The Sun.
London, England, 1869-09-23 00:00:00

DISASTERS AT SEA.

Intelligence has been received of the loss of the ship
James Hackett, bound from Newport to Cork. The crew
were compelled to abandon the vessel, as she was leaking
badly, and was unseaworthy, and she subsequently went
ashore at Farmby. The crew were picked up and have
been safely landed at Liverpool. The Sibilla, which
has just put into Dartmouth, while on a voyage
from Cardiff to Sebastopol, experienced a succession of
heavy gales, during one of which two of the crew were
washed overboard by a heavy sea and drowned. The sails
of the vessel were completely blown away, and besides
being leaky, she has lost her lifeboats, bulwarks, stanchions,
&c. A more complete wreck it is hardly possible to con-
:wive, and it is remarkable that she was enabled to reach
Dartmouth in safety. A schooner, supposed to be
the Mary, belonging to Wells, has been found
abandoned in the North Sea by the screw steamer
Hampshire, and has been towed into Gorlestone
Harbour, near I'm m3uth. On the Seroby Sands, facing
tho latter port, two vessels were driven on Tuesday, but
were both assistad off. The weather at the time was mo-
derate; had it been otherwise thrir fate would have been
certain.

The schooner Prudence,. of Watchct, bound frcm
Newport to Bridgwater with coals, in attempting
tally on Tuesday morning, in a strong wind from
N.W., and heavy sea, to make the port of Burnham,
Somerset, too soon on the tide, took the ground on the
south side of the channel, and dragged over the sands for
about three miles, till she finally brought up at the back
of Sturt Island. When her signal of distress was seen
the lifeboat Cheltenham, of the National Lifeboat
Inaitution, proceeded out to her, and on arriving
alongside found the sea was making a complete breach
over her, and that the crew of three men, who had taken
refuge on the bowsprit, were in considerable peril. They
were in a very exhausted state when they were taken
int) the lifeboat, the night being cold and the men very
wet.

Some anxiety is felt respecting the non-arrival of the
Blatoaka, a New Zealand ship -which left Port Lyttelton
130 days since. She has about fifty 1 a-ungers on board
and £50,000 in specie. Fifty and sixty guineas pr.:mium
are being paid to effect insurances on her.

An Irishman was employed to trim some fruit
trees. He went in the morning, and on returning at noon
ivas asked if he had completed his work. " No," was the
reply ; " I have cut them all down and am going to trim
them in the afternoon."

Sir Roderick Murchison has written to say that,
while ho is much gratified by the proposal of the Town
Council of Inverness to confer upon him the freedom of
that burgh, he regrets that, owing to duties which call him
southward, he cannot retrace his steps to receive the dis-
tinction in person.
RITUALISM AT ST. ETHELBURGA'S, BISHOPSGATE.
—Mr. Rodwell, the rector of this church[still disregards
the judgment of the Privy Council in the case of "Martin
v. Mackonochie. On Sunday morning last Mr. Rodwell
elevated the bread and wine to a height of fully six inches
sbove his head, and kept them there for an appreciable
interval. The bread which he elevated was a largo wafer,
ouch as is used for this purpose in Roman Catholic chapels.
The decision against mixing water with the wino was also
disobeyed. The sermon was preached by the Rev.
Hodges, the curate, who in the course of his sermon
lamented that the Sacrament was not yet reserved in our
churches, but expressed a hope that the time would soon
arrive when it would be.

CAUTION TO BATHERS AT WATERING PLACES.—
James Beckett and William Beckett, brothers, residing in
Hayfield-place, Mile-end, London, recently appeared before
the Thorpe magistrates to answer a summons charging
them with having violated the Act relating to public
decency, on the ground that on the sth inst. they had
bathed in an exposed place, and not the spot set aside for
that purpose in the sea at Walton-on-the-Naze. Mr. Phil-
brick said that he appeared to prosecute on behalf of the
'ocal authorities, who were determined to put down a
nuisance which unfortunately prevailed at almost every
watering place. It appeared that the defendants belonged
to a party of excursionists who in the beginning of the
present month visited Walton-on-the-Naze. In the after-
noon of that day the defendants went out to bathe, and
although there was a proper bathing place appointed they
selected a spot fully exposed to the gaze of every one on
the beach, and where the water was not more than 1/ft.
in depth. A number of persons unavoidably saw them,
and some one immediately communicated with the police-
constable, and he ordered them out. When they had
done so they excused themselves by saying that they had
clone so last year. These summonses were then taken out,
Coroborative evidence having been given, the defendants
said that they were too poor to pay a fine. Mr. Rcbow
laid that he should not inflict tho full penalty; but in
order that the charactcr• of Walton for deccnoy should. bo
troieitiektii6 10it_ito DaclAi4gtg.