The Illustrated Usk Observer and Raglan Herald

THE COMING TERM. The long vacation (says the Observer of Sunday) is at an end, and to-morrow the courts open for the dispatch of business. Those who owed money three months ago, and deferred payment because it could not be enforced during the holidays, now find it ad- visable to cash up, and those who for the past three months have treated their creditors with supercilious- ness and contempt, now find it advisable to wear a civil aspect, and to pay some attention to their de. mands. Attorneys are now hard at work, and counsel have to forget their tour in Switzerland and Italy to clive into musty law books, and brush up their special- pleading tact. The late vacation has, however, wit- nessed some great legal changes. Death suddenly removed Sir Cresswell Cresswell, the able judge of the Divorce Court, who has been succeeded by Mr. Baron Wilde, whose seat has been occupied by Mr. Sergeant Pigott. Sir William Atherton has been compelled, from ill-health, to throw up his position as Attorney- General Sir Roundell Palmer has become Attorney- General, and Mr. Collier has been created Solicitor. General. All these appointments, with one exception have given general satisfaction, and that is the nomination of Mr. Sergeant Pigott. As to his fitnes, for the post, and as to his ability, there is but one opinion, that the bar, to a man, felt that Sergeani Shee, the leader of the Home Circuit, had a prioi claim. In fact, it was generally understood thai he was to have had the first judgeship that fell vacant and it therefore was a matter of extreme surprise tha- he was passed over. various reasons nave Deen given for this omission, which it is unnecessary here to refer to, further than to express the feeling held by the bar that Mr. Sergeant Shee has had but scant justice meted out to him. By the different official lists issued from the several courts, it would seem that there is an immense amount of business to be got through, and some of the causes to be tried are of great importance and public interest. For instance, the Alexandra case is again to be brought forward, the Government not being satisfied with the view taken of the law by the Chief Baron Pollock. Then, again, the seizure of the two steam rams built by Mr. Laird in the Mersey, will form the subject of an important trial; but we are led to believe that, should the judges incline to the opinion laid down by the Chief Baron in the case of the Alex- andra, that then not only will the rams be released, but that Mr. Laird will be entitled to heavy compensation for the damage and loss he has sustained by their deten- tion. In December next Mr. Whitehurst, the solicitor, charged with an abominable offence, will take his trial. From the time that has elapsed since the case came before the magistrates, it was thought that nothing more would be heard of this case. Justice, however slow, is sure, and we may rely upon it, that no effort will be spared on behalf of the Crown to prove their case, if they believe it to be true,. The public will, doubtless, recollect an extraordinary trial in the spring of last year, when a man named Hall succeeded in obtaining a verdict and heavy damages against a phy- sician for giving a certificate that he was insane, under which he was locked up in a madhouse. We understand that a case of a similar character will be tried in the Queen's Bench in the sittings after term, the plaintiff in this case being- a lady. Some rather startling disclosures are anticipated. Mr. George, a solicitor, will also be tried, if the prosecutrix can be produced, on a charge of having committed an indecent assault upon a female client. But the Divorce Court will naturally attract the largest share of public atten- tion, from the fact of a new judge having been ap- pointed, and the curious charae-ier of many of the cases iso tried. Sir James Wilde has indteea an j arduous task before him, asad one that wall tax his, energies to the utmost. He is a, judge of acknowledged great ability, and will most probably prove an able successor to the late Sir Cresswell Cresswell. Great things are expected! from him, and there is no fear bst thaJ he will thoroughly realise all these favourable anticipations. At the same time, looking at the published list of causes set down for trial, it is mamiest that were he as strong as a lion it would be hardly possible for him to get through the work cut out for him. The late judge, who worked almost night and day, could not keep the causes under. It is shown that &e did his utmost to clear the list and start afresh, but in vain. By referring to the official lists it will be found that at the commencement of Michaelmas term, 1862, there were eighty-seven causes set down for trial The list for the present term con- tains 109 cases, which would have been increased, as we are informed, to 130 if the late judge had been enabled to hear the last batch of motions in Trinity Term. Of these 199 cases thirteen are to be tried by special juries, sixteen by common juries, and the re- maining eighty before the judge himself. In addition to this Herculean task the judge for the Qgurt for Divorce is also judge of the Probate Court; and there are some twenty or thirty causes to be tried, some of them being difficult cases, and which will take a considerable time. Sir James Wilde has, there- fore, more work before him than any two judges on the bench. This state of things never could have been contemplated when the Probate and Divorce Acts were passed. In fact, so light was the work anticipated, that in a clause of one of the Acts power was taken to transfer the Admiralty Court to the Judge Ordinary when a vacancy should occur if he should be disposed to take it. The time cannot, there- fore, in justice to the judge and the public, be distant when some fresh arrangement will have to be made. The business of the Divorce Court has now attained such gigantic proportions that it is unduly taxing the energies of any single man, however robust and able he may be, to expect him to transact it alone. Probate and Divorce business have not the slightest connection with each other. These two branches of the law are as different as they possibly can be, and therefore, considering the immense amount of business in the Divorce Court, the sooner the alliance between the two courts is severed the better. Such, we believe, is in contemplation by the Government, and early next session it is more than probable that the Lord Chan- cellor will introduce a bill for the reconstruction of the courts. The proposition is one so obviously in ac- cordance with common sense that it is hardly pos- sible to conceive any opposition can be offered to it, as it will be brought in with a view to deal justly with the judge and the public.

