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LLOYD'S SHIPPING.
LONDON, Ocr. 2.—Wind S.S.E., light breeze, and hazy.
RAMSGATE, OCT. L—Wind N.E. to S.E.—Sld. Etheldred,
Bradford, Falkland Islands ; Johanna, Maranham.
DEAL, Ocr. I.—Wind W.S.W. to W.N.W.—Arrd. Jay,
Byers, Miramichi, and sld. for Sunderland ; Louise Fre-
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Storey, Rimouski. Arrd. from the. River, Westminster,
Hovey, for New York. Sld. Eleanor, Turney, Barbadoes.
OFF HASTINGS, SErr. 30.—Emma, New York, for Co-
penhagen.
OFF HOLYHEAD, OCT. I.—Stranger, Demerara.
LIVERPOOL, OCT. L —Wind S.W. to N. W.—Arrd. Lena,
Nagle, Singapore; Janet, Paul, Valparaiso; Asia, Maran-
ham; Storm King, Robinson, Laguna; Robert Watt, John-
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Jansen, Cuidad Bolivar; Victoria, Le Gresley, Vera Cruz ;
Lady Huntley, Reddock, New Orleans; Neptune, Reehen-
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LYTHAM, OCT. I.—Wind S., fresh.—Arrd. Mary Ann
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CLYDE, SEPT. 30.—Wind S.S.W.—Arrd. Ann Harley,
Scott, New York; Rebecca, Pictou ; Blonde, Quebec.
Duman, SEPT. 30.—Wind N.W.—Sld. Friendship, Rea,
Halifax. Put back, Enterprise, Lyons, for St. John's, New
Brunswick' leaky.
DUBLIN BAY..—Arrd. Allen Brown, Maw, St. John's, New
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Conic, SEPT. 28.—Arrd. Chap mans, Miller, Quebec ;
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inside, clench-built, copper-fastenened, part of stern and
stern-post carried away, with a long painter attached, appa-
rently a steamer's jolly-boat, was picked up 13 miles S.S.W.
of Bury Head, by the Jane, Marshalsay, arrived here.
LIMERICK, SEPT. 30.—The Etherly, Brinkley, bound to the
Clyde, has put back, leaky, having got on a rock in the river,
and will discharge.
PLYMOUTH, OCT. I.—Wind S.W.—Arrd. H.1.8.M.5. Con-
stitution, Rio Janeiro.
IN THE CHANNEL.—'Virginias, Quebec.
BRIDGWATER, Ocr. 1.-Arrd. Ottawer, Thrift, St. John's,
New Brunswick.
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L. •
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.' W. S.—Sld. Sir Henry Pot-
tinger, Crowell,
1, Lord Lambton,
New York ; Florinda, Hodgson, Ceylon.
GLASGOW, Ocr. I.—The James,
July, Paton, arrived in the
Clyde, from Patagonia; sailed and
thence 4th reports
that the coast had been taken possession of by the Spaniards
as far as Watchman's Cape, that they bad cannon mounted at
all the landing places,
taken
off, nor any person to land.

It appears that the Government is about to employ
the three stearn• frigates of 450 horse-power each, lately
tuilt for the Transatlantic service, by using them for car-
rying the mails between Havre and New York. The
Grernment does not intend to undertake permanently
this line, but merely to try their powers as merchant
ships, and at the same time ascertain the expense of the
transit.— Galighani.

BRONIPTOI4- NEW HOSPlTAL.—Thursday evening
the usual meting of the committee of management took
place at the board room in the new building at Bromp-
ton. It appears that everything is progressing in the
most satisfactory manner ; the furnishing of the various
spacious wards is being pushed forward, and the system
of ventilation adopted from the designs of Dr. Arnott,
although elaborate and intricate, will unquestionably be
most effective.

