Star. — London, England, 1831-08-30 00:00:00

a ~~:. been indulging himself over his bottle; and when the passengers questioned him as to their safety, he pettishly answered " there is no danger." Things continued in this state for some time, the vessel still making little progress, and being in sight of Great Ormshead. The passengers were told by the captain, that, on rounding the point, they would be in smooth water. The engine began to work very slowly for want of a requisite supply of steam, and., sometimes stopped entirely ; evidently from the neglect or inability of the fireman to keep the steam up ; and such was the frightful pitching and robing of the vessel that the jib sail was hoisted for the purpose of staying it, which was in some measure effected. The shades of evening were approaching, dangers seemed to thicken around them, and the fears of the unfortunate passengers increased with their perils. After consulting to gether a few minutes, a number of them deputed Mr. Terry to request that the captain would either return to Liverpool, or run into the nearest place of safety that presented itself. He treated their fears with contempt, and we are informed on one occa sion, in answer to a question as to the means of safety, he replied, ironically, " if you are fright ened, go to prayers." Up to this time they had been contending against a strong head wind, and a tempestuous sea. To trim the vessel the passen gers were frequently ordered to move from one side to the other, and sometimes this was effected by drawing a box containing a heavy chain from side to side. Some person told the captain there was water in the hold, and he immediately ordered all hands to the pump; and the passengers, who were sickly and scarcely able to stand, excited by their fears, took their turns at it, but all to no purpose ;—the pump was out of repair, and very soon became choked and totally useless. Mr. John Duckworth, of Edenfield, seeing this, after work- 1 ing the pump himself, which required the united exertions of three ordinary men, endeavoured to obtain buckets to bail with, but was told there was not one on board; the only one they had brought out of Liverpool having been lost by the culpable carelessness of a sailor. His exertions to obtain vessels of any description to bail with were com pletely uusuccessfol, and he called out to the pas sengers, " Gentlemen, use your hats, or we shall be all lost." Mr. Terry and others were pacing the deck, with feelings not easily_ to be conceived, and some person, with a strong Welsh accent, ex claimed, " Good Goo ! we shall all be lost !" The fires under the engine boilers were almost extinguished by the water Rowing among the coals and ashes, and the engine rendered com paratively useless. The vessel drifting towards the Dutchman's Bank, the fore part of the keel grazed on the sands, on which the captain ordered the passengers aft, and cried out, " reverse the paddles," and directed other means to get her off the bank, but to no purpose. The succeeding waves forced her still further on the bank, and the engine, for want of steam, had not the power to give the paddles sufficient motion. This is stated to correct the erroneous account, in some of the papers, that the Rotbsay Castle was driven on the bank with a " tremendous crash." The pitching of the vessel ceased ; she began to roll from side to side ; and the situation of the passengers be came perilous and alarming in the extreme. Con sternation was depicted on every countenance, and the most courageous, now partook of the general alarm. After several times rocking, from windward to leeward, the large chimney broke from its fastenings, and, together with the main mast, fell with a tremendous crash. The stook., ashes, soot, and sulphur from the chimney, were thrown on the leeward passengers, in quantities almost sufficient to produce suffocation. The cries, terrific screams, and agonizing exclamations, of the unfortu nate sufferers, no words can convey any idea of. —At this time, Mr. Whittaker asked the captain if he had any means of making signals of distress? He replied not. Mr. Whittaker asked him if he had a gun ? He replied, " no." Have you a leathern ? said Mr. Whittaker, and to this question the captain said, " no;"—although Mr. %Chitta ker, not an hour previous, had a person on deck, connected with the vessel, collecting the copper TOKENS, with a lan'horn in his band. On Mr. Whittaker asking him,—what could be done ? he merely replied," We shall be assisted from shore;" and seemed quite stupid and inactive. The sea, at this time, was breaking away the weather boards to windward, and making its way over midships. The ship's bell was rung till the clapper broke, and a passenger, as a last resource. proposed a simul taneous shout, in the faint hope of making them selves heard on shore ; but the roaring of the sea, and the crashing of the timbers, rendered their efforts abortive. The unfortunate sufferers, d•iven to despair, clung