The Sun.
London, England, 1859-02-23 00:00:00

(BY SUBMARINE AND BRITISH TR.LEGRAPHO

GRAVESEND, Wednesday Morning.
Wind N.E., tide three hours' ebb ; weather very fine.
Arrived, Feb. 23.—John, Mowlem, from Guernsey;
Treaty, Alarm, and Sutton, from Dunkirk; Nicodemus,
from Ivenborg ; Sophia, from Holbeck.
Sailed, Feb. 23.—Adrette, for Pernambuco ; Holland,
steamer, for Ostend ; Seine, steamer, for Boulogne; Ran•
ger, steamer, for Amsterdam.
DEAL, Wednesday Morning.
Wind N.N.W., moderate.
Passed in tow.—Alnwick Castle, from Calcutta, fo
London.

Sunday Commanderlast
at
his Peter
residence,G il Giles Pik
a
ernßelalic (1810
eath) ,daietdthone
He tentered the navy in
advanced age of 87 yearsi
sn.t
ofT htehegnalelavnetnuCeomat-
times • ht at different eight priva-
teers, 1790, and during his eagrallyant careeraffaiirns
athgeainssetritihcee
was engaged in several
enemy, capturing
the battle of Trafalgar, and when Lieutenant of the
maernsd,emntin
r oviu.asg
second i in
all
i6eou tgeunna
same ship, in 1806, assisted at the capture of four
French frigates. He commanded the Gallant and
a division of gunboats in the Walcheren expedi-
tion in 1809. The deceased officer was the oldest
commander on the reserved half-pay list, bis com-
mission as Lieutenant bearing date the sth of July,
1800, and as Commander the 4th of July, 1810. By
his death an out pension of Greenwich Hospital
becomes at the disposal of the Admiralty Board.
A LONDON COMMERCIAL TRAVELLER GARROTTED.
—At the Liverpool Police-court yesterday (Tuesday) a
powerful young fellow, named Frederick Powell, supposed
to be a returned convict, and who refused to give any ac-
count of himself, was charged with attempting to garrotte
and rob Mr. Albert Ellis, a commercial traveller for a firm
in Watling-street, London. Mr. Ellis said that as he was
going to his hotel, about 12 o'clock on Monday night, he
was attacked in Sydney-street by the prisoner, who came
behind him and nearly strangled him by squeezing his neck.
At the same time another man came in front of him, and
attempted to cut his watch chain with an instrument like
a railivay ticket-cutter. While Mr. Ellis was struggling
with his assailants two police officers came UP, and the
prisoner was captured, but his companion
managed to
escape. The prisoner, who made no defence, was
com-
mitted for trial. _

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AN IRISHMAN'S LETTER.—.The following is the
true copy of a letter received in Boston from across the
water :—" Tipperary, Ireland, March 27, 1856. My dear
Nephew,—l have not heard anything of ye sins the last
time I wrote ye. I have moved from the place where I now
live, or I should have written to you before. I did not
know where a letter might find you find ; but I now take my
pen in hand to drop you a few lines, to inform you of the
sb, ufotrthhee
death of your own living uncle, Kilpatrick. He died very
suddenly, after a long illness of months. Poor man, he
the time talking in-
sickantes;
perfectly suffereda
quiet
tt
and speechless,
p e e
ell
elsasy, a
na ldonang t i,m e
.i n convulsions . .
coherently and inquiring for water. I m very much at a
Wthriinedhleyocuorwfariinthde:
thinkstel yel
it whatwas hisoccasioned
death
his occasioned
last
was not well 10 days during his confinement. His age ye
doctorloss to
know just as well as I can tell ye ; he was 25 years old last
March, lacking 15 months ; and if he had lived till this time
he would have been six months dead, jist. N.B. Take
notis, I inclose to you a tin pound note,th e
sends to you unbeknown to me. Your mother often speaks
wouldeth
the
like to
ef
tsheinsdye
until two or three days atter
would enclose her till ye but for the horns. I would beg of
ye have read it, for which time Ye'll be better prepared for
yofe3'n' eo
t; to she
be r a k
the sorrowful news.—Patrick Branigan.O'
Glancy, No. —, Broad-street United States of A To Michael
State of Massachusetts, in BZ ,
•ky,
men
sten.' —New York paper.
DEATH IN A VEHICLE.—A startling circum-
stance took place at
one of our Brighton on Saturday. Mr. Dixon,
medical gentlemen,
was attending
a Mrs.
Brown, at Patcham, when
near her
confinement was pointed out to him. She was
anxious to be confined at her brother's h in house, Frances-
street, Brighton, and Mr. Dixon, pion, finding her rather poorly,
rut her in his cab, • wrapping her up in a blanket, and rode
himself
upon the box with the coachman. On reaching
Prances-street, which is situated at the north part of the
town, the flyman stopped, and opening the window, said to
the young woman, " I forgot what number you said-42 or
45 ?" but he received no answer. The poor girl, whose
name was Elizabeth Steele, was dead. She was living at
Patch= as a serwint.—,Stessex Express.