The Sun.
London, England, 1845-12-09 00:00:00

SHIPWRECK AT SCILLY.

By the arrival in Penzance last evening from Scilly,
of the Lionesse, Captain Tregarthen, we have intelli-
gence of another of those disasters on the rocks of
Scilly, which call louder and more emphatically than
words can express, upon the Trinity Board, and ask
the question—Where is the long-talked of and greatly-
needed lighthouse on the Bishop Rock ? but, alas, echo
answers—where ?
It appears that on Monday last, the Ist instant, about
four A.M., the barque John Esdale, Captain Jackson,
laden with deals from Green Island, bound to London,
struck upon the western rocks of Scilly, and soon be-
came water-logged ; when the masts were cut away,
and the vessel drifted out to sea. About seven
A. 3/. she was discovered to the south-west of
th
Agnes, and shortly afterwards
boarded IslandtheardedbyofS.
t pilot-boats belonging to Scilly,
four of which took the barque in tow, and suc-
ceeded in getting her into " Smith's Sound,"
where she is now lying at anchor, but most of her cargo
has floated out, and the ship's bottom is supposed to be
nearly gone. Captain Jackson and his crew were landed
at St. Mary's in the afternoon, and arrived at this port
in the Lionesse. Happily, in this instance, the lives of
the men were preserved—but the crew of the next ship
that may strike upon these terribly dangerous reefs may
not be so fortunate ; and is not a single life of more value
than the cost to the public of the erection of a light-
house? Verily the members of the Trinity Board must
either be the most apathetic set of men under heaven,
or they can care little for human sacrifice. Here is a
group of islands—situate at the entrance of the British
undeayseesehe first British
cases,
rendered im-
t
of a beacon to direct
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hcu hick
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the mariner, and apprise him of his danger, and we ven-
ture to assert that the absence of a light has caused
hundreds of poor sailors to meet a watery grave, by
their vessels being suddenly brought up by the rocks re-
ferred to, and swallowed in the foaming billows of the
Atlantic, and thus amid the ecstacy of soon meeting their
relatives and friends, have the poor fellows been hur-
ried, it may be unprepared, into the presence of their
Creator. Could the bitterness, the woe, the wailings of
the poor widow and orphan reach the ears of the mem-
bers of the Trinity Board, we think they would lose no
time in issuing orders for the erection of what ought to
have stood upon the Bishop Rock at Scilly long ago—
namely, a lighthouse.
Let us hope that our weak effort to arouse the atten-
tion of that Board may not be altogether in vain ; and
that ere long we may have the satisfaction of announc-
ing that a commencement of the work has taken place.
—Penzance Gazette.

PRACTICAL SOLUTION OF THE RAILWAY DE-
POSIT DIFFICULTY.—The subject of the railway deposits has,
for some time, and very justly, occupied the attention of the
public, and of the moneyed interest, in relation to the dis-
turbances in the currency that would be necessarily excited
were the large sums required to be lodged in the Court of
Chancery to be suddenly withdrawn from general circulation.
A practical solution of this difficulty has, however, been
hit upon by the managers of the Irish Great Western
(Dublin to Galway) Railway, which, if generally and
judiciously put into operation, will much diminish the ex-
pected embarrassment of the money market. The Company
to which we refer yesterday transferred the large sum of
81,0001. (being the deposit of ten per cent. on their capital
required by the standing orders of Parliament), to the ac-
count of the Accountant-General of the Court of Chancery.
In pursuance of an application from the Provisional Com-
mittee to the Court, the whole of this money is now in
course of gradual investment in Government Stock. By
avoiding hurry in this latter operation, it is obvious that the
entire of the deposit will, in this case, be returned into the
general circulation of the country without being productive
of any derangement whatsoever of currency or credit. We
trust other bona fide companies may profit bv this example,
-end thereby at once show the best evidence of their own sta-
bility, and do what in them lies to remedy the mischiefs of
the railway mania.—Dublin Evening Mail.
SUPPOSED MURDER.—Ann Meyriek, the wife of
John :Myrick, a young woman, aged twenty-three, was, on
Tuesday morning last, drawn from the Merthyr and Cardiff
Canal, quite dead. On being taken out of the water, the
body bled profusely; and upon some examination the blood
was found to issue from several frightful gashes on the lower
part of her person ; and the bank of the canal was literally
covered with blood from the place where she was taken
out to an old archway crossing the canal, a distance of forty
yards. There is reason to believe that she was mutilated in
the shade of the arch, and that a struggle ensued between the
victim and murderer along the banks of the canal leading to-
wards her home, ending in the plunging of the unfortunate
being into the canal. There is no positive evidence to the
commission of the deed, As far as we have been able to
ascertain, the following is all that the authorities are yet
assessed of, which it will he seen is purely circumstantial.
The unfortunate victim of brutality was last seen at one
o'clock on Tuesday morning, when, in company with her
husband, she left the Heathcock Tavern, both being at the
time quite intoxicated. He was seen coming home about
that time alone. In the morning he was found asleep in his
own house, his head resting upon a table, and he had evi-
dently not been to bed. He affected not to know what had
become of his wife; and stated, that on their way home he
had turned one side, while she went another, and he had not
seen her since, until she was drawn out of the canal. This
is his statement. So much suspicion, however, attaches it-
self to him that he was secured and taken into custody.—
Monmouthshire .21ferlin.
THE ISLE OF WIGHT RAILWAYS.—The deposits of
21. 2s. per share are offered to be returned, minus 2s. for ex-
penses—a very equitable offer.—Hampshire Advertiser.