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- "or ~~1 . ~~~ • . 'l'}J H: ,NING STAR. LONDON. TUESDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1W95. STOCK EXCIIANGF., TWELVE O'CLOCK. Consols * opened this morning at /nil,. with little doing.; but so.,ti after they were done at 87i j for the Account, and 57; for Money. Tits confusion and alarm which the great failure caused yesterday afternoon, on 'Change, begins this morning to subside. It is calculated it will be about a million, and not seven millions, as a Homing Paper states. In the Foreign Miirket nothing is doing. Current Prices: Austrian Bonds 981;, Brazilian Scrip 81 8 di+c. Buenos Ayres Bonds 83 84. Chilian Bonds 681 691, Greek Bonds 291, :Mexican Bonds 70/ 711, blezican Scrip 81 8 disc. Old Spanish 171, Guaternela 5 44 discount. P:. ICE 4)1 sTocKs AT TWO O'CLOCK. Bank Stock 226 22.5 3 , er Cent. iced. 8678 87 86% 3, . r Cr•nt. ('on.. b7 '/2 Y 4 l ia 31 per Cent. 94 1 / 1 7 / 8 3f. per Cent. Red. 94%M 1 / a 4 per Cent. New 103 1 4 , Y 8 Vs Lang Ann. 20 15-16 21 . New Annuities 87% ELMO Excheq. Bill. par 1 pr( m. £5OO Liiiiii par 2 prem. 4:100 and Lt. - 00 ditto 24 1 3 prem. Loos. for Acct. 87qa 1 / 8 Mt Foßktr:N FUNDS, TWO O'CLOCK. Au'trlan lids S p Ct. ' 111 ex. Scrip, 1825, Brazilian ii. 4111-. * DUO ACM 83 3 di,. In.. fie s ii , ,5 pe. I 825, Neapolitan Bond., Ditto Acct. PcriAt. liontls, 6 pt . . 613 Pt:tl.ol Area MAW* I)itisiScrip,l62.s, 6 pC. I.itto Ate!. I'm tugoese Bond. Cliii! ii 11. p ' i t, 6 p Cf. Pi iiss. lid.. rt p C. 931 Col titan Bils,6pC. Do. Bonds. 113'2:2, l'itto AeCt. Huss. 8t15,1329,S p C. Ditto Bonds 1824. Ditto for Ace. Ditto Aee. 741 a Span. 5 p C. Cons. 171 17 Danish lisinl,, 5 „p Ct. 1011 Ditto Acct. 171 1'... Marts Banco Ditto 510 Ditto Bonds, 16.25, GG3 Spans p. Ct. C. 1823, Circek Bonds French livines,spC. 1/1).1:W6,1825 5 pet. 291 French Bentes.3p C. 72f. Ditto Acct. Exchange, 251. 10c. IV ex. Bonds, 71 701 71 Guatemala Scrip, 5 dia. Ditto Acct. Ditto Acct. 5 dia. I /c.80nd5,1825, 6 p Ct. Russian Inscript. 6 p Ct. BRITISH AND FOREIGN SHARES, TWO O'CLOCK. SHA KC. PAIII. roues tilt •lIIA RI. An ; ;lta 111exicau 5 pm. 100 30 60 671 Bolivar 50 3 21 CaatelloStEspititoSanto 100 5 10/ 3 A 3 Ilitternian - 50 4 - - 21 Potosi. I.n Paz, & Pertly. 50 5 4; A 3 Real del Monte 400 350 550 United Mexican 40 20 Ditto Nt w 40 10 22 Marine Alliance 100 5 54 Continental Gas 100 8 31 British Iron Company - 100 £5 193 20 British Bock & l'atent Salt 50 .5 10 91 General Dyeing & Printing 3 4/ Imperial Plate Glass 100 2 3 In another column we have given some further de taik of that affecting calamity, the loss of the Comet steArn-packet; a correct list cf the sufferers has not yet Leen obtained, but we feel great pleasure in stating, that the Tern of Lord IslAcu NALD, Mr. DOWNIE, of Ap and Mr. GRANT, of Laggan, the celebrated novel A% riter, having perished in the Comet is ut founded, none cf them being on board at the time. A similar fatal accident occurred about two years :Igo, in the loss of the Catherine, of lona, which was run down by the Hercules steam-b -at, en the night of Saturday, the 10th of August, 1822. A strcng coin cidence prevails iu the two cases. In both the calamity avas occasioned by steam-vessels in the vety outset of th-ir cateer. The time was nearly the sante: the acci &tits occurred almost at the same place, and had similar causes assigned them. In the case of the Ca therine, for ty-two persons perished out of forty-sit; in the present instance, it is to be feared, however, a much larger number has been lost. The frequency of accidents to steam-boats, calls loudly for s , me legislative interference. Fire and water, the old proverb says, are " good servants, but bad masters;' , and when they are employed in such important opera. tions as steam navigation, every care ought to be taken to keep them in subjection.. Mr. TREUGOLD recommends that at every port where steam-vessels are employed, an Inspector should be appointed to see and certify, previous to their sailing, that they ate complete in their equipments in every respect. In the present in stance the fatal accident might