The Sun.
London, England, 1850-11-27 00:00:00

FATAL BOAT ACCIDENT.

WORTHING, Nov. 26 —A deplorable catastrophe
has plunged the fishing population of this town into
the deepest distress. Last night the wind blew a per-
fect hurricane from S. and S.W., and at daylight
this morning a large dismasted barque, since ascer-
tained to be the Lulls Rookh East ludiaman, home-
ward bound, with a valuable cargo, was descried at
anchor about two miles from the shore, riding heavily,
with two anchors ahead, and signals of distress flying.
A gallant crew of eleven men, the most experienced
fishermen of the town, nobly volunteered to put off
to her assistance, and, although the sea was running
mountains high at the time, by eight o'clock A at.
they were fairly afloat, dashing through the breakers
of this most dangerous coast. Their progress towards
the barque was watched with intense interest from the
shore, and their praiseworthy object seemed on the
point of being accomplished, whet, a sea struck their
boat, and in en instant she disappeared, involving all
ban is on board in a watery grave. Their names are,
J ones Newman— wife and nine children ; Henry
Newman (brother of the above)—wife and seven
children ; Jmnes Newman the younger (son of the
first named)—wife; John Newman—wife; Stephen
El wards—wife and six children ; Jam's Edwards (his
brother)—wife and two children ; Win. Hoskins
wife and child ; Wm. Wicks—wife; 11. Slaughter;
J. Bell well—wife and six children; H. Bacon—wife
and six children. About noon, a second effort was
made with a larger and decked boat, manned with up-
wards of 20 stout hands, to reach the distressed ship,
and ascertain with certainty, from those on board,
the fate of the first boat's crew. With much diffi-
culty the barque was reached and 15 of these hands
put on hoard her, and the remainder returned on
shore with the heartrending intelligence that the
former boat's crew had all perished. When a little
to windward of the barque she was distinctly seen to
be struck, and the unfortunate crew, struggling .with
the waves and vainly clinging to their frail water-
logged boat, floated by without the barque's crew being
able to render them the least assistance. The return
of the second boat's crew 4 was waited for with in-
tense interest, almost the entire population of the
town being by this time assembled on the beach,
hoping, against hope, that some of the brave boatmen
might have been saved; and when the sad truth was
told in the downcast looks and mournful shrugs of
the weather-beaten seamen, sorrow and despair over-
whelmed a large portion of the bystanders—wives
lamenting husbands, children bereaved of parents,—
relatives, messmates, and friends were seen wring-
ing their hands and weeping in agonizing dis-
tress. One poor woman, whose husband was
amongst the sufferers, was carried away insensible,
and few hearts could refrain front shedding a tear of
sympathy at the grief and misery around them. The
Newmans (four in number—a father, brother, and
two sons) were considered patterns of industry and
skill in their hazardous calling, and were universally
respected by their mates and craftsmen ; and, as the
entire crew will leave behind them nearly 40 children
unprovided for, some idea may be formed from that
fact alone of the extent of the calamity, and the gloom
which the sad affair has cast over the town.,
It is reported that an effort will be made as soon as
the weather moderates to take the Lalla Rookh into
Newhaven. Very little intelligence was brought
ashore by the boat's crew of her condition, or whether
she had passengers on board or not—probably not, or
they would most likely have landed ; nor do we know
how she came by her disaster. A report prevailed
that her mainmast went by the board and killed
several of her crew in falling, but this report was un-
authenticated. She rides easily now, aed the gale
has moderated : should it increase, and her anchors
part, she will probably come ashore between here and
Shoreham.

A large vessel, it is said, has gone down with all
hands off Shoreham, and several wrecks are reported
to the westward, and it is certain that Sunday's gale
will furnish an awful list of disasters.

ALLEGED MURDER UPON THE
HIGH SEAS.

