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London, England, 1861-08-09 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY E: V EI44IING, AUGUST 9, 1861.

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LAW INTELLIGENCE.—r7'his Day.)

COURT OF BANKRUPTCY.
(Before Mr. Commissioner Fane.)
IN RE PETFORD.

This bankrupt was described as of Ferdinand-place,
Hampstead-road, smith, and this was an examination meet-
ing. The debts are small, and .

Mr. Lloyd, for the assignees, did not oppose, and bank-
rupt passed.

IN RE SELLMAN.

This was a meeting for assignees in the case of this bank-
rupt, a tailor, in Upper Harley-street.
The debts are under £5OO, and Mr. T. Watson, Moor-
gate-street, who is preparing the accounts, states that the
estate will pay 10s. in the pound.

991
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NAVIGATION UNDER DIFFICULTIES.

The acting captain was so constantly drunk, and
the vessel left so entirely to the mercy of the waves,
that all, seeing the very perilous situation we were
in, became alarmed. One remedy alone appeared
left to us. Among the seven officers on board was
a Captain Vandeleur, who, before he entered the
army, had been for several years a midshipman
in the navy. We determined to depose our
drunken captain, and conferred the command of
the vessel on honest Jack Vandeleur, who still
retained more the appearance, as well as the
blunt humour and manner, of a sailor than a sol-
dier, although, as will appear, he did not display
a profound nautical skill in the command of the
Betsey transport. Capt. Vandeleur immediately set
to work, and, with all the externals of a skipper, he
began to take observations. The weather somewhat
moderating, one day at noon, after taking his obser-
vation, he told us we were approaching the British
Channel. Next day he told us we were in the Downs,
but we were enveloped in a fog, so that he could
not go through the form of taking an observation,
and,indeed, no one on board could see the distance
of the ship. At length we heard a ship's bell tolling;
which, continuing for some time, the attention of
all was directed to it. We judged from the sound
that the vessel must be very near to us. We hailed ;
and Vandeleurinquired through the trumpet, "What
ship ?" "The Mary, of New York," was the reply.
Vandeleur then inquired, " How near Dover are
we ?" " Dover !" replied the Yankee, " you are
in the St. George's Channel ; the mouth of the
Mersey not far off!" We instantly put the
ship about, not much impressed with the correct-
ness of the details of reckoning which Vande-
leur daily told us he had kept. For some time
we held on a course which Vandeleur thought
would bring vs into the mouth of the Channel;
when, early in the morning, there was a cry of
instantly
changed, breakers ahead !" The ship's course was
changed, and we put about ; but on the mist clear-
ing away we discovered rocks, and land on each side
of us. On consulting the chart we found we had
got among the Scilly Islands, and were in a nar-
row strait among them which was considered dan-
gerous, and never attempted by vessels. However,
situated as we were, Captain Vandeleur thought it
prudent to thread it through, and as the weather
was most favourable we accomplished it. At this
time we had a very calm sea, and little or no wind
but what was favourable to our getting up the
channel. However, in the night the wind got up,
and by the morning it blew a hurricane, quite in
our teeth. After some time Vandaleur told us
he must put about ship, and make for any
port in Ireland. He did so; we almost flew
before the wind, but the vessel made so much water
that we, sailors and all, became uneasy. However,
we all cheered up when we saw land ahead, and we
were told it was the coast somewhere about Cork,
which hai hour we safely anchored in, and in the
afternoon the crazy vessel was brought up to Cove.
—Autobiography of Sir James Grigor, Bart.,
late Director-General of the Army Medical De.
partment.