

The China papers contain full accounts of the loss of
U.M. gunboat Slaney, which was wrecked on her voyage
from Singapore to Hong Kong in May, in a typhoon.
It will be remembered that the vessel struck on a reef,
and broke to pieces in the surf, in which no boat could
live. The Commander, Lieutenant Elwin, ordered a
raft to be made and launched. When the raft
left he called out to his men, " You must do
the best you can for your lives, lads ; I am no raftsman,"
and plunged into the water, intending to swim to land.
Unfortunately he never reached it. The seven who re-
mained on board the hull were taken off by a fishing
junk on the 14th, and these, with the three who
reached the shore on bits of the raft, were
the only ones saved out of a ' crew of fifty-one
persons. Five of those saved were Chinamen, the others
were, a gunner, a cook, a corporal of marines, and two
seamen. The barometer, before the ship struck, had
fallen to 28. In the same typhoon the Caractacus was
also lost, but the crew were more fortunate, the vesselbeing
driven high up on the reef. The survivors came together
to Hong Kong, after enduring great hardships which
especially affected the wife and children of Captain
Murray of the Caractacus. Captain Murray's certificate
has been returned to him, with commendation by the
M:Lrine Court of Inquiry. Great complaints are made of
the system of pillage of wrecked ships which goes on on
the Hauian coast.

The following is a list of the officers and men lost :
W. F. Elwyn, lieutenant commanding; R. S. Evatt,
navigating sub-lieutenant ; W. F. Ryall, assistant-Bur-
goon ; J. Young, engineer in charge ; Daniel Wishart,
engineer ; John Smith, assistant-engineer, first class ;
E. G. Wells, chief gunner's mate; A. Todd, boatswain's
mate ; Benjamin Pink and Thomas Owen, quartermas-
ters ; W. Burton, leading seaman ; Evan Jones, leading
stoker ; Joseph Jones, sick berth attendant ; W. C. Court,
ship's steward, third class; W. Patton, W. H. Burgess,
and G. Trimble, A. B.'s ; H. Roberts? H. Ellington, G.
Brice, W. Gear, W. Boscell, W. Pepin, J. E. Ventries,
W. Claring-bod, T. Hancock, Patrick Hosey, H, Raile,
W. H:4t, T. Moon, and F. Burrows, ordinary seamen;
D. Ward, G. Annereauf and T. Warren, stokers ; S.
13a.vton, S. Fenn, S. Delve, and W. Poorf privates Royal
Mzkrine Vglit Infantry.
iuese.—Abingr, officers' cook ; Ah Woon, engineers
servant • and Hung Ching stoker.
Die following is a list of those saved :
C. Milton, gunner, second class ' • J. Douglas, ship's
cook ; W. Diamond, acting corporal Royal Marine Light
Infantry : R. Lane, A.B. ; and G. Brock, ordinary--none
of whom, except Brock, could swim.
Chinese—Chunling, ward-room servant; Apan, cap-
tain's sorvant ; Achant, warrant officer's servant ; Affoo,
stoker : and Achuck, carpenter's crew.

Mr. Reed has been compelled to give way to the
Government business, and his motion affecting Sunday
labou in the Post Office, which stood for last night, is
postponed to the sth of August. It is not improbable
that faen in a thin House he may think it prudent not to
hazard a division.

MADAME TUSSAUD'EL—Portrait models of John
Jones, alias John Owen, and Walter Millar, perpetrators
of the Uxbridge and Chelsea tragedies, have been added
to the chamber of horrors. Their physiognomies do not
belie thir characters. They are excellent models and ex-
cellent likenesses. _ _

The Medical Department of the Privy Council has
promised to take into its consideration a complaint made
on behalf of the weavers of Blackburn of the practice of
infusing steam into weaving sheds for the purpose of
enabling manufacturers to use more size and yarn of bad
quality, in the manufacture of cloth. It is represented
that the practice is resorted to in thirty-five mills, and
that it is injurious to the health of the operatives.

