The Sun.
London, England, 1859-04-12 00:00:00

BILL.

This bill was read a third time+ and passed.
CONFIRMATION AND PROBATE (185.8) AMEND

MENT BILL.

This bill went through committee, and was ordered for
third reading.
NAVAL MEDICAL, &:c., BILL _

On the motion for the third reading of this bill.,
Mr. BOWYER drew attention to the fact of there being
no less than 960 vacancies itt Government hospitals, and he
hoped that the Government would adopt measures with re-
ference to Greenwich Hospital to render it as efficient as
possible to carry out the objects for -which it was originally
instituted.
Sir J. PAKINGT ON said that the recommendations
contained in the report which had been drawn up on this
subject, and the question of that nc .ble institution, Green-
wich Hospital, was under the consideration of her Majesty's
Government.

RAILWAY TICKETS T RANSFER DILL.
The house went into committee on this bill, but after
some discussion it was moved and agreed to that the chair-
man should leave the chair without reporting progress,
which is tantamount to the postponement of the bill during
the present Parliament.
CONVICT PRISONS ABR OAD BILL.

This bill was read a second time ani l ordered to be corn.
witted.

APPROPRIATION I SILL.

This bill, which is always an infallil )1e omen of the close
of the session being at hand, was brought in by Sir S.
Northcote, and read a first time.
The house then adjourned at 25 minutes to six o'clock.

LOSS OP HER MAJESTY'S GUNBOAT

JASEUR.

The Secretary of the Admiralty :has received the
following letters with reference to the loss of the
above vessel : -

(Copy.)
Havana, Ilth March, 1859,

Sia,—l have the honour of reporting to you, for the in-
formation of the Lords Commissionors of the Admiralty,
that her Majesty's gunboat Jaseur was totally lost on the
26th ultimo, upon the Riocondor ReA Is, whilst on her way
from Port Royal to Greytown, and I enclose herewith
copy of a letter from Lieut. Scott to her Majesty's Vice-
Consul at Trinidad, dated Santa Cruz (le Cuba, 10th inst.,
giving some details of this unfortunate accident. Imme-
diately after the receipt of the intelligence of the arrival of
Lieut. Scott and part of his crew, 20 ht number, at Santa
Cruz, his Excellency the Captain-General ordered her
Catholic Majesty's steamers, Don Juan d'Austria and
General Lezo, to proceed to their aF Isistance, instructing
the former vessel to convey Lieut. Scott and his party to
Port Royal, and detailing the latter steamer to search all
the Cays and the south coast of thiti island, in order, if
possible, to fall in with the two missi lug boats, and take
them to Jamaica.—l have, &c.,
(Signed) JOS. T . CRAWFORD,
Consul- General in Cuba.

To the Secretary of the Admiralty.
(Copy.)

Santa Cruz, Cuba, 10th March, 1&59.
Six,—As the mail is about to leave tb is place, I take the
opportunity of acquainting you with I the loss of her
Majesty's gunboat Jaseur, under mr command. This
event took place at 10.30 p.m. on the night of the 26th. of
February, whilst on our way to Gr eytown, from Port
Royal, Jamaica, having been set by a stzong current on the
Riocondor Reefs, and before morning the vessel proved a
complete wreck. At 8 a.m. of the 27th we were compelled
to abandon the ship with the boats and a raft we had made
during the night, and from the circumstance of the ship
filling so fast we were unable to obtain a sufficient supply
of either provisions or water. I determined to make the
best of my way to Port Royal, but, owing to the incle-
mency of the weather, we could make no progress during
the two following days. On the third day we had the
misfortune to have one of the boats upset, by which acci-
dent ten lives were lost, During the day, the weather
moderating, a consultation was held by myself and officers,
when it was determined to take the men off the raft into
the boats, parting company, each to make the best of its
way to Jamaica, and on reaching this, or being picked
up by any ship, to send assistance to the other.
Having no instruments or charts, we were unable to deter-
mine our position or make Jamaica; and after ten days'
pulling and sailing to the northward, found ourselves off
the eastern head of the Do ce Laguas Cays, and were most
kindly received by two Spanish fishermen, named Juan
Oreigan and Pedro Almer tequi, who supplied our imme-
diate wants, and next morning piloted us to Santa Cruz,
which place we reached on the 9th March, where we were
most hospitably received by the captain of the port, Don
Antonio Goyeochea, who immediately despatched a launch
to search the Cays in hopes of finding our missing boats.
I am happy to say the officers and men in the boat with
me, twenty in number, are beginning to recover from the
effects of their severe suffering during the ten days we were
exposed in the boat, eight of which were passed without
water.

