The Sun.
London, England, 1868-06-08 00:00:00

SHOCKING SHIPWRECK.

A despatch from her Majesty's consul at Valparaiso -has
been received at the Board of Trade, reporting the fol-
lowing lamentable shipwrecks :—The British ship Wal-
lassee, brlonging to Liverpool, 1,434 tons register,
laden with 2,400 tons of guano, left Chinchas,
bound for Cork, for orders, under the command
of Captain M`Grath. A month after she sailed there
came on heavy weather, which lasted some days, and in
consequence of her labouring so heavily in the seas, she
sprang a dangerous leak, which defied the steam and
m tnual pumps with which the ship was fitted to keep
under, and the result was that the captain and officers
resolved to abandon her, and on the 2nd March they
took to the boats, and left the ship in lat. 57 S.
An Italian vessel, named the Elvira Gienello, had hove
in sight, and the captain agreed to take the crew on
board. She then set sail, with the intention of making
Valparaiso Harbour, which was out of his course, in
order to land them. On the 15th March the Italian
Nu quo made the coast thirty miles to the south of Val-
paraiso, when, in beating up, a fearful calamity befel her.
At eleven o'clock at night, while becalmed, the current
carried the ship on to some rocks, where she beat heavily,
and in the course of ten minutes she broke up a total
wreck, and out of the two crews and passengers—number-
in—only three belonging to Wallasee and
seven
barque were saved. The Consul
fifty
of theso souls
talian
had provided the survivors with means to return to
England. The number lost belonging to the Italia
barque was seventeen.

In order to prevent the reinfection of stations now
under the operation of the Contagious Diseases Act, 1866,
the Commander-in-Chief has issued an order that all regi-
ments, on arriving at the stations, shall be medically in-
spected ; and that diseased men shall be sent to hospital.

The Conference being held at Manchester on the
subject of trades' unions, in a discussion on foreign com-
petition, were unanimous in their denial of the statement
that foreign countries were beating this nation hi the pro-
duction of manufactured goods.

THE BURNS MONUMENT, EMNBURGH.—Thin
monument, which contains many interesting relics of the
poet, was last week handed over, in the name of the com-
mittee of the Edinburgh Burns Club, and others, to the
Town Council, under whose care it will be in future.
Two colliers, named Kidd and Monks, have been
brought before the Leeds magistrates charged with acts of
intimidation against men employed by Messrs. Garside,
colliery owners, of York-road, in place of others who had
struck. Kidd was ordered to pay costs, and was bound
for a month.
over to keep the peace, and Monks was committed to pawn

RAILWAY STATISTICS.—The Railway News gives the
following interesting figures in regard to railways :—The
length of lines open at the end of 1853 in the United King-
dom was 7,686 miles, Which had increased at the end of
1866 to 13,854 miles. The number of passengers con-
voyed in 1853 was 102,286,660, or 13,318 per mile; in
1866 the number was 274,403,895, or 19,734 per mile. The
receipts were £18,035,879 in 1853, or £2,346 per mile, and in
1866 £38,164,354, or £2,734 per mile, the highest earnings ever
reached in any year. The total paid-up capital in shares,
loans, /to., at the end of each year was £273,324,514 in
1853, and £481,872,184 in 1866, which is exclusive of above
a million computed to be the capital of certain companies
that failed to send in returns to the Board of Trade. The
wolking expenses amounted to £9,206,205 in 1854, and to
£18,811,673 in 1866 ; the net receipts of these two years
odldiers, gunners in the Royal
being £11,009,519 and £19,352,681 respectively.
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late in the evening, when the latter, floating bottom up-
wards, was picked up by a pilot boat and brought into the
hitrbour, and next morning one of the bodies was washed
ashore at Noirmont Manor, near St. Aubin. Although it
was much disfigured about the face by crabs, it was recog-
nised as that of Charles Wood.
THE FENTAN O'FAnnELL.—A correspondent of
an Irish paper states that O'Farrell, whose parents were
so independent as to be almost accounted wealthy, was
educated for the legal profession, and that at the age
of about 22 he expressed a desire to take holy
orders. This inclination sculling to be real and sin-
cere, he was sent by his friends to this country, where
he remained for some time, and received mine'
orders, but at this period the growing disease of the
brain seems to have commenced to develops itself, and
he suddenly disappeared from the college without
making any communication to the Superior, and unex-
pectedly made his appearance again in Australia.
The idea of entering the church was aban-
doned, and O'Farrell soon after went into business,
but his eccentricities having been increased by a tendency
to intemperate habits, produced, as a natural consequence,
failure in business. From this period he was under part'.
()Aar supervision, when the full development of the mad-
ness took place in the terrible attempt made on the life of
the Prince.