"Queen Christina replied:—
" The approaching marriages of my beloved daugh-
ters cause me the joy of seeing fulfilled on one and the
same day all my hopes, all my desires. By these unions
I see insured the happiness of these pledges of my
maternal love, as well as a futurity of peace and
concord for this magnanimous nation, which I
call with pride my country. I give at the same time
to your Sovereign the most striking proof of my affec-
tion by consenting, with all the effusion of my heart, to
the marriage of my beloved daughter, the Infanta, with
the Duke de Montpensier. She will thus enter an
august family, who by their practice form an example
of every private and public virtue.'
"Count Bresson then addressed Queen Isabella in the
following terms:
I "‘ Madam,—Your Majesty has not been contented
with insuring your own happiness and that of Spain by
giving your hand to a Prince most worthy of his high
destiny, but you have also thought of the happiness of a
beloved sister, and deigned to consent to her union with
the youngest son of a King who was already bound to
your Majesty by so many ties, and to Spain by sympathy
and his admiration for a people standing so high in his-
tory. To-day the Cortes of the kingdom, so enlightened
and so patriotic, have by their deliberations and ad-
dresses partaken in the wishes and intentions of your
Majesty, and I come in the name of the King, my
august Sovereign, to request that you will first accept
his congratulations and best wishes, and next, that you
will solemnly confirm the consent already granted by
you for the marriage of her Royal Highness the Infanta
Dona Luisa Fernanda with his Royal Highness the
Duke de Montpensier.'
"Her Majesty Queen Isabella replied:—
" Called by Divine Providence to fill the throne of
Spain, the happiness of this great nation has ever been the
object of all my endeavours. My heart flatters me with
the hope that I have secured it by the union I am about
to contract. The Prince, who is about to call himself
my consort is worthy of the title from his high qualities.
I am also indebted to Divine Providence for a companion
of my childhood, who has been inseparable from me from
my infancy—a sister whom I love tenderly, and whose
happiness I wished to ensure as my own. May God
grant mei the consolation of knowing that my object
has been attained by giving her hand to the youngest
son of your King—to a Prince whose eminent merits
already recal the rare virtues of his august father.
Encouraged by the votes of the Cortes of the kingdom,
whose loyal and sincere congratulations I have just re-
ceived, I declare to you, sir, that I repeat and solemnly
confirm my royal consent to the celebration of the mar-
riage of my well-beloved sister the Infata of Spain, Dona
Luisa: Fernanda of Bourbon, to Prince Antoine Marie
Philippe Louis of Orleans, Duke de Montpensier.
request, sir, that you will make this known to yOur-SoQ
vereign,:my well-beloved uncle, whose congratulations
I accept with the most lively gratitude. And may the
Almighty, who so visibly guides and protects him, grant
that these two marriages may be pledges for the happi
ness of our two families, and for the peace and prosperity
of the two nations.'
" Queen Christina afterwards sent the Marchioness
deiSanta Cruz, the Camerera Mayor, to bring the Infanta,
whom the Count thus addressed:—

" Madam,—Heaven presided over your birth; and
your Royal Highness has had every gift, every grace
bestowed upon you. Happy the Prince on whom the
choice of your Royal Highness has fallen, and who is
called upon to unite his fate to yours. In saying to your
Royal Highness that already the heart of your future
husband is filled alone with this happiness, I only inter-
pret the sentiments which he himself will shortly ex-
press to you in person, if your Royal Highness shall
deign to confirm solemnly on this day the consent you
have already granted.'
" Her Royal Highness, after having obtained the con-
sent of her august mother and sister, answered
" Intimately convinced that the counsels:of my tender
mother, and the advice of my well-beloved sister, can
have no other view'than the double object of my happi-
ness and the interests of my country, I confirm, with
joy, sir, the consent I have already given, and solemnly
accept the offer made to me of the hand of a Prince
whose qualities are so eminent. It is with happiness
that, on this occasion, I yield to the desires of my
family.'
" Before he withdrew, Count Bresson delivered to
her Royal Highness the portrait of her affianced bride-
groom, which she accepted with evident satisfaction.
On his return to the embassy he was received with
great respect by the immense crowd assembled on the
occasion. Count Bresson distributed ten thousand
francs among the poor of Madrid and the servants of the
royal stables."