William Gray, captain of the barque Defender, of
Newcastle, was brought to Exeter on Wednesday last,
having been apprehended at Stockton-upon-Tees, at
which port his ship had just arrived from a voyage, on
a warrant charging him with the wilful murder of a
boy named William Vinson, aged 14, in the month of
November, 1848. The case was investigated on that
and the following day at the castle of Exeter, before
the Hon. W. W. Addington, Mr. W. Miles, and the
Rev. Arthur Atherley, magistrates for the county of
Devon, and has excited much indignation. The de-
fender, it appears, sailed in September, 1848, on a
voyage to Quebec and back again, going out in bal-
last and bringing home timber, and it was during the
voyage home that the boy died from the ill treatment
as alleged, of the captain. From the depositions it
appears that on one occasion the deceased was ordered
to clean down the cabin, and for neglecting to
do so was " rope's-ended. Oa another occa-
sion, when the snip lay in the Gulf of St.
Lawrence, he was ordered to go aloft and loosen the
foot of the n►iz.•ns, but because he did not ascend the
r►gging with sufficient lightness of step he was called
bock and directed by the captain to strip naked, and
then, go aloft in that state—the weather being
p►ercingly cold, all the crew warmly clad, with their
pee. jackets and mittens even on their hands. On his
coming down, deceased was ordered by the prisoner
to go round the vessel six times in the same unpro-
tected condition. IVhether he contracted a violent
cold or ❑ot does not app,,,ar, but his health from that
time was observed to decline. On another occasion,
while suffering from bowel complaint, he was sent
upon deck, scrubbed, and buckets of cold water
thrown on his shivering body. Under such treat-
ment the boy gradually sank, and he died in the arms
of the carpenter, who held him in a gale of wind
because of his weakness and debility. An entry was
made in the log that he had been jammed between
spars. The magistrates, after a very lengthened
sitting, determined on committing the prisoner for
trial at the next Devon Assizes on a charge of man-
slaughter, and refused bail. We understand that
application will be made to the judge at chambers,
the owners of the Defender being ready to enter into
sureties for the accused, who has enjoyed their con-
fidence now for nine years, during which he has com-
manded that vessel.