HARROWING SCENE IN SOUTHAMPTON WATER. Some of the passengers by the steamer Lady of the Lake, which plies between Southampton and Cowes, have made a very serious charge against the captain and crew of the vessel. On Saturday last the Lady of the Lake was proceeding down Southampton Water when she ran into a boat which was being rowed by one man, smashed it to pieces, and caused the death of the person in it, through being drowned. What would have been a sad accident under ordinary circumstances is in this instance attributed to a want of proper management of the steamer, and to gross inhumanity on the part of the captain and crew. The captain appears to have been enjoying a; chat with some one on deck, while the sailors either neglected or were not ordered to keep a look-out forward. The consequence was that the boat was run into and smashed, although the unfortunate man in it pulled his hardest to get clear. When thrown into the water he struggled to clutch a piece of his boat, and managed to support himself for some minutes. Although there had been this neglect in endangering the man's life, one passenger says, "I thought him in very little danger, as to throw overboard one of the life buoys which were placed near the steersman was only the work of a moment." Nothing, however, was done which could at all be described as an attempt to rescue the drowning man. When the captain heard the noise of the boat being crushed he came forward, but to little purpose, for a life buoy was not thrown to him, nor was the steamer even stopped or backed. The crew at first contented themselves with watching the dying efforts of the poor fellow. At last the passengers expressed their indignation at such heartless conduct, and the boat was then thOii111 of. But this had been stowed away in such a manner, and was in such an unserviceable condition, that it is no wonder the passengers were in a state of horror, and declared the man was being murdered. The boat, instead of hang- ing by the davits over the side of the ship, was kept on deck. Some difficulty was found in freeing the tackle, and when the men did manage to lower it, the boat had no thole pins, and only one oar and a boat-hook. The lowering of the boat, which should have been done in a few minutes occupied ten minutes. By that time the man was drowned, or, as the passengers said, murdered." It is said that the un- fortunate man leaves a wife and ten children.

DEATH OF GENERAL HALLECK'S GRANDFATHER. We learn from the New Yorh Tribune the death, in his one hundred and third year, of Jabez Halleck, grandfather of the American General-in-Chief. The event took place in Westernville, Oneida County, New York, on 17th Sept. last. About the year 1800 he left the home of his ancestors in Long Island and settled in Westernville, where, in 1818, he assisted in organising a church, of which he was an officer forty- five years till his death, having outlived all its early settlers. He was born on the old Hallock homestead, two miles west of Mattituck Village, on the north- eastern branch of Long Island. His first ancestor in America was Peter Hallock, one of thirteen pilgrim fathers. Peter Hallock settled near Mattituck, where his descendants have lived for eight generations till the present time. In the centre of the old Mattituck, Cemetery, may now be found the moss-covered grave- stones of General Hallock's great grandfather, Major Peter Hallock, who died 1791, and of the general's great-great-grandfather, Peter Hallock, who died in 1756, and was a great grandson of Peter, who landed at Southhold in 1640. The first Peter had an only son and four grandsons, Thomas, Peter, William, and John, from whom all the branches of the Hallock family in America descended, one of whom, John Hallock, married into and joined the Society of Friends. He settled in Setauket, Long Island, and has a large posterity, chiefly settled in counties border- ing on the Hudson River, who are lovers of freedom, temperance, good order, and other characteristics of the Society of Friends. In the funeral solemnities of Deacon Jabez Halleck, the Rev. Mr. Parmelee stated the following facts "He was born a subject of Great Britain, but lived to witness the successful issue of the revolutionary struggle by which he and'his children after him were made free American citizens. He has lived to see the wonderful growth of this then infant nation—ad- vancing, as it has in its mighty tread, from a popu- lation of three millions to one of over thirty. He has been permitted to watch its struggles through days of darkness and trials, and wars with foreign Powers. And as he saw the beginning of the first great contest for the establishment of our Government, so he was permitted to see the beginning of this second great contest for the preservation of that Government be- queathed us by our fathers against the traitorous assaults of its enemies. Of few others in the land can this be said. In many respects he was a remarkable man. Physically he was one to attract attention any- where he was very tall and imposing in his personal appearance he possessed a constitution which seemed capable of any amount of endurance. His habits in every respect were of the most temperate kind. Until within two or three years he has almost daily per- formed some manual labour, and was able to walk about the house almost to the day of his death." Abandonment of the Ship Gorilla.-The loss

