The Sun.
London, England, 1846-08-22 00:00:00

LOST OR MISSING, OR SAVED.

Missing—Captain, 1; mate, 1; Manillamen, 3.
Saved—Manillamen, 4 ; European, 2.
Taken away by pirates— Chinese steward, 1 ; boy, 1;
cook, 1 ; woman, 1.
Total, 15.

The Privateer is a small schooner engaged in river traffic,
and has hitherto been considered as safe from piratical
attacks, which have rarely been made unless upon native
boats, and never before, I think, on an English vessel.
But success in the present instance may encourage to greater
boldness in future, unless something effectual be done to
put down the pirates. Government lately built one gunboat,
of ridiculously small dimensions, to guard a hundred miles of
a great river, with innumerable islands and creeks, haunted
by lawless gangs, who have no respect for their own autho-
rities, and are losing all dread of ours. It would have been
better had the thing been left alone than attempted with
such inadequate means. The little gun-boat will soon be
known to all the pirates on the coast, but without striking
terror into them. On the present occasion, she passed the
place where the privateer was taken not an hour before, and
was allowed to be out of sight before the attack was made—
the pirates being thus as safe as a housebreaker in former
times, after a Charley had cried the hour, and given notice
of his whereabouts, and that the coast was clear for a time
certain.

Another case of piracy is given on Chinese authority :
A case of piracy is reported by the Chinese as having hap-
pened on the 4th of June. Eight small junks, having pas-
sengers and earthenware on board from Canton, bound to
Amoy, had left the Bogue, and were going along at a very
rapid rate, when the foremost was attacked by a fishing-
smack full of men. The others, either frightened, or being
ignorgrit of what had happened, tan too Last to leeward to
render any assistance. The sailors, however, defended
themselves manfully, and did not yield the deck until six of
them were wounded. Then the pirates jumped on board,
took away every valuable article, and extorted a heavy sum
for their release. Two of the junk men are very dangerously
wounded.

It is to be hoped, as both English and Chinese suffer, that
measures will be adopted for their mutual protection.
Something of the sort was talked of last year; but I believe
our authorities were not satisfied, and demanded better secu-
rity that the Chinese employed would not league themselves
with the pirates.
The Chinese are very active in denouncing piratical prac-
tices, but they are still more supine than ourselves in adopt-
ing active measures for their suppression. Several edicts
on the subject will be found in the China Mail, communi-
cated by the native correspondent of that paper.

DISCOVERY OF ANOTHER
PACTOLUS.

.
A Belgian paper gives the following, strange tale, the
truth of which it vouches for, and states that more ex-
tensive details are in its possession, and could be given,
only that they might be prejudicial to the realisation of
the enterprise :—" A distinguished French engineer,
who was sent some years ago to Panama, to make geo-
logical researches, and study the question of piercing
the isthmus, has brought back some specimens of gold
which Baron Thenard, after chemical assay, has pro-
nounced to be of the greatest richness. The engineer
states that he had gathered this gold in the sands of a
river of the isthmus. Such are the riches of the grains
of gold which this river rolls along that the natives,
who are occupied in gathering them, gain fifty francs
per day, and that the sands they wash contain still,
after the operation, more than double the quantity of
gold which they had obtained from them. 'The engineer
had examined with care the course of the river to its
source, and remarked that it traversed an enormous
group of rocks, in the midst of which it must have been
depositing for ages a vast mass of grains of gold. Ac-
cording to his estimates there must be far more than
eight milliards of francs of gold mineral buried under
these rocks. (One milliard of francs, it may be ob-
served here, is equal to forty millions sterling.) When
the engineer made known the result of his researches
and conjectures at home, he met only with incredulous
hearers, and was treated as a visionary. Notvvithstand•
ing he hasp given details so precise, he appears so cer-
tain of the success of a future exploration that several
capitalists have resolved to confide to him the funds
necessary for exploring on a great scale the sands of the
river. For this purpose it was resolved not to form a
company by shares, but to confine the enterprise to a
certain number of capitalists willing to run the risks of
the affair. The capital embarked in this undertaking
will be either entirely lost, or will produce more than a '
million per cent. to those who subscribe the funds. The
engineer himself engages not to require any share of the
profits until the enterprise shall have realised three
milliards of francs (one hundred and twenty millions
sterling ! ! Here ale, as may be seen, all the riches
of Potosi, all the gold of Pactolus, which it is expected
will be found anited between the two parts of America.
The preparations for the undertaking are already in an
advanced state. The dredging machine boat for the
operations is in course of construction, and the depar-
ture of the engineers and workmen will take place in
two or three months. If this affair, which has been, in
hand for several years, has remained unknown to the
public, the reason is that the parties engaged in it look
upon their capital advanced as being exposed to an ex,
traordinary risk, and therefore are anxious to avoid
being held up to ridicule by appearing to have too much
confidence in the result of those researches." Such is
the marvellous story. It is evident, from the length of
years spoken of since the enterprise was first proposed,
that the French engineer was one of those sent out in
the famous bubble year of 1825 to make surveys in
Panama for one of the projects of a canal, for which
several companies were formed in that year, in this
country and elsewhere.