to each other, and to such pa: is of the vessel as seemed likely to afford the means of averting their threatened fate, but those who clung to the lee side were swept off with the weather boards and precipitated into the sea, 20 or 30 at a time, and the numbers on deck soon appeared to be considerably diminished : numbers we: iron their knees, and in other attitudes, giving vent to the most piteous cries for mercy and help, and, with the cry and prayer on their lips, were driven into the sea. Mr. Terry and the whole of his family, and a female servant, being in midships, disappeared amongst the number. To stay longer in midships now appeared impcssible ; the weather boards, with the exception o f a snuill,portion close , to the puddle-box, to which Mr. Whittaker clung, were torn away ; the rising tide rendered these si tuations dangerous in the extreme, and threatened soon to overflow the more elevated portions of the vessel. The must yet remaining, paddle-boxes, quarter-deck, and every part of the vessel that from its elevated situation afforeed the means of averting for a few moments the final extinctions of life, were all crowdedly occupied. Mr. Whittaker had divested himself of his clothes, that they might not impede his progress in swimming which now appeared the only resource that held out any hope of escaping with life. His little son and nephew, notwithstanding all his exertions had been pre viously washed away. At this time a gentleman from Bangor left the vessel, with a small barrel tied beneath his chin, and an unbrella in his hand, which he unfurled when he got into the water, in the hope of being drilled on shore in time to send some aid to his fellow-sufferers. Of his fate Mr. Whittaker is ignorant. Iro •amediately after this a young man who had pos session of a bass drum requested Mr. W. to take hold of the corner of one side of it whilst he held by the other, and endeavour to float to the siege. Mr. Whittaker declined to do this ; —seeing that the young man was lighter than himself he consi dered that his own weight would preponderate and that both must be drowned. The young man then induced another person to jet hold of the deep they took the sea together. They were slip unequal weight and thetefore unable to , preserve its equilibrium, an d th ey consequen tly bath fell • sacrifice to the experiment ere they had floated many yards from the vessel. We state this cir -1 cumatance to correct a false statement which ap peared in some of the papers, of a musician being saved by the drum. Mr. Whittaker saw both the unfortunate men perish and the drum float away after they bad relinquished their hold of it, and it was afterwards seen by Mr. Nuttall floating on the ihrface of the water, with one of its ends driven in, and no person near it. At this time Mr. Wilkin son, house joiner, of Bury, and several others, en deavoured to keep themselves on deck by clinging to a strong iron bar extending across the vessel from one paddle box the other. Mr. Whittaker thinking the bar more secure than the shattered weather board, relinquished it and took hold of the bar also. But so precarious was this situation, that every succeeding wave of the still rising tide lifted them from their feet, and so distressed their bonds and wrists that one after another was com pelled to relinquish his hold, till Mr. Whittaker and Mr. Wilkinson alone were all that were left on the bar. A heavy swell of the sea drove Mr. Whittaker through the paddle wheel casing, and between the iron arms of the leeward wheel into the lien. He left Mr. Wilkinson fer vently petitioning heaven for mercy, and saw him no more. Mr. Whittaker seized a piece 1 of the wreck, on which be supported himself. 1 A few minntes afterwards he was fortunate enough to get hold of a spar, which, with considerable dif. ficulty, he placed under the board be had previously obtained, in the form of a cross. Supported by this hastily-formed raft he was driven out to sea, whcre he was picked up about ten o'clock in the morning of the following day, by Ralph Wil liamson, Esq. perfectly blind. This humane gen tlemen on hearing of the dreadful disaster which had befallen the Rothsay Castle, immediately manned two boats belonging to his Schooner, then laying in Beaumaris Bay (one of which he took the command of himself), and they were the means of saving two persons from a watery grave. Mr Whittaker was taken on board the Schooner, rubbed e ith cloths, wrapped up in flannel, and vessels containing hot water were applied to his feet; his eyes bathed with cold cream, and treated with the greatest kindness and attention until his recovery. Through this humane treatment, the following day he was enabled to go on shore to meet his sister who had also been picked up from part of the wreck. Previous to leaving the schooner, the gentlemen on board kindly furnished him with clothes and money to carry him home. Mr. Williamson, had on board as guests, Cl.arles Williams, Esq. Cap-. airs