The Sun.
London, England, 1851-09-11 00:00:00

TUB BRAZILS STATION.

The Commander-in-Chief Rear-Admiral Reynolds,
C. 8., in the Southampton, 50, Captain Cory, was at
Monte Video, July 31.
Tweed, 18, Commander Lord P. Russell, has
arrived from Rio, and had relieved the Thetis, 38,
Captain Cupar, C.B , which ship had sailed for Val-
paraiso and the Pacific station. The Tweed, however,
is ordered to Devonport to be paid off.
Cormorant, 6, steam-sloop, Commander Tatham
(ordered home), end Plumper screw-sloop, Com-
mander Nolloth, were at Rio, with the stationary
ship Crescent, blaster-Commander Bradley, Aug. 14
Conflict, 8, screw-sloop, Commander Drake, was at
Bahia August 18.
THE UAPE VOYAGE OF THE SCREW-STEAMER
HELLESPONT.—The Hellespont arrived at the Cape,
after a passage of 38f days, trom England. Duriog
her stay in Table BA), she encountered very severe
weather, which detained her somewhat longer than
allowed by the contract, she for several days not being
able to take in fuel, and lying for the greater part
of the time with the steam up to ease her anchors.
We stated yesterday that during a strong N.V.
gale the ship Nimrod, Lawson master, parted from
her anchors, went on shore and became a total wreck,
crew saved, July 29. The brig Fanny, Bristow
master, parted from her anchors during a strong
N.E. gale, and went on shore; crew saved. The
William Foster, from Table Bay to Algoa Bay, struck
on Cape Recife, and immediately went to pieces.
Crew and passengers saved in ship's boats.
The screw-steamer Hellespont, which left Table
Bay August 1, was detained three hours after the
mail was on board, at the requisition of the Colonial
Secretary, her Majesty's steam-vessel Dee having
arrived in the morning with dispatches from Sir H.
Smith and two days later date from the frontiers.
The news (if any) was not publicly known when the
steamer sailed.

The Hellespont arrived at Sierra Leone, August
16. The rainy season still continued, but the colony
was generally healthy. Her Majesty's steam-vessel
Alecto was at anchor in the river, and the Dolphin, 3,
brigantine, Lieut.-Commander Temple, was standing
in when the Hellespont left.
Her Majesty's steam-vessels Cyclops and Birken-
head had called at Sierra Leone for coal, and sailed
for the Cape about the 28th or 29th of July; all well.
The Hellespont arrived at St. Vincent (Cape de
Verde Islands) on the 22d, and left for Plymouth on
the 24th of August. Found lying there the Royal
Mail steamer Tay, on her way to Rio, &c,, and also
her Majesty's steam-vessel Dover, with the Governor
of Gambia on board ; the Master of the latter vessel
(Mr. Mills) died of fever the morning the Hellespont
left.

Her Majesty's steam-vessel Cyclops touched at St.
Vincent on the Ist of July, and sailed for Sierra
Leone and Cape on the 23d.
Ihr Majesty's steam-ships Sidon and Retribution
arrived at St. Vincent on the 31st July, took in coal,
and sailed on the 31st of August for Ascension and
the Cape. All well on board.

