PENRITH HERALD and East Cumberland and Westmorland News. NO. 446 - First Week in Quarter Registered for Transmission Abroad./Price 1D. ____________________________________________________ MUTINY AT SEA. (From the "Cape Argus", February 24.)..................PART I the following is an extract from the official log of the barque 'Satsuma', which left Cardiff on the 13th December last, bound for the Cape, and arrived here on Saturday: About five a.m. in latitude 31.38 S., the morning of the 29th January, 1874, longitude 23.38 W., the following occurred in the south Atlantic: I, WILLIAM LESLIE, master of the British barque Satsuma, of Sunderland, of 355 tons register, on a voyage from Cardiff to Table Bay, Cape of Good Hope, with a full cargo of coals, was, on the morning of the 29th of January, about five o'clock a.m., surprised in my bed, while asleep, by three men who seized me. One, the instant I raised my head off the pillow, put a rope with a slip knot over my head, trying to strangle me. Another had a hatchet, and the third a revolver, all with murder in their eyes. I, with the strength which despair alone gives, sprang from my bed, closed with and burst through them, rushed to the fore-cabin where the mate was asleep, dragging the man after me who had the slip knot round my neck; but did not reach the mate before my skull was laid open by one or more blows from the hatchets. With the blood streaming all over my face, and with my head reeling, I reached the mate's berth, who on the instant sprang from his bed and saved me once or more times from being killed outright. Gathering all my strength again, I rushed through the mutineers, and up the companion, and actually dragged the man, who still kept hold of me with the rope round my neck, along with me. Here I could get no assistance. I was found by the mate, who was overpowered by a man, a more powerful man. Now, at this time I managed to sever the rope that was round my neck; but from being half strangled, loss of blood, and stupefied from the effects of the blows from the hatchets, I hardly knew half what occurred. All that I can remember, there seemed to be revolvers in all directions, for the shots were whistling round us. At last one fearful blow, aimed at my head by one man, either partly hit me, or too low. I tumbled down the companion. The same blow removed the top of the companion. I then hardly knew what took place for some time, believing that all on my side were either shot or drowned, when I was joined by the mate, who by some means escaped from them. I was now quite weak, and sat down in the after-cabin, where I was guarded through the skylight by one or more revolvers. The mate was ordered apart from me, and the mutineers had charge of the ship at this time. The cook who was a mutineer, was sent down to the cabin, and handed up six rifles under the cover of their revolvers. The mutineers now looked down the skylight, and asked which boat they should take, as they were to leave the ship; and after me telling them, they coolly asked if I was much hurt. On my saying that I was, they said they were sorry for it, that I was such a powerful man,, and if I had kept quiet, I would have been all right. They then took the second boat in size, with mast, sails, four oars, one bag of bread, breaker of water, beer, wine, whiskey, rum, one cheese, one ham, new log line, hatchet, all the rifles, or else hove them overboard, bag of nails, compass, a chart from the mate, pipes, matches, tobacco, and other cordage; also all of DUN's clothes, part of SIMON's. They now were crying out for the man DUN, as they wanted to hang him at the yard-arm before leaving, which, upon hearing, I begged WHYLEY, who was guarding me, and was the ringleader, to spare his life, who told me he would, ,and one of them went down after him in the hold to try and find him, but not seeing him, fired several shots in the dark after him. They also took shots, scoop of big gun, and also black and white paint, and three paint brushes, to disguise the boat, which before was painted white, green gunwale, and blue bottom inside. They also cut part of the running gear, took saw and chisel, and before leaving they spiked the big gun, ringleader WHYLEY all the time sitting on the skylight, with revolver pointing down, giving his orders in the coolest of manners, also two buckets, and marline-spike. All carried sharp knives. About eight o'clock they all left, and steered to the S.W. Now the way they were able to surprise the vessel was this, that all the mutineers were in one watch, it being the watch on deck; also the steward and cook. They first seized the officer of the watch, lashed him, and put him down into the afterhold. The names of the mutineers are: No. 1 JAMES WHYLEY, aged 27, native of Bedford,Yorkshire, ringleader and instigator of the mutiny, has a brother-in-law, named JAMES SWAINE, grocer, thirty, College-road, Bedford. 2. JOHN ANDERSON, aged 21, born in Ireland; last ship Alegro, London. 3. WILLIAM JONES, age 23, born in Boston; last ship Lilly, Ipswich. No. 4. PROSPERO BELTRAM, Mexican, aged 21; last ship Pedire. No. 5. ROBERT NELSON, Preston, aged 18 years; last ship Singwise. My belief as to the cause of the mutiny is this, that in the first place they were all a great set of blackguards, shipped without discharges; two of them had walked from London to Cardiff; the steward had most fearfully wasted the stores, one could not credit it, but which can be proved by all on board. I had drawn out a statement of the stores wasted, which must have come to his knowledge, and said that he should be punished on arrival at the Cape. The man, ANDERSON, an Irishman, hove a poor dog overboard, as he said he ate some of his beef in the forecastle. I said also he should be punished on our arrival. BELTRAM and JONES, worthless and useless fellows, being both disrated from A.B. to ordinary. Cook who was never at sea before, could not and would not give us clean food to eat; was told he would be seen to at the Cape. But all were instigated, and obeyed, by t he steward, who was no steward, but a Californian ranger. WILLIAM LESLIE, Master, ship Satsuma.