Temperature still continues high generally. At
eight o'clock in the morning the thermometer registered
65 deg. in London, 59 deg. at Wick, and 60 deg. at
Valentia. Winds are north-easterly, fresh in the Chan-
nel, but generally northerly, light to moderate elsewhere.
The weather is clearer in the west and north, and the sea
is generally moderate.

H.AI. troopship Tamar, Gaptain Henry D. Hick-
ley, arrived at Portsmouth on Tuesday morning from
Quebec, Halifax, and St. John's, which latter port she
left on the 16th inst. She brought No- 1 battery Royal
Artillery, the sth and 34th companies, Royal Engi-
neers, and a number of officers, military invalids, and
time-expired men.

ROYAL COMMISSION ON SCIENTIFIC INSTRUCTION
AND THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE.--A meeting of the
members of the above commission was held at the South
Kensington Museum on the 27th inst., for the purpose of
inspecting the chemical laboratory, &c., now being
erected. Present—The Duke of Devonshire, K.G., Sir
John Lubbock, Bart., M.P., F.R.S., Sir J. P. Kay
Shuttleworta, Bart., Mr. B. Samuelson, M.P., Dr.
Sharpey, Sec., R.S., Professor Huxley, F.R.S., Dr. W.
A. Miller, Treas., R.S., Professor Stokes, Sec., R.S.
and the secretary, Mr. J. Norman Lockyer,

Mr. Cadogan has given notice that to-day he will
inquire whether her Majesty's Government is in posses-
sion of any information tending to shew that subsequent
to the battle of Koenigsgratz, in 1865, proposals were
made by the Prussian Government to the Government
of France for the annexation of Belgium to the French
Empire.

The Headmastership of the Butterwick Grammar
School, Boston, has become vacant by the death of the
Rev. John Jackson, M.A. The rev. gentleman was
educated at St. Catherine's College, Cambridge, where he
took his B.A. degree in 1833, being twenty-fourth junior
optime in the mathematical tripos.
Mr. Ferdinand John Schonberg, of Harrogate,
wine merchant to H.M. the Queen and H.R.H. the
Prince of Wales, has been appointed Spanish consul at
Middlesborough. This is the first new consulship created
by the present Spanish Government. Mr. Schonberg
has likewise had the honour of being made a Knight
Commander of the Most Noble Order of Charles the
Fifth.

Private letters received at Portsmouth from her
Majesty's gun vessel Growler, on the West Coast of
Africa station, state that Commander E. F. Seymour
was compelled to resign his command of her 'and invalid
home from the unhealed state of the severe rifle shot
wound he received when in command of the boats of the
Growler in the early part of the present year, on the
Congo river, in the recovery of the British schooner
Loando, with her officers and crew, from a band of native
pirates who had seized her.
The excitement produced by the war among the
Austrians has proved a fruitful source of gain to the
Viennese booksellers. All kinds of works on military
subjects, and even abstruse treatises on fortification,
tactics, &c., which have hitherto been almost unsaleable,
are now at a premium. Maps are, of course, also in great
request, and the booksellers drive a roaring trade in these
articles, especially as the Viennese public seem to believe
that the war will spread far beyond its present limits, and
expect a " map of the seat of war " to include almost
every country in Europe, and India and the United States
as well.—Eastern Budget.
Ouit FIRST COMMISSIONER OF WORKS.—The two
most stupendous events in English history during this
nineteenth century are the Battle of Waterloo and the
appointment of Mr. Ayrton as First Commissioner of
Works. Both occurrences, though for opposite reasons,
will be remembered almost as long as English history
continues to be recorded. In one England at-
tained the height of her power and glory, and
in the other touched her climax of absurdity.
While governments rise and crumble again, into dust, the
appointment of a glib lawyer as chief cedile to the most
enlightened nation of modern times, and controller of its
public wsthetics, will remain the eighth wonder of the
world. The great Asian mystery has been completely
surpassed, and Mr. Gladstone has overshadowed with a
profounder puzzle the riddle of the Sphinx.—Gentleman's
Magazine for August.

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