Colquit, Esq. R. N. and Mr. Carey, who, with Mr. Aidey, muter, and the whole of th e crew of the schooner, vied with each other in acts of kindness; and Mr. Whittaker speaks of them all in the warmest terms of gratitude, and con siders that, under Providence, be owes his pro longed existence to their kind care and skilful treatment. Mr. Whittaker was much bruised by being tossed in the wreck and after he had left it, but we are happy to say he is now at home, and enabled to attend to his business. Mr. Wilkinson, of Bury (another of the unfor tunates). when the danger became known, was one of the most active in endeavouring, by his personal exertions, to avert the threatening ca lamity, and by his example and advice, endea voured to cheer the drooping spirits, and stimulate to exertion his companions in misfortune. He was a strong active man ; cool and courageous in the midst of danger, and a good swimmer, so much so, that when it becam e k nown i n Bury that he was on board of the unfortunate vessel, many of his acquaintance in that town calculated on his escape as almost a matter of certainty. But it is supposed that he had so far exhausted his strength by previous exertions, that his worn out energies were unable to sustain the last dread ful conflict, and he perished. His body has been discovered, and was interred on Tuesday last. Miss Whittaker, Miss Lamb, and Mr. Nuttall, druggist, all of Bury, and several others, after be ing washed from the midships, succeeding in re gaining the quarter-deck after almost superhuman exertions, and when the vessel broke up were driven about at the mercy of the wind and sea on that fragment of the wreck. Miss Whittaker, in struggling for her safety, had all her clothes with the exception of her stays, petticoat, and chemise torn from her person. Towards morning she gave up her petticoat, and it was held up by some of the men, in the hope that the wind would drift them to the shore, and after serving the purpose of a sail, it was torn into strips and hoisted on the top of a spar they had fortunately picked up. To their great relief the signal was not hoisted in vain—it was seen from the shore and a boat im mediately put off, and succeeded in releasing them from their perilous situation. Mr. Whittaker, and every person we have seen, ascribes this most melancholy disaster to the folly of the Captain and the bad state of the vessel. To use his own words, " the whole bad ness possessed not one single redeeming feature." " Never, said he, " did a party set out worse prepared for a disaster. A crazy vessel, crowded with passengers unaccustomed to the sea; a drunken captain ;—a crew, careless, or as bad as the captain, and too few in number ;—a pump crazy as the vessel,—not a gun on board,—no visible means of hoisting a signal by night,—and a boat in character with all the rest." We hope the Legislature will interfere to prevent for the future such a reckless spurting with human life. Out of twenty-seven persons healthy in body and buoyant in spirits, who went on this ill-fated ex cursion from Bury and the neighbourhood, five only are returned to tell the dismal tale of the horrible sufferings and fate of their lost friends and dearest relatives. They all unite in stating that the scene w as so terrific that the bare thought of it yet makes them shiver, and Mr. Whittaker says, " people may read of shipwrecks, or hear them de scribed, but those who have not seen one know nothing about them." MR. HENRY WILSON'S NARRATIVE. We have been very unwilling to intrude on the persons who escaped the death which befel their friends and relations, and thereby to 'revive tliar: terrible recollections of the falekeons. `us as wt had the pleasure of k IligiMilsoa, we ad dressed ti note to him, if it were act to do too much violence to his feelings, he would communicate some particulars of his providential escape, and he has kindly complied with our request " in the following letter: ItembeNst, Augest 24, leit Sta.—Being especially segiserdeittorni meelielag it de a duty I owe to the public, i=ortionit to yen all the Information of whish I am' M that most awful and melancholy dirprile illi = Yoe " I '2 disde,and whkh ft was my iniesetwee to wittiest 7lb amongs my s elfny imilimmeste maw% iny own ~d 4w hose worth sad to Ira .11.0 1 . 