The Sun.
London, England, 1851-03-10 00:00:00

THE SHELL EXPERIMENTS.

The trial of shells proceeded oa Saturday on board the
Excellent, under the inspection of the committee. About
twenty of Mr. Moore's concussion shells were tried at the
distant range at the Topez. Two or three of them burst
prematurely—the others ware good. Mr. Moore's shells
will be proceeded with this day.
THE LOSS OF THE FLAMER, STEAM. VESSEL.—A pre-
liminary inquiry took place at the Royal Naval College,
before Captain Chad, C.ll, and the Judge Advocate,
M. Greetham, Esq., on the officers and crew of the
Flamer, for the loss of that vessel. The persons were
not examined on oath, and the evidence was not given
in public. We hope that this inquiry will supersede the
nec:.-s:ity of a cAut-mmrtial. The Flamer went on shore
" according to the Act of Parliament;" the officers and
men were all at their station's; the look-out men were
placed, and the " blue pigeon was flying," and further,
we understand the commander is a steady, correct, and
excellent officer. . .

A HAPPY MAN-or-WAR.---The Powerful, 84, Capt.
the Hon. R. S. Dundas, was paid off on Saturday, along-
side Portsmouth Dockyard, in a most orderly and quiet
manner. We are very glad to see that the system of
dismantling and paying off ships alongside the yard
seems now to be generally adopted. By this plan the
seamen are kept sober; they leave the yard as they are
paid, and they have every chance of steering clear of the
land-sharks, who always make a market of those sea-
men who are paid off half-sea's over. The Powerful was
in excellent order; she has been a most comfortable ship
for both officers and men, and in the Mediterranean she
was known as " The Happy Ship." She has been dis-
masted and entirely cleared out before paying off.
Seventy or eighty of her crew have put their names
down for the Prince Regent. The Sprightly steamer,
Master-Commander Allen, sailed for Plymouth on Sa-
turday night, taking down about ,100 seamen belonging
to that port, paid off from the Powerful.
Vice-Admiral Sir George Seymour's baggage was
taken to the Cumberland, 70, Captain Seymour, at Spit-
head, by the Echo, steam-tug, on Saturday.
Boscawen, 70, Captain Richards, C. 8., is progressing
in fitting for the ordinary guard-ship, at Chatham, and
will be completed in May next.
Bonetta, 3, brigantine, Lieut.-Commander C. Wake,
was towed to Sheerness on Friday, by the Adder, steam-
vessel. After her compasses have been adjusted, she will
proceed to Plymouth, at which port the advance money
will be paid, prior to her proceeding to her station at
Brazils. _

Magicienne, 16, steam-sloop, at Devonport, having
been ordered by the Admiralty for another trial to test
her sailing qualities, Mr. Brown, second master at-
tendant, has been entrusted with the command, and she
sras to sail on Saturday morning, with a party of extra
riggers and engineers from the docl:yard. She has been
brought to the draft of water of—fore, 15 feet 7 inches;
aft, 16 feet 7 inches.
PORTSMOUTH, SUNDAY.—Tho Fairy Royal yacht,
Captain Lord Adolphus Fitzdycerice, G.C.11., embarked
the Queen and Court from the Royal Clarence-yard,
Gosport, yesterday noon, and convey:A them, under the
triuldsalutes, to Cowes, where the royal equipages were
in waiting to convey them to Ozborne.
The Penelope, 22, steam-frigate, was put in commis-
elon at the; port yesterday afterAuon by Captain Henry
Lystcr for tho first• claw; Broad pondnat of Commodore
Bruce, to 4uneed Commodore Fanshawe in the com-
mand in chief en the cae.st of Africa. The Penelope's
complement is to be 300 men and officers.
The Kingfi,her, 12, Cernmander,llarvey, was paid off
yesterday at Devonport. Iler seamen and marines be-
longing to this port were brought here this morning by
tho stem-teilder Avon, which returned to Devonport
this afternoon.
The Pyrenees hired convict-ship arrived at Spithead
this morning frem the Thames to embark transports for
the penal settlements.
In purFnance of e,n Admiralty order, Captain H. D.
Chads, C. 8., of her Majesty's ship Excellent, and Mr.
G. L. Greetlmm, Deputy Judggr4dv9cote of the Meet,

