The Sun.
London, England, 1860-02-07 00:00:00

THE LOSS OF THE SCAMANDEIZ.

The following is the report of the loss of the
screw•steamer Scamander, of Liverpool, 1,050 tons,
Thomas Jenkins, master, from Liverpool to Alex-
andria, which vessel foundered on the 31st January,
1860, in lat. 47.2 N., lon. 7.15 W., as mentioned in
yesterday's Sun.
"Jan. 27. Left Liverpool at 2 p.m. this day, with
a crew of 37, including myself and three passengers,
and at 11 p.m., same day, passed Holyhead, and
proceeded down channel with a light N.W. wind.
Midnight, fresh breeze from W.
"28th. Strong S.W. gales this day. At 11 a.m.
passed the Smalls, distance five miles. At 8 p.m.,
sudden shift of wind to N.W., with a heavy cross
sea. Midnight, gale moderating, and backing to
the westward.

~ 29th. Strong S.W. breeze, with frequent heavy
squalls. At noon, sudden shift of wind to N.W.,
with a heavy cross sea, causing the ship to labour
and roll heavily and ship much water on deck. At
10 p.m. the wind again backed to S.W., and in-
creased to a gale.

" Mtn. Sti:ong N.W. gales, with rain. At 4 a.m.
veered to W. and N.W., and moderated to a fresh
breeze. Set all possible sail. At 8 a.m. strong gales.
Shortened sail as required. At 9 a.m., the gale in-
creasing, and the vessel shipping much water, I was
compelled to heave her to, which I accordingly did,
under a double-reefed maintrysail and mainstay-
sail. At noon the gale increased to a complete hur-
ricane, blowing the mainstaysail out of the bolt-
rope. At 2 p.m. such was the force of the gale, that
although the engines were working at fell speed
and a double-reefed maintrysail set, I was unable
to keep the ship to the wind. At 6 p.m. the chief
engineer reported a leak in the midship compart-
ment, or engine-room. Applied steam and hand
pumps, and kept the ship before the wind to enable
the steam-pumps to throw as much water as pos-
sible ; but the vessel shipping so much water and
washing the men from Cie pumps, I again hove the
ship to at 7 p.m. At 9 p.m. the leak increased so
fast that fires in stoke-hole were extinguished. Con-
tinued to pump and bale the water out of the engine-
room, and at midnight discovered four feet water in
the two midships compartments, and increasing
rapidly, notwithstanding that all hands were em-
ployed in pumping and baling without intermission
during the night. _

"31`t. Gale moderating, and ship filling fast.
At 4 a.m., found eight feet of water in same compart-
ment; at 8 a.m., 12 feet in same ; and at 9 a.m.,
seeing no possibility of saving the ship, as the sea
now made a complete breach over her, having car-
ried away a groat portion of bulwarks, rails, and
stancheons, besides deck-houses, and the crew
being nearly exhausted, I determined to abandon
the ship. Accordingly, ordered the boats to be
lowered, three of which were lowered with great
difficulty, owing to the heavy sea ; the fourth was
stove lowering. At 11 a.m., having succeeded in
getting the crew and passengers safely in the boats,
by which time the ship had settled down to her
gunwale, and fearing to remain, I abandoned the
ship without being able to save my own or crew's
effects, or the ship's log-book. There being no
vessel in sight, I ordered the boats to be kept before
the sea, to endeavour to make the French coast,
then distant 120 miles. At noon discovered a sail
to the N.W., and pulled for her, at the same time
showing
a signal of distress ; on seeing which she
bore down on us, and proved to be the screw-
steamer Cornelia, of Rotterdam, from Trieste to
Rotterdam. The captain, with much difficulty,
succeeded in getting us all safely on board by 2
p.m., at which time the ficarnander had sunk stern
foremost.

" Too much praise cannot be given to Captain
Muntendam, not only for rescuing us from our
perilous position, but for his extreme kindness to
us while on board his ship, which also had suffered
in the late gale, having lost deck-houses, boats, and
galley ; and, consequently, having no convenience
f or cooking, even for his own crew, and our provi-
sions consisting of biscuit, saturated with salt
water."

Letters from Guayaquil of the 31st of December
state that Mr. Cope, her Majesty's Charg4 d'Affaires at
Quito, had left that city for Guayaquil for the purpose of
insisting on the payment of the bondholders' proportion of
Customs duties, hypothecated for the interest on the con-
solidated bonds of Ecuador.

IRELAND.

DUBLIN, MONDAY MORNING.

