The Sun. — 1869-05-19 (London, England)

FATALIES AT SEA.  The news of two painful disasters at sea has just been received. Intelligence has reached Liverpool from Queenstown of the total loss by fire of the ship Blue Jacket off the Cape of Good Hope. The Blue Jacket was homeward hound from Lyttelton, New Zealand, and bad on board a very valuable cargo. Her crew and passengers numbered 77 persons, of whom 35 are missing. It is not known how the fire originated, but all attempts to subdue it failed, and the master (Captain White), the chief officer, six of the crew, and all the passengers, 34 in number, took to the boats. After enduring severe privations for a week they were picked up on the 16th March by the ship Pyrmont. One of the passengers died shortly after. The other officers and 31 of the crew took to the two lifeboats, but aro still missing. The ship and cargo were fortunately fully insured, but the cargo was very valuable, there being 15,7360 z. gold, value £63,390, besides £65,000 worth of wool. £4,000 specie was saved in the long boat, but there was £4,000 more in each of the lifeboats, besides £53,000 lost in the ship. The Pyrmont reached Queenstown on Monday afternoon with the news. The other disaster is the lbss by fire of the Omar Pasha, but, happily, in this case there was no loss of life. The Omar Pasha was bound from Brisbane to London. Tier cargo of wool, beef, tallow, &c., was valued at £BO,OOO, and' it was said she had also 130,000 in specie. The telegram announcing the disaster is dated from Gibraltar. The ship was abandoned on the 27th of April, but where is not stated. Another tragical story of older date has just been told in this country. The barque Java left Massachussetta on a whaling voyage to the South Polar Sea so far back as December 1867. At Cape Verde Islands nine Portuguese sailors were added to the crew, one of whom was accidentally drowned. The captain blamed one of the sailors for the accident, and placed him in irons. The rest of the crew mutinied, murdered the third mate, and severely injured the first mate. The ringleaders then deserted the ship, and took to sea in a small boat. They suffered greatly from want of provisions, but at length reached Java. They were arrested by order of the American Consul and put in prison, where one of them died. They have since been removed to New York, where they await their trial.  The resolution submitted to the Fenian meeting held at Cork on Saturday, which we have already described as a failure, was as follows :—" That we, the citizens of Cork, in this meeting assembled, do most emphatically condemn the conduct of Daniel O'Sullivan, Esq., our late mayor, who, after having boon elected Ly the people as their representative, and after having been supported by the force of public opinion, has chosen to desert his post and betray the confidence placed in him, thereby leading the English and Scotch Parliament and people to believe that the Irish nation has any coati&nee in foreign legislation." Tho noise and confusion was so great that it was not possible to carry it. ,  We Lave already briefly reported the death, under very distressing circumstances, of Lady Firth. The inquest was held on Monday, at Bolton Bridge, and tho evidence showed that the unfortunate Jady left the hotel, where she and her husband had been staying for the past few days, apparently in good health and spirit, on Saturday morning. She was not again seen until her body was discovered in the River Wharfs, at a spot about 200 yards below the Abbey, known as the Puke's Bathing-place. All her jewellery was found upon the body, and there being no evidence to account for the manner in which she got into the water, an open verdict of " Found drowned" was returned. The sad event has cast quite a gloom over the whole of the Riding. In the afternoon tho Lody of Lady Firth was remorsl W tke icamitsi tt gilor11901&&