The Hellespont encountered strong E.N.E. winds
from the day she left St. Vincent till
The
rHarrlival at
Plymouth, Sept. 19, 11.30, A.M. T
spoke and exchanged numbers with tehe following
merchant vessels :—lu lat. 32 45 S. and long 16 26
E., the William Stewart, homeward bound ;
spoke the barque Highland Home, bound to the Cape,
lat. 21 10 N., long. 25 W., in lat. 19 20 N., 10ng.24
10 W., passed a steamer, supposed to be the Screw
Steam Company's vessel Bosphorus, bound to St.
Vincent, Sept. 3 ; and let. 41 46 N., long. 19 17 W.,
exchanged numbers with the brig Fanny, from Liver-
pool, bound to Barbadoes.—Morning Paper.
POILTSMOUTII, SEPT. 10.—By a letter received
yesterdayfrom Captain Erskine, of the Royal Marines,
it appears that the Odin, with the ambassador to
Russia on board, reached Cuxhaven on Friday last,
all well on board, and sailed the same evening for
Copenhagen.
Rear-Admiral W.W. Henderson, C. 8., hoisted his
flag (blue at the mizen yon board the Centaur steam-
frigate, Captain Cannon, at Spithead, at eight o'clock
this morning, and will sail on Saturday to take the
command on the south-east coast of America station.
The Calypso, 20, Captain Forbes, arrived at Spit-
head to-day from Chatham, en route for Plymouth
and Halifax, to join \Tice-Admiral Sir George Sey-
mour's squadron.
The Rodney convict ship, Captain Maclean, sailed
from Spithead yesterday afternoon, for Van Diemen s
Land, and the Queen Indianian, Captain WLsod, for
Calcutta.
The Russian schooner yacht Rogneda, 160 tons,
with Prince Nicolas Labanoff on board, bound from
St. Petersburgh, on a trip to the ports in South
America, is refitting in this harbour for the voyage.
The Neapolitan schooner Sibello, '260 tons, is also
lying in this harbour, waiting to convey the owner
and family to Naples. The vessel has undergone ex-
tensive repairs during her stay here.
A barge laden with timber from this dockyard
was upset and sunk this morning while proceeding
out of harbour, near Fort Moncton. There was a
heavy swell of the tide at the time, and the vessel
having too much canvas set, capsized. The hands
on board were saved.
The Mediterranean Squadron at Sea, Aug. ")6.
e
"We sailed from Malta on the morning fth-e23,3,
ult., and arrived at Favignana-
ba
where the Firebrand steam-frigate,yon the 4th inst.,
Captain Codd,
left us, taking Captain Wise, of the Queen, 116, flag
of Admiral Sir W. Parker, G.c n.'
i to
s proceed t
England on leave for the benefit of hhealth.neo
would proceed home in the packet which left Malta
on the 124 h. al% Bat
Man, purser of Ow Fire,

Much as the people of Barnsley have been accus-
tomed to colliery explosions and accidents, one oc-
curred on Friday morning, in a colliery at Heming-
field, the property of Earl Fitzwilliam, which excels
any either in that or any other neighbourhood for the
extraordinary singularity of the occurrence, and which
we believe is without a parallel in the history of
coal-mining. On the above morning, soon after the
men had begun work, one of them fired a shot to
dislodge a quantity of coal. In so doing the coal be-
came ignited. The men endeavoured to extinguish
the fire by using their caps and smocks, but the more
they tried the stronger became the ignition, in conse-
quence of the air which they wafted upon the burning
mass being impregnated with gas, which added fuel to
the fire. In the end it became such a burning mass
that they gave up the task, and got out of the pit as
soon as possible. When they got to the top the fire
was so strong that it roared like a furnace, and they
saw no chance of extinguishing it but by closing
the mouth of the shaft, which they immediately set
about doing, by making a stage a few yards down
the pit, and covering it with sods and other mate-
rial, to prevent any air getting down the shaft.
While doing so the signal bell rang, which was thought
to be caused by the material they were throw-
ing down catching the bell wire. In a short time,
however, it rang again. The men then began to look
about them to see if any one was missing, and then it
was discovered that one of their fellow-workmen was
missing, named Thomas Swift. Some thought they
had seen him among the others on the pit hill. How-
ever, as there were doubts as to the fact, and for the
satisfaction of all, a messenger was sent to his house
to see if he had gone home ; but during the absence
of the messenger the bell was again rung more loudly
than before, which caused the engineman to prevail
upon the others to get out what material they bad
put upon the stage and send down a corve. This was
accordingly done, and when the corve was drawn up
again it not only contained Swift, but also two boys,
alive and unhurt, although they stated that two horses
and an ass lay dead in the pit. It appears that Swift
and the two boys stopped some time with the others
who were trying to extinguish the fire, and thinking
it would be easily put out, went for ward into another
part of the pit and commenced work, which they con-
tinued at until the alteration in the air caused them to
stop, and they found the pit on fire and of all the other
men out. They then found their way to the bottom of
the shaft, and ultimately reached the top unhurt,
notwithstanding they hid been immured above an
hour after the pit had been covered in.

SERIOUS CHARGE AGAINST A PUB-

LICAN.

