Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1834-05-19
ALEXANDRIA,:
MONDAY MORNING, MAY 10, 1884.
ONE DAY LATER FROM ENGLAND.

BV the ARRIVAL Vi Tic snip ASiaiioN3 OAP'' -
kins, at New York, we have advices from Eu-
rope one day later than before received.
A prominent topic OF discourse in the British
capital was the pressure upon the money mar
ket which was ascribed to the operations OF
SPECTATORS, who, in the course of single week,
had invested 100000 sterling in annuities of
fered by the government, with view to reduce
the public debt. The pressure alluded TO had
subsidized before the sailing of the Nimrod.
The tonnage duty in the port of London was
about to be materially reduced. The sum to
be raised by that means is henceforward to be
only $4,000, whereas it was formerly f43,OO0.
Some stimulus had been given in the foreign
money market to the Spanish securities, in con-
sequence of favorable feeling which has been
created by the advance Of Spanish troops into
Portugal, since it has been observed that Spain
cannot have been so internally distracted if she
is now enabled to spare upwards of 10000
troops to support the cause Of Donna Maria.
Funeral of Mrs. Burns Exclamation Of the
Poets SkuU-The Dumfries Courier of April
9th contains a long account of the funeral and
interment of Mrs. Burns, widow of the poet, on
the 1st, in st. Michaels church-yard, Dumfries
and the exhumation of the poets skull, which
took place on the previous day. The following
description OF the skull is from the pen Oh MT.
Blackjack:
con Monday night, 3lst March, Mr.. John
M,Diarmd, Mi Adam Rankine, Mr.. James
Kerr Mr.. James Bogie, Mr.. Andrew Crombie
and the subscriber descended into the vault Of
the Mausoleum for the purpose of examining
the remains of Burns, and, if possible, procur-
ing a cast of his skull. Mr.. Crombie having
,ff tho hove 30
mains in 1915 and seen them deposited in their
nresent resting place, at once pointed out the
exact spot where the head would be found, and
a few spadefus of loose sandy soil being re-
moved. the skull was brought into view, and
carefully lifted.
The cranial bones were perfect in every re-
spect if we except little coroslon OF their eX-
ternal table, and firmly held together by their
slltlres; even the delicate bones OF the orbits,
with the tri1ng exception Of the os ungnis in the
left. were sound and uninjured by death and the
grave. The superior maXillary bones still re-
tanned the four most posterior teeth on each
side, including the denies sapient8, and all
without spot or blemish, the incisors, cuspidati,
&C. had in all probability, recently dropped
from the jaw, for the alveoli were but little de-
caved The bones of the face and palate were
also sound. Some small portions of black hair,
with very few grey hairs intermixed, were
observed while detaching some eXtraneous mat
ter from the occput. Indeed nothing could eX-
coed the high state of preservation in which
we found the bones of the Uranium, or offer a
fairer opportunity of supplying what has so
long been desired by Psychologists correct
model of our immortal poets head; and in or
der to accomplish this in the most accurate and
satisfactory manner, every particle of sand, or
other foreign body, was carefully washed OF,
and the plaster of Paris applied with all the tact
and accuracy Of an experienced artist. The
cast is admirably taken, and cannot fail to prove
highly interesting to phrenologists and others
Having completed our intention, the skull, Sc
curey enclosed in leaden case, was again
committed to the earth precisely where we
found it. ARCHIBALD BLACKLocK
Dumfries, 1st april
Loss ofhe Lady Momro.-Extract of letter
from J. M. Gosh, Esq., Assistant Surgeon 34th
Bengal Infantry, passenger:
"The Lady Monro, Capt. J.. Aiken sailed
from Calcutta on the 9th of June, 1888, for
Van Dieman's Land After completing her
cargo at Madras and the Isle OF France, she
stood for Hobart-town. On the night Of the
18th of October, we anticipated to make the Isl
and of Amsterdam; it was uncommonly dark
and foggv, with a drizzling rain and strong
breeze. AT midnight | asked the boatswain
(who was native Of India) if he saw land?
He said no. | went to bed again, but had not
remained twenty minutes, when heard the
ship strike with violence. fuSneQ, nakeo, up
on deck and, to my horror, saw the bold rocky
shore within fifty yards Of the ship, the sea
breaking fairly over, washing every thing off
the deck, and filling the matches with water.
The masts overheard, and the ship, Keeling from
rock to rock, and laboring like dying thing,
gave one last lurch, and went all to shivers.
Few of the passengers had time to get upon
deck Twas among the breakers before knew
of it, and succeeded in gaining the shore with
only few bruises on my hands and feet
"When daylight came, all we mustered here
were the chief officer and myself an European
four servants, and IA Of the Lascar
crew: in all 81. There were lost, % passengers
and officers, 9 convicts, Is servants and % of
the crew: in all 70. The cargo and everything
on board totally lost. We continued to subsist
on birds and eggs, and little soaked rice, for
fourteen days, (for there is no inhabitant on
the isand,) when we set fire to the jungle, and
that attracted the attention of small Ameri-
can schooner fishing off the island, and about
to sail for the Isle of France. She was then ly
ing ten miles distant. We got all on board Of
her, and saved nothing but what we could car
ry such distance on our backs over mountains,