assembled on Fridey at the official residence of Captain
Chads (the Ro3al Naval College) to receive the deposi-
tions of Commander St. Leger, the other officers, and
ship's company of the late Flamer steam-vessel, lost on
the coast of Africa, preliminary, we believe, to a court-
martial being held.
Commander Edmund A. Glynn and Lieutenant E.
Marshall aro appointed to the Penelope.
APPOINTMENTS.
WOOLWICH, MARCH B.—Lieutenants.—Charles T.
Leckie (1845), Frederick D. Rich (1846), and John
Corbett (1846), from the Excellent gunnery ship at
Portsmouth, to the Penelope steam-frigate at Portsmouth,
commissioned to relieve the Centaur steam-frigate on the
Coast of Africa station. Lieutenant Charles W. Bonham
(1843), from the Alarm, 26, on the West Indies station,
to be Flag-Lieutenant to the Penelope; Charles M.
Aynsley (1845), to the Alarm, vice Bonham; Lieutenant
Henry Warren (1840), to the Boseawen, 70, at Chatham;
Willie:li Wood (1845), to the Alecto steam-sloop, at
Woolwich.
blaster—John J. Brown (1846), to the Penelope.
Surgeons—Alfred Baker, Outfield (1840), to the
Penelope; John A. Mould (1838), to the Ceylon re-
ceiving ship, at Malta.
Chief Engineer—George Murdoch, to the Penelope.
Assistant-Surgeons—Michael Walling (1846), to the
Penelope; John T. Robinson, M.P. (1845), additional
of the Hastings, 72, flag• ship on the East Indies station,
to the Rhadamanthus steam troop-ship, at Sheer-
ness; James W. Elliott (1848), formerly of the Oberon
steam-vessel, to the Prince Regent, 90, at Portsmouth.
Assistant-Engineers—John London, William Oliver,
Peter Steel, A. H. Miller, Frederick M. Gillham, and
Richard Steerage), to the Penelope.
Clerk—W. U. Cly ine, to the Penelope.
PROMOTIONS
John Borlase and Richard Jenkins to be acting boat-
swains.
Henry Rowe to be acting carpenter.
The Banshee mail steam-packet, Lieutenant-Com-
mander Hosken, had her compasses adjusted to-day at
Greenhithe by Captain Johnson, and will leave to-
morrow for Plymouth and the Mediterranean.
The experiments carried on with biunacle lights on
board the Fisgard during the whole of five nights have
been concluded, so far as they may be required for a
stationary vessel, but they are to be tried is sea-going
vessels before a decision is given of their respective
merits.

SHIP NEWS.
LIVERPOOL, MARCH B.—Wind S.E., moderate.—
Arrived—Michael Angelo, from New Orleans. Sarah
Maria, hence, has arrived at Genoa; Charles, hence, has
arrived at Ostend; Courier, from Alexandria, has ar-
rived at Queenstown; James, hence for Newcastle, has
arrived at Grimsby, with loss of both anchors. Bram-
well flat capsized and sank in the river yesterday after-
noon, through collision with the schooner Hebe, which
was removing from Canning to Nelson Dock.
GRAVESEND, MARCH 9.—Wind S., fresh breeze and
fine.