perhaps have occurred even had the Comet passed an inspection, as it is be lieved to have occurred owirg to the want f`f lights on the deck of the Comet; but there are other accidents of frequent occurrence, from a bad boiler, or sonic defect in the steam, or the vessels themselves, which an active i.lspectnr would prevent, and we trust another Session of l'Arliament will not pass without steam vessels being placed under a sort of scientific police. In another column we have given an account of the Court alartial held on Captain Horztizu, of the Fury, for the logs of that vessel in the Northern Expedition. Captain PARRY and the other Officers, bore testimony to the zeal and exertions displayed by Captain Horruzu, in the discharge of an arduous duty, on an occa sion so critical, and he was most honourably acquitted by the Court. Rio de J inch o Papers LO the 24th of August have reached us, but they do nit contain any news. A letter fro m Bayonne of the 15th October, says -4' We expected that this day Re should have teen our camp struck, but the only change a at has taken place is, that instead of the tro. , ps being in tents, they are going to be quarterLd in various buildings round this town. It appeals that this change was owing to a telegraphic dispatch received yesterday, and it is gene rallyt hought that the troops and the Etat-Major will pass the winter under our walls." Hantbutgh Papers to the Ifith inst. and Dutch Papers to the 22d, resched us this forenoon. Thcy state that the Diet of the Province of Saxony was opened at Met seberg on the 2d inst. At the meeting of the Second Chamber of the states General, at the Hague, on the 20th inst. M. SANDS:RG, nominated ~ss~ . . 'Resident by the KIXG, took the chair, vth:n several messages from . his MAJESTY were read, among which were, one relative to the introduction of a new gold coin of the value of five florins, and one of a revised project of law, for the Ist and 2d books of the code of commerce. _Accounts from .Sr. Peterburgh state, that the new commercial treaty with Russia and Prussia, has led to considerable chnges in the Custom houses on the 13a1- tic, and ,in Lithuania; those at Polangen and Jur burg are made Custom houses of the first class, and the de pots at Kiew and Wilna entirely abolished. On the Ist of this month a new ship of the line was launched near the Admiralty dock-yards, at St. Petersburgh. It is called the Ilango-odd, and carries 84 guns. Ii is the first ship built in Russia on the plan of S.r R. SEPPLNGS. Lisbon Gazettes, from the 2d to the 9th instant, reached us this foicnoon. The following is the only article worth quoting:— LISBON,• OCTOBER 2. In another part of our Paper is the Decree appointing the Au ditor-General of the Navy to be Judge in the cause of the capture of the Elisa schooner, detained at Santo Antao, one of the Cape deVerd Islands, which arrived in this port on the 23d of last momb, having, besides the crew put on board her in those islands, '2l prisoners, part of whom belonged to the crew of the Spanish schooner Atrerida, which bad sailed from the Ilavannah, to cart y on the slave trade on the coast of Africa. This latter schooner being at anchor in the river Tritone, the Captain and some others being on shore, the remainder seized the ship, and putting to sea, turned pirates, plundering the ships they met, v ithuu: distinction, Proceeding then to the riser Nilo, on the west coast of Africa where the schooner Elisa was at anchor, they made themselves masters of it ; and it being a better sailer than their own ship, they removed to it, leaving the other to the Captain and part of , the crew of the Elisa. Atter this, they proceeded to cruise among the Cape de Verd Islands, and plundered several vessels, till they anchored in the port of Tarrafal, in the island of Santo Antao having there landed some of the persons whom the pirates had com pelled to accompany them. The Governor of tie island being in. formed by these persons of the aboverneutioned particulars, he took the most judicious means to apprehend them.