11 7 appreciate: the lees of wheel, 'Mier melt delemitess dr. cumstances, can never be diked Bees my Bisetaiy, and the very thought of which must distant me, I amedremdmaly s.dmwdlelly &Rand and ir kat iv i e r at raimonc w Out to my disunited firmly and On Tuesday emelt. I arrived in hese 9 itorialsoird by Mrs. Wilson an d tw o Id e als, with se 'misname m mobs as excursion of pleases together. Witsmes, was matietorisined in our minds until Wednesday mmuieg, what we martins ' sagely fixed spec flag to Besenimis by the Railway Castle steamer, which we woe harmed started at tea o'clock a. m. and we immediately ordered a each to take ea down to the quay, for fear of Mb; tee late far the poshet, epee which, however we arrived only jest in time, MI she sailed at the usual ho ur, but to our great disappeMment she did not sail until eleven o'clock, a full hour later than usual, in conse quence of a carriage bevies to be taken en board, belonging to a family which wee plug along with bee also. At length, to our great joy, we sailed dews the river, every one on board appearing to be blaitly gadded with the prospects of the journey, with the andeet of the ogee* and the way we made on the water, with the era remit rough, and the wind blowing fresh from the N.N.W. midi we bad got from ten to Mb= dies the edam side the Black Reek, about which time the amiele wens awe to dhow, which I occupied him about ter hews, sod w a "la din ten 6es bed become mare asegb. ad the blow mere fresh.— I The camas, after dialer, mole his appoints en deck, and he found the pampa le a statedway alarm for their tasty, many et wlringet vaeleee to him, I and the answers to which masensesity ad petulant in the extreme. This eesileee, big se dillieutt to time hitherto experienced hem him, eenrinesd every one that he was all the worse for the ligner he bet taken after dinner. ' Not knowing the towns on the Webb east, which we were miming, I am unable to state at whet panieeisr plan we were when the packet was not maks mere th en me ate an hour. This slow rate so 'named the model et the pas. i ! stagers, that some offered large wens of maw minims the captain to return, but every offer was unavailing, Ike be assured • w, we should be at Beaumarb by eight in tbeeming although ' we were making so little way, and the Osmes Mad In view at a &tame of eight or ten miles. At this time the c a r e alarm pervaded every breast on board, as the sea still more rough, and the wind was blowing a heavy plc at last we arrived of the last-mentioned place about tea o'clock, the moon dim ng, and the clouds gathering with blackness ng a skater storm, and the captain getting less atientive to th e important duties of his trust. Here, the worst of all, became more and more apparent; the wheels scarcely turned round, and water was, in spite of exertion , putting out the fire in the engine oen, sod I rolling backwards and forwards in the gentlemen 's cabin a considerable depth. Every eye now bec a m e o p en to le inevitable destruction which awaited us, and all our appre hensions, in • moment, became confirmed, by the vessel striking upon the sands, and by which, no doubt, she was broken in two. The captain was again importuned to fire guns and hoist signals of distress but be podtively refused, saying, we were still afloat. and on our way. However, finding ourselves once more deceived by his false pretences, the passengers rung the bell, much against his wish, the only means in their power to give any alarm; but it was sea. veiling, and we remained in this situation on the sands, about two hours. When .this time bad nearly expired upon the sands, the chimney came down, with a tremendous mush, upon the mast and broke it, and in a few minutes after as suddenly as the irruption of a voices°, the vesse l was severed into numberless parts, and we were all pre cipitated into the stream. It is needless for me to at. tempt to describe a scene, the very idea of which must make even those uninterested to shudder. The screams of pa rents far their families, and children for their parents, were truly bears-rending. Being thus precipitated into the ocean, I attempted to. descend with my wife in my arms, thinking that I could find the bottom, but finding we were in deep water, I immediately threw myself into a floating posture, when I out. in fall contact with a piece of timber that drove my hat completely over my eyes. I threw it of immediately, and seised hold of the &sting plank, which was attached to some other part of the wreck is by a rope. when I said to my wife, 4 ' hly dear, deliverance iscome to hand, and we mast use every exertion to save ourselves." I instantly got upon the plaak, and my wife likewise, but hell no sooner done this than a mighty wave drove us of again. Recovering, however, from the shock, we made a similar attempt, and with equal emcees, when im mediately a succeeding wave, more dreadful Am the other, washed us of again. Alth ough exhaustion hot outsider. ably taken place with myself, and there can be DO doubt even more so with my unfortunate wife, I seised her by the right hand with my left, and she, finding that all attempts for her delivers:tamest be unavailing, cried out" Save your. self ! save yourself ! save yourself! for the sake of the chil dren !" when another wave, more merciless than the rest, separated us for ever I Seeing no possible chance, and scarce ly knowing where to look, I was left to myself, compelled to obey her tender injunction when, looking around me, I saw part of the wreck considerably elevat ed above the sur face of the water, to which I made my way, by the assist ance of the piece of timber that had been so serviceable