The Sun.
London, England, 1856-09-27 00:00:00

THE SEA SERPENT AGAIN!

The following is an extract from the log book of the
ship Princess, Captain A. K. N. Tremearne, in the
London Docks, on the 15th inst., from China, viz. :
" Tuesday, July 8, 1856. Latitude accurate, 34 deg.
56 min. S. ; -longitude, accurate, 18 deg. 14 min. E. ;
gentle breeze, fine weather. At 1 p.m. saw a very large
fish, with a head like a walrus, and 12 fins similar to
those in a blackfish, but turned the contrary way ; the
back was from 20 to 30 feet long, also a great length of
tail. It is not improbable that this monster has betn
taken for the great sea serpent. Fired, and hit it near
the head with rifle-ball. At 8 wind fresh and fine."
We submit that the repeated accounts of seeing a
marine monster, whatever be its correct name or kind,
yet harmonising in some leading descriptions, forbad
longer doubt of some such creature existing, and we en-
close you a rough sketch (as this ono appeared), signed
by Captain Tremearne, who has been kix years in our
employ and is otherwise well known. His own private
fog contains a similar record, and we have interrogated
others of the Princess's crew, who assert the fact of such
appearance.

Captain Tremearne states that Captain Morgan, a pas-
senger by the Princess, but who at St. Helena joined the
-hip Senator, to command her to Liverpool (where she
is daily expcctel), also saw this monster, and can corro-
borate the sta'etnents.

Until the 13th of October the Princess will be at
Loudon-dock jetty, loading for Me bourne, anti natural-
ists or. other scientific persons can there make further
inguilits, provided they do not subject Captain Tre-
tnearue to correspondence or interrupt ship's duties,
which are uxgeut for her speedy departure.

The annual inspection of the troops and the garrison
establishment of Wool with was yesterday morning com-
menced by the Commandant, Major-General Sir W. F.
Williams. The usual parade at guard mounting having
been dispensed with, the C and D troops of Royal Horse
Artillery, and Captain and Adjutant Calvert's detach-
ment v, ere assembled in review order on the common,
under the direction of Col. E. C. Warde, C. 8., in corn
mind. Brevet Lieut.-Col. Strange, Capt. Hill, Lieut.
Strang ways, and Lieut. Stirling were attached to the C
troop, and Major Earle and Lieut. Tillard to the D
troop. The Commandant, attended by hid aide-cle-camp,
Lieut.-Col. Teesdale, Brigade-Major Shaw, and Deputy-
Assh.tant Quarterma,t :r-General Captain Fraetb, arrived
on the ground at 10 o'clock. The inspection commenced,
and was proceeding in the ordinary routine of a field-
day, when, at the sudden clang produced by unsheath-
ing the swords from the steel scabbards, a young and
untrained horse on which Major Earle was mounted made
a plunge among the ammunition waggons, and jammed
the rider with ro much force against the wheels as to
render the task of maintaining his seat a most difficult
one. In this dilemma the major attempted to throw
himself off, and unfortunately came in collision with one
of the waggons. Blood was observed gushing over his
face, and, when raised from his position, it was found
that he had sustained a severely lacerated wound over
the temple, besides contusions of the legs and ride from
the unrestramable violence of the horse. The major was
removed to his own quarters, and immediately attended
by Dr. Alexander Ogilvie, Dr. Staunton, and three
other medical officers of the Royal Ordnance Hospital,
who have expressed a favourable opinion of his ultimate
recovery.

The Foxhound, 4, screw steam gunvessel, arrived at
Woolwich yesterday, anti, after coaling, proceeded to
Sheerness.
The experimental paddlewhiel despatch gunboat Brune
was yesterday morning.ohlered down the river to Sea-
reach on a trial trip, of her machinery. Mr. Atherton,
chief engineer of Woolwich Dockyard and inspector of
machinery, accompanied the vessel on behalf of Govern-
ment.

