The Sun.
London, England, 1848-10-10 00:00:00

TIIE GREAT SEA SERPENT.

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When the. Dwdalus frigate, Captain M'Quilae,
which arrived.here on the 4th inst., was on her pas-
sage home from the East Indies, between the Cape of
Good Hope and St. Helerickher captain, and most,of
her officers and crew, at four o'clook 'ono afternoon
saw a sea serpent. The creature was twenty ,
minutes in sight of the frigate, and passed under
her quarter. Its head, appeared to be about four
feet out of the water, and there was about GO
feet of its body in a straight line on the surface.
It is calculated, that there must have been under
water a length of 36-or 40feet more, by which it up;
pblled itself at the rate of 15 miles an hour. Th
diameter of the exposed part of the body was about
16 inches, and when it extended its jags, which were
hill of large jagged teeth; they seemed sufficiently
capacious to zldrolt of a tall man standing upright
bitween them. The ship was sailing north at the
rite of eight miles an hour., The Dredalus left the
,Cape:of Good Hope on the 30th of July, and reached
-St..Helena on the 16th of Aligust.
(Light wind, S,VV.4 ,foggy. .: .
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Retired Commander Alexander Bissett (1847) died
atl Graharn's'Town on the 12th of July last. This
veiteran-offieer, on the lieutenant list for nearly forty
,ydars, was three times wounded (from one of which
wounds his right arm was permanently injured), Once
shipwzecked,ltwice a"Kisoner, and engaged with the
enemy in minor . actic.ns aud..l' cuttings out" very'
many times in the service of his ,conn:Ty. He .nihr-
,ried the daughter of the late full Admiral E. Cyrell
1 Smith, who accompanied,
.him to, the Cape 4 Good
Hope in. 1820; and who, with. her bereaved family,
remains in that diStarit colony.
).torA,r, NAVAL 14NIIVOLBIIT SOCIETY..--,ln addi-
tion to -former. :subseriptionsi Captain W. Wolridge,
1.N., has presented, through_ captain B. Marwood
eilly,lt.l.,'a life subscrliption of 101. to the Royal ,
Naval Benevolent Society.
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Woomvictr, OCT. P.—Captain Pitzhardinge Berke-'
.kY.,•C.8., one .•of the Lords of the Admiralty, and
Re - Admiral Sir George F. Seymour, 0.-8., K.C. FL
irrlved at Woolwich Dockyard to-day at one o'clock,
and were received_ by. C.iptain (acting): Superin-
tenident Fitzroy. At half past two o'cl.k.k, Captain
,Alexandei Milne, one-of the Lords of the Admiralty,
.Ca tain. -*Sir • ' Bald Win Walker, K.C.8., and Lieute-
nart-Colonei Irving,- C:13., arrived by water, and
H sho tly after Mr. .G. Ward, M.P., First Secretary,
1.
arrived,by,land. : Thd.four laA-named, being mem-
harS of the board appointed to examine into the re-
ductions that may be effected in her Majesty's dock-
,yarb, embarked in the Black Eagle seam-vessel, and
mill proceed in her ,to inspect and report on the
western dockyards. Captain Berkeley and Rear-
Admiral Sir George F. Seymour, after a short stay,
returned to town.. .

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LOPS AND MkRIUAGE. A singular affair has
lately happenA 'near Ashton. A young lady, an or-
phan, Wing a fortune Of 1,000/, when she came to age
last month, was wooed in vain by a young man of he
village, and who a short time since was thrown into de-
spair by his- .ipistress marrying a Manchester b g-
tuan, who laO'been on a visit in the villarre. The
was kept'seerei,,till some one innirming the young lady'.;'
guardian Of.thci:fact; be proceeded to. Suhniniater per.
-coital
.corseotic43 ,tojitli.e.,;young Jady.f, Shefersented•the
ins*by Aul:Ctipetle.house next day, with the intention,
of:going to Bristol.' On the road she,..met the eavalikr
,who had.nitos weoedlieri-herl old partiality for binite-
turned. He proposed—she hesitated—and was lost.
Like riches, they " took unto themselves wings, and
fled away," carrying with them the 1,0001., and the
husband doesn't know where to find either.—Bristol
Journal.