THE MURDER AND SUICIDE NEAR NOTTINGHAM.
—.Norriwcimar, TUESDAY.—An inquest upon the body of
Charlotte Chambers, who committed suicide yesterday morn-
ing after strangling her little daughter, was this day held
at the I'eacock, Radford, before Mr. Coroner Swann. The
inquiry as to the death of the child was eh() pursued at the
same time and place. William Chambers, the husband of
the deceased woman, and father of the child was examined,
but his statement contained little in addition to what ap-
peared in The Sun of yesterday. On Sunday his wife ap-
peared gloomy, but he attributed it to the weather, which
was wet and disagreeable. At live o'clock on Monday morn-
ing, when he got up, she was awake, and as " cheerful as
ever she was in her life." On returning from his workshop,
about seven o'clock, he found his wife lying in the cellar with
her throat cut, and a razor on her stomach, and his daugh-
ter, three years old, was afterwards found strangled in her
bed, something like a garter being tied very tightly round
her neck. He had no doubt that his wife strangled the child.
She had sometimes threatened to do so when anything per-
plexed her, but he never thought she meant anything by it.
She often complained of being •' light-headed." Similar
evidence was taken from other witnesses, and the jury re-
turned a verdict to the effect " that the deceased Eliza
Chambers, was wilfully strangled by her mother; and that
the latter afterwards destroyed herself by cutting her own '
throat, being at that time in an unsound state of mind."
THE RIOT AND MURDER AT LEEDS.—The parti-
culars of a riot by a number cf Irishmen, in Leeds, on the
night of the 16th inst., in the course of which a beerhouse
Was robbed of 191., and a working man named James
Rhodes was killed by being struck on the head by a brick,
which was thrown at him by one of the rioters, were given
a few days ago. Several Irishmen and one woman were
apprehended for the riot and the other offences connected with
it, and the examination of the prisoners has occupied the at-
tention of the Leeds borough magistrates for several days.
Two of the ringleaders, Edward Hogan and John Cane, are
still at large, but for their apprehension a reward of 401. has
been offered. Yesterday (Tuesday) the justices committed
four of the prisoners for trial at the ensuing assizes at York,
namely, James Cratty and William Higgins, charged with
the murder of James Rhodes, and William Haley and Michael
Cantwell for riot and assault. The former two are also
committed for riot and assault. A woman named Mary
Rooke stands remanded until Saturday, it having been
sworn by some of the witnesses that she took an active part
in breaking windows during the riot; and, for a like reason,
a man named W illiam Fallon is remanded until that day.
A FRENCH TRAGEDY.—Great sensation has been
caused in the department of the Charente by the arrest last
week of the Countess du S---- and of the curt of the com-
mune (ISt. Germain, on the charge of having poisoned the
servant of the latter, in order to prevent her from revealing
the adulterous connexion which subsisted between them. The
body of the servant, which the cure had caused to be buried
with great haste, has been dug up, and poison discovered in
it. When the Count du S.— , a highly honourable man,
heard of the horrible accusation against his wife, he proposed
to her that they should both commit suicide, and should
make their child, aged eight, die with them. The Countess
consented. A pan of charcoal was lighted, and the three
fastened themselves in a close room. When, however, the
father saw his son struggling in the agonies of death, his
courage failed him, and he broke the window for air. Medical
assistance having been promptly afforded, all three recovered.
The Countess and her clerical paramour were lodged in the
gaol of Angouleme to await their trial for the alleged murder.
Galignuni,s Messenger.
N ATHALLE, A TALE. BY JULIA KAVANAGH.—
There has Leen no fiction since " Jane Eyre" likely to excite
so much interest and attention as this powerful story.
" Natlialie (says the Jam Bull) is one of the most fas-
cinating creatures that graced a tale of romance.
From the moment when the warm-hearted but proud girl
prepares to throw herself, with no ether fortune than that
pretty face in which she has already been tanght to recog-
nise, the source of sorrow and tribulation, upon the world's
cold chanceerto.the momesit at which she wins back the
deep affection of a heart whose coldness she had melted, and
:whose pride she had humbled, the reader follows the varying
phases of her destiny and of her inner feelings, with the most
intense. sympathy. The author has produced a tale of un-
tiring interest, full of deep touches of human nature, ex:
hibitiag all that self-sacrificing devotion and all that sensi-
tive waywardness, the combination of which constitutes one
of the most powerful charms,
as well as' one of the greatest
riddles, of the female character. We have no hesitation
in
Predicting for this delightful tale a lasting popularity. '
General Von hadowitz has arrived at Fenton's
hotel from Berlin.

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.

FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAT.