I cannot conclude without bringing before your notice the
most generous and humane conduct of the fishermen above
mentioned, also of the authorities at this place. A despatch
has been sent to the captain of the port of Trinidad, request-
ing vessel might be sent to convey us to Jamaica.—l
have, &c.,

(Signed) J. B. SCOTT,
Lieutenant, late commanding lI.M.
gunboat Jaseur.
To the British Vice. Consul at Trinidad.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

TATTERSALLS'—YESTERDAY.
GREAT NORTHERN HANDICAP.
3to 1 agst Harraton (taken and offered)
3to 1 agst Newcastle (taken)
sto 1 agst Gladiolus (offered)
10 to 1 agst Harefoot (offered)
20 to 1 agst Blue Jacket (offered)
25 to 1 agst Burgomaster (taken)
METROPOLITAN STAKES.
7to 1 agst Lifeboat (offered)
15 to 1 agst White Hart (taken)
CITY AND SUBURBAN.
12 to 1 agst Indifference (taken)
20 to 1 agst Production (taken)
20 to 1 agst Accurate (taken)
20 to 1 agst Little Gerard (taken)
30 to 1 agst F.M. the Duke of Duty (taken)
Hal o' Kirklees is scratched.

CHESTER CUP.
100 to 7 agst Polestar (offered)
100 to 6 agst Bevis (taken)
20 to 1 agst Drogheda (offered)
1000 to 10 agst Gorsehill (taken)
TWO-YEAR-OLD RACE (EPSOM).
sto 2 agst Madame Eglantine (taken)
7to 2 agst Lapellus (taken)
TWO THOUSAND GUINEAS.
4to 1 agst Promised Land (taken)
10 to 1 agst Nimrod (taken)
DERBY.

7to 1 agst Promised Land (taken)
14 to 1 agat Gamester (taken)
15 to 1 agst Volcano (taken)
50 to 1 agst Newcastle (taken)
30 to 1 agat Balnamoon (taken)
1000 to 10 agst Napoleon (taken)
2000 to 30 agst Hal o' Kirklees (taken)
3000 to 45 agst Guy Fawkes (taken)

EXPIRING LAWS.—A select committee of the
House of Commons has just returned a list of the temporary
laws of a public and general nature which are now in force;
the laws of the like nature which have expired since the last
report upon the subject, and the laws which are about to
expire at particular periods, or in consequence of any con_
tingent public events. The report was issued yesterday.
The number of temporary laws now in force is 56. The
duration expires at periods varying from 1859 to the end of
1874,

The Perseverance screw steam troop-ship, Com-
mander Edward R. Power, sailed from the Mother-
bank at daylight yesterday morning.
The screw steam transport Prix icess Charlotte (the
arrival of which at Spithead frogn Hong Kong with
military and naval invalids was announced in The
Sun of yesterday), went into Po rtsmouth HarboAir
from Spithead yesterday morning, and landeA her
invalids, passengers, &c., on the north jetty at the
Dockyaad. The military invalids con Pasted of—
Royal Artillery, 26 men; Royal Engineers, 13
mon ; Ist Royals, 1 man ; 59th Foot, 22 men ;
Medical Staff, 9 ; and 1 deserter Bent on board at
the Cape of Good Hope, from tbe 2d battalion of
12th Foot), five women, and twri children.
The Assurance, 4, screw steam gun-vessel, Com-
mander C. Aynsley, at Portsmouth, it is expected
will turn her crew over to a hulk, and be placed in
dock for examination arid repair.
Commander Charles L. Waddilove has been ap•
pointed to the St. Vincent.

THE ARMY.

