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

SHOCKING SHIPIVRECK.

A despatch from her Majesty's consul at Valparaiso has
been received at the Board of Trade, reporting the fol-
loawionog,
brig
lamentableonig t
n sohipes:--- The British ship Wal-
iss 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 Lnual 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 blie 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 laud them. On the 15th March the Italian
barque rwiadheent,t coast
inthirty miles to the south of Val.
uP,
fearful
carried the ship on to some rocks, where she beat heavily,
while
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current
rr her.en
t
At eleven o'clock atnight,t
aPnadraiisthe course of ten minutes she broke up a total
wreck, and out of the two crews and passengers—ntunber-
ing fifty souls—only three belonging to Wallasee and
seven of the Italian barque were saved. The Consul
had provided the survivors with means to return to
England. The number lost belonging to the Italian
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 in the pro-
duction of manufactured goods.

THE Buns MONUMENT, EDINBURGH.—This
monument, which contains many interesting relics of the
pet, 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
over to keep the peace, and Monks was committed to pion
for a month.

RAILWAY STATISTICS. —The Railway News gives the
followinglength of lines open at the end of 1853 in the United King-
doui was76B6 interesting
m ilfigures in regard to railways :—The
e
El/2 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 £2,754 per mile, the highest earnings ever
reached in any year. The total paid-up capital in shares,
11853, and £481,872,184 in 1866, which is exclusive of above
aomanisllc"
ioncoamtptuhteedentod of each year was £273,324,514 in
be the capital of certain companies
that failed to send in returns to the Board of Trade. The
to £9,206,205 in 1851, and to
£18,811,673 in 1866; the net receipts of these two years
being £11,009,519 and £19,352,681 respectively.
FATAL
A I,AL ACCIDENT TO THREESOLDIERS.—A melan-
choly occurrence has happened in the island of Jersey—the
working
death by drowning of three soldiers, gunners in the Royal
Artillery, who were stationed at Elizabeth Castle. It expenses amounted
ap-
pears that the three deceased men,. James Willet, George
Sidworthy, and Charles Wood, left the Castle Barracks in a
small boat belonging to the keeper of the canteen, intending
They were all at that time very drunk.
to have an excursion across the bay. They did so, and
reached in safety the town of St. Aubin, where they landed,
and spent the time on shore in drinking freely. About six
o'clock in the evening they went to the boat, intending to
latereturnNothing i
n tthoemthoereca evening,wetlas seen or heard of them or the boat
e •
when
the latter, floating bottom up-
wards, was picked up by a pilot boat and brought into the
harbour, 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.

whose parents were
accounted wealthy, was
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and
orders, but at this period the growing disease of the
brain seems to have commenced to develop° 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 peal-
ealar supervision, when the full development of the mad-
ness took place in the terrible attempt made on the life of
the Frince.