The Sun.
London, England, 1856-11-25 00:00:00

THE lITLEOK REGISTER FOR 1855.

This important document has been recently published
by the Board of Trade and presented to both houses of
rarliaaient. The facts it discloses are very interesting
in their character. The register proceeds to state that
the total number cf wrecks and casualties repoieed to
have occurred to vessels on the coast of the United
Kingdom in 1855 is 1,141, representing► a burden of
176,514 tons ; 963 being British, Il colonial, and 116
foreign, of which number were—
Totally lost by wreck 272
Stranded and recovered
Stranded, but whether total or partial loss
not reported .
Totally lost in collision
Seriously damaged in collision l7B
Slightly damaged in collision
Leaky and foundered 49
Leaky and put back to discharge and repair 47
Destroyed by fire l4
Found " derelict"
Dismasted and otherwise damaged .....
Abandoned 2O
Capsized and sunk
Seriously damaged by spontaneous combus-
tion of cargo

1,141

Of these---7
576 occurred on the East Coast )
251 „ ~ West Coast tof Great Britain.
117 ~ „ South Coast
.)
127 „ ~ Irish Coast.
10 ~ off the Seilly Islands.

6 „
31 ~

„ (Amnia' Islands:
„ Northern Islands—viz., Orkneys,
Shetland, and Hebrides.
„ Isle of Man.
„ Lundy Island.

1,111
Of which the number reported to have been stranded
on the various sand.; and banks were-7 on the Scroby,
4 on the Kentish Knock, 4 on Whitburn Steel, 1 on
N. Bishops, 3 on 'West Hoyle, 1 on the Sunk, 1 on
Long Sand, 2 on Dogger Bank, 3 on the Barber, 1 on
the Balls, 3 on the Gaa, 3 on the Shipwasb, 6 on the
Hasboro', 1 on the N. Bull, 1 on the S. Bull, 16 on the
Goodwin, 4 on the Gunfleet, 1 on the Hook, 4 on the
Brake, 1 on the Langharn, 2 on the Middleton, 2 on the
lSlaplin, 1 on the Nore, 3 on the Barnard, 2 on Hubber-
stone Pill, 2 on the Pye, 5 on the Newcome, 3 on Car-
diff Sands, 1 en the Barrow, 3 on the Blacktail, 2 on
the Swin, lon the %Vainfleet, 2 on Tetney Sand, 3 on
the Galloper, 1 on the Knowle, 1 on tho Tongue, 1 on
llayle Sand, 1 on the Uoatharn, 2 on Barb° Bank, 1
on N. Spit, 3 on the Nash, 1 on the Blakeney, 2 on
Arklow Bank, 2 on the Rose, 6 on Donna Nook, 3 on
the ()were, 2 on the Stanton, 2 on the Herd, 2 on the
Holm, and 4 on the Leman.
The number of casualties in each month was—
January
February .... 123 June
March
April
Of the whole number of vessels wrecked or damaged,-
511 were under 100 tons.
496 „ 100 and not exceeding 300 tons.
67 „ 300 PI 600 „
27 „ CO3 900 „
4 „ 900 PP 1,200 „
6 „ 1,200 and upwards.
34 of the number wero steam vessels.
FREIGHTS.

Manure and oilcake 1.12
Iron, ironstone, or cop-
per ore
Grain, oatmeal, or flour 85
Cotton .

Timber or bark
Fruit or potatoes ll
Passengers
Coals 2 t-.)
Colliers in ballast

Salt
General merchandise
Clay

Other ships in ballast 90
Fishing smacks l6
Unknown 3lO

Stoo,

limo, slate, or

„
bricks 2Bl
Number of wrecks in 1852, 1,015 ; in 1853, 832 ; in
1854, 987: in 1855, 1,141.
Wrecke reported in 1855 show an increase of 12 4 per
cent. as compared with 1852 ; of 37.1 per cent, as com-
pared with 1853 ; and of 15.6 per cent. as complred
with 1854.

Tins increase in all probability arises, in part at any
rate, from the facility with which returns are now ob-
tained from inspecting commanders of Coastguard and
receivers of " wreck" under the Merchant Shipping Act,
1854.

The number of lives reported as saved from wrecked
vessels was :

By luggers and other small craft
By assistance from shore with ropes, mortar
apparatus, &c.
By ships and steam vessels
Bylifeboats ............................................. 25
By individual exertion of a meritorious character 9

. 433

. 399
~ 290

1,388
The large number of lives thus saved from shipwreck
during the past year is a most gratifying feature in the
return, and clearly shows !pow much can be accomplished
in the preservation of life on occasions of such calamities
by well-lirected efforts. It also shows how much has
been done in this respect by that useful society, the
Royal National Lifeboat Institution, in conjunction
with lifeboat establishments around the coast. Through
the increased encouragement given to seamen forming
boats' crows, the improvement in the build of lifeboats,
their more perfect eq ipment, and their increased num-
ber, there has come into existence and action a machi-
nery for saving life more commensurate with the urgent
demand for it, and more creditable to this maritime
country than has ever existed in any former period in its
history. There can be no doubt that much credit is due
also to the excellent and judicious arrangement of the
Board of Trado in the distribution of its grants to ac
coaiplish this desirab!e object.
In 1855 the total number of lives lost was 469.
In 1854 the total number of lives lost was 1,549 ; in

1853, 639 ; in 185'2, 920.
The number of collisions reported is greatly on the in.
creme, being 217 against 94 registered in 1854, 73 in
1853, and 57 in 1852. This increase is perhaps attribut-
able, in part at any rate, to the sawe cause as that of
the number of wrecks ab3ve mentioned. . . .

