The Sun.
London, England, 1867-03-21 00:00:00

HAY.

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SMITHFIELD.—Meadow hay, X 3 Os to £4 lOs ; clover,
£4 Os to 15 108; and straw, X 2 Os to X 2 6s per load.
A moderate demand.
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CUMBERLAND.—Meadow hay, £3 Os to £4 12s ; clover,
£4 Os to £5 lOs Od ; and straw, £2 Os to £2 6s per load.
Supply tolerably good.
WILITECRAPEL.—Meadow hay, £3 Os to £4 lOs ; clover.
£4 Os to £5 12s Od ; and straw, £1 18s to .£2 6s per load
Trade inactive.

LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET.
(This Day.)

The Market opens with a quiet tone. Sales pro
bably 5,000 or 6,000 bales.

DR. LIVINGSTONE.—Some further information
has transpired which affords the hope that this dis-
tinguished traveller is not dead, as reported. Dr. Seward
writes as follows to Sir It. Murchison :—" I have person-
ally made inquiries among the traders of Keelwa Koinga,
and have gathered information there which tends to throw
discredit on the statement of the Johanna men, who allege
that they saw their leader dead. The evidence of the
Nyassa traders strengthens tho suspicion that those mon
abandoned the traveller when he was about to traverse a
Mazito-haunted district, and for aught they know to the
contrary Dr. Livingstone may yet be alive. I purpose
sending details by the next mail." Sir Roderick, however,
says that " the whole case must rest in painful suspense
until some one of his faithful negro attendants who, it is
said, escaped the slaughter, shall return to confirm the tale
of the Johanna men."

SEVERE GALES IN THE ATLANTIC. —LOSSES OF
SHIPPING.—The fearful south-easterly gales which have
this week proved so disastrous round our Own coasts have
caused serious disasters in the Atlantic. By the arrival of
the African mail steamship Ethiopo at Liverpool yesterday
we learn that on the Bth and 9th inst. a terrific gale from
the south suddenly broko over the island of Teneriffe,
doing immense damage to shipping. The American barque
J. C. Nickels broke her anchor chains, and drove ashore,
becoming a total wreck ; and the same fate befel the Pele•
guns and Joveu Ilarreta, two Spanish ships. In each cast-
the crews were fortunately saved. The barque Britannia,
of Glasgow, was abandoned at sea, with rudder gone and
in a sinking state, in lat. 47 N. long. 18 W. On the 17th
February the British barque Royal Mint was totally lost
on the Carpenter Rocks, near Sierra Leone.
THE OXFORD AND CAMBRIDGE BOAT RACE.—
This event has been definitely fixed to come off fro'
Putney to Mortlak 3 on Saturday, April Pl. Ti) time o
starting has nut yet been settle 1, hut it iFi 014. m-slit it win
be about half-past nine.

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HER MAJESTY, Jo-

WINDSOR CASTLE, March 20.

The Queen, accompanied by their Royal High-
nesses Princess Louise and Prince Leopold, arrived
at the Castle last evening at 20 minutes before 7
o'clock, from London, attended by the Countess of
Caledon, Major-General A. N. Hood, Hon. Col. A.
Hardinge, and Mr. Legg.
His Highness the Maharajah Duleep Singh and
the Maharanee arrived at the Castle yesterday, and
dined with the Queen and Royal Family.
His Highness was attended by Col. Oliphant.
The ceremony of christening the Shahazadah, the
infant son of his Highness the Maharajah and the
Maharanee, took place in the private chapel of the
Castle this morning, her Majesty the Queen stand-
ing in person as one of the sponsors, the others
being the. Maharajah and the Rev. William Jay.
The Hon. and Very Rev. the Dean of Windsor
performed the ceremony.

The Shahazadah received the names of Victor
Albert.

Theirßoyal Highnesses Princess Louise, Princess
Beatrice, and Prince Leopold were present.
The Duchess of Roxburghe and the Countess of
Caledon were in attendance on her Majesty.
There were also present the Earl and Countess
of Leven and Melville, Lady Sophia Melville, Major-
General Sir T. M. and the Hon. Lady Biddulph,
the Hon. Mrs. Wellesley, and the Ladies and Gen-
tlemen in Waiting.

His Highness the Maharajah and the Maharanee,
attended by Col. Oliphant, left the Castle this
afternoon.

We are authorised to state that her Royal High-
ness the Princess of Wales, having passed ever the fourth
week from her confinement, Dr. Arthur Farre will cease
attendance. Her Reyal Highness is now suffering only
from inflammation of the knee joint and its consequences,
requiring especially surgical aid.
The marriage of the Count of Flanders with the
Princess of Hohenzollern is to be celebrated on the 25th of
April at Berlin.

The marriage of the youngest son of King Victor
Emmanuel, Prince Amadeus of Savoy, with Madlle. de la
Cisterns, is fixed to take place during this mouth. it will
be celebrated with no great solemnity in the chapel of the
royal palace. The nuptial benediction will be pronounced
by Mgr. Casabianca, the new Archbishop of Milan. King
Victor Emmanuel has just conferred upon the young
Ificmcie and her mother the title of highness.

The Duke of St. Alban's had a dinner party yes-
terday evening at his residence at Princes-gate.
The Earl and Countess of Fife entertained at
dinner last night—his Excellency the French Ambassador,
the Duke and Duchess of Montrose, the Marquis and
Marquise di San Germano, Earl of Abingdon, Countess of
Jersey, Lady Caroline Villiers, Mr. Brandling, Viscount
Sudley, Viscount Hyde, Lady Agnes Murray, and Mr.
John Lumley.