—He then caused the preliminary investigations to be made before the tritiunals of the islands, which have been sent hither, with the other documents, containing together the circumstances related, and will serve as the basis of the proceedings now to be institutes:. It appears, by accounts from Madrid, that the Spa nish Clover nment consoles it,elf for the defection of the ships Asia and Constance, which surrendered to Mexico, by attributing it to treachery. It is said, that MA RV.. NEZ, the second in command, and who was a man known for his attachment to the Cortes, but whom FertntNAND nevertheless pardoned, and continued in the command of his vess..l, mutinied 'against his Corn man:ling Officer, GURMCETA, made him a prisoner, for c, d him to undergo a mock trial, and then murdered him ! We do not believe one word of this statement. The Anniversary (lit October) of the freedom of King FERDINAND, and the Royal Family, liberated Iron) the hands of the Constitutionalists in Cadiz, is nowre gularly kept in Spain, with tl e liberal solemnities of a dress-levee, I e Deana in the Churches, salutes, reviews, and illuminationsin the evening. The 'last Anniversary at the Palace of S in Lorenzo and in Madrid, is repre sented as having been very brilliant, and the felicitations of the Foreign Ambassadors at Court, on this memo table occasion, were extremely pointed and flattering. In the meantime the decrees of FERDINAND issued at the time of BESSIERES . revolt, are not suffered to re main a dead letter, but have been extended to the Gue rillas of Valentia, under the orders of EL GATO. But even these decrees, which order the rebels to be executed immediately on their being taken, appear too slow, and a price has been set on their heads. The Valencia Journal of the 24th of September, says, "every inhabitant is at liberty to kill them wherever he may meet them, witheut incur ring any punishment." Such a license to commit murder we scarcely ever heard of, aril as the Courier Francais well observes, " there is only another step to advance, and that is to train dogs, as the :old Spaniards did in tie New World, to go men-bunting." The question of a new Spanish Loan. it appears, is not yet entirely set at rest. The .Afemorial Bordelais announces that M. Tasstm bad just passed through Bordeaux, on his way to Paris, with the documents relating to the Loan he was said to be nego tiating with the Spanish. Government. It is added, as if to throw utter ridicule upon the other part of the paragraph, that the French . Bankers had offered to raise two hundred and fifty millions of francs, but that the King of Sears Would consent only to accept of ::00,000,000. The Courier Francais intimates that the state ments that have appeared rviiecting this pretended negociation have been fabricated fur stock-jobbing purposes, by some,holders of GUIIIINAIei bonds, who begin to be apprehensive that their security is not absolutely the bust that might be had in the world, and are therefore anxious to pass it off, at as little loss as possible, to other hands. A letter from Paris states that an eminent capitalist has offered to raise a loan for the King of STAIN, to the amount of twenty millions sterling, on condition that sixteen millions of it should go to the French Government, on account of the debt due from Spain. Nothing was said of the loans of the Cortes, but the pro posal was instantly rejected, owing to the largeness of the amount required for France. We still cont:oue to receive news from Greece through various channels. The Augsburg Ga:etur contradicts the report of IsaAiliss PACHA'S death, but confirms that of Husain); like. The *French Papers contain letters from Zmte and Corfu to the end of September, which confirm the favourable intelligence lately arrived from Greece. It appears now certain that Isamtne PACHA had retreated front Tripulizza with the bulk of his army, to Navarino or Modoti. The presence of the Greek fleet under Mimi!" on the coast of Wc‘trrn Greece, is said to have cut off the Lupplics which liens. Pacts* was in the habit of receiving front Patras and Le panto, and to have rendered his position in front of 3lissoloughi altno,t untenable. An article front Marseilles, in