hi then°. Arriving at the wreck, I attempted to get upon it, but at that time the waves broke furiously over it, and I was' once more driven back into the sea, and despaired fora con- 1 aiderable time of ever being able to gain t h e surface of the wreck. At length. however, by the assistance of a merciful Providence, and extreme exertion, I succeeded, but hs se enfeebled a wm b over state, that I laid m self down to recruit my strength, while t he g sea me with the utmost violence. Being a little reco v I bawd a female voice, reaez saying, several time over. " Will you help_ ,me Sir ?'' which afterwards proved to be Min Whitt a k e r. Finding the wreck on which I had got was of tolerably good eke (it afterwards proved to be the floor over the ladies cabin), I got further on it, and observed along side of it the engine chimney and the mast, to which I with a many more closely clung. to save us from being washed into the gulph beneath , but by-and-bye parts of the wreck left us piece by piece, till at length our little bark was left to itself, and welcome day appearin g , we found our thee crew to consist of eight males and one female, all of whom had great hopes of being delivered from a watery grave, and being restored their families and Mends on land. From the dreadful inclemency of the weather, and from having been in the water this length of time, and from the morning being still more cold, see were all in a perishing state until about six o'clock, to which time we bed waited expecting some one to come to our des' Bremner i but although we had Isolated a signal of distress. made of one pocket handkerchief. the only one spared se the conspann-bettr after bone passed and still ho one came. Not meeting with deliverance, we set about the attempt foe ourselves, by braking of span of ward from the raft,which we used as oars, by which we intended to propel ourselves to the Welsh shore, from which we might be at that time front two to three miles. Bet foriumtely for us, for nearly 1 ewe hours we made buclittlefrogress, as we were told after 1 1 that had we gone muck further we must have been lost. At this time, about eight o'clock, we were perceived from Beau. marls, and immedhaely a boat was sent to our rescue, oa see. Ins which we said, 0 The Loan has given us a pat deliver ance this day." To the boatmen, who conveyed me and my forow-salferen on shore,! tender my sincere thanks. When we ' reached the shore, we found a considerable number of benevo lent persons awaiting our arrival, who conveyed us without loss of time to the inn, where every attention was paid to our wants. To Sir R. Williams Bulkeky, I, and my • fellow suff e rer s are especially indebted, for his kind Wen friczniary aid ; but I am ' particul a rly hadebasi to Mr. of the Polygon, and Mr.Adahead, of Nodey.street, I who paid us every possible, attention in thole prim. The precise number of passes as board the Isdaem, I cannot state. The calculation of the agent at Beaus, was, that them must bare been about 130 persons is the steamer, at the time she was wasehml. I moot omit meadomlag lure the ePPlesel samara maim of Mr. W. Warm, asset or wbo, irks the wastdost of the Ovals we re. ral fi t e oliot, laughed finiseregerMsty. For dos leip s % thy pressed by way hiseds la Uwasheame sal dam I beg so carrels my west eillalse. ariedeg le the "baud chime to ram me he port Also the wawa Peovideum has, so MON far a vise inflicted upsa the. I remain your . aiV aTali aoWl N. We here been labelled, U efoll the Limipi, 'Mercury of yesterday, that Mr. Two., w hin' Struggling with the wares, swam up to a partial his perceiving which was and to dive and im the encumbered appears probable that he and his friend either did not, or could not profit by the advice, and were killed by the shock. Up to yesterday morning there was no account of their bodies having been found. It seems that Mr. Tinne himself did not escape the concussion by di,' as he did when he saw the danger ap . He was struck on the head, and rendered insensible ; when picked up he was found ditching a portion of the wreck so firmly that his deliverers found it difficult to loosen his bands ; and when dune, he is said to have grasped an oar with equal firmness, though still in a state of insensibi lity. If this statement be correct, it furnishes a seamarkable instance of the tenacity with which man dings to life. Mr. Henry Hammond, ship carver, of Liverpool, one of the persons saved, says it is not true that a party of the passengers got lie() the boat soon after the vessel struck, and were imme diately swamped. The statement that be gives is, that the boat was hanging by the davits over the stern, nearly filled with water in consequence of the spray ; when the vessel struck, he and the wife and child of the carpenter got into the boat, but left it again, being ordered out by the mate, who told them that it was of no use as no boat could lire in such a sea. The boat soon after broke adrift, and was lost, but