Glasgow Courier. — 1855-01-23 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

THE BRITISH SHIP BERENICE.  The annexed details communicate • most tragical occurrence pn board the British ship Berenice. The Berenice has been missing nearly:ls months. She sailed from Shanghai on the 15th of July, 1852, with a cargo of tea for Sydney. She carried one passenger a Frenchman, whose name, notwithstanding the inquiries which have been made, is yet unknown. Her crew consisted almost entirely of men from different parts of Netherland India, three 'lengelese, one from Amboyan, nine women accompau3ing, them. They were all shipped at Singapore, and signed articles for • voyage to Sydney and back. After a oyage of about 24 days, the ship being near Anjer, on the net enact of Batavia, a mutiny broke out among the crew. It appears that during the voyage two of the sailors, believing there was god too larg eamoant on board, spoke of it to their comrades, and so excited the cupidity of sonic of them that • plan was forthwith concocted of taking possession of the vessel and assassinating the Europeans who were on board. A number of the crew, however, together with the Bengalese and Ainboyna men, opposed it. The ringleaders were the serang, or boatswain's mate, Alie, and seven of his tribe. The sit aation held by Alie placed him, both during and after the commission of the crime, at the head of the plot. Their first sictim was Mr. ltobarts, who was enticed to the forepart of the ship by Alie, where he was instantly murdered by a desperate blow inflicted on his head by an iron lever. Captain Candy, the commander, who, seeing the poor fellow fall, ran to his assistance, tort with a similar fate; two villains beat in his brains with some iron weapons, and then threw his body overboard. Three seamen who Interfered to save the captain's life were then attacked and murdered. The wife of the captain did not escape the carnage. She was taken from between decks, whither she had fled for refuge, by Alie and four others, and dragged on deck, and, in spite of her tears and prayers, her feet were bound tight with a piece of chain and she was thrown overboard. The French passenger was not found on board, neither the three Beng,alese and Amboyna men. They must either have thrown themselves into the sea, or been thrown overboard by others. All the money on board consisted of about 100 florins and 40 Spanish dollars. The plunder was equally divided by Alie, and it was agreed among them to set sail for Tauban, there to abandon the vessel after having set fire to .it. The ship gaining Tagal, which was taken for Tauban by Alie and his party, she was set on fire, and they took to the boats. Several were left behind and were burnt in the vessel. The discovery of the wreck of the burnt ship and the bodies of some of the crew excited suspicion of some foul work having been perpetrated. Sonic men who were still in the town, and who were known to have come ashore from the direction of the wreck, as also two of the women, were interrogated by the police. These men were at once detained, and immediate pursuit made for those , who had started for Semarang. They were captiired, ! and, after a searching investigation before the magisterial officers of the place, the whole of the diabolical affair was elicited by some of them confessing to the charges brought against them. The ringleaders nine in number, were brought to trial in October last, when the entire of them were,fonnd guilty. Two of the prisoners were sentenced to 20 years' banishment, and the others were executed on the lath of last September in the public square, in the principal part of Tagal.