the Ilamburgh Paper, states that the French General L►vaox, in the service of the PACHA of Egypt, had arrived with the ratification of the contract by which a cer tain house at Marseilles had agreed to furnish the Pacua with two frigates of 60 guns each. Lord STRANGFoRD sailed on Sunday, in the GLASS- Gow frigate, for St. Petersburgh. Mr. STRATFORD CANNING, Ambassador horn his MAJVITY to the Ottoman l'orte, arrived at Calais, on Friday, on his way to Constantinople. Doi Hight flonnur.tb!e Lord ELLENIVROMII and family arrived at Pnrtpatrick on Friday last, and embarked the neat morning on board his Majesty's steam packet the ARROW, Captain PAsco, fur Dotiaghadee. Sit JAM k 3 MACKINT , SH, accompanied by his daugh ter, paid Keswick a visit last week. Wednesday they spent the eveSirning with Mr. SOUTHIIf. JANIES KEENEY r, Pr ivate Secretary to the Duke of CAMBRIDGE, left town yesterday morning, with dispatches for his Royal Highness, at Hanover.' JoIIN WORTLEY, E son of J. S. WORTLEY, Esq.' 51. P. for Yorkshire, is shortly espected to lead to the hymeneal altat Lady GAGAGIANA RYDEN, daughter of the Earl of Haaiioway. Baron GRAHAM at rivud at P.ittsm,.uth yesterday Pe:might, and left on Monday morning for Hastings. Mra CoTTIS and the:Duke of St. ALBANS arrived at F.dinburih on Tuesday. They visited the Castle, when they invited the Officers of the 17th Regiment to a splendid ddrune a la four chute, of which General Sir R. W. O'CALLAGHAN, old Provost Hoiozasor, and other distinguished individuals, also partook. •••••,••••••11.•• THE WiNnson, OCT. 2.4.-11iS MAJESTY visited the Castle yesterday afternoon, accompanied by his Royal High ness the Dt•lce of CUMBERLAND, where he Arrived in his pony phaeton abnut four o'clock. His MAJESTY en tered the Castle from the Little l'Ark through the New Gateway, and drove into the quadrangle, where he i.i spected the advanceme• is made throughout the whole of the improvements in the North-east and Slitth fronts. His MAJESTY and the R )yal Duke left the Cattle at a quarter be ore five, and returned to the Royal Lodge. Last evening his MAJESTY ente:taincd the Duke of CUMBERLAND, the Duke of WELLINGT3N, and the Duke of DORSET, with the Eat' and Countess of HArt- COURT, at dinner. This morning his Grace the Duke of WICLIINGTON took leave of his MAJIMT, and depar:ed from the Royal Lodge. Their Royal Highnesses the Princess Aunurra and the Duchess of Gi.occesvea are expected to dine with his IlLtxxsTY this evening. rOFT" .I !1 1 K 4uv75 ' 7 •••• , ,p.• .~..~,. FASHIONABLE IN I'ELLIGENCE. The Duke of Devonshire arrived in town yesterday, from his seat, Chatsworth, Derbyshire. The Dowager Marchioness of Sali•bury left town yesterday, for Hatfield. The Earl of Beshorough has arrived in town from a tour. The Harland Countess of Bristol, and the Ladies Hervey left town yesterday, for their seat, ickworth Park, Suffolk. The Earl and Countess Guwer have arrived at the Marquis of Stafford's, Trentham Hall, Staffordshire, from a tour. Lord Mountsandford and .1. Robins, Esq. left Thomas's Hotel, 13e rkeltir square, yesterday, for Yorkshire. Loisl andly Grantham arrived in town yesterday, from the Countess 1)e Grey's seat, Wrest. I iouse, Bedfordshire. Viscount Althorp has left Althorp, Northamptonshire, for Mt. Guke's seat, in Norfolk. _ _ Viscount Dudley arrived in town yesterday, from his seat, Him ley Hall. Staffordshire. Mrs. lteteineyer left the London Hotel, Albemarle street, yes terday, for Bath. Mr. and Nrs. Wring have arrived at their seat in Ilene, from a tour. Arrivals at Jordan's Hotel, St. James's-street :—The Dean of Ossory and son, from Paris; Colonel and Mrs. Madden, from Brighton; the Rev. Mr. and Mrs. Read, from Yorkshire. Departures from Long's Hotel, Bond•street:—The Rev. IL Palmer, for Leicester ; R. Close, Esq. for Ireland; Alexander Erskine, Esq. for Brighton; Captain Lloyd, R.N. for Cheltenham; Charles Forbes, Faq. for Cambridge. 'Arrivals at the Royal Hotel, St. James's-street :—Lord Farn ham, from Ireland; 1). Murray, Esq. E. Parratt, Esq. from Chel tenham ; J. l'age, Esq. from Kent ; the Hon. T. Fiennes, from Belvidere. Departures:—F. Savage and family, for Bristol; F. Parr, Esq. Colonel Pemberton, foe Cambridge; W. Greave, Esq. for Paris. NAVAL IN I'ELLIGENCE. THE BARON OF RENFREW. I)ovaa, OCT. 24.