The Sun.
London, England, 1859-11-01 00:00:00

WRECK OF THE ROYAL CIIAR7ER:

The underwriters at Lloyd's required yesterday
40 per cent. for insuring the gold by the Royal
Charter. The advance in the rate was ceased prin-
cipally by the receipt of a communication from
Lloyd's agent, dated Moelfra, Oct. 30, mentioning
that divers had descended and examined the after
part of the vessel,' bht, owing to the confusion,
could not ascertain whether the bullion.room was
intact. Its safety was looked upon as doubtful
from the appearance of the wreck, and from the cir-
cumstances of portions of gold-boxes having been
picked up, besides a bar of gold_ It is also men-
tioned that 300 sovereigns have been taken from the
bodies of dead passengeis. The divers have reco-
vered some ingots of copper, whieli were stored in
the orlop deck, just before the bullion room. Should
the boxes have been broken, there will be some dif-
ficulty in finding the gold. At this period of the
year the uncertain weather imposes fresh obstacles
to diving operations.
Accounts from Moelfra Bay yesterday afternoon
state that two divers made a descent on Sunday,
and remained a considerable time under water, but
they saw no corpies beneath. Neither did they
find any gold, but they did see some copper. Yes-
terday morning they resumed their descents. They
have discovered no bodies, but, up to 1 o'clock in
the afternoon, they had succeeded, with the assist-
ance
.given them by men on board the steam tug,
in raising about three tons of copper bars. Tnese
bars have undergone some smelting, but are not in
a finished state. There is a god deal of silver
mixed with the copper. At 1 o'clock the divere sus-
pended operations for a short rest and refreshment.
They resumed after about an hour's interval.
Some additional articles of wearing apparel, with
spars, &c., have been cast up upon the beach.
Amongst these things are seven photographs, • two
of men, two of ladies, two of children, and one
landscape. None of these have as yet been identi-
fied. There is a stocking with the name " Jane Mur-
ray," and another wittl the name " F. Davis" upon
it. There is a portion of a shirt with the name " J.
E. Smith," and another with the name" It. 'Thorn-
hill," followed by the date " 1846." A large
coarse wrapper has the inscription, " C. R. Ross,
passenger, Royal Chart( r," painted in black letters
upon it; on a piece of a shirt, " E. Fenwick ;" on
another, "John Lees, 1855.;" on a piece of stocking,
" T. W. ;" and on a small piece of linen. "T. G."
There aro a number of visiting cards spread on a
piece of wood. One has the inscription, "Mr.
Eddowes, 146, Cambridge-street, Pimlico ;" another,
"Mr. Sam. Mosley Wade, Low and Cill, Liver-
pool." On a piece of linen is," James Davis, Wood-
side, 1839." Five bodies were washed ashore at
Moelfra Bay, and seven at Penmanewr on. Sunday.
None of these have as yet been identified. No
bodies were washed up yesterday.

Mom the Manchester Guardian.)
Immediately after the adjournment of the in-
quest, on Friday, orders were given for the inter-
ment of the bodies which had been identified ; the
remainder were kept throughout the whole of
Saturday, and every hour brought a fresh accession
of visitors bent on the melancholy errand of inquiry
after missing friends. The distortion and disfigure-
ment of the bodies consequent on drowning, and the
absence of clothing, made the examination neces-
sarily more minute and painful ; but in some in-
stances the features and limbs were mangled from
violent dashing against the rocks, and recognition
of friends was almost impossible. Mr. Bradbury,
one of the survivors, whose statement was given
in the Guardian of Saturday, describes one of the
young ladies, whose bodies were lying in Penrhos
Church, as the recognised belle of the vessel, and
the charm and admiration of a large circle. Mrs.
Foster, who is one among thelost, had gone to Aus-
tralia to superintend the sale of some lan I, and it is
conjectured that she had with her the whole of the
proceeds of the sale. Tier companion, Mrs. Wood-
roff, who has been identified, was the wife of
an innkeeper in Melbourne; her husband is ex-
pected to follow her. Among the company at
Bangor was an elderly gentleman from Glouces-
tershire, named Wright, who had heard of the
wreck at Liverpool, where he had come in expecta-
tion of meeting his son, Mr. Iles Wright, of Eve-
sham. who was the surgeon of the ship, and who
had written from Queenstown anticipatory of his
arrival.