The Earl and Countess Percy had a dinner
party last evening at Northumberland House.

- The Earl and Countess of Southampton have
arrived at the St. George's Hotel.
The Earl and Countess of Rosalyn have arrived
at Claridge's Hotel from Skeffington Vale, Leicester.

The Countess of Malmesbury is going on very
favourably, considering the extreme weakness from which
her ladyship is still suffering.
The Countess Clare, the Hon. Gerald Normal:lbl
Dillon, Lady Louisa Dillon and family, have arrived at
Claridge's Hotel from Paris.

The Loss of the Brig Benton.

OFFICIAL REPORT.

To the Lords of the Committee of Privy Council

for Trade.

My Lords,—We, the undersigned, two of her
Majesty's justices of the peace for the borough of
South Shields, have, in accordance with your in-
struction, held an inquiry into the stranding and
subsequent loss of the brig Benton upon the Whit-
burn Steel Rocks, off the coast of Durham, between
Sunderland and Shieldss, on the morning of the 24th
January last, at about 1 o'clock a.m. We have
been assisted in this inquiry by Captains Harris and
Baker, as nautical assessors appointed by your
Lordships' Board. The brig Benton was built of
wood at Sunderland in 1828, and was registered at
South Shields. She was of 166 tons burthen, and
was owned solely by Mr. George Foreman, of that
port. The vessel left London on Saturday, Jan. 12,
having on board chalk ballast, under the command
of Mr. William Foreman, who holds a certificate of
competency as Master, dated March 6, 1856, and she
had a crew of six hands, all told. The Benton had
a fair wind on leaving the Thames, and she reached
off Lowestoft, where, the wind failing, she anchored/
and remained there until the 22d, being windbound•
On that day the weighed anchor and proceeded on
her voyage, passing Flamborough Head about three
miles distant. She arrived safely off the Hartle-
pool Light, and at 9 p.m. on the 23d she had that
light bearing W. by S. four miles distant, and was
abreast the Seaham Lights at midnight. At this
time the wind was moderate from the S.W./ tie
the weather fine, the ship heading about N.N. " •
to N. by W. About midnight, or soon after, the
course was altered to N. by E. to N.N.E., enu
about 40 minutes past that hour a buoy was seen on
the starboard bow, which was taken for one of the
ballast buoys. The ship's course was
N.E., upon which course the vessel took the grone,ct,
at about 1 o'clock a.m., and in a few hours was flu.'
of water. Efforts were made when she first struck
to back her off with the sails, without success, 0.
at this time.
she was too firmly fixed upon the rock's t°
be moved. The brig was subsequently
doned as a total wreck. The Court, having
given due attention to the evidence in this case'
came to the conclusion that the Benton was
like many other vessels on this part of the 004, le
hugging the land too closely. In this case thero
does not appear to have been any reason for. /id
doing, as the vessel had a fair and moderate will r
lots
from the S.W., and the night was sufficiently eles
to see all the lights. If, as the Master states te u
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weather was thick so that he could not see the lall
—which is often caused by the smoke from S°ll-
derland obscuring the land about Souter Point
a cast of the lead would have warned him of his
proximity to the coast. This, however, was 11
t had
glected. Under the circumstances, the Cour
no alternative but to pronounce that the brig Ben;
ton was lost by the default of her Master. We hay,
therefore, with the concurrence of the Nautical
Assessors, suspended the eertificate of Mr.
Foreman for six calendar months from this date
The certificate is herewith returned.
Your obedient sants,
or.
JAMES .ANDERSON, ay
We have the honour to be, my Lords,
ery
M
THOMAS MOFFETT.
We concur in this report,
H. HARRIS, / Nautical Assessors.
R. B. BAKER,
Iwn-hall, South Shields, March 15, 1867.

ALLEGED MURDER.—At the New Bailey,
ford, on Tuesday, an Irishman, named Daniel Macartq,
was charged with murder. It appeared that Henry
a man in the service of a coaldealer in Levenshuline, Nvas
returning home on Friday evening, when the prisoner,
Macarthy
who was drunk, stopped and spoke to him.
asked Willis if he was a Fenian, and receiving a decisive
No" for answer, he said, " Then I am," and at 010
stabbed Willis with a knife. Willis was carried to tlicl
ris
infirmary, where be died on Sunday. When the pone!
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was arrested, the knife, stained with blood, was foulld°
one pocket, and a piece of jagged brick in ar.other. sl-L
was committed fur trial at the Liverpool assizes.
A FARMER COMMITTED FOR SIIEEPSTEALLSG.
Yesterday, at the North Riding Petty Sessions at Sc'W
borough, Mr. Jonathan Smith, a farmer at Anatol), w3„5
charged with stealing a sheep, the property of Mr. J°;
Thomson, also a farmer. The prosecutor and pris°nde-
N.ve.re. tenants under Mr. Loyd, of Lincroft, occupYir'g
joining farms at Cross Cliff, Allerston, and between Octo"s
last and the 5 h of March inst. prosecutor had lost no les
t
thau,2B sheep,which induced him to keep a sharp look-ou;
Something caused him to have suspicion of his noighb°,o
Smith, and on the last-named day he saw him " haPPl°?,
something up in his fold-yard, and immediately called la
the police, who, on examining his premises, found the
Ileato
and skin of a sheep, which, by its marks, was pro",d.,h
belong to Thomson. Two other heads of sheep,
tUe
had been slaughtered some time, were also found, but,
~are having been cut off, they could not be identified. 17
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prisoner was committed to take his trial at the 00'11.
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assizes at Xyrk.-lorkatiro fast.