THE LATE MURDER AT THE

GUILDHALL COFFEE-HOUSE.

The unfortunate young woman, Susan Tolliday, was
the daughter of James Tolliday, a whitesmith, residing
in Maye's-yard, Castle-eden, in this town. The deceased
was the eldest child, being about twenty-one years of
age. She left Cambridge fourteen months since, when
she went to London and entered into the service of Mr.
Walters, of the Guildhall Coffee-house, Icing-street,
Cheapside. John Smith, the murderer, was distantly
related to his victim through his wife. It appears
that he was a man of violent passions and of intem-
perate habits. A great degree of intimacy existed be-
tween Smith and the deceased, consequent upon their
relationship, though frequent quarrels took place
between them. About six weeks ago, the deceased
had arranged to pay a visit to her friends in Cam•
bridge, but instead of coming, she addressed a letter to
her mother, in which she stated that ,she could not
come until she had received another month's wages, as
she had lent some money to "John" and he had not
paid her. This was the last communication her parents
received from her. Last Sunday morning a messenger,
dispatched by Mr. Walters, brought a letter to de-
ceased's mother, stating that she was very ill and not

likely to live, and that unless her friends immediately
hastened to London they would not see her alive again.
Her eldest brother, an industrious well-conducted
young man, who has worked for Mr. Finch of this town
for many years—suspecting from the tenor of the
message, that his sister was dead, pressed the man to
tell him the truth, but the messenger declared that when
he left London she was still alive. Not the slightest
hint of the murder was given to the wretched woman's
friends, nor did a suspicion of the horrid fact cross their
minds until the Monday daily papers arrived containing
the particulars of Smith's examination and of the
Coroner's inquest. Mrs. Tolliday and her eldest son
left Cambridge on Sunday, by the six o'clook evening
train. The particulars we have been able to learn of
the family of the deceased are as follows:—The father
came originally from Histon, where there are several
branches of the same family located. He is a man between
fifty and sixty years of age, and has all his life been subject
to fits, which have prevented his being employed in his
trade, and he earns a subsistence by carrying water and
collecting manure. His wife, a very industrious woman,
takes in washing and goes out as a charwoman, and
although there are seven or eight young children, they
are spoken of by their neighbours as always being cleanly
and neatly clad. The eldest son, as we have said before,
works for Mr. Finch. There is a niece of the old man's
living in Barnwell, and another married woman residing
in King-street ; and a nephew is an ostler in some livery
stables in town. The unfortunate deceased was a girl of
prepossessing appearance, and bore a very good character
for steadiness and industrious conduct among her neigh-
bours.—Cambridge Advertiser.

CHURCH PREFERMENTS.—The following appoint-
ments have taken place :—Rev. William Ponsford, to the
rectory of Drewsteignton, Devon ; Rev. W. H. Drake, to
the incumbency of Halsetown, Cornwall ; Rev. W. B. Kill-
pack, to the incumbency of St. James's, Devonport ; Rev
G. R. Pry nn, to the incumbency of Par, Cornwall ; Rev.
Dr. Parkinson, to the incumbency of St. Bees, and to be
Principal of the Theological Institution ; Rev. R. W. Ford,
to a canonry in Gloucester Cathedral ; Rev. J. Thackerav, to
the rectory of Coltishall, and the rectory of Horstead, Nor-
folk; Rev. C. H. Burton, to be minister of St. Philip's church,
Liverpool; Rev. W. Acworth, to the vicarage of Ashby
Folville, Leicestershire; Rev. J. Gillies, to the incumbency
Portwood, Cheshire ; Rev. J. Stewart, to the incumbency of
West Derby, Lancashire; Rev. W. Warde, to the incum-
bency of Campsall, Yorkshire; Rev. J. S. Priestman, to the
incumbency of St. John's church, Bridgewater.
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ORIGIN OF THE UPAS TREE STORY.—A real valley of
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to a considerable height with carbonic acid gas, which is exhaled
from crevices In the ground. If a man or any animal enter it, he
cannot return ; and lie is not sensible of his danger until he feels
himself sinking under the poisonous. influence of the atmosphere
which surrounds him, the carbonic acid of which It chiefly consists
rising to the height of eighteen feet from the bottom of the valley.
Birds which fly into this atmosphere drop (10W11 dead ; and a living
fowl thrown into it dies before it reaches the bottom, which is strewed
with the carcases of various animals that have perished in the dele-
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