The Sun. — 1847-04-23 (London, England)

HONG-KONG, MARCH I.—A dreadful tragedy occurred on the evening of the 6th ult., in Chiramo Bay, a small opium station near. Amoy, the recrivin two vessels, Omega and Caroline, having been b oarded by Chinese pirates, who murdered the captains, officers, and part of the crews of bath ships, and carried off an immense booty. The circumstances are as follow  Three days before the catastrophe, two boats, of a different rig from those generally seen in that neighbourhood, entered the bay; as they were rather suspicious loAin, Captain Macfarlane, of the Omega, sent his serang (native boatswain) on board of them, to ascertain what they wanted. They said they were saltdealers from Hong-Kong. Both boats were heavily armed for their size, as, besides ginjalls and other Chinese weapons, one carried five, end the other six, guns, but apparently without more than sufficient hands to work the boats. The serang wished to look down into the hold, but was not permitted to do so. The gunner was afterwards sent, with orders to bring one of the Chinamen on board the Oineaa; but they all refused to accompany him, but said that if it continued calm they would come next day and buy opium. Two boats sent from the Caroline received no more satisfactory answer. In the morning the two boats left the bay, returning to their anchorage in the evening, and this they repeated the following day. On the 6th, however, as they were sailing back they laid themselves one on each side of the Omega, and threw fireballs on tke deck. One boarded while the other proa sifl,e)h. rienr schooners asotosahnnoeerrest, c,?ededrceedtoo tf r,wos iraidansrdet thbce,eoelC,naperoloisltsii erriste, iyi o"n'iloi fehhe unpreparedv'r.. distance as none of their guns were loaded. The Lascars who were on the deck of the Omega either jumped or were thrown overboard, having barely time to give the alarm to their comrades below, too late, however, for them to offer any resistanu, as the pirates battened down the hatches upon them. The officers rushed out of the cabin, but, with the exception of the mate, who must have been immediately killed, ran down again for arms. The captain and gunner, with their servants and two native steersmen or scacunnies, took refuge in the after cabin, where, though the two former were severely wounded, they defended themselves for hr Borneo thrown in " down, till the skylight was taken off and fireballs es went out through The last seen of the captain the quarter galleries. upon which the gunner and servants returned to the fore-cabin, and the seacunni the 'long-boat to come alongs▪ de ; but she had been Iva.; that he opened the stern windows and called for i previously cut adrift by the pirates, with a China girl and several of the Lascars, who fortunately reached the shore in safety. The pirates then proceeded to rifle the vessel. The watch on board the Caroline i Nfi, ▪ Allarse , n hoe atnndbdus rr wen pienor ger ,t cebadul i ttehdi en, wms uhapetptneorsi et tdow act shaedp it Osaciinonvecegriaier t ot ti)ieabrtel asihon she the hands of pirates, and that a boat was coming towards the Caroline. The men were sent below for arms, and in the meantime the pirates pnlled alongside. Tne'captain, instead of attempting a defence, ordered the gig and jollyboats to be lowered fur the purpose of making his escape, but the one was swamped and the other smashed betwixt the pirate boat and the schooner. The captain, two mates, and nine lascars, then leaped over-board, and were probably either drowned or killed in attempting to regan the vessel by the chains. Captain Chamberlain's body was afterwards picked up on the beach, at Chimmo. A seacuany advised them against jumping into the sea, and induced one of his comrades to r, twin. They took to the riggidg, and were saved. Whcn all the treasure and by far the greater part of the opium had been removed into the pirate boats, the crew of the Omega succeed,al in breaking through the bulkheads into the cabin, from which they drove the pirates. This alarmed those, above, and the whole retreated to their boats, crying that the Malays were upon them. They then sounded a , gon, e• which seemed to have been a preconcerted signal, as their comrades, who were rifling the Caroline, hurried into their boat and immediately made sail. When the Lascars reached the deck of the Omega, tINIT" found all the guns spiked, with the exception of. one, which was slung ready for removal 2'bis they ?graded  4d.''--,—.._c__  s