—We hear from Calais, that a large quantity of the Baron of Renfrew's cargo has floated on shore near Gravelines Arrived off the Wight, the Providence, —...., from Bengal. The Governor Meyers, —, of North Shields, is on shore at Salt fleet. The Jupiter, —, from Stettin to Bourdeaux, was abandoned at %ea on the 18th in.t. The Muhllde is totally lint near Boulogne. The Good Intent, PRIZLZ, from Bristol to Guernsey, was totally wrecked at Jersey, on the 18th hist. The Ann, liaows, from Archangel to Limerick, was totally wrecked on the 16th inst. near Blackstadt. Crew saved. The Thomas and Jane, CozamAn, from Glasgow to Cork ; and the Mary and Eliza, Marriaa, were both lost near Wexford, oft the 20th inat ant. The Robert and Janet, from Stornaway, is lost on Holy Island. The Hylton, from St. John's (N. 8.) to Hull, has put into Lerwick, waterlogged. FALMOUTH, OCT. 23.—Wind W.—Arrived the Stanmer packet, from Lisbon, in 13 days; Vilna, TAIT, from London for Rio de Janeiro, with her mainmast sprung; Sarah, Bourna, from ditto, with loss of anchors and cables, and windlass upset. Sailed the Susannah, Kum, for Tobago; Agcnoria, Mammas, for Leghorn; and Pomona, Heart, for Faro. PORTSMOUTH, OCT. 24.—Wind W.—Arrived his Majesty's ship SPARROWHAWIC, from the Mediterranean, and is under quarantine ; Duchess of York, and Hope, transports, from Chatham; Salacia, HEARN, from the Downs for Jamaica; and the Ratcliff, COLMAN, from do. far the South Seas, with loss of anchors and cables. De* r., OCT. 24.—Wind W.—Arrived and sailed for the River, the Ocean, Scow, from Honduras; Barrett, DAVIES, from St. Domingo—her mainmast struck by lightning, foremast sprung, and other damage. Passed through, the Gales, Hunsox, from St. John's (N. 1.1.) for Sunderland. Sailed the Comet, —, for Na ples; and the Nassau, Rioots, for Madeira. Several anchors and cables have been landed here, that have been picked up in the Downs, belonging to vessels that parted from their anchors in the late rile. LIVERPOOL, OCT. 23.—Wind W.—Arrived the Laurel, Hamm, from :tlonte Video; and Meteor, Nowt.ann, from New York. WHALE FISHERY. Tuesday, the Princess Charlotte, Captain Anausos, arrived at Dundee from Davis' Straits, with ten fhb, which, it is said, will produce about 112 tuns of oil. the vessel left the ice 27th ult. at which time the weather had become stormy. The Thomas, Tnoats, arrived on Wednesday night, with six fish. The Captain reports that be left the ice on the 2d instant, along with the Fairy, which had only one fish. We are sorry to learn that fears are en tertained for the Active, of Peterhead, which ship was beset at the time the Bon Accord came away, with little prospect of getting out. Two of the other Peterhead vessels were to remain near her for some time, in order to save the crew, in case it should be neces sary to abandon her. CUSTOM-HOUSE, OCTOBER 24. SHIPS ENTFRRD Inwaans—The Perseus and Cadmus, from Quebec; I lebe, Unanimity, and Richard, from Dantzic ; Express, front Gibraltar; Friends, from Ross; Neptunus, from Wismar; Cecilia, from Christiana ; Thirza, from Hamburgh ; Jonge Jean, from Worcum ; Rockwood, from Davis' Straits; Charles and Ellen, from Boston. ENTERED OUTWA Eas—The Rebecca, for Seville; Commerce, for Calais; lirahles, for St. Vincent's; Jonge Joanna, for Antwerp; Nesbitt, Wesibi ook, Demerara Packet, and Friends, for Jamaica. This day a Meeting vas held at GREEN'S Hotel, to consider of opening of a New Street to Lincoln's Inn Fields from the Strand. Sir J. PAUL, Sir F. Oihisrmoory, Messrs. TWININGS, and abort sixty Gentlemen were present, when a Committee was formed to mature the plan, which is to be taken into further con. sideration on the sth of November nest, at a Public Meeting, to be held at the Crown and Anchor Tavern. The Worcestershire Magistrates have decided that an apprenticeship does not entitle to the freedom, should the apprentice, in the course of it, change or follow a different trade to that to which he was