FRIGHTFUL STARVATION OF A FAMILY. Another shocking case of death from starvation has taken place in the Fast-end of London. It appears that a respectable family, carrying on a school at No. ¡ 45" De Bean voir-s quar e, West Hackney, have been plunged into a state of the greatest destitution through the failure of the school, and that recently an execu- tion was put into the house and all the furniture and effects were carried away. On Saturday se'nnight one of the children, Macaulay Josiah Brewer, twelve years, was found by Dr. Kitchen, lying without covering in a, room without furniture and without fire, and dying apparently from the want of food and comfort. Death soon after put an end to his sufferings. Mr. H. Raffles Walthew, deputy coroner, held an inquest upon the body on Friday night at the Wagon and Horses Tavern, De Beauvoir-square, and so great was the sensation that the sufferings of the family had made in the neighbourhood that not only was the court crowded, but several hundred persons gathered in the street outside. Mrs. M. Brewer deposed that deceased was her child. About three weeks ago he was taken with a cold. On Saturday last she noticed a clumge come over him, and she was about to send for a doctor, when he was taken with a fit, and died soon after. Witness bad had a family of twelve children, five of whom were living with her. The eldest of the latter was eighteen years old. and had assisted in teaching in the school. They had taken the school last December, but it had failed. A month ago an execu- tion was put in and everything removed. Deceased, lying on a mattress lent, had nothing to cover him. The rest of the family lay on the floor. Dr. Kitchen said he was called in when deceased was dying. Death resulted from water being effused in the lungs from the effects of the want of food and of exposure. The child's lying as he found him, in a room without fire, and when reduced to the last stage from privation, was sufficient to cause death, The family were miserably poor, and were on that account unable to cali in a medical man in time to save deceased's life. Mr. Josiah Brewer said that he was a schoolmaster. He took the house last Christmas, and had about twelve scholars. He had only a few shillings a week-not more than ten shillings-to keep five children with. When the execution was put in the school was upset. He did all he could for deceased. None ot the family had bedding or clothing. The Coroner said that a more dreadful case of suffering he had never seen. The parents ought to have applied for relief to the proper quarter, instead of attempting to conceal their deplor- able condition. If a doctor had been called in before deceased might not have been sacrificed. The Jury returned a verdict of "Death from effusion on the lungs, caused by want of food," and the jurors added that the parents showed neglect in not calling in medical aid for the deceased before his death." The coroner, the jury, and the Rev. S. Finch, the incumbent of the district, raised a subscription, which amounted to £4 13s., for the unfortunate family.

ADDRESS OF THE NATIONAL GOVERN- MENT OF WARSAW TO THE FRENCH NATION. The subjoined address to the French nation has just been issued by the National Government of Warsaw:— For a long time past Europe contemplated, with a feeling of melancholy regret, Poland fallen from her former power, and looked upon a body from which the soul appeared to have departed. To sadness succeeded forgetfulness, even where honour and conscience should have perpetuated the same remembrances of glory. "It is a corpse!" said the nations. "False- hood replied Poland. Blood cannot flow from the bosom of a corpse!" A cry of menace and suffering, the echo of superhuman sacrifices, turned public attention towards a martyred people demanding an existence which had been too long contested. Poland is not dead said the nations. She is not dead! you exclaimed, noble citizens, in presence of the French people, of whom you are the living language. That cry resounded in our fraternal hearts like a signal of deliverance and welfare. We said to our brothers in arms, "The love of Poland has at all times been the moral nobility of France she can only be deprived of that distinction at the cost of her down- fall as an initiating nation in progress and liberty." We all, sons of that suffering Poland, children of that land bathed in the tears of old men and mothers and the blood of martyrs and heroes, embrace you cordially for yoiir sympathetic participation in our struggles. Friends of Poland, receive the salute of those who are about to die! (Here follow 20,000 signatures of landed proprietors, members of the clergy, Jews, and peasants.)