At low water the remaining portion of the hull
of the vessel is quite discernible, and when the neap
tides prevail it is expected that much of the trea-
sure and malty more bodies will be recovered. The
fact that so few, proportionately to the number lost,
have been recovered has occasioned much wonder,
and is variously accounted for. The partition of
the vessel is supposed by some to have enclosed the
bodies as in a box. The debris of the wreck lies
scattered about the shore, the woodwork being
literally nothing but chips. The exact position
of the wreck is about a mile and a half from
the Llanallgo Church, where most of the bodies
are lying. The Anglesea militia, the coastguard,
and a body of police are placed there for the
protection of the property washed ashore, and a
temporary shed is constructed on the shore. The
nearest dwellings to the wreck are at Moclfra vil-
lage, which is more than half a mile from the spot.
Capt. Fell and a staff of Lloyd's are located there.
At the inquest, which is adjourned to Wednesday
next, a strict examination is expected to take place
into the statement made of the captain being in-
toxicated at the time of the fearful disaster. The
statement is broadly made by some of the survi-
vors; but the.owners of the vessel and some nauti-
cal men say they can triumphantly vindicate the
memory of the deceased.
Among the Lancashire people lost in the vessel,
whose friends came to seek for them on hearing of
the wreck, were Mr. Casper Lewin, nephew of Mr.
Adam Casper, of Market-street, Manchester ; Miss
Wrigley, Byrom-street, Manchester; Mr. and Mrs.
Kirkbride, Liverpool; and Mrs. Robinson, of
Southport, wife of the editor of one of the Mel-
bourne newspapers.

TILE IRON DUKE AND THE WELLING-
-7 ON PICT UR ES.

I remember standing—by the side of his grace
when the publisher of the print of the meeting with
the old Prussian marshal had invited the duke to
see the original painting. He surveyed it attentively,
and after good-naturedly remarking how capital a
likeness the artist had made of the aide-de-camp,
observed that he wished he had seen the
painter before lie had begun his picture. He would
not then have made so great a mistake as to repre-
sent the two generals raising their hats to each
other. "We did nothing of the sort," continued
the duke; "the moment Blucher came up he threw
his arms about my neck and kissed me ; he was
highly excited, and very muddy. In fact, we were
both covered w!th mud." Those were the duke's
words. As for the other picture with which
the duke is associated, it is altogether false. He
never accompanied the Marchioness of Douro to the
field on any one occasion. I have heard the pub-
lisher say how glad he would have been had the
event really occurred..... The Duke of Welling-
ton was very impatient of these departures from
fact, because, as he justly observed, it was so easy
to get at the truth while the actors in the scene yet
lived. All the representations (so called) of the
battle of Waterloo were, in his eyes, puerile distor
tions. For this reason he purchased Sir W. Allan's
picture, which the reader who has visited Apsley
House may remember, depicts Napoleon's side of
the field. The Emperor is in the foreground with
his staff; his battalions are moving down a slope
to make the final attack. In the remote distance
are the attenuated British forces, formed partly
into squares. " That," said the duke, " may have
been a true sketch. None of the others have ap-
proached the reality." But of all the popular pic-
tures which most offended the great duke, none
was.so distasteful as Salters's " Waterloo Ban-
quet." It is a marvel the old soldier did not pur-
chase it,
.and buy up all the engravings where-
with to make a bonfire at Strathfioldsay.
Not that the portraits are all bad ; not that the
general aspect of the room and the table and
the decorations is erroneous—these, indeed, are
merits of the picture; but the grouping is dread-
ful—an illustration of the highest amount of in-
breeding. The duke stands, and the duke speaks :
truth would have represented every guest in al
attitude of respectful attention ; effect delineates
one-half of the guests in the act of talking to each
other, or turning their back upon their chief, till
the artist at least might scan their features.
Strange that the man who was all truth should
have been the subject of so mc.ny lies! What is
more generally credited than that the leader of the
British host at Waterloo should have exclaimed,
" Up, Guards, and at them ?" Even Siborne puts
the passage into the duke's mouth. When, how-
ever, his Grace was asked, a year or two before his
death, if ho used the words imputed to him, his
reply was, "It stands to reason I could not have
said anything of the kind. I was too far from the
men ; they couldn't have heard me for the noise oF
the artillery. I merely gave an order for the line
to advance, and perhaps some of the aides-de-ramp
called out to the Guards as they carried the order.
Titan.

GREENWICH HOSPlTAL.—Greenwich- Hospital,
as was announced on Thursday night at the Mayor of
Gateshead's dinner, is to be the subject of another inquiry.
by Royal Commission, and Mr. Hutt, our borough mem-
ber, has accepted the invitation of the Duke of Somerset
to act as chairman (without remuneration)—a compliment
no less to the constituency than to the representative.—
Gateshead Observer.

The names most freely mentioned among the
students for the office of Lord Rector of Edinburgh Uni-
versity (says the Scotsman) are those of the Lord Chan-
cellor Campbell and Lord John Russell.