ALARMING STATE OF TO,RMAKEADy.
The brutal murder of Lord Piunket's plough.
man, in this district, has turned public attention to
the lawless state of affairs that prevails in it. The
people, both Roman Catholic and Protestant, carry
arms in the open day ; and since the burning of
the school-house of Tuam, the former will not
buy or sell with the latter. The Daily Express
says :—" The horrifying murder at Tourmakeady
is only one, though certainly much the worst,
of a series of outrages, systematically planned
and daringly perpetrated in the district of
Pal try during the lust 15 months. This organised
conspiracy is directed against Protestants, and
chiefly against the tenants of Lord Plunket, with
the avowed object of exterminating them. Unof-
fending men and women have been constantly
attacked and severely beaten. The lives of wit-
nesses attending the sessions at Ballinrobe have
been endangered by furious mobs. One house was
burned, and an attempt was made to burn another
occupied by Protestants. Poor Harvison, the first
victim of the systematic persecution, whose object
is to banish the Protestants,' was a native of
Monaghan. He settled in Tourmakeady seven or
eight years ago. He was a respectable, inoffensive
man. He was not a convert from Romanism, and
he had no connection with the notices to quit served
on some of the tenants. The only causes that cau
be assigned for this foul murder are, that the victim
was a Protestant, and that he was a witness in a
case where the relatives of some influential parties
were convicted for poaching on Lord Planket's
estate. The Government should not be ignorant of
the fact that for miles round Tourmakeady the
Roman Catholic inhabitants carry arms in the open
day, and shots are being continually fired at night.
In consequence of the terror thus produced, in-
creased tenfold by this murder, the few isolated
Protestants are armed also in self-defence, and do
not venture to retire to rest without barricading
their doors. Is it not time, then, for the Govern-
ment to protect these peaceable subjects of the
Queen ? If something effectual be not speedily
done, more outrages of a similar kind will probably
be committed."

Another Dublin journal corroborates the state-
ments of the Express, and adds : _
___

" Some years since Tipperary was the Aceldama
of Ireland. A vigorous execution of the law on the
part of the Government, and a determined resistance
on the part of the landlords, quelled Ribbon ism, and
its result—murder--in that county. But the evil
subdued in Tipperary has risen dominant in the
King's County and Mayo. In the former, drilled
bands of armed banditti attack the dwelling-houses
of the gentry and respectable tenantry who are
Protestants. Since the burning of the school-house
of Tuam, the line of demarcation between Pro-
testants and Romanists has spread wider and wider.
No R'omanist will buy or sell with a Protcstant—
Protestant children are assailed on their way to
school—Protestant ladies are insulted in the streets
with the coarsest, the most indecent, and insulting
language, and the poor peasant who ventures be-
yond the limits of his own field to fair or market
does so carrying his life in his own hand. For a
year or more the districts of PL r,ry and Tourma-
keady have been the seat of chronic agitation. A
turbulent priest, the Abbe Lavelle, whose present
conduct is only in conformity with his antecedents,
has infused new vigour into the anti-Protestant
crusade." Nor is he without other aid. A local
journal, the Connaught Patriot, fans the flame of
discontent—out-nations the Nation in its abuse of
everything Protestant, and babbles away its treason
to willing ears. As the result, the whole country
is in agitation, and all who have anything to
lose are in alarm. The priests openly pro-
claim the banishment of all Protestants from
the district, and prophesy that before winter
is ended many of them will " make clay" in the
churchyard. Is it any wonder that an excitable
and grossly ignorant rabble should interpret their
words as an encouragement to crime, and believe
that they cannot be punished for a little over-zeal
in the cause of their Church ?
CAPTAIN BALFE, J.P., AND THE GOVERNMENT.

Mr. de Moleyns, Q.C., has sent in his report in
this case to the authorities. After the usual pre-
liminary observations, the report proceeds as fol-
lows :—" The evidence which, with consent of the
parties, was duly taken upon oath, I have the hon-
our to transmit herewith. It will be remarked
that the evidence was conflicting as to some of the
circumstances from which the connection of Mr.
Balfe with the attempted personation was sought
be inferred ; but Mr. Balfe having denied upon oath
any participation in the attempt or knowledge of
the intent to personate—a denial confirmed by the
testimony of Giblin and by that of disinterested
witnesses—l am of opinion that the charge against
Mr. Balfe has not been sustained. Though rhave,
satisfactorily to myself, arrived at this conclusion,
I think it right to add that the circumstances proved
before me were such as in my opinion to justify Mr.
O'Douell and Mr. Tenison in originally demanding
an inquiry, and in subsequently pressing for it,
notwithstanding the explanation of Mr. Balfe in
his letter to the Lord Chancellor of the 15th Dec.,
1859, proved before me, in which some important
statements referring to the immediate transaction
were contradicted by the evidence. The state-
ments to which I allude are marked in italics, and
the evidence disproving them I have noted in the
margin. "T. DE MOLEYNS."