ADVERTISER.—The Pope has fallen into a
grand error. He has committed a gigantic mistake.
He has acted in ignorance of the state of public feel-
ing in England. Dr. Wisexnan has deceived him.
Of course, the Cardinal has not done so intentionally.
He has been deceived himself. The seceders from,
and Puseyites in, the Church have misled him. Dr.
Newman on the one hand, and Dr. Pusey on the
other, have led him astray. They persuaded Dr.
Viseman, and the latter convinced the Pope, that
England was ready to receive, with open arms, him-
self and the Papacy. Not doubting the accuracy of
the representations made to him, the Pope determined'
on a course of audacious aggression on the supre-
macy of England's Queen, and on the rights of con-
science, in the case of her subjects. The result is be-
fore the world. It is patent to all. Christendom be-
holds it. Christendom is amazed and astounded at
the grand moral spectacle which England at this
moment presents. The Protestantism of her people,
hich Lad been slumbering, has been aroused ; the
attachment to the cause of civil liberty, and of the
freedom of conscience, which lie.d been in abeyance,
has been called into vigorous exercise. Never, in the
history of the world, did a nation present so noble a
spectacle as that which the world is called to witness
in the present espect and attitude of our own people.
The great difficulty with which we had to con-
tend, in the outset of this contest, was in convincing
those who had never identified themselves with
any denomination of Christians, that this was not a
Purely religious question. The abettors of the
P..pe, very adroitly, sought to represent it as a
question which had nothing to do with politics, or
with the civil rights of her Majesty's subjects.
That ingenious device will no longer succeed. The
delusion is dispelled. Men have now been led to
regard the matter in its proper light. They are sa-
tisfied that this is not merely a question between Po-
pery and Protestantism. They know it is a question
between the most oppressive tyranny and constitu-
tional liberty—between the most debasing mental
slavery and the most ennobling freedom. It is a
question as to whether we are henceforth to live
under the Constitution which, from our infancy, we
have been taught to regard as the great palladium of
our liberties, or whether we are to regulate our con-
duct by the will and pleasure of the Roman Pontiff,
the creature of the Jesuits, the man who escaped the
vengeance of his own subjects, by disguising. himself
with the powdered wig and lacquey dress of one of
his own flunkies. Englishmen are called to decide
whether they prefer the Constitution of their own
country, or the decrees of the Roman Pontiff—the
supremacy of Queen Victoria, or the supremacy of the
Pope. They have, we repeat, been brought to see the
matter in its true light. It is impossible to over-
estimate the importance of this fact. So long as we
bad to labour to convince our countrymen that not
merely the Protestantism, but the civil liberties of
the country were in peril, we felt that matters were
not in so satisfactory a state as they ought to be. We
knew that a large mass of our countrymen did
not, in any way, identify themselves with any re-
ligious denomination, or with any class of religious
principles, and, therefore, we were conscious
of the disadvantages with which we had to con-
tend, in our endeavours to bring the great bulk of the
community to a sense of the importance of the crisis.
With these disadvantages we have to contend no
longer. Englishmen, without reference to the re-
ligious bearings of the present stuggle, are duly
alive to its importance, as a question affecting their
civil rights. If the Pope be less political in other
countries than his own, than he used to be, it is not
that his principles or feelings are less political,
but because he has been shorn of his political
strength. He is no longer the man he once was.
Pius the Ninth may be the same in spirit and
purpose as Hildebrand, but he has not the power
which the latter possessed of acting as he thought fit.
There is one infallible test by which we may as-
certain what Popery would be in this country, were
it to acquire a dominancy among us. It would
be in England precisely what it is elsewhere,
wherever there is nothing to prevent its full deve-
lopment. Now what is the Pope, at this moment, in
Rome ? Is he not a political tyrant, as well as the
head of the Papal Church F Are not his subjects
the veriest slaves ? Is it not notorious that they
live under as grinding a despotism as the serfs of
Russia ? Unable to bear their galling chains any
longer, they overthrew his dominion in 1848, and
raised a Republic on its ruins. And but for
the intervention of French bayonets, he would
still have been the miserable and obscure exile of
Gaeta, and republicanism the, form of government
in Rome. French arms restored him to his capital,
and French arms alone keep him there. There is
not a greater despot at this hour in Christendom
than the present Roman Pontiff. And if he had his
own way —if he could only acquire an ascendancy
in England, we should be as much his slaves as his
own subjects now are. Latitudes-make no difference
in the nature or spirit of Popery. It is the same in
all countries and in all climes. Wherever we wit-
ness any difference in its developments, it is not be-
cause there is any difference in its spirit, but because
accidental circumstances restrain it from showing
itself es it really is. What Popery is in Spain,
Portugal, and Italy, it would be, were it in possession
of the reins of government, in Great Britain.
'hat the Romish Church, as personified in the Pon-
tiff, is the same now as she ever was in her poli-
tical assumptions and despotic disposition, was clearly
proved in our paper of 3 esterthy, in ths extract which
the Rev. Dr. Carlisle, in his letter, gave from a bull
of the predecessor of the present Pope. The docu-
ment is a very rematkable one. It is one about
which there can be no mistake. The bull from which
Dr. Carlisle quoted was issued in 1838,—n0 very
distant date. Its object was to overthrow the then
Liberal Government of Portugal under Don Pedro,
and to restore the tyrannical Don Miguel. The
language of the bull is so explicit and so expressive,
that the friends of civil and religious libertry in this
country cannot attach too much importance to it.
After enumerating various acts of the Liberal Go-
vernment of Portugal, the Pope says,—
" For this reason, venerable brethren, we expressly
proclaim, that we absolutely reprobate all the decrees
issued by the aforesaid Government of Lisbon, to the
great detriment of the Church, of its holy ministers,
of the ecclesiastical law, and Holy See prerogatives;
we, therefore, declare them to be null and of no
effect, and express our most serious complaints against
the audacious measures we have referred to; we de
Clare, that in exercising the duties of our office, and
with God's help, we will oppose ourselves as a wall
for the house of Israel, and show ourselves for the
combat in the day of the Lord, as the interests of re-
ligion and the gravity of circumstances may require."
Will any abettor of Popery, any champion of the
Romish Church, venture to tell us that Popery has
changed its character? Why, so far as the attributes
of audacity and despotism are concerned, the lan-
guage we have quoted might have been penned by
Hildebrand himself. Only imagine the present
Pontiff of Rome issuing his bull, and saying, " We
expressly proclaim, that we absolutely reprobate all
the decrees issued by the aforesaid Government of
ngland,"—let them imagine this, and our readers
will have a correct idea of what we would, one and
all, realise were Popery to come off victorious in the
present contest.
POST.—The meeting which was held on Monday,
at Sevenoaks,' has proved one of the most important
of the many assemblages which have been called to-
gether to deliberate on the subject of the Papal ag-
gressions. The public is deeply interested in ascer-
taining the views which are entertained on this
momentous question by the leaders of political parties.
The Prime Minister, " putting on manly readiness,'
has not paused to express the sentiments with which
he regards the presumption of the Romish See. Mr.
Herries has taken occasion, at the meeting to which we
have referred, to announce the course which he intends
to pursue. In a manner which well becomes the character
of a British statesman, the Right Hon. Gentleman em-
braces the question in the fulness of its magnitude. He
does not descend to the meanness of party strife, but
shows that this is a matter in which the members of
all parties are equally interested. The distinguished
leader of the Opposition hesitates not to give due
credit to the declarations of the Minister, and to
counsel his friends to yield him, en this point, their
united support. This is conduct which recalls to us
the best days of our Parliamentary history, when
the Opposition was wont to make a distinction be-
tween what was deemed right and wrong on the part
of the Government. We cannot to-day enter at
any length into the considerations which arise out of
this salutary fact, but v“3 shall return to the subject
on an early occasion.

