The Sun.
London, England, 1858-01-08 00:00:00

THE WRECK OF THE FRENCH BRIG.

Saunders's Newsletter of this morning states that
the safety of the lives of seven more of the crew of
the French brig wrecked at Kingstown on the night
of the 4th inst. was yesterday notified to the French
Consul in Dublin.
"It appears that these men, who were fortunate to
have with them the coasting pilot taken on board their
ship when leaving Liverpool, were exposed for several
hoer.) to the full force of- the gale in one of the ship's
boats, which was greatly damaged, and was only kept
afloat by constant baling ; they had only two oars, and
could make no better attempt at sailing than Ly holding
d
up in turn the pilot's jacket. The latter sought first to
their course towards Kingstown-harbour, but fail-
ing in this they made for flowth, which they fortunately
succeeded in reaching, after suffering great hardships.
In the unavoidable absence from indisposition of M. de
Bourgraff, M. do Meric, the Vice-Consul, made every
arrangement to provide comfortably for them, and to
insure thorn the requisite attentions of which they stood
so much in need, at the lodging-house in this city to
which French mariners in distress are usually conducted.
At a latter period of the day the area men who bad
been brought into Kingstown were also 'brought to
town, and joined their shipmates. These latter, of
whom one had received a severe cut upon the bead, had
previously been taken on board her Majesty's ship
Con-
way, and hospitably treated. No tidings whatever have
been received of the remainder of the crew, and there is
too much reason to fear that none will now be heard.
Respecting the captain, who with all the offinBre is
among the missing, there are different statements.
One is that he with the others was in the second boat,
which was seen to founder ; the other version being
that he was the unfortunate man whose corpse
was seen upon the piece of drift wood, from
which one
of the survivors was rescued ; according to this man's
story his unfortunate comrade had only died 10 minutes
before succour come to hand. The fishermen state that
there was too heavy a sea to admit of their taking off
the corpse, and that they had to drag the other seaman
into their boat by throwing their lines over him. Ac-
cording to both accounts the captain was a young man,
and was upon his first voyage
to Brazil. The pilot
furnished a detailed narrative of the occurrence, alleging
that he was endeavouring to get through ' the Swash,,
and that the vessel struck upon the India Bank.'
Parties acquainted with the coast are, however, at a
loss to reconcile this assertion with the account given by
the French seamen of the lights observed,
ace,, and the
time which it would take for parties in their helpless
condition to drift into the Bay of Dublin. It is considered
probable that the corpses will drift upon the northern
coast ; the wreck, however, is broken into mere frag-
ments."

SUSPECTED MURDER.
The Cork Reporter has the following account of
the death, under
suspicious circumstances, of au
official in the employ of the Killarney Junction
Railway :

" Early on Saturday morning last a man named James
Barrett, a mileernan on the Ki'larney Junction Railway,
was found lying dead in a cutting
on the line at G-ort-
more, distant about half-a-mile from the Lorsbardstown
station. It appears that the deceased was at Mallow fair
on Friday last, and returned to the Lornbardstown station
the same evening the worse for drink ;
having left the
station he proceeded to a publichouse in the neighbour-
hood, kept by a man named Buckley, where, it appears,
he bad a dispute with some parties. He left the pubic-
house shortly alter, and nothing more was heard of him
until the following morning, when, in consequence of his
not having returned home, his wife went along the line
in search of him, and found him with his hands across
the rail, and the body lying at right angles with the rails,
the head resting on one arm ; the hands were cut across
as if by the goods train, whieh, it is supposed, passed
over them during the night ; two large cuts were on the
o placedrailway,
railway,
in order to
head—ens immediately behind the left ear, and' the
other across the head ; there were also several marks
'
on the chest • his cap was found some distance from the
body
on the line. From the appearance of the body
andits
people in the neighbourhood that the deceased was not
killed by the train, but that the unfortunate man was
murdered
Y, it is believed by the
give it the appearance of an accident. The body was
shortly after examined by Dr. Foott, of Gortmore, who
gave it as his opinion that death was caused by the
i andn position
then n the lwa
wound behind the ear. Mr. Coroner Daly shortly after
arrived and en3pannelled a jury, who viewed the body,
and then adjourned the investigation until the 19th
inst. No arrests have as yet been made. The general
supposition in the neighbourhood is that the man was
I murdered."

Warwick
kdaeuadthit
d INQUEST ON Mn. HUNT, POOR-LAW DISTRICT AUDITOR
district. He was one of
—Au adjourned inquest was held on Wednesday, at
Mr. Hunt, auditor of
the passengers on the occasion of the accident (last
month) on the Oxford, Worcester, Tyr L
tWhearOwxicfok;dandW
touching
and oieer.ampton
Railway, but he was not hurt—he was only shaken, and
appeared quite well after it. Nevertheless, he died sud-
denly in a few days. On a post naortem examination it
was found that he had died from escape of blood caused
by the bursting of an aneurism formed on the abdominal
aorta. On the previous Friday the deceased had alluded
to the railway accident, and said that he had fallen with
his side on the elbow of the seat in the carriage. The
medical men were of opinion that the aneurism was
first lacerated by the accident, and that the laceration
afterwards increased, but that Mr. Hunt would in all
probability have died at some time or other from the
bursting of the aneurism, if no accident had happened.
A. Government inquiry is to be made into the cause of
the accident. The inquest was adjourned till yesterday.
A GENEROUS MATOR.—The first official act of the
new mayor of Cork was to visit the eity gaol, from
whence he liberated all the pauper debtors there con-
fined, he paying the demands against them. , He also
set at liberty a number of poor people who were under
a rule of bail.,