The Sun.
London, England, 1850-09-11 00:00:00

THE LOSS OF THE ORION.

There are some, indeed, who consider the sentence
severe. Taking into account the high character pre•
viousAy borne by the master and mate, they allege
that, if they erred, it was purely an error of judgment,
involving danger to their own lives as much as those
of others, and nobly atoned fur by the captain, who
was the last individual to leave the sunken vessel.
0 hers, again, falling into an opposite error, and mea-
wring the amount of the criminality by the calamitous
•
consequences, think the sentence was not severe
enough. It ought to be remembered, however, that
no deliberate intention to injure the •life 'of a single
human being was here evinced. No criminal intention,
which, the ni j irity of case•, constitute-s the very
existence of the crime, was here entertained. Captain
Henderson had everything to lose—a fine vessel—his
character as a seaman—and nothing whatever to
gain by actually running upon the rocks. The
0:ion went down, and with it the earthly
hopes awl happiness of those who were
chitfly instrutnentil in bringing about the cal,s•
nifty. But let their example operate as a warning
to others. Oar sympathy is not with them—absorbed
as we are in the terrible calamity which, by their
culpable negligence they entailed' con hundreds of
bereaved relatives and still disconsolate friends. Toe
excellent proprietors of the vessels must share in this
sympathy, for if there was suffering and loss, and
painful bereavement in the case—the Messrs. Burns
have.experienced mote than their own Adequate share
of, it. To the lose of the noble vessel itself (only par
tially insured) was added the loss of a brother, vene-
rable by his years, amiable for his virtues, and highly
respected for his scientific acquirements. We are sure
that the public have deeply sympathised with the
Messrs. Burns throughout the whole case. 'As the pro-
prietors of the venei they have emerged from the inves-
tigation without a shade of blame, and yet they are dou-
ble sufferers by the calamity. Nothing that could be
done did they spare to make the vessel complete, and to
render the passage secure. The Orion was one of
the noblest and best equipped vessels that ever sailed
on the channel. Officers of high character and skill
for competence were placed in charge of her ; and
this done, she was left, with a commendable liberality,
entirely to their discretion and management. Captain
Henderson was not trammelled with any particular
rules which might have constrained .him to act on
any responsibility but his own. He was left to the
dictates of his own unfettered judgment--not limited
to certain fixed hours, pr bound slavishly down to any
prescribed course, but simply expected to discharge
his duty faithfully like an intelligent officer under a
deep sense of unlimited responsibility. This was
true liberality on the part of the proprietors of the
O. ion; and we trust they are now reaping the fruits
of it in the assurance, which cannot fail to afford them
the highest consolation even in the midst of such
calamity as this—the assurance that they have done
their duty.—Scotch Reformer's Gazette.

.CITY COIII,IIISSIONERS OF SEIVERS.
Yesterday the commissioners assembled in the
Guildhall, Mr. Deputy Peacock in the chair.
. The- inspectors reported most faVourably of the
state of the various districts. Some compulsory
orders were issued in cases in which there appeared
to be no active dispwition to remove certain nuisances.
A.complaint was made by a gentletnan against the
contractors for the works of the new Central Con-
surners' Gas Company. He stated that a hole in the
pavement was lent open, into which the complainant
was near popping his foot upon returning home one
night. He represented, too, that several persons had
been in the same predicament, but that'they had pro.
videntially escaped. The matter was referred to the
Committee of Views. It was at the same time
stated, that during the whole of the extensive opera.
tions nobody had been injured by any accident aris-
ing from the rapid evolution; of the workmen, except
a poor woman, who had had but little reason to regret
the occurrence.

THE HEALTH or TIIB CITY.
Mr. SIMON, the medical officer of health, said he
had no report to make to the Court, but that the
sanitary condition of the city was good, and that
there were no cases of cholera.—(Hear, hear.)
The Court then adjourned.

ROMANCE IN REAL Lim—One of the rnoit u. rims instances of the romantic accomplishment of an ea rly
love .adventure which it has been our lot to chronicle,
has recently occurred in the neighbourhood of Cardigan.
Twenty-three years ago a young man named David
Evans having paid his addresses to "
Wee" in the vicinity of his native town,a at maiden fair and
the mouth ot
the Tivy, was dispatched to attend to his duty as a navigator
"on the raging main." He started from Cardiff accordingly
in a vessel named the Berkeley, which in about a week atter
her departure was wrecked, and all hands on board were
plunged into a watery grave. For no less than twenty-three
years it war: supposed that David Evans had perished with
his comrades, but he last week landed at Sheerness from
Australia, where he had been quietly but 'rapidly accumu-
lating cash in the long-interval that had elapsed since his
exodus from the country, and it was then ascertained that in
consequence of a quarrel with the captain of the Berkeley
he had left that vessel a few days previous to .the fatal d► - aster which had consigned her and her gallant crew to the
e
'deep. 0., Evans's arrival at Cardigan, his first inquiry
for his early love, and he learned that, fully
believTg in
his
who
demise, she had become the wife of a favoured
suitor, V
had, after begetting two children, tacitly d
and left her free to accept the offer which herformer parthis life
iehw faithfuleneed
inamorata now promptly made her, and which
scarcely say was at once 'accepted and the marital rites in
two short days were celebrated.—is FVelshman. .
SCARCITY OF SALMON..---Itsaid that there have
been fewer Salmon in the river Wye this season than for the 1
last forty years,--Monntonthihire Iferlin,