The Sun.
London, England, 1859-10-13 00:00:00

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ter-house: Eight dead bodies were found on
forecastle, and three on the main deck,, includi*e
the European sentry- and Portuguese erialc.: It •Treki
now apparent, why the sentry! had ngtf:ithswebeaC4.
the hail of the infite.,--.1.6 poor fellow Nfbc'
have been stabbed to the heart There seettts,
fortunately, to beliciAlonbt that: ho had left his post
below, -is supposed to
have fallen asleep, being stabbed without awaken-
ing even to fire his pistol, which was in his hand as
he lay. Had he been at his post; or even awake on
deck, alarm might ia all'Tprbbabillty have been
. given sufficiently early to have prevented the con-
victs gaining the decks at all. . •
The poor cook was shot by accident, being mixed
up with-the convicts. 'Theearpenter; and an Arab
passenger, jumped overboard; - The former fell
into the bight of the lee fore sheet, got into the
fore chains, and made his way: aft. The Arab was
never seen again.. • • . .
At daybreak a man vas found hanging. on ,to the
rudder. --A rape being let-down-he-was-trairled up,
and was-found to have been shot through the leg.
On search bcia4g made,below, five more bodies were
found of men who, On receivin,, enough,- had gone
below to die. It was found .triat the convicts had
escaped, by gutting through with.a knife, of which
they had. somehow. gained poss6:sion, a bar of a
prison door forward, then partly cutting through
the inside partition bar ,on the peitside, which
enabled them to burSt the door in.altogether. They
-then shouted the rest in other cells to follow them,
which, with the exception of ,14, whom the guard
were enabled to keep -down, they,did.
At six the convicts were mustered, who) it was
found that 28. were. dad- or -Missifig-28 out.of. 60
-who came on deck. The remaining 32, with 'the '
exception of. 'three wounded, were treated to three
dozen. At half-past nine . thesAtries gave the
alarm that soMe- of the emiviAts had slipped
their leg irons: The guard was-.•called and secured
them. On overhanling'the remainder, it was found
that. many of the irons were too large, and they
were accordingly reduced.--• -A welcome sight must
Bombay, have been to the Ararat:
The captain speaks in, high terms of the Euro-
pean sergeants and guard, and of the Marine Bat-
talion also, the havilder especially singling himself
out by his-valour. . •
Whatshall_we_ssy of the captafn_himself ? What
would have been the result had he been a man of
less courage and pluck than he showed himself to
be ? The vessel would have been taken, every soul
on board • murdered, -and these ,desperadoes have
found their way to the China ,seas again,.to the
destruction of—who- can say-hew much ~and
property ? It is so very exceptional a ease that we
doubt not the Chamber of Commerce will take some
notice of it. Capt.- Correya _has earned_ for himself
a life renmin, and shonlahe dealt-with in a way be-
coming this great ebininercial port, and a chamber
of commercial. men. -

THE LOSS pF TUB' -UNITED STATES'

STEAMP,R 177.L.T0N.

Some interesting particulars• of the loss of the
Fulton will be found in the following extract from
a private letter, dat(l Szitcraber :—" The
Fulton -sailed- from. key West on Saturday last
(SejAcraberlo)- for the coast of Cuba. The captain
was sick with • fever 'when we left, as also the
master and one or two others. On tbcda4th the
captain broke down, but refused to grve_up com-
mand among the Cuban reefs. He consented that
evening., howeve'r, to have the first lieutenant take
the ship—to .Teantg.'as.jslands„ the nearest healthy
home port. We made for them accerdinglylbut
the weather began to ihreaten, and we could get no
sights, and were i.xposcd to :baffling currents, and did
not re2ch our ports as eXpeeted. .0n the morning of
the 14th, in the Gulf Stream, to leeward of the Tor-
tugas, it began to blow, and was doubtful if we could
reach them. it was necessary to batten down
hatches to keep out the seas. The lieutenant thought
we could reach Pensacola, as the wind was fair for
that port; so, on the evening of the 14th, we kept
off for it. The gale increased and became very
violent, and we had to scud before it without
sights, 14th and 15th. Last night it blew with
fury, and the.aeas were more dangerous. We feared
we were nearing land; had counailL was 'held to
decide :.hat to do. It was determined that if the
attempt were trade to lay her to' site would be
lost ; on the other hand, if there Jrad bean no cur-
rent we should be more. than
~100 miles from land,
w and our best chance-as to tun on, in the hope of
not reaching land before day: In the mid-watch,
the gale increasing still, it was again consulted
about, and at a quarter before.
.two a.m., while
every one was up and anxiously canvassing our
fortunes, the vessel slid on shore, in the smoothest
and easiest manner possible; upon the sandy beach.
When day dawned we, were lying broadside to the
shore, which was only about 20 yards distant, with
a fearful surf beating against us outside. The
kind hand of Providence only has saved us. Net a
'provisions
is lost or hurt. We are getting our men and
'provisions on shore as fast as possible."—New
, York Berald.