The Sun. — 1870-04-07 (London, England)

MUTINY AND BRAVERY AT SEA.  The details of the story brought by the ship John Banks, 680 tons, Captain Reynolds, from San Francisco to Queenstown, which arrived at the latter port os4 Saturday, are very startling. For some days previous to the 28th of January, after rounding the Horn, when in about latitude 35 south, the crew manifested symptoms of rebellion. On the 28th January the captain conveyed to them some orders through his mate, which they point blank refused to obey. He then sent the second mate, in company with the first officer, to the forecastle, with the request that the men would come aft to the cabin and state their cause of complaint. Five of the crew, named Stone, Millar, Phillips, Robinson, and Davidson, immediately turned on the second officer (O'Connor) with knives, daggers, and bolts. They stabbed him in the arm and disabled that limb, but fortunately no other injury was inflicted. From this time forward the captain and his officers had to conduct the entire mananagement of the vessel themselves. They had to navigate her in person, and in order to protect themselves from the violence of the mutineers each man— captain and officer—was obliged to arm himself with a brace of revolvers. In this manner they were enabled to bring the ship to port. The plot of the mutineers was afterwards discovered to be, first, the murder of the officers of the vessel, and, leaving achieved this, they resolved to compel the captain V lo steer the ship to alparaiso. When this point was In sight they determined to murder the captain and then bring the ship to port. But the resolute and cool demeanour of Captain Reynolds, in a very trying position, entirely defeated the murderous intention of the mutineers. Five of them were arrested in Cork Harbour, and the charge of mutiny and conspiracy to murder has been heard against them. Three witnesses deposed that Stone, the ringleader, Phillips, snd the others, proposed to murder the mates and compel the captain to sail for Valparaiso, and murder him when in sight of land. The mutiny and attack on the second mate were also proved. The magistrates sentenced Stone to eighteen weeks' imprisonment, Phillips to ten weeks, and the three others to eight weeks.  At a committee meeting of the Bristol Guardians, ft was resolved to recommend to the board the boarding out of six pauper children as a trial. • The iv orthern Daily Expresi says:—" A. portion of the old stock of Government anchors, sold as • scrap iron,' have found their way to Sunderland. They were a portion of many thousands of tons of anchors manufactured for Government, never used, and now sold as old iron. One of the anchors landed bears date 184 S, as the year of its manufacture, and has been made at Sunder kmd, so that, after lying twenty-two years in a Government dockyard, it finds its way back to Sunderland, having never been in use for the whole of that period." The TI iltern Morning Ncics has received a communication from Colonel J. C. Kirkham, commandant of the disciplined forces at Adwa, Abyssinia, who states that having been applied to by several gentlemen for appoint ments, he has submitted all their letters to Prince Kassa. of Tigre, who had desired him to state that any Englishman or other gentleman of a military capacity wishing tc Fin his force his Highness will receive with pleasure. urther information may be obtained from Mrs. Colons) Kirkham, Brunswick House, Dawlish.