The Sun.
London, England, 1869-12-25 00:00:00

TERRIBLE AND FATAL WRECKS.

A despatch from Dover states that the steamer M. E.
Clarke went ashore on the rocks on Thursday. The Royal
Wiltshire lifeboat brought ashore the crew of seventeen
men, and they were taken to the Sailors' Home. The ship
Providence, of Warsin, bound from Shields to Naples, was
seen on the Goodwin Sands on Thursday morning. The Rams-
gate steamer Aid, and the lifeboat Bradford put off to her
assistant. The steamer made for the vessel's port-quarter,
as three or four of the crew could be seen there. The
lifeboat was hauled to within ten or twelve fathoms of
the wreck, which was breaking up. The master attempted
to reach the boat by the hawser, as did also one of the
men, but they were both washed away. Happily, they
were afterwards picked up. A man and a boy were
left on deck, and the former tied a rope round his waist
and plunged into the water, when he sank. Efforts were
made to save the boy, but a tremendous sea broke up the
ship, and washed him overboard. He was picked up
apparently dead, but soon afterwards was brought round.
Twelve of the crew had left in their boat during the night,
and it is feared that they have perished in the gale.
The Cornucopia, three-masted schooner, Newcastle, for
I Lisbon, with coal, got on Corton Sands at 6 p.m. on Thurs-
day, and came off with eight feet of water in the hold.
She was run on the beach opposite the Hig lighthouse,ancl
is full of water. The Catherine, from Sunderland, with
coal, went ashore at Ostend on Thursday. The owner,
master, and crew of the Echo brig, of Ardrossan, abandoned
at sea, landed at Grimsby on Thursday.
The captain and crew of the Bird, laden with coal, from
Sunderland to Bruges, have been landed in Dover. Their
ship foundered in the North Sea. Toy saved themselves
in their own boat, and were picked up by the barque
Preste, of Nova Scotia, and when off Dover were landed in
a Dover boat, and taken at once to the National Sailors'
Home. The whole crew aro members of the Shipwrecked
Mariners' Society.

The John Bull states that the Archbishop of Can-
terbury has addressed a very kind letter to Mr. Hayman,
congratulating him on his appointment to Rugby.
A. few years ago an ingenious gentleman managed
to get drunk free of expense almost daily in the streets of
London by falling down in a fit, with a small placard on
his breast, " Don't bleed me, but give me a glass of hot
brandy and water."
The following advertisement is cut from a daily
contemporary : " Education.—Wanted, by a father, a school,
where his son may receive an education to fit him for a
manly and useful life, without any humbug as to nations
dead and buried thousands of years ago.—Address stating
terms, A., at —."
The proprietors of three cafes in the Haymarket
and Piccadilly were on Friday summoned at Marlborough-
street for breaches of the Acts of Parliament regulating
the conduct of such places. Two of the defendants were
fined 40s. and costs, and in the case of the other the sum-
mons was dismissed.

The Conyocation of the prelates and clergy of I
the province of Canterbury has been prorogued in Queen
Anne's Bounty Office, Westminster, by the Vicar-General,
Sir Travers Twiss, under a commission from his Grace the
Lord Archbishop of Canterbury, Primate of all England
and Metropolitan, pursuant to the royal writ, to Tuesday.
ALLEGED PERJURY.—The case of the man Connor,
who is believed to have been wrongfully convicted of per-
jury and sentenced to nine months' imprisonment, was
again before the Westminster police magistrate on
Friday. Inquiries made by Inspector Humphreys
shewed Connor to have been an industrious and
steady man, and there was no doubt that he, with his
wife and family, had suffered great hardships through his
conviction. Mr. Selfe gave the poor man a small sum of
money which had been subscribed for him, and condi-
' tionally promised him £5 from the poor-box.
THE RECTORSHIP OF ABERDEEN UNIVERSITY.—
Aberdeen, Friday Evening.—For a month past party
feeling has run very strong among the students of Aber-
deen University in respect to the election .of a Lord
Rector. The gentlemen nominated for the office were
Mr. Grant Duff (the rector for the past three years) and
Sir William Stirling Maxwell, and at the election to-day
it was found that the four nations were equally
divided for the candidates, two being for Mr. Grant Duff
and two for Sir William Stirling Maxwell. In these cir-
cumstances the decision lies with the Chancellor of the
University, the Duke of Richmond, who must give his
casting vote within thirty days. Apart from the equality
of the nations, Mr. Grant Duff had by a small number the
majority of votes.
Mu. C 4 LADSTONE AND HIS CONSTITUENTS.—The
following letter from Mr. Gladstone, in reply to a commu-
nication from the honorary secretary of the Borough of
Greenwich Advanced Liberal Association, has been re-
ceived :—" 10, Downing-street, "Whitehall, 21st December,
1809.—Sir, I am directed by Mr. Gladstone to acknowledge
the receipt of your letter of the 20th inst., asking whether
it was his intention to meet. his constituents before the
meeting of Parliament on the Bth of February ; and I am
to request that you will inform the Advanced Liberal
Association of Greenwich that Mr. Gladstone's pressing
duties are of such a nature as altogether to preclude the
possibility of his having the satisfaction of visiting his
constituents before that time.—l am, sir, your 'obedient
servant, ii,Lonnlstort WEST."