The Sun.
London, England, 1845-12-31 00:00:00

LOSS OF AN EAST INDIAAIAN.

LEWES, MONDAY.—From the letters received here
this morning, it appears that there has been a dreadful
storm along the south-east coast. On Saturday night,
the'27th inst., the gale itiztreaAd to a perfect hurricane,
and several vessels were damaged, doubling Beachy
Head. About one o'clock on Sunday morning a large
Dutch East Indiaman, name unknown. came on shore
on the coast of Pevensey, a little to the north-east of
the Head, the wind blowing tremendously, and the sea
running mountains high ; eighteen of the crew, out of
thirty-two or thirty-three on board, succeeded in land-
big ill safety in their own boat, and it appeared from
their statement that the ship was bound from Batavia
to Amsterdam, laden
,with a Valtribie cargo of coff...e,
'sugar, and inhigo. The greatest apprehensions were
Otilet.iiiined for the safety of the captain of the vessel,
Who, st'ady to the trust reposed in him, remained
on board with the mate and twelve or thirteen of
the crew ; but it was not until Sunday forenoon that
any assistance could be afforded them. Their situa-
tion during that dreadful night, on such a shore, with
a gale from the S.S.W., and a sea continually break
ing over their ill-fated vessel, was truly awful. In
the fotenomi of Sunday, however, a small pleasure-boat,
belonging to Pevensey, named the Rebecca, manned by
two pilots, named Pierce and Wood, and three of the
Coast Guard, named Oliver,Warnell, and Fleming, put
off to the assistance of the crew of the East Indiaman,
and succeeded in reaching her. From the violence of the
gale, however, and the sea continually breaking over
the wreck, they were unable to effect their purpose of
bringing off the captain and the remainder of the crew ;
but, with determined perseverance, they laid by, watch..
sag for a favourable opportunity. This, however, did
not speedily occur, and about eleven the life-boat from
Eastbourne went to assist her. After a considerable
delay the remainder of the crew, with the master, were
taken on board the boat, with the exception of one poor
fellow, who was lashed to the rigging, and whom it was
impossible to save. It is some consolation to believe,
from the appearance of the man, and the position of his
limbs, that he was dead NN hen the life-boat reached the
vessel. Having been landed in safety, it is gratifyitg
to state, that the poor fellows were supplied with every
necessary by two of the railway contractors on the Lewes
and Hastings line ; the officers and men at the Coast
Guard station also rendering every assistance.

COURSE OF EXCIIA;
Amsterdam CI' 12 9
Ditto, at sight l2 5
Rotterdam 2U. 12
Antwerp
Ilamburgh M.B. 13 14it
Altona
Paris, 3 days' sight 25 75
Ditto, 3 months 26

1 GE.--(YESTE WAY
Gibraltar__

L. horn ..........,.... 30 €0
G9noa . ..... 26 10
Milan

Venice ....

Naples ............... , 40
Palermo, per oz 1191
Lisbon 52.1
Oporto •.. ...... „ 52i
Rio Janeiro ..... 23i

Marseilles 26 10
Bourdeaux 26 10
Frankfort on Maine l22k
Petersburgh, 3 D..
Berlin
Vienna, effee. fib lO 8
Trieste, ditto
Madrid 36

Bahia .
Buenos Acre;

NewYork;2ldyslight

Philaaelpiiia

PRICES OF' BULLION, PER O.
Foreign Gold, bars. £3 17 9
Portugal Gold Coin 3 17 5
New i'oubloons 0 0 0
New Dollars
Silver in Bars 0 4 11i