The Admiralty yacht Vivid, Master-Commander
Allen, wauesterday morning ordered to get up steam,
and sail immediately for Davonport to await orders for
special service.
The paddle-wheel steam-yacht Black Eagle arrived at
Woolwich on Thursday night from Portsmouth.
A Norwegian transport, the Jonas Gabrielson, with
chains, anchors, and 7,500 shot, from Sebastopol, en-
tered the outer basin of Woolwich Dockyard yesterday
morning.
The neither, a Norwegian transport, laden with a
cargo of corn from the East, arrived at Woolwich yester-
day morning, and was ordered to the Victoria Docks to
discharge.
The Isabella Bligh and the Ordnance transport Lord
Londesborough have been discharged the Government
service at Woolwich.

A court-martial, comprising Capts. Sir Thomas Mait-
land, C. 8., President; G. A. Eliott, J. Robb, G. H.
Seymour, C. 8., G. Giffard, C. 8., T. S. Thompson, W.
Pet l, C. 8., C. F.. A. Shadwell, C.ll, W. H. Stewart,
C. 8., and Mr. W. J. Hellyer, deputy judge-advocate of
the fleet, assembled on board the Victory flag-ship, at
Portsmouth harbour, yesterday morning, to try Mr. T.
Reece, acting assistant-engineer of the 3d class, serving
on board her Majesty's gun-boat Hawk. for having on
the 4th of August last, in Queenstown Harbour, quitted
his ship without permission, his leave at the same time
being stopped for having committed a similar offence,
and for remaining on shore until brought on board the
next day by a serjeant of Royal Marines. Toe C )art
found the charge fully proved, and sentenced the pri-
soner to be discharged her Majesty's service and be de-
prived of all pay and allowances due to him.
Her Majesty's ship Malacca, 17, Capt. Farquhar, left
Spithcad yesterday for the Mediterranean.

Rear-Admiral W. F. Martin, Superintendent of Ports-
mouth Dockyard, left yesterday with his flag in her
Majesty's ship Fire Q'ieen, Mr. Paul, Master R.N.,
commanding, for Plymouth, to sit as a member of the
court of inquiry commissioned to investigate the conduct
of Captain Nias, C. 8., superintendent of the Royal
William Victualling•yard.

The Powerful, 84, Captain T. L. Massie (1854) has
been towed up to Chatham dockyard, from Folly-point,
for the purpose of being paid off.
The Resistance, Government troopship, has arrived at
Chatham from Woolwich, to be paid off.
The Dido, Captain Williams, H. A. Morshead, was
paid off at Sheerness yesterday.
The Eurotat, Captain William Moorsom, was taken
into the fitting basin at Sheerness yesterday to be dis-
masted. She is to be paid off on Monday.
The new screw steamcorvette, Cadmus, 21 guns,
passed through Sheerness harbour from Chatham at 10
a.m. yesterday, on a trial trip of her machinery, and
returned again to Chatham in the evening.
The following appointments were. made yesterday At
the Admiralty :
Frederick Skead, master, to the Tartarus ; Edward
A. Bindon, second master, to the Impregnable ; John
W. Dobbin, acting assistant•surgeon, to the Weser;
Thomas F. Edgeworth, acting assistant-surgeon, to the
Royal Albert; Wm. Connolly, acting assistant-surgeon,
to the Arrogant; Thomas Craig, acting assistant surgeon,
to the Imperieuse.

METROPOLITAN BOARD OF WORKS.

