The Sun.
London, England, 1857-08-25 00:00:00

ADMIRALTY LIBERALITY.

The follow•in; letter has been addressed ta a con
temporary :

Sir,--fn the spring of the present year the Ex-
mouth, an Engii-h 90-gun screw-ship, with a crew
of 700 or 800 souls, on her way to SPilhead, got
some tea or twelve miles out of her course in a
fog, and was seen by a fisherman, when about
three-quarters of a mile off the shore to the north-
west of the Lizard, proceeding under a press of
canvas directly f r the coast ; he immediately ap-
prised the officers of their imminent danger ; the
vessel was put about, and in doing so struck on a
ridge of rucks ; she then tailed off and an anchor
was let go with 15 fathoms of chain, win chbronght
her up, when her stern was less than ten feet from
some rocks at the foot of an almost perpendicular
cliff about 200 feet high. She was here embayed
in one of the many little eaves on that cast ; the
fog was very thick at the tim9, and a heavy ground
swell running in f ..An the south-west. In this cri-
tical position she was hoarded by a fisherman,
named Bitchens, at the risk of his life, and under
his direction the steam was got up, the anchor
slipped, and the vessel piloted out in safety. This
poor fisherman was thus the means of saving
very many live=, and national prope-ty worth
probably 100,0001. The tide was at ebb at the
time, and had the ship remained there two hours
longer nothing could have saved her, as a very
heavy gale from the south-west arose in the
evening, when a great: loss of life must have
occurred.

For this very important service the Admiralty
have rewarded this po,r fisherman with the
pa'try sum of five pounds !
Cannot you, through the power possessed by the
leaders of the London daily press, get the claims
of this poor fisherman justly attended to, and the
natioa spared such a disgra;:e ?

LONDON AND EASTERN CORPORATION.—A call of 151.
per share has been tnado on the unfortu❑ate shareholders
of the London and Eastern Corporation. At first it was
stated the assets would nearly suffice to pay the out-
standing debts, and that probably all that would be re-
quired of the shareholders after the total loss of their
paid-up capital would be that they should give their
promissory-notes for an additional 501. per share as a
guarantee to enable the corporation to obtain assistance
from the Oriental Bank. Too parties engaged in wind-
ing up the concern now stote that the assets will yield
consiJerably less than had baen anticipated, and will
take a long time for their realisation ; and that unless
the cal! of 15/ i 4 promptly met, the whole affair may
have to pass into bankruptcy. For the public good the
latter consummation is greatly to be desired, i❑ order •
that a full exposure may be effected of a series of acts
which are believed to surpass any that have been revealed
in the case of the Royal British 13

Tax TRAFFIC OF THE CLYDE STOPPED.—GLASGOW,
Sunday.—An obstruction has just occurred here which
has created a degree of excitement, alarm, stud inconve-
nience such as has rately been paralleled in our local
annals. • On Friday afternoon the great screw steamer
Australasian left the Broomislaw for Southampton,
thence to take her maiden trip in the service of the
European and Australian Cornpaey, for which she had
I just been built. She proceeded to Govan, about two
I miles down, and grounded. She floated by the night
tide, and moved down two or three miles Maher, but
again grounded about a mils above Renfrew ferry. It,
the efforts trade by the toga to gat her off the Austra-
lasian swung right across the river, and as the•tide was
receding she was left firmly fixed in this poiition. As
this happens to Le the narrowest point in the course of
the navigation between Glasgow and Green ck, the ship
cccupied the whole channel of the river, and put a st )11
to the entire traffic. In the morning the wharfs were as
usual crowded with intending passengers, including
several thousands of both 'texts, who bad, as - is fre-
quently the case at this season, hired steamers for Plea-
sure trips, but not a single keel °cull get either up or
down, for the same inconvenience was felt below as
above. At the afternoon's tide a most earnest effort
was made to get the ship off, but she remained fast ;
and as the height of the tide was now decr,asing, serious
fears began to be entertaieed that the traffic of the river
alight be shut up till text springs, a fortnight hence,
and that the ship herelf might be destroyed on Jam '
event of a serious fresh settiree in, as she lay
broadside on to the full sweep of the river. Teo
only hope of removing her lay with the night tide
of this morning, and meanwhile everything wai done
that could be done to lighten her by removing sterns
and ballast, and striking the' masts. At half-past three
‘Lis morning the ship moved, to the great joy of al.
She was gradually swung round, and get down about
four mils to Dshnuir, when she again grounded; but
hers the channel of the Clyde is quite wide; and no in-
convenience can resu!t except to the Australasian herself.
The inhabitants of Glasgow were rescued from gloom to
aanktulness when they learned this forenoon that ti e
Clyde was again open. One cause of the accident was
that the tides have been much reducrd in volume by, tl
prevalence of easterly winds. It so happens that the
Clyde Trustees obtained an Act in the session about to
.close for deepening and widening the river at the very
p lot where this fine ship grounded.