there was no person in her. Mr. Hammond thinks that there were at least 130 persons on board. The following is an additional list of the persons who are ascertained to have perished. The bodies of those whose names are marked with an asterisk ( 0 ) have been found. Atkinson, Captain, his mate, three maddens, ens fireman, and a bow. Brown, 116. John. Cooke, Samuel, of Bangor, fruit dealer. Griffith, Michael, seaman of Beaumaris, his wife and child. *Parry, Mr. John, and wife, of Manchester. Shaw. Jonathan, linen-draper, Bridge-stroet, Manchester. °Dyson, Humphrey, watchmaker, Church.ptes, Man chester. Falkner, John, of the firm of Dickenson and Falkner, Bateman's Buildings,) and his wife. They have left five you children to the mercy of the wide world. *A Child, about two years old. *A Lady, supposed to be a tradesman's with. °A Male, with a blue coat, yellow waistcoat, sad blue non. ima b grey woollen stockings, calico shirt, shoes, light Ink ins Ihm, about 65 yeen of age. A purse with Ina mensolgas. (Apparently • mechanic.) *A Male, with a pair of boots, grey wonted stockings, black hair, round Shoe, about 61. Money found in his trussespocket, in a puns, one sovereign. Apparently a °A reutng lady, dressed is a bias cotton dress, black wool. lea Msekings, and leather chess. Linen marked LA. W. No. I. Ten gold ear-dep. The following is a comet Wt of the parsons drowned, and also of those saved, from Bury and its neighbourhood, re ceived yesterday, after our other list from the newspapers war at press. Mr. W. Terry, Ms wilt;11;;;Itlidam, and a sonata. Mr. Terry aad two did= Isawd. Mr. him Wilitimws, Wan joime, howd. Mr. Miss Thome Mork% Matiomakar. Salm Mr. Willima l ramwsky, dyer, of Medfield, his wife ad Wow am Mme` inaa tn i :akorreley, of Boar Edge, aunt to Mr. . Mr. . Jammmokor. eight ran of age, caly SOD of Mr. R. Thowea Wllll6ll 4=l* respiteo, aged al: years, found. Mr. Ism** Edge/old. Mr. Lawresoit Dookiroodi, Do. Mrs. Lemma %elms* Do. 15,,. Jobs Duckwath, Do. round. Lava'. Mr. Robert Wbiuskar. Miffs M.q Wiritt — a — kW Mr. Jobe Nuttall, druggist. Mr. Lawrence Duckworth, Mayfield. Mr. John Duckworth, Ds. PANORAMA OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE. LEICENTEN CHNONICLZ, Resolutions passed et the close of llr. ftrlthgbanis Lectures, 11th August inst. I.—That the facts and arguments developed ki the course of Lectures given by Mr. Buckingham in the Town of Leicester, have greatly strengthened aid continued our pre. vious convictions, that the East India Monopoly is a sauce of peat misrule and oppression hi India itself, and highly injurious to the best interests of England; for width reams it ought to be abolished. 4.—That as the Town of Lekester may usefully es. with the other peat newantile and inanufacturing places of of the kingdom, to carry Steward such mums so may be deemed best calculated to insure this deekable end, an Association be formed foe that purpose, to be celled 4. , THE LEICESTER BAST INDIA ASSOCIA TION." !sow Taanr..—lt Is stated that, as a means of reectring this branch of nianufseture from Its present stale of un wonted depression, timeline of the iron masters have he m s held in the princi pal district*, and resolutions unanimously adopted for effecting a reduction to the extent of about min fourth of the quantity made, and the deputations Met is the 10th at Gloucester, to arrange as to the meet efficient mode of carrying these resolutions into operation. By these measures the quantity will be diminished about 3000 tens pa week t and as it is contemplated to continue the mita make fee a year, that will be thus 156,000 coos of iron tw arediers sad during die next twelve months. We that the iron trade in Scotland has participated In the general depression, so far as the obtainable price has not remunerated the expense o" manufacture. Luvonsonouon Th ursday.— Wheat, 68e ; Barley, 42.; Oats, ; may, 44s I Malt, 72s ; Flour, wheaten I 80s t Standard do fals ; Household, 475. MAK RlRD.—Charies Tompkins, Rsq. of the Audit Ofike, Somerset House, to Miss Russell, of Deurplane Theatre, late of this town. DIED.-34, Anne, wife of Mr. A. Cockehaw.—At Grantham, 21, Sarah Anne, Yonne* daught er ed . th e We Rev. J. S. Wagstaffe.—At Grantham, he Wakefield, dasighux of Mr. Wakefield, attorney.—At Breton Hall, near Uppingbain, Mr. Joseph Bryan.-77, Edward Nun. ten, gent. of Batrowden, Rutland. Remarkable for his very eccentric habits In the height of manta he usually wore several greet coats, and as many waistcoats; his bat was generally tied down with two or three handkerchiefs, and he scarcely, even in the driest weather, ventured out without pattens of ; v prolious rise ! OR ESTES HERALD, Aug. 27. On Wednesday Hereford and neighbourhood were visited by a violent storm of thunder and itgbining. At Levu. dine, a barn near the church, belonging to - 111 r. Pester, was stook by the electric fluid, and the whole was speedily cos. sussed, with about eight waggon loads of pease, just har vested, and a large quantity of t hr as h e d straw .