The Sun.
London, England, 1866-02-17 00:00:00

NATIONAL GALLERY ENLARGEMENT BILL.

Mr. BIDGOOD moved, " That it be referred to the
streets' committee, to inquire and report how much
of the public highway is required by the National
Gallery Enlargement Bill to be given up, and fur-
ther to what extent it is proposed to widen Hem-
ming'g-row, or Hemming's-row and Orange-street
as an equivalent, specially with a view to a more
direct communication between the Strand and Pic-
cadilly."

The motion was unanimously adopted.
NEW ROADS, &C.
On report received from the engineer to the board,
assent was given to an application for construction
of Sewers at the Mall, Uxbridge-road, and Kensing-
ton, all in the parish of Kensington ; and approval
I given to Mr. Alfred Lovejoy, on behalf of Sir G. E.
East, for new roads, mews, &c. (full widths), and
names on Kennington-park estate, Lambeth.
After the other orders of the week were disposed
of, the board separated.

Neglect on Board Ship.

Yesterday an inquest was held by Mr. Bird, the
coroner for the western division of Middlesex, at
the Plough Tavern, High-street, Notting-hill, re-
specting the death of James Vernon Monger, aged
19 years. It appeared that the brig Western Star,
Captain Hitchings, on board of which the deceased
was, arrived in the Thames on the 4th inst. from
Berbice. The crew, 11 hands all told, were in a
state of extreme exhaustion, and two of them, a
German named Shrander and the deceased, died the
next day. Monger's father, a tradesman in busi-
ness at Notting-hill, waited on the magistrate at
the Thames Police-court, and was recommended to
bring the facts under the notice of the coroner.
Mr. Everard H. Coleman was present on the part
of the Board of Trade, and Mr. J. H. Lydall, soli-
citor, appeared for the family of the deceased.
William Bowen, sailors' home, Wellclose-square,
said he was seaman on board the Western Star,
which left England for Skeldon, an estate on the
Coryateen River, near Berbice, in September last.
She arrived out in October, after a voyage of seven
weeks. All the crew were then healthy, and the
food was satisfactory. The ship left the Coryateen
on the 23d December, and left Berbice for England
on Christmas-eve. All the crew had been seized
with fever a month before leaving. They were at-
tended by a factory doctor, who " only attended
niggers and that sort." He said witness was skulk-
ing, and he told Shrander, who died since, the same
thing. The witness did not know what kind of
fever it was, but he is suffering from it still. He
did not know whether fresh provisions were taken
on board at Berbice. One of the crew was ill of
the fever when the ship left the Coryateen. James
Monger fell sick a fortnight after, and he continued
ill nearly the whole voyage. The witness did not
see any attention paid him. All the crew, Monger
included, got the same food. He sometimes could
not eat what he got on account of his illness. The
provisions consisted of salt beef and rice and salt
beef and peas. The rice was in a small quantity,
and was the only thing the crew could eat. The
hands were sick and could only eat what was soft.
The pea-soup was very poor. Neither pork nor
flour was served out. There was no lime juice on
board. Most of the crew fell ill after leaving Ber-
bice. While witness was sick in his bunk some of
the crew went aft and complained to the captain of
want of provisions. They did not get their full
allowance of bread. Three weeks before reaching