THE MONTPENSIER MARRIAGES.
(From the Times.)
The Montpensier marriages are pressed on with all
that delicacy and dispatch which characterised the first
stages of the affair. The word is "to strike while the
iron is hot." No party concerned, from the great
European spectator down to the helpless daughters of
Christina, is to be allowed the opportunity of a second
reflection. The time, the methods, and the ethical pro-
prieties of the story, are comprehended within the narrow
limits and rigorous conditions of an almost dramatic
unity. /or two months the Jason of Paris and Medea
of Madrid were settling, or rather maturing, their plans;
for, unless we are to suppose that there were secret ar-
ticles in the treaty, which time may or may not reveal,
there was not much remaining for settlement. This
was the longest part of the business. But in politics
secresy and celerity are interchangeable terms. It is
admitted that for those two months England was put
wholly out of the question. The eyes of the British
Lion were blindfolded, and his ears stopped by treach-
erous protestations, while the conspirators snatched
away the Golden Fleece. What had England to do with
the family affairs of Louis Philippe? It was true that at
a personal interview with a neighbouring Sovereign,
joyfully hailed by both nations as the much-desired
pledge of that good understanding to which their Go-
vernments were mutually engaged, the King had agreed
to a very different arrangement. It was true that
England had protested, through her Minister, against
that other arrangement so lately revealed, so soon to
be consummated. It was true that there existed an
ancient treaty, which, at least, established a right of in-
terference ; and that England had twice interfered in
this century, at a great cost of treasure and blood, to
replace, first, Ferdinand, then Isabella, on the throne.
It was true that France had contributed to us at least a
formal co-operation at the latter contest. But what of
all this ? When the question was the marriage of
those royal sisters, to whom and to whose family and
nation England had been so authorised, so acknow-
ledged, se constant, and so generous a friend, what had
England any longer to do with it ? It became then
a quiet domestic affair. The labourer that had sown,
and reaped, and carried the harvest, was now dismissed ;
the King and his trusty cousin: were the only persons
interested in the fruits of the political husbandry.
Thus was England thrust aside in the first stage of the
affair.

Then came that night. If we have the least desire
that our words should reach the ears of one unprivileged
Spaniard, we must beware how we descend into the par-
ticulars of that scene. The least minuteness of descrip-
don or closeness of allusion may deprive Madrid of a
journal, and an editor of all further powers of political
utility. In so delicate a passage we are content that the
Journal des _Mats shall be our spokesman. " Her
Majesty," says that most euphemistic of historians,
"before she withdrew to her private apartments, received
at an advanced hour of the night some persons of her
household. It was some hours after quitting her
Ministers that the Queen, who received only M. Donoso
Cortes, and afterwards waited on her mother, recalled
her Ministers, to announce to them her resolution.
Several of them were still in the Palace at the
office of the First Secretary of State. The others
had withdrawn. All immediately assembled in
her Majesty's presence. They quitted her after
having received her orders." The Debate proceeds
to boast, with singular simplicity, that it here tells us
less than the truth, and might tell us more with advan-
tage to its cause. The boast is superfluous. The narra-
tive proclaims its imperfections. The midnight chrono-
logy of the Debate reminds one of those interesting
difficulties which beset the first book of Livy, wherein
several generations of antediluvian longevity are huddled
into the limits of one ordinary reign. The action begins
at an advanced hour of the night. Subsequent to that are
important events, consultations, decisions, assemblages,
felicitous rencontres, and great constitutional acts. " Some
hours" are confessed to in one scene of the performance,
and that of a more private character. Are there no clocks
in Madrid? Does Isabella, like the King of Egypt, turn
night into day, to double her life and to cheat the oracle?
Who has pPedieted that her reign will be short? When
the Journal des Debats condescends to fill up its sketch,
perhaps it will tell us the usual length of a summer