Arrived—Tropic, Apollo, from Demerara; from Gre-
nada; Louise, from Yorktown, Nantes; from New York;
Panope, from Patras; Amana, from Calcutta; Triton,
from Ostend; Falcon and Marmion, from New Orleans;
Industrie, from Christiana; Columbo, from Naples;
Fleche, from Ghent; Lady Nugent, from Calcutta;
Maria Constance, from Honfleur; Agnes, from Jamaica;
Marbella Porsgrund, Magnet, and Rhine, from Rotter-
dam; Japan, from Bristol; Janette, from Gottenberg;
William's Adventure, from Rouen; La Poule, from
Cherbourg; Les Amis, from Rouen; Mauritius, from
Taganrog; Jarlen, from Alexandria; Copy, from Sierra
Leone; Portland, from Callao; Hilton, from Odessa;
Ophelia and Caroline Alice, from Cadiz; City of
London, from Dunkirk; Menai, from Calais; Ros-
common and Diana, from Harlingen; Stadt Drodrecht,
from Dordt; Rainbow, from Rotterdam; Hannah, Helen
Munro, and Concordia, from Guernsey; Giraffe, from
Rotterdam; Hebe, from Smyrna; Albion, from Caen;
Alliance and Margaret, from Guernsey; Catherine and
Hawk, from France; Lenodia, from Odessa; Europa,
from Ancona; Jane, from Demerara; Lemnos, from
Odessa; Industrie, from Norway; Robert, from Odessa;
Iris and Julia, from Odessa; Medwede, from Charente;
Nancy, from Zabia; Veracity, from Caen; Thea, from
Gravelines; Augusta, from Sines; Magna Charts, and
Laura, from Constantinople.
Sailed—Leon and Lioutie, for Gravelines; Elizabeth,

for Lubeck; Joco, for Trieste; Kong Sverre, for Aren- I
dahl; John Bull, for Hamburg h ; King William, and
City of Manchester, for Port Adelaide; Guineaman, for
Cape Coast; Earl of Auckland, Ocean, and Batavier, for
Rotterdam; Cletnanthe, for Rio Janeiro; Albion, for:Bou-
logne; Antwerpen, for Antwerp; Sir Edward Banks,
for Ostend; Tennir, for Odessa; Jessica, for Trinidad;
Madagascar, for Calcutta; Sarah Maria, for Liverpool;
Averick Heineken, for Bremen; Fame, for Calais; Lord
John Russell, for Harlingen; Albert, for Boston • Ranger,
for Amsterdam; Rival, for Ascension; Egham, for
Cadiz; Janette, for the Clyde; Queen, for Antwerp;
Palmyra, for Demerara.
VESSELS SPOKEN WITH.

Vigenette, Austrian barque, on the 10th of January, in
Ist. 16 S., long. 16 W.
Alexander ship, for Calcutta, on the 11th of January,
in lat. 14 S., long. 14 W.
Walter barque, of Stockholm, from London, in lat. 14 S.,
long. 17 N.
A barque. under Norwegian colours, steering for the
southward, in lat. 9 N., long. 38 W.
Mohawk, from Canton for London, on the 19th of No-
vember, in lat. 2 S., long. 107 E.
Vanderpalm, from Shanghai for London, on the 25th of
November, in Sunda. Straits.
Emily Wilder, bound S.W., on the 30th of December, in
lat. 31 S., long. 27 E.
Moultan, from Shanghai for London, on the 31st of Dc•
camber, iu lat. 35 S., long. 2 t E.
Johanna, from Batavia for Amsterdam, cn the 2d of
January, in let. 35 S., long. 22 E.; Equator, from
Shanghai for London, the same day.
Garde .tir.tional, of Marseilles, from Para for Pernam-
buco, on the 10th of January, off Olinda.

COWES, ISLE OF WIGHT.
(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
CONN RS, MARCH 8.

Her Majesty, Prince Albert, and tic royal children,
landed from the Fairy on the Trinity-wharf, and pro-
ceeded to Osborne. The Franklin, United States
steamer, saluted the royal party, and dipped her flag as
the Fairy passed.
9th. The Royal Family attended Divine service at
the parish church of Whippingham this morning.

Bth. Arrived, the Franklin, American steamer, from
Havre, and after taking in her passenger); and their lug-
gage, proceeded at about one o'clock for New York.
There will be a trial of speed between her and the Liver-
pool and New York steamer, which was to start about the
same time.