or:gi , 'rally bound. At the Kingston Sessions, yesterday, David George was indicted for riot. It appe +red that Mr. Odling, a surgeon, in the Borough, had attended prisoner's wife doting her acconchemcnt. Fi o.n some casualty, George accused Mr. Odl!ng of neglect and bad treatment of his patient, and para.led before Mr. Odling's door with a pole, inscribed, Whoever wants their wile destroyed by child•bir,h, apply to Mr. Odling, &c." and this af t.:r he had obtained an eminent surgeon's opinion in favour of Mr. Odling's treatment; but the Court hold ing that the prisoner ought to have been indicted for libel instead of riot, he was acquitted. At the linrsear,mger-lane Sessions, yesterday, Thos. Welch and James Mitchell %Ace feloniously indicted for ,tealing a quantity or ontins from the grounds of Mr. George Car ter, a mai kei gardener, of Battersea. This teas a maiden c.ie under the new Garden Act, and the Counsel argued for an acquittal, on the plea that gar den ground claiming the pro.ect on of the new Act must be inclosed. The Court concurred, and acquitted the prisoner-, on the ground that they had been wrongly indicted for felony, Carver's Quad". being ur.inclmed. PP""roir COURT MAR rim, 0,1 CAPTAIN lIOPPNER. SHEERNESS, OCTOBER t 4, 18:25. A Court Martial WAS held this day, nn boat ( ' Majesty's ship Gloucester, for the trial of C Iloppncr, who c, mmanded the Firy, in the Lite Arct:c Expedition. . The Court assembled soon after nine o'clock—Preii. dent, Vice• Admiral S , r R. Mari sou, the Commander. in-Chief at this port. It is usual to try all Officers sells may happen to he in command of any of his Ni 4 j estr . i ships when they are lost, from whatever cause, or under whatsoever circumstances. Captain Henry P. H opp . ner was therefore put upon his trial, for the loss of th e Fory discovery ship. A long and very interesting narrative of the suff er ., ings of both ships was first read, by the intrepid and distinguished navigator, Captain Parry, of the Iled a , which occupied several hours—the fearful accounts nr the numerous icebergs with which they were surroundel, frequently jammed in between them, an I every no . ment expecting to be crushed to pieces, and the great exertions of the crews, under such trying circumv ances, called forth feelings of deep sympithy and admiration, Capt. lloppner also read a very affecting narrative of the Several witnesses -were called, who corroborated the 4.cir statement of Captain Parry. The principal witness was Licv:a.n:i Joseph Sherer, of the Ilecia. By the Couirr.--Could the accident of the Fury getting ix A„, have been possibly avoided ?—1 should think not, b! .t I board spy own ship the Ueda, which was also aground. Was there anything, in your opinion, left undone by the C rt ,i, and crew of the Fury by which his Majesty's ship might have bcsu saved?—l do not think that there was. Were the Inmost exertions used ?—Yes. Lieutenant Sherer further deposeJ, that the greater part of the ship's keel was knocked off, and she hi several holes low down in her bottom, by which sU was exceedingly leaky, four pumps being consta going ; the men worked from five in the morning to eight at night to keep her free from water. The sh uck ; the ship received after she struck, for several days, wear so violent as to lead those on board to suppo,e that her bottom was on the point of being rent off. The ship% stores were landed with the view to lighten her fir t!:e purpose of examination, but the Captain and (netts lost most of their own luggage and clothes, &c. Tae Fury was abandoned on the 26th of August, at which time there was nine feet water in the hold. Tae stayed as close to her as possible fir several days, hit at length she was obliged to stand off to prevent beias cloced in by the drifting ice. Other witnesses corroborated the evidence of Lieut. Sherer in every leading part. Captain Parry was then examined by captain Ifoppner. Is it your opinion, that the accident in the first instance could have been, by any possibility, avoided ?—Certainly no:. Were the exertions of myself, Officers and crew, to save her equal to what you bad a right to expect ?—They were. Captain Hoppner in conclusion said, that even alter the saving of the ship was hopeless, it was inconciouhle with how much ardour and indefatigabie and at the same time with how much cheerfulness, the Officers and men performed their duty. The severity of the cold was such, during the err,• antis of the people to save the ship, that it was in a for instances difficult to make the men comprehend the orders given, their intellect; seemed as it were frozen. Captain Hoppner was most honourably acquitted of any blame whatever, and the Court broke up at half-past three u•cioci. LOSS OF THE COMET. GLASGOW, SATURDAY, OCT. m Early yesterday morning, between two an/. three o'clock, the Comet steam boat was careeting proudly on the waters from Fort William to Gla , g w, between Greenock and the Cloch Light-haute. T e Ciptain was engaged in some light conversation, relating stories to amuse those who were listening to- him. Oa the deck the warm-hearted Highland lads and lasses ssce dancing, every sound on board was revelry, and no thing could be seen or heat d, but what was to inspire a kindred feeling of joy. At once, in a nion,eia when rounding the Kempock Point, a horrid crash I,v,i; heard, a terrible collision had taken place. Many rushed to the deck, but it was in vain—a minute or two elapsetl, the sea burst in with one fell horrid swoop— a bubble took place on the spot—the ConpA dis 41 , peated, and left net a wreck behind." The collision was instantaneous and fatal. No human help could be given ; after a fee minutes, the sea was foaming on, and vessels and ris• sengers had sunk for ever. There was n ► vestitZ 41: a living thing then seen on the face of the waters; a deehir mist than usual appeared ; the steam made a light lei but the ocean swallowed up the whole. Between so and 90 persons, we understand, were on In,aid, and n; these, only eleven, it is said, have b:en;Saied. Among the sufferers, according to the statement of Mr. Cohn Anderson, the cabin passenger, was C iptain Sutherland, of the 33.1 Regiment, and his Lady, re cently married, the latter the daughter of H. It. Duff, Esq. of Muirtown, near Inverness; Mr. Nl'Alistel. tV.S. Edinburgh, with a relation of the same name,: Mr. Graham, of Corpach ; Mr. Campbell. a merchant the son of Mr. M•Braine; a Mrs. Wrigh4 widow, and her servant, all four of Glasgow. The body of Mr. Grierson, the steward of the Come , has been washed on shore, with upwards of 70/. in pocket, also two Ladies and two black servants. Some of the passengers hadalmost miraculous escape , One woman got ashore by clinging to two tables atter she had lost her child. A man from Fort William lest his senses by the fright, bus not his life. The CAP") pilot, carpenter, a young girl, and Mr. Cam:ron, jor from Fort William, were among the saved. Gamma, FRIDAY NIGHT, 11 OTI.OcE• The greatest anxiety still prevails here, and ill the neighbourhood, regarding the unhappy sufferers in Cie Comet, and every face bears the aspect of woe. A Mr. Hamilton, an English traveller now here, receive.' letters a few days ago from the North, stating that two Gentlemen would arrive in Glasgow this week by e Comet. These two individuals are nearly related, I, 't yhether they have perished or not, is not yet tained. It is a fact, however, that four E (lea' tlemen who were on board, weie lanJed at Itozlis-ii : 3 ' previous evening. We of the passengers, a fern' } ' , escaped a watery grave in a very surprising nlaiinc-. On being plunged into the Witte'', she sill k,:et hold of her infant with her left atm, while with rill t hand she graspei the handle of a large trJ te.Zcon M•r^ . . .1 I b 'l'll the u conse c Abin 'Stith( Thi pn this `%m^ Well I:on) ob:e 1 nt”eri )4it 01 idm Index res. , ' Ind b bq he A. rorn et fu tides worne ~e bee the re; ;he hu propel kvilich ler of 01 ill' 11 tite. `item! the . need ine rif4c lave 4.d h h Len ifs %%1 IVe losprc Irons I a ad :ond, wearil gad b TI :now' Ind si ).is be :uvei i toted cone • sq. Ally le C( hells i :au tiles: aN hate 'lea :ried lose t tt2 •rH hen s t Rot' Ivo 0 , Besi4 e fon, t‘.l to In. F Snor wer i and uch i Inle% It Wei W e