night at Madrid, and also whether M. Breeson was at
the Palace. That gentleman, whom the Debate has en-
tirely forgotten, is the Hamlet of the play.
What follows is in character with these auspicious
beginnings. England has protested firmly and tem-
perately with France, and the only answer is the depar-
ture of Montpensier. Had we dictated to Louis Philippe
his chef de cuisine, we could not have been treated with a
more contemptuous silence. He answers indeed; but
through his own organs; by his hired servants. On a
" domestic" question he vouchsafes what is virtually a
domestic reply. He communicates with England through
his valet and his steward, the Debuts and the Presse.
Such civility is superfluous. Of course we know with
what amiable solicitude the affair is regarded in the
bosom of that numerous and affectionate family. What
are ancient treaties and recent understandings, the.ee-
collections of a century or of a twelvemonth, to the de-
voted Paterfamilias expecting a Spanish Infanta for his
daughter-in-law? For the time lay aside all national
responsibilites. Shut out all Europe. Turn a deaf ear
to remonstrant neighbours. Forget that you are a King,
that you are the King, not of France, but of the French.
It is a domestic question. Settle it in the sacred pri.
vacy of the hearth.
But is it a domestic question? Does either Spain, or
England, or France, or even Louis Philippe himself, re-
gard it as such? Or is it such on the simplest view of
its historical circumstances and antecedents? As for
Louis Philippe himself, do we not know that every
member of the house of Orleans, from the founder of the
race, is born with his right eye on the patrimony of St.
Louis, and his loft eye looking towards Spain? Good
people tell us, " He wants a dotation for his son; that is
all.' But how much is involved in that modest desire?
The Spanish people are, in fact, as reluctant as the
French to accommodate themselves to the conveniences
of the royal, or rather the paternal, exchequer. Why
should the independence of Spain be jeopardised for that
which the parsimony of France declines? The unani-
mous public opinion of the three countrieS sees the fear-
ful possibilities of the measure. It sees nothing private
in the arrangement. f. eitatio_t partake in that soft
nuptial -dream which- .4excludes sn'tidany ditties, and
perhaps kindles so many aspirations.
The wisdom of all three countries, as represented by
the unfettered portion of the press, sees a real danger in
the event. A real danger there is. They who sneer at
treaties, who deride a balance of power, and laugh at
the vagaries of matrimonial ambition, may perhaps be
roused by the reflection that what has occurred twice in
the present generation may possibly occur again. What
is the state of affairs Louis Philippe is founding at
Madrid? In a few years a French Prince, the head of a
French party, most odious to the nation, will, it is said,
most probably be the husband of the Queen. With
Spain such as it is, how can there fail to be a collision
between the throne and the people? Will France stand
back, on one side? Will England, on the other? How
can this be a purely domestic question? How can a
" dotation" thus acquired be a harmless affair?

THE REGISTRATIONS.
CITY OF LONDON.

The Revising Barrister, Mr. Arnold, proceeded on
Wednesday with the revision of the list for the parish
of St. Botolph without, Bishopsgate. No case of ths
slightest interest came before the Court.
The following is a statement of the result of the day's
proceedings : Failed or
Sustained. Withdrawn.
Conservative objections 154 ... 72
Liberal
Doüble
Conservative claims
Liberal claims

0 ...
1 • •

Mr. ARNOLD yesterday took the lists for the parishes
of St. John the Evangelist, Allhallows, Bread-street;
Holy Trinity the less, St. James, Garlick Hythe; St.
Martin, Vintry; St. Michael, Paternoster Royal; St.
Margaret Moses, St. Mary-le-Bow, St. Mary Moon-
thaw, St. Mary Somerset, St. Michael, Queenhithe; St.
Mildred, Bread-street; St. Nicholas Cole Abbey, St.
Nicholas Olave. and St. Peter, Paul's-wharf.
In the list of the parish of St. James, Garlick Hythe,
Samuel Godfrey Crook, who was registered for apart-
ments at 15, Garlick-hill, was objected to by the Con-
servatives.
Thomas Dawson deposed that the claimant was a clerk
in the employment of Messrs. Conway. Phelps, and Hay-
ward, wholesal• grocers. He occupied a bedroom on the
second floor of the house, 15, Garlick-hill. The rent
was paid by Messrs. Conway and Co. Witness and two
other clerks, as well as Crook, slept on the premises.
The room occupied by the claimant was worth 101. a
year. The clerks were required by their engagements
to sleep on the premises, but they were not compelled to
do so, nor was it necessary for the purposes of business
that they should do so.
By Mr. Brown—Witness had also been placed
on the list. He and Crook occupied separate bed-
rooms. Witness had furniture in his room—a chest of
drawers, boxes, and paintings. By his engagement he
was required to sleep on the premises, and he was pro-
vided with victuals by his employers. Neither Crook
nor himself had any right or control over the premises as
occupiers. They were liable to be discharged at a
month's notice.
Mr. Brown observed, that this was a case in which
four young men had been placed on the list by the Anti-
Corn-law League for the premises of their employers.
Mr. ARNOLD stopped the case, and expunged the
name. The names of Thomas Dawson, Charles Thomas
Bainbridge, and John Pedlar Warren, who claimed for
the same premises under precisely similar circumstances,
were also struck off the list.
The following is the result of the day's revision:—
Failed or
Sustained. Withdrawn.
Conservative objections
Liberal