--On Tues day, et /lighten, in the cue coon y, a ma and boy took shelter under a tree. The lightning streak thee—killed the boy instantly, and dreadfully injured the ems, whose watch was fused in his podet ! Gloucester sashes, and zmtien t ily the business of this alk ch, strininstal wt W . Wawa of built teas Peed 011 Johp Ben i , Mere SSyMoPtillizAndahslawee pistol et a mutat& Oho had mem* to blon, s chirp of oiseteied in the tits the helot of DIM The O mhoe4 (les. One abet gobraor IJohn hoes) was of 646 wee to ;corded spinet misty two was s ansei taasponniies. t 7 a fey *pees, GA Roe eevolt_reolt. , the l e .p i r tt poser esientst. seetvide et lamb wile whist one is n4 a oso was soloed en be ttemodned fee seven War hem Gator about also. of r of oak 0112• T MaLvanm—Tbe Bazaar, kid on the 17th i rk in aid of a food for the external sepals. of the Abbey Cbwo,. prodoced 41111 A& id. Thar Royal i r eases the D i d % of Kent and the Princess Victoria, that spire of im s „. lance for which they are on endowed distingished, 1,, visored the onset dad sod through Sir his Conroy, numerous spins of disk ems work, es* both on scam' of Ode lift ond loginskt aimed yea adethatiom The Rat at Lato_fqs humor ef be Royal Illsimma's birdi•day, was and _me th attended; and the boWlant decoration of the soma, s the general antsganant, gave groat satisfaction to th e mangeny. P AVM. a rarrilatetzture.—An net is now before D.. • lianseet relating to this branch of the poor laws, ahlc is well deserving the attenti o n o f t h e i n h a bi tants of tog% CILTI. It is entitled " a Bill to alter and armed At O l f y Settkment, by hiring and service;" and by ib • provisions. no mak p erson een, after the paled if le I passing, obtain a settlement in any parish he Wm! au I Wales, by reason el his being hired as a swam le be& bendry, or by manta of any serviceierfeeneed bids is such perish, tome*, or liberty. The bill ake preps*. that as male passe shell acquire any settlement in my parish, Places Mayne*, m liberty, in &glad or Wale s , the populatimi mime should be towed by the Parliament, ary amen thse hat ashen w exceed lON perms, by res. ' eon of being lied, ar kinks soma ae a pm* savant to any ammo', Maelandth, + rg 6rv, brick of We et wdenituail leigiesseatin such es. deli, place, triraCW or hinsty, asiesipot to the pre of the aid imiended aet. The salievese sad oppressive of sash as net, in el tease he kopeonuat, l int r b t e kli pwied Woo kw, he obvious to every use, aid we ere glad to led that the Madero our House of Indestry have lissom alive to the ,ablest, and have agreed upon a iodides to the Maw d Owasees aphis the BM. Tee podiums represent to the beadle's— * That is case the oil Dal dieshl pees bee a law:year potielisse sad all oda" the and iibeltheate the Paddies of the City of emener, sad is Pails' dhe united theessish. will be g• Wenn% by ressessi great amber of peer yeet - sorns wed edina*Mket will Iwo to stelsW Bele peessike how plebs settlwassas by Wag or swellayee semen iu g•mbery, whweby sh e eipionissid Takla, will be bear. tud at dm expensed the almilleitimee be Cities, Town,, And yes peiliksers farther buphly submit, ° A: I 4 1 r second leaks of the sold hooded the Ex. mew ameadiag the sealemat of_Parpsra will be matiti. ally inewasedoe the aseendbig Peskin" will have to pro. eona,Mtar to dwal s,:d rh =o li jea Pili p i tse,_V i st did net nosed MSS peruse, aeosidisi to the thus lent mentary mom Your petitioners there/my humbly pray that your lamentable House will not allow the said Bill to pees into a law." Yetaxim feinaktete sotelisherl tbs Wake at the Dip Medal were eumaissit in the puma of tie Otwasse, Deputy Owessors, wed Giserdime, end Anted se &dr peeper standwd. These weights were met in thc year 1731, lad sat a esatury's wear and tear, only two was found la the Wawa degree to be deficient. The oathe were sielnhaseelie the wekhers by the 00. venue, Mr. Aidiemex Cedes, stew., we believe, in his 94th WORCKSTIM MARKET—Wheat new, 7s ad 7s 10d ; do. old, as Id lb; B e ans ,, ley soak, as as 10d ; do. grind. leg, le erl le es Od Os ; de. new, as Odds lid; 01 raw, am N in; do. old, 4s 04 4s lid ; Peas, white, ars 34• s da. de lid las ; Vetches, sp. as Si. M . i Ifsearkl, of Lord-street, Liverpool, to Illarsaly efJ. WlUfams , Iraq. Wrexham —At Iftmosemr, R. Mask, of the Inner Temple, Esq.* of J. (tripe,N P.—Charles, second sea et Ca rtil dieir Oakland, in thiss county, Esq. to Miriam, Met ihrighke of H. Hollins. Esq. of Mondry, Derby.-11, M. Dawn, of Leto ditaail et, daughter of Joseph Da* et Abuse DIED—?I. I 7. IPreeetas, lie. dthe White Hesse, Sect. ley—At the Grammy, limedlngten, Jas. Blackman, MD. Fn. late of Ravashay, Wilts—At Montpelier Tam, Cheltenham, =as, elf C. Osio, Eq .— Mrs. Kevin , ft. ilet of Mr. Hecht, lame of At Bkilashem, lib. *slush, only delealuer of the lasest srpe Wadley. Dub of Gloucester—At Dia ites, Rer&eashise,ll, Mr.O.Colesse —Elisabeth, reset el W. Hall, ise. of as as the Wa. ter, 73—la Olwaseseer, Mrs. Tama Deckle, relict of Ow. Halle. seq. of Chepstow. YORK.SHIRE a4ZETTII,7 • The wogisseiss of York, with mud bed a dreams shsdre dicer, kat work, IL 117 we 7/te pre. wises mit Mike proems% wed sealer ens met, a 11% e. We uelememmil it le Jo astmeplethm atehlith Yaw e als sky. The sand telte le yea We ales the apealstion will maw. theWhise demi We embalmed this the hishitannt of Hembeen, gate* am have Wad a badman wad meney awards the bepsememmt we emee time back lop a g= l tit. a Mali dew the helm between the Ber of Ciliate, tad when them a a be with those es tits mkt side it dm amt. Ws id dist die metal enae tossisted towards the verb et thee walls is MN. Ills. *ideate• mood anodes d MIL fral 0 = 0806 • 11 •Ye the su T sea tio earn ete me media se 1 boulpir me her eloot r zoblo them maple* do pies deli bee boo hegoodeo Osaka' bag ohm WOK MA* Esq.—At sea, AL fr friLa Oa &Ara 6.45.69: of . &DOW COWS. iki daffibeir 110'1. 1,0 *NI imv More ( OVI Ma l se tie sedid S il 11 1 . ed ra raw Si do, ' 41 !AC PDX F of the wreck to which Mr. James Leigh and friend St. Boon solve clinging. On percei a moostslnoustiftei fa Go summit of which • largstinginaotsf the mock, approaching, about be break ipso them, he advised them to fi orbit. to avoid being daubed to pieces, and media* did se himself in order to escape impending danger. Mr. Leigh was encumt with a large cloak, and it appears probable hl severar*eio plepintions d irg to idioms the °monocles w ides plies out Thursday week. Wo have not beard, that wry arrangement) have yet hem made is York let sty* aim to the day, noes tint the Alien it imam& and the Weimar Sunday &heels are b have a went on the monion. They are to walk in peserasion dom. the pie stra IDIOMS I sad medals will be given to sash. Ptak* moldithe will be done Wore our next. seeneimt of the bet eorenation, is 11Hi, Yurk was the seam Orem piety. We hose this week seen two d the largest miens we ever magi witihs_rm by Mr. John Mack, warm .C. Harland, Meg. dihstsomliall. They meet thenipeli kind, and one of them weighed throe pounds sod meesorti 17 in. des Is deeneaboonss. Madam has been made by the Trianon's( the Lad, Cloth to Lord klorpeth, requesting his loth* to caw se a comildote for the West hiding, if the Be. fovea dfl posses.—la the Leeds Memory of may, there is a keg and laboured ankle, recommend* Mr. John MemMX jun. as aAt repeeecatadve fur tint loemigb. We shouts Mak Mr. Nadler will be sae of the ninnben for Lee& Rewcurre--Vfeelaesday week, this plaee was viand by mud thunder, and daring the posing over of a storm in the 'hemmer of the same day, the home of lir. J. Bodgeoa, surgeon. was stank by the lightning. It emend a chamber, and the dining room below it. It entered mo- ther chamber and broke lour *games in the w adew, qk se oaken bed.pole in pieces, rent the curtain sad do quilt, and broke the iron currain-rod in two. Beth Mr. and Mrs. Hodgson were in the chamber Bat the time, Air. H. be l t thig iudirposed, bad gone to lb ism, and Mrs. H. wee the curtain, Ike. of emeilakbel In the mew mem, hod only removed from the bed aim nisorsou Whs. h was struck. Mr. H. saw the elemeielidd enter the dumber in the shape of a ball, wheedler about the room, it bust sad mined a great explodes. also emend a closet where woe a human akelssetb mud husk of an arm and a leg, awl some other parts. It airstrippell of between thirty mid hay dim from the roof and hedletht oak ratters it penetrated moss yarns of die hem% east ar person was injured. The electric laid was wow lying sheet Mr. Redress's house like balls of fire. The Baia was so so heavy as it albs is In such ohms. MARRIRD.—M Mouth Fordhy, the Rev. Chas. Rees to Slink iim o ld f . the leas Thomas lisehdra Req.—At diteless, the Row. Was. Maur mu, H.A. Inewnbent Fein*, sear kids, it immesessii ihnsboor et iho bee filmy sum bar 11m1110.41,1 Ilionno.-Gamp aWaall ak is amok MANI Rsit of do km Hari Math, of Teek.—At Bodals,o‘sein Mit Lyme. R.N. is bah Dared j, eldest dareOser of Hal PaiX lltaelne, Rwi• p er Tames Wright. Eof of wedgy Pork, darefireet of T. Atkin - Wm lys ans pi eh so 11111" — H A ar t . : 1 • 1 : amuse Mr. N. Diebov, a Hull, to Mies Metcalf. 41 a 0 1Pur of Mr. Mudd Motadf, of Lewis.—At Burelq. near lllHNlidoew, Cain. W. C. Harland, to Alai Al. Dd Whitby. 1RD. , 111. WINN % elliamnrchant wed ossitettr.—M l ' Robe* Walker of 1111moveinvte inarp, mila Oahe Rev. Theme Dike, of RuIL—M tad am In Corneille. the M. Jamas laws Can" °C "Wit. ansibm madmamaledsar—pr. Wm. liehlem of Rdnimmughohipmeraer. • *wwn.." torfliedi r Ttleillasi Pablimbed by Imp Marne. It IN sktba °rum, Ha I, Pldiesibme, Tomle ad' ben I Pim' lAN Slow sa Path OM Hi Ostio HI Pour 1141 A PM Mr 4.1 ism, J 11 I a WTI with hod if Anse tab • vel bisu 011 k ens nest 'll Aud the) IS I Ulll Y Wei tie TIC 11 1 • la I 64 is al t of h Sal Pool des tlllb posi - el Pin and Ka t se* tam I 4 lin • *Ai •• 4111 sem eel Wei ef der for at Pa , 'eel mu 11 - 14