Cadiz
B►lbao
Barcelona

Seville

BUSINESS DONE IN FOR
LONDON STOCK E.:
Anglo. Belgian
Barbddoes
boulogne and Amiens ll3/4
Bordeaux &Mcditerran
Bordeaux and Toulouse
Do. & Cette (Espeleta) 2
Do. ( Mackenzie's)
Callao, Lima, and Pa-
cific Coast
Central of Spain .....
Ceylon .
Demerara
Dendro Valley . ... •-• ' 1/2
Dutch Rhenish
Dieppe & Paris Junct —
Dijon and Mulhouse
East Indian .
Famponx & Hazehrouk
Grt Northern of France
Constituted l5
Do. Pepin le Halleur —
Great Paris and Lyons —
Great Western Bengal
Great Western Canada
Jamaica S. Mid. Junction
Do. North Midland —
Do. Extension
Jersey
Lonvain and Jemappe —
Lyons and Avignon— 2
LUxembourg

EJGN RAILWAYS AT THE
XCHANGE, DEC. 30.

!Madrid and Valencia...
Mauritius
Namur and Liege 314
North Jamaica ...
Orleans and Vierzon
Orleans and Bordeaux
Over Yssel
Paris & Lyons (Lai tte) 2%
Ditto (Ganneron's). 3%
Ditto (Calon's)....
, Ditto (Sud Est)
;Paris and Orleans
Paris and Rouen . 4OIA
'Paris and Strasburg
(Ganneron's)
Do. (Compe de L'Est)
Do. (Aymard's)..--
Paris and St.. Quentin.
Rouen and Havre.-- 314
Royal North of Spain.
Sambre and Meuse
Strasburg and Bale
ITournay,Jurbise, Lan-

den, and Hasselt ...
Tours and Nantes

(Mackenzie's) 4li
Do. ( Lefebvre's) —
Do. (O'Neill's) _
f Trinidad —

Verona and Ancona....
West Flanders 5

ST. LEONARD, STIOREDITCH, VESTRY.—OD Tuesday
afternoon a meeting of the inhabitant householders was held
.t the vestry, to make a poor's rate for the current quarter,
and als to make a church-yard rate. Mr. J. Bewley, senior
churchwarden, who presided, explained the objects of the
meeting. Mr. Ware, the vestry clerk, then proceeded to
read over the estimates, amongst which was one of 1,950/.

to defray the expense of enlarging the workhouse. Upon
this item a long and animated discussion took place. After
Some discussion one of the trustee party proposed that the

. .
Vestry do now adjourn, which motion was secoeded amidst
vehement execrations from the ratepayers. The Church-

warden called for a poll on the question of the adjournment,
which was carried under a protest, and the vestry dispersed,
several of the parishioners declaring that they would appeal

against any rate made by the trustees.
INTREPID CONDUCT OF A FRENCH GENTLEMAN.
DESPERATE ATTEMPT AT SUICIDE IN ST. JAMES'S PARK.-