A BOY ACCIDENTALLY STABBED BY HIS PLAYFELLOW. Dr. Lankester has just concluded an inquiry at Middlesex Hospital relative to the death of Francis William Fisher, fourteen years of age, the son of a poulterer in Oxford-market, who died from the effects of a wound in t1. e heart, inflicted by Joseph Green, another boy. The occurrence took place three months ago, and deceased was discharged from the hospital as cured, but on Friday week he was taken ill and died in a few hours. Dr. O'Flaherty made the post-mortem examination, and on the left breast saw a cicatrix winch he traced to the heart, the right ventricle having been penetrated in a slanting direction. Had it been straight death would have been instan- taneous. The cause of death was apoplexy, pro- duced, he believed, by the weakening of the heart's action from the thinning of its walls, the effect of the wound. Evidence was given by a boy who saw the occurrence, to the effect that Joseph Green and the deceased were about making an exchange. Green had a whistle, for which the deceased offered a knife. The former said he had got a knife, and took a penknife from his pocket, which he opened, and in turning with it in his hand, as deceased was approaching him, he accidentally stuck the knife in him. It had been given in evidence that deceased had said Joe was not to blame." The jury felt that there was some degree of carelessness on the part of the boy Green, and requested the Coroner to reprimand him. The father of Green said he was happy to hear the jury make that request, as his boy was very careless, and had lost several situations in consequence of his want of thought. What the Coroner would say to him would no doubt be of great service to him in his future course after so sad an event. The boy having been suitably re- primanded a verdict of Accidental Death was recorded.

WILLS AND BEQUESTS. The will of the Sight Hon. Sir Cresswell Cresswell, Knight, was proved in the principal registry. The personalty was sworn under < £ 35,000. Sir Cresswell attained the age of 70. The family name wasEasterby, which his father exchanged for Cresswell in 1821. The testator was called to the bar at the Inner Temple in 1819 appointed a judge in the Court of Common Pleas' in i842; transferred to the Court of Probate and Divorce, 1857 and sat in Parliament as M.P. for Liverpool in 1837. Sir Cresswell executed his will in 1861, which is entirely in his own handwriting, and has beaueathed to his sister Frances an annuity of £ 250, together with an immediate legacy of £500, and leaves her all his furniture, &c., except his law-books these he directs to be sold, as well as his shares in the Rock Assurance Office, and the proceeds, together with all other investments and securities to be held in trust. Legacies are left to some relatives, to each of his god- children, to some personal friends, and to his executors. The residue of his property, subject to contingencies, he bequeaths to the twin children of Commander Wm. Arthur, E.N. The will of John Humphery, Esq., of Clapham- common, one of the aldermen of the city of London, was proved in her Majesty's Court of Probate on the 15th ult. The personalty was sworn under £ 180,000. This respected alderman executed his will, with a codicil, on the same day—the 26th of September last, being two days previous to his decease. He divides his property, real and personal, into eleven equal parts, and bequeaths to his relic one half-share beyond all other provisions in her favour, leaving her also the selection of furniture for a residence, and an immediate legacy of £ 500: the other half- share he bequeaths to his daughter. To each of his ten sons he leaves an eleventh share in his entire property. There are legacies to his executors, to his clerks, and to other persons, as also to his servants. Illustrated London News.

