The Sun.
London, England, 1870-04-07 00:00:00

MUTINY AND BRAVERY AT SEA.

The details of the story brought by the ship John
Banks, 680 tons, Captain Reynolds, from San Francisco
to Queenstown, which arrived at the latter port os4
Saturday, are very startling. For some days
previous to the 28th of January, after rounding the
Horn, when in about latitude 35 south, the crew mani-
fested symptoms of rebellion. On the 28th January the
captain conveyed to them some orders through his mate,
which they point blank refused to obey. He then sent
the second mate, in company with the first officer, to the
forecastle, with the request that the men would come aft
to the cabin and state their cause of complaint. Five of
the crew, named Stone, Millar, Phillips, Robinson, and
Davidson, immediately turned on the second officer
(O'Connor) with knives, daggers, and bolts. They
stabbed him in the arm and disabled that limb, but for-
tunately no other injury was inflicted. From this time
forward the captain and his officers had to conduct the
entire mananagement of the vessel themselves. They had
to navigate her in person, and in order to protect them-
selves from the violence of the mutineers each man—
captain and officer—was obliged to arm himself with a
brace of revolvers. In this manner they were enabled to
bring the ship to port. The plot of the
mutineers was afterwards discovered to be, first,
the murder of the officers of the vessel, and,
leaving achieved this, they resolved to compel the captain
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lo steer the ship to alparaiso. When this point was In
sight they determined to murder the captain and then
bring the ship to port. But the resolute and cool de-
meanour of Captain Reynolds, in a very trying position,
entirely defeated the murderous intention of the muti-
neers. Five of them were arrested in Cork Harbour,
and the charge of mutiny and conspiracy to murder
has been heard against them. Three witnesses deposed
that Stone, the ringleader, Phillips, snd the others, pro-
posed to murder the mates and compel the captain to sail
for Valparaiso, and murder him when in sight of land.
The mutiny and attack on the second mate were also
proved. The magistrates sentenced Stone to eighteen
weeks' imprisonment, Phillips to ten weeks, and the three
others to eight weeks.

At a committee meeting of the Bristol Guardians,
ft was resolved to recommend to the board the boarding
out of six pauper children as a trial. •
The iv orthern Daily Expresi says:—" A. portion
of the old stock of Government anchors, sold as • scrap
iron,' have found their way to Sunderland. They were a
portion of many thousands of tons of anchors manufac-
tured for Government, never used, and now sold as old
iron. One of the anchors landed bears date 184 S, as the
year of its manufacture, and has been made at Sunder
kmd, so that, after lying twenty-two years in a Govern-
ment dockyard, it finds its way back to Sunderland,
having never been in use for the whole of that period."
The TI iltern Morning Ncics has received a com-
munication from Colonel J. C. Kirkham, commandant of
the disciplined forces at Adwa, Abyssinia, who states that
having been applied to by several gentlemen for appoint
ments, he has submitted all their letters to Prince Kassa.
of Tigre, who had desired him to state that any English-
man or other gentleman of a military capacity wishing tc
Fin his force his Highness will receive with pleasure.
urther information may be obtained from Mrs. Colons)
Kirkham, Brunswick House, Dawlish.