The Sun.
London, England, 1869-04-26 00:00:00

GALLANT RESCUE.

The Jornal do Commercio of Lisbon, of April 8, gives
an account of an act of extraordinary gallantry performed
by Lord Walter Kerr, commander of H.M.S. Hercules.
It seems that, when sending down topgallant yards at
sunset, on Sunday, April 4, a man fell overboard
from the maintopgallant yard. The commander, Lord
Walter Kerr, who was on the poop, carrying.on, the
instant he saw the man fall into the racing tide of the
Tagus, at once flung off his cap and jacket, and plunged
after him, Had the noble and gallant officer taken time to
think, he might have, without prejudice to his courage,
well have hesitated before placing his life at the mercy
of a current of such wellanown danger. The man was at
some distance from the ship when Lord Walter jumped
overboard, but after considerable exertion, he reached and
supported the unfortunate man until both were rescued by
a boat from the ship. We heartily concur with our
Portuguese contemporary in the warm eulogium which
it passes upon this singularly fortunate act of daring
humanity. The chances for any man overboard in the
Tagus are few enough, and, but for the gallantry of his
commander, the man had no chance at all, having become
insensible from a blow.

The Court of Criminal Appeal has quashed the
conviction of Henry Jenkin, sentenced to death for murder
at the last Bristol Assizes.
Mr. Charles Dickens was seen by Dr. Watson on
Friday, who declared that tho novelist must betake himself
to entire rest, and must do so at once. Dr. Watson has for-
bidden his patient to road any more.
The Rev. H. Wix, cf Swanniore, Isle of Wight,
has been served with the Bishop's monition, forbidding him
any longer to continuo the Ritualistic practices for which
his church has become noted.

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A man named Bellis, master of a small vessel, was
drinking at a public-house at Connor's Quay, near Chester,
the other day, and ho quarrelled with and fought a man
named Jones. Bullis's mate, named Hughes, thinking the
captain in danger, interfered, but Bellis turned upon him,
knocked him down, and kicked him on the ribs. The result
was that both stripped and fought, and in the second round
Hughes struck Bellis on the neck, bursting the jugular vein.
On being picked up the lattor was quite dead. Hughes is in
custody.

On Friday, a conference, called by the Ycrkshire
Board of Education—the first of a numbor of similar ga-
therings it is proposed to hold in various parts of the
county—took place at Sheffield, to ascertain the opinion of
tho public of that district, as to the best course to adopt in
order to get at the large numbers of children who are at
present living with little or no oducati.m. The 3.1a.y or I re-
sided, and the Rev. Canon Salo and other gentlemen took
part in the discussion, the genemal opinion expressed being
favourable to the introduction in some form of a compulsory
system of educatior.

A correspondent at Douglas, Isle of Man, sends to
a contemporary an account of a scandalous outrage
prpetrated by a body of miners et Kirk Michael. It seems
that a dispute has arisen between Mr. Tetley, who is a very
largo shareholder in the Kirk Michael Lead and Copper
Mining Company, and the dircctors of that concern ; and in
conseqnence work in the mine has been almost completely
suspended. The men aro under the impression (rightly or
wiongly—wrougly, the writer of the letter says) that they
have been deprived of employment by Mr. Tetley, and in
r:venge they have on two ( cnslo is bombarded his residence
with large stones, smashing the windows and placing the
lives of the inmates in jeopardy. They have also sent to
ilr. Tetley a letter threatening to kill him.