The Sun.
London, England, 1850-12-19 00:00:00

DEPARTURES TO ENGLAND.

From Hong-Kong—Oct. 11, the Malacca, to London;
25, the Ferczepore, to London; 26, the Sunda, to Cork.
From Whampoa—Oct. 1, the Albert Edward, to Li-
verpool; T, the Hindostan, to London; 25, the Mary
Sparkes, to Liverpool; the Syria, to London; 30, the
Marquis of Bute and the Mohawk, to London.
From Shanghai—Sept. 24, the Emily, to Liverpool;
Oct. 5, the Blundel and the Counteis of &afield, to
London; 8, the Moultan, to London.

LOSS OF THE HELENA SLOMAN

SCREW-STEAMER.

This vessel was lost on her passage from South-
ampton to New York. She was a new iron boat,
built two years since by Prim, of Hull. She bad
already made two successful trips between Hamburgh
and :New York. She left Southampton on the Ist
ult. with a valuable cargo and 180 souls on board.
The passengers and crew were principally Germans.
She was discovered by the American packet Devon-
shire, Captain Hovey, after having been beating
about in great distress for eight days. In the at-
tempt to rescue the persons on board the steamer,
four of the crew of the Devonshire, and five
of the passengers of the Helena Sloman were
lost. From the time of the Helena Sloman's depar-
ture from Southampton, on the let of November,
until the 19th, nothing worthy of note occurred.
On the evening of the 19th she encountered
a fearful gale, which she braved gallantly until
eleven P.M., when a heavy sea struck her on the stern
and starboard quarter, causing her to quiver from
stem to sterm. The rudder was then found to have
parted from the ship. The steam was then blown off.
Considerable uneasiness now prevailed—rudder lost,
stern-post gone, ship leaking, propeller not able to be
worked by her sails, owing to ber great lengils (226
feet). On the 21st and 22d the gale was most violent,
and the pumps were worked without intermission by
means of the engine. On the 22d a distress rudder
was tried and found to be wholly inefficient. At tea
a.m. on that day a barque was seen about ten miles
distant, with all sails set, and steering west. Distress
signals were hoisted on board the Helena Sloman
without success. About three P.M. the crew came
aft, and begged permission to lower the boats and
pull for the barque. The captain, thinking it useless,
and their inability to reach the barque impracticable,
refused. After much discussion amongst the crew,
which was likely to end in a mutiny, the crew *te-
tra:need. At sunset the captain and crew of the
Helena Simian succeeded in getting her head round,
but all to no purpose. On Thursday, the 28th, all
was Joy on board at the announcement of a sail in
sight. Signals were made, which were happily ob-
served on board the sail, and which sail turned out
to be the American packet Devonshire. As soon as
the Devonshire came near the Helena Sloman she
commenced rendering assistance, and succeeded in
saving all the passengers and crew, with the excep-
tion of five ; but, in her noble endeavour, she lost
four of her own crew. The captain of the Helena
Sloman remained on board until the last, and he
wished his men, who were alongside in the boats
waiting for him to come on board, so that they might
be enabled to testify that the ship was sinking, but
they refused ; and he then saved all the papers he
could, and then left her to her fate. She sunk soon
afterwards.

List of persons drowned :—The names of the four
of the crew of the Devonshire wbo were lost in the
noble endeavour to save the crew and passengers of
the Helena Sloman were as follows :—Mr. Johnsco,
third mate of the Devonshire; John Hasson, of Lon-
donderry; George Riley, of Hull; and Daniel Mac-
arthur, of Montreal, seamen. The names of the pas-
sengers of the Helena Sloman who were lost were—
Mr. Shelson, of Mecklenburg ; Dr. Lutz, of Heil-
bron ; Augusta Rozenbuck, of Mecklenburg; Jobs
Popake, of Mecklenburg ; and Henry Otterburg, o
Hanover.
The English passengers who joined the Helena
Sloman at Southampton were—Mr. Sladden and bis
wife, Mr. John Young, Mr. J. F. Geary, Mr. Stehi-
len, and Mr. Busher.

THE PRESS AND THE PAPACY.—Those who would
if they could, bring us again under the yoke of superstition,
may ascribe the opposition which they encounter in their
designs to the agency of the arch-enemy ; but the real truth
is, that the only devil they have to contend with is the
printer's.—Punch.