The Sun.
London, England, 1870-06-25 00:00:00

LORD ARTHUR PELHAM CLINTON.

We are in a position to give a trustworthy account of
Lord Arthur Pelham Clinton's fatal. illness. He was
staying at the King's Arms Hotel, Christchurch,
when on Monday, the 13th inst., Mr. Wade, in the
unavoidable absence of Mr. Fitzmatuice, was
called to see him. He found him suffering from sore-
throat and other symptoms of scarlet fever, which has
been widely prevalent in the neighbourhood. Lodgings
in the village were procured for him, and thither he was
safely removed. The disease, though virulent, ran a normal
course, and the patient appeared to be gaining ground up
to the morning of Thursday, the 16th, when ischuria
supervened. Dr. R. Thompson was quickly in attend-
ance from Bournemouth, and, by the evening, the renal
f unction was restored. The patient, however, had sunk
very low, and, in spite of the free administration of
stimulants, failed to rally. Telegrams were immediately
despatched to his friends, and on Friday morning
Mr. W. H. Roberts, his solicitor, arrived. After a
short interval, he declared, in presence of Mr. Wade and
Mr. Roberts, that the letter drawn up and since published
by the litter was, in every particular, true. He was too
exhausted to add his signature ; but his mind was quite
clear enough to apprehend its full meaning. He was seen
again in the evening by Dr. Roberts Thompson ; and at
five minutes past one on Saturday morning he died, in
presence of his medical attendant, the landlady, and Mr.
Newlyn, jun., of the King's Arms Hotel.—Lancet.

ADVENTURES OF A SHIPWRECKED CREW.
The ship Silvercraig has arrived in Liverpool with six
of the crew of the iron ship Mercurius, which was wrecked
on the Roccas reef, in the South Atlantic, on the 25th of
March. The Mercurius left San Francisco for Liver-
pool on the 15th of January, and all went well until th
25th of March, when she was driven on to the Roccas
Reef, and became a total wreck. Although all
the boats managed to leave the ship, only
one succeeded in reaching the shore, and then
in a very damaged state. The rocks at high water are
completely covered, and the only dry spot is a raised
sandbank. The six survivors, on reaching terra firma, at
once surveyed their position, and found the reef abound-
ing with wreckage, amongst which they discovered four
water tanks, belonging to the London and Australian
clipper Duncan Dunbar, which was lost, with 80 passen-
gers, on the same reef, about two years ago. In
one of the tanks they fonnd some fresh water, which,
with a copious fall of rain at intervals, answered all their
culinary requirements. Nothing in the shape of provisions
was saved from the wreck, and for fifty-one days
these six castaways supported themselves by turtle, what
fish they could catch by the aid of a bent nail and a
piece of cord, birds' eggs, and young birds. For shelter
against the inclemency of the weather and their ex-
posed position they erected a hut from the wreck of
the Duncan Dunbar—a portion of which was still
visible—and other vessels, whose names will probably
be for ever a mystery. To this wooden structure
they fastened a pole, and attached to it an old shirt,
as a signal of distress to any vessels that might happen
to pass within sight of the Roccas Reef. They re-
mained on this desolate spot for 51 days, when the
Silvercraig happened to pass within sight of the reef,
and observed the signal. The vessel was at once
hove to, and the six poor fellows—who, though not
badly off so far as bodily condition was concerned,
were sadly out of wearing apparel—put off to the Silver-
craig in two small boats, winch they had managed to put
together from the wreckage found on the reef. Although
they were for fifty-one days on the rocks no vessel
was sighted but the one which picked them up on the 15th
of May. The Mercurius was a fine iron clipper ship of
839 tons.

PRINCESS'S THEATRE.—Their Royal Highnesses
the Prince and Princess of Wales and suite honoured
the French plays with their presence on Thursday evening.

One of the latest remarkable advertisements in the
Daily Telegraph is that of a " Superior Morning
Governess," who professes to give lessons in German,
Italian, French, English, drawing, music, and singing
every day for three shillings a week.

THE WORKMEN'S INTERNATIONAL EXIMITION OF
1870. —The Queen has consented to becolne patroness of
the Workmen's International Exhibition, which is to be
opened early in July at the Agricultural Hall, Islington.
Her Majesty has also been pleased to express a hope that
she may be able to visit the Exhibition in which she has
so graciously expressed her interest.

MISS ELISE HOLT, THE ACTRESS.—The following
communication has been addressed to some of the papers
by Miss Holt :—" The fact has been published of my
having been a party concerned in " a cowhiding " affair
which occurred while I was in America. Such an an-
nouncement was utterly devoid of truth. While in
America I obtained my professional popularity by my
labours as an actress, and was never compelled, I am
proud to say, to resort to anything in the shape of a cow-
hiding sensation."

Dean Howson, of Chester, who was for many
years the principal of the Liverpool College, does not
believe in the existence of a religious difficulty. He says
that when he was principal, though the masters of the
college were members of the Church of England, and
though the rules of that Church were observed in the
religious discipline of the school, exemption was always
made if Dissenting parents required it in regard to doc-
trinal teaching, and the result was that in 1863 the pro-
portion of Dissenting boys in the upper school was 10 per
cent., in the middle school 20 per cent, and in the lower
school 30 per cent„ and that no practical difficulty was
experienced by the masters,

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