Double
Liberal claims

EAST SURREY.
The Revising Barrister for the eastern division of the
county of Surrey (Mr. S. C. Fish) held his court on
Wednesday, at the French Horn and Half-moon Inn, at
Wandsworth, when the lists for the following parishes
were disposed of:—Barnes, Merton, Mortlake, Putney,
Tooting, Wimbledon, and Wandsworth.
Mr. T. Jeans attended on the part of the New East
Surrey Reform Registration Society, Mr. Meymott for
the Conservatives, and Mr. Russell for the Free-traders.
Among the objections, ono was made to the vote of
Vice-Chancellor Knight Bruce on the ground of insuf-
ficient description. The error was amended, and the
vote retained.
The vote of Lord W. Fitzroy was objected to on the
same. grounds. The required amendment having been
made,

Lord W. Fitzroy applied for his expenses.
The REVISING BARRISTER, acting on the rule he had
laid down in several previous cases, refused to grant
them ; where an error was rectified and an amendment
made, he did not consider the objection either frivolous
or vexatious.
One objection made by the Conservatives failed from
the impossibility of deciphering the signature of the ob-
jector appended to the notice ; the Barrister, the clerk,
the solicitors, all tried upon it their not unpractised skill
in such matters, but the hieroglyphic defied alike dissec-
tion and conjecture ; it was therefore considered by the
Court as a mark or scratch and not a name, and the ob-
jection overruled.
The list for the parish of Battersea will be taken to •
morrow.

The Revising Barrister of the eastern division of
Surrey sat yesterday at the French Horn and Half-
moon Inn, Wandsworth. The list taken was that for the
parish of Battersea. The objections were nearly all
matters of form, and made for the sake of correction.
The result of the day's proceedings was not very mate-
rial. Of 33 objections made by the Liberals 7 were
sustained ; the Conservatives objected to 31, and sus-
tained 4.
The Court rose at an early hoar.

STATE OF TRADE.
(From the Manchester Guardian.)
MANCHESTER, SEM. 29.—The expected arrivals of
the Indian mail, which was to leave Bombay on Aug. 27,
and of the Britannia steamer, which would sail from Bos-
ton on the 16th instant, have tended to limit demand in
our market ; both sellers and buyers being anxious to
learn further intelligence of the condition and
prospects of the cotton arop, and of the state of commer.
cial affairs in India—where a considerable improvement
is confidently expected. The amount of business done
was consequently limited ; but prices, both of goods and
yarns, are very firm ; and in some cases higher rates
than those current last week are demanded by spinners
and manufacturers.
ROCHDALE, SEPT. 28.—We have had a fair business
to-day, at prices much the same as those of the preced-
ing week. In the wool market there is very little
change, except, perhaps, that it is more difficult to buy
foreign wool at last week's prices.
HUDDERSFIELD, SEPT. 29.—Our market to-day is
without animation; indeed, it may be said to be flatter
than last week. Some of the fancy cloth manufac•
turers have received orders, but not to the extent they
had reason to anticipate. Wools are much the same in
price, but sales cannot be made, although they are up in
the London markets. In the warehouses there is not
much doing.
LEEDS, SEPT. 29.—We have no better account to give
of our this day's market than of preceding ones. The
demand continues slack, and profits are very small on
all the business actually done.

FATAL ACCIDENT AT ETON COLLEGE.-011 Wednes-
day afternoon a plumber, named Sargent, who resided
at Upton-cum- Chalvey, was engaged in repairing the
leads on the roof of one of the master's houses in Keater
lane, Eton College. The height was nearly sixty feet,
and as the ladder used was not long enough, a temporary
platform was erected at the top of it, where a second
ladder twenty feet long was placed, but not secured by
lashings, the unfortunate man was at the summit of this
when his weight overbalanced the ladder, and he was
precipitated to the ground, and, falling upon his head,
death was instantaneous. The deceased has left a widow
and six children to lament his loss.

QUICKSILVER.-A vessel arrived at one of the
wharfs near London-bridge, from Seville, had an entire
cargo, comprising the large quantity of 3,000 flasks of
qnicksilver, consigned to the celebrated firm of Roths-
child and Son.

