The Sun.
London, England, 1867-03-19 00:00:00

The Loss of the Cave•

The following admirably humourous sketch we
take from the Owl:
An inquiry into the loss of this vessel was held
on Monday last by an Owl and two nautical asses-
sors. The case excited much interest from the fact
that the vessel was engaged in the first attempt
made to settle the new colony of Adullam, which
has been lately founded near Botany BaY•
Robert Lowe deposed that he was chief officer
of the Cave. Had helped to build the vessel ;
in fact had laid the keel himself two or three years
ago, though she was only launched last year. She
was a splendid-looking craft, made an enormous
number of knots an hour, and could turn in her
own length. She was intended to carry a large
number of emigrants, but passengers did not come
forward as readily as had been expected, and
inanY
who had taken their passage refused to go at the 15`,:t
moment. She left port, however, and had been at
sea ever since, up to the day she foundered. Obser-
vations were taken in the usual manner, but they
were not satisfactory, in consequence of the clouded
state of the horizon, and they relied chiefly on the
Tory log and dead reckoning. The vessel encoun-
tered adverse trade- winds and currents, and on seve-
ral occasions was run into and seriously damaged by
the craft called "Demonstrations." Thought that the
cause of her foundering. When he noticed that she
was settling down took a boat, but could not induce
anybody to go with him. Was tossed about a good
deal, but soon fell in with " The Tory" hulk, which
offered to take him on board, but he declined, think-
ing her very unsafe, and was finally towed into port
by " The Liberal."
Captain GROSVENOR said he had done his best to
save the vessel. He had intended all along to sail
in company with, or at any rate in the track of,
" The Liberal," but she outsailed him, and so he
bore up and ran free. Attributed the accident to
the presence of dry rot, a great deal of which Was
talked at his dinners. Thought his crew were badly
composed. Lowe could not even take a bearing and
was unreliable, while Laing did more harm than
good. Considered that he now belonged to "The
Liberal."
FRANCIS ELcito said he was second mate. At-
tributed the loss of the ship to bad seamanship. The
crew were a shady lot—mostly lumpers, and some
of them did not know a gentleman from a handspike.
The vessel went to pieces very suddenly, and ho
found himself struggling in the water, but saved
himself on a plank thrown to him by some miner
fellows from "The Liberal."
S. LAING said he was the ship's cooper,
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petty officer.
A. CLINTON had heard it. said that the ship would
neither wear nor stay, and though he did not wear
them himself, believed they were good for the figure,
and therefore for the figure-head. Supposed that the
catastrophe had arisen from want of knowing how
to raise the wind.
F. DOULTON was one of the crew. Knew nothing
about the object of the voyage, and could not tell
why he sailed in the vessel, except that Mr. West-
minster had cashed his advance-note ; but he had
been allowed to mess with the officers, and was quit°
contented. Had got good employment, and meant
to give up seafaring altogether.
The Court, after a short deliberation, came to the
conclusion that the loss of the ship was occasioned
d
by faults in her construction ; but reprimanded
Captain Grosvenor and the chief mate, Lowe, for
leaving port at all in so unseaworthy a vessel.

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Sir Roderick Murchison havin g beer. Sewarn furnishethe
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by Lord Stanley with the despatches of Dd,
British political resident at ng
Zanzibar, as well as with more
detailed letters of Dr. Kirk, says he can now scarcely cli
to the hope that Dr. Livingstone is still alive. By the latest
intelligence from Zanzibar, dated the 7th of January, we
learn that Drs. Seward and Kirk had sailed in her Majesty's
ship Wasp for Quiloa to make inquiries and obtain any
further evidence.
ARTISTIC FURNITUILL—Foremost amongst the articles
of furniture that have been prepared for the fast approach-
ing Paris Exhibition, -we must name those now completed
by Messrs. Jackson and Graham, who, bent on maintain-
ing ths position they havo long held in these tourneys of
skill, have evidently applied themselves to the work, de-
termined to come off victors. They send nine pieces in
all, and these include an upright case of ebony inlaid with
ivory, for works of art (part of the fittings of a room for
Mr. A. Morrison, of FoL.thill House),
etagere (the capitals capitally carved), and a table of arn-
boyna wood inlaid with o tiler woods, and forming a lovely
a, charmingly little
piece of colour. In the o rnamentatiou of the upright case
the handwriting of Mr. Owen Jones is obvious. Panels
at the bottom, below the glass doors, are filled in with his
conventional foliage, in ivory, around the initials of the
owner A. M. entwined. The capo d'opera, however, it, tb
cabinet in three divisions la terally, in the style of Italian
works of the sixteenth century. This, like some of the
other furniture mentioned, is of ebony inlaid with ivory,
and includes a few plaques of jaspar and lapis lazuli. The
ornamentation is of the most elaborate kind, drawn,
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well the grifUns and human. heads as the foliage, wilt!
great spirit, expression, and beauty. The excellence et
the inlaying, of the engraving on the ivory, and of the
carving, is remarkable. Such metal work as there is, too,
is admirable ; and we are much disposed to consider the
cabinet as a whole the finest modern work of its kind that
has been executed in England . The entire credit of the
design and drawing is given 1,3, the manufacturers to gr•
Cormier, who has bcon long connected with their esta-
blishment. The worth of the cabinet is understood to he
12,000, and it is satisfactory to know that it found a pilr-
,claasyr below it was finished.