The Gover ment, on the recommendation of the
General Commanding-in-Chief, having directed
that the he: td-quarters of the Royal Artillery shall
remain, as 'heretofore, at Woolwich, but that the
Staff of th.e battalions shall be distributed to the
several tlic,tricts and garrisons at home and abroad,
as detafied in The dun of yesterday, under the
terms Is- Brigade" and' Battery," the regimental
Staff of the existing battalions will form brigades
bear'ing corresponding numbers, and will proceed
in the early part of June, in the first instance, to
tlie stations already named as head-quarters. The
depot brigade at Woolwich will supersede the pre-
sent Adjutant's and Field Battery detachments at
17G oolwich, to which the Regimental Staff of the
field batteries will be transferred, and will recruit
for foreign service brigades. The reliefs will be
carried on by entire brigades.
Major-General Sir W. F. Williams, commanding
the garrison, yesterday assembled the whole of the
forces under his command for general parade and
inspection on Woolwich-common in heavy marching
order. The corps of Royal Marines were com-
manded by Col. Stransham, Commandant ; the
Queen's Royal Rifles, the Antrim Militia, by the
Marquis of Donegal ; the Royal Horse Brigade, by
Col. Philpotts ; the various brigades of Artillery by
the respective officers in charge; and the Military
Train, by Col. Erskine. They were drawn up in
double line, extending the entire length of the
review ground, when the General and Staff, who
proceeded to the inspection at 11 a.m., rode up and
down the lines, and retired to the front. The troops,
preceded by the Royal Horse Brigade, defiled in a
single line, and marched past four abreast. Having
performed a slight series of field evolutions they
retired to quarters. The Royal Horse Brigade then
went through a course of active gunnery exercise,
firing blank ammunition. Before leaving the ground
the General intimated to the officers commanding
his perfect satisfaction at the general clean and
orderly bearing and appearance of each corps.
Ths East Inia troopship Merchantman, Com-
mander Brown, arrived at Gravesend yesterday, 110
days out from Calcutta, having on board a large
number of sick and wounded troops, who have been
invalided home in consequence of having been
wounded or otherwise disabled at Cawnpore, Luck-
now, and Delhi. The troops embarked at Calcutta
on the 27th December last, and sailed on the 29th
of the same month; the Merchantman touched at the
Cape of Good Hope on the 14th February, where
several passengers were taken on board, including
Assistant-Surgeon E. P. Forrest, late of the screw
steam sloop Wasp, 13—and sailed on the 19th Feb.,
the passage to the Thames being a very tedious one,
caused chiefly by calms and adverse winds. The num-
ber of sick and wounded troops who embarked was
153 of all ranks, five women, and 14 children, be-
longing to the 2d (Queen's) Dragoon Guards, 7th
Hussars, 9th Lancers, sth (Fusiliers), 6th, Bth (the
King's), 13th (Light Infantry), 19th, 20th, 23d
(Royal Welsh Fusiliers), 29th, 34th, 35th, 37th, 38th,
and 42d (Royal Highlanders), 43d (Light In-
fantry), 53d, 54th, 60th (Rifles),
64th, 73d, 77th,
79th (Highlanders), 82d, 84th, 88th (Connaught
Rangers), 90th (Light Infantry), 93d (Highlanders),
and 97th Regiments, the Rifle Brigade, Royal Ar-
tillery, Royal Engineers, and Military Train, the
whole under the command of Lieut. H. Helsham,
53d Regiment, and Lieut. S. Johnstone, 20th Regi-
ment, and in medical charge of Dr. Fosbroke, civil
surgeon. During the voyage Mrs. Brown, the wife
of the captain, died, and 13 of the invalid troops,
including one man of the Military Train, one of the
sth Fusiliers, one of the 13th Light Infantry, two
of the 23d Welsh Fusiliers, two of the 37th Regi-
ment, two of the 43d Light Infantry, one of the 53d
Regiment, two of the 73d Regiment, and one of the
90th Light Infantry. The troops, after disembark-
ing at Gravesend, were immediately conveyed to
Fort Pitt Hospital, Chatham, where they were medi-
cally inspected by Surgeon-Major J. S. Prender-
gast, M.D., when it was found necessary for 46 men,
who are still suffering from the effects of their
wounds, to be admitted into hospital ; the remain-
der were forwarded. to St. Mary's invalid depot to
await their inspection by a Chelsea Board. Many
of the troops are suffering from severe wounds re-
ceived at Cawnpore and Lucknow, where nearly
the whole of the troops, with the exception of the
Bth Foot, served under Lord Clyde. The Bth were
Delhi, where they suffered severely.
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