England a vessel bore down and asked the captain
if he required assistance, but he answered that he
did not. The Western Star had lost her mast, and
probably that was the cause of the vessel's making
the offer, but provisions could have been got, no
doubt, if asked for. The ship put into Ryde four
days before reaching London, and stopped there
three days. Monger was then insensible, but no
doctor was sent for. After being there 20 hours
the witness complained to the captain that the pro-
visions were not what had been signed for, and,
being in port, the crew ought to get better. The
captain said they should get nothing different until
the vessel reached London. The captain went on
shore and got some fresh provisions for himself, but
none for the crew, who had salt beef and peas for
dinner next day as usual. The day before the 6111 p
arrrived in London they got fresh meat and vege-
tables. Robert Craigwell, another seaman, who was
so ill and weak that he could hardly speak, gave
similar evidence, and said that the captain could have
gone ashore to get fresh food any time he liked at
Ryde. The crew got no fresh food until they
knocked off work and said they could not haul up
70 fathoms of chain cable unless they got more pro-
visions. Monger used to get the same food as the
rest of the crew ; but he could seldom eat any of it,
and the beef he could never touch. George Oberg,
a Swede, corroborated the previous witnesses. Capt.
E. "Etchings said he had eaten the same food as the
rest of the crew. Every one on board had been ill,
himself included. He had lost four stone weight
himself. He could not have gone on shore at Ryde,
as the weather was then so rough. Witnesses were
then called by Capt. 'Etchings. John W. Rowley,
mate of the Western Star, said that all hands were well
when the ship left Berbice, but Monger fell ill on
Jan. 13, the day before the ship was dismasted. He
got the same food then as the other men did, but,
finding that he did not recover, food was ;sent to
him from the cabin. A juror pointed out that the
captain alleged he had the same food as the rest of
the crew. The witness said the food was precisely
the same, but the bread in the cabin was finer and
more wholesome. The captain gave Monger qui-
nine and arrowroot at Ryde, and the steward gave
him fresh meat and fine biscuits on the way round
to London. The crew were not on short allowance
at any time. Rice was substituted for flour, and ,
one biscuit a day was for a time knocked off. The
witness Boswell said the ship could have put into
Barbadoes or other ports for provisions. It was a
common thing to get provisions from another ship
even when it was necessary to signal for such assist-
ance. Dr. O'Callaghan, Silver-street, Kensington,
said the deceased died on the sth inst. from exhaus-
tion through want of proper nourishment. :He had
had bilious remittent fever, but that was not the
cause of death. He could not in such a state digest
salt beef. Proper nourishment and medical atten-
dance at Ryde would in all probability have saved
his life. Captain Hitchings said that his steward
could give evidence in his favour, but he was too ill
to attend. The coroner, in summing up, left it to
the jury to decide whether any criminal charge
arose against the captain. The jury, after some
deliberation, returned a verdict of " Death from the
mortal effects of exhaustion from want of proper
nourishment," with the addendum, "That the cap-
tain of the Western Star did not show the deceased

