The Sun.
London, England, 1869-10-19 00:00:00

CHARGE OF SCUTTLING A SHIP.

Thomas Bulman, a master mariner, was charged at the
Justice Room of the Mansion House with scuttling the
ship Old England on the high seas, in July last. Mr. Lewis
prosecuted on behalf of Lloyd's Salvage Association, and
said that the Old England was a vessel of 1,030 tons, and
the prisoner was the captain and part owner. He effected
an insurance on his share of the ship and on his personal
property in her. The Old England left Cardiff for Point
de Galle last June, being then perfectly sound. The ship
was abandoned in July, the captain and crew
being taken on board a Portuguese brig, about a
day's sail from Pernambuco. On the captain's arrival
in England he produced a log-hook, manifestly
now, and on being questioned about it he said that the
old log book had become dirty, and that as the Portuguese
captain wished to soe an English log-book, ho gave it to
him. The captain, however, could not speak English. The
Board of Trade instituted an inquiry and cancelled the pri-
soner's certificate. The cook and tho Lte‘mrd gave evidence
of having seen the carpenter go down the hold with the
captain. The carp enter had a parcel, in which both the
witnesses had seen two augurs. The ship had leaked
before, but no water was seen in the hold until after the
captain and the carpenter had been down, and the cook
thought the pumping was left off too soon. The weathez
was not bad. The prisoner was remanded for further evi-
dence, bail being refused.

THE BOILER EXPLOSION IN AMERICA.

The numbers killed by the fatal boiler explosion in
Indianapolis are now stated at twenty-seven, the wounded
being fifty-six. The New York papers give most
harrowing details of the accident, besides record-
ing many marvellous escapes. A child's carriage
was destroyed by a piece of flying iron but
the child was unhurt. A gentleman and lady were walk-
ing arm-in-arm near the boiler; the gentleman was killed
and the lady uninjured. A mother and three children
were near ; the mother was killed, two of the children
seriously hurt, and the third escaped. A piece of the boiler
was blown into the cattle-shed 200 yards off, where it
knocked off the tips of the horns of the mammoth ox, but
did no other injury. Headless trunks, limbs and skulls
were scattered about in awful profusion. A man was
walking along the road, when he was startled by
the sight of a fleshless skull, the eyes, and teeth
remaining, which suddenly dropped in front of

him. A man's arm was found driven into a poplar
board. Another man was so terribly injured that his heart
was seen palpitating through the wounds. A horse was
killed, but the occupants of the chaise in which he was,
escaped. Governor Baker was standing near his carriage
with some friends when the catastrophe occurred. He
had a miraculous escape from the flying iron,
his coachman being badly hurt. The general opinion is
that the explosion was caused by the deficiency of water
in the boiler, the flues being greatly heated. The pressure
on the steam gauge was nearly 120 pounds, but tho boiler
should have stood 150 or 160. The verdict of the coroner's
jury had not been given when the mail left.

Summoses for a meeting of the Cabinet on 'I ties
day, the 26th inst., have been issued.

A severe shock of earthquake was felt at Fillmore,
Utah, on the Ist of October. The State House rocked for
several seconds. The convulsion was the most serious ever
experienced in the settlement.

A warrant has been applied for in one of the
'United States Courts against Captain Hall, the Arctic ex-
plorer, on the charge of murdering a mutinous sailor in
the Arctic regions. The Court refused the warrant on the
ground of want of jurisdiction.

A gun accident is reported from Wash&ld, East
Devon. Two brothers went ont shooting rabbits, and one of
them received the contents of a gun which the other fired
from the other side of a hedge. The man lies in a precarious
condition.

Intelligence has come to hand of a terrible mas-
sacre of a shipwrecked crow. The Catherine Seymour,
homeward bound from Sydney, New South Wales, was lost
in Torres Straits in June last, and it is stated that the mas -
ter and 22 of the crew—probably the wholo ship's company
—were murdered by the natives.

The Times of India states that the Begum of
Bhotal has established an industrial school to be called " The
Prince of Wales's School," where boys are to be taught the
art of weaving articles of cotton manufacture. The Indian
Government bas sent a message to the Begum expressing
its satikfaction.

The vacancy in the Board of Inland Revenue
caused by the death of Mr. James Disraeli has not been
filled up ; and the Chancellor of the Exchequer has the
credit of recommending, on the score of economy, that the
vacancy lately arising in the Board of Customs by the
death of Mr. Grey should likewise be permitted to remain
unfilled.

The Ballinasloe Town Commissioners have re-
fused to entertain a motion for the discussion of the land
question, on the mound that " it does not come within their
jurisdiction." The Earl of Clancarty was the leading oppo-
nent of the motion, and urged that the Government should
not be dictated to with referenco to the mode of settling the
question.

A mysterious story of poisoning comes from
county Meath. A young man named Nicholas Led with, on
his way home, found on the roadside a small bag containing
currants, biscuits, and flour. lie gave it to his bistor, who
made a cake of the flour. Of this cake, Nicholas, his father,
and his brother partook heartily, and as a result died in
several hours. The sister ate very sparingly of the cake,
and thus escaped. At the inquest, which was adjourned, a
belief was expressed that the bag and its contents wore
placed on the roadside with a malicious intent.

'There appears to be no doubt that the resolution
alol•ted by the ironworkers at the recent meeting in Wed-
nesbmy will be strictly adhered to. The delegates present
unanimously agreed to give fourteen days' notice to the mai-
ters on Saturday last if intimation was not given on or before
the morning of that day of an intention to raise the wages
of ironworkers. At the preliminary meeting at Wolver-
hampton, and at a subsequent meeting in Birmingham, the
masters have shown a distosition to decline acceding to the
request of the men.

The Vienna papers contain accounts of Joseph
Graf von Wratislaw, who stabbed himself on the 9th inst.,
having dined with the party given by the Ernp;:ror in hon.
our of the Crown Priuco of Prussia on the previous even-
ing. It appears that the deceased, who owned the
estate of Wottez, in Bavaria, though principally residing
in Vienna, had lately been depressed by the heavy losse,
which he sustained during the recent panic. Arrangement,
bad been made to cover his losses by tho sale of his estates,
and tho necessary documents were to LIM Leuu eigned oo
the very nip/tag et