This board sat yesterday, after a short recess, in the
Council Chamber, Guildhall, for the transaction of busi-
ness devolving upon it ; Mr. Thwaites, the chairman,
presiding. There was a large attendance of members,
and no fewer than 73 different subjects upon the paper
for consideration ; but that to which the most public
interest attached was a supplemental report read by Mr.
Razalgette, the engineer of the board, on the northern
and southern drainage of the metropolis, in obedience to
a resolution of the board on the 12th of August last,
which referred back to him his previ‘nie reports, in
order that he might report to them anew on the whole
question. Mr. Bazalgette states in the document
read yesterday, of which we give the material portions,
that the metropolitan drainage scheme, as originally pro •
pounded by him, is capable, without any material alte-
ration of design, of being adapted to a variety of points
of outfall into the Thames, at various distaneei below
London, or to the deodorisation or utilisation of sewage.
Although the sewage of London cannot at present be
profitably applied to agriculture in a commercial point of
view, it may be advantageously deodorised and rendered
inoffensive at Barking Creek and Woolwich marshes, or
even nearer to London, and the Thames thus purified at
less cost than by constructing sewers to a great distance
below the metropolis. He is still of opinion that, in the
aboence of deodorising works, the sewage may be dis-
charged into the Thames without nuisance at Halfway
Reach, beyond the limits of the metropolis, in the manner
already proposed for the south side of the Thames. Va-
rious propositions have, however, been made with regard
to the position of the outfall and mode of discharge into
the river, and with respect to the application of the
sewage to agriculture. There appear to him to be four
different modes by which the metropolitan sewage may
be disposed of :--1. By retaining 'the points of outfall
originally proposed at Barking Creek and Woolwich
marshes, but dispensing it ith the reservoirs at those
places, and substituting for them deodorising works, and
discharging the purified waters into the Thames at all
times of the tide, after having abstracted from them the
deodorised manure, which would be available for agri-
cultural purposes. 2. By discharging the sewage into
the river at Halfway Reach, beyond the limits of the
metropolis, at and near high water, so that it should
not reflow up the river within the limit of the metro-
polis, excepting on occasions of heavy storms, which
occur on from 20 to 30 days per annum, and last for
short periods only on those exceptional days, on which
occasions the sewage would be highly diluted. 3. By
discharging the sewage into the river at Long Reach
during the first half of the ebb tide, reducing the ca-
pacity of the reservoirs, and preventing the reflow of the
sewage into the river within the limits of the metropolis.
4. By conveying the sewage on the south side of the
Thames underneath that river to the north side, and dis-
charging it at Sea Reach at all times of tide, so that
it would not return within the limits of the metropolis,
and dispensing with reservoirs, or by occasionally distri-
buting such sewage, or any portion thereof, as liquid
manure over the lands or marshes through which it would
be conveyed on its route to this outfall. The extension
to Halfway Reach would involve an increased expendi-
ture of 345,1301. ; to Long Reach, 918,0601. ; to Sea
Reach, 1,763, 324/.; and the addition of deodorising works
to the original scheme, 1,273,4801. The substitution of
deodorising works for reservoirs at Barking Creek and
Plumstead-marshes would involve the smallest expendi-
ture of capital, but the largest annual outlay. A further
saving of probably nearly 500,0001. might be effected by
terminating the sewers and establishing deodorising
works on the south side of the river, and the West Ham
marshes on the north side, which would in his judgment
acc,implish the object desired withoutcreating a nuisance.
He was still, after mature consideration, of opinion that
the second proposition, or the extension of the (installs
to Halfway Reach, would fully satisfy the requirements
of the Legislature, and be effective in a sanitary point of
view, as already explained in his former reports upon
this subject. At the conclusion of the report Mr. Les-
lie asked whether, regardless of expense, Mr. Bazalgette
considered the proposal he had made would be equal to
carrying off the entire drainage and the rain-water of
the metropolis ? Mr. Bazalgette replied in the affirma-
tive, adding that he gave the preference to his second
proposition. On the motion of Mr. Howe, seconded by
Mr. Doulton, the report was ordered into consideration
at a special meeting of the board on Wednesday next.
Mr. Leslie gave notice that he should then move that
the report be entirely negatived.

CABE OF CHILD MURDER,—_A ini:lworker, named
Mary Wood, has been apprehended in a village near
Edinburgh for the inarder of her infant child by drown-
ing it in the Union Canal. She had given birth to
the child about a fortnight previous in the Rlin-
burgh Maternity Hospital, and had just left that insti-
tution the day before its body was found in the water.
It is said that the unhappy woman has confessed the
crime with which she is charged.