proper attention, and that he was guilty of gross
neglect."

PROTEST FROM THE STATE OF ALABAMA.
The Chicago Tribune says a memorial signed by
five hundred Unionists of Northern Alabama has
arrived at Washington. It sets forth that Union
men are looked upon everywhere in Alabama as
traitors to the South ; and at all elections loyal men
are proscribed and rebels chosen ; that loyal men
will be subjected to every degree of persecution if
tih)aetFtoendehras
al troops be withdrawn ; that Governor
appointed mainly rebels to office, many
of them ex-officers in the Confederate army ; that
the State militia is wholly rebel, and will be em-
ployed to drive out Union men and protect the
sive conspiracy exgistc toe,, embroilblacks;
whites in enslavin the and
11e that
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States-
Government
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and
responsibLsigned by gentlemen
the latter.
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of character
the Tribune, doubtless expresse
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every loyal man in the State.
the unrepresented at the South will be by some at Washington as complacently as the
aristocracy of England hear the cry of the English
people for reform. But there are some true men
at Washington who will stand by Southern loyalty
and Unionism, however humble, as against the
strides of the aveholders returning to their former'
loyalty.

Naval and Military Intelligence.

Admiral the lion. Sir Frederick William Grey,
G.C.8., and Rear-Admiral E. G. Fanshawe, Lords
of the Admiralty, with Rear-Admiral Spencer
Robinson, Controller of the Navy, arrived at Sheer-
ness on Thursday evening last from Chatham,
and paid a visit of inspection to her Majesty's
iron screw corvette Favorite, 10, 400-horse power,
which has recently been commissioned by Capt. F.
H. Shortt. They likewise visited and inspected the
Pallas, 6, iron-gased . screw corvette, 600-horse
power, which has since her trial at the measured
mile been brought forward under the charge of Capt.
Matthew Connolly for commission. At the con-
clusion of the inspection their Lordships dined with
Sir Charles Talbot, K.C.8., Commander-in-Chief
at the Nore. They left Sheerness for London yes-
terday morning. The following officers have been
appointed and have joined the Favorite :—Lieuts.
John Palton and Richard B. Wilkinson, Master
John Phillips, Surg. James R. Anderson, Pay-
master James Ray, Chief Engineer Thomas W.

Tandy, Assist.-Suri. Alexander Scott, Sub.-Lieut.
Frederick A. Moysey, Engineer John B. James,
Assist.-Paymaster Walter R. Spence, Clerk Henry
Foster, Assist.-Clerk Henry S. Baskerville, First-
Class Assist.-Engineers John Dingman and John
Muir. The Favourite will shortly be ready to leave
Sheerness for foreign service.
The Wivern, 4, turret ship, Capt. Hugh Bur-
goyne, V.C., went out of Portsmouth harbour yes-
terday morning and anchored at Spithead, where
she afterwards took in her powder and shell pre-
paratory to sailing for Devonport.
The Tamar, screw troopship, 2,812 tons, 500-
horse power, Capt. Frederick H. Stirling, was taken
out of Portsmouth harbour yesterday morning for a
trial of her machinery, on the completion of her refit,
under the supervision of the officials of the Steam
Factory and Reserve. The weather outside proved
too boisterous for a trial over the measured mile, and
the ship was therefore merely kept at full speed dur-
ing the time that would have been occupied at the
mile course to ascertain the working condition of her
engines and boilers, which are from the manufactory
of Messrs. Ravenhill, Hodgson, and Co., of Lon-
don. The results were satisfactory in every respect
in the opinion of the officials who conducted the
trials, and whether it will now be considered neces-
sary to put the ship over the measured mile to
ascertain the exact rate of speed depends upon
the judgment of the Controller of the Navy. The
Tamar is under orders to proceed on troop service
from Portsmouth to Dublin. She will then proceed
to the Mediterranean and the West Indies, and will
return thence to Spithead. The ship is in excellent
order.

The Royal Alfred, 18, partially ironcased frigate,
will, weather permitting, make her official trial of
speed over the measured mile in Stokes Bay, near
Portsmouth, at her light draught of water.
The following is an extract from a letter from
Ascension, dated Jan. 27, 1866 :—" Her Majesty's
ship Bristol, Commander Hornby, has arrived here
from Sierra Leone with yellow fever on board, which
it is thought she caught from contact with H.M.S.

Isis. She was ten days at sea, during which time
she lost 21 men, and oue since her arrival here, but
no officer. All are now going on well. The long
expected Flora has arrived, and we have now here
the Dromedary, the Sparrow, and the Pandora.
Letters received from Sydney, dated December
20, 1865, state that her Majesty's paddlewheel
steamer Salamander, 6,818 tons, 220 horse power,
Commander G. S. Nares, was at that time in Syd-
ney harbour preparing for a surveying voyage to the
north.

The following appointments have been made at
the Admiralty :--Captain T. Lethbridge, to the
Simoom, commissioned ; Commander H. Challis, to
the Doris ; Lieut. J. C. Patterson, to the Grasshop-
per, as Lieut. and Commander; T. A. Hamilton
and Sidney G. Smith, midshipmen, to the Favorite ;
T. Elliot, assist.-paymaster, to the Lion; Jas. W.
Augear and J. H. Purches, master's assistants, to
the Doris ; 11. Greaves, master's assistant, to the
Tamar ; Arthur Havergal, master's assistant, to the
Hector ; John A. Jones and C. W. May, master's
assistants, to the Favorite ; W. Olive, second-class
assist. engineer, to the Simoom ; and Chas. Welch,
acting second-class assist. engineer, to the Favorite.