The Sun.
London, England, 1851-08-25 00:00:00

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TATTERSALL'S-THIS EV ENII4;
Six O'CLOCK.

LEI3IINGTON STASES.
7 to 1 agst U. hifinder
8 to 1 ag.t Herbert
10 to 1 agst Castle
15 to 1 agst Fogleman
15 to 1 ag,t Woldnounti

DERBY TRADESMEN'S PLATE,
Even on Abiles of Jerveaux
5 to I agst Coreus
5 to 1 agst Ischia
10 to 1 agst any other

sr. LEGER.

3 to 1 agst Hernandez
3 to 1 agst, The Ban—taken
to 1 ugst P,ltn4 M;nisier

CESA.RtWITCLI.
33 to 1 apt Clarissa
40 to 1 agst Vancouver
40 to t apt Nigger
40 to 1 agst ithet-us
50 to 1 agst of Gwynne
50 to 1 apt Mokanna
50 to 1 agst Thous
66 to 1 agst Glrforth
CAMBRIDGESHIEM

20 to 1 agst Nancy
40 to 1 sot Swindler
50 to 1 agst Vancouver
50 to 1 sot The Heriot

STORIII on the RIVER and LOSS of LIFE.
Yesterdey mornin4. about eight o'clock, a otroug gal-
from the S.S.E. stridenly sprung up on the river, and
afterwards shifted to W.S.W., with a very heavy swell.
The storm was, so far as we can learn, attended with
very dtastrous cons( qa.nc(s to the smaller craft.
inside and outside the Rock; and it is f ared that
several lives have been lost. We learn that the smack
John, of Rut:corn, was lost off l'ayior'e Bank, between
two and three o'clock in the afternoon, whilst in tow
by the steam-tug Dreadnought, and that the ciptai,:
and his wife, together with two men and two bt)ys, were
drowned. Owing to the suddenness with which the vessel
was capsiz:d the Dreadnought was unable to save any
of the crew. It is also reported that an hour later is
sloop, whilst attempting to run on shore in Bootl.
Bay, sank opposite the end of the North Wall, and
all bands were drowned. The pleasure and ferry boats
plying on the river during the day were greatly dis
tressed. Thr Z•phyr, which started for Bangor at half-
past eight o'clock in the morning, had to put beck, arid
did not reach here until half-past six o'clock in the
evening. The excursion beats round the Lightship also
had to return. About seven o'clock th. flat William, of
Runcorn, ran foul of the George's Pierhead, which
caused her to leak so much that at one time tears were
entertained for her safty. Considerable appreheririott
prevailed that a speculating gig, which left the Waterlog,
Basin early in the morning, with four hands, had been
lost, as she bad not returned. Last night the storm
bad slightly abated, the wind having gone round to the
W.N.W., but there was sill a heavy swell. We have
bean informed that a boat had been driven on shore, near
the Bootle L mdmai k., yesterday arr. moon. I
painted on it " 8
Sh2rrett. of lidlou 11; Pat h
tr.
M•Sherry."— Liverpool A.Zion of this day.

HORRID BARBARITY BY A MOTHER.
Margaret F! wing was cnarged b tore the rn4gistrati- s
in Chester on the 21. t inst. with fearfully mutilating h, r
infant son, a child of a year and eght months old. The
Woman lives ne-sr the old turnpike in Boaghton, Chester.
About noon yesterday the child was o 4nd a little dis-
tance from her house, apparently suffering the grey es.
agony from wounds which is had ieceived. wus con-
veyed by some ro-ighheirs to Mr. Churtou's, the mothe,
having at that time left the house to takr• her htribaoo's
dinner. Mr. Churton cll.:covered that the sexual part-
of the ohdit had b-en c.impletely destroy- dby flue, and
there was also a burn on its back, dor.e by some me
tante instrument. t )ther severe bruises were t. and on
differ-nt psrts of the child's body. Mr. Churton had
since attended the chi'd, and stated that it was in such
a dangerous state that he believed it would not live. A
woman who lives next door to the prisoner depose d
that about eleven o'clock yesterday morning she heard
the child fearfully moaning, and the voice of the mother
angrily speaking to also the sound of blows, there
being only the prisoner and her child in the house.
The prisoner shortly aferwards left the house.
The prisoner was remanded. When the wretched
women was apprehence I on Tuesday evening it was
with great difficulty that Mr. Hill, the superintendent
of the Chester police, was enabled to secure her from
the public vengeance of her neighbours, and such was
her callous and obdurate feeling that she threatened to
tear out the eyes of one of her n,ighbours who spoke of
her conduct towards her children. Ou being placed at
the bar she evinced no remorse, but seemed only affected
at her own poslion. As the detailt of the proceedings to
the poor infant were gone into,each horrid circumstance
excited a groan of indignation Iron] the crowded court.
It was uk cessary to remove her in a cab to the city gaol,
to prevent the women eho thronged the staircase and
'arcade of the Exchobge from taking the law into their
own hands. We understand the mutilated infant is
*ply to survive, as Mr. Churton has succeeded in ef-
fecting an artificial passage.

VIE REV. TRESHAII GREGG- AND MR.
JOHN REYNOLDS, I.P.
The following letter has been adlres.ed by th-
Rev. T. D. Gregg to the Editor of Saunderis .News
Letter :
Sir,—Your columns having been the medium of
giving diffusion to some angry sentiments of Mr
John Reynolds, with respect to me, and I may add,
very 'unju-t s.win:tents, too, I trust that you will
hold me entitled to claim a few lines in explanation.
Let me assure you that I so sincerely commisserat-
Mr. 13,bloolds'• mixtification in baying been uhle onl)
to collect one Irish I,oblem in and an English baronet
to grace his ass-airily of p7i,-ts arid coal-porters—tor
of o'iurs. thw agitating M.P.'s count for nothit g_
that I shall bear ver:, ligh.ly on nun. Mr. R-ynidii-
mistakes 114. We never dared him to holds ineetilig
We never undertook to go to hartle on the suij et
All we un ,ecrook to do was to assert our right to b.-
present, and if adoii,ted, quietly awl constituiiontihy
~
to tAk.> a fair share in the business, or else eo.com-
pletelv to pur the meeting arid its managers to the
wrong as that they ,h uird stand exposed to the-
WoTiel in the position of delis quents against law, trier
and liherty. We have fully accotnpli lied our purpose
We have a-cercain,d, h-yond the pt)-sikolity tit doubt,
from num routs appllearions, that ti. k-ts of admission
were cit.efu ly withheld from those who were nut
understood ta he members of the clique. If tickets
bad been freen f eely granted, and sp ice have admitted
of ir, I. would have undertaken to have brought five
thousand men to the place of assi-mbl,ge, or more
than that; but having been only able to procure ah,.ut
six tickets, this sitaiile fact cirtuonst'ares beyond
doubt the picked character of the meeting. Ther-
remained but one test more. "13 there as much
boldness, courage., honesty, and self-reliance amongst
them as to admit, when properly furnished with
tickets, six hostile individuals—nay, we will make it
less—will they admit tour Anglo-Catholics atroink,
them? Can they afford to allow four Anglo-Catho-
lics to tell them to their face that they are usurpers ?"
At the risk of our lives we applied the test, and now
it stainds as a demonstrated result in the lace of the
empire, that in the Irish metropolis the Romanist
party cannot, in the capacity of Catholics, bold a
public meeting unless it is packed, nor admit an in-
dividulil amongst them, though furnished with a
ticket, unless he is understood to have on him the
right mark and number. Mr. Reynolds mistakes.
I have had a greater victory than if I bad, with three
,
thousand men, encountered, his coal-porters and
routed them at another Dully s Brae. The victory is
a moral one. The world sees right, courage, and libe-
rality on the side of Protestants—wrong, terror, and
intolerance on that of their adversaries. This satis-
fies us. One word more. Let me as an individual
say that I trust there will be no prosecution under
the new Act, The sanction is too paltry to be worth
enfurctemtnt. Let the Act stand as a simple test of
loyalty. Give them rope enough—let them trample
on it, and when they have in both is'ands clearly
shown what they are, let us rise wirh the might of
one man, thrust them out of a Legislature which
they disgrace—wrest from them privileges which
they hold but to abuse, and thus being reduced once
again to serfdom in the land of freedom they will
know how «to keep a civil tongue in their beads."
And as to Their rebellion, two hundred thousand
Orangemen will know how dealwith that. Mr.
Reynolds is quite safe in callingok clergyman
hisa
coward; it is, of course,should do a ll'
bp,adrdt tmheatexheetried
~roinso. rof courage on
fancy the public. will
making any sort of disclaimer
to his imputation.'
I remain, Sir, your very faithful servant,
T. D. GREGG.

THE SHIPYFRECK NEAR ADEN.
Anii:N, JULY 27.—0 n Sreurday last, the 12 h of
Juts , a vsss 1 was sigredised from the fl ,gstalf t n
Seerah Islend at about 11 A.M. At 2 P.M. the red
pennant dud ball were loeer•d, ano her gun wee tired
by the lookout{-and the blue ensign reversed, indica-
tive of a ship in distress, was hoisted. As 6 P. 31. on
the same evening the political authorities received
notice of this circumstance.
At about eight P.M. the authorities received a come
municetion from Lieutenant Steward, of her Majes-
ty's 78 h, commanding at the " Wall," informing
them that the captain of an English vessel, lost upon
the cods!, had reaehed that post, and earnestly re-
quested that aesi.tance might be dispatched to the
crew, who had disembarked, and were then encamped
upon the beach not far from the wreck. The cap-
tain baying also made known to the officer above-
named that four of his crew had accompanied him,
and were then most probably close to the " Wall," no
time was lost ere assistance was sent to them. The
four men were accordingly found quite exhausted
with their lorg walk, and every attention was ren-
dered tnein which their circumstances required.
At this time there were in harbour the following
vessels belonging to the Etst India Company :—The
steamers Sesostrie and Ajdaha. the schooner Mahe,
and the frigate Elphinetooe. The last received orders
to proceed to the wee( katlo r m. She did not sail
tilt 7A M. the following day. At 9A et she came to
anchor in Back bay, where she retutiued five hours,
and did not reach the wreck, only 15 miles to the
north-east of Adrn, till half past 5 that evening. At
10 P 31. on Saturday two of the unfortunate crew, who,
had been left behind on the beach, reached the '• Wall,'
and communicated the intelligence that the Arabs had
attacked them and murdered their chief mate, where-
uponhem a
tbseiyekalmi
man
nollhgahmt
esadfemtyuirnphflyig, hwt,holseeaviilnligiesbsehpirnedt.
vented hurl from attempting to escape. Several other
of the refugees reached Aden in the course of a few
hours, and at 1 A.M. on Sunday, under instructions
from the local political authorities, a force, consisting
of 50 Highlanders and 70 men of the 31 Madras
Native Infantry, under the command of Captain
Lockhart, and accompanied by Mr. Cruttenden, the
Assistant Political, marched beyond the " Wall" and
succeeded in picking up a couple of the crew. There
were still three men missing, viz., the chief mate, who
had been murdered, Murphy, the invalid, and the
carpenter. However, it does nut appear to have been
the design of those who planned this military sally,
that the parry should reach the spot where these men
or their bodies might have been found, for after
marching the distance of three and a half miles they
were ordered to return to Aden.
At eleven A.M. on Sunday it was made known to the
Highlanders by a Somali fi.herman that an European
was lying on the beach not far from their barracks.
Oa the instant about 50 of their number went out in
search of him. They found him well nigh senseless
from fatigue and thirst, and both officers and men vied
in their efforts to re,tore him. The pour fellow turned
out to be the hitherto missing carpenter.
I shall now proceed to lay before you the particu-
lars of the wreck and of the disasters which followed,
as they were recounted to me by two of the sufferers.
It appeared that the ship, which is called the Sous
of Commerce, laden with coals, grounded on Friday
ofterno m, the 11th Mg. No blame whatever is
attached to the cap'ain for this catastrophe by nautical
men here. The weather was very boisterous, and the
Sesostria, w hich arrived at Aden on the same day,
made the harbour with the greatest difficulty. On:
Siturday the captain and crew took to the cutter and
launch, bringing away with them what was most
valuable in the ship, intending to row to Aden. There
was a heavy sea running directly against them, and in
a short time the first mare, who commended the launch,
made known to he captein his determination to land,
alleging that unless he did so the sick man, Murphy,
who was in the bust with him, would die. To this the
captain was opposed, but perceiving that the in its
hid Already grounded the launch, he also abandoned
nis original idea of making Aden by sea, and landed
with the rest of the crew. A temporary shed was
,hen erected, and the captain, taking four of the men
with him, Marched off towards the town in order to
seek assistance. The only weapons they carried with
them were a harpoon, two axes, and a bar of iron.
l'hey had not proceeded far when they were met by
four armed Arabs, mounted on camels, who made as
though they would attack them. The sailors, how-
ever, showed front, and the Arabs passed them a short
distance, dismounts 1, and then turned to pursue
them. Tney escaped unhurt, and succeeded in
reaching the " Wall" in the manner already de-
scribed.
Nut long after the departure of the captain and his
party a number of Arabs approached the shed with
hostile demonstrations. The mate, fancying, I sup-
pose, tbat plunder was their object, held out his watch
to them; hereupon he received two gunshot wounds
from the assembled Arabs, one of whom then plunged a
dagger into his back, and a third ripped up his belly
with a similar weapon. This was a signal for the
rest to flee, which they did, leaving the sick man,
Murphy, under the shed. Several shots were fired at
them by their pursuers, one of which grazed the arm
and another the hair of the fugitives. Their safe ar-
rival at Aden, partly that night and partly the follow-
ing day, has already been narrated.
jo complete this account it only remains for me to
tell you what was effected by the Elphinstone. On
nearing the wreck at 5 P.M. on Sunday many Arabs
were seen making their escape from her to the
shore. A party was then dispatched by Lieute-
naut Batt under the command of Lieutenant
Lirhguu, to examine the vessel. As many as twelve
shots were fired upon the boat's crew by the Arabs.
who were assembled on the beach to the number of
400. The following morning another survey was
tnede of the wreck, but finding that she was beyond
rescue, and that to attempt to dismantle her in a po-
sition so dangerous and while tt e sea was so boisie-
tollB would r cis ngf r the lives of his crevv, Lieutenant
B ,fr again set sail for Aden.
0 t Sunday evening au Arab was sent out to re •
dim the corpse of the mate. On nearing the spot
be saw a large number of Arabs collected there, and
teemed it safer to return to camp. On the day fol
lowing. another messenger was dispatched on a simile'
errand, who returned to say that the bodies of the
mate and also of Murphy bed been buried. More
correct Information, however, was brought into camp
Frilay, the 18th, by a number of persons who
hail gone out re eurv,-y the wreck previous to bid,ling
r)r it at auction, to the effect that the two bodies were
lying on the shun-, the toy of the waves and the
rood 01 crabs.
And here I beg you to observe that it was not until
M 'witty that aey noturtnation was received re,pectinig
the death of Murphy. He had been lett in the shed
by his comrades, who knew nothing certain of N-
ave. Ott Monday it Ives given out that he was
murdered. The day following a report was spread at
the Point that he had been brought into camp on a
camel. This wined out to be false, 30 I presume
that the sick man was murdered, but how soon after
the mate, or iu what mintier, is not known with any
certainty.
Frew the above details of this sad catastrophe the
following reflections must occur to any one who at-
tentively peruse them. They are noted here, not to
animadvert on the conduct of any particular persons
—for who is to blame ?—but because they may lead
to amendment wherever amendment is called for :
Firm', then, observe that the notice of a vessel,
signal;zed as in distress, did not reach the political
department till four hours afterwards, and then, as
we are told, by a fortunate coincidence; that with a
fleet of four men-of-war in the harbour no assistance
reached the vessel till 24 hours after the intelligence'
of the wreck had been communicated to the local
authorities.
Secondly—The certain fate of the sick man Mur-
phy was unknown for two days, and during that time
nothing was done to obtain his release, if alive, from
the hands of the barbarous Arabs.
Thirdly —The dead bodies of our two murdered
countrymen were left unburied, without any decided
steps having been taken to obtain for them the de-
cency of burial.
Fourthly—All this was done-and suffered within
15 miles of a strong British garrison, consisting of
1,500 men.
Of course you are well aware that this is not the
first outrage committed by the Arabs of this neigh-
bourhood upon British life. The catalogue of their
murders during the last eighteen months betokens
the moat deadly hate to us on their part, and some-
thing akin to eulpeble lenity on ours, for having
hitherto suffered the guilty to escape th- just reward of
their crime. The following is a summary of their late
aggressions :—.
1. The attack upon a boat belonging to the Hon.
East India Company's steamer Auckland, about fif-
teen months ago, by the Arabs of Bit Humid, in the