An affair of a rather extraordinary character, which
terminated in a very unfurtunate manner, and which
appears to have excited considerable interest in the
neighbourhood in which it took place, occurred in
Barr-street, Mickley, under the following circum-
stances :—A young man named Henry Aldridge, by
trade a toolmaker, residing in Slade-lane, went to a
public-house called the Royal Oak, Barr-street, soon
after eleven o'clock en 'Wednesday evening last, it is
supposed to spend a short time there. On entering
the passage he encountered Mr. James Fletcher, the
landlord, who refused to allow him to go into the
tap-room, as he was desirous of doing, and at the same
time remarked, " Turn, you never come here but
what there's a row, and you shall not go in." Ald-
ridge, however, was clamorous for admission, and
after some parley between them, Fletcher threatened
if he did not leave to fetch some one to put him out,
and proceeded towards the door apparently with the
intention of doing so. Aldridge immediately there-
upon commenced kicking him, and Fletcher, as much
for the purpose of self-defence as to enable him to
eject so troublesome a customer, closed with the young
man, grappled with him until they both approached
the door, and then both fell down, Aldridge
being undermost. Fletcher got up immediately, and
went into the house, as though satisfied with having
put him out; but Aldridge remained prostrate on the
pavement, deprived of sense and motion. His brother
and some persons whn were in the house, and several
others who were attracted by the scuftla, attempted
to revive him by the use of simple remedies, but fail-
ing to do so, they placed him in a car, and he was
conveyed to the General Hospital. lle expired, how-
ever, some time before arriving at that institution.
It was at first believed that Fletcher was amenable to
the law for the part he had taken in the affair, and
he was accordingly taken into custody by the police
the same night. The inquest on the body of the de-
ceased was held on Thursday evening last, at the
Grand Turk, Ludgate-hill. Two witnesses were then
examined as to the facts of the case, but the description
we have prefixed is summary of the circumstances
proved. Mr. Edmonds, solicitor, attended to watch
the case on the part of Fletcher, and in cross-exami-
nation of the prisoner's brother, elicited that the de-
ceased was a very passionate fellow, and was liable
to fainting fits, occasioned by disease of the
heart, after being excited by passion or other-
wise. A man named Tonks, living at Key-hill,
confirmed what thus transpired by stating that about
nine o'clock in the evening in question the deceased
had had a quarrel with him, and fainted away from
the effects of his rage. Mr. Elio, house-surgeon at
the General Hospital, who had made a post mortem
examination of the body, said there were several
contusions on various parts of the bead of the de-
ceased, which had produced a coagulation of blood
under the surface of the skin at each place. There
was extensive extravasation of blood, which was dif-
fused all over the surface of the brain, produced by
the rupture of some minute artery, which had occa-
sioned death. Mr. Elfin addeldorthtate tchoen.sliadtetrearteioffreci:
might have arisen from a blow on the head, a fall, or
even spontaneously from excitement.h
light TinhefaCydOciutlinab
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cthareeiA" of
jury,ly thepsuiemcimngedthuepm
infaactcs
Fletcher. Theoj
of
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st
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discharged
Av five
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Custody.
ration, returned
wwa
s
a,
s crowded by persons during
FqTulheiretjc,r,hoewormho evinced much interest in the isauethoef the
unfortunate affair.—Birmingham Journal.,

THE CAPE MAILS.
We regret to state that the outward Cape Mail screw.
steamer Sir Robert Peel broke down a few hours before
she reached Sierra Leone, on the 4th ult., and so serious
were her defects that she could not get away until the
18th August. Indeed, her own engineers could never
have repaired her, nor could the engineers of her Ma-
jesty's steam-sloop Alecto, Commander Lavie, then at
Sierra Leone; but happily, on the arrival of the Helles-
pont, the additional engineering assiqatice which that
ship furnished completed the repairs, and to greattl2e,atn.
satisfaction of the Admiralty agent,
Commanderu
Wain-
wright, she was pronounced capable
of
that the
to
chief
sea. Vie regret to state, however, .
t
engineer of the Hellespont, in the Mn! ef th,beo. aoma-
ch
inery of the Sir Robert Peel, gothis t
the
amputationb e a r i ng,
featfuliy crushed between the crankanadn
that on removal to the
was deemed advisable; and
(his assistant being present
and the poor fellow came home
account of this misfortlinizo i the Hellespont. On
delay at Sierra Leone,
Dor Hellespontn performednlFinlay,
theof theoperation, A
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o
cere'w-steamers, intended for the
omboenrtthP.eell
It is
maruroihvetoinbEenrge:
lwaendeaantnt(h)te
re-
gretted
' that the largo 5
.1
expectusnai
time t h the Sirn x ,
are not. yet ready ; for
present time will be most severely
Ctoartheemsami sail and inconvenient craft
the
(the quondam Recruit),
nor of the company .
felt as with
a.ierstYrhe!ac usgU(CI :an 3aroitiflpYhttlahabt calamity.
large s
now the harbinger, has been successfully tried down the
river; but the sooner she is tried on the Cape route the
; - .
better it will be for the fulfilment of the contract of the
' onappy ucl for the public Kr.'l,-;eo.-bet eds.