Captain Claxton, one of the directors of the company
to which the Great Britain belongs, has published the
following letter, addressed to the secretary of the cons-
' pany. In another letter the captain says—" To the
poor as well as to the rich in the neighbourhood the
grateful thanks of the directors are due, for nothing can
have exceeded the desire to alleviate the misfortunes of
all concerned that has been manifested by every one in
the locality."
Great Britain, Dundrum Sands, Sept. 28.
Dear Sir,—On my arriving on board this morning,
after looking at the position of the ship, and Captain
Hosken's dispositions for getting her afloat at the proper
time, I sought and, as I expected, received from him a
candid and clear detail of the circumstances which pre-
ceded the unfortunate occurrence. For the information
of my colleagnes, and the rest of the shareholders of the
company, I hasten to convey to you the result of that
inquiry, which I have no hesitation in saying has satis-
fied me that the confidence which we have for so many
years placed in that most excellent man ought not in the
slightest degree to be shaken by an event so deeply
affecting his character as an officer and a seaman.
The ,first ;officer has charge of the ship's log, and
from him I obtain'oirtho tollowiog -ortraet
" At 12h. 50m. p.m. discharged pilot. At lh., abreast
of the Bell Buoy, speed 11 knots, wind southerly ; set
maintopsail and topgallantsail and foresail (foretopsail
had been previously set); course N.W. by N. At 4h.,
fresh breezes and thick hazy weather. sh. 30m. saw the
land on starboard bow indistinctly through the rain.
7h. 3em., in mizen spencer. Bh., fresh breezes and very
thick, with constant rain ; trimmed sails to haul up N.
by E. ; in topgallantsails. Bh. 15m., observed Calf of
Man Light bearing N.N.W. half W., altered course to
N. by W. Bh. 30m., in first and second reef of foretop-
sail and single-reefed the maintopsail. At 9h., squared
the yards. 9h. 30m. in foresail, while taking it in saw
land on starboard bow; stopped engines, put helm hard
a-port, reversed engines full speed ; ship came up to
N.N.E., afterwards to N.E. and stopped ; clewed sails
up." (Then follow details of proceedings as to after oc-
currences, when she was thumping and in the breakers.)
The following note appears to have been added to the
log, probably when the excitement was over ;—" At 7h.
the captain remarked to me that the ship ought to be
well up to the Calf of Man lights, as the log showed she
had run her distance. He asked if the log glass was
correct, which was a new one, and found correct. At
Bh. the sails were trimmed for hauling the ship up N.
by E., after doing which observed the light, and kept
ship off again to N.W. half N.; squared yards. The
captain said the ship had run her distance, but supposed
the light was the Calf light, and that one of them was
obscured by the thick weather."
On examining Captain Hosken's chart, on which are
his cross bearings of the supposed points of the Isle of
Man, of which so short and indistinct a glimpse was
caught, I find it is addressed to the Mayor and Town
Council of Liverpool, published by John and Alexander
Walker, agents to the Admiralty, 72, Castle-street,
Liverpool, and 9, Castle-street, London, 1846. It was
bought by Captain Hoskea, when going out on his
previous voyage in June, as the latest and most correct
chart, but in it is no mention whatever of a revolving or
intermitting light, or any other light whatever on St.
John's point. There, however, the light
is; and it is
now my business to show that had the light been, as it
ought to have been—having been in use for three years
(if I am correctly informed)—in the chart, or had there
been no light at all on that point, the accident would
not have happened. On taking his departure from the
Bell Buoy Captain Hosken steered precisely the same
course as the Windsor, constant steamer to Belfast,
was steered by her captain on Saturday last, N.W. by
N., and that is the correct course for the Calf of Man.
St. John's point also bears N.W. by N. from the Bell
Buoy. Captain Hosken calculated his speed to be 11
knots; it really was more, and his ship no doubt was
ahead of his calculation four or five miles. A glimpse
was caught of the Isle of Man, but the lights on the
Calf were never seen, which I account for by the fact
that it was very thick, and between sunset and dark, when
she passed probably four or five miles to the south.
Had it been quite dark she would probably have
seen them, and had she seen them the accident could not
have happened, as he would have steered away his North
Channel course after rounding them. At seven, it ap-
pears by the first officer's note to his log, the captain re-
marked she must be well up with the Calf lights. There
is no doubt he had even then passed them, but he had a
fine open channel of more than thirty miles between them
and the Irish coast. He informed me that he then said
as he could not see them he should alter his course, at
eight, shorten sail, and go easy for the North Channel,
which intention he had begun to put in practice ; and
this was the right practice, and if pursued, all would
have been well, as he would soon have made the next
proper light in his course of north by east—the South
Rock, to the North of Strangford Lough entrance (albeit
as he candidly admits, a half-dozen miles nearer than he
expected), when this St. John's light, of which he had
never heard, and which is not named in his chart, is all
at once seen, and that, too, within the exact bearing of
the Calf of Man lights, supposing he had not passed
them. The course was again altered ; the St. John's
light was treated as the Calf of Man lights would have
been had they been seen—i. e., given such a berth as
insuredclearing the Hen and Chickens, and then rounded,
and then, instead of being in a deep water channel, the
ship takes the ground about a league to the west of this, at
best, deceiving light, and, in his case, decided decoy duck.
In hastening to get this letter off, knowing the anxiety
of my colleagues, I write under some excitement, and
under most unpleasant circumstances; due allowances
should, therefore, be made. lam quite aware of all that
may be said by nautical men. 1 know, from my own
thoughts, before I saw the chart in Captain Hosken's
possession, how many strong questions may be put as to
distance and speed—as to one set of lights revolving
every two minutes, St. John's light every minute only.
To all of them I answer, it is easy to say the door should
have been locked after the horse has been stolen. It
was hard to make out lights at all; and, as to counting
differences of time under some circumstances, it is im-
possible, or next to it. The facts are simple:—The
captain's judgment was right up to the time of his seeing
this not laid down light, and puzzled, as he states him-
self to have been, to account for not being further a head
when he took it for the Calf, he acted by that light, as
I verily believe, most men would have acted under simi-
lar circumstances.

