The Sun.
London, England, 1857-09-25 00:00:00

truntsToN POST-OFFICE.—The Ulverston a Id Lan-

caster Railway is working a complete change in our dis-
trict. We may instance the Post-uffice. Some years agn,
(mr' first cleipatch to London was at eleven o'clock iethei
morning ; it is now a quarter-past swan in the evening,
whilst we have an evening delivery from London. and
the south.— blverston Advertiser.
INTERESTING RELIC or Panvon CHARLES STITATO. •
In the public room of the Caledonian Hotel Oban, says
the North British Daily Mail, there is an antique oak
chair, with the following inscription on a elver plate:
—" This chair was sent by Lochiel to Prince.Oharies
Stuart, on the occasion whoa the Royal Standard was
unfurled to claim the Crown of hie ancestors, at 91en•
finnin, on the 19th August, 1745."

SIR JOHN BOWRING AND THE LOMITA ARROW.—Yee.
terday morning was issued, in the form of a return to
Parliament, a letter from Sir John Bowring, data Hong
Kong, May 8, in which he replies to the technical argu-
ments which were advanced against his proceedings, dur-
ing the debates in Parliament, upon the Chinese ques-
tion, before the dissolution. He concludes his letter in

the following terms :—" I repeat then, that whether the
Arrow was entitled to protection or not, the Chinese had
no jurisdiction ; and their proceedings were unwarrant-
able, and to be resented. The expiry of the license did
o. make the b rchaa Chinese vesse', and gave the Chinese
no right to interfere, Except through the Consul. She
could be a foreign vessel in their eyes. The papers,
whether in order or not, were deposited at the con-
sulate, and if they had acted in accordanro with the
cmditions of treaty, and had put themselves in com-
munication with the consul, there would have been no
collision. The papers granted were, I contend, of un•
doubted validity against any but British authority—
the authority which alone granted, and which alone was
entitled to withdraw, protection. If, then, the fact of
the expiry of the license, of the right of the lorcha to its
renewal, did in no respect concer❑ the Chinese, but the
British alone, my action was a necessity—at all event
far as placing the question in the ban is of the navel
authorities when I could obtain no redress."
Loss OF THE SHIP FUSILIER AT ST. GOWAN'S HEAD

—This iron-built ship, 500 tons burden, homeward
bound from Valparaiso with a valuable cargo of copper
and wool, WU totally lost on Tuesday night under St.
Gowan's Head, the craw having a miraculous escape.
Captain Carmichael, the master, has made a sworn de-
potit iou before the Admiralty receiver of wreck reap- et-
ing the lois of the ship. It is as follows -" We tailed
from Valparaiso on the 10th of last June bound to Liver•
pool, and proceeded on the voyage without occurrence of
any note till the 9th or 10th of the present month, when
they spoke the Dutch ship Hugo Grotius, from Batavia
to Rotterdam, and they compared longitude and detected.,
that one of the Fusilier's chronometers gave but •
10 miles to the eastward of the Dutch ship. From -
tl:at time till the 11th encountered winds variable
and fresh, course E.N,E. northerly, with wind
veering from N.W. to S. At noon, 13th, the ship
ran by dead reckoning 104 miles, by observation 116
miles. Found tacit she had made no better than a course
of E a N. lit. at noon, 5.30 N. lon. by'one chrono.
meter, 8.46 W., and the oLber 8.51 W. From noon,
13th, al.ored course to E. I N., put over the patent log .
and fresh points in both compasses. At 4 p.m. it be-
came thick. At 11.40 p.m. hauled up the cross jack
and mainsail, and called the watch to heave the lead,
still thick with rain. At 11.50 the lick-out man called
out "Land ahead," Tho helm was put down, but wen
after wards the ship struck on the rocks, and the main
hold quickly fired with water. For the preservation of
their lives took to the boat, and at daylight, discovering
the position of the coast, made for Milford Haven." .
EXTRAORDINARY itIisTAKE.—CAPEAIN ROGERS THS
WRONG MAN.—It nit! be reccl!ected that immediately
following the execution cf Captain Rogers, the
ma
hh ae Jane,N e
".t
it cart, Liverpool,Express,a paragraph
a Newcastle
paper,
rest roaster
published of t
wentthe
"the round, that it wee noticed at the'
e r
trial that Baron Wet fan was " visibly moved" in
passing sentence of death upon the unfortunate prisoner,
and accounting for the emotion of the judge by a state•
went that he aLd the malefactor were Northumberland
inen, natives of the same neighbourhood, and ("Pan.
ions in early youth. In addition "to this strange and
affecting coincidence," the Express has since been fur-
nished with a biographical sketch of "the unfortunate
captain," which it published in its Mon-
day
day's impression. The correspondent, making
sure
tl a% the Capta n Rogers c f lis st-
quaint
ance VW the Capta n Rogers that was ignominious!
hung at Liverpool, g:ves a sketch of his life Now, un-
fortunately for the editor and his correspondent, and all
those papers which printed the cock-and-bull story about
the judge and the prisoner—if they are right the authci-
rities at Liverpool are wrong, for the Captain Rogers
horn at Belford, and the acquaintance (if he was
the acquaintance) of Baron Watson in early youth,
is alive and well. He bas been as long at sea as
hung at Liverpool spent years on earth,
returning to the Tyne in a vessel belong-
ingated is mano
South Shields, which ho has commanded.
with credit to himself and profit to the owners, for a
considerable period. Captain Rogers is an " old salt"
of the Captain Cuttle school, and his friends have written
to the editor of the paper that he and his correspondent
may prepare themselves for his arrival in port.' The
wretched man who commanded the Martha Jane, a) 4
who properly forfeited his life for the cruel murder` of
the sealiaan Rose on board that vessel, was not an Ent a
lishman. He was a native of Aberdeen, served his tin at
out of that port, and was a seaman and chief officer CA
board Aberdeen vessels before he came to England.