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

HAY.

SMITHFIELD.—Meadow hay, £3 Os to £4 lOs; clover,
£4 Os to 45 lOs; and straw, £2 Os to £2 6s per load.
A moderate demand.
CUMBERLAYD.—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.
WIIITECHAPEL.—Moadow hay, £3 Os to £4 lOs ; clover,
£4 Os to £5 12s Od ; and straw, £1 18s to £2 68 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 R. 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 the suspicion that these men
abandoned the traveller when he was about to traverse a
Mazite-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 broke 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-
guna and Joven Harreta, two Spanish ships. In each case
the crows 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 from
Putney to Mortlake on Saturday, April 13. The time of
starting has not yet boon settled, but it is thought it will
be about half-past nine.

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HER MAJESTY, &c•

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.
llardinge, 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.

Their Royal 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.

Wo aro authorised to state that her Royal High-
ness the Princess of Wales, having passed ever the fourth
week from her confinement, Dr. Arthur Parra will cease
attendance. Her Royal 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
Cisterna, is fixed to take place during this month. it will
be celebrated with no groat solemnity in the chapel of the
royal palace. The nuptial benediction will be pronounced
by Mgr. Casablanca, the new Archbishop of Milan. King
Victor Emmanuel has just conferred upon the young
fiancée 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 Yale, 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 Normanby
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 morningof 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 she 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 bad 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., and
the weather fine, the ship heading about N.N.W.
to N. by W. About midnight, or soon after, the
course was altered to N. by E. to N.N.E., and
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 at this time
N.E., upon which course the vessel took the ground
at about 1 o'clock a.m., and in a few hours was lull
of water. Efforts were made when she first struck
to back her off with the sails, without success, 80
she was too firmly fixed upon the rocks t°
be moved. The brig was subsequently aban-
doned as a total wreck. The Court, having
given due attention to the evidence in this ease,
came to the conclusion that the Benton was lost,
like many other vessels on this part of the coast, by
hugging the land too closely. In this case there
does not appear to have been any reason for. 80
doing, as the vessel had a fair and moderate wind
from the S.W., and the night was sufficiently clear
to see all the lights. If, as the Master states the
weather was thick so that he could not see the land
—which is often caused by the smoke from Sun-
derland obscuring the land about Souter Point
a cast of the lead would have warned him of In°
proximity to the coast. This, however, was ne:
glected. Under the circumstances, the Court had
no alternative but to pronounce that the brig Ben-
ton was lost by the default of her Master. We have
therefore, with the concurrence of the Nautical
Assessors, suspended the certificate of Mr. William Foreman for six calendar months from this date.
The certificate is herewith returned.
We have the honour to be, my Lords,
Your obedient servants,
JAMES ANDERSON, Mayor.

THOMAS MOFFETT.
We concur in this report,
I-IY. HARRIS, 1 Nautical Assessors•
R. B. BAKER,
Town-hall, South Shields, March 15, 1867•

ALLEGED MURDER.—At the New Bailey,
ford, on Tuesday, an Irishman, named Daniel geoarthit'l
was charged with murder. It appeared that Henry Nlr".;
a man in the service of a coaldealer in Levenshuhnet
returning home on Friday evening, when the prisone"
who was drunk, stopped and spoke to him. 313c9ftill?
asked Willis if he was a Fenian, and receiving 3 dee'S-
No" for answer, he said, " Then I am," and at
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stabbed 'Willis with a knife. Willis was carried to
infirmary, where he died on Sunday. When the PrisTien
was arrested, the knife, stained with blood, was fouL.e
one pocket, and a piece of jagged brick in another. '-
was committed for trial at the Liverpool assizes.
A FARMER COMMITTED FOR SIIEEPSTEALIN".
Yesterday, at the North Riding Petty Sessions at S2e
borough, Mr. Jonathan Smith, a farmer at Allerton, '013"
charged with stealing a sheep, the property of gr' j:,„et
Thomson, also a farmer. The prosecutor and Pr's- ad-
were tenants under Mr. Loyd, of Lincroft, occuffiDg bet
joining farms at Cross Cliff, Allerston, and between Oct°. se
last and the 5,h of March inst. prosecutor had lost no teat.
than:2B sheep,which induced him to keep a sharp loolc-4
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Something caused him to have suspicion of his neighb.°g"
Smith, and on the last-named day he saw him "119'caileW:its
something up in his fold-yard, and immediately
the police, who, on examining his premises, found tale to
0 and skin of a sheep, which, by its marks, was Pro. which
belong to Thomson. Two other heads of sheep to
had been slaughtered some time, were also found, but
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ears having been cut off, they could not be identifie
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prisoner was committed to take his trial at the O
assizes at York.— lorkAire FQQf.