MR. LAIRD ON THE ALABAMA. Mr. Laird, M.P., being present lately at a distribu- ion of prizes to volunteers, in the Music-hall, Birken- lead, in the course of an address which he was called ipon to deliver, referred to statements which had been nade respecting the Alabama. He was not afraid, he ;aid, or ashamed to own that his sons built and de- signed the Alabama (hear, and cheers); nor, he was sure, was the builder of the Florida ashamed to say diat'he designed and built that ship; but the testimony Dome to the character of those vessels was not the testimony of Birkenhad or Liverpool or this country, jut of America. Those two vessels had been built a ong time, and they had defied the efforts of 400 ships )f war to capture them. These ships were designed jy private individuals, and built for private individ- lals. He repeated that he was not ashamed to acknow- .edge that some of his family had to do with that ship. Still some statements had been made about her which should be controverted. He should not have made any remark, but for the fact that the Government of this country had made certain state- ments, and had given certain legal opinions about her, and had talked about the vessel having es- caped. It was nonsense to talk about the Alabama escaping. The Alabama was in dock when she was inspected by very many curious people and in dock she took on board her coals and her stores. There was no secrecy whatever observed about the ship. She went out of dock at night; and if she wanted to escape, surely the night was a time when she could have escaped. But what was the fact ? They were so vainglorious about their little craft that they anchored her off the landing stage, and there she remained until half-past ten or eleven the following morning, when she left for her destination. The Government ad- mitted that she was not fitted out as a man-of-war, and that they had no legal authority to detain that ship until a man was engaged to serve on board her as a sailor. Did any shipowner present believe, or any man con- nected with shipping,. tiliat the captain of a vessel sup- posed to be goingupoasany extraordinary voyage, would go and tell a comirum sailor at the Sailors' Home all the ins and outs of his intentions regarding that ship (hear. hear, and applufiise) ? Certainly not. He never saw th? captain of the Alabama but once, and that was after taking the ship out, and he did not think he was the man to make such a statement as that upon which the ship might have been stopped. Lord Palmerston had expressed his doubts whether the Government would not have rendered itself liable to damages if they had seized the Alabama, but the recent speech made by Earl Russell at Blairgowrie did not seem to agree with that delivered by the Premier. Earl Russell had undertaken to say something which he would not be able to carry out. He laid it down that if they found the law not sufficient they could go to Parliament for an indemnity. He (Mr. Laird) be- lieved- Parliament would not indemnify an act if it was supposed to transgress the law (cheers). Up to the time an act of indemnity was passed, there was a law by which all were bound. Laws were not made for an administration, but for the country, ana they were bound to obey the law as they found it, and they were not bound to obey laws made hereafter (hear, hear, and applause), Mr. Laird concluded by alluding to the speech recently made by Sir Roundell Palmer, Attorney-General, pointing out the incon- sistency of that gentleman contradicting in October statements which were made by himself in March last.

THE POLISH QUESTION AND EARL RUSSELL. A Paris correspondent of a contemporary, in writing upon this subject, says :— The papers have already mentioned the factof Lord Russell's Jispatch, addressed to the English minister at St. Petersburg, re- peating, in an official form, and no doubt as the deliberate opinion of the Government, that Russia had forfeited the right she had acquired to Poland under the Vienna Treaty; and also the counter order by telegraph, that this dispatch should not be communicated, as originally intended, to Prince Gortschakoif. It is stated here that a counter-order was obtained at the pressing instance of M. de Bismark. It appears that when Prince Gortschakoff wrote the second dispatch in July last concerning Poland, which excited such general dissatisfaction, M. de Bismark wrote to M. de Bernstorff, instrucTing him to take the earliest opportunity of declaring to Lord Russell that Prussia not only would not join in the intervention of the Powers, but that she would consider armed intervention as a casus belli. Thereupon, Lord Russell assured 1\f. de Bermtorff that a friendly intervention was all that the English Government contemplated; that lie had no intention to engage in war; but, at the same time, he repeated his deep displeasure at the conduct of Prince Gortscha- koff. It was about this time that the English cabinet showed a certain repugnance to the overtures of the French Foreign-office. and that rumours of a liusso-Prussian alliance with France began to be rife. On the reception of the third Russian dispatch in September, Lord Russell, justly in- dignant at its tone, conceived the idea of declaring that Russia had fo.-feited her treaty rights to Poland How this was received by the public it is unnecessary to state. It was known, of course, at St. Petersburg before any official communication reached them; but Prince Gortschakoif at once addressed himself to M. de Bismark, and invoked his aid. M. de Bismark addressed another dispatch to M. de Bernstoff, and instructed him to in- form Lord Russell that Russia would regard a declaration of the kind, communicated officially, as a casus belli; that in such a case Prussia would side with Russia that the peace of Europe would be endangered, &c. This communication was made on the 10th of October; and M de Bismark was informed in reply that the answer of Lord Russell was H evasive." It seems that Lord Rus'ell's note to Lord Napier, relative to the forfeiture of Russia's rights, had been dispatched to St. Petersburg two days before. M. de Bernstoff is said to have then applied to Lord Palmerston, and have obtained from him that a telegram should at once be sent to Lord Napier, instructing him not to present the dispatch. Such is the explanation current here of that 'accident."