The Ruby steamer is lying off, waiting the arrival of
Lilo Washington sterner, !rem New York; wind strong
from tho south.

CO KT CIRCULAR.

The Queen and Prince Albert, accompanied by the
Prince of Wales, Prince Alfred, Prince Arthur, the
Princess Royal, tho Princesses Alice, Helena, and
Louisa, and attended by the Viscountess Canning, Hon.
Amelia Murray, Colonel the Honourable Charles Grey,
Lieutenant-Colonel the Hon. A. Nelson Hood, Colonel
Bouverie, and Mr. Birch, left Buckingham Palace at
twenty-five minutes before ten o'clock on Saturday morn-
ing, for Osborne, isle of Wight.
flee Majesty and the Prince were conducted to their
carriages by the Duke of Norfolk, the Marquis of Brea-
dal bane, the Earl of Morley, Lord George Lennox, Lieu-
tenant-Colonel Francis Seymour, and Lieutenant-Colonel
the Hon. A Gordon.

The august party left the Palace in six carriages,
escorted by a party of the 16th Lancers, and pro-
ceeded to the Nitle Elms station, travelling by a
special train on the South-Wcstern Railway to Gosport.
OSBORNE, SUNDAY.

Her Majesty and his Royal Highness Prince Albert
arrived here yesterday from London, with their Royal
Highnesses the Prince of Wales, the Princess Royal,
Prince Alfred, Prince Arthur, and the Princesses Alice,
Helene, and Louisa, and attended by the ladies and gen-
tlemen in waiting.
This morning the Queen and Prince Albert, and the
ladies and gentlemen of the Court, attended Divine
service .in Whippingham Church. The Rev. Mr. Pro-
theros officiated.

A Cabinet Council was held on Saturday afternoon, at
the Foreign Office. It was attended by Lord John
Russell, the Lord Chancellor, the Marquis of Lansdowne,
the Earl of hlinto, Sir George Grey, Viscount Palmer-
ston, Earl Grey, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir
Francis Baring, Lord Broughton, the Right lion. Henry
Labouchere, the Earl of Carlisle, and the Marquis of
Clsnricarde. The Council sat two hours.
A deputation, headed by Mr. Hume, M.P., and includ-
ing the Right Hon. T. Milner Gibson, M.P., Mr. Cob-
den, M.P., Mr. W. Williams, M.P., Mr. W. J. Fox, M.P.,
Mr. L. Hey worth, M.P., and other Members of Parlia-
ment, had an interview respecting the paper duties, with
Lord John Russell, on Saturday, at his official residence
in Dawning- street.
Mr. De Salis bad an interview with the Chancellor cf
the Exchequer on Saturday, at his official residence,
in Downing-street.
The Transatlantic Packet Station Commission bad a
meeting on Saturday, at the Board of Trade. Present
Earl Granville (chairman), Hon. William Cowper, M.P.,
Sir James Gordon, K.C.8., Sir John F. Burgoyne,
K.C.8., Captain Stephenson Ellerby, and Lord Hobart
(secretary).

Rashness borrows the name of courage, but it is of
another race, and nothing allied to tha virtue; the one de-
scends in a direct line from prudencet , the other from folly
and presumption.—. Eliza Cook's Journal.
ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS.--The following
gentlemen, having undergone the necessary examinations
for the diploma, were admitted members of the College, at
the meeting of the Court of Examiners on the 7th instant :
Me6sys. Edward E. Earle' IVestbery-en-Tr3'in, ;
James Vi-e,ton Cvomb, Cannon-street ; Henry Bullock,
Reading, llerk,hire ; Frederick Ellis, Birmingham ; Hobert
Hamilton, Madlox-strcet, Bond-street ; 'ltiotnas
L'ndon ; William Peak, Sharnbrook, Bedfordshire;
liam :itt7.vart James Home Murro, Caithness, Scotland;
Edward O'Callaghan Foote, Cork; Charles James Grant,
Arundel, Suase.: • john Griffith Morris, Liverpool ; and
Thomas William Joseph Marsh, Australia. At the same
meeting of the Court Mr. William Evans passed his exami-
nation for naval surgeon. This gentleman had previously
been admitted a number of the College, his diploma bearing
date the 7th of August, 1816.
ROYAL ARTILLERY.--`V OOLWIC MAE CH B.
Tbirty-eig,lityoung men, recruits undercharge of Sergeant
Masson, arrived at head quarters on Friday from Lisburn in
Ireland. A board of diners assembled on the same day at
the Ordnance Hospital, to verify the services of the men un-
fit for duty previous to being pensioned. One bombardier
and 15 gunners of the 3d battalion embarked to-day at
Blackwell in the Eleventhside freight ship for St. ifeletta to
ill' pp the c9723PAPy at that §tatigh.