Yesterday afternoon, about four o'clock, a respectably-dressed
female, apparently about thirty-eight years of age, leaped
into the ornament -‘1 water in the encloswe, immediately
facing the Horse Gunrds. Au alarm was raised by several
persons who witnessed the occurrence, and one of them, a
French gentleman, divested himself of his coat, and dived in
after her ; in a moment afterwards he appeared at the surface
of the water with the female in his arms. Both were evi-
dently in an exhausted state, and by this time a large num-
ber of persons were collected, and, with some difficulty, they
were brought ashore. The female, who was quite insensible,
was conveyed with the greatest promptitude by the park-
keepers to Westminster Hospital. Some hopes are enter-
tained of her recovery. The gentleman was taken home
in a cab.
THE BOARD OF TRADE AND THE POTATO FAILURE.
—The Board of Trade is at present collecting information re-
lative to the potatoes, so far as that is known in the port of
London. Some of the merchants think the Government is
thereby preparing to justify itself before Parliament in pro-
posing the abolition of the corn-law. Others think not,
from the limited and partial nature of the inquiry. It seems
to be confined, in most part, to persons not particularly well
acquainted with the subject. On Friday the Board selected
some of the fruit-meters for examination. They are also
meters of potatoes, and as such may know how many
have arrived by sea in the port of London. Whether
any other persons connected with the potato trade
are to be examined, does not yet appear. But
those who could best give evidence as to the quantity now in
existence, which is the question at issue, are the agents of
the London dealers, who go into the country amongst the
farmers to buy, or the farmers who grow them. On Friday,
While a messenger from the Board of Trade was waiting at
One of the wharfs to conduct the meters to Westminster to
be examined, the said meters were running from one dealer
to another, from one agent to another, and from one
Goole captain to another, and among the York-
shire sailors, to inform themselves of what the probable
state of the potato crop in Yorkshire is. This was proper
conduct on their part, as it showed they were not willing to
speak of the potatoes actually in existence from what
had passed through their hands for measurement ; but it
also showed that they are not the persons best acquainted
with the subject.
TUE PRINCE CONSORT'S HARRIERS. Major-
General Wemyss and a large field were at the meet of the
Prince Consort's harriers yesterday, which took place on the
farm of Mr. Edward Mason, at Slough. A couple of hares
were put on foot, and afforded excellent runs. The first
hare, which was found on Mr. Mason's land, took away in
the direction of the Great Western Railway, on to Salt-hill,
where it doubled round to the seat of Granville Penn, Esq.,
and was killed at Stoke Park Lodge, after a very fast fifteen
minutes' run. The pack was then taken to Chalvey-fiel 's.
where the second hare was sound on a piece of fallow land,
making away towards Willow Brook and Eton, over Chal-
vey- ditch, and on to Eton Wick ; thence it doubled to the
right to Cipp ,nham and Dorney, on te Mr. Pocock's farm,
near the Maidenhead station, where it circled back to Dor-
ney, and was kill d on Mr. Truelper's farm, after a gallant
run of nearly three-quarters of an hour. It is expected,
should the weather be fine, that the Prince Consort will hunt
with his Royal Highness's harriers to morrow.
It is expected that most of the Cabinet Ministers
will return to townein a few days, for the purpose of attend-
ing the Court to be held at Windsor Castle on Saturday next,
that day having been appointed by her Majesty for receiving
the petition of the Lord Mayor and Corporation of London on
the subject of the corn-laws.
We learn, from private sources of information, that
the re-construction of the Cabinet has been the result of a
compromise between the Premier and those who were op-
posedto his original proposition, which is understood to have
been sweeping and radical in the extreme. It is now said
that the project to be submitted to Parliament by Sir R.
Peel is, that wheat in future should be liable to a fixed duty
of twelve shillings a quarter, such duty to be decreased by
two shillings a quarter in each succeeding year ; so that at
the end of six years it should be admitted free, This state-
ment we submit to our readers just as it had reached our-
selves—observing that it comes from a source to which we
have been frequently indebted for early and authentic infor.
Itiation.—Dublin Evening Mail.
TUE LEAGUE FUND.—The amount of the fund up
to this date is 69,400/., and very considerable more is ex-
pected to be realised in Manchester. It is estimated that
the sum realised at the meeting was 5001. per minute.
The Earl of Mornington has taken the seat of Mr.
Scholey at Wanstead, Essex (not Oak Hall, as has been
stated). It is understood to be his Lordship's intention to
extend the park into a portion of his own woods adjoining,
and to preserve the covers. The Noble Earl owns most of
the manors in the neighbourhood, and is warden of the Epping
and Hainhault forests, in which the deer and timber have
been in aigreat measure destroyed and injured during the last
few years, from want of proper care.
ELGIN CATTLE MARKIIT —At this market, on the
1701 inst., there was but a small show of cattle. There was
s_number of fat cows in market, which sold brrskly at from
7.1 to 101., according to size. There were only a very few
lots of ether cattle shown. Illr..Cruickshank, Granary, sold
a lot of two year-old Highlanders at 8/. a-head. There was
a fame supply of horses, and a few *ales made—prices high.—.
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