The Sun.
London, England, 1851-09-30 00:00:00

THE QUICKEST VOYAGE TO CHINA,

Our Aberdeen correspondent says :—The Chrysolite,
a clipper ship, built at Aberdeen by the Messrs. Hall
for the Liverpool and China trade, has just made the
voyage from Liverpool to Anjeer in eighty days. This
is the quickest voyage on record. The Oriental made
the same passage out in 89 days, and that was without
precedent ; but, for the present, the Chyrysolite has
the palm. This ship, we understand, was built ex-
pressly to contest the voyage with the Oriental, and no
expense was spared on her to make her worthy of the
British name. She is, we believe, of 500 tons burden,
per register, but carries nearly 900 tons of tea, and this
is the desideratum which this new build has realized, and
which promises soon to be generally adopted. It is now
eleven years since the Aberdeen bow was invented by
the Messrs. Hall, of that city, and its history is highly
creditable to the private enterprise of the city. The facts
are simply these,—ln the year 1839 a company was
formed in Aberdeen to run a class of superior sailing
vessels in opposition to the steamboats of the Aberdeen
and London Steam Navigation Company ; they ap-
, plied to the Messrs. Hall to construct a model for a
}as; schooner : these gentlemen suggested a devia-
tion from the ordinary form, and showed also that by
the new law of tonnage measurement the properties of
fast sailing and large tonnage burden might be com-
bined. They proposed to run the stern out so as to form
the cutwater, and to make the floor and run iu propor-
tion to the sharpness of the bow. The vessel built on
this model was masted and rigged pretty much after the
channel fashion, and surprised everybody by the quick-
ness of the voyages which she made between Aberdeea
and London. Throe other vessels were built on tho
same plan; and thenceforward the Aberdeen bow was a
triumph in naval architecture, Since then Messrs. Hall
have built 50 vessels, measuring about 30,000 tons per
register; they were for owners in London, Liverpool,
Leith, China, and India; and it is a remarkable fact,
that only one of these ships has been wrecked or cast
ashore, or even seriously damaged, although they have
been all constantly at sea since they were built. The
other shipbuilders there have also adopted the bow; and
vessels for the Indian and China trade are turned off the
stocks almost every month. These clippers have re-
peatedly outsailed the best ships in the British navy;
and it is to be hoped that they will soon supersede the
common model—now the cause of a great loss of life
and prup,.rty.—Morning Paper.

FATAL OMNIBUS COLLISION.—On Sunday evening
last, as Mr. Joel Slater, butcher, of Lower Belgrave-place,
Pimlico, was returning home from Richmond in a light
spring cart, accompanied by his housekeeper, when passing
Kew-bride one of the Brentford omnibuses, which was
coming along at a smart pace, caught the wheel of the
shandry before Mr. Slater could pull on one side, and over-
turning the vehicle precipitated both him and his house-
keeper a considerable distance into the road. When taken
taken up it was found that Mr. Slater's neck was dislocated.
Surgical assistance was immediately procured, but he shortly
expired. The housekeeper was picked up quite insensible,
and it was ascertained that she had suffered a compound
fracture of the leg.

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FIRES AT GREENWICH AND APSLEY PELLATT'S
GLASS 'WowLs.—Last night, shortly before twelve o'clock,
considerable confusion was caused in the immediate neigh-
bourhood of Holland-street, Blackfriars-road, in consequence
of dense volumes of smoke issuing from the several win-
dows of the mustard mills and Apsley Pellatt's glass werks
in that thoroughfare, which impressed the inhabitAnta
that both the tremendous pile of buildings were on Ere,
and messengers were forthwith sent in various directions to
call the engines. In the space of a few minutes the West
of England and Brigade engines, to the number of seven
reached the spot, when it was found that the fire had occurred
through the overheating of one of the kilns in the last-named
premises, and that a quantity of timber had become ignited.
The workmen on the premises got the engine belonging to
the establishment out, and fortunately succeeded in extin-
guishing the fire in time to prevent a terrible conflragration.
About two hours previously a mounted express arrived at:the
Southwark-bridge station, with intelligence of a fire having
broken out at Greenwich, near the church. Mr. Henderson,
the foreman of the D district, immediately started with an
engine and a strong body of firemen to the scene, when it was
ascertained that the outbreak had occurred on the premises
belonging to Mr. T. Moore, a stay-manufacturer in Stock-
well-street, immediately facing Greenwich parish church.
It appears that whilst Mrs. Moore was arranging her head
dress, she accidentally set fire to some wearing apparel, and
in an instant the flames shot over the room, and set fire to
everything therein. Mr. Moore, jun., in rendering assistance
to subdue the fire, was much burned:over the hand. The
parish engine with that belonging to her Majesty's Dock-
yard, having arrived, before the news could be conveyed to
London the fire was happily extinguished, but not until con-
siderable damage was done, not merely to the contents, but
also to the building. Mr. Moore was insured in the Royal
Exchange Fire-office.
EARTHQuAKE AT SEA.—Captain Graves of the
barque Panama, arrived at New Orleans on the 2d inst.,
from Rio de Janeiro, reports that while off the Grand
Caymans, on the 23d ult., felt a severe shock of an earth-
quake, which ;hook his vessel very much. It occurred at
about five r.st.

CoLERIDGE ON LionsEnAcK —Coleridge was a re-
markably awkward horseman—so much so as generally to
attract notice. He was once riding along the turnpike-road
in the county of Durham, when a wag, approaching him,
noticed his peculiarity, and (quite mistaking his man)
thought the writer a fine subject for a little sport, when, as
he drew near, he thus accosted Mr. C. :—"I say, young man,
did you meet a tailor on the road?" " Yes," replied Mr. C.
(who was never at a loss for a rejoinder), " I did; and he
told me, if I went a little farther, I should meet a ros,
The assailant was struck avail), IYhilQ azetrAvelletiogsga vu,
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