THE COUNT BAPTISTE METAxA.—It will be seen
by a report in another column that the rule obtained on the
10th of June last, to show cause why a criminal information
should not be filed against an attorney named Stevens, for
the publication of a libel on Count Baptiste Metaxa, has been
discharged on Mr. Stevens coming forward and admitting
the unfounded nature or his assertions and paying the costs.
Although we cannot but rejoice at the termination of the
suit, we must regret that the person who takes upon himself
to stigmatize (and that anonymously) as an adventurer and
impostor, a gentleman and a foreigner—whose fair fame
the breath or calumny never touched before—should be dealt
with so leniently, and escape thus easily the bands of justice.
had tie Count Metaxa been a total stranger in this country;
without any ere:lentials, or aii-y proofs or the genuine cha-
racter of-his title, the elh'ct of such an assertion would have
been most damaging. As it is the feelings of himself and
family.have been most pained, and the indignation aids
friehds Cheltenham -in which he has now resided a great
many years-and elSewhertjbas been greatly aroused.--,
Cheltenham Journal. - • ,

FOREIGN REFINED Suomi.—The vessel Seeker,
from Amsterdam, has brought 19,380 loaves of sugar; the
vessel Alida, also arrived from Amsterdam, bas brought the
large number of 83,640 loaves; and the vessel Neptunus,
which has simultaneously arrived from the Dutch capital,
has brought 21,000 loaves, comprising the entire cargo of reA
fined sugar the manufacture of Holland.: