The Sun.
London, England, 1861-03-01 00:00:00

STORMS IN THE BLACK SEA.

A Constantinople letter gives some details of the
grounding of the Sully and of the lose of the Henri
IV. in the Black Sea, as already briefly men-
tioned :

The Metidjiah, expected from Trebizond, ar-
rived in the Golden Horn on the 7th without
having sustained any injury, and bringing news
which but too truly confirms the fears already
occasioned by the incessant storms which have
swept over the Black Sea during the last few
days. Three Turkish vessels and an Austrian
Lloyd's boat had succeeded in getting into refuge,
and up to the very latest news of them there was
nothing to justify fears on their account. But the
Messageries Imperiales, whose departures had not
once been interrupted, has to deplore an accident
and a calamity—one to the Sully, on the coast
near Trebizond, and the other to the Henri IV.,
at Amastra. Of this latter catastrophe, all that is
known amounts to this. The Telemaque, which
started on Monday to look for the missing ships,
and if necessary to render them assistance, on
the night of the 4-sth met the Metidjiah, and
announced to her captain that the Henri IV. had
been wrecked :at Amastra, but that her crew and
passengers had been saved, and were on board the
Telemaque. The state of the sea permitting the
two vessels to remain within hail for only a few
minutes, these few words were all that could
be interchanged. The Sully was at anchor on
the 25th ultimo, in the Trebizond roads, with
two anchors down, and with steam up, in conse-
quence of the state of the sea. But there
was no reason whatever to expect the ter-
rible and sudden tempest which all at once
burst upon her. In an instant both cables
were snapped, and notwithstanding that the en-
gines immediately worked, in spite of every effort
to save her, she was flung with irresistible violence
on to the shore, close by the mouth of the river
Dermen-dere. Her forepart is embedded in the
sand : the after part is free. The state of the
sea was such that the landing of those on board
occupied two days; many were wounded, and all
reached Trebizond half frozen. The Metidjiah
went four times from her anchorage at Platana
to Trebizond in the hope, always disappointed,
of rendering help to the Sully. The Ottoman
steamer Malakoff, also moored at Platana,
made similar efforts, but with no better suc-
cess. The agent of the Austrian Lloyds' offered
his services to the agent of the Messageries, as
soon as the vessels which he (the former) ex-
pected should arrive. Such is the latest news
brought by the Metidjiah. It consequently is not
yet known what may have been the final result of
the aid rendered to the Sully by the Malakoff and
the Austrian Lloyd's boat, should the weather have
later permitted them to effect what the Metid-
jiah had failed in. The money groups and other
objects of value had been saved. We should add
that the greatest zeal and interest had been dis•
played at Trebizond. The French Consul and the
Pasha were not content with sending men to help
in saving what could be saved, but themselves
went to direct the efforts made. The Marquis de
Lavalette, also, as soon as the news of the Sully's
wreck arrived here, at once authorised the de-
spatch of the French corvette Roland to the scene
of the calamity to render all possible assistance.
The Roland takes with her everything that can
be of use. Capitaine de fregate Guichon, in the
service of the Messageries, goes with the Roland
to Trebizond, where also the company's inspector,
Mr. Poirson, who had been on board the Henri IV.,
now is.

Lloyd's agent at Trebizond has also sent the
following, which, it will be seen, differs
slightly from the above with reference to the pre-
cautions taken by the Sully before the occurrence
of the squall which occasioned her destruction :
" The winter on this side of the Black Sea is
unusually severe. Owing to the depth of snow
which has been accumulating for 10 days past,
inland communication has been interrupted. At
eight o'clock on the night of the 25th ult., the
French steamer Sully, Com. Audibert, belonging
to the Messageries Imperiales, which arrived from
Constantinople a few hours previously, with, very
fortunately, a small cargo on hoard, was totally
wrecked in this roadstead. She was laying at
single anchor, with her fire not sufficiently in an
advanced state so as to give steam, when a violent
gust of westerly wind caused the chain to snap;
in two minutes after the vessel was a wreck. She
is waterlogged, and embedded in the sand, and no
hopes are entertained of her being extricated. The
crew was saved, but the little cargo on board is
lost. After the gale abated some cabin furniture,
sails, and other trifles were landed in safety. The
Sully was of French construction, and entirely
equipped in France. Only 20 casks of sugar of her
cargo was insured in England.

THE PROCTORIAL SYSTEM IN CAMBRIDGE.—
An emeute arising out of the attempted exercise of the proc-
torial powers in Cambridge took place on Tuesday night.
The Rev. J. W. Pieters, of St. John's College, one of the
pro -proctors, was going his rounds, accompanied by his
attendants or " bull dogs," when they met two well-known
courtesans, one at least of whom is possessed of consider-
able fistic capabilities. It should be mentioned that since
the action " Kemp v. Neville," and various others, have
been pending, no girls have been taken to the spinning-
house, the proctors confining their attention to the gowns-
men alone. The rencontre took place a little before eight
o'clock, near the post-office, and the proctor demanded the
girl's names. The first gave hers " Sally Crowe," but the
second would give no other but " Loo." The proctor
cautioned them, and was passing on, but irritated by some
offensive expression from Crowe, turned and ordered the
men to take the girls to the spinning -house. The " bull
dogs" laid hands upon the girls, who, however, turned upon
them like a pair of mountain cats, and a most edifying
battle-royal ensued. This raged for some time with
varying success, and in the course of it the girls' clothes
suffered considerably, their crinolines being reduced
to mere skeletons. It ended, however, in it being appa-
rent that victory favoured the girls, for Crowe had her
man " in limbo," and was knocking his head against the
shutters, while " Loo's" opponent was hors de combat. By
this time a concourse of more than 500 persons had assem-
bled, and it was evident that their sympathies were with the
girls. Mr. Pieters, who had been looking on, hero called
upon. a policeman for assistance, but the officer was ordered
not to interfere by a well-known surgeon and member of

town council, who was present. This encouraged, the people
who had been shouting and hallooing encouragement to the
girls, commenced hustling the proctor and his men, and
what was a row would speedily have become a riot, had not
Mr. Pieters prudently withdrawn his forces, leaving the
girs in possession of the field.

FATAL SIIIPWRECK.—The Rev. Richard Tyacke,
vicar of Padstow, and hon. secretary of that branch of the
National Lifeboat Institution, thus reports a lamentable
shipwreck, with loss of eight lives, off that port on Wed-
nesday last :—" Padstow, Thursday.—Yesterday, the 27th
inst., about half-past seven o'clock in the evening, a large
Greek brig, from Cardiff, laden with coals, anchored off
Pentire Head. A boat with a Branch pilot immediately
boarded her, and, pointing out to the captain the very dank
gerous position he had selected, the pilot begged of him to
get under weigh and have his vessel placed in a safe an-
chorage. The Greek captain, however, was deaf to all ad-
vice, and almost rudely drove the pilot from the ship.
A very heavy gale soon sprang up, and the crew of
the lifeboat of the National Lifeboat Institution
immediately assembled and remained by the boat the greater
part of the night. • They could not, however, render any
assistance to the vessel, the gale having become so furious,
and during the night both her chain cables parted, and
in
to
fragments, ten minutes afterwards she was literally beaten
fragments, and eight out of eleven of her crew drowned.
The Pad stow lifeboat has often been instrumental in saving
life from wrecks during the last four years. Her coxswain,
Daniel Shea, chief boatman of the Coast Guard, who has
been off in her on every such occasion, is one of the most
daring and active coxswains iu the service of the National
Lifeboat Institution. If, therefore, it had in any way been
possible to contend with the terrific gale that blew during
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