MR. MORRIS MOORE AND DR. WAAGEN.
To the Miter of the Preusziehe Zeitung.

Tnese frequent collisions irlquationably arise in a
great measure from the hampering of vessels' upper
decks with cabins and other constructions which shut
out from the view of the helmsman the object ahead of
his ship. Collisions at soa, with all their fearful conse-
quence,:, are, the return states, steadily on the increase;
and it is full time that serious attentionshould be directed
to the subject. The want of a well understood signal of
distress in cases of collisions is also a sad desideratum.
Tile wreck experience of the year 1855 has b,:en ex-
tremely favourable to life ; the number lost being 451
less than 1852, 220 less than 1853, and 1,080 less than
1854, the only casualty of magnitude being the ship
John, off the Manacles, on May 3, by which 191 lives
were lost. Six lives were lost in the Stranger, on the
Barber Sand - Bin the Maria Branson, Bode ;21
in the Merritt', on the North Bishops ; 6 in the John
Bannerman, Carnarvon Bay ; 8 in the Ampulla,,
ou
Beech Haven ; 5 in the Sovereign, off Hetnpton ; 6 iu
the Commercial, off Flanaborough Head ; 8 in the Brails-
ford, on We-it Hoyle ; 12 in the Enchantress, off Dunge-
ness ; 7 in the Echo, off Bard.ey ; 6 in the Cnarlotte and
Mary, off Aldborough ; 5 in the Coarles, on Whitby ; 18
in the Will-o'-the-Wisp, off Burn Rocks ; 6 in the Hero,
off Youghal ; 10 in the Etneihiden, off Cape Wrath ; 13
in the Haddock Boat, off Matray Head.

ARREST OF MR, MORRIS MOORE, AT PLTLIN.

We are informed, by a letter from Berlin, of the
22d inst., that Mr. Morris Moore, of Soho square,
was arrested by the police of that city on the pre-
vious evening, between the hours of ten and eleven.
Our Correspondent says :—" Those with whom he
has associated here are quite at a loss to explain
this proceeding ; for it is not known to any one
that he has at all mixed up with political matters.
His whole activity in this city was concentrated
upon the study cf the art-treasures which it con-
tains, and particularly those of the picture gallery
in the Royal Museum. As you will see by the
article from the Kreuz Zeitung (translated else-
where), Mr. Moore had a dispute with the direc-
tor of the gallery, Dr. Waagen. These things,
you must believe, are quite possible amongst us ;
and I must request you, for the same reason, to
place full reliance on this communication, when
also, for good reasons, I omit to write my signa-.
tura to it. You may positively announce the fact of
the arrest in your journal, and also add credence
to my intimation respecting its connection with tae
circumstances to which I have referred. I have
only further to say, that I informed the English
Ambassador here, Lord Bloomfield, of the circum-
stance, about eleven o'clock last nigh, and again
this morning in writing. We shall now see what
steps he will take in the matter."—Morning Ad-
vertiser.

Sir,—ln your impression of the 20th inst. there is a
report of the meeting of the Wissenschattlicher Kunst-
verein of Monday, the 17th, upon which I beg leave to
offer some remarks. You say that "a somewhat pro-
tracted debate" took place as to whether the design of
the picture representing "Apollo and Marsyas," in mypossession, and of which I had the honour to submit to
the meeting a daguerreotype, with other illustrations,
was really the conception of Raphael. Though present
at the meeting, I am utterly ignorant of any such
debate. According to your reporter, this alleged debate
was raised in consequence of doubts expressed by Dr.
Waagen ; but these can only have been uttered in a
manner to elude the possibility of a reply—a procedure
which forbids the very idea of a debate. I have since,
however, been informed by several gentlemen, that Dr.
Waagen bestirred himself considerably, if not effectively,
to create such doubts; and he is, perhaps, not without
cogent and peculiar reasons for his activity. I cannot
but regret that the drtor, who appears to have stood
alone in his opposition, should have abstained from
bringing under my notice his objections ; for it would
have been a satisfaction to me to have taken a lesson from
such a monster of criticism. Bat the opportunity is lost ;
and the entire concurrence in my views of the most dis-
tinguished members of the meeting, whether sculptors,
painters, engravers, or amateurs, may be deemed inade-
quate to resist his fiat. I would therefore suggest an
expedient for determining which of us two is most en-
titled to confidence. I invite the connoisseurs of Berlin
to feast their eyes with a work which embodies Doctor
Waagea's ms!hetical conception of Raphael, and as to
the authenticity of which the Doctor forbids us to enter-
tain any doubt. The work in question is No. 147, a
" Virgin and Child," in the Berlin Museum. On turning
to page 46 of the Official Catalogue they will be edified
by the discovery that Doctor Waagen has bad the nerve