I have only to add my meed of praise for all that has
been done by Captain Hosken since the occurrence—my
admiration of his manly bearing uuder circumstances
that might well have crushed a weaker mind, and of the
discipline and good conduct of the officers and men under
his command, who are working gallantly, I may say,
under circumstances of great trial and difficulty, if not
of danger.
The compasses were perfectly correct, and the ship
herself so strong as to defy hitherto shooks from rollers
and seas at high water, which, in my humble opinion,
would by the end of last week have broken up the
strongest wooden ship that ever was built.
The ship lies in the worst position for coming oft ;
still, if we are favoured with tolerable weather, I see at
present no reason to doubt her being afloat by the end
of the week.—Yours truly,
CHRISTOPHER CLAXTON.
W. M. Bennett, Esq., Secretary.

FATAL ACCIDENT.
(PROM A CORRESPONDENT.)
A melancholy accident, by which a young gentleman,
of the most amiable disposition and the highest promise,
was brought to an untimely end, and a much respected
family have been plunged into the deepest affliction,
occurred on Friday, the 25th ult., in the neighbourhood
of Coachford, in the county of Cork.
About four o'clock in the evening of that day, Mr.
William Hallaran, the eldest son of the Rev. William
Hallaran, rector of Magurney, in the county of Cork,
accompanied by his younger brother, Master Thomas
Halloran, and his cousin, Mr. John Martin, of Upper
Mount-street, Dublin, went out in pursuit of some plover
that had been seen in an adjoining field. About 5 o'clock
Mr. Martin was drawing the charge from his gun, Mr.
Hallaran standing close to him, with the butt of his gun
resting on the ground, and the muzzle turned upwards ;
when a dog by which they were accompanied unfortu-
nately jumped on him, and it is supposed touched the
spring of his gun, which instantly exploded, and the un-
fortunate young gentleman received the entire charge in
his lungs. He ran a few yards and then fell upon his
face. He was immediately conveyed to a neigh-
bouring cottage, and his father, who was
speedily informed of the lamentable event, was
with him in a few minutes. He retained full possession
of his senses for more than two hours, and during that
period exhibited the most perfect resignation to his fate
—the most implicit trust and confidence in the atone-
ment by our blessed Saviour. He suffered very little
(and to use the words of a spectator, his last moments
were like those of an infant going to sleep). Such
patience and fortitude must go far to sustain his parents
under the weighty affliction by which they have been
visited.

Mr. Hallaran was a remarkably fine young man, in
the nineteenth year of his age. He was to have left his
home in a few days, for the purpose of attending the
examination in the University of Dublin, of which he
was a student. Few could have been in possession of
greater health or strength than he was, or afford a
greater promise of a prolonged existence than he did a
few short hours before he was thus cut off in the
pride and bloom of youth. It affords a melancholy ex-
ample of the instability of this life.