A Poisoner.—The BerbiceGazette states that an old man in Berbice, known as Daddy Joe," has on his death-bed confessed to having had a part in an im- mense number of murders by poisoning, a crime which there is reason to suspect is but too common in the colony; almost every piece of bush-land yields the most subtle poisonous plants to those acquainted with them. He also told the place where a great quantity of valuable ornaments were to be found which had been the hire of his services in these atrocities. The Chatham Memorial to the late Prince Consort.-A handsome drinking fountain, erected by public subscription as a memorial to the late Prince Consort, was formally opened at Chatham a few days since, the ceremony being' witnessed by a vast concourse of spectators, and the occasion celebrated as a holiday. The fountain has been erected in a very appropriate spot on the Military-road, in a central part of the town, on a site presented by the Government. The structure is exceedingly handsome, and is composed of dark polished marble and Bath stone. On a compartment in front are the arms of the late Prince Consort, and on the side are carved the arms of Mr. J. Budden, one of the principal donors, and at whose expense the fountain has been completed. The following inscrip- tion is carved on the front part of the structure: "This fountain was erected in memory of Albert, Prince Consort, at the expense of James Budden, Esq., and other inhabitants of the parish of Chatham." Shortly after two o'clock a procession of the public bodies, clubs, benefit societies, and inhabitants of the borough, assembled in the New-road, and, accompanied by the band of the Royal Marines Light Infantry, the dockyard police band, and other music, marched in procession through the town to the spot on which the fountain is erected, when it was formally opened by General Sir Frederick Smith, K.H., the member for Chatham, in an appropriate speech. Cheers were afterwards given for the Queen, the Prince of Wales, Sir F. Smith, and Mr. Budden, and the proceedings terminated. Social Science Association.—A meeting of the local committee has been held at Edinburgh, for the purpose of receiving the report of the honorary local secretaries, and winding up the affairs of the late con- gress. Professor Archer read the report, which refers to the gratifying way in which the people of Edin- burgh has sustained their reputation for hospitality, and to various bodies and persons to whom the thanks of the Association are due—including the Hon. General Secretary, Mr. G. W. Hastings; and the Assistant Secretaries Miss Isa Craig and Mr. Randall. It stated that the working men's meeting was a feature of special interest, no fewer than 34,960_applications having been received for admission, of which only about 3,600 could be gratified, and the order of the meeting, and deep interest taken in the proceedings, were such as to excite the admiration of all. The report concluded by adverting to the great success which had attended the excursion. Mr. Curror, City Treasurer, read the financial report, which stated that the revenue of the general fund from the sale of tickets was < £ 1,747 14s., and the disbursements < £ 208; leaving a balance of < £ 1.539. The local subscription fund amounted to < £ 905, and the disbursements to < £ 802, leaving a balance of £ 102. It was proposed to transmit immediately the sum of £ 1,500 to the Association in London. The reports were approved,' and votes of thanks were tendered to all who had given their services or in other ways promoted the success of the meeting, special notice being taken of Professor Archer, on whom the great bulk of the work, as the acting local honorary secretary, had devolved. A vote of thanks to the Lord Provost for presiding c'o,ed the proceedings.

of a large ship, the Gorilla, 1,400 tons register, with a cargo valued at £47,000, has been reported to the Board of Trade by the receiver of wreck for the port of Queenstown. The ship appears to have left Liver- pool for Boston with a general cargo and a crew of twenty-eight hands, on the 18th of last August. On reaching lat. 46 N, long. 42 W, on the 14th of Septem- ber, she eNcountered terrible weather, which continued for days, during which the ship sprung a leak, which it was impossible to keep down by working the pumps, and on the 18th the officers and crew took to the boats and abandoned the ship. They were eventually saved by the barque Alice Wilson, wMch picked them up and landed them at QueensTtcwrn. The Gorilla was valued at < £ 7,000, but was cmly insured for £5,00\\ ,making loss, with canav, £ 54,000.