IRELAND.
THE PRELATES AND THE PENAL LAW!.
DUBLIN, SATURDAY.—The Freeman of this morning
contains the address to the Queen adopted by the Irish
Roman Catholic hierarchy at the late meeting in 'ublin,
together with Sir George Grey'► answer, communicated
through Archbishop Murray. The reply of the Home
Secretary is, of course, brief and formal ; but the addi-
tion of the word " graciously," though of trifling im-
port, seems to be regarded as significant of "some-
thing." A cagy of the documents is annexed, and it will
be observed that even " John Archbishop of Tuam" has
come off his stilts, eschewed the territorial title, and is
fain to content to write himself down plain "John
API-Tale :"

" TO HER MOST GRACIOUS MAJESTY THE QUEEN.
" May it please your M:jesty,—We, your M,,jesty's
loyal and dutiful subjects, the undersigned Archbishops
and Bishops of the Itomaa Catholic Church in Ireland,
presume to approach your M-,:jesty with the humble as-
aurance of our profound homage, and of our fervent and
unalterable attachment to your Majesty's person and
throne.

" Loyalty to the Sovereign whom Providence has
placed over us is a duty which the clearest dictates of
our religion prescribe. It is a duty which the Roman
Catholic clergy of Ireland have not failed to inculcate
at all times and under the most adverse circumstances,
with all the energy of Christian zeal. It is a duty, may
it please your Dl:jetty, the sanctity of which was pro-
claimed aloud through the enthusiastic outpourings of
the Irish heart when our present most gracious Sove-
reign vouchsafed to visit cur shores.

" With ineffable pain we have learnt that an internal
change lately made in England by the Sovereign Pontiff
in the spiritual orgar.izatten of the Church to which
we belung—a change which we believe to be in perfect
accordance with every duty which the purest feelings
of loyalty would demand—has been represented as an
infringement of your Majesty's Royal supremacy. We
beg most humbly to assure your Majesty that we
utterly condemn any attempt to assail the authority of
your Majesty as our supreme temporal authority.
The Roman Catholics of these realms owe, and
with the deepest sincerity cf their hearts cheerfully
profess, supreme and undivided allegiance to your Ma-
jesty in all temporal matters; and yet, because we can-
not violate our conscience by giving to your Majesty in
spiritual matters that which belongs, as we believe, solely
to God, the project of a law has been laid before Parlia-
ment, the declared object of which is to suppress our
hierarchy, and which, with that view, is framed so as to
render in the highest degree penal the observance of our
ecclesiastical discipline, as well as to confiscate our
charitable funds. Such a law we beg most respectfully
to assure your Majesty would grievously oppress your
Majesty's most faithful and loyal subjects, the Roman
Catholics of the United Kingdom, and would be utterly
subversive of those principles of religious liberty which
your Majesty vouchsafed to proclaim from the Throne,
principles which descended to your Majesty as a precious
inheritance from your illustrious father, which grew up
with your Majesty, and were strengthened in your Royal
bosom by the deliberate judgment of an enlightened
mind, and the kindly sensibilities of a heart which pants
for the happiness of all your subjects.
"To that gracious and benevolent heart the under-
signed appeal with confidence against the grievous and
undeserved calamity threatened by the projected penal
law, and they implore your Majesty, the guardian under
Heaven of the happiness of every portion of this great
empire, to secure to them, and to all your Majesty's
faithful Roman Catholic subjects, what is denied to no
other class of their fellow-Christiana, the peaceful exer-
cise of their religious worship according to the known
discipline of their Church.
" And may your Majesty's reign be long and glorious
over every section of an united, happy, and grateful
,ogle.
Paul Cullen. " f Nicholas Foran.
D. Murray. " t Francis Haly.
M. Slattery. " t Thomas Feeny.
John Mliale. " t Charles Mac Nally.
P. M'Gettigan. " t Laurence O'Donnell.
Cornelius Egan. " t E. Walsh.
John Ryan. "t William Delany.
P. M‘Nicholas. " t John Derry.
Edmond Firench. " t J. Murphy.
James Browne. " f Francis Kelly.
William O'Higgins. " t Milesius Murphy.
John Cantwell. " f William Keane.
George J. Browne. " D. Vaughan, Vicar Ca-
Cornelius Denvir. pitular of Killaloe."
Michael Blake.

The following is the letter addressed by Archbishop
Murray to the Home Secretary when forwarding the fore-
going address:—
"TO THE RIGHT HON. SIR GEORGE GREY, G.C.8., &C.
" Sir,—ln conformity with the wishes of a general
meeting of the archbishops and bishops of the Roman
Catholic Church in Ireland, I have the honour to for-
ward to you the accompanying humble address, in the
hope that you will have the great goodness to lay it
before her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen.
" I have the honour to remain, with profound respect,
Sir, your most obedient servant,

" k D. MURRAY.
" Mountjoy•square, Dublin, March 1."
REPLY CF SIR G. GREY.

Whitehall, March 6.

"My Lord,—l have had the honour to lay before the
Qat en the address of the archbishops and bishops of the
ltoman Catholic Church in Ireland, which accompanied
your Grace's letter of the Ist inst., and I am to inform
you that the address was graciously received by her Ma-
juty.

"I have the honour to be, my Lord,
" Your obedient ,servant.
" G. GREY.
" The Most Rev. Archbishop Daniel Murray,
Mountjoy-square, Dublin."

. -
MR. JOIIN O'CONNELL ♦ND THE ELECTORS OF LIME.
nick.—Every man's hand now appears to be rait,ed
against Mr. John O'Connell, who, not more than six
years ago, had been hailed by the repeaters as " the
young and rising hope of Ireland." A special meting
of the corporation of Limerick was held on Thurkday,
to take into consideration the conduct of Mr. O'Connell,
in having absented hirnselt from his seat in Parliament
upon the introduction of the Papal Aggression Bill.
After a vehement and protracted discussion, a resolu-
tion condemnatory of the conduct of Mr. O'Connell was
passed by a majority of 18 to 11; and a second resolu-
tion was then adopted, calling on the lion. Gentleman
to resign his seat for the city of Limerick. Amongst
the majority were several who bad been the warmest
adhere❑ts of Mr. O'Connell, and subscribers to the fund
recently collected to defray his expenses whilst attending
in Parliament.

A letter appears this morning, addressed to Mr. John
O'Connell by Mr. J. Kenny, the Mayor of Clonmel, de-
claring that it would be hypocrisy to hide the fact that
his "recent indecision on Disraeli's motion has, and
hill ever, stamp him as an unfit man to had in any po-
pular measure. Your excuse (the mayor adds) for non-
attendance upon the division, which would and ought
for ever shut out from power that traitor to public
honour, Lord John Russell, proves you, your brother,
and cousin, unworthy of the confidence of the Irish
people."
Mr. John O'Brien, the colleague of Mr. O'Connell
in the representation of Limerick, who had also been
absent from the division on Mr. Disraeli's motion, ow.
half, to the dangerous illness of a member of his family,
has so far escaped a vote of censure. Mr. O'Brien, in a
letter to his constituents. declares it to he " the para-
mount obligation of a Catholic member to extend the
duty of resistance to a general opposition to any Minis-
' try, no matter how constituted, identified with the prin-
ciple of religious intolerance."

CARRIAGE IMPROVEMENTS.—In these times of im-
provement, when every artificer and mechanist is taxing his
ingenuity to produce something new, to hold a place in the
forthcoming Exhibition, carriage builders do not in the least
appear to be behind hand. There is now exhibiting in the
factory of Messrs. W. and C. Middleton, Long. acre, a light
and elegant carriage, fitted with a centripetal wheel-plate.
By means of this new and important invention, the front
wheels are made to lock under the body in turning a corner
in a much shorter space than usual. Two advantages are
thus offered; one is, that the hind and front wheels are
brought ten inches closer together than usual, thereby con-
siderably lessening the draught, by means of a groove in the
wheel-plate which allows the perch-bolt to slide that much
forward, carrying the wheels along with it independently of
the body, instead of remaining stationary while on the lock.
The other is that it locks in a much shorter compass than
anything that has yet been invented, a very great consi-
deration in turning a narrow road; but although the perch-
bolt is allowed to slide in this manner,
it always retains its
central position under the body, for which reason alone it
entirely supersedes every other contrivance that has yet been
produced, while the movement always appears perfectly
smooth and easy. Altogether the invention is quite unique,
gentleman who desires a
and must be adopted by
roomy carriage with less draught for his horses, and perfect
safety with a short lock. A very elegant carriage is being
finished in the most costly style for the Exhibition, which
,E27o,NtoGnsoroegniwstemr,
from its various advantages and improvements, from the
every
spring to the door-lock, bids fair to bold a conspicuous posi-
tion in the carriage department,
OF LIFE
sumwTrecstip ANDary
hoistse
ofO
SANDS.
on her first voyage, commanded by Captain John White,
bound from Sunderland to Smyrna, with a cargo of coals,
was unfortunately wrecked on Thursday morning on the
Goodwin Sands. She was seen at daylight, shortly after she
got on shore, on the North Sand Head, the wind blowing
very hard in squalls from N. by W. to N. by E. with sleet,
right on the face of the sand where she lay, and a tremend-
ous sea running, and breaking over her as high as her mast-
head. It was then nearly low
water. A lugger, the Buffalo
Gal, of Ramsgate, put to sea with eleven men to endeavour
to save the crew. She ran down towards the brig, but found
it impossible to get near her. A small life-boat at Broad-
stairs, manned by eight gallant fellows, at length succeeded
in pulling under her stern, the sea breaking over the brig,
and the life-boat being constantly full of water. The brig's
crew were so benumed that they could not throw a rope;
however, two of the life-boat men having life-belts got on
hoard and assisted the mate and six of the crew in getting
into the boat from the end of the boom. The life-boat, a
heavy sea breaking her adrift from a r.pc .slio was banging
on by to the brig, gait upon the sand. Two of the boatmen
left on b of the brig then jumped upon the sand and got
footing. 't he Buffalo Gal had by this dine got on tae utter
side of the sand and succeeded in getting the whole party en
board with the exception of Captain White, a man, and a
boy, who, not\\ itst&nding the most circuitous endeavours, it
was found imposi idle to save. The lugger, with the life. boat
in tow, then proceeded to Ramsgate.
NARROW ESCAPE.—The Mute Loy, one of the
Deptford-yard victualling lighters, when attached by a long
cable to one of the mooring buoys opposite Woolwich Dock-
yard on the evening of Friday last, had the cable cut by one
of the Woolwich steamers, and the wind blowing strong
from the north-west drifted the vessel to the incline in front
of the Mast-house. On the tide receding the vessel tell over,
throwing into the river seven of the men who were on board.
Fortunately assistance was promptly obtained, and by the
aid of the life buoys and other means the whole of the per-
, sons immersed were saved, but several of them were sick for
a long time after owing to the quantity of water they